The 343rd and 36th battalions entered Tongguan

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Baishui's autumn endowment was really spectacular, and the tax and silver of Baihuahua were piled up in the warehouse, and in the deception of the upper and lower hearts, Li Qingshui didn't know who these autumn endowments were collected from, he thought that these autumn endowments were collected from the peasants, but he didn't know that these autumn endowments were handed over by the squires of Baishui.! Therefore, this autumn harvest is really a little more, which makes him a little confused.

You know, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the annexation of land was very serious, and a large amount of land was not in the hands of the peasants, but in the hands of the tax-exempt squires.

As a result, the tax situation in the whole world is very bleak, and the state finances are tightening year by year. Although Li Qingshui was appointed as an official once, he also had a little knowledge of the tax situation of the imperial court, and you must know that the Donglin Party was an association group, and they often sat together and talked about some major affairs in the imperial court.

It's a bit similar to later generations of netizens talking about their views on the country in the Q group. Therefore, the scholars of the Donglin Party also know a lot about some of the embarrassments that the imperial court is facing now.

At least Li Qingshui knows that a small county town can't collect much tax!

But when he saw the taxes collected by the officials, his ideas were completely turned upside down......

"So much? Why did you take so much back? Li Qingshui stood in front of the county warehouse and exclaimed.

"Ahem! We've had a bumper harvest this year. Xia Erduo is also a person who is kept in the dark, how can he know the knowledge in the middle of taxes, he only knows how to interject stupidly.

Li Qingshui wiped his sweat: "The harvest should not be able to collect so much, this official has looked through Baishui's household registration and the land and acres register, and the taxes that should be collected in this county cannot be so much anyway, even if it is a bumper harvest...... Also ......"

"Lord County is really, it's a good thing to collect more taxes, don't think too much!" Xia Erduo said with a smile.

"Uh...... Maybe......" Li Qingshui was persuaded by Xia Erduo, Li Chujiu and others to join forces, anyway, more taxes and silver are better than less, at least it's not a bad thing, right? He counted the tax money in a daze, then took the seal and sealed it, loaded the car again, and invited Wang Er, the "general of a hundred households", to help escort these taxes to the capital city, and the whole process was not understood.

This is also because he is indeed a new official, and he is not very clear about the tax process! That's why everyone fooled the past.

In fact, this also reflects a drawback in the administration of the Ming court, before the officials of the Ming Dynasty took office, there was no vocational training and other preliminary work, and the new officials in the imperial examination were almost all stuffy to take office, and they did not know what they would do in the future.

Ordinary people have to ask a capable master to help them, and if they don't invite a master, they have to rely on the local "officials" to teach them what to do...... In other words, everything is according to the "old rules"!

This "old rule" is a method for the "officials" to control the big officials, the officials told them to go east, they preferred to go west, saying that it was the old rule here, the officials told them not to be corrupt and bribe-taking, but they preferred to eat and take cards, and also said that this was the old rule, but then according to the "old rules" to give the officials a sum of money to gag their mouths, so everyone worked together, everyone took their share, to ensure that the old rules of corruption and bribery can be passed on forever.

So what kind of names such as ice respect, charcoal respect, and fire respect were multiplied and born! A clean official will become a corrupt official within a few years of taking office, and a good young man with ideals and retribution will become a villain with a black heart and a bad heart.

Of course, this group of "evil officials" in Baishui are all henchmen sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, so there is no such thing as teaching Li Qingshui to take bribes or anything, just fooling him, but this is enough for Li Qingshui to figure out what the tax process is all about.

In the end, this large sum of autumn money, escorted by Wang Er, the old first team, and the elite soldiers of the old second team, first marched towards Xi'an Mansion, and after leaving Li Qingshui's sight, he took a turn and transported it back to another warehouse that Zhu Yuanzhang had already prepared, and at the same time, Li Qingshui's letter to Xi'an was also changed to a mess. The content of the letter has roughly become: This year, Baishui is in arrears, and the tax is in arrears for a year......

Just when Bai Shui was still dealing with this young county magistrate, the situation in the whole world changed dramatically again......

In the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the officers and troops dispatched by the Ming court gathered in the border areas of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces. Since the main battlefield had been moved to northern Henan at that time, the officers and troops of Henan Province were called the main soldiers, with a total of more than 8,300 soldiers; There were 19,600 guest soldiers from Shanxi, Hebei, and Beijing, and the total number of officers and soldiers participating in the encirclement and suppression should be more than 30,000.

The room for the 36th Battalion to operate is getting smaller and smaller, and it is extremely difficult to provide food, and it is facing the danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the officers and soldiers.

The leaders of the 36th Battalion tried their best to find a way out of their predicament. In November, Zhang Miaoshou, Chuang Tian, Flying All Over the Sky, Xing Hongwolf, Chuang General (Li Zicheng) and others, falsely claimed to Wang Pu, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, that they were willing to accept Zhao'an, "Kowtow and say: We are all good people, and because of the drought in Shaanxi, we have committed a great crime." Now I vow to surrender and return to my homeland to resume business. Wang Pu and the eunuchs Yang Jinchao and Lu Jiude didn't know what to do, thinking that they could immediately put down the big trouble without much effort, and agreed to accept surrender. On the 19th, 12 people, including He Shuangquan and Zhang Miaoshou, the leaders of the rebel army, went to Wu'an County, Zhangde Prefecture, Henan Province (now part of Hebei Province) to meet Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, Lu Jiude, and Bingbei Dao Chang Daoli, expressing their "sincerity" in accepting Zhao'an. Yang Jinchao and others believed it to be true, and immediately reported to the imperial court, and at the same time stopped the attack on the 36th battalion.

At that time, the leaders who surrendered in Wu'an were headed by Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, with a total of sixty-one!

The 36th Battalion paralyzed the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty under the cover of false surrender, purchased clothes such as furs and boots from the officers and soldiers and local people, and actively prepared to cross the river to the south. On the 24th, the weather was suddenly cold, and a section of the Yellow River between Shan*Xiyuanqu and He*Nanjiyuan was frozen into a bridge. The righteous army took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers, spread the door panel on the ice and added another layer of soil, galloped through the horses in three ways, and arrived at the horseshoe nest and wild boar nose in Mianchi County, Henan. Yuan Daquan, an officer in the south of the Ming River, rushed to meet the battle and was killed by the 36th battalion. In this way, the main force of the 36th Battalion broke through the natural danger of the Yellow River in one fell swoop, leaving behind the heavy troops transferred by the Ming government (61). From then on, the 36th Battalion galloped back and forth on a wider ground, and the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty entered a new stage.

The sixth year of Chongzhen, December!

Snow full of bow knives!

Zhu Yuanzhang is teasing his one-year-old little daughter Zhu Zhi in the yard to play, little Zhu Zhi just learned to walk and soon ushered in winter, she put on a thick cotton jacket, but now it is difficult to even stand, let alone walk, she walked a few steps in the snowy yard, fell down with a pop, and was so distressed that Qiu Ye hurried to hug it, and Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Yingxian let out a burst of happy laughter.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a hurried knock on the door, and Ma Xiaotian, the captain of the guard who had been responsible for protecting Zhu Yuanzhang's safety, walked over and pushed open the courtyard door, and saw Li Qingshui wearing the official uniform of the Qipin County Order, and ran in in a panic.

"The head of the militia group! Big things are not good! Li Qingshui shouted as he came in all the way.

"Oh? On this snowy day, how did the county lord come to my door in person? Zhu Yuanzhang was a little curious.

"Big things are not good! Big things are wrong! Li Qingshui was sweating profusely, and he was able to force out sweating profusely on this snowy day, and he was indeed in a hurry: "This official has just received an urgent message from 800 miles, saying that there are 100,000 Liukou attacking Tongguan ......"

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang actually received the news one step ahead of Li Qingshui, he was deliberately waiting for Li Qingshui to be anxious after receiving the news, but at this time he wanted to pretend to be surprised and shouted: "Oh, Tongguan? Isn't that very close to us? ”

"Yes! Tongguan is just south of Dali, once Tongguan is broken, 100,000 thieves will spread, and we will not be spared here. Li Qingshui roared urgently: "This time, the safety of our Baishui is all on the militia of the head of the sect......

It turned out that after the 36th Battalion entered Henan, it spread all over Henan and fought everywhere. Among them, the eight battalions of the rampant wolf, Yidou Valley, Sweeping King, and Mantianxing, a total of 100,000 people, suddenly wanted to go back to Shaanxi, so they went west along the south bank of the Yellow River, and arrived outside Tongguan......

This dangerous move frightened Hong Chengchou a big start, his fierce general Cao Wenzhao and others were still in Shanxi at this time to suppress bandits, unable to return to help, had to rush to Xi'an Mansion to gather the army, the army is not called to summon a good army, he will not be able to attack for a while, so he has to send documents to several counties near Tongguan, so that local officials can organize the township to protect themselves.

Baishui, Chengcheng, and Dali all received the same documents one after another, in a word, before Hong Chengchou's army came to the rescue, you should ask for more blessings!

When Li Qingshui received this letter, he was anxious, so he didn't care about his identity, and personally came to visit the "head of the Republic of China, Zhu Chong", wanting him to think of a way.

"That's not really good news." Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to have a black face: "These rogues are really hateful." ”

"Outside of Zhu Yuan, how many villagers are available in our Baishui People's League?" Li Qingshui asked urgently.

"Hmm...... Not much, but more than 3,000 villagers. Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately misreported a number.

"Huh? So little, what to do? The other party is 100,000...... One hundred thousand! Li Qingshui was a little flustered, he was not a person who was afraid of death, but no matter how much he was afraid of death, panic was inevitable before the threat of death came-

Thirty-two variationsNote: In historical facts, these 100,000 righteous troops actually entered Wuguan, not Tongguan. In this book, because Zhu Yuanzhang changed history, the butterfly effect occurred, so the goal of the rebel army became to enter Tongguan. This is the words of the novelist, please take it seriously. (To be continued.)

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