When he was at home, the civilian officials who were released and the military attachés who were released to fill the vacancies accepted Wu Shigong's summons in batches. Wu Shigong also said some high-sounding words to encourage these people as usual. In fact, this kind of official position is not an official position of the Ming Dynasty at all, but an official position formulated within the Runing Army, but those officials are still grateful, as if they have picked up a treasure.

Also, there are very few people who can hold these official positions now, and they are basically children, and even some are just literate. In the original official system of the Ming Dynasty, they did not have the possibility of holding any official positions at all, so they also attached great importance to this kind of miscellaneous official positions that could no longer be miscellaneous cards. This bureaucratic system is indeed deeply ingrained in the minds of the Chinese.

And the only flaw that Ru Ningjun can say now is that the education of officials is too low. Deng Qifan, as the only lifter, stands out from the crowd. It's not that there are no other people in the territory controlled by Wu Shigong, but they don't look down on the wild background of the Runing Army and don't want to serve in the Runing Army.

Even Zhang Xuebin wrote a letter to his clan, asking the clan to send some more children to the Runing army as staff, and the final result of this letter was also in vain. The strength of the Runing Army is still too small, and it is not attractive to these literati!

And at the time of the summons, there was also a tidbit. This time, among these officers of Gonzalez, a group of Chinese who learned more Haode also became actual military attachés leading troops. Of course, most of them are high-ranking and low-level. For example, Gonzalez is treated as a regimental commander, but he is the deputy commander of an infantry regiment. Wu Shigong will not rest assured that they will lead the army alone for the time being.

It should be said that Gonzalez's appointment is somewhat contrary to the promotion system of officials in the Runing Army. However, because Gonzalez did have goods in their stomachs, and they were instructors of the Liaodong Army at the time of Sun Yuanhua, there was no objection to the appointment of these people.

However, for this appointment, Wu Shigong always had some ideas that foreign monks would recite scriptures. And the Runing army also had no resistance to these Portuguese becoming their military attachés. This made Wu Shigong a little strange.

Understand it until you understand it. At that time in the Ming Dynasty, people's national outlook was actually very unique, and it was also difficult for modern people to understand. They all think that even if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different. But the ethnicity here is not strictly ethnic. Rather, it is based on whether or not to believe in Confucianism. Those who believe in it are the civilized people of our Heavenly Empire, and those who do not believe in it are barbarians.

In addition, the people of the Ming Dynasty also believed: Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. That is, they think that everyone under the sky is Chinese. It's nothing more than the difference between civilized people and barbarians. As for Gonzalez, these people. That is, the Chinese who look stranger. Since it is the Chinese who lead the troops, of course, there is no resistance.

On the contrary, the officers of Gonzalez, they have the feeling of thinking that they are aliens. Therefore, in order to integrate into the Runing Army as soon as possible, they redoubled their efforts in training and did meticulous work in accordance with the rules of the Runing Army. This also gave them a good evaluation in the Runing Army.

However, when Wu Shigong met with Gonzalez and them, he didn't expect Gonzalez to make a request to Wu Shigong very sincerely. It turned out that Gonzalez knew that the Fund Bureau was going to provide benefits for their officers. It is hoped that Wu Shigong will personally sign a written contract with all the officers. In order to protect the interests of those officers in the future.

Hearing this request, Wu Shigong felt a little funny in his heart. These foreigners are straightforward enough! Wu Shigong didn't want to break his promise, and besides, he also knew that foreigners pay more attention to the spirit of contract, so he readily agreed.

But since then, the Runing Army has also developed such a rule. When issuing orders and purchasing the materials needed by the Runing Army, it is no longer just a matter of words, but also a contract with detailed terms. Later, this habit gradually spread to the people, which also promoted the great development of Runing's military commerce and industry from the side.

And during this time. Wu Shigong also read a large number of newspapers and various local information collected by the Mountains and Rivers Division. Wu Shigong has been on the expedition to Denglai for more than a year, and the news is quite closed. So take advantage of the free time this time to make up for such a lesson.

However, what is surprising is that Zheng Ling, the newly appointed official appointed by Wu Shigong to extract and summarize intelligence, has a stunning performance.

After Zheng Ling became familiar with the work, he used his free time to look through a large amount of previous materials and provided Wu Shigong with two analysis reports he had written.

One is an analysis of the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou. When the main force of the Shaanxi peasant rebellion entered Shanxi, the remaining peasant rebel forces did not become depressed.

But Hong Chengchou stepped up his extermination and succeeded repeatedly. In September of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Shen Yikui occupied the county seat of Ningsai. Soon there was civil strife, and Shen Yikui was killed by his subordinate general Huang Youcai and others. In November, the rebel army of Tan Xiong's army invaded Ansai County twice, and Hong Chengchou sent Cao Wenzhao, the deputy commander-in-chief, to besiege Huang Youcai's department in Ningsai, and he took the deputy commander-in-chief Li Bei to join the commander-in-chief Wang Chengen to attack Ansai.

At this time, a city, a cloud, Xue Hongqi and others led a rebel army of more than 3,000 people, starting from Yuhechuan (in Yulin County) and suddenly arrived at the city of Anding. The poor people in the city responded to it, and the rebel army was stabilized. After Wang Chengen, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty (not the great eunuch next to Chongzhen, but just the same name and surname) arrived in Ansai, he booby-trapped Tan Xiong and five others. Then the troops were moved to attack Anding, and the rebels were forced to withdraw.

At the same time, the Mixed Sky Monkey Department conquered Ganquan County, captured 108,000 taels of silver, and executed Guo Yongtu, the county governor. Zhang Yundeng, the Hexi Bingbei Road, was also killed. Then, this rebel army conquered Jiazhou again, and Guo Jingsong was killed. Shaanxi Governor Hong Chengchou hurriedly transferred Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Quanchang to suppress it. In the first month of the fifth year, the Monkey sent his subordinates to disguise the rice merchants to enter Yijun County, and seized the county seat at night. Then they occupied Baoan and Heshui counties.

At this time, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu (Liu Daojiang), Ke Tianfei and other subordinates who were originally subordinates of Shen Yikui also rebelled again in Qingyang and Huanxian in Gansu, attacking in all directions, and were very active for a while.

In December of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Youcai and Liu Wu, Hao Lin'an, Ke Tianfei and other troops besieged Huanxian, and Zhao Yinglan, the official of Ming County, was panicked and hanged herself. Hong Chengchou transferred Yang Jiamo, the chief soldier of Gansu, and He Huchen, the chief soldier of Ningxia, to come to the rescue. Huang Youcai was killed by the guns of the official army, but Tianfei and Hao Lin'an led their troops to retreat to the north of Huanxian County, Gansu, and the high mountains and deep streams of Dongchuan and Xichuan.

In February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Tianfei and Hao Lin'an besieged Qingyang Mansion again. Hong Chengchou sent Cao Wenzhao, the chief soldier of Lintao, to lead the troops to rescue. On 13 March, Cao Wenzhao and Yang Jiamo, the chief soldier of Gansu, fought with the peasant rebel army in the western trench, and the rebel army was defeated, killing more than 1,000 people.

In April, Zhang Cunmeng set up 17 posts and 64 villages in Xichuan and led his troops to attack Mizhi and Jiazhou. Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Yansui of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and other commanders and 3,000 infantry joined Hong Chengchou and launched a fierce attack on the rebel army. He was defeated without mud, and was captured and beheaded by the officers and soldiers in Suide together with Liu Minyue. In July, the Monkey was also killed by the Ming Army's Ma Ke Department at Yanshui Pass.

Relying on superior forces, the official army repeatedly defeated the rebel army remaining in Shaanxi. Governor Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi Governor Lian State Affairs, and Governor Yu Shi Jinlan immediately seized the opportunity to deploy to encircle and suppress the rebel army's base in the vicinity of Tiejiaocheng (now north of Huanxian County, Gansu). The Iron Horn City has high mountains and deep ravines, and the situation is dangerous, and it has always been a place where the government rule is weak.

Hao Lin'an, Ke Tianfei and other departments have been cultivating land here for a long time, and they are ready for a protracted war. In August of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou mobilized a large army to suppress on the one hand, and sent spies to "go to the thieves' camps in the name of appeasement, give them secret plans, and reward them with heavy rewards, sneaking back, and making them kill thieves with thieves." ”

The peasant rebel army was overwhelming, and some wavering elements surrendered one after another. Among them, after Bai Guangen led his troops to surrender, he immediately acted as the executioner of the Ming government to suppress the peasant uprising. He led the officers and troops straight to the camp of the rebel leader Ke Tianfei (He Chongwei), but Ke Tianfei was killed.

Bai Guangen used the blood of the peasant rebel army in exchange for his own promotion as an officer, and later rose to the rank of chief soldier. In October, Chen Qiyu, the new governor of Yansui, sent Wang Chengen, the chief soldier, to suppress a city and the rebel army of Xue Hongqi. A city was killed by the traitor Qiao Liulang, and Xue Hongqi and Yizi Wang (Tuo Xianling) were also killed by Dai Junen, a soldier of the Ming Jingbian Frontier, in Gudu Temple. In November, Cao Wenzhao and other officers and troops pursued Hao Lin'an and the lone wolf army at Awl Mountain in Yaozhou, Shaanxi, and the peasant rebel army was defeated and withdrew into Phoenix Mountain.

Seeing that the mountain was difficult to attack, the superintendent Dao Fan sent spies into the rebel army, lured the unstable elements to kill Hao Lin'an and the lone wolf, and surrendered to the official army with their heads.

Because of the repeated rebellion of the peasant rebel army, Governor Hong Chengchou thought that the general situation had been decided, so he reneged on his promise and pulled out 400 backbone members of the rebel army from among the surrendered personnel, and killed prisoners to prevent future troubles.

At this point, the peasant rebel armies that persisted in the struggle in Shaanxi were basically bloodily suppressed by the Ming Dynasty government. According to the report of the Ming Patrol according to the sixth year of the imperial history Fan Fucui Chongzhen, more than 36,600 people were killed in the Shaanxi rebel army in the battle. As for the general public, countless people have been killed and ravaged by the officials and soldiers.

But these are all clearly recorded in the newspaper, but Zheng Ling carefully analyzed two bold speculations: one is that Hong Chengchou's military talent is outstanding.

Regarding this, Wu Shigong is also concerned. Who is Hong Seungchou? Wu Shigong really didn't know before. But since Hong Chengchou could drive the Shaanxi peasant rebel army out of their hometown and basically pacify Shaanxi, his ability must have been quite remarkable. (To be continued......)