Chongzhen ten years, late winter, it seems that it is about to come to the spring of the next year, although the winter has not completely passed, the spring has not fully arrived, but a little spring, has begun to come to the country of abundance in Sichuan, Guangyuan, the northernmost city in Sichuan, naturally has a breath of spring.

The winter of Chongzhen's ten years was quite calm, because one day in winter, the officers and soldiers and thieves all slowed down their actions, so the wandering was not strong, and the pursuit was not able to catch up, but with the arrival of spring, all this will be different. The smell of mountain rain and wind is also mixed with the breath of spring.

On this day, Guangyuan came a group of new guests, it turned out to be Xia Erduo led by the old officials of Baishui, this group of old officials under the leadership of Li Qingshui and Xia Erduo, led the people of Baishui to promote potatoes, and achieved great success, and they also have a certain experience in promoting new crops.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also quite happy when he saw them coming. Hurriedly called Xia Erduo and asked with a smile: "How is the matter of corn seeds?" ”

Xia Erduo said with a smile: "With the help of the two priests, we have obtained a large number of corn seeds from Guangdong and Fujian, as well as dozens of old farmers who know how to grow corn. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed: "Call me to see me." ”

Xia Erduo called a large number of people to introduce Zhu Yuanzhang to know, and it was a group of old farmers from Guangdong, all of whom were rude, and when they saw Zhu Yuanzhang, the "general", they didn't dare to speak, but the person who led this group of peasants was quite interesting, this person was only in his thirties, with thick black hair. The complexion is not too dark, but it is not white, and it looks a bit like the kind of half-hung creature that is not literate and martial. He saluted Zhu Yuanzhang, and then reported to his family: "The little one's name is Ah Shui......"

As soon as he heard him report this name, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that most of them were fake names, how could anyone whose real name was Ah Shui? It seems that he is not a kind person to go to the rivers and lakes with this name.

Sure enough, this Ah Shui sighed: "The little one used to beg for a living at sea, but he was a small boat owner under the command of Brother Liu Xiang...... Later, Liu Xiang's eldest brother colluded with the Dutch. For the sake of the coast. The little one thinks that Brother Liu Xiang is doing something wrong, how can this good and decent Chinese son and daughter collude with foreigners to kill our brothers? So the little one left the fleet, relying on the little net worth accumulated in the sea. I bought some land and wanted to wash my ......."

He said this. Several leaders around Zhu Yuanzhang thought in their hearts: Whitewashing? I'm afraid it's not so easy to wash white, right?

Really. Na Ah Shui immediately sighed: "This whitewashing is really difficult, it's not just a few acres of land, and the government has a lot of difficulties for me." I live my life with care every day. I thought that I could barely survive with my eggs, but I didn't expect that after the fall of Brother Liu Xiang, a few old brothers were desperate and came to me, which attracted the attention of General Feihong, and he followed the path of those brothers to the door, and wanted to kill our gang cleanly, so the brothers had to smear oil on the soles of their feet and run to the mainland. ”

The leaders didn't know the grievances between the pirates along the coast, but after listening to it, they also felt that this coastal area south of the Yangtze River was not a peaceful place, and this man named Ah Shui was chased by a person named General Feihong and had nowhere to stay, so he had to run here, but he was also pitiful. This "General Feihong" is not a serious road when he hears it, and General Zhenxi, the head of our family, is only afraid of half a catty and eight taels.

The leaders did not guess wrong, General Feihong was the bandit name taken by Zheng Zhilong when he was a pirate, and later after he surrendered to the imperial court, he was named the "Five Tiger Guerrilla General", and the officialdom called the Five Tiger Generals, as for the name of General Feihong, it is generally circulated within the pirates, and it will not be said in the official face.

Ah Shui said this, but basically explained his ins and outs, he made a big salute to Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "The little kind of person can't be a good citizen anymore, so he has to rely on being able to plant some corn and want to beg for food here ......

When everyone heard this, they immediately looked at the group of peasants differently, and Wang Er couldn't help but shout at them and asked, "You ...... Ever a pirate? ”

The group of old farmers saw that Ah Shui had already spoken, but they no longer deliberately pretended to be low-key, took off their hats and threw them on the ground, and then snapped away the well-dressed clothes, revealing their bronzed chests, and in an instant, a fierce aura pounced out.

Wang Erleng was stunned, and then sighed: "Good man, you are pirates, we used to be bandits, this bandit or pirate, I don't know who is more powerful?" ”

The group of pirates looked at Wang Er, and was startled by his tower-like figure, and someone said seriously: "How dare a small character like us be able to act in front of the eldest brother, a hero like you, among the pirates, only Zheng Erpython is qualified to compete with you." ”

Wang Erqi said: "Who is Zheng Erboa?" ”

The pirates said: "Zheng Erpython is Zheng Zhilong's second brother, named Zheng Zhihu, there is a saying on the sea that 'Long Zhi and Tiger Yong', which means that Zheng Zhilong has wisdom and Zheng Zhihu has martial arts." ”

When Xu Renjie heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Our Zhu Jun is eight wise and two brave!" ”

Hearing his nonsense, everyone stared at him in puzzlement, but listened to him explain: "Brother Zhu has wisdom, and Second Brother Wang has martial arts, so it is Eight Wisdom and Two Brave." ”

"Cut! It's hard to hear. The crowd laughed.

Wang Er glanced at Xu Renjie and smiled at those pirates: "Then if you have a chance in the future, you will definitely have to learn the methods of that Zheng Erpython." ”

The pirates shook their heads: "Zheng Erpython is dead, he was caught by Liu Xiang with a fishing net and thrown into the sea and drowned during the decisive battle with our big brother Liu Xiang." ”

When the second king heard this, he was stunned, and he stopped talking.

After chatting and starting to talk about business, Ah Shui asked Guangyuan about the characteristics of the land here, and when he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang had a very thin soil layer here, and there were only stones under a thin layer of soil, he couldn't help but bow deeply to Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Brother Zhu is really powerful, the fact that corn can grow on a thin layer of soil, although it is not a secret to us, but you have always been in the northwest distance, and you actually know about it, it is really ...... Really erudite. ”

Most of the leaders of the Zhu army know Zhu Yuanzhang's ability, and it has long been accustomed to Zhu Yuanzhang often saying some knowledge that ordinary people cannot know, but for these people who meet for the first time, it is a bit rare.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and ordered: "Xia Erduo, you are responsible for taking these pirate brothers to Zhang Luo to take the corn, I have already greeted Guangyuan Zhixian and asked him to fully cooperate with you to promote corn, and you let the old officials who came over from Baishui directly replace the group of people under him." ”

Xia Erduo bowed, and suddenly remembered that when he first arrived in Baishui, Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to cooperate with Li Qingshui to do a good job in the promotion of potatoes, and now it is still the same thing, but the county order has been changed from Li Qingshui to another person, and the place has also been changed from Baishui to Guangyuan, but the things have not changed. couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic and emotional, and took the ticket out to work.

This group of people has already done something once, and this time they will do it again, of course, it is handy, first of all, they will issue political leaders, and all farmers who grow potatoes can be tax-exempt this year, and then they will use knives to force the rich families to plant first, and play a leading role. A two-pronged approach, which is naturally smooth.

This is an afterword, press not table.

But it was said that after Xia Erduo took away the group of pirates, the figure at the door flickered, and a girl in red walked in, only to see her carrying a scimitar around her waist and a bow on her back.

Xu Renjie Daqi: "Huh? Little girl, why did you get here? Aren't you by Xue Hongqi's side? ”

Li Jieqiong smiled, first saluted Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "I am responsible for escorting corn seeds over......" After saying this, she turned her head and hummed at Xu Renjie: "Sister Xue said, her cavalry can't come to this place in Sichuan, and she can't follow you, so I'm really not at ease with you...... Sister Chuan's water spirit is famous all over the world, but don't let you, a thief, hook some indiscriminate women here, and ask me to come and see you. ”

When Xu Renjie heard this, he immediately sweated profusely: "How can I, this person, hook up with a woman indiscriminately?" Don't talk about it, I don't care about anything but fighting. ”

Li Jieqiong sneered again and again: "It's strange, you don't care about anything but fighting, why was Sister Xue deceived by you?" ”

Xu Renjie was dumbfounded.

Li Jieqiong snorted: "Eighth Brother Zhu, please be gracious, let me stay here to monitor him." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang is really angry and funny, what kind of mess is this? Just as he was about to order Li Jieqiong to go back to Shaanxi obediently, at this moment, another spy came in at the door and knelt down to report: "General, we got the news from the post station...... Zhang Xianzhong's troops were chased by officers and soldiers all the way, from Hunan into Sichuan, Keba County, and then to the northwest, and now to the vicinity of Ba County...... It is less than two hundred miles away from Guangyuan. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "In other words, the officers and soldiers chasing after Zhang Xianzhong are less than four hundred miles away from us." ”

The spy nodded quickly.

Zhu Yuanzhang coughed and said, "Which officers and soldiers are they?" ”

The spy said: "Fang Guoan, the chief soldier of the Sichuan army, and Luo Yuxin, the general of the staff. Adjutant General Zhang Zuokai, General Soldier Zhao Guangyuan, He Renlong, Deputy General Luo Wanxiang, Han Guangrong, Liu Gui, Tan Yi, Chief Soldier Li Guoqi, in addition, there are two rebel armies that surrendered to the imperial court, namely the sweeping king and the rampant wolf. ”

Hearing him report such a long list, all the leaders gasped, how many officers and soldiers are this? Don't you come out of the nest like this, right? Yang Sichang transferred 120,000 troops to pursue the 36th battalion, but it was really not blown. (To be continued.) )