Chapter 512: Xiangcheng Makes a Decision After the War

For the parties concerned, the conversation in the handsome tent is just one of the two things of the military and the civilian in a day, and Yuan Wenhong, the head of the Jiaozhou battalion, sorted out this thing in accordance with the usual rules.

Also according to the rules of the Jiaozhou camp, every day after these things written by Yuan Wenhong are sorted out, they must be handed over to Li Meng's side for inspection, and if they are not suitable, they will be cancelled, and if they are suitable, they will be sent for discussion or directly decided to be released, which is actually very hard.

When he was in Shandong, there were great sages like Sun Chuanting and Liu Fulai in the Guogong Mansion, as well as think tanks like Zhou Yang, Ning Qiangui, and Yan Jizu, and many things could be shared.

This battle is equivalent to the war of annihilation of the country against Shun, which is of great significance, Li Meng naturally wants to go to the battlefield in person, Shandong, Lianghuai, Hebei Prefecture, all kinds of military and civilian affairs must be decided by him.

The situation in the world is developing step by step according to his plan, and there are still many things to plan in the future. It's a lot of things, and despite the expedition, the battles run according to plan.

Most of the time every day is busy is not a military problem, only sleeping for about three hours, fortunately, after so many years of body boiling, it can be regarded as a good physical foundation, so that it will not be unable to support it.

But Yuan Wenhong, the master of the Jiaozhou battalion, is really a little unsupportable, this elegant celebrity may not have any good health, following the army is originally hard, and he has to run official business, and he has to stay up late, he really can't stand it, Yuan Wenhong is eyes are red every day, and he looks tired.

Tired and tired, this is a critical time, seeing that the situation in the Jiaozhou battalion is becoming clearer and clearer, a person like him who is a counselor by the commander's side will be prosperous and rich in the future, if he drops the chain at this time and delays the future, wouldn't he regret committing suicide.

Over time, Yuan Wenhong also found a little rule, after the affairs of the night camp were determined, Li Meng inspected several camps, and would read these records and documents he sorted out in the tent, which took about an hour, and no one bothered during this time, although he was in the tent, he had been sitting quietly on the side, and he rarely heard anything about him.

Take this opportunity to rest and recuperate as much as possible, and wait until after reading the proclamation to work energetically, this is also Yuan Wenhong's talent, what Li Meng said during the day was recorded by him in detail and clearly, Li Meng did not ask many questions temporarily, followed for so long, Yuan Wenhong also understood some of Li Meng's habits, some habits that made him puzzled.

Before coming to the Jiaozhou camp, Yuan Wenhong originally thought that Li Meng was not literate, which is normal, if you want to be literate, how can you also have some family income, and the children's school is equivalent to occupying the labor force, Li Meng was born in a military household, so what is the opportunity to be educated, the martial artist knows how to use knives and guns, and he doesn't need to read at all.

But when I really joined this system, I found that Li Meng knew how to read, and it seemed that he had read a lot of books, but there was a little strangeness, it seemed that he could only recognize the correct letters, and he had to add the symbol of sentence breaking, sentence reading and literacy is something to be taught in the enlightenment private school, and the handsome man seems to have read books, but he doesn't know this knowledge, which is really strange.

Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, rarely writes, usually dictates records, and then reads and checks, but he can write his own name, and he has a lot of pen power, which is all kinds of incomprehension.

I heard that Dashuai was a demented person when he was young, and then he was drowned by the sea once, which is why he suddenly became extremely heroic, and he achieved the current situation step by step.

There are even more rare rumors, saying that the time when he was flooded by the sea, Li Meng was possessed by a real dragon in the sea, this is today's scene, this is the destiny of the dragon body!

According to Yuan Wenhong's own opinion, what Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, did, all kinds of decisions, and his daily behavior, he was really the kind of style of the founding hero, and he really attached a real dragon, as for those details, those little secret things, it is better to keep silent, so as not to invite trouble.

Every night in the military tent, when Li Meng read the record documents, it was when Yuan Wenhong was napping, Li Meng also knew it in his heart, and let this confidential person rest.

I have read the letter by letter, and the disposal of Gao Jie, the distribution of the Ma army, and the next move of Chen Liu, the general of Zhengxi, are all things that have been agreed a long time ago.

Looking at it, I saw the plan to let the businessmen from Shandong and Jiangnan buy land in Henan, which I just thought was eye-catching at the time, but now I look at it, the more I look at it, the more it makes sense, and through this plan, many problems can be solved, Li Meng looked at it more and more excitedly, and patted the table excitedly.

This movement was not loud, but Yuan Wenhong, who was in a daze over there, was an agitated spirit, and thought that the handsome man intended to summon him, so he quickly stood up, patted his long shirt, and apologized with some shame and said:

"The marshal atonements, and the lowly position is a little confused."

Li Meng didn't care about this subsection, anyway, it was something that happened every day, and he greeted him repeatedly:

"Mr. Yuan, come and see, what you said during the day, there are many wastelands in Henan, and the rich in the coastal provinces have money and no land, just exchange with each other, the more I think about it, the more reasonable I feel, come on, let's discuss it......"

This day is the first day of October in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, this day has a lot of money in the later generations, although at the end of September, the main force of the Shun army was annihilated by most of the army, and the Jiaozhou battalion had actually achieved a decisive advantage in the pass, but this night was considered by more people to be more significant.

"Xiangcheng policy" is a term that everyone who studies the history of the Jiaozhou camp has to mention, and Yuan Wenhong has earned extraordinary glory and wealth for him and his family descendants by virtue of this policy.

The core of Xiangcheng Policy is not complicated, that is, let the local gentry also imitate the structure of the Tuntian Grange, buy land and start a grange, of course, such a structure is not a team to protect the village.

Since the establishment of the Jiaozhou battalion to the world's fame, his economic policy is to engage in business and tuntian, which have taken a large amount of gold, silver, grain and grass, and supported the jiaozhou battalion, a strong army in the world.

Li Meng is the prince of the imperial court, a military general in the standard Ming system, not the kind of homeless army that wants to cramp and peel the skin when he sees the landlords and gentry, and is the strongest and largest warlord in the entire Ming Dynasty, and even the whole world, such a character is naturally more popular than the Shun army.

However, the landlords and gentry have always been wary of Shandong, because Shandong is heavy on business, and Tuntian Grange is legally owned by Li Meng's family, and many landlords and gentry's land has been taken away by the Jiaozhou camp, and land is the lifeblood of the landlords, and the backbone class that supports this world is the landlord.

Except for a small number of people in Shandong who have become rich because of the Jiaozhou camp, but there are many wealthy businessmen all over the world, who is not a big landlord, and it is the safest to buy fertile land if they have money.

If his own land is taken away by Li Meng, then this is a more serious matter than life, this is also the Jiaozhou battalion in Henan unimpeded, but in other places, although the Jiaozhou battalion has strict military discipline, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are like bandits, but the local landlords and squires support the Ming Dynasty There are really a lot, and they will always set up a lot of resistance to Shandong.

Henan is in the war and famine, the population is only less than 30% of the original, a large number of fields have been abandoned, and I don't know how many ownerless land, and the Central Plains, farming in the peaceful season is a good livelihood, and now Shandong wants to sell this large amount of land to the rich people in the world.

This is undoubtedly a signal that Shandong does not want to encroach on your land and give you the opportunity to buy land and annex it.

Since it is wasteland, the land price will definitely not be too high, and with the situation stabilized by the Jiaozhou camp, the fields here must be a profitable business, that is, to show the goodwill of the Jiaozhou camp with these big families.

After making this gesture, presumably the people in the world who are still watching the wind will definitely make a choice, the world is bustling, all for profit, there are such great interests at present, everyone is not stupid, if there is that brainless light is really not open, then it will be extinguished, it is also a matter of indifference.

In the history without Li Meng, King Li Zicheng won victories, and there was really the so-called luck to win the world, the wealthy families in the world, those powerful gentry, and local landlords all knew that when the dynasty changed, it was necessary to look at the direction of the wind and place a quasi-bet, otherwise it would be a situation of broken bones, and the right bet would be glory and wealth.

However, when Li Zicheng was watching from the world, he promulgated the "Yongchang Edict", the announcement of this edict is equivalent to sending an obvious signal to the gentry class who are looking forward to Li Zicheng's turn, and it is also equivalent to announcing the nature of the Dashun regime, and it is also from this edict that the scholars see that Li Zicheng cannot cooperate with them, and the two sides cannot have any room for reconciliation except to destroy each other.

This made the Shun regime extremely unstable, after suffering a stone defeat, watching the thriving Dashun regime soon collapsed, unable to maintain, in the northern provinces, there were even landlords and gentry killed local civil and military officials of the Shun army and greeted the Manchu army.

This is a negative example, compared to this negative side, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is doing something completely different, Zhu Yuanzhang in the southeast after sitting big, soon exposed the cloth, called the Red Turban Army "demon", incarnated himself as the general representative of the landlord gentry in the late Yuan era, in order to obtain the response of the gentry class, and finally set the world.

A good and a bad example is placed here, Li Meng naturally knows that he has to win the support of these big clans and wealthy families, it is a bit ironic to say, in these places of Beizhili, Shandong, and Jiangnan, if there is no protection of Li Mengjiaozhou's armed forces, and the big explosion of Shandong's economy to drive the surroundings, how can these people have such a scale and such a peaceful life now.

Selling off the land and property in Henan is the last thing, allowing the landlords and gentry in other places to buy it, and setting up their own tuntian granges is a big deal.

Originally, everyone thought that Tuntian Grange could only be set up in Shandong itself, and all the land belonged to Dashuai alone, but now he gave up this interest, which is a statement, and the good thing to say is not to compete with the people for profit, and the ugly point is that everyone has a fortune.

Of course, for the Jiaozhou camp and Shandong, this transaction is not a loss, Henan is much larger than Shandong, and the population has lost too much, so many wastelands, so many displaced people, Shandong is now using troops everywhere, spending money is like flowing water, and it is really difficult to mobilize a large number of financial and material resources to come over for disaster relief and enclosure.

Rather than this, it is better to sell these lands to wealthy merchants who want to buy land everywhere, but there is no land to buy in a peaceful and wealthy place.

Everyone knows that Jiangnan is a good field, Huguang is the land of fish and rice, but there is no ownerless field in Jiangnan, Huguang is either Shunjun or Zuo Liangyu, you can't buy it and you don't have to buy it, and now Henan is releasing news, naturally it is just right for both sides to take what they need.

After the strategy was probably set this night, the so-called "Henan ownerless wasteland sale notice document", such a major event naturally could not be moved lightly, and there were countless follow-up and auxiliary work to be done, and each yamen had to arrange for manpower to participate, and after the discussion, it was immediately sent to Shandong by horse, and there were all the people who were qualified to participate.

Strictly speaking, the territory controlled by the Jiaozhou battalion is only a few prefectures in the north of the Yellow River, plus Kaifeng and Guide and Ruzhou, and there is still a lot of follow-up work to be done.

Chen Liu, the general of Zhengxi, wanted to come to see Li Meng, but the military affairs were important, and at the urging of Li Meng, he led the army to stop in Yexian for a short time, and began to march towards Nanyang Mansion.

However, the smooth outcome of this situation was really beyond everyone's expectations, according to the pre-plan, Tang Er's horse army did not converge with Chen Liu's troops first, but went to Henan Mansion and swept along the way.

Luoyang, Xin'an, Mianchi, Yiyang, Yongning, Lushi, Songxian, these prefectures and counties in Henan Prefecture have changed their banners and become loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

The Shun army previously concentrated most of its forces to encircle and annihilate the Ming army, and the backbone forces stationed in various places were all withdrawn, and now the local garrisons are all so-called righteous troops, that is, local troops.

The rebel army of the Shun army is really a mixture of dragons and snakes, many of them are local Ming troops who are fighting against the water in front of the formation, and even local wealthy armed forces are involved. These people are all grass on the wall, and they may not have any loyalty to the Shun army, they just have to bow their heads and surrender when they look at the power, and now that the wind direction has changed, how can there be any reason not to follow the anti-water.

It's just half a month, and the seemingly unbreakable foundation of the Shun army in Henan began to disintegrate, which is ridiculous, for the Jiaozhou battalion, especially for Tang Er's horse army and Chen Liu's Xuzhou army, the speed of this disintegration is too fast, and suddenly a large number of city turf is waiting for Shandong soldiers and horses to take over.

There are a total of more than 20,000 troops, how can they suppress so much territory, and there are still many strong places who can't understand the direction of the wind, and they have been in the mountains for a long time, thinking that they have an army that can make wind and rain in this troubled world, and occupy a piece of territory to be a soil emperor.

With such a person, the troops of the Jiaozhou battalion will naturally not be soft, and they will directly send troops to attack, and they will naturally be easily eliminated when they fight in the past, but this is also very annoying.

The army led by Li Meng embarked on the return journey on the fourth day of the tenth month, leaving four regiments to assist in the aftermath and reorganization of the prisoners.

Before leaving, Li Meng issued an order, and Gao Ke, the deputy general of the Xuzhou Army, who was still guarding Xuzhou and Fengyang Mansion, led the remaining Xuzhou Army troops into Henan to join Chen Liu, the general of Zhengxi, and completely handed over to the Pingnan general Ma Gang to guard.

In addition to the army, under the jurisdiction of Tang Er's Ma Army, three regiments of Yuan Shizhong, a regiment of Guidu Sijia Dashan, and two regiments under the new Zhangde garrison Hao Shaoqi will also be under his command, but they are not allowed to go out with the army.

After this time, the troops of Chen Liu, the general of the expedition to the west, expanded to nearly 40,000, which was almost the largest number of troops in each army, and he is now really worthy of the title of general.

Tang Er is the deputy general of the Central Plains Army, in charge of the horse army, Tang Er, who got this promotion, is very happy, but there are also troubles, the training of the prisoners of the Shunjun horse team can not be delayed, but it is also a big deal to go out to clean up and suppress bandits, often only half of the prisoners and half of the Jiaozhou battalion veterans are trained, and he takes the other half and half out to fight.

Although the troops of the Jiaozhou battalion did not thoroughly pursue the remnants of King Chuang, Li Zicheng did not gather a single force on the way back, nor did he even gather his troops.

The news of the defeat of the main force of the Shun army was faster than the speed of Li Zicheng's escape, and there was already a big chaos along the way, and there were even people who dared to gather armed militia groups to take advantage of the fire and rob the individual places where King Li Zicheng walked.

It is said that the thousands of cavalry led by Li Zicheng did not have much strength to touch them along the way, but they fled like this, and there were constantly cavalry scattered along the way, and Li Zicheng did not dare to take the risk of holding it up, for fear that the other party would chase after him, so he kept fleeing and scattering, and when he arrived in Xinye, there were only more than 1,000 cavalry around him.

However, when Li Zicheng arrived in Xinye, Nanzhao County had been broken by the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion, which was all a later story, after Li Meng made these arrangements in Henan, he had ordered the eight regiments of his own army to return first, and he still had some trivial things to do in Henan.

Li Meng is often out on the battlefield, this is the first time a little homesick, it is now October, if you arrive home is almost about to enter the wax moon, thinking of this Li Meng is also a little emotional, his age is not old, but what should be done still has to be done, on October 13, Li Meng met people in the military tent on the edge of Weishi County.

The weather was very cold, and a charcoal basin was also moved into the military tent, but this charcoal basin was mainly for Yuan Wenhong, for fear that he would not be able to withstand such weather.

On the ground was a felt laid according to the rules, and there was a person kneeling on the felt, and this person also knelt down in a hurry as soon as he entered the tent.

Looking at the color of his clothes, the soldiers outside the door know in their hearts, this must be another general, recently the Ming army, the Shun army has a lot of generals, but the one who can meet the marshal is Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, but this Gao Jie was directly deprived of military power by Li Meng, and now it is equivalent to the common people, and is assisting Kaifeng to distribute personnel to Tuntian, and I don't know who this is today.

This person is tall and has a gloomy face, which is not the same as the smiling Gao Jie, in the eyes of the guards of the Jiaozhou battalion guarding the door, these people have all been defeated and surrendered, isn't it natural to be low-voiced, and he was startled when he was announced, this is Hao Shaoqi, the general of the Shun army.

Hao Shaoqi was in a bad mood, after tossing for so many years, such a big situation was wiped out in one fell swoop, and he became a prisoner of the ranks, his identity and status were reversed in an instant, how could he feel better.

However, after entering the military tent, Hao Shaoqi knelt down without delay, and praised in his mouth:

"Lord Qi Guogong, the guilty minister Hao Shaoqi sees, thank you for your mercy in not killing!"

When he knelt down, he had already seen Li Meng's appearance, although his heart was like ashes, but he was still shocked, Qi Guogong, who had done such a great cause, was so young, he had just knelt down here, and he heard Li Meng on the top say with a smile:

"Don't be so polite, get up!"

This is not the attitude towards the general, Hao Shaoqi was even ready to be humiliated, but he didn't expect Li Meng to treat him with such a smile, what is this, rashly so kind, it is really frightening, is it going to push out and kill the head next, this kind of thing is seen a lot in the Shun army.

Left and right are like this, death is death, Hao Shaoqi is also thinking of a bachelor, thank you, stand up generously, only to stand up, I saw Li Meng pointing at him and said with a smile:

"Mr. Yuan, Hao Shaoqi is not an ordinary person, he has fought with our Jiaozhou battalion a few times, but the team is not scattered, but just retreated, such an opponent is really not seen except for Tartar, it is really a talent!"

Hearing Li Meng's praise, it is indeed a compliment, but Hao Shaoqi, who was guilty of having a bad heart just now, felt ashamed, every time he fought against Shandong soldiers and horses, there was no victory, he just didn't want the team to lose too much before he retreated decisively, but he didn't expect this to become his own achievements in using soldiers, and he was praised as a talent, which was really a little laughable.

Perhaps seeing Hao Shaoqi's expression, Li Meng explained with a smile:

"Lao Hao, don't feel embarrassed, my Shandong soldiers and horses are all over the world, and it is already good to be able to hit you like that, this time you know the general situation, you have shed a lot of blood, and it has taken me a lot of effort, Lao Hao, you have merit!"

Is this a praise or a scolding, if it weren't for the fact that the parties really didn't know, Hao Shaoqi listened to it with a hot face, but there was some activity in his heart, listening to this meaning, things seemed to be developing for the better?

Sure enough, Li Meng opened his mouth and said with a smile:

"Originally, you were asked to stay in Zhangde, you don't have to go, follow me back to Shandong!!"