Because of the first failure of the trilateral governor Yang He, he planned to recruit the Shenyi Kui Division, which was very effective in the Shaanxi rebel army. After Shen Yikui led his troops to surrender, Yang He ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, to resettle.

Hong Chengchou sighed bitterly, "It is easy to dissolve and install, but it is too difficult to do, thousands of people, no home and no food, how can they live!" ”

Also, the resettlement of the people's army, there is neither silver taels nor food, the land is deserted, and there is no residence, so it is absolutely difficult to succeed in appeasement.

So, in less than a month, Shen Yikui began to rebel again.

At that time, Chongzhen's position on the issue of appeasement or suppression of the peasant army was not firm, and he initially used the method of appeasement, but it did not work, so he decided to use the suppression. So, the blame was placed on Yang He, which was actually a little unfair to Yang He.

Yang He's appeasement was highly recommended by Chongzhen at the beginning, because if the method of appeasement can be used to calm the chaos in Shaanxi, the benefits are great. Although there must have been a lot of money and food to appease at first, in the long run, the first thing is social stability, and it will save a lot of money on military spending.

However, Emperor Chongzhen was an extremely frugal emperor, and of course, it was also caused by the corruption of the bureaucracy at that time*, coupled with the drought for many years, which led to the emptiness of the treasury. As everyone knows, although the method of appeasement is good, it also requires a large amount of money, and Chongzhen does not pay for it, and the appeasement will inevitably fail.

As a result, Yang He was ordered to be questioned and sent to Yuanzhou, Jiangxi, while Hong Chengchou was appointed as the governor of the three sides, taking full charge of the suppression of bandits.

At this time, only the general soldiers Du Wenhuan and Cao Wenzhao were besieging the Fugu peasant army Wang Jiayin's department, and there were only more than 3,000 people left, and Hong Chengchou returned to Xi'an to arrange the extermination of the Shenyi Kui department and the deployment of the whole Shaanxi chaos.

In this way, Cao Wenzhao and other Ming troops who stayed in Fugu were unable to attack, so they were stationed far away from Fugu County. Although the peasant army was numerous, it was afraid of too many casualties in the face of the heavily defended Ming army. So, strange phenomena happen. Outside Fugu County, the two armies did not interfere with each other, and there were not even sporadic battles.

Li Guo seized the gap in the war and began to train the rebels of his squad. And these days, Li Guo has also adopted 200 orphans who looked strong between the ages of twelve and thirteen and fifteen or sixteen, and handed them over to Huang Xiu to command. Of course, Li Guo, who is too young, is temporarily powerless and can't take care of it, after all, this is the army, not a kindergarten.

Most of these orphans adopted by Li Guo were orphans of the rebel army, which also earned Li Guo a good reputation. This kind of behavior made the leaders of the peasant army of each family have a good impression of Li Guo, although Li Guo's status is still very low.

The leaders of the peasant army all had calculations in their hearts. Grandma's, in this troubled world, fights with the officials and soldiers all day long, in case her head falls off one day, she may not be able to ensure that her children can be taken care of by this Li Guo.

This Li Guo is not a tiger at all to his own people, but stupid, what is the use of sheltering some half-grown babies? But looking at it coldly, that Li Guo seems to be pretty good to those children in addition to his hard training!

As a result, the attitude of the various leaders towards Li Guo became better and better, and even some of them looked courteous.

Although Li Guo was physically wounded, his injuries were not severe. In addition, there is plenty of food and grass, so I am ready to train my troops. Now you need to hurry up and complete your ideas every second, and don't miss any time!

What Li Guo thought of was that a good way must be spread by someone, so the person who spreads it must be literate. Li Guo wanted his soldiers to be literate, and they didn't have to be knowledgeable, as long as they could understand the meaning of the words. Of course, military training is indispensable.

After the morning exercise the next day, Li Guo did not order the soldiers to disband. He stood on the high platform and said loudly, "From today onwards, each of us must learn culture!" ”

Looking at the puzzled expressions of the soldiers in the audience, Li Guo hurriedly shouted, "No, learn to write!" ”

The rebel soldiers below are talking about it, learning to write? That's what Xiucai does, most of them here are mud legs, what's the use of learning that broken word!

Li Guo ignored the soldiers' discussions, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen soldiers who were cooking and a few people who looked like cooks walked over with a large iron pot. Several soldiers quickly set up a stand, set up the pot, and lit a firewood under the pot. The chef-like man poured some oil into the pot, put a few tablespoons of sugar, boiled, and then put in the chunks of meat.

The soldiers' eyes widened as they saw the cook pouring large chunks of meat into the pot. Do you have to break your fast and improve your food? You must know that these rebellious peasant soldiers can't even eat at home, because they rebelled because of hunger, and they joined the peasant army just to not worry about food and clothing, all to survive!

Now a tiger Li Ye ordered someone to cook meat in a pot, which is really good. All the soldiers' eyes lit up, hoping that the meat would be cooked quickly.

Looking at the eager eyes of the soldiers, Li Guo couldn't help but be amused, and the plan to hurry up the training was sure to succeed!

"You bunnies! Want to eat meat? Li Guo asked.

"Yes!" The soldiers shouted loudly.

"Dreaming!" Li Guo scolded, "Meat is for learned people to eat, what is learned, literacy is called learning!" Now, whoever knows how to read will stand up and eat meat! ”

Liu Tichun is Li Guo's important assistant, and he also knows a few words, and he was the first to stand up.

Li Guo lifted the brush and wrote a few words on the paper, Liu Tichun read it out loud, Li Guo waved his hand, "Tichun, eat meat!" Liu Tichun happily took a bowl and sandwiched a piece of meat, and ate it beautifully.

Huang Xiu, a pro-soldier, also stepped forward and recognized a few words. Huang Xiu took a piece of lean meat in the pot and bit it.

"Gu Ying, aren't you also literate? Here you go! Li Guo shouted Gu Ying, who had been following him.

Gu Ying scratched his head, stepped forward, and looked at the words written by Li Guo without saying a word.

"Grandma's! You don't know these words? Li Guo asked in surprise, because Li Guo has always taught Gu Ying and these little leaders to learn some words in his spare time, and these words are actually very simple.

Gu Ying's face turned red and replied in a low voice, "I don't recognize it." It turned out that Gu Ying had always thought that learning words was useless, so when Li Guo taught them to read and write, Gu Ying thought that it was this ear that went in and that ear went out.

made Li angry, and kicked Gu Ying with a kick, "Get out of the way!" No meat to eat! ”

Gu Ying lowered her head and stepped aside.

So, people who knew how to read came one after another, read and eat meat. Those who don't know how to read can only be anxious and greedy.

A soldier named Zhang Erzi is a veteran soldier who has never looked at ordinary soldiers in his eyes. He thought, isn't Li Ye joking? So, Zhang Er's nephew relied on his old qualifications and also walked to Li Guo's side.

Li Guo saw that it was Zhang Erzi, and he was a little surprised in his heart, "Zhang Erzi, didn't you say that you are blind and can't read words?" ”

Zhang Erzi hurriedly shook his head, "Master Li, I recognize, I recognize." ”

"Good! Then you will miss it. Li Guo handed him the words.

Zhang Erzi looked at the words on the paper, his eyes widened more and more, and he almost didn't open his eyes, and he still didn't recognize the words.

"Say, what do you read?" Li Guo asked eagerly, hopefully.

"Read, read, thank Li Ye for rewarding meat!" Zhang Erzi looked at Li Guo humbly.

"Reward you with a big-eared melon seed! Get lost! Li Guo was shocked at Zhang Erzi's head.

After the literacy was over, Li Guo counted the people who ate meat, except for him, Liu Tichun, and Huang Xiu, and only about 20 people in the team of 200 people had studied. On the contrary, among Huang Xiu's 200 children, about 50 of them knew how to read.

Li Guo nodded, this proportion is also very high, but this is far from enough, because Li Guo's plan is very large.

Looking at the disappointed expressions of the illiterate people in the audience, Li Guo shouted loudly, "You didn't eat meat today, I can only blame you for your miserable life and never went to a private school." You don't have to be depressed, you still have meat to eat tomorrow, as long as you are literate and study well tomorrow, you will be able to eat meat! If you can't eat tomorrow, you'll have to blame yourself! ”

"Don't underestimate literacy, I take you very seriously, because you will follow me in the future not only to fight, but also to have more important tasks. In the future, you will be a manifesto! It's the propaganda team! It's a seeder! ”

Li Guo paused, looked at the volunteers who were confused, and said loudly, "You are the hope of the future!" ”