From the moment he entered Lanxi, Yang Chao saw groups of refugees, helping the old and the young with their heads down, slowly advancing like zombies.

There was no expression on everyone's faces, as if they had long been accustomed to what happened to them.

The Chinese people are the most tolerant of suffering in the world, they are not used to complaining, they know that there is no way to complain.

This is because the common people of China suffer the most, and the Chinese government, why do you let your people suffer so much, and let them have nowhere to complain, they can only endure themselves again and again, they can't stand it anymore, they will pick up the knife in their hands, but at that time you call them mobs!

"My lord, the Tang newspaper said that after Xu Du raised troops, he first took Dongyang County, followed by Yiwu, Zhuji, Pujiang, Yongkang, Wuyi, Tangxi, Lanxi and other counties."

Huang Fengfu helped Yang Chao sort out a series of new Tang newspapers.

Yang Chao frowned and said, "It seems that the forces of the Baitou Army are all active near Jinhua." ”

Huang Fengfu said that Yang Chao didn't know, he didn't see it last year, and the Tang newspapers he saw this year were also inconsistent, there were Tang newspapers from Yanzhou Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion asking for help, and the strength of the Baitou Army was extremely exaggerated, ranging from 100,000 to 1 million people.

Moreover, Yanzhou and Shaoxing both said that the main force of the Baitou Army was in their territory and hoped that the imperial court would send reinforcements to rescue them.

Along the way, Yang Chao had to recollect information wherever he passed, and the Tang Newspaper in Lanxi County should be said to be relatively accurate, but unfortunately they were still occupied by the Baitou Army a month ago, and they couldn't send out the real Tang Newspaper at all.

"What about now?"

Huang Fengfu looked through a few more Tang newspapers, and then said: "On the twenty-eighth day of the first month, the main force of the Baitou Army and the official army fought under Jinhua City, and now they have been defeated and retreated, where exactly did they retreat. Not quite clear? ”

Yang Chao set out from Nanjing in early February, and it was certainly impossible for him to know about the 28th of the first lunar month. Before leaving, I only knew that the Baitou Army was huge and gathered hundreds of thousands of people to attack the surrounding counties. The rest is not very clear, and now it seems that it is the same as Haizhou, it is the local government that is too exaggerated, and exaggeration has the advantage of hiding the defeat and avoiding responsibility.

The real strength of Xu Dujun's army is estimated to be tens of thousands of people who died, but no matter how many people there are. The most important thing is to find them.

"My lord, Jinhua has arrived!"

As he was talking, the shadow of Jinhua City could already be seen on the bow of the ship, of course, Jinhua City also saw Yang Chao's fleet, it was too difficult for the huge fleet not to be discovered, Jinhua City's countermeasure was to close the gate tightly, and then a large number of soldiers appeared on the head of the city.

Yang Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly, there was no city for Yang Chao to enter along the way, and Yang Chao had already prepared. But Jinhua City was probably the most nervous, obviously related to the fact that they had fought with Xu Du not long ago.

It was already two hundred zhang away, and Yang Chao ordered the fleet to stop first. Send your own soldiers to the shore and ride to Jinhua City to explain the situation, if the city misunderstands and overreacts to launch an attack, who knows if there are cannons in the city.

I saw that a boat in front of the back immediately docked, and someone led a horse from above, riding towards Jinhua City, and holding some documents handed over to him by Yang Chao, all of which were written by Shi Kefa's military department, proving that Yang Chao was here to aid Jinhua.

The pro-soldiers at least rushed over. He shot the paperwork into the city with an arrow, and then waited for a reply at the bottom of the city.

After months of training. Yang Chao finally trained more than 100 cavalry, but Yang Chao was very resolute. Other armies can ignore it, their own pro-soldier team must learn to ride a horse, this is the reserve army defined by Yang Chao and the elite army that presses the formation, and the pro-soldier team has to bear the pursuit task at the critical moment, and the pro-soldier team can not practice bird guns, but it cannot but practice horseback riding.

However, among the 500 soldiers, only more than 100 have learned, and only a dozen or so can skillfully ride war horses to fight.

This report is one of the best, it is very ashamed to say, this person is not a Nanjing veteran who has followed Yang Chao for a long time, but a Minzhuang recruited in Haizhou, Ding Bian Er, the family of Yanhu Bian Rang, this kid could originally ride a horse, and now he can shoot a bow and arrow on a horse, and dance a gun left and right to kill.

But when Bian Er was just an ordinary person, he dared to rush into Yang Chao's camp with a wrist-dissolving knife, and wanted to give the prisoner Bo Luo a moment of strength, and Yang Chao also knew that this was not an official's material.

Soon the city shot down and replied, Bian Er didn't even look at it, picked it up and came back directly.

It is a letter from Jinhua Bingbeidao, at this time the Jinhua prefect is just going home to mourn, and the new prefect who took over has not yet taken office, and as a result, Xu Du rebelled, so the military Beidao with a heavy army suddenly has the right to speak, it is said that now Jinhua City is this Bingbei Dao in the presiding, even Jinhua Zhixian and Jinhua Tongzhi Ni Zuoshan and other civil officials can only take his head as a leader.

It's just that he let Yang Chao camp on the other side of the river, and he was not allowed to approach the city wall for no reason, this kind of vigilance is a bit frightening, but in the eyes of the literati, they may think that he is old and serious.

Yang Chao could only ask everyone to stop the boat immediately and camp on the other side of the river across the city wall.

However, Wang Xiong also invited Yang Chao to the city to gather to discuss the suppression of bandits.

Wang Xiong is probably like a frightened bird, now that he heard that a fierce general like Yang Chao is coming, of course he also wants to use Yang Chao's troops, Yang Chao thought about it and decided to go to the city.

Then he took a few personal soldiers, let the soldiers cross the river, and walked slowly to the city wall, ashamed to say, Yang Chao himself has never learned to ride a horse, riding on a horse always has a feeling of vanity, the body is stiff, and there is no time, so he has not learned.

When he arrived at the city, the soldiers in the city shouted, and Yang Chao shouted several times before he understood his accent, and it turned out that Yang Chao was allowed to enter the city alone.

Let his soldiers camp across the river, Yang Chao can understand, let Yang Chao go in to discuss Yang Chao also agreed, but not even a personal soldier is allowed to bring, which makes Yang Chao a little unbearable, this is no longer a problem of worrying about soldiers disturbing the people, this is to treat Yang Chao as a thief.

Yang Chao did not commit any military discipline in the autumn when he was in Haizhou, and with the great military exploits that have spread all over the country, he is still so guarded, this Jinhua garrison is not much stronger than the original Haizhou Zhizhou, Yang Chao snorted coldly, turned around and left.

happened to have the opportunity, Yang Chao has always been a little resistant to suppressing the peasant army, probably due to the influence of education. Often, the peasant army had an uprising on its head, and the word "uprising" had the word "righteousness" in it, suppressing the uprising. Isn't it unrighteousness?

Moreover, it is known that the reason for the emergence of peasant armies is often because of land annexation. The government oppressed, and there was no suitable soil for the peasant army to survive, so why didn't there be a large-scale uprising in the heyday, when everyone was busy making money, who had this time, only in the last days, when the economy collapsed, and there was a large number of idle laborers and they couldn't live. Will take risks, otherwise with the Chinese small peasant mentality of being rich and safe, they will not find death if they can survive, in the end, this is the easiest nation to knead, but they are all forced to pick up butcher knives, and they are really suspected of being lackeys of the imperial court.

Now Wang Xiong does not let Yang Chao enter the city, just have an excuse to go back to Nanjing immediately, and wait for a while after returning to wait for Chongzhen's Qin Wang Order, then it is the time for him to emerge, and fight with the vast sea of peasant army. It is better to ensure the safety of Beijing City and give the Ming Dynasty a final blood transfusion, so that he can continue to breathe a sigh of relief. Because the natural disaster has finally passed.

Throughout history, the luck of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have been carried to the extreme, and he was tossed by the peasant army for more than ten years, and he has always lived tenaciously, but on the eve of the natural disaster, he fell.

After Li Zicheng entered Shaanxi, he proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, and the reason why he dared to do this was not to continue to flow as before. It was precisely because the drought in the northwest that had lasted for more than ten years had finally come to an end, and Li Zicheng was in Shaanxi to appease the displaced people. After reclaiming and abandoning acres of wasteland, sufficient resources were quickly accumulated. Then it hit Shaanxi, and then it was surrendered all the way to the city of Beijing.

If the Ming Dynasty is allowed to continue at this time, it will slowly survive, and Yang Chao has made great achievements and gained greater power, he should have enough prestige to encourage the emperor to make some reforms, not to mention other reforms, as long as the sea ban is opened, industry and commerce are encouraged, and the commercial form of the Ming Jiangnan is stimulated, so there is no need for the imperial court to take care of anything, and he can enter the commercial society spontaneously, and then slowly develop into the capital society.

The most important thing is to prevent the fall of Beijing City, Li Zicheng, who has no foundation in the Gyeonggi area, can only retreat to Shaanxi, Henan has been broken, it is impossible to gain a foothold, otherwise Li Zicheng will not choose to go from Shanxi to Beijing, obviously Henan is closer, so there is a no-man's land like Henan in the middle, which is enough for Li Zicheng and the Ming Dynasty to be at peace for a few years, and there will be no natural disasters for a few years, and the productivity can be restored, and then the Ming Dynasty can sweep Li Zicheng, destroy Zhang Xianzhong, and then fight to the death with the Manchu Dynasty, After that, it dominated East Asia and went to the world.

Although this idea may be too idealistic, there is always hope that it will not be, and that China will regret its fall on the eve of the Industrial Revolution for the second time, the first time in the late Song Dynasty, interrupted by the Mongols, and the Ming by the Manchus.

It's just that Yang Chao's plan failed, and on the second day, Wang Xiong sent people to Yang Chao's camp, brought pigs, sheep, beef and wine, and worked the army, so that Yang Chao lost the excuse to leave directly, and this Wang Xiong was much more clever than Gao Liangming.

and also sent a civil official to appease Yang Chao.

One of them is also an acquaintance of Yang Chao, who he once met in Jinchai Tower, Chen Zilong of Songjiang Huating.

When Yang Chao was raising money in Ruan's Hefang, he had seen this Chen Zilong, and he came with Xia Yunyi at that time.

But after Chen Zilong became an official, he never saw him again.

"General Yang is unharmed, I haven't seen him for a few years, General Yang has become famous all over the world, which is really generous and embarrassing."

Yang Chao bowed his hand and said, "Isn't Gongzi Chen also a big official?" ”

Chen Zilong has actually been a jinshi for a long time to be an official, but he was keen on learning before, and he has been sorting out Xu Guangqi's masterpieces, so he has no intention of being an official, but soon after Jin Hailou, he served as the county magistrate of Zhuji and entered the official career, maybe after Zhou Yanru, who regarded himself as the leader of the Restoration Society, came to power, he had to mention a few people from the Restoration Society, or Chen Zilong opened up the relationship with Zhou Yanru, otherwise how could he stay in Jiangnan as an official, instead of being made to a certain northern war-torn area where there was a shortage of officials.

Chen Zilong's identity at this time was the manager of Shaoxing Mansion in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, but he was returning from Jiangxi with a thousand Zhejiang governor pacesetters, and he happened to encounter Xu Du Rebellion, so he came to Jinhua to garrison.

came with Chen Zilong, as well as Xu Tiaoyuan of Jinhua Zhixian County.

After the two exchanged polite sentences, Chen Zilong introduced Xu Tiaoyuan to Yang Chao. (To be continued...... ）。