East Factory Governor

Chapter 642
In the Trilateral Governor's Mansion, Lu Xiangsheng introduced the current situation in the Lower Trilateral in detail.

To sum it up in four words: a good one.

At present, all the major bandits on the three sides have been wiped out, leaving only Zhang Xianzhong.Zhang Xianzhong still has more than 1 troops in his hands now, but under the strong encirclement and suppression of the government army, he is still running around, and it is not a climate at all.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's knowledge, Zhang Xianzhong is currently hiding in a mountain nest in the south of Shanxi, and there is a shortage of food and grass. Under Lu Xiangsheng's vigorous attack, no caravan dares to provide them with food, and the only one who can deliver food to them is The Zhang family—it was Lu Xiangsheng who went to investigate Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts according to Qin Shuhuai's arrangement.

Lu Xiangsheng was very clever and "leaked out" the caravan transporting grain only to the Zhang family. In this way, even if Zhang Xianzhong had doubts, he had to cooperate with the Zhang family.

The Zhang family's caravan set off half a month ago and should be back soon.If all goes well, they should be able to bring back news of Zhang Xianzhong's hiding place.Once confirmed, Lu Xiangsheng will immediately transfer Cao Wenzhao to encircle and suppress.

Except for Zhang Xianzhong, there are no large-scale bandits in the three sides, at most there are only a few hundred people who gather together to occupy the mountain and become king, and they should be wiped out within the year.

Qin Shuhuai asked after listening, "By the way, Master Lu, has that Li Zicheng arrived at Zhang Xianzhong's?"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this subordinate. However, even if Li Zicheng went to Zhang Xianzhong, it doesn't matter. Within the three sides, no, it should be said that within our Ming Dynasty, there is no place for them anymore. .”

Lu Xiangsheng's self-confidence is well-founded.

Not only because there are very few rogues in the three borders, but also because Chongzhen implemented a policy of exempting taxes for three years on the three borders, which completely settled the hearts of the common people.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also implemented a series of policies on the three sides.

Because it is not yet the spring plowing season, he asked the court for a batch of relief food, and at the same time asked Shanxi merchants to pay a sum of money, using this as "wages" to encourage the people to rebuild their homes and let them have something to do. Even fewer are willing to rebel.

Qin Shuhuai was very satisfied with Lu Xiangsheng's work, so he passed on the imperial decree of Chongzhen and praised Lu Xiangsheng.

In fact, there was no shortage of capable and ambitious officials in the late Ming Dynasty.It's just that with the Donglin Party around, it's hard for them to get ahead.

After a day's rest in Taiyuan City, Qin Shuhuai led the army to set off again the next morning.

Before leaving, Qin Shuhuai told Lu Xiangsheng to keep an eye on the movements of the Gansu Demon Sect.

Just as the army had just set off, a soldier from the Governor's Mansion suddenly ran over.

"My lord governor, the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's troops have been found."

Lu Xiangsheng said pleasantly, "The Zhang family caravan is back?"

"Yes! And the Jin Yiwei who went with him have also returned, and it has been verified that they are indeed in Wenxi's area!"

"Where is Jin Yiwei? Tell them to follow quickly."

"Subordinate, let him come here!"

Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed, and immediately urged the horse to run for two or three miles, and caught up with Qin Shuhuai.

"My lord, my lord! Urgent report, urgent report!"

Qin Shuhuai stopped his horse and took a look, only to see that Lu Xiangsheng was riding with his hat tilted to one side, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Lu, what's the urgent report?"

"Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Xianzhong's men have been found!" Lu Xiangsheng said out of breath, "May the Duke accept this merciless invitation from the next official?"

Qin Shuhuai chuckled, "Master Lu wants me to lead troops to suppress them?"

Lu Xiangsheng also smiled embarrassedly, "Master Zhang knows me! That thief is cunning by nature. Cao Wenzhao's station is far away, so it will take a lot of trouble to transfer there. I am afraid that the thief will run away again when he gets there! Didn't the Lord want to Entering Sichuan? It just so happened that Thief Zhang was in Wenxi, so he was on his way, so..."

Qin Shuhuai joked, "Hehe, isn't Master Lu afraid that I will take your credit?"

"Master Guo is just joking. The three parties were originally equaled by Lord Guo. The lower officials just did some things to clean up the aftermath of sesame and mung beans. How dare you take credit for it?"

"Haha, Lord Lu is too modest. If that's the case, I'll go to Wenxi to see this old opponent."

"Thank you, Lord Guo! When you get there, please wait for a while, and there are two Jin Yiwei accompanying you. They should know where Zhang Xianzhong is."

Not long after, the personal guard brought two Jinyi guards to Qin Shuhuai.

"This subordinate pays homage to the Duke."

Qin Shuhuai asked, "Do you know where Zhang Xianzhong is?"

"The subordinates have personally checked, and they are on a mountain in the east of Wenxi County."

Qin Shuhuai nodded, "Excellent! Then, let me go. Lord Lu, I will take my leave first."

……

The army continued on its way.

Qin Shuhuai didn't expect to be able to suppress Zhang Xianzhong easily, so he was looking forward to it.

He has never seen the legendary murderer Zhang Xianzhong, and maybe Li Zicheng is also with him. It would be interesting to catch these two big rogues at once.

Hmm, interesting!

For him, defeating Zhang Xianzhong is no longer a difficult task, and it is naturally an interesting thing.

Three days later, the army arrived near Xiangfen County.

It is not far from Wenxi County, only a few tens of miles away.

Qin Shuhuai ordered the army to divide into three groups, the left wing, the middle road, and the right wing, each with [-] troops, outflanking the entire Wenxi County.The remaining [-] were distributed in various avenues around Wenxi County to prevent Zhang Xianzhong's troops from escaping.

After the arrangements were made, the army moved on.

In the afternoon of the same day, the army of the Three Routes arrived at Wenxi County and encircled the whole of Wenxi.

Qin Shuhuai led a Chinese army of [-], and under the leadership of the two Jinyi guards, they went straight to a place called Yuantou Mountain in the east of Wenxi County.According to intelligence, Zhang Xianzhong was hiding there.

Yuantou Mountain is not small, and an army of [-] cannot completely surround it.However, there were only three mountain roads going up and down, so Qin Shuhuai deployed [-] soldiers on each road first, and cavalry as mobile troops, deployed around the mountain to monitor whether anyone came down from the mountain.

Afterwards, Chen Jing and Lai San'er were sent to lead [-] soldiers each, and went up to investigate first.

After about half an hour, Chen Jing and Lai San'er came down sweating profusely.

Lai San'er said depressedly, "Master, people are running away!"

"Run away?" Qin Shuhuai frowned, "Are you sure they ran away instead of not being here at all?"

"There are a lot of traces of camping on the mountain. They must have been stationed here. And the traces are very fresh, and they should have walked not long ago."

Hearing what Lai San'er said, Qin Shuhuai felt relieved.

As long as he had just left, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't run away.

It's hard to find a person, and it's hard to find an army of more than 1?Can it still evaporate from the world?

So he immediately called Li Jingting and said to him, "Jingting, take Jin Yiwei to search everywhere immediately. Our people have blocked the outer roads, and they should still be in Wenxi County, so they won't be able to run very far."

(End of this chapter)