Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 157
On April 5th, nearly [-] people gathered in the wasteland outside Guyuan City.

Zhang Zongxian put on the airs of the governor, walked to the high platform that had been set up, and first looked around at the soldiers and horses off the field.

Then let a regiment of the governor's personal soldiers demonstrate the wall charge to these generals present, dismount and ride and shoot, which shocked the generals present.

Let them understand that the governor's pro-military is not easy to mess with, and whether they dare to make trouble or not.

Then he ordered all the officers of the hundred households to come forward and gather in front of the high platform. The generals who had just watched the pro-military demonstration dared not refuse. After all, this governor has both a Shangfang sword and a powerful cavalry.

Zhang Zongxian looked at these generals without saying a word. After these generals stood up, the commander-in-chief of Guyuan Town went up to the high platform to ask Zhang Zongxian for instructions. Zhang Zongxian asked him to stay by the side and not talk.

Then with a big wave of his hand, a battalion of the governor's personal soldiers, holding firecrackers with bayonets inserted, surrounded these generals.

Seeing this scene, Guyuan General Soldier hurriedly asked the governor:

"What's the meaning of making a platform! We are all officials ordered by the imperial court, why should we treat us like this?"

After the chief soldier finished speaking, the generals below also felt that something was wrong, and followed suit:
"What's the purpose of making a stage?"

"We are all officials ordered by the court."

Zhang Zongxian signaled to the Guyuan generals to be safe and not to be impatient, and then asked his disciples to go to the assembled soldiers, and shouted loudly to the soldiers brought by the frontier generals:
Tell those soldiers that after the soldiers are counted today, they will be registered sergeants in Guyuan Town. They will serve the court, fight on the battlefield, and will be governed by military law. Deserters will be beheaded.

Know that some of you are a coerced people.Taking advantage of the fact that they have not yet been entered in the military register, those who do not want to be soldiers can stand up now. For the coerced people, the governor will also compensate one tael of silver and let him go home.

At the beginning, the people on the slope didn't believe that no one dared to come out, until a few old men felt that they would not live for a few years, so they tried to get out of the army formation.

After walking out of the army formation, the disciples of the school immediately guided the old men to the row of tables on the left side of the high platform.

After recording their native places and names, the disciples of the school here issued them guides issued by the Governor's Mansion and Taiping notes of one tael of silver.Then let them leave the place.Let them go home.

The other civilians who were kidnapped, and those who didn't want to be soldiers, came out one after another, and they all went home with luyin and silver under the guidance of the disciples of the school.

After seeing that they would indeed be let go, more and more people walked out of the army formation and lined up next to the high platform to lead the way. During the period, those servants and officers who stayed in the army formation wanted to prevent the kidnapped people from leaving. They were all dragged out on the spot by the governor's pro-army and beaten to death.

The frontier generals of Guyuan Town under the high platform could only watch the soldiers and horses they brought shrink greatly, and the troops and horses brought by some hundred households left almost empty.Only half of the people who had the largest number of people left when they came.

Those who stayed behind were either military households, or were recruited from other places, and they were actually enrolled in the military.

After a whole morning of tossing, less than 5 people remained from the initial 2 horses.

Zhang Zongxian looked coldly at the frontier generals of Guyuan Town under the stage, and saw them hairy. After the trapped people had left, Zhang Zongxian led the generals of Guyuan Town down the high platform and came to the right side of the high platform to build in the military account.

The commander-in-chief of Guyuan Town didn't know what the governor was going to do?Under Zhang Zongxian's coercion, he could only follow obediently, not daring to speak.

At this time, Staff Zhao took a list and walked to the high platform, and began to roll the names of the soldiers below, and took the person to the high platform when he called a name.

However, because I was pointed at by the firecrackers, I didn't dare to make trouble. After Zhao's staff called the names, the more than 30 generals who were brought to the high platform had already been relieved of their armor.
Then Zhao's staff announced the crimes of these frontier generals, accusing them of coercing the people and eating nothing, and then the governor's own army tied up all these frontier generals. Only then did these frontier generals understand that the governor wanted to use them to make an example of others!
Everyone shouted their grievances, and some soldiers wanted to call their servants to rescue him, but no one dared to move under the suppression of the governor's own army.

As the eunuch of the supervising army walked out of the military tent with Shang Fang's sword, the executioner also stood on the high platform with a big knife.

The commander-in-chief of Guyuan Town wanted to intercede with his subordinates, but before he could say anything, he heard Zhang Zongxian say to the people on the stage:

"Today, the governor will let you see what will happen to the court and oppress the people. Execution!"

The executioner was also unambiguous. After receiving the order, he began to carry out the execution from right to left. Those convicted generals immediately cried for their father and mother. , plus one after another falling heads.

All the generals in Guyuan Town under the high platform felt chills in their necks, and they didn't dare to look up in the stands.

After executing these side generals, Zhang Zongxian climbed up the high platform step by step stepping on the blood.Standing on the high platform, he looked coldly at the generals of Guyuan Town below the stage, and then said to them:

"The common people's offerings to you are for you to kill the enemy and serve the country, not for you to bully the people with swords and guns. From now on, if there is anyone who refuses to obey the military order and insults the people, I will kill them. I hope you can do it yourself."

After finishing speaking, he withdrew the governor's army surrounding the general under the stage.Although the pro-army was withdrawn, Zhang Zongxian did not let them leave, but continued to stand under the high platform.

Afterwards, the official counting of troops began, and the disciples of the school commanded the various military formations, and went to the left side of the high platform to register one by one.

The birthplace, name, and age of each soldier were registered, and a medical woman was arranged to conduct a simple physical examination. First, the old, weak, sick, and disabled were screened out, and those who were too young were also selected.

After the registration is completed, these soldiers will be reissued with waist badges, as well as the three months of military pay previously owed, and fifty Taiping bills with a denomination of one hundred yuan.

The soldiers were overjoyed when they got the bills, and they kept counting the bills they got. Finally, they got the payment in arrears, which was still full and not discounted.

Since Taiping's grain store opened in Guyuan, with Taiping's cheap grain, those profiteers can no longer intentionally raise the price of grain while they are paying their wages.

Soldiers who have received the arrears will also receive three cooked corns. After all, they have not eaten since they stood in the morning.

The border generals of Guyuan Town under the high platform were bleeding. The money should have gone through their hands. It would be nice to have one or two in the hands of the soldiers. How could the governor do this? How to honor the above.

The commander-in-chief of Guyuan Town also looked at Zhang Zongxian hesitantly, but in the end he didn't say anything.

After all the counting, the original 6 people in the entire Guyuan Town were less than 2 in the end.

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