Seeing her galloping back, Niu Jinxing was not annoyed, but smiled sadly.

"Red Lady, Li Yan, Red Lady, Li Yan ......"

After muttering two sentences, he got into the sedan chair and ordered the sedan chair man: "Go and see King Chuang." ”

The red lady is nothing in his eyes at all, and it is Li Yan who really makes him take it to heart. Although Li Yan single-handedly recommended him, in Niu Jinxing's heart, Li Yan was still his competitor.

Before they entered the capital, they had already taken a sedan chair, and the contradictions between them were also revealed. As far as the immediate point of view is the contradiction between the tactical directions of the two sides, Li Yan has always insisted on accumulating grain and slowly becoming king, and wants to assist Li Zicheng to return to Shaanxi to farm, while Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin and others saw the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, and thought that this weakness was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and they should seize the opportunity to immediately attack the capital and replace it.

The difference in the concepts of the two sides made the competition that was originally covered up come to the surface, perhaps, the recklessness of the red lady can become a reason for him to suppress Li Yan.

When the red lady saw Li Yan, Li Yan's eyebrows were tightly locked, and she was worried.

"Li Gongzi, the military discipline of the king's soldiers is no different from that of the officers and soldiers, why don't you tell the king, if it goes on like this, it won't work!"

Li Yan could only smile bitterly, and only after she finished speaking, she asked: "You only left a message saying that you were going to assassinate Yu Guozhen, but have you ever seen him?" ”

"I saw it, but I found out, and he let me go."

The red lady simply told what happened. Especially the two sentences that Yu Guozhen asked her to bring to Li Zicheng, which made Li Yan stunned for a while, and then the red lady said that she had just seen Niu Jinxing conniving at the cruelty of his subordinates, Li Yan heard this, and Huo Ran stood up.

"No, no, how can Yu Guozhen be so kind. How could he find an excuse to let you back! Li Yan glanced at the red lady, and his face turned pale: "Yes, he is playing a divisive plan!" ”

"Discord meter?"

"You go to do something, even if King Chuang doesn't know, Yu Guozhen has to publicize it everywhere, how can King Chuang believe that he only lets you bring such two nonsense...... Yu Guozhen is so poisonous, he wants to get rid of me with the hand of King Chuang! ”

When it comes to this. Li Yan was a little depressed.

Yu Guozhen used a yang scheme, and he was not afraid that Li Yan would see through it at all. Because Yu Guozhen has a very accurate grasp of the mentality of King Chuang and the group of people under King Chuang. Lack of accumulation over a longer period of time. Although Li Zicheng and his subordinates have made great progress in the past two years, they are still a kind of nouveau riche in terms of mentality. Their suspicions became more and more serious as their territory expanded and their number of people increased. If it had been smooth sailing, the fruits of victory would have covered up all contradictions, but if there had been any setbacks, such as this one, when they had a plague in the middle of their march. As a result, if the army cannot enter smoothly, the contradictions will intensify.

Yu Guozhen just poured oil on the dark fire. Let this contradiction flare up suddenly.

"I'm going to find the king to explain!" Hearing Li Yan's words, the red lady also realized that something was wrong. Yu Guozhen seemed to be calm and tolerant, but she harbored such evil intentions, she got up angrily and said: "I have a good relationship with Mrs. Gao, it's a big deal to ask Mrs. Gao to speak on my behalf." ”

"It's too late, King Chuang has a preconceived idea, at this time, Niu Junshi should have already gone to find King Chuang." Li Yan sighed: "Fortunately, in the past few years, I have also made some contributions to King Chuang, King Chuang will ask a few more words, and then you must endure it, don't have a conflict." ”

"If King Chuang really falls for Yu Guozhen's traitor's scheme, it is not enough to break the king!" The red lady said quickly: "He just entered the capital and became the emperor, but he is just another Chongzhen, and the people of the world are suffering, I am afraid that they will still not be able to get rid of it." Li Gongzi, you are a person of great wisdom, why don't you do it yourself? ”

"Silence!"

Hearing the words of the red lady, Li Yan was furious and shouted loudly. The red lady pouted dissatisfiedly, but she respected Li Yan in her heart and really shut up.

"You must not say this outside, and you must not say it at all. If it is heard by others and reaches the ears of King Chuang, King Chuang will definitely take it seriously. Red lady, remember to remember! ”

The red lady didn't respond yet, and suddenly, there was a hurried footstep outside, and then someone shouted: "Where is the general Li Yan, the king has been summoned, so Li Yan will go to the audience quickly!" ”

Li Yan sighed in his heart, and sure enough, it came!

"I'll go with you! If there is anything, I will bear it alone, the big deal is that I will be beheaded, the government did not cut off my head, Nanhaibo did not cut off my head, I see if King Chuang will cut off my head! ”

"You stay here, don't mess around, wait for my news!" Li Yan glared at her: "You can explain it clearly now, if you mess around again, you really can't tell it!" ”

The red lady pouted, but still stayed in the house. Li Yan walked out quickly, and saw that it was King Chuang's personal soldier who came to give the order, and he was always familiar with it, so he asked with a smile: "Brother He, is the Niu military division here?" ”

"The Niu Army Division has already arrived, King Chuang urges the general to go quickly." There was nothing unusual about the expression of the surnamed He.

Li Yan got on the horse, looked back at the door, the figure of the red lady flashed in front of the door, Li Yan sighed, and then urged the horse to go to the king.

The yamen of Baoding Mansion was in tatters, so King Chuang did not live in the yamen, but set up his line in a rich man's house. After Li Yan arrived, he found that he was not the only one, but several generals had already come.

"King Chuang called so many people...... What does that mean exactly? Li Yan's heart was slightly cold, if he just reprimanded him a few words, there was no need to summon so many people.

When I entered the courtyard where Li Zicheng lived, I saw Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing standing together affectionately and saying something. Seeing Li Yan arrive, Li Zicheng laughed and said: "General, there is good news, Chongzhen, this idiot, just used Sun Chuanting, and used Gao Qiqian, and now Gao Qiqian has left Zhuozhou and is coming to Baoding!" ”

"What?"

This news surprised Li Yan.

The high potential of the army to attack is definitely not bad news for them, but great news!

"Brother Li Yan, our opportunity has come, what Niu Junshi said is right, as long as it drags on, Emperor Chongzhen is anxious, and he is suffering from internal and external troubles, he can't wait at all, he will definitely come out to fight with us. Although he cobbled together more than 30,000 people, plus Sun Chuanting's about 50,000, we are not the rabble of the Eight Kings, as long as these 50,000 officers and soldiers are defeated, there will be no more soldiers in the capital! ”

Li Zicheng's eyebrows fluttered as he spoke, and Niu Jinxing next to him was also so excited that his cheeks were red. Li Yan suddenly understood in his heart that the news that Gao Qiqian replaced Sun Chuanting's superintendent and sent troops obviously made Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing have no time to take care of Yu Guozhen's divisive plan.

If Yu Guozhen knew that his poisonous plan had been broken like this, he would be very depressed in his heart.

"That being the case, King Chuang, then we must seize the opportunity, raise up the incompetent and courageless eunuchs, it is very likely that he will send troops to make a false shot, and he will retract back into the city, we have to kill this dead eunuch before he shrinks his head!" Li Yandao.

He secretly laughed at Yu Guozhen's unsuccessful plan in his heart, but he didn't know that Yu Guozhen didn't care about the situation on his side at this time. The news of Gao Qiqian's replacement of Sun Chuanting also reached Yu Guozhen's hands at this time, and when he got this news, Yu Guozhen concluded that Chongzhen was completely finished.

He himself cut off his retreat again and again, if it weren't for the fact that he was not insulted by foreign captives in the 260-year history of the Ming Dynasty, and for the fact that Chongzhen still played a very important role in his future plans, Yu Guozhen would not care about his life or death at all.

"Very good, Chongzhen is trying to be rescued alive, because he is a ready-made negative teaching material, he can teach the people of the world, why is Daming not working." Yu Guozhen thought so in his heart, and then put this matter aside, anyway, he had already made all the plans before, and he had Tian Boguang and others to carry it out, and he couldn't worry about it if he wanted to worry about it for hundreds of miles, so it was better to do a good job of organizing the relocation of the disaster victims in his hands.

At this time, 500,000 victims from near and far had gathered outside the southern city of Ji', and their accommodation alone was a huge problem, although Yu Guozhen had brought in all the 50,000 tents that had been hoarded in Tamluo in recent years to prepare for future northward operations, it was to no avail, so he mainly relied on digging caves on the spot to solve the problem.

Fortunately, there is not much rain in the winter in Shandong's east, especially in these years, there has been a great drought, and there are fewer rainy days. There is no shortage of soil mountains around Jinan Mansion, choose the land to dig the soil, ram it into a wall, as the first barrier to block the wind, and then dig out the main hole of the cave according to the mountain as a place for public activities and ventilation, and then dig out the auxiliary holes on both sides for living. As long as it was supported by bricks and wooden planks, such a low cave could barely be inhabited.

Honeycomb coal was widely used for heating, and tens of thousands of victims were organized to dig coal mines in Zhangqiu and Qingzhou prefectures in Jinan Prefecture, and hundreds of large and small mines were built. A small mine requires only about 10 people and can produce 50 to 100 baskets of coal per day, or about 1.5 to 3 tons, while a large mine needs 100 people and produces up to 100 tons of coal per day, and the average daily output of hundreds of wells is about 5,000 tons – this output is not only enough for the victims to heat and live, but even has a surplus (note).

The surplus part was also transported to Qingdao by Yu Guozhen to be hoarded at the mouth of Qingdao, and when the ship's capacity was free, it could be transported to Tamna.

In this way, whether it is the mining of coal mines or the loading and unloading of grain, it is all carried out by the disaster victims, and the tiger guards are managing to a greater extent, with nearly 20,000 tiger guards and hundreds of thousands of disaster victims, except for some chaos at the beginning, everything is in order after seven days. In the process, the victims involuntarily accepted the various disciplines and orders prescribed by the Tiger Guard, and developed initial obedience. The victims are not passively receiving relief, but they themselves are helping in the process.

At present, the main evacuation direction is still the Yangjiaogou at the mouth of the Xiaoqing River, but about a quarter of them are organized to go to Qingdaokou. Qingdao mouth still has Chongzhen 12 years when the people moved to the old base, after repairing, it can still be used, which can not save less manpower.

Note: This data comes from the article "The Germination of Capitalism in the Coal Mining Industry of Shandong Boshan and Western Beijing", which is also transferred from the "History of Zi'Bo Coal Mine" and the historical records of the coal mining industry in Shandong and Germany in Japan and Germany, talking about the local soil method of coal mining in the late Qing Dynasty. (To be continued)