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Looking at Chen Tianhua's iron gate of Jiqingwei, one of the trophies transported from Hong Kong Island to Hue by speedboat, Shouhan clearly saw the smug smile from between the lines of the report document.

However, unlike several other generals who led troops, the ruthlessness of Chen Tianhua's methods was also jaw-dropping.

All the adult descendants of the direct descendants of the Deng family were beheaded, and the remaining four families, according to the map, according to the list of five major rewards confiscated from the Deng family that day, asked the remaining four families to hand over the personnel involved in the interception of the South Central Army.

In the report, Chen Tianhua proposed this advice to Shouhan:

For this group of people, either all of them were beheaded, or they were sent to the mines and forest farms to do hard labor, in short, they could not be so cheap. We must set an example to come out, and those who dare to confront our army will not end well!

This guy! What a ruthless method! His construction can't help but remind Shouhan of the famous shaved head, and the eight kings who have been scolded by later generations for three or four hundred years, all of which are famous for their slaughter.

"It's useless to kill more, but since this generation has offended our army. They must not be allowed to go unpunished. With the commander of the Northern Route Army, Chen Tianhua, the battalion office, will report the roster and number of this generation, and the sailor will take over and distribute this generation to the land of Xinna! ”

Dropping the pen in his hand and looking at the few lines of words on the paperwork, Shouhan was quite satisfied.

The dispatch of these thousands of people (from Ding Zhuang to the old and weak women and children) to the ten states is the proud work of the Shouhan. In this way, the ten states that have recently been roughly surveyed and mapped. (Oh, and the area of Australia that we are familiar with, and as one of the bargaining chips in the negotiations, the Dutch transferred this land to the South Central Army.) It became a place used by the South Central Army to distribute this group of criminals. Here, it was named ten states by Shouhan very undisciplinedly, which probably means another state outside of Kyushu.

"It's time to let the babies of the practice fleet go in the direction of the ten states!" Staring at the newly made outline map of the ten states on the wall, looking at the huge map that occupied almost an entire wall, thinking about the land that would later appear as a country that was called a country riding on the back of a sheep and a country sitting on a minecart, and the large amount of wheat and wool produced on this land, as well as the aborigines such as jellyfish, poisonous snakes, poisonous spiders, bay crocodiles, and great white sharks living in this land. Shouhan felt more and more that it was correct and wise to send the Five Great Families and similar people to this land in the future!

Ten days later. The twenty ships of the training fleet set sail for Hong Kong Island, where they were to receive thousands of exiles handed over to them by the Northern Route Army, and then escort them to the Ten Prefectures to settle down and build a simple port there. and migrant settlements. For the sake of security and the livelihood of this group of people. The South China Army will issue them with self-defense weapons of the same standard as those of the various tunpuaries. Simple copper cannons, small franc machines, arquebuses, as for ordinary ones such as knives and spears. It is also a common equipment. Along with it, there are also many production tools such as wrought iron and agricultural tools made of nine-turn steel.

These people were not only exiles, but also pioneers.

Chu Tianlei, the commander of the practice fleet, naturally would not do any trivial and complicated things like an ordinary junior officer, and after he and Chen Tianhua explained clearly to their respective subordinates, they sat aside to drink tea and talk, and naturally had competent subordinates to handle the delivery of materials and personnel.

"Brother Chu, please!"

A small teacup was filled with hot tea, and Chen Tianhua gestured to Chu Tianlei to use tea.

"Good!"

Chu Tianlei took a sip, and an image suddenly crashed into his eyes, but he had never seen it before.

Standing behind Chen Tianhua's side, a big man outside of several personal soldiers, although he stood with his hands down, he was still full of murderous and majestic.

"Who is this?"

Chu Tianlei pointed his finger at the man who was carrying a four-foot wood-chopping knife on his back and asked Chen Tianhua a question.

"Winter solstice, come over and see General Chu."

Beckoning Liao Dongzhi to come over and greet Chu Tianlei, Chen Tianhua introduced Liao Dongzhi's origin to Chu Tianlei with some pride.

"Brother Liao is a good man, and he was the first to raise the banner of anti-grain and anti-tax in eastern Guangdong. Later, with the Liao family as the backbone, it once had nearly 10,000 soldiers, but unfortunately the good and the bad were uneven, and they were soon besieged by the local officials and regiments in Guangdong, and their subordinates were scattered. The officers and regiments pursued them all the way, but fortunately they met our army on the ground in Chaozhou. ”

"General Meng did not give up, contained the winter solstice, and later gave the winter solstice food and weapons, and sent more than 100 people to help the winter solstice re-gather his subordinates and reorganize the battalion, the winter solstice now has two thousand men and horses, all of which are used in the equipment of the Nanzhong army, trained by the instructor sent by the general! Fighting with the general's direct subordinates is already equal in combat effectiveness! ”

Chen Chu and the others knew very well in their hearts that Liao Dongzhi's team was now a peripheral force belonging to the Nanzhong Army, and there were no less than ten teams with a similar status to him in Guangdong, not to mention those teams that still maintained relative independence in name, but received training and funding from the Nanzhong Army, such as Wu Liuqi's regimental training. These people are all included in the power that can be used.

Once necessary, Shouhan issued an order, and within a few days, at least 100 cities in Guangdong should change their flags.

"Brother Chu, why did you go to sea this time? Is the war not going well in Xu Huanshan of the right flank fleet? Chen Tianhua is half concerned, half selfish. He was anxious to know what the situation was in Guangxi, and how did Xu Huanshan, who had also accepted the task of disrupting Guangxi, doing?

"Which passage will you listen to?

Chu Tianlei slyly blinked his little eyes that were a little blurred by the sea breeze, and deliberately teased his comrade.

"Less wordy! Hurry up! The military briefing is not very clear. You guy goes everywhere, transporting supplies and grass, and the news is the most well-informed, hurry up! If there is anything inconvenient for him, I can go west to help him. ”

Xu Huanshan's actions in Guangxi are much more smooth than Chen Tianhua's.

What propaganda envoys, pacification envoys, Tu Governors, and Tu Zhi County all over Guangxi, Xu Huanshan, the tiger, is not polite at all. One by one, the attacks passed. Those leaders of all ethnic groups who served as local officials in Guangxi since the Song Dynasty's Di Qing pacified the battle of Nong Zhiguang and implemented the feudal rule of the territorial system were unlucky.

The hatred accumulated in the past against the enemy made them watch Xu Huanshan break through the so-called impregnable fortresses and official villages with artillery fire, drag out the majestic toasts in the past, and execute them in front of the slaves.

After that, Xu Huanshan and Chen Tianhua had the same thing.

First, all kinds of debts and personal dependencies were declared null and void. Those who served the officers and soldiers were free, and they could share the land, plough oxen, iron ploughs, hoes, and buy all kinds of luxury goods and daily necessities in their eyes in the past at unimaginably low prices.

Then it is to popularize the land system of the South China Army in various places. If there is a shortage of land, Xu Huanshan is very generous to allocate the land of the next target in advance to those who are willing to act as a leading party for the South Central Army.

The last trick is to draw the bottom of the kettle.

Xu Huanshan not only asked Shouhan to send the village chief to carry out grassroots administrative affairs, but also asked for teachers and doctors to be sent. In those backward villages, culture was popularized among the villagers. Promote literacy and reading, send medicine to hospitals, and reduce the high mortality rate, at the same time. The concept of cleanliness and hygiene is introduced in the village. Come with all three. It is the caravan of the Han Yuan firm. These people used all kinds of daily necessities to buy all kinds of mountain goods in the hands of the villagers, and put forward the prices of the varieties of the purchased goods in various places. The villagers found that it was more than a few fingers worth buying from the toast master before!

Time. The left and right river basins are surging, what Cen family, settle down, all kinds of local officials have been awarded. Moreover, Xu Huanshan's troops not only did not decrease, but continued to expand and expand. Surrounded by more and more soldiers, Xu Huanshan suddenly found that he would either go to Nanning and Guilin in Guangxi, or go west to fight Yunnan. Therefore, we had to hold down the momentum of our subordinates' eagerness to try, and let the ships that had already swelled up and not talk like talk battalion by battalion to transport the ships that came to transport supplies back to the Nanzhong region, or send them to the Kowloon River, Chao Phraya River and other places for reclamation, or to other places, in short, gradually digest them.

"Alas! Unexpectedly, the mountain looks rough and leafy, but the battle is so delicate! "Seeing that my colleagues are so handy, in just a few months, I will start half of Guangxi, which is far above myself. Compared with the two routes, it seems that the Northern Route Army is about to fall behind the Western Route Army!

"It can't be compared! Then Guangxi is all local officials, Huzi just needs to be like Li Kui, pick up the board axe and cut it off! Anyway, the uncles in the provincial city will think that it is a fire between the toasts, and you are different here! All kinds of human relationships, what kind of friendship, hometown, relatives, same clan, same clan, intertwined, like a muddy pond, you are not swallowed by this muddy pond is good! ”

That being said, how can a competitive person like Chen Tianhua accept this reality?

"Don't panic, there is a chance for you to make meritorious contributions!" Chu Tianlei had a hint of mystery on his face, he leaned over to Chen Tianhua's side, "I have a feeling, the lord is planning a big move right now, every day he is there to supervise and raise food and salary, constantly calculating the capacity of the sailors, the workers in the shipyard are working overtime to build ships, and the sailors recruited and recruited from everywhere have learned the official language and simple calculations after training in the camp of Qiongzhou Mansion, and after mastering the essentials of operation, they were sent to my practice fleet to conduct practical operations at sea and familiarize themselves with the ships in their hands at sea." Think about it, if it weren't for the big action of the lord, would he be so attentive to urging? Right now, on this sea, in this Nanzhong, including Tianzhu in the distance, who is the opponent of our Nanzhong Army? ”

The eyes of the two met in the air, and they both saw the meaning hidden deep in their hearts from each other's eyes, and they knew each other.

Chen Tianhua ordered the soldiers on duty outside the house to fetch the newspaper they had collected in the past few days, and the two of them read it carefully.

Since the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming court can be said to have intensified internal and external troubles.

On the fifth day of the first month of February, the Shaanxi peasant army captured Xingshan and killed Liu Dingguo of Zhixian County. On the 15th, Qutang was lowered. On February 21, he captured Kuizhou Prefecture (present-day Wanyuan, Xuanhan, Daxian, the area east of Liangping and Jianshi County, Hubei) and Daning, and besieged Taiping. Because he met Qin Liangyu, a female general who was appointed as the chief soldier of Shizhu and was appointed as the chief soldier, he led the famous Ma family white pole soldiers to block the path of the peasant army's advance, and had no choice but to do so. In March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the old Hui Hui and other battalions of volunteers entered Qinzhou from Yangpingguan (now northwest of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province), returned to Shaanxi, and joined Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others who had returned to Shaanxi in advance.

In that year, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces did not rain from August to April of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the red land was thousands of miles, the people were hungry, and people were cannibalistic. It created a great opportunity for the peasant armies to expand their strength, and the various units of the Ming army, which had entered and suppressed the peasant army, used another magic weapon for promoting officials and making a fortune -- killing good people and risking meritorious service. From another angle, it helped the peasant army to expand its power.

And just when Chen Tianhua began to uproot the soil fence of the five major families. The peasant army Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng ushered in the first crisis in their lives, the famous siege of the Carriage Gorge. The mountains here are steep on all sides, the canyon is easy to enter and difficult to exit, and the officers and soldiers have blocked the roads everywhere. Coincidentally, it was raining at Che Gorge, which is located in the Han River basin. It's half a month. There is nowhere to raise food and grass. There is nowhere to find firewood and grass. Even the horses in the army were slaughtered, and in desperation, the peasant army also came up with their life-saving tricks. with heavy gold jewelry. Come buy a way out!

Under the planning of Li Zicheng's adviser Gu Junen, the various units of the peasant army gathered heavy treasures and went separately to bribe Chen Qiyu, who was then the governor of the five provinces, and the people around him, claiming that as long as their lives were safe, they were willing to lay down their weapons and go home to farm, or accept Zhao'an.

With the help of the yellow gold, the silver with white flowers, the white and dazzling beads, and the green jade and emeralds that can drip water, Governor Chen agreed to accept the surrender of the peasant army, on the grounds that they were all innocent, confused and misguided, and that God had the virtue of a good life, and that he would always give people a way out.

As a result, Governor Chen's eyes fell to the ground due to the subsequent development. Soon after leaving the carriage gorge, receiving the food and grass supplies provided by the officials and soldiers, and after eating and drinking enough to recover their bodies, the peasant army killed the installed officers in each team with hidden daggers, short knives and other weapons, looted the armor staff storehouses in the cities along the way, and raised the banner of rebellion again.

And the Governor Chen lost his official position and life because of this incident not long after. The vacated post of governor of the five provinces was replaced by Hong Chengchou, the governor of the trilateral who was a firm advocate of suppressing thieves, in the capacity of the secretary of the military department. He was responsible for the military affairs of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Chu, Henan, and Sichuan provinces.

This is the case in the Central Plains, and the Northland is even more erosive. Yellow Wolf, the chief of Jiannu in Liaodong, in order to incorporate the Mongol tribes of Southern Mongolia into his own system, sent troops to the west to conquer Chahar for the second time. On the way back to the division, when passing through the Xuanda region, in the name of disturbing the territory of the Ming border generals, killing their people, and hiding the fugitives, they attacked and plundered the Xuanda region in four ways. At that time, many castles along the border were lost, and the troops plundered Datong and captured the victorious fort. The Beijing division was shaken, and the edict ordered the chief soldier Chen Hongfan to guard Juyong, and the governor Ding Kuichu and others to guard Bauhinia and Yanmen. Lingqiu, Baoan Prefecture and other places fell one after another, and officials from all over the country died in the line of duty.

"Damn! This Jiannu clearly regarded Xuandae, Gyeonggi and other places as their granaries and money bags, and came to grab them from time to time, get something back to their thieves' den to enjoy, and come to rob it again after fattening! Chu Tianlei dropped the newspaper in his hand, a little indignant.

"Brother Chu, have you noticed it, it's a bit strange here!" Chen Tianhua's white skin showed a touch of red slightly, but the soldiers around him were a little shuddered when they saw this look, and Chen Tianhua had such a look on his face, that is, he wanted to kill someone in his heart! It's just that everyone doesn't know who he's going to kill at the moment.

"Since the first time Jiannu came to Beijing in the second year of Chongzhen, the world was in turmoil, and the displaced people in Shaanxi rose up, and they were scattered in various places. In the past few years, they have been seen in all provinces of the Central Plains, Sichuan, Hubei and other places. But this time, surrounded in the Carriage Gorge, it was about to be wiped out, why did Jiannu, who was in the north and merged with the Mongolian Dazihuo, suddenly attack Xuanda with an army that had just finished the battle? How is this so coincidental? ”

The two couldn't help but fall into deep thought, the peasant army attacked the provinces, and consumed the manpower, material and financial resources of the Ming Dynasty internally, so that the already stretched financial resources of the Ming Dynasty were consumed even more by the army that was unable to kill the enemy and disturb the people, and was even more powerless to deal with the Jiannu outside the northern pass and the Mongols conquered by Jiannu, and Jiannu was about to be wiped out when the peasant army was about to be wiped out, and did not hesitate to send troops to the Xuanda region at any cost, attacking the hinterland of the Ming court, forcing the main force of the official army to go north to deal with Jiannu, and then reducing the pressure on the peasant army. Before the main force of the official army arrived, Jiannu had already made a big profit in the Xuanda area and left. Such an abacus, first, helped the allies in the actual sense, second, increased their own economic strength and war potential, and thirdly, achieved the goal of weakening the strength of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone!

"It seems that among the Jiannu, there are masters! Brother Chen, if you and I meet Jiannu in the future in the future, you must be careful, don't be careless of their tricks! ”

Three days later, Chu Tianlei's fleet sailed south from Hong Kong Island and escorted more than 3,000 exiles to the Ten Prefectures. It will be the new home of these people.

Not long after Chu Tianlei left, another boat came with a messenger.

"Check! Chen Tianhua, the former commander of the North Route Army and the head of the camp office, slaughtered too much in the suppression of bandits in Xin'an County, and after agreement, it was decided to demote Chen Tianhua by two levels and stay in office! I hope that Chen must be guilty of meritorious service. ”

After the messenger finished reading this official document, he winked at Chen Tianhua with some urgency.

"Lord Chen, my lord has something to say, please come back to Hue with me, he has something to tell you." (To be continued......)