In February of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Hongyu took advantage of the melting of ice and snow, under the escort of a thousand cavalry, to the east into Jiayu Pass, and hurried back to the capital.

The more than 1,000 cavalry that escorted Li Hongyu were still the forbidden troops who escorted him out of the customs back then, and although some people died in battle over the years, they were quickly replenished, so that the number of troops was not reduced, but the combat effectiveness was greatly improved in the war.

After two or three years of rectification, the appearance of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division has undergone earth-shaking changes, the people are busy with farming, and the soldiers are diligent in drilling, and Li Hongyu's initial idea has been reached.

"Lord Taibao, recently many displaced people have entered our Dusi territory, because they are not local people, we dare not take them in, but they refuse to leave, we have to open a porridge field for relief, but this is not a long-term solution, and I hope that the Lord will show it."

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Gu Shan remembered something, couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said to Li Hongyu helplessly.

According to the ancient household registration system, the common people should live according to the household registration, especially the peasants should not leave without permission, so as not to affect local stability and social economy.

Although the boundaries of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division are dominated by military households, there are also some civilian households, which are under the jurisdiction of the Dusi Yamen like military households, but do not have to perform military service.

This time, the people who poured into the territory of Shaanxi Xingdu Division included both military and civilian households, but neither military households nor civilian households in Shaanxi Xingdu Division had the right to accept it, so they could not be resettled, so they could only be centrally managed, and porridge sheds were opened to let them tide over the difficulties in front of them, and then return to the countryside.

Originally, refugees fleeing the famine would not have gone west, because the environment in the west was more difficult than theirs, and they usually went east into the Central Plains.

However, with the military rectification and social changes of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, both military and civilian households have lived a comfortable life that was unimaginable before, actively cultivated, diligent in military training, and could have a full meal.

This attracted many refugees, attracted by the local social atmosphere and order, and were reluctant to leave, which made Gushan a headache for this.

Because Li Hongyu was busy fighting in the Western Regions before, Gu Shan didn't want to bother him with this kind of mundane matter, so he didn't report it, only the Right Army Governor's Mansion to which the book belonged.

It's a pity that it has been half a year since he wrote the letter, but the Governor's Office of the Right Army has not replied, so he had to take advantage of Li Hongyu to come to ask for instructions.

In fact, it was not that the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army was unwilling to reply to Gushan, but it was that the timing of his report was wrong, just in time for Huang Taiji to lead the Houjin soldiers to invade the capital, and the government and the opposition were shocked.

The governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces were scolded by the civilian officials for this, believing that the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces should pay the responsibility this time.

Those governors were naturally unhappy, God knew that Huang Taiji had bypassed the Guanjin defense line, so they retorted one after another, the court was a miasma of smoke for this, who still had the heart to deal with official business, and it was this kind of troublesome matter involving household registration.

In these years, more things are better than less things, and more things are more wrong, so the officials of the Right Army Governor's Office reported layer by layer, and they delayed as much as they could, so that the official document has not been approved now.

"How can there be so many refugees?" Li Hongyu was quite surprised by this, and couldn't help frowning and asked Gu Shan, he remembered very well that when he left the customs three years ago, the situation in the Shaanxi-Gandhi boundary was still very good.

"The Taibao don't know that in recent years, there have been disasters and famines in northern Shaanxi, and in the past two years, there has been no rain for a long time, and the grass and trees have withered and scorched, causing the villagers to flee and starve to death." Gu Shan said with a wry smile when he heard this.

"Lord Taibao, the famine in the Shaanxi-Gandhi border is now getting more and more serious, and the epidemic is raging, so that there are many dead, and the rumors have reached the point of 'cannibalism'." Subsequently, Zhao Hai, the commander of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, also sighed and said.

"It's so serious!"

Hearing this, Li Hongyu couldn't help but put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at Gu Shan with a serious expression and asked, "Isn't there any relief from the imperial court?" ”

It stands to reason that there is such a big disaster in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the imperial court should open a warehouse for relief, but from the words of Gushan and Zhao Hai, Li Hongyu feels that it is not like that, if the imperial court relieves it, then the disaster will not be so serious, and the refugees will not run to Shaanxi Xingdu.

After all, the common people in China are all home-loving, and who would want to leave their homeland if they didn't have to do it.

"For some reason, it seems that the relief from the imperial court has not come down." Hearing this, Gu Shan replied cautiously, after all, this is a matter of the imperial court, and he can't say much.

In fact, there is another important reason for the displacement of the disaster victims, and he did not say it, and he could not say it, that is, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he actually sent additional servants to the Shaanxi and Gansu regions for many years, and strictly ordered officials to supervise taxes, so that the peasants "have exhausted their bones and bones, and they cannot save their lives".

Therefore, those people who really can't survive in their hometowns can only drag their children and children to flee, and there is only one way to survive by rebellion.

This is also the reason why Gushan is careful to deal with those refugees, he does not want to be saddled with the infamy of "official coercion and civil rebellion".

"Since those refugees are unwilling to go back, then they should choose a place to settle down, and the local yamen cannot sit idly by and ignore this, and must take the resettlement of those refugees as a top priority."

Li Hongyu knew that the imperial court must have played a negative role in the affairs of the refugees, so he immediately made a decision, and after a deep sigh, he said to Gu Shan, "If the refugees are settled, the Taibao will give them a credit, if anyone disobeys the yang and the yin, then don't blame the official for being unkind!" ”

"Rest assured, the lowly will do its best to resettle those refugees." Gu Shan immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, bowed to Li Hongyi and said that with Li Hongyu's words, he would dare to act with confidence.

Li Hongyu was in a hurry to return to the capital, so he did not stay in Ganzhou City for a long time, and after a short pause to check the affairs of some surrounding guard posts, he set off on his way.

"The ancient governor, this official can be escorted by the forbidden army, and there is no need to work hard to mobilize the people."

After leaving the city, Li Hongyu found that there were two thousand cavalry from the Shaanxi Xingdu Division gathered outside the city, and immediately knew what Gu Shan meant, and wanted those cavalry to escort him, so he quietly refused.

"The Taibao doesn't know, the Shaanxi and Gandi borders have not been peaceful in the past two years, and we are worried about the safety of the Taibao, so we sent troops to send each other, and we have no other intentions." When Gu Shan heard this, he knew that Li Hongyu had misunderstood, so he hurriedly bowed and replied.

"Not peaceful?"

Li Hongyu's brows suddenly frowned, he has been either in Moxi or the Western Regions in the past few years, so he doesn't know the situation in the Shaanxi-Gansu land, how "not peaceful" is this Shaanxi-Gansu land, so that Gushan has to use 2,000 cavalry to escort him.

"The Taibao doesn't know, now there are more than 100 rebels in Shaanxi and Gansu, more than tens of thousands, less than hundreds, how can the Taibao be an important minister of the country to risk his life, so it is better to be safe."

Hearing this, Gu Shan hesitated for a moment, and said to Li Hongyu with a wry smile, to be honest, he really didn't want to let this kind of thing ruin Li Hongyu's interest.

"More than 100 shares?" Li Hongyu was taken aback when he heard this, he never expected that the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu would reach such a bad situation.

In fact, as early as the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there were already peasant rebellions in Shaanxi, because there was a famine at that time, and the officials continued to loot and urge the levy.

Therefore, Baishui peasants Wang Erhe Chongguangdao and others gathered hundreds of victims to rebel in Baishui County, which opened the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty and began to impact the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule.

Due to the large number of hungry people who participated in the rebellion, this made Wang Er and others more and more powerful, and they moved to all parts of Weibei, attacking cities and capturing villages and growing rapidly, not only the hungry people but also some deserters joined the uprising team, and the scale quickly expanded to several thousand.

Wang Er's rebellion ignited the fuse of the people's rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the peasant uprising became a prairie fire.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin, a peasant in Fugu in northern Shaanxi, gathered a group of hungry people to rebel, Wang Er led a team to the north to join it, the team expanded to five or six thousand people, and led the people to march south to the army in Huanglong Mountain.

At the same time, Gao Yingxiang in northern Shaanxi was in Ansai, Wang Zuohang, Feishan Tiger, and Big Red Wolf were in Yichuan, Wang Hu and Heishashen were in Luochuan, Wang Monk was in Yanchuan, Wang Daliang was in southern Hanzhong, Han Chaozai was in Qingyang, Gansu, and Zhou Dawang also raised the flag in Wudu.

"Lord Taibao, now the rebellious people have spread all over Shaanxi, and even Shaanxi Dusi and northern Sichuan have been affected."

Seeing Li Hongyu's shocked expression, Gu Shan said with a wry smile, "As far as I know, many of the sergeants of the guard post also rebelled with those chaotic people because of their livelihood and other reasons, which is really sad!" ”

"Is that so?"

Li Hongyu couldn't help frowning deeper when he heard this, if even the soldiers of the guard post participated in the rebellion, then the situation would be very serious, you must know that those soldiers have military skills compared with the common people, and they will cause greater harm to society.

"Lord Taibao, now that the world is in turmoil, Taibao is an important minister of the country, and there is no room for mistakes, and I hope that Taibao will accept this arrangement from us." Gu Shan bowed slightly, then bowed to Li Hongyu and said, if Li Hongyu has an accident, no one can afford it.

"Okay, I'm sure." Li Hongyu knew that this was a kindness from Gu Shan and the others, so he didn't insist anymore, nodded and agreed, so as not to worry them.

Hearing this, Gu Shan, Zhao Hai and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, with 3,000 cavalry to send each other, no rebellious army on the Shaanxi and Gandhi borders dared to come forward to provoke, and they would be able to sleep well.

Along the way, Li Hongyu's mood became heavier and heavier, and the scenery along the way was desolate, the villages and towns were bleak, and the fields were full of abandoned crops, which made him secretly shake his head.

This is completely different from the scene when he left the customs three years ago, as if in a dream, it seems that the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu has really reached a grim point.

On the way, Li Hongyu encountered several teams of chaotic people, some were attacking the town, and some wanted to block the road and rob, but when he saw the three thousand cavalry of Hulala, he was immediately frightened and scattered, no wonder Gu Shan, Zhao Hai and others wanted to arrange two thousand cavalry escorts for him.

On the morning of this day, not long after Li Hongyu and his entourage entered the boundary of Gongchang Mansion of Shaanxi's political secretary, they were stopped by the military checkpoint on the road ahead.

"On the orders of the Governor of the Three Sides, all the soldiers who come and go are recruited, and you are now being requisitioned by the Governor." Guarding the checkpoint was a hundred households, holding an official document stamped with a big seal in his hand, and said with a serious expression to Niu Lei, a thousand households of the forbidden army who went to inquire.

"Daring, do you know whose team this is?"

Niu Lei couldn't help but burst out of anger in his heart when he heard this, glared at the hundred households and asked, but a small trilateral governor dared to block the way to the Taibao, it was a joke.

Moreover, the forbidden army is Emperor Chongzhen's imperial army, and no one can mobilize it except Emperor Chongzhen, and the governors of the three sides want to use the forbidden army, which is undoubtedly a rebellion.

However, it is no wonder that the hundred households who blocked the road, Niu Lei and others changed into the military uniforms of the Ming army after escorting Li Hongyu to the Western Regions, and it was impossible for Li Hongyu to send someone to transport their clothes separately, so outsiders did not know that these cavalry wearing ordinary military uniforms were the forbidden army of the imperial court.

Otherwise, even if he was given a hundred guts to this hundred households, he would not dare to stop the forbidden army, and it was obvious that the forbidden army was beyond the jurisdiction of the trilateral governors.

"This official doesn't matter who you are, as long as you pass through here, you will all be recruited!" Behind the hundred households, he was talking about the governor of the three sides, so he was naturally not to be outdone, and glared at Niu Lei and said.

Niu Lei has been in the Western Regions for many years, and his speech is already about the western accent, so the Baihu thinks that he is a soldier on the Ganzhou side, so he is naturally in the moderation of the governor of the three sides.

It should be pointed out that the confidence of this hundred households did not come in vain, and the power of the trilateral governors was extremely great, and he controlled the governors of Hexi, Hedong, and Shaanxi, as well as the nine general soldiers of Gan, Liang, Su, Xi, Ningxia, Yansui, Shendaoling, Xing'an, and Guyuan.

In other words, as long as the civil and military officials and the army on the border of Shaanxi and Gansu are under the control and jurisdiction of the trilateral governors, they have great power.

This is also the reason why the hundred households are not afraid of Niu Lei's escort, the trilateral governor is the biggest official in the Shaanxi and Gandi realms, and the other party is only unlucky when he meets the trilateral governor.

"My lord asks you, why did the governor of the three sides recruit the king's soldiers?"

Niu Lei was immediately angered by the arrogant attitude of the hundred households, he was a thousand households of the forbidden army, and even Gu Shan, who was the capital of Shaanxi, called him "brother" when he saw him, and he was not afraid of any trilateral governor at all, he just opened his mouth to reprimand the hundred households, and a voice came from behind him.

It was a guard beside Li Hongyu who spoke, and Li Hongyu already knew that the other party was on the order of the governors of the three sides to block the road and recruit troops, so he wanted to know the reason.

Seeing the guard speak, Niu Lei knew that it was Li Hongyu who meant, so he swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and glared at the hundred households with an angry expression.

"The Governor besieged the leader of the rebellious people, Wang Er, in Huining County, and the thieves were powerful, so the Governor specially recruited the king's soldiers in order to exterminate him." Hearing this, the hundred households glanced at the guard and replied.

"Wang Er?" Li Hongyu's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, it seems that this is the will of heaven, he had heard Gu Shan mention this person before, but he didn't expect to meet it so soon, he couldn't help but be a little curious about who this "Shouyi person" who opened the curtain of the uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty was sacred.

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