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Runing Mansion, Ruyang City.

After Lin Feng led his troops to intercept and defeat Li Zicheng's troops, he joined the Third Mobile Division led by Song Jilie and rushed to Ruyang City to rest.

Ruyang City had just been occupied and looted by Li Zicheng's troops. Lin Feng entered the city all the way and found that the city was in a mess. Many shops were smashed open and looted, and wealthy families were looted. The people in the city looked at the troops entering the city in horror.

Lin Feng shook his head while looking at it. Although Li Zicheng was already considered to be more disciplined in the peasant army, rogue bandits were rogue bandits. Once they captured the city, they would inevitably disturb the people.

Lin Feng immediately ordered Song Jilie to lead the officers and soldiers of the Third Mobile Division to help the people clean up the ruins in the city, post a notice of the Zhenming Army's occupation of Runing Mansion, and restore order in the city as soon as possible.

Along the way, I saw the devastated city and the Zhenming officers and soldiers who were very skillful in helping the people clean up debris and clean up the garbage in the city. Tian Jianxiu and other peasant army generals lowered their heads in shame and volunteered to participate. The Zhenming Army troops came forward to help with the work.

Lin Feng came to Ruyang Chengzhou Yamen and asked Luo Kai to summon some scribes and Yamen servants who were still in the Yamen. He took out two thousand taels of silver and asked them to buy food and set up porridge stalls on the streets to provide porridge to avoid suffering from military disasters. of people starved.

After just half a day, the streets of Ruyang City were cleaned up, several porridge stalls were set up, and people were queuing up to receive porridge in an orderly manner, and the entire city regained some vitality.

Especially the common people, when they saw that the Zhenming Army who entered the city this time were friendly to people, not only did they not plunder the people's property, but they also helped clean up the garbage in the city and opened porridge stalls to provide porridge, they immediately praised the Zhenming Army.

After Lin Feng inspected the streets, he returned to the government office and prepared to have dinner first. At this time, Song Jilie completed the task of cleaning up the city and walked in with several surrendered generals such as Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo.

Lin Feng greeted: "Ji Lie, you have worked hard, please sit down and eat."

Song Jilie picked up the bowl, filled the bowl with rice and sat down to eat. Seeing Tian Jianxiu and others hesitating and not knowing what to do, they said: "What are you doing standing still? Get a bowl and eat."

Tian Jianxiu and others did not dare to move and looked at Lin Feng. Lin Feng smiled and said: "Why, people are like iron rice and steel, and you have to be invited to eat by others. Hurry up and sit down and eat."

A few people carefully packed their meals and sat down to eat.

Song Jilie took a big mouthful of rice and said, "Master Hou, this Ruyang City is really dilapidated, but the people under the rule of our Zhenming Army can live a good life."

"Except for a few places in the south of the Yangtze River, all cities under the Ming Dynasty were in poverty, so our responsibilities are very heavy." Lin Feng also said with emotion.

"Master Marquis, we are also responsible for the ruin of Ruyang City. Please punish us." Tian Jianxiu said even more ashamed after hearing this.

"I won't mention the past, but you must remember that our Zhenming Army is the people's army, and everything is for the benefit of the people. Let us also not forget that we all come from ordinary people, and we cannot have force in our hands. If you gain power, you will put yourself above the people and do things that are harmful to nature." Lin Feng took the opportunity to teach.

"I sincerely follow the teachings of the Marquis!" Several surrendered generals replied together.

Lin Feng had almost eaten at this time, so he simply put down his job and said: "The situation in Ruyang City can't be improved by helping to clean up the ruins and arranging a few soup kitchens. We also need to take some measures to restore the city. vitality.

Tian Jianxiu, most of your soldiers were recruited in Ruyang City some time ago, right? "

"Back to the Marquis, yes, 50,000 people were recruited near Ruyang City." Tian Jianxiu replied.

"Our Zhenming Army does not rely on numbers to win. This time, all the 30,000 to 40,000 surrendered troops will be inspected once, and all the old, weak, and only children in the family will be eliminated. Only about 10,000 soldiers will be left. Each of the eliminated personnel will be given two rations. Ji Lie will be responsible for this matter, while Tian Jianxiu and you will assist," Lin Feng explained.

"Understood!" Song Jilie and others took the order.

"Removing the excess soldiers and returning home will increase the population of Ruyang City, but so many people can't do nothing. Luo Kai, you are responsible for finding a few available people from the original state government and asking them to organize civilians to fight against Ruyang The necessary funds will be used to repair the damaged areas in the city from Nanjing."

Lin Feng went on to make arrangements. He got a lot of money in Nanjing this time, and Lin Feng would not be a miser. He only needs to use the money to be effective.

"Master Marquis, there is a shortage of food in the city. Even if you have money, it is difficult to buy it." Song Jilie continued to report.

Ruyang City was severely plundered by Li Zicheng's army before, and all the food and grass they could find were taken away. Naturally, the city was very short of food. "Don't worry about the food issue. Ma Ang, please send a message to Luoyang to ask Zhenming Group's Li's Cereals and Oils to settle in Ruyang as soon as possible to ensure Ruyang's food supply." Lin Feng casually ordered that Zhenming Group has sown high-yield potatoes since last year. , corn, etc. have achieved bumper harvests, and grain reserves are sufficient.

"Yes! I'll go over and deliver the message right away." Ma Ang replied.

"Hey, the biggest headache now is the lack of civil affairs officials. Someone in Ruyang City needs to be temporarily in charge." Lin Feng said.

"Master Hou, can I make a suggestion?" Yuan Zongdi said anxiously.

"Go ahead."

"Our original military advisor Song Xiance is relatively upright and proficient in logistics affairs. Maybe we can give him a try." Yuan Zongdi recommended.

"Oh, is Song Xiance captured too?"

"Yes, he took the initiative to surrender. He also participated in cleaning up the city today. He admires our upright attitude towards the people." Song Jilie added.

"Okay, let him try it first." Lin Feng agreed after thinking about it for a while. The civil affairs officials of the Zhenming Army have no military power, so I don't think he can make any trouble.

"Thank you, Lord Marquis!" Yuan Zongdi said in surprise and thanks when he saw that his suggestion was adopted.

At this time, Lin Feng considered that there were more generals from the peasant army captured this time, and this time the generals also had sufficient actual ability to lead troops in combat. Moreover, the Zhenming Army is now in short supply of generals and needs to be replenished as soon as possible.

He decided not to arrange for these demoted generals to return to Xi'an to participate in Zhenming Officer's training class this time. He planned to organize a training camp on the spot and supplement it immediately after the training. Otherwise, it would take at least a month to come and go, which would be too much of a delay.

So Lin Feng said to Tian Jianxiu and others: "Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo, you and other surrendered generals all have rich combat experience, but as I just said, our Zhenming Army is different from your peasant army. To hold the position of an officer in the Zhenming Army, one must first be familiar with the rules of the Zhenming Army.

I have decided to open a training course for officers in the army so that you can understand the military system, policies and combat requirements of our Zhenming Army as soon as possible. After the training, you will be assigned military positions based on your talents and training results. Deng Hao will be temporarily responsible for this matter, and I will give a lecture in person. "

"Yes!" Deng Hao, who was captured as a young man, happily accepted the task.

"Everything will be done according to the arrangement of the Marquis!" Tian Jianxiu and the others accepted it honestly.

Early the next morning, more than 30 officers above the sentinel level who surrendered from Li Zicheng's troops participated in the officer training class. Lin Feng attended in person and gave a speech, comprehensively expounding the purpose, team spirit and mission of the Zhenming Army. He wanted to give these The peasant army officers who had previously only fought for survival were infused with military souls.

Then he explained the Zhenming Army's military system, treatment and support system, so that these people could fully understand the situation of the Zhenming Army and give up the unrealistic idea of ​​continuing to control the army.

When they heard that the officers of the Zhenming Army were being treated generously and that their pay was never withheld, the surrendered officers all cheered. This was much better than being hungry and well-fed in the peasant army.

This training was planned to last for five days. In addition to Lin Feng's speech, Zhenming officers such as Song Jilie, Deng Hao, and Luo Kai were also arranged to explain the tactics and typical battle cases of the Zhenming Army, so that they could master the command and operational requirements of the Zhenming Army as soon as possible.

In the next few days, Lin Feng paid attention to the training of these officers, while arranging the reconstruction of Ruyang City and the reorganization of the surrendered troops.

Three days later, the reconstruction work of Ruyang City was in full swing. The fifty thousand taels of silver arranged by Lin Feng played a huge leading role, and the entire Ruyang City regained its vitality.

The reorganization of the peasant army's surrender has been basically completed. More than 20,000 old, weak, only children and other personnel unfit for service were removed, leaving 10,000 young men and women to form a supplementary battalion, which was temporarily under the management of the Third Mobile Division.

Seeing that all affairs in Ruyang were on the right track, Lin Feng ordered Luoyang combat division Fang Tiedan to lead a brigade to stay in Ruyang, while he led the army to Kaifeng Mansion.

(End of this chapter)