The place where the execution was executed was by the remote river west of Chenzhou City. Compared with the bustling downtown, the wind blew across the sparse reeds, bringing a faint sob and scolding sound, which condensed a heavy atmosphere in the air, and even the blue sky above the head seemed to be deep and solemn.

There was a row of soldiers standing on the open space, with a huge chair of the Grand Master in the middle, which was where the prison officer was doing. In front of the chair, the prisoner with a whip was standing by the edge of the pit and scanning it coldly. Four shirtless people at the bottom of the pit were digging this big pit, which was already deep enough to the height of the head. It was in the pit that was faintly sobbing.

"General is here! The time is here!" Seeing Zhao Kuo coming, who was crowded with people, the chief officer immediately shouted loudly with a long tail note.

Suddenly, the soldiers pulled up the four people who dug the soil in the pit like tigers, tied them up in large numbers, and knelt in a row facing Zhao Kuo at the edge of the pit.

Zhao Kuo glanced at the four people and sat on the chair with a blank expression.

From his quiet expression, you know that he is already familiar with doing such things.

He took a stack of documents handed over by the military commander next to him, which not only contained the crimes committed by everyone, but also had the resume of joining the army. Zhao Kuo looked over, then raised his head and said coldly: "Chen Yuan, robbed and privately kept a silver ingot that Luo Ergou, a tenant from Shuiwangzhuang tenant outside Chenzhou City, used to make dowry for his daughter, ten taels, the victim's handprint was pressed, and the sinner confessed. Have you forgotten that people were created by God, and all men in the world were brothers, and women were sisters. He only asked the officials and rich people who were unwilling to rob and harass him. You have been joining me to worship God's religion for 3 years. After following the Heavenly King, you are an old man from Guangdong and Guangxi. Why do you know the law and break the law? Can you accept your sins?"

"God save my life! My subordinates became greedy and ruined their conscience. God saw them all, and I confessed my guilt." Chen Yuan's eyes were filled with tears, his voice was choked, but he was still tough, and he kowtowed to the ground at Zhao Kuo.

"You are going to hell, I'm so sad for you." Zhao Kuo waved his hand coldly.

The executioner immediately dragged Chen Yuan, who was kneeling on the ground for a few steps, raised his knife and fell to the ground with his head. Then he threw the body into the pit in a pack of coarse cloth.

This is not because they are criminals. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not give coffins, but because Hong Xiuquan said that after a person dies, he goes to heaven or hell, so all the people worshiping God's religion do not use coffins after they die. Even if Hong Xiuquan himself died of illness in Nanjing, he would also be buried in yellow satin and buried. This is probably one of the few people who ruled and disciplined themselves.

The sword light was shining and blood was flowing all over the ground. The two death row prisoners who were kneeling side by side immediately started to cry. They were not old soldiers like Chen Yuan, so they were not so calm when they died. The two of them cried bitterly and shouted: "God for your life, General."

Zhao Kuo frowned and looked through the resumes of the two. It turned out that it was not a Guangxi veteran brought out by Hong Xiuquan. It was really embarrassing. But the fourth guy didn't shout or scream. He looked at the ground with white hair mixed with black hair on his head, and turned the rare "young white hair" in front of Zhao Kuo, and closed his mouth and said nothing.

"This is pretty good." Zhao Kuo nodded secretly.

Crying and begging for mercy are useless to survive. Zhao Kuo did not move his eyelids and recited the crimes of the two: one robbed the merchant shop that had been offered to the Shengkuoku. Many people did not want to join the Taiping Army, but were also afraid of the Taiping Army, so they gave some food and silver to the Taiping Army. There were marks on the doors of such people, and the Taiping Army could not harass them. The other was to run to the female camp in the chaos and call out his wife to have a private meeting three times. This was also a death sentence. Except for a few princes and generals, others were not allowed to talk about love. The male camp and the female camp strictly followed the teachings of Mrs. Confucius, who was sent to Hong Xiuquan to grow vegetables. They taught him not to be close to him, and they could not be able to get along with his wife.

Amid the heart-wrenching cry, Zhao Kuo waved his hand gently, and the two heads fell to the ground again.

Then Zhao Kuo looked at the fourth person's resume and crime, raised his eyebrows and recited it in surprise: "Zhu Qingzheng, 25 years old, from Foshan, Guangdong, came to the Tiandihui, and had entered the Tiandihui three times. He was promoted to the commander of the soldiers last month!..."

"What, is the crime of deserter?" Zhao Kuo looked at the guy opposite who gritted his teeth and said nothing, and asked the man with some confusion: "Now the Heavenly King is victorious. I will order the world soon, kill all the Qing demons and build a small earthly paradise. There are thousands of people coming to join the Heavenly King every day. You have been in the Taiping Army for almost a year. You are brave in fighting, strictly abide by military discipline, and never make any mistakes. The superiors and subordinates have a good reputation for you. Now they are the commander of a hundred people. I don't understand why people like you want to escape?"

Upon hearing the general's question, Zhu Qingzheng slowly raised his head, and there was no trace of fear on his handsome and mighty face, and there was only a little hesitation that he wanted to speak but stopped.

"So it's you." Seeing the other party's face clearly, Zhao Kuo was shocked. Isn't this boy the young man who was injured in Guiyang's blocking battle because he protected himself? He pushed himself away and was shot in his arm. Then the two of them joined forces to almost cut the Qing army's spearman into meat sauce.

A person cannot behave like a person, but it is impossible not to behave like a person.

Because this man saved his life once, and among a group of thin black brothers, he looked a little white, tall, majestic, and had a few white hairs, Zhao Kuo was deeply impressed, so he recognized him all at once.

"What's going on? People like you shouldn't do such a betrayal of God, say!" Because of doubt and curiosity, Zhao Kuo stared at Zhu Qingzheng and shouted sternly.

Looking at Zhao Kuo with murderous face, Zhu Qingzheng's teeth were grinding together, and his twisted muscles squeezed the hesitation just now, and anyone could tell what he was making up his mind.

"Why, there is something hidden? Are you old and missing your wife or parents?" Zhao Kuo raised his eyes. This reason was almost the only excuse for Zhu Qingzheng, a veteran who did not join the army and fought bravely, to become a deserter.

"General Xixian! I never thought of being a deserter!" Zhu Qingzheng suddenly raised his chest and shouted. The rope on his body was tightened, and yellow earth smoke popped out. He looked at Zhao Kuo without fear and gritted his teeth and shouted: "Does the Kingdom of Heaven need help? What I want is to bring 100,000 soldiers to the Heavenly King!"

This excuse is really outrageous. Even now, the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom includes women's labor service, but there are no more than 100,000 people. This Guangdong man dares to say that he will bring another 100,000 soldiers?!

No one had ever heard such a strange excuse before leaving and such a arrogant tone. Not only Zhao Kuo even had a group of soldiers who were performing the execution were stunned, looking at Zhu Qingzheng in a daze. No one spoke for a long time.

Zhu Qingzheng took a deep breath and roared out that breath: "I followed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to fight south and north for a long time, and have never been afraid of death. I have never fought bloody battles without fear. Not only because the Kingdom of Heaven came, but also because the heroes of our heaven and earth took it as their responsibility to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty to support the Ming Dynasty! Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, we have never given up this slogan. If the Tartars are not destroyed, China will perish!"

Hearing this, Zhao Kuo stared at Zhu Qingzheng's eyes and narrowed his eyes, subconsciously licking his teeth. This was his murderous intent.

What Zhu Qingzheng said now is very nice, but for Zhao Kuo, the gangster godfather who only values ​​real profit and disdain for empty words, you want to make him sympathize with you and value you by saying big words. He thinks this is an insult to him.

If Zhu Qingzheng had to go over and over again, it would be this bullshit theory. Zhao Kuo even wanted to light the sky lantern of this bastard and pretended to be like this thing.

As far as Zhao Kuo knows, the slogan of the Tiandihui in the late Qing Dynasty was indeed to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. This was because the Qing Dynasty oppressed China extremely ruthlessly, the people were living in poverty, and the administration was dark and suffering. Naturally, they longed for a change of dynasty and let the Ming Dynasty, which once brought them a peaceful life, come back.

However, "anti-Qing" is the focus, otherwise there would not be so many members of the Tiandihui Association join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom without hesitation without the political requirement of "restoring Ming". Killing the Qing demons, and living without Qing demons would be better. It is the judgment of the Chinese people.

The actual situation is that by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Tiandihui had evolved from a secret resistance group that put the political demands of "restoration" first to a semi-public guild organization that inherited the political demands of its ancestors but put economic demands first.

If you do business and open a store in Guangdong, you will find that you are often harassed by the underworld, but they are not harassed you for nothing. They will show you a way - join the Tiandihui.

As long as you join the Tiandihui and pay the membership fee, the Tiandihui will in turn protect you and attack your non-Tiandihui competitors.

As long as it involves commercial affairs, whether it is the white road or the underworld, the shop owners, dock workers, cargo ship owners and sailors, smuggling ships, opium halls, etc. are almost all members of the Tiandihui Society.

In the tide of the Heaven and Earth Rebellion in 1854, an uprising in a city was that officials took a fancy to the profits of cargo ships and sent officials to collect heavy taxes on the ships. In the past, the Heaven and Earth Rebellion charged this fee. The Heaven and Earth Rebellion and the government had a huge conflict over the interests of herbivores, which led to an uprising.

Zhao Kuo is very familiar with this kind of organization. Isn’t it the predecessor of a trade union or a gangster?

Xiang Bai Le, that is the trade union in the future!

Going towards the black, isn’t this the gangster that I was the one who was so popular back then?!

Because he was familiar with the inside story, Zhao Kuo scoffed at the bold words made by Zhu Qingzheng with the dantian energy. Even Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang, the nation's greatest great man, was not the initial motivation to rebel to drive away the Tartars to be the emperor. He just wanted to have a full meal.

"Where are the 100,000 soldiers? If you don't say a little," Zhao Kuo sneered cruelly at Zhu Qingzheng: "I will add two more words to you: to deceive the public; to intend to deceive the superiors, this is not as simple as turning around!"

Zhu Qingzheng was stunned for a moment, his passionate and high spirits were cleaned by this fierce and coldness. He licked his lips and continued to speak, "The reason I want to leave is because my brother from the Heaven and Earth Society sent me a message a few days ago. We eagerly hope that the Heavenly King can urge the soldiers to enter Guangdong and save the people from the water and fire of the Qing Demon. Even if the Heavenly King does not send a heavenly soldier and a soldier to eliminate the demons, we have agreed to the Foshan uprising. The Lord of the Hall has begun to connect with the gangs and secretly buy weapons to build them. It is necessary to rise up and help the Heavenly Kingdom with a helping hand. Once our first rebellion is successful, all parts of Guangdong will follow suit and immediately besiege the war. Wouldn't it be 100,000 soldiers to help the Heavenly Kingdom?"

"A Uprising is brewing in Foshan, Guangdong?" Zhao Kuo curled his lips. This was normal. Two years later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was further away from Guangdong, and Guangdong was in a rebellion.

But he was still confused about his reason for Zhu Qingzheng. He stared at the man and asked, "Why did the brothers from Guangdong Tiandihui want to respond to the Kingdom of Heaven but want to find you?"

"That's because my brothers are in love with each other." Zhu Qingzheng said seriously: "Before entering the Heavenly Army, the villain has been walking for the gang in Guangdong. He has dated all kinds of heroes. The nickname of the young man, Zhu Baitou, is also a little famous among the brothers of the Guangdong Heavenly and Earth Association. This time, the person who initiated the uprising was not someone else, but the Xiangzhu who grew up together, knows each other well. Besides, I know that I have been in the Heavenly Army for a year, and have experienced wars and killed Qing Yao with real swords and guns. I want to ask the young man to go back and help him."

"The young man tossed and turned between the favor and brotherhood of the king and his brotherhood. I felt that the king had the world only a matter of time and time. I was just the light of fireflies. There was not more than me, and there were less than me. But my hometown brothers were still waiting for a day in the water and fire for more than one day, so I felt very distressed. So I reported to Shangguan that I wanted to leave the team and wanted to go back to Guangdong to kill Qing Yao.

"The next sentence is true. The brother who came to find me lives in Chenzhou. He also brought a letter of loyalty from our incense master, asking the Heavenly King to send his troops to Guangdong! It has been submitted to the King of Dong Qiansui! If the general does not believe it, he can ask this person immediately."

"I want to leave the team? I haven't heard of it!" Zhao Kuo sneered in his stomach, Damn, do you think this boat will come whenever you want, and you will leave whenever you want? Are you the Qinhuai River flower boat?

"So you ran away?" Zhao Kuo looked at Zhu Qingzheng sarcastically.

Zhu Qingzheng looked unlucky at this time, lowered his head and shouted: "I didn't run away! I just handed the letter to the senior commander, the brigade coach. Before I could get the approval, I was arrested here."

"Oh, this kid didn't run away at all. I recently cracked down on him, but I didn't expect to hit him." Zhao Kuo finally understood that he had occupied Chenzhou and attacked Changsha recently. The army was powerful and there were many people coming to join him, mixed with dragons and snakes. Yang Xiuqing ordered that military discipline be strictly enforced, show kindness to the people, and also gave a warning to the new recruits and killed the powerful.

Zhao Kuo has been cursing Yang Xiuqing recently. He took this chicken feather as an arrow and immediately ordered a few subordinates to find a few bastards to kill Liwei and help Dong Wang's order to reorganize the army.

However, the Taiping Army's military discipline is OK. In addition, Zhao Kuo is not an old farmer who has never seen the world. In addition to eating, he has very little desire for other gold, silver and treasures. Therefore, the people under him think that he is the first to lead the way and share the joys and sorrows, wealth and honor without leaving the masses, and admire him very much. Moreover, although Zhao Kuo doesn't talk much, he is definitely not a good person. Whether it is an enemy or an old subordinate, he won't even blink his eyes when he kills people! In addition, there are not many subordinates under his command, and the situation is clear.

In this way, the general was diligent and cold, and his morale was naturally high, and he was trembling and strict in military discipline. It was really difficult to find a few people who committed crimes against the wind.

After finally finding three bold ones, they thought it was not enough. Zhu Qingzheng wanted to leave and hand in the report, and their leader reported him as a deserter.

If you usually meet a soldier who wants to leave the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom like this, you won’t be killed if you come up. If there are too many such people, you usually have to talk to the officer who is in charge of religion and change your mind. If you don’t listen, you will be intimidated or whipped. You really run away without any consequences and will be killed if you are caught.

It was purely unlucky that Zhu Qingzheng was tied here.

Zhao Kuo saw that this boy was brave and eloquent, and he used to be a good soldier, and he had saved his life, so he had a good impression of him first. Those who were involved in the underworld and fighting were actually a bit superstitious, because this job requires some luck. If a bodyguard saved him in danger, he often liked to carry him everywhere, "lucky generals". Therefore, many gangster bosses followed the old bodyguards in their forties. Although their skills and reactions were not as good as young people, this person was not only loyal, but he would definitely save the boss. The boss seemed to be carrying a talisman to seek good luck.

In addition, he himself wanted to enter Guangdong and pave the way for himself to escape from the West or betray the Kingdom of Heaven. He needed someone familiar with the situation in Guangdong. Who can be more suitable than Zhu Qingzheng who is not only familiar with geography and humanities, but also a pillar of the world?
Chapter completed!