Chapter 176 Rest

Wu Jing did not dare to hide the news of the second defeat of Xing Tianjun in Shanxi, so he immediately wrote a report and sent it to the capital, taking the initiative to plead guilty to the court.

When the news spread to the capital, it immediately caused an uproar among the officials in the DPRK. Immediately, some officials reported Chongzhen to impeach Wu Ng's incompetence. Unexpectedly, even such a thief could not be eliminated. Chongzhen was asked to dismiss Wu Gong as the governor of Shanxi and dismiss him from his post for investigation. For a moment, the impeachment was full of Chongzhen. Above the dragon case.

However, there are also some officials who have a good relationship with Wu Xiong. They write to protect Wu Xi, saying that the military strength in Shanxi is limited now, and there are no elite soldiers available in Wu Xiong's hands. He is willing. There is no need to investigate Wu Xi's dereliction of duty too much. After all, Wu Xiong has done quite well, at least he limited this group of thieves to a small one. The area of Yangcheng County has not caused a greater disaster. Compared with the officials in Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang and Huaihe, it is also valuable for him to be able to do this. After all, the damage of thieves to various places seems to be much more serious. Wu Jing can control this group of criminal soldiers to a certain extent without heavy soldiers. Within the scope, there is not only innocence, but also merit.

A simple thing turned out to be two versions by officials in the court. A group of officials strongly supported Wu Jing, and a group of officials fell into the well and attacked each other, which made Chongzhen a little difficult.

In fact, Chongzhen knew that the exile army had become a big trouble for the court. At the beginning of the year, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other generations actually invaded the hometown of Fengyang's old Zhu family and dug the ancestral tomb of his family. If it is not eradicated, it will be subverted for their more than 200 years of foundation in the Ming Dynasty. Drop his Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, at present, he looks at these demobilized forces and pays much more attention to the construction of slaves outside the customs, which is why he does not hesitate to promote people like Hong Chengchou, mobilizing the heavy troops of several provinces to suppress these demobilized forces.

However, this unknown Xing Tianjun in Shanxi is a little irrelevant compared with other exiles. After all, they are only in a county, and they are a couple in the southernmost part of Shanxi. Compared with those exiles who are floating around, the harm is more minor after all, as long as they turn back and suppress After destroying large exiles such as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, they will mobilise heavy troops to encircle and suppress them. It must be easy to destroy them.

As for Wu Jing's failure to send troops to suppress twice, Chongzhen is not very angry about this matter. After all, although Wu Jing did not eliminate it, at least he did not let him sit in Shanxi and cause more trouble. On this point, Wu Xiong's work is still remarkable, at least compared with those officials in Henan and Shaanxi, in This is still a good job. If you dismiss a governor like Wu Yu just because you have lost one or two counties, then look at the provinces of the Ming Dynasty today, how many governors can continue to work? Therefore, Chongzhen still has his own idea of how to deal with Wu Xiong.

And Chongzhen was originally a very stubborn person. He always believed that he was a wise king. He could not be influenced by these officials at all. He knew very well what to do and what not to do. At the beginning, he was still a little angry at the beginning, but he thought about it carefully. After that, I felt that Wu Jing was understandable. After all, there are almost no available elite soldiers in Shanxi now. The strong generals were transferred by Hong Chengchou to Henan, Shaanxi and other places, and this Xing Tianjun was relatively fierce, so it is understandable to suppress unfavorable. At present, how to deal with Wu Xiong is not the most important now. The important thing is how to deal with the thief army in Yangcheng, so Chongzhen asked the ministers in the court. As a result, someone gave Chongzhen an idea. Instead of letting the Xing Tianjun stay in Yangcheng like this, it is better to recruit it. After all, this thief army has shown good combat effectiveness. If you can recruit it. In other words, it will allow the court to get a strong brigade out of thin air.

While Chongzhen was also considering this matter, the news of Cao Wenzhao's defeat and death came from Shaanxi. This time, it was even more shocking, and everyone's attention immediately turned to the death of Cao Wenzhao.

So Emperor Chongzhen was shocked after hearing this and had no time to think about how to deal with Wu Ng, so he just asked Zhongshu Province to draw up an imperial edict and scolded Wu Ng, but he did not dismiss Wu Ng's position as governor, and asked Wu Ng to find a way to recruit this criminal army, preferably to let them join the court. , to do things for the court, in that case, they can not be blamed for what they have done before. If not, it will also be limited to the Xingtian army from running around and becoming a bandit, so this matter will be exposed.

After receiving the imperial edict, Wu Jing finally breathed a long sigh of relief, so he immediately began to arrange to caress Xiao Tianjian according to the holy intention.

For this kind of thing, the government can't keep it secret. Soon the streets and alleys knew the news. Fan Yaoshan, who secretly traded with Xing Tianjun, of course, knew the news quickly. He did not dare to send someone to send a letter to Xiao Tianjian and told Xiao Tianjian about the news.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian was busy in Yangcheng. After meeting with Fan Xi, he learned more about the situation of the Liu family's caravan. Without any hesitation, he immediately sent 200 elite soldiers led by Shi Ran and supplemented by Wang Chengping, and immediately sneaked out of the Xingtian Army's control area to the west. The caravan of the Liu family was intercepted on the official road from Wenxi County to Jiangzhou. Dozens of people were killed on the spot, and the rest were scattered. The Liu family's caravan was snatched clean. All the salt, iron, grain, cloth and other things pulled in the caravan were robbed by them. That night, they quickly escorted them. Some goods rushed back to Yangcheng, and Xiao Tianjian also arranged a sentry led by Li Shuanzhu to pick them up on the road in advance. In a few days, these dozens of carts full of goods were pulled back to the boundary of Yangcheng and became Xiao Tianjian's trophy.

As a result, the Liu family, who opposed the Fan family, suffered a lot of blow because of this incident, and almost collapsed and could no longer fight against Fan Yaoshan in a short time. For this reason, Fan Yaoshan was very grateful to Xiao Tianjian, and sent Fan Xi to send a batch of sulfur to Xiao Tianjian as a thank you, which made Xiao Tianjian fall at both ends. It's cheap and very comfortable.

After the end of this matter, Xiao Tianjian temporarily took a break and transferred all his sentries back to the Lianhuazhai camp. Because after this counterattack against the officers and army, in addition to the beginning of the summer harvest, Xiao Tianjian also found many problems exposed by the Xing Tianjun at present, and he had to start to deal with these problems. OK, solve it.

The three sentinels originally assigned to the three places, as well as Yan Chongxi in Yuanqu County, were transferred back to Lianhua Village by Xiao Tianjian for training. As for the issue of garrison, Xiao Tianjian adopted the suggestions put forward to him by Fu Deming and simply ordered the sentry owners to hand it over to the chiefs of protection in various places.

The implementation of the Baochang system enables the Xingtian Army to extend its tentacles to all corners of the area under their control. In addition to dealing with some civil affairs, it is also responsible for local public security work at ordinary times. In wartime, the Baochang is a local armed officer at the first level, who can lead the local township troops to work. War.

Each village basically has a chief security guard, who temporarily serves as the village head. There are about dozens or about a hundred township soldiers in a village. These township soldiers are relatively scattered, and it is not easy to play a big role in wartime. They can only defend the village. It was Xiao Tianjian who adopted Fu Deming's suggestion in several key areas and ordered the joint protection of ten villages, that is, to merge the village soldiers of a village together, and sent two smarter low-level officers from the army to the local area to serve as chief and deputy chief. Usually, they can patrol the villages and supervise when they have nothing to do. Supervise the drills of the village and township soldiers. Once there is an enemy, they will be responsible for dispatching the joint operations of the township soldiers of ten villages.

In this way, it is equivalent to letting the scattered villagers gather together in wartime and become a team that can exert considerable combat effectiveness. Usually, the township soldiers can work at home, and the farmers can follow the chief to practice, which is equivalent to handing over the responsibility of guarding the place to these township soldiers, and doing so is to play the role of Tibetan soldiers. The role of the people greatly reduces the burden of the Xingtian Army. Second, it can more effectively mobilize the local township troops and become the auxiliary army of the Xingtian Army in wartime. The biggest advantage is that after Xiao Tianjian's adjustment, he can take all the main soldiers back into his hands and pinch them into fists again. Once they encounter large-scale If the enemy forces, they can attack collectively and will no longer be overstretched to mobilize troops.

And the chief protection system has been implemented in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army for a period of time. Basically, it has gained a lot of experience. At the beginning, a village was sent by the chief and deputy chief. These people were already familiar with some of the work of the chief. Now there are some new sites, so Xiao Tianjian ordered the original Some of the chiefs of the bailiffs have been transferred out, plus some newly retired soldiers, and arranged for them to be sent to the new sites. These bailiffs who have considerable experience can assist in the land reform of land, the second is to maintain public security on the new territory, and can also form new rural soldiers. Team, with them, Xiao Tianjian can quickly control the newly occupied territory in his hands.

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