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  Chapter 302 300【South hole】

  From Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi to the east is Quzhou Mansion in Zhejiang Province.

  Uprisings broke out in all five counties of Quzhou Prefecture.

  However, only Jiangshan County, which is the closest to Jiangxi, is still in the hands of the rebel army. The remaining four counties were all successfully counterattacked by the big landlords, and most of the scholars, businessmen, and farmers who participated in the uprising were killed.

  When Zhao Han was still in Qianshan County, Zhang Tieniu came to Jiangshan County as a vanguard with two thousand rattan armored soldiers.

   "Meet General Zhang!"

  Leaders of the rebel army, lead the troops out of the city to meet them.

  The leader is Zheng Baolu, and Fei's second wife, Zheng Shi, is a distant relative of this person. The branch clan has migrated for more than ten generations, and it may be related, but it may not be related.

   Zheng Baolu reported his family name, and introduced other people around him.

  Zhang Tieniu had nothing in common with cultural people, and after a few casual greetings, the mission officer came to contact and communicate.

  When the two sides got acquainted, Zhang Tieniu said: "I am the pioneer, and I only brought two thousand people with me, and I didn't have much food and grass with me. Brother Zheng, get some food first!"

  Zheng Baolu immediately sent someone to prepare food, and said: "General Zhang, please go to the city to rest."

   "No need," Zhang Tieniu said, "I'm just resting outside the city, and I will continue to march tomorrow morning. I heard that uprisings are happening everywhere here. How many cities have you captured?"

   Zheng Baolu said sadly: "The five counties in Quzhou originally occupied four counties, but now there is only one county left in Jiangshan. I heard that thirty-two rebels were killed in Longyou. General Zhang wants to avenge them!"

   Zheng Baolu’s so-called occupation of several counties specifically refers to the capture of several county towns, and the outside of the city is still dominated by landlord forces.

   "How many defenders are there in Quzhou Prefecture?" Zhang Tieniu asked.

   Zheng Baolu said: "There are several thousand. Headed by the Confucian family, many landlords and merchants were recruited as generals, and many domestic slaves, homeless people and farmers were recruited as soldiers."

   "Tomorrow we will go to Quzhou Fucheng, and you will be the guide." Zhang Tieniu said.

   Zheng Baolu has only a group of mobs under his command, with more than a thousand soldiers. He left 1,000 men to defend the city, led more than 400 men, and followed Zhang Tieniu's 2,000 elites.

  In addition, the merchants of the Longyou Merchant Gang provided many ships to help transport food and grass with the army.

  These merchants are mainly small and medium-sized merchants.

  Before the uprising, they didn't help. The big landlords counterattacked, but they did not help.

   Anyway, it's just watching a show, it doesn't matter who wins or loses.

   Now that Zhang Tieniu arrived with his troops, the merchants were immediately moved upon hearing the news and provided ships to help fight the war. If they don't see rabbits, they won't scatter eagles. They are used to seeing the wind.

  The magistrate of Quzhou is called Jin Zhong, a child of a military family in Guiyang. This guy feels that the situation is not good. He ran away last winter, and the new magistrate is still on the way.

  The magistrate is absent, the dragons have no leader, and the Tongzhi, Tuiguan, and county magistrates dare not call the shots.

  At this time, the commander-in-chief of Quzhou City was Kong Shanggan, the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius.

   Seeing soldiers approaching the city, Kong Shanggan panicked.

  The rest of the gentry who participated in the suppression of the uprising were also panicked. They thought that Zhao Tianwang would not attack Zhejiang, otherwise how would they dare to recruit troops to suppress the Quzhou uprising?

  Xu Shaoqing's eyes wandered, looking at other gentry leaders, wondering if he could dedicate the city to make meritorious service.

  Zheng Tai was also glancing around, and when he met Xu Shaoqing's eyes, he immediately understood each other's thoughts.

   Xu, Zheng, Wang, Zhou, Wu, Chen, and Mao are the seven major families in Quzhou Prefecture.

"Why don't you surrender," Zheng Tai said, "we took back Fucheng, and we didn't kill a few people, they were all locked up in prisons. Longyou killed a lot. Longyou couldn't surrender, but we could. "

  Wu Huixian said: "There are only more than 2,000 people outside the city. We have more than 7,000 soldiers. Maybe we can fight."

  Xu Shaoqing sarcastically said: "Those are the elites of Zhao Tianwang. Although there are only two thousand of them, they are well-equipped and the lineup is clean. Look at what our seven thousand people look like?"

"I said you shouldn't mess around," Chen Yuzhong complained, "Quzhou is too close to Jiangxi, waiting for the land to be divided. You insist on recruiting soldiers, and you don't want to part with the few acres of land. Now it's good, you're riding a tiger! "

Mao Zhongmao said: "It's not a problem, it's not a problem. There were more than 300 rioters in Quzhou Prefecture. We only killed four and injured more than a dozen. The rest either ran away or were locked in prisons. It's not a big grudge, honestly offering the city shouldn't be a big problem."

  The uprising launched by the scholar is so fragile.

  More than 300 people occupied Fucheng, and when the landlords counterattacked, only four were killed and more than ten were injured, and the entire army was beaten to collapse.

   And these landlords are similar.

   Zhang Tieniu came with two thousand soldiers, and the landlords thought about how to surrender.

  Kong Shanggan was in an extremely irritable mood, and there were a lot of people around him clamoring to surrender. Although he was afraid of fighting, he was unwilling to surrender. How could the descendants of the sages of Confucius surrender to the thieves because of the rewards of the emperor and the matter of loyalty to the emperor?

  This is the southern sect of Confucianism, not the northern sect of Shandong!

  Dad, why haven't you come back yet?

   It seems that he heard Kong Shanggan's prayer, and his father Kong Zhenyun really came back.

  A passenger ship came from the direction of Longyou, Kong Zhenyun took two long followers, and went directly towards Zhang Tieniu's army without entering the city at all.

   "Stop whoever comes!"

  The vanguard soldiers raised their weapons.

  Kong Zhenyun said with his hands behind his back: "Kong Zhenyun, the southern sect of the Kong family, wants to see your general!"

  Hearing that Kong Zhenyun had arrived, Zheng Baolu, who accompanied the army as a guide, hurriedly said, "General Zhang, Mr. Kong is the master of the Southern sect. As long as he is recruited, Jiangnan can be settled!"

   Zhang Tieniu, a vulgar man, heard that he was a descendant of Confucius, but he was also in awe, and hurriedly said: "Please."

  At this time, there are two Kong Zhenyuns in Nankong. One of them, Kong Zhenyun, had the opportunity to be the first assistant. Last spring, as long as he agreed to Chongzhen's appointment and dismissal list, he would be the first assistant 100% in terms of qualifications and prestige.

   Probably something like this:

   Chongzhen personally inspected the selection of ministers and drew up a list. Kong Zhenyun thought that some of the officials were too bad, so he changed the list. Chongzhen was not happy, so he denied all the proposals proposed by the cabinet, and bypassed the cabinet to let the six ministries discuss it.

   It happened that the newly appointed censor, Guo Jingchang, went to the cabinet to meet Kong Zhenyun, and heard Kong Zhenyun say that there was a problem with the list of appointments and removals. Therefore, Guo Jingchang was impeached, and Kong Zhenyun was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown.

  After being dismissed from office, Kong Zhenyun first went to Hangzhou and went on an outing with Qian Qianyi for two months, and then gathered in the mountains to give lectures.

  But the Kong Zhenyun in front of him has never been a court official, and has always been a doctor of the Five Classics.

  Historically, although Chongzhen’s bones were not yet cold, the Confucian family in Shandong quickly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and even took the lead in shaving their heads and leaving their braids.

  But Kong Zhenyun, a former cabinet minister of the Confucian family of the Southern Zong, cried a lot when he heard the news of Chongzhen's death. He was seriously ill and died the same year as Chongzhen.

  Another Kong Zhenyun, as the head of the Southern Sect, refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the first prefect of Quzhou in the Qing Dynasty was a member of the Confucian family in Shandong. The first thing after taking office was to let Nan Kong surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

  Zhang Tieniu clasped his hands in a similar manner: "I have met Mr. Kong."

  Zheng Baolu quickly introduced: "Mr. Yuheng, this is General Zhang Tieniu."

  Kong Zhenyun didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "If the city of Quzhou falls, please treat the people kindly, and don't hurt innocent people."

Respect is respect, and I don’t like to hear this. Zhang Tieniu said angrily: “Our Datong army has strict discipline. Where have you killed innocent people? Drop as soon as you fall, fight as you want, stop talking so much!"

   This is a reckless person. Kong Zhenyun is not as knowledgeable as him, and said in a gentle tone: "General Zhang, I'm sorry, I just remind you."

  Zhang Tieniu said: "You don't need to remind me, just say whether to surrender or not."

  How can there be such a question, I am a descendant of Confucius!

  Kong Zhenyun sighed helplessly: "I wish to surrender."

   What else can I do if I don’t surrender?

  Jiangxi's pioneers are all here, and the army will definitely arrive in a blink of an eye, and resisting the city will only increase casualties.

   What can I do?

   When meeting Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, Kong Zhenyun really would not surrender.

  If the Confucius family in Shandong is compared to the Zhang family in Longhushan, then the Kong family in Quzhou is similar in status to Zaoge Mountain.

  A hereditary Ph.D. of the Eight Grades and Five Classics, only in terms of grades, not even the county magistrate.

   Moreover, apart from presiding over local sacrifices, the Kong family in Quzhou did not have any privileges. Even the sacrificial fields used to sacrifice Confucius were granted relief by the court only after Emperor Hongzhi was dying.

   is a deduction, not an exemption.

  The Kong family in Quzhou had to pay taxes on the sacrifice fields, but they were exempted from corvee.

  Because of Beikong’s continuous interference and suppression, Nankong simply formulated a family rule with only seven contents—

  Article 4, prevent fake surnames. The Confucian family can be exempted from corvee. If anyone impersonates the Confucian family, the descendants of the Confucian family and the neighbors should report to the government.

  Article 5, Sneaky posting is strictly prohibited. The property of the Confucian family can escape corvee, and children of the Confucian family must report to the government for registration when buying or selling property.

   Regardless of whether these two things are done or not, at least the family rules are good.

  This kind of family rules may be deliberately disgusting Beikong!

  The Kong family in Quzhou has a lot of land, after all, it has been living and multiplying since the Song Dynasty. But there are also many descendants, and the land is distributed to the Kong family, and there is not much left, maybe a few thousand acres.

  Kong Zhenyun came to the city with his long entourage, and ordered: "Kaicheng!"

  The gates of the city opened immediately, and everyone went out of the city to welcome them.

  Zhang Tieniu first led troops to take over the city gate, asked the defenders in the city to lay down their weapons, and then divided into several groups to guard.

"Arrests!"

   After completely controlling the situation, Zhang Tieniu suddenly changed his face.

  Besides Kong Zhenyun, even Kong Zhenyun's son was arrested by soldiers.

  Kong Zhenyun was furious, pointed at Zhang Tieniu's nose and said: "Back in words, you have no credibility!"

Zhang Tieniu said with a smile: "They are human beings, so the righteous soldiers are not human? The righteous soldiers took the lead in suppressing the city, and they are all guilty. I will not kill them. I will try again when the general town comes. They should be killed or released, please the general town. Come call the shots."

   "Please calm down, both of you, and speak slowly if you have something to say." Zheng Baolu quickly smoothed things over.

  Zheng Baolu is also the leader of the uprising army. Although he doesn't agree with Zhang Tieniu's move, he likes it emotionally. But he also respected Kong Zhenyun, and was afraid that the two would fall out.

   Zhang Tieniu's vanguard did not leave, so they stayed in Quzhou to guard these guys.

   (Yeah, I'm a lot behind, everyone, hurry up and buy a few monthly tickets!)

  (end of this chapter)