Lei Yuan scolded sternly, his eyes as cold as if they were about to freeze.
Gan Ning stared at the long knife inserted on the ground and remained silent.
The county government was silent inside and outside, and no one dared to speak or move, except for the pine and torch burning, there was no sound.
Lei Yuan took a deep breath and exhale deeply. After a while, he said to his subordinates: "Go and search for white cloth and coffins immediately."
"Yes." Several entourages immediately led their men out of the schoolyard.
The soldiers whispered for a while, and when Lei Yuan and Gan Ning were not moving, they returned to silence.
"Xingba, what's going on?" Lei Yuan asked again.
"Eighty-seven mouths." Gan Ning said.
"What?"
"In the first year of Xingping, Chen Mi, Lou Fa and others raised troops to fight against Liu Zhang. Because of insufficient troops, they were defeated by Zhao Wei, the general of the Eastern Army, and retreated to Jingzhou. Yan Yan, the old man, was appointed as Zhao Wei's deputy general at that time, and led his army to pursue us. When he arrived in Linjiang, this man led his troops into the wall of our Gan clan and killed eighty-seven relatives."
Gan Ning didn't look up. He grabbed the dry soil at his feet and rubbed it slowly. Then the blood stains on his hands that had not yet dried up merged into the fine soil slags and slowly fell down.
"When I left Yizhou, I advised them to ask them to take refuge with me in Jingzhou. But they didn't want to..." Gan Ning grinned: "They feel that the Gan family and the Yan family are both Zhongguan tribes in Linjiang County, Ba County, and they are family friends. Even if there are military and political hostility between the clans, they will not affect the clan."
Lei Yuan nodded slightly.
The people in the Gan clan had no mistakes. In this chaotic world, the fact that the children of local wealthy families were mostly in their own right is that if every conflict between the clan children would affect the clan itself, then half of the aristocratic families in Hebei in Central Plains would have gone by now. However, it seems that the progress of things was not as they thought.
"My four tribe fathers, eleven peer brothers, their wives, children and family all died in the Wubi. The Gan family was born and reborn in Linjiang during the Qin Dynasty. After five hundred years of death, they became the local crown clan. After Yan Yan's killing, the recent death of the clan clan was almost gone. Only six people escaped by chance."
"Eighty-seven dead! Only six people survived!" Gan Ning roared in a low voice.
The blood stains on his hands had fallen with the foam, but he still subconsciously rubbed his hands? He kept saying:
"Yan Yan and I are fellow townsmen. He was old and early to join the government. But when he was the governor of Yizhou, he was already the county magistrate of Guanghan County... When I was a young man, I killed people and left a desperate man, and he even wrote to persuade him. Later, I became the county magistrate, thanks to the recommendation of Zhang Junsi and Yan Yan."
"Suzhi? You don't know how difficult it is for Yizhou people to be an official in Yizhou? The position that is slightly acceptable is all from Dongzhou. Zhang Junsi and others tried their best to seek a county magistrate... So shortly after I took office, I planned to drive out the power of Dongzhou and promote the ambition of the scholars of Yizhou." Gan Ning sneered: "Who knew that after I started the army, all those who fought with me were Yizhou Township. Zhao Wei was a Brazilian? Zhang Ren was a Shu County, and Yan Yan was a fellow villager in Linjiang County? They actually felt that if I defeated me, I would get the trust of Liu Jiyu? I could compete with Dongzhou people in my career! This group of people... How could this group of people be so stupid!"
Speaking of this, Gan Ning scolded loudly: "All are idiots! idiots!"
At this moment, the soldiers on the school ground were already nervous. When Gan Ning heard it, he cursed and immediately moved forward a few steps closer. Some people even drew their swords on guard. Lei Yuan waved his hand and asked them to retreat back to their original place.
"Old Yan Yan is the most active one. I led the army back from Guanghan and Deyang. He chased him along the way. After I retreated across the Linjiang, he probably thought that the Gan clan would use the dock wall to block the pursuers, so he launched an attack directly. As a result, it took only half an hour to break through the dock wall. The chaotic soldiers had 87 lives!"
Gan Ning sighed: "To be honest, the generals of the Yizhou army fought with each other for a while, and I had many lives under my command. The young children of the Gan family who followed me in the army in Linjiang have not yet survived. Those are the result of every single shot on the battlefield. I recognize whether they are dead or alive. Only these eighty-seven lives are ordinary people in the Gan family and they did not have to die."
He looked up at Lei Yuan and said in a deep voice: "I thought I could bear it. When I saw Yan Yan'er, I realized that if I didn't take revenge on such a bloody feud, it would be a man, and it would be better than a pig or a dog!"
Lei Yuan also sighed.
He suddenly remembered that in the tavern in Yidaocheng, Pang Tong said to Gan Ning: "What you want is to return home in glory and be proud; what you want is to have a meal, and to revenge all the grudges; you want those mediocre people in the village who misjudged you in the past kneel down in front of you and beg for your forgiveness."
Pang Tong was right, but no one expected that Gan Ning's revenge would come so violently and so quickly.
No wonder Gan Ning was unwilling to get off the ship when the previous fleet passed by Linjiang. That was because he had not revenged his great revenge and had no face to face the remaining tribe members.
But from another perspective, it was Yan Yan who attacked the Wubi at that time, but wasn’t this enemy recruited by Gan Ning? If Gan Ning was at ease as his county magistrate and did not raise an army to fight against Liu Jiyu, how could this disaster come about?
After all, this is the result of serving the incompetent lord in troubled times. Because the lord is incompetent, he has no way to expand his power and create more room for his subordinates to play. He has no ability to use people fairly and convince his subordinates.
Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, the two generations of Yizhou governors, almost deliberately incited the opposition between their subordinates and stabilized their power. Under the rule of the father and son, the people of Dongzhou and Yizhou were alive and dead, and the people of Yizhou and Yizhou were alive and dead. Countless talented and handsome figures fought meaninglessly for a little bit of insignificance. Later, the fight even forgot what they were fighting for, and were simply driven by the accumulated hatred.
Gan Ning regards Yan Yan as a blood feud, and must take revenge soon. How many people regard Gan Ning as a blood feud? In these decades of uninterrupted chaotic times, who is really pure and flawless, without any stain on his hands?
At this time, the soldiers who had previously sent out to search for coffins and white cloth returned. Because the coffin was large, they loaded them with several vehicles.
"General, do you see?"
"Get the county government to collect the corpses as soon as possible, and don't expose them." Lei Yuan thought for a while and said again: "Call a few more tailors to match the heads and corpses, and sew them one by one, don't be slow."
The soldiers ran past Ganning and headed to the county government.
Lei Yuan didn't want to distinguish the hatred between Yan Yan and Gan Ning.
He only felt that no matter what Yan Yan recorded in the history books of his previous life, he had achieved loyalty to the governor of Yizhou in this life, at least he was worthy of Liu Yan and Liu Zhang. Such a warrior, he, his subordinates and family, should be basically respected.
As for Gan Ning...
His emotions and his anger had nothing to do with Lei Yuan. Lei Yuan was only sure of one thing, that is, Gan Ning violated the military order.
When reading historical books in his previous life, Lei Yuan felt that it was easy for superiors to be tolerant of subordinates, just like at work, he would have more understanding and support for colleagues or partners. But at this time he realized how difficult it is to be lenient to his subordinates.
In this world, a mistake or a special behavior will not only bring economic and time losses. If a person in charge of military armor does something a little recklessly, it will lead to the death of many people and thus affect the support of many people.
It is precisely because soldiers are weapons that soldiers must obey orders as their duty!
Otherwise, just like Gan Ning, at the critical moment when Xuande Gong entered Sichuan, Gan Ning was full of his own hatred and wanted to massacre the family of Yizhou generals. This was to pour dirty water on Xuande Gong's gentle and tolerant image, and even to the bloody wounds of Yizhou people. Who can accept such a result? Who can bear the responsibility?
Chapter completed!