The news that the Chuang army was distributing grain to feed the hungry people in Yiyang County and Ruzhou was spread from one to ten, and soon it caused a sensation in the entire Ruzhou. Countless refugees gathered towards Li Laiheng's army.
Behind the small invading army was a large army of hungry people ten times the number of soldiers.
Fang Yiren was deeply saddened by Li Laiheng's childish behavior. He didn't know why Li Laiheng, who already had some sense of superiority and authority, would do such a stupid thing.
But Li Laiheng himself was very happy because he had solved the knot in his heart. The other members of the Little Tigers, whether they were Gao Yigong, a veteran of Chuangying, Hao Yaoqi, Guo Junzhen and others, were also new members of Chuangying in Henan.
Miao Lichen, Zhang Yuheng and others were almost like Li Laiheng, and felt happy for having saved even one more victim.
"The rebels have many shortcomings, but there is no doubt that among all the forces in the late Ming Dynasty, they have the highest sense of morality."
Li Laiheng said to himself that he did not want to destroy the moral sense of the rebel army because of his own machinations. Moral sense itself is also a kind of power. Puritan-like discipline and moral sense can enable the army to maintain a sense of morality that transcends material things.
The power of.
Among the various forces in the late Ming Dynasty, it goes without saying that Zuo Liangyu's first-rate rebels and the Manchurian beast army were not mentioned. Even the Qin army reorganized by Sun Chuanting also implemented a large-scale three-light extermination policy in Henan.
Not to mention the armies of the Nanming warlords. Even Zheng Chenggong, the last imperial ruler at the end of the Nanming Dynasty, had no better discipline and moral sense.
Among the rebels, even the Western Army, which carried out large-scale massacres due to Zhang Xianzhong's personal "abnormality" (he was likely to suffer from depression, mania, and bipolar disorder in his later years), still maintained the
Strict discipline.
For example, when the Daxi Army carried out massacres in Sichuan, they could neither plunder gold and silver (gold and silver were completely collected centrally, and the large amount of sunken silver remains unearthed in Pengzhou later proved that these gold and silver were not in the hands of individual soldiers), but they even had to massacre themselves.
The Sichuan comrades in the army have reached the point of being completely anti-human.
Even a large number of Western Army soldiers could not bear this aimless massacre and chose to commit suicide.
It can be said that the Western Army was able to carry out this kind of massacre without any benefit at all because of the strict discipline created by Zhang Xianzhong. Otherwise, it would be impossible for an army to defeat even its own people without gaining anything or giving back.
Carry out extermination and cleansing.
This is almost close to the Great Purge of the Soviet Union.
Compared with the Manchurian Beast Army, which destroyed every place it went, and the Ming Dynasty official army, whose discipline was getting worse and worse and more destructive, the peasant uprising army did not destroy places.
On the contrary, a large amount of data shows that in the places occupied by the peasant army, social production has recovered rapidly and the economy has also experienced astonishing growth. The argument that the peasant rebel army is a "robber bandit" and that they only know how to destroy and do not understand construction is
There is absolutely no data or historical data to support it.
Before the Daxi Army entered Yunnan, there were only 17,000 hectares of cultivated land in Yunnan in the sixth year of Wanli, and it was still about 17,000 hectares in the late Ming Dynasty and the early years of Tianqi. However, by the time the Qing army defeated the Daxi regime and occupied Yunnan in the 18th year of Shunzhi
, Yunnan’s cultivated land has reached 52,000 hectares.
Even excluding Muzhuang Field and Tusi Field, the new fields reclaimed by the Daxi Army alone amounted to nearly 20,000 hectares.
In terms of population, there were about 200,000 people in Yunnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the later period of the Western Army's rule in Yunnan, the number increased to 230,000. After the Qing army entered Yunnan in the 18th year of Shunzhi, there were only 110,000 people left.
It can be seen that during the period when the peasant army ruled Yunnan, the population of Yunnan increased by 14% compared to the late Ming Dynasty. After the Qing army entered Yunnan, the population decreased by more than half. It was not until seventy years later that the population of Yunnan returned to the level when the Western Army ruled Yunnan.
level of the period.
Isn’t it still unclear who are the “robbers” and who are the people who only know how to build but not how to build?
On the eve of the Great Western Army's entry into Yunnan, the price of rice in Yunnan had risen to a level of more than ten taels to thirty taels per stone. Then one year after the Great Western Army entered Yunnan, the price of rice in Yunnan returned to around three to eight taels. Later, Sun Kewang's rule
In Yunnan, the price of rice was only seven yuan per stone.
On the contrary, it only took two years for the Qing army to enter Yunnan, and the price of rice rose from twelve taels before the fall of the Daxi Army to one hundred taels and one stone.
Who is the builder and who is the destroyer?
"Leshan..." Li Laiheng lightly lifted the reins, drove the war horse to Fang Yiren's side in small steps, and said softly, "I understand that your intention is not just for personal gains and losses. You are dedicated to military affairs and have great talents. How can you be willing to do so?"
Among the Baishou Five Classics?"
He handed Fang Yiren a piece of bread stuffed with bacon and comforted him: "In the camp, you are the only one who can understand my heart. You want to be the emperor's teacher, but my ambition is not just to be the emperor."
That’s all.”
When Fang Yiren heard Li Laiheng's words, the hand that took the dough trembled violently for a while. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with half belief and doubt: "Even Liu Bang was born as a pavilion chief. The only person who founded the country as a refugee in ancient times is Taizu Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just one person. Isn't it enough to be Zhu Hongwu in charge of the whistle?"
Li Laiheng cast his eyes on the ranks of hungry people in the distance. He seemed to see a very distant place, saw the waving red flag and the world of human ideals, and then laughed at himself: "I want to create a great harmony that will put the three generations of Yao and Shun to shame."
Shi, do you believe it?"
Fang Yiren shook his head, but after a while, he nodded slightly. He sighed several times in succession, then suddenly stuffed the whole piece of bread into his mouth, chewed it, and almost got eaten by the dough.
I choked on the cake.
"Great changes are imminent in the world. If the commander encounters a period of great strife and revolution unprecedented in three thousand years, he may have the opportunity to achieve success for three generations."
"Haha! Leshan, you are doing what I like and flattering me again!"
Li Laiheng laughed heartily and stopped talking about the matter. He rushed to the front of the team, ordered Zhang Yuheng to put out food again, and then selected some people from the refugee team who had complete family members and looked more stable to follow him into the camp.
Zhang Yuheng asked in confusion: "If the commander wants to recruit soldiers from the refugees, shouldn't he choose some strong men?"
"You still don't understand that when the famine has reached this level, those who can still save their families, the old and the weak, must have more energy than ordinary people. Moreover, with their families around, not only are these people unreliable, but they are also not the only ones who will not contribute.
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After Li Laiheng arranged all these things, he took a rest on the horse. Since leaving Luoyang, he has had less food and less work, and he has become much more haggard. He originally spent more than half a year of stable life in Xiaohu Village and Desheng Village.
Later, Li Laiheng's body became much stronger and plump.
But after being busy during this period, especially after evacuating Luoyang, Li Laiheng was almost inseparable from his saddle every day, and he lost a lot of weight. Both sides of his cheeks were slightly sunken.
While he was resting on his horse with his eyes closed, he asked Zhang Pizhu: "Have you arrived in Ruzhou yet? Have you found any trace of Uncle Yufeng's men and horses in the night?"
The distance between Yiyang County and Ruzhou is already very short. Before Zhang Pizhu could answer anything, Hao Yaoqi rushed back on horseback. Also rushing back with him was Li Laiheng's old acquaintance Li Shuangxi. Hao Yaoqi was anxious while
Then he shouted joyfully: "Ye Bu Shui has joined the leading vanguard of General Tian Post at the edge of Ru River!"
"Ha, this is great. The armies have converged, and we can take a breather. Where is the marshal's main force? Where are they? Are they still in Kaifeng, or have they arrived near Ruzhou?"
After Li Laiheng saw Li Shuangxi, he was already convinced that Tian Jianxiu was nearby, and immediately asked a series of questions.
Li Shuangxi shook his hand and replied while panting: "The main force led by the old commander first went to Dengfeng to join the local bandits. You also know the Li Jiyu. After getting help from Li Jiyu to rest, they went south without stopping.
We have arrived at Rushui and are now moving between Ruzhou and Baofeng. In less than a day at the latest, our three armies will be able to join forces and return to our hometown in Xiong'er Mountain."
"Very good. Luoyang, the war in Kaifeng has come to an end for the time being. What about Yang Wenyue? Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei's 10,000 Baoding elite troops are the biggest trouble right now."
"It is said that Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei's troops are temporarily stationed in the Yuzhou area. They seemed to have believed Li Xianfeng's story about how they defeated the invaders in Luoyang, so they thought that the invaders would no longer be in good spirits after they fled into the mountains. It seems that they
The main energy is used to keep an eye on Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in the southwest and the fifth battalion of Gezuo in the southeast."
Li Laiheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He punched Li Shuangxi in the chest and said with a smile: "Let's go. After the three armies join forces, we will go back to Desheng Village to rest and recuperate!"