Back to the end of the Ming Dynasty when the emperor

Chapter 56
First, Chen Qianfu and Yuan Shu introduced the situation in Henan to this Eunuch Lu, and then accompanied by them, Lu Jiude inspected the military and political situation here.

After the Jiashen Revolution, Henan, which is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, is also in a precarious situation. Many local officials do not plan for politics, the army does not repair borders, and many government offices are ineffective. Suizhou can see it.

After such a circle, Lu Jiude discovered that the emperor had foresight, while Chen Qianfu and Yuan Shu lamented that the emperor knew the situation here without leaving home. How did Lu Jiude and others know that Zhu Yousong had already drunk this drink in his previous life? The ink of the dynasty is gone.

After understanding the situation, the three officers divided their responsibilities. Lu Jiude was the commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief, Chen Qianfu was in charge of political and civil affairs, and Yuan Shu was in charge of border affairs. The curtain of rectifying military and political affairs in Henan was opened.

A few days later, the purge of the Jingying soldiers and the Caojiang Navy was completed. Zheng Hongkui, the commander of Jinyiwei and the admiral of the Jingying, led 100 Jingying soldiers and [-] million taels of official silver, and marched into Suizhou in a mighty manner.

Lu Jiude, Chen Qianfu, Yuan Shu and others led people to pick them up. After the two sides exchanged pleasantries, they handed over. The barracks had been prepared for the 2 horses long ago, and the soldiers were asked to move their luggage and supplies inside.

Here, Yuan Shu commanded 100 Suizhou soldiers to start moving the money, and the [-] million taels of silver also pulled several carts, and the vain money was counted and put into the warehouse on the spot. These soldiers saw that the court gave so much money, and they were all full of energy. .

After Zheng Hongkui returned to the capital after completing the handover, Lu Jiude first paid the [-] Suizhou soldiers a supplementary salary. From officers at all levels to ordinary soldiers, according to Zhu Yousong's instructions, no one should be owed salary, and one or two cents must be paid. .

Although the Suizhou soldiers belonged to Gao Jie, the general soldier of Xuzhou, their treatment of 8000 soldiers was different from that of Gao Jie's Xuzhou soldiers, Fengyang soldiers, and Sizhou soldiers. The reason was Xu Guoding, the former general soldier of Suizhou.

Although Xu Dingguo was Gao Jie's subordinate, he looked down on Gao Jie, and felt somewhat disdainful for his boss who was a thief's subordinate but abducted the thief's wife.Coincidentally, Gao Jie also didn't want to see Xu Dingguo. Among the generals under his command, Gao Jie valued Li Chengzhen, Hu Maozhen and others.

So Gao Jie sent his thousands of people to the remote Suizhou.Knowing that Gao Jie despised him, Xu Guoding wanted to climb up to Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, and make Ma Shiying value him.But when Yue Qijie, the governor who had just arrived in Henan, learned that the general had a vacancy, of course he would not offend him in it.

Zhu Yousong's success in trapping Yue Qijie and Xu Guoding was precisely because of this.

At that time, Suizhou was on the verge of fighting with Li Zi, and Nanming’s treasury was short of money. Therefore, most of the food and wages in various places depended on local supplies. How much money and rice noodles came, so the military salary of these thousands of troops was not paid in time, and it was commonplace to delay payment of food and salary, and some of them didn't see money for several months.It was unexpected to get so much salary all at once, so the officers and soldiers were so happy from ear to ear.

Now both Yue Qijie and Xu Guoding have fallen, but the money they have been expecting for a long time has come. These soldiers are just for food and clothing. As long as there is food and salary, they will not care who is the governor and the chief soldier thing.

Lu Jiude, who has a lot of experience in leading troops, took the opportunity to gather them together and give a lecture on the spot: "Brothers in the army, the white money in your hands was not distributed to you by Xingping Bogaojie, nor did it come from the treasury, but from His Majesty the Emperor." Internal money, the Ming Dynasty was precarious, and the national treasury was running low year after year, so there was no way to spend so much money to pay you. This is the reason why your military pay is often not paid. Is it because your majesty wants you to understand who are you serving as soldiers? Your majesty has not forgotten the ambition of your ancestors, and is determined to restore the country of Ming Dynasty. Don’t be a mediocre king who is partial to the southeast, and the traitorous party Ma Shiying has been eliminated, do you know what to do? That is to swear allegiance to the emperor to the death, and punish the thieves and the captives!”

Lu Jiude had led soldiers before and was good at motivating people's hearts. Nearly ten thousand officers and soldiers were excited with these few words. While thanking the emperor, they shouted in unison: "Allegiance to Your Majesty, let the thieves be punished! Allegiance to Your Majesty, let the thieves be punished!"...

The shouts were louder and louder, and the sound shook the sky.

Then Lu Jiude disrupted the order of these 8000 people and organized them into 8000 Beijing battalion soldiers. After reorganization, these [-] people only knew that there was the emperor, but not Gao Jie.

At the same time, Governor Chen Qianfu rectified Suizhou's official administration, publicized mobilization, and recruited troops. At that time, there was a popular saying, "Eat grain to serve as a soldier. Due to the continuous disasters caused by the war, the refugees were everywhere. In order to survive, many people chose to tuck their heads in their belts." I joined the military camp, no matter whose soldier he is, as long as he has enough food and clothes to wear, he will not starve to death or freeze to death. Now here not only can he have enough food, clothes to wear, but also money to spend, so he signed up The number of enlistees is increasing day by day.

Therefore, after half a month, they recruited [-] soldiers and horses, which is already very bad in Suizhou, which is at the forefront of the battlefield.

Lu Jiude was in charge of training these recruits, and Yuan Shu, the chief soldier, was of course not idle. He took [-] officers and soldiers to build fortifications. Fight.

At the end of July in the 17th year of Chongzhen, that is, on the 20th day when Lu Jiude arrived in Suizhou, Li Zicheng's troops not only did not attack Suizhou, but withdrew their troops on a large scale. Lu Jiude and others felt strange and thought they were thieves. He did not rush into the army, but sent scouts to find out the news.

A few days later, I got the definite news that the bandits were defeated by the Manchu Tartars and retreated steadily. Li Zicheng, the chieftain of the thieves, set fire to the Bauhinia City a month ago and had fled with his main force to Shanxi. He was bitten by the Manchu Tartars. Hold on, the main battlefield moved to Shanxi, and the bandits in Henan had to shrink their troops and retreat. Now all the bandits around Kaifeng Mansion are fleeing without a fight, and Kaifeng Mansion is also an empty city.

Lu Jiude and others were overjoyed when they heard this, and sighed in their hearts, Your Majesty is really a man of God, the opportunity to recover the lost land has come, but they dare not delay, because if it is too late, it will be easier for the East, so they ordered that the army of the Ming Dynasty The Kaifeng Mansion was taken over without bloodshed.

After Lu Jiude, Chen Qianfu, Yuan Shu and others entered Kaifeng, they continued to build fortifications and drill troops, and the banner of recruiting troops was still pulled out.

Within a few days, there were indeed an endless stream of people who voted, including Li Zicheng's old troops who were scattered by the Qing Tartars, and soldiers and officials from the original Ming Dynasty who surrendered to Li Zicheng and the Qing Tartars. According to Zhu Yousong's oral instructions, Lu Jiu De instructed Yuan Shu not to reject those who came, to accommodate and reorganize, not to discriminate, not to turn over old accounts, and gave these people the same treatment as the Ming Dynasty army.

By mid-August, the Ming army in Henan had increased by more than [-], and the total strength was close to [-]. Lu Jiude was overjoyed. While building fortifications, manning troops, training troops and preparing for war, he went to Shujing Division to announce the good news to Zhu Yousong... …

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