Qingliu Pass.

"Yingguo Gong is nine thousand nine hundred years old!"

Tan Sheng, a Chuzhou militiaman who stopped the car and was standing on the side of the road, looked at the giant elephant in the distance, waved his right hand excitedly and shouted.

The golden image was the god in his eyes......

The gods who gave him everything.

As an original tenant, in the past, his family of five cultivated 15 acres of land, and needed to hand over more than 70% of the harvest to local officials and landlords every year, and the rest even had a dry meal. If the harvest is not good, the family has to rely on wild vegetables and even grass roots and bark to get by, and in order to pay taxes, they have to borrow usury, that is, they can occasionally do some odd jobs to subsidize the family by relying on Nanjing, but they will not die of hunger all year round.

And for generations.

He was like this for as long as he could remember, it was like this when he was his grandfather, it was like this when he was his father, and it was certainly like this when he arrived, and his son must have been like this.

There was no rush.

It's like being in a dark abyss, and you can't see a ray of light.

The days are like soaking in bitter water from generation to generation.

Generations have endured hunger and cold.

Even eating a piece of meat can become a beautiful memory that you will never forget for a long time.

However......

Ying Guogong is here.

His sky was suddenly full of sunshine.

The landlord who had taken at least sixty percent of his harvest every year had his house raided, and he still clearly remembered how the figure that once made him look up and fear walked through the street with his waist bent and shouting that he was guilty under the whipping of his former slaves.

The original corrupt officials are gone.

What kind of field endowment, Ding silver, conscription and silver, what kind of fire consumption, messy and excesses of taxes, it can be said that all the shackles that made him breathless are gone, and he can finally breathe freely. He no longer had to feed the parasites with his own blood and sweat, no longer had to eat bran and deliver food to others, and no longer had to shiver in the winter with his whole family in patched clothes.

The figure had given him everything he longed for, like a god he had prayed to again and again.

However......

Now others want to push him back into the abyss of the past.

He must defend his good days.

He must follow this figure, follow this savior, fight for himself and for his children and grandchildren, and although he is not a soldier in battle, he still finds a way to contribute to this great battle......

"You're a militiaman?"

The golden figure said.

"Return, Hui Yingguogong, the small one is the first Chuzhou militia, and the first brigade and two battalions support the front team."

Tan Sheng stammered.

As he spoke, he was about to kneel.

"Don't kneel, you don't have to kneel in the future except for the prince of heaven and earth, this Ming monarch is His Majesty the emperor of the capital, although Yang was framed by traitors for rebellion, but he asked himself to be loyal to His Majesty, if you kneel to me, wouldn't you give those traitors a handle!"

The voice said.

Tan Sheng was so frightened that he hurriedly got up.

"It's about to be harvested, go early and come back early, don't delay the wheat harvest!"

The voice said.

"Back to Yingguogong, the small one can walk fifty miles a day with a cart, and it will only take half a month to go back and forth to Fengyang, and the wheat harvest will not be delayed, and even if he comes back later, his parents, wives and children are all there, and they are enough. Ying Guogong led the army to Huaibei to kill the enemy, so that the small one continued to live a good life, and the small one should pick up the sword and gun together and go to the battlefield, but now it is just to send military supplies, it is nothing! ”

Tan Sheng said.

"Well, this battle is a war of the people, what you want to defend is not the emperor's country, what you want to defend is the good life of yourself and your descendants.

Take this! ”

The voice said.

Immediately afterwards, the golden figure lowered his head and stretched out his hand to the top of his head, but because the elephant was too tall, Tan Sheng would definitely not be able to reach it, but fortunately, his companion next to him supported him, and he grabbed the rope on the elephant's body to reach and take a silver coin......

Not money, to be exact.

It was a silver medal about one or two weights, with words carved on it, but he did not recognize it.

"Give each of them a piece!"

The voice said.

Immediately afterwards, someone came up with a box of these silver medals and handed them out to the other militiamen.

"This is for you as a memento."

Yang Xin looked at the militiamen who were looking through the silver medals and said.

It doesn't cost a lot of money.

In total, more than 100,000 militiamen were mobilized, more than 100,000 taels of silver, but they could really boost morale, and these militiamen were very important because he could not use the canal to transport supplies, after all, Yangzhou was controlled by the imperial court. Therefore, his material transportation can only take two roads, one is the Yuxi River, Chaohu Lake, Xiqi River, through the Dongfei River in Hefei water transport, this transportation line has just passed through the Luzhou Mansion and Fengyang Mansion hundreds of thousands of militia dredging for two months, basically can maintain stable navigation in this season.

It's just that the transportation volume is small.

After all, it is impossible to pass a large ship with hundreds of materials like a canal.

Before the birth of the Grand Canal, this important artery of north-south water transportation had a limited amount of water, that is, more than a dozen tons, and even when the water level was low, it had to be dragged by oxen, which could not carry the transportation volume similar to that of the Grand Canal.

Even dredging is useless.

The natural conditions are like this, and no amount of dredging can change this.

Therefore, this land transportation from Pukou to Fengyang is very important, although there is a part of the local military production capacity in the Fengyang Tunken Reclamation Area, but the real industrial base is still Nanjing. Although the Fengyang Reclamation Area can provide some grain, this reclamation area is not like Tianjin after all, and its own grain production is limited, so it cannot provide enough food for such a huge army.

Therefore, it can only be transported north from Nanjing.

It's all about the front team.

Nanjing, Ningguofu, Chuzhou, Hezhou, and even Zhaoyi City, all the militia that could be mobilized were mobilized, and more than 100,000 people pushed carts, pulled carts, and drove donkey carts to transport truckloads of grain and ammunition from Pukou to Fengyang. The militia in various parts of Fengyang were mobilized and were responsible for maintaining and repairing the roads along the way to ensure that this road, which is equivalent to the Daming National Highway, was unimpeded.

This is a real people's war.

No one complained, even these militiamen brought their own dry rations, they knew very well what this war meant, and they were just beginning to see the hope of a happy life, and they would do everything in their power to help Yang Dudu defeat the enemy......

Although the enemy is the army of the imperial court.

But it doesn't matter.

The purpose of this army is to restore the past, to bring them back to the misery of the past, then this is their enemy.

"In the future, you can take this and say to your children and grandchildren that it is you who have kept a good life for them, and you have your share in this victory, which you have pushed out with a cart."

Yang Xin said.

"Duke Xie Yingguo!"

Tan Sheng said excitedly.

"Don't thank me, you deserve it."

Yang Xin said.

After saying that, he urged the elephant again, and behind him, Tan Sheng solemnly found a twine, put it in the hole of the silver medal, and then hung it around his neck, and the other militiamen followed suit, they hung up the silver medal and pushed the cart again, and continued to move forward while talking to the soldiers on both sides.

"My lord, what the citizens want!"

Li Zicheng looked back at these people, then raised his head and said in a low voice.

This means something.

In fact, most of the officers in the Jingnan Army are already impure, they have followed Yingguo Gong to this point, it is impossible to go back to the past, and if they want to get rich, then they must let the road under their feet come to an end, but it is not yet time.

But to test Ying Guogong's thoughts, this can already be done.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's not what I want from the people, it's what I do is what the people want."

Yang Xinyi said rhetorically.

Li Zicheng hurriedly shut up, saying that Ying Guogong is still so loyal, such a loyal minister is respected, and it is obvious that he still needs to continue to work hard and strive to make this loyal minister embark on the road of anti-thief.

"When can this be the case in northern Shaanxi!"

Zhang Xianzhong said wistfully.

In fact, he just said that this guy had already married a wife during his stationing in Wuxi, and his wife's belly was big, and it was said that he had sent a letter to ask his father not to stop in northern Shaanxi at all, and to come directly to Jiangnan to follow him to enjoy happiness, and it is estimated that his father has already set off. There are many others like him, such as Luo Rucai also married a wife in Nanjing, these old bandits are not stupid, there is a good place like Jiangnan, who wants to go back to northern Shaanxi to eat wind and sand?

They all earn a good income......

Luo Rucai is a brigade commander, and his salary is twenty taels a month, not counting all kinds of subsidies, in fact, he can get more than five hundred taels a year, which is enough for the family to live a good life here, and they are all middle-level officers of the Jingnan Army, and the future can be said to be immeasurable, and it is impossible to think about returning to northern Shaanxi.

"It's coming!"

Yang Xin said.

These people have indeed lost the motivation to return to northern Shaanxi, but there are still a large part of the original Dangkou army who are still thinking about their hometown, such as Liu Guoneng who has always been thinking about going back to northern Shaanxi.

In addition, Li Jin also thought.

"When this battle is over, settle down in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I will take you back to northern Shaanxi, if the gentry in northern Shaanxi dare to resist at that time, this army of more than 100,000 in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be your backing."

Yang Xin said.

"But we have to go back to northern Shaanxi and go to the imperial court's territory, what if the imperial court doesn't let us go?"

Li Zicheng said cautiously.

"Whoever dares not to let go will destroy whom, whoever dares not to let go, we will directly fight the local tyrants and divide the fields in them, if they are not allowed to go, then we will fight the local tyrants all the way to northern Shaanxi, I want to see who has this kind of courage."

I am a man of my word, I promised to let the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang live a good life, so even if the emperor stops me, I will fulfill my promise, even if I disobey the holy decree, even if I go to war with the imperial court, I will also fulfill my promise since I promised you to take you to northern Shaanxi to let the villagers live a good life.

It's useless for anyone to stop it.

Whoever stands in the way destroys him.

People block and kill people, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha! ”

Yang Xin said.

"The subordinates swear to follow the lord to the death!"

The two thieves immediately saluted and shouted in unison.

(Two chapters, but the next chapter is late, it was originally written, I don't think it's good, rewrite, even my nephew comes on Saturday, and my son goes crazy with me, and my daughter has to ask for a computer, and I'm dizzy all day)

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