Chapter 191: Overkill
Wang Fuchen was a soldier, so he naturally knew that the bamboo pole could kill people if it sharpened. When Qi Jiguang was fighting against the Japanese in Zhejiang, the army equipped a large number of bamboo poles to deal with the Japanese swords. Peasants in history have used bamboo poles as weapons in large quantities. On the one hand, bamboo poles are easy to obtain, but on the other hand, they are cheap and easy to get started. However, because they don’t know what happened in Songjiang, Wang Fuchen did not dare to guess.
As far as Wang Fuchen knew, Qingqian in Songjiang and other places had indeed offended many gentry landlords, but those who dared to cause trouble and resist were mostly punished. Qingqian had not targeted the people, and most of the gentry was destroyed. No one incited the people to dare to rebel privately. What happened in Songjiang made the general so angry.
Wang Fuchen subconsciously looked at the urgent report in his hand, but he was ashamed that he, Ma Yaozi, actually didn't know a single word. The army launched a literacy campaign and held a literacy class, but Ma Yaozi never participated in it once. Because he was the general of the town, the head of the town, the ambassador of the Anjun in the town had no choice but to report to the military commander's mansion and said that the general of the town would not be able to read. The same kind as Wang Fuchen also had a blind Li, who was a general with two big and rude men, and an illiterate couple.
Zhou Shixiang did not notice the embarrassing look on Wang Fuchen's face, and said angrily: "What else is the matter of those teaching people? Who gave them the courage to besiege the county government? This is rebellion, it is a rebellion! The magistrate Tang didn't know the matter, but Jiang Guozhu didn't know the matter as a governor of a province! What was his mind thinking? It would be fine if the teaching people dispersed? Why not arrest or kill? If one group is not arrested or killed, the teaching people would not know that the government is powerful. Next time, he would create a master. Do you also turn a deaf ear to the same as this time, just want them to close the case after they disperse? The world will be peaceful? Confused and stupid! This is true every time, the teaching people will only be more courageous, and will only become less and less afraid of the law, and will not take the government seriously! Once the court laws cannot be shocked, can it still be called a law! The country cannot be followed, the place cannot be feasible, can the country still be for the country!"
The Qiantang River was calm, but Wang Fuchen felt that waves were surging in His Highness King Qi's heart. Behind these words, I was afraid that His Highness King Qi's murderous intent was full of His Highness King Qi's murderous intent.
"In my opinion, the work of teaching the people is similar to the thieves in Shouning, but the thieves in the household are a minor problem. In the final analysis, the local government is inaction and is afraid of causing trouble. If they do things and do thunderous means, there will be no disaster for the thieves. The unruly people are afraid of the law and are unreasonable. It is better to know the law than to appease them with good words. It is better to chop dozens of heads than to slaughter them. There are no unruly people in the world. If the laws are broken and cannot be taken over, the unruly people will come into being. To deal with the unruly people, they will talk about some great principles with him. It is useless to talk to him. The only thing they are afraid of is death. But if they know that they will die, they will naturally learn to abide by the law. Yao Wenlong did a very good job in Shouning. He made great efforts, killing him, arrest him, and destroying his family, and destroying his family. After a few things, Shouning lost the trouble of thieves, and the people dare not fight for the thieves again."
Zhou Shiying personally released Yao Wenlong out of Shouning, and was also very optimistic about this fellow villager in Xinhui. Yao Wenlong's actions in Shouning really made Zhou Shixiang satisfied. In fact, the Taiping Army had a lot of experience in dealing with unruly people or enemies who were dissatisfied with "kingdom". At the earliest in Xiangshan, Tieyi and Jiang He exterminated local wealthy gentry in several townships. As a result, no one in Xiangshan dared to go against the Taiping Army, no one dared to go against the Taiping Army any more. The "Building Villages and Building Villages" movement had to be quickly implemented, so that the Taiping Army, who had just arrived in Xiangshan, could fully mobilize the manpower and material resources of the entire Xiangshan area before its foothold was stable, laying the foundation for the victory of the three anti-Qing army's encirclement and suppression operations.
In contrast, when the religious incident occurred in Songjiang, Zhou Shixiang felt that the old tradition of the Taiping Army had been missing a lot in recent years. This old tradition is cruel, poisonous, and inhumane. Now it is not to conquer the world, nor to change the same tribe, but to fight for survival and death by the Han people, so it is not to be a struggle for the survival of the Han people. Only those who die will make people feel at ease, and only those who die will not die in the process, at least the surviving Han people can stand up and live with their chests and proudly claim that I am a Han person!
The Jiangsu side's handling of the incident made Zhou Shixiang deeply dissatisfied with the consequences of the incident. The personnel stationed in Songjiang by the Military Information Department had already reported it secretly, which was more detailed than the Songjiang report transferred by Jiang Guozhu. From this, Zhou Shixiang probably learned more than Jiang Guozhu, and more detailed than the person involved, the magistrate of Jiading, Tang.
"The robbery is a small disaster, but the sect of the people is a great disaster. The government is not afraid, but they are afraid of teaching the temple. If the government does not listen, they listen to the teaching temple. You say, will this teaching temple become an official? It is more useful to teach the people in the temple to speak than the government! There is no day, and there is no two kings in the country. Tell me, are these sects still my Daming people? "
Zhou Shixiang became more and more angry as he spoke. The report from the Military Information Department was very clear. After the magistrate of Jiading County Tang Moujiao died in the master of the temple, in just half a day, the people from the temple organized hundreds of religious people inside and outside the city to gather in the county. The people in the temple also spread the posts. The next day, there were thousands of religious people gathered in Jiading, and the religious people from other places in Songjiang rushed to Jiading. What is this nature? This is a rebellion!
"Not being allowed to slaughter oxen privately is a strict order issued by the king. It is not directed against him to teach the people. The Han people are not allowed to eat beef. They have the idea of being outside the law! The law is established, unless it is changed, no one can break the law with his own body, no matter who. According to my opinion, this temple cannot be kept, and the people cannot be kept. He lives in the land of our dynasty, but does not recognize the law of our dynasty. This is a different race. If it is not my dynasty, his heart will be different."
Zhou Shixiang looked at the Qiantang River with a calm face with his hands behind his back. He determined this matter. He taught the people not the people of the Ming Dynasty, but the alien race. To deal with the alien race, one must use the method of dealing with the alien race.
"The Grand Marshal means to deal with all the local priests?" Xu Yingyuan guessed Zhou Shixiang's thoughts, but hesitated to remind him: "Master, there are tens of thousands of priests in Songjiang, and there are also many priests in other parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and there are tens of thousands in the southern capital. As far as the humble priest knows, these priests all believe in one religion, often communicate with each other, and are closely connected with each other. If the Songjiang priests are dealt with, the other priests will be in danger. If you take risks at that time, you will be afraid that there will be major riots."
"I am afraid that they will be in trouble, so I will let them comfort them?" Zhou Shixiang snorted: "The officials in Shouning County were afraid of thieves causing trouble, so they were indulged in such a way that even foxes would be jokes about thieves. You can't see the reason clearly?"
"I am not good at judging the truth, but," Xu Yingyuan said whispering: "The general is about to go north to Liaodong. If the lesson plan in Daxing in Jiangnan is now, it may affect the plan to go north."
Zhou Shixiang frowned slightly. Xu Yingyuan said that the people in Jiangnan were not only more than 50,000 in Songjiang, but also in Suzhou and Nandu. The total number was probably 200,000 to 300,000, which were all descendants of Semen who had helped the Yuan Dynasty to help the evildoers. During the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu issued an order to cleanse these Semen people twice, and was convinced that these Semen people had no intention of rebelling against the Ming Dynasty, so they spared them. However, in the law, the subjects required the subjects to look down on Semen people at the moment. They were not allowed to leave in the great way, and almost deprived the Semen people of the right to become an official. Later, Chengzu was in trouble, because there were a large number of Semen people in the army who worked for them, so he relaxed the restrictions on Semen people in the law.
To this day, hundreds of thousands of Semi people have multiplied millions, mostly concentrated in the northwest, Zhili and Jiangnan. Now, I think that those Semi people who worked for Chengzu may not have no speculative mentality. They pointed out that Chengzu's success in Jingzhao can rehabilitate them and restore their various rights in China. More than ten years ago, Shanxi and Shaanxi had priests raised flags to attack and kill the Qing army, but the leaders were all officials in the Ming Dynasty. Although they were born as priests, they had long been no longer religious.
There is something in the religion that the fifth rank of officials must oppose the religion. It means that if the priests who become officials of the court will no longer believe in religion throughout their lives, and will not be able to open their eyes for the priests. Instead, they will try their best to suppress the priests. The reason inside is that the priests are very harsh on the priests and wish that all the priests will become slaves to the priests. The elites who have finally succeeded in studying and succeeded in the imperial examinations are unwilling to be fooled by the priests, and of course they have to suppress the priests. Bo Ding Ladong, the leader of the Jiading Rebellion, is a typical example of the priests who are not in the priests. However, they have no status in the priests and cannot restrain the priests, which makes the situation out of control.
"Since I can kill Yu Yunlong, I firmly believe in a truth that first attack is the best, and then the disaster is the best. As long as it is a disaster, no matter how big it is, it must be removed. No matter what the price it pays, it must be uprooted and destroyed. You don't understand the principle that the grass is cut and the roots are not eradicated, and the spring breeze blows and grows again."
"Kill them all?"
Xu Yingyuan was shocked, and Wang Fuchen's heart also "pulled". That was hundreds of thousands of priests, not hundreds of thousands of pigs. The general said that he wanted to kill them all, so how many soldiers and horses would have to be mobilized to do this. This matter was also very troublesome. The priests were scattered everywhere, but if the news leaked, which one would be foolishly there and let the Taiping Army slaughter. I'm afraid that the moment the Taiping Army swayed the butcher knife was the real beginning of the chaos in the people.
"Don't they claim to live in China rather than Chinese people? Since that's the case, why should I keep them?" Zhou Shixiang's voice was very plain, and he could not hear any fluctuations in his mood. It seemed that what was being discussed was not murder, but a matter of family matters.
"Master, the priests who participated in the chaos are a minority, and most of them are good, and behind this matter is the Manchus and Tartars are inciting them." Xu Yingyuan felt a little reluctant. After all, the priests are not the Tartars, and they have no deep hatred with the Han people. The information from the Military Information Department shows that behind the Jiading priests, there are spies in Manchu who are making trouble, so it would be a bit too much to deal with all the priests.
"Those priests who have not made trouble are also good before participating in the priests. Regardless of whether the Tartars are making trouble behind this, they are priests who come forward to make trouble. Since this is the case, there is nothing to hesitate to."
Since Zhou Shixiang had made up his mind, he would not listen to anyone's advice. Even if his decision was wrong, he would push forward vigorously. He could tolerate failure and bear the reputation, but he would never allow his subordinates to question him. This was the biggest reliance on his success since the uprising, and it was also the biggest weakness of his personality.
"Send a message to Jiang Guozhu and ask him to prepare for this matter immediately. For specific matters, Wang Fuchen, you can do it. The military headquarters will cooperate with you, just let it go. The sky falls, I will hold you over."
After giving the order, Zhou Shixiang thought of something and said to Xu Yingyuan: "In addition, the Nalan Mingzhu reported to Zhang An, I have a little impression of this person. It seems that this kid is Ajige's son-in-law, and in terms of seniority, he is the cousin of the little Tartar emperor. The Qing court has also made a capital contribution and actually sent Mingzhu to my Jiangnan to pry the corner of the wall. If the Military Information Department had not cast a tight net, it was found that Mingzhu and others were inciting the people behind their backs and colluding with some gentry dissatisfied with our Taiping Army, I am afraid that Jiangnan would be really upset by him."
"Will the Military Intelligence Department capture Mingzhu alive?"
"No need. If he dares to come to Jiangnan, it means that he has put life and death aside, and it is useless to catch such people."
Chapter completed!