Chapter 21: After the Storm
The long winter days finally swept away in the land of Daming, and the cold wind finally swept away.
The silent sky finally rained before the arrival of summer, and the drizzle could not moisten the dry earth, nor could it save the millions of people in Shaanxi.
The light rain that is useless can only rely on an illusion to hang the appetite of the people and give the people the hope of the sky.
At the end of May, the summer harvest is approaching.
But after two years of drought, families are finally in danger of running out of food.
Looking down from the sky, the people of the entire Pingyang Mansion began to migrate towards the capital city of Pingyang.
If you can't eat or pay the imperial grain, you have to rely on the imperial court.
In half a month, news suddenly spread from the entire land of Binh Duong Province that there was a large amount of grain in Binh Duong City, enough for millions of people to eat for several years.
Such news is like the blood wine brewed by the devil, so that the people who have no way out choose to go to Pingyang City with the whole village and the whole township.
Then when everything was discovered by Tang Xidong, the displaced people outside the city had already formed a general trend.
Wave after wave, Chongzhen four years, Tang Xidong experienced far more than everything he experienced in his previous life.
The smoke of the war, which was later called the Battle of Pingyang City, has not yet passed, and the aftermath is still stirring, and then a new right and wrong are rising.
Tang Xidong had been longing for a period of time to have a large number of people in his hands, enough for him to realize his ambitions in Daming, but the large number of people was also at a certain boundary point, not like now, nearly a million people in the entire Pingyang Mansion came to join him.
Through the surge of people, Tang Xidong had already seen the conspiracy of the black shadow standing behind the crowd.
The imperial court ordered Cao Wenzhao to lead nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, including 7,000 elite Guanning troops, after the last battle, except for the 1,000 cavalry that escorted Cao Wenzhao to escape from Pingyang Mansion, the remaining 6,000 men and horses can be said to be annihilated.
This does not include the surrendered 3,000 Zuojia troops who died on Luoliang Mountain.
The Ming army, which suffered heavy losses, experienced a war and no longer had the strength to besiege, after all, at this moment, there were still hundreds of thousands of rebel troops in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces wandering around and disturbing, and they were already approaching the boundary of Zhili.
If the yang can't come by, it will naturally come to the yin.
The nearly one million people who were bewitched were the conspiracy of the other party, and they could drown the Pingyang City they had painstakingly managed in a sea of people without a single soldier.
And at the end of May, it was only half a month since that big war.
At this time, Tang Xidong had just broken free from the busy and anxious quagmire of Pingyang City, and his body was still very weak after suffering from excessive blood loss.
After Tang Xidong fell into a coma, the battle went out of control.
Because Tang Xidong fell into a coma after the war, this sleep was more than three days.
In three days, a lot will happen.
For example, the people of Luoliang Mountain, who have fallen into violent hatred, began to mobilize the people in the city, and then found out the secret agents lurking in the city one by one who were not arrested, and the people who were burned down have been blinded by anger and consciously joined the crusade.
So the spies were found one by one, and then the streets were submerged under the fists and feet of the people, and the rich merchants and landlords in the city were also average, and the people who had lost their minds could no longer care about the laws and decrees.
And the officials and family members in the city who were imprisoned in Luoliang Mountain were all buried in hell under Liu Lianqing's order.
There are also officers in the Ming army who surrendered, all of whom were cut and killed.
Among them is the famous Zuo Guangxian.
When Tang Xidong woke up, what was in front of him was such a mess, a Pingyang City that was heading out of control.
Even if he stopped everything immediately, it would be useless.
The people's will is hard to disobey, and the matter has come to this.
Tang Xidong could only follow the incident brewed by Liu Lianqing and others, and slowly redeem it.
After the entire city of Binh Duong was wiped out with vested interests, it was a sign that Tang Xidong needed to rebuild his political team and business team.
Of course, there are also benefits, that is, when the people of the whole city came to their senses, they found that they had boarded the thief ship of Luoliang Mountain, so Tang Xidong could play the banner of Luoliang Mountain in a righteous and bright manner, and the people of Pingyang City, who were personally contaminated with the blood of the court officials, soldiers, and Jinyi guards, had no way to retreat.
This is probably the most advantageous point for Tang Xidong, and another point is that after the war, Pingyang City has a reason to be abandoned, and his plan to rebuild the new city can be officially realized.
When Tang Xidong returned to power, he completely changed the pattern and management of Binh Duong City.
The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communications and Water Resources, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Ministry of Military, and the Ministry of Intelligence, nine major departments were set up.
Xu Sanxing, Jia Huaizhong, Deng Dahu, Liu Dagou, Liu Lianqing, Tang Sanxian, Hu Chunfeng, Li Shangquan, and Cao Ran were appointed ministers respectively.
In addition, there is also a Criminal Punishment Department and a Military Discipline Department, one is headed by Zhang Sanshi, who is in charge of Tang Xidong, and the other is in charge of Jia Hu.
After the war, Luoliang Mountain's original 5,000 old foundations lost more than half, leaving a large number of disabled veterans, which is also one of the main reasons why the entire Luoliang Mountain fell into hatred after Tang Xidong fell into a coma.
The restructuring of the army is imperative.
Therefore, Tang Xidong selected 5,000 new troops who fought bravely in the battle to form the Pingyang Regiment, which was still a squad of 10 people, a platoon of 100 people, a company of 1,000 people, and three companies plus 500 personal soldiers, 500 artillery, and 1,000 cavalry.
The original Luoliangshan Company still maintained the original establishment of two companies and was renamed the Hero Luoliangshan Company.
The number of people is not enough for the time being, and there is no longer a rush to increase, but the selection of brave fighters in the future to fill the gap.
In addition, the original 10,000 new troops still have to recruit people for training again.
After all the owners of the caravan were killed, Tang Xidong had to re-establish the business alliance, and still needed to rely on the original business channels of each family, as well as the available stewards, to form a caravan to integrate the channel force, although everything needed to start again, but after the formation, the power was greater, and the control of the caravan was strengthened.
After all the changes are made.
Binh Duong City has been rejuvenated, and its own people, such as the operating system under the command of the arm, the regulations are clearly divided, and the departments that cooperate with each other and have their own division of labor.
After a war, as the wound slowly repaired, everything had a fresh start.
Everything was ready, and the slogan of building a new Binh Duong was shouted in the ancient city.
However, at this moment, a large number of displaced people began to appear outside the city, coming towards Pingyang City.
Suddenly, Tang Xidong found that the entire city of Pingyang had been surrounded by a sea of displaced people.
He was faced with a difficult choice.