As soon as Li Banghua took office, he quickly integrated the government affairs of Ji'an Prefecture, and coupled with the six magistrates who had just been promoted from the mayor of Yuanzhou, the civil leadership team of Ji'an Prefecture was established.

The ten town mayors appointed by Mo Qian for the first time, after a few months of training in the field, have all done a good job in terms of political performance, and Mo Qian is really unavailable now, so he can only pull this group of town mayors up to be the county magistrate first.

In Ji'an Mansion, except for the three counties of Yongning, Longquan and Wan'an, the magistrates who went to his county were either killed by the people with a hoe, or committed suicide and martyrdom, or were cut off by their subordinates and surrendered with their heads, and none of them were alive.

Li Banghua took a group of rookie magistrates and rookie mayors to carry out spring ploughing campaigns in Ji'an Prefecture, mobilizing the people of the whole province to go to the fields to sow seeds, at this time just after April, the seedlings have already matured, Li Banghua personally led the people to go to the field to plant seedlings, sow seeds, and wait for the summer harvest three months later.

In the current era, even Mo Qian, who is a traverser, knows the importance of farming, plus he has such a large number of soldiers and horses in his hands, there is not a small amount of money and food to raise soldiers every day, if you don't pay attention to farming, it will be a big deal.

The spring ploughing of Yuanzhou Mansion is already in full swing, and Ji'an Mansion has delayed a lot of farm work because of the war, so it is necessary to speed up at this moment and plant the seedlings in the field, so that the grain can be harvested in the summer.

At this moment, in Taihe County in the south, Lu Zhao, the general of Taihe, also received his subordinate Yi Dayong and a brigade of soldiers and horses led by him.

Accompanying the three thousand soldiers and horses to the south, there was also a letter of appointment signed by Mo Qian.

Lu Zhao received the new letter of appointment, and only then did he know that he had been appointed as the chief soldier of the first battalion of the Righteous Army, and the number of troops in command reached 10,000.

There are also three Qianzong appointment letters, the names of these three people Mo Qian have already been decided, they are Zhao Hanwu, Cao Yan, and Yuan Zuli.

These three people are all veterans from Yuanzhou, who have made many achievements in fighting against the official army, and have been promoted from small soldiers all the way to 100 households.

These three people just happened to follow Lu Zhao to garrison in Taihe, and Mo Qian promoted these three people to the position of President Qian with a stroke of his pen, which also set an example for all the soldiers of the Righteous Army.

That is, no matter how low your background is, no matter what kind of soldier you are, as long as you are brave in battle and can make meritorious achievements, the commander will reuse you.

Moreover, promoting these non-commissioned officers who grew up from the war to the position of officers can make them even more desperate for themselves and firmly tie them to the big ship of their rebellion.

It's easy to get on a thief ship, but it's hard to get down.

Sure enough, the three of them were overjoyed after receiving the letter of appointment to become the president of Qian, and they immediately knelt down to thank the marshal for his great kindness.

However, when he wanted to kneel and thank him, he was stopped by Yi Dayong, who was in charge of the order, Yi Dayong said: "The handsome man has a life, from today on, abolish the kneeling ceremony, and from now on change to the military salute of arching hands and fists. ”

"Got it!"

"Well, when we go back, we will pass this order to the whole army, and we will salute like this in the future, and the commander has an order, all officers with more than 100 households must read and write, and 100 households can read and write, and 100 households can read and write, and 100 households can read and write.

Let me tell you, the commander will take the exam at the end of the year, and whoever can't recognize all 300 words by the end of this year will be removed from his post and will talk about it after he has recognized all 300 words! ”

"Huh?"

This military order made everyone a little confused, some forced the soldiers to come forward to fight, and how could they force the officers to read and write.

"General Yi, what kind of military order is this? The brothers are all born with mud legs, where can they read and write? ”

Yi Dayong crooked his neck, turned his face to the side and said angrily: "Do you think I am willing?" You only need to recognize 300 words, Lao Tzu, a general, will recognize 500, I can't finish learning, and the commander will demote me to a flag officer! ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately laughed!

After sending the generals away, Lu Zhaocai took the letter of appointment and said to Yi Dayong: "The marshal is really a god, dare to fight a decisive battle with the 10,000 army of the imperial court with 5,000 soldiers, I dare not fight this kind of battle!" ”

"So you can't be a handsome!" Yi Dayong said to him with a smile.

After hearing this, Lu Zhao couldn't help but laugh.

After the two finished laughing, Yi Dayong said to Lu Zhao: "Brother Lu, you are also the chief soldier now, the commander said, we brothers have to listen to you, how to fight Longquan and Wan'an, just wait for your words!" ”

Lu Zhao nodded, and he asked, "Did the marshal ask you to bring anything here?" ”

Yi Dayong said: "Said, the marshal said, now there are many volunteers, but they are also miscellaneous, and the combat power is not as high as the old brothers we brought out from Yuanzhou. ”

"What does Da Shuai mean to attack Wan'an first?"

Yi Dayong nodded, "Yes, Longquan's place is a place with a bad corner, if we don't attack him, he won't be able to fight, Wan'an is the most important place, as long as Wan'an is defeated, we won't be afraid of Nangan!" ”

Lu Zhao nodded approvingly, and he said: "Since the marshal already has a plan, then let's go according to the plan, pass the order, the whole army immediately change clothes, immediately go to the field to farm, this delayed farm work must be done quickly, and after the rice planting is completed, the whole army has to practice every day!" ”

In this way, Lu Zhao stationed in Taihe County with an army of 7,000 people, and Lu Zhao carried a hoe to work in the fields every morning, and only came back in the evening.

When the people of Taihe saw the appearance of the general soldiers of the righteous army, they couldn't help but be greatly moved.

Taihe is close to the Nanjiang region, and it is not uncommon for the people to be bandits, but it is really the first time to see a rebellious army like the Righteous Army.

Not to mention helping the people to farm, but also taking the troops to reclaim wasteland and grow vegetables, such a rebellious army is not afraid of 100,000!

Taihe had 7,000 troops, which made Longquan and Wan'an counties panic every day.

Jiang Wenyun of Wan'an Zhixian County was the least courageous, and after learning that Taihe had an army of 7,000, he was so frightened that he immediately recruited 1,000 villagers, and at this time the squires and landlords of Wan'an quit.

Jiang Zhixian said in front that he would raise 2,000 Xiangyong, and they endured it, and then asked for 2,000, and they gave money and food.

Now they have to raise another two thousand, and the squires say that they won't do anything, and no matter how much they have a family, they can't help Jiang Zhixian from being like this.

The squires collectively found Jiang Wenyun, who was crying poor and cheating, and he didn't pay for it.

Jiang Wenyun said that he finally reduced the number of recruits to 1,000, and only then did he get this group of squires and landlords.

Just when Jiang Wenyun was waiting anxiously for Lu Zhao to lead the troops to attack, the spies who were outside to investigate the news came back and reported that the righteous army did not send troops, but took off their armor and went to the field to plant rice.

Jiang Wenyun, who was in charge of this operation, was a little confused, and he thought to himself: "The soldier does not come to fight, but carries a hoe to plant seedlings, is this still what a soldier does?" ”

However, if the rebels don't come to attack him, he Jiang Wenyun will also be happy, at least he can keep Wan'an County, and he can continue to be a magistrate.

As for Liu Ruge, the magistrate of Longquan, he was even more shocked, and he called on the people to prepare to defend Longquan to the death, and fight to the death with the thieves.

As a result, the thieves did not send troops to fight him, but instead set up Tuntian.

Liu Ruge was under martial law in the whole county, and the people were not allowed to go out, but the people also had to eat and farm.

Some people couldn't bear it anymore, so they ran back to their homes, tied their trouser legs and went down to the fields, took the seedlings and began to plant them.

Liu Ruge couldn't stop the people's desire to farm, so he had no choice but to open the city gate and let the people go out to farm.

But fortunately, the rebels did not plan to attack his Longquan County, and the soldiers of the rebels even took the initiative to carry the Quyuan plough and lead the cattle to help the people of Longquan plough the fields.

Since Taihe was captured, the people of Longquan did not dare to go out of the city at will, resulting in too late for spring ploughing, no time to plow the paddy fields, and not much seedlings to be sown.

When Lu Zhao learned that the paddy fields of the people of Longquan had not been turned over and there was a shortage of seedlings, he actually took the initiative to bring 2,000 soldiers to Longquan County with a load of seedlings to help the local people plow the fields and plant seedlings.

This scene was seen by Liu Ruge, who was standing on the city wall, really and clearly.

Liu Ruge was suddenly a little stunned, he has been a man all his life, and he has been an official for a long time, such an anti-thief, he is really the first time to see it, even if he looks through the history books, he can't find such an anti-thief team!

Lu Zhao is engaged in spring ploughing in Taihe, and Mo Qian in Xingan in the north is not idle.

He didn't have time to take a large army to farm, he directly led the 10,000 soldiers of the second battalion to set off directly from Xingan to the north, set off in the morning, and arrived outside Qingjiang County, the capital of Linjiang Prefecture in the evening of the same day.

At this time, Qingjiang County had already fallen into a panic.

The prefect Hu Yongqing, the same as the governor Lin Shijin, and the four of them who were sentenced to Wang Jiatai and the official Hu Laixiang were trembling when they hid in the mansion.

Liang Shiji, the magistrate of Qingjiang County, returned to Qingjiang County a few days ago, but he has been ill since he came back, and now he is lying in the county government to recuperate.

The 3,000 Xiangyong brought by Liang Shiji were all taken over by the thieves, and now there are no soldiers available in Qingjiang County, only forty or fifty officials and thirty officers and soldiers.

With such a small number of people, they can't even catch up with a fraction of the army.

When the officers and soldiers defending the city reported to Hu Yongqing that the anti-thief army had approached the city, and the number was as high as 10,000, Hu Yongqing was so frightened that his legs trembled.

He held back the fear in his heart and asked several of his subordinates: "Everyone, the anti-thief soldiers are coming to the city, and now there are no soldiers available in the city, how can this be good?" ”

Where did several subordinates still have any ideas at this time, their only thought was how to ensure that they would not die.

Lin Shijin is a native of Fujian, and his knowledge is not as good as Xiucai, if it weren't for his father's blessing to get an official background, he wouldn't even be an official.

As for the general sentence Wang Jiatai, it is even worse, he is just a tribute student, and his general sentence was bought by the family with money.

Only the official Hu Laixiang was an official who was admitted by virtue of the imperial examination, and Hu Laixiang couldn't help but feel extremely contemptuous when he saw the frightened appearance of the three of them.

He said coldly: "Three adults, Qingjiang has no danger to defend at all, and the thieves are afraid that the city will be broken soon, so you might as well prepare a sharp sword quickly, and when the city is broken, you will die with me!" ”