Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of the group of people, coughed lightly, lifted his breath, and shouted loudly: "I am Zhu Ba, the manager of Baishui Ma family, I am here to help you!"

The four Zhang family servants raised their heads and showed their godless eyes. The terror of the life after the disaster had not yet been driven away from his body. Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's face, their whole bodies were shaking. The seventeen women all shrank, and their heads were hanging lower.

"Stop being idle, get up quickly!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted in a deep voice. His voice was filled with an irresistible power, which scared the surrounding servants and maids, all of which were stiff, as if their minds were clearer.

"Your master and young master are both dead." Zhu Yuanzhang said very directly: "This family can only be handed over to your lady to take over in the future. Miss Gui has now married the second master of our Ma family and has become the second young master of Ma. Therefore, we are already a family. Don't be afraid. I will help you deal with the so-called "and deal with the government's inquiries. You should cheer up quickly."

His words played a role. He had never made a decision on these major matters. Everything was taken by the maid who followed the master's orders. He calmed down a little from the helplessness just now: the master and the young master were dead, and the sky seemed to collapse, but the lady was still alive. She happened to go to Baishui and escaped. As long as she found the lady, she could still live this life.

The four servants cheered up first and hugged Zhu Ba. Although the voice was a little trembling, they could already speak: "Are you the manager of the Ma family? That's great. Our Zhang family master and young master, all the managers are dead. I don't know what to do. Please take us to see the lady."

"Don't rush to leave, pick up this house first." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Please let the four brothers join me to carry the bodies of their families to the square in the front yard to arrange them, and move the bodies left by the bandits together. This is very important, otherwise the officers and soldiers will run around the house after they come, which will be a big trouble. Seventeen girls, please go to the backyard to clean up, concentrate the property that the bandits did not rob, and dig a pit to bury them temporarily. Although I will try my best to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the room to rob, it is better to be prepared."

His orderly tone had some calmness in the hearts of the panicked servants and maids. Everyone couldn't help but act according to his instructions. Ten maids hurriedly ran to the backyard, locked the small door of the backyard, and then began to clean up. Although Zheng Yanfu and his gang stole a lot of things, they came and went in a hurry, and the robbery was not thorough. Many valuable gold, silver and soft materials were preserved in many rooms. The maids gathered these things and buried them in the back garden.

Zhu Yuanzhang and four living servants moved the bodies of the people in the Zhang family to the front yard one by one, placed them in the square, and arranged them according to their status. The headless Zhang Douyao was ranked first, and the eldest master Zhang was ranked second, and behind him were Zhang Douyao's wife, concubine, family manager, Zhang's personal maid, etc.... The corpses were arranged in a long string. Some maids' corpses were naked, and they were obviously insulted by bandits before their death. Zhu Yuanzhang wrapped their bodies with curtains one by one.

His movements were calm, his hands did not tremble, his heart did not be beating, and his speech was calm and powerful. The remaining servants and maids felt that he was very reliable, and invisibly he completely followed his instructions to do things.

"Manager Zhu, why do we have to arrange the bodies of our family members like this?" A servant was stained with blood on his hands and couldn't continue to do it. He really didn't understand the use of arranging the bodies like this.

"Scary!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "After the families of many rich gentry were damaged, the officers and soldiers came to inquire. As soon as they entered the house, they robbed them in the name of searching for the remaining bandits. Since the head of the family had been killed by the bandits, how dare the servants contradicted the officers and soldiers? The result was that the bandits robbed them and the officers and soldiers came to rob them again. This was pretty good. If they needed the head to report their merits... Hey, kill you a few, take your head and say that they were the heads of the bandits, which was very likely."

The four servants were shocked and took a step back at the same time.

"Just with us, it is impossible to stop the officers and soldiers from robbing, so we have to use the dead to scare them..." Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "As soon as the officers and soldiers entered the door, they were shocked when they saw the front yard full of corpses. The officers and soldiers were also humans and also had a sense of fear. It is impossible for them to not be shocked when they walked in front of so many corpses. This would facilitate us to protect this home and also a means to protect ourselves."

The four masters were convinced. This principle was not profound, but how could ordinary people want it? They asked again: "What should we do to concentrate the corpses of the bandits? We wish we could cut the corpses into pieces."

"You will know in a while!" Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to explain to these people, but he knew about it soon.

After everything was cleaned up, it was already dark. Zhu Yuanzhang asked his servants to light many torches and lanterns, and hung them around the front yard to illuminate the yard clearly.

The Zhang Mansion has become tidy. Although there can be seen solidified crimson blood clots on the ground, the bodies are concentrated in the front yard. The bodies of the Zhang Mansion are lying side by side, and more than a dozen bodies left by the bandits are piled up in a mess, piled in the corner of the front yard.

The onlookers outside the mansion never had any astigmatism. There were groups of people walking away and looking in front of the mansion. Occasionally, someone came in and saw the corpses all over the yard. He exclaimed and covered his face and retreated.

Not long after it was dark, the onlookers suddenly started to stir up, and the people on the periphery began to yell: "The officers and soldiers are here...the officers and soldiers are finally here..."

The people made way out, and about forty soldiers walked through the crowd under the leadership of a military general. The onlookers obviously recognized these soldiers, and even a servant of the Zhang family knew them, and whispered in Zhu Yuanzhang's ear: "Manager Zhu, this is the person from the Changchong Army Gate... This military Gate is five miles southeast of Chengcheng..."

Although Chengcheng is a small county, it is located at the junction of sx1 and sx2, and is also a relatively important border county. Therefore, there are three hundred households in the southeast (Changchong Army Station), southwest (Dicheng Army Station), and north (Kaiyan Army Station). Each hundred household has one hundred households, one hundred soldiers, ten small flags, and two general flags, a total of one hundred people. Together, three hundred households have three hundred households, three hundred households.

Such troops are indeed more than enough to protect a small county town, but due to the corruption of the military system in the late Ming Dynasty, most officers had the bad habit of "eating empty salary", so the actual amount of each hundred household was only thirty or forty. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that there were only 43 officers and soldiers who came over with the people, and sighed in his heart: The actual number of people in the Changchong military camp seemed to be only these 43, but the officers received 113 military salary from the court. How could the burden of the country be less heavy?

He dragged a chair from beside him, put it in front of the pile of corpses of Zhang's mansion, and then sat on the chair, facing the mansion gate.

The officials of the Changchong Army Station are named Ye Yuxuan. He is 33 years old this year. He is in his prime. Because he has eaten a lot of empty salary, he lives a good life. He will be tall and round. He is covered with a set of blue-clothed iron armor, an iron-pointed helmet on his head, and a big red cloak on his back. He looks a bit powerful, but he is actually a guy with a powerful appearance, but he has no martial arts skills on his hands and feet. He lives to the age of thirty-three and has not fought a war seriously.

This afternoon, while he was having tea in a 100-household office, he suddenly saw an old man riding a thin horse running towards the county town. It turned out to be the gatekeeper of Chengcheng. He told him that there were rioters rushing into the county town and asked him to lead troops to quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

When Ye Yuxuan asked, there were two or three hundred riots, he was shocked. Only the forty-three under him were shrimp soldiers. How dare he quell the chaos? He quickly sent a quick horse to inform the Cheng Jung Tun in the southwest and the Kaiyan Jung Tun in the north, and asked the other two military troops to send troops at the same time, so that he would have the courage to come to the county town to take a look.

The other two military officials were shocked when they received the news. The three officials of the households all had the same thoughts: Just the dozens of people in my hands? To quell the rebellion? Don’t quell yourself.

So the three officials from hundreds of households walked slowly with their subordinates. From the afternoon until dark, they finally walked outside the county town. When they joined forces, there were 140 people. Then they had the courage to enter the county town to see. When they found that the bandits had left, they felt relieved.

Two of the officials of a hundred households stayed at the yamen to handle the aftermath, and Ye Yuxuan volunteered to visit Zhang Douyao's home.

He was slicker than the other two hundred households. He knew that there was no benefit in the yamen, but when he came to Zhang Douyao's house, he might be able to catch something. He heard that Zhang Douyao and his son were killed, and only a few servants and maids were left in the family. He thought about Zhang's property and planned to come over to "search" the Zhang family's property, pick up valuable things in it, and move them back to his own 100 households. In recent years, Zhang Douyao's magistrate was not in vain. He embezzled and bribed, robbed, and obtained a lot of property and land. Although the land property was not taken away because of the land deed, he could always get some of the various property.

Ye Yuxuan walked into the gate of Zhang's mansion with forty-three subordinates, raised his head and roared with anger, "I'm so-and-so" to calm the scene. Suddenly, he saw lanterns and torches shining. A young man sat in the middle of the front yard of Zhang's mansion. He was wearing a clean and tidy cotton clothes, looking like a steward. Behind him, there were dozens of corpses, lined up in a line...

What a gloomy corpse formation, the bloody aura comes...

Ye Yuxuan's heart skipped a beat, his legs trembled, and all the prepared lines were pressed back into his stomach...

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