Before the end of June, Yuan Chonghuan and others received the emperor's will. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yuan Chonghuan asked the original general soldier of Guyuan Town, and now Yang Qi, the general soldier of Dingyu Town, to immediately start the relocation of the people and horses belonging to Guyuan Town, and he himself took Mao Yujian, Zhou Yuji, He Renlong, and Huang Tingzheng to recruit 5,000 Shaanxi recruits to go north to Huamachi first, and on the basis of the original Huamachi Governor Yamen, he officially began to prepare for the construction of the trilateral governor's line.

After receiving the emperor's will, Ma Maocai took the 3,000 standard battalions of his department to the south of Fushi County, Yan'an Prefecture, and along the Fenchuan River, all the way to the southeast to explore and move forward, looking for the place mentioned in the emperor's secret decree.

Within a few days, Ma Mao, under the guidance of the local government officials, found the hidden mountain valley with sweet springs mentioned in the emperor's decree.

In Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree to Ma Maocai, the so-called Ganquan Valley mentioned was actually the valley named Nanniwan in later generations, but Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what the name of the famous Nanniwan in later generations was now in this time and space, so he just told him a general direction.

Fortunately, this valley, just at the top of the Fenchuan River, can only be passed by a very narrow mountain road, as long as the entrance of the valley is guarded, this valley is a natural paradise.

After finding the Nanniwan of later generations, Ma Mao named it Ganquanyu according to the Ganquan mentioned in the emperor's will, and built a city and set up troops to guard the narrow entrance of Ganquanyu, and began the glorious cause of Ganquanyu reclamation.

Ma Maocai himself, is a generation of eunuchs in Ansai County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, there are many relatives and friends, and now Ansai County is making a drought and banditry, although the leader of the horse thieves Gao Yingxiang only dares to take the Liukou to occupy the mountain as the king, and has not yet developed to the point of directly occupying the county seat of Ansai, but no one can say when these horse thieves and Liukou will capture the county seat and kill the landlord to eat big households, so even with the hundreds of people, relatives and friends of the Ma family, they are also moved, and they follow Ma Maocai to do it together.

After all, Ma Maocai not only held the emperor's holy decree in his hand, but more importantly, he also had 3,000 standard battalion soldiers under his command.

In this way, with the support of the Ma family and a large number of relatives and friends, Ma Mao quickly recruited more than 2,000 homeless households from Ansai, Fushi, Yanchang and other counties in the border areas of the homeless people, and brought them to Ganquanyu to reclaim the wasteland and cultivate the land.

This valley of Ganquanyu is not only very hidden, but also is indeed a blessed land, even at the end of the apocalypse, the beginning of Chongzhen, the whole northern Shaanxi is a drought for many years, several springs at the end of the valley are always abundant in water, never dry up, not only can meet the daily drinking of thousands of people, and enough to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of cultivated fertile land.

In northern Shaanxi, which is full of scorched earth, Ganquanyu can actually reclaim such a large area of watered land, which also makes Ma Maocai, a local in Yan'an Mansion in northern Shaanxi, amazed, and since then he has admired the emperor's heavenly sage even more.

In July, Ganquanyu quickly became a large construction site in full swing, some people at the entrance of the valley, digging boulders and building a closed city, some people set up posts on the surrounding hills, and most people burned and reclaimed in the middle of the gentle valley of Ganquanyu, in time to sow this year's seeds before the end of July.

In later generations, Nanniwan harvested twice a year, and the wheat was harvested in June, and a large area of high-quality rice could be planted, which was unique in the whole northern Shaanxi, and it was conceivable how rich and suitable for cultivation this place was.

Today's Ma Maocai naturally doesn't think about planting rice, because what he wants to plant is the high-yield and high-yield varieties of the agricultural institute brought by the emperor's envoy of Jinyiwei.

So as long as they plant before the end of July, by the end of October, they will at least be able to harvest enough food to survive the winter.

Moreover, as long as Ma Maocai can stand firm with his soldiers and horses, relying on Ganquanyu and its nearby Tuntian, then the chaos in northern Shaanxi will not be completely out of control, at least not completely out of control soon.

At this time, the bandit leaders occupied the mountains as kings, and all kinds of cottage bandits nested in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, which simply bloomed everywhere, but these thieves had a fatal flaw, that is, they did not produce, and lived by coercing the homeless people and looting.

It is a pity that there is a great drought in northern Shaanxi, and the drought is not only for the government, but also for those large landlords and households of the people, and the harvest is also lost.

However, it will not last long to make a living by killing large households and grabbing grain, because there will always be a day when large landlords are killed, killed, robbed, and robbed, and at that time, whether you are Gao Yingxiang as the king or Li Zicheng as the king, the displaced people you are holding will become a huge burden.

Even if you don't care about the outcasts you are hostage, if you don't have food, how can you feed your outcasts?

For a period of time, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and some other so-called leaders of the rebel army who were even more brutal than Li Zicheng ran out of food, so they let their soldiers use the homeless people as military food and live by eating people. Even so, it can be done in the short term, but it will certainly not be sustainable in the long term.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen now has an idea, that is, he is dedicated to cultivating and training troops, and if you thieves in northern Shaanxi are willing to continue to plague northern Shaanxi, you will continue to scourge you, there will always be a day when you can't continue to scourge the army.

On that day, either you will wander outside northern Shaanxi, or you will starve to death in northern Shaanxi with the displaced people you are enrolling.

Therefore, as long as the road to Shanxi and Henan is blocked, then no matter who you are, you can only flow westward, so that you will not cause trouble to the whole world.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Yuan Chonghuan's suggestion to move the trilateral governor's yamen to Huamachi, and also moved the station of Guyuan Town north to Huamachi and Dingbianwei was because he had a general strategy for the thieves in the northwest.

This strategy is to drive the thieves from northern Shaanxi to the west as much as possible, and if they cannot be eliminated, they must not be allowed to enter Shanxi and Henan.

Historically, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the thieves in northern Shaanxi, and others have tried to flow westward in the case of encirclement and suppression on all sides, but although the official army of that year was not the opponent of the Houjin army, there was no problem at all in fighting the thieves, so the thieves who fled west were defeated by the officials and troops of Guyuan Town and Lintao Town, and had to flow south and east again.

Now Emperor Chongzhen has moved Guyuan Town to the north, firstly, because although Guyuan Town is known as a border town, its station is far away from the border, and secondly, Guyuan Town is just stuck on the throat of the thieves in northern Shaanxi who are flowing westward, plus Lintao Town, which is a little westerly, and the thieves want to go west, but they can't fight at all.

Sending the Guyuan Town General Military Office and most of its men to the northern Great Wall can not only strengthen the border defense force to deal with the traps, but also open up the road for the thieves to flee westward, so as to facilitate the thieves to drive the thieves to the west in the future.

As for what to do in Ganzhou, Suzhou, Xining and other places after the thieves flee west in the future, then it can only be left to fate, anyway, the land in that place is barren and the population is not much, even if it is eroded everywhere, the impact on the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty is not great.

In order to prevent the peasant army from turning the Central Plains upside down in the future, it can only sacrifice some prefectures and counties west of Shaanxi.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen let Ma Maocai, a Jinshi-born supervisor of the imperial history, lead the standard battalion of the supervised army that had just become an army to enter Yan'an Mansion because the strategic location of Yan'an Mansion, especially Fushi County, was too important.

At present, Fushi County is the seat of Yan'an Prefecture, which is located in the center of the entire northern Shaanxi, occupying this position, no matter what kind of chaos your Fugu, Mizhi, and Ansai become, the rebellion of thieves in northern Shaanxi can only be confined to the poor countryside of northern Shaanxi, even if it flows to the west, as long as it occupies this position of Yan'an Prefecture, there will be no big problems in the north, east and south.

It was precisely because the people's army of later generations occupied this strategically vital position that it became offensive and defensible, and first of all made itself invincible.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen has a soul from later generations, so he naturally has to play a good first move and lay out in an important strategic position in advance.

For the Ansai horse thief Gao Yingxiang, as well as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other big thieves who were much more powerful than Gao Yingxiang, Emperor Chongzhen did not think about starting in advance, slaughtering them, and getting rid of future troubles. But when I think about it, I still haven't done it after all.