Chapter 232: Purge the rebels and bombard the wealthy families in Jiangnan with artillery!

Li Yulan and his soldiers had taken advantage of the chaos and left on the civilian boat that came over, and arrived at the python-robed leader.

The python-robed officer personally met with Li Yulan: "General Li would rather give up his high official position and get rid of this treacherous traitor for the people of the world. He is really a real man!"

"Uncle, you are ridiculous! Your humble position is just to eliminate the rebellious party early, it is just something you have to do!"

Li Yulan bowed her hands and bowed.

Then, the man in python robe personally took Li Yulan's hand and came to a private room. He introduced to Li Yulan the officials and gentry present, and pointed at one official and said: "This is Dong Gong, the Secretary of the State Council of Wujiang."

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Dong Tingsong, who had served as Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing, nodded to Li Yulan.

Li Yulan also bowed her hands and said, "I have met Mr. Dong!"

At that moment, after the python-robed official introduced these officials and gentry to Li Yulan, he said: "They are all country gentry who have organized their own regiment training. The total number of soldiers and horses under their command is no less than one hundred thousand! In addition, I have two subordinates under the command of Admiral Cao Jiang.

One hundred thousand soldiers, totaling 300,000. Now that the 50,000 Guards troops he marched south are leaderless, it is undoubtedly the best time for us to annihilate these 50,000 Guards troops."

"That's right! Three hundred thousand versus fifty thousand, the advantage lies with the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Dong Tingsong also followed up and said: "As long as these 50,000 Guards are completely wiped out, and at the same time in the capital, the new emperor ascends the throne and orders the Xilin rebels to be wiped out, I will dismiss the Xiang Yong and return to my hometown to continue living in seclusion.

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"Dong Gong has always wanted to go into seclusion. I know that. But it may not be easy to wipe out the Xilin rebels. Now almost the entire Changzhou Prefecture is Xilin rebels, as well as other places. It is estimated that no less than a million dollars have been spent!"

The man in python robe said.

Li Yulan took the initiative to interject at this time: "In the opinion of the younger generation, if you want to suppress such a large-scale chaotic party, you need to use both grace and power, and you can't just focus on suppression!"

"Oh, I don't know what General Li has to say, but it doesn't matter."

Dong Tingsong said with a smile at this time.

Li Yulan also stood up and bowed: "You dare to show off in front of all the gentlemen! According to the theories that I have learned in the Military Academy and the Guards, I know that Xilin Academy can gather such a large-scale popular uprising in a short period of time.

The reason is actually that they took advantage of the contradiction between the common people and the gentry's wealth inequality, so that the common people were willing to go through fire and water for them!"

"What's more, if the common people follow their Xilin rebellious party and cause trouble, they can still get fertile land and get jobs. In this case, it is better for us to take the initiative to give up the profits and weaken the wealth gap between the common people and our officials and gentry, so that the Xilin rebellious party can be

It has become a rootless tree and a soilless tree.”

"How to take the initiative to give up profits?"

Dong Tingsong asked hurriedly.

Li Yulan replied: "Distribute the fields to the clansmen and reduce the rent for the tenants! The profits of each workshop are also distributed to the clansmen, and the wages of the employees are increased to ensure their treatment! Do not treat them like domestic slaves! In this way, we can first

Strengthen the cohesion within the clan!"

After hearing this, the python-robed officer asked: "Since we all want to be divided, what are we going to do to suppress the Xilin rebels?"

"But if we divide it ourselves first, we can form a military force that only obeys our own orders. Then we can get back what we lost after wiping out the Xilin rebels!"

"Perhaps, because we have soldiers and horses who only obey our orders, we can continue to annex more land and industries, and even prevent the West Factory from taking away the benefits of maritime trade! Or even rebuild the benefits of smuggling outside the customs!"

Li Yulan replied.

At this point, Li Yulan said again: "Masters, according to what I know in the past few years of studying in the Military Academy and the Guards, if we don't do this first, there is no way to defeat the Xilin Rebellion Party. Because if we don't do this

If we do, we will always be a minority, while the Xilin rebellious party is the majority."

After hearing this, Dong Tingsong pondered for a moment, then looked at Li Yulan and said with a smile: "I would like to ask the general to give me some advice. If the Dong clan does this and allocates hundreds of thousands of acres of mulberry fields and rice fields to the clan members, how should they form a team?"

Just take orders from our soldiers and horses?"

"Let the tribesmen who have been allocated the land take charge of the tenants of the allocated land, and draw strong men from the tenants under their control to form soldiers, and provide the soldiers with salaries and pensions."

"In addition, set up a school for children to let the children of the clan practice various skills! And select the children of the clan to serve as officers at all levels."

"For example, Dong Gong's troops are commander-in-chief himself, and the deputy commander-in-chief is Dong Gong's closest brother and nephew. By analogy, the commanders of the subordinate troops and horses commanded by Dong Gong's brothers and nephews are also his brothers and nephews."

"In this way, we can use the clan as a link to form a culture where officers and soldiers treat each other equally, and can enforce orders and prohibitions. This will surely lead to a strong army, and the organization should be no weaker than that of the Xilin Township Soldiers and Guards."

Li Yulan said.

After hearing this, Dong Tingsong said: "I think this is very good!"

As he said that, Dong Tingsong looked at the others: "I wonder what you all think?"

At this time, the man in python robe on the side laughed first and said: "General Li is a person that even Uncle Zhang Guo values ​​​​in the end, he is really a wise man! In my opinion, this must be done. The emperor, the one who has strong soldiers and horses will do it. The powerful will do it."

The same is true! If we don't do this, we won't be able to have strong troops of our own and we won't be able to wipe out the rebel party. As General Li said, after the rebel party is wiped out, we can take back the profits we have given away.

, or you can rely on having soldiers and horses in your hands to take advantage of others to make up for your own lost advantage."

"That's right! Otherwise it's not enough to wipe out the rebels!"

"Xilin Academy has now liquidated the gentry in the entire Changzhou Prefecture, and all the fertile land has been distributed to the untouchables. There will be no need to worry about no profits in the future. It is just that we will also do a liquidation. All the unruly people who have been allocated the land will be treated as rebels against the party.

Forget it, the land will be taken back, the wife and children will be made into slaves, cast into a lowly status, and I will be shot!"

"This is the best policy! It's not just Xilin who can win people's hearts, it's not like we can't either!"

For a while, these Jiangnan gentry all agreed.

Dong Tingsong also nodded at this time and continued: "The most important thing here is to manage the children of each clan, to respect Confucianism and education, to be fair and trustworthy! As General Li said just now, we should set up schools for children and strengthen their education."

After hearing this, Li Yulan said: "What Mr. Dong said is very true. In the opinion of the younger generation, it is not enough to respect Confucianism and religion. The children of the own clan should take Confucianism as the main body and astronomy, geography and other miscellaneous subjects as their use. As for the children of tenant workers,

You can also help them to study, but they should not be allowed to have the ability to think. They should only be allowed to study Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which will create a pedantic and dull atmosphere. They should only be given a desire to seek wealth and wealth, and should not be made to be as smart as the children of the clan.

The master knows how to govern people! In this way, the son of a tenant will always be a tenant, and the son of a hired worker will always be a hired worker. Even a few wealthy people are just useless and corrupt!"

Dong Tingsong nodded: "This is the right thing to do!"

Then, Dong Tingsong said: "I will write a letter to my family tonight and order the clan members to divide the fields first and then the property, and then train troops and run schools!"

At this time, the python-robed officer on the side said: "It would be better to cross the river first and destroy the Guards, while they are leaderless."

Dong Tingsong and other officials and gentry all nodded.

Li Yulan said: "In that case, please let me first draw a defense map of each camp of the Guards on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, in preparation for the princes to lead troops to attack!"

As Li Yulan was talking, suddenly loud noises came from outside.

The sound of cannons was like thunder.

"what happened?!"

Dong Tingsong exclaimed.

Li Yulan said solemnly: "It's the iron-core copper-tyred cannon of the Guards! How come they still have fighting power?!"

The mangpao officer on the side hurriedly walked to the window, picked up the monocular telescope made by the Xishan Industrial Department, and took a look. He saw that Zhang Gui had installed his supervisor's guard of honor at the mouth of Qingjiang River.

Seeing this, the man in python couldn't help but said: "No! We have fallen into a trap!"
Chapter completed!