At the beginning, Li Zhenhai thought that this Shandong trading house was not a fool, and in this time of chaos, it was the right thing to have more gold and silver in his hands, how to buy land for cultivation.

Who would have thought that 2,000 "displaced people" from Shandong who had taken action to unify and killed were "farming" in the granges on the north and south banks of the Yellow River, and at the same time absorbed the landless refugees from Henan as Zhuangding.

The government is naturally happy to see such a grange, but it can't provide any protection, although Li Zhenhai and his gang are local tyrants in Guide Mansion, but they are not able to suppress the entire ground of Guide Mansion, and many people have to cross the border to get oil and water, and they are also powerless.

Moreover, Li Zhenhai's gang did not wait for outsiders to open these two granges, and then went over to pick up the cheap mentality, after all, ploughing cattle and farm tools were in demand at this time.

After the Lingshan Commercial Bank sold a large number of weapons to Li Zhenhai, Li Zhenhai defeated two bandits who intended to enter his own territory, and thought that his strength had become stronger, and his mind gradually became wild.

Before Li Zicheng returned to Henan, Lao Dangdang once wanted to enter Guide, when the two places were the two granges, according to the so-called rules of the road, Lao Dangdang also sent someone to inform Li Zhenhai, saying that he wanted to enter your Guide Mansion to seek food, and hoped that his brother would make it convenient.

Li Zhenhai refused on the surface, but privately arranged for the envoy to find the other party, saying that if the scope was limited to those two granges, Li Zhenhai would not interfere.

The purpose of the old man is these two granges. In the chaotic and poor Henan, these two granges have become coveted fat meat after a little restoration.

At this time, the grange had only been established for half a year, and Lao Dangdang led nearly 30,000 people over. Grange actually mobilized more than 5,000 people to fight, and the core was naturally the 2,000 "displaced people" in Shandong.

The battle was very short, it was fought all morning, 30,000 homeless people were beaten by 2,000 professional soldiers and more than 3,000 armed peasants who were beginning to take shape, and more than 10,000 people were captured.

If you want to look closely, I am afraid that you can only find it in some unofficial records. It is said that at a certain time, there was a civil fight in the Defu of a certain place.

After this battle, the large and small forces of Guide Mansion know who is the most powerful in Guide Mansion now, Li Zhenhai is also dumbfounded, according to the combat power shown in the battle with Lao Dangdang, it is really easy for the soldiers of these two Granges to destroy him.

Thinking of the idea he had made in the past, he was really frightened, but Lingshan Commercial Bank continued to provide Li Zhenhai with weapons and all kinds of materials he needed as if he didn't know about it.

Although the force of the Tuntian Grange was strong, it was not aggressive, and the force was only used for self-protection. The more than 10,000 captives were also made slaves and cultivated on the land beyond the grange and the grange. Li Zhenhai is still the largest force in Guide Prefecture, and there are still officers and soldiers and thieves watching around.

Li Zhenhai needs a large number of weapons and supplies to maintain his armament, the appetite of the Lingshan Commercial House is too great, and most of the ownerless land in Guide Mansion has become the property of the grange, since it is the ownerless land for weapons and supplies, the price is naturally very low, and the fields that the Jia family can move down will soon be insufficient, and those ownerless fields are fine, so you can't move the property of those local tyrants and landlords.

There is no land. The Lingshan Commercial Bank began to demand a large number of ownerless land, even with more than 10,000 serfs and a large number of recruited displaced people, the manpower was gradually insufficient. The conditions on the side of Lingshan Commercial Bank and Li Zhenhai are. If the homeless person is caught in the Tuntian Grange to become a tuntian household, he can also exchange the money for various products he needs.

There has never been a shortage of homeless people in Henan, and after Li Zhenhai heard this, he first cleared the entire Guide Mansion, and many small and medium-sized homeless teams were routed by him and sent to Tuntian Grange.

The Tuntian Grange is a melting pot in which the homeless will become obedient semi-serfs, working hard for food and clothing. In if it is wandering outside. There is a possibility of starvation at any time, these semi-serfs and serfs. The best ones will be selected as members of the Guardian Team.

At the same time of hard military training, the treatment will also be improved accordingly, and Zhuang Ding, who has entered the village protection team, is already loyal to Tuntian Grange.

The strength of Tuntian Grange is snowballing, but the foreign conquest of the battlefield is for Li Zhenhai to do, Li Zhenhai and his gang arrested the homeless people everywhere and sent them to the Tuntian Grange, and soon, the homeless people took the initiative to go to the Tuntian Grange.

Whether it was selling the ownerless land to the Lingshan Commercial Bank, or capturing the homeless people for gold and silver, Li Zhenhai and his gang did not have any obvious increase in strength, and those weapons and supplies were consumed in the big and small battles both externally and internally.

Moreover, Li Zhenhai is now, even the peasants under his control have gone to the Tuntian Grange to work as tenants, which is equivalent to making his strength shrink more and more.

But he didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction with the two Zhuangzi of Guide Mansion, the strength of the other party has now swelled a lot, and it is really easy to eat him Li Zhenhai.

The crux of the matter is that Li Zhenhai still has to buy weapons and supplies with the Lingshan Commercial Bank, and the internal and external battles make Li Zhenhai and the forces of all parties enemies, and he also has his own family and family business in Tuocheng to protect, and if he wants to let go now, it is a dead end.

Moreover, the outcasts outside the Guide Mansion also saw that it was cheap, as long as they did not pass in the direction of the two Granges and came to attack in other places, the Tuntian Grange would not care.

There are many gangs of displaced people in Henan, but these gangs are not of one mind, and there is no unity, some are poor people in groups, some are local wealthy clans gathering to protect themselves, and some are related to the White Lotus Sect and other sects, attacking and annexing each other.

Li Zhenhai has little power, and this is due to the fact that the ground is still calm, and it is regarded as a place with oil and water. In particular, it is close to the canal of Caoyun, and it is adjacent to Shandong and Nanzhili provinces, so it is very valuable in terms of site and location. The gangs of displaced people in Kaifeng and Runing are all staring here.

Since Tuntian Grange can't be touched, then swallowing Li Zhenhai's gang has a foothold in Guide Mansion, and it is also a good place. Although Li Zhenhai bought sophisticated weapons from the Lingshan Trading House, he was still defeated step by step in the face of the fierce enemy, not to mention that the officers and soldiers also wanted to suppress the thieves.

Li Zhenhai, who had no choice but to go to Lingshan Commercial Bank for help, said that he could let the village protection team of Tuntian Grange give support, and the shopkeeper of Lingshan Commercial Bank who was responsible for contacting Li Zhenhai did not smile. At least that's how Li Zhenhai felt at that time, and the shopkeeper said that the Tun Grange had little to do with the commercial bank.

When this sentence came out, Li Zhenhai almost drew a knife to kill, of course, the guys led by the shopkeeper were all murderous, and they were not good people, and it was not necessarily who was killed by whom when they pulled out the knife, and after the shopkeeper of the Lingshan Commercial Bank rejected Li Zhenhai's request, he "kindly" put forward another suggestion, the soldiers under your command have no combat power. There are some veterans who have retired from the army in my Lingshan Commercial Bank, how about sending them to train you?

Knowing that this is poison, I have to close my eyes and swallow it, otherwise the family business will be ruined, so I have to pinch my nose and accept these "old pawns" who are less than thirty years old.

These old soldiers have been in the army for less than two months, and the situation is very different, Li Zhenhai is now these Zhuang Ding people under his own hands, and suddenly they actually have the appearance of an army.

Since then, Li Zhenhai has never suffered losses in battles outside, and has won several battles. Those homeless thieves in the surrounding prefectures and counties no longer dare to come to the idea of returning to the German government.

However, it is indeed poison, and Li Zhenhai is now unable to control the armament of his subordinates. Lingshan Commercial Bank began to give him orders in the form of "suggestions", Li Zhenhai did not dare to disobey, cutting off supplies was still a trivial matter, and it was inevitable that someone would cut off his head while sleeping.

The entire Guide Mansion slowly became a vassal of Shandong, and it was about a year or so, and the wealthy families in these places of Lingshan Commercial House were not good people in the eyes, but a monster, and this monster could sell you any forbidden materials. But you just have to have a little relationship with this monster.

Lingshan Commercial Bank will gradually infiltrate. At that time, the things that Lingshan Commercial Bank gives you will still be Lingshan Commercial Bank, and your things will also become Lingshan Commercial Bank.

This method of controlling the local area through the economy. Li Meng applied it to the trading of private salt, but he was learned by the Lingshan Commercial Bank.

At the very beginning, Li Zhenhai was not convinced, and always planned to forbear and wait until he had the opportunity to make plans.

Guide Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion are close to each other, and this news is also spreading quickly, and when the news came that Li Meng's 20,000 soldiers broke into the thief's 100,000 soldiers, Li Zhenhai immediately had no dissent.

The news of Route 6 is always slightly faster than that of the waterway, when Li Meng's Shandong soldiers and horses went south by boat, the official road in front of the Zhaopizhai ferry, and the thousands of soldiers of the Left Army who were nailed to death on both sides, this matter also reached Li Zhenhai's ears.

King Chuang and Zuo Liangyu, these are all existences that Li Zhenhai needs to look up to, but they were defeated by Li Meng's Shandong soldiers and horses, and this ending made Li Zhenhai's dissent completely disappear and tremble.

The most important thing for him at the moment is not to save his strength, but to save his life, and he now knows that if Shandong wants to deal with him, it will be like pinching an ant to death.

Therefore, on the way back to Shandong, Li Zhenhai hurriedly told Lingshan Commercial Bank that he wanted to surrender to Zhao'an, but instead of going to the Defu, he surrendered to the Shandong General Army.

Not to mention that the leader of a thief wanted to contact the trading house in Zhao'an, which was really ridiculous, but both sides took it for granted, and immediately chased along the Yellow River and Caoyun with a fast horse, and soon contacted Li Meng who was on the boat.

Li Zhenhai, after Zhao'an, should be called Jia Dashan, although his power is insignificant to the Jiaozhou battalion, Li Meng has read the document of Lingshan Commercial Bank, Jia Dashan's subordinates claim to be more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but after the training, there are only more than 1,000 people who can meet the standard of ordinary soldiers in the Jiaozhou battalion, that is, the size of a battalion.

With such strength, the Jiaozhou battalion recruited troops in Shandong, and it could be summoned from a tuntian grange within a few hours, but Jia Dashan was a wealthy family in Guide Mansion after all, and his surrender showed that Guide Mansion had completely entered his control. In such a complex situation in Henan, it is extremely important to have such a bridgehead to go forward.

Li Meng was very satisfied with his subordinates. He once mentioned that the army's actions rely on water transportation, and Shandong's soldiers and horses go to the four directions, relying on nothing more than Caoyun and the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and at the same time, it is necessary to prevent the other party from killing from these places, and control the Guide Mansion, which is just to choke the road from the Yellow River into Shandong and Lianghuai, so the Guide Mansion should find a way to control it.

He finished his order. I thought it was waiting for the chaos in the Guide Mansion, and the Shandong soldiers and horses entered in the name of quelling the chaos, just like the current land of Lianghuai, who would have thought that Lingshan Commercial Bank and Tuntian Grange would not use swords and soldiers, and this economic method was used to do this, which is really surprising.

Jia Dashan arrived in Jining Prefecture one day earlier than Li Meng, Jia Dashan is also a strong man in Henan, and he has seen the role in the market, but after coming to Jining Prefecture, he still sighed that Henan is so chaotic. Shandong is so peaceful, and Jining Prefecture is even more prosperous and rich.

The same is the world of the Ming Dynasty, why this Shandong is like a happy land, and this Henan land is like hell, it is really unbalanced, Jia Dashan and Lingshan Commercial Bank and Tuntian Grange deal with a lot of words, and I vaguely heard them say, on the ground of Shandong, what governors, political envoys, and even those vassal kings are all counted. The only one who spoke effectively was their commander-in-chief, Li Dashuai.

Jia Dashan often thinks that if he surrenders to this Li Meng, after recruiting An, can this Guide Mansion become what he saw after entering Shandong.

After all, since the establishment of Tuntian Grange in Guide Province. The chaotic place is already much more peaceful.

Thinking that he was going to see Li Meng the next day, this Jia Dashan was really a little uneasy in his heart, and someone came early the next morning to lead him to the Qing Army Hall to wait, which was originally the yamen of Jining Wei, and was later abolished, and when the soldiers and horses of the Jiaozhou battalion were stationed, they regarded this place as an official hall.

After waiting in the side room for two hours, it was said that Li Dashuai had arrived. Jia Dashan hurriedly went with the guards who came to greet him. Walking in the corridor of the Qing Army Hall, Jia Dashan suddenly felt a little disheartened. He is in his forties this year, and he should go home to live a good life, why bother with so many thoughts, it is not easy to have peace in troubled times, and it is too much to expect anything else.

The government recruits An, there are 10,000 people who have been recruited, and it is not bad that there are 500 people who can really be recruited, and the leaders of this Zhao'an are all given an inconsequential official position, Jia Dashan doesn't want to do anything, just beg the other party not to have too much appetite, just swallow himself in one go.

As soon as he entered the main hall, the soldier flashed aside and whispered:

"Outside of Jia Yuan, my handsome family is on top."

Jia Dashan looked up, but there was a young man sitting in the middle, and some generals were standing on both sides, is this Li Dashuai so young, those generals are also young, but looking at the clothes of these generals, the one standing at the end should be a thousand generals.

Qian is worthless in other places, the Ming army is almost rotten in the street, but Shandong soldiers and horses can do a thousand presidents to lead a battalion is already a great figure, in the Tuntian Grange of Guide Mansion, there is also a thousand general in, the status is extremely high, Tuntian Grange and Lingshan Commercial Bank those who see their own bullish characters are respectful and abnormal in front of this thousand general.

Such a character has to stand down, it seems that the young man in the middle is indeed Li Dashuai, look at the other party is so young but has such a status, and he is just a thief in his forties, Jia Dashan is even more disheartened, and the person on the side urged in a low voice.

He was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly knelt down, and while making amends for his sins, he reported his own name, and said that the ghost was obsessed, and the crime deserved to die, and he only begged the handsome to be merciful and give him a chance to reform himself.

Jia Dashan's rhetoric is just a common routine of Zhao'an, and someone has already pointed out that sentence, since it is to kowtow in this main hall, it must be that the government accepts Zhao'an and takes a formality.

Next, it's time for Li Meng to say a few words, which are nothing more than words such as the mercy of the saint today, Jia Dashan knelt on it, but heard the young man above say softly:

"Guide to the city of Defu Jia, there is a heart of loyalty, the court should be rewarded, in order to show the great tomorrow's grace, the official thinks, just be a garrison!" Jia Dashan knelt there, and when he heard the word "garrison", he no longer cared about any courtesy, and looked up at the young man in amazement, what level of official was the garrison. There is the big leader who led 50,000 soldiers and horses to be recruited, that is, he was given the rank of garrison.

At present, almost all the soldiers and horses in his hands are under the control of Shandong, so what strength is there. Why did you give such a high official title?

But no matter what the other party's intentions are, giving this official title is equivalent to ascending to the sky in one step, although the Jia family is a big family, but no one has an official body, and there is no clansman as an official on both the civil and military roads, so no matter how big the scale is, it is just a local tyrant.

But Jia Dashan made a guard. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the glory of the ancestors, Jia Dashan was stunned for a while, but he burst into tears, and just kowtowed on the ground to thank him.

As soon as Li Meng's appointment was announced, the generals standing on both sides of the main hall were also a little stunned, Wang Hai held such an important position as the commander of the pro-military battalion, and it was just a garrison position, this "Li Zhenhai" Jia Dashan was just a weak general, how could he have such a high position.

Over there, Jia Dashan kowtowed desperately, and thanked Li Mengdi for his reward with a crying voice. Originally, these things should be presided over by civil officials or internal supervisors, but on the ground in Shandong, how dare others stretch out their hands for these things, since it is Li Meng's recruitment and demotion, then this Jia Dashan is to inherit Li Meng's kindness.

"Jia Shoubei's family is a noble family in Guide Mansion, and he is a good person, but the reason why he went astray is that he is confused for a while. Such gentlemen have gone astray, and we and the soldiers and horses of the court must have the mind to cure the sick and save people, and they will repent of such things. It's ...... to embrace it."

The generals have already figured out that even if this Jia Dashan is promoted to a garrison, at best, he is a general of the foreign system, and he does not have much real power, so it doesn't matter.

But Li Meng's words made everyone a little confused, his own handsome man was not such a person who said the scene, but after Li Meng finished speaking, he turned back to Yuan Wenhong behind him with a smile and said:

"Mr. Yuan. This is disposed of today. Write a proclamation and give it to the following to go to other places to distribute. Do it with your heart! ”

Yuan Wenhong hurriedly nodded and agreed, most of the generals in this hall only knew how to march and fight, and Li Mengcai understood those words, that is, he understood a little.

Jia Dashan, who was kneeling under the hall, was already a little uncontrollable, what could a local tyrant see in the market, and at this time, Chad was in a high position, and he was already crying with excitement.

This kind of sudden change in identity and status, a person, even the family behind him, has changed his fate at this moment, how can ordinary people have no reaction to this kind of impact.

Most of the generals standing in the main hall are also from humble backgrounds, and they can have today's glory and wealth, which they couldn't have imagined back then.

Yuan Wenhong stood respectfully behind Li Meng, while recalling and silently reciting the words that his own lord had just said, and considering what kind of words to use to express them, so that the local people could understand them.

The allusion of the golden horse bone, Yuan Wenhong knows the land, and Jia Dashan, who has been led down, is this "horse bone", which is indeed a very ordinary strategy.

However, Yuan Wenhong, who has always prided himself on being smart, is also impressed, such an ordinary strategy is indeed very effective when used here.

The provinces under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty have been nearly half of the chaos, the displaced people are seeking survival, the landlords are self-protecting, the officials and the army are conquest, and several forces are entangled, and each other has grows and disappears.

If the Jiaozhou battalion wants to succeed, only with the land of Shandong Province, the people of Tuntian Grange, and tens of thousands of soldiers, it is really too thin, if you want to take advantage of the chaos to gather forces, Li Meng is now the general of the imperial court, and he is also an official status, and he is naturally not the same position as the rogue Kou.

And the officers and soldiers are subordinates of the imperial court, since Li Meng is the general army of Shandong, that is, the scope has been demarcated, if he stretches out his hand to other places, it is too much rebellion.

The rest is the local Haoqiang, the imperial examination has Donglin scribes, the army has generations of generals, the Ming Dynasty except for the Jiangnan and the north and south of the two places, the vast majority of local landlords Haoqiang has no chance to enter the officialdom, can only be a local tyrant from generation to generation.

However, these people are the real rulers of the local area, with land and manpower, and can gather a large number of Zhuang Ding Xiangyong. These heroes are also like grass on the wall, the righteousness of the court, the distinction between officials and thieves is basically of no use to them, as long as it is beneficial to themselves, they are willing to follow.

But Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings, and Cao Cao Luo Rucai. They led the local soldiers and troops, and they hated the powerful landlords in the local area, and the people were like locusts. It is necessary for the powerful landlord's family to accumulate grain and grass for military supplies, so when the two sides meet, it will definitely be a situation of endless death.

Since the Shaanxi Rebellion, I don't know how many powerful landlords, officials of Zhishi, and their manor forts were opened by the rogues, all the savings were plundered, and there was no one left who was killed in the whole family. Back then, the landlords pressed the mud legs too hard, but now they have been recovered.

The landlord Haoqiang is naturally close to the government, but the crux of the problem is that the officers and soldiers are too wasteful, allowing the rogues to run rampant everywhere, even if the Haoqiang want to take refuge, there is nowhere to take refuge, and if they want to be rescued, they often fight alone, this situation, even if they want to take refuge. There is nowhere to go.

And the thieves are your enemies to the death, but they can't get in touch with the officers and soldiers, and even if they are in contact with the officers and soldiers, they are often either pulled out or defeated by the thieves, and the powerful landlords can only protect themselves, but they are often alone.

However, after Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, entered Henan, there was a change, and he began to pay attention to recruiting these squires and heroes, because of what the "thieves" did in the past, these local wealthy families would rather fight to the death than defect. But there were also a small number of scholars, literati and families who joined in the past. For the sake of the thieves who are harming the world, they want to recruit this kind of people, what Li Zicheng has in mind, everyone understands in their hearts.

It is impossible to defect to the thieves, but the officers and soldiers cannot flee. Li Meng appeared as a general commander of the army, and gathered these local forces dominated by squires and local tyrants, and his identity as the general army of the Ming Dynasty will be accepted by many people, but there is a subtlety that many people may not notice, Li Meng's recruitment of thieves has always been done with the identity of the Shandong general soldier, and never mentioned the Ming court, what the son of heaven in the Ming Dynasty.

Begin to fight for this part of the power. And become the spokesperson for this part of the force. Although it was obscure, the people around him could also guess his thoughts.

Yuan Wenhong naturally understood in his heart. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and he continued to do it, as long as he succeeded, a scholar like himself who could never enter the center could suddenly rise to a position that he couldn't even imagine before, as for failure, Yuan Wenhong was also calm, after being plotted to seize his family property, he was about to freeze and starve to death, and the worst was this result.

The literati always thought more than ordinary people, and what made him feel strange was that with Li Meng's status as the general soldier of Shandong, when did such a thought appear, in these years, the people who went from a small soldier to a general were not only Li Meng, but those people were all enjoying wealth and prosperity.

Li Chengliang, the chief soldier of Liao Town, has owned Liao Town for nearly 60 years, and at its peak, there were nearly 10,000 families, and he could mobilize more than 100,000 soldiers.

At that time, Liaozhen was known as the strongest in the world, and there was a saying that Liao soldiers were the best in the world, but Li Chengliang always stayed in his position and had no dissenting intentions until he died of old age.

But why does Li Meng have such ambitions, since Yuan Wenhong entered the core counselor of the Jiaozhou battalion, starting from Li Meng's more than a dozen people pushing carts to sell salt to the position of Shandong General Army, it seems that every step is planning for that unspeakable ambition, and every step is preparing.

Li Meng's plans, his methods, his actions, and his tactics and strategies seem to be ordinary people's ordinary practices, but the difficulty is that every step is correct, and every step is to reach the goal through the shortest distance, so after more than ten years, the ambition is getting closer and closer.

Yuan Wenhong is a scholar who reads Confucian classics and does not believe in ghosts and gods, but when he sees Li Meng starting step by step, he is always in a trance......

Grateful to Jia Dashan for returning to Guide Mansion, the Henan high-ranking officials in Kaifeng Mansion naturally knew about the soldiers of the Left Army who were crucified on both sides of the official road, and also knew the story of Zuo Liangyu being scared back.

It's not that I don't want to care, but I don't dare to care, I thought that this Shandong general was a rule-abiding general, who would have thought that he was docile on the surface, but he was a more domineering character in his bones.

Within half a month, many landlords and militias in Kaifeng and Runing Prefecture led many people to defect to the Jiaozhou camp and asked for official positions.

However, at this time, Li Meng was already leading the crowd on the way back to Jinan, and the affairs in the area of Henan Guide were presided over by civil and military officials.

At the same time, in the camp of the Chuang army at the junction of Nanyang Province and Runing Province, a short middle-aged man asked to see King Chuang, and he said that he could speculate on good luck and bad luck.