Chapter 49 Cleaning
The soldiers in the city were completely rotten. In other words, they were not soldiers at all, but a group of peasants who were hired by the county lieutenant for empty pay.
Seeing the murderous soldiers, they were as ferocious as tigers and wolves. They threw down their weapons on the spot without seeing blood, and directly surrendered with the white flag.
The county magistrates of the county government were also too timid to say a harsh word, their legs gave way, and they knelt down in front of the cavalry, begging for mercy.
The county magistrates of Shangyong County and Fangling County did not have the integrity at all. It seems that the living environment can also corrode a person's mind, turning an upright person into a greedy waste.
This kind of county magistrate, if I take a second look, I feel that my eyes are dirty. He ordered casually, let his subordinates drag them down, kill and feed the dogs, and didn't care about the entreaties and flattery of the county magistrate and many officials around him.
The entire county was pacified very easily, which was beyond everyone's expectations, but it also made him very happy. If the subsequent counties are like this, then my strategy of conquering the entire Hanzhong seems to be easily achieved.
In the two counties of Shangyong and Fangling, the determination of the county magistrate to resist, and the spirit of swearing to the death, almost made you Zhong Yu think that the counties in the future will be like this.
If I was discovered so accidentally, how much effort would it take to fight step by step?
Let me just say, how can it be possible that all the officials are so good. If an official is not corrupt, then he is not a good official. It turned out that those two people were just a special case.
After a little consolidation of the situation in the county, two hundred people were left to take care of it.
By the way, clean up the green-skinned rogues who took advantage of the fire and kill them all, so as to avoid many troubles in the future. Why not take advantage of the chaos of the war and sort it out thoroughly, wouldn't that be better.
He said he had 100 cavalry and 600 soldiers. Go clean up the densely packed gentry that spread all over the entire west city. If this kind of deep-rooted local wealthy family is not cleaned up, how dare I lead my troops to conquer it with confidence!
Kill them, and you can get a lot of property, fields and real estate, which can be used to reward loyal soldiers and capable civil servants who are loyal to you.
You don’t even have to worry about the money and food for the next few decades. As long as you keep killing those gentry, all the accumulation they have accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years will belong to you. What a wealth of wealth that is.
They didn't encounter much resistance. Those gentry could study and learn, but they couldn't go to war as soldiers.
He hadn't had much contact with military affairs in normal times, and he didn't realize that the atmosphere around him was wrong, so he was surrounded by his own army.
It easily destroyed their manor city defense, arrested the whole family and killed them all.
However, there are a little more gentry in the entire West City, with more than 20 families and a population of tens of thousands. It would take him two or three days to kill the 700 people one by one, so it seemed that he was going to delay here for a while.
Time passed slowly, and Zhong Yu's plan was carried out in an orderly manner. Manors one by one were tricked into opening the city gates and breaking through the defenses.
Then, the soldiers who had been preparing for a long time rushed in with sharp knives, killing anyone they saw, and chopping when they entered the door.
There is no mercy at all, and the methods are even more ruthless, ranging from the old man with gray hair and limited mobility, down to the baby waiting to be fed. They also cut them in half, took off their heads, and piled them up at the gate of the manor.
Blood flowed all over the ground, and the crying sounded all night. The whole manor became gloomy, and the surrounding villagers dared not approach it for several months.
It wasn't until the county magistrate took office later that he decided to distribute the entire manor to those soldiers who had retired from the battlefield, and gradually gained popularity. Presumably, only those soldiers who were used to seeing life and death and saw many dead people Be able to be fearless!
This process of cleaning and massacre lasted him for three days, until the entire Xicheng County was filled with murderous and bloody aura, the ghosts were flying around, and the air in the whole county was several degrees cold for no reason.
All the people were terrified because of the massacre, and almost wanted to take risks, desperately fighting to eliminate this torture.
Zhong Yucai stopped his cleaning, why did he stop? That's because the entire county has been killed, and all the gentry have been killed, and there is no need to continue.
A total of tens of thousands of heads were piled up on both sides of the road. They will last for half a month, and let the people in the whole county understand the fate of your own rebellion before they are arranged to be burned.
But the results are also gratifying. A large amount of property, armor and food were moved out of the hands of those families by Zhong Yu's soldiers.
Hundreds of vehicles were loaded, and they were transported to the warehouse in the city endlessly, and sealed up.
Zhong Yu did some calculations, those belongings could support an army of tens of thousands of people, the armor could arm more than a thousand soldiers, and the food was enough to feed 100,000 people for a year.
It seems that his strategic policy is not wrong, these gentry are indeed moths, and the gentry in a single county can save so much property. Not to mention how much wealth can a county, a county, a state and a family in the whole world accumulate?
Even if I am an enemy of the whole world, as long as I shout out the slogan of "No pay, no tax" by King Li Chuang in the late Ming Dynasty, and use the wealth of the gentry to support my army and administrative system. That can also gather a large number of people to support him, and fight well with those wealthy families.
I don't believe that the bones of those gentry are really so hard, and they are not afraid of the encirclement and suppression of so many troops. If that's the case, I really don't mind a real bloodbath, to make a bright future for my country.
Taizu said, "Shoot the local tyrants and divide the land." "Win the majority and attack the few." Isn't that what he said?
As long as I follow Zhang Jiao's example and win over most of the low-level people, they will definitely support me, abandon those nobles and become my most solid force, since they can't live happily anymore.
And I just need to let them understand that fighting for myself is fighting for them. I will distribute a large part of the land and property to them, and they will definitely do everything, just like Qin's army of tigers and wolves, who heard about the war first.
Only those who have nothing don't care about their own lives, and those ordinary people are just people who have nothing and can't even afford food.
As long as I master this power, they occupy more than 99% of the world's population, and they will definitely let those gentry who account for 1% of the population understand that the mud legs they usually look down on also have the desire to destroy everything.
Killed 10,000 people and got 400 luck points, all of which were used by Zhong Yu to summon soldiers.
Another 800 soldiers were ready to go. After joining these soldiers, I had 1,200 infantry.
There were only 200 guards left in the county town, and Zhong Yu could be sure that after his side's killing, the entire county town was shocked by his monstrous power.
At least for a few years, they would not dare to resist their own orders, let alone rebel.
One data can clearly explain this reason. Before the war, there were more than 50,000 people in Xicheng County, but after the war, there were only 40,000 people left.
A war killed 1/5 of his people, how dare they have other ideas! Are you not afraid of being the next to die?
What's more, they don't have the gentry who take the lead, so what kind of trouble can they cause!