Lu Xiangsheng said: "I'll write a letter to Hong Chengchou, and with the strength of the two of us, trap the thieves in Guanzhong. At that time, 100,000 horses were hoarded in one place, with no food to eat, and it was seen that they could support them for a few days, and there would never be a second carriage gorge. 【Latest chapter reading. 】”

After receiving the order, Zu Kuan acted quickly, he divided his more than 2,000 Guanning iron cavalry into ten teams, each team led by a hundred commanders, scattered attacks, flexible and mobile, and went to the counties around Xi'an to harass the Qin army. These Guanning iron riders each rode two horses, came and went like the wind, and when they reached the farmland, they trampled on the horses, and also set fire to the people's houses, farm tools and other things.

Within a day, Li Kang received seven or eight urgent reports in succession, all of which said that the cavalry of the official army had burned down the farmland and driven the people away. He hurriedly sent cavalry to meet the battle, and at the same time reported to the king of Qin.

The king of Qin knew that it was Lu Xiangsheng who came to harass and prevent the people from farming. It can even disturb the people's hearts and force them to move elsewhere. He consulted with Wang Jian and Zhang Yiyi, and decided to move all the people in the county far away from Xi'an City to the vicinity of Xi'an City, and set up a wide range of farms within a radius of 50 miles to concentrate on farming. In this way, we avoid being attacked everywhere and there is no way to help.

Many people were reluctant at first, because those county towns were their homes, but they knew the ferocity of the officials and soldiers, and they had to move if they didn't move. As a result, many people were escorted by the Qin army and moved to the vicinity of Xi'an City.

There are also advantages to living and cultivating in a centralized manner, that is, the more people there are, the more courageous they are, and they are not afraid of harassment by officials and soldiers. The Qin army also helped these people build a fence and fence off the fields to prevent the cavalry from attacking.

After protecting the farmland, the Qin king gradually began to implement new policies in the city. Because there is only one city in Xi'an, it is very convenient to implement various policies. One notice, and everyone will know about it.

The first thing to be implemented is the method of protecting the armor and sitting together.

This law is very powerful, and when Shang Ying established this law, he wanted to implement militarized management among the people. Five households and one guarantee, ten households and one Jia, there is a reward for those who report adultery, there is punishment for those who hide adultery, one family reports adultery, ten families have a reward, one family hides adultery, and ten families are punished. In this way, foreign spies are effectively eliminated.

The city of Xi'an is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and it is very necessary to establish such a law.

In addition, because many wealthy families fled after the war in Xi'an, the king of Qin ordered that these people's fields and houses be distributed to the people, which was very popular with the people. As a result, the prestige of the King of Qin expanded rapidly. When the people in other counties heard about it, they came to join them with their families, and the people in Xi'an grew at an astonishing rate.

As soon as there were many people, there would be many things, and the king of Qin set up civil officials to manage these displaced people. They were given shelters, commanded food, and used according to their talents, among them craftsmen, grooms, scholars, and merchants, each of whom was given advantage of his strengths. Craftsmen such as carpenters, lacquerers, blacksmiths, masons, etc., were sent to build houses and make iron, grooms to raise horses, scholars began to teach children to read, merchants were sent to various places to buy and sell, women began to weave cloth and grow vegetables, in short, no one could eat leisurely.

The biggest advantage of this is that Xi'an City is no longer like a relief house, but like a big family.

King Qin's rule of the country naturally has its own uniqueness. In fact, since the Shang monarch changed the law, the Qin State has rarely had a faint monarch, because the law of the Shang monarch has ensured to a large extent that the Qin army has always walked on the correct road to a strong country, and the law of the Shang monarch is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it cannot be changed by one or two faint monarchs.

After the war, Xi'an City got a rare respite, and it had been a month, except for Zu Kuan's Guanning Iron Cavalry, which sometimes came to harass him, there had been no fighting. The people began to cultivate around the city, and the city became more and more prosperous, shops opened, trade was opened, all kinds of goods were brought in, and merchants from other places began to come and go.

At this time, the officers and soldiers were busy dealing with Gao Yingxiang and others.

In the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, it is easy to deal with the thieves who live in one place for a long time, and the most headache is the thieves like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who live in no fixed place, come and go impermanently, attack everywhere, and plunder in all directions. They are like a sharp cone, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is like a cloth pocket, where the awl is pierced, there will be a hole, and the Ming army is like a tailor, filling the leaks everywhere.

The most effective way is to ignore the holes and concentrate all your efforts on dealing with the awl. As long as the awl is destroyed, the hole can be repaired at any time.

Lu Xiangsheng thought like this. In his opinion, it doesn't matter how many counties Gao Yingxiang captured and how much grain he plundered, what matters is how many people and horses Gao Yingxiang has under him and how to eliminate these people.

At this point, he is firmly moving towards this goal.

After Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai left Xi'an, they walked east for five days and came to Huaxian County to meet Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, who were waiting here.

As soon as the two sides met, a dispute began, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not agree to break with the Qin army so quickly, because at this time, the peasant army did not have much money in their hands, and they lacked weapons and horses.

After all, if you kill your subordinates and attack someone's city, you are clearly the enemy.

After arguing, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had to sigh and say no more, after all, it was already like this, and there was no point in fighting any longer. The most urgent thing at the moment is to decide on the next step of the peasant army's plan.

In fact, they have already discussed this plan, that is, after breaking with the Qin army, the question of their whereabouts is just now in advance.

According to the previous agreement, the peasant army was divided into three routes, Gao Yingxiang one way, Li Zicheng one road, and Zhang Luo two people all the way, marching in three directions. The final meeting place is the Lingbao area of Henan.

Gao Yingxiang walked on the front line of Tongguan, he had the most people, and he was the most sure to fight Tongguan. Li Zicheng went south, preparing to enter Henan by Shangluoshan, while the combined forces of Zhang and Luo marched northeast.

The three people came to Henan.

Soon after the division of troops, Li Zicheng received a report that Lu Xiangsheng led a large group of men and horses to rush towards him. In addition, Hong Chengchou took Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, Shi Kefa and other generals, and also left the Ganquan area to attack the Zhangluo coalition army, and Li Zicheng understood that the official army wanted to prevent them from leaving Shaanxi and entering Henan.

Li Zicheng knew that at this time, he would not be able to bargain for a decisive battle with the official army, so he dismounted and entered the Shangluo Mountains, relying on the mountains, and Lu Xiangsheng to maneuver, see the opportunity, and then throw off the official army and enter Henan.

For a while, in the Guanzhong area, inside and outside Tongguan, the air suddenly became tense, and the murderous aura once again filled the land.

Unlike the situation of the peasant army, the Qin army was in a very comfortable environment at this time. The main force of the official army followed the peasant army, and only a few thousand Guanning iron cavalry harassed back and forth, and there was no major battle, and the Qin army got a very rare opportunity for development.

This kind of opportunity seems to be the defeat of the Ming army, but in fact it is not.

Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou are both handsome talents, and they are keenly aware that the Qin army's insistence on Xi'an and Meixian is just a sign of defeat. As long as the peasant army is eliminated, the Qin army will immediately be a fish in a net and a bird in a cage. Sticking to it is dead, and moving is life, as it was proven 700 years ago.

At that time, Huangchao's rebel army, in just a few years, developed into a million-strong army through mobile warfare, and when he stuck to Chang'an, it quickly collapsed and was finally defeated.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou both believe that without Tongguan as a gateway, Xi'an is just a place of death.

That's why they were desperate to let the Qin army recuperate in Xi'an City, and they must first control the peasant army to death.

And this period of time can be regarded as Li Yan's happiest time.

He and the red lady were busy in the three counties, managing county affairs, and supervising spring ploughing, which was very popular. Everyone has also heard that the head of the three counties is a young man who is less than 20 years old, and he is very talented, Yushu is in the wind, where has such a person come from such a small place as the three counties, so as long as Li Yan opens a government in the county, everyone comes to see.

Li Yan was born in a family of eunuchs, and his father was from the county order and became a scholar step by step. Therefore, when he was a child, his father taught him how to be an official, and later saw that he was smart, and briefly told him how to govern the local area and try the case. Therefore, Li Yan is familiar with these things. The trial of the case is also very troublesome.

The three county towns are not very big, but there are many things. What land disputes, illegal houses, neighborhood discord, family discord, inheritance, profiteers' illegal ...... In the county seat that has just settled down, many things immediately appeared, which is probably the inferior root of the Chinese since ancient times.

In the face of these big and small things, Li Yan is not in a hurry, and he will report and deal with a case, which will surely make the people in the case full of admiration.

In this way, his reputation has become greater, and the people in the three counties know that there is a little Qingtian here, who enforces the law and judges and makes decisions for the people. And some people don't dare to do something bad even if they want to. Within the three counties, there was a rare scene of Qingping.

On this day, Li Yan was processing some paperwork in the county government when he suddenly heard someone beating a drum.

The drum of grievances is erected at the gate of the county government, and as long as there are people who have been wronged, they can come here to play the drum and complain. Li Yan listened and hurriedly ascended to the court.

Li Yan, the county official, did a very shabby job, without assistants such as Shiye County, from the trial file to the punishment, he was alone, but there was a group of county officials, who were sent by Bai Qi to help him interrogate the case and arrest the criminals.

After a short time, Li Yan ascended to the hall, he was sitting on the Taishi chair behind the case, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, there should have been a lot of things on the public case in front of him, what shocking wood, pen holders, brushes, big orders, hand towels and other things, if it was a regular official, there should be a big seal.

Li Yan didn't have a big seal, so he didn't have time to engrave it for a while, and secondly, there was no need for it.

At this time, all the items on the case were there, but the seven great orders were missing.

These seven orders are packed in a box, and the box is empty.

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