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Chapter 767 This is a gift in return
Prince Rui's silver bullet offensive was too ruthless, especially when Prince Rui gave it a formal establishment.

It is not a one-shot deal, but a long-term cooperation.

Since ancient times, civil servants have been the most sought-after jobs in the world. To ordinary people, being able to eat imperial food is like smoke from the ancestral grave, and it can even be said to be a big leap in class.

The so-called learning of literary and martial arts is sold to the emperor's family.

People who can't eat the emperor's food are useless.

Besides, isn't the best ending for a rebellion to be recruited?

The reason why "Water Margin" is good is because of capitulationism.

A job that eats the royal rations, and a stable salary, only a fool would want to pin his head on his waistband to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

What's more, Prince Rui also pardoned all previous crimes, even if he killed important officials of the Qing Dynasty and Manchurians before, he would not be held accountable.

At that scene, the sound of gongs and drums was short, friends and friends were called, and the red flag was waving.

After the release of "The Letter to Xinghan Army Officers and Soldiers", the entire Hubei region set off a climax of returning to the Qing anyway. Those who had already surrendered wrote letters to their relatives and friends in the Xinghan Army according to Prince Rui's request. The Prince-Prince Mix seems to have developed into a phenomenon of human-to-human transmission.

The Xinghan army cannot respond effectively in the short term, and this phenomenon will soon spread to Hunan and Jiangxi.

What will be shaken at that time will not be the ruling foundation of the Xinghan Army, but their lives.

By the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the number of county towns in the whole of Hubei that had announced their complete transfer to Qing had increased to 29, involving areas such as Anlu, Yunyang, Yichang, Shinan, Jingzhou, and De'an.

The situation is not a small one, but a real one.

That is to say, Jia Liu's small advertisement disintegrated the local construction of the Xinghan Army for more than a year, destroyed their ruling foundation, and reduced the Hubei territory controlled by it from the original 90.00% to the current 40.00%. less than.

In Hubei alone, the number of people who can effectively provide money and food for the Xinghan Army has dropped sharply to less than 300 million, mainly concentrated around Wuchang.

The results of the former Wuchang Great Victory Slaying Dingxi General Feng's quota can be said to have been completely wiped out in the face of the silver bullet offensive.

Jia Liu doesn't like high-profile, and he has repeatedly emphasized to the "Daqing Daily" reporting team not to highlight him too much. It is enough to give him a report a week, an extra issue in half a month, and a special issue in a month.

But in front of the actual achievements and political achievements, he was still a little proud.

And think it can be properly publicized.

To dispel the world's suspicion of him;
Second, to strengthen the determination of the government and the opposition to suppress chaos;
As a result, not only did the "Daqing Daily" report on the great achievements of the Great General Wang on the Huguang front in an explosive manner, but also various villain books about the Great General Wang Zhengzhan also worked overtime to print.

The papers asking for money and food that had been sent to Beijing in the past were all turned into documents of victory.

Even if a small town is regained, Jia Liu must solemnly report a victory to Beijing.

He personally doesn't think this is asking for credit from the court, or forcing money on his face, but to stabilize the court's hearts.

In essence, it is for the good of the Qing Dynasty.

The result is that the papers of victory are really flying all over the sky like snowflakes, so that the Minister of Rites, Queenie, who is an intern at the Military Aircraft Department, said with emotion to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chujun in the room: "If the Qing Dynasty had used Prince Rui early, why would it have been defeated repeatedly? Losing divisions and losing ground, the army's prestige is weak, and the national prestige is not displayed."

The magistrates appointed by the Xinghan Army of the Anlu and Yunyang prefectures led the soldiers and civilians in the city anyway, which made this wave of atmosphere escalate again.

The Xinghan Army stationed in Yuan'an and Dangyang Counties of Jingmen Prefecture was another division-level force that surrendered to the Qing Army after Zhongxiang's Third Army.

Preliminary statistics from the governor's office in Hubei show that the total number of bandit troops surrendered from various places is about [-] to [-]. Except for the third army that Yu Zhongxiang surrendered, the rest of the troops are mostly second-line troops of the Xinghan regime.

This was a good thing in the first place, and it showed that Prince Rui's strategy of attacking the heart had succeeded. Both the local rule of the Xinghan Army and the number of their soldiers and horses were greatly weakened.

Some optimistic officials even believed that within three months at most, General Wang would be able to completely pacify Huguang and send the bandit leader to Lingchi, Beijing.

However, the more Xinghan troops surrendered, the more problems arose.

The matter of appeasement is mainly in charge of the United Front Office of General Wang Xingyuan, and the person in charge of this office is Ji Yun, Minister of the Ministry of War.

The results are remarkable, no one can deny that.

The problem is that Director Ji doesn't care about the head and the tail, that is, he just spends money to recruit people to surrender, and how to arrange the follow-up is all pushed to the governor's office in Hubei.

As a result, Hubei governor Zheng Dajin, who was demoted to five ranks and stayed in office, was almost fainted by the surrender.

At the beginning, it was only an isolated phenomenon, but as the situation progressed, the individual phenomenon has evolved into a common phenomenon, and there may even be repetitions.

For this reason, Zheng Dajin had to make a personal statement to the Great General Wang.

According to him, the quality of those soldiers who surrendered was extremely low. They were either local bravery, yamen soldiers, Taoist armed forces, or even bandits.

For example, the Xinghan army that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Fang County, Yunyang was a team that the local strongman Song Xing forced the people to pull up. Song Xing used to make a living by gambling and opening kilns. , The city gate planted a flag and transformed into a rebel army, and was later recruited by the Xinghan Army as a brigade commander and still towned Fangxian County.

This Song Xing is also weird, after becoming a bandit army, although he also fishes and meats the common people, he has a certain limit and dare not go too far.

It is acceptable that after the Qing army recruited An to become the garrison of Daqingfang County, Song Xing intensified his cruelty to the people, either asking the people to pay this tax or that money. As many as seven or eight people died in vain.

Apart from torturing the common people, Song Xing even ignored the demands of the "working group" sent by the governor's office in Hubei. 1200 people reported 3000 people, hoping to get paid for it.

The members of the "working group" are all elite personnel sent by the governor's yamen, they are not fools, they refuse to agree to Song Xing's request, and only willing to report the actual amount for the salary of the troops.

Song Xing is quitting, and he is always talking about Prince Rui's preferential treatment. It is very likely that you, the Hubei Governor's Yamen, will not meet my requirements, and you are going against Prince Rui!

He is the chief culprit who destroyed Prince Rui's united front!
This made the "working group" very passive and fully satisfied Song Xing's requirements. The province could not afford the money, and it would also increase Song Xing's appetite.

If you don't meet Song Xing's request, people will talk about Prince Rui and even threaten to cut your braids back if it's a big deal. This is a serious problem.

If Song Xing is really forced to turn against him, Prince Rui doesn't want the heads of the people in their working group!

There was no way, the "working group" had no choice but to bite the bullet and borrow money and food for the Song Xing Ministry's expenses. As a result, the recovery of Fang County not only did not reduce the burden on the people, but increased the suffering of the people.

Those sufferers who were murdered by Song Xing had nowhere to complain.

These are still secondary, after all, the land is regained in name.

In many places, they fought directly, surrendered and rebelled.

The reason for the fight was that the regular army of the Qing army looked down on these bandit soldiers who came to surrender.

For example, Wang Deyong, the admiral of Shaanxi, looked down on the surrendered Xinghan army. Although Wang Deyong himself put the overall situation first and tried his best to properly arrange the surrendered troops, the people below could not understand this situation. Help surrender.

The two sides quarreled with each other, rioted, and almost went to war, which made Wang Deyong not only unable to effectively threaten Jingzhou, but was overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of surrendered troops, and had to send out heavy troops to guard against it.

It felt like a thorn stuck in the throat.

In addition to conflicts with the regular army of the Qing army, the surrendered army also had conflicts with the local landlord armed forces.

In Suizhou, there are more than a thousand brave people recruited by the squire Dong Mou to resist the Xinghan army. They persisted in the struggle for almost a year. During this period, they provided a lot of help to the Qing army who came to quell the chaos. , casualties on both sides were not small.

As a result, the Xinghan Army in Suizhou City suddenly changed its banner and descended to the Qing Dynasty. Not only did it get the regular army establishment given by Prince Rui, but the bandit leaders also transformed into the capital, guard, and general manager, and became "officials" over Dong's head.

After becoming an official, the surrendered troops in Suizhou City became very arrogant, showing off their power, and looting houses was commonplace.

Many surrendered generals thought that they were restrained by Wuchang when they were bandits in the past, and now they have to be restrained after becoming an official army, so they might as well be inappropriate as an official army.

"There is no officer or army in the world who doesn't rob. I'm worthy of the Qing Dynasty and Prince Rui if I don't kill the good and pretend to be meritorious!"

Good guy, in the eyes of these descendants, the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty naturally have the legality and justice of robbery.

Due to past hatred, the Suizhou Jiangjun raided Dong's Xiangyong team. Dong himself and a dozen of his nephews were killed by them, and hundreds of Xiangyong were killed by the Jiangjun.

When the news came out, the gentry in Suizhou were outraged and complained to Xiangyang, the temporary residence of the governor's office, saying that the governor did not make decisions for the people of Suizhou, so the people of Suizhou had to organize themselves and no longer be for the people of the Qing Dynasty, which caused Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, a headache. .

Let's send troops to suppress them, those surrendered troops were recruited by Prince Rui preferentially, if Prince Rui doesn't send troops, how can he send troops?
Don't send troops to suppress it. This surrendered army is wearing the clothes of officers and soldiers, but what they do is the work of bandits. What is bad is the root of the Qing Dynasty.

During this period, two serious cases occurred.

One, Ma Guoquan, commander of the Xinghan Army, shot and killed Song Jingya, the county magistrate sent by the Hubei governor's yamen;

The reason is that Ma Guoquan's subordinates are all fierce soldiers. After the surrender, due to the time limit, the governor's office in Hubei did not send personnel to receive the resettlement immediately. Kill them if they fail.

He extorted nearly 20 taels of silver before and after, killing more than ten lives.

Song Jingya learned of what Ma Guoquan had done when he was ordered to go to the Ministry of Ma Guoquan to carry out resettlement work, and exposed the matter out of righteous indignation.

Before the governor's office in Hubei could respond to the incident, the county magistrate Song was shot dead by Ma Guoquan, who reported that he had slipped and drowned.

The second is that the surrendered general Qin blatantly beat the local officials, extorted them, and let his troops go to the countryside to expropriate them under the name of the Qing Dynasty official army.

"Does the prince know what the people say? They say that the officers and soldiers are as fierce as tigers!"

Zheng Dajin was really angry. He had no objection to Prince Rui recruiting the bandit army, but he couldn't recruit everyone in such a rush.

At least check out, even if you don't kill people with bad nature, you can't do it for their officials.

As a result, mud and sand fell, not only the Qing army was passive, but the people also suffered.

"Is there such a thing?"

Jia Liu was also confused. If what Zheng Dajin said was true, he was not recruiting security, but hiding filth, ruining the last little illusion of the people about the Qing Dynasty, and indirectly helping the Xinghan Army to clean up the team.

What's more, if these unbearable descendants break out, his silver bullet offensive will become a joke.

"Recently, many returned soldiers sneaked back to their homes at night, resulting in fewer fighters, and it is impossible to verify."

"There are also quite a few rangers and sergeants who paid for the repatriation wearing our Qing military uniforms and staying everywhere. Most of these people are idlers, addicted to prostitution and gambling, taking advantage of the situation to show off and commit crimes."

"There are general stragglers who don't return to the team, collude with ruffians outside, run rampant with evil and fraud, go in and out of teahouses and wine shops in groups, squander at will or slander good people, extort money, or hang out with prostitutes to gamble, thinking of profit, all kinds of evil. The traces are hard to enumerate.”

The more Zheng Dajin talked, the more excited he became.

"The lord treats these surrendered soldiers preferentially, but these surrendered soldiers don't know the lord's heart. After they surrendered, they broke into civilian houses and robbed them, breaking military discipline, ruining my Qing Dynasty's reputation, and also ruining the lord's reputation!"

After hearing what Zheng Dajin said, Jia Liu rubbed his forehead and said to himself: "Tell me, do these people think that this king is stupid with so much money?"

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The left and right, including Zheng Dajin, dare not speak, but they are generally close to the truth.

"Let's have a meeting."

Whenever there is a major event, Jia Liu will hold a meeting.

This time it was not a joint military and political meeting of the Qing Dynasty, nor a special meeting of the Gongjinhui, but a meeting to convene the generals who surrendered one after another.

For this reason, Ji Yun sent a notice to let the generals rush to Zhongxiang within five days.

"Those who are willing to come to the meeting, I can give them a chance. Those who are not willing to come to the meeting,"

Jia Liu didn't say it, but he really hasn't killed anyone for a long time.

Wuchang City, Yellow Crane Tower.

This building was rebuilt no less than ten times in history, or was destroyed by war or lightning strikes. Now this building was rebuilt by Shi Yizhi, governor of Huguang in the first year of Qianlong.

Today, a governor of Huguang also came to the top of the Yellow Crane Tower, but it was Chen Huizu.

Wang Wenyuan, the prefect of Wuchang, who accompanied Chen Huizu to the tower.

The two were both officials of the Qing Dynasty more than a year ago. This Wang Wenyuan was an official who was single-handedly promoted by Lao Chen, and he also wrote a letter to persuade him to surrender.

When they came to the top of the building, the two of them looked from a distance with heavy expressions.

Just because the current situation is obviously unfavorable to the Xinghan Army.

After a while, Lao Chen took out a letter from his sleeve and gave it to Wang Wenyuan.

Wang Wenyuan took it in doubt, and was stunned after watching it: "What kind of dragon head stick?"

"Probably the big seal of the Mutual Aid Society."

Old Chen was also not sure if the leading stick mentioned by Prince Rui was referring to the big seal in the meeting, he felt it should be.

"Mutual aid?"

Wang Wenyuan was not high enough in the past, so he had never heard of the Mutual Aid Society, a secret society spontaneously organized by the governor of the Qing Dynasty.

Lao Chen hesitated for a while, and briefly explained the program and motivation of the Mutual Aid Association.

Wang Wenyuan hesitated after hearing this: "Master Taiwan is also a mutual aid member?"

"It used to be."

Old Chen's expression was a little lonely. He was one of the first batch of members of the Mutual Aid Association, but he was expelled from the association today.

After hearing this, Wang Wenyuan thought of the 10 taels mentioned in the letter, and couldn't help but "click", and said in a low voice: "Could it be that the Taiwanese government intends to return to the Qing Dynasty?"

"It's not about returning to the Qing Dynasty, it's about returning to the Huizhong."

After going through the battle between heaven and man in his heart, Lao Chen told Wang Wenyuan: "You take 30 taels of silver from the treasury and send it to Prince Yu Rui secretly with me. Remember, this matter must not be known to a third party."

"This"

Wang Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, and said a little puzzled, "My lord, didn't Prince Rui give you 10 taels?"

Old Chen shook his head slightly: "The prince sent it off, the prince gave it to him, and I gave it to me. This is a gift in return, so don't be confused."

(End of this chapter)