Chapter 292 Yan'an Mansion with simple folk customs
The spring of the fifth year of Chongzhen’s reign has arrived soon.
Since the beginning of spring, the entire Yan'an Flag Guard Army has been mobilized to build battlements on the abandoned forts on Black Dragon Mountain, and transported twenty large Franco cannons to the mountain. After the parapets were repaired, under the guidance of Yan'an Battalion General Yang Yanchang , conduct a massive siege drill.
Yang Yanchang organized this siege drill not to attack any city, but because of Huanglong.
The person he most admired was Huang Long, a native of Shenyang. In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, he recovered Luanzhou, which was occupied by Hou Jin. While the infantry attacked the city, he concentrated on using artillery to destroy the battlements and clear out the defenders. He won the first place in the Battle of Luanzhou.
However, in this era, the road is thousands of miles away, and as a regional warrior, it is difficult for him to leave the simple folk customs of Yan'an. Since returning from aid to Liaoning, Yang Yanchang knew that it might be difficult to see Huanglong in the future.
Unless Huang Long becomes the commander-in-chief of Yansui.
But years ago, when he was shocked to hear about the Wuqiao Mutiny, Huang Long had his ears and nose cut off by Geng Zhongyu, the younger brother of guerrilla Geng Zhongming, Yang Yanchang knew that he would probably never see him again in this life.
Yang Yanchang has always been greedy for enjoyment without achieving anything.
The Yan'an Battalion was led by the generals to conduct drills on their own every ten days. The three thousand soldiers of the battalion were constantly engaged in exercises with the three thousand banner troops who served as commanders. He did not show up and focused on studying the population growth rate of Yan'an Prefecture during the drought.< /p>
In the past three years, his two aunts have given birth to five children for him, plus the five free children, everything is perfect.
Only this time, Yang Yanchang wanted to do something to continue the artillery command skills displayed by Huang Long in the Battle of Luanzhou.
Of course, he didn't count on himself. In his life, he would start by trying a hundred households and strive to create a hundred households. He wouldn't count on fighting a big war or anything like that.
But Commander Ren Quan'er of the Yan'an Guard still had hope of fighting a big war, so he wanted to replicate the three thousand battalions and three thousand banner troops at the fort of Heilong Mountain, Liu Chengzong's hometown. The battle for Luanzhou that took place before.
How much they can learn depends on their own luck. After all... the drill was quite a failure. Their artillery was unable to accurately hit the battlements, let alone fire out even barrage from the breach at the top of the city to both sides.
But Ren Quan'er has always been serious about studying.
Learning is beneficial.
Apart from anything else, the calligraphy taught by Li Bei is still being written; the assassin skills he taught are still being practiced by Ren Quan'er.
Just waiting for General Yang Shen to cheer up and plan to take back the power of Yan'an Mansion, Commander Ren can test the assassin's skills on him.
In the seventh year of Zhengde's rule, famous thieves were killed and given a rank.
General Yang Shen, a famous thief, is enough to appoint Quan'er as the commander of the capital.
In fact, during the entire fourth year of Chongzhen, Ren Quan'er's heart was very complicated.
The folk customs of Yan'an Prefecture have been simple since ancient times. Although there was still a severe drought in Yulin Town last year, the harvest of Mizhi in the south was pretty good. Except for the death of four county magistrates from the seventh to ninth ranks, two of Mr. Qian and one prefect.
Except for being angry and running away, and the people beating the three governors, nothing happened to Yan'an Mansion.
It is normal for an official to be angry to death due to his excessive temper. After all, under the careful training of Commander Ren, even if Yan'an Prefecture, a country with simple folk customs, has a bumper harvest, the government will never see a grain of grain.
Not only the government, but also the health clinics can’t be seen.
Who are the people still staying in Yan'an Mansion now?
Any person, at least, has the following qualities: joining the army, being a thief, not repaying debts, begging, selling his wife and children, selling himself, robbing, eating rich households, killing people, eating Guanyin soil, cannibalism, defeating the army and being defeated, and saving money many times.
Half of them have rich survival experience, such as being led by the Lion Battalion to resist taxes, and being trained as commanders to evade taxes.
This group of people harvested grain from the fields, and even if Liu Chengzong came back, let alone the King of Heaven, they would not be able to collect royal taxes from them.
On the contrary, the main task of Yan'an Guard Commander Ren Quan'er in the past year has been to restrain the people as much as possible, prevent them from taking food from the government and guard posts, insult officials less, and try not to beat them next time the governors of the three sides come.<
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But this work is more difficult.
He appointed Quan'er to recruit people to work in the military field of Yan'an Guard. When it was time to harvest the grain, the grain was still in the ground and was not yet fully ripe. The recruited people rushed to harvest the grain in the dark. After harvesting, they loaded the grain in small carts and disappeared into the endless night.
Inside, Ren Quan'er was left with dark cave dwellings.
The wind passing through the valley seems to still carry the curses of the people: Still want to harvest the food grown by grandpa? Bah, dog official!
Nowadays, the people of Yan'an Prefecture do not accept any superior leadership, and have concluded a philosophy of life that is very consistent with their own interests.
Regardless of whether it is the Lion Army, the King of Farmers, the King of Sweepers, Lao Huihui, Hong Chengchou, Huang Hu, General Chuang, or any commander, the help and weapons provided to them are just to make them work hard and harvest their wool.<
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If you help them accept them, accept their weapons, and don't sacrifice your lives for them, you can in turn wipe out the leaders.
It's like a black hole here.
The government officials were robbed, and the thieves who left Yan'an Prefecture were not very happy to come back. They could not afford to offend the villages of Yan'an Prefecture.
After experiencing a long period of famine, drought and war, Yan'an Prefecture, with its simple folk customs, has reached an unprecedented level in terms of military knowledge and weapons and equipment.
The four counties of Fushi, Yanchang, Ansai, and Yanchuan in Yan'an Prefecture are the places where Liu Chengzong once fought. They were merged by Chengyun. The biggest thing in common among the four counties is that they have few villages.
But in those days, in order to make it easier for the Lion Battalion to purchase supplies and to prevent them from being robbed by others again, the villages were placed in places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Each village has several hundred people, ranging from men, women, old and young, ranging from just old enough to walk to ninety-nine. On average, two people have one spear, four people have one sword, six people have one bow, eight people have one set of armor, and ten people have one set of armor.
Guns, twenty men and one cannon.
Although the level of equipment is uneven, leather armor, cloth cover, locks, two crotches, and cotton armor are all considered armor; single-eyed, three-eyed, and bird blunderbuss are all considered blunderbuss; Wankou, tiger crouching, Yongzhu, and Fran machine
, are all considered guns.
But among the villagers there are many former Lion Camp veterans who have recovered from injuries, Ming Dynasty border army deserters and other talents who provide professional and technical guidance. Coupled with the training of the people, the villagers all look like they are wilted in the sun. They are malnourished, have yellow faces and thin muscles, but they can be heard with the sound of a drum.
, pulled out are two or three fully armed centurions.
Peasant troops returning from other provinces do not need to collect food, but they can still enjoy the treatment of serving as commanders and envoys, and they can become brothers and exchange ideas with the local people.
But whenever I go to collect grain from a village, and then try to walk in Yan'an Prefecture, I will either step on landmines on the way, or I will be hit by cannons and cannons for a while while walking, but I still can't find any treatment.
Anyway, life is a multiple-choice question. You have to choose one to leave the province happily or go to heaven happily.
Yan'an Prefecture is no longer the Yan'an Prefecture of the past.
Originally, the development pattern of the bosses was very healthy. After winning the battle in Shanxi, they returned to northern Shaanxi to sell their stolen goods; after defeating the battle in Shanxi, they returned to northern Shaanxi to recruit troops.
But now, they don't dare to return to northern Shaanxi anymore. After returning to northern Shaanxi after winning the battle, their elite soldiers want to settle down in the villages established by Chengyun.
After the battle was defeated, the defeated soldiers even wanted to settle in northern Shaanxi.
Last year, there was a leader named Bai Guangen. He was defeated in Shanxi and came back to recruit troops. All his people had gone to the village to settle down. Bai Guangen wanted to recruit people, but he was scolded by several security chiefs. p>
Those security guards are all not in good health, some are lame, and some are missing a hand, but each one has a bigger temper and a higher prestige than the last. When they scold him, they will say: "I and the commander will defeat Huanglong."
Shan, you are still holding the horse for Huntian Monkey!"
He can't be beaten. Compared with the security chiefs, the junior leaders who are talking are still juniors. They have no temper at all when they are scolded. If the one who is revealed is a bandit leader, there is one commoner who stays in Yan'an.
Counting one, they are all bandits.
Moreover, no matter how powerful the bandit leader is, he would not dare to cause trouble in Yan'an Prefecture. First of all, three village chiefs can pull out a team comparable to thousands of officers and soldiers. Secondly, there are Ren Quan'er and Yang Yanchang's 6,600 battalion flag troops.
Keep them in check and don't allow them to cause trouble in their hometown.
The security guards were all happy when they saw the new arrival. They limped to the county government office, scribbled a note and handed it to the household secretary, and the household registration was lost.
In some places, the county was not known, and in some places the county officials did not dare to say anything. The imperial court discovered such a big problem in Yan'an Prefecture when Zhang Nian was arrested in Beijing and died in the imperial edict.
Just in time for the rebellion of the Shen brothers, the emperor changed the governor of the three sides. However, Yang He did a good job in recruiting Liu Chengzong, so he threw Yang He to the Ministry of Rites.
The new governor of the three sides is Hong Chengchou. He has long wanted to solve the problem of Yan'an Prefecture. After some investigation, he was very surprised. After the chaos, the people of Yan'an Prefecture were actually recuperating and recuperating. Every family basically had enough food to eat, and some even had some surplus food.<
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Hong Chengchou made a mental calculation and concluded that collecting taxes would at least solve the Yan'an camp's salary arrears problem.
This is what he thinks:
The combat effectiveness of the Yang Division is obvious to all. They defeated Liu's thieves many times in Yan'an Prefecture, and the entire division arrived and obeyed the command when assisting Liao. In Shanxi, they fiercely pursued the thieves and beat the common people without committing any crime. They are loyal and reliable, and they are the normal troops that Shaanxi can use. It's just that the imperial court has recently found it difficult to supply its soldiers with pay and food, which makes the powerful generals useless and can only guard Yan'an Prefecture.
General Yang Shen also assured Hong Chengchou that as long as they had enough pay and food for three months, the Yan'an camp could be mobilized immediately, whether it was to enter Shanxi to suppress the rebellion or to blockade both sides of the Yellow River.
Hong Chengchou found the crux of the Yan'an problem. There was no organization in one place. Places like Yan'an Prefecture, where there was extensive mutual protection among villages, also had their own leaders, and the leader was the Bao Chang.
To solve the problem of tax collection, we need to bring these people together to discuss.
He didn't believe it. Do these people really think that Yan'an Mansion can go on like this forever?
Hong Chengchou stationed himself in Yan'an Prefecture last year and sent out invitations to the chief ministers from all over the country, but no one came.
Later, he used the old method. Since you are like a piece of iron, I will break them one by one. Two security chiefs accepted his invitation and were recommended by him to the post of Qian Zongzong.
Hong Chengchou was very happy. Everything was difficult at the beginning. As long as these two people had the official title of Qian Zong, other security chiefs would naturally come to him and the tax collection issue would be solved.
Unexpectedly, before the other security chiefs came to seek refuge with him, the two chiefs returned home and were hanged from a tree and beaten to death by the villagers.
This is not a matter of one person getting promoted and getting rich. Each village does have some surplus food, but it is not enough to pay taxes to the court. Moreover, there are countless people who have hatred against the court gathered in the village, so there is no way to collect taxes.
More than 500 people from two villages marched toward Yan'an Fucheng, armed with guns and cannons and beating gongs and drums. By the time they reached Fucheng, they had become an army of more than 3,000 people.
This impregnable city seemed to have the four characters "Open in case of troops" written on the city gate. There was no obstruction at all. The villagers set up cannons directly in front of the prefect's Yamen, and Yang Yanchang was so frightened that he rushed to persuade everyone.<
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Anyway, I can't talk to anyone. When I say it, I mean you villagers have no brains. Yan'an Mansion is struggling to survive, and just as soon as you can survive, you do such evil things again. Although you are not afraid of killing the governors of the three sides, don't I?
Are the soldiers still willing to suppress you? When everyone goes to Luocao, what good will it do to you?
All said and done, everyone still gave Hong Chengchou a good beating.
Yang Yanchang thinks that the governors of the three sides were very unhappy when they left Yan'an Mansion. They were very rude and did not even say goodbye to their savior.
When I got back, I didn't dare to mention the tax collection in Yan'an Mansion again. Ren Quan'er even wrote a memorial to impeach the governors of the three sides and force him to rebel against Yan'an Mansion, but he just didn't use it.
The situation in Yan'an Prefecture is very complicated now, but it is also very safe.
The officers and soldiers cannot come in, the post station cannot be repaired, and the bandit leaders who have gone out dare not come back. When the bandits come back, they become obedient people who are only loyal to themselves, and they can't get enough of the simple villagers even if they play ruthless criminals.
Ren Quan'er's flag army, Yang Yanchang's camp, villagers from all over the country, and Gao Yingxiang from Shizigou, which one is a kind person?
So Ren Quan'er was very distressed and wanted Liu Chengzong to come back to Shaanxi every day.
For Ren Quan'er, this is no longer just a question of loyalty or disloyalty. The fact that no one is taking charge of the overall situation in northern Shaanxi makes him very uneasy, because his status is quite rare in the general environment of Yan'an Mansion.
It’s not like being human inside or out.
First of all, he cannot serve the imperial court. Serving the imperial court means that Yan'an Prefecture has to collect taxes. If the taxes are collected, the villagers will mobilize the army and kill him the next day.
Secondly, he had to guard against Yang Yanchang serving the imperial court. No matter how Yang Yanchang had no prestige and had been the nominal leader for so long, if Yang Yanchang wanted to serve the imperial court, he would definitely be killed first.
Finally, he has to guard against Gao Yingxiang. The Gao family army in Shizigou is also an army that cannot be underestimated.
Of course, other people's situations are similar to his, and they are all on guard against each other, and no one wants to take the risk of being too bold and causing the imperial court to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress them.
But Ren Quan'er knows that this strange balance will not last long. When the leaders outside are unable to support it, sooner or later the imperial court will put its heavy hand on Yan'an Mansion again.
With this uneasy mind, Ren Quan'er led the flag army in Chief Liu's hometown to surround the fort built by Chief Liu, practicing hard on the engineering skills from Liaodong, and occasionally adding a little bit of the city defense skills he had figured out.
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Watching the artillery smashing the earthen ramparts on the fort, Ren Quan'er rubbed his hands on Liujiamao in Black Dragon Mountain and exhaled, silently praying in his heart: "Emperor Taizu... Emperor Zhenwu bless you, and let Chief Liu come back soon!"
