Volume VIII Chapter 211 Another Warlord

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was also a warlord who was more famous, this person was He Renlong, this guy was not the same as Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu still avoided the important and made a small fight with Li Zicheng, snatching the territory, he went to the back directly without fighting, and ran away without a fight when he met a thief!

This guy can make Chongzhen angry in history, because of his non-fighting, Zhang Yingyuan, Wang Yunlong, Zhang Zhuokai, Li Guoqi and others have been defeated by thieves many times, and the governor Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian were directly killed by him, and finally, Chongzhen issued a secret decree and directly asked Sun Chuanting to slaughter him!

Of course, the trajectory of history has completely changed at this time, Zhang Yingyuan, Wang Yunlong, Zhang Zuokai, Li Guoqi, etc. are not the main generals of the Ming army, Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian did not serve as governors, and the anti-thieves Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are not as powerful as in history, and even Chongzhen was under house arrest by Zhang Bin at this time, so He Renlong did not harm so many people, his non-fight only killed the soldiers of the Henan Army, but did not kill any important Ming army generals, let alone any governors.

He didn't know at this time that Zhang Bin had targeted him, and he didn't even know that Zuo Liangyu had secretly handed over his military power and left Henan, let alone that the anti-thief Li Zicheng's department had been completely wiped out by Zhang Bin, because Zhang Bin's movements were too fast, and before the news spread, Li Zicheng was finished, and he deliberately asked people to block the news, and he didn't even report it to the imperial court.

The main reason he did this was to quietly touch and clean up He Renlong!

Li Zicheng was destroyed, and there were no big thieves in the Central Plains, and Zhang Bin immediately began to plan to enter Sichuan to clean up He Renlong and Zhang Xianzhong.

Of course, this trip to the Central Plains is not the end of the extermination of the anti-thief Li Zicheng, and he still has a lot of follow-up things to deal with.

The main force of Li Zicheng's department has been wiped out, and there are still a lot of small minions under him, most of the counties in Kaifeng Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, and Runing Mansion are still occupied by those small minions under him, and it will take a long time to clear them one by one, he doesn't have this time, he handed over this matter to Cao Wenzhao and He Kegang, and the Shanxi army doesn't have much combat effectiveness anyway, so it's just right to stay and continue to exterminate Yu Kou.

Also, the anti-thieves have been exterminated, and the homeless and hungry people have not decreased at all, if you don't take care of them, as soon as the imperial army leaves, there will definitely be new thieves coming out.

These homeless and hungry people must be relieved, otherwise this thief will never be exterminated, of course Zhang Bin knows this, he even has the silver ready, and this time he also found a pretty good person in charge.

After the battle of Chen Liu, he sent a letter to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and promoted Li Yan to be the head of the household department and the governor of Cangchang, who was specifically responsible for allocating grain and grass and providing relief to the victims.

This thing is indeed a bit ridiculous to say, the Jinshi of the Manchu Dynasty did not need to be used to promote a person to be responsible for the dispatch of more than 70 million taels of silver, and this person was once a general under the anti-thief Li Zicheng!

If Chongzhen was still in power, if Zhang Bin did not control the entire court, this kind of thing would not have been possible at all.

However, now, this absurd thing has become a ridiculous thing, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong did not hesitate to handle it with the cabinet and the officials and household departments after receiving the recital, from the cabinet to the six ministries to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, no one raised any objections, because they all believed in Zhang Bin and believed in Zhang Bin's vision!

Li Yan really couldn't believe his eyes when he received the official document jointly issued by the cabinet and the ministry, this kind of absurd thing can really be done, he was really promoted to the head of the household department, and besides, there are really tens of millions of taels of silver in the inner treasury, he really has the right to transfer it for disaster relief!

Zhang Bin didn't care how shocked Li Yan was, he left a sentence, the victims of the Central Plains will be handed over to you, and then he led the Fuguang army and Guanning Tiecai, got on the train, and rushed to Xi'an, as for how Li Yan wanted to buy grain, farm tools and improved seeds, and how to settle the displaced and hungry people, he really didn't have time to care at this time, he just introduced Dongshengtang Henan treasurer, that is, his fourth brother Zhang Jun to Li Yan and let go.

He is not using his power for personal gain, he has already explained to his fourth brother that all materials in the disaster area will only be charged at cost price, and will not make a penny!

Dongshengtang spends a lot of manpower and material resources to do this unprofitable business, which is tantamount to losing money, but it is not much.

The trip to the Central Plains was really over at this point, and then Zhang Bin got on the train and rushed to Xi'an, because he wanted to catch He Renlong off guard.

This railway looks like it has been dug into sections, in fact, there are not many places that have been dug up, and there are not many tracks dug up, the total is less than ten miles, Zhang Bin has already ordered the Ministry of Engineering to repair it, and it is naturally unimpeded at this time.

The next day, he rushed to Tongguan, he did not make any stops, and after meeting Qin Gongming, he continued on the road.

On the third day, he rushed to Xi'an, and he didn't even meet Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, but directly led the Fuguang army and the Guanning iron cavalry to the Kugu Road and went straight to Bashu.

Zheng Chongjian, this guy seems to be a little unclear with He Renlong, he is too lazy to see it, not only is he not there, but he also ordered Fu Guangjun and Guanning Tieqi to disperse scouts and block the Qinling passage to prevent Zheng Chongjian from reporting to He Renlong.

He Renlong didn't know that his end was coming, and he was proud at this moment.

Originally, he was not responsible for the Sichuan thief suppression, but the Sichuan governor Shi Wei was directly dismissed and investigated because of the fall of Xue Guoguan in the background, and the imperial court did not send a new governor over, so the matter of the thief became the responsibility of him, the chief soldier of Shaanxi.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial court sent the Liao general Xu Fuzuo to lead 30,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers to support, at that time he was really startled, because he knew that the imperial court had defeated Jiannu and recovered Liaodong, and the next step was definitely to exterminate the anti-thieves, and at this time, the imperial court suddenly sent 30,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers, he seriously suspected that the imperial court wanted Xu Fuzuo to clean up himself, and then led the army to clean up Zhang Xianzhong.

As a result, he guessed completely wrong, not only did he not clean up his intentions after Xu Fuju came, but also took the initiative to station the troops outside Nanjiang City, and went into the city alone to visit himself and discuss with himself how to perfunctory the imperial court, and wait for Nanjiang not to move!

This feeling is good, he doesn't want to move, he is now eating nearly 20,000 Henan soldiers, holding 30,000 Shaanxi soldiers, dominating Nanjiang City, not to mention living a small life.

As for cleaning up Zhang Xianzhong, don't be kidding, clean up Zhang Xianzhong, where can he still have such a good life!

Since then, he has begun to call Xu Fu a brother and a brother, drinking and having fun in Nanjiang City every day, waiting for the tens of thousands of taels of empty salary issued to him by the imperial court every month, which is so cool that he doesn't want it.

What's going on, Zhang Bin is not crazy, he gave a huge greedy Shi Yi but didn't send the governor over, and let He Renlong continue to eat empty wages here, Xu Fuzuo led the Sichuan army over, and he didn't let Xu Fujuan clean up He Renlong, but let Xu Fujuan drink and have fun with this guy, and call him a brother!

Of course he wasn't crazy, he just did this to stabilize He Renlong and stabilize the situation in Bashu.

If he cleaned up Shi Yi and He Renlong together, what if this guy disobeyed?

If he asked Xu Fuzuo to come over and clean up He Renlong, but he couldn't clean it up, what if he started fighting, after all, this He Renlong is not a wine bag and rice bag, this guy is also a fierce man, Xu Fuzuo may not be able to beat him!

If he messes up recklessly, it is likely to lead to civil strife in Nanjiang, Zhang Xianzhong broke through the Nanjiang River, waved his army north, occupied Hanzhong, and even possibly forced He Renlong, a fierce general, into Zhang Xianzhong's arms, and it would be really difficult to clean up at that time.