Can you live forever

Chapter 272

In Annan, these wealthy families and even landlords and gentry are raising eunuchs. It is not pure greed, but vicious intentions.

They selected the bright and clever children among the common people, deliberately castrated them, enslaved and controlled them, and their wealth and status were as stable as Mount Tai.

On the surface, they disguise themselves with extravagance and comparison, making the common people think they are just greedy and stupid.

As everyone knows, their nature is cruel and insidious.

After Hai Rui saw these castrated children, studied their knowledge, and saw their intelligence, he fell into a long silence.

The more he got to know Annan, the more Hai Rui saw two words - "enslavement".

Foolish people and constant weak people for the sake of enslavement.

The evil of those people shattered the limits of Hai Rui's imagination time and time again. He couldn't even imagine how the people survived in the past...

Despite repeated blows to his mind, Hai Rui's will became harder and harder like steel.

He didn't have any depression or complaints, but only fighting spirit.

He summoned these eunuchs and spent the whole afternoon lecturing to them, analyzing the reasons behind everything the gentry ruling class did, and telling them how evil and cruel the gentry were.

Hai Rui shattered the worldview of these eunuchs and established a brand new concept for them.

He also told them that even if he appoints the eunuchs to do things in the name of the government, they will still be discriminated against. This discrimination will not be reversed in a short while, but a long-term concept.

Selecting the best and brightest children to castrate and making them eunuchs will be discriminated against, and naturally they will not be able to lead the people to rise and affect the status of the lords.

This is the evil done by the gentry, but you can't just let it go.

You gotta stand up, you gotta fight!

Even if the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army may look down on you and don't want a bunch of wild eunuchs to command over them, even if the villages in various places don't want to listen to your orders, you can't be discouraged.

Because this is your best chance for redemption.

If you don't save yourselves, if you don't have a firm will to fight, then no one can save you, and the gentry and gentlemen will not avenge your crimes and revenge against you?

Only when people understand the truth and the reason, will they know what they should do.

When Hai Rui explained the truth to them, the eunuchs who had suffered countless pains and humiliations cried so hard that they couldn't cry anymore.

Yes, they are the smartest and most talented people.

They read faster than the master's sons, and they are good at calculating accounts. They are obviously more talented, so why do they live so without dignity?
They cannot accept their fate.

They want to tell the world that they became eunuchs because... Gentlemen, be afraid of them!
They want to break the world's prejudices!

There are more than 500 literate eunuchs, but more than 800 eunuchs have all awakened. After all, the rest of the eunuchs who have never read are just because their masters are not "arty"!

With the help of more than 800 people, Hai Rui's administrative efficiency suddenly skyrocketed.

Although he is willing to cultivate the land of a village, he is not a talent of a village. He is not a person who does everything by himself, and is not good at delegating power or managing.

Hai Rui injected vitality into Thanh Hoa Mansion and formed a group of firm vanguards.

however.

This didn't make Hai Rui complacent. On the contrary, he was under more pressure. The more things he could do, the more things he had to worry about. During the grass-roots construction in more than 30 counties and more than 6000 rural areas in the prefecture, he discovered that Annan was in crisis.

The sixth day of June.

Hai Rui found General Zhao who was stationed in Tsinghua Mansion. General Zhao was the commander of the Guangdong capital. He was a military general of the third rank. His full name was Zhao Jing.

The Guangdong capital sent out [-] guards, and Zhao Jing led [-] troops with two battalions.

Today, the Annan border is guarded by a battalion left by the capital of southern Yunnan in the north, a battalion guarded by the capital of Guangdong in the middle, and a battalion guarded by the capital of Guangxi in the south.

It adds up to only [-] troops.

Qinghua Prefecture, which is an important town in the central part, only has 1000 or [-] soldiers.

But Hai Rui got a very important piece of information during the work of equalizing the land these days, that is, a large number of landlords have fled. The news spread at an extremely fast speed.

If it is said that Xuanhua Mansion was first occupied by the Ming army, most of the gentry there had not had time to escape.

Starting from Tsinghua Mansion, there has been a large-scale escape.

In the beginning, when the whole army was mobilized for the Southern Expedition, there was basically no resistance when they averaged the fields in the countryside. Is this a good thing?Of course not, you must know that in the whole of Annan, apart from the great plain of Shenglong Mansion, only the coastal area is a plain, starting from the northern cover, going down the west line, and ending at Shenghua Mansion, surrounded by mountains.

The area controlled by Daming today is nothing but plains.

In the mountains and forests, even if they wanted to control them, they were powerless, and that was also Annan's land, and all the gentry went to the mountains and forests.

When sorting out the government records, Hai Rui discovered that the mountains and forests were not wasteland.

But there are also states and counties, but the distribution is more scattered and the population is smaller...

"General Zhao, it has been four days since the army left Annan. The gentry and landowners who fled to the mountains must have gotten the news and started joining forces to prepare for a counterattack."

"Our army's guarding forces are insufficient. We should form a militia as soon as possible, train the sergeants, organize the defense line, and stand ready."

Hai Rui explained the situation to Zhao Jing very earnestly, but Zhao Jing did not agree. He pointed to the map on the wall and said, "The Annan area is long and narrow, with mountains stretching for more than a thousand miles. Our battalion will guard Tsinghua, Yi'an, Among the five prefectures of Xinping, Hue, and Shenghua, there are still 300 soldiers in Thanh Hoa, [-] soldiers in Ngee An, and only [-] soldiers in each of Xinping, Hue, and Shenghua."

"No matter how you organize the militia, there is no way to preserve the whole territory."

"We can only try our best to defend the city."

"Even Xin Binh Mansion, Hue Mansion, Shenghua Mansion can be lost, Thanh Hoa Mansion and Ngee An Mansion must be defended."

"If Ngee An Mansion is lost, Qinghua Mansion will be in danger. If Qinghua Mansion is lost, Thang Long Mansion will be besieged, and Annan will be gone. Hai Rui, I don't care about the outside world. I just want to ensure that the city will not be lost. .”

Zhao Jing knew very well what those landlord returning home groups would do when they came back, but he couldn't control it.

He must ensure that Annan cannot be lost. Once Annan is lost, the retreat of the entire Southern Expedition Army will be cut off, and Chenla will inevitably repeat itself. At that time, all will be lost.

"But if we don't care, wait until the homecoming group arrives..." Hai Rui still wanted to persuade.

Zhao Jing said directly: "Anyway, I can't control it. If Mr. Hai wants to control it, he can manage it himself."

Hai Rui: "..."

(End of this chapter)