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Hu Yiding didn't know Ye Feiyu's strength, but even Zhaoyuan County, which Kong Youde personally guarded, was defeated. The battle lasted only an hour, which shows that Ye Feiyu's troops are extremely powerful, and it shouldn't be difficult to capture Penglai.

Then he put forward many practical and effective suggestions, such as opening warehouses for disaster relief, stabilizing the people in the county, taking advantage of the vacuum of troops in nearby Huangxian, Qixia, and Laiyang, quickly occupying these places, recruiting soldiers, etc. .

The stronger Ye Feiyu's strength was, the less Da Ming dared to fight lightly. Otherwise, Jiannu, Dengzhou, and the Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang from Henan would be in turmoil on three sides, trapping the capital. Hu Yiding saw clearly that the war started at the same time.

In fact, even at this time Gao Yingxiang's uprising army, Chongzhen had considered surrendering, and his main energy was still on the side of Jiannu.

In the end, Ye Feiyu appointed Hu Yiding as the county magistrate of Zhaoyuan County, and put him in charge of stabilizing Zhaoyuan County, while Ma Dingyuan led the troops and marched towards Penglai to completely wipe out Kong Youde's remaining forces.

But he didn't expect that when Ma Dingyuan arrived in Penglai, he found that Penglai's supplies had been relocated. It turned out that Kong Youliang received the report two days ago, went out to sea in a panic, and fled to Lushun with [-] soldiers and horses.

Kong Youde's troops were completely defeated, those who fled fled, those who went to sea, and then Ye Feiyu sent troops to control the two prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou. A gun can occupy a state and county, which is unbelievably simple.

However, in Laizhou Prefecture, two battles were fought. After all, Kong Youde could not control the entire Laizhou before.There are also troops loyal to Ming Dynasty defending the city, and Kong Youde's thousands of soldiers and horses.It is not enough to completely control the vast area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers in the two prefectures.

Ye Feiyu's strength is not a problem at all, as long as food is provided.Some of the refugees are soldiers.

Ye Feiyu showed no mercy to those who took advantage of the chaos to loot the common people, and mercilessly killed all they found, even the rioters with hundreds of people were no exception.

With such iron and blood methods, those rebel soldiers were heartbroken and did not dare to make rebellion. Some of them secretly joined the ranks of refugees, and many of them got mixed up with Ye Feiyu's newly recruited reserve army, but naturally they dared not do anything wrong. OK.

Bullets and rice go hand in hand.Ye Feiyu's takeover of Dengzhou and Laizhou went smoothly. Those officials and generals who were unwilling to surrender, Ye Feiyu didn't kill them all. Those with poor voices will be deported or imprisoned.Ye Feiyu ordered to kill those corrupt officials who were really angry and hated by others.

In history, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses were killed more than half each time, and they would soon be revived.Due to the large number of refugees, the current situation in Dengzhou and Laizhou is similar, just one month.Ye Feiyu recruited an army of more than 3 people, although the regular army was only [-].The others are all reserve forces, but they are also amazing.

certainly.This is also because Ye Feiyu has a huge amount of food to supply the army. It is impossible to feed so many troops with the food produced in Dengzhou and Laizhou alone.

The local tyrants and evil gentry in the two prefectures were very calm. Even when Kong Youde occupied Dengzhou before, he didn't dare to touch them. He thought it would be the same this time. After all, they were the foundation of Ming Dynasty's rule.

However, the gentry class still planned to take care of the generals in their hands, lest some disorderly soldiers would snatch them without their eyesight. How could they have collected 1 taels of silver and sent them to Mingwei Fort, but Ye Feiyu's They couldn't even meet each other, but Ma Dingyuan came out to meet them and gave them an unexpected notice that all gentry and landowners must contribute half of their property and land for free, otherwise they would be confiscated and returned to the public.

Turning over half of the wealth and land was killing the gentry class. Naturally, the two sides could not agree.

The Zhou family, the Pang family, and the Liang family are the largest gentry families in Laizhou and Dengzhou, and they can be regarded as the symbolic families of the gentry class.

Each of these three major families has thousands of people, and many of them are officials in the imperial court, with tentacles all over every corner of the two mansions. In the past, many generals of Kong Youde's army were members of these three major families.

Now dozens of patriarchs and representatives of the gentry have come to the Zhou family to conspire against Ye Feiyu.

After all, Ye Feiyu is not a real immortal, and now he is busy dealing with the affairs of the two governments. In his eyes, these gentry are not dangerous at all. Naturally, he did not specially arrange someone to monitor them, and he did not know that these people gathered together.

Pang Qinglian of the Pang family frowned and said, "Now that Immortal Master Ye has asked us to give up half of our wealth and land, how do you all respond?"

The Pang family not only has thousands of acres of land, but also occupies two iron mines. The family background is strong, and the patriarch Pang Qinglian has a high prestige among these gentry.

Zhou Difu, the patriarch of the Zhou family, sneered: "Everyone, don't panic and mess up yourselves. Zhou sees that the so-called Golden Wolf Immortal Master is only cheating us. How dare he really do anything to us."

A middle-aged man with a rosy face and a fat figure asked worriedly: "Patriarch Zhou, what if this reckless man really does something? I heard that he has gathered tens of thousands of troops in a short period of time. There are more than a hundred family members, and they can't fight against him at all."

Zhou Difu snorted: "What about the tens of thousands of troops? I see what he uses to feed these soldiers and horses. I'm afraid that within a few days, these refugee soldiers who have no food will turn against him! I decided that our Zhou family's food The shop will be closed tomorrow and no food will be sold! I don’t believe he can really produce food rations for hundreds of thousands of people!”

The Zhou family is the leader of grain merchants in Laizhou. He said that no more than one-third of the grain stores in Laizhou would dare to open their doors after closing their doors to stop the sale of grain.

Liang Tai'an nodded and said: "Brother Zhou is right. Anyway, there are still a few days before the deadline for this monster. Liang has sent people to the capital immediately to let the people in the court exert their strength. The army will come!"

Others have nothing to do, every county is guarded by the soldiers of the Golden Wolf Immortal Master, even if they want to transfer money to the outside, they will not be able to, and they can't just leave here with their families if the form is not clear, and stay behind. Putting down a lot of fields is cheap for others.

Ye Feiyu is looking through the archives of the two governments, and is preparing to set up manpower to re-explore the mines. The mines in the hands of the gentry must also be taken back. These are sparkling source crystals. I have paid so much, and the time spent practicing strengthening the body It's all gone, it's time to reap the fruits.

Ma Dingyuan knocked on the door with a frown and walked in. As a military officer, he was forced to serve as a civil servant. He was not used to it, but he could only learn to handle government affairs.

"Master Ye Xian, many grain stores in the mansion said that there was no grain, and they closed their doors, and the people would not be able to buy grain, which might cause chaos. The situation has finally stabilized, what should we do now?"

Many people do not have food in stock. Many people go to do part-time jobs and exchange for copper coins to go to the grain store to buy grain and go home. Especially at this time, when the grain store is closed for a day, it means that many people will go hungry all day. Naturally, it was a big event for Ma Dingyuan, a native of Ming Dynasty.

Ye Feiyu chuckled: "No food? It's the fault of those gentry."

He bought [-] tons of grain, but provided it to the refugees in the two prefectures in large quantities, and consumed hundreds of tons of grain every day. In one month here, he consumed more than one-third of the grain. The remaining genetically modified rice and soybeans, etc. Ye Feiyu intends to take it to the Europeans. If the grain merchants stop selling grain, it will be really troublesome, and they have to go back to Earth to deliver more grain.

"Forget it, I planned to give them a chance. Since they ignore me, don't blame me for being rude to them."

There was a flash of light in his eyes, and he said to Ma Dingyuan: "You send someone to search the closed grain store. Everything that has grain will be confiscated. Anyone who resists, kill him!"

Even though this is a bit cruel and bloody, there must be some kind-hearted people in those families, but Ye Feiyu has no time to entangle with them slowly, only in this way can the two governments be brought under control as quickly as possible.

Not to mention these gentry class, even the relatives of the emperor, Ye Feiyu would kill them mercilessly.

Ma Dingyuan had also disliked those gentry for a long time. He had been to Jiaozhou before to see if he could get some food, but all he got was a mocking face.

After receiving Ye Feiyu's instructions, Ma Dingyuan then dispatched several hundred households including Zhang Wencheng, each with a thousand soldiers and horses. The city is the focus of Ma Dingyuan's attention.

This week's family really didn't know how to live or die, and dared to close their doors and stop selling food. Did he think that a few hundred servants could fight against the tens of thousands of Immortal Master Ye's army?

In one day, more than 30 grain shops of the Zhou family in Yecheng were confiscated by Zhang Wencheng, and tens of thousands of shi of grain were sealed up.

One stone is calculated as one hundred catties, and the tens of thousands of grains is several million catties, which is equivalent to a quarter of the grain Ye Feiyu bought!

The soldiers who joined Ye Feiyu's command were mostly refugees who couldn't stand the hunger. Seeing that these grain merchants had hidden so much grain and said that there was no grain for sale, they were very angry. Those storekeepers who stopped them, They all smashed it with the handle of the knife unceremoniously.

After hearing the news, Zhou Difu brought his servants to the nursery and stood in front of the largest grain store of the Zhou family. Not only did he store 6 stones of grain, but there was also grain collected in the cellar, five to sixty thousand taels of silver. , once copied by Mingwei soldiers, it will definitely hurt the Zhou family.

Zhou Difu thought about the hundreds of servants of the Zhou family, even if Zhang Wencheng had thousands of soldiers, he would not dare to attack the strong and powerful servants of the Zhou family. (to be continued..)