Chapter 159 Private Interview

When Lu Xiangsheng learned that Lu'an Mansion was suddenly occupied by Xing Tianjun during the Spring Festival, he was also shocked. At the same time, he was furious. Since he took up the post of Governor of Xuanda and supervised the military affairs of Shanxi, he has also been paying attention to this large area controlled by the Xingtian Army in Jinnan. Of course. I didn't forget to collect about Xiao Tianjian's movements in Henan.

He never expected that Xiao Tianjian dared to suddenly return to Jinnan and personally led the soldiers and horses of the Jinnan Xingtian Army to carry out such a big action when he heard the news that Lu'an Mansion was destroyed, he was shocked and angry.

Immediately, he wanted to lead his 15,000 Tianxiong army to go south. He went to meet the fierce thief in person and see how powerful the Xingtian army under his command was. Unexpectedly, he defeated the official army in a row. Even Zu Dale and Zu Kuan, who used to obeyed his orders, were defeated in his hands, and thousands of Guanning army was almost the whole army. It's all in his hands.

Originally, with Lu Xiangsheng's idea, now compared with this Xing Tianjun, other righteous army, Xing Tianjun has become a big trouble for the current dynasty. Therefore, after he took office in Xuanda University, he specially wrote a letter to Chongzhen, asking Chongzhen to make Hong Chengchou and Wang Jiazhen and others to assemble heavy troops together to advance against Xing Tianjun. Extermination, completely eliminate Xing Tianjun in one fell swoop, and then suppress Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other righteous troops.

However, there was a conflict between Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang. After his Chen Tiao was sent to Beijing, he fell into the sea. Although Xiong Wencan replaced Wang Jiazhen as the governor of the five provinces and launched an attack on the Xing Tian army that had already invaded Henan, but the result was that the whole army of an ancestor Da Le Zu Kuan was destroyed in the battle of Yichuan. In the middle, the foundation of the Xingtian Army was not shaken at all. Although he was also ordered to mobilize Shanxi soldiers and horses to advance and suppress the control area of the Jinnan Xingtian Army this year, it was because there was too much pressure to build slaves outside the border area, and the Great Wall in the area of Xuanda was also in disrepair, so that he did not dare to mobilize too many border troops to go south and fight. Very unsatisfactory.

After Lu Xiang was promoted to the inauguration of Xuanda University, he once wrote to the court, asking for the re-repair of the Great Wall around Xuanda University and strengthen the training of the new army. However, because his proposal cost too much money, Chongzhen also left his Chen Tiao again. His proposal could not be finished. In addition, Yang Sichang always restrained him in the court. He has always refused to allocate enough food and salary to supply the army in the area of Xuanda. After he arrived at Xuanda, he could almost say that he did nothing. In addition to slightly strengthening the garrison here and repairing a few pass on the Great Wall, it was difficult for his Tianxiong army to maintain the food and salary. He had no choice but to order by himself. The area around Xuanda University recruits people to cultivate, nourish the people's livelihood in the surrounding areas, and makes some preparations for the future defense of building slaves and bandits. As for the large-scale use of troops in Jinnan, it is nonsense.

However, for more than a year, Lu Xiangsheng has paid great attention to the Xing Tianjun in the Jinnan area. In the summer of ten years, he even took a special trip for more than 20 days, personally took a few domestic slaves, disguised themselves as a peddler, and took a great risk to sneak into the Xing Tianjun's control area for a small circle.

And this trip, the shock caused by the Xing Tianjun to him was so great that Lu Xiangsheng could not calm down for a long time, because the scene he saw in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun can be said to be different from the scene in the area controlled by the government. As Lu Xiangsheng, who once served as the governor of the five provinces Over the years, I have traveled to the north and south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that I have a good understanding of the current situation in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, I know what kind of life the people live. Over the years, because the imperial court has to cope with the increasing military pay and pay, it has forced the people to make ends meet. They have to abandon the fields and run away rather than have land. If you don't grow, you have to be a raft. If you catch up with the continuous natural disasters in recent years, the imperial government is unable to provide relief and even turn a blind eye to it. That's why the world is in chaos. The exiles have rebelled one after another. It can be said that at present, in Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces, there are almost no scenes of ordinary people living and working in peace and contentment. There are everywhere. There are a lot of bandits.

But what surprised Lu Xiangsheng was that in the Jinnan area controlled by the Xingtian Army, he once again saw the long-lost scene of people living and working in peace and contentment. Since he entered the control area of the Xingtian Army, there is almost no abandoned land in the farmland that keeps appearing on both sides of the road, and there are no abandoned land, and large and small villages are here. In afar, you can see the rising smoke. A large number of people are working in the fields, or chatting and laughing. Although they are still wearing rags, their faces are bloody, and there are many less dishes, which shows that their life here can basically be fed and full. This kind of life now is a rare sight in other places.

And what surprised Lu Xiangsheng was that since he entered the Xingtian Army's control area, he could no longer see any exiles who were begging along the road. In some places, Xing Tianjun specially opened up areas for the shelter of the exiles who poured into their control area for temporary resettlement, and then special personnel would serve porridge. Give them to ensure that they will no longer starve to death, let alone see the scene of dead bodies starving everywhere on the roadside in other places. Even if there are exiles who die due to illness, there are special people responsible for collecting their bodies, burying them deeply or burning them. Even at the shelters for the exiles, the Xingtian Army also sent Langzhong to see the exiles. In this way, the disease not only controls the flow of people, but also controls the possible spread of the plague.

With the deepening of Lu Xiangsheng, he also found that there are often personnel similar to Xiangyong and Zhuangding to practice or patrol between the townships and villages in the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. There are no robbers here at all. All kinds of vendors can hold the road guide specially issued by the Xing Tianjun and walk in the area controlled by the Xing Tianjun. Inside, there is no need to do business like other places. If you want to do business, you must form a group or hire tough people to escort them. One or two of the hawkers who do business here dare to walk at night. This situation also shows that the public security situation in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun is good, and the bandits in its territory have been basically eliminated, and The people also organize a large number of local armed forces similar to Xiangyong, which can ensure the safety of the ground in the jurisdiction.

These patrolling villagers will also check the passers-by from time to time, but they are not like the small officials or officers and soldiers in other places. After checking the special road of Xing Tianjun in the hands of the road, they will be politely released, but if there is no road issued by Xing Tianjun. If you introduce it, you will be arrested immediately and sent to the local garrison for strict handling.

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng made preparations in advance and got a road guide issued by Xing Tianjun through special means. Not to mention going deep into the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, I'm afraid that he should be arrested for severe criminal interrogation without waiting for how far he enters the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun. Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng Known for his boldness and carefulness, he pretended to be a businessman very similar, so he was not found by the Xing Tianjun road card along the way, which allowed him to go around the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun.

It is precisely because Xing Tianjun has achieved effective management in the jurisdiction that the people here have cultivated land and food, which has attracted a large number of exiles from other places to flood into the area controlled by Xing Tianjun. Therefore, the population density in the area controlled by Xing Tianjun is so high, not to mention that there are mostly mountainous areas, and there are few flat land, and a county. Roughly, it can almost reach the population of several counties in other places. How much food does it have to produce to feed so many people? On the other hand, it is more fully explained that Xing Tianjun has a set of effective management methods for the control area.

As Lu Xiangsheng goes deeper and deeper into the control area of Xing Tianjun, he knows more and more things. The original method used by Xing Tianjun is nothing more than to capture a place, operate a place, drive away the original local big fortunes, confiscate their fields and redistribute them, so that ordinary people have land to grow and houses to live in. Then Xing Tianjun used the proceeds of plunder to feed the people in his territory, and then gradually realized the self-sufficiency of food after operating the local agriculture.

After communicating with the people here, Lu Xiangsheng learned that Xing Tianjun had a set of ways to collect Tian Fu. Compared with Tian Fu set by the court, Xing Tianjun's collection was only high or low, but the difference was that Xing Tianjun did what he said. The amount he received was fixed, and he would never apportion and collect it randomly, and whether it was more for Tian Duo or Tian Shao. Farmers are treated with the same tax. Even the land awarded to Xing Tianjun's own army and generals's homes is also subject to pay taxes. In this regard, the disadvantage that the privileged class can be exempted from tax has been eliminated. In this way, although the tax is not low, the people do not have to worry about making ends meet. In addition to paying for the grain harvested, In addition, there is enough left for them to eat until the harvest next year, and they can even have a small surplus. They can exchange the rich surplus grain for some necessary daily necessities, such as salt or cloth farm tools.

Moreover, Xing Tianjun is also allowed to do business in the jurisdiction, but strictly controls the quality and price of goods. The price of grain and salt on the market here are much lower than that in other places, and the quality is much better. Moreover, merchants are not allowed to sell and leave the grain under the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun. In this way, it is avoided. The grain in the area controlled by Xing Tianjun will be sold by merchants, which has greatly increased the price of grain here.

When he saw this, Lu Xiangsheng was really completely shocked. Xiao Tianjian was just a reckless person, and Xing Tianjun, as a thieves, could take care of the territory they controlled like this, and gave these ordinary people a peaceful place. Thinking about the Ming Dynasty and other government offices in various places, he was stunned. The world has been taken care of as it is today, making the people live in poverty. No wonder every time the officers and soldiers come to suppress the Xing Tianjun, they will be resisted by the Xingtian army and the people here. They already have something to protect, and no one is willing to listen to the control of the government and court!

After Lu Xiangsheng looked at these situations, he was hit quite a lot. After returning to Xuanfu, he thought for a long time and couldn't help sighing. In his opinion, he was also a local member of the court, but he couldn't even do what Xing Tianjun did. It should make him quite ashamed.