When Xiao Xuan personally came to the south gate of Linqing and personally announced that as long as the Liao soldiers who could open five bows and arrows on a small horse, they could join the team, and there were more than three taels of silver per month and after taking care of the meal, not only many Liao soldiers came to join the army, but even some local people who spoke Shandong dialect and could ride horses and shoot arrows came to join the army. However, Xiao Xuan's attitude towards the local people in Shandong who had certain martial arts was completely different from those Liao soldiers or Liao people, and he refused to accept the local powerful forces that had become a year. The name is also very simple: the imperial court ordered the people to prohibit large-scale martial arts, and those who were not from a military household in the year had the possibility of smelling incense and teaching the rest of the party to be mixed in. Therefore, many people who can only speak Shandong dialect and cannot speak Liaodi Chinese are turned away. A few people who did not try to raise the plan to entangle and make trouble, those unreasonable young soldiers even directly fired their guns to expel them.

Such an attitude, of course, made many Liaodong soldiers who had been oppressed in the local area feel that with the Son of Heaven pressing the battle, they would definitely be able to get back the humiliation they had suffered before. In this way, from Linqing to Jinanfu, and even to Qingzhou and Jiaodong, another catastrophe spread, of course, a catastrophe of revenge. The number of Liaodong soldiers with composite standards and conditions is not very large, and the 20,000 Liao soldiers who are mobile in Shandong are only 13,400 people, who meet the requirements of being able to shoot five buckets of bows on horses. However, compared to most of the scattered powerful forces in the local area, it can still be said that it is a force to be reckoned with. It's just that in the past, no one dared to gather troops to resist the local heroes, after all, many people were people with hands and eyes, but now. When Xiao Xuan was hostile to the local Shandong Haoqiang, connived at Li Zicheng and others, and even did not want a young man from a wealthy family to be armed with a local adult when recruiting soldiers, and put on a very clear attitude, many people felt that it was different.

Of course, even so, many people still have concerns in their hearts. Will you not be able to do whatever you want after becoming the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven? However, it was only after a simple change of flags and tokens. Xiao Xuan did not train these recruited Liao soldiers at the beginning, and even bluntly assigned these people to many places to carry out the tasks of receiving grain and raising funds and even recruiting soldiers. even hinted that he wanted to return the people in the entire Shandong area to a bright future. I almost didn't say that you should hurry up and rob me, just like Li Zicheng and the others, and eat a big account for me. In this way, many people have completely let go of the burden and concerns in their hearts, and boldly worked in Jinan, Qingzhou, Jiaodong, and even as far as Jining and many other places.

A thousand or a hundred decent cavalry itself, perhaps even if they had to eat many of Shandong's wealthy families, they would probably suffer heavy losses. But with the Son of Heaven Arrow in his hand, it was very different. The whole of Shandong was almost all over the place just after the New Year of the second year of Chongzhen, and there were many things of looting and extermination.

In order to avoid those local gentry who fled from various places to complain, Xiao Xuan also launched mobile tactics. After recruiting a lot of recruits in the Linqing area, he did not go directly south to Dongchang Mansion, where Li Zicheng and others were entrenched, but went straight to Jinan, and it seemed that he had no intention of encircling and suppressing Li Zicheng and others. This also made many people in Li Chuang's army completely relieved at this time.

There have always been rumors in the army that King Chuang is "rebelling by order". In the past, Li Zicheng only gathered people's hearts by leaving a message, and did not explicitly admit it. But this time, even if there is no explicit admit, many people are convinced. There was even such a situation: when the powerful in many places organized enough forces for self-defense, not the so-called sword of the Son of Heaven by the Liao soldiers. Unexpectedly, when Li Zicheng pulled out a joint attack of the men and horses and the Liao soldiers, the number of people and horses who plundered various places increased from 1,000 to 2,000 or 3,000 decent cavalry, and in addition to tens of thousands of lower-level people who had long seen that the local area was unpleasant, and many contradictions were fiercely intensified.

Compared with Li Zicheng's subordinates, who were still concerned about some reputation and even team discipline, these Liao soldiers and even those who temporarily rose up to take revenge did not have any scruples. When encountering the vassal kings or the territories of the magnates, Li Zicheng pulled out the forces disguised as other civilian armed forces to plunder and attack. When encountering ordinary local households, the former Liao soldiers "repaid the wronged, and avenged the vengeful"

The reports of the light soldiers in the entire Shandong area were also continuously sent to Xiao Xuan's temporary city wall located at the head of Jinan City. Many local military attachés felt a great sense of unease. After the first month, when the whole storm intensified. Xiao Xuan finally ordered the 50 squadron groups of the Guards Battalion and the Yong Battalion to be sent this time, and the 10 brigade groups were to be divided into two divisions of the newly recruited young recruits to carry out a "quelling of chaos" in various provinces in Shandong to reassure the people.

Previously, Xiao Xuan's internal orders to the officers and backbones of the Guards Battalion and the Yong Battalion were also very clear: as long as the local earthen fence was built and the large households gathered by the civilian private armed forces to protect themselves, they should not be mentioned. As long as the armed forces of the civil rebellion leave behind the looted wealth, "everything seized and returned to the public" can be blamed for the past. And of course, keep your distance from those teams. The purpose of this dispersion of troops is to suppress bandits is secondary, and the main thing is to defeat the arrogance of local officials, gentry, and powerful families.

Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan and others were left by Xiao Xuan's side instead, and asked the teams below to go to various prefectures to "quell the chaos"

At this time, Zhou Yuji was not shying away from anything, and of course he was full of worries about the decision of the Son of Heaven: "Saint, this is not a war with the bandits, but a direct war with the foundation of my Ming Dynasty!" ”

At this time, Xiao Xuan didn't seem to hesitate too much and said, "Don't you think that the foundation of my Da Ming is already incorrigible now?" Especially in the Shandong area, where there are many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods. What is my worst enemy? In fact, just like the people of the world at this time, and even the righteous army of Li Zicheng and others, they are those who have plundered a huge part of the surplus labor, rations, and even ideas of the common people... ”

Seeing Zhou Yuji's still somewhat uneasy look, Xiao Xuan continued: "Renovating the world and letting the sun and the moon shine again, it is not a dinner invitation, it is impossible to be gentle and frugal." It is not even possible to expect that our people are saints, and the masses who have been oppressed are saints. Moral discipline is always kept in mind. There will inevitably be many families who will suffer misfortune, and it will inevitably be a drastic act of one force to completely purge and overthrow another. Among them, murder, arson, extermination, and robbery are inevitable. You cannot expect all those who have a spirit of rebellion to be good citizens ... ”

At this time, Xiao Xuan didn't realize that his behavior in Shandong further caused panic among many people, and the showdown that was originally expected to take place many years later came in advance.

(End of chapter)