After Zhang Zhi left, Zhang Xianzhong thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to do what Zhao Yan said.

This time, Zhao Yan was heavily armed, and it was impossible for him to loot again, and it was useless to pinch the hundreds of thousands of horses in his hands.

When he appeased Xiong Wencan, he naturally couldn't afford to raise these people, and the court couldn't afford to raise them.

If these fifteen homeless people were exchanged for safety, it would be a bargain.

The only concern is whether Zhao Yan has broken his promise, but Zhao Yan's reputation has never been bad, and this time he has to vigorously appease the rest of the thieves, so naturally he will not lose his reputation for him.

After figuring this out, Zhang Xianzhong made the most decided.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately eliminated the envoy and went to negotiate with Zhao Yan on this issue, and at the same time he was in the camp and made public the issue of the appeased officers and soldiers.

In less than half a day, everyone in Zhang Xianzhong's department knew the plan to be cared for.

"The king intends to accept care from Xiong Wencan, but Xiong Wencan cannot settle the brothers and sisters in the camp, so let us go to General Zhao to be cared for, and General Zhao will give us land and give us tax exemption for three years. If you go to Shandong, you can get 50 acres of land! If you have the courage to go to Liaodong, a family may receive 300 acres of land! ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Now it's good, the king is appeased, the general will not come to attack us, and there will be land to send to us in the future. ”

The atmosphere among the thieves suddenly became enthusiastic, and they all rejoiced at the news.

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong revealed the news was to make Zhao Yan dare not break his promise, if no one in the world knew about it, Zhao Yan would do whatever he wanted, anyway, no one knew.

But now that the news is spreading, Zhao Yan will have scruples, and naturally he will not be able to operate on him, and if he dares to operate on him, his reputation will be rotten.

After two days of bargaining, Zhang Xianzhong was finally willing to hand over all 500,000 displaced people, and only took 3,000 people to Xiong Wencan's place to be appeased.

As for the plunder, hand over thirty percent.

This is Zhao Yan's reserve price, if Zhang Xianzhong doesn't pay it, he can use this excuse to exterminate him, because whether it is Han Sheng or Liu Guoneng to touch him, his body will be stripped naked, and there will be no copper plate left.

Zhang Xianzhong was very annoyed, he knew that he would no longer be greedy for these money, and when he heard that Zhao Killing Star was going west, he directly stroking Xiong Wencan, so that now he was completely bitten by Zhao Killing Xing.

For Zhao Shuxing's Shandong army, Zhang Xianzhong knew their toughness best, and he had been defeated twice by Shandong soldiers and horses.

Especially in that ambush, the Shandong army was angry in his ambush, and chased out three hundred miles non-stop every night, and his legs were almost broken that time, so he escaped from the hands of the Shandong army.

This time, Zhao Killing's soldiers and horses were on the side, if he resisted, he would be easily pinched to death by Zhao Killing Star like an ant, and there was no room for anything.

500,000 displaced people laid down their weapons on the ninth day of the seventh month and went to Zhao Yan's Shandong army to pacify him, and Zhao Yan was so happy that he smiled.

If you go in and suppress, you will inevitably have to chase and run for a while, not only will you waste your energy, but you will not be able to get so many people, and it is inevitable that some displaced people will flee or be killed in battle.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, it doesn't matter if he is suppressed or not, throw it to Xiong Wencan for a headache! He only needs the population.

After controlling the 500,000 displaced people, Mao Yuanyi immediately said to Zhao Yan: "My lord, Zhang Xianzhong's 500,000 population has been obtained, and now he can wave his army into Shaanxi and recruit people to Shandong. ”

"The soldiers are divided into two routes, and we march from Sichuan." Zhao Yan said, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and asked puzzledly: "Shu is dangerous, I'm afraid it's not easy to march." ”

"It's okay, it's okay to go to Sichuan." Zhao Yan is very curious about the situation in Sichuan, in history Sichuan was slaughtered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for thousands of miles, and finally used the method of filling Sichuan with Huguang to restore Sichuan, many people think that this is Zhang Xianzhong did, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan to kill people, but there are definitely not many, all the Manchu splashed dirty water.

Zhang Xianzhong is just a scapegoat for the Manchu Dynasty, the so-called Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, that is completely untenable, and the most people killed in Sichuan should be the Manchu Qing Dynasty (a reader: nonsense, there is a clear record in the Qing Dynasty that Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered 400 million Sichuan people, and there were only 300 million people in the world at that time, which shows how brutal Zhang Xianzhong is-!). ）。

The Sichuan people of this era and the Sichuan people of later generations are different, the civilization of the Shu people is very long, in the Qin Dynasty, civilization has already been formed, but this civilization was brought by the history books with the sentence "no courtesy", Zhao Yan has no impression of Sichuan in this era. Zhao Yan entered Sichuan to see how the customs of Sichuan are doing, and he also has a bottom in his heart, so that he doesn't know it at all.

The marching route was formulated at Zhao Yan's insistence. Mao Yuanyi divided the staff into two halves, and the other half took Han Sheng's fourth infantry battalion and 4,000 cavalry to Tongguan into Shaanxi, with Qin Zhiyuan as the main general.

Zhao Yan took You Xuefeng's first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army and another battalion of cavalry into Sichuan by water, while Mao Yuanyi stayed in the Central Plains to dispatch grain.

On July 16, after six days of collecting ships, Zhao Yan finally gathered enough ships, and Zhao Yan took people on the boat, entered Sichuan to suppress thieves, and marched towards Sichuan, which is known as the land of abundance.

And Qin Zhiyuan took another way of soldiers and horses to the north to Tongguan and entered Shaanxi. Zhao Yan's entry into Sichuan this time also has the intention of gathering displaced people in Sichuan.

It's just that along the Yangtze River, the mountains on both sides of the river are steep, and it is really like the "Early White Emperor City" written by Li Bai.

When you get upstream, the boat can't go upstream, so you have to rely on the slender man to pull it.

Those slender men are also lucky, and they meet Zhao Yan, a big financier, if someone else sends troops to Sichuan, they will not be paid to pull fiber.

Zhao Yan was sad to see it, and asked people to pay the slender man half a penny of silver every day. This made the slender men very energetic, shouting the trumpet to pull the ships up one by one.

The road was quite smooth, Zhao Yan entered Sichuan all the way unimpeded, and the officers and soldiers at those passes saw that it was the Shandong army entering Sichuan, so they did not dare to stop it, and they all let it go one by one.

On July 20, Zhao Yan arrived in Yucheng, and more than 10,000 troops began to be in Yucheng.

As soon as Zhao Yan arrived in Yucheng, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, was already waiting here, Zhao Yan's Shandong was strictly disciplined, and he did not commit any crimes with the people along the way, so he was naturally popular wherever he went, especially when the thieves were rampant.

Although the problem of thieves in Sichuan is not very large, there are still thieves who jump into Sichuan from time to time.

In the queue to greet the officials, Zhao Yan saw a female general in her forties, this female general was elegant and elegant, with a height of nearly one meter nine, which was very conspicuous among those Sichuan officials.

This female general, ten out of ten is Qin Liangyu.

After Zhao Yan and Shao Jiechun exchanged pleasantries, they asked the female general: "Dare to ask Madame, but is it Qin Liangyu, a world-famous heroine among women?" ”

"The general has won the award, it is the old woman. If you say that the world is famous, the general is the first person in my Ming Dynasty. Qin Liangyu clenched his fists and said.

"The younger generation has seen Madame. Madame can be different from the younger generation, you are a heroine among women. Zhao Yan is very respectful, and he is very happy to see the heroine in Yucheng.

Hua Mulan is too far away, if you want to talk about women heroes, it is still Qin Liangyu's highest achievement, which is definitely unprecedented and unprecedented, but during the Cultural Revolution, she was still taken as a toast woman and was taken to the grave.

"I have heard that the Shandong army is strong, if the general is free, can the lower officials go to have a look?" Qin Liangyu saw that Zhao Yan respected him very much, so he proposed to visit.

"If Madame comes to visit my Shandong Army, she will be free, and she can do it after the banquet." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

Shao Jiechun smiled at this time: "General Jianwei and General Zhendong are both my Ming Tiger Generals. The wine and food have been prepared for a long time, and General Jianwei invited. ”

"Please, please." Zhao Yan also smiled and stretched out his hand and said, the group entered the restaurant, and Shao Jiechun had already prepared a few tables of luxurious banquets.

Zhao Yan didn't react when he saw such a luxurious banquet, although he hated the extravagance and waste of officialdom, but this era can be described as black as a crow in the world, and he can't control it, but his subordinates are absolutely not allowed to do so.

During the banquet, Shao Jiechun asked Zhao Yan: "General Jianwei has entered Sichuan this time, but what are his plans?" ”

"Don't hide it from the military, this official recovered the southeast region in Liaodong two months ago, as well as the 3,000-mile territory of North Korea, but Liaodong and North Korea have been raging for many years, and the population is too sparse. I heard that there were many poor people in Shuzhong, so I went into Sichuan to recruit poor people to fill the land of Liaodong and Korea. Zhao Yan said to Shao Jiechun, "The thieves have been repeatedly suppressed, all because the poor people have no livelihood and become cowards, if the poor people in Shu move to Shandong, Liaodong, and North Korea, the thieves will have nothing to replenish." ”

"In the land of Shuzhong, the tenth of the ** occupied by the vassal king is that there are a lot of poor people, and if the general can move some of the former poor people to Liaodong, it will be a great good." Shao Jiechun said.

At this time, Qin Liangyu asked: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate to put my Ming people in the past to be a place where the Korean domain is fenced." ”

"The king of North Korea has been arrested, North Korea has been arrested since the Han and Tang Dynasties, this time North Korea does not exist, do not say that I am a saint, change North Korea to Lelang County, restore my Chinese territory." Zhao Yan's words made the officials present stunned.

"Where is the King of Joseon?" Shao Jiechun asked dumbfoundedly, that's a barrier! Zhao Yan actually wanted to destroy it.

"It has been pressed to Shandong, and after a while, it will be taken to Beijing for trial." Zhao Yan said that there was no intention to hide this matter, the king of Korea had already taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the evidence was conclusive, if Chongzhen did not agree, he could not help it, anyway, North Korea had already fallen.

Everyone asked what crime the king of Korea had committed, Zhao Yan took out the tablet erected by the king of Korea, and when everyone heard about it, they already knew in their hearts that it was greasy, obviously Zhao Yan coveted the Korean country, so he made a big fuss.

However, everyone didn't say anything more about this matter, and Qin Liangyu didn't say anything more. After a while, the crowd turned the conversation to the thieves.

After the banquet, Zhao Yan immediately asked Shao Jiechun to send him 30,000 taels of silver in order to make Shao Jiechun more cooperative, Shao Jiechun received the silver, and immediately guaranteed the ticket, and even said that Zhao Yan did not need to worry about recruiting the poor, and he could recruit hundreds of thousands of poor people within a month.

On the second day, Qin Liangyu immediately took a team of personal soldiers to visit Zhao Yan's barracks. Zhao Yan hurriedly went to greet him and personally accompanied Qin Liangyu to visit the camp.

Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers are the most powerful of the various officers and armies of the Ming Dynasty, but compared with Zhao Yan's soldiers and horses, the gap is still very large, and the biggest difference is in firearms.

Zhao Yan asked people to demonstrate firearms such as muskets, artillery, and rockets to Qin Liangyu, which shocked Qin Liangyu. And in terms of the pikemen that she is most proud of, the pikemen of the Shandong army are not inferior to her white pole soldiers, but they are inferior to her white pole soldiers in mountain combat.

"Madame's soldiers and horses are brave, no more fearful of the enemy than the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, if Madame wants firearms, you can go from the juniors. However, the younger generation is also very curious about the white pole soldier of his wife, can he teach him the method of military training? Zhao Yan said to Qin Liangyu.

"Is this true?" Qin Liangyu was overjoyed in his heart, if he had these sophisticated firearms in the army, his combat effectiveness would definitely skyrocket.

"It's serious, and every month the younger generation will let people send some shells into Shaanxi." Zhao Yan said to Qin Liangyu that he was more greedy for the training methods of the white pole soldiers.

Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, in the mountains combat operations are fast, which is incomparable to the Shandong army, if Qin Liangyu's training method, he can set up a special mountain troops, sent to deal with the Japanese army is the best.

"Then thank you general...... Fifty doors are available? Qin Liangyu thought for a while, and then came up with a number that felt between reliable and unreliable.

"That's fifty." Zhao Yan agreed.

…… Two days later, Zhao Yan left ten artillerymen to follow Qin Liangyu back to the stone pillar, while he took the soldiers and horses to Chengdu. In the two days, Zhao Yan gained a lot.

Not only did he get Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers' combat methods in the mountains, but he also got the "Sichuan Defense Map" drawn by Qin Liangyu, which contained more than 40 passages in and out of Shu that Qin Liangyu sent people to explore.

These passages in and out of Shu are all negligence in the defense of the Ming army, as long as heavy troops are sent to block these more than 40 passages, the thieves will not be able to fly in even if they have wings.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed, and left Qin Liangyu with a thousand pairs of plate armor.

Traveling to Chengdu with Zhao Yan was Shao Jiechun, whose governor Yamen was in Chengdu, and Zhao Yan did not go very fast along the way, but was enjoying the customs of Sichuan everywhere.

However, what puzzled Zhao Yan was that the accents of the Sichuan people he saw were not much different from those of the Sichuan people in later generations, which means that although the Sichuan people were massacred by the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they did not die, and the filling of Sichuan by Huguang only brought a certain degree of influence to Sichuan.

At the same time, after entering the Sichuan Basin, the atmosphere was more and more leisurely, of course, this refers to the rich peasants, as well as the landlords, the squires, etc., but the poor people are everywhere.

In Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the degree of land annexation was definitely one of the top provinces, and the occupancy rate of feudal kings was rare among the provinces.

Six or seven times out of ten the people of Sichuan are tenants of the vassal king, and they have to pay rent to the vassal king every year.

However, Sichuan is rich in products, has a mild climate, and compared with provinces at the same latitude, it can have a variety of seasons, and the grain output is higher, and the people can barely survive.

It is precisely because of this reason that there were not many thieves in Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and none of the thieves could develop in Sichuan. The reason why it fell into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong was because of the confusion of the officials' command, and Shao Jiechun, who went to Chengdu with Zhao Yan, was the culprit.

Zhao Yan wants to recruit people in Sichuan, and he has to help Shao Jiechun.

After receiving Zhao Yan's money, as soon as Shao Jiechun arrived in Chengdu, he immediately cooperated with Zhao Yan and issued proclamations in various towns and villages to vigorously publicize Zhao Yan's immigration policy.

Zhao Yan also sent personnel to set up immigration registration offices in various towns.

At the same time, he was afraid that he would not be able to recruit people, so Zhao Yan also raised the immigration treatment in Sichuan, raising the tax exemption from three years to four years, and also opened up North Korea to Sichuan people.

North Korea is different from Liaodong, North Korea is separated by the Yalu River, and it is controlled by Zhao Yan, and the Qing army will definitely not be able to defeat the river, and there will definitely be no military disasters there.

The number of acres of land allocated is the same as 300 acres per household.

Three hundred acres of land, this number is absolutely terrifying. Then you can directly become a small landlord, as long as you run it well, you can live a prosperous life.

For a while, the people of Sichuan were hotly discussed, and many people thought that the government had written 300 as 300, but when they went to the immigration registration office to ask, the answer they got was 300 acres.

In order to convince the people, the registry vigorously publicized Zhao Yan's deeds, highlighting Zhao Yan's love for the people and the many advantages of keeping his promises.

Even the people of Sichuan, who live a comfortable and leisurely life, many of them can't resist the temptation and go to the throne with their families and belongings.

With the cooperation of the government, Zhao Yan soon formed an immigration boom in Sichuan.

Those people who had been oppressed by the vassal kings and the government for a long time abandoned their rented land and helped the old and the young to embark on the road of immigration.

The discipline of Sichuan people is very good, and their character is also well-known. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, more than 100,000 Sichuan people went out to fight in Sichuan with enthusiasm, and such an atmosphere was rare in other provinces at that time.

If these Sichuan people who have reached the highest level of civilization are moved to the colony, they will be able to completely occupy the colony.

Zhao Yan directly left You Xuefeng's first infantry of the Liaodong Army in Sichuan to escort the immigrants, and most of the literati in the generals stayed in Sichuan, while he took 4,000 cavalry and went to Shaanxi by post road.

After half a month of marching, Zhao Yan finally entered the Hanzhong area. As soon as I entered Hanzhong, I saw that this rich land in the past was already dilapidated, and there were hungry people everywhere.

As soon as Zhao Yan arrived, he immediately set off a storm.

When the people of Hanzhong heard that Zhao Yan had recruited people to immigrate to Shandong, Liaodong and Korea, they were like a cloud of followers, just as Zhao Yan sent troops into Shaanxi in the ninth year.

After only ten days in Hanzhong, Zhao Yan has recruited more than 100,000 people.

Soon Zhao Yan got in touch with Qin Zhiyuan, at this time Qin Zhiyuan had been in Shaanxi for nearly half a month, and the recruitment situation was very ideal, but in half a month, nearly one million people were recruited from Xi'an, which is known as the 800-mile Qinchuan and other places.

"Qindi is also a good place for immigrants!" Zhao Yan was both happy and sad. The sad thing is that the 800-mile Qinchuan, which was rich in the past, has now become a hell on earth. Happily, he was able to recruit many people in Shaanxi.

However, Zhao Yan's wanton recruitment of ordinary people deeply stimulated Chongzhen in the Forbidden City, but Zhao Yan would definitely not give up Sichuan and Shaanxi, the two virgin lands of immigrants.

A storm is brewing in the midst of a noisy wave of immigration.

(To be continued)