Like all feudal eras, after the initial period of equal emphasis on civil and military affairs, the imperial dynasty developed towards a period of emphasizing civil and military affairs.

The literati of the Ming Dynasty had a lot of rights, and their status was also very transcendent. A third-grade general, when he encounters a seven-rank county order, he also has to grovel.

Yang Hong is a general, and it is very rare to be able to mix to this point at the age of twenty-nine. This is enough to show one thing, that is, he has a very strong father, or a very strong father-in-law.

Yang Hong's father-in-law is the former governor of Xi'an, and now he has become a scholar, which can be regarded as a person. However, the general who straightened his son-in-law to the third grade before Cha Liang was also quite a means. However, the father-in-law and son-in-law had no backer, and seeing that the new prefect had inserted his nephew in, Yang Hong dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Returning home with a depressed mood, the home of the dignified three-grade army is simple and tight, and it is not as luxurious as other generals. Yang Hong is not without money, and he also enjoys the part of filial piety that an upper-level officer should have according to the convention, but all this money is used to support his family and soldiers, but his own family has not invested much money.

"Husband, are you back?" A shadow came, but it was Liu Zixin, the daughter of the former prefect.

The old prefect is a middle-aged woman, and she is up to the sky for this only daughter. Liu Zixin is more like her mother, but she looks like a lovely child, it is rare that she has a very perfect figure, not fat or thin, but she has a first-class graceful posture. It is commendable that Liu Zixin has studied women's books such as "Women's Rings" and "Women's Training" under the supervision of her mother since she was a child, and has been cultivated to become a real lady, but she has no temper of the eldest lady at all.

Such a superlative, if you really want to recruit a son-in-law, you can send it to Yan'an Mansion in Xi'an Mansion. However, in the end, the flowers fell to the Yang family, which made the scholars fall to the ground. However, Yang Hong is also a good man, Liu Zixin is completely half the head of the Yang family, the husband and wife are one inside and one outside, and they live a very loving life.

"Well, I'm back." Yang Hong smiled warmly.

No matter how hard he was hit outside, when he returned home, he was a good husband and a husband who would not let his wife worry.

"The meal is ready, husband, are you going to bathe first? Or do you want to eat first? Liu Zixin smiled gently.

"Why don't you eat first?" Yang Hong picked up Liu Zixin.

In a burst of shouting and fighting, Yang Hong took advantage of it, so he had a warm dinner with his lover. As for those things about military affairs, he simply put them aside for the time being, anyway, from recruiting troops to going to battle, and so on!

On the other hand, the envoys sent by the imperial court began to send the official documents of the imperial court to all parts of Shaanxi. When the news of tax exemption and pacification came out, at least more than seventy percent of the thieves immediately hesitated. The reason why many of them rebelled was that they couldn't survive, so they took risks, if they had the opportunity, of course they were willing to go back to be obedient to the people, and now Chongzhen gave them this opportunity.

There is a special one, that is, the leader himself does not want to go back, after all, it is rare to enjoy the taste of being a master, where can he give up? It's just that the people below want to go back, so what else can they do except go back? If there is no boss with a younger brother, is it still the boss?

As for the remaining twenty percent, they are determined to rebel, no matter how appeased the court is, they will not accept it.

Unless, unless, they have to be appeased. As for the appeasement order of the imperial court, in their opinion, this is because the imperial court is afraid of them!

This group of people made more trouble in the local area, and even Wang Jiayin already had the idea of hitting the county seat. After all, everyone knows that even if there is something to grab in the village, it is very limited, and the real wealth is in the city! I didn't rob it before, it was because there were too few people, and now those who are unwilling to accept appeasement have gathered together, maybe they can rob one or two county seats?

After making up his mind, Wang Jiayin even sent someone to Xi'an Mansion in southern Shaanxi to negotiate the purchase of weapons with someone specially contacted by the Salvation Army, spent a lot of looted gold, silver and jewelry, and bought a lot of spear heads, knives and maces from the Salvation Army.

It's not impossible to build it yourself, but Wang Jiayin has asked a lot of craftsmen that they can't at least create a weapon of this quality like the Salvation Army. Even if it is built, the cost is much higher than the purchase price, so it is better to buy it directly.

Wang Jiayin had no choice but to make his soldiers stronger, so he could only spend money to buy weapons, and let the craftsmen create some inferior weapons for those ordinary cannon fodder troops.

Wang Jiayin is actually very strange, the Salvation Army is in the arms business, and he naturally welcomes it, so there is a place where he can buy weapons. It's just that why did the Salvation Army, which was the first righteous army, disappear after taking Whitewater and giving up? Where are they now?

The person who contacted was just a downline, and he didn't know where the salvation was at all, and the one-line contact made the location of the Salvation Army unknown.

But the hard work paid off, whether it was the thief army or the brocade guard of the imperial court, after layers of peeling off the cocoon, he finally found the secret base of the Salvation Army. All the clues point to the Huanglong Mountains in the northwest of Baishui County, between Xi'an and Yan'an.

It was a mountain range that crossed the two provinces, and in the midst of this mountain range, the Salvation Army had built a stockade in a plain. And the reason why they know is because this village has recently absorbed 200,000 displaced people, and among these displaced people, there are their people. However, the day after the information came out, there was no new news from these ears and eyes, and it was obvious that it had been discovered.

After Wang Jiayin knew about this, he laughed that the Salvation Army had no guts, and it was rare for him to raise troops to occupy Baishui County, but he actually ran to Huanglong Mountain to nest.

When the officials and soldiers knew, they were much more relieved, and they didn't care whether the Salvation Army was appeased or not, as long as they didn't casually go out of the mountains to harm the gentry and nobles, and let them sue. But in fact, even if you file a complaint, you may not accept it.

Huanglongshan is located at the junction of the two provinces, which means that as long as the Salvation Army hides on the other side, it is not under its own control. The Ming Dynasty has a rule that soldiers do not fight across provinces, so if the Salvation Army in Xi'an Mansion avoids Yan'an Mansion, then the army of Xi'an Mansion will not be able to pursue it, nor will it be too lazy to pursue, after all, it is the matter of Yan'an Mansion; In the same way, the pursuers of Yan'an Mansion will not continue to target the Salvation Army who have fled into Xi'an Mansion.

In the middle and late years of Chongzhen, many people took advantage of this rule to drive the homeless people and thieves from this province to that province, with the purpose of pushing the responsibility to others.

At the same time, among the Huanglong cottages.

"How's the trade with the north going? When will the 300 ploughing cattle we want arrive? Ling He shouted to the little officials below.

At this moment, he has been promoted from an ordinary knife and pen official to the person in charge of the trading of goods in Huanglongzhai, and his status is not high, but at least he is much stronger than the knife and pen officer. There are more than a dozen Xiucai under him, and these are his deputies. Before, there were more than 200,000 displaced people in Huanglongzhai in one go, and all the materials were very scarce, and Ling He was very anxious about the purchase of materials.

"Lao Huihui has been shipped, and 300 ploughing cattle will come to our Huanglongzhai in about two days. However, the three hundred ploughing cattle are too conspicuous, why not send someone out to escort them? The subordinate Xiucai replied truthfully.

"That's naturally inevitable, even if those thieves don't care, the government won't let it go...... I'll report it to the young master. Ling He nodded.

For Salvation to lead everyone here to open up wasteland and farm, Ling He is still very supportive in his heart. In fact, the real elite of the Salvation Army is only more than 1,000 people in the early days, and even if 3,000 people are recruited, most of them are new recruits and have little combat effectiveness. The rogue will win by numbers, and salvation is a big thing, so he has to develop his own powerful armament.

As long as it takes a year, Linghe can guarantee that the 3,000 soldiers of Huanglongzhai are definitely elite divisions, and more importantly, with the logistics base of Huanglongzhai, all the materials can be replenished, and there is no need to worry about where to rob when the looted materials are spent. The more soldiers and coerced people under their command, the greater the demand for food, and northern Shaanxi will not be able to satisfy them after all. No, even if it is the whole world, it may not be able to satisfy their appetite.

There is no sense of base at all, and he only knows how to destroy and not how to create, which is the reason why Liukou is Liukou.

The Salvation Army is not a rogue, as can be illustrated by their current behavior. Moreover, the leader of the salvation is not a coarse man who does not know a lot of words, and when he teaches the soldiers, he talks about the country, and even he, a scholar, can't help but be moved. Seriously, Ling He once doubted his three views.

In Huanglongzhai, reading is free, school-age children both male and female have to come to study, adults and even soldiers, and they can also attend night school in the evening. The thief who attaches so much importance to education makes Ling He feel afraid, the only thing to be thankful for is that the curriculum does not have many Confucian classics, let alone the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, but more strange skills such as Gewu and arithmetic. It seems that to govern the country and level the world, you still have to rely on them, the students of the Ming Dynasty!

No matter what kind of mood Ling He was in at this moment, he was so busy with the work at hand that he couldn't stop, and hurriedly reported to the young master of salvation the problem of sending someone to escort the ploughing cattle, and began to ship the five hundred maces ordered by King Gao Yingxiang.

However, on such a day, Ling He felt that he was still quite fulfilling.