It is precisely because Donglin or Shi Kefa, and even Emperor Hongguang also have the intention of borrowing slaves from Pingkou in his heart, so even if the Qing Dynasty army gathers in Shaanxi and the north is empty, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty still has no intention of the Northern Expedition.

They wanted the Qing army to exterminate Li Zicheng in Shaanxi without being disturbed, but Sun Yuan knew that such an opportunity was rare, and he was afraid that he would not be able to find it again if he missed it. Therefore, he decided that it was time to put the Northern Expedition on the agenda.

Emperor Hongzhi only ascended the throne as emperor on the 15th, and it has only been more than a month now

。 In other words, Sun Yuan's Northern Expedition had only been prepared for a month and a half. Fighting a war is not just a matter of taking out the army with a roar, and it is necessary to make perfect preparations before every major battle. Weapons, money, food, public opinion.

What's more, the Ningxiang Army doubled its size all at once, and it would take a long time for recruit training and ordnance preparation.

According to Sun Yuan's calculations, it will take at least two or three months before the troops can be thoroughly reorganized.

By that time, Li Zicheng was also finished.

This is also a helpless thing.

Even if Wolf here swears that by March, all the ordnance will be ready. It can cope with the consumption of ammunition, supplies, and equipment for a major battle.

But Sun Yuan still felt that it was not solid, especially the recruitment and training of new recruits, so he had this trip to inspect the entire Yangzhou town before the Spring Festival.

Next, Sun Yuan has to go to Haimen and Chongming Shasuo, it seems that this year's Spring Festival has no way to spend it with his mother, wife and children.

Leaving Xiting, Sun Yuanyou went to Haimen.

This was originally the territory of the old Yangzhou Town, since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen Sun Yuan moved to Yangzhou, he let his military households open up wasteland on the tidal flats by the sea, and set up two thousand households.

Lu Sichang Thousand Households is one of them, in the past, because of the seaside, there were often bandits. The government moved all the households within 100 miles of the coast into the interior, so that even if the pirates landed, they would not be able to rob them. Since the Ningxiang Army built a powerful naval division, the bandits in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea have been wiped out, and the fertile land by the sea naturally falls into the hands of the Ningxiang Army.

In the past two years, as more and more refugees have fled from the north, coupled with the fact that the town of Yangzhou has taken out a large amount of money and allocated a large amount of ownerless wasteland for them to cultivate. Soon, the Haimen area became prosperous.

Of course, there are still many conditions attached to the resettlement of the displaced Sun Yuan. First of all, if you want to get the care of Yangzhou Town, you must be Sun Yuan's military household; Secondly, you need to pay taxes to cultivate these lands, and you must also participate in the training of Yangzhou Town on weekdays, and you are also obliged to join the army to fight the enemy in wartime.

If you have made military achievements, in addition to being rewarded, you can also get appropriate tax reductions and exemptions in the summer and autumn of that year.

The Ming Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system, and the people were divided into civilian households, military households, artisan households, etc. according to the different occupations they were engaged in, which also virtually divided people into three, six, nine and so on

。 The status of civilian households is higher than that of military households and artisan households. It is said that it is almost unthinkable to ask the displaced people to join the army for household registration in the peaceful years. However, now that the troubled times have come, I can't care about so much if I can have a bite to eat.

However, from a civilian household to a military household all of a sudden, many homeless people are still a little depressed in their hearts, which Sun Yuan also knows.

……

In this way, the military households of the entire Yangzhou Town firmly attached their lives to Sun Yuan. Today's Yangzhou Town, excluding the households, has more than 400,000 military households, plus Sun Yuan can appoint local officials on his own, just like an independent kingdom.

Everywhere there is flat land and newly built adobe houses, and the sound of chickens and dogs is heard.

Riding a horse on the official road, seeing this prosperous scene, even if it was blown by the cold wind, Sun Yuan happily said to Guan Tao beside him: "Boss Guan, Mr. Huang and you have done a good job in the past two years, and you can make a big contribution just by relocating the displaced people." ”

Huang You is a typical literati of the Ming Dynasty in his bones, and he has been cultivating Qi Zhiping since elementary school, and he grew up in politics. If you train soldiers in the army and make decisions on the battlefield, you can't compare to Fei Hong and Fu Shan. Therefore, in the past two years, Mr. Huang gradually faded out of the army, took charge of the civil affairs of Yangzhou Town, and became the head of a group of civilian officials.

In fact, Huang You has done a really good job in the past two years. It also makes Yangzhou Town a paradise in the war-torn Jiangbei.

Sun Yuan has gradually grown up in the past two years, and he also has a clear understanding of his position in this era: I am here to be a big warlord to divide the party.

If he Sun Yuan is Cao Cao, the king of Wei Wu during the Three Kingdoms, Huang You is his Xun Yu Xun Wenruo, and Fu Shan is Guo Jia, no, this guy should be Jia Xu's old rascal.

The cold wind blows, the snowflakes fly gently, and the sound of chickens and dogs is endless, creating a peaceful rural scene.

But the noise of gongs, drums and firecrackers broke the silence, and Sun Yuan was curious, so he slowly rode his men into the village.

The small village is clearly new and full of new houses. Some of the houses, whose walls were made of bamboo strips and yellow mud, had not yet dried, and hundreds of people had gathered in the open space in the center of the village, all of whom were applauding vigorously at the row of young men standing in front of them with big red flowers on their chests

。

I had probably never experienced such a situation, after all, they were all sixteen or seventeen-year-old young people, and those young people with big red flowers blushed with excitement one by one.

"What is this?" Sun Yuan looked at Guan Tao curiously.

Guan Tao replied: "Master Hou, this is a newly established village in my town, and all the people living in it are military households. Looking at the situation today, it should be recruiting new soldiers. ”

Sun Yuan looked over when he heard this, and sure enough, behind that row of recruits was a long table, and there were three people sitting behind the table, one of whom was wearing the official uniform of the Ningxiang Army, obviously, this group of recruits would be enriched into his team in the future. Next to the management team, there were two white-haired old men, who thought they should be the elders of the village.

Guan Tao: "Master Hou, otherwise, I'll send the team over for questioning." ”

Sun Yuan: "No, let's take a look first." "Today, the expansion of the army is in full swing. Even if I had heard Fei Hong's report before, it was not as good as what I had seen with my own eyes.

When everyone applauded, then the pipe team began to speak, this person was a loud voice, and immediately stood up and straightened his neck and yelled and said something. It is none other than that our Ningxiang Army is the first army in the world, and it has never been defeated since it became an army, and this is a glorious army. You are a hero of the Ningxiang Army, and you must fight bravely to kill the enemy on the battlefield, don't embarrass the Ningxiang Army, and don't live up to the expectations of the Hou Ye.

To be honest, such words are rather hollow, and Sun Yuan is a little dissatisfied when he hears it. Next to him, Guan Tao introduced: "This person seems to be from Lao Tianxiong, and he came to the Ningxiang Army after Inspector Lu was martyred." Later, he was wounded on the battlefield and lame, so he was platoon under General Fayon to train recruits. This man is brave in battle, but he is not very good at speaking. ”

When he had finished speaking, the eldest of the two elders stood up tremblingly and muttered something more. When I heard it, it was a Henan accent. The old man was too old, and his voice was vague, and his words were so wordy that people were a little disappointed to hear them, and they didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

Guan Tao also introduced: "The people in this village are all relatives, surnamed Hua, and belong to an ancestral hall. Their hometown is Luyi, Henan, and after suffering from the military disaster, they fled to Jiangbei. ”

Sun Yuan was taken aback: "I ran so far." ”

The old man's words made the scene a little cold.

When he said: "You must fight hard, strive to establish meritorious deeds, and reduce taxes for our Hua family", Sun Yuan's heart moved

。

Secretly thought: In this Northern Expedition, the main enemy of our Ningxiang Army is not the remnants of Li Zicheng, who has become a lost dog, but just like the Manchu Eight Banners in Japan. In this era, there is no such thing as a nation-state, and the concept of a family, a country, and a nation's living space is meaningless to ordinary people. For example, Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong once said that whether he was in the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, it was just a change of master. Therefore, except for some backbone readers, many people feel that the battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties is just a matter between two emperors, and it has nothing to do with us who wins or loses. It is not until Jiannu's butcher's knife is put on his neck that he will understand the pain of destroying the country and extinction.

Therefore, there are many things that are scared of the big empty things, and they have not yet had a handful of white rice.

Joining the army to fight, for these new military households attached to Sun Yuan, one is that they planted the land in Yangzhou Town and had to respond to the difference of others, and the other is that if they made meritorious contributions during the war, they could reduce or exempt the taxes of the family that year.

The peasants of the Ming Dynasty were so realistic.

However, with this spirit on the battlefield, then, what is the difference between them and the ordinary Ming army?

Sun Yuan felt that he needed to change his thinking, so he pushed everyone away and stepped forward.

Seeing Sun Yuan coming over, the team obviously knew him, his face changed, he stood up suddenly, and stood upright, "Yangzhou Zhenning Township Army, Zhou Yangliu has seen Master Hou!" ”

Looking at his movements, he is indeed a cripple.

"What Hou Ye?" The old man who had just spoken asked curiously.

Zhou Yangliu shouted: "It's the Marquis of Yingchuan in our Yangzhou Town." ”

"Ah, Xiaomin and the others have seen Master Hou." All the people were so frightened that they bowed down violently, and suddenly they knelt on the ground.

Sun Yuan hurriedly held his hand: "Get up, get up, don't be polite." When I heard this old man speak just now, my heart was touched, and I have something to say to you. ”

Zhou Yangliu: "Get up, Master Hou is going to lecture." ”

When everyone stood up, Sun Yuan asked the old man with a smile: "Old man, I heard that you are all surnamed Hua, and you fled from Luyi, Henan." ”

"Lord Hou, we are from Henan, we fled at the beginning of this year, but fortunately we were taken in by Yangzhou Town, so that the people would not starve to death

。 There are more than 100 people in my whole clan, and they are all grateful for the grace of Hou Ye's life. ”

Sun Yuan asked again: "Why did you flee to Yangzhou?" ”

The old man's eyes were red: "What else, there are wars every day in that place, and coupled with natural disasters, no one can live at all." ”

Sun Yuan sighed: "Homesick?" ”

"Think, why don't you want to, Xiao Lao'er is in his early seventies, and he doesn't have a few years to live, but he can't return to his roots when he dies." The old man's tears poured down.

Sun Yuan: "So, let me ask you, if I take the soldiers home with you, are you willing to go with me?" ”

He looked around and said, "This time our army's northern expedition is going to fight Henan, and it will definitely regain the lost territory." When the time comes, you will be able to go home. I know that some of you don't want to be military households, and the reason why you stay in Yangzhou Town is to have something to eat. Ben Hou is here today, and in front of everyone, I would like to assure you that if you can establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield, I will restore the civil status of meritorious soldiers. And not only that, but I will reward you with the new land. ”

Sun Yuan looked at a recruit with a big red flower on his chest beside him: "Soldier, answer me, do you want to restore your citizenship and do you want to own your own land?" ”

"I ......" The recruit didn't expect the noble Yingchuan Hou to ask him personally, and he was so frightened that he didn't know how to answer.

"I don't even dare to say a word, what kind of hero is the Ningxiang Army."

The young man was obviously so excited that Sun Yuan couldn't control his emotions, and stretched his neck and shouted, "Lord Hou, I want to!" ”

"Do you want your own land, do you want your own estate, do you want herds of wives, children and slaves?"

"Yes! The young man yelled, and the green tendons on his neck jumped suddenly.

Sun Yuan pointed to the north and shouted at the group of recruits: "Then follow me to Henan, where there is ownerless land." Then follow me to Henan, where there are enemy heads for you to build up meritorious deeds."

"Swear to follow Master Hou to the death!" Several recruits waved their fists at the same time: "We're going home, we're going home!" ”

"Do you have the confidence to defeat all enemies, and do you know how to fight?"

"Master Hou, I have confidence, we have trained many times

。 All the recruits puffed up their chests, and their young faces were red and sweaty with excitement.

……

Coming out of that village, Guan Tao asked Sun Yuan in a low voice: "Master Hou, are you going to give land with military merits?" ”

"Yes." Sun Yuan nodded: "We are heroes in the Ningxiang Army, many people have been following me since the beginning of our time. High-ranking officers are just that, and many middle- and low-ranking officers have not received real benefits except for military salaries. They are very loyal to me and are willing to live and die with me, but I also have to give everyone benefits. There is always a day when people get old, and the day they retire, how can I let those men who have shed blood for me not have a good end. Guan Tao, you go back to Tongzhou immediately, and let Huang You and Fu Shan come up with a reward for awarding military merits. ”

"Yes, Master Hou...... But do we have that much land? ”

Sun Yuan: "Didn't you just say it very clearly, the northern provinces have cities and land, as long as they are defeated, it will be ours." ”

In the past, the reason why Sun Yuan did not implement military merit granting land was mainly because he did not have his own territory. Moreover, the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River was in the hands of the gentry, and the land annexation situation was serious, and there was not much land to divide at all.

As for the north, after Li Zicheng made a fuss and Jiannu entered the prison, the people fled seriously, and a large amount of land was abandoned. It can be said that the entire grassroots organization of the Ming Dynasty in the north has been completely swept away by these two forces, which is convenient for Sun Yuan to rebuild.

Anyway, when the time comes, it is nothing more than to occupy a piece of land, and then divide the land and issue a title deed to the meritorious soldiers.

As for whether the court admits it or not, who cares, if you have a gun, you are the king of grass. The cities and territories occupied by my Sun Yuan are hard to ask me to vomit.

There is a kind, bring troops to fight!

Sun Yuan was still very confident in the combat effectiveness of his own troops. If the forces of the four towns in Jiangbei are integrated, maybe they can really defeat Jiannu and recover the lost territory.

Guan Tao: "Yes, the lower official will go back to Tongzhou to tell Mr. Huang and Mr. Qingzhu." He suddenly became a little worried: "Master Hou, what if you regain lost territory in the Northern Expedition in the future and accidentally defeat Beijing?" ”

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