These untouchables in Kuang Youhui's words, the troublemakers, were still looting the Xu family at this time.
These people relied on the law to avoid blaming others and frantically moved the Xu family's belongings out.
In fact, their main purpose in participating in this riot was just to make money.
Although they spin yarn and raise sericulture, the rising prices of raw silk and cotton yarn have nothing to do with them because Yahang will not give them high prices.
They also valued this opportunity to make a fortune by confiscating the Xu family.
What's more, the clan behind them supports them in doing this, so they feel like they have received an imperial edict and feel that they will not pay any price for doing so.
At this time, Kuang Youhui, Qin Daobao and other leaders in the riot had fled to the Wusong River and were preparing to escape by boat.
But at this time, there were no boats on the Wusong River.
"Where's the boat?"
Kuang Youhui was shocked and asked Bao Liang.
Bao Liang also said nervously: "I don't know, I don't know what happened."
But not long after, many people from Dongchang appeared on both sides.
Yang Huan personally came over with the knife: "Want to have a golden cicada escape from its shell?"
Seeing this, Kuang Youhui, Bao Liang, and Qin Daobao couldn't help but step back: "You, why are you so fast?"
"It's already very slow!"
Yang Huan told the truth.
If it weren't for the fact that the Jiangnan gentry was the actual ruler of the major local clans and could quickly mobilize a large number of villagers, with his Dongchang ability, he would have been able to arrest all these people before they caused trouble.
Now, the people in his Dongchang could only know in advance through insider information that Kuang Youhui and other leaders would flee the Ming Dynasty by boat in advance and wait in the Wusong River area to prevent these leaders from escaping.
Therefore, Yang Huan said that they were already very slow.
"Catch them all!"
Then, Yang Huan shouted, and immediately the people from Dongchang arrested Kuang Youhui and others.
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"Kill them all, leaving no one alive! The first criminal must have escaped by boat, but I believe that Yang Juetou of Dongchang has captured them. These rioters here cannot be tolerated!"
At this time, Zhang Tongchang also arrived at Xujiazhuang with officers and soldiers from the 3000 Guards Infantry Headquarters, and directly issued orders to suppress these rebels.
In addition, Zhang Tongchang has now succeeded Feng Quan as the governor of the southeast, and sent orders to Governor Biaoying Li Zhaohe's troops to block the passage from Suzhou to Songjiang, and also sent orders to Jinshan Guards to block the sea channel.
Although Li Zhaohe got a warrant from the governor not to act rashly, Zhang Tongchang was now the governor, so he had to listen.
Naturally, the navy of Jinshan Guard did not dare to disobey Zhang Tongchang's order.
After all, the people of Jiangnan did not care about the imperial court, but the civil and military officials in Jiangnan did not dare to ignore the governor sent by the imperial court.
These rioters who were still looting Xu's house didn't know that they were about to be suppressed.
But when they came out carrying food or silk and other things, they saw rows of officers and soldiers with shining armor standing in formation on a road they had to pass.
At this moment, these people realized that they seemed to have committed a crime and seemed to have provoked the officers and soldiers.
The men began to look back for the leader.
Because many of them actually have no independent opinions and just follow the orders of the gentry in the clan township.
Therefore, at this time they need the leader to give them an order.
But they soon discovered that the leader was gone.
As a result, these rioters began to panic. They didn't know how to face the sudden appearance of the officers and soldiers in front of them.
boom!
boom!
boom!
But the government troops had already launched an attack at this time.
The artillery fired first, and the shells came over like rain, killing and injuring countless of these rioters.
Then, the officers and soldiers began to advance and began to shoot firecrackers.
Dense volleys of lead bullets were fired from the barrel of the gun, cutting these rioters to the ground like wheat.
And these rebels didn't even know how to run because they had no backbone.
After many people were killed and injured, many of the rioters realized that the army was suppressing them. Then they panicked and began to run away in all directions.
But at this time, workers in the cotton mill, Xiang Yong, a member of the Xu family, and Xiang Yong, a member of the Xu family's relatives and friends, had already come to kill them from the cotton mill because of orders from Zhang Tongchang.
These workers and Xiang Yong, a member of the Xu family, were all locals and were familiar with the roads in Xujiazhuang. Therefore, these people quickly surrounded the main roads.
In addition, these people were not merciful to these rioters at all. After all, these rioters burned many houses of Xu family tenants and clan members along the way, and also destroyed many people's mulberry fields and rice fields. Some of their own relatives and friends died in the hands of these people. Therefore, they are all holding fire in their hearts.
This made the rioters seem to be surrounded in an iron barrel for a while, with no way to escape.
Zhang Tongchang ordered at this time: "The officers and soldiers of the 3000th Infantry Headquarters immediately divided into small teams to suppress these rioters!"
"yes!"
Chen Xin, Guo Mu and others replied.
"stop!"
But at this time, Kuang Jihe, a great squire from Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, hurried over with the help of several scholars on crutches.
Zhang Tongchang looked back and replied coldly: "Who are you?!"
"This is our Mr. Kuang, the former Minister of Rites of Nanjing, Kuang Da Zongbo!"
A scholar loudly answered for Kuang Jihe.
At this time, Dongchang Qiao Ke came over from behind: "Zi Dutang, my Dongchang Yang Qianhu is not here, so I can't make the decision without permission, so I have to let him come to your place."
Zhang Tongchang said nothing.
Kuang Jihe first spoke to Zhang Tongchang: "Listen to them, you are Zhang Dutang and Lord Zhang Wenzheng. How can you kill innocent people indiscriminately? This is against humanity!"
"These are all troublemakers, and I have been ordered to suppress them. How can I allow you, an old guy, to comment here?"
Zhang Tongchang replied directly.
"you!"
Kuang Jihe was very angry and pointed at Zhang Tongchang and was speechless.
"Your Majesty's secret decree is that you would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go."
As Zhang Tongchang spoke, he shouted: "You can use Dongchang Qiao!"
"The official is here!"
Qiao Ke replied.
"You bring your people from the East Factory and immediately have the Kuang family confiscated by me. Kuang Jihe will be arrested and severely interrogated. All the Kuang family members will also be arrested. Kuang Jihe is interceding for these rioters at this time. It is obvious that he is with these people. The one who works together might be the mastermind behind it!"
Zhang Tongchang started talking.
Because Zhu Youxiao's order to Zhang Tongchang was to authorize him to mobilize all troops in the southeast, and Dongchang was also subject to his temporary control, he directly issued an order to Qiao Ke.
"yes!"
Qiao Ke quickly replied and ordered Kuang Jihe to be arrested.
Kuang Jihe was shocked: "Zhang Dutang! This is chaos! How can you frame me for no reason!"
Zhang Tongchang laughed: "Don't think that I don't know why you suddenly came to stop me for these rioters. From my perspective, it must be because most of these rioters are your tribe and villagers. You still rely on They use their raw silk and cotton yarn to make money by renting their houses, and now that I want to kill all these insurgents, you will naturally care about it and worry that not many tribesmen will be able to give you raw silk, cotton yarn and food in the future!"
"You are talking nonsense! I just don't want to sit back and watch you kill innocent people indiscriminately, and I can't stand your cruel behavior!"
Kuang Jihe roared angrily. He really did not expect that the imperial court would violate the principle of not punishing the public and send officers and soldiers of the Guards Battalion to directly suppress these civilians. Although he did not care about the life or death of these civilians, many of these troubled civilians were The young master is his rural tenants. If these people are really killed by the army, his Kuang family will naturally have fewer people to exploit, so he hurriedly came to stop Zhang Tongchang.
Of course, Kuang Jihe would not admit it now.
"Dutang, your subordinates are late! The leaders of the trouble were caught. One of them is Kuang Youhui. He himself confessed that he is the direct grandson of Kuang Shangshu, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing."
At this time, Yang Huan came over.
Kuang Jihe was stunned immediately after hearing this.
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