"Boom" the city wall was blown up with a gap. "Kill!" The Huai Army and Zhongzhen Camp shouted and rushed into the gap. The Eight Banners prisoners were still rushing in front. As usual, Sikteng rushed to the first one. A rebel soldier rushed up, but after a meeting, Sikteng slashed his head away with a knife.

After the city wall was blown up, the defenders who had originally relied on the city wall to block the Huai Army's vulnerable defense. No one could walk in front of the Eight Banners prisoners for a single round, and they would kill them instantly as soon as they met.

An Eight Banner soldier fell off his hat during the fight, revealing his bare head.

"Jiannu! They are Jiannu!" The rebel soldiers originally felt that the people in front of them did not look like Han people. When they saw the soldier's bald head, they immediately understood. Several soldiers let out high decibel screams, which was comparable to the soprano sounds made by the female audience when they saw Sadako crawling out of the TV screen.

The defenders collapsed all over the line, and the Huai army, who was attacking the city from another direction, also attacked the city. Longchuan City was easily captured, and the county magistrate in the city was also captured by the Huai army. When the county magistrate was planning to disguise himself and escape, the county magistrate was blocked by the Huai army and then caught a turtle in a jar.

Two soldiers escorted the county magistrate who was tied up and took him to Li Guodong.

"You originally appointed an official for my Ming Dynasty court, why did you want to accomplice the rebels to be a tiger?" Li Guodong asked.

"Duke Chu, please spare your life, and the officials have no choice. A few months ago, the rebels attacked the county town, but the officials were just outsiders. The county magistrate, inspector, chief lord, and all the yamen runners were all locals. They were in a mess and opened the city gate to surrender to the rebels. The officials were powerless." The county magistrate knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

"Since you are forced to rebel, why did my Damingtian Army arrive but you resist our army? When our army enters the city, you do not surrender, but instead attempt to disguise yourself and escape?" Li Guodong asked.

"The army entered the city, and the subordinates were just a weak scholar, so they were naturally afraid." The county magistrate explained weakly.

Li Guodong sneered: "Whether you are rebelling, the Jinyiwei will investigate clearly. Also, where are you in your hometown, who are there in your family, and how much property you have, the Jinyiwei will investigate clearly. This matter will not be under the jurisdiction of the public! Come on, call the Jinyiwei over and hand the criminal over to them!"

When I heard about the three words "Jinyiwei", the county magistrate was so scared that his face was pale. He peed his pants and collapsed on the ground like a dead dog. The county magistrate was not from Guangdong, and his family was from Lianghuai. Lianghuai was still under the control of the Ming Dynasty. The county magistrate had thousands of acres of fertile land at home, thousands of acres of fertile land from his family, and some relatives were from Rugao's rich stoves, and there were a lot of gold, silver and treasures at home.

The so-called hot stove is the head of salt households. Rugao is located on the seashore of Jiangsu and is a salt-producing area. Most of the ordinary people here are salt households. For generations, they have relied on cooking sea to make salt, then selling salt for silver, and buying grain for a living. There are expensive salt in the mainland. Which one does not make a few thousand kilograms of salt every year?

However, the salt households live a very poor life because selling high-priced salt in the mainland is not worth anything in this salt area. The salt households work hard to cook salt over a year, deducting the cost of charcoal and iron pots, and then they need to pay the quantity specified by the Salt Transportation Department at a certain price, and then pay taxes. The remaining silver and copper plates are even a problem for the family's basic food and clothing.

According to the household registration system formulated by Emperor Taizu, households are determined by their household registration, and everyone in the world has their own household registration. The people who cook salt belong to the salt stove, and the people in the Ming Dynasty have their hometowns determined, and their descendants have passed on them, so they cannot change them. Therefore, the salt households are bitter and have a low status, but their ancestors can only cook salt for a living for generations, and they can never change their household registration.

But like the military household system, ordinary border soldiers in military households are poor, while those hundreds and thousands of households are rich. The same is true for salt households. Ordinary stoves who cook salt are hard-working every year are not enough to support their families, but the leaders of those salt households are rich, much richer than the hundreds and thousands of households in military households.

Although these people are still from stoves, they are actually equivalent to businessmen, connecting with stove owners and salt merchants, and engaged in salt sales business.

Haozhao is extremely powerful in the local salt area, and his subordinates usually have many thugs to help. Ordinary stove owners dare not go over and sell salt to others, and salt merchants dare not go over and collect salt privately.

By hoarding salt and manipulating the salt price, these hot stoves made a lot of money, and their family property was no less than that of salt merchants. Many hot stoves purchased luxury houses in Yangzhou City.

In fact, when Li Guodong escorted Chongzhen to Yangzhou last year, he thought about taking action against the salt industry, but he considered that if he took action against the salt industry at that time, it would cause major changes. After all, many people rely on this to make money. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. If the salt industry was reformed at that time, even Emperor Chongzhen would not dare to protect himself.

Now, after listening to the investigation results reported by the Jinyiwei, Li Guodong learned that the county magistrate had relatives at home who were rich stoves among salt households and some were salt merchants. So wouldn’t it just happen to use this as an excuse to step into one foot in Lianghuai Salt Field, open a gap, and then rectify the salt industry step by step.

But those things will be left to the Jinyiwei in the future. At present, the most important thing for Li Guodong is to start fighting the local tyrants in Guangdong to divide the land.

The gentry in Longchuan City was taken down, but most of the gentry and local gentry were not in the city. Longchuan is located at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, and many local tyrants live in their countryside homes. They built fortresses in their hometowns. These fortresses can be used to resist the looting of bandits and bandits, and can also be used to resist the "troubled people" causing trouble.

For example, the Tulou at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong was actually one of the fortresses of some big families back then. Tulou was a Hakka building. It was not only used by big families to resist bandits and unruly people, but also used to resist local people.

The Hakka people were actually the people who moved south during the Southern Song Dynasty. After the Hakka people arrived in the local area, they had constant conflicts with the local people and often had large-scale armed fights. The largest armed fight was the Hutu armed fight during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, with millions of casualties.

Zhang Shuheng said: "The Duke of the Kingdom, both the Hakkas and the local native Han people, are extremely brave. If the Duke of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of

Wang Quan also echoed: "Yes, brother, our intention is to attack the gentry and powerful people, turn their land into public land, benefit the local people, rather than harming innocent people. It's just that those people are bewitched by local gentry to deal with our army. Should we kill or not? If we don't kill, we can't attack at all; if we kill, they are actually innocent people."

Of course, Li Guodong knew that once his army attacked the powerful city, it would be fought against the powerful. And those powerful people naturally could not roll up their sleeves and go into battle with bare hands. Those who went into battle were honest and ignorant local people. When the official army fought with the powerful, the people were still killed and injured.

After careful consideration, Li Guodong decided to first capture a few easy-to-fight villages. After entering, he began to attack the local tyrants and divide the land, set an example for the people in other places, and then attack other villages. During the attack, he used propaganda weapons to call on the people to rise up and oppose the gentry that was pressing on them.
Chapter completed!