Since the Ming court allowed the gentry and merchants to form an escort team, the rule of the Ming court has become more and more lively.

The Ming court set a lot of rules for the gentry and businessmen to form an escort team, but there was an endless stream of gentry and businessmen from all over the country who applied for the formation of an escort team, and the most important reason for the gentry and businessmen to form the escort team was not the people's army, but the increase of bandits, bandits, rioters, and anti-thieves.

When Li Chengliang's army was still there, the Ming court had a total strength of more than 1.5 million troops, so many troops, bandits and bandits in various places did not dare to take the lead, and they would usher in the encirclement and suppression of the army, and defeating the thieves would even attract thousands of Ming troops to go over to encircle and suppress.

Especially Li Chengliang's department, in order to train the troops, Li Chengliang constantly sent various departments out to find bandits, bandits, and anti-thieves, just to let the soldiers see blood, and the soldiers who have not seen blood will not be able to become elites no matter how much they can.

However, with the defeat of Li Chengliang's army, the other three Ming armies were also defeated by the People's Army, and the millions of Ming troops or those who withdrew from the People's Army's ruled area were probably less than 200,000 people, and they were all afraid of the People's Army.

At this time, under the rule of the Ming court, the bandits and bandits who were hiding in various places were active again, the thieves were seeking to occupy the city, and the bandits and bandits were seeking wealth, and they liked to attack the gentry and merchants the most.

In the face of the active bandits and bandits, the gentry and merchants did not dare to live in the manor outside the city, even if any bandit bandits came over and surrounded the manor, the family could not escape.

The gentry and businessmen all have a lot of guards, but no one dares to raise too many guards, and if they are not careful, they will be called "rebellion".

Now the Ming court took the initiative to give a part of the military power to the gentry and merchants, and allowed the gentry and merchants to form an escort team, with a minimum of 100 people and a maximum of 1,000 people, even if the number of the escort team was only 100 people, it would not be a problem to block one or two hundred outlaws with good weapons and armor.

In order to protect themselves and their families, it is the most important reason why the gentry and businessmen want to form an escort team, and the second is that the current situation is not good, the Ming court has the people's army, but the Ming court can't stop the people's army, everyone can see that it is a troubled time, no matter how much wealth there is in the troubled times, it is useless, and only by having soldiers in their hands can they better preserve themselves.

There are not one or two wealthy gentry and businessmen who have ideas, one escort team has a maximum of 1,000 people, ten escort teams have a maximum of 10,000 people, a hundred escort teams have a maximum of 100,000 people, and 100,000 people are in hand, even if they are all farmers who have just put down their farm tools, but with this number, it is impossible for the Ming Court People's Army to ignore it.

The Ming court put one or several Ming soldiers in the escort team to supervise the escort team, and the gentry and merchants were able to find a way to buy it both soft and hard, even if they could not be bought, they would be directly besieged and killed when necessary, and a few Ming troops could not be the opponents of hundreds of guards.

Of course, these are just some ideas, the great enemy of the People's Army is still there, and there is still the Ming Court in front of it, if the Ming Court is messed up by them, without the Ming Court in the way, everyone will die.

In any case, you can rest assured that you have soldiers in hand, even in the face of the People's Army, when the time comes, it is good to lead the escort team to surrender to the People's Army, will the People's Army still kill the people who surrender?

Many gentry and businessmen under the rule of the Ming Dynasty began to recruit soldiers to form an escort team, and when they recruited troops, they found that the source of their escort team was only farmers who farmed, and there were many problems in recruiting farmers.

The landlords were good at dealing with this situation, and they could simply select people from their tenants to join the convoy, and they did not need to give too much to the tenants, as long as the rent was lowered so that the tenants' families could have enough to eat.

When the time came in June, the gentry and businessmen who had worked so hard to assemble the escort team suddenly felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that rumors about the People's Army had increased.

"The People's Army in the south is strong, millions of Ming troops have been easily defeated by the People's Army, the Ming Court will perish in a few years, and then follow the Ming Court is a way to die."

"The People's Army is too strong, no official army can resist the People's Army, I heard that the imperial court is going to send the princess to ask for peace."

"Every soldier of the People's Army can be a ten, and 100,000 officers and soldiers are only 10,000 People's Army, and the officers and soldiers on the battlefield will run away when they see the People's Army, and they will not dare to meet at all."

……

These rumors have a characteristic, that is, the People's Army is very strong, the Ming Army is very weak, and the Ming Dynasty is not far from being destroyed.

The point is that most of the content described in these rumors is true, and well-informed gentry and businessmen know that as the rumors spread to Yu Lie, even some gentry and businessmen who thought that the Ming court could resist the People's Army by recruiting millions of troops were also affected.

"Can the Ming Court really resist the People's Army?"

No one knows, if according to the previous results, the million Ming army was easily defeated by hundreds of thousands of people's troops, and now the people's army has five provinces, and it is not a problem to expand the army by one million, and the three million Ming army cannot stop the one million people's army, especially these Ming troops have to be busy most of the time, and the combat effectiveness of such a Ming army is definitely not as good as Li Chengliang's army.

Just when the wealthy gentry and merchants in various places under the rule of the Ming Dynasty could not sleep well, the agents of the People's Army quietly began to contact some of the wealthy gentry and businessmen who formed an escort team.

The wealthy gentry and businessmen contacted by the agents were carefully selected, and they did not touch anyone who was loyal to the Ming Court, and it was best to have a lot of wealth in the family and were afraid of death.

If the People's Army is not strong, no matter how much it scares the other side, it will be difficult to get it to surrender.

"Our People's Army is very strong, millions of Ming troops were easily defeated by our People's Army, and now the Ming Court is dying, as long as you surrender to our People's Army, and when the People's Army comes, your family can save your life, and our People's Army will not take any of your wealth, if you are not willing to surrender, then you will wait for death."

"I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender, I am willing to obey the orders of the People's Army, telling me to go west and never dare to go east."

The broken ships of the Ming Court are about to sink, and a chance to survive and save their family fortune is in front of them, and those who are afraid of death will not let it go, and they all want to escape from this broken ship before the ship sinks, and the people who are willing to sink with the ship are a minority after all.

As long as the agents persuade a wealthy merchant to surrender, they can persuade more wealthy merchants through this wealthy merchant, after all, the wealthy gentleman and merchant are all connected with each other and know each other better.

In fact, the gentry and businessmen only need to think carefully to know how dangerous the situation of the Ming court is now, the Ming court can even give a part of the military power to the gentry and businessmen, which could not happen before, the Ming court has been unable to resist the people's army, so it came up with such a strategy that has a great hidden danger to the Ming court.