The "Red Banner Army" gave up doing useless work and began the enclosure movement to stabilize the side and prepare for the spring ploughing that would begin immediately.

Gu Rushan, Gu Zhun and the others were at ease, because they had been ordered by the head of the family not to starve to death a single common man.

It doesn't matter if the grain on hand is not enough, Nantong Prefecture has reserved enough 400,000 stone of rice imported from Nanyang, and now it has been loaded and shipped to Huguang, and ships of less than 100 tons can directly deliver grain to Xiangyang.

It is completely possible to transport Nanyang's flatland inland river vessels with a displacement of less than 30 tons, and with the waterway to transport food and refugees, the cost is 80% cheaper than that of using wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carriages, and it is also much less arduous.

In the past two years, Zhao Kun, Gu Rushan, Gu Zhun and others have organized reclamation to have an effect, and their stations have achieved a surplus of some surplus grain under the condition of ensuring self-sufficiency in grain, and the total amount is four or five hundred thousand stones.

It's already February, and the average adult hungry person has one stone of grain enough to survive until the autumn harvest.

With the strength of the "Red Banner Army" in the interior and the number of acres of land that are expected to be in hand, it will not be a problem at all to resettle one or two million displaced people for farming.

After recapturing Xiangyang, Nanyang and other cities and taking this area, hundreds of thousands of people were taken away by the rogues, and the remaining common people did not exceed 800,000.

In the future, Xiangyang will become Zhao Kun's base camp, and the affairs of Wangchuan Fort will be taken over by Xiao Fengyang, the head of the flag guard, who has been working in Jingzhou for more than three years.

It was a fortified city on Jiangxinzhou, garrisoned by several hundred regular soldiers and two or three thousand guards, and when Xiangyang, which was 400 miles to the north, was firmly controlled by the "Red Banner Army," there was basically no possibility of being attacked.

After the Tang King returned to Nanyang, he saw a piece of scorched earth and hungry people waiting to be fed, and knew that if he did not solve the livelihood of these people and did not organize spring ploughing quickly, these people would starve to death or become rogues.

He had no intention of chasing the rogue, and hurriedly responded to the urgent need, he also had to find the remains of his family to be buried in peace, and he also had to handle the funeral, which was really busy.

Of course, Shi Kunshan was the main focus on reassuring the people and training troops, and the method adopted was the same as that of the "Red Banner Army"; in fact, half of the main officers of the Tang Dynasty were flag guards or were seconded from the "Red Banner Army."

It is estimated that after a year and a half, the descendants of the Tang Dynasty are almost the same as the "Red Banner Army", and they will pay more attention to whether they are contrary to the military orders of the head of the family while obeying the dispatch of the Tang King.

If such a situation occurs, Shi Kunshan will use communication methods to try to make Tang Wang change his mind, and if Tang Wang insists on going his own way, then he will be embarrassed, because this army will not listen to the dispatch.

Gu Zhun, Gu Rushan, and Pei Yuanwu will soon lead their men and horses back to their stations, and there are too many new recruits, and there are more newly accepted laborers, and they will strengthen training and strive to double the number of subordinates who have reached the standard of regular soldiers by the end of the year.

At the beginning of March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the general of the conquest inspected more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Shanxi and Xuanda, which were busy with spring ploughing, and then went to Tiger's Den City through Juyong Pass.

Xuanda Governor Yang Sichang was left in Beijing by Chongzhen, and the new governor of Xuanda was Chen Xinjia, who judged the situation and did not behave out of line after taking office, and also actively called on officials to strive to increase the planting area when they grabbed agriculture.

The personnel adjustment of the imperial court has always been in progress, sometimes it is completely disorganized, and more often it is Chongzhen who sends eunuchs to the local government to give advice.

This angered many scholars and doctors, and there were really many ministers who admonished eunuchs to interfere in politics, but it was a pity that Chongzhen became more and more distrustful of civil and military generals, and pinned his hopes on the birdless people he was more familiar with.

In fact, having birds and no birds has nothing to do with loyalty and ability, and the proportion of eunuchs who are corrupt and perverting the law is not inferior to that of civilian and military generals.

The eunuchs of Xuanfu were transferred to Du Xun, Datong had the rank of Du Zhi, the eunuch of the prison army, and there were eunuchs in Juyong Pass, Ningwu Pass, etc.

Huang Han is not even an emperor, I don't know why Chongzhen still put these people who have no birds to Shanxi and Xuanda?

After organizing a meeting of civil and military generals and eunuchs, he made it clear that there was no need to make up the reason, Shanxi and Xuanda, which had just experienced war, could not withstand the toss, and in the past two years, all power would belong to the "Red Banner Army".

Civil officials and eunuchs who do not want to be marginalized should take the initiative to ask for transfer, and those who are willing to stay have something to do, but there will be no money or food to handle.

If any civilian, military general and eunuch dare to hack the people's life-saving money and food, the fate of Chen Hongfan and Cao Pichang is a lesson from the past.

If he has the courage to do something, Huang Han guarantees that every official who stays behind will be able to achieve full honors in his performance.

All the eunuchs knew that the general was not joking, and because of the strong force of the "Red Banner Army", the vast majority of them chose to swallow their anger, and Chen Xinjia and Du Xun were no exception.

In order to deter Xiaoxiao, Huang Han organized a large rally in Datong with more than 30,000 participants before leaving.

At this rally, which was attended by the military and civilian eunuchs, Huang Han used the power of life and death to kill Xu Dingguo, the chief military officer of Shanxi, and his sons Xu Er'an, Xu Erji, and all the direct males in the family.

At the time of the execution, more than 100 officers below the general officer of Datong and Datong were detained and beheaded by the former Shanxi and Datong officers at or above the rank and above.

Who is Xu Dingguo? Why did Huang Han single him out and destroy him? A traitor, a big traitor, assassinated Gao Jie, one of the four towns in the north of the Nanming River, in order to invite favors.

It makes the already precarious Nanming even more dangerous, Shi Kefa said, "The Central Plains can't do anything, and the state affairs are all ruined by the thieves!" ”

It can be seen how damn Xu Dingguo? Since he was interrogated by the flag guard and gave out his family fortune of two or three hundred thousand taels, Huang Han of course took the life of this traitor and a big man for bribes, and let his family cut off their children and grandchildren.

The amount of corruption and perversion of the law by Wang Pu and other generals was far greater than that of Xu Dingguo, and when he saw more than a dozen heads of the Xu family rolling down, Wang Pu was so frightened that he was incontinent on the spot.

This man was a runaway general, and was finally punished by Emperor Chongzhen Ming Zheng, Huang Han did not kill him, gave a warning after the big assembly, released Wang Pu and other generals, and ordered them to leave Shanxi and Xuanda within ten days.

The strength has reached this point without scruples, and letting go of these generals who deduct military salaries and drink the blood of soldiers is to expose the charter of the "Red Banner Army" after taking over the Ming Army.

In the future, it will be much easier to do things, and the low-level military attachés who want to follow Huang Han will flock to him, and the high-ranking officials who are afraid of being liquidated will definitely stay away.

Financial depletion was one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and there were countless armies that lacked food and pay less.

For example, high-ranking generals such as commanders-in-chief, generals, guerrillas, and so on who have real knowledge can withhold military salaries to support their families, while low-level officials can withhold only a limited amount of food and salary.

Huang Han never thought of taking in those Ming guerrilla generals and above, and prematurely let out the news so that these people could hide from themselves and avoid the "Red Flag Army", why not?