Hu Wenxian is a native of Huai'an, 25 years old this year, and has already been admitted to Xiucai. But now he has cut off his braids, put on a red vest, and has become a clerk in the logistics unit of the Fu Han army. Of course, the reason why he joined the army was not out of hatred for the Manchus, and he wanted to create the mountains and rivers of the Han family again, but simply because he was poor and couldn't live.

Poor Xiucai, poor Xiucai!

Although Xiucai was also a member of the gentry class, and was also respected by the peasants and countrymen in the countryside, they were far less popular than the others. Especially after the implementation of the policy of Yongzheng officials and gentry paying for food as one errand and one person, the poor and sour shows in the world are everywhere. And lift people to pay for food like errands, but who has ever heard of a man with a hungry stomach growling?

Hu Wenxian is old and young, and a large family of people has seven or eight mouths and screams, and he can only defect to the Fu Han army. Fortunately, the family survived first. He is just a small showman, not Qin Dacheng, who is the best man in the world, righteous, bullshit righteousness.

Can righteousness be exchanged for food?

The Hu family is dying of hunger. Hu Wenxian's food was stolen by the officials and soldiers, bullshit.

Hu Wenxian defected to the Han Army, not wanting to have a long future, just to save his family's life first. After being in the Fu Han Army, the Hu family is a military family, can there be hungry military families in the Fu Han Army?

Not only is you not hungry, but you can eat meat. Chen Ming will add eggs to the Boy Scouts when the dogma allows, regardless of whether it is an egg or a duck egg, as long as the conditions allow. In just a few days, the faces of the Hu family have become a little ruddy. Just because of this, Hu Wenxian sold his life.

When he first joined the army, he was in the company of a group of mud-legged people who didn't know a single word, and if he was a scholar who had never suffered hardships, he might not be able to step on his identity for a while. But Hu Wenxian is different, when he was most down, he personally went into the water to catch fish and shrimp, dug wild vegetables, and even stole things in order to keep his parents, wife and children from starving, and he had already thrown away the shelf of a scholar.

There are also militia groups in the Yancheng area, and Hu Wenxian used to work as a clerk in Dingda's militia group, and there was not much money and food. If the Hu family only has three or four people, then they can still eat, but Hu Wenxian's wife is a good child, since he married Hu Wenxian, it is almost one child a year, and two of them have not been able to stand, but so there are five children, plus the old father and mother, not counting Hu Wenxian himself, there are eight people, and the Hu family can only hang half-dead.

When the Fu Han army hit Yancheng along the Yunyan River, Ding Da patted his ass and ran away with people, but Hu Wenxian couldn't run, he ran away, what should his family do?

The Hu family was originally half-dead, relying on Hu Wenxian's money and food to hang their lives, and after Ding Da ran away, the rice and grain bottomed out in a few days. Hu Wenxian was very decisive and cut his braids directly.

Hu Wenxian is the clerk of the No. 6 porridge shed outside Yancheng, and the red vest is passed on, which is one level higher than the yellow vest, and the clerk is also responsible for the daily record of food and firewood consumption, so it can be said that he is a character in the No. 6 porridge shed. Hu Wenxian's relatives, neighbors, and acquaintances also benefited him and settled in the No. 6 porridge shed these days. The soup soup of the Fu Han Army is very affordable, although it is a multigrain porridge, but the porridge is really viscous, and the chopsticks are not crooked, but they can also stand in the pot for a short time.

In addition to Hu Wenxian's relatives and neighbors, there are also Hu Wenxian's classmates, fellow students or the same year, these people, regardless of whether they are Xiucai or children, are all down-and-out people who go to the No. 6 porridge shed to eat. But among these people, there are only a handful of people like Hu Wenxian who cut the film and directly defected to the Fu Han army.

"The righteousness of the court? Can you exchange it for a pound of grain? The emperor is good, and I did pass the fame, but can these be compared to my father, mother, wife and children? The food in the family was stolen by the group of soldiers who suffered from the plague, and if they did not join the Han army, the nine members of the Hu family would die. "Here in Yancheng, no one even buys the children. Although it is not yet to the point of eating with a child, as long as the Grand Canal is not passable, as long as there is a drought in the coming year, northern Jiangsu will be hell on earth sooner or later.

This year, there was a drought in northern Jiangsu, and there was even a locust plague, and there was very little harvest of summer grain, and then there was a shortage of soldiers, and the autumn grain was also delayed, and millions of people had no food, how could it not be chaotic?

From Hu Wenxian's point of view, as long as the Fu Han Army persists in Jiangnan for a year and a half, the northern part of Jiangsu must explode.

After entering the system of the Fu Han Army, Hu Wenxian also understood the Fu Han Army, which was different from seeing flowers in the fog outside, which would be seen very clearly. Although the system of the Fu Han Army is very different from my Qing Dynasty, and even different from the previous dynasties, how can I say it? Carefully taste a product, it's really good. Very good for the common people!

It's a pity that few people outside know about these things. The braided dramas and propaganda dramas carried out by the Fu Han army themselves are limited to pressure from all sides, and they can only be performed in Nanjing, Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou, which are big cities where the Fu Han army has strong control.

The activity of the sticky pole in this month is also rampant. This made the Fu Han army also reveal a flaw that was not a flaw -- don't look at the secret camp of the Fu Han army, when it was really their turn to deal with this kind of indiscriminate means, they also sat on wax.

For example, there must be people in the refugees in Yancheng who stick to the pole, these people use the means of secret camps to deal with the Fu Han army, they mix in the refugees to spread rumors, stir up chaos, attack and kill the people of the Fu Han army, and even poison the water source, etc. The Fu Han Army is different and hasn't caught anyone yet.

Hu Wenxian's No. 6 porridge shed has many of his relatives and friends, this is to take care of his own people, and the second is to let these relatives and friends be their eyes and ears and be vigilant against sticky poles. Hu Wenxian doesn't want to die yet.

Especially in the war of Huai'an, which was not a big problem, as a clerk who stayed behind in the rear logistics, it would be worthless to die. Hu Wenxian is still thinking about going to Yangzhou and Nanjing. With so many cannons and so many gunpowder shells in the Fu Han army, I am afraid that Huai'an will be able to be flattened. When the army retreats, he can also spend two days in Yangzhou or Nanjing. Now the things in the porridge shed seem simple and ordinary, but they can exhaust people every day.

Hu Wenxian shouted to the people around him as he walked: "Don't squeeze everyone, everyone has porridge to drink." It is not the first day that the Fu Han army gave porridge in Yancheng, and everyone knows the rules. Our army is not short of food, so everyone should not crowd it. ”

A very simple thing is to scatter grain to win people's hearts. Chen Ming's own strategy can greatly improve his status in the hearts of refugees.

In fact, in the past few days, the image of the Fu Han Army in the hearts of the refugees in Yancheng has indeed improved a lot, and every time it is time to open porridge, there will always be refugees who can't control their feelings to come out to 'vent' their gratitude. And the recruitment office of the Fu Han Army in Yancheng has also received one or two thousand recruits these days.

The Han Zi of Northern Jiangsu really provided a great source of troops for the expansion of the Fu Han Army, so much so that it was rumored on the ground south of the Yangtze River that after the Fu Han Army took Nanjing, seven out of ten recruits were from Northern Jiangsu. It doesn't matter if it's a refugee or a boatman! This is too absolute, but it also reflects the truth from one side.

When the porridge was opened, a thin old man with two children held a large bowl made of wood and filled a bowl of porridge, which was enough for their three grandfathers to live. The old man seemed to have only arrived here for a short time, and when he saw the two grandsons holding the wooden bowl and drinking sweetly, the old man's eyes were filled with tears: "The Fuhan army is a good team, and the governor is a good person!" Give us hard-working people a way to live. The old man is old, and he can't repay the kindness of the governor until he dies. If there is an afterlife, the old man will be a cow and a horse to repay the great kindness of the governor. After that, he kowtowed in the direction of Huai'an.

The surrounding refugees nodded one after another, and many of them kowtowed in the direction of Huai'an. No matter what the status of the Fu Han Army is now, these refugees are not given relief by the Manchu government, and the fate that awaits them is very miserable. The Fu Han Army is now alive and dead, so don't say anything to win people's hearts. The hearts of these people were also towards the Manchus at first, but the Manchus themselves pushed them out. In the face of life, food is real.

In this stall of natural and man-made disasters, these impoverished refugees can really see a glimmer of hope for life in despair.

Hu Wenxian smiled and stretched out his hand to make everyone quiet, he was very satisfied with what he was doing now, no matter what, because he was the one who helped many of his relatives and friends, and whenever he thought about it at night, his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment.

"Everyone listened well, and they all put their hearts in their stomachs. I repeat, Dadu Governor Chrysostom, as long as there is food for the Fu Han army, the soup soup will not be broken or short, and you will not be hungry. ”

The refugees cheered, and Hu Wenxian went all the way from beginning to end, and met at least twenty or thirty people crying silently, "The Metropolitan Governor is a living Bodhisattva." God bless, bless the Metropolitan Governor to be safe and prosperous. ”

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At the same time that the main force of the Fu Han army was besieging Huai'an City, Chen Ming also sent a partial division to sweep Qingjiang and Funing.

The latter was not difficult to fight, and after Yancheng was abandoned by the Qing army, Funing was also abandoned by the Qing army. On the other hand, Qingjiang is the center of Huaiyang Town, and the local militia has also been organized, and the resistance is much more fierce than that of Funing.

In the evening, Chen Ming received a report from Qingjiang that the local H people were willing to let go of the Order's defensive area, and only asked the Fu Han Army to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the Green Cultists, regardless of the previous resistance of the Green Cultists.

Chen Ming didn't have much discrimination against the Green Cult against the Star Moon Sect, and compared to this, he was even more disgusted with the True God Sect. And Chen Ming also knew that the Star Moon Sect and the Star Moon Sect, and between the Green Sect and the Green Sect, were also very different. The Xingyue Sect and the Green Sect in Qingjiang, and even in Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, are completely different from the Great Northwest Xingyue Sect and its followers in this era, and the sect system that the latter is gradually flourishing and spreading is intolerable to any strong centralized government, and the ambition of those people is to truly establish a completely independent Xingyue Sect state on Chinese soil, and they worship the Sultan of Istanbul and recognize him as their spiritual leader and caliph of the Xingyue Sect. The chaos of Tongzhi in later generations, Chen Ming could not tolerate it. The Xingyue Sect and its followers here in Qingjiang, whether it is the purpose or personal living habits, and even the ideology and culture, are deeply integrated with traditional Chinese culture, and compared with those disciples of the sect, they are completely acceptable to Chen Ming.

Just like Chen Ming's classmates and friends of the H clan in his previous life, and his cousin-in-law, these are completely different things.

"We can guarantee the safety and property of their people, and we can not care about their [Order's] resistance, nor will we destroy their churches and desecrate their faith. But the firearms in the hands of the Order must be handed in, and cold weapons are allowed to be kept, but firearms are not. And they also have to pay a sum of money and food as an atonement for their sins. (To be continued.) )