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  Chapter 227 225 [Taking Jingdezhen] (addition for the penguin boss)

   Knowing that Xiong Wencan was transferred away, Zhao Han immediately ordered Li Zheng to send troops to Fuliang County.

  Even if you break face with the imperial court, you must seize Fuliang, because there is Jingdezhen there.

  During the Ming Dynasty, the general notification county was the seventh rank.

  Wanping and Daxing county magistrates are the sixth grade, because they are attached to Guo Beijing, they can manage part of the capital.

  Fuliang magistrate, the fifth rank!

   Zhao Han encountered a catastrophe this year, and had to help the victims. His finances were already in extreme distress. Taking Jingdezhen would immediately fill his pockets.

  After Li Zheng killed more than a dozen thieves, he selected two or three thousand thieves, and urgently transferred Ding Jiasheng to be the commander. Ding Jiasheng rushed to Fuliang County with these thieves in a hurry, pretending to attack the county seat.

  The magistrate of Fuliang County is called Lu Hongsheng, a native of Jinjiang, and he was appointed in the seventh year of Tianqi.

  He felt that he would not be able to pass the Jinshi examination, so he spent money to make a teaching edict of Zhao'an County. In the third year of Chongzhen, Lu Hongsheng participated in the Jinling Conference. After joining the Fushe, he was promoted immediately, and now he is the magistrate of Fuliang, the fifth rank.

  Lu Hongsheng has no other skills. He likes to write articles, likes to hold literary clubs, and pays more attention to education.

   As for the others, he really doesn't know how.

  For example, when the rebels besieged the city, Lu Hongsheng was completely blinded.

   "What to do!" Lu Hongsheng stood on the tower. If there were not hungry people outside the city, he ordered the gates to be closed in advance, and the rebels had already attacked.

Wu Bing was also panicked, but he still didn't lose his mind. He said: "At night, Xuan Basket sent people out of the city to go to the Raozhou Prefecture to rescue soldiers. There is General Li (Li Zheng) there. He defeated the rebels a few days ago. The siege of floating beams."

  Lu Hongsheng's eyes widened, and he felt that Wu Bing was mentally retarded: "The Raozhou City is Zhao's soldier, so this is a move to lure wolves into the house!"

"The thieves here are evil. If you break the city, you and I may lose our lives. Zhao's thieves are kind, and they don't kill indiscriminately. Even if they steal Fuliang, they can keep the people safe," Wu Bing also reminded, "In the future, don't Call it Bandit Zhao, this person has been recruited by the imperial court, and he is my dignified military officer."

  Lu Hongsheng thought about it, and there was no better way, so he could only agree: "Well, send someone to Raozhou to ask for help at night."

  Wu Bing, a Jiangxi academic officer, has earned a total of more than 3,000 taels in various prefectures by relying on this year's Taoist examination.

  When he visited Fuliang County, Lu Hongsheng, the county magistrate, welcomed him warmly and held a special literary meeting for him. Both of them were members of Fushe, and they hit it off immediately, so Wu Bing decided to live in Fuliang County, since there was no point in going back to Nanchang anyway.

   This pair of crouching dragon and phoenix chicks completely ignored the disaster situation. They spent all day drinking, composing poems and writing articles, and occasionally went to the brothel to inspect the work together.

  They were anxious in the city, and Ding Jiasheng had a headache outside the city.

  Ding Jiasheng only brought two or three thousand rebels here, all of whom have already surrendered. After this mission is over, they can return to the village to divide the land.

  But running all the way from Raozhou to Fuliang, the number of rebels under Ding Jiasheng's command increased to more than 12,000. They were all hungry people who voluntarily joined along the way, dragging their families one by one. Ding Jiasheng could only support himself by robbing landlords.

  Fortunately, there are mission officers in the army to help Ding Jiasheng restrain his troops, and at the same time organize the family members of the rebels into the rear army. It can not only help deliver supplies, but also hold hostages, so that those hungry people who join along the way will be obedient.

   After all, Ding Jiasheng was born as a poor scholar and had never read military books. He couldn't even set up camp well, and the mission team was also responsible for helping him set up camp.

   "Why don't you come?" Ding Jiasheng looked to the south, and he wanted to attack the city directly.

  Leading troops, Li Zheng walked slowly along the Changjiang River.

  Walking to Guxiandu, suddenly a Fuliang county official rushed over, stopped the army and knelt down and shouted: "General, please help Fuliang!"

  Receiving the magistrate's request for help, Li Zheng laughed and immediately accelerated his march.

  Going outside the county seat, without taking any rest, Li Zheng raised his gun and pointed at the rebel camp: "Kill!"

  Lu Hongsheng and Wu Bing heard the news and went to the city to watch the battle. They saw the Datong army marching in line, and they were able to maintain their formation while trotting.

  Wu Bing clapped his hands and praised: "What a majestic teacher!"

   "It's a pity that they are bandit soldiers." Lu Hongsheng said with emotion.

  Wu Bing corrected immediately: "Since recruiting security, it is the official army, and don't call it a thief again."

  Lu Hongsheng immediately changed his words: "Indeed."

  Seeing that halfway through the attack led by Li Zheng, the bandit camp had already collapsed, and countless rebels fled to the mountains in the north.

  Lu Hongsheng was dumbfounded: "This is winning?"

  Wu Bing sighed and said: "Zhao Zongzhen's soldiers already have the power of tigers and wolves. If they are not bandits, if officers and soldiers encounter them, it may be the same situation."

   After performing a full set of plays, Li Zheng led his troops to chase after him for a while before returning to his division and arriving outside the county seat.

   "Quickly open the city!" Li Zheng sent someone to shout.

  Lu Hongsheng also sent someone to shout: "The general has done a lot of hard work. The county has prepared food and grass. Please retreat two miles away and set up camp to rest. Don't bring troops into the city to disturb the people!"

  Li Zheng was quite surprised, he didn't expect the magistrate to be so cunning.

   "Withdraw!"

  Since you won't let me enter the city, I'll just go.

   Li Zheng gave an order and led his troops away, not bothering to say a second sentence to the county magistrate.

  Wu Bing turned pale with shock: "The rebels are still alive, send someone to stop the army!"

  Lu Hongsheng was also panicked, and hastily ordered the city gate to be opened. He really didn't dare to play tricks anymore.

  Even if they guess the truth, they can only pretend not to know it. Otherwise, if you annoy the rebels, it is very likely that the fake will become real, and they will directly attack the city and kill the two of them.

  Li Zheng came back slowly, and only brought five hundred soldiers into the city, and the rest camped outside the city.

   "Thanks to General Li, otherwise the people of Fuliang would be in danger." Wu Bing stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

  Lu Hongsheng also said: "Lu Hongsheng, the magistrate of Xiafuliang County, on behalf of the people of Fuliang, thank General Li for his kindness."

  Li Zheng didn't talk nonsense, and directly issued a notice: "Stop talking, Fuliang County will belong to us from now on. If you want to live, you can be a magistrate. If you want to die, I don't mind sending you on your way."

  Lu Hongsheng was so startled that his back was sweating, and he said submissively: "There are many bandits here, and it all depends on the general."

  Wu Bing looked up at the sky, wandering around the universe at this moment, as if he didn't hear anything.

  The next day, the rebels returned, and Lu Hongsheng and Wu Bing asked for help in a panic.

   "It's easy."

  Li Zheng sent a general to leave the city holding the Datong army flag, and surrendered the more than ten thousand "rebels" on the spot.

  Lu Hongsheng and Wu Bing looked at each other, not sure whether Zhao Han was really famous or whether these rebels were just pretended by Zhao Han.

  It doesn't really matter what the truth is.

  The mayor of Zhangshu Town, Liu Tongyu, was promoted to the magistrate of Fuliang County because of his proper disaster relief and rescue, which kept the commercial town from being affected by the flood. This is the fourth county magistrate surnamed Liu under Zhao Han's rule, and there is another magistrate surnamed Liu. The five people are not from the same clan, it is simply that there are a lot of people with the surname Liu in Jiangxi, and the Liu family is the most common surname in Jiangxi.

  In addition to Liu Tongyu's promotion, many officials who were effective in disaster relief have now been promoted.

  The counties in Nanchang Prefecture have been basically controlled by the peasant association. Nominally transferred to be the county magistrate or head book of Daming, in fact, he is to be the magistrate of the county, but the name is different to the outside world.

  At the same time, Ruizhou Prefecture is about to be captured by the whole territory, and Zhao Han takes over the four counties of Ruizhou Prefecture in the name of disaster relief.

  Really going to disaster relief, using work for relief, organizing the people to build water conservancy projects and open roads. In this way, it can not only increase infrastructure, but also relieve those hungry people.

  Fuzhou Prefecture is also coming soon, out of five counties, three counties have been controlled by the peasant association.

   With so many sites added, the officials under Zhao Han's command are naturally happy. Moreover, all those who performed well in flood fighting and disaster relief this time were promoted, which made officials more motivated.

  As long as you work hard, you can be promoted quickly. How many people are slack?

  Officials are promoted, officials are promoted to officials, and reserve officials are converted to full-time officials. Zhao Han's official system has been operating at a high speed.

   In addition, Zhao Han ordered that whenever the peasant associations occupy the entire territory of the government, the work of dividing the fields will be carried out immediately after the autumn harvest. The landlord dared to make trouble and ransacked the house directly. Anyway, he is short of money and food now. Those notorious landlords also ransacked their homes in public to ease their financial difficulties.

  Raozhou Prefecture is a key development area.

  Raozhou, Raozhou, a rich state.

   There is Jingdezhen for business and Poyang County for agriculture.

  Even hundreds of years later, Poyang County is the most populous county in Jiangxi, and it can be imagined that the land is rich if it can support so many people.

  For being able to force the people of Raozhou to rebel twice within five years, this Ming official is quite powerful. Of course, thanks to His Highness Duke Huai, Raozhou didn't even implement a whipping law, and Zhang Juzheng's reform was directly blocked here.

  As for Duchang County, although it belongs to the territory of Nankang Prefecture, Zhao Han took it and never thought of spit it out.

  This county is also fertile, and it is also an important port city of Poyang Lake.

   Alas, Fuliang County is no longer interesting, Wu Bing soon bid farewell to Lu Hongsheng with a bitter face.

  He went to Guangxin Mansion with his servants under the name of Yanlin School. It's next to Zhejiang, the farthest from Zhao Han's territory, and it's estimated that he can live happily for a year or two.

  Wu Bing went straight to Guangxin Fucheng, then turned his head and left, telling the boatmen to leave quickly.

  Outside the city of Guangxin Mansion, there are densely packed people who are hungry.

  They all came from Zhejiang. There is only one sentence in the history books: Chongzhen) Ten years, Zhejiang was famine, father and son, brothers, husband and wife ate each other."

  Why could Chongzhen tolerate Zhao Han and give Zhao Han a promotion?

   It is because of the severe drought in Zhejiang and Nanzhili this year, and the phenomenon of cannibalism can be seen everywhere in the elite taxation land of Ming Dynasty.

  Wu Bing quickly returned to Qianshan Mountain, and found that there were also hungry people along the coast, helping each other in twos and threes, hoping to go to Ehu Town and Hekou Town to discuss food.

  Witnessing all this, Wu Bing suddenly came up with a strange idea: If thief Zhao occupied this place, he would be able to save these victims.

   "Wow... woo woo woo woo!"

  Wu Bing burst into tears because he is from Yixing. His hometown started to suffer from drought last year, and there has been no rain until now. Taihu Lake has dried up to the point where only the center of the lake is left.

  My family wrote a letter some time ago, saying that I no longer dare to go out casually, and I must accompany more than ten people every time I go out.

  If you go out alone, you may not be able to go home, and you will be killed and eaten by hungry people.

  Reminiscent of the tragedy in his hometown, Wu Bingyue cried more and more sadly.

  It used to be so beautiful and rich. When he was young, he often called friends and went boating on Taihu Lake. Now, Taihu Lake has dried up, and hungry people are everywhere. I don't know how many people have turned into dry bones.

  Wu Bing is famous for his opera creation. Although he is greedy for money and lustful, he is an extremely emotional person.

  Under touching the scene, his eyes were red from crying, and he lost all interest in playing.

  He returned to Nanchang Prefecture by boat, went to the countryside to observe the farmer association's division of land, and watched the peasant association's public trial of bully landlords. I also watched the performances organized by the missionary officials, and the farmers sang and danced, as if they were in two worlds with Guangxin Mansion.

  He used to be a landlord, but now he can be a commoner.

   After visiting several prefectures and counties, Wu Bing returned to Nanchang Fucheng and began to write a diary-style novel called "The Story of the Great Fellowship".

   (Big Penguin’s silver alliance has been owed for a long time. The double leader and other silver alliances will wait a moment.)

  (end of this chapter)