Li Dingguo has fallen?

This was a bit unexpected by Zhao Han, although he ordered the surrender, he didn't expect much.

If Li Dingguo did not surrender, he could lead his troops to flee to the hinterland of Henan and go to be the companion of Luo Rucai, who was entrenched there. If he dared to stay, he would be surrounded by five regular divisions, with a large number of peasants and soldiers participating.

Surrender or not, tens of thousands of horses!

There were thousands of good horses equipped with cavalry, and thousands of inferior horses equipped with a team of horses - although those good horses were not much better than the horses of Jeju Island.

After Li Dingguo surrendered, Huang Qi waved his army to take the entire Runing Mansion.

The Datong army had occupied half of Runing Mansion before, but now it has swallowed it all, adding to Zhao Han's burden. This dilapidated place is ten rooms and nine empty, even Luo Rucai can't look down on it, even if he immigrates, he can't grow any food in the continuous drought.

The first three years must be fully exempted, and in the next few years, the tax must also be halved, so that it can slowly recover.

Nanyang province is not far apart, but the drought is slightly lighter and the population is larger.

Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion both belong to the boundaries of Henan, and Zhao Han occupied them purely for military purposes.

Zhang Xianzhong's main force has been destroyed, and although there are defenders in the whole of Hubei, most of the cities chose to surrender. A small number of cities chose to resist, and some defenders fled to the city, and the next step was to slowly attack the city and suppress the bandits.

Also, encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong in Dabie Mountain!

Zhang Xianzhong's life was very difficult, when the Datong army occupied LinkedIn Mountain and Luotian County, his military food was completely cut off, and he was left to rob the mountain people's grain to survive.

Many of the horses were starved to death, but they often ate horse meat.

Li Dingguo rode into the mountain alone, with the Datong army providing information, and it took a month to meet Zhang Xianzhong.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Xianzhong asked.

Li Dingguo sighed: "The army was defeated, Bai Wenxuan surrendered to the enemy, and deceived the city to block the back road." The enemy army surrounded him on three sides, and the boy did not want to lead his troops to Henan, so he ordered the whole army to surrender. ”

"Bai Wenxuan, this bastard!" Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth.

Li Dingguo said: "Father, come down too, King Wu promised not to kill them all." ”

Sun Kewang said: "Do you believe his nonsense? ”

Li Dingguo said: "King Wu is still trustworthy. ”

Zhang Xianzhong told Sun Kewang to shut up and asked, "What does he want to do with us old thieves?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "Does my father know about Dongfan? ”

"I haven't heard of it." Zhang Xianzhong said.

Li Dingguo said: "Dongfan is a big island, the territory is larger than ordinary prefectures, not far from Qiongzhou Island. There are Han people on the island, and there are also many shengfan, what King Wu means is that we, the old thieves, go to the island and snatch the land from the hands of Shengfan. ”

Zhang Xianzhong was furious: "Lao Tzu has been crisscrossing the Central Plains for more than ten years, and he actually asked me to deal with savages!" ”

Sun Kewang laughed: "I believe what Zhao Han said now. ”

Li Dingguo also said: "King Wu asked the child to bring a message to his father and went to Dongfan Island, as long as the land grabbed from Shengfan is owned by us." Regardless of paddy fields and dry land, each person can occupy up to 20 acres, and each household can have a maximum of 10 people. In this way, each of our households will have 200 acres of land, which is enough to be landlords on the island. ”

"Two hundred acres is also considered a landlord?" Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully.

Li Dingguo continued: "After each person occupies 20 acres, they can continue to grab land from Shengfan. Regardless of the quality of the land, ten acres of land were grabbed, seven acres were handed over to the government, and the remaining three acres were ours. In this way, each person may have fifty acres of land. More than 50 acres, you can continue to occupy the land. For every ten acres of land, you can get two acres. If it is more than 100 acres of land, for every 10 acres grabbed, you can get one acre, and there is no upper limit. ”

Zhang Xianzhong was angry and funny: "This is to call us as mules." ”

Lao Huihui suddenly said: "Actually, this is not bad, one hundred acres per person, ten people per family, this is one thousand acres of land." Have more babies, then divide the accounts, and then continue to grab. Twenty years later, who will not have a full house of children and grandchildren, and who will not be a big landowner? ”

As soon as these words came out, the old thieves looked at each other.

Although he can't be a dignitary in front of people, it seems that it is a good life to be a big landowner on the island and have many children and grandchildren.

Li Dingguo said: "If my father is willing to surrender, King Wu promises to return his wife and concubines. But only one wife and one concubine can be taken away, and the other concubines need to stay and remarry others. ”

After Zhang Xianzhong settled in Hubei, he already had descendants, and he had a son and two daughters.

However, the wife and concubine heirs do not matter to Zhang Xianzhong.

In history, Zhang Xianzhong decided to go out of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty, and when he left Chengdu, he killed all his wives and concubines, and also killed his only son. The reason why he killed his wife and son was that after the defeat of the army, he would not let his wife and children be captured by thieves, and it was also to appease Sun Kewang, saying that the position of the son of the world would definitely be left to Sun Kewang.

Seeing that the generals under his command were quite moved, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't refuse at all.

In the past, there was no way out to be a rogue, but now Zhao Han has given him a way out, and he can even have more sons and grandchildren. How many of the old thieves who are in a desperate situation don't want to live?

In July, Zhang Xianzhong led his cavalry out of the mountains to surrender, and Zhao Han kept his promise to send their wives and children.

Hanyang Castle.

Zhang Xianzhong saw Zhao Han for the first time, although he was surprised by the other party's youth, he still said with a straight face: "Becoming the king and defeating the king, although I am not convinced, but I lost after all." If you have something to say, just finish it all together, and change your mind and kill me! ”

Zhao Han didn't bother to bother with this goods, so he only reminded: "There are many people on Dongfan Island, who like hunters' heads, and are called headhunters by the islanders. The places where you are placed are relatively close to the headhunters. Organize every thirty of your households together, scatter them all over the island, and fight for the land you want, and don't rob and kill the Han people! If you don't have enough food, you can send someone to the government to borrow food, and I won't let you starve to death. Every three months, ships arrive, and the skins and timber you get in the mountains can be sold to the merchants. ”

"I knew there was no good." Zhang Xianzhong said depressedly.

With so many rogues, of course, it is impossible to get them together.

A rogue general, with twenty-nine old thieves, and thirty households are placed in a group to keep warm.

It can be understood that thirty households have a colony, scattered all over the island, and let them develop on their own. In the early stage, it must have been difficult, Zhang Xianzhong may be killed by headhunters, or die of diseases in the southern mountains and forests.

When they occupy enough territory, they will allocate some to the government, and Zhao Han will organize the people to emigrate there.

The speed at which these people have children can catch up with the speed of Zhao Han's immigration?

The more territory the rogues have conquered, the more land the government will control, and the number of immigrants will be countless times that of the rogues.

When the immigrant villages form peasant soldiers, they are not afraid of the rogues becoming bigger.

When there are enough immigrants, you can recruit troops on the spot and drive the Dutch out of Taiwan!

As for Li Dingguo......

To tell the truth, Zhao Han was reluctant to let go, mainly because of his heroic feelings.

Leaving Li Dingguo alone, Zhao Han asked: "I want to expand the cavalry, do you want to do it as a hundred generals?" ”

Li Dingguo was a little stunned, and asked rhetorically: "Why does King Wu stay alone?" ”

Zhao Han smiled: "Your military discipline is good. ”

Li Dingguo's military discipline was indeed good, and after his cousin Ma Siliang led the cavalry across the river, although he lacked food, he plundered villages and towns everywhere. But there were not many killings, mainly robbery, and there was no intentional killing and destruction.

Moreover, Li Dingguo raised troops to surrender and persuaded Zhang Xianzhong to surrender, which can be regarded as a great achievement.

Even Bai Wenxuan, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, does not need to be sent to Taiwan to fight savages because of his deception of the city.

Bai Wenxuan must take his silver and his family to live in Nanjing, and the silver he brings must not exceed 1,000 taels. They are also not allowed to bring any other goods, so that their wealth can be easily searched.

After thinking about it, Zhao Han said again: "You can pick ten people and stay as Datong cavalry." However, they are not allowed to be officers, they can only be ordinary non-commissioned officers, and in the future, military merit and promotion will be treated equally. ”

Li Dingguo thought carefully, and his favorite general Jin Tongwu and his cousin Ma Siliang were left behind by him, and eight more generals who were good at cavalry warfare were selected.

After Zhang Xianzhong's matter is settled, it is time for Zhao Han to return to Nanjing to claim the emperor, and the news of Chongzhen's hanging has spread to the south.

Although he won the battle against Zhang Xianzhong, he left a lot of messes.

The main reason is that there is too much food consumption and a serious overdraft of people's manpower. Next, there will be large-scale migration and disaster relief, and thinking about those is enough for Zhao Han to have a headache.

Let's hope there won't be another catastrophe next year, that's ...... Impossible!

If history remains unchanged, this year is the peak of the drought in the Chongzhen year.

Next year, the area affected by drought will be halved across the country, but the affected provinces will move south. In terms of Zhao Han's territory, the roughly affected areas next year are as follows: three-fifths of Hunan, two-fifths of Hubei, one-half of Anhui, one-third of Zhejiang, and one-quarter of Fujian.

The year after next will be even more violent, when Hunan will be in the whole province in a major drought, and the drought-stricken area in Jiangxi will reach three-quarters. And the north has completely eased up, and the most severe drought in the country is all in Zhao Han's territory!

Zhao Han still has to carry another two years of major disasters, and then a few more years of small disasters.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty in history is really the destiny of heaven.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the plague in the north subsided, and the drought in the north was also alleviated. On the contrary, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty followed the drought, and all the areas with severe drought moved to the south.

Hanyang Pier.

Zhang Xianzhong, with a wife, a concubine, a son and two daughters, and 29 old thieves with families, became the first batch of rogues to go south by boat.

He looked back at the city, a little lost, and quickly became hard-hearted.

The surrender was forced out of desperation, because the people wanted to surrender. According to Zhang Xianzhong's own thoughts, people are dying and birds are facing the sky, and he wants to go out of the mountain to continue to kill.

Now that he is not dead, he will go to Dongfan Island, and he will definitely be able to make a comeback!

He didn't dare to rebel, because it would definitely be no fun, but he would earn thousands of acres of land, and he thought he could definitely do it.

Zhao Han didn't care about this, the more land Zhang Xianzhong had, the more land the government had. Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong also scored a household account, and a household registration book is up to ten people. After the separation, who will listen to him in the next generation?

Li Dingguo stayed in Runing Mansion and joined the newly formed cavalry team, serving as the commander of the cavalry of the Datong Army, commanding 100 cavalry.

The Datong Army still had only six divisions, but each division was expanded to 10,000 men, of which 2,500 were dragoons.

In addition, a new independent cavalry regiment was formed, with a number of 5,000, all of which were armored cavalry, and Lu Xiangsheng served as the commander.

The war horses mainly came from Zhang Xianzhong's surrendered troops, which was also one of the main reasons for Zhao Han's persuasion to surrender. The rest of the people have also collected some one after another, and some war horses are from Jeju Island.

At this moment, the Qing army had already entered the customs, drove Li Zicheng to Shaanxi, and quickly sent troops south to Shandong.

Then, Huang Taiji contracted the plague......

(Alas, I have always said that the war of the old king is badly written, so let's speed up the completion of this part.) Ask for a commuter pass. ）