The flowers bloom in two, one on each branch.

The death of the scholar Feng Quan caused a great shock to the Manchu court, and a large number of Han officials who had joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty were indignant, strongly demanded that the murderers be severely punished, and suggested that the Manchu court take the most severe revenge against the Ming Dynasty during this trip south, such as the massacre of the city.

In fact, the cruelty of the two devils to their compatriots has never been inferior to that of the real devils.

The same is true of the Han 0 traitors at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the many massacres in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty were done by the Han 0 traitors at the end of the Ming Dynasty, such as the three massacres in Jiading.

The Manchu court buried Feng Quan.

And Dolgon also slapped the table angrily, and asked people to strictly investigate the spies in the city, but in order to take care of the emotions of the Han officials, only the middle and lower classes were strictly investigated, and a deputy capital like Zhou Ze was naturally unnecessary.

On October 16, Hong Chengchou was enthroned as a military scholar of the Southern Governor, and Le Kedehun was named the general of the Southern Expedition, officially leading an army of 800,000 to the south to conquer the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Ze, the deputy governor of Luck Dehun's confidant, was also appointed as the governor of Henan, and arrived at the Weihui Mansion in Henan first.

Not long after, in late November, Hong Chengchou's main force had also arrived in Ji County, Weihui Prefecture, Henan.

Along the way, the Qing government forcibly ordered the transportation of military rations, amounting to millions of people.

Some officers and soldiers even ransacked villages directly along the road, and it was quite light to eat overlord meals and steal chicken and meat.

The entire 800,000-strong army marched south like a locust crossing the border, and it made all the people mourn from Baoding Mansion to Weihui Mansion, and the people were full of grievances.

In the past, the Manchurian iron cavalry was also infected with the habits of the soldiers and bandits of the Ming Dynasty in the past, perhaps thinking that the country was already in the Qing Dynasty, so there was no need to be taboo, and the commander was just a Han slave, so naturally there was no need to be afraid.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou Dolgon supported and persuaded Luckedhun to support him, so he killed a few Manchurian soldiers and Han army leaders, and finally did not let the military discipline be too loose, so that the military discipline of the 800,000 army was slightly better, at least no more people died.

Hong Chengchou is very satisfied with this situation, in his opinion, this can be regarded as strict military discipline.

After all, as a veteran who had led the Ming military army to fight, he knew the current situation of the official army when the thieves were exterminated in the Shaanxi area.

However, what Hong Chengchou didn't know was that the Guards at this time were different from the officers and soldiers of the past, and each battalion had a special military justice department, and even went directly to the Generalissimo's Mansion to have a general military justice department.

Every camp was hung with the heads of people who violated discipline and the image of imitating officers and soldiers who strictly adhered to discipline, and basically those who left the unit at will without asking for instructions were treated as deserters and were directly killed, so that naturally there was no way to plunder the people and violate more discipline.

Syllable!

The men who undertook the transportation task for the Qing army were recruited to fulfill the obligation of the Qing people because they were ruled, so once the Qing officers and soldiers who supervised the grain found that these people were lazy, they could whip the whips dipped in salt water on these people at will, and make a few blood marks.

Naturally, the people did not dare to resist, and if they were killed, they were at most dragged out and thrown outside, and they were buried in a pit casually.

Now it's your own ruling area, at least you have to bury it.

Left three years ago was directly violent corpse wilderness.

But it doesn't mean that the people don't oppose this war in their hearts.

finally stabilized for three years, had a wife and children, and had to bear the conscription brought about by the war, and anyone would have complaints in their hearts.

Hong Chengchou would not have thought of this, as an official from a traditional official gentry, although he was strategic, he would not take into account the feelings of ordinary people.

In his consciousness, this is the obligation that the people should fulfill, although it is a little bitter, but this is also for the great cause of the Qing Dynasty to unify the world.

Of course, as a literati, Hong Chengchou, if he still has a little conscience, will write a few poems at most to explain the pain brought by the war to the people, such as "Poor Yongding Riverside bones, still people in a spring boudoir dream" or something.

But Hong Chengchou didn't do this, and his mind is now full of fame.

For the literati who denounced or even just described the cruelty of war, they were actually considered great literati in this era, such as Du Fu.

Most of the literati in this era were privileged classes, and it was difficult for them to sympathize with the people at the bottom.

Unlike the Qing army, because of the infiltration of Zhu Youzhen's military-civilian theory, the Ming army not only strictly grasped discipline, but also changed its methods in the use of people's power, no longer requisitioning people's power but mobilizing people's power.

Although it is only a word, the meaning is very different.

First of all, the system has fundamentally changed, and the Ming Dynasty has abolished the thousand-year-old system of forced labor, which means that the people no longer have the obligation to pay for the violent wars between rulers.

The use of people's power in the Ming theaters can only be used at a paid price, and the governors of each theater have to organize manpower to publicize and appeal to the people.

In this way, the people know why their rulers want to fight, and even are forced to be helpless, so as to gain the sympathy and support of the people, let the people know that it is beneficial for them to participate in this war, and in addition to material rewards, the enthusiasm of the people to participate in the war is greatly improved.

The ferrymen on the south bank of the Yellow River had already moved their boats away, and consciously gave up farming the fields along the river, and even consciously built castles in the villages.

The Third Army of the Guards now does not have to allocate troops to undertake the transportation of military rations, and when it arrived in Kaifeng, Henan, the entire Kaifeng has been transported by the merchant groups and people from all over the country to purchase grain and grass for half a year.

In order to earn more wages, almost all the people in Henan, Huguang, and Shandong took the initiative to join the transportation army coordinated by the Ministry of War, and there were even women, children, and children.

And some ordinary people also took the initiative to take on the task of intelligence collection and dissemination, and these medicine farmers and woodcutters who visited the world were not inferior to Jinyi Wei in discovering the traces of the Qing army, after all, they were all locals.

The Ming military will give cash rewards based on the value of the intelligence.

Nowadays, the domestic treasury of the Ming Dynasty is overflowing, and a large number of silver coins still need to be put on the market, so it is not stingy to increase the currency supply by rewarding the people with cash to stimulate the economy.

Anyway, as soon as the war machine is turned on, there is no need to worry about the economy collapsing, and it is necessary to regulate it after the war is over.

Moreover, before the war began, because a large number of silver coins were put in, and the Manchus did not intend to reserve gold and silver like the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty.

Unconsciously, prices in the Manchu ruled areas began to rise sharply, coupled with the fact that the people's power was used in large quantities for the war, the price of grain increased significantly, the cost of war increased, and the domestic contradictions almost intensified.

After all, at the beginning of the founding of a dynasty, it was necessary to rest with the people, but now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to do so for its great cause of unifying the world, collapse was inevitable.

Of course, Hong Chengchou, who even the common people can't notice, naturally can't pay attention to the changes in the economy.

He only knew now that the gentry in Jiangnan were disgusted with Zhu Youzhen's rule, and he could win the war by appeasement and military strikes.

(End of chapter)