Some readers said that the recent chapters were too short, so I updated them three times to show that Yuwen is not such a person~
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Qiu Zhitao was a scholar captured by Chu Chuang after he captured Yicheng when he was sweeping through northern Huguang. He was the son of Qiu Yu, a famous minister of the imperial court in Yicheng, so of course he could not surrender easily and break into the camp.
Li Laiheng treated these intellectuals who joined the army just like he did with Chen Kexin, Xie Zheng and others before. He first placed them in middle-level positions for testing, and arranged for the Red Team and Kendeji to try to investigate their backgrounds and social relationships.
Only after confirming that these people's devotion is sincere, and after a period of testing and tempering, can they be truly incorporated into the core of Chu Chuang's rule.
Since Qiu Zhitao is the son of Mr. Ge, he is of course one of the key figures monitored by the Red Team. After he passed the imperial examination hosted by Xie Zheng, he first served in academic administration. At that time, Qiu Zhitao had already contacted Suizhou and Xiangyang several times. The unscrupulous gentry in the area appeared to be plotting to cause chaos.
Originally, before Li Laiheng led his army to leave Huguang and go to eastern Henan to pursue Yuan Shizhong, he intended to eliminate all these unstable factors in Huguang territory before leaving.
However, the team leader in charge of the Red Team suggested that instead of clearing out all the exposed criminal elements, it is better to strengthen the supervision of them, follow the clues, lead the snake out of the hole, use this group of people as clues, and completely eliminate the rebellion in Huguang Territory Officials and gentry.
Danger that is exposed to the bright side is much easier to deal with than danger that surges quietly in the undercurrent of terror.
Therefore, the counter-espionage strategy laid out by the Chuang Army focuses on "control".
In short, it is to deal with these unjust gentry elements who still reveal their intentions in a targeted manner. We will strengthen surveillance on them, but do not arrest them directly, but wait and see what happens, and silently control the behavior of the unjust gentry elements. Contact communication channels and comprehensively monitor their social relationship networks.
After the Red Team obtained sufficient intelligence, they arranged for Red Team and Kendeji personnel to lurk around these unjust elements. Once they began to carry out substantive anti-intrusion activities, they followed the clues and mobilized them to carry out counterattacks. The social network of trespassing activities was destroyed in one fell swoop.
Therefore, Qiu Zhitao thought that he was rising rapidly within Chuchuang. Especially when Li Laiheng was appointed governor of Yunyang Mansion before leaving Huguang, he was even more excited, thinking that he had grasped the key position of Chuchuang camp, which was enough. It can set off huge changes like turbulent waves.
Of course, he never expected that all of his own activities were actually under the strict supervision of the red team.
Li Laiheng originally wanted to expose Qiu Zhitao's counter-invasion plan in person before leaving Suizhou, so as to satisfy his desire to expose the "conspiracy". Best of all, he could also see Qiu Zhitao defend and beg for mercy in front of him, so as to obtain A kind of cat-and-mouse thrill.
It's a pity that Fang Yiren discouraged and severely opposed this small idea that might affect the actual work of the Red Team, and Li Laiheng put away his small thoughts. People who are "not", but when faced with Fang Yiren's cross-examination, they often cannot argue and have to lose the battle and reconsider their unnecessary thoughts.
In fact, if Li Laiheng knew what Qiu Zhitao did later, he would probably give up this boring idea. When Huang Shu and Niu Chenghu came out of Xing'an and led their troops to attack Yunyang Mansion, Qiu Zhitao was secretly like himself. As planned by the "Conspiracy", they contacted the officials and gentry in Yunyang, Xiangyang, and Suizhou, and tried to swarm the uprising. However, they were easily suppressed by the well-prepared Jingxiang Jiedushi who dispatched a military corps.
Qiu Zhitao himself was naturally in jail.
But he did not kneel down and beg for mercy as Li Laiheng thought. Instead, after the conspiracy was exposed by Chen Xin, he ran into the wall and died without hesitation. Qiu Zhitao did not know that all his activities in contacting the officials and gentry were in the process of breaking into the army.
During the surveillance, he also believed that as long as he died, Chuang Jun would not be able to follow the clues and catch other people involved in the plan.
Although he is stupid, his integrity cannot be underestimated.
For Li Laiheng, the unexpected joy was that after Ma Muji captured Hou Fangyu, in front of this world-famous Fushe young master, he experienced the pleasure of being a wise king with a formula.
It can also be seen from this that famous people who are famous all over the world are not necessarily loyal and unyielding people. Those who are unknown in history are not people who can be despised.
What happened in the late Ming Dynasty may be paradoxical in these places.
Qiu Zhitao's death left Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi and Xu Du speechless. Judging from the education they had received over the years, Qiu Zhitao was certainly a loyal minister with integrity, but
The three of them had just experienced the impact of the Xuzhou Incident, and were still confused about their future actions and prospects. When they heard about Qiu Zhitao's deeds, they were choked with tears in their mouths, but felt strange in their hearts.
Xu Du just sighed, but Chen Zilong thought of his own current situation from Qiu Zhitao's situation. He couldn't bear it anymore and shed a line of tears.
Fang Yizhi admired Qiu Zhitao in his heart, but also felt helpless. However, he felt that he had no choice but to live under the roof of Chuangjun temporarily, and naturally it was not convenient for him to express his feelings for Qiu Zhitao, so
When I saw Chen Zilong crying, of course I grabbed him nervously, wiped his tears with my sleeve, and said awkwardly:
"The Xuzhou Incident marks the end of mourning in the Central Plains. Didn't Brother Wozi shed tears of sadness when he saw this scene of no roosters crowing for thousands of miles?"
Chen Zilong took a deep breath. He felt that the Neo-Confucian principles he had practiced for many years were being shaken. He really couldn't bear to convince himself that in order to avoid Gao Qian's pursuit, he actually hid himself from the thief.
He got off his horse, knelt on the ground, and saluted Li Yuan and Li Weiqun before asking with a very sincere expression:
"Please tell me one more thing. What happened to Qiu Sheng's other family members?"
When Li Yuan saw Chen Zilong's appearance, his heart moved and he wanted to say a few words to Li Weiqun first, asking him not to be too direct in his words, so as to stimulate the concept of justice in Chen Zilong's heart.
But before Li Yuan could speak, Li Weiqun replied directly:
"Oh! Qiu Zhitao's family? People who were not involved in this matter naturally did not do anything. It's just that Qiu Zhitao also had a younger brother and two nephews who participated in the rebellion. I heard that Chen Jiedu was
According to the usual practice, they and other unjust judges and gentry involved in this matter will be escorted to Xiangyang for a public trial."
"public trial?"
Chen Zilong had obviously never heard of Chuang Jun's public trial, and he suddenly looked puzzled.
"Yes, a public trial. It's just that Qiu Zhitao's nephews and nephews, except for participating in the rebellion, usually have no evil deeds or blood debts, and their reputation in the countryside is pretty good. So Chen Jiedu only counts them as participating.
They were punished for the crime of conspiring to rebel. I heard General Gu mention it, saying that one was sentenced, one was arrested and sent to reform through labor, and one was released home because there was insufficient evidence of participating in the rebellion."
"Ah? Didn't the Chuang army kill Qiu Sheng's family?"
Chuang Jun's method of public trial was obviously beyond Chen Zilong's imagination. While he was overjoyed that Qiu Zhitao's family was alive, he also had doubts: "Why didn't they kill a few of them? What if they tried again?"
Where's the chaos?"
Li Weiqun shrugged and said: "Hey, we in the army are not bandits. Of course, we must pay attention to evidence and laws in judging cases. According to the laws and regulations, if the few people involved in the chaos were not deeply involved, they would not be guilty of death. As for whether they will do it again in the future.
Conspiracy for rebellion? All those unjust gentry were rounded up, and a large number of real local tyrants and evil gentry were also killed. If he wants to conspire for rebellion, does he still have the conditions?"
After Li Weiqun finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, widened his eyes and shouted to Chen Zilong: "You...you really think of us as bandits!"
Fang Yizhi hurriedly came over to help Chen Zilong up and explained: "How can there be such a thing! It's just the way Chuang Jun is doing... It's just the way Chuang Jun is doing it. It is indeed the style of a king's master, which surprises Brother Wozi a lot."
Xu Du also came over to support Chen Zilong. Seeing the relieved expression on Chen Zilong's face, he naturally understood the process of Chen Zilong's psychological change. He said warmly: "I am not only surprised, I am also surprised."
Li Yuan looked at the expressions of these three people and knew that none of them were like Hou Fangyu who talked about integrity but bent his knees faster than anyone else. Li Yuan saw the changes in the expressions of the three of them and smiled.
In his heart, he himself was a scholar, so he naturally understood the power of Cheng and Zhu Dayi in the hearts of some scholars, so he stopped talking and only said to Li Weiqun:
"Let's not talk about Qiu Zhitao for now, but what happens next? What happened to Sun Chuanting's army? He was blocked in Lingbao by the intruders, but he thought he had a clever plan and wanted to sneak attack Xiangyang. He would not really send only one
Huang Shu and Niu Chenghu are gone, right? It seems that there should be a large army to support them, so that it can be regarded as a well-organized chess game."
"Mr. Li, you are so smart. I only said a few words, but you already guessed a lot." Li Weiqun chuckled and continued to introduce to everyone, "While Huang Shu and Niu Chenghu made a sneak attack on Yunyang,
Probably the old grandson thought that this move would be able to contain many troops of the Chu army, so his army in western Henan also made a big move to deceive our generalissimo."