The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 321
On May [-], Jierhalang, Azige, and Du Du led the Houjin soldiers to meet Kong Youde's five thousand troops. Kong was asked to shave his hair and formally surrendered to Houjin.

Huang Taiji attached great importance to it, and personally led Zhu Baylor out of Shengjing ten miles to meet him, and used the most solemn embrace ceremony of the Jurchen, took him as the marshal, settled in Tokyo (Liaoyang), formed an army of his own, called the "Tianyou Army" and gave him special treatment.

In the original history, Hou Jin then attacked Lushun under the leadership of Kong Youde.

But now they dare not fight Lushun, and instead fight Zhenjiang.

Ding Yi's troops retreated immediately and returned Zhenjiang to Houjin.

So far, the fronts of the two sides have remained on the front line of Gaizhou and Fuzhou in the west, and south of Zhenjiang in the east. Everyone has a tacit understanding and no longer mobilizes troops.
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In the spring of 1632, a peasant army could not withstand the pressure of the officers and soldiers, and broke through to Qingyang. Hong Chengchou went to Qingyang to command the battle, and encircled and suppressed together with the generals Cao Wenzhao and He Huchen. The two sides fought dozens of times in Western Australia, and the peasant army suffered losses. In Shenzhong, the leader Ke Tianfei was beheaded, the subordinate Bai Guangen surrendered, and Cao Wenzhao suppressed the bandits in Zhuizi Mountain, Yaozhou. After the Lone Wolf surrendered, Hong Chengchou ordered to kill more than 400 people, and the rest were dismissed.

But soon, those who were dismissed had nowhere to go and no source of livelihood, and continued to gather. After entering 1633, they began to intersperse everywhere, mainly flowing between Sichuan and Shaanxi, and a large number of people in Sichuan and Shaanxi went to Henan and other places. .

But when they went to Henan, they found that Henan was also in chaos. Although Zhang Xianzhong was not well-known at this time, he followed the army of refugees and ran everywhere along Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, and Sichuan. Wherever the refugees went, they were like locusts. Being coerced or killed, the common people who refused to follow the refugees had to continue running eastward if they wanted to survive.

In April of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633).

On the official road in Shanxian County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province.

More than 20 police officers and more than 20 young and strong men and women are setting up a tent on the side of the road. There are a row of more than a dozen large pots cooking porridge on both sides of the road.

This is where Ding Yi's Propaganda Department, Logistics Department, and Intelligence Department are working together to drain victims.

It was rare for Ding Yi's subordinates to work together, and Du Ruhai also came to the scene in person today.

Some time ago, after the preliminary investigation by the intelligence department, the Henan side had the most disaster victims coming from Shangqiu and Yucheng.

Du Ruhai plans to set up the largest drainage gathering point here, after all, this is the first foothold for most of the victims.

You must know that Daming is currently in chaos everywhere, and the attitudes of the local government towards the disaster victims are different.

Before Ding Yi and Zhu Dadian talked about this matter, the attitudes of the prefectures and counties in Shandong were completely different.

For example, Caozhou in Dongchang Prefecture is also close to Henan. Their government directly sent government soldiers to guard the border to prevent the victims from coming.

In Guan County, there were victims from Shanxi who passed through the Daming Mansion and then entered Shandong. There were wealthy gentry in Guan County who cooked porridge to help the disaster, but the scale was small, which once caused the victims to loot. In addition, there was no government support, and there was almost another riot. .

After Ding Yi and Zhu Dadian made an agreement, they sent thousands of people to various prefectures and counties in Shandong.

Du Ruhai brought more than 30 people to Shan County.

After arriving, give 200 taels of silver to the magistrate of Shan County first, and the county magistrate is naturally overjoyed.

In addition, there was originally an order from Zhu Dadian, governor of Shandong Province, asking all localities to cooperate with Dengzhou grain merchant Qin (in the name of Qin Nan's father) to help the victims. Cooperate.

Du Ruhai then hired local police officers and soldiers to help maintain order at a monthly price of one tael per person, and then hired local adult and strong men to help with five silver coins per month, and soon gathered a team of a hundred people.

They bought food on the spot, set up tents on the side of the road (to prevent rain), cooked porridge in a pot, and even erected a big flag on a high mountain with the words Relief for the victims, and the government cooks porridge in large characters, and a flag was erected beside it, drawing Porridge and rice bowls.

As a result, many victims, as long as they enter Shandong, they can see a few big flags within a few hundred meters.

At the same time, Du Ruhai sent [-] of his own people from Lushun to directly cross the provincial border into Henan, asking not to go too far, and to avoid the peasant army. When Shan County entered Shandong, there was a grain merchant in Dengzhou, Shandong to help the victims, and everyone had porridge to drink.

With Ding Yi's men and horses setting up stalls everywhere, Ding Yi's porridge cooking teams are everywhere at the borders of Shandong and Beijing, Henan, Anhui and so on.

In order to take this matter as a long-term task, Du Ruhai successively recruited craftsmen from all over the country, and built simple houses near the porridge spots for the porridge cooking team to live in for a long time.

There were relatively few victims in the first few months, but as time went by, the reputation of this place became more and more famous, and businessmen from Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places would go to promote it.

Half a year later, with the peasant army tossing around, there were more and more victims on these roads.

Even when the peasant army is at a low point, some people will follow these roads to search for Denglai.

It didn't take long for the intelligence department to give Du Ruhai another notice. Merchants who have contacts can entrust them to publicize. If the merchants pass by and bring disaster victims, they can give a small amount of money as appropriate. Merchants are doing good deeds and have money, so naturally they are more willing. Propaganda, and even guide the victims to rush here.

In order to ensure that the victims rush to Denglai as much as possible, all the victims will receive propaganda at the first stop when they enter Shandong. The people in Lushun told them that last year the Denglai military riots caused a large number of people to disappear, and there are empty grain fields and houses everywhere. , the sooner you pass, the better your chances of getting a house and a field.

Many victims couldn't believe it. Some people asked, don't you want money?
The people in Lushun are humane. If there are vacant houses, they don’t need money. If the houses are full, someone will organize to build them by themselves.

As for the land, after the land is divided, you only need to pay the rent. If you pay too much, you will know when you arrive, but believe me, at least you will not starve to death if the food is provided in Denglai.

After the first publicity, a large number of victims will go to Denglei along the designated route.

At this time, Lushun basically set up another porridge shop twenty or thirty miles away, passing through the whole Shandong, guiding the victims to Denglai.

Du Ruhai soon discovered that the manpower was far from enough, and the people hired locally were not as useful as his own, so he dispatched another 1000 people from Lushun, Dengzhou.

In less than half a year, Ding Yi's troops and strongholds are everywhere in Shandong, and Ding Yi's money is flowing out. He finally made a lot of money in Denglai, but if he continues to work here, he will basically use it every month. To more than [-], when there are many disaster victims, even more than [-] will be used in one month, which is a huge cost.

If there was no copying of the house, Ding Yi would not be able to play this kind of promotion and drainage.

Such a large amount of capital will bring a large number of people, and under such propaganda, many people in Henan and Shanxi who were not affected by the military disaster originally dragged their families to Denglai.

(End of this chapter)