Prince Rui's silver bullet offensive was too ruthless, especially Prince Rui returned to the official establishment.

It is not to do a one-shot deal, but to cooperate for a long time.

Since ancient times, civil servants have been the most popular job in the world, and being able to eat imperial food is simply a smoke from the ancestral grave for ordinary people, and it can even be said to be a big leap in class.

The so-called learned literary and martial arts were sold to the emperor's family.

People who can't eat the emperor's food are incompetent.

Besides, isn't the best outcome of a rebellion just to recruit peace?

The reason why "Water Margin" is good is that it is capitulationism.

A job that eats imperial food, and a stable salary, only a fool has to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers to restore his sight.

What's more, Prince Rui also pardoned all his previous sins, even if he had killed important Qing officials and Manchukuos before, he would not be held accountable, which led to a large number of opportunistic wavering elements in the Xinghan army to vote.

In that scene, the gongs and drums were noisy, friends were called, and the red flag was displayed.

After the release of the "Letter to the Officers and Soldiers of the Xinghan Dynasty", the entire Hubei region set off an upsurge of returning to the Qing Dynasty anyway, and those who had surrendered wrote letters to relatives and friends in the Xinghan army according to the request of Prince Rui, and relatives and friends pulled relatives and friends, and surrendered to Prince Rui as if it had developed into a phenomenon of human transmission.

In the short term, the Xinghan army will not be able to make an effective response, and this phenomenon will soon spread to Hunan and Jiangxi.

At that time, it will not be the ruling foundation of the Xinghan Army that will be shaken, but their lives.

By the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the number of county towns in Hubei Province that had been completely changed to the Qing Dynasty had increased to 29, involving Anlu Mansion, Yunyang Mansion, Yichang Mansion, Shinan Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, De'an Mansion and other areas.

The situation is not a small good, but a real good one.

In other words, Jia Liu's small advertisement disintegrated the local construction of the Xinghan army for more than a year, destroyed their ruling foundation, and reduced the territory of Hubei under its control from 90 percent to less than 40 percent today.

In Hubei alone, the number of Dingkou, which can still effectively provide money and food for the Xinghan army, has been sharply reduced to less than 3 million, mainly concentrated around Wuchang.

The results of the previous Wuchang victory to kill the western general Fengsheng's forehead can be said to have completely vanished in the face of the silver bullet offensive.

Jia Liu doesn't like to be high-profile, and has repeatedly stressed to the "Daqing Daily" reporting team not to give too much prominence to him personally, and to publish a report for him a week, a half-month extra, and a special issue a month.

But in the face of real achievements and political achievements, he is still a little proud.

And it is thought that it can be properly promoted.

One is to dispel the world's suspicions about him;

second, to strengthen the determination of the government and the opposition to quell the chaos;

As a result, not only did the "Daqing Daily" report on the great achievements of the great general Wang Yu on the Huguang front in an explosive manner, but all kinds of villain books about the great general Wang's conquest were also printed overtime.

The money and grain that were constantly sent to Beijing before have all become successful documents.

Even if he recovers a small town, Jia Liu will solemnly go to Beijing to report his victory.

Personally, he didn't think that this was to invite merit to the court, or to forcibly put gold on his face, but to calm the hearts of the court.

Essentially, it's for the sake of the Great Clearing.

As a result, the documents that reported the victory were really flying in the sky like snowflakes, so that the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Kuini, who was interning in the military aircraft department, sighed to His Royal Highness the Prince Prince in the house: "If the Qing Dynasty had used Prince Rui earlier, why would he have been defeated repeatedly, lost his division and lost his land, his military prestige was weak, and his national prestige was not obvious." ”

The prefects appointed by the Xinghan Army of Anlu and Yunyang brought the soldiers and civilians in the city anyway, which made this wave of atmosphere rise again.

The Xinghan Army stationed in Yuan'an and Dangyang counties in Jingmen Prefecture was another division-level unit that surrendered to the Qing army after Zhongxiang's Third Army.

According to the preliminary statistics of the Hubei Governor Yamen, the total number of thieves who surrendered one after another in various places was about 30,000 to 40,000, and except for the third army that surrendered to Zhongxiang, the rest of the troops were mostly second-line troops of the Xinghan regime.

This was originally a good thing, indicating that Prince Rui's strategy of attacking the heart was successful, and both the local rule of the Xinghan army and the number of their soldiers and horses were greatly weakened.

Some optimistic officials even thought that in three months at most, the general Wang could completely pacify Huguang and take the thief to Beijing Lingchi.

However, the more Xinghan troops surrendered, the more problems arose.

This part of the appeasement is mainly responsible for the United Front Office of the great general Wang Xingyuan, and the person in charge of this office is Ji Yun, the squire of the Ministry of War.

The results are remarkable, no one denies that.

The problem is that Director Ji doesn't care about the head and tail, that is, he just sprinkles money to recruit people over, and how to settle them in the future is all up to the Hubei Governor Yamen.

As a result, Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, who was demoted to five levels and retained, was almost fainted by the demoted.

At first, it was an isolated phenomenon, but as events progressed, individual phenomena have evolved into general phenomena, and there is even a possibility of recurrence.

For this reason, Zheng Dajin had to make a personal statement to the general Wang.

According to him, the quality of the soldiers of the thieves who surrendered was extremely low, and they were either the local village warriors and government soldiers, or the armed forces of the Daomen, and there was even no shortage of bandits and robbers.

For example, the Xinghan army that descended to the Qing Dynasty in Yunyang Fang County is the local strongman Song Xing forced the people to pull up the team, Song Xing used to make a living by gambling and opening kilns, and in the troubled times, he took a group of thugs around him to capture the county government, and the city gate planted a flag and turned into a righteous army, and then was recruited by the Xinghan Army to take the position of brigade commander and still Zhenfang County.

This Song Xing is also weird, although he also fishes the common people after becoming a thief army, he has a degree and does not dare to do too much.

After accepting the Qing army's recruitment to become the garrison of Daqingfang County, Song Xing intensified his poisoning of the people, either asking the people to pay this tax or that money, and if they did not comply, they made his subordinates tie people up to the county government and torture them wantonly, and as many as seven or eight people died in vain.

In addition to poisoning the people, Song Xing ignored all kinds of demands of the "working group" sent by the Hubei Governor Yamen, only knowing that he asked the "working group" for money, grain, grass, and armaments, and lied about the number of his subordinates, obviously only 1,200 people were biased to 3,000 people, and he wanted to eat empty salaries.

The members of the "working group" were all capable personnel sent by the governor's yamen, and they were not fools, and they refused to agree to Song Xing's request, but were only willing to report and ask for salaries for their soldiers according to the actual amount.

Song Xing quit, and he often talked about Prince Rui's preferential treatment, and if you Hubei Governor Yamen didn't meet my requirements, he would be against Prince Rui!

It is the culprit who undermines Prince Rui's united front!

This made the "working group" very passive, fully satisfying Song Xing's requirements, and the province could not come up with this money, and it would also breed Song Xing's appetite.

If you don't meet Song Xing's requirements, people will talk about Prince Rui, and even threaten to cut back your braids if it's a big deal, and this problem will be serious.

really forced Song Xing to rebel, Prince Rui still doesn't want the heads of these people in their working group!

There was no way, so the "working group" had no choice but to borrow money and grain for Song Xingbu's expenses, and as a result, the recovery of Fang County not only did not reduce the burden on the people, but made the people's suffering worse.

Those bitter masters who were brutalized by Song Xing had nowhere to cry out for injustice.

These are still secondary, after all, the land is nominally recovered.

In many places, it is a direct fight, and it is surrendered and rebelled.

The reason for the fight was that the regular army of the Qing army looked down on these thieves who came to surrender.

For example, Wang Deyong, the governor of Shaanxi, did not look down on the surrendered Xinghan army very much, although Wang Deyong himself put the overall situation first and did his best to properly settle the surrendered generals, but the people below were not used to this group of surrendered troops.

The two sides quarreled with each other, rioted, and almost went to war, so that Wang Deyong's troops not only could not effectively threaten Jingzhou, but were overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of surrendered troops, and had to divide heavy troops to strictly defend them.

It felt like a thorn in my throat.

In addition to clashes with the regular army of the Qing army, the surrender army also clashed with the local landlord armed forces.

There are more than 1,000 villagers recruited by the squire Dong in Suizhou to resist the Xinghan army, and they insisted on fighting for almost a year, during which they provided great help to the Qing army who came to quell the chaos, and fought several battles with the Xinghan army stationed in Suizhou, and the casualties on both sides were not small.

As a result, the Xinghan army in Suizhou City suddenly changed banners and surrendered, not only did they get the regular army establishment given by Prince Rui, but the thieves also turned into capital divisions, garrisons, and thousand generals, and became the "officials" who pressed on Dong's head.

After having an official body, the surrender army in Suizhou City became very difficult, showing off his might, and it was common to rob houses and houses.

Many generals think that they were restrained by Wuchang when they were thieves in the past, and now they will be restrained after becoming an official army, so they might as well be inappropriate as an official army.

"How can there be officials and soldiers in the world who don't rob, and if we don't kill good people and take risks, we will be worthy of the Qing Dynasty and Prince Rui!"

Good guys, in the eyes of this group of surrendered troops, the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty naturally have the legitimacy and justice of robbery.

Due to the hatred of the past, Suizhou's surrender army raided Dong's Xiangyong team, Dong himself and more than a dozen of his sons and nephews were killed by them, and hundreds of Xiangyong were killed by the surrender army.

When this incident came out, the Suizhou gentry were indignant and went to Xiangyang, the temporary residence of the governor's yamen, to complain, saying that the governor did not make decisions for the people of Suizhou, and the people of Suizhou had to organize themselves to no longer be the people of the Qing Dynasty, which made Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, a headache.

Send troops to suppress it, those troops were recruited by Prince Rui with preferential treatment, Prince Rui doesn't send troops, how can he have troops?

Don't send troops to suppress it, this surrendered army is dressed in the clothes of officers and soldiers, but what it does is the business of the thief army, and the bad is the root of the Qing Dynasty.

During this period, there were two heavy lifts.

One is the Xinghan Army Marshal Ma Guoquan who shot Song Jingya, the magistrate of the county sent by the Hubei Governor Yamen;

The reason is that Ma Guoquan's subordinates are all fierce soldiers, and after the surrender, because of the statute of limitations, the Hubei Governor Yamen did not send personnel to receive the resettlement as soon as possible, so Ma Guoquan actually thought about making the last payment, so he forced the local giant businessmen and wealthy households to pledge and kill them if they were not satisfied.

extorted nearly 200,000 taels of silver before and after, and mutilated more than 10 lives.

When Song Jingya was ordered to go to Ma Guoquan to carry out the resettlement work, he learned of Ma Guoquan's actions, and exposed the matter in righteous anger.

Before the Hubei Governor Yamen could react to the incident, Song Zhixian was shot dead by Ma Guoquan and reported that he had lost his foot and drowned.

The second is that the general Qin openly beat up the local officials, extorted them by force, and even let the subordinates go to the countryside to forcibly expropriate and extort in the name of the Qing Dynasty official army, which caused the people's resentment to boil, and the people were unwilling to suffer and rose up one after another.

"Does the prince know what the people say? They say that the officers and soldiers are as good as tigers! ”

Zheng Dajin was really angry, he didn't object to Prince Rui recruiting the thief army, but he couldn't recruit anyone like this.

At least screen it, even if you don't kill people with bad nature, you can't do it for their officials.

As a result, the mud and sand fell, not only made the Qing army passive, but also the people suffered.

"And that kind of thing?"

Jia Liu is also confused, if what Zheng Dajin said is true, he is not recruiting An, but hiding dirt and dirt, ruining the last bit of illusion of the people about the Qing Dynasty, and indirectly helping the Xinghan Army clean up the team.

What's more, if these unbearable surrendering troops cause chaos, his silver bullet offensive will become a joke.

"Recently, many of the soldiers who surrendered sneaked back to their homes at night, so that the number of combatants was reduced, and it was impossible to verify it."

"In addition, there are many rangers and sergeants who are given repatriation fees to stay here and there wearing our Qing military uniforms, and most of these people are idle people, addicted to prostitution and gambling, taking advantage of the situation to swagger, and acting as traitors..."

"There are ordinary stragglers who do not return to the team, collude with ruffians outside, run rampant with evil, often go in groups of three or five in teahouses and wine shops, and squander them at will... or slander the good, or extort money, or gamble with prostitutes, and think that they are profitable, and all kinds of evil deeds are hard to enumerate..."

The more Zheng Dajin spoke, the more excited he became.

"The prince treats these soldiers preferentially, but these soldiers don't know the heart of the prince, and after they are thrown, they break into private houses and rob them, destroy military discipline, and damage my reputation in the Qing Dynasty, and also ruin the reputation of the prince!"

After listening to what Zheng Dajin said, Jia Liu touched his head and said to himself: "You say, do these people think that this king is stupid?" ”

“......”

The left and right, including Zheng Dajin, didn't dare to speak, but it was probably very close to the truth.

"Let's have a meeting."

Whenever there is a major event, Jia Liu will hold a meeting.

This time it was not a joint meeting of the military and government of the Qing Dynasty, nor was it a special meeting of the Communist Advancement Association, but a meeting to convene the generals who had surrendered one after another.

For this reason, Ji Yun sent a notice and asked the generals to rush to Zhongxiang within five days.

"If you are willing to come to the meeting, this king can give them a chance. Those who refuse to come to the meeting,"

Jia Liu didn't say it, but he really hadn't killed anyone for a long time.

Wuchang City, Yellow Crane Tower.

This building is rebuilt no less than ten times in history, or destroyed by fire, or destroyed by lightning strike, now this building is the first year of Qianlong Huguang Governor Shi Yizhi rebuilt.

Today, there is also a governor of Huguang on the Yellow Crane Tower, but it is Chen Huizu.

Wang Wenyuan, the prefect of Wuchang, who accompanied Chen Huizu to the building.

Both of them were officials of the Qing Dynasty more than a year ago, and this Wang Wenyuan was still an official drawn out by Lao Chen, and he personally wrote a letter to persuade him to surrender.

When they came to the top of the building, the two of them looked into the distance, and their expressions were heavy.

It's just that the current situation is obviously unfavorable to the Xinghan army.

In the middle of the ring, Lao Chen took out a letter from his sleeve and gave it to Wang Wenyuan.

Wang Wenyuan took it suspiciously, and was stunned after reading it: "What kind of dragon head stick?" ”

"Probably the Great Seal of the Mutual Aid Society."

Lao Chen was also not sure if the dragon head stick that Prince Rui said was the big seal in the meeting, and he felt that it should be.

"Mutual Aid Society?"

Wang Wenyuan was not of sufficient rank in the past, so he was unheard of for the Mutual Aid Society, a secret society spontaneously organized by the Qing Governor.

Lao Chen hesitated for a moment, and briefly explained the program and motivation for the establishment of the mutual aid association.

Wang Wenyuan hesitated after hearing this: "The people who make Taiwan are also mutual aid members?" ”

"Once upon a time."

Lao Chen's face was a little lonely, he was the first batch of members of the Mutual Aid Association, but he didn't want to be expelled from the meeting today.

After hearing this, Wang Wenyuan thought of the 100,000 taels mentioned in the letter, and couldn't help but "chuckle" and said in a low voice: "Doesn't the system mean to return to the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"It's not a return to the Qing Dynasty, it's a return to the meeting."

After the battle between heaven and man in Lao Chen's heart, he instructed Wang Wenyuan: "You bring 300,000 taels of silver in the treasury and I secretly send it to Prince Rui, remember, this matter must not be known to a third party." ”

"This..."

Wang Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, and said a little puzzled: "My lord, didn't Prince Rui give you 100,000 taels?" ”

Lao Chen shook his head slightly: "The prince sent it to the prince, I sent it to me, this is a return gift, not a lake." ”