Zhou Shi observed his expression and saw that Li Shutai seemed to be afraid that he would do this, so he said, "That might be possible. If you don't see anyone in your life or not, who knows if you are greedy for life and death, you will surrender to my Ming Dynasty? ... A bandit also knows that you, Lord Li, will you, Lord Li, accept the letter of the city to me? Therefore, Lord Li, you, Lord Li, have accepted the letter of the city to me, and Lord Li, and you, have deceived the whole city. I believe this without doubt. Your emperor will also believe that the princes and princes of Manzhou will also believe that you, the princes and princes of Manchuria, will not be able to wash away even if you jump into the Yellow River."

"You are shameless!"

Li Lutai was so angry that he couldn't say a word. What the thief scholar said sounded so ridiculous, but every sentence seemed to be true, which made him extremely frightened.

Rumors are so terrible. They are obviously fake and sound absurd and ridiculous, but they can't resist too many ignorant people. They will not think about the truth or falsehood of the rumors. They will only regard them as true, because only in this way can they prove that they are smarter than others. If someone argues with him and tells him that the rumors are fake, he will be anxious with you. The rumors open their mouths and break their legs when they deny the rumors.

Li Lutai felt bitter in his heart. The thief scholar really wanted to make his rumors, but he couldn't solve this knot.

"Actually, I really want to slaughter the whole city, so that Shunzhi's son knows that there are more terrifying troops in this world than the Eight Banners of Manzhou. But it seems that this is not good to do this. After all, there are all old, weak, women and children in the city. I feel a bit unfair to kill them. But if the Governor thinks that this is the only way, then I will accept advice. Anyway, it is you, Li Lutai, who carried out the massacre, and the one who killed people is also your subordinates. It is not me, Zhou Shixiang, and not my Taiping Army!"

Zhou Shixiang smiled and played with the jade carriage in his hand. The more he touched it, the better he felt the good thing. He thought that it would be better to give it to Lin Wan'er. She must be very happy when she saw it, and she still owe a lot to the girl.

"If you slaughter the whole city, you will be irreconcilable with me, the Qing Dynasty. The court will never tolerate you, and will send a large army to destroy you!"

Li Lutai gritted his teeth. He didn't want to show off his traitor scholar anymore. He didn't think about the disaster that the stigma behind him brought to the Li family. He just wished he could peel the traitor scholar alive.

"Yes, no one in the world dares to slaughter the whole city. If I slaughter, the people of Manzhou will definitely be crazy. Your emperor will be crazy too. However, the Governor cannot not know the current situation, right? Do you think your court, your emperor should send troops to destroy me, Zhou Shixiang?... Oh, by the way, there is one thing you don't know yet. I have to tell you, Hahamu and Galaidaoga's heads have already sent them to Xiangshan, so I'm afraid that Monk Geng Jimao's letter will already know the news of Hahamu's defeat."

General Jingnan and Galai'er were really dead? Could it be that the army in the middle was wiped out?

This news made Li Lutai's eyes dark. He couldn't stand firmly, and his heart became more and more frightened. Haha Mu died. Shang Kexi also died. The Taiping Army that occupied Guangzhou City was invincible. The two Huangkou children, the two Huangkou children, had absolutely no courage to seize Guangzhou City. The only thing they could do was run. In this way, the Qing army in Guangdong fell apart and could no longer control the situation in Guangdong. It is believed that after the thief scholar stabilized the situation in Guangzhou, he would inevitably join forces with the Ming army in Xinhui to clean up the Qing army in Sanjiangkou defense line. Even without the Ming army, the Qing army in Sanjiangkou would also run with Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin would run to Zhaoqing, and Geng Jimao could not return to Guangzhou, and he would not dare to run west. The only place he could go to was Huizhou. It is very likely that the thief scholar would attack Geng Jimao immediately. After all, his left army was too weak and could easily be eaten.

Li Rutai was anxious and had already analyzed the whereabouts of monk Geng Jimao Zhixin. If the Taiping Army controlled Guangzhou, the connection between Zhaoqing and the Qing army in Chaozhou would be cut off. Xu Erxian was alone in Zhaoqing. Even if Shang Zhixin could bring all the soldiers and horses from the right Qing army and Sanjiangkou defense line to Zhaoqing, he would not have the courage or ability to attack Guangzhou. Even Shang Zhixin was probably frightened by his father's death and gave up Zhaoqing and fled to Hunan. In this way, Wu Liuqi from Chaozhou would be unable to support him, and the Qing Dynasty's rule in Guangdong would be completely gone.

When the imperial court heard about the great changes in Guangdong, where did it mobilize troops to move south?

Li Rutai knew that the thief scholar was not to scare him. The court did not have the energy to deal with the great changes in Guangdong at the moment. The Qing army on the Hunan battlefield and the Sichuan battlefield were the two most important strategies of Hong Chengchou's three-way pacification strategy. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo of the Southern Ming Dynasty were in an internal strife. The victory and defeat between the two would be decided soon. At that time, Hong Chengchou would definitely command two armies to enter Yunnan, rather than mobilizing troops to solve the Taiping Army in Guangdong.

Hong Chengchou was good at using troops, so he could not miss the opportunity to destroy the Yongli court in one fell swoop. He would only write to the court to continue to implement his strategy of pacifying Yunnan, and then use troops to Guangdong after Yunnan and Guizhou are pacified.

Li Lutai was silent. Hong Chengchou's choice was correct, if he would do so. But this means that the thief scholar can develop without any threat in Guangdong and will eventually become another strong enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

If you defeat the two Han vassals, defeat the Taiping Army of the Eight Banners of Manzhou, and obtain support from a province, you will become a confidant of the Qing Dynasty in the future!

Li Lutai's heart was as if he was cut off, not for himself, but for his Manzhou master.

After a long time, he sighed and said to Zhou Shi: "The women and children in the city are not stained with the blood of the Han people. If you give them a way out, they can not only make them feel your kindness, but also show your name of benevolence and righteousness in the Taiping Army. Why do you have to kill them and be just a name for tyranny?"

Li Lutai's voice became smaller and smaller. Obviously, he did not think that Zhou Shixiang could accept his dissuasion.

Zhou Shixiang was stunned, laughed and said, "Is the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi of the Qing Dynasty begging me to let the whole city go?"

"That's right."

Li Ruitai nodded slightly with a blue face. He wanted to do the last thing for his master, even if he didn't succeed.

"When you were in Yangzhou, did you advise Duoduo to let go of the 800,000 soldiers and civilians in the city?"

"Did you ever feel lenient when you killed more than 100,000 Jiangyin people in Jiangyin?"

"When you were in Datong, were you pitiful to the innocent people in the city?"

"When you entered the Xinhui, did you shed a tear for the innocent people who were eaten alive in the city? You must know that there are my parents, wife and children in Zhou Shixiang!"

"It's the Guangzhou City under your feet, have you burned half of the incense for those hundreds of thousands of unjust souls?"

"You have nothing! You never ruthlessly killed me, Han people. Now why do you ask me to let those Manzhou people go!"

Every question from Zhou Shixiang made Li Lutai speechless. He wanted to say that it was understandable that the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and massacre the Han people, otherwise how could the Han people in various places be willing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and enjoy peace. The slaughter of several cities was just to make more Han people dare not resist, and the original intention was to protect more Han people's lives, which was a great evil or a great good. As for Zhou Shixiang's parents, wife and children's death, it was a completely tragedy. He did not know about it and could not stop it.

But Li Lutai couldn't speak out any of this. After all, he was a human being, not a beast. Otherwise, when he entered Xinhui that day, he would not be angry that the defenders had food and grass and had to eat the people in the city. It was so gratifying to impeach him.

"Are you Li Lutai Han or Manchu? Your father Li Yongfang doesn't seem to be from Manzhou? But what did your father and son do? Don't you really feel guilty!"

"I...

Li Shutai wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhou Shixiang. He said, "Forget it, I am not a beast. I will let them go and give them a way to survive in the women all over the city, but men are going to kill them. Lord Li must have no objection to this."

Compared with the Manzhou people and what he did back then, Zhou Shixiang's decision was already very kind, but Li Lutai still whispered: "If you haven't reached Ding's mouth, please let me go."

He thought Zhou Shi was ridiculing him, but he didn't expect the other party to "well", nodded and said slowly: "The Mongols had those who lowered the wheels and refused to kill them. Can my Taiping Army not be as good as the Mongols? Don't worry, I will let the little boys in Manzhou all over the city, and follow the Mongolians' methods. In this way, you can feel at ease."

Li Lutai didn't say anything. Only this could survive hundreds of young children in Manzhou. If Beijing knew about this, the whole Manzhou would feel that Li Lutai was rescued, and thus resolve the rumors that Zhou Shixiang might have made. He was willing to bow his head and plead for mercy to the thief scholar, just to protect his reputation as Li Lutai.

"The matter in the city is settled, so you go down too. I won't kill you for the time being, it's useful to keep you." Zhou Shixiang waved his hand tiredly, ordered the personal soldiers outside to come in, and said to them: "Take this man down and watch out, don't let him go on a hunger strike, nor do you allow him to commit suicide. If he refuses to eat, you can pry his mouth open and feed me!"

Hearing this, Li Lutai was so angry that he trembled all over and couldn't help but want to curse, but Zhou Shixiang said again: "To prevent Lord Li from committing suicide by biting his tongue, you knocked off his teeth."

"Yes, Grandmaster!"

The guards were happy and looked at Li Lutai's eyes very vicious. Li Lutai shivered involuntarily. Before he could bite his tongue, the guard next to him punched his chin.

In the huge pain, Li Lutai was shocked to find that his mouth was out of control.

"Well, you!"

Li Lutai, who was speechless, pointed at Zhou Shixiang angrily and wanted to curse, but was held down by his personal guard.

Zhou Shixiang looked at him, then ignored him and continued to play with the jade carriage in his hand. When Li Rutai was dragged to the steps in front of the hall, he suddenly called his personal guard, then pointed to the jade carriage in his hand and said to Li Rutai: "I forgot to tell the Governor just now that the wheels of the coach refer to the wheels of this carriage."
Chapter completed!