Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 257

Zhu Kezang came to these aging Xinhui gentry. At this time, these people were kneeling on the ground with their hands tied, trembling like frightened quail.

They are all people who participated in the battle of Xinhui.

Seeing the leader Zhu Kezang, these people kowtowed to him continuously.

"Your Majesty, we originally wanted to dedicate the city, but we were one step too late."

"Long live the emperor, we all admire Daming very much!"

"May the emperor spare the lives of the elders of Xinhui!"

Although they were arrested, these old gentlemen were not very afraid.

The reason is that after the city was broken, the Ming army did not encounter any resistance when they entered the city, and the Ming army did not kill anyone, they just arrested them all.

So although they are afraid, these people don't actually have much awe in their hearts.

After all, I have never heard of things like the Ming army massacring cities or burying people alive.

Some people are even thinking about what they should do if the Qing army returns.

So some people looked at Zhu Kezang's expression with unkindness in their uneasiness. They were annoyed that the Ming army broke through Xinhui and trapped them, a group of good people of the Qing Dynasty, in an injustice and an embarrassing situation.

Zhu Kezang could clearly see the small thoughts of these people, and he sneered in his heart, his face not revealing.

Zhu Kezang stepped forward, came to the county magistrate Tan Wencong, and said, "Magistrate Tan, show me who among this group of people ate someone 30 years ago?"

Tan Wencong was taken aback for a moment, he never thought of this problem.

After waiting for 30 years, someone finally came to hold him accountable.

Tan Wencong gritted his teeth, turned his head towards the Xinhui gentry, and said, "The people kneeling over there have all eaten it! The Chen family always ate their youngest daughter, and the Huang family old man ate his two sons and daughters. The elders of the Ren family ordered their family members to go to the street to grab the heat and cook it, and they, a group of beasts, have eaten people!"

As he talked, Tan Wencong had tears in his eyes. Obviously, the experience 30 years ago had caused him great trauma, and even became his inner demon, which he could not get rid of.

The gentry over there heard the conversation between Zhu Kezang and Tan Wencong, and they all understood that the emperor wanted to investigate the matter of them helping the Qing army defend the city and cannibalizing people. They kowtowed like garlic, and said aggrievedly: "Your Majesty, I just have to wait!"

"It's all the fault of this world."

Zhu Ke Zangxiu was expressionless, and he walked slowly to the gentry, and said, "It is said that when the King of Jin withdrew his troops, in Xinhui City, there were surplus millet for horses and surplus food for soldiers, while the common people were eaten by [-] people. When the Qing army entered the city, they even plundered you once, robbing your children as hostages, and the soldiers and horses of the two feudal clans also robbed a lot of things, but you didn’t even dare to fart.”

Zhu Kezang suddenly yelled loudly: "What the hell is going on in this world? You gangsters, are you out to bully Daming who has a benevolent heart and treats you as his own? You would rather eat human flesh and be a cannibal!" Evil ghosts, don't you want to stand up and be an upright Ming Dynasty?"

The old Chen family replied tremblingly, "To be a man is to die, to be a ghost to live..."

After hearing what he said, Zhu Kezang suddenly burst out laughing.

There are tens of thousands of people outside the city, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, no one speaks a word, only the laughter of the great emperor is heard in the four fields, and there is terror in the Xiaosha.

He could never have imagined that there would be such a group of evil spirits in Huaxia, a large city in Nuoda.

After a while, Zhu Kezang put away his smile and his eyes were like knives. Under the horrified eyes of tens of thousands of people who had been driven out of their homes, he waved his hand and said, "Burning the city!"

The guards, who had already prepared, pushed buckets of fire oil and poured it on the buildings in the city!

Menghuo oil is actually oil, which was mainly used in wars in ancient times, but it was rarely used in the soil of China, so it was not used on a large scale.

There are few in China, but there are in Nanyang!

There are a lot of onshore oil in the Sumatra and Java islands in the South Seas. It is a pity that the new Ming Dynasty does not have the technology to refine the oil, so it cannot make better use of the oil.

However, it is still possible to use it to burn the city.

Soon, the Royal Air Force of Ming Dynasty ascended to the sky under the shocked expression of Xinhui people.

They threw down the ignited explosives towards Xinhui City, which was full of fierce flames.

There was only a bang, and it was the explosive package that ignited Xinhui City completely.

And those old gentry who cannibalized were swallowed up forever by this fire.

Not long after, it was circulated among the people that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was angry with Xinhui's atrocities, and moved his people to Luzon, and then caused the sky to punish Xinhui.

After the city burning incident, Zhu Kezang's state was somewhat depressed.What he did was a little extreme, even from a pragmatic point of view, it was thankless and a lot of fuel wasted, but he still insisted on doing so.

But what is unexpected is that Zhu Kezang originally practiced benevolent and benevolent government in various ways, and the surrender speed of the counties in Guangdong Province was obviously very slow.

After news of Xinhui spread, several counties in eastern Guangdong offered their surrender forms to Xin Daming.

The Ming army was very powerful, especially when the emperor was angry, he attracted the heavenly soldiers and generals, sent down the heavenly punishment thunder and fire, and razed Xinhui to the ground. The people have already regarded Zhu Kezang as the emperor Ziwei who came down to earth, the reincarnation of the saint, and ended the troubled times. Those gods, whoever provokes Da Mingxia, will never end well.

Xinhui originally resisted the rebellion against the Ming Dynasty, but this time it rejected the Tianwei of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so it was destroyed.

Fortunately, the Son of Heaven was merciful and spared the lives of the Xinhui people, but only destroyed their homeland.

All the counties in Guangdong were also afraid. At this time, they did not dare to sway between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and hurriedly offered a surrender table to Zhu Kezang's new Ming Dynasty.

Interestingly, many county towns are also very creative. They send Zao Li to arrest the common people, and when they catch them, they cut off their braids. They collect hundreds of thousands of money rat tails and donate them to Zhu Kezang as a sign of rebellion. Pure heart.

Zhu Kezang smiled helplessly when he received piles of money rat tails.

However, the successive recovery of various places in Guangdong also made the new Daming's reputation skyrocket, and increased Daming's money and food income.

But it exposed a problem, the number of administrative officials in the new Ming Dynasty was too small!
This is indeed the shortcoming of the new Ming Dynasty. It is because of the lack of manpower that the first imperial examination of the new Ming Dynasty has not yet been organized.

In order to alleviate this situation, Zhu Kezang could only let the Daming Guards with strict military discipline enter villages and counties in various places to organize the people to resume production.

With the help of the guards, all parts of Guangdong divided the land to resume production, liquidated the traitors, tyrants and gentry, and set up grassroots village communities to recruit local scholars with good reputations to become grassroots civil servants of Ming Dynasty!

Under such circumstances, scholars wrote when commenting on the current situation: "It has only been more than two months since the Son of Heaven entered Guangdong, Lingnan has taken on a new look, the weather has changed greatly, and there are signs of great governance."

(End of this chapter)