I have to say that the Ming Dynasty at this time was indeed quite unlucky. To put it in one word, it's bad luck.

As a result, Hong Chengchou was forced to personally lead the army to Xining to quell the rebellion. And the peasant rebels took the opportunity to "trap Guanlong." When Hong Chengchou put down the mutiny and freed up his hands to suppress the peasant rebels, the peasant rebels withdrew from Shaanxi one after another and headed for Shanxi, Huguang and Henan.

Not to mention Hong Chengchou and the peasant rebels playing hide and seek. It should be said that Xuan Mo, the governor of Henan, also behaved commendably when he encircled and suppressed the peasant rebels.

When Xuan Mo attached importance to the peasant rebel army re-entering Henan, he moved his army from Ruzhou to Lushi, and ordered Zuo Liangyu, Tang Jiuzhou and other troops to defend the key points, which really effectively blocked the peasant rebel army from entering Henan on a large scale.

Henan's local Luoyang deputy general Wang Shaoyu, Kaifeng guerrilla Chen Yongfu and other generals also attacked again and again, and successively defeated several groups of local bandits in Henan who were making a relatively jubilant noise. Therefore, from August to the end of October in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Henan also had to be quiet for a few months.

And Wu Shigong also took advantage of this rare recuperation period to do several big things in Runing. First of all, the whole territory of Runing and the Tuntian Zhuangzi of Guide Mansion have achieved a bumper harvest. This rare bumper harvest in recent years has filled the granary of the Runing Army. And the hearts of those who took refuge in the displaced people quickly settled down.

Because some officials in the court and those who had returned to Germany received letters from home and knew that there was such a happy land in the chaotic Henan, they praised the local officials of Runing, and this praise was quickly passed on to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen and all scholars.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen recalled the three decrees proposed in the recital presented by Guan Kesong, the prefect of Runing, so he was immediately amazed by this. And Guan Kesong was immediately praised as a "capable minister" by Longkou.

And the officials are also ready to promote Guan Kesong unusually. But when the news reached Runing, Guan Kesong was mixed, on the one hand, he was happy that he was about to be promoted; On the other hand, he was worried, because he knew that the situation in Runing Mansion was all done by Wu Shigong's Runing Army, and he only issued a decree, and afterwards he collected some more rules from Runing Army, but he didn't do anything else.

Guan Kesong even knew that if it were not for the strong army of the Runing Army to deter, the bandits wandering in the four borders of Henan would have been rampant in Runing Mansion long ago, where would the bumper harvest come from? If the imperial court simply promoted itself. But if he does not give himself a strong army, and even puts himself in areas such as Shaanxi and Huguang, where the peasant rebel army has frequent activities, then Guan Kesong has three heads and six arms, and even if 30 decrees are issued, the situation there will still not be able to improve.

Can you confess to the imperial court: The tranquility of Runing Mansion is actually the credit of the removed Wu Dusi? That Guan Kesong must also be reluctant. gave up the opportunity to be promoted in front of him, and then the next promotion will not know that it will be the Year of the Monkey. What a blissful annoyance!

There is also a person who also has the troubles of happiness. That is the "famous general" Li Lu, who was promoted to the third level. This lame man's braggadocio didn't just reach Wu Shigong's ears. And it spread throughout Henan officialdom.

And how could Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, who lacked major generals, waste Li Lu's strong army? He issued an order to requisition Li Lu, a strong army, to the front line of suppressing bandits.

But where could Li Lu conjure up an army? He was only able to use the phrase "The troops need to rest after the battle!" "It's hard to march in bad weather!" and many other reasons to delay the appointment.

Now Li Lu has been living in the camp of the Runing Army for a long time, and he begged Wu Shigong every day to send some troops to let him fool through this pass, but how could Wu Shigong casually lose the strength of his Runing Army? So Li Lu was sadly thrown aside by Wu Shigong, and he even had the heart to hang himself at this time.

It's really a person who is afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong! Li Lu also didn't go to learn Zhao Ming, although he couldn't be promoted. But at least I'm not in danger. At this time, Li Lu must have known the true meaning of calamity coming out of his mouth!

And the bumper harvest of Runing Mansion also made the gentry of Guide Mansion very jealous. The Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank took the opportunity to extend its tentacles to Guide Mansion. After getting Wu Shigong's approval, Chang Meng immediately established a branch in Guide Mansion. The Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank owned 40% of the shares as the major shareholder, united the local officials and gentry of Guide Province, and imitated the "Ban on Famine" implemented in Runing Province. Gather all the abandoned land in Guide Province, gather the displaced people, and prepare for a big fight in the coming year.

And this great alliance also fully demonstrated Chang Meng's slippery means, so that the local officials and gentry with heads and faces in Guide Prefecture have gained some benefits. What's even more valuable is that the Guide Mansion Branch also promised to sell the surplus grain to the Runing Army at a low price, and the management of those Tuntian Zhuangzi and the command of the Zhuang Protection Team were also owned by the Runing Army, which also made Wu Shigong look at Chang Meng with admiration.

Chang Meng, who was constantly praised by Wu Shigong, was highly motivated, and then he wanted to expand the Tuntian Zhuangzi in Kaifeng, Ruzhou, and Nanyang, which were close to the areas controlled by the Runing Army.

But then a problem arose, and the other shareholders of the Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank had little interest in developing those areas. The reason is very simple, after all, those places are out of the control area of the Runing Army, and with only a small number of village guards, even the green seedlings in the fields may be eaten by those hungry and crazy homeless.

Besides, where the fields are now farmed, they will become fragrant buns, and those bandits will swarm like a swarm of flies. And it is impossible for the Runing Army to take care of such a large place in time. So the major shareholders think it's too risky to go to those places to reclaim the land.

In this regard, it is impossible for Wu Shigong to force those major shareholders, and the business development of Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank has also temporarily reached a deadlock. But an unexpected visitor broke the deadlock. That is the senior male public relations that Wu Shigong has met several times in Nanjing - Ma Shouxin and Ma Ergongzi.

If you are a man, you want to make a career, and Ma Shouxin is no exception. Although in the eyes of outsiders, Ma Shouxin seems to be very chic when he accompanies his sons in Nanjing to eat, drink and have fun, but Ma Shouxin knows that those sons despise him, and he also knows that his status in the Ma family is not high. So when he said goodbye to Wu Shigong, when he heard Wu Shigong's words, Ma Shouxin's heart was immediately moved.

But in the final analysis, Ma Shouxin is also a son-in-law, and it is definitely not possible to let him make up his own mind, so when he returned to Songjiang Mansion once, Ma Shouxin told the patriarch of the Ma family and his father Ma Yong about his meeting with Wu Shigong.

After hearing this, Ma Yong was of course unimpressed. A son of a nobleman, a military attache who was dismissed, and a martial artist who went to Nanjing City to borrow silver, what is there to pay attention to?

But when he heard that his second son's tone was always inclined to cooperate with Wu Shigong, Ma Yong was not good at discouraging Ma Shouxin's enthusiasm, so he reluctantly agreed to let Ma Shouxin go to Runing, Henan to have a look.

And this rare outing shocked Ma Shouxin. Ma Shouxin has been in the most prosperous city of the Ming Dynasty, but it is rare to hear some of the world's conditions, and there are always some dry introductions, and there is no intuitive understanding at all.

But along the way, although it passed through the richest area of the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of poor people being displaced and roadside deaths was endless.

So when Ma Shouxin arrived in Jining, after hearing about the rampant bandits in Henan from the innkeeper, Ma Shouxin wanted to go home. It was the shopkeeper of the Jining branch of the Sihai Commercial Bank who repeatedly ensured the safety of the journey, and Ma Shouxin went to Runing Mansion suspiciously.

Ma Shouxin walked with the caravan of the Four Seas Commercial Bank. As soon as he entered the Guide Mansion in Henan, Ma Shouxin found a strange phenomenon, although there were many homeless people on the side of the avenue, as long as they saw the banner of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, they all avoided it from a distance and did not dare to approach at all.

So Ma Shouxin asked the shopkeeper who led the caravan with great interest, and the shopkeeper told Ma Shouxin: No one dares to provoke the Four Seas Commercial House of the Runing Army in the Henan territory. The group of bandits who provoked the Four Seas Commercial Bank last time have been cut off more than 10,000 heads by the Runing Army.

After all, Ma Shouxin is used to dealing with his son's buddies, so his observation ability is also quite strong, so how do he think that the shopkeeper's understatement has some smugness.

I heard that more than 10,000 heads were cut again, if it wasn't for the boasting of this shopkeeper, then the military attache I wanted to see this time who went to Nanjing City to borrow silver must be a crazy butcher. At this time, Ma Shouxin was a little interested.

But Ma Shouxin's surprise journey has only just begun. When he entered Runing Mansion, Ma Shouxin felt as if he had entered two shijies. There are not a single homeless on the main road, and there are no beggars or dead bodies on the roadside. The farmers worked in the fields, but they were often met by bands of soldiers patrolling the roads.

Although these soldiers did not have the distinctive armor of the soldiers guarding Nanjing that Ma Shouxin saw in Nanjing City, they were wearing cloth clothes and showed their strength in their actions. Just saw the banner of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and they let them go after a brief interrogation.

But when Ma Shouxin complimented the shopkeeper to Wu Shigong's good soldiers, the shopkeeper was daxiao, and then he introduced to Ma Shouxin: These are actually not Wu Shigong's soldiers. Some are militia groups, and some are village guards and road guards organized by the Department of Internal Affairs. And the soldiers of the Runing Army are much more powerful than these people!

Ma Shouxin couldn't help but be stunned by the shopkeeper's words, he couldn't imagine what a soldier more capable than these people would look like, and this question was brought to meet Wu Shigong. (To be continued......)