After a while, under the escort of several Jinyi guards, Luo Zhending was escorted out of the General Military Mansion with his hands tied behind his back. At this time, Luo Zhending was stripped of his official uniform and was only wearing a close-fitting middle coat. He looked very embarrassed.
He had just been promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief, just when he was proud of the spring breeze, but he was suddenly seized by the emperor on the spot and escorted to the capital. At this time, he was very frightened, and there were two lines of tears on his face in fear.
When he walked out of the General Military Mansion and saw Li Zhi, he was stunned for a moment, then he broke free from the hold of the two Jinyi guards and knelt down in front of Li Zhi with a plop.
In the shocked eyes of everyone, Luo Zhending kept smiling and said loudly: "Guerrilla General, spare my life!"
Luo Zhending was crying while trying to smile. He was in his forties or fifties, and he was crying and forcing a smile on his face. His expression was uglier than crying. Li Zhi looked at Luo Zhending as if he saw something dirty, took a step back and said
: "The emperor wants to judge you, how can I spare you?"
Luo Zhending, with a mournful face, crept forward on the ground and said loudly: "As long as the guerrilla general spares me and reports to the emperor, the emperor will definitely not kill me! God has a good life, and the general will not bear grudges against someone like me who has been deprived of his official position.
Ordinary people!"
The emperor dismissed Luo Zhending because he was angry that he forced Li Zhi to rebel. Of course, there was also an element of appeasing Li Zhi. If Li Zhi had spoken to plead for Luo Zhending, the emperor would have spared Luo Zhending's life.
But why did Li Zhi spare Luo Zhending?
Far away from Li Zhi stood Cen Jiuling, who had been promoted from Tianjin Middle Road General Judge to Tianjin Hubu Doctor. This Cen Jiuling took Luo Zhending's money. At this time, he saw Luo Zhending kneeling down to beg for mercy, and he was afraid that Luo Zhending would hate him.
, was afraid that Luo Zhending would tell him about the bribe offered to him in the Prison Prison, so he coughed and came over to Luo Zhending and said: "If the guerrilla general lets Luo Zhending go, it will also let the world know the general's benevolence!"
Several civil servants who had taken Luo Zhending's money also came over and said, "Why don't the guerrilla generals report this to the court and spare Luo Zhending's life?"
"Guerrilla Master is so generous, why bother with a common man who has already been deprived of his official position?"
The civil servants begged for mercy for Luo Zhending one after another. Li Zhi glanced at the civil servants around him and cursed in his heart that you corrupt officials are shameless for speaking for such a scum. How could Li Zhi let Luo Zhending go? He said to Luo Zhending: "I will spare you.
How should I handle myself in the future when others think I am weak and come to steal my property? Now if the emperor takes your life, no one will dare to try to steal my property."
Hearing these murderous words, the surrounding civil servants looked at each other and said nothing. They begged for Luo Zhending's mercy just to make a spectacle. They didn't really care too much whether Li Zhi really spared Luo Zhending.
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Luo Zhending's face darkened, knowing that he could not help it, and shed two more tears.
After a pause, Li Zhi said with a smile: "And Luo Zhending, I heard someone said that you reported to the court that I rebelled! This is a crime of beheading! You are not merciless."
Luo Zhending did not expect that Li Zhi knew about his memorial. Hearing this, his eyes froze and he knelt on the ground speechless.
Li Zhi's younger brother Li Xing stood behind and cursed loudly: "Luo Zhending, do you still remember what you said in Fanjiazhuang that day? You are here today only because of yourself!"
Luo Zhending looked at Li Xing, tears on his face as if he couldn't stop it.
"I know I was wrong. Lord Guerrilla, please spare my life..."
Luo Zhending also begged for mercy, but was interrupted by Jin Yiwei.
"On the way!"
The two Jin Yiwei gave Luo Zhending a chance to beg for mercy. Seeing that his begging for mercy failed, they didn't bother to watch him waste time. The Jin Yiwei came over, arrested Luo Zhending, and put him into a prison car.
Luo Zhending was lying in the prison car very depressed, as if he knew that he was bound to die. He only looked down at the prison car. The people watching pointed at the prison car, and Luo Zhending did not even raise his head to take a look.
Tiqi waved his whip and escorted Luo Zhending to the capital in the west. When Luo Zhending saw the prison car moving, he rushed to the end of the prison car and grabbed the railing and shouted loudly:
"Guerilla general! Spare my life!"
"Guerrilla General!"
Seeing how spineless Luo Zhending was before his death, Li Zhi smiled and closed his eyes.
Now that Li Zhi had defeated the commander-in-chief Luo Zhending, his momentum soared. The civil servants and generals in Tianjin no longer dared to underestimate Li Zhi. When everyone saw that Luo Zhending was taken away, they gathered around Li Zhi and said nice things.
Cen Jiuling, the household doctor of Tianjin, is now responsible for the money and food of the entire Tianjin. He originally talked with his nose in the air when talking to the military attache. But at this time, he had no airs in front of Li Zhi and said with a smile: "From now on, I will covet the guerrilla general."
Everyone who owns private property must weigh it carefully!"
Yu Bichi, the grain officer of Tianjin Middle Road, also smiled and said to Li Zhi: "The general soldiers have been defeated, who else dares to snatch the guerrilla general's property?"
Li Zhi smiled, cupped his hands and said to the west: "It's all up to the emperor to make the decision for the lower officials!"
Seeing Li Zhi mentioning the emperor, all the officials quickly raised their hands and saluted westward, saying one after another: "The emperor is a wise man!"
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After defeating the arrogant Luo Zhending, Li Zhi returned to his Fanjiazhuang.
Now that Luo Zhending has been escorted to Beijing and imprisoned by the Ministry of Justice, no one dares to covet Li Zhi's property easily. Li Zhi's status has been consolidated a lot. With such a consolidated power, Li Zhi has to consider the long-term development of his territory.
The first problem to be solved is that of education.
An educated soldier or official is far better able to cope with changing situations than an illiterate person. The world of an illiterate person is narrow and monotonous, but a literate person can gain insights from books and understand account books.
They can understand signs and know things thousands of miles away. If the people in the territory can read and write, the speed of industrial and military development will increase a lot.
For the long-term development of the territory, Li Zhi decided to popularize literacy among all the children and soldiers in the territory.
Li Zhi made a simple statistics based on the yellow book: Fanjiazhuang currently has more than 2,000 worker families, less than 2,000 migrant merchant families, more than 2,000 peasant families, and a total of 10,723 underage children. These
Li Zhi plans to let the children go to class during the day. Li Zhi and the soldiers of the Huben Division have 4,000 people, and Li Zhi plans to let them go to class in the evening after training every day.
If these children and soldiers are gathered together to learn literacy and arithmetic, in about three years the children and soldiers will be able to recognize common words and learn basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Li Zhi divided the more than 10,000 children into three groups according to their age. Currently, only the oldest group of more than 3,000 children are allowed to enter the literacy class. After this group graduates, he will educate the next group until all three groups of children have been taught.
Based on an estimate of 40 children in a class, Li Zhi would need more than 80 teachers, 40 to teach literacy, 40 to teach arithmetic, and more than 80 classrooms to be built.
These eighty classrooms are used by children during the day and by soldiers at night. Of course, soldiers have to be in a class of fifty students. However, soldiers have excellent discipline, and classroom discipline is definitely better than that of children. A class of fifty students is not enough. More appropriate.
After making up his mind, Li Zhi asked the masons who had been expanding the villa to stop the construction of the villa and start building eighty large classrooms. At the same time, Li Zhi began to post notices in various states and counties, offering three meals with meat for two or two months. The salary is to recruit one hundred and twenty teachers - eighty to teach children during the day and forty to work at night to teach soldiers. The teachers do not need to be scholars, they only need to be literate or able to do arithmetic.
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