As Shen Zhezi stood up, the other generals in the hall also stood up, looking at Zhu Feng and the others with an unkind expression, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense.

At this time, the people in this hall can be roughly divided into three categories according to their different positions and interests. First of all, there are a group of Northern Expedition generals, these people are naturally only Shen Zhezi's horse, whether they are fighting or stopping, they are all in the mind of the main general.

As for the other part, it is Zhu Feng, the diehards in the dock wall, they each defend according to the danger, there is no shortage of people, there is no shortage of acres, they are quite powerful, it can be said that they have nothing to ask for, and they have become a de facto separatist force.

Of course, their strength may be far inferior to Shen Zhezi's Huainan army, but if Shen Zhezi wants to kill them all, he will have to pay a great price, and it will be difficult to eliminate them in a short time. The current situation with a little stability will inevitably make waves again, which will undoubtedly create an opportunity for the Qiang Hu to sweep south again.

And the third part is the dock masters who put on a cooperative attitude after Wang Shi entered. These people can be said to be centrists, and their own strength is not extremely strong, and they need to form a good royal teacher in order to obtain a more favorable living environment. At the same time, they must not completely turn their backs on the interests of their local sects, otherwise their local interests will not be adequately protected.

In short, the general environment of the confrontation between the north and the south is the living space of those diehards who are on the dock wall; And the small contradiction between Shen Zhezi's Huainan Army and the diehards of the dock wall lord is the living space of these dock wall lord centrists.

Therefore, when the atmosphere in the hall gradually changed to the posture of the Hongmen Banquet, not only Zhu Feng and other dock masters who had a tough attitude and refused to cooperate changed their expressions greatly, but also those villagers who had chosen to rely on Wang Shi earlier also became worried, lest conflicts between them break out.

So soon, Qiao Qiu, the local villager who was hired by Shen Zhezi, also stood up and looked at Zhu Feng, and said with a smile: "There were many wars in the township before, and each of them survived behind closed doors. Fortunately, at the moment, the king and the thief have no soldiers, so they have to get together. We and other villagers also admire Zhu Lao, it is rare for the envoy to convene this time, why should Zhu Lao be in a hurry? ”

In fact, this part of the villagers is also tired of Zhu Feng's stubborn posture. The three decrees announced by Shen Zhezi are actually not out of the ordinary. In particular, making great concessions in the most important places of land and people is already a surprise for them. As long as people and land are not lost at all, even if they are tougher in other aspects, they are all acceptable.

"If I don't stay, what will happen to the colt? Old decay is indeed stubborn, often have a world-weary heart, and put his life here, if this body and flesh can wake up the villagers, it is also a gain on deathbed. ”

Zhu Feng didn't even look at Qiao Qiu, but just looked at Shen Zhezi coldly. If this kid wants to threaten his life to force himself to bow his head, it is a dream. His home is located in the west of Shouchun, the ravines are continuous, the water network is staggered, although the outside can not enter, but the village is more than enough to protect itself, even if the Huainan army is strong to attack, it is difficult to break it in an instant!

"Zhu Lao said seriously, although I am holding a magic sword, but it is given by the king, and there are only three thieves to behead. Thieves who rebel against usurpation, thieves who corrupt the country, and thieves who abuse the people! All these three thieves will be killed! As for the rest, even if there are minor inferiors, they do not damage the big festivals, which is exactly what the king has commanded to educate. Either reprimanded or punished, if it can be changed, it will be good, so that it will not take his life. ”

Shen Zhezi smiled slightly after hearing this, and put on an attitude that although you are guilty, I will not kill you.

These dock owners are actually a very difficult problem to deal with and solve. If you blindly appease and appease, you will be even more open-minded. But if you want to kill people, you will face a great backlash, and once the riots expand, it will not be as simple as killing more than three or five people.

In fact, Shen Zhezi's short-term purpose is very simple, he just hopes to be able to live in peace with these people for the time being, and have enough strength to defend or attack. As for completely solving the problem of the dock master, this is not what he can do now.

Therefore, the principled contradiction between land and population, Shen Zhezi did not touch it at all, and at the moment there was neither time nor conditions to completely eradicate the dock wall owners.

But his little forbearance is only because the enemy is at present, and the overall situation is important: "Hu Lu is in charge, and Shenzhou Lu is sinking." The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. The king returned to Xinjiang, and the scholars shared. There is no distinction between virtuous and foolish, all of them are Jin people, or relatives without blood and bones, but they have the same kind of righteousness. This township is not my mulberry, it is used for the king's order, and it is grateful for righteousness, so it does not avoid danger and fights so far. ”

"This body can suffer a thousand disasters, but it is not wronged! The heroic army is brave and fierce, but it still has benevolence in his heart and does not dare to harm the township. It's a pity that the dust is flying, people's hearts are corrupt, and there are still slaves and thieves who hide treachery, and they complain about my heart! Although I am worthy of admiration, I can't bear the adulterous voice! If there are such thieves in the township, they will never lynch them, tell the heavens and the earth, gather the villagers, and kill them together! ”

When Zhu Feng heard this, his face was already pale, what was the difference between Shen Zhezi saying this and pointing at his nose and scolding him! He has been in this township for a long time, no matter whether the ancestral clan is here or the thieves come from the south, even if he can't resist, he can keep himself behind closed doors, and he has not been so humiliated for a long time.

Therefore, for a while, anger surged, and Zhu Feng didn't care about his own danger, walked in front of Shen Zhezi, and glared angrily: "All the people here, in addition to the brave generals from outside, there are also many villagers. The old man has lived in this township for more than half his life, although my township is hard, the township is upright, and I have not heard of the thief who hides treachery and dirt in the township! The horse may wish to tell him bluntly, who is a thief in the seat, and the villagers will judge it! ”

Shen Zhezi ignored Zhu Feng's angry questioning at this time, and just continued to face everyone: "Today, I invited the township sect to announce the second and third decrees in the town, and there is still a military matter to tell you. The major affairs of the country of soldiers are lonely and brave, and they cannot last long. At this point in the world, swallowing silence and forbearance is not the only way to be good. The villagers formed a village to survive and refused to keep the enemy outside, which was an expedient measure, but it was not the voice of Wang Zhengde. The people cannot be satisfied with production, and the soldiers cannot specialize in conscription. ”

"There are virtuous in the middle, and there are long in the city. A gathering of thousands of people, one person is the main one. If there are no rules, if you don't disperse, it will be chaotic. The nostalgia is so far, I don't dare to have a chaotic hometown, and I don't dare to neglect the king's order, today's right to make a compromise, strike the township soldiers to return to farming, and recruit the township to give the first soldiers. In the near future, it is necessary to recruit the people of the six armies in the countryside, distribute them to the township sages for the time being, and accept the command of the king's division to make contributions and protect the countryside. ”

"The soldiers in this township have been abused for a long time, and there are many scattered people in the mountains and fields. Wang Dao has been neglecting this for a long time, and the forced conscription hurts people's feelings, and the matter of recruiting people must be entrusted to the villagers. I don't dare to go against the hometown, fake the king's order, and privately give the order, who can be the military master, and I must also have the courage to recommend you. ”

After Shen Zhezi said this, he sat back in the seat, and at the same time motioned for the generals to take their seats, and did not say anything more, leaving a time for those villagers in the realm to digest.

And these villagers present, after listening to what Shen Zhezi said, including Zhu Feng, who was still full of anger at first, all looked thoughtful for a while. It's really that Shen Zhezi's words don't seem to have much content, but in fact, the information contained in them and the variables that can be brewed are too much.

Whether these dock masters are smart or stupid, their position determines their vision. The so-called knowing the world's affairs without leaving home is impossible to achieve in this era of extreme lack of information and rapid changes in the general trend of the world.

Today, Shen Zhezi has issued a total of three government decrees and one military order, almost every one of which is worthy of their deep thought.

The first reclamation order can be said to be a complete concession, not only the population and land under their shelter, but also the tuntian in the original control of the town are willing to be shared. These villagers here, as long as they are not stupid, will not speak out against them. Land and population are the foundation of their self-reliance, and if anyone dares to openly touch it, it is tantamount to a great enmity of life and death!

As for the warehousing relief order in Article 2, it is a little threatening. The water network around Shouchun is dense, and the county government should completely control the Jindu channel and abolish the private dai, although this one is a bit overbearing, but it is acceptable. After all, most of their dock walls are built in dense mountains and ravines, and if the waterway transportation is too convenient, it is not safe.

The danger of this decree is whether the county government will use the waterway to expand the area of attack and use it as an excuse to clear some dock walls. Therefore, some of the weaker dock masters are a little uneasy.

But the next relief and market changes have given people some comfort. If there is an influx of goods from Jiangdong, it is a good thing for many dock walls to be able to communicate with each other. Although it is also a gesture of goodwill to attract displaced people to naturalization, as long as the control of their own dock walls is strengthened, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

The third order to suppress bandits is nothing more than the elimination of dissidents and the looting of some private capital. Although it is said that there will be compensation, no one will believe that this kind of thing will be borrowed and repaid. Whoever does this, this is the right thing to do. Powerful dock wall owners like Zhu Feng can ignore it behind closed doors, but some small dock walls can only beg not to be too ruthless.

In general, with the foundation of the first decree, for the vast majority of dock owners, these three decrees are acceptable. If they were to be replaced by another commander, the situation they faced would only be worse.

After all, not all dock walls have the strength to resist tens of thousands of troops, if they don't cooperate, Zhu Feng and other township powerhouses will not provide them with shelter, but may take the opportunity to merge. Relatively speaking, Shen Zhezi's proposal of this way of getting along with gains and losses is already the best situation they can see.

But the most uncertain thing is the fourth military order, the township soldiers will make trouble, all the dock wall owners heard this sentence, and a sense of crisis welled up in their hearts, which was too domineering! The reason why they have survived to this day is because they are not weakly armed, and if they give up, then they are not waiting to be killed and slaughtered?

However, the next article of recruiting villagers to bravely award armor soldiers made some people sound unavoidably excited. In fact, the village soldiers they each possessed were still very different from the regular army.

Even if Zhu Feng, who is the strongest among them, can support more than 2,000 full-time elite soldiers for a long time. Whenever a strong enemy is encountered, it is necessary to mobilize the whole people of Dingkou to fight as soldiers, even if they repel foreign invaders, it will be difficult to recover because of the waste of production.

If they can grasp this opportunity, take advantage of the momentum of the Huainan County Government, sweep the countryside, and pull up a strong team, there is no doubt that their strength will skyrocket! In this era, the strong and strong are in high positions!

Even if some people don't want to be too attached to the Wangshi County Government, but what about others? Earlier, the horse said that he would recruit the people of the six armies and the quota of the six army masters. No matter who wins a place, there are tens of thousands of Huainan troops behind him, will he bare his fangs to the villagers?

As for the so-called dare not give the talisman privately, to let the villagers recommend it bravely, it is nothing more than a joke! If someone can gather an army now, who can compete with him for the position of military master?

Shen Zhezi finished talking, and was sipping tea at this time. He regretted that tea drinking had not yet swept the north and south, so that tea could not be traded as a commodity.

Therefore, whether in the south or in the north, Shen Zhezi is personally promoting the habit of drinking tea, and under his influence, there is no shortage of overseas Chinese families who are contaminated with this style. After all, if drinking tea forms a culture, it is always a little more elegant than drinking buttermilk.

He had to mobilize enough troops in the shortest possible time, and the strength of these Township Sect Masters could not be ignored. If you have a tough attitude and blindly push the past, I am afraid that if you don't fight half of the realm, there will be chaos, and the Qianhu will also come south with heavy troops.

As for these government decrees and military orders, he also weighed and discussed them with Du He, Guo Yu and other staff members for a long time, not only to make these dock masters not have the same hatred and determination to resist to the end, but also to let them lose something.

As for whether the recruited soldiers can be trusted, this is also something that does not need to be considered, Shile started with eighteen horsemen, and now there are hundreds of thousands of slave soldiers, and it is not developed one by one to convince people with virtue. Recruitment is only for victory, as long as the momentum is out, people's hearts will naturally cohesion.

As for Shen Zhezi daring to play like this, it was because he had prepared the grassland and came to recover the wild horses. The existence of Liang Junjiancheng allowed him to advance and retreat freely. The strategic depth he possessed was far greater than that of the Zu clan when he was in the town. At the same time, the smooth dispatch of Jiangdong's resources is an advantage that no commander of the Northern Expedition in history does not have.

Of course, this recruitment order is good news for a group of small and medium-sized dock owners, who can bear a layer of constraints, but in exchange for a broader space for development. Even if Shen Zhezi can't stay here for a long time, at least during this period, their strength will surge!

However, for big dock masters like Zhu Feng, the number of people in the army is not enough to make a qualitative change in their strength, but they will lose their transcendent and independent status because of this. But Shen Zhezi is not worried about their resistance, the essence of the dock wall is occlusion, if they dare to go out of the village to make trouble, they will only die faster.

However, if they do not change, they will have to face the hostility of the Huainan army, and perhaps the siege of the villagers. In this year, Wang Tongzhengshuo does not have any appeal, if he loses the most basic sense of security and cohesion, no matter how big the dock wall is, it will collapse without a fight.

Killing donkeys and feasting guests is not just talking. Shen Zhezi had repeatedly shown favor to Zhu Feng and others before, not because he was afraid of their people, but because he was unwilling to kill each other and shed too much blood before the big war.

But this Zhu Feng is stupid, he actually thinks that he has to kill people himself. There are many dock walls in this township, and the positions of the six military masters, you don't want it, someone wants it. Tens of thousands of kings and masters, even if they are motionless, are natural arbitrations, enough to lead a redivision of local forces!

When others were still thinking about the pros and cons of this military order, Zhu Feng was the first to react. It's not because his cunning is stronger than others, but because he doesn't have to think about the interests at all, because he can't win the position of a military master anyway, he only needs to think about how much damage this military order will cause to him.

When a few obviously ill-intentioned eyes fell on him in the banquet, cold sweat was already pouring out of Zhu Feng's forehead.

"When Wang Shi entered the town, the country man failed to get the news to fight together, and he is still annoyed! Make the monarch order to recruit the township bravely, stupid dare not resign, do not seek fame in the world, willing to guard the township and protect the land with flesh and blood! ”

While the others were still hesitating, Ling Zhuo, who had been advancing and retreating with Zhu Feng earlier, had already taken a step forward and clasped his fists.