Abatai and Wang Ke became mourning dogs.

After Changgou Town, a large area that was originally secretly controlled by the Wenxiang Sect was quickly controlled by the Cao Gang, and the soft and hard land theories of Luo Hu and others were fully implemented in Shandong.

Originally, he was inextricably linked with the Wenxiang Sect in private, and the squire clan in order to protect his whole family, but now for the greater good, he quickly changed his team, from a friend to an executioner who gave his life.

From Jining, Tai'an, Linqing, Dezhou, Longhu Battalion, Jingying, and Liao Dongzhi's mixed brigades, like a group of sleepless iron men, surrounded and intercepted Abatai and Wang Ke, stalking and fighting!

So, Abatai was faced with such a scene:

In the area that was originally the so-called soft land, those who were still devout before, learned of the implementation of the new policy, and everyone's taxes and profits were reduced by at least seventy percent, and they immediately broke out of the church! Who is Wang Ke? I don't know! I only know that Ning Yuanbo and his old man said that for those who have contributed to the extermination of thieves, no matter who they are, as long as they do something, even if it is just to report the news, there will be a reward! In this way, the believers who originally bowed their heads immediately changed from Wang Ke's eyes to the eyes and ears of the imperial court.

This happened to answer Luo Hu's words, the first step is to be blind and clear Wang Ke's sect members and eyeliner!

There is no eyeliner, no ventilation. Abatai could only rely on force to ram forward. However, Li Shouhan had already rewarded the armies and various local armed people in the Ming Dynasty, and for Abatai's subordinates, whether it was capturing and beheading alive, seizing mules and horses, weapons, or providing intelligence, they could all be rewarded by the Nanyue Army! In addition to material benefits, there is also a coveted reward, that is, according to different military merits, you can be issued a confession, no matter what social role you have before. From the old boy who failed to study and failed to pass the academic examination, to the country ranger, and even the horse thieves and bandits who relied on robbery for a living, with this document, they were at least seven or eight officials in the imperial court system.

You must know that the clan power in the northwest of Shandong, southwest Lu and Zhili in Gyeonggi is also relatively strong, and there are a lot of villages, forts, and docks! These localities are armed and the township warriors are trained. Even horse thieves are unlikely to face the Qing army of Abatai, but it is their forte to beat sticks, smash black bricks, and steal camps and sentinels. In addition, it can hold on, at most two days, and the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion Brigade, which is in hot pursuit, will arrive!

For such a movement war, or rather, a wandering war. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, if the peasant armies such as Chuang Ying, Cao Ying, and Xiying were embarrassed to say that they were the first, then it is estimated that no one would dare to say that they could rank in front of them.

After Changgou Town, Luo Hu and Wang Long can be regarded as making a fortune! Not only did he send a large amount of grain and grass to the rebels in Kaifeng, but he also used the captured thousands of mules and horses to turn all the men and horses into horse teams.

In this way, this dragon and tiger are like fish in water, galloping across the boundless Luxi Plain!

Every time he catches up with the team of Liao thieves, he just outflanks him from afar. First, the original team of horses rushed to the front and fired with their horses. The dense projectiles are both lethal and intimidating for the brigade on the march. Afterwards. It was the newly upgraded horse team that began to attack the Liao thief's team, dividing and outflanking. Use sabers and spears to teach those bandits and new coats how to behave and how to recognize their ancestors!

Not only did they have a powerful cavalry mobile team behind them to follow and pursue in parallel, but Rao Yu Beile and Sect Leader Wang also had to worry about the blocking team that suddenly came out in front.

The team retreating north had just passed through Tai'an, and was bumped into Li Huayu's eastern troops who were ambushed from the south of Jinan City! Under Lu Mahong's personal sword to supervise the battle, those Dongfan soldiers who were born in the mountains and forests of Taiwan and were more brave and fierce than the Liaodong Tartars. Braving the snowflakes and wielding knives and guns, he completely cut off the bandit team from the Liao thieves, so that the troops of the Second Town, the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and the Beijing Battalion, who came day and night, were all wiped out.

More than 20,000 bandits were driven to Jiaodong and escorted to the sea ship, and went to various places in Nanzhong to work as coolies. "Forgiveness or forgiveness". It was Li Huayu who gave them treatment.

With a knife on the left and an axe on the right, Abatai, who was originally known as tens of thousands of people, quickly fell apart and returned to the scale of more than 1,000 people. Among them, there are no more than 200 real slaves, hundreds of his clothed slaves, and dozens of Wang Ke's cronies.

The hungry wolf in the past has now turned into a little mouse, and after the news spread, all kinds of armed forces in Shandong became as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, who were beaten by Abatai and fled with wolves that day, came back with the remnants of the remnants of the horses, threatening to take revenge and make meritorious contributions. The clans and clans in various places, and even horse thieves and bandits, also targeted the more than 1,000 people in Abatai.

At this time, if you don't beat the water dogs, and don't seek that huge fame and wealth for yourself and your descendants, you are fools!

Behind this mess of people, Li Huayu quietly realized his father's strategic purpose.

Chuangying and Cao Ying were in front, and once they found out that the wealthy gentry were dissatisfied with the new policy of paying grain and reducing rent and interest as an errand, they immediately began to collect his relevant charges to see if Chongzhen's three-killing policy could be used on his head. It really didn't work, so he consciously drove Abatai to the towns where the big families were, if Abatai could attack the dock forts of the big households, it would naturally be the best.

Then the Shenji Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion were killed, and for such a person who collaborated with the enemy and was unfavorable to the enemy, he carried out the emperor's will.

The most oily and water-oriented, who was also the backbone of a nearby squire, broke through the fort, and according to the prior agreement, after the Longhu camp and the Beijing camp were cordially and friendly to share the spoils, they distributed all kinds of food and clothing to the tenants and poor people in the vicinity. followed by the promotion of Ning Yuanbo's new policy.

"Lao Tzu's yamen only came in standing, not stood out! What we are implementing is the new policy that Uncle Ning Yuan has carried out in various parts of Shandong by the will of the Holy Lord, and whoever dares not to send grain and who dares to oppose rent and interest reduction is disrespectful. ”

In the face of the poor people in quail clothes, groups of people knelt on both sides of the marching army column with the food and clothes they distributed, and shouted with tears on both sides of the army column with tears on their faces.

Behind Kyokei. The soldiers and horses of the second town marched in great strides along the official road leading to Gyeonggi and Liaodong. The Nanyue Army that remained in Shandong only left the Fourth Mixed Brigade and two garrison brigades led by Liao Dongzhi. However, their main task is not to fight against thieves, but to guard.

After the gentry forces in various places were "thieves", the power vacuum below the county level left over was quickly occupied by the Nanyue Army.

From Rizhao and other places Grange, Takashi prevailing firms. Even the manpower drawn from the Shanghai Trade Zone quietly took advantage of the opportunity of the temporary weakening of the clan power in various places to gather families and villages because of the defense against slaves and bandits crossing the border, and quickly entered the towns and villages in various places.

After that, in the name of the Nanyue Army, various local armed forces were cleaned up and reorganized, and those who did not listen to the dispatch and did not obey the orders were not allowed to be deducted with the hat of the remnants of the Liao thieves.

With this skillful means, the Nanyue Army began to build political power in Shandong from south to north and from east to west.

The general procedure is as follows: first, the army sweeps. After that, the militia cleared the township, and then established and maintained the membership quota wrongly, which was to establish a grassroots organization to consolidate. After these three axes are completed, the officials in the county or state town will find that their decrees are no longer out of the city gates.

"At the beginning of spring next year, this official will promote cotton planting in various parts of Shandong, and carry out trial planting of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops!"

In the city of Jinan. Li Huayu vigorously announced his strategic plan to the civil and military officials who had come from all over the country to report their merits.

After Shouhan led the Nanyue army in Shandong for the second time, he received almost half of Shandong's land from King De and other clans. The Southern Yue Army promoted the cultivation of cotton and wheat on a large scale everywhere.

After several years of hard work, Shandong has become the granary and cotton field of the Southern Guangdong Army in Jiangbei. Therefore, when Shandong became the target of Abatai's plunder, and at the same time used Shandong to mobilize and attract the troops of the Nanyue army, he clearly knew the purpose of the enemy's army, but he responded to the sentence in the art of war. "Whoever attacks the enemy will be saved!"

The officials are also very excited, if the cotton and wheat affairs are carried out next year, there will inevitably be no hungry people in Shandong, and everyone's evaluation will be excellent if not excellent. Moreover, there is a large amount of food. If there is a matter of the official gentry paying the grain as an errand, it is inevitable that all kinds of registered gentlemen and scholars will also buy some face. Everyone's fanny pack has to be made bigger, otherwise it won't fit that many silver dollars!

Officials in various localities have expressed their approval of the strategy of experimenting with cotton and wheat as the mainstay, and sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and other crops from other countries. The officials of the Ming Dynasty have no other skills, but they have the ability to cross the river by feeling the stones, and even wait for others to cross the river before going into the water. A few years ago, when Yang He, Hong Chengchou, Zhang Yixian and others governed Shaanxi, in order to make achievements, Zhang Yixian forcibly promoted sweet potatoes and white potatoes in Shaanxi, but the result was a popular uprising. No official wants to make trouble on his own one-third of an acre of land in order to fight for political achievements.

(In countless time-traveling novels, the pig's feet are the weapon of the food problem, the high-yielding drought-tolerant crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, which are popularized among farmers, and it is very difficult to adapt to domestication.) If there are no corresponding varieties that adapt to the local geography and climate, even if these crops are found and reluctantly planted, the yield will not achieve satisfactory results.

In fact, sweet potatoes and other high-yield crops were introduced from Luzon by the father and son surnamed Chen in Fujian during the Wanli period, and it took decades to complete the promotion in Fujian, Guangdong and other places, and it was not until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that it was widely popularized in northern China.

There are no good seeds, sweet potatoes and corn, etc., which are not as advantageous as everyone thinks. Starting from Xu Guangqi, in order to make sweet potatoes and other seedlings survive in the north, he has worked hard for decades. The seedling raising technology of a sweet potato alone has kept Xu Ge busy for several years, and by the way, the warm cellar seedling raising technology he discovered is still in use today.

And corn is even more tragic. It took a hundred years for corn to be recognized and popularized in the north. The sentence in the famous poem "On the Songhua River", "There are soybean sorghum all over the mountains", but it describes the soybean sorghum all over the mountains, and there is no mention of corn at all. Zhang Zuolin is in charge of Northeast affairs, the highest yield of corn per mu in Northeast China is 70 kilograms, and the lowest is 30 kilograms. The average yield per mu is 50 kg.

Moreover, these crops have not taken into account factors such as seed degradation, which will directly lead to reduced yields and no harvests! ）

In Taiwan, Li Huayu, who has engaged in land reclamation and the promotion of crop planting. Naturally, he knew the difficulties involved, and in addition to ordering people to go south on the sea ship escorting the officials and slaves to organize the good hands who are good at planting sweet potatoes and corn to go north to act as technical guides, he also ordered Taiwan to transport more sweet potato seedlings and corn seeds to prepare for next year's spring ploughing.

Liao Dongzhi and Tan Chery, Luo Zuming, Luo Hu, Wang Long and others naturally didn't care much about this matter in Jinan City, they just aimed at the Abatai Department in front of them.

Just like a few eight-pound tanuki playing with a dying little mouse, there is already a tacit understanding between the various armies. As long as he wants to attack the gentry in a certain place, he will quietly relax his vigilance in that direction, play a beggar-thy-neighbor, and move the trouble to Jiangdong.

Then, the Beijing camp and the Longhu camp got the floating wealth, and the Nanyue army represented by Liao Dongzhi quietly grasped the power below the county level in this area, and at the same time popularized the policy of paying grain and reducing rent and interest on behalf of the officials and gentry.

However, this also sowed the seeds of hatred in the minds of the Shandong gentry and scholars, the so-called cutting off people's financial routes. Such as killing parents. In the future, it brought huge trouble to the Nanyue Army and the Beijing camp. This is a later story, so I won't press the table for the time being.

The war situation and political situation in Shandong are changing rapidly at a speed that people can see with the naked eye, and the court bigwigs, civil and military officials, and noble eunuchs in Beijing naturally see it. Then there are bursts of political tide quietly brewing.

Soon, under the deliberate promotion of the cabinet bigwigs, the actions of Li Shouhan and his son in Shandong were targeted. An impeachment was quickly brewed among the civilian public. In this matter, for various purposes and considerations that can be seen and not seen. From Emperor Chongzhen to Xiangcheng Bo and other nobles, as well as several great eunuchs, they pretended not to see it, and let them connect in the court, in the market, and in the study.

If Emperor Chongzhen intends to use the mouths and pens of civil officials to beat Li Shouhan, who is now in high prestige and has tens of thousands of heroes in the Gyeonggi region, the purpose of Li Guozhen, the prince of Xiangcheng, is even more naked.

In the study of Xiangcheng Bofu. The eighth grandson of Xiangcheng Bo was receiving a guest.

"Sir, have you ever read all these documents and letters sent by Uncle Ning Yuan?"

Seeing a guest with a fairy wind and bones put down the letters on the desk, and quietly wiped the sweat on his forehead and sideburns by holding the teacup and drinking tea, Li Guozhen sneered in his heart. "Ning Yuanbo won a hundred battles on the battlefield. But where did he know about the human heart and ghost domain in this court? That's good! These letters and documents he sent were the best help for Benber to collect his wings! ”

The person who came was the uncle of the squire surnamed Meng in Changgou Town, the one who is now serving as the governor, and the staff of the mansion set up by the Beijing Division.

learned that the belongings of his hometown were confiscated by Ning Yuanbo's lawless son and a group of even more lawless children of the Jingying nobles, not only the property and houses were wiped out, but the fields were also taken back by those who had no conscience. Is this worth it? At that moment, the governor ordered the people of the Jingzhong Mansion to inquire about the situation of the DPRK and China, and prepared to impeach the soldiers of the Beijing camp for slandering good people as thieves, plundering villages and towns, and slaughtering good people.

As for Li Shouhan, there is a suitable hat ready for him, impeaching him for putting the cart before the horse in Shandong and fighting for wheat fields.

For the sake of selfish interests, he wantonly planted cotton in Shandong, putting the cart before the horse and acting in the opposite direction, causing grain prices to remain high in Shandong. Then they wantonly looted the people's fat and people's ointment, and the foundation of the country was destroyed.

Only by abolishing Ning Yuanbo's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Shandong, and abolishing the so-called evil government of officials and gentry as errands and paying grain, can the people's hearts be stable, Shandong can be stable, and the Ming Dynasty can be prosperous!

However, if you want to impeach Jingying, you must first pass the level of honorable people in the DPRK! Although this group of gentlemen in Jingying is not a climate, the little monkey is not a weapon, but it is standing in the Buddha's light. The intricate Xungui group behind them has vaguely turned over in recent years.

Therefore, Lord Meng must carefully send someone to Xiangcheng Bo to find out the details.

Unexpectedly, without explaining the intention, he was ordered by Xiangcheng Bo to move out the copy of the document sent by Ning Yuanbo, and invited the person to see it himself!

Your accusation against the soldiers of the Beijing camp is not established at all! Not only is it reasonable for the soldiers of the Beijing camp to exterminate your stockade, but it is your position as a governor, whether you can do it or not, is also one of the two theories!

"Recently, there have been rumors that the emperor learned that some people in the Shandong noble clan openly collaborated with slaves and thieves and resisted the official army, and he was very angry, and was preparing to issue a decree to raze the three clans. Mr. should quickly inform your owner and make some preparations as soon as possible! ”

Anyway, Jingying has already wiped out the Meng clan in Changgou Town, and all kinds of relatives are also clear. If Emperor Chongzhen plans to kill someone, he just needs a holy decree to go down and complete the formalities! Nothing else is needed at all.

Originally, I came to explore whether I could sue Li Shouhan for his black state, but now not only can I not sue him, but my own life is also in danger, how can this work?

"Uncle is not knowing, that Changgou Meng, although the same Yasheng Miao descendant, but with the Dong family relatives for a long time, and this generation is rampant in the township, many injustice, as early as the time when the father and ancestor of the Dong family were alive, they opened the ancestral hall with the Ming Yasheng Mansion, out of the group of this generation. This person is no longer my Meng clan! ”

It is worthy of being in Beijing for a long time, haunting various mansions, and practicing a vigilant ability to adapt to the situation, and in a few words, the relationship between his owner and the Changgou Meng family was clearly torn apart. For such a development, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, has long been expected.

"Really? This is a lonely and unheard of by Benber. However, I also want to ask Mr. Meng to inform Master Meng on his behalf, and ask him to come by letter and inform Benbo of this joint. In the future, if Ning Yuanbo adheres to His Majesty's will to investigate the relevant people, Ben Bo will have something to say. ”

This is a blatant prescription for Lord Meng. You have to hurry up and complete the relevant procedures, and then take out the credentials, as for me here, you can do it yourself. Anyway, if you can't satisfy my thoughts and desires, in the future, if Ning Yuanbo's second pole really sends you to Yunyang City to invite you to eat a bowl of bandao noodles, don't blame me for not rescuing you beforehand!

From the Xiangcheng Bofu was served tea to the guests, the staff hurriedly found a pair of pen and paper in the teahouse next to the road to write the letter, and ordered people to go out of the capital to their hometown in the face of the increasingly strong north wind, and contact the Yasheng Mansion in Zou County to report all kinds of documents quickly.

In addition to these, a more urgent letter was sent to Lord Meng one after another.

Soon, a letter with extremely flattering and shameless words was sent to Xiangchengbo with a long gift list.

On the head of the gift list was written six words of Mu Enxiao under the door. (To be continued......)