Chongzhen ten years, the imperial court began to levy the "salary" action, the country, hundreds of millions of people, once again trembling under the urging of the tax collectors, Chongzhen's perverse drive has reached an irreparable level, for a while, the good people rose up again in anger, turned into thieves.

The strength of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings, Ma Shouying, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and others has been greatly improved, and the scale of the army has expanded again.

At this time, a large number of people poured in from all directions in western Shaanxi, and there were a sea of people in front of the two gates of Tongguan and Wuguan, and hundreds of people dragged their children and daughters to ask Zhu Jun to switch and let them enter the border of Shaanxi * West to join Zhu Jun's gang.

This is also a spectacle, at this time the leader stationed in Tongguan is a city and a cloud, stationed in Wuguan is still Yang Hong, the leader of these two passes is not Wang Er's kind of innocent sense of justice people, seeing the refugees rushing in, did not immediately switch the people in, but worried that there were spies from the government, so they did not dare to switch for a while. hurriedly wrote a letter and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to decide.

Zhu Yuanzhang made a large batch of pens: "Switch!" "A few spies are not in his eyes at all, and if the court wants to probe them, let them probe well, how can there be any reason to be afraid of spies and not accept this large population?

As a result, this switch was out of control, and the population pouring into western Shaanxi from Tongguan and Wuguan was only tens of thousands in just a few days, and people were still coming behind...... It can be seen from this that the imperial court has fallen to what extent it has fallen in the minds of the people.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang himself. Then came to Suide!

Suide can be said to be the gateway to northern Shaanxi, from Suide to the east, is the Yellow River ferry Wubao, this is called Wubao, the key point of Qin and Jin, since ancient times it is a strategic place for soldiers to fight, is the bridgehead of Shaanxi * west to North China. Although Wubao has the word "Bao" in its name, it is actually a ferry city that straddles both sides of the Yellow River. The Yellow River is nearly a mile wide, and there are many ferries moored on both sides of the river, which used to extradite people and passengers every day. It's very busy. At this time, they did not dare to go offshore at all.

It turned out that the west half of Wubao was occupied by Xu Renjie with 10,000 Zhu troops, while the east half of Wubao was occupied by a Jin soldier sent by Sun Chengzong. The two armies faced each other across the ferry. In a very delicate atmosphere.

Zhu Yuanzhang led a group of henchmen. rushed to Wubao, walked to the riverside and sat down, and Xu Renjie greeted him. He said in a low voice: "The Jin soldiers on the opposite side blocked the people and prevented them from crossing the river to join us, and now tens of thousands of people have gathered over there, and the cry is shocking." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, looked at the opposite bank, the one-mile-wide river is not too far, and the expressions of the officers and soldiers on the opposite side of the river can be vaguely seen, only to see that many people on the opposite side are wandering by the river, crying at Zhu Jun, and the officers and soldiers and spears and knives drive them away, not letting them get close to the ferry on the shore.

Speaking of which, the people in Shanxi are also quite miserable, because there is a Yellow River between Shanxi and Shaanxi, and if the Jin people want to enter Shaanxi, they must pass through the crossing, but the ferry is a place where soldiers must fight, how can the imperial court not send troops to station? Therefore, they were all blocked on the other side, not as convenient as the people of Henan, and the people of Henan only needed to go to Tongguan or Wuguan to enter Shaanxi and cry for a while, and the Zhu army let them in, and it was impossible for the officers and soldiers to block all the people who had crossed the mountains and mountains.

Xu Renjie said: "The crying of the people on the other side is very desolate, and many of our soldiers have the heart to save each other, but ...... It was too difficult to cross the river, and we couldn't do it. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Hmm! The officers and men are waiting for work on the opposite side, and they only need to wait for us to attack them halfway through......"

Xu Renjie asked, "What should I do then?" Have all the people given up? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, how could he give up the people of the Ming Dynasty? So he waved his hand and ordered: "Bring money from Yan'an Mansion, let's find officers and soldiers to ransom people!" ”

Xu Renjie was surprised: "Redemption? This...... This is impossible, throughout the ages, how can a thief pay to ransom the officers and soldiers back? Only the officers and soldiers paid to ransom the hostages from the thieves. Let alone...... Isn't that a waste of money? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled: "It's not a waste of money at all!" The court went against the grain and squeezed money out of the people, while our army was willing to spend money to eliminate disasters for the people, which was an excellent way to improve its reputation, so why not spend it? Once the money is spent, the people will know who is good and who is bad. They should have given their lives to follow whomever to do things, all of them are clear and clear. ”

Only then did Xu Renjie understand, it turned out that there was still such a saying.

The red lady next to her didn't quite understand, she couldn't help but ask: "This kind of completely unreasonable request, the officers and soldiers should not agree, how can they negotiate a deal with us thieves?" I guess the officers and soldiers will immediately tear to shreds when they see the letter! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You don't know the official ...... Once these guys have an opportunity to make money, how can they let it slip away? It doesn't matter if we are thieves or not, whether they are officials or not, since there is a way to get money, of course, we must get it first, anyway, these people are nothing to them, they can't enter Shaanxi, and they have nothing to do with the officers guarding the ferry. ”

The red lady will be suspicious.

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to Yan'an Mansion to transport money over, wrote a letter, and sent people to row a small boat to send them to the shore, expressing his willingness to pay for the people who were willing to go to Shaanxi, and offered five copper coins each.

The red lady thought that this letter would sink into the sea, but she didn't expect that only an hour later, the opposite side sent a henchman to negotiate, this henchman looked cowardly, and at first glance it was a type of war-fighting and sycophant, and when he came to Zhu Yuanzhang, he actually gave Zhu Yuanzhang a big gift, and shouted in his mouth: "Zhu Bawang is polite, the villain came to talk to you about the ransom on behalf of our general......

The red lady is really angry and funny, this is also called officers and soldiers? Seeing that the thief was actually respectful and polite, should you be rich and be a master?

Zhu Yuanzhang was already surprised, and he said in a low voice: "What are you generals going to do?" ”

The little soldier said: "The general said, Wuwen is too cheap!" ”

The red lady thought to herself: It is indeed too cheap to buy someone for five cents, this is simply selling people as grass.

But I heard the little soldier say: "If it rises to ten cents, we will make a deal!" ”

The red lady sighed, almost stood unsteadily, and scolded in her heart: Shiwen can only buy a pound of taro in Shaanxi, what do you treat people as buying and selling?

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Cheng, ten wen is ten wen, you put a boatload of people over there, we will send you a hanging of money, pay the money with one hand and hand over the people, and no one will suffer." Oh, by the way, children, old people, women have to give me half price. ”

The little soldier also said: "These people can be half price, but the young and strong will be raised to fifteen yuan." ”

The two sides said a few words, and they added two to five, and sold tens of thousands of people, and the red lady next to her listened to it in a cold sweat. She really couldn't understand how such a deal could be negotiated! After thinking about it for many days, she realized that what the officer of the imperial court sold was not his own at all, he was completely a white wolf with empty gloves, and he didn't make money for nothing, so he agreed so happily.

The red lady is indeed too shallow in her life experience, she doesn't know that this phenomenon is really not uncommon in China for 5,000 years, it is too normal to take public things and sell them cheaply privately, not to mention that there are in ancient times, even in later generations, the so-called "new era", there are still many bureaucrats who take public things to discount and make money. The police will take the confiscated drugs and sell them to drug dealers, and the resident insects of the Quality Inspection Bureau will take the confiscated counterfeits and sell them to the hawkers...... How can this officialdom be filthy in one word.

A few days later, Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to transport the silver from Yan'an Mansion arrived, and the officers and soldiers took advantage of the night to transport the refugees to the west coast boatload after boat, in fact, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the people can not be too far away from home, once they are caught by the soldiers, they will be recharged, but by the time of Chongzhen's ten years, the world has long been chaotic, and it has become the norm for the people to wander all over the world.

The people were transported to the west bank, and immediately knelt in a row on the shore, and wept in gratitude to Zhu Yuanzhang, because when they passed by the wrong boat on the river, they heard some words and phrases spoken by Zhu Jun's soldiers when they counted the money to the officers and soldiers, and knew that they were bought by thieves, and they couldn't help but admire this kind "king of thieves". Of course, those people were instructed by Zhu Yuanzhang to deliberately tell them about this matter, but they didn't know it.

These tens of thousands of people were bought by a mere ten cents, and they also bought their hearts, and they have been loyal to Zhu Jun since then, so I will not go into detail here.

After taking all the people over, Xu Renjie came over again and asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, I heard that the imperial court plans to spread the net on all sides and go all out to exterminate us, and I don't know when the Jin soldiers on the other side of the river will start to cross the river to fight?" I've been waiting impatiently for them to come, so I can fight a beautiful battle in the middle of the crossing......"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head with a smile and said, "They won't come!" ”

When Xu Renjie heard this, he was immediately disappointed: "What? If you spread the net on all sides, you won't come to fight us? Then they're a. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If they want to fight, they will first fight the 36th Battalion in Sichuan, and they will not come to deal with us first." ”

Xu Renjie said: "Why is this? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Shaanxi * West has been occupied by us, and for the imperial court, this is a lost land." And Sichuan is still in the hands of the imperial court, and if anyone is replaced to deal with it, they must first keep the land in their hands and not lose it, and then regain the lost land. (To be continued.) )