stubborn thief

Chapter 190 Hami Guard Advances the Dun Army

General Ren returned to his loyal Saimen Qianhu.

On the day he left Lion Bay, Liu Chengzong's guards watched him for a long time on the mountainside.

No one could figure it out, this general Wu De of the imperial court gave Marshal Liu medicine and supplements worth several hundred taels, but he was flattered by the salary of one tael or five taels of silver.

However, Liu Chengzong said that Ren Quan'er had enough reasons to be happy. He was the first person in the entire lion camp to receive military pay.

One or two or five dollars of silver per month is higher than the standard of one or two or four dollars for the Beijing Army and Guan Ning Army.

Just as Ren Quan'er left, He Yong came again.

The latest mansion was reported to Yanchuan by him, and some money was taken away as usual, and some news about Yansui Town and Suide Prefecture was also brought to him.

Wang Jiayin's influence in Fugu County was huge, and a new wave of rebellion was set off in northern Shaanxi. Yamen servant Zhang Xianzhong also rebelled, and joined forces with Mizhi Eighteen Villages to join Wang Jiayin's command.

The wounded soldiers in the Lion Camp are still studying as usual while recuperating.

How did the hungry people come, how did the hungry army come, and why should the people be safe.

After they know all these things, the daily schedule will be divided into four hours.

After breakfast and an hour after lunch, Song Shouzhen led the book office to teach them how to read.

An hour before lunch and dinner, Liu Chengzong took them to study the Dibao and Tangbao.

While teaching, Liu Chengzong was thinking about their food and grass, and was very worried about the future.

That day they were studying in the mansion, and a dozen book offices were reading to the wounded soldiers, and one of the book offices came up and asked, "Marshal, what do you mean by playing Huangchi with soldiers?"

Liu Chengzong felt unhappy when he heard this word, and explained with a frown: "Nongbing refers to raising troops, and Huangchi refers to a pool of accumulated water. You have seen Yang He's memorabilia."

Yang He concealed He Huchen's defeat from the court.

The memorabilia described in words that the royal army occupying Fugu was a frontier army accustomed to fighting, and they were mostly related to the captives outside the mouth. They were colluding with captives to attack the border wall.

But the Lion Camp doesn't deserve to have a name in the memorabilia, it only said that there are thieves everywhere in Yanqing, they are nothing but soldiers and Huangchi, especially easy to deal with.

To be honest, Liu Chengzong saw this memorial, and he was determined to gather the six sentries to go to Guyuan Armed Forces to pay homage to the governor.

He himself was also puzzled, why did Yang He treat one person so favorably than another?

Yang Dingrui had some guesses about this: "He advocated appeasement, and Hong Chengchou advocated suppression of thieves. Naturally, in the memorandum, it will be shown that Yansuiyue and Vietnam are severely suppressed, and other places are peaceful because of appeasement."

Yang Dingrui said with a smile: "So you, in the memorial, you are just a little thief who raises troops in the pond, and you are definitely not Marshal Hengtian. This is not a bad thing."

Although this is not a bad thing, it is not necessarily good.

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "It's just that, I'm afraid Shaanxi will not send troops to suppress me in this period of time."

"Isn't it good not to come and suppress you? It's just time to recuperate, and the frontier army doesn't fight as hard as you."

What kind of army can fight more than a dozen battles with all members in a year.

If the fight continues like this, they will become a group of lunatics who will bring war and killing wherever they go.

"But in this way, the pressure on Wang Jiayin will be too great."

Liu Chengzong was biting his nails anxiously on the cliff of Shizigou. He asked, "Sir, what do you think of me going to Guyuan when I return to the camp at Liushao?"

"Guyuan?"

Yang Dingrui did not answer immediately.

The wind blew across the river bend and valley, and the weeds swayed with the wind. The two sat side by side on the soil ridge of the barren dry terraced fields, watching the valley with lush green trees, and the setting sun setting in the west, burning half of the sky red.

He asked: "Lion, in this troubled world, you hold a powerful army and have done nothing wrong with officials and people. What are your plans for the future?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head very logically: "The world is about to fall, it shouldn't be like this, I want to straighten it out."

A rebel leader said this, which should have caused people to laugh.

But what he said made Yang Dingrui unable to laugh, because their causal relationship is not that the rebels emerge one after another and the world will be generals, but the world will be generals before the rebels emerge.

From south to north, from east to west, there is no province that does not resist taxation, mutiny, rebellion, and rebellion.

Lion Camp is just one of them.

Yang Dingrui said: "You are not right."

"This year alone, the drought in northern Shaanxi has been milder, but the drought has spread to Guanzhong and Shanxi, Shandong and North Zhili have severe floods, Huguang Huangzhou Prefecture has experienced drought, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong have suffered severe floods, and there is still a drought in Chaozhou between the two provinces. The government, how can it be upright in this year's situation?"

Liu Chengzong turned his head and was shocked. This person stays at home in Shiziwan in northern Shaanxi, but he knows so much about the disasters in the world?

After thinking about it for a while, he was relieved again.

He could see the military newspaper that He Renlong could see, and Yang Dingrui and his father could also see the official newspaper of Yan'an Mansion, even with a higher rank than him.

So he said with a smile: "Sir, you have a great talent, why are you so disappointed in the world?"

"Shouldn't you be disappointed in this world? You don't know how many times I have let others down during the years when I worked in Yan'an Mansion. I always let others down. I am also very disappointed."

Yang Dingrui shook his head and said, "Where is there any great talent, nothing can be done."

"I don't think so. Even if there is another drought, even if it lasts for ten or eight years, even if there are floods, droughts, and locust plagues all over again, some people will survive, and some people will survive, and the world will always be right."

Liu Chengzong is very clear about the difficulties he will face in the future, but he is not discouraged: "Maybe in 20 years, someone we have never heard of will become emperor. Is this impossible? It is possible."

"Even in a 30-year military struggle, anyone can win. Maybe ten years from now, I will have the mighty Fan Sanlang under my command. Anything can happen in this world. Only one thing is foreordained."

Liu Chengzong looked directly into Yang Dingrui's eyes: "Anyone can win, but Ming must lose."

Yang Dingrui chuckled, and didn't continue to talk about these things. The Hungry Army would be a little provocative, and he would believe that his own power could take revenge on those who had ignored their family's destruction.

Yang Dingrui will not be incited.

He just asked: "Go to Guyuan, what should I do? Just two days before the transportation, it was said that people with surplus food would be summoned into the mountains to clear the mountains in Yan'an Prefecture. Why... are you going to let Fourth Master Liu beat the horse and wield the sword to fight the Guan Ning army?" ?”

Liu Chengzong just thought of the picture of his father on a horse with a pipe in his mouth, so he raised his head and laughed happily: "Hahaha!"

Then he quickly waved his hands and said: "If you want to leave, you must go with me. Pingliang Mansion is much farther than Pingyang Mansion, and it is difficult to rush to help in a short time."

"Master Gao in Shanxi sent someone to send a message. He brought people from Jiangzhou in Shanxi. Now he has passed through Hancheng, and he will come here in a few days. They brought a lot of food and grass, as well as my cannon."

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and drew a circle in Lion Bay: "Sir and I have planned the arrangement here, which will allow Master Gao's people to develop and manage it."

"I counted the food and grass, sent out six whistles, and can raise food for this winter, but the potential of Yan'an Mansion has been exhausted. Next year, we will face more enemy troops. Instead, food and grass will become a big problem."

"This can't last."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, Yang Dingrui smiled: "This is indeed a problem, but have you thought about why?"

"What?"

Liu Chengzong didn't understand, he spread his hands and said, "Yan'an Mansion is just such a big family, so what's the matter?"

Yang Dingrui shook his head and said: "No, it's because your thinking is wrong, your eyes are either black or white, so even if you go to Guyuan, even if there are no officers and soldiers to conquer you in a year or two, you still have to go elsewhere. A battalion is no different from a bandit."

As soon as Liu Chengzong wanted to say something, Yang Dingrui stopped him by raising his hand, and continued: "You don't harm the people, and even help the people. This is human nature and morality. You can't fight this one, and you can't rob that one. You're just doing it yourself."

"The thieves and the like can't beat the officers and soldiers on the one hand, and on the other hand they eat and leave. What about the Lion Camp? It's different. They have to eat and leave."

Liu Chengzong was angry, most of the Lion Camp's honor and his pride came from this.

Now Yang Dingrui says this is nothing?
Damn the officials and the people who dare to assassinate others...Mr. Yang, do you know that this is very dangerous, and the distribution of three thousand miles is waiting for you!

Liu Chengzong glanced at the teacher and asked, "What does that mean, sir, that I did something wrong?"

"Of course it's wrong."

Following this understatement, Liu Chengzong nodded to Yang Dingrui seriously: "I would like to hear more about it."

It's almost time for Yang Dingrui to go to Jiayuguan to report.

He said: "First of all, if you don't use people's power, you are leaving a way out for yourself. You are worried that the people will not be taken care of after you leave, so you won't let them fall to you."

"But if you leave an escape route, you will use this escape route sooner or later. Of course, this is not a big problem. Anyway, there are thieves everywhere, and how long it takes to keep one side peaceful."

"The biggest problem is harvesting food."

Yang Dingrui frowned subconsciously when he talked about beating grain.

Liu Chengzong felt that he was an official in the past, so he must be displeased with this matter, so he asked, "Is it right to collect food?"

"What's wrong with collecting food? It's an expedient measure with no other way. What would you eat if you don't collect food?"

Yang Dingrui asked a question, and then said: "But your people only know brute strength, not intelligence."

What do you say?
As far as this is concerned, the distribution of two thousand miles can no longer solve the problem, let's go out.

Yang Dingrui, the advance pier army of Hamiwei Zuoqianhu Department, knew nothing about his situation.

Seeing Liu Chengzong bow his head in deep thought, he said while the iron was hot: "Think about it, there are only so many local tyrants and evil gentry, even counting Wangzhuang, how much can you grab?"

"You want to enter Guyuan. Although the Guyuan camp mutinied last year, there are still many military forts left behind. You used to open warehouses to release food, and even the officers and soldiers resisted. The soldiers who surrendered and deserted were all filled. Wo Xue Sleeping Cream, can you not recruit them?"

What a temptation, Liu Chengzong shook his head decisively: "No."

"That's it. Now that the news of the defeat of the Ningxia Army is spreading, if the troops left behind in Guyuan are not too hungry, they will hide in the fort and dare not provoke you. If they are hungry, they will directly eat the pot of milk. When the lion camp enters Guyuan, it will inevitably expand the army again. .”

Yang Dingrui drew several interlocking circles on the soil ridge with his hands: "The more troops you have, the more unstable your military will be."

He pointed to the innermost circle and said: "The Lion Camp is basically composed of more than a thousand Yansui troops and more than two hundred Guyuan soldiers."

"Later there were more than [-] hungry people from northern Shaanxi, and now there are nearly [-] Ningxia soldiers."

As Yang Dingrui said, he drew a circle outside again: "Think about it, how many soldiers will be recruited into Guyuan, two thousand?"

"Using big soldiers to control small soldiers, you can break them up and organize them into the army; but if you use small soldiers to make big soldiers, who will break up who will break up?"

"If there is enough food and grass, we must guard against traitors. Once the food and grass are not enough and we are besieged, there will be holes everywhere in the Lion Camp."

Liu Chengzong nodded secretly, it's okay, what Mr. Yang said is still useful, we can withdraw to Jiayuguan.

"Then how to solve this matter?"

Let him ask, Yang Dingrui looks like an idiot, the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty can't solve the problem of deserters and internal response after the food shortage, and you, a rebel in the Lion Camp, still want to solve this problem?

He waved his hand and said, "It can't be solved. The only thing that can be solved is to be good to the soldiers and try to avoid running out of food, so the most important thing about this matter is to collect food."

"You need to pay attention to the method of harvesting grain. Yan'an Mansion is okay, there are barren fields all over the place. Even if you kill all the big households who own the land, you won't be able to use this land if you leave the court."

"But Guyuan is not the same. There is a large area of ​​vassal grazing land, Wangzhuang, and your people are short of food... 1 horses, you have to prepare at least [-] shi of rice and grain a year to keep them from collapsing, and you need [-] shi to feed yourself." Wan Shi."

"I estimate that if grain harvesting from Wangzhuang is released in Guyuan, enough grain and grass can be obtained for two or three years, but don't rush to be happy."

Yang Dingrui raised his hand and said, "If we want to bring it back, this food is only enough for one and a half years."

"Unless you stay there, Guyuan is surrounded by convenient transportation. There are Ningxia in the north, Lintao in the west, Fengxiang Prefecture in the south, and the second side wall in the north."

"Either you don't defend that place, or you are surrounded by the officers and soldiers, and you win or lose. If you run, you will definitely not be able to escape."

Yang Dingrui spread his hands and said, "That's why you can't live there for a long time. After you leave, there will be no Wangzhuang in the area. The Lion Camp will solve the burden of land annexation and Wangzhuang for the imperial court. I will send troops to attack you later."

"Then you can't go anywhere, sir."

Liu Chengzong was not blindly optimistic, but he felt that the imperial court did not have such a strong ability to integrate. If they really had this ability, could it be their turn to raise troops?
The problem has been solved long ago.

"If you can go, it's also very worthwhile, but the method of collecting food needs to be changed. You can occupy a few military forts, but you don't attack the city, don't attack the palace, don't kill the evil leaders, and don't distribute the land."

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said, "Then I didn't go in vain?"

"Don't go in vain, beat the grain, grab the money, leave enough food and life for the evil chiefs for a year, take part of the grain and distribute it to the people, and it will also win the hearts of the people."

Yang Dingrui said: "You didn't enslave the people, people still cultivate land, and pay grain to Wang Zhuang and landlords, fight again in autumn, it's still the same, the local production is not bad, the imperial court's expropriation is not good, from Guyuan along the Qingshui River to the north All the way to Ningxia Zhongwei."

"The food distributed to the people, let them take it after I leave?"

"If you rob it, you rob it. You are not the parents of the common people. Who is to blame if you can't keep the food after the distribution? When they rise up to resist, they will become you too."

Yang Dingrui drew a circle again: "It can also share the pressure."

"Then you want me to occupy Ningxia Zhongwei?"

"Don't, don't, in Ningxia Zhongwei was blocked by the officers and soldiers, you can only run to the Tengger Sea, and you will die if you go in."

Yang Dingrui said: "Soldiers from Lintao, grain from Lanzhou, iron from Gongchang, tea from Minzhou, horses from Xining, don't you know where to go?"

　good afternoon!It's been too long to write this chapter, read Chapter 2 tomorrow, I may write until midnight.

　　
　
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