nanming man

Chapter 147
Gao Yihuan took advantage of Li Zicheng's proclaiming the emperor to say that the situation in Runing should be relatively stable, but checking the acres of land and stipulating land taxes, after all, harmed the interests of the gentry and the powerful to a certain extent.

Offending King Chong and Zhu's family is actually not that terrible. Zhu's family has only a few people, and without the cooperation of officials and gentry, there will be no disturbances.But the offended gentry are powerful, but the situation is different, they are capable of causing big things.

Seeing that Li Zicheng was defeated in a single battle, it was just the news that the Chuangjun's rule in some areas of Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi collapsed in an instant, so it is worthy of the second brother Gao's vigilance.

If it wasn't because he was going to Shandong this time, Brother Gao might have kept Liu Hongqi, but his trip to Shandong was very risky and he didn't want any problems in the rear, so he had to borrow Liu Hongqi's head.

In February, the second brother defeated Liu Hongqi and killed the local tyrant Huang Shiren. In fact, it had already deterred the local people to a certain extent.

This time Liu Hongqi was beheaded, and the gentry and tyrants could not help but sigh when they saw that the giant bandits who once had more than [-] soldiers were beaten to death just because they robbed Gao Yihuan of a few chariots of soldiers, and his head was in a different place. He also raised his vigilance, not to offend Gao Yihuan, the thief leader, and began to behave carefully.

After Liu Hongqi was killed, Gao Yihuan met Yi Daosan, Yang Dongqing and other leaders of the cottage.

The second brother's original idea was to cut off all the bosses, and then recruit ordinary mountain bandits, so that many hidden dangers could be avoided, but the two tied Liu Hong up to vote, but the killing seemed a bit dishonest, which would affect the second brother's reputation , so Gao Yihuan reluctantly left him behind.

Yang Dongqing is a dog-headed military adviser and an old scholar. It was easy to arrange, and the second brother Gao gave him a civilian job.The bosses like Yi Daosan were not at ease staying with the second elder brother of Runing Gao, so he decided to keep them with him to prevent them from colluding with their subordinates.When the second brother took them to Shandong for a tour, and when he came back, more than a thousand local bandits had been reorganized, so Gao Yihuan could use them with confidence.

At the end of May, outside the city of Runing, Gao Yihuan mobilized elites from various ministries out of more than [-] people, and formed a temporary battalion of more than [-] soldiers.

On the official road outside the city, nearly [-] cavalrymen rode in two rows, guarding a large banner, and the infantry behind them, with banners and banners, walked beside the road, with a large number of mule carts in the middle, returning home Virtue marches.

Gao Yihuan and others were standing in the long pavilion by the side of the road. Lu Yifang looked at Gao Yihuan's posture, as if he was about to evacuate Shandong, smiled and cupped his fists, "I hope the general will succeed~"

Gao Yihuan's trip to Shandong this time, although he was going to Shandong to snatch war horses, his motives were somewhat impure, but it was after all a fight against Tartars.At a time when the officers and soldiers were as fearful of Tartars as tigers, Lu Yifang admired how Brother Gao dared to touch a tiger's butt.

Gao Yi smiled happily, cupped his hands and said, "With the auspicious words of Lord Lu, Yihuan will entrust the Lord of Lu for the civil affairs of Runing."

"Don't worry, general, I will do my best in Ru Ning's civil affairs." Lu Yifang bowed solemnly, trying his best to put on an expression that would reassure Gao Yihuan.

But the more he was like this, the more uncertain Gao Yihuan felt. The second brother was very suspicious now, and he was not very relieved about these demotions.

Second Brother Gao nodded, then turned to look at Zhao Daxian who was at the side, "Daxian, you have to keep an eye on Runing while I'm away. If there is any change in Zuo Liangyu in the south, you just need to monitor and guard Wuyang Pass. Don't rush to send troops. Do you understand?"

Zhao Daxian was looking at Luyi, but Gao Yihuan transferred him back to Runing. He was relieved to have this person of his own.

"Second brother, don't worry, I know how powerful it is." Zhao Daxian clasped his fists and said, "Brothers, wait for second brother to return with a full load." After speaking, he glanced at Gao Yihuan and added, "Da Juanzi also looks forward to second brother's return soon."

Gao Yihuan's scalp became numb when he heard this, he hurriedly cupped his hands, then got on his horse in a panic, and led Jin Shenghuan, Jin Xiangang, Zhao Zhuzi, Huang San and other generals, and galloped towards Guide.

Last year, Liu Heizi went to Gao Yihuan in Nanyang to get the scriptures, and when he returned to Guide, he began to distribute land to the people.

There are quite a lot of vassal land in Guide Mansion, and the gentry and landlords were tortured and squeezed by Zhao Yingyuan for more than half a year, either killed or fled, so Liu Heizi has not a lot of land.

Sure enough, this subdivision of land won the hearts of many poor people. Many victims who fled from Kaifeng chose to make their homes here.Even the people under the rule of several other captains in Guide Mansion also fled to Shangqiu and Yongcheng controlled by Liu Heizi.

Gao Yihuan led the troops to Luyi first, and the original old city wall was gone, replaced by a red prismatic fortress.The Sifang City in Luyi has been transformed into a polygon, with each corner sticking out, a bit like a huge five-pointed star.

In the original city walls, when the enemy attacked one side, they would only suffer counterattacks from the defenders, but now no matter which side they attacked, the enemy troops would be pinched by the tentacles protruding from the city walls, and would receive multiple blows from the crossfire of two or three city walls.

In addition to the great change in the shape of the city wall, the city uses trenches to form a trench wall. Without reducing the height of the city wall, half of the wall is below the ground level, and the wall exposed to the ground is larger than the original wall. The city wall is much lower, which greatly improves the ability of the city wall to defend against artillery.

At this time, the entire bastion had begun to take shape, but it was not yet fully completed. There were still many masons and peasants busy on the fort wall.

After Second Brother Gao arrived in Luyi, the troops rested for a while. Accompanied by Sun Yucheng, he inspected the construction of the entire fort, and found that it was still a little different from what he thought. It was built with a lot of Ming Dynasty style.

The construction of the entire bastion will take almost a year, and it is estimated that it will be fully completed in June, and only the supporting artillery will be needed by then.

Gao Yihuan rested in Luyi for two days, looked at the bastion, and inspected the wheat fields by the Guoshui River, then set off again and entered the area under Liu Heizi's rule.

Along the way, the army met from time to time, a group of dark young men pushing wheelbarrows. They transported charcoal to Luyi, and then loaded grain from Luyi and transported it back to Dehe Yongcheng.

In fact, Yongcheng's coal output is not small now, but due to the limitation of transportation costs, most of the coal can only be transported to Luyi, Chenzhou and other places, and the transportation cost will increase further, so it is not worthwhile.

It is precisely because of this that Gao Erge only built bastions in Luyi, Chenzhou and other places, and did not plan to build bastions in Runing, because the cost of transporting coal from Yongcheng to Runing was relatively high, so he could only transport some For the smelting and forging of fine iron, firearms, and weapons, only some low-temperature bricks can be fired to build some warehouses and workshops.

Two days after leaving Luyi, Gao Yihuan rode a black steed and led the army to the outside of Shangqiu City. The fields here were allotted by Liu Heizi. Many lands were not able to grow winter wheat, so they planted a season of spring wheat and beans. and vegetables.

Second Brother Gao was riding a horse and looked at the busy crowd in the field, so he knew that this year Liu Heizi would have no worries about food and clothing.

"Second brother, Liu Heizi is here to welcome us!" Zhao Zhuzi said suddenly, pointing his whip at the long pavilion in front of him.

Gao Yihuan looked up, and sure enough, he saw a group of people gathered outside the pavilion in front, and Heitan was the leader, who was the mighty general Liu Heizi~
(End of this chapter)