Wanli 1592

Chapter 812 Land plot
It was August [-]th that Chai Guozhu was ordered to say that he would lead troops south to the court.

On this day, Shen Yiguan once again received a report from the Yangzhou government. The Yangzhou government reported that the bandit army from the Zhenjiang government had not continued to fight north since they invaded Nanjing, but stuck to Zhenjiang and Nanjing. The river was blocked, and the Yangzhou government stated that if this navy cannot be wiped out, it will be difficult to recover Zhenjiang and Nanjing.

After hearing the news, Shen Yiguan convened a cabinet meeting. The main content of the meeting was to discuss the candidate for the head coach who went south to seek thieves.

There is no need to think about the military general. This time it is impossible for the military general to be the coach. He must choose a trusted general to lead the troops to the south. Shen’s consistent requirements are strong ability, senior qualifications, and high loyalty. He can deter Jingying and Jizhen. Soldiers and horses in Liaodong.

The ministers recommended one after another, and Shen Yiguan expressed dissatisfaction. Then someone even recommended Xiao Daheng and Liu Huangshang, but Shen Yiguan refused.

Xiao Daheng wants to stay by his side to help him with military affairs, and Liu Huangshang wants to counsel the military plane for him. These two cannot leave him.

Therefore, a capable man with both civil and military skills must be selected as the commander-in-chief of the rebellion.

When everyone was having a headache for the candidate, Zhao Shiqing suddenly proposed a name.

"No, how about reactivating Li Hualong?"

Shen Yiguan looked at Zhao Shiqing.

"Is it Li Hualong, the former governor of Liaodong?"

Zhao Shiqing nodded.

"Li Hualong has successively served as the local governor. He has led troops for many years and is extremely capable of using them. This is a well-known fact. He is from Henan. He left office due to illness in 23 years of Wanli and recuperated at home. It has been three years now. He is a good candidate."

Xiao Daheng also thinks that Li Hualong is a good candidate.

"Li Hualong can suppress the Liaodong Titans in Liaodong, and his ability to control his subordinates is extremely strong. Since Li Hualong is going to call the Liaodong Army this time, it is obvious that Li Hualong is the best candidate."

Shen Yiguan searched for it.

"Then issue an edict to him and ask him what he means. If he is willing to come, let him come to the capital. I want to see him."

Xiao Daheng immediately went to make arrangements.

With the candidates for the head coach confirmed, the selection of generals must be accelerated. Chai Guozhu's Jizhen soldiers and Li Rusong's Liaodong soldiers are the best choices. Stability, it is impossible to deploy soldiers and horses, and Yulin, which is farther away, does not think about it, and there is too little time.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was blocked, and the grain could not reach the north. This caused a shortage of food in all parts of the north that had just experienced the Northern Expedition.

Although the Shanxi merchants can get a large amount of grain, most of this grain is used to resettle the local disaster victims so that they can survive this difficult year, and there is too little that can be used for the army.

After rough calculations, it is still a question of whether Shen Yiguan's food can last for half a year if 10 people are to go south to fight against the rebels. The sooner Xiao Ruxun's remnants can be eliminated, the more crisis can be resolved.

As for whether Xiao Ruxun is really still alive, Shen Yiguan has ordered Luo Sigong to take Jin Yiwei to solve this matter, and asked him to give an accurate answer for half a month, otherwise, he will make Luo Sigong look good.

Luo Sigong has been completely bound by Shen Yiguan, and all actions are based on Shen Yiguan's will.

Shen has always used Luo Sigong's Jinyiwei to carry out white tricks comparable to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. In order to ensure his own power and safety, he let Jinyiwei's tentacles extend to almost every minister's home, and no trouble can escape his attention.

He now began to understand why Zhu Yuanzhang set up Jinyiwei in the first place, and how Zhu Yuanzhang knew what the ministers ate and dressed.

Secret agents are really easy to use and great. It's great to use them to strengthen themselves, deter ministers, and increase their power and prestige!

But relatively, if too much power is used to monitor the capital to maintain law and order, the number of Jinyiwei who can be used outside will be greatly reduced. For example, this operation against the south was handled by Luo Sigong's efforts to squeeze out manpower.

Shen Yiguan's side is nervously preparing for the war going south, while Xiao Ruxun's side is basically smooth sailing.

When Shen Yiguan learned of the resurgence of "border troubles" in Liaodong and the news that Li Rusong led an army out to suppress the rebellion, that is, on August 27, Xiao Ruxun conquered Guilin, occupied Guilin Mansion, and then made a strategy of going east and north.

Since then, Xiao Ruxun has basically conquered areas where the southern gentry is relatively weak, and he is going to lead the main force into areas where the southern gentry is strong, such as Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhi.

As for Guizhou, Xiao Ruxun did not plan to make progress.

When the four major chieftains ruled Guizhou, the power of the Ming government in Guizhou was actually very limited. Xiao Ruxun arranged a team to station in Huaiyuan to be alert to the trend in Guizhou. The chieftain's jurisdiction contacted these chieftains and asked them to keep as neutral as possible.

After all, the Ming court still had tame people in Guizhou, and there were still some troops, but these troops were not in Xiao Ruxun's eyes.

In order not to waste time, Xiao Ruxun ignored Guizhou and went north to Huguang with the goal of Changsha.

Chen Lin and Li Wenyuan led troops from Guangdong to Fujian. The first thing they faced was the commercially developed Zhangzhou Prefecture. There were a large number of large merchants here. They were basically backed by gentry and had their own private armed forces. The official strength was weak, but these Maritime merchants are not easy to deal with.

Xiao Ruxun's instruction to Chen Lin and Li Wenyuan is to dare to resist the raids, take away the money, and distribute the land and houses to the local landless farmers.

At present, Xiao Ruxun doesn't want to make the problem too complicated, and he doesn't want to shout the slogan of beating local tyrants and dividing the land, but in fact, doing this in some places may have an unexpected effect.

Xiao Ruxun thinks so, and the fact is the same, but Xiao Ruxun has never really figured out the peasants' sense of belonging to the land in this era, and doesn't quite understand what the land means to the farmers in this era.

He has experienced hunger and experienced the brutal competition for survival, but he has only read books about the hardships of ancient peasants, and knows the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood behind the words "Yizi Xiangxi" Blood and tears.

He has seen hungry people in Myanmar, but there is a lot of wasteland in Myanmar, and there is no shortage of land. Later, the food production increased steadily, and after the introduction of potatoes and corn, no one was hungry anymore, so he could not really understand the psychology of the people of the Ming Dynasty. Activity.

Therefore, he still doesn't really understand the plot of the land that ordinary people have passed down for thousands of years.

Strictly speaking, the Ming Dynasty was not destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, but by Li Zicheng. The Ming Dynasty collapsed amid the cheers of "Chuang Wang came and didn't pay the grain"...

Sometimes, the beginning of a day's earth-shattering events begins with some inadvertently.

But at this moment, Xiao Ruxun didn't know.

(End of this chapter)