lied to Kangxi

Chapter 386 Coercion
Yu Zhu walked squarely and steadily into the lobby from the back, and stood in front of the big chair.

Scanning the audience for a week, Yu Zhu saw that everyone was very respectful and nodded slightly, knowing that it was a good thing to be afraid!
"That's all." Yuzhu gently waved his right arm and sat on the big chair.

After all, Erente was a first-rank military officer. After he got up, he sat down on the chair on Yuzhu's left side very politely.

As for the generals, deputy generals, generals and guerrillas, how could they have a seat in front of Yuzhu?
Hey, stand up honestly!
Zhou Quan, who was standing in front of the small table on the right side of Yuzhu, saw the wink, and picked up the roster of Pianyuan Luying, and began to roll their names one by one.

"Admiral of the Green Battalion, Erente."

"The mark is here." Erente stood up quickly, clasped his hands together, and answered loudly.

"The commander-in-chief of Yueyang Town..."

"The mark is here." This person Zhaqian responded directly, which was regarded as respectful.

"The commander-in-chief of Yongzhou Town..."

"The mark is here." The clever man followed Zhaqian and saluted.

"..."

After the roll call, everyone found out that no one was late, and they all came on time!

Except for the military officers from Zhendang Town, it was impossible to come here because of the mutiny going on.

All the officers who should be there are here.

"Huh..." Yu Zhu could clearly feel the sound of exhaling in the lobby.

Hehe, everyone is too nervous, lest Yuzhu take the opportunity to attack and kill someone!
Well, knowing that you are afraid is actually a good thing.

Yuzhu is not a murderous demon king, so he must cut off the heads of a few of his subordinates in order to gain power?

"Come here, please bring out the imperial gift and curb knife!"

"Hey." Niu Tai loudly agreed, and came out from the back hall, holding the jeweled Yebilong knife high in both hands.

"I am hereby ordered by the emperor..." Yuzhu stood up, paused for a while, and waited for the officers to kneel on the ground before slowly saying, "When the military situation is critical, the general soldier and his subordinates, Anyone who disobeys orders will be executed immediately!"

"The ministers will abide by the decree."

After all the generals returned to their respective shifts, Yuzhu slowly sat back on the big chair.

At this time, Zhou Quan picked up a notebook at the right time, and announced loudly in public: "According to the order of the Lord Fujun, the commander-in-chief of Yongzhou Town will be transferred to temporarily lead the army to move to Yueyang Town. The commander-in-chief of Yueyang Town will lead the army to move to Yongzhou Town... "

The green battalion in Hunan, in addition to the Fubiao and Tibiao pro-barracks, is divided into four towns under the jurisdiction of the general army.The number of soldiers and horses in each town is at least 5000 and the maximum is 8000.

The strategy Yuzhu adopted was to temporarily exchange the defense zones of the two town commanders in the east and the two town commanders in the west with their respective troops.

Is the biggest trouble in suppressing bandits the lack of money and food?
Actually not.

Among the bandits, the most troublesome thing is actually the fact that one of our own people secretly tipped off the news.

What's more, he dared to release water in private to let the bandits slip out of the encirclement.

Back then, when Li Chengliang took office as the General Army of Liaodong for the second time, he adopted a self-protection strategy of raising bandits and respecting himself, and watched Jiannu grow step by step.

From the perspective of Li Chengliang's personal interests, it is actually understandable.

However, the rise of Jiannu would do too much harm to Daming.

Yuzhu doesn't have so much time to identify who is secretly colluding with the gang.

So, simply transfer all the soldiers from western Hunan and replace them with soldiers from eastern Hunan.

"Master Fujun, I have something to say." Erente couldn't bear the persuasive eyes of his subordinates, so he stood up bravely and wanted to raise an objection.

Yuzhu didn't look at Erente at all, but stared at the general soldiers, and asked them coldly: "Don't you want to take orders?"

It seems like an understatement, but in fact, murderous intentions are overflowing!
Who dares to provoke a murder in public?
"Mark the order."

"Mark the order."

Fearing that they would be dealt with, several general soldiers expressed their attitude in a hurry.

Zhou Quan glanced at the obedient soldiers, his heart was clear.

Yuzhu just adopted the method of swapping, and did not dismiss any officer.

This move is really brilliant!
As the saying goes, rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry, let alone the generals who hold military power?

However, Yu Zhu did not touch the fundamental interests of Qiu Ba's officers.

The chief soldier is still the chief soldier, and the deputy general is still the deputy general. If you change places, you can still enjoy delicious food and spicy food.

Moreover, the eastern region of the province is obviously much richer than the western region, and has more oil and water.

Zhou Quan and Yuzhu had already discussed it, if someone dared to make a mutiny, hehe, it was just for the new army to sharpen their swords!

Today's Yu Zhu's subordinates, in addition to the direct line troops of the 3000 new army, there is also a [-]-man Fubiao pro-barracks, which is under the jurisdiction of a deputy general.

These [-] soldiers and horses are enough to suppress mutiny or rebellion in the whole province. Yu Zhu is full of confidence!
Besides, these general soldiers are out in the army, and their wives and children are all in Changsha City.

As long as they dare to rebel, Yuzhu will dare to raise the butcher's knife and destroy the three clans first!

In fact, Yuzhu is treated the same way.While he was leading the army outside, Xiuyun and Xiaoxuanyu had to stay in the capital and act as hostages.

Why didn't Kangxi want Cao Chun and Little Hammer as hostages?

Alas, the latent power of the Cao family is simply not worth mentioning, it is purely a family of wives who drag Yuzhu back.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools!
The so-called sharpening the knife without chopping firewood by mistake, Yu Zhu forced the commanders of the four towns to change their defenses. Whether they can fight or not is not important.

At least, the incident of stabbing Yuzhu's knife in the back is almost non-existent.

To put it bluntly, Yuzhu deliberately put on the posture of wanting to kill, just to successfully complete the major event of the exchange.

As long as the smooth transfer is successful, the situation of suppressing bandits in western Hunan will suddenly become clear.

Officials and bandits colluded secretly, how could the banditry of the cat and mouse family be wiped out?

However, there is still a big gap between agreeing to the swap and being able to carry it out smoothly.

As for the matter of bargaining, as Yu Zhu's identity, if he gets involved in it, I'm afraid it will dirty his mouth.

After discussing with several general soldiers, Zhou Quan came up with a preliminary plan.

"Report to Dong Weng, the students promised them that each town will pay 3 taels of starting fee first. The officials have eaten meat, and the big soldiers should drink some soup anyway?" Zhou Quan said so, which made Yu Zhu laugh.

Yu Zhu said with a smile: "You have done a good job, and you have to prioritize. The most urgent thing is to change the defense first, and then cut off the food road in the bandit area."

As Zhou Quan's confidant, he naturally knew about Yuzhu's plan.

Yuzhu's plan is simple yet ruthless.In a word, it cut off the grain roads in the bandit areas in western Hunan.

Grain and salt are only allowed out, not in.

There are many advantages to doing this, the most obvious being that it can force all the good farmers out of the bandit area.

It was a big taboo in feudal society that so many people left the bandit area, they were like refugees.

If Yuzhu was a native of the Qing Dynasty, he would definitely be helpless.

But the problem is, Yuzhu knows very well in his heart, and he is planning to let these people help build bridges, build roads, and dredge water conservancy projects.

Then let the farmers in the wealthy areas in the east contribute money and grain, which can be used to offset the corvee that should be served.

In this era, ordinary farmers are not worried about taxes such as land tax.

What can really make the self-cultivating peasants lose their homes is actually the stigmatized corvée.

The so-called corvee, in layman's terms, means that they bring their own food, money and bedding, and work for the government for free for three months every year.

In the past three months, not counting the time spent on the road, how terrible is this?
To put it bluntly, if the masters or yamen servants in the county want to punish you, they only need to send you to the remote and dangerous Xiangxi area to serve as a corvee, and that is a near-death situation.

The topography of Xiangxi area is divided into eight mountains, one slope, and one field.A serious farmer can barely make ends meet by farming the land alone.

As far as Yuzhu knew, the common people over there basically ate porridge with wild vegetables!Moreover, only eat dry food when you are busy, and eat thin food when you are free.

Often, there is only one thin wild vegetable porridge a day, barely surviving.

After Yuzhu got these poor ghosts out of the big ravine, whether it was building bridges, paving roads, or building canals and dams, they all had to do a day's work, and they were given rice and money for a day.

As for the farmers in the affluent areas of eastern Hunan and southern Hunan, they only need to pay some money and food to avoid all kinds of suffering, so they are naturally willing.

In addition, the treasury subsidizes a little money and food, hey, the refugees from Xiangxi have become cheap engineering teams.

If you want to be rich, build roads first!Only when roads are built can better trade be possible.

If you want to fill your stomach, aqueducts, storage dams and reservoirs are essential.

In this era without chemical fertilizers, agricultural harvests are inseparable from water conservancy projects.

As long as it has been in operation for more than two years, the situation in the whole of Hunan will also open up.

It can be said that it can be done in one fell swoop!

After the important matter was settled, Yuzhu was relaxed and in a good mood.

Because Pan Zongluo's family members are also embarrassed, they have lived in the back office for a long time and moved out two days ago.

Yuzhu walked around and went back to the back office.

After entering the room and changing his official clothes, Yu Zhu took a sip of tea and heard Cao Chun say, "My lord, the head steward of the feudal government's yamen sent an invitation card, saying that it was Enie from Wanyan Fantai, who will be over seventy years old." Dashou, I want to invite me over there."

Yu Zhu smiled and said: "Wanyan Lu and I cooperate well, so I'll give him this face. When the time comes, you will bring a generous gift."

We still have to talk about the sophistication of people in the officialdom.

Wanyanlu's mother celebrated her [-]th birthday, if Cao Chun didn't show her face, Wanyanlu would be thinking wildly.

A few days later, Cao Chun was about to go out to celebrate his birthday with a small hammer, when he heard the report from the porter.

"Mrs. Fantai, Mrs. Fantai has arrived at the gate of the house and said that she came to pick you up for a drink in person."

When Cao Chun heard this, he laughed, Wan Yanlu took the initiative to send his wife to pick her up, he is very good at life.

Both Yuzhu and Wanyanlu need each other's support.

The wives of the two of them also interacted with each other, and it was the norm in the officialdom to take the route of wives' contacts.

However, Cao Chun, accompanied by the wife of the feudal secretary, just appeared in front of the feudal secretary's office.

Good guy, I saw a large group of noble ladies with gold hairpins and emerald emeralds, each according to the rank of their husbands, waiting eagerly.

In the entire Pianyuan Province, Yuzhu is the highest official, and Cao Chun is the first lady.

This so-called, husband and wife are honorable!
(End of this chapter)