The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 728 Destroying Xu Dingguo's Family
The "Red Banner Army" gave up doing useless work and started the enclosure movement to stabilize one side and prepare for the imminent spring plowing.

Gu Rushan, Gu Zhun and others felt at ease because they had received the order from the head of the family not to starve to death.

It doesn't matter if there is not enough food on hand. Nantong Prefecture reserves a full 40 shi of rice imported from Nanyang, which has been shipped to Huguang. Ships under [-] tons can directly deliver the food to Xiangyang.

Flat-bottomed inland river ships with a displacement of less than [-] tons in Nanyang can do it. With waterways to transport food in and refugees out, the cost is [-]% cheaper than using wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carriages, and it also saves a lot of hard work.

In the past two years, Zhao Kun, Gu Rushan, Gu Zhun, etc. organized the reclamation to have an effect. They all managed to ensure self-sufficiency in food and saved some surplus food, which added up to 50 million shi.

It is already February, and an average adult starving person has one stone of grain enough to last until the autumn harvest.

With the strength of the inland "Red Banner Army" and the estimated number of acres of land that can be obtained, it is not a problem to resettle 200 million refugees for farming.

After recapturing Xiangyang, Nanyang and other cities and taking this area, due to the kidnapping of tens of 10 people by bandits, there are no more than 80 ordinary people.

In the future, Xiangyang will become Zhao Kun's base camp, and the affairs of Wangchuan Fort will be taken over by Xiao Fengyang, the head of the banner guard who has been working in Jingzhou for more than three years.

There is a fortified city on Jiangxinzhou, with hundreds of soldiers and two to three thousand guards stationed there. When Xiangyang, which is four hundred miles to the north, is firmly controlled by the "Red Banner Army", it was attacked. There is basically no possibility.

After Tang Wang returned to Nanyang, he saw a piece of scorched earth and hungry people waiting to be fed everywhere. He knew that if these people's livelihoods were not resolved, and spring plowing was not organized quickly, these people would starve to death or become rogues.

He had no intention of chasing the bandits, and he was in a hurry to deal with the urgent need. He still had to find the remains of his family and put them in the ground for safety, and he had to arrange the funeral. He was really busy.

Of course, Shi Kunshan took charge of the security of the people and military training, and the method adopted was exactly the same as that of the "Red Banner Army". In fact, half of the main officers of King Tang's army were banner guards or were seconded from the "Red Banner Army".

It is estimated that after a year or so, the direct descendants of King Tang will be almost the same as the "Red Banner Army". While they obey the orders of King Tang, they will pay more attention to whether they run counter to the military order of the Patriarch.

If such a situation occurs, Shi Kunshan will use communication methods to try to get Tang Wang to change his mind. If Tang Wang insists on going his own way, then he will be embarrassed, because this army will not listen to dispatch.

Gu Zhun, Gu Rushan, and Pei Yuanwu will lead their troops back to their garrison soon. There are too many new recruits and more new laborers. Strengthen training and strive to double the number of soldiers who have reached the standard of regular soldiers by the end of the year.

In the early March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, General Zhenglu inspected more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Shanxi and Xuanda, which were busy with spring plowing, and then went to Huxue City through Juyongguan.

Governor of Xuanda Yang Sichang was left in the capital by Chongzhen. The new governor of Xuanda was Chen Xinjia.

The personnel adjustment of the imperial court has been going on all the time, sometimes it is completely out of order, and more often it is Chongzhen who sends eunuchs to point fingers at the place.

For this reason, many literati and bureaucrats were angered, and there were really many ministers who advised eunuchs to intervene in politics. Unfortunately, Chongzhen increasingly distrusted civil servants and generals, and pinned his hopes on the birdless people he was more familiar with.

In fact, whether there are birds or not has nothing to do with loyalty and ability. The proportion of eunuchs who are corrupt and perverting the law is not inferior to that of civil officials and generals. Chongzhen clearly distrusted ministers so much that more ministers were distracted.

The guarding eunuch of Xuanfu was replaced by Du Xun, Datong had Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the supervising army, and there were eunuchs in Juyongguan, Ningwuguan, etc.

Huang Han didn't even know the emperor, why did Chongzhen send these birdless people to Shanxi and Xuanda?
After he organized a meeting of civil servants, generals and eunuchs, he made it clear that there was no need to make up the reason. Shanxi and Xuanda, which had just experienced wars, could not stand the toss. In the past two years, all powers belonged to the "Red Banner Army".

Civil officials and eunuchs who do not want to be marginalized can actively request to be transferred, and those who are willing to stay can also do things, but there will be no money or food to deal with.

If any civil official, military general or eunuch dared to blackmail the life-saving money and food of the common people, the fate of Chen Hongfan and Cao Pichang would be a lesson from the past.

If he has the courage to take charge, Huang Han guarantees that every remaining official will be able to achieve full excellence in performance appraisal.

All officials knew that General Zhenglu was not joking. Due to the powerful force of the "Red Banner Army", most of them chose to swallow their anger, and Chen Xinjia and Du Xun were no exception.

In order to frighten Xiaoxiao, Huang Han organized a large gathering in Datong with more than [-] participants before leaving.

At this gathering attended by both military and civilian officials, Huang Han used the power of life and death to kill Xu Dingguo, the general officer of Shanxi, his sons Xu Er'an, Xu Erji, and all the direct males in the family.

At the time of the execution, more than [-] senior military officers from Shanxi and Datong who were under the command of Datong Commander-in-Chief and above [-] Commander-in-Chief were executed as compensation.

Who is Xu Dingguo?Why did Huang Han single out him to destroy the family?A traitor, a big traitor, assassinated Gao Jie, one of the four Jiangbei towns in Nanming, in order to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

This made Nanming, which was already in jeopardy, even more dangerous. Shi Kefa said, "You can't do anything about the Central Plains, and the state affairs will be ruined by the bandits!"

This shows how damn Xu Dingguo is?Since he was interrogated by the flag guards and gave away 30 million taels of his family's wealth, Huang Han, of course, took the lives of this traitor and a family of men with embezzlement and perverted the law, and made his family die.

Wang Pu and other generals embezzled far more money than Xu Dingguo. Seeing more than a dozen heads of the Xu family rolling down, Wang Pu was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder and bowels on the spot.

This man was a runaway general, and was eventually punished by Emperor Chongzhen Ming Zhengdian. Huang Han did not kill him, but gave a warning after the rally, released Wang Pu and other detained generals, and ordered them to leave Shanxi and Xuanda within ten days.

At this level of strength, he has no scruples. Letting these generals who deducted military pay and drank the blood of soldiers is to reveal to the world the rules of the "Red Banner Army" after taking over the Ming army.

It will be much more convenient to do things in the future, low-level military officers who want to follow Huang Han will flock to him, and high-level officials who are afraid of being liquidated will definitely stay away.

Financial exhaustion was one of the main reasons for the demise of Ming Dynasty, and there were countless armies lacking food and pay.

For example, high-ranking generals with actual titles such as generals, generals, guerrillas, etc., can withhold military pay to support their servants, but low-level officials can only withhold food and pay.

Huang Han never thought of taking in those high-level generals above the Ming guerrilla, so why not let these people hide from him and hide from the "Red Banner Army" too early?
(End of this chapter)