Chapter 382

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, the situation of Daming was out of control. After Niu Er captured Xuzhou and cut off the water transport, the voice of moving the capital sounded in the hall, but they were all suppressed in the end. Chongzhen himself also held a glimmer of hope that Hong Chengchou could recover Xuzhou.

However, Hong Chengchou just took the army to Xuzhou. Luo Rucai and Liu Zongmin crossed the Yellow River after attacking Kaifeng for more than ten days.

Years of drought and heavy taxes, the people of beizhili have already reached the edge of life and death. The two anti thieves cross the river like fish into the sea.

There were countless followers. In a short period of time, more than 100000 troops were pulled out to attack the city and pull out the stronghold, a driving force to hit the capital.

This surprised Chongzhen and all the officials. Chongzhen had to make a decree quickly to let Hong Chengchou calm the thieves in beizhili first.

In this way, Hong Laogou, who had made preparations for the recovery of Xuzhou for more than a month, had to cross the Yellow River and kill Daming mansion. He really pressed the gourd to float up!

Niu Er, who had gained a firm foothold in Xuzhou, saw that old Hong dog had gone and immediately waved his troops south. In a short time, Fengyang mansion and Huai'an mansion were occupied one after another, and all the north of the Huai River fell into the hands of thieves.

After occupying the land of two governments and one state, Niu Er couldn't wait to open his government and become the king. He was honored as King Wu and his country was called the state of Wu.

This scared the talented women and beauties, gentry, merchants and noble civil servants in the south of the Yangtze River to death, and finally felt the scene of chaos.

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng arrived in Nanjing in time with 8000 Tianxiong troops. At this time, Huainan area has long been in chaos. People are floating. There are family prospects, ready to invest in thieves, and dragging their families to pack money and goods, ready to move south.

Seeing this situation, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't care so much. While taking his troops to Huainan, he wrote to the capital to apologize. He even vaguely mentioned that the general situation in the North was gone and asked Chongzhen to move south.

In this changing situation, when everyone began to think about their own or family's fate, the Chuang Wang, who was most optimistic about the potential of unifying the Central Plains, was beaten down by the Chinese army and fled back to Luoyang with only thirty or forty thousand defeated soldiers.

For a time, Qin Huan, the king of China, was so powerful that he completely overtook the king and became the first choice for those who fought for fame and future.

In addition, Qin Huan officially issued a call to arms in Wuchang. He sincerely invited people of insight from all over the world to come to Wuchang to plan major events. At that time, countless talented scholars and scholars rushed to Wuchang.

When Hong Ying defeated Chuang queen, she was supposed to take advantage of the victory to seize the whole Henan and drive Chuang army back to the northwest. However, she received the order of Qin Huan to stop the war and had to stop at Kaifeng house and start recruiting people to resume production.

This time, 300000 soldiers broke into the army. Without fighting a decent battle, two-thirds of the troops were lost, which made the king clear headed.

Realizing that the army can't live without food for a day, it can't rely on looting as before, so they began to use literati to farm and resume production while preparing to plot in Sichuan.

The defeat of Chuang Jun this time is actually inevitable, because according to the current territory and strength of Chuang Jun, it has been completely regarded as a small country.

But the thinking of Chuang Wang and Chuang Jun generals still stays on the previous roving bandits. How can there be an invincible truth!

It can be said that the deployment of 300000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people at a time will exert the power of the country in any unified dynasty.

For the long, it will take three or five years to prepare, and for the short, it will take a year and a half to start the war. Where can we go to Chuang Wang? When we look at the golden wheat in Nanyang, we will kill it with a large army.

In history, the same was true of the Northern Expedition and the final attack on the capital. At that time, the Chuang king was lucky. Daming was no longer good at war, the supervisor was no longer in charge of the overall situation, commanded all the generals, and there were all incompetent people in the court, which made the Chuang army overwhelming.

This time, the Chinese army not only has Li Yan, who can see the weakness of breaking into the army at a glance, but also has a strong army with orders and prohibitions, with a scale of tens of thousands of people. The logistics support and mobilization ability can not be compared with other dynasties except the Qin Dynasty, so the outcome can be imagined.

Indeed, although the king left behind 50000 troops and horses, he was attacked by Chinese artillery and thunder for almost half a day, and then the elite soldiers of the three towns kept catching up.

As a result, there were cavalry to wash the disturbance in front, followed by pursuers. The plan that the army could reach the Yellow River in half a month could not even March for ten miles every day. Finally, it had to evacuate separately after the food was exhausted. It sounds good to say that it is to evacuate separately, but it sounds bad to say that it is to herd sheep completely. It doesn't even have the opportunity to work hard. It has to be more and more oppressive.

Both the north and South lines of the Chinese army have won victories, and the land of the Central Plains has completely settled down. The two houses of runing in Kaifeng are managed by civil servants sent by the Government Council.

With the Chinese Army's policy of dividing land, people came to beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi and even nanzhili. In just one month, the population of the two governments recovered to about 3 million, and there were people digging ditches, ploughing fields and building houses everywhere.

It can be seen that even if there is another war in the Central Plains and another war is full of holes, the people will not survive. Once the war stops, they will be able to recover quickly. In a few decades, it will be the province with the largest population and the largest land, which is an advantage that no other province has.

"Governor Liu, how dare you force all the people to grow cotton. Will everyone eat cotton at that time? Do you understand farming?"

The red warbler had nothing to do, so she had to take the guards and cavalry around Kaifeng. She found that all counties were planting cotton. When she asked, it was magistrate Liu who ordered it. She immediately killed the magistrate's Yamen of Kaifeng City in a rage.

"Empress, I am wronged. It's not that the lower official insisted that all the people grow cotton, but that the king asked the Government Council. The lower official had to do it!"

When magistrate Liu saw that she was about to whip, he also wanted to cry without tears. He quickly explained that who knew what the king had smoked and asked Kaifeng to plant all cotton this year. No matter how he advised him, he didn't listen.

"Oh, the king asked? You didn't lie to me? This is more than ten million mu of land. If all kinds of cotton were planted, how much cotton would there be? "

The red warbler frowned and stared at him, but the sound he called the empress was very useful, and the whip in his hand was also put down.

"Even if you lend me ten courage, I dare not deceive my mother! The matter is indeed instructed by the king. Perhaps it is the drought in Henan this year, and the cotton is more drought resistant. In addition, there is a shortage of cotton in Daqin, so the king is so! "

"Well, I ask you, why did you order the people in all counties not to cut down trees or burn firewood?"

Seeing that he said so, the red warbler didn't care any more. He asked again.

If it hadn't been for the past month, this guy had presided over the recruitment of people in all counties and resumed production. He had done a good job. He would have been beaten by the red warbler into a faint official.

"Madam, this is also the king's instruction. Trees can't be cut down indiscriminately. As for the prohibition of burning firewood, it's pure speculation and nonsense. The lower official just advocates the people to burn coal balls in the future according to the instructions of the Government Council!"

Magistrate Liu explained again that he was confused about this, but the king ordered it. Even if he didn't understand it, he had to carry it out.

Otherwise, apart from mistakes, let alone that the king wants to bring him to justice, I'm afraid the civil servants of the whole government council will have to skin him.

Now the Government Affairs Council can manage the land of the two governments and take over the political affairs from the widows. Therefore, the whole government affairs council is holding a strong desire to make achievements, and no one dares to neglect it.

Only by making achievements can we have the confidence to take over the political affairs of other prefectures and counties one after another in the future.

"Well, tomorrow I'll leave for Xiangyang for a meeting. If I find you lying to me, you're making some messy rules to harm the people, you're dead."

The red warbler then turned and left the government office. She beat down the Kaifeng office inch by inch with her brothers, so she would never allow these civil servants to mess around.

Magistrate Liu and a group of civil servants had to give gifts. They also heard that the empress was jealous of evil and hated civil servants very much. She whipped more than one or two county magistrates in each county.