Chapter 696: A Vast Net

Huang Sheng personally led the Chinese army with nearly 20,000 troops in the center, and the huge encirclement was tightening.

Every person on the road had to make sure that no one slipped through the net, and in the process, too many homeless people were captured and a lot of valuable information was obtained.

It is certain that there are homeless criminals among these displaced people, and they cannot distinguish between harmlessness and harmlessness, so they are all escorted to the ship and sent to several mining areas for labor reform.

In each labor camp, there are propaganda team instructors and suppression officers who are good at observing words and feelings, and they will often convene a meeting of critics to analyze the hearts of the prisoners, and gradually the displaced prisoners will be discovered, and then they will be given the freedom to become wage miners.

The vast majority of those who have been confirmed as rogues will not be punished unless they have a lot of blood debts, and they will continue to be given the opportunity to fight for leniency in their labor.

Only Huang Sheng's army had the ability to intercept all the displaced people in the places where they passed, because the 'Nanming' government was able to transport large quantities of grain.

The Ming officers and troops couldn't do it at all, and no general was willing to do it. The Ming government is unable to sustain even the supply of military rations, so how can it have spare strength to manage the hungry people?

How to deal with these displaced people who are waiting to be fed and have no food?

Moreover, even if the officers and soldiers have food, it is impossible to give it to the people for free, and now that the price of grain is extremely high, of course they will sell it for silver.

In the eyes of most of the generals and scholars of the Ming army, the common people are just ants, and how many are related to the suffering of the common people?

In Huang Sheng's eyes, all the Han people are the cornerstone of the future dominance of the world, and the strength of the return of the king of the Han nation, and starving everyone to death is a loss.

As long as they lend a helping hand when they are most helpless, they will become workers, peasants, fighters, and taxpayers who provide for the government, and the rewards for 'Nanming' will be gushing.

The army walked for more than a month, and at the end of the first month, it became 11 people, and it was the Huang family garrison and Xiang Yong from the Zhoushan Islands who came to participate in the military operation.

One of them was led by Jin Jin to land along the river from Pukou and enter Chuzhou, and the other was led by Fan Tao to enter Luzhou Mansion through Chaohu Lake.

Ye Haowu, the chief military officer of Zhejiang, had long regarded himself as a general of the "God of War" department, and when he learned that the southern king could not wait to make new contributions to the establishment of the country overseas, he led 5,000 men and horses to enter Xuyi County through Hongze Lake.

These three men and horses who arrived from Zhejiang successfully blocked the way for the Liukou to flee south, so that the siege strategy of the "God of War" troops did not need to use the natural danger of the Yangtze River to make up for the lack of troops.

Nine times out of ten, Ye Haowu's generals are in the "God of War" system, and their families all went to Zhoushan Island to live a year ago.

This time, the people who were brought out to fight the rogue were all led by officers of the "God of War" department.

Ye Haowu's selection criteria for 5,000 Zhejiang soldiers are directly applied to the "God of War" drill code, of course, the military discipline is strict, no less than the well-known Qi family army in the Qi Jiguang period.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Zhejiang soldiers were famous for being good at fighting and resistant to war, and now they have equipment that is ahead of the times, of course, like a tiger.

Xu Sijiu, Qin Huai, Lu Wenhua, and other propaganda team officers had already led the propaganda team members to widely publicize in Fengyang Mansion, and all the common people knew that hundreds of thousands of rogues were coming to Fengyang Mansion to kill them, and they had to leave their homeland because they could not leave their homeland.

Fortunately, there are waterways here, and as long as the migrants come to Qili Lake and Nüshan Lake, they will have a boat to pick up refugees, and they will get food and clothing, which is dozens of times more efficient than transporting people in Shanxi and Henan, and the people have a boat to take and have less hardship to trek.

The governors of the five provinces were also made big by the rogues and the outcasts.

Hong Chengchou was a little jealous of the King of the South, so he restrained Hong's murderous reputation and asked people from all walks of life to escort the captured homeless people and rogues out of Tongguan and hand them over to the "God of War" for disposal.

Daming also knew that the population loss was serious, but it was a pity that leaving these displaced people could not provide them with the least living space, and they could not even distribute the rations they could barely live on for three or five months.

The king of the south offered compensation to accept the displaced people and refugees, which was also the condition for Ma Shihu, and the generals of the Ming army saw that a man could be exchanged for one or two silver, and a complete family could get two taels, and they all took the initiative to send people to Haizhou Port.

Because of the food consumption on the road, the "God of War" people and horses all gave them real reimbursements, and the soldiers who did not escort them were afraid of trouble.

Because the "God of War" calculates the consumption in full, and it is impossible for the generals of the Ming army to feed the homeless, it is already benevolent and righteous to give two meals a day to let the homeless people and the rogues and prisoners be full, so they can also deduct some food.

There is no need to fight, the escort of the exiles and the displaced people can still be compensated, the silver can also be leftover, and the generals under Hong Chengchou are all vying for this beauty.

Huang Sheng chose not to go to Shanxi to fight Gao Yingxiang, but chose to come to Huguang and Nanzhili to fight Zhang Xianzhong's department because he took a fancy to the convenient waterways here, and it was relatively easy to dispatch soldiers and horses, supply materials, transport grain, and export immigrants.

The "Southern Ming" will be joined by millions of ordinary people, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty has been determined, and the population will reach more than 30 million.

After another three months, Huang Sheng's arrangement of closing the door and fighting the dogs has been completed, and the rogues have encountered a veritable ambush on ten sides.

The reason why Huang Sheng killed chickens and used a knife was to completely eliminate this group of rogue led by Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, and Luo Rucai, and the tactics required that not a single rogue leader slip through the net.

Because a spark can start a prairie fire, since you have to make a move, you have to completely extinguish all the sparks.

An overwhelming net has been formed, and more and more rogues will soon be caught.

This time, the ordinary minions arrested were not treated leniently without bloodshed, and the small leaders were not killed unless they were the most heinous people, and they were kept as miners for a year or two of labor reform, and then those who had reformed their past mistakes were selected and taken to South and North America for colonization.

Whoever found the big leader of the rogue would not let go, and handed it over to the imperial court for disposal after a few months.

In fact, the big boss has long lost his majesty after being captured and fought for a few months, and even ordinary people will not be afraid of them, and even if they can escape, they will no longer have cohesion.

This is the benefit of constantly educating the people and letting them participate in the criticism and fighting, from criticizing the Jiannu bannermen, the pirate leaders to the leaders of the Henan Liukou, and then to the guerrilla Zuo Liangyu and the unscrupulous army leaders, the propaganda team has accumulated too much experience in tearing off the faces of these petty and vicious people.

Ordinary people will find that the once famous Thirty-six Roads are actually paper tigers, kneeling on the stage to accept criticism, one by one shrunk into a ball, looking pitiful.

Of course, no one will look at them in the future, so they will not be able to make waves if they escape.

Of course, the emperor is not a vegetarian, and the big leaders of the Liukou have not rebelled because of life, they belong to ambitious bastards, and Chongzhen's choice is, of course, to kill them all.