Ming Zuo

Chapter 561 The new county magistrate

"General Mao, are you still a Confucian disciple?"

Lu Xiangsheng came back wrapped in a suit of travel dust, and whenever he met, he would ask questions.

Mao Yuanyi knew why, but pretended not to know.

"What if it is? What if it isn't?"

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the east, weeping blood.

"Nowadays the Dongjiang beasts are raging in the hometown of Confucius, the foundation of Confucianism has been ruined, and the thousand-year-old orthodoxy is destroyed, and you just sit back and ignore it?"

Mao Yuanyi did not dare to bear this crime.

"Why did Mr. Lu say that? Don't you see that our army is ready to go?"

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, and looked out with his head.

Only then did I realize that at some point the new army had assembled and was marching eastward one by one in queues.

Lu Xiangsheng cupped his fists in apology.

"I'm being reckless. I also ask General Mao to be quick to save the saints and save the Confucianists."

Mao Yuanyi also looked angry.

"Dongjiang's rebellion dared to offend the majesty of the saints, and I will never die with them."

This guarantee made Lu Xiangsheng somewhat relieved, and he followed Mao Yuanyi directly to Qufu without taking a break.

How did he know that Mao Yuanyi had already obtained information from Qufu.

The city of Qufu County was captured by the Dongjiang rebels yesterday, and the entire city was slaughtered. Not one out of ten survived.

The key is……

Less than half an hour after the new army set off, someone in front came back to report.

"Commander, the reconnaissance company caught two fleeing people. They said they were servants of Yansheng Gong's mansion, and they don't look like fakes."

Before Mao Yuanyi was doing well, Lu Xiangsheng asked anxiously, "Where is he?"

Seeing this, Mao Yuanyi took advantage of the situation and said, "Bring people here."

After a while, the soldier brought two extremely embarrassed people to the front.

"Why are you here? Where is Sheng Shenggong?"

Seeing the people crying to death, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but tense up, feeling a faint premonition.

When he asked, the two fell down and cried.

"The rebels came to attack, and Shenggong knew that he couldn't defend, so he took his family and prepared to go to Nishan to take refuge. Who ever wanted to be rebellious and cunning, and set up an ambush in the dense forest in the east of the city in advance. From the whole mansion, I was the only one who escaped! "

Lu Xiangsheng shook for a while, dizzy, and Hao Xuan fell off his horse.

"Mr. Shengsheng...really...really in trouble?"

One of them kept nodding.

"The villain saw with his own eyes that Sheng Gong was beheaded by the villain."

Lu Xiangsheng was so weak that he didn't expect that he would lose all his efforts after all.

"Have you ever seen clearly, who is the murderer?"

Another servant gritted his teeth and said: "Although I don't recognize them, they all speak with a Liaodong accent. Besides the Dongjiang thief, who else could it be?"

So far, Lu Xiangsheng has no doubts.

Liaodong accent, this evidence is enough to explain everything.

In a short period of time, Lu Xiangsheng's appearance changed drastically, like an angry lion.

He wrote a letter on the spot, handed it to his servants, and then said to the two descendants of the Shengxian government: "You two let him go, and rush to the capital to inform His Majesty of the changes in the government."

Yanshenggong's mansion suffered a rebellion and massacre, and it could not be said that the world was in chaos.

Although Shandong has now been occupied by Zuo Menggeng and others, in the eyes of the world, it is still Shandong of Ming Dynasty.

Once the dynasty of the thousand-year-old saints collapses, people in the world will inevitably think of the imperial court.

Lu Xiangsheng clearly felt that the country of Great Ming was becoming more and more unstable.

Like him, Mao Yuanyi hastily sent a letter to Linqing.

The hometown of Confucius suffered an accident, no matter who it is, it must be cautious.

The two finished these separately, and once again swung their troops eastward.

That afternoon, in a village on the way, they encountered a rebel army.

"Send the order down, don't take prisoners."

Mao Yuanyi put on a furious posture and conveyed the harshest military order.

The next order is to start the most violent attack immediately.

Although worried about the overall situation, Lu Xiangsheng was still terrified when he saw the fierce artillery fire of the new army.

A mere village, with only stone walls for defense, could not stop the new army's offensive at all.

It took only a stick of incense for the new army to break into the village and slaughter the rebels.

More than [-] corpses were placed in front of Lu Xiangsheng, which somewhat relieved his anger.

"In any case, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other evil thieves must be caught, punished according to the law, and announced to the world, so as to make up for the crime of disturbing the saint."

Lu Xiangsheng thought that after arriving in Qufu, he could besiege the Dongjiang rebels.

However, when they arrived in Qufu, they saw only the dilapidated city, and the Dongjiang rebels had already fled.

"Immediately search for the living, clean up the city, and execute those who commit crimes on the spot."

Mao Yuanyi made a decision, but Lu Xiangsheng was very dissatisfied.

"General Mao, why don't you continue to pursue? The Dongjiang rebels will definitely not be able to escape far, and they can't feed tigers into trouble!"

Mao Yuanyi sighed, pointed at the miserable situation in the world, and said earnestly: "Master Lu, no matter what the Dongjiang rebels do, from now on, this is my Shandong land. The people here are also my Shandong people. If you don't care, they Fang encounters a catastrophe, how to survive? Don't worry, Dongjiang's rebellion will not be far away."

Lu Xiangsheng wanted to disagree, but Mao Yuanyi had already gone to take charge of military affairs.He was the only one left staring blankly, helpless.

The Dongjiang rebels have completely turned into beasts, and they have no scruples about where they go.

The whole of Qufu was burned, killed and looted by them, and it has been reduced to ashes.

Looking at the entire county, there is not even a single intact house to be found.On the streets, by the ditches, and in the grass, there are massacred people everywhere.

After an afternoon of cleaning, compared with the original population of Qufu, the living people found in the end were not even one in ten.

These people escaped unharmed by hiding in cellars, weeds, or even cesspools.

But seeing their homes destroyed like this, what is the difference between them being alive and dead?

Under the protection of the new army, they cried and collected the dead bodies of their loved ones, trying to search for any surviving objects, not knowing what to do in the days to come.

On the morning of the second day, Zuo Menggeng, Liu Zongzhou, Jiang Cai, Jiang Gai and others hurried over.

"The old man went to see the mausoleum of the saint."

Liu Zongzhou was so distraught that he didn't care about anything but whether the cemetery of Confucius was damaged.

Jiang Cai and Jiang Gai went with him.

Looking at Zuo Menggeng who was hugging him, Lu Xiangsheng seemed to be a lifetime away, and it was difficult to connect him with the young general from before.

"Qufu must be rebuilt."

Zuo Menggeng set the tone, gathered the surviving Qufu citizens, and introduced another person.

The man was not stage-frightened, and said in a loud voice: "I am Huang Zongyan. From now on, I will be appointed as the county magistrate of Qufu. Folks, the dead are dead, and we who are still alive must look forward. Please rest assured, from now on With the support of the administrative committee, we in Qufu will definitely recover."

In order to stabilize this important place, Zuo Menggeng carefully selected Huang Zongyan as the county magistrate.

After being a great scholar of Confucianism, his reputation has shaken the world, and he is just right to be the county magistrate.

(End of this chapter)