"Unless what?" Cao Wenzhao asked.

"Unless we recruit a group of grassroots officials from the army and the common people to manage them first, as we did in Lingchuan, and sort out the affairs of the river meander, then the imperial court will send people to take office, and we will not be confused and have nowhere to start." Moli said.

"But......" Cao Wenzhao hesitated, and stopped talking. The military must not meddle in local affairs, or it will be seen as having other ideas, which has always been a sensitive subject, and the army has always tried to avoid these things so as not to get into trouble.

Mo Li's plan is to gradually arrange some of his own people from the bottom to govern according to their own ideas, just like Lingchuan City, and wait until everything goes according to the path designed by himself, and the place is managed in an orderly manner, and then the imperial court will send someone to take over, and then the entire system will operate according to the model designed by Moli, and the officials sent by the imperial court will have to acquiesce, otherwise he will not be able to operate at all.

Moli wants to slowly improve the livelihood of the people in the Ming Dynasty through such a pilot reform, implement benevolent government, and benefit the people. When such a pilot area is successful, Chongzhen can be advised to promote this reform model.

However, as Cao Wenzhao considered, it was difficult for military generals to be trusted by the emperor by the imperial court, so they would often send civilian officials to lead the troops, check and balance the generals, and suppress the military with literature, and Chongzhen also sent eunuchs to supervise the army, which are all manifestations of great distrust of military generals. If we interfere in local government affairs again, I am afraid that it will lead to an even more unfavorable situation.

Gao Qiqian watched from the sidelines, and couldn't help but be a little secretly frightened, thinking that this Mo Li seemed to have a small plan. It seems that you have to give the emperor a wake-up call, this Moli is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"By the way, my lord, what about the captives? But there are more than 10,000 people! Guan Feng said suddenly.

It's a nerve-wracking question. In the morning, Lu Chaoji, who sent the Beijing camp, escorted a thousand prisoners, all of whom escaped, and now there are more than 10,000! The Yada Prison in Hequ County simply can't hold so many prisoners. But if they are escorted to Taiyuan Mansion, a large number of troops will have to be divided, and the thieves in the meanders of the river have not yet been cleared, and manpower is needed everywhere, so it is impossible to allocate too many troops.

After all, this is a team of more than 10,000 people, and any accident can happen, and the surrounding area is an area where the peasant army is active, and no one can guarantee whether they will encounter thieves on the road.

Mo Li thought for a while and said: "That's it, anyway, we still have a lot of reconstruction work to do to recover Hequ City, and we also have to organize local farmers to open up wasteland and farm land, plant miscellaneous grains, and build roads and canals, just let them do something, anyway, most of them are farmers, let them atone for their sins with labor!" ”

Anyway, there is a lot of infrastructure work to be done, and since there is free labor, there is no need to use it in vain. Then select some clever and obedient ones from among the captives, temporarily serve as squad leaders, let them help manage the captive team, and if there are good performances, they can also be absorbed into the army to strengthen their own strength.

As for these captives, if they are in good condition, as long as they are not sinful and vicious, when they have opened up the wasteland, they will consider giving it to them to cultivate, and as long as there is land for them to plant, so that they can live, they will not rise up again to rebel, and thus there will be fewer rebels. The combination of suppression and appeasement can be much better than simply blindly killing.

When they first heard that the imperial army was coming, they were still very confident that they could hold the river, so they never had time to transfer the food and property, which was cheaper for the Pingyang army, otherwise Moli would not be able to gather so much grain and grass to support the rations of such a huge team.

When he went back to his room at night, Liang Peijun suddenly remembered something and asked, "Husband, what is that Li Guo, did you know him before?" ”

"I don't know! What's wrong? ”

"I see how you seem to be very interested in him, as if ...... By the way, it's like when I met Li Dingguo last year! What are you hiding from me? Liang Peijun said.

"No! You see, husband, I am frank and open, where is there anything to hide from you? Mo Li deliberately stripped naked and smiled evilly.

Liang Peijun's face was suddenly flushed, and he scolded: "Bad husband, you, you are ashamed to death......"

Mo Li hugged her fragrant shoulders and said, "Lady, we are husband and wife, what is there to be shy about, let's rest quickly." ”

"Nope! Tell me who that Li Guo is first? What are you hiding from me? Liang Peijun said unrelentingly.

"What? Do you even want to eat men's vinegar? Hehe......" Mo Li smiled: "Don't worry, your husband and I are only interested in beautiful women, I only want you now......"

Mo Li said, picked up Liang Peijun and put him on the bed, the two rolled down into the wide bed together, Mo Li used her actions to stop her from continuing to ask questions to herself, and Liang Peijun's bewitching whisper soon echoed in the room......

After falling from the peak several times in a row, Liang Peijun was already delicate and weak, gasping for breath like mud, and he had forgotten what question he was going to ask him just now. Both of them quickly fell asleep.

In the following days, Moli assigned people to continue to investigate the whereabouts of Wang Jiayin and other bandits, and at the same time organized captives and people to open up wasteland and grow miscellaneous grains. In addition, he sent someone to explain the situation here to the imperial court, and asked the imperial court to send officials to take over the management of Hequ City.

However, as expected, after hearing that the people of Hequ were in all directions and that the thieves had not yet been cleared, no official was willing to come to his post for a while, because the former Hequ County Commander was beheaded by the peasant army after the peasant army captured Hequ City, and the whole family died in Hequ, and the officials in various places were already frightened.

Chongzhen had no choice but to order the Pingyang Army to exterminate the bandits and thieves around the Hequ as soon as possible, clear the place, and at the same time temporarily let the Pingyang Army be responsible for managing the affairs of Hequ City and restoring production order.

Half a month has passed, and the Pingyang army and the peasant army have had several encounters and ambush battles, and five or six thousand thieves have been exterminated, but there are still more than 10,000 people who continue to fight.

Mo Li had come to Hequ to play in his previous life, and he remembered that there was a relatively large iron and steel factory in Hequ in later generations, and there were also many coal mines, and he wanted to come to Hequ Coal Mine Resources and Iron Ore Resources.

Thinking that a lot of iron tools would be needed to make new weapons, Mo Li decided to mine iron ore and coal mines while suppressing bandits, and set up an iron-making plant and coal mine in the name of Hequ Xinxian Ya, anyway, the imperial court can't control Hequ now.

In this way, while continuing to pursue and suppress the remaining peasant army, the Pingyang Army organized the captives to open up wasteland for farming and mining farms, and the order of the river meanders began to slowly get on the right track, and under the management and rectification of the Pingyang Army, everything seemed to be in order and vigorous.

Before I knew it, a few months had passed, and the Pingyang Army and the peasant army were repeatedly entangled, and several large and small battles were fought, and Wang Jiayin and others were forced to leave and continue to flow southwest, hiding in various ravines on the Loess Plateau to fight guerrilla warfare.

Mo Li wrote several times to the imperial court to ask for troops to be taken out of Liaodong, but they were rejected by Chongzhen on the grounds that the peasant army had not yet been exterminated.

On this day, Mo Li was inspecting the production progress of the ironworks, and suddenly received a report from the guards: "General, it's not good, the Tartars have besieged Dalinghe City again!" ”