The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 810

Bandits and bandits broke out everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and the road was not peaceful.

With the "Red Banner Army" system of river-sea combined transportation, the ministers of the imperial court have long stopped going to Sichuan by land. It is the safest and fastest way to go up the river by sea.
Fu Zonglong is not a mediocre person who "talks about his heart with nothing to do, and repays the king when he is in danger". He has been an official in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan for many years, and participated in and led the suppression of the chieftain's rebellion many times.

It should be the right person for Yang Sichang to recommend this person to governor Sichuan. Fu Zonglong is familiar with mountain warfare, and he also used a combination of garrison, attack, and siege to put down the foreign rebellion in Yunnan and Guizhou.

It's just that Fu Zonglong may not be able to do what he wants when he comes to the plains to command a large corps. In history, he was surrounded by bandits in Henan and fought hard and was unable to escape and was captured.

Fu Zonglong, a native of Kunming, Yunnan, was a strong man. After being captured, he cursed at Li Zicheng and other bandits and died of torture.

He hadn't been to the capital for a long time, let alone galloped on the main road from the capital to Tianjinwei in a passenger carriage.

What he saw and heard along the way made him extremely amazed. He saw the people and merchants along the way respecting the general who conquered captives like a god.

When he came to Tianjin Wei, Fu Zonglong was amazed by the prosperity and cleanliness here. When he got on the luxury ocean liner, he was already longing for the newly born "Hanjiang Province".

Even with the river-sea combined transport, it is not easy to reach Sichuan. It will take a month if the wind is smooth, and it is hard to say how many days will be delayed in case of bad weather. Fu Zonglong should be able to arrive at the end of the first month or the beginning of February next year.

Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, has a head as big as a bucket, but luck never comes singly. Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai, She Tatian and other thieves who have been dormant in the Dabie Mountains for several months are making trouble.

However, the encirclement and suppression plan of "four positives and six corners, ten sides to spread the net" is not a dead letter, and the suppression payment received by the imperial court will of course play a role.

Yang Sichang's deployment fell short due to the change of the Qing army's invasion of Shanxi, which made Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng flourish.
Zhang Xianzhong didn't have such a good life. Zuo Liangyu, who was appointed by General Pingze, really fought this time.

General officers Mou Wenshou, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, lieutenants Huang Degong, Chen Yongfu, guerrilla general Luo Dai, etc. received food and salaries from the court, and they also accumulated a lot of money. Zhang Xianzhong and his like were beaten like bereaved dogs.

Xiong Wencan, the deputy capital of the right, governor of the five provinces, was eager to make contributions. He ignored Yang Sichang, who recommended him, who had warned him not to show mercy to the rogues.

True to that sentence, not afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs, Yang Sichang's painstaking efforts will be wiped out in the hands of Xiong Wencan.

The battle of "Han River Province" came to a successful conclusion. Of the [-] Mongolian cavalrymen who were able to cut off their heads, [-] feet were captured, and [-] feet of Tartars were captured. There were actually less than [-] slaves. There are more than a dozen Bayalas.

Both Tartars and Jiannu should be killed, but in order to weaken the determination of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to resist in the coming war, Liu Zaiqi, Jiang Xin, and Ruan Dacheng, who had just arrived in office for more than ten days, led the propaganda team to carefully screen.

With Dayutou Prince Yu Duoduo, it is necessary for the capital to offer captives. You can't just send a Duoduo, but you must find some Tartars and Jian slaves to send to the court for punishment.

After seven or eight days of observation and conversation by hundreds of propaganda team members and the town governor, the Tartars and Jiannu who dared to resist were caught.

In the end, Liu Zaiqi summoned all the Tartars and Jiannu to announce that more than [-] people who had been dishonestly labored and undergone reformation would be handed over to the imperial court for disposal.

Hearing that he was going to die badly, half of the more than [-] Manchu and Mongolian cavalrymen who resisted the forced labor camp were discouraged, kneeling on the ground crying and begging for mercy, but it was too late.

Liu Zaiqi not only declared that he would not forgive a single person, but also threatened that Tartars and slaves who had passed the screening, who dared to resist working for the "Red Banner Army", would be punished in Pyongyang without being sent to the capital.

Ruan Dacheng, who was eager to become an official, was the most active. After receiving the official letter of appointment with the seal of the General Zhenglu, he took his servants to Wangjiangmen Wharf on the same day and took a passenger ship to Hancheng Port, which is referred to as "Han Port". .

On the second day after arriving in Seoul, he went to the Xingyuan of the Great General to seek an audience with Huang Han, and was received. Huang Han gave Ruan Dacheng a fifth-rank civil service, and his position was to praise paintings at the headquarters of the propaganda team.

The "Red Banner Army" system does not have the theory that the military is superior and the military is inferior. The treatment is the same, and the salary of military officers during combat missions is [-]% higher.

Because military officers have many opportunities to obtain military merits, it is easier to get promoted, and they are even more popular than civilian posts in the "Han River Province".

Who is Ruan Dacheng?It's very complicated. In the early days, he was a general of the Donglin Party, and later he was castrated by the Party. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, Shilin's reputation almost stinks. In fact, this person is a talented villain.

His drama works became famous in the late Ming Dynasty, and there are still four works of "Spring Lantern Riddles", "Swallow Notes", "Double Gold List" and "Muni He" handed down to the world.

Huang Han took advantage of his expertise as a playwright, and directed him to arrange several dramas in person, exposing the viciousness of slavery and bandits in an entertaining way, and arousing the awakening of the people.

To vilify the slaves, Tartars, rogues, and the Ming army with corrupt discipline, to expose the Ming army generals who slaughtered the common people, to praise the "Red Banner Army", and to publicize that the "Red Banner Army" starved to death and did not plunder the common people.

Such an arrangement is really a professional counterpart. After Ruan Dacheng was interviewed by the General Zhenglu and told him what to do, his enthusiasm for work was high, and he often went to the grassroots to gather folk stories.

When he participated in the screening of the Tartars and the slaves, Ruan Dacheng was observing the reactions of these people. He believed that it would not be long before the ugly appearance of the executioner begging for mercy when he learned that he was about to be hacked into pieces would appear on the stage.

How to strengthen centralization?Meetings are extremely important.

The standard equipment of the "Hanjiang Province" county is not only the county government, the Town God's Temple, the county school, but also a theater that can accommodate 1000 people.

This theater not only provides entertainment for the people, but also becomes a place where government orders are uploaded and issued. The county government holds various mobilization meetings here every month.

Whether the alarm bells are ringing or the clichés are commonplace, regular meetings of subordinate officials, yamen servants, security chiefs, armor chiefs, village chiefs, pavilion chiefs, retired soldiers, and representatives of the common people will be held to make it more conducive to rule.

Completely different from the bureaucracy of Ming Dynasty, the "Red Banner Army" system breaks through one word, and ordinary people at the grassroots level can often see the county magistrate, and even the magistrate and magistrate.

Hearing the high-ranking officials in memory promulgate government orders in public will naturally increase the enthusiasm of ordinary people to participate in politics and increase their right to speak. It may be even more difficult for local officials to cover the sky with one hand.

(End of this chapter)