Hu Yiding didn't know Ye Feiyu's troops, but even Zhaoyuan County, which Kong Youde personally guarded, was defeated, and the battle only lasted for an hour, which shows that Ye Feiyu's troops are extremely strong, and it should not be difficult to capture Penglai.

Subsequently, he put forward a lot of practical and effective suggestions, such as opening a warehouse for disaster relief, stabilizing the people in the county, taking advantage of the vacuum of nearby Huangxian, Qixia, Laiyang and other troops, quickly occupying these places, recruiting soldiers, and so on.

The stronger Ye Feiyu's strength is, the more Daming will not dare to move his troops lightly, otherwise Jiannu, Dengzhou, and Gao Yingxiang, the king of Henan, will be in turmoil on three sides, trapping the Beijing division in it, and now it is absolutely impossible for Daming to start a war on three sides at the same time, which Hu Yiding can see very clearly.

In fact, even if Gao Yingxiang rebelled at this time, Chongzhen also considered surrendering, and his main focus was still on Jiannu's side.

Ye Feiyu finally appointed Hu Yiding as the county commander of Zhaoyuan County, and let him be responsible for stabilizing Zhaoyuan County, while Ma Dingyuan led the troops to force towards Penglai and completely wiped out the remnants of Kong Youde.

However, he didn't expect that Ma Dingyuan arrived in Penglai, only to find that Penglai's supplies had been relocated, and it turned out that Kong Youliang received a report two days ago, and he was terrified and went to sea by boat, and fled to Lushun with 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Kong Youde's troops were completely defeated, those who fled were scattered, and those who went to sea went to sea, and then Ye Feiyu sent troops to control Dengzhou and Laizhou, basically three or five hundred soldiers and horses of Mingweibao, with more than a dozen guns, could occupy a state and county, which was so simple that people couldn't believe it.

However, in Laizhou Mansion, there were still two battles, after all, Kong Youde could not control the entire Laizhou before. There are also troops loyal to the Ming Dynasty who defend the city to the death, and Kong Youde's thousands of soldiers and horses. It is not enough to completely control the vast area of tens of thousands of square kilometers in the two provinces.

Ye Feiyu's troops are not a problem at all, as long as food is provided. Some of the refugees are soldiers.

Those who took advantage of the chaos to rob the people, Ye Feiyu showed no mercy to his subordinates, and killed all those who found it, even the rebellious soldiers of hundreds of people were no exception.

Such iron-blooded methods made those rebellious soldiers frightened and did not dare to make trouble, some of them secretly joined the ranks of the homeless, and many of them even mixed into Ye Feiyu's newly recruited reserve army, but naturally they did not dare to do any more bad deeds.

Bullets and rice go hand in hand. Ye Feiyu's takeover of Dengzhou Laizhou was quite smooth, those officials and generals who were unwilling to surrender, Ye Feiyu did not kill them all in one go, and if the official reputation was good, he was released and let him become a member of the ordinary people, and those with a bad official reputation were deported or imprisoned. Those corrupt officials who are really angry and resentful, Ye Feiyu ordered to be killed.

In history, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses, each time they were killed or wounded, they could soon resurge. Because of the large number of displaced people, the current situation in Dengzhou and Laizhou is similar, in just one month. Ye Feiyu recruited an army of more than 30,000 people, although the regular army was only 5,000. The others are reserves, but they are also very impressive.

Of course. This is also because Ye Feiyu has a huge amount of food to supply the army, and it is impossible to feed so many troops by relying on the grain production of Dengzhou Laizhou alone.

The local tyrants and inferior gentry of the two provinces were very calm, even when Kong Youde occupied Dengzhou before, he didn't dare to touch them, thinking that this time it was the same, after all, they were the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule.

However, for the generals of the soldiers and horses in their hands, the gentry class still planned to take care of one or two, lest some chaotic soldiers grab their heads without a long eye, how do they know that they collected 10,000 taels of silver and sent them to Mingwei Fort, but they couldn't even see Ye Feiyu's face, but Ma Dingyuan came out to see them and gave them an unexpected notice, all the gentry and landlords must contribute half of their property and fields for free, otherwise they will be confiscated and returned to the public directly.

Handing over half of the wealth and land, this is simply the life of the gentry class, the two sides naturally can't get along, the gentry representatives are angry and go, look at what kind of golden wolf immortal master, what can they do!

The Zhou family, the Pang family, and the Liang family are the largest gentry families in Laizhou and Dengzhou, and they can be regarded as the iconic families of the gentry class.

These three families, each family has thousands of people, and there are many clansmen who are officials in the imperial court, and their tentacles are all over every corner of the two prefectures.

Now dozens of gentry patriarchs and representatives have come to the Zhou family to plot against Ye Feiyu.

Ye Feiyu is not a real immortal after all, and now he is busy dealing with the affairs of the two governments, in his eyes, these gentry are not troublesome at all, so naturally he did not arrange people to monitor them, and he did not know that these people were gathered together.

Pang Qinglian of the Pang family frowned and said, "Now that this Immortal Master Ye has asked us to give up half of our wealth and land, how do you say to deal with it?" ”

The Pang family not only has thousands of acres of land, but also occupies two iron mines, and the family has a strong background, and the patriarch of Pang Qinglian has a very high prestige among these gentry.

Zhou Difu, the patriarch of the Zhou family, sneered: "Don't panic, don't panic, Zhou Mou sees that the so-called Golden Wolf Immortal Master is just deceiving us, how dare you really do it to us." ”

There was a middle-aged man with a ruddy face and an obese body who asked a little worriedly: "Patriarch Zhou, what if this reckless man really does it?" I heard that in a short period of time, he has gathered tens of thousands of troops, and even if we have a hundred or dozens of families, we can't fight against him at all. ”

Zhou Difu snorted: "What about the tens of thousands of troops?" I see what he will use to feed these soldiers and horses, and I am afraid that in a few days, these wandering militia soldiers who have no food will turn against him! I have decided that our Zhou family's grain shop will be closed tomorrow and will not sell grain! I don't believe he can really conjure up rations for hundreds of thousands of people! ”

The Zhou family is the leading figure of the grain merchants in Laizhou, and he said that when the grain is closed and the sale of grain is stopped, no more than one-third of the grain stores in the entire Laizhou dare to open their doors.

Liang Tai'an nodded and said, "Brother Zhou is right. Anyway, there are still a few days before the deadline for this demon, and Liang has already sent people to Beijing quickly, so that the people in the court can exert their strength, and I believe that within half a month, the army of the imperial court will come! ”

There is nothing else that others can do, every county is guarded by the soldiers of the Golden Wolf Immortal Master, even if they want to transfer money and silver to the outside, they can't do it, and they can't leave here with their families without a clear form, leaving a lot of land to cheapen others.

Ye Feiyu is checking the data files of the two mansions, preparing to set up people to reopen the mining farm, and the mines in the hands of those gentry also have to be recovered, these are all bright source crystals, he has paid so much, and there is less time to cultivate the body strengthening technique, it is time to harvest the fruit.

Ma Dingyuan frowned and knocked on the door and walked in, he, a military attaché, was forced to take on the position of a civilian official, and he was very unaccustomed to it, but he could only learn to handle government affairs.

"Immortal Master Ye, many grain stores in the house have said that there is no food, and if they are closed, the people will not be able to buy food, I am afraid that it will cause chaos, and it is not easy to stabilize the situation, what should I do now?"

Many people have no grain in stock, many people go to work for a short time, change copper money, in order to go to the grain store to buy grain and go home, especially at this time, the grain store is closed for a day, which means that many people have to go hungry for a day, for Ma Dingyuan, a native of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally a big deal.

Ye Feiyu smiled: "No food? It's the gentry. ”

He bought 10,000 tons of grain, but a large amount of it was provided to the displaced people in the two prefectures, and hundreds of tons of grain were consumed every day, and more than one-third of it was consumed in a month's time here, and the remaining genetically modified rice and soybeans, etc., Ye Feiyu planned to take them to the Europeans.

"Forget it, I was going to give them a chance, and since they ignored me, don't blame me for being unkind to them."

His eyes flashed, and he said to Ma Dingyuan: "You let people go to the closed grain store to search, everything that has grain is confiscated, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

Although this is a bit cold and bloody, there must be some good people with good hearts in those families, but Ye Feiyu has no time to slowly entangle with them, only in this way can he control the two mansions as quickly as possible.

Not to mention these gentry class, even if they are relatives of the emperor, Ye Feiyu will kill them mercilessly.

Ma Dingyuan also saw that those gentry were not pleasing to the eye, he had been to Jiaozhou before to see if he could ask for some food, but in the end all he got was a mockery, and he, a thousand households, was not taken seriously by the gentry at all.

After getting Ye Feiyu's instructions, Ma Dingyuan then sent Zhang Wencheng and other hundreds of households, each with 1,000 soldiers and horses, although it is impossible to go through an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, but the Zhou family, where the grain merchant representative is located, is the focus of Ma Dingyuan's attention.

This week, the family really didn't know whether to live or die, and they actually dared to close the door and stop selling food, did he think that a few hundred family members could confront Ye Xianshi's tens of thousands of troops?

In one day, more than 30 of the Zhou family's grain stores in Yecheng were copied by Zhang Wencheng, and tens of thousands of stones of grain were sealed, and the amount of seizures made Zhang Wencheng breathe a sigh of cold air.

According to one hundred catties, the grain of tens of thousands of stones is several million catties, which is equivalent to a quarter of the grain that Ye Feiyu bought!

The soldiers who joined Ye Feiyu's command were mostly hungry homeless, and when they saw that these grain merchants were hiding so much grain, and said that there was no grain to sell, they were very angry, and those who stopped their shop keepers unceremoniously smashed them with the handle of their knives.

Zhou Di, who learned the news, came in a hurry and came with the family to protect the courtyard, blocking in front of the largest grain store of the Zhou family, where not only 10,000 stone grain was stored, but also the grain money collected in the cellar, 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, once it was copied by Ming Weibing, it would definitely make the Zhou family hurt.

The Zhou family has hundreds of nursing homes, and Zhou Di thought about it, even if Zhang Wencheng brought thousands of soldiers and horses, he would not dare to make a move against the strong and powerful family members of the Zhou family. (To be continued......)