After listening to the words of the two old men, Zuo Zongtang also showed a bitter expression.
It is indeed cutting your own flesh! Still cutting your own flesh!
What Luo Yaoguo did was to kill the landlords and gentry and then cut their flesh! What Zuo Zongtang wanted to do was to let the landlords and gentry cut their own flesh alive... How painful! Compared with killing them, this is really not the same thing.
More enjoyable?
But otherwise, Confucianism will really come to an end... Zuo Zongtang really can't imagine what the world will be like in the future!
He thought for a while and sighed: "But what can we do? He is not Zhu Hongwu, and he cannot be Zhu Hong... After all, the situation is different! There are too many people in this world, and there is really not enough land.
, not enough!
Moreover, we can't beat them, we really can't!
Luo Raodian suddenly thought of something and reminded Zuo Zongtang: "Ji Gao...there are thousands of miles of fertile wilderness outside the pass! If we take it out, there may not be another Huguang to fill Sichuan!"
But Luo Bingzhang shook his head and said: "It's difficult, it's difficult! I heard that Prince Gong and the emperor talked about it, but the emperor suppressed it because the ancestral family law was unchangeable!"
"Then..." Zuo Zongtang looked at the two old people in front of him, smiled and said: "Then I, a commoner from Xiangyin, will write to the emperor and ask him to take out the fertile fields outside the pass and distribute them to the poor people in the pass. Anyway,
Give people a way to survive!
This meat...someone has to cut it! If the emperor cuts it more, the gentry in the world may cut it less!" Luo Bingzhang and Luo Raodian looked at each other and nodded.
Luo Bingzhang said: "Ji Gao, let me take the lead in this "Please open the fertile wilderness to support the people"! It seems that I, the governor, am about to lose my place of duty. I can't do it on my knees!
"I also sign my name!" Luo Raodian said, "For no other reason than for so many Xianghu soldiers who died... We can't go on like this! The emperor must have his flesh cut off!" These three are really...
Loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty! Shangshu asked the emperor to cut his flesh. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, no one has been more loyal than them.
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"Zeng, you are unfaithful, filial and unrighteous!" "Zeng, you will die a good death!"
"Mr. Zeng, how have we offended you? If you want to build well fields, you can do it on your family's land. Why should you divide my family's land?" "Mr. Zeng, I have wealth in the field but I still want it even if I lose my head.
I turned into a hungry ghost and ate the souls of you and Zeng Guofan..."
Outside Hehuatang Town, in an open land, Zeng Guohua, dressed in "Confucius attire", sat on an imperial chair, looking coldly at dozens of wealthy landlords in Xiangxiang County who were about to be stabbed.
The reason why these people died was because they were "anti-Zhou Rites" - they opposed Zeng Guohua's implementation of the "well field system" based on Zhou Rites! Moreover, they resisted armedly, and the circumstances were egregious!
According to Ma Baocai, the leader of the Xiangxiang County branch of the God Worshiping Association, not killing him is not enough to make the people angry!
Therefore, the village preachers of the villages where dozens of landlords and wealthy people lived commanded the militia to arrest them and escort them to the lotus pond...Zeng Guohua would sentence them to death, and then they would be executed by Zeng Guohua!
Oh, and we have to do these things under the banner of Zeng Guofan!
Now Zeng Guofan couldn't even wash himself off even if he jumped into Dongting Lake!
However, Zeng Guohua did not feel that he had tricked Zeng Guofan, nor did he feel that these landlords who were taken to the lotus pond for sale should not be killed... They deserved to die, not because they were landlords, collecting rents, lending money, and exploiting farmers. It's because they can't defeat the farmers they exploit!
Not only can they not be defeated, but even the master they are loyal to can't be defeated!
If they can't be beaten, they can only survive by cutting their flesh. But since these people can't be beaten, and they are unwilling to cut their flesh, what other way to survive? "Kill!" Zeng Guohua waved his hand, "After killing him, hang his head outside Hehuatang Town. , this is a warning to others!" "Yes!"
Ma Baocai bowed his hands and looked like he was obeying orders. In fact, he was the real person in power in Hehuatang Town. Zeng Guohua was just his puppet, and this puppet just stayed in Hehuatang for a while, waiting for Luo Yaoguo to lead the way. When Jun Dong leaves Dongting Lake, he still needs to be taken away.
Because with his article "Advocate to Promote Confucianism", he has already become a sign to win over "progressive Confucian scholars". When Luo Yaoguo reaches the southeast where Confucian scholars are everywhere, he will still be used.
And once Zeng Guohua leaves, the entire Lotus Pond, no, the entire Xiangxiang County, will be decided by Ma Baocai alone. Then he will have to kill more!
Thinking of this, Ma Baocai turned his head, waved his hand to the eight executioners holding ghost-head knives, and said one word: "Kill!"
Eight brightly polished swords were swung by, and eight big heads flew high into the air, then fell heavily to the ground. Some of them rolled a few times, revealing the bright red neck fractures, and the muscles at the fractures were still trembling. Blood gurgled back and forth. The body without its head spurted blood arrows and fell forward. After twitching a few times, it completely lost its life.
"good!"
"Well done!"
The crowd of onlookers burst into applause!
Excited expressions appeared on the thin, numb, and bitter faces.
It seems that after killing these landowners and gentry, their lives will become better... In fact, it will be a little better, but very limited! The reason is very simple, there is really not enough land!
Even if all the landowners in Xiangxiang are killed and all the land is divided equally, how much land will there be? Can each person have two acres of land? It’s a bit uncertain!
With these two acres of land, how long can we live in peace? Twenty years at most? When people who should not have been born and who should not live grow up, two acres per capita will not be enough. Who will be killed then?
Also, the world is not at peace yet!
Xiangxiang is now at the forefront of the battle between the Taiping Army and the Hunan regiment. Both sides are currently accumulating strength and have not really started fighting yet. But once the war starts, hehe... fighting for land, killing people and filling the fields!
Who knows how many of the people who are applauded now will become the dead bones in troubled times?
Zeng Guohua looked expressionlessly at the execution ground where the killings were being carried out and the cheering crowd. Only two words came to his mind - the end of the world! Maybe this is the end of the world!
Dozens of heads were chopped off quickly, leaving only headless corpses lying in a pool of blood on the execution ground, waiting for their relatives to pick them up...if they still have relatives! And the severed heads He was hung outside the newly built city wall in Heyetang Town for public display.
There are many bamboo poles erected outside the city wall of Heyetang Town, and on each bamboo pole there is a head hanging, with eyes that have lost their luster, looking listlessly at the official road outside the city wall leading to the edge of Hengshan Mountain.
If these heads are not completely dead, you may be able to see a listless Qing army coming slowly in the distance. Seng Gelinqin was riding on the horse, drowsily as if asleep, when suddenly someone shouted: " There’s long hair!”
The prince suddenly woke up and looked back with fear on his face: "Yes, yes... Hong Xiuquan is coming after him?" He was really afraid of Hong Xiuquan!
It’s really terrifying that this legendary crazy man, the pseudo-king, who only spends time in the harem, goes crazy. He doesn’t go crazy alone, but leads tens of thousands of people to go crazy together!
The few soldiers under Seng Gelinqin were already unable to defeat the Taiping Army who were not crazy. Now they met the Taiping Army who were crazy. There were so many people. How could they be beaten! If Hong Xiuquan caught up again now, Seng Gelinqin would really be defeated. Don't know what to do?
Even if Hong Xiuquan didn't come, his head would still hurt enough.
Because in order to protect himself, he has abandoned, well, or rather tricked the imperial envoy Saishang'a to die... How can he get away with this? "No, no, Your Majesty, there are wild hairs in the fields on both sides!"
Seng Gelinqin felt a little relieved when he heard Guan Wen's hoarse voice.
As long as it's not Hong Xiuquan, that's fine, but isn't this Xiangxiang County? Where did the wild hair come from in the countryside of Xiangxiang County?
Senggelinqin quickly cheered up and looked around, and then he saw a scene that made him feel as if he was in another world.
He only saw many farmers in the nearby farmland, perhaps coming to loosen the soil, staring dumbly at the Qing soldiers who suddenly appeared on the official road. And these farmers were dressed...why did they look so like people from the Ming Dynasty?
Chapter completed!