Zhou Tai withdrew from the house with Zhou Xian, looked at Zhou Xian with some confusion and said, "Uncle, do you think Meng Xiongchen will write this letter? Why do I feel that you didn't plan to let him do that at all!"

Zhou Xian walked with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, he will. From the fact that he abandoned his Tongze and only carried a dozen people to escape, he could see that he was a person who cherished his life. At the same time, he was self-reliant and arrogant, thinking that we would look down on him a little higher than him after capturing him. And the slap you just now must have completely broken his last hope. A person who is desperate and cherishes his life will definitely seize the only chance to survive. Even if this opportunity seems very slim."

"Will Meng Qiaofang really exchange his son's life for fifty heads?"

"In my opinion, it is unlikely. Meng Qiaofang surrendered to the Manchus for nearly ten years and has been fighting with them in the south and north. He is currently serving as the deputy commander of the Han Dynasty, the Zhenghong and Zhenghong, with a very high status. How could he give up everything in his hands for his son?"

"Then you know that it's unlikely that he will do that, why are you still so troublesome? How good is it to kill these two guys and use their heads to pay tribute to the dead brothers? I have long disliked them."

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "The reason I did this is to create a gap between Manlu and Meng Qiaofang. I don't expect Meng Qiaofang to really kill the heads of fifty Manlu, but as long as he responds, we can use this to continuously build momentum to gradually reduce Manlu's trust in him. Moreover, I think that Meng Yue is very good. Now he is loyal to the Meng family, and maybe he can use this opportunity to make him realize that everything he is loyal to is very worthless. If you subdue him later, there will be no problem."

Meng Qiaofang was a famous general in the early Qing Dynasty. Before the Qing army entered the pass, she was the deputy commander of the two Han flags. After the Qing army entered the pass, he served as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. Later, he was promoted to the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. He served for nearly ten years and suppressed rebellions many times, ensuring the stable rule of the Qing Dynasty in the entire Shaanxi and Gansu region. When he was old, he was even promoted to the Minister of War. For such a person, Zhou Xian certainly wanted to take advantage of all the opportunities he could use to move him, at least not let him be so valued.

Seeing Zhou Tai still puzzled, Zhou Xian sighed and knew that it would be useless to tell him. So he said directly: "Tomorrow, if Meng Xiongchen wrote a letter, you can ask him to copy another copy. Then give Meng Yue a small boat and ask him to take one of them back to Liaodong and hand it over to Meng Qiaofang. As for the other one, it will be kept temporarily, and I will use it in the future."

"Uncle, what if that kid Meng Yue chooses to surrender!"

Zhou Xian shook his head and said, "How can the loyalty that has been cultivated for a long time be completely changed overnight? Unless he is completely disappointed with the Meng family, it is a complete luxury to conquer him."

The sun rises to the sky and a new day is here.

On the east side of Ninghai City, near the place where the prisoners were imprisoned, a execution platform was built. The surrounding area was filled with the people and soldiers in the city, and the beheading was proceeding in an orderly manner.

The first ones to Xingtai were more than 300 second Tartars with braids. Some of them were captured at the entrance of the Pavilion, while others were captured outside Ninghai City. Without exception, all of them were beheaded, and their heads with braids were piled aside as evidence of their future achievements to the court. When they came, there were a total of 1,000 people. Now, except for some who escaped by chance, as well as Meng Xiongchen and Meng Yue who were watching the execution, the others were turned into corpses.

Meng Xiongchen's face was ashamed. At this time, he didn't know whether he should be glad or cry. He wrote a letter to his father, which was temporarily saved. But as for whether he would be like these people in the future, he really couldn't even save a whole body like him.

The massacre of the government army continued, and the pirates who usually do evil were pushed to the execution platform in a row of twenty people. During the execution, some people kept begging for mercy, some people cried loudly, some people trembled, and some people were wet before they even walked onto Xingtai's crotch. But no one paid attention to them. The executioners were like efficient and infinite machines, raising their hands again and again, chopping them down; raising their hands and chopping them down again and again.

The execution lasted for a whole morning, and more than 300 Tartars and more than 1,400 pirates were all killed. The blood stained the earth red, and the water washed over and over again, and could not clean up the remaining bloody smell. The sky was sunny, but most of the people watching the execution were sweating behind their foreheads, and they were no longer as excited and fanatic as they saw the murder at first.

After the completion, Zhou Xian read out the way to deal with the remaining pirates in public. The pirates who were not yet imprisoned cried with joy and finally saved their lives.

There were about ten pirates left. Zhou Xian asked them to pick out two of them whom they trusted the most. He prepared a small fishing boat for them, with clean drinking water and food on it, and asked them to leave Ninghai and return to their nests to get redemption silver. Meng Yue's treatment was slightly better. Zhou Xian ordered people to carry him to a large ship to the sea area very close to Liaodong and then put him down. The main purpose was to ensure that he returned to Liaodong safely. You must know that these pirates suffered heavy losses due to Meng Xiongchen. If they were not protected, he would be very likely to be killed by the pirates as soon as he went to sea.

Meng Xiongchen was still under custody, but the treatment was slightly better than before.

Zeng Ying rushed to Ninghai from Laiyang City on the third day of defeating the pirates. In the letter, he already knew that Zhou Xian and Huang Fei decided to kill a group of prisoners. But he didn't expect that the number was so large, close to two thousand. Looking at the blood everywhere and the heads piled up like a hill, he almost fainted. Fortunately, the staff next to him kept reminding him, and he calmed down and said to Zhou Xian and Huang Fei with a pale face: "These pirates have done many evil things and should be killed. Don't worry, I will write to the court to tell you about your great achievements."

Zeng Ying's words set the tone for the whole matter, that is, no matter what is being pursued. He knew in his heart that he had lost Fushan County before, and if he lost Ninghaizhou again, he would be the end of his position as governor of Lai. This time, Zhou Xian and Huang Fei were the most rewarding to defend Ninghai City and defeat the pirates. Whether it was in the mood or in the truth, he should take some responsibility for them.

Moreover, in the area of ​​Denglai, where wars often occur, Zeng Ying knew that if he wanted to do the job of governor safely, he had to rely on them. He was a member of the Donglin Party and had heard of Zhou Xian's reputation before. But looking at the boy who was under twenty years old in front of him, he could not feel any disgust. Instead, he sighed silently in his heart, "Heroes are young!"
Chapter completed!