The news that Wu Shigong could recommend officials quickly spread throughout the two prefectures, and the gentry clans of Runing and Guide immediately boiled, and the patriarchs of the clans rushed to the Runing military camp with heavy gifts to ask for Wu Shigong, hoping to win a place for the children of their clan.

This time, the peasant rebel army ravaged Henan, and also brought a large number of official vacancies to Henan, some of which were in the areas where Henan bandits frequently appeared, and few people from the right path were willing to take up their posts, so this time Xuan Mo simply sent a batch to Wu Shigong, which can be regarded as giving Wu Shigong a favor.

But for those who could not have entered the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the temptation of this kind of formal official position is too great! Therefore, those officials and gentry took action one after another, and they wanted to ask for some from Wu Shigong. In their opinion, with the backing of the Runing Army, it is extremely risky for their children to go to the most dangerous places to become officials. Besides, isn't there another sentence - seek wealth and danger in danger!

Of course, Wu Shigong will not arrange all the children of the official gentry to take office. Seeing this unexpected heat, he immediately announced the selection principle of this official: if he performed well in the civilian system of the Runing Army; Loyal to Wu Shigong.

But the popularity of the gentry did not diminish at all. Although they knew that there were many porridge and few monks, and their children might also lose the election, those gentry still flocked to it. I don't have a chance this time, so let's get familiar with it first and wait for the next time, and there are also those who are officials, and the vacant Runing officer positions.

Then another big event made the Runing Army boil. The Ministry of War issued an official document: Wu Shigong was promoted to deputy general and became an independent army with a total of 6,000 soldiers. What does this prove? This proves that the military exploits of the Runing Army were finally recognized by the imperial court; It proves that Wu Shigong is deeply "favored" by the emperor. Who would dare to provoke Emperor Chongzhen's "favorite minister" - Wu Shigong now?

Anyway, King Chong didn't dare anymore. He impeached himself for such a big crime, not only did he not drive Wu Shigong away, but let Wu Shigong be promoted, if he continues to fight, he is not afraid that Wu Shigong will fabricate the charge of rebellion against King Chong? It's better to honestly cultivate immortals in the palace! Fight with Wu Shigong's martial arts. That's dangerous!

So King Chong immediately sent Ye Chao to Wu Shigong, expressing his intention to be soft in disguise. And Qingchenzi didn't dare to go back to his Miaoyunguan anymore, he hid in the palace every day, for fear that Wu Shigong would find him to take revenge.

But Wu Shigong is not ready to force people too much. The festival with King Chong was no longer mentioned, and even Miaoyunguan lifted the order of seizure after confiscating 2,000 acres of temple land as punishment.

In fact, Wu Shigong just said it casually, not to oppose Taoism at all. In the end, there are many believers in Taoism, and Wu Shigong doesn't want to cause anything, so he controls this matter within the scope of personal grievances with Qingchenzi. But until now, Qingchenzi didn't know where he offended Wu Shigong. So he's really wronged.

However, in this way, Wu Shigong's religious policy was smoothly implemented. Because the hosts of other temples are afraid that they will become the next Qingchenzi, and they have no King Chong to intercede.

Of course, Wu Shigong also took a step and allowed those temples to keep their former property. These temples are also allowed to sell surplus temple land. If no one comes to buy them, the Runing Army will also redeem these temple fields. So in general. That is, the past is not to blame. Those temples didn't suffer much.

As for Ye Chao! How to say that he is also a relatively timid and loyal servant. Since Wu Shigong was able to tolerate Shumo back then, of course he can tolerate Ye Chao now.

However, it is definitely impossible to arrange Ye Chao in the inner house. So after consulting Zhu Qilan and learning that Ye Zhong was literate, Wu Shigong arranged for Ye Chao to be a petty officer of the Runing Army.

Because Ye Chao was once a major accomplice in the impeachment of Wu Shigong, the officials who arranged the specific arrangement arranged Ye Chao to be an official in a remote township in Runan. Coincidentally, Yao Liang, who was also assigned, was also here. So these two people have become difficult brothers.

"Uncle Wynn! I'm going to work hard for you this time! Wu Shigong said with a smile.

"Where!" Xue Yongli smiled and waved his hand. "This is my uncle giving credit to the little one. But this time Zhinong did a good job. Haha-! After finishing speaking, Xue Yongli finally couldn't help but daxiao.

At the end of April, the prepared Runing Army began to pacify the three county towns in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture in accordance with the smooth progress of first east and then west. Before the expedition. Xue Zhinong's Mountains and Rivers Division used his connections to effortlessly recruit the bandits in these three counties.

In fact, these three counties are sandwiched between the two prefectures of Runing and Guide, and they have been stared at by the Runing army.

And this time Wu Shigong is not ready to go to the expedition in person, and the coach of the expedition is set to be Xue Yongli. He will lead a rotational training regiment, two militia regiments, and a regiment of cavalry, a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses. From the composition of this soldier and horse, it can be known that the Runing Army used this expedition as a training subject.

"Uncle Wynn! This expedition is to walk around, but we must pay attention to military discipline and military etiquette. If there is anything to open your eyes and hide, you might as well strike a thunderbolt and kill a chicken to show those monkeys. ”

"In fact, most of them are expedient. It's all grass on the wall, and they will still lean on the bandits when they come, so we don't have to be too happy. A few days ago, Chang Meng wrote to me and told me that his reclamation firm had collected more than 100,000 soldiers in Ruzhou and Nanyang. It's a joke, Chang Meng in terms of numbers will never dare to lie to me, but how much water is there in these 100,000 people? We can imagine it too. ”

"So you still need to grasp the degree. Divide them into two categories: one is to reorganize and disperse those who have wholeheartedly surrendered to us, and then let our Runing Army send officers to command. If we all agree to this, we might as well give some benefits to these people's families. ”

"If it is a person who is reluctant to have a sword and gun in his hand, first jointly establish Tuntian Zhuangzi, and then slowly integrate into our Runing Army with common interests, or mainly unite and negotiate, but if he really wants to come out with no eyes, then let him taste the taste of being in the ground."

"Also, now in these three counties, except for the vicinity of the county seat, the rest of the land can be said to be terra nullius, boldly set up Tuntian Zhuangzi, you grab the land, and then I will let Chang Meng arrange for people to receive it." Don't worry about anything, use all our three prohibitions, so that the people can at least have a way to live, and they will not be coerced by bandits anymore. If there is a shortage of manpower in Tuntian! We'll talk about that later! (To be continued......)