When Wang Yinghua was brought over, he only glanced at Zhou Shixiang and turned his head aside. His head was slightly tilted back to look like a loyal minister and righteous man. He was just a little bit disgusting.

The blind Li shouted: "When I see my grandmaster, I won't kneel down yet!"

"I kneel down to the sky, kneel down to the ground, kneel down in the middle, kneel down to the king, and kneel down to the high hall of my parents. Who is your general? I will kneel down as I am?"

Wang Yinghua looked disdainful. In terms of origin, he was a Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen. What was Zhou Shixiang? He was just a scholar.

How can there be a reason for a Jinshi to kneel on a scholar in this world?

What's more, before he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was a Grand Secretary of the Shaowu Dynasty, and after surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was also a Guanglu Temple Minister of the Qing Dynasty. Such an identity is not something that a showman can compare with!

Wang Yinghua was not afraid of death, but asking him to kneel down to a scholar would really kill him.

"He, mom, the old guy is so tough, right? Go and press this old guy down!"

The blind Li Gang was just mentioned by Zhou Shi as the little flag of his personal guard beside him. Seeing that Wang Yinghua dared to show off such a dead look, he couldn't help but be in a hurry and ordered Wang Yinghua to hold him down and kneel down.

Zhou Shixiang said nothing and watched coldly.

"Let me go, I won't kneel down to this thief scholar! A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. If you have the ability, you can kill me!"

Wang Yinghua struggled hard but refused to kneel down. The blind Li was annoyed and lifted the scabbard and wanted to go forward to break the old guy's knees to see how hard the old guy's bones were.

"Slow down."

Zhou Shixiang called the blind Li, signaling the guards to retreat, and then said, "Sir, I must have thought about this before coming, but I always feel that something is almost there."

Wang Yinghua was stunned and blurted out, "What almost?" He immediately regretted. He shouldn't have taken over the thief scholar.

Zhou Shixiang chuckled and said, "You should curse me after seeing me. Then I was furious and ordered someone to drag you out and chop you up. This will show the heroic spirit of the Qing Dynasty for the Qing Dynasty. Well, I believe that Mr. had already written a life-death poem yesterday, so that it would be more perfect to recite before death."

"you!..."

Wang Yinghua was very frustrated by Zhou Shixiang's words. He was indeed ready to be killed. He carefully prepared two desperate poems and read them loudly before the execution. In this way, Wang Yinghua became a loyal minister who served the Qing Dynasty and was famous for his son. He could not say that the Qing court did not treat his son well. Now, Zhou Shixiang pointed it out directly, as if he was suddenly pulled away with a fig leaf. It was also like a trick that made people expose it. He was very depressed.

Back to the point, Zhou Shixiang said seriously: "Sir, really refuse to help me, and contribute to my Ming Dynasty Zhongxing?"

"The room has been exhausted in Ming Dynasty." Wang Yinghua said coldly.

"My Ming emperor is still in Kunming, and the southwest provinces are still under the Ming Dynasty. Even in Guangdong, there are many Ming soldiers and horses in my country. In the past, the King of Jin defeated the Qing army, and now the general defeated the Qing army. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are kind and ambitious in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are supported by Ming. Why do you say that I am exhausted by Ming?"

Wang Yinghua sneered: "Yongli is only a few provinces in the southwest. How can it be compared with the Qing Dynasty, which has won most of the world? Now it is just a surviving life in Yunnan. It is a matter of time before you and the thief of the Western Western Empire. As for you and the thief of the Western Western Empire, huh, but Yelang's arrogant people thought that if you defeat the Qing army once or twice, you would have the dream of reviving the Ming Dynasty? It's extremely stupid! If you don't talk about you, even if you defeated the Western Western Empire twice, what's wrong? You're not defeated me in Guangdong, but you're not defeated by human resources. What does this mean? It means that the Southern Ming Dynasty has been exhausted and cannot be saved by human power."

Zhou Shixiang sighed and said, "Sir, what we did is nothing more than flowers in the mirror and moon in the water, and it is in vain?"

"You know, why do you come and ask me what I am doing?" Wang Yinghua's beard was raised on it, looking very magnificent.

"Sir, this makes people look at him as a loyal martyr, and he has a very famous name in history. Regardless of whether my Ming Dynasty has been exhausted, I only ask Mr., "Mr. is a Han Chinese, a Manchu and a Hu Chinese. Now the Hu Chinese occupy my country, kill my people, and slave my Han Chinese. Why do you want to be a slave to Manchus as a Han Chinese?" Zhou Shixiang knew that Wang Yinghua really refused to surrender, but he still wanted to persuade him again.

"The world has been settled, the country's destiny has been settled, and the people have lived and worked in peace. My lords of the Qing Dynasty have been respected for Confucius and respected the Tao. Whether it is the Chinese or the Han people, as long as the world is peaceful, and we will not be affected by swords and swords, or the suffering of displacement, we will be content. If the swords and weapons are on the rise again, the suffering is not the people. What is wrong with my plan for the people?" Wang Yinghua was determined to eat the weight and would never be moved by Zhou Shixiang.

"A word of respect for Confucius and Chongdao makes the gentleman willing to die for the alien race? A word of respect for Confucius and Chongdao makes the gentleman ignore the cruelty of the alien race? A word of respect for Confucius and Chongdao makes the gentleman ignore the death and injury of the people of the Ming Dynasty?"

Wang Yinghua said righteously: "It is clear that the people's deaths and injuries are caused by you! The world will be more stable as soon as possible. If you wait for a day of resistance, the people will suffer more than one day! When I judged the situation and resolutely surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, I protected hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou. If Li Chengdong had not betrayed the Qing Dynasty, how could hundreds of thousands of people be buried with him? The truth of this matter is clear, but those who obey will be able to live in peace. If Li Chengdong had not caused trouble, how could the people in Guangzhou die?"

After hearing this, Zhou Shixiang was speechless. After a long time, he said, "I only understood what it means to be without speculation today. Wang Yinghua, as a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, you are a wise minister, and you have no integrity in your wise ministers and no backbone for scholars. Let me ask you again, are you willing to return to enlightenment again?"

Wang Yinghua's head raised and said with a righteous look on his face: "There are pros and downs in the world, and the country is destroyed and killed. All generations have been there. I am loyal to the Qing Dynasty and I just wish to die early. You don't have to say much to me. I will not submit to you. If you are really a hero, let me die and be full of my reputation."

"Are you really not afraid of death?"

"Life is a Qing Dynasty person, death is a Qing Dynasty ghost! I die for the sake of my whole heart. I have a good value for death and peace of mind!"

"Okay, since that's the case, that handsome guy won't talk nonsense to you anymore. Come on, pull this old man out and chop it up!"

Zhou Shixiang decided to kill someone.

"Thank you!"

Wang Yinghua looked at Zhou Shi coldly, looked at him as if he was homeless, and turned his head and came out calmly.

Zhou Shi was furious and ordered Xu Yingyuan to say, "You go to the prison and call all the officials and scholars over, and let them watch Wang Yinghua's head fall to the ground with their own eyes. Then he picked up Wang Yinghua's head with a bamboo pole and asked them one by one whether they would like to return."

Xu Yingyuan asked, "What if they don't want to return?"

Zhou Shi raised his eyebrows: "Then cut off their heads, and use a bamboo pole to raise them to ask the next one, but if you don't want to kill them, you'll continue to kill until they're willing to surrender! Let's see if their necks are hard or their handsome swords are hard! They were able to be scared by the swords of Manzhou people back then, and today they can also be scared by my swords. The difference is that whose swords cut many heads!"

Xu Yingyuan shivered: "I understand the humble profession!"

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After Wang Yinghua was dragged out, Xu Yingyuan brought people to bring a group of accused officials, gentry and scholars over and ordered them to observe the punishment.

When Wang Yinghua was ready to take the knife, Xu Yingyuan thought of his surrender that day and walked over with regret. He bent down and whispered to Wang Yinghua: "Sir, if you think about it, it will be too late to cut down the knife."

Wang Yinghua said fearlessly: "If you die, die, what else can I say?" He paused, but asked again: "Which side is the north?"

Xu Yingyuan reached out and pointed to the north, not understanding what Wang Yinghua asked about this.

"Thank you!"

Wang Yinghua bowed and thanked Xu Yingyuan, pointed his body, and faced the north with a serious expression. He looked down at his clothes, touched his braids and straightened his hair. He suddenly bent down and kowtowed three times to the north.

Seeing that Wang Yinghua was so loyal to the Qing court, Xu Yingyuan curled his lips and ordered the executioner to execute the execution, so he turned around and left, no longer watching the tragic situation of Wang Yinghua's head falling to the ground.

"Execution!"

With a loud shout, the sword was swung down.

"Puchi!"

Blood splattered everywhere and the head fell to the ground.

The moment the head landed, the officials and gentry who were watching the punishment exclaimed, and the timid one was so scared that he immediately turned his head and did not dare to look.

Having had terrifying memories of witnessing Tayinbu being sawed and killed, Xu Yingyuan had no reaction to the simple head falling to the ground. He calmly ordered people to pick Wang Yinghua's head with a bamboo pole to those scholars, and then began to ask them one by one if they wanted to die or live.

Wang Yinghua's head was lifted high by the bamboo pole, and it was hanging in the sky above the heads of officials and gentry, scholars, and blood kept dripping down, looking very scary.

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After Xu Yingyuan went to execute the execution, Zhou Shixiang kept thinking that if these officials, gentry and scholars were like Wang Yinghua, they thought that the world was determined and would rather die than surrender to the Taiping Army, would he really kill them all?

What Wang Yinghua said was absurd, but it was also a fact. Judging from the current situation, the Southern Ming regime was really surviving. People's hearts could not compare with reality, and people's hearts could not be hard on the butcher's knife. These gentry, who were scared by the Qing army's butcher's knife, really did not have any hope for Nan Ming. They were worried not only about their lives, but also about the families behind them.

Wang Yinghua's performance was not so much that he wanted to gain the reputation of a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, but rather that he wanted to leave a way out for his family. If he really returned to the point of enlightenment again, if the Southern Ming Dynasty still perished, his family would be trapped in a place of doom due to his choice.

In this era, the character "home" of the country is much larger than that of the country, not to mention that the officials and gentry who dared to resist the Qing court had been slaughtered, and the rest were all without the courage to resist. They only knew to obey the strong and protect the interests of the family. Although the two great victory of the Taiping Army severely damaged the Qing army in Guangzhou, after all, it was only two small-scale wars, and the impact on the overall situation was minimal, so it was difficult for these people to regard the Taiping Army as the strong and willingly surrender.

This is a sad thing and the most realistic thing. Zhou Shixiang is very contradictory. On the one hand, he cannot use any righteousness and trend to attract scholars to join him. On the other hand, he urgently needs the help of these people.

After thinking for a long time, he found that he seemed to be able to solve this problem, and the solution was also very simple, that is, killing people.

The Manzhou people used a butcher's knife to scare the Han people into numbness and a slave with an ugly and weird braid. Now Zhou Shixiang wants to use a butcher's knife to turn the slave back into humans.

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Chapter completed!