For this big project, Lao Zhu stubbornly resisted the opposition of the government and the opposition, and forcefully promoted Liu Lishun to be responsible for this road repair.

Liu Lishun was born in poverty and was an honest official, and like Ni Yuanlu, he was a student of Yuan Keli, a famous minister known for his integrity.

And what is more coincidental is that Liu Lishun, like Ni Yuanlu, is a famous minister who received the title of Wenzheng after his death in history.

You must know that the nickname of Wenzheng is not so easy to get, this is the highest praise for Wenchen's life, and it is also the nickname that Wenchen dreams of.

In the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, those who were awarded the title of Wenzheng after death were only a few people.

Therefore, Liu Lishun presided over this big project, and Lao Zhu felt that there was no problem.

What's more, in order to be foolproof, Lao Zhu also asked Cao Huachun to send a large number of secret spies from Dongchang to monitor this matter.

He can't control the corruption of the entire Ming officials for the time being, but in this matter, whoever dares to touch a penny, he dares to touch someone's head.

This is his hundred-year plan, whoever dares to stand in front of him, he will let whoever die, and there is no mercy to tell.

Under Lao Zhu's tough methods, Da Ming, who originally looked crumbling, actually stabilized temporarily.

Although there are still natural disasters and plagues, local officials have begun to settle the displaced people with the help of the imperial court and the generous tax exemption.

As for the disaster relief funds that were allocated, because Lao Zhu killed so many officials in the court at once, it temporarily shocked the officials in the court.

Even if there is no way to eradicate the corruption of local officials, but without the help of these important members of the court and their support, the people below dare not be too greedy.

Therefore, the ten cents allocated by the imperial court can reach the hands of the people, and there are almost three or four cents.

Although most of them are still greedy for ink, after all, there is still a share that can reach the people, and just this small share is enough to keep the people alive.

And Lao Zhu has always known very well that no matter when, the people don't want much, as long as they can live, they will not rebel.

As for the anti-thieves such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, life was not easy during this time.

Because the food and salary of the imperial court were sufficient, and the tax was directly exempted, the morale of the imperial court's army soared, and after fighting again, those thieves found out that it was only a few months, and the imperial army's army was actually very different from before.

Originally, the Ming officials and soldiers who didn't dare to fight them at all, or were unwilling to fight with them, actually dared to attack them.

And the most important thing is that after the loss, they want to recruit displaced people and expand the army, although they can still be called, but compared with before, it is obviously not so easy to call.

After all, Li Zicheng's loudest slogan at the beginning was nothing more than equalizing the land and not paying grain.

But the current imperial court is really exempt from taxes, although this policy cannot immediately make the people rich, but at least this year's taxes have been exempted.

Without taxes, the vast majority of landed people can barely survive, and there is still a lot of hope, in this case, they are naturally unwilling to follow these rebels and risk their lives to rebel.

And among these anti-thieves, the most unlucky is Zhang Xianzhong.

Originally, he was not Huang Degong's opponent, in history, he was defeated by Huang Degong in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's fifteenth year with Huang Degong, and he was almost captured by Huang Degong.

Nowadays, Huang Degong is not short of food and salary, the armament has been replaced in the barracks, and Lao Zhu ordered not to live, so after meeting Zhang Xianzhong, he directly pressed Zhang Xianzhong to fight.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't even have a chance to run, and was directly shot to death by Huang Degong.

This big hero, who originally stirred up the storm in history, died before he could show his strength this time.

As for the strongest force under Zhang Xianzhong, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, it was also basically abolished by Huang Degong.

Only Ge Li Yan He Yilong and Zuo Jin Wang He Jin took more than 10,000 remnants to defect to Li Zicheng, and the rest were ambushed here.

Zhang Xianzhong, the biggest anti-thief except Li Zicheng, can be regarded as a complete ambush after this battle.

And Zhang Xianzhong died, and Li Zicheng's side was not having a good time.

Li Zicheng, who was like a bamboo all the way, directly hit a hard nail when he hit Kaifeng.

Attacking Kaifeng, it was Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai who joined forces, known as an army of 500,000, thinking that they could overcome it in one battle like fighting Luoyang.

But what he didn't expect was that Kaifeng defenders Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu were two hard stubbles, and they only relied on tens of thousands of defenders to carry them off.

And the most important thing is that Zhu Gongyu (xiao), the king of Zhou in Kaifeng, may have been frightened by the fate of King Fu, so he didn't mean to be stingy when he saw Li Zicheng attacking Kaifeng.

At the beginning of the war, he opened the treasury and rewarded the soldiers with a large number of rewards, and directly hung gold at the head of the city, killing a thief and giving fifty gold, that is, fifty taels of silver.

Then he also opened the grain depot and made bread, half of which was distributed to the soldiers as military rations, and half to the hungry people in the city to relieve the people.

At that time, Zhu Gongqiao even gave a detailed reward list, going out of the city to kill the head of a thief, rewarding an ingot, that is, fifty taels of silver, and those who can shoot a thief in the city will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver, and if a thief is shot or injured with bricks and stones, ten taels of silver will be rewarded.

This bounty, Zhu Gongyu said he would do it, as long as he could do it, the silver would be given immediately.

In this way, the people in the city are naturally like being beaten with chicken blood.

After all, they may not dare too much to go out of the city to kill thieves, but don't they dare to stand on the head of the city and throw stones down?

For a time, the people in the city were excited, and those who had bows and arrows carried bows and arrows, and those who did not have bows and arrows took knives and guns, and stood on the city walls to help defend the city.

In the end, Li Zizai came to attack Kaifeng twice, but he didn't knock it down.

Originally, he didn't fight down, Li Zicheng was not too anxious, and the strategists in the army told him that Emperor Chongzhen was anxious for quick success and quick profit, and he would definitely not sit back and watch Kaifeng be surrounded.

So they don't have to rush to attack Kaifeng, just surround Kaifeng and wait for the reinforcements to annihilate the imperial court.

Li Zicheng felt that what the strategist said was very reasonable, so he was not particularly anxious, and patiently surrounded Kaifeng, ready to wait for the reinforcements of the imperial court.

As a result, waiting and waiting, Li Zicheng found that something was wrong, because all the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were guarding outside Henan, and they did not have the slightest intention of stepping into Henan, but directly cut off all his retreats, which was clearly intended to besiege him.

And before he could react, he found that although Sun Chuanting's department in Shaanxi did not beat him, they were disgusting him every day, and kept sending people to his side to recruit and divide his generals.

Li Zicheng was defenseless for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the army under his command had already shown signs of defection.

This situation immediately made Li Zicheng panic.