Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 314 Gansu Governor
In the next few months, the beggar army who had been aggressive after entering the Dabie Mountains calmed down, and did not continue to invade other villages, and stuck the battle line on the front line of Hejiazhai.

It's not that the war is over, there will never be real peace between the officers and soldiers and the rogues, unless one side completely assimilates the other, this Song Qingshu will stop attacking and concentrate on training, and the other Yingshan County Duoyun Inspection Department will not go Huoshan was regained with pebbles and stones, but a series of small-scale attacks caused panic in the area occupied by the beggar army. Either the village was set on fire at night, or the villagers who went out to release water disappeared. Two days later, the bodies were found in the nearby mountain depressions. A series of attacks, disturbed people have no peace.

But Song Qingshu immediately dispatched Xiaoluobu's forward selection army, and this really taught the mountain people in Yinghuo Mountain to know what ghosts in the mountains are.

The people sent by Tiantangzhai to sneak attack are just some old hunters in the mountains, relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they are elusive. The optional forward army is specially selected by Song Qingshu. They specialize in killing people. , they can lie down in the dug bunker and lurk for two or three days, just to ambush the Tiantangzhai raiders passing through the hunter trail, and they can also sneak into the village near Yingshan County more secretly than those old hunters, with strict defenses The owner of the village was kidnapped and kidnapped two without anyone noticing. When the bodies were found, they were all burnt in a deep mountain ditch.

The original fear brought by Tiantangzhai was transferred back, but Huoshan's cottage that belonged to the begging army gradually became more peaceful.

Especially in May, when the first batch of fruits are ripe, Song Qingshu also built a fruit farm here, employing more than 2000 mountain people to plan and take care of the orchard, and more than 1000 people in the packaging factory to clean the selected top-quality fruits. Evenly apply a layer of wax made from the fat of Zhushan and Jishan slaughtered poultry and livestock, so that the fruits can be isolated from air contact for at least three months. Luoyang, Luzhou to the south, Hefei, and Huizhou are selling well.

And the mountain people working in the fruit farm paid enough to improve their family's life and bought a few new clothes, which attracted Jiaduobao garment shop in Daixian County to quickly add a few more here, forming a virtuous circle.

Arrange every manpower reasonably, actively sell and attract investment, and build roads on a large scale. Even the government army responsible for besieging Xinxian County received more tariffs. The bad influence caused by the Fifth Gezuo Battalion was wiped out in May, and large numbers of business travelers entered the mountains more frequently to buy all kinds of mountain products.

Now Huoshan County, a poor place with bloody urine, has also started to replace shotguns with guns. It was built during the Hongwu period. The city walls that have not been repaired for more than 200 years have begun to be renovated, and the county government has been renovated. The county magistrate also began to hand out notes, hoping to serve the commander.

But nowadays, Song Qingshu, who is a businessman, has no shortage of masters. Sometimes these little officials, the guy from the accountant, manages the place many times better than the county magistrate from the orthodox imperial examination. Song Qingshu doesn’t even care about it. Zhong, just stay in the prison!
On May [-]th, Huoshan County welcomed a guest who covered his head and covered his face.

Zhou Yuji, who was also dressed as a mountain man, led the way. The guest lowered his head and hurriedly walked in his shadow. This kind of dress is everywhere in Huoshan County, and it can't attract many people's attention. He hurried all the way until he reached the county. At the back door of the yamen, Zhou Yuji just turned around and said indifferently.

"It's here, the commander and the military adviser have been waiting for a long time."

But at this time, the masked guy suddenly shrank nervously to the corner. Behind the county government office is a large blacksmith workshop. After all, it is still mainly military. No matter what kind of industry the beggar army operates, the smelting industry will never dare to lag behind Yes, and at this time, a dozen or so shabby-dressed mountain people were carefully bending over and bowing.

"Boss, I heard that you are recruiting apprentices here?"

In Zhou Yuji's surprised eyes, the masked man breathed a sigh of relief after several mountain people followed the blacksmith shop owner from Luoyang.

As Zhou Yuji said, Song Qingshu and Sun Chuanting had been waiting there for a long time, looking left and right for no one, the mysterious man finally took off the black hat that he had been wearing all the way, revealing a wide forehead and a wide nose, a typical mountain person The face of an old man with distinctive features narrowed his eyes and looked at Song Qingshu and the two before bowing down with fists folded.

"The mountain people have seen the commander-in-chief, the military advisor."

"Oh! The village master please come up, there is no need to be polite!"

It can be regarded as one of Sun Chuanting's greatest fruits of labor. He sat aside with a rigid poker face, but his complacency was obvious, and he glanced at him amusedly. Song Qingshu quickly stretched out his hands enthusiastically, With his arms raised empty, as if he was really a master of martial arts, the mountain man gained momentum from a long distance away.

Before Song Qingshu could open his mouth, the man hurriedly clasped his fist again: "Marshal, the mountain people have something important to report. Just now, more than a dozen mountain people came in behind the county government office. The nephew of the senior official Mei Zhihuan is probably here to spy on the military situation, so please take precautions!"

"Mei Zhihuan!"

At the mention of this name, Song Qingshu and Sun Chuanting frowned almost at the same time. Sun Chuanting was a Jinshi. Although Mei Zhihuan was a few years earlier than him, he had heard of his name in Beijing. As for Song Qingshu, he had a lot of contacts with this guy Of course, it's not a direct relationship. Mei Zhihuan is the governor of Gansu. When he attacked Qingyang in the west, Mei Zhihuan's army came to surround him. This man is very famous in Shaanxi. He practiced martial arts and was good at archery. He defeated the Mongolian bandits several times and fled. He was also a general who suppressed the peasant army.

It's a pity that Mei Zhihuan is not very good at being an official. He offended Wen Tiren, a scholar of Shoufu University, and was dismissed two years ago. It took a long time for Wen Tiren to collapse before he was hired. However, he died of illness not long after serving as the right servant of the Ministry of War , there is no opportunity for development, otherwise, this person may not be able to grow into a Confucian general like Lu Xiangsheng.

Song Qingshu had suspected for a long time that it would be impossible to turn tens of thousands of mountain people around like this with a single inspection. Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sun Chuanting and Song Qingshu looked at each other solemnly.

"The owner of the village has made great achievements. On the day when the begging army enters the army, he will definitely be rewarded for his merits. Now, I would like to ask the owner of the village to explain in detail the form of this Tiantangzhai, especially this Mei Zhihuan! "

Clenching his fists together, Song Qingshu said generously again.

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The secret conversation lasted until ten o'clock in the afternoon, but Song Qingshu was generous, and directly gave this man a big gold ingot, no less than a hundred taels, and the mountain was barren. He was so happy that he smiled, and after the man thanked him, he covered his face again and followed Zhou Yuji out of the county office.

Song Qingshu is not worried at all about Mei Zhihuan's nephew spies. The first thing Song Qingshu does when occupying Xin County and Huoshan County is to start registering the household registration. The 22 people in Xin and Huo are all registered in the register , The mountain people who went to work in the county, the owners of the workshops, and the owners of the farms are all recorded, and when they come from, they will be paired with their household registrations. It will be clear at a glance that those are spies.

Such spies are in Xin County, and Huoshan County actually has a lot of them, no less than a few hundred. They are all sent by Yingshan Eighteen Villages, and the local tyrants from the cottage in Macheng, Mei Zhihuan’s hometown just mentioned, but they are different from the officers and soldiers. Almost all of Song Qingshu's troops are hidden in the wilderness. There are not many military forces staying in the county, and they are not afraid of their spying at all. When these people came, they brought the prosperity of the two counties back to those poor areas and made propaganda for the beggar army. .

This is also Sun Chuanting's strategy, to attack the opponent's biggest reliance, Renhe!
They made a lot of money in the county, and the village was allocated their own land, so they don’t have to be brutally exploited by the cottage owners and abused lynching. Although it is impossible to shake everything, some villagers must be yearning for it. In this way, Naturally, he refused to sell the battle, and there would be an opportunity to take advantage of it.

In addition, Sun Chuanting also took the initiative to select a group of local and reliable mountain village soldiers to sneak into Yingshan County in the name of joining relatives. This is also to promote the policy of begging army to protect the environment and the people!The village owner just now is Sun Chuanting's biggest prize.

Flaws appeared in the harmony of people, and the geographical advantage was gradually no longer Tiantangzhai. Mei Zhihuan relied on Yingshan and Huoshan. It is well known, but the Gezuo Fifth Battalion was not good at using it before.

In particular, Song Qingshu also equipped Sun Chuanting with a sharp knife to select the front army and touch Yingshan. Creating chaos in the Luotian area is secondary, and drawing maps is the main thing. Here Song Qingshu follows the military novels read by later generations, and After learning the geography contour line and so on, it was taught to the frontier army. One person tied a long rope around his waist to ensure that the direction is not crooked. Zhang Zhang's detailed maps appeared in the county government of Huoshan County.

The reason why the begging army is standing still is that it is time to wait!

But at this juncture, such a difficult governor of Gansu appeared again and sent the village owner away. Song Qingshu knocked on the table depressed, muttering silently.

"This old Tudouzi, who has been with me from Shaanxi, is still attached to his ass. He is very skilled in soldiers and horses. If he is around, it will be difficult to attack Tiantangzhai!"

"Don't worry, handsome!"

When mentioning this, Sun Chuanting looked indifferent, pretending to shake the goose feather fan Song Qingshu gave him, and said proudly.

"Actually, it's easy for the commander-in-chief to deal with him, Mei Zhihuan."

"Oh? The plan will be released?"

Seeing Song Qingshu humbly asking for advice, Sun Chuanting put on a fan again pretending to be.

"Marshal, don't forget, your teacher Li Jiantai, Mr. Li, has been promoted to the Imperial Academy recently. Shouldn't the Marshal send someone to visit?"

(End of this chapter)