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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.

In the Ming Dynasty, the general notification county is the seventh grade.

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

The magistrate of Fuliang, 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 the gap.

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

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

He felt that he could not pass the Jinshi examination, so he spent money to become the 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.

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, feeling that Wu Bing was mentally handicapped: "The Raozhou city is Zhao thief's soldiers, this is also an act of luring 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, I will send someone to Raozhou to ask for help at night."

Wu Bing, a senior academic officer in Jiangxi Province, 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 their whole 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 over two or three thousand rebels, all of whom had already surrendered. After this mission was over, they could return to their villages and divide their fields.

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 the troops, and at the same time organize the families 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 in a poor scholar, and he has never read military books. He can't even set up a camp, and the mission team is also responsible for helping him set up a camp.

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

Li Zheng led his troops and walked slowly along the Changjiang River.

When we arrived at Guxiandu, suddenly a Fuliang county official rushed over, stopped the army and knelt down and shouted: "General, please help Fuliang!"

After receiving the request letter from the magistrate, Li Zheng laughed out loud and immediately accelerated his march.

After arriving outside the county seat, without any rest, Li Zheng raised his gun and pointed at the camp of rebels: "Kill!"

After hearing the news, Lu Hongsheng and Wu Bing went to the city to watch the battle. They saw the Datong army marching in line, and they managed to keep their formation while trotting.

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

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

Wu Bing immediately corrected: "Since recruiting security, it is an 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 battalion had already collapsed, and countless rebels fled to the mountains to the north.

Lu Hongsheng was dumbfounded: "Is this the win?"

Wu Bing sighed and said: "Zhao Zongzhen's soldiers are already as powerful as tigers and wolves. If they are not bandits, if they are officers and soldiers, 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 into town, I'll just go.

As soon as Li Zheng gave the order, he led his troops away directly, and didn't bother 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 quickly ordered to open the city gate. He really didn't dare to play tricks anymore.

Even if they guess the truth, they can only pretend not to know. 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 Lower Fuliang, would like to thank General Li for his kindness on behalf of the people of Fuliang."

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 county 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's up to the general to decide."

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

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

"It's easy."

Li Zheng sent a general to leave the city with the flag of Datong, and surrendered the more than 10,000 "rebels" on the spot.

Lu Hongsheng and Wu Bing looked at each other, not sure whether Zhao Han really had such a great reputation, or whether these rebels were just pretended by Zhao Han.

It really doesn't matter what the truth is.

Liu Tongyu, the mayor of Zhangshu Town, was promoted to the magistrate of Fuliang County due to his meritorious service in protecting the important commercial town from 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.

Except for 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 associations. 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 want to go to disaster relief, work for relief, organize the people to build water conservancy and open roads. In this way, it can not only increase infrastructure, but also relieve those hungry people.

Fuzhou Prefecture is also coming soon, and the land of five counties has been controlled by the peasant association for three counties.

The officials under Zhao Han's command were naturally happy with the addition of so many territories. 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 official officials. Zhao Han's official system has been operating at a high speed.

In addition, Zhao Han ordered that whenever the farmers' associations occupy all the mansions in the territory, 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, the state of abundance.

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 is conceivable that the land is rich enough to support so many people.

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, even though 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 also boring, Wu Bing quickly bid farewell to Lu Hongsheng with a bitter face.

In the name of Yanlin School, he took his servants to Guangxin Mansion. 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, ordering the boatmen to flee quickly.

Outside the city of Guangxin Mansion, densely packed with hungry people.

They all came from Zhejiang. There is only one sentence in the history books: "(Chongzhen) Ten years, there was a great famine in Zhejiang, and father and son, brothers, and 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. They supported each other in twos and threes, hoping to go to Ehu Town and Hekou Town to ask for food.

Witnessing all this, Wu Bing suddenly came up with a strange idea: If bandits Zhao occupy this place, they will be able to save the victims.

"Wow... 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.

Some time ago, my family wrote to me, 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.

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

How beautiful and rich it used to be. 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.

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

He returned to Nanchang Mansion by boat, went to the countryside to observe the farmers' association's division of land, and watched the farmers' 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 actually be a commoner.

After visiting many 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 Brother Penguin owes a long time to the Silver League, and the Double Leader and the other Silver League members will wait a moment.)