Chapter 456 Steady and Steady

Counting the people, there are tens of thousands of people brought by Chen Xie, so many people are staying outside the city, and there are 300,000 people around. There are so many things going on every day. The camp of the People's Army is not so particular, and it is normal to defecate in the open or something. Environmental sanitation is very important, which Chen Xie attaches very seriously, at least let these people accept some living habits.

The propaganda team is the vanguard in Chen Xie's hands, and they have been driven into the camp, and their relatives have been busy all these years. Carry a horn in your hand every day, and go wherever you go. In hundreds of camps, large and small, the Dengzhou soldiers not only had to teach these people how to pay attention to the details of hygiene, but also had to restrain these people who were accustomed to being careless.

It's definitely not okay for so many people to pile up together, and after a long time, there will be chaos. Not long has passed, and some women have already engaged in the trade of skins and skins, which is the oldest trade in human society. These transactions can make the family eat better, or for themselves.

It was only three days before and after, and when Chen Xie was on his inspection, he saw some women at the bottom of a small dirt slope, and in a simple straw hut, a mat and broken cotton wool were spread, and then they sat down to buy and sell. The soldiers are disciplined and do not dare to come here, so the people are different, and many people come here to vent their physiological needs with the rations provided by the troops, or the rations they carry. Chen Xie could not stop this phenomenon, so he could only speed up the immigration.

Chen Xie stayed under Kaifeng City for half a month, and he didn't set foot in Kaifeng City at all. In the recital to Jingshi, I understood what I meant by doing this. "Hundreds of thousands of people have been left behind, with nowhere to eat. Soon there will be chaos again. So, stay in Kaifeng, deal with these people first, and then talk about the next military plan. Su Haochen, north of the Yellow River, encountered the giant Yuan Shizhong in Weihui Mansion, and was defeated in a battle, the thieves escaped at night, and the Su Department was also resettled among the displaced people. ”

Su Haochen's situation was much better than Chen Xie's, he only gathered less than 50,000 people. Migrate to Shandong in phases and batches, if you can overlook the official road at this time. You will find every official road leading to Dengzhou. There are displaced people heading east.

Before and after, in half a month, Chen Xie took away 200,000 people under Kaifeng City. The 100,000 people left behind were mainly young men and women. These people. He was requisitioned as a civil husband by the Dengzhou battalion. There is a fixed daily ration. There is also a salary of half a silver yuan every month. What's more, these people go directly to military management, except that they don't need to be trained. Every day life is similar to that of the army. Don't be unfree, this is the job, many people rush to do it.

After Li Zicheng fled south, he did not dare to stop along the way, for fear of being pursued by the Dengzhou battalion. ran all the way into Nanyang Mansion, and when he found that the Dengzhou battalion did not catch up, he dared to continue to attack the city boldly with confidence. Yuzhou, Tangxian, and Xinye were successively broken by the people's army, and the Ming army in Nanyang City closed their doors and asked for help everywhere.

After receiving an urgent report from Nanyang, Chen Xie ordered the troops to go south, and then the Shandong soldiers who drove over took over the camp outside Kaifeng City and 100,000 people. The task of the Shandong soldiers was to continue to build roads and maintain traffic, to ensure that a place was cleared and the thieves disappeared completely.

When leaving Kaifeng, the officials in the city came out to see him off, Chen Xie expressed his gratitude, drank Zhuangxing wine, and led his troops south. At the same time, Chen Xie asked Su Haochen to send troops to guard the key passes after cleaning up the north of the Yellow River, so as not to let the thieves re-enter Henan. The mobility of the mounted infantry was brought into play, and Chen Xie led his troops south, but in five days, he entered Nanyang Mansion. 50,000 people went all the way to the south to build roads to ensure the logistics of the Dengzhou battalion. The key is the transportation of grain, Chen Xie has no shortage of grain in his hands, and how to transport it. Chen Xie's plan is to lay down a place, clean up a place, and stabilize a place. Sooner or later, Henan will become a forbidden place for the people's army. Not to mention anything else, there is no population of thieves, see how Li Zicheng plays? This trick is actually not technical, but it is vicious enough. It's a bit of a three-light policy, I got all the people away for you, how are you still playing?

At this time, Chen Xie's recital also arrived in Beijing, and Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry to discuss the problem of how to suppress the thief. In principle, Chen Xie is still the supervisor of the five towns, and he can only command the soldiers and horses of the five towns. Don't look at the addition of the military department, the Ming troops everywhere will not listen to Chen Xie's orders. Zhu Youzhen had the intention of letting Chen Xie come to lead the overall situation of suppressing the thieves, but the courtiers all objected. Some fierce rhetoric even said, "Chen Gebu has 100,000 mercenaries, and the imperial court does not pay silver. "It's a rehash of the same old story, but there's also a legitimate problem. In fact, did the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty really listen to the court's greetings? If this is the case, Yang Sichang will not let go of Zuo Liangyu. Cut this thing early!

Other officials emphasized that Chen Xie, a scholar of Dongge University, came from the wrong way. The cabinet has its unspoken rules. To be in the cabinet, you have to be from Hanlin. Without the identity of a Hanlin, a person like Chen Xie, no matter how capable you are, the civil officials will not accept your status as a cabinet assistant. Since it was an unspoken rule, Zhu Youzhen gave Chen Xie the title of Dongge University Scholar, which was controversial at the beginning. But the emperor decided on this matter against public opinion. Chen Xie is not serving in the Beijing Division, everyone is out of sight and out of mind, and this matter is no longer insisted on.

At the meeting, Zhu Youzhen once again proposed to let Chen Xie lead the nation's crackdown on thieves and replace Ding Qirui. This time, the ministers reacted very violently, and they all thought that this was impossible. If someone is against it, someone is in favor of it. Yang Tinglin, the squire of the military department, thought that Chen Xie should be allowed to preside over the overall situation. Then it was time to quarrel, spit on each other, quote scriptures from each other, and read more books than anyone else.

In the end, it was Zhou Yanru who came out and made a difference, he said: "The thief can't be appeased for a long time, and he can't do it all if he has Sihua." For the sake of long-term planning, Ding Qirui can continue to serve as the supervisor. When the situation changes, we are talking about other things. "It means to maintain the status quo and let Ding Qirui take over Yang Sichang's work. All in all, if the words are not clear, it is still necessary to arrange a person for Chen Xie's head. Even if this person can't command Chen Xie, he must play a role in checking and balancing Chen Xie. Balance, everybody does it. As for the immigration mentioned in Chen Xie's song, everyone didn't care about it at all. Anyway, if you stay in Henan, you will starve to death, and it is best to get rid of it. The money of immigrants is definitely not available in the household department. Not to mention that there is no money for immigrants, Chen Xie's money, don't mention it. Anyway, Daming is actually a little out of control now. Everyone understands in their hearts that if they don't say anything, they don't dare to say anything, and Chen Xie wants to rebel. It turns out that whoever said this was unlucky. In the middle of the matter, the military department mentioned "wait for the thief to be calm", turned around and sent Zhu Youzhen home.

Zhu Youzhen was indignant, returned to the palace, and immediately wrote a secret edict to Chen Xie. Roughly speaking, the courtiers are all people who just sell their mouths and don't work, and only love is really protecting the Ming Dynasty for me. In fact, Zhu Youzhen still didn't understand one thing, and what the ministers were most worried about was not Chen Xie's rebellion, but about the division of power in the future. Chen Xie started with military merits, and now he has become a scholar of Dongge University, which is the time when Wenchen is most worried. They don't have the ability to enter and exit the generals, so they are naturally worried that as soon as Chen Xie's example is opened, they will not be able to control the generals in the future.

Therefore, compared with Zhu Youzhen, who can't wait to make great use of Chen Xie, the Wenchen Group does not dare to oppose it openly, which does not mean that it will not be bad.

In fact, even if they don't want to see it, the generals at this time are no longer very controlled. Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong are typical representatives. Ding Qirui ordered He Renlong and Hu Dawei to cooperate in the battle and block Li Zicheng's possible path to Jiangbei.

As a result, He Renlong and Hu Dawei came to Xincai, and Li Zicheng was planning to go to Jiangbei, but when he found these two tigers, he convened his subordinates to discuss and prepare to kill these two officers and soldiers.

At this time, Chen Xie had just left Kaifeng. If they can block Li Zicheng, Jiangbei will naturally be fine. However, Chen Xie was very uneasy about the other Ming troops, so he prepared in Jiangbei early. Wang Qinian, the chief soldier of Caoyun in Fengyang, has two B-shaped battalions under his command and 5,000 new Shandong battalions. Luzhou and Anqing are garrisoned.

Li Zicheng's meeting was relatively dull, because Liu Fangliang ran back, Hao Shaoqi also ran back, and Liu Tichun lost contact. Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu's news, I don't know at all. Now Li Zicheng has more than 100,000 people in his hands, and the difference is that these 100,000 people are not so old and weak, and they are basically lightly armed. Leaving 300,000 people behind, there are still benefits, those who run slowly have not kept up, and those who run fast can come back. In other words, the chaff is removed.

"Jiangbei is a rich land compared to Henan. It is necessary to go, and it is necessary to take this opportunity to disperse Chen Sihua's troops. Everyone knows that under Kaifeng City, it is not that they don't want to fight or dare not fight, but they can't fight. Li Zicheng's words are really not convincing, he just doesn't dare to fight, everyone knows it.

"If you want to win the world, Chen Sihua must pass this hurdle. Therefore, in the mountains between the three provinces, once Chen Sihua pursues here, we will have various opportunities to break through. "In terms of tactics, it makes sense. Chen Xie's total strength is not much, ten A-shaped battalions, but only 20,000 troops. But Li Zicheng also thinks too highly of himself, what is the opportunity to break through, he will be able to see it in the future.

"Right now, we have to eat these two Ming armies, what do you think?" Li Zicheng asked a question, in the past half a month, from Nanyang to Runing, he was looking for opportunities in circles. Now it seems that the opportunity has come.

Niu Jinxing squinted his eyes and shook his fan, at this time his role was greater than that of Li Yan. Li Yan's strength is to engage in internal affairs, policies and the like, Li Yan is more powerful. But when it comes to strategy, Bull Venus is a little stronger. (To be continued......)