Chapter 493: See the Poor Dagger
The Ming Dynasty in the last days is really full of disasters and difficulties, the sad Chongzhen has a good day and a good day is rare, and the Jiannu has just stopped for a few months, but Shaanxi is getting more and more troublesome. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
In June of the third year of Chongzhen, the thief king Jiayin captured the second camp of Huangfuchuan and Qingshui. The next day, Fugu County was conquered and Gushan Fort was besieged.
Yulin Dao Bai Yiqing sent troops and horses to encircle and suppress, at this time the rogue was just a group of mobs, there was no combat effectiveness at all, Wang Jiayin's thieves were crushed at the touch of a button, and fled back to Fugu County. Hong Chengchou fought a battle of encirclement and annihilation, killing bloodied and drifting, and killed many people.
Dusi Aimu blocked several gangs of rogues between Yanchuan and Qingjian, and the leaders of the rogues begged the court to recruit peace. The garrison officer Jiang Shizhong sent Li Guangxuan, the leader of the rogue who had previously surrendered, to read out the will of the great Aimin Emperor Chongzhen.
Of course, this decree was not for these rogues, but for the civil and military generals who suppressed the thieves from all walks of life. The meaning is clear, the rogues are also my people, and they should be cared for.
Alas! Honest Chongzhen really doesn't know, once the thieves start killing, arson, robbing, and raping, they are not even human, they are all beasts, where are the people?
Now the imperial court soldiers and horses can beat them, but they are open, and when the two thieves Li and Zhang with ulterior motives rise, they will not give the court any chance.
Now the cause of the rebellion of the displaced people is hunger, and in the next few years it will not be this cause at all, but the result of the deliberate demagogy of the thieves who have tasted the sweetness.
Killing officials and rebelling, robbing gold and silver, sleeping with beautiful women, the momentum is not right, who doesn't do such a small risk and a big profit?
Emperor Chongzhen is really stupid, it is not advisable to recruit bandits at all, it is okay to accept surrender, scatter and settle the minions who are coerced, find out the head of the thieves and kill them, and behead the people who have slaughtered the people, so as to be able to deter Xiaoxiao.
The bandits who got Zhao'an have done countless bloody cases without punishment and have become officials, driven by such a bad example, who will be willing to be a good citizen?
Yanchuan only appeased Wang Zishun, Zhang Shusheng, and Ji San'er. Over there, the thieves Shen Yiyuan, Shen Yikui and Wang Jiayin began to ravage Yan'an and Qingyang frantically, and for a while, many people were killed in the city.
Yang He, the governor of the three sides, advocated appeasement and did not send troops to encircle and suppress.
Yang He and Governor Liu Guangsheng each sent their officials to take the certificate of receipt and the exemption card to surrender the Liukou, and the Yellow Tiger, the Little Red Wolf, Yizhangqing, Longjiangshui, the Sweeping Tiger, Hao Xiaoquan, etc., all successively gave the exemption card to accept Zhao'an, and placed them in Yansui and Hexi.
These thieves were not divided and conquered, they were still in gangs, and the court had to pay them food, and even though these thieves did not kill people and set fire to them for the time being, they still robbed, plundered, and raped women.
The common people swallowed their anger, and the local officials did not dare to sue and became a troublemaker. The thieves in Shanxi also rose up, captured Shilou and Yonghe, broke Puzhou and Lu'an, and the officers and soldiers were defeated and lost.
The suburbs of Yan'an, Shaanxi are all thieves, the rice fat thief Zhang Xianzhong is based on the eighteen villages, the Fuchuan thief Jiayin, Qi San is based on the Dongshanzhai Fugu County, and the rest of the sweeping kings and Shangtian tigers are according to Qingjian Bao, Hengtian Wang, flying across the ditch, lighting lamps, etc. according to Qingjian County, and thieves such as Sanli Tiger and Inverted Tiger are according to Anle Temple to avoid thieves.
When the official army was fighting fiercely with the Liukou, a general star was rising, and he was Emperor Chongzhen, who was raised by Emperor Chongzhen and became a big traitor in the future.
Chongzhen likes to promote talents he thinks in an eclectic way, and specially promotes Hong Chengchou to participate in politics in Shaanxi Province as the right governor of the Imperial Palace, and the governor of Yansui.
Due to the great trouble of the imperial court in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen gave praise to the generals of Liaodong, and entered Sun Chengzong Taifu, Zhang Fengyi Prince Taibao, and a son as the commander of Jinyiwei.
Jin Zu Taishou Shao Chuan, Yi Yi Zi Jin Yiwei commanded Tongzhi, Song Wei and Ma Shilong were given to the prince Taibao, You Shilu and Yang Zhaoji entered the prince and the prince, and entered Wu Zimian Zuo Dudu, Yu Wenwu was poorly rewarded.
There is also a minister who got his wish, Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, Zhiwen Yuange, and became the old man of the court. In the future, more fierce party disputes will break out in the imperial court.
The scheming Wen Tiren and the young Zhuang cabinet minister Zhou Yanru, who is strongly supported by the Donglin Party, will definitely try to see the poor.
Huang Sheng can't control the messy imperial court, to be honest, now he is in full swing and can't help with soldiers, the Huang family has too few private soldiers, and now tens of thousands of villagers have been mobilized, and this time it is a full fight!
Hunger is the cause of the rebellion of the displaced people, and it is not difficult to solve this problem, the key is food.
There is only one method that is most effective without food, and the brutal method of wild boar skin is to kill all the people without grain. Otherwise, the counterinsurgency will be in vain, and even the officers and soldiers will have to rob to survive, and the final result will be that the soldiers and bandits will not distinguish each other.
One by one, the conscientious generals of the Ming army will be abandoned by the cruel reality, because they can't go down to snatch the people's life food, they can't bear to cut off the heads of the good people, and it is impossible to make a big merit, and the more they fight, the weaker they become, the final result is failure.
In the end, the Ming army generals Zuo Liangyu and others, who were worse than Li and Zhang Er, became bigger, they were evil bandits in official clothes, and they trampled on the last bit of righteousness of the imperial court.
The officers and soldiers are so bad, which directly leads to the common people becoming more hostile to the Ming government, and they will become thieves if they are slightly bewitched by the rogues, and there is no trace of psychological pressure.
Huang Sheng's grain surplus is limited, and he still has to prepare for war and famine, no one can say what the ghost weather of Xiaoice River will be like next year, now that he has a population of more than 2 million, how can he do without grain reserves?
Huang Sheng wants to strive for the tuntian in his system in the short term, even if there is no harvest in the whole year, the stored grain can be consumed for a year. That's a little more reassuring.
At this time, if you transport 3,000 miles of grain to Shaanxi, I don't know how many mules and horses will be needed, and you will have to be escorted by heavy troops to make the trip, and the consumption on the road under the management of the Huang family will exceed 20%.
If it is the Ming official army to transport it, I am afraid that half of it will be good when it arrives at the ground. In ancient times, when transportation was extremely underdeveloped, it was too difficult to transport grain by land for 3,000 miles.
Huang Sheng could only choose to take some of the displaced people from Shaanxi out, and refused to transport grain into Shaanxi.
Because in the end, it is unknown who will be cheaper, without the deterrence of their own private soldiers, they cannot be put into the hands of every victim who is waiting to be fed according to human hair, who knows if the rogue finally got the food? It is also possible that the official who handled it made a windfall.
Huang Sheng is a realist, he does not hesitate to give up what he can't do, his own soldiers and horses can't enter Shanxi on a large scale, and the number of villagers and intelligence officers who follow the "Huaxia Daqian Village" and the caravan to enter in the nature of bodyguards is limited, and he can only take some hungry people to Haizhou Port to go to sea.
At the beginning of November, 30,000 high-ranking villagers arrived from Huangjiawan Island, "Huaxia Island" and other Huangjia territories, including 5,000 flintlock rifled musketeers, 15,000 smoothbore gunners, and 10,000 cold weapons Xiangyong were gunners and pikemen respectively.
There are very few archers, because it is really not easy to practice archery, archery is much more difficult than shooting, and it is necessary to have enough strength.
Unless you are originally a hunter who can shoot arrows since childhood, you will insist on practicing riding and archery, and the village brave with a blank sheet of paper will naturally engage in easy-to-use musket shooting, and don't spend those idle hours stupidly.
10,000 villagers rushed to the port of Qinzhou on November 5, because they knew that they were going to fight with their family masters, and everyone was inexplicably excited.
The Huang family never ordered the villagers to participate in the war, every time they were selected from among the volunteers, active combat and passive participation in the war are not the same, and the warriors of Huang's hometown are not a problem.