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Chapter 9 Secret News (Newbies please collect)

Feeling that there was nothing between his claws, the ape-like creature was horrified.

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Can……

A choking smell of sulfur suddenly appeared on the tip of his nose.

There was something wrong in his heart.

Looking sideways slightly, a black gun was pointed at him. Zhu Houcong's eyes were calm, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Do not……"

boom! ! !
The sound of the firecrackers was accompanied by the unwilling screams of the demons and ghosts.

Zhu Houcong turned sideways, and the demon in front of him had his head smashed into pieces by an iron bullet.

The filth fell at Zhu Houcong's feet, but could not get into Zhu Houcong's feet.

The musket used by Zhu Houcong still uses a solid iron egg from the Hongwu period.

Since the defeat of Tumubao, the Ming army's military policy towards the north has shifted from offensive to defensive.

It also affected the weapon design of the Ming army.

The original solid iron bullets with strong penetration and power were gradually replaced by iron beads and iron filings.

The iron beads coming towards the face increased the attack range, making it easier for the Ming army to defend.

But it also means a complete transformation of the Ming army's military policy in the north.

This thing was found by Zhu Houcong three years ago after he recovered his memory. He secretly felt something bad and asked Qianhu Luo'an, the Jinyi Guard, to find it from the nearby military warehouse.

Zhu Houcong practiced diligently on weekdays, but he didn't expect that he would be able to use it today.

As for the monster's failure to hit a single hit, it was naturally due to the small tracking array that Zhu Houcong had arranged in advance.

It is basically impossible for monks below the foundation level to see through it. Unless a monk with perfect Qi training can break it with brute force, it will be extremely difficult to deal with it.

And this transformed demon ghost is obviously only at the level of ordinary people, at most a little more flexible.

At the bottom, the headless corpse of the demon with three arrows stuck in its body was swarmed up by the sergeants beside it, and was repeatedly pierced with spears to confirm that it was dead before stopping.

Zhu Houcong asked everyone to retreat temporarily, ignoring Lu Song, whose face was full of joy, and called the guard officer who seemed not surprised by the things in the room and responded quickly to ask.

"What's your name."

After hearing Zhu Houcong's words, the summoned officer suppressed the excitement in his heart and saluted.

"The last general, Wang Meng, the former Jiangxia Wei general, was ordered by the imperial court to station in Anlu and search for Jiang Man. He met the prince."

The Jiangxia Guards are under the jurisdiction of the Wuchang Prefecture in Huguang, but the expedition against Jiangman may be a lie, and the real thing is to clean up the remnants of King Ning.

"You recognize this thing?"

Zhu Houcong pointed to the corpse of the person on the ground.

When the general named Wang Meng saw Zhu Houcong asking him a question, he answered with some excitement.

"The ancestor of the last general followed Taizu's order to conquer the barbarians in the southwest. The two travel records left behind record that the barbarians were covered in smoke and fog, and the barbarians drank their hair and drank blood. The chiefs sacrificed and worshiped evil ghosts and gods, and enjoyed the blood of human beings. , leading the beasts to eat humans."

"In the past, Taizu once said: The Rongdi people are the aliens of the four directions. They squat on the barbarians and squat with the birds and beasts. If they live together in China, they will confuse the weather and insult the good people. This is the system of the holy king, and the restraints are endless. , not to harm China."

"Therefore, the Marquis of Pingxi, Muying, was ordered to lead the army into Sichuan to educate the barbarians, encourage them to teach farmers and cultivate mulberry trees, and teach the virtuous and virtuous to start schools, so that they can be bathed and transformed into kings. Everywhere along the way, the chieftains were appointed to govern the government, and the evil sacrifices and obscene sacrifices were eradicated. The people were not subject to The people suffered from the oppression of the barbarian kings, and the people were so happy that they named the children of the Mu family as the king of the southwest. This will be the land of China for thousands of generations."

Zhu Houcong certainly knew this period of history.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the country was initially established. Southwest, Sichuan, Tibet, Southeast Asia and other places refused to accept the king's rule and cut off their roads, trying to break away from the jurisdiction of the Ming court during the transition between the Yuan and the Ming Dynasty.

Taizu was furious. On the one hand, the army went out and continued the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition. He sent Lan Yuxuda and others to lead troops deep into Mobei and the Western Regions to continue to annihilate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.

On the other hand, Fu Youde, Muying and others were ordered to lead troops into Sichuan and Tibet respectively to show off their force to the barbarians in all directions, indicating that the Yuan Dynasty was dead, and the chieftains in these places should pay tribute to the Ming court in the future.

At the same time, brutal military strikes continued against the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the rebel forces in the south.

The war continued until the Ming army defeated Silunfa's Dongchuan rebels after the Battle of Dingbian in the 25th year of Hongwu's reign, and the war in the southwest gradually subsided.

Mu Ying also died of illness in the same year.

He was awarded the title of King of Qianning, with the posthumous title of "Zhaojing", and his descendants will always be in southwest China.

but--

Zhu Houcong never knew that the so-called 'barbarians' in this world were actually this kind of thing.

"Leading beasts and cannibalizing people" should not be an adjective to describe the injustice of rulers. Why did the world become like this?

Zhu Houcong kicked the "mountain barbarian" at his feet again.

"How do you solve... this kind of thing?"

Through observation, Zhu Houcong has determined that this thing is similar to some kind of strange slaves that are likely to form after human beings in the world of immortality are killed by strange things.

If the source is not completely eliminated, new slaves will breed as time goes by.

"We should search for its lair, destroy its temples, and eradicate its species to show off the power of the Ming Dynasty." As he said this, Wang Meng raised his head slightly, as if he had returned to those turbulent years. His ancestors followed the imperial court's orders and the army went deep into the army. In the southwest, destroy the evil ghosts and temples, civilize the barbarians, and open up the barbaric wilderness.

"With what?"

"Burn it with fire!"

Sure enough, Zhu Houcong couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.

But...there are still some things to be sure of.

He kicked the body at his feet.

"Besides these, didn't your ancestors record anything else..."

"what do you mean?"

"It's understandable that evil slaves of evil spirits would kill with swords, but can the evil ghosts and evil gods they worship also be punished with swords?"

Zhu Houcong stared at Wang Meng in front of him.

And Wang Meng suddenly laughed.

"Of course not."

"How about that?"

Zhu Houcong asked.

Next to him, Lu Bing and Huang Jin held their breath and listened to these stories of gods and ghosts that have long become legends due to the baptism of time, and it is unknown whether they are true or false.

"Isn't the countermeasure at your Highness's feet?"

And Wang Meng added.

"These monks and Taoists have made countless contributions to the Ming Dynasty, but they have been repeatedly rewarded by the court. They are not only exempted from corvee work, but also do not collect land taxes. They have supported so many disciples and disciples for hundreds of years. They have received favors without merit. When it comes to giving How can we escape from them when the imperial court is using its lives?"

The Ming court gave preferential treatment to Taoism, treating monks, Taoists, and even missionaries across the ocean equally.

Naturally, it is to ask them to use their lives to deal with those "evil ghosts" and "evil gods" who are not punished by swords when necessary.

"What's more specific? How do these monks and mystic cultivators deal with those things?"

It was not easy to meet a knowledgeable person, so of course Zhu Houcong had to ask more details.

"Take your life with your blood and take away your life span."

Wang Meng hesitated.

"Your Highness, may you know how the imperial court finally quelled the Silun rebellion in Southwest China?"

Zhu Houcong vaguely felt that he had come into contact with something more essential in this world.

Hidden in the seemingly normal history of this world, things that people forget but are accustomed to.

In the 21st year of Hongwu's reign, Silun Fa, the military and civilian envoy of Lucchuan who had previously been canonized by the Ming court, took advantage of the Ming court's lack of armaments in the southwest and raised 30 troops and [-] war elephants to rebel.

After hearing the news, Mu Ying immediately set off from Kunming with [-] cavalry and defeated the rebels in Dingyuan.

In this battle, more than 37 people were beheaded and [-] elephants were harvested. The remaining elephants were all killed by the Ming army with spears and firearms. Silunfa fled westward in a hurry on his own horse. With the power of this victory, Muying joined Fu Youde's army. Continue to advance eastward to conquer Dongchuan, Yuezhou and Achi tribe in Guangxi.

"In the 25th year of Hongwu, after Silunfa was defeated, only Dongchuan rebelled and clung to the ancestral temple, refusing to surrender. He killed more than [-] livestock to sacrifice to the ancestral temple. In the same year, miasma broke out in Yunnan, and plague broke out in the army. Most of the soldiers were killed and injured, and even even Marshal Mu also fell ill."

Wang Meng was telling stories that his ancestors had told him for generations, and his tone could not help but contain a tremor of excitement or fear.

"The plague even spread to the capital, and the Han soldiers suffered numerous casualties. The imperial court had no choice but to dispatch 200 eminent monks and living Buddhas from the Tibetan area that had just been pacified, and 300 high-ranking Taoist monks from the Han area. The army killed the livestock, collected earth and rocks, and marched on the Dongchuan River. Cast Ding Nantai."

"Tens of thousands of soldiers worked together despite illness and plague, and what was supposed to be a month's work was completed in three days. On the same day, the army received a secret order from the imperial court to escort the [-] Han monks and great virtues to pass away on Dingnan Platform, with their heroic souls Southeast of Yongzhen.”

Having said this, he stopped.

He really couldn't describe the situation to the young nobleman of the Tian family in front of him.

Naturally, eminent monks have compassionate hearts, and most of them are willing to take the initiative to take the reincarnation to open up a way for all people to live, so that the people will no longer suffer from the harm of evil ghosts and gods.

But after all, some people still lose their minds in the face of death.

And in order to warn the Taoist sects in the world and eliminate any thoughts of survival that they should not have, their end will undoubtedly be terrible.

All those who tried to escape were caught by the cavalry who were patrolling around. Ignoring their pleas, the Ming army nailed them all to the sky pillars of the stone platform with inch-long nails, together with those monks who took the initiative to sit down. Let’s face the final moments together.

It is said that there were constant wailings at that time, and the Ming army guards looked at them in silence, and allowed them to bleed for three days before they died completely.

After that, the epidemic ended, and the Ming army immediately massacred Dongchuan, burying everything under fire and ruins. The Southwest War was finally over.

From the other party's expression, Zhu Houcong seemed to have guessed something.

I'm afraid things in the southwest cannot be settled by building a platform as he said.

A lot of things happened in the 25th year of Hongwu. In April of the same year, Zhu Biao, the prince of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, died of illness. Later, Mu Ying, the Duke of Guizhou during the expedition to the southwest, also died of illness. In September, Zhu Yunwen was established as the emperor's grandson.

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