Chastity Layman

  Chapter 800 Sixty Thousand Assassins

   "Strengthen your vigilance and be careful."

   Qin Lang looked at the three corpses and became serious. Eagle's Nest Old Dog can make people so fearless of death, so be careful. Since he has the ability to make people commit suicide in front of him without hesitating their lives, if the negotiation breaks down, he will definitely launch a suicide attack.

  A desperate attack by an assassin would be terrifying.

  Ordinary assassins must consider their own safety when they assassinate, but this kind of deadly fighter does not think about himself at all, only thinking about whether he can succeed.

   "If you want me to say, just kill all these barbarians."

"There are tens of thousands of Tibetans living in Guangzhou alone. How many Tibetans are there in Lingnan? I'm afraid there are no fewer than one hundred thousand? Besides, not all of them are related to the Eagle's Nest and the Church of Light. Most of them are just here. Traders, if we arrest them all, won’t the Maritime Silk Road be broken?”

   What Qin Lang wanted was a precise surgical strike, not turning Guangzhou into an airport. In the Southern Dynasties, there was indeed a governor who messed around in Guangzhou, and as a result, no ships came.

  The Tibetan monasteries that preach illegally must be cracked down, and the Hu merchants who operate illegally must be cracked down, but the Hu merchants who operate law-abiding must be welcomed.

  The ensuing purge is still in full swing, and Eagle's Nest's revenge has also begun.

  Assassins launched various assassinations in the city of Guangzhou, assassinating officials, trying to set fire to warehouses, shops, even private houses, and government offices, and even wanted to attack warehouses in the port and naval ships.

  But basically it was unsuccessful, Qin Lang had already made 120,000 preparations.

  In addition to sending more guards and strengthening patrols, they also set up everywhere. Everyone in Guangzhou must register, issue ID cards, and pass permits to enter and exit Guangzhou.

  The management of all the Tibetans is extremely strict, and they are not allowed to move around without reason.

  Once it is found that there is no ID card and pass, they will be arrested immediately and put into prison for interrogation.

   Control over weapons has also been strengthened.

  Hu merchants' ships are stricter when they enter and leave the port. Before entering the port, they must be inspected by the navy before entering the port. All weapons are not allowed to be brought into the port.

  The Tibetans in Guangzhou are forbidden to own weapons, not even ordinary swords and daggers, let alone bows, crossbows, spears and armor. Once discovered, it is a felony.

  The weapons owned by the Han Chinese and the bureaucrats in the city have also strengthened management. All swords and swords need to be registered for the record. During the period of martial law, even registered legal swords are not allowed to carry with them, and can only be stored at home.

   And kerosene, sulfur and other things are strictly regulated.

  Even the major pharmacies have been strengthened. All poisonous drugs have to be registered with their real names, and even have detailed uses, etc., so they are not easily sold. Once someone buys medicine from a pharmacy and commits a crime, the pharmacy will be jointly and severally liable.

  Qin Lang took the lead in implementing the Baojia, Sitting, and Defense system in Guangzhou, and will then promote it to the entire Lingnan, Sanguang, and Guangdong regions.

  Before, the Baojia Law was only implemented in Guanzhong, and currently it was only implemented in Henan and other places. Now Qin Lang ignored the opposition in Lingnan and started to implement the Baojia Law in Lingnan.

   Organize Baojia, establish a joint defense team, sit together in a joint defense, and supervise each other.

Guangzhou is the core of the Central Plains imperial court controlling Lingnan, and the power of the Southern barbarian bureaucrats is not too strong. The central imperial court has always controlled it firmly. In comparison, the large number of barbarian merchants brought about by the prosperity of trade is a force that cannot be ignored. .

  Historically, Arab merchants have always been the largest Huren maritime merchant force in Guangzhou. Even at the end of Tang Dynasty, there were two incidents of Arabs attacking Guangzhou.

  At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao entered Guangzhou after the uprising, once massacred the city of Guangzhou, and massacred 200,000 people in Guangzhou at one time, of which 120,000 were Hu people.

   It can be seen that the Hu people in Guangzhou are powerful.

   Later, a large number of Arabs also entered Quanzhou. During the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the number of Hu people in Quanzhou and Guangzhou was quite large.

The Arab merchants in Guangzhou are world-renowned losers. They are richer than the Sogdian merchants in Chang'an. The world's trade in Eastern spices, silk, porcelain, ivory, and medicinal materials also brought in Western slaves, gold and silver, etc., and made a lot of money.

  There are even many Arab merchants, Persian merchants, and Tianzhu merchants in Guangzhou who have been operating here for two or three hundred years.

  They infiltrated every aspect of Guangzhou.

After the Anshi Rebellion, three years after Emperor Suzong of Tang went to Germany, Arab merchants organized a powerful mercenary fleet and surrounded Guangzhou City. Seeing that the governor could not resist, he abandoned the city and fled. She, after looting all of Guangzhou, took countless gold and silver treasures and left with a full load.

  The openness and inclusiveness of the Tang Dynasty allowed the Hu merchants to become stronger, and it was also the cause of the Fan rebellion and looting of Guangzhou after the Tang Dynasty weakened during the Anshi Rebellion.

  A missionary exiled from Persia can actually become the underground emperor of Guangzhou, and dare to openly threaten him, the prime minister of the empire, how can Qin Lang tolerate it?

   "Fanfang should be further strengthened control."

  After a comprehensive investigation during this period, tens of thousands of Fan people have been cleared out of Guangzhou, and Qin Lang ordered them all to move into Fan Fang.

In the past, there were squares where the foreigners lived in the city of Guangzhou. Later, Dang Renhong took bribes from the foreigners and set aside a piece of land in the west of Guangzhou, allowing them to build a larger area where the foreigners lived. Each of the workshops lives according to the customs of their own country, even believes in the original religion, builds their own temples and churches, establishes their own schools, and even handles their own internal affairs.

   All in all, the Fan people in Fanfang have been half separated from the management of the Guangzhou government, independent and self-governing, and have extraterritorial rights.

   is the Tang Dynasty version of foreign concessions.

  In the Tang Dynasty, they bought and sold land, married wives, took concubines and had children, lived in business, opened schools, and built monasteries. There was no restriction on their freedom of movement, and they even dealt with crimes in the workshops by themselves.

   What is even more frightening is that many big Hu merchants have begun to accumulate their own armed forces. They not only have armed merchant ships outside the port, but also have their own manors outside the city, and they also have their own mercenaries in the city.

  Many Hu merchants have privately accumulated many black mercenaries, forming armed merchant groups, and even the Guangzhou Yamen are somewhat afraid. And the old man Yingchao is famous for having a large number of assassins, being bold and ruthless, and has become the master of Fanfang in Guangzhou.

   Both Dang Renhong and Zhou Shaofan were demoted to death for offending him.

  Historically, during Wu Zetian's time, when Hu merchant ships arrived in Guangzhou, the sailors on the merchant ships bullied the fishermen and fought, and the fishermen sued the governor's office in Guangzhou. Governor Lu Yuanrui found out the case and ordered the arrest of those sailors who committed the crime. As a result, Hu merchants were very dissatisfied, and directly sent the Kunlun slaves they raised into the lobby of the governor's mansion, and killed the governor Lu Yuanrui and a dozen officials with swords. Then board the big ship and sail away.

   For a long time, when Hu merchants committed crimes in Guangzhou, Guangzhou officials let them deal with them themselves, and did not dare to punish them lightly, because Hu merchants were powerful.

   And since the old man Yingchao came to Guangzhou, he has become the leader of the Hu people. If the stronger officials provoke them, they will be demoted if they don't die.

  Now that Qin Lang wants to mobilize Hu merchants, many officials came out to persuade them, saying that this would destroy trade and make Guangzhou an airport.

  But Qin Lang ignored it.

   This is bone scraping to heal wounds. If you don’t do this, Guangzhou will be the Guangzhou of barbarians.

  Now they dare to threaten the prime minister and assassinate the governor, and they will definitely besiege Guangzhou in the future.

  Since he is here, how can this kind of thing be allowed to happen.

  He came with a navy fleet in his hands, all of whom had undergone more than a year of actual combat training, soldiers who had seen blood, and those who were fed by his rewards, could all be used by him.

Eagle's Nest's revenge came, very dense and violent, but it didn't cause much waves in Guangzhou City. Hundreds of dead men were captured or committed suicide every day, but only seven or eight houses were burned down, destroyed Just a few wells.

  Everywhere is tightly guarded, it is difficult for them to have a chance.

  Qin Lang also carried out public opinion propaganda, detailing the many illegal acts of Hu merchants and Fan people, and banned all the privileges of Fanfang and Hu merchants.

  The Kunlun slave mercenaries of the Fan people, armed merchant ships, and manors outside the city were all investigated and dealt with.

   As for the Kunlun private guards of the Fan people, Qin Lang immediately put them in a prisoner camp and planned to send them to the Central Plains for sale.

   "Sanlang, these Hu merchants are really powerful."

  Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianhu sat in the governor's mansion in Yacheng to discuss matters with Qin Lang, reporting and summarizing the results of the attack during this period.

   It has to be said that after the operation was fully launched, the power of the Tibetans who were detected became more and more powerful, and what was shown was only the tip of the iceberg.

"We are currently investigating and arresting about 8,000 black guards and mercenaries of Tibetan merchants in Guangzhou and several surrounding states and counties, and more than 30 armed merchant ships. There are more than 300 manors of the Fan people, and the property seized has exceeded Two million hits."

   Facing these results silently, Cheng Chu was already a little worried.

  Things are getting bigger and bigger.

   "Are you scared?"

"I'm afraid of a bird. These Tibetans are really occupying the magpie's nest. How can we allow them to be so arrogant in our territory of Tang Dynasty!" Cheng Chumo said grimly, "I'm just a little worried. Xidongman, Feng Ningchen and other Han chieftains are also making trouble, and we fear that the tens of thousands of people in our navy will not be able to bear it. Should we plan ahead and send troops from other places?"

Niu Jianhu also agreed, "Since we want to do it, let's turn it upside down and let's clean them up thoroughly. It's okay for the foreigners to come to do business, and they will follow our rules in the future. Pay taxes and money, behave in a well-behaved manner, and obey management."

  Qin Lang said, "Actually, when I went south from Liuqiu, I already issued a transfer order. Counting the time, the soldiers I transferred should also leave. But I just sent an order to tell them not to rush into Guangzhou."

"what for?"

   "I wish someone would jump out at this time, the more the better, just catch them all and save trouble. So our reinforcements can't be exposed too early, otherwise how would those people jump out?"

   "Old Cheng Laoniu, you guys should send more scout speedboats out during this time."

  Cheng Chu's heart moved silently, "Could it be that the eagle's nest old dog really has an army of 60,000 assassins?"

"The number of 60,000 is definitely an exaggeration, but we have made such a big move this time, and there are many foreign merchants whose interests have been damaged. These people have always been domineering. If the old dog of Eagle's Nest takes the lead, they may not come up with a fleet to attack , They should have this ability, and now they can do it in a hurry, so they have to guard against it."

  Old Cheng was a little excited.

   "Damn, if there are people who are so fearless of death, I admire them. It's good to come, we just clean up together!"

  (end of this chapter)