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Fei Ruhe looked at the corpse on the ground with a complicated mood.

Shen Youlong, who had been blocking him in Longchuan County for two months, committed suicide very simply and neatly. On the other hand, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shi Wangzheng escaped quickly after the defeat and escaped into the mountains and forests, making it difficult to hunt him down.

"Look around and don't miss even a firecracker!"

Fei Ruhe went back to clean up the battlefield, his eyes gleaming as he looked at the blazing guns.

These are all good muskets made in Foshan. Shen Youlong paid for them himself, they are not just fooling around things issued by the imperial court.

With Shen Youlong's main force destroyed, there is no suspense in eastern Guangdong.

Fei Ruhe returned to Heyuan County and threw Shen Youlong's body at the city gate. The guard was so frightened that he fled with his servants that night.

Huizhou Prefecture, one state and ten counties.

Chaozhou Prefecture, eleven counties.

Of these twenty-two cities, except Huizhou Fucheng, which is still resisting, the rest are all waiting for Fei Ruhe to capture. The prefects, prefects, county magistrates, and garrison guards all fled. The local officials could not even recruit local warriors to defend the city.

Because Guangdong suffered two consecutive years of severe disasters and three years of military disasters, even the gentry and wealthy families were unwilling to fight again.

Fei Ruhe didn't open for two months, but once it opened, the whole of eastern Guangdong was covered.

Especially Chaozhou Prefecture, Fei Ruhe didn't bother to occupy it. Not only was it time consuming, but it also required separate troops to be stationed there, and there weren't that many officials dispatched. This guy led troops directly to Huizhou and surrounded the city tightly.

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Guangzhou Prefecture, suburb of Nanhai County.

Many businessmen gathered together, including the Guan family, the Huang family, the Deng family, the Feng family, the Xie family... and no Li family!

Except for the Li family, everyone arrived three-quarters of an hour early.

"Are you ready?" Guan Jialun asked.

Huang Xuanshen said: "Foshan is ready, we will start tonight."

"I, the Guan family, are in charge of Nanhai County," Guan Jialun asked, "Where is Guangzhou Fucheng?"

Feng Yucheng said: "Several companies have joined forces, and more than 600 people have entered the city one after another. Together with the domestic slaves in the city and the Xiangyong who defend the city, it will definitely be enough to capture Guangzhou!"

Feng Yucheng's younger brother was Feng Yushun, who was an aide to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

At critical moments, he doesn't care about the life and death of his relatives.

Deng Yunqiu held the tea bowl and said: "The Deng family and the Xie family promise to take over Xiangshan County. If the lackeys of the Li family in Xiangshan County cannot escape this time, none of them will survive!"

These Guangdong gentry and wealthy families want to resume trade as soon as possible, which is just one of the reasons.

They also have a common enemy: the Li family!

Today's Minister of Household Affairs is called Li Daiwen, a native of Foshan, Guangdong.

The Li family originally belonged to ordinary merchants, but among a group of wealthy businessmen, they were inconspicuous. But in the Wanli Dynasty, Li Daiwen became the doctor of literary selection department, and the Li clan quickly became arrogant.

His younger brother Li Chongwen not only sold ironware to foreigners, but also sold Guangzhou rice to disaster-stricken Fujian.

At that time, there was also a minor disaster in Guangzhou, and food was not enough. In order to make huge profits, Li Chongwen, regardless of the life and death of the people in Guangzhou, forcibly harvested rice and transported it to Fujian by sea. This move triggered a civil uprising, and Guangzhou citizens killed Liang Guolun and three other people. All three of them were Li Chongwen's lackeys.

The case was handled by Yan Junyan, a minor official with a great reputation.

When Yan Junyan was working as a promotion officer in Guangzhou, he dealt with a large number of smugglers. Unfortunately, the Li family was too powerful, so he could only arrest Li Chongwen and punish him. At the same time, Shangshu requested that Li Chongwen be deprived of his title (Guozi Jiansheng).

In desperation, Li Chongwen promoted Yan Junyan to Fujian through his elder brother Li Daiwen.

As a result, Yan Junyan offended Xiong Wencan in Fujian again and was sent by Xiong Wencan to appease Zheng Zhilong. This move was out of good intentions, hoping that Zheng Zhilong would kill Yan Junyan, but Yan Junyan succeeded in recruiting him.

Xiong Wencan was immediately overjoyed and no longer resented Yan Junyan for offending him, and immediately took the credit for himself and reported to the court.

After Yan Junyan was transferred from Guangzhou, Li Chongwen had no one to control him and had to intervene in every product. This was tantamount to violating public outrage. Because it was mutually agreed upon which goods to be smuggled by each other, and the Li family did not follow any rules at all.

Not only did Li Chongwen not follow the rules, but he also wanted to set his own rules. He colluded with the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi and almost monopolized the iron exports of Foshan Town. Who dares to bypass the Li family to sell ironware? There is Li Daiwen in the court and the governor of Guangdong. With the cooperation of internal and external forces, they will directly commit the crime of rebellion.

The ironware and grain trade have been completely controlled by the Li family, and a large number of merchants can only rely on the Li family.

Today, there are still plans to control the export of porcelain and silk!

Everyone was waiting around, but Li Chongwen didn't show up, probably because he didn't dare to keep the appointment.

"If this person doesn't come, the strategy of capturing the thief first and the king is no longer feasible. Don't wait any longer, Foshan Town takes action immediately!" Guan Jialun ordered.

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Foshan.

"Master, it's not good, all the big families in the town are here to kill them!" The servant ran into the house in fear.

Li Chongwen held a fire gun and said with a ferocious expression: "What are you shouting for? Kill as many as you come!"

In the Li family mansion, there were actually two hundred fire gun soldiers, hundreds of sword-wielding guards, and even more than ten pairs of armors. This guy sensed something was wrong, so he gathered all his private troops at home, which were usually scattered everywhere.

The forces attacking the Li family also had firecrackers, and even brought in six French cannons.

Is this strange?

It is not surprising, because Foshan is the iron smelting center of Lingnan and the firearms casting base in the south. The governors of Guangdong and Guangxi have to come to Foshan to buy their firearms.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots rang out and killings occurred everywhere.

"Boom boom boom!"

Six Fo Lang machine guns fired wildly at the Li family courtyard wall.

Most of these attackers are merchants attached to the Li family, and they have long been looking forward to the day when they leave the Li family. It's a pity that Li Daiwen's official position is getting higher and higher, and now he is the secretary of the household department. They can only rely on Zhao Han to turn things around.

If Zhao Han doesn't send troops to attack Guangdong, these people won't dare to resist the Li family!

Once they rebel against the Li family, they will completely offend the Minister of the Household Department, and they can only loyally support Zhao Han from now on.

After a bombardment, the courtyard wall finally collapsed.

"kill!"

There are not only armed forces of various ethnic groups, but also many gangsters rushing in with all kinds of weapons.

"boom!"

The twenty or so people who ran in the front rushed into the courtyard and were directly blown up. The Li family used barrels to pack ten thousand enemies.

"Run!"

The gangsters fled in panic.

The merchant surnamed Deng shouted: "Whoever captures the Li family's house will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver! Whoever captures the Li family's house will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"

Shouting a few times in a row, quickly stopped the collapse, and the gangsters went back without courage.

The firecrackers on both sides did not shoot in formation, probably untrained. They all stood behind the obstacle, passed through the gap in the courtyard wall, aimed at each other and fired sniper shots indiscriminately.

They fought for half an hour, not to mention killing anyone, and no one was injured by the gun.

It was a lot of fun.

"Kill!"

In the other direction of Li's house, merchants of the Xie family led the people over the wall and entered.

These people were all recruited from the sea. He is both a farmer and a fisherman, and his real occupation is a "smuggler".

The smuggling trade of Ming Dynasty, the overall links are as follows: inland manufacturers - inland shippers - coastal receivers - coastal fishermen - sea merchants and pirates from various countries.

The smuggling center in Guangdong is Xiangshan County (Zhongshan and Macau). Coastal fishermen use fishing boats to transship goods from Guangzhou to Xiangshan. It can be said that fishermen in Guangzhou, Nanhai, and Xiangshan have regarded smuggling as a profession, and if smuggling is banned, they will lose their source of income.

If Zhao Han occupies this place, he must solve the livelihood problem of the fishermen, otherwise, if he directly cracks down on smuggling, all these coastal fishermen will rebel.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the sea ban was strict, why did it stipulate that people were not allowed to live in the sea? Because the seaside people are all smugglers!

"Bang bang bang!"

There was another burst of random gunshots, and several civilians were killed on the spot.

In a panic, the people who climbed over the wall and entered the hospital ran away in fright. The merchants of the Xie family brought their slaves and shouted: "Kill a Li family member, and reward him with a tael of silver!"

Although these people were afraid, they still ran around the garden under the reward.

They didn't dare to face the firecrackers, but they dared to enter the residential area and attack the old, weak, women and children inside.

For a while, there were screams in the inner courtyard of the Li family.

Many house slaves with firecrackers panicked, and they also had family members, so they all rushed to help.

"kill!"

Another courtyard wall, someone climbed in again, and the situation of the battle was settled in an instant.

They were killed until midnight, not a single living creature was let go, including the maidservant of the Li family.

These merchants have endured the Li family for more than ten years!

At the same time, there were merchants leading people to rob the Li family's properties.

They also took domestic slaves, gangsters (thugs), Jiji (smuggled fishermen), and walking sticks (human traffickers), and began to attack Guangzhou, Xiangshan, and South China Sea from the city.

These mixed "rebels" immediately burned, killed and looted after occupying the city, and only the big households who participated in the uprising were not affected.

In the coastal areas, there are not only many gangsters and smugglers, but also the profession of "crutches".

Most of the time, they belong to the sea intermediary, lending money to the poor to go to sea by boat. These poor people went to Nanyang to pay off their debts by working part-time. There are also some crutches who directly kidnap and traffic people, sell women and young adults to Nanyang, or sell them to red-haired ghosts in Macau.

In one day, the city of Guangzhou and Xiangshan County all changed, and the flag of Datong was planted on the city tower.

Because those guys robbed too hard, and even insulted women, the suffering people in the city looked at the Datong military flag with resentment in their eyes!

The people in the two cities don't know what the Great Harmony is all about, they only know that the bad guys are with Zhao Han.

Merchants from the two cities sent messengers to the north to ask Zhang Tieniu to arrive as soon as possible.

Lu Qian, the commander-in-chief stationed in Yingde, heard that the two cities of Guangzhou had been lost, and was so frightened that he ran to the western part of Guangdong overnight, otherwise he would be made dumplings again.

At the same time, the defenders of Huizhou Fucheng also killed the generals and surrendered directly.

Fei Ruhe occupied Guangzhou effortlessly, and then his face was as black as the bottom of a pot. The people here regard the officers and soldiers of Datong as intruders, and some scholars even make up nursery rhymes, singing that Zhao Tianwang is a man-eating devil king.

"Military Academy, the scholar who posted and exposed posts indiscriminately has been caught!"

"Bring it in!"

A scholar was brought before Fei Ruhe. He was arrested for posting big-character posters.

Fei Ruhe asked: "Why did you expose the post and spread rumors?"

"Pooh!"

The scholar spat on Fei Ruhe's face: "You burn, kill, rape and loot, you will be punished by heaven sooner or later!"

(There were many mistakes and omissions in the chapter in the afternoon. Pharaoh’s brain was dizzy when he wrote it. He uploaded it without editing it. It has been revised again. Sorry.)