Chapter 515: The Rogue's Eruption

Because of the fear of Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew and Hong Chengchou, there were hundreds of thousands of rogues and hooligans who flocked from Shaanxi and Shaanxi.

They are all locusts, and they must find a place to spoil in order to survive, and it is impossible to stop.

Henan was a favorite of the Rogues in the area north of the Yellow River near the Taihang Mountains, who would continue to flow out of the mountains to the nearby plains to plunder supplies and carry the population.

It won't be long before the strength of the rogues will skyrocket again, and they will definitely attack the county and state capitals next, and at this time, there will naturally be civil officials who can't sit still and choose to succumb.

The troubled times have come, force decides everything, Huang Han doesn't need to find a scholar to grind his teeth, he just needs to hold his troops for the time being, and wait until someone comes to the door to move troops for help.

At the end of the month, a group of unexpected people came to Houjiazhuang, it was Xu Guangqi's housekeeper Xu Fu with more than 30 family members and officials who had been following the head of the family to study farming, as well as more than a dozen carts of potato and sweet potato seedlings escorted by the dart master of the Sifang Express.

Huang Han knew that the earlier the seedlings were planted in the field, the easier it would be to survive, so he immediately arranged for people to grab the seeds, lit the lantern at night and started night work, and more of these four or five hundred acres participated in the seedling raising, ensuring that the replanting requirements of potatoes and sweet potatoes were double-insured.

The political struggle in Jingshi came to an end temporarily, and with the resignation of the first auxiliary minister Zhou Yanru, the Donglin Party was defeated, and the treacherous and cunning Qingliu seemed to be Wen Tiren, who did not form a party for personal gain, was favored by Chongzhen and became the new first auxiliary minister.

Although Xu Guangqi is also a member of the Donglin Party, he is still one of the elders of the cabinet because of his high morality, practical work, and lack of involvement in party disputes.

Due to the daily practice of Tai Chi boxing, there is an official matter of compiling and revising the calendar, and there are tens of thousands of taels of silver sponsored by Huang Han for the research project to replace nickel and white copper water pipes, the old man lives a full life, is mentally happy, and is in good health.

Xu Ge likes the fifty teenagers assigned by Huang Han to participate in the research, and he forgets his age when he works with teenagers every day.

He praised the disciples for actively carrying out post-disaster reconstruction, not only calling on officials in Henan, Shanxi and other places to follow suit, but also actively organizing seedlings to send family members and officials to guide planting.

With the attitude of the imperial court, with the technicians and officials sent by Xu Guangqi, the replanting of potatoes and sweet potatoes will become a political achievement, and the nearby officials are actively cooperating, and they find it strange that many fiefs belonging to King Lu, King Fu, and King Zhao are also being cultivated.

Huang Han is trying his best to harvest the harvest after autumn, and only in this way can he organize the common people to dredge the river during the dry season, when the employment of ordinary people with grain instead of wages will undoubtedly have a good effect of cash-for-work.

It can make the ship with a displacement of 50 tons close to Houjiazhuang port for unloading, so that the navigation period of the whole line can be extended by ten days and half a month, which will greatly reduce the loss of thousands of miles of grain transportation and save too much labor.

Therefore, knowing that there are many acres of land belonging to the Ming vassal king Huang Han, he does not mind sending displaced people to cultivate, the purpose is to increase the total amount of grain in the Ming Dynasty, so he does not mind who is in his hands.

If they dare to ask for a price, Huang Han can ask for 1510 princes, scholars and doctors ask for how much benefit to play the emperor, in fact, the Ming Dynasty has a law, and there are a series of clear regulations on taxes and rent.

There is another reason, Shengdou Xiaomin did not dare to report the owner when he was squeezed, and he was worried that the acres of land he had been carefully serving would be taken away.

Who is Huang Han afraid of? He doesn't bully people, and he can't be bullied! Within the scope of the imperial court, how much tax and land rent should be given to the prince and the scholar will not be given, and the lion opens his mouth, no way! Sue the royal court!

Besides, what happened to the vassal king? When the land was harvested, the princes who could not even produce the fiefdom and the city could not come to pick the peaches in person, and they were happy to send long histories and books to be able to accept a part of the grain or silver as land rent.

What if these people are fake? Hey! "Winged Tiger" can do the right thing for heaven!

In history, even the loyal general Zhang Fengyi led more than 2,000 white pole soldiers in Houjiazhuang to be surrounded by rogues, and the whole army was annihilated, and the palace guards were counted as birds.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the history of the Ming Dynasty has never heard of the royal guards played a big role in a battle against the thieves and Jiannu, they are basically fancy, maybe even the Houjiazhuang Township Yong Armed Forces who followed the white pole soldiers to righteousness are not compared.

What is the impossibility that these people were beaten by the bandits who came out of the Taihang Mountain? How many people can guess that Huang Han did it?

Henan and Shanxi have been beaten by the Liukou so many cities, is it all related to Huang Han?

This is the original intention of Huang Han to have a team of people who specialize in dirty things, too many people are toasting and not eating and drinking, and Huang Han must make a cameo appearance as a devil when he is an angel.

Dozens of Liukou relied on the Taihang Mountains to continuously attack the nearby prefectures and counties, and they have developed to the point that the "winged tigers" with seven or eight hundred minions are trying to survive in the cracks.

In order not to be annexed by a large group of thieves too early, the men and horses of the "winged tigers" were also hiding from the officials and soldiers at the same time, and during this time, they also took in many mountain people who fled into the depths of the mountains to escape the military disaster.

This group of people is fundamentally different from the rogues, as far as possible, they do not coerce the common people who are still farming to join, but selectively take in the available people who have lost their homes and land, so the quality of the army is still good overall, and there are few people who are indiscriminate.

The situation is very grim, and there are endless sentries in various places, and the civil and military generals are paying close attention to the whereabouts of the Liukou, and they are all praying that the Liukou will not come to their own territory.

It's a pity that it backfired, and a large number of rogues and homeless people were frightened by the "big and small Cao" and "Hong Shaved Heads", and they fled from Shaanxi one after another, crossed the Taihang Mountains, and came to the border of Shanxi and Henan provinces.

If hundreds of thousands of Liukou go down the mountain and come to the plain, the consequences will be unimaginable, and if the Yellow River freezes in winter, the Liukou will cross the Yellow River and the entire Central Plains will be eroded.

The scholars and doctors who were cowering in the prefecture and county within a radius of 300 miles in Taihang Shandong and the south couldn't sit still, and completely changed their faces, thinking of the Marquis of Dongping, and the "Red Banner Army" that would win the battle and conquer it.

At the beginning of May, the civil and military generals near Taihang Mountain were like frightened rabbits, hoping that the more soldiers in the city they were stationed there would be, and that they would no longer worry about the need for food to feed the troops.

Raising soldiers for a thousand days has to be done for a while, and now it is simply a ready-to-use situation, and the civil officials and landlords and squires are temporarily cramming, and they join forces to raise money to find the Marquis of Dongping.

The prefect of Zhangde Mansion and Bingbeidao and other officials were escorted by hundreds of people to Houjiazhuang to ask to see the Marquis of Dongping, accompanied by several officials such as the general judge of Lu'an Mansion.