News of Yang Sichang's death quickly spread across the country, and the soldiers who stayed in Luoyang felt a sense of joy and melancholy at the death of this important enemy.
In the past many years, Yang Sichang was like a big flag representing the imperial court, always a dark cloud hovering over the heads of the rebels. Although Hao Yaoqi often ridiculed "Old Yang" for his incompetence, he couldn't help but sigh and said
: "Lao Yang is finally dead! It's a pity that he didn't die by our swords, but he died of anger! I wonder who the next governor of the imperial court will be?"
Li Shiwei also shook his head. This serious and enthusiastic young man had very low qualifications in the camp and could not be compared with Hao Yaoqi. He was still a little restrained towards Hao Yaoqi and smiled unnaturally and said: "
Perhaps it was the former trilateral governor Zheng Chongjian, or Ding Qirui, Fu Zonglong and other relatively famous border officials."
"Ha! Ding Qirui, Fu Zonglong? Never heard of it!" Hao Yaoqi sat down and laughed a few times, "Zheng Chongjian has fought against us many times before, he does have some skills!
Even our old boss rarely gets any benefits from Zheng Chongjian. If Emperor Chongzhen is not stupid, it should be this Zheng Chongjian who will replace Lao Yang as the supervisor and come to encircle and suppress us."
"Brother Hao, it seems that although Lao Yang has collapsed, our situation has not fundamentally improved."
"Ha! Brother Hao, Shi Wei, don't you know that Zheng Chongjian has been jailed!" Guo Junzhen, who had just escorted a batch of money and grain out of Luoyang, heard Hao Yaoqi and Li Shiwei talking about this topic when he came back, and slapped Li Shiwei
On the back, new news is given.
"Zheng Chongjian did not lose an army or a territory. It is a pity that he and Yang Sichang have always been at odds. Now that Lao Yang is dead, Chongzhen wants Zheng Chongjian to be buried with him for his most beloved minister. It is very pitiful haha.
"
Guo Junzhen laughed loudly, still looking higher than his head and being conceited about his situation. He suppressed his smile, ignored Li Shiwei, who had very low qualifications, and only spoke to Hao Waiqi, asking: "Brother Hao, where is Luoyang now?"
What's the situation? The troops of Henan Governor Li Xianfeng should arrive in a few days. I heard that our team is in charge... No, our commander Xiao Li issued a military order to the marshal, saying that he would hold Luoyang for ten to fifteen days.
, have you made any preparations?"
"Ha, you are right. There have been a lot of movements in the past two days! What everyone is most wary of are the wealthy gentry and merchants in Luoyang City. These people are rich, famous and prestigious, and many of them have servants at home.
Nursing home. If something happens, these guys will cooperate with each other inside and outside Luoyang City, and they may become a serious problem for us."
Hao Yaoqi chuckled and said: "The commander simply put this large group of people with big families and big businesses under centralized control. Prince Fu's Mansion already has as many rooms as mountains and seas, which can be used just in time. Even our side
Sir, you have already said that letting these gentry live in the palace is not a bad treatment to them."
"The giant gentry in Luoyang City is indeed a hidden worry, but why doesn't the commander simply kill them all to avoid future troubles? Centralized control will allow the gentry to escape from the place and be unable to exert their power, but it will also require
It’s a waste of a lot of manpower to look after.”
Hao Yaoqi didn't think about the reason here, but Li Shiwei knew Li Laiheng better. He replied: "The whistle is following the instructions of the old commander. The old commander said that the civil and military officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty cannot
Kill indiscriminately, lest you encounter too strong resistance when you break into camps and seize territory."
"What kind of decency is this! We are rebelling and we have to worry about the lives of the Ming Dynasty officials! Old Zhangpan has been staying with Niu Jinxing for a long time, and he has been listening to useless opinions all day long."
Guo Junzhen's eyes were higher than the top. He only admired two and a half people during the camp, one was Li Zicheng, one was Li Guo, and the other half was Liu Zongmin who had already sacrificed. But since he offered his advice to break through Pingfeng Village, he admired even more.
Because of his arrogance, there is a tendency that apart from Li Laiheng, even Li Zicheng and Li Guo no longer admire him very much.
He was very dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's order not to kill Ming Dynasty gentry and officials indiscriminately, saying: "This must be Niu Jinxing's idea. He just wants to win people's hearts. But he has never thought that the hearts of the gentry are only in the camp battle."
When we are invincible, we can use it as the icing on the cake. No matter how we try to win over, it is impossible to give us the various privileges that the Ming Dynasty court granted to the gentry. Otherwise, wouldn’t our rebellion be in vain? We can go back to our hometown and continue to work as tenant farmers for the rich families.
The military households got it!"
"Even if we don't kill the officials and gentry, they will at most give you a blessing when the camp is successful, and don't think about providing help in the nick of time! Once the camp fails, they will not remember your kindness for not killing the gentry. They will only remember to break into the camp and torture.
Toyota, the hatred of poor sharecroppers!"
Li Shiwei felt that this could not be said. Although this strategy of Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing could not really win the support of the gentry group, it could at least prevent the gentry from spending all their wealth to desperately resist the intruders.
Hao Yaoqi was just following the wind. When he heard what his old friend Guo Junzhen said, he felt that it was right and echoed: "Hey, you are right. There are times when the old boss is negligent. Waiting for the battle in Luoyang
After the fight is over, we have to ask the commander to talk to the old commander."
Guo Junzhen chuckled and said: "Niu Jinxing has limited intelligence. He doesn't know how to do things to the best of his ability and to root out the roots. Anyway, it's difficult for us to get the sincere support of the gentry, so we should simply kill all these people."
That’s it.”
"Brother Hao, in addition to moving all the wealthy and powerful families in the city to Prince Fu's Mansion for centralized supervision, what other preparations has the commander ordered you to make during this time?"
Hao Yaoqi cracked his fingers, counted one, two, three, four, and five, and said in turn: "I have done a lot of work. The first one was to transport money and grain to Luoyang. You were just the first team before. You led the team to transport
After going out for a while, the commander organized tens of thousands of people to transport grain. Moreover, he recruited people with extremely high silver rewards! Not only did he recruit coolies to transport money and grain, I heard from Yi Gong that the commander also paid a lot of money to hire a group of merchants.
The accountant and the literate people who are willing to help are involved."
"Tens of thousands of people?! To carry money and food to Xiong'er Mountain, you won't mobilize tens of thousands of people, right? Then just the reward of silver is a lot, right?"
Hao Yaoqi replied: "Yes, yes, yes! I also think it's too strange. It's not surprising that the whistle-blower pays a lot of money to recruit people, but the price given is six to seven or eight times higher than the normal price. This is too strange.
Even if we take Luoyang and our family is big and wealthy, we still can't help the commander spending money like this."
"Wait a minute, shouldn't Fang Yiren handle this matter?"
Li Shiwei, who often followed Li Laiheng to help with matters, nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Fang handled it."
"Haha." Guo Junzhen twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Fang Yiren is just like Niu Jinxing. He is all a scholar's trick and trick. He asked the commander to recruit people to transport grain at such a high price, and also specially summoned
Here comes a large group of literate people. I think they are not here to transport food, but to transport people."
"Luoyang cannot be defended for too long. In the end, no matter what, it will definitely be taken away by the army. The soldiers and people in the city who have helped us will inevitably be tortured by the army. Zuo Liangyu has taken over all the villages that have hosted our old camp.
I want to leave no chickens or dogs behind, but slaughter them all."
"I think Fang Yiren is using a trick to let the commander spend a lot of money to recruit a large number of Luoyang citizens to transport food to Xiong'er Mountain. After that, he just needs to delay the time and let them stay in Xiong'er Mountain for ten and a half days, and then the army will break into the city.
After killing people wantonly, these people will have no choice but to follow the Little Tiger Squad."
Guo Junzhen didn't like Fang Yiren's "deception" which was similar to the Liangshan hero's "cheating" method to earn people. However, he thought that this method was ultimately to prevent the citizens of Luoyang from being retaliated and massacred by the army, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
Original.
I just thought that Li Zicheng was now more and more influenced by Niu Jinxing, and he was no longer as simple and sincere as before, and began to use some tricks and tricks. Guo Junzhen was also worried that his boss Li Laiheng would also recruit Fang Yiren.
Tao, became a Machiavellian careerist.
However, if Fang Yiren were present and heard Guo Junzhen's voice, he would definitely retort vigorously: Your commander is originally an ambitious man who loves to use power and deceit, please don't blame me.
"What else?"
Hao Yaoqi said in passing: "Oh, and Mr. Fang asked me to find a storyteller. I heard that he is very famous and has a high status in the world. He is some kind of master storyteller."
"Then the commander personally ordered us to lead the team to the surrounding suburbs and outer suburbs of Luoyang City to carefully examine the terrain. We found many places with critical positions and dangerous situations, and recruited many citizens with heavy sums of money to build camps in these places overnight.
Muzhai."
Although Luoyang City is not as strong as Kaifeng, it is far from comparable to the temporary wooden camp. Li Laiheng did not seize the time to consolidate the city defense of Luoyang City, but instead built wooden villages in dangerous places outside the city. This approach made Guo Junzhen hundreds of
I can't figure it out.
Then Li Shiwei added: "One more thing is that we seized a large number of firearms such as blunderbuss, fast guns, Baizi cannons, prisoner-killing cannons, general cannons, etc. from the treasury in Luoyang. The sentry attaches great importance to these firearms and stepped up supervision.
We train our personnel so that everyone can put these firearms to use as much as possible."
Training gunners and gunners is within Guo Junzhen's understanding.
But instead of repairing the city walls of Luoyang, they built wooden villages in dangerous places outside the city. What kind of trick is this?
Hao Yaoqi smiled again and said: "Jun Zhen, why are you frowning like this? Don't think about it, the commander must have his own arrangements. If you have any questions, why not come with us to see the commander and ask directly