Chapter 340: The Second King of the Dao
After listening to Lin Chong's introduction, Zhu Hao nodded slightly, and then said:
"This king will go to various places to recruit troops in a few days, and the three of you will go with this king!"
"The recruited soldiers will be trained by the three of you, and these people will be the future soldiers of the three of you!"
Although Zhu Hao did not give the three people the actual position, the meaning of his words was already obvious, and the future was to let the three of them lead the troops independently.
The three of them understood the meaning of Zhu Hao's words, and their faces were full of joy, and they hurriedly bowed down and said:
"Your Highness Xie cultivates!"
Zhu Hao's hands floated for a moment, and then said:
"Get up!"
After Zhu Hao finished speaking, he ordered the attendant behind him to take a few people down to rest.
After the three of them were taken down, Zhu Hao explained the things in the house, said goodbye to Zi Yan, and took a team of guards the next day, as well as Xu Chu, Lin Chong, Dian Wei, and Gao Shun out of the capital.
After leaving the capital, Zhu Hao and his party went straight to the direction of Shaanxi, because during the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Shaanxi region was a disaster for ten years, starvation was everywhere, and people who died of hunger could be seen everywhere.
This is also the reason why the peasant uprisings in the later period mostly originated in Shaanxi.
Zhu Hao's purpose of going to Shaanxi to recruit troops this time was not only to recruit these hungry people and effectively prevent these people from rebelling in the later stage.
He also had an idea of using conscription to emigrate to the outside of the border on a large scale, promote ethnic integration, and essentially cure the hidden dangers of Liaodong.
Zhu Hao, who has the memory of two lifetimes, knows very well that the Liaodong region, which is basically a grassland now, will be the pillar area of grain production in the country in the future, and the potential of the black soil cannot be underestimated.
This is also why Zhu Hao dared to promise the soldiers of Liaodong and the way to reward meritorious deeds with land, in fact, he has long felt that the fertile black land in Liaodong is too wasteful for grazing.
Zhu Hao's group traveled all the way, and in about ten days, they entered the Jiazhou area in Shaanxi.
Zhu Hao's group of people had just stepped into Jiazhou for less than a day, and they encountered a strange thing.
On this day, Zhu Hao and others, because of the long-distance travel, were very tired, and were temporarily resting under the shade of the tree, so they jumped out, and a team of more than 100 people blocked the way.
Zhu Hao looked at this group of people, dressed in rags, holding sticks, hoes and other farm tools, and glanced at Xu Chu on the side, meaning that Xu Chu should not act rashly first.
Zhu Hao looked at this gang, who really didn't look like robbers blocking the way, shook his head slightly, and under the escort of Xu Chu and Dian Wei, he took a few steps forward, and asked:
"Who are you waiting for, and why are you blocking the way of this king?"
The big man at the head, with his shirt open and a palm-sized heart guard hair on his chest, didn't look like a good person, and when he heard Zhu Hao's question, the big man was not stunned at all, and said with a big grin:
"I opened this mountain, I planted this tree......"
The big man was halfway through speaking, and then turned back and asked the weak man behind him:
"Second brother, what's coming from behind, Lao Tzu forgot!"
The big man spoke, and without waiting for the weak man behind him to speak, he snorted:
"Oh, it's too troublesome!"
"Don't talk about it!"
"The kid in front, you leave the grain and silver to Lao Tzu, and you can get out!"
"Lao Tzu doesn't kill, just food and money!"
Zhu Hao was amused by this cute robber and asked:
"Do you know who this king is?"
The big man pursed his lips and said disdainfully:
"Lao Tzu doesn't care who you are, you are only a few dozen people, Lao Tzu has hundreds of people here, I don't want to suffer, hurry up and leave my belongings and get out!"
Zhu Hao listened to the arrogant words of this big man, but he was too lazy to part with him, waved his hand and said:
"Take it!"
After Zhu Hao finished speaking, he added:
"Remember not to hurt his life, this king still has something to ask him!"
Listening to Zhu Hao's words, Lin Chong, Dian Wei, and Gao Shun, who had just joined Zhu Hao's command, were eager to make meritorious contributions.
As the three generals made a move, the guards behind Zhu Hao also made a move.
After a rush to kill, these more than 100 hungry victims, where were Zhu Hao's men, the opponents of these well-trained escorts, except for some people who fled in all directions, the rest of them were all captured alive.
The big man who was the leader was brought to Zhu Hao, and Zhu Hao looked at him with a smile and said:
"This good man, are you still going to rob this king?"
The big man at the head saw that he and his brothers were captured, but he was also very single, and said with a stalk on his neck:
"Since Lao Tzu has fallen into your hands, if you want to kill, you will kill, if you want to chop, what do you say!"
"If you have any tricks, come on!"
"If Lao Tzu frowned, Lao Tzu would not be the second king of the green forest!"
Zhu Hao listened to the words of this self-proclaimed Wang Er, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said angrily:
"In front of this king, you still dare to call yourself Lao Tzu, and dare to have an unclean mouth?"
Zhu Hao said, glanced at Xu Chu on the side, and then said:
"Go!"
"Tell him the rules and tell him how to talk to this king!"
When Xu Chu heard this, he took two steps forward, kicked Wang Er to his knees, and then stretched out a big-eared thunderbolt and slapped it on Wang Er's face.
With the "Smack! At this time, he vaguely heard Xu Chu say:
"If you keep your mouth clean, if you dare to be disrespectful to Your Highness, you will be screwed off your head!"
"Humph!"
Wang Er finally came back to his senses, opened his mouth and scolded:
"Hey, you, you're ......"
"Smack!"
Before Wang Er's words were finished, Xu Chu slapped him again, this time Wang Er was honest, although he had no culture, he also knew that heroes don't suffer immediate losses.
In fact, Wang Er is lucky, if it weren't for Wang Er himself, he just said that his name was Wang Er, I'm afraid that Zhu Hao would have let him be executed as soon as he took a look.
After all, the Ming Prince, not everyone can be offended.
The reason why Zhu Hao just asked Xu Chu to teach Wang Er a lesson, instead of letting people kill him directly, was because Zhu Hao knew that Jiazhou, a person called Wang Er, was not an unknown person.
This Wang Er is the first generation leader of the peasant rebel army in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, named Wang Jiayin, and the first generation of King Gao Yingxiang in the later period, all of whom came from his account.
In the later period, Li Zicheng, the second-generation king who really invaded Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, was not even a general under his command, and this person was definitely the originator of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.
Although the name Wang Er is very common and common, but in the Jiazhou area, there are so many people gathered now, and Wang Er, who dares to block the road and rob, Zhu Hao believes that there is only one person, and there will be no second person.
One of the purposes of Zhu Hao's recruitment in Shaanxi this time was to eliminate these potential threats to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Hao thought that this second king was very useful for what he wanted to do later, so Zhu Hao had nowhere to kill the second king