Therefore, after the two men suffered setbacks in their siege, Li Qin immediately ordered that a large number of cannons be sent to them.
At the same time, it brought them the message that after the city was breached, the Feng family of Jiangyin and the Ma family of Hangzhou would be exterminated.
Especially after the rebellion, the Ma family, who killed Chu Kesheng, the governor of Zhejiang, should have their patriarch, Ma Juyun, executed by slow slicing in Hangzhou.
After the heads of the Ma and Feng families were executed by slow slicing, they were reassembled and carried out to be displayed in Jiangnan.
Show this to the heads of other prominent families in Jiangnan.
Look at their fragmented bodies, pieced back together after being subjected to slow slicing.
This is the consequence of rebelling against me and trying to avoid paying my taxes.
Urged on by Li Qin, Xia Nianyong and Cui Yuanbin, who were appointed by Li Qin to lead their troops independently, also began their vigorous attack on the city.
Because they know this might be their only chance; if they fail, they'll likely have to go back to being sidelined.
As the cannons were transported over, they began to bombard the two sections of the city wall.
The first section of the city wall to give way was the city wall of Jiangyin, which collapsed as the wall was bombed.
Xia Nianyong personally supervised the battle and ordered his troops to charge into Jiangyin City.
The head of the Feng family was captured alive.
Outside Hangzhou, after learning that Xia Nianyong had captured Jiangyin, Cui Yuanbin was so anxious that he ordered his troops to use artillery to blast open a breach.
He immediately sent his personal guards to charge forward and open a breach, while he personally directed the attack amidst a hail of arrows.
They finally managed to capture Hangzhou after a desperate battle, and captured Ma Juyun, the head of the Ma family, as well as that "Zhu Jianshen".
In the end, they were all executed by slow slicing on Li Qin's orders.
At Li Qin's urging, the rebellion in Jiangnan was quickly quelled.
Other prominent families in Jiangnan, upon seeing the corpses of Ma Juyun, the head of the Ma family, and others, who had been slowly sliced to pieces and then pieced back together, were also shocked.
They were so scared that their legs went weak.
He then hurriedly told the officials sent by the imperial court that they would definitely pay the taxes on time and in full.
Soon the imperial court collected its first tax in Jiangnan.
Li Qin was very satisfied with the number.
He estimated that the taxes Jiangnan was paying him were more than the total amount Jiangnan had paid in the past five years.
Now I truly control Jiangnan, this vital tax-paying region.
The imperial court's finances were finally in good shape.
With the financial support, I was able to do other things.
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