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Chapter 293 I Can't See Through Even My Own People
Several days of marching passed by quickly, and Liu Guoneng and Yuan Shizhong's subordinates were gradually being subtly influenced by Zhu Shuren's win over and transformation, reshaping their minds.

Up and down from officers to soldiers, more and more officers and men realized from the bottom of their hearts: This country surname is really different from the usual civil servants who look down on the peasant army, and there is absolutely no fake sour vinegar of a dog literati. Wu Duanping has always been a bowl of water.

When the troops followed through Wu Gorge and Wu County, Guo Xingye behaved in the same way as being close to the people and caring for his subordinates.

Being able to shoot and hunt on horseback reduces the burden on warships, and minimizes the burden on trackers.Even the hunted animals were distributed to the trackers who were injured by accidents during the pulling process.

There were cases where the rope broke and bounced and injured the tracker, Guo Xingye also took out absorbent cotton gauze bandages as military medical supplies, and the military doctor bandaged the injured tracker, which moved the local people so much.

However, all of this came to an abrupt end two days later when the army continued to pass through the most western and steepest Qutang Gorge of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River, and was about to enter the border of Sichuan.

This time, Zhu Shuren just sat on the boat carelessly, and didn't get off the boat to ride a horse, so he forced the Sichuan civilian husband to stretch his muscles.

In the Ming Dynasty, Qutang Gorge was known as "a line of sky, and a gate in the gorge". .

But in such a precarious place, Zhu Shuren put on the airs of an official and didn't give him any face.

And the trackers who are responsible for pulling fiber for the officers and soldiers here have also changed from the people of Huguang to the people of Sichuan.After all, the area around Qutang Gorge is already the boundary of Sichuan, and it belongs to Kuizhou Prefecture in terms of administrative division.

The people of Sichuan didn't know about the Guoxing Ye who had just been conferred a title by His Majesty in other provinces, and they had never received even the slightest bit of benevolence and benevolence from the Guoxing Ye.

If it weren't for the fact that Qin Liangyu, the old general Qin Liangyu, who has been stationed in the local area for several years, won the hearts of the people, the Sichuan people would never sincerely give their lives to such domineering outsiders.

After pulling through Qutang Gorge, Zhu Shuren's food remuneration for the local trackers was just business-like, not necessarily generous.

When Qin Liangyu was guarding the local area, there was often a need to use trackers for several years. The wages set by the Sichuan army were usually [-] miles across Qutang Gorge. Not hulled and ground white rice.

Zhu Shuren also only gave each person three liters as usual, but they replaced it with corn grains.

Ordinarily, corn kernels can be eaten directly without shelling, which can save the loss of a piece of rice bran, which can be regarded as benefiting the people.

But the corn kernels are also thick, and the liter bucket is just a volume measurement tool rather than a weight measurement tool. A bucket of corn is mixed with rice, and one or two liters can slip in through the crevices. The volume is much worse than the weight.

In the end, the edible part of the rations that the trackers received did not increase at all, and they also lost the rice bran that people in famine years could eat.

That day there were quite a few rumors, from among the peasants: "Did you hear that! This foreign governor of Huguang, who has a surname of a country, is said to be very powerful in Huguang. Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were beaten so hard that they dared not go to Huguang again.

But this guy always drives soldiers out of his jurisdiction!Drive but not strike!Just reaping benefits for one-third of an acre of land, and it will be a net disaster for neighbors and provinces! "

"That is, if it wasn't for the people from Huguang who drove Zhang Xianzhong to our Sichuan, our Sichuan would have been fine and suffer this kind of crime? I heard that the emperor thinks that this person is tyrannical and only seeks benefits for his own territory, so he will not be allowed to He was promoted to the governor and took charge of Sichuan, and another governor surnamed Fang was sent here! This 'Guo Xing Ye' will not do his best!"

"Nine-headed birds in the sky, Hubei guys underground! Those Hubei guys are so cunning and inhuman! Transfer all the evil stars to our Sichuan border! Don't work hard to kill the thieves!"

Of course Zhu Shuren would not care about these temporary rumors.

Liu Guoneng and Yuan Shizhong are all generals, so they dare not say anything.
In the end, Gu Yanwu, Zhu Shuren's aide, couldn't help being an honest man, just like Lu Su persuaded Zhou Yu to persuade Zhuge, saying:
"Your Excellency has always loved the people like a son and sympathized with the soldiers. Why did he destroy his reputation as soon as he entered Sichuan? Even if it was to use tricks to make the thieves underestimate the enemy, it is too much. People's hearts are easy to disperse and hard to accept. If this Kuizhou mansion If the common people of one side have a different heart, I'm afraid they will miss a big deal."

Zhu Shuren originally didn't want to respond to this kind of questioning, but he could still say a few words behind closed doors in private, and he also believed that Gu Yanwu could keep his mouth shut to the outside world, and he could distinguish the occasion clearly.

It was only then that Zhu Shuren took the time to clear up his doubts: "You only know one thing, not the other. How many rebellious people can there be in Kuizhou Mansion today? Anyone who is dissatisfied with the government and has a little courage, more than half a month ago, Zhang Xianzhong broke In Chongqing, the city was massacred and food was distributed to surrounding counties, and the army was expanded to recruit. The hard-hearted people had already joined the army.

Those who can make a living and work as trackers for President Qin are all honest people—of course I am not bullying honest people. It will take ten days and a half months, and sooner or later the truth will come to light. Give them more favors.

If you can't stand a little bit of grievance, if you lose one liter of rice today, and you will go to the thief immediately tomorrow, then we can't stop it.This is not a matter of honesty or dishonesty, it is impermanence, so we can only follow them. "

After hearing this, Gu Yanwu felt that it made sense. He only knew moral articles, political philosophy, and was not good at strategizing.Now that Dong Weng Zhizhu is in his hands, he has thought of everything, so he can definitely handle it.

……

On the day Zhu Shuren arrived in Fengjie, it was already very late, and because he was tired from the journey, he did not summon the local officials.

The next day, on the morning of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he was promoted to general.The local officials and generals of Kuizhou Mansion also came to see him.

The leader is an old woman who is nearly seventy years old with white beard and hair and uses a gun shaft as a crutch, but she still wears a simple cotton armor, but there is no iron lining, only pure cotton, and the defense power is estimated to be greatly reduced .

Behind the old woman, there are a few official generals of the official army with their helmets on, and there are also a few leaders of the local township bravery regiment who just bandaged their turbans.

With just one glance, Zhu Shuren realized that this old woman was the famous Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of Shizhu.Qin Liangyu's exact age this year is 68 years old, and it's not too bad to say that he is seventy years old.

In line with the virtue of respecting the elderly, Zhu Shuren went down the steps to greet him personally, and shouted from afar to ask Qin Liangyu to excuse him.

"Old General Qin is loyal to the country. He has been a soldier all his life. He is a man with eyebrows and eyebrows. He is often ashamed. Although I hold a high position, how dare I be rude in front of my seniors. Give Old General Qin a seat."

Qin Liangyu leaned on the barrel of the gun with his right hand, his left hand held the gun barrel with his right hand, and he clasped his fists:

"Shen Futai is an admonishing official in the world, both civil and military. The old woman has heard of it for a long time in Shuzhong. Before that, it was thanks to your righteousness and thinness that you sent Zhang Daotai to defend Kuizhou with the help of Huguang partial teachers, old lady. Even for the sake of the people of Kuizhou, this great gift should be given to Shen Futai."

As soon as Qin Liangyu finished speaking, Gu Yanwu next to him corrected him: "Perhaps Old General Qin doesn't know yet, His Majesty has bestowed the surname of Tai on the name of Krupp. From now on, he will be called Zhu Futai, or just the name of the country."

Qin Liangyu quickly changed his words: "What a disrespect, Wang Guo's surname is Haihan!"

On the other side, Zhu Shuren raised his hand to signal to his staff not to say more, and then personally supported Qin Liangyu to sit down: "Those who don't know are not to be blamed, old general Qin is polite, I have already accepted your wishes, you should sit down and answer. "

The seat he gave was not the kind of low ponytail, but a normal hardwood chair with a backrest, so that the person sitting down would not have to squat very low, which would be bad for the knees.

Qin Liangyu saw it in his eyes, and his senses became more and more confused by this new Guoxing Lord who came to help the war.

Yesterday, she learned from her subordinates that there were many complaints and bad words from the tracker battalion who pulled the fiber for the imperial reinforcements.
It is said that the other party was originally kind to the people of Sichuan, and when Zhang Huangyan came to reinforce him, he brought all kinds of military rations with him. It was because he thought the emperor would let him caress Sichuan, so he acted.

Later, when he learned that the emperor did not allow him to take care of Sichuan and that Sichuan was not his own territory, he was too lazy to act.

Qin Liangyu didn't really believe these words at the time, so he restrained his subordinates from spreading random words, controlled their own mouths, and did their own things well.

Looking at it now, the rumors may not be true, and the rumors spread so fast, maybe it was Zhang Xianzhong's thieves' tricks!At least Zhang Xianzhong's people did this in order to destroy the unity of the officers and soldiers and hit the morale of the officers and soldiers!
Qin Liangyu knew too well how terrifying Zhang Xianzhong's ability to buy people's hearts and meticulous work was with small favors among the poor folk.

She also fully knew that even if it was her Shizhubaiba soldiers garrison, how many civilians who provided logistics and miscellaneous chores for the army would be infiltrated by Zhang Xianzhong.

This is not because Qin Liangyu is lax in governing the army, but because Zhang Xianzhong is able to achieve such a high position, he naturally has his own skills.Coercing and inducing poor people to help him is one of Zhang Xianzhong's greatest skills.

Otherwise, it is impossible to be beaten down to tens of thousands of people every time. After a big city is destroyed, the city is massacred and looted, and distributed to the poor in the surrounding poor counties, another 10,000+ cannon fodder troops will be raised.

After Qin Liangyu let go of the grudge, she quickly helped Zhu Shuren introduce Kuizhou's local generals, and Zhu Shuren also met them one by one.

The closest behind Qin Liangyu was a middle-aged strong man in his forties with a bearded face, and he was also her son Ma Xianglin. When Zhu Shuren heard this, he eagerly shook his hand and greeted:
"General Ma's name of loyalty, I have heard about it in Huguang for a long time. You are full of loyalty, both men and women are diligent in the national crisis, it is really rare."

Historically, Ma Xianglin should have just died in this year, and he died in the Xiangyang city defense battle.

But now, it was obviously Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect that saved him.It has been the twelfth lunar month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, and Ma Xianglin is still alive and well, and has never left Sichuan.

Even the main force after the second reconstruction of the white-armed soldiers was not injured because of a series of butterfly effects.

(End of this chapter)