Dominate the Country

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The best defense is offense!

Chen Ming had been thinking about how to open up the early situation when he killed Chang Rui alive. After thinking about it, he found that if the Chen Jiajun wanted to grow stronger, it must fight out. Because the Chen family's army is not the red army of the original time and space, and the Chen family's current foundation in Funiu Mountain cannot afford the Manchu Qing to deal with it seriously.

Are the topography of Jinchuan and Jinchuan more dangerous than the Chen family's foundation? Isn’t the strength in the hands of Shaluoben, Senggesang, Sonomu (Shaluoben’s grandnephew) and others N generations stronger than that of the Chen family? These two families have ruled the mountainous area for hundreds of years. The Tibetans all obey the orders of their chieftains. Isn't their loyalty much higher than that of the Chen Jiajun now?

But the chieftains of Jinchuan and Jinchuan were all defeated by the powerful national power of the Qing Dynasty. In order to deal with Jinchuan and Jinchuan, which had a population of only tens of thousands, Qianlong used 600,000 troops and spent 70 million taels of military pay. If this kind of energy is used on Chen Jiajun, Chen Ming can guarantee everyone - the Chen family will never be able to resist.

Therefore, Chen Jiajun needs to turn from passivity into initiative, take the initiative, expand his strength, and accumulate strength to face the next wave of Manchu encirclement and suppression without wasting any time.

Chen Ming believes in the destructive power of war. In this world, war ranks first in the world's destructive power, just like those irresistible huge natural disasters. As long as the Chen Jiajun burns the war outside Lushan County and Ruzhou, it will be like a spoonful of cold water poured into a boiling oil pan, causing the entire western Henan and even the entire Henan to explode in an instant.

The magistrate of Baofeng County chose the same approach as Lushan County, locking the city gates and ‘holding tight’.

However, the Chen Jiajun, who cannot enter the county seat, can't take care of the local gentry's wealthy households? Many of the local tycoons have fled to the county seat. Baofeng and Lushan are closely connected, and they are well-informed through the gossip. However, the wealth of these local tycoons will not last long, and it is impossible for them to flee into the county together with the local tycoons. With the current size of Chen Jiajun, just by cleaning up the belongings and industries that these rich people don't care about, they are already full.

After Chen Ming entered Baofeng, he had a clear goal of collecting basic materials such as livestock, grain, salt, sugar, cloth, etc., and then smashed open the private mineral deposits in Baofeng County one by one. The powerful squires in Baofeng County have no higher ideological and moral standards than their counterparts in Lushan County. The Chen family rescued groups of slave workers from private mines in Lushan County and worked in Baofeng County. This scene was repeated the same way.

In fact, throughout Ruzhou, including Ye County and Wuyang in Nanyang Prefecture, which were later covered by Pingdingshan City, or the surrounding areas, slave labor was common in various places due to the rich coal and iron resources. Common people know this very well. They will be Chen Jiajun's most pursued 'objects'.

Chen Ming and his men showed up outside Baofeng County. In just four days, they swept through the entire Baofeng County and collected more than 13,000 stones of grain, more than 5,000 pieces of coarse cloth, more than 200 pieces of silk and satin, and a Batch medicinal materials, salt and sugar. And under their butts, the 'No. 11 bus' that originally drove into Baofeng County has evolved into four legs.

Whether it's a donkey, a mule or a horse, they all show the Chen Jiajun's rich harvest in Baofeng County.

In addition, Chen Ming also 'liberated' 400 slave workers. This number is smaller than the harvest in Lushan County. This number is the number of slave workers who are finally willing to follow the Chen family and embark on the bright road of 'anti-Qing'. In other words - this group of people has relatively high grievances. Heavy.

This is not the first time Chen Ming has taken over slave labor. Of course he knows why. He took Baofeng slave workers on a mission for the first time - to take care of Zhuge Miao Town, mainly to take care of the Guan family's big house.

After the slave workers took out the last sweet potato from the cellar of the Guan family's mansion, they spontaneously burned the mansion, which covered an area of ​​more than ten acres, to ashes. Chen Ming might have stopped it, but he didn't mean that much.

As a result, half of the street in Zhuge Miao Town was burned down due to the spread of the fire.

The locals must hate Chen Jiajun to death, and Chen Ming feels a little worried. But if you ask him to blame the Baofeng slave workers who repaired and set fire because of the ordinary people who were destined not to follow the Chen Jiajun on the anti-Qing road, Chen Ming will not hesitate to smear him in the face.

Chen Ming didn't mind the hostility displayed by the slave workers at all. This hostility coupled with the organization of the miners themselves was simply the best source of soldiers. In history, Qi Jiguang was able to use Yiwu miners to train the world-famous Qi Jiajun, but Chen Ming had no confidence in turning this group of slave workers into the world's most powerful soldier like Qi Jiajun. But he also wanted a truly elite team.

He just wants these people to dare to fight and kill, and he just wants these people to be ruthless!

Since ancient times, miners in all dynasties and generations have had a hard time, and the same is naturally true for us in the Qing Dynasty. And because Ruzhou is rich in coal and iron ore resources, Lushan, Baofeng, Jiaxian and other places have a long tradition of mining. And because of the dangers of mine work, private mine owners either consider their own reputations or consider their own interests. Anyway, they prefer to use slave laborers who have escaped from famine or bought or deceived from other places, rather than using slave laborers. Scale uses locals. This will save them a lot of trouble.

Of course, there are masters like the Chen family in Lushan and Baofeng counties, but they are relatively rare. Those who entered the mines were definitely advanced classes with deep hatred and bitterness. Once they were "liberated", a high proportion of them immediately "revolted against the revolution", and there were few local miners who were willing to follow the Chen family. Although some of the slaves were physically injured, the vast majority of them were absolutely strong men.

The truly old, weak, sick and disabled people had no chance of surviving in the mines.

The mine was one of the most inhumane places in this era. The bosses were particularly strict in supervising the slaves. Which of these slaves had not been whipped and tortured? I don't know how many people died directly under torture, so their resentment towards the mine owner, as well as the government, is much stronger than that of ordinary people...

When the militia of Dengfeng County crossed the border between Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou and entered Ruzhou, Chen Ming was still in Jia County. He sent people to harass Xiang County in Xuzhou and Ye County in Nanyang Prefecture, and also collected a large number of vehicles and materials from Jia County. This era was the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, and the accumulation of private wealth was also amazing.

After "plundering" the private mines in Jia County, the number of slaves under Chen Ming's command has exceeded 800. Together with the troops he led, as well as the rogues and bankrupt farmers who came from various towns and villages, the total force has exceeded 1,200. However, there is a serious shortage of weapons and equipment, and it is still at the level of cutting wood for soldiers.

The number of people in the Dengfeng militia is not very large, a total of just over 300, among which there are 20 to 30 guys with turbans on their heads, and the rest are all strong and healthy. Not to mention the real combat effectiveness, just look at the appearance of this team. Although the number of people is small, the aura is strong, plus the name of Dengfeng, it can make people feel at ease. Of course, their noses are also upturned in Ruzhou.

"Humph, they are indeed a group of thieves, greedy and insatiable!" The arrogant head teacher of the Dengfeng militia looked contemptuous, stood up and said to Wang Jun: "Sir, this is a great opportunity to defeat the thieves!"