Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Great Time to Break the Thief!
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The best defense is offense!
Chen Ming was thinking about how to open up the early situation when he was living Changrui, and after thinking about it, he found that Chen Jiajun had to fight if he wanted to grow. Because the Chen family's army is not the red army of the original time and space, and the Chen family's current foundation in Funiu Mountain is not at all worthy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's serious dealing.
Isn't the terrain of Jinchuan more dangerous than the Chen family's foundation? Isn't the strength of Sharobun, Seng Gesang, Sonomu (Saroben's nephew) and others stronger than the Chen family? These two families have ruled that mountainous area for hundreds of years, and the Tibetans are all subservient to their Tusi heads, and their loyalty is not much higher than that of the current Chen Jiajun?
In order to deal with Jinchuan, which had a population of only tens of thousands, Qianlong used 600,000 troops before and after, and spent 70 million taels of military salaries. If such momentum is used on Chen Jiajun, Chen Ming can pack tickets for everyone - the Chen family will definitely not be able to resist.
Therefore, Chen Jiajun needs to turn passivity into initiative, take the initiative to attack, expand his strength, and accumulate strength without wasting a penny of time to meet the next wave of encirclement and suppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Chen Ming is a big believer in the destructive power of war, and in this world, war is the same as those irresistible natural disasters, and the world's destructive power is the same. As long as Chen Jiajun burned the flames of war to the outside of Lushan County and Ruzhou, it would be like a spoonful of cold water poured into a boiling oil pot, instantly causing the entire western Henan and even the entire Henan to explode.
Baofeng Zhixian chose the same approach as Lushan County, confining the city gate and 'sticking to it'.
However, Chen Jiajun, who can't enter the county seat, can't clean up the local squire? Those local tyrants, many of them have fled to the county seat, Baofeng and Lushan are very closely connected, and the grapevine is very well-informed. But the family property of these local tyrants will not grow legs, and it is impossible to flee into the county with the local tyrants. With the current scale of Chen Jiajun, just cleaning up the belongings and industries that these local tyrants can't take care of, he can already eat with a full stomach.
After Chen Ming entered Baofeng, he collected basic materials such as livestock, grain, salt, sugar, and cloth with a clear goal, and then smashed open the private deposits in Baofeng County one by one. The squires of Baofeng County, their ideology and morality will not be higher than their peers in Lushan County, and the Chen family rescued groups of slave laborers in private mines in Lushan County, and repeated this scene in Baofeng.
In fact, the entire Ruzhou, including Yexian and Wuyang in Nanyang Prefecture, which were covered by the Pingdingshan Municipal District in later generations, or the surrounding areas, was very common because of the abundance of coal and iron resources. The common people know all about this. They will be the 'objects' that Chen Jiajun pursues the most.
Chen Ming led people to show their faces outside Baofeng County, and it took only four days to sweep the entire Baofeng County, collecting more than 13,000 stone of grain, more than 5,000 horses of coarse cloth and more than 200 horses of silk, as well as a batch of medicinal herbs and salt and sugar. And under their buttocks, from the 'No. 11 bus' that originally drove into Baofeng County, it has evolved into four legs.
Whether it is a donkey, a mule or a horse, it all shows that Chen Jiajun has a rich harvest in Baofeng County.
In addition, Chen Ming also 'liberated' 400 slave laborers. This figure is a little smaller than the harvest in Lushan County, and this number is the number of slave laborers who are finally willing to follow the Chen family and embark on the bright road of 'anti-Qing', in other words, this group of people is more resentful.
It's not the first time Chen Ming has taken over slave labor, and of course he knows why. For the first time, he took Baofeng slave workers out on a mission - to get rid of Zhuge Temple Town, mainly to get the Guan family's big house.
After the slave laborers took out the last sweet potato from the cellar of the Guan family's big house, they spontaneously burned the mansion, which covered an area of more than ten acres, into a white field. Chen Ming may have stopped it, but he didn't care so hard.
As a result, Zhuge Miao Town burned half of the street because of the spread of the fire.
The locals must have hated Chen Jiajun to death, and Chen Ming was also a little concerned in his heart. But if you ask him to blame + repair the Baofeng slave workers who are destined not to follow Chen Jiajun on the anti-Qing road, Chen Ming will not hesitate to fool him.
Chen Ming didn't mind the hostility of the slaves, which, combined with the miners' own organization, was the best source of soldiers. In history, Qi Jiguang was able to use Yiwu miners to train the Qi family army that shocked the world, but Chen Ming did not have the confidence to let this group of slave workers become the strongest soldiers in the world like the Qi family army. But he also wants a real elite.
He just wants this group of people to dare to fight and kill, and he wants this group of people to be ruthless!
Since ancient times, miners of all dynasties and generations have not had a good life, and the same is naturally true of my Qing Dynasty. And because Ruzhou is rich in coal and iron ore resources, Lushan, Baofeng, Jiaxian and other places have a long tradition of mining. And because of the danger of mine work, the owners of private mines either out of their own reputation or out of profits, anyway, they prefer to use slave labor that escaped famine or bought or deceived from other places, rather than using locals on a large scale. This will save them a lot less trouble.
Of course, masters like the Chen family, Lushan and Baofeng counties cannot be said to have none, but they can only be said to be relatively rare. Those who entered the mines were definitely the advanced class with great hatred and suffering, and once they were 'liberated', there was a high proportion of 'revolution anyway', and there were very few local miners who were willing to follow the Chen family. Although some of the slave laborers were physically injured and sick, the vast majority of the slave laborers were absolutely strong men.
The real old, weak, sick and disabled have no possibility of surviving in the mines.
The mines were one of the most impersonal places of our time, and the bosses were especially strict when it came to the use of slave labor, which of these slave laborers was not whipped and tortured? I don't know how many people died directly under torture, so their resentment against the mine boss, along with the resentment against the government, is far stronger than that of ordinary people......
When the militia of Dengfeng County crossed the border between Henan Province and Ruzhou and entered the border of Ruzhou in a majestic manner, Chen Mingren was still in Jiaxian, and he sent people to Xiang County in Xuzhou and Ye County in Nanyang Province to harass them, and also collected a large amount of chariots and horses from Jiaxian. This era was the heyday of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the accumulation of private wealth was also amazing.
After 'looting' the private mines in Jiaxian, the number of slave laborers under Chen Ming has exceeded 800, including the men and horses led by him, as well as the rogue ruffians and bankrupt peasants who have defected from various towns and villages, and the total number of troops has exceeded 1,200. However, there is a serious shortage of weapons and equipment, and it is completely at the level of cutting wood into soldiers.
The number of the Dengfeng militia is not very large, there are more than 300 in total, and there are twenty or thirty guys with headscarves on their heads, and the rest are all strong and strong. Not to mention the real combat effectiveness, let's just say that the appearance of this team, the number is not many but the atmosphere is strong, plus the name of Dengfeng, it can make people feel at ease. Of course, in Ruzhou, their nostrils are also facing the sky.
"Hmph, it's really a group of thieves, greedy and insatiable!" The chief teacher of the Dengfeng militia looked disdainful, got up and said to Wang Jun: "Lord Zhizhou, this is a great time to break the thief!" ”