Chapter 488: Pandering to the Divine Will

Hanzi talked about things, and at the same time said in a high-profile manner that he would not be greedy for the food and salary used by the Moxi court to raise soldiers, and he would do his best to bring out a brave and warlike mountain navy.

The emperor hated the civil officials and military generals who were greedy for ink and had no choice, so he was of course happy to see Hanzi with such an attitude.

Chongzhen knew that Huang Han would arrive in a few days, and he didn't want Hanzi to meet Huang Han in Beijing, so as to avoid the two of them eating and living together again, and ruining the big plan to support the soldiers and horses of Shanhaiguan from being affected by Huang Han.

Of course, the flag guards were able to make Hanzi meet Huang Han on the way back to Shanhaiguan, but they quietly informed Hanzi not to stay for a moment, and rushed back to Shanhaiguan to take up his post.

At the same time, Huang Han's instructions were conveyed that Hanzi must intensify training by filling up the 3,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry in the main barracks before the end of the year, so as to ensure that the combat effectiveness is no different from that of the "Red Banner Army."

He doesn't need to worry about equipment and military salaries, he can ask the imperial court for as much as he wants, and the insufficient part will be directly delivered to Shanhaiguan Shuicheng by "Sun and Moon Sea".

The generals will bring their families with them, and Huang Han has prepared 500 men for Hanzi to follow him into Shanhaiguan in the name of Jiading.

With 500 people in the ranks of officers and a better treatment than other battalions, and after screening the original border troops, some of the old and weak were eliminated and re-recruited to supplement them, and the Shanhaiguan Zheng Barracks naturally became an out-and-out "Red Banner Army."

This is not a big deal, because the door to recruiting new recruits is huge!

Of course, Hanzi will recruit the guards who have completed military training in Yongping Mansion, Qiantun, and Gaotai Fort, and these people are all the reserves of the "Red Banner Army." After receiving the equipment and treatment of regular soldiers, they will be trained for a few months, and their combat effectiveness and discipline cannot be distinguished from those of the "Red Banner Army."

This is the advantage of strengthening the reserve force, and it is also a good effect of distributing six coins of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grain to the cantonment households on a monthly basis; within the "Red Banner Army" system, every household has combat effectiveness and discipline.

Huang Han's entry into Beijing this time was not only low-key but also quite humble, and he entered the outer city at noon without a moment of delay and came to the imperial city to ask for the Son of Heaven.

Chongzhen was only afraid of Huang Han's ability to lead troops and make money at this time, and he did not regard him as a stumbling block that must be removed, and he also hoped that the "Red Flag Army" would make new contributions to the country and the enemy.

Huang Han asked to see him, and immediately summoned him, and personally greeted him in front of the door as a courtesy.

I haven't knelt down for anyone for a long time, at this time Huang Han had to push the gold mountain and pour the jade pillar to kneel and bow down, and after three kowtows, Chongzhen helped Huang Han up, and the two peers entered the platform hall hand in hand.

The emperor had too many questions he wanted to be answered, from the deployment of troops in the Ningyuan defensive line, to how the scout warfare in the buffer zone of the first eighty miles of Jinzhou was fought, to the effect of bacteriological warfare, and whether it would be launched every year in the future.

Huang Han is the best at telling stories, and the emperor is very satisfied with Huang Han's answer in front of the king, and he listened to it with relish, and before he knew it, it was gone in an afternoon.

In the end, the emperor made a compassionate gesture, looked at Huang Han with earnest eyes and asked, "Aiqing, I know that Ningyuan and Jinzhou are directly facing Dongnu, and the troops needed cannot be missing.

It's just that the Shanxi Liukou is getting more and more fierce, and now it is beginning to erode Henan, but the inland officials and troops are too weak, too many generals and soldiers have been defeated and killed, and I urgently need a strong army to enter Shanxi and Henan to relieve the upside down of the people. ”

So it was, the mystery in Huang Han's heart was solved, and what he was most worried about was being left in Beijing as a free marquis, because accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, this is the emperor's territory, which will always bring Huang Han a sense of insecurity.

Listening to the emperor's implication that he wanted to lead a part of the "Red Banner Army" into the interior to pacify the place to kill the rogues, Huang Han would of course choose to cater to the holy will.

Huang Han had grain in his hands, and the expectation of transporting hundreds of thousands of stone milled rice back from the Wa Kingdom, he could fully accept hundreds of thousands of displaced people to be sent to the Guanwai Settlement.

Nowadays, with the Luanzhou garrison battalion and the Quartet Express dart division often working together to exterminate bandits and bandits, the land of Gyeonggi is relatively stable, and there are many jobs and large purchases brought by the "Red Flag Army" system, and the common people have seen hope in their lives, and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to go out of the customs.

However, all the acres of land owned by Huang Han in Funing and Yongping Prefecture had already been distributed to the tunhu and peasants, and the speed of purchasing and annexing the acres of land had long been unable to keep up with the needs, causing many peasants who wanted to work for the "Red Banner Army" and did not want to go outside the customs to give up their following.

People are often like this, but where there is a glimmer of life where they are willing to leave their hometowns and go to the dangerous place outside the border, this matter can only adopt the principle of voluntariness, and too much coercion is counterproductive.

The Denglai war has come to an end, and because of the courage of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and because too many landlords and old fortunes were broken by the rebels and died, there were a large number of ownerless acres.

In addition, a large number of ordinary people died in the war, and many people went to Lushunkou and Ningyuan, the land contradiction has been alleviated.

In the past two months, fewer and fewer Shandong people have gone to Ningyuan, and in order to avoid suspicion and not to hinder Zhu Dadian's stability, the propaganda team of the local "Red Flag Army" has begun to withdraw one after another, which means that they have given up on making people in Shandong.

Under the current situation, there is no more door-to-door business, and Huang Han needs to develop the population and can only go to those displaced people who will starve to death in a few days without help.

The feudal dynasty was heavily closed, and the homeless people basically couldn't do it if they wanted to wander to Beijing, and it was very possible to organize them all the way to the Jingshi, at least ten years later, the thieves would do it.

Obviously, it is no longer possible to wait for the displaced people to come to the door in the land of Gyeonggi, in fact, the main reason is that there are Huang Han and the "Red Flag Army" who dare to fight and can fight.

The original displaced people, given the opportunity to resume production, are now good citizens, peasants, workers or small business owners.

This is actually the result that Huang Han is happy to see, and the people who have settled down will produce food and create wealth, so that they can enter a virtuous circle.

Therefore, Huang Han, who needed a large number of people, had to go into the interior to pick up the common people who were dying frequently, and give them acres of land or jobs, so that they could feed themselves through production and create labor value to feed more people.

Huang Han replied: "Your Majesty, the minister will take the elimination of Jiannu as his own responsibility in this life, and taking a defensive position in Ningyuan and Jinzhou is not a passive slack, but an intention to accumulate strength to give Jiannu a thunderous blow, but this will take several years of accumulation to be able to do it."

When the two armies led by the minister's father and son were integrated, the overall strength of the 'Red Banner Army' was strengthened, and they could use the convenience of having a water camp between Ningyuan and Jinzhou to quickly support each other, which could greatly save the men and horses needed to hold on. ”