In the fourth year of Chongzhen, at the end of August, Baishui Zhu Ba broke Chengcheng!

At the beginning of September, the white water is broken!

Zhu Ba occupies two counties, and his reputation spreads far and wide, and the whole of Shaanxi is shaken. As if they had found the backbone, the heroes of the green forest on the east road went towards Chengcheng and Baishui, and they were proud to throw Baishui Zhuba.

On September 18, Shen Yikui, the leader of the West Road Righteous Army, led his generals Zhang Mengjin and Huang Youcai to break through Ningsai County, occupy the county seat and defend it, forming an east-west echo trend with Baishui Zhuba.

On September 21, Hong Chengchou, the former governor of Shaanxi * Western Grain Road, was the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi with the governor of Yansui and the right governor of the imperial history, and the right attendant of the military department.

On 23 September, Yang He was dismissed from his post on the grounds of "taking charge of the country and misleading the country," was arrested and imprisoned, and later sent to Yuanzhou.

At the same time that Shaanxi was in a state of erosion, the Liaodong front was by no means calm, and in September, the famous "Dalingcheng Siege Battle" in Liaodong came to an end. The cause of this battle originated from a proposal of the superintendent Sun Chengzong: "Guangning is far away, and it is necessary to build Dalinghe City (now Jinxian County, Liaoning) according to Gutun first, so as to advance gradually." ”

Then the construction started in July of the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), so that Zu Dashou and the deputy general He Kegang defended the land with 4,000 soldiers, and 14,000 troops were levied to build it. will be built, and Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the military department, was dismissed. The court discussed that "Daling is far away, not a city, and the army will be withdrawn to thistle." "Qiu Hejia withdrew his troops, leaving only 10,000 soldiers to defend. When the Houjin soldiers heard about this, they sent troops to force Dalingcheng on the fourth day of the first month of August. Dig the tree fence, enclose on all sides, and send troops to intercept Jinzhou Avenue. The soldiers in the city went to battle and were all defeated. When He Jia heard this, he joined forces with the chief military officers Wu Xiang and Song Wei to help, but was defeated. He crossed the Xiaoling River at night and stationed in Changshan, but was defeated again. Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army, Zu Dale, the deputy general, and others were captured, and the generals Zhang Jifu and others were killed in battle. Zu Dashou and others insisted on not daring to go out of the city. And the aid is desperate, until winter, Da Ling's food is exhausted, and the Houjin soldiers recruit Zu Dashou to surrender, and Zu Dashou kills the deputy generals He Kegang and Zhang Cunren to descend to Houjin.

The captured Zhang Chun was persuaded by Houjin to surrender, and Zhang Chun said: "Loyal ministers don't care about the two kings, and they are courteous." If I am greedy, use me! Then he didn't eat, the caretaker pleaded, and Emperor Taizong Wen of Jin gave him wine and food, Zhang Chun was moved, and he started to eat. After living in the ancient temple, wearing old clothes, he never died of losing his minister's day.

Therefore, after a defeat, the famous general Sun Chengzong was also impeached by the ministers, calling it "the loss of the teacher and the humiliation of the country"!

The majestic Ming Dynasty struggled with great difficulty under this crisis of internal and external troubles! ――

Golden autumn October, white water!

There was a rain in the spring of this year, and then some rain fell in the summer and autumn one after another, so this autumn is where some crops can be harvested, and the people are happily busy in the fields, and everyone is in a good mood.

Of course, the land in Baishui is already barren, and the situation of the land has been deteriorating due to the severe drought for many years, and although there is rain this year, it does not mean that there will be a good harvest, but only a small amount of income is guaranteed.

But the thing that made the people cheer the most was that the two county magistrates of Chengcheng and Baishui issued announcements at the same time to exempt agricultural taxes, and the people were happy about this, if they could not pay taxes, this year's income would be more than in any previous year...... After several years of hard work, can I finally get better this year?

Of course, the people are very clear that it is impossible for the county magistrate to issue such an order, and the exemption of agricultural tax is actually the meaning of Baishui Zhu's eldest brother, although on the surface, the officials in the yamen are still those officials, but all the people know that the actual "official master" of Baishui and Chengcheng has become a group of mountain kings in Huanglong Cottage.

In this strange situation, the old people couldn't help but sit under the big tree and said in an incredible tone: "The way of the world has really changed, the king of the mountain occupies our city, but the son is a little more relaxed, I really don't know what this means......"

As for the young people, they simply ran to the door of several leaders and asked to join the gang!

The strength of the cottage began to expand rapidly, not only the locals of Baishui and Chengcheng joined the army, but also many green forest heroes from neighboring counties, small groups of rebels came to vote, there were dozens of people with fewer people, and there were even large groups of four or five hundred people with more people. These people were attracted by Zhu Ba's feat of breaking through the county seat, and they didn't say a word after seeing Zhu Ba, and bowed their heads.

The rapid expansion has brought huge material pressure to the cottage, of course, it is not that the grain storage of the cottage is not enough, because two cities were beaten, two county warehouses were seized, and Xu Renjie went to Luochuan to grab a handful, the current grain storage of Huanglong cottage is still enough to distribute, but every time a group of people joins the gang, it has to be counted again, this meticulous work can be tired Li Chujiu, these recent days, he is so tired that he even rolls and climbs, it is really not a little free time to get it, the whole day is running around the distribution of materials, knocking on the plan.

It was a coincidence that his daughter-in-law did not follow him out of the mountain this time, because Qiuye's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and she needed someone to take care of her, so Li Chujiu's daughter-in-law stayed in Huanglong Mountain to help take care of Qiuye's diet and daily life. As a result, Li Chujiu was left without someone to take care of, and he ran around unkempt with his account books all day long, even starving next to each other.

Today, another 200 rogues came to join the gang, Zhu Yuanzhang took all the orders, and then left the two hundred people to Li Chujiu to manage. So Li Chujiu, who worked hard and complained, ran around with a large pile of account books, arranged a place for the newcomers to live, distributed basic living materials, and was very busy.

When he was crackling the abacus in the study of the yamen, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly took two little old men wearing "account room" clothes and holding abacus into the house, and smiled at him: "Chu Jiu, I found a few people for you to help." ”

Li Chujiu didn't raise his head and said, "Brother Zhu, I can withstand it...... I can do these things well without help. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang let out a meaningful "oh", which was considered to be understood, and then slowly walked to Li Chujiu's side and asked, "What is the total strength of our village now?" ”

Li Chujiu replied casually while pulling the abacus: "There are 7,544 people, more than 3,000 veterans, and the new Ding has already accounted for the majority. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "How many ordinary people are under our control? ”

"Hmm...... More than 80,000! Li Chujiu replied casually.

"Tsk!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly asked again: "How long have you slept every day in the past few days?" ”

Li Chujiu said with a sigh: "I can sleep for more than two hours, and I can sleep full...... No problem. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly laughed: "You say, if I send the generalissimo to lead the troops tomorrow and take down Luochuan, how about it?" ”

"This ......" Li Chujiu froze, and his face changed slightly: "Don't you...... Another county will add tens of thousands of people, I ...... I'm sure I won't be able to figure it out. You wait for me to calculate the two counties first, and then let's go and get the third county......"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed mischievously: "How can that work?" The fighter plane is fleeting, how can you stand still in order to wait for you to settle accounts? I'm also going to take down Pucheng, you say, if I take down these two counties, how much time do you have to sleep? ”

Li Chujiu sweated like rain: "If you don't sleep, you don't have enough time, so you can barely do it by cutting me in half." ”

"Then let's honestly ask someone to help." Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned, two old men walked over, Zhu Yuanzhang introduced: "This is the old account room I found from the city, the kung fu of using the abacus is a few points stronger than you, and if you want to use the abacus in the future, you can hand it over to them to do." ”

Li Chujiu pulled Zhu Yuanzhang's sleeve, dragged him into the distance, and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, it's not that brothers do things alone, but things like settling accounts...... I'm afraid that others will be fake in it...... What if these guys are just like the officials of the imperial court who are corrupt and take bribes? The good atmosphere of our Huanglong cottage has been completely ruined. That's why my brother wants to handle everything himself, and don't let others interfere, which is really worrying. ”

"I can understand your feelings!" Zhu Yuanzhang patted him on the shoulder and said: "However, if everything is done by yourself, what you can do is only the size of one or two counties, and if you want to expand further, you will be limited by time and energy, and it is impossible to cover everything, so ...... People must know how to let go and distribute various types of work to their subordinates, so that they can handle more things and manage a larger territory. ”

"What if they embezzle?" Li Chujiu said urgently.

"It's very easy to do...... Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "There is a reason why I brought two people over." One of these people is called the accountant, and the other person is called the cashier...... The work of the two of them complements each other, but in no way overlaps......"

Zhu Yuanzhang began to talk in detail, and briefly talked about the knowledge of mutual containment and coordination between accounting and cashiers that he learned when he was floating in the sky to observe the world, in fact, he didn't know much, only knew some very basic and simple knowledge of these two positions, but he at least understood the truth that accountants don't care about money and cashiers don't care about accounts.

Li Chujiu listened quietly, and suddenly understood: "The person who calculates and the person who counts things are divided into two different people, in this case, it will not be easy for them to embezzle." ”

"That's right! But what...... Although it is not easy to embezzle, it is okay to be corrupt, so it also needs your supervision. Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "However, the energy required for supervision is always less than that of personal calculation, so you can withdraw your energy from engaging in these nuanced things and carry out some more pampered management, such as ...... These two old men only take care of Baishui's money and food, and find two more old men to manage Chengcheng's money and food, and you ...... It is responsible for the perfect coordination of money and food in the three places of Baishui, Chengcheng and Huanglongshan Benzhai...... If you are always buried in the account books of one city and one pool, how can you pull out your eyes? ”

"This ......"

"People are in different positions, so they must know how to look at different heights...... You are no longer the bookkeeper of a small cottage, but the financial manager of two counties and one village, you must have this awareness...... As for the future, you may still manage a prefecture, a province, or even ......" Zhu Yuanzhang slapped him heavily on the shoulder: "Look high!" ”

"Yes!" Li Chujiu was solemn!