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126. The Rebel Army

In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were glad that they heard the rebel Kong Youde awarded the title of the head, but they were arguing about how to deal with the Golden Wolf Immortal Master.

The army had not moved the food and grass before it was moved, and it was going to fight against the rebels, which cost a huge amount of money. Now the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, so it would be better to not move the force without force. Therefore, the army that was originally planning to attack Kong Youde did not set out, but sent an imperial envoy first, intending to grant him an official position at any time, summon him to Beijing, and accept the troops of Dengzhou and Laizhou at the same time.

Unfortunately, the imperial envoy sent by the imperial court was unable to enter the Mingwei Fort in Jiaozhou, and was stopped in Weixian next to Laizhou.

The one stationed in Weixian was Ma Dingyuan's right-hand assistant, Zhang Wencheng, a hundred households in the Fort Mingwei.

Although Ye Feiyu has now conquered tens of thousands of troops and has conquered many generals, Zhang Wencheng and other old men from Fort Mingwei were naturally valued. Except for Ma Dingyuan, Jiaozhou, the other five hundred households were sent out, each with thousands of troops, and they were extremely powerful.

Knowing that Ye Feiyu is capable of being a master of the world and possesses the supreme artifact, Zhang Wencheng, a general with great ambition, wished that Ye Feiyu would ascend the throne and become emperor immediately. These old men from the Fort Mingwei will be the general of the Dragon in the future and have extremely powerful power.

This guy tried his best to instigate Ma Dingyuan to surrender to Ye Feiyu. Now that these imperial envoys hit him, they naturally had no good results. They were all driven out of Laizhou Prefecture by Zhang Wencheng without any hesitation. Several eunuchs with arrogant attitude were even killed by Zhang Wencheng, which scared Wang Chengen so much that he almost wet his crotch.

Wang Chengen is Chongzhen's most trusted admiral and eunuch. Even the old minister of the court would respectfully call him "Grandpa King". He had never been treated so rudely and bloody. He returned to the capital overnight and cried in front of Chongzhen to accuse the Jinlang Immortal Master of arrogance.

Because Ye Feiyu confiscated the land and money of the gentry in the two prefectures, officials from the two prefectures in the court gave the Golden Wolf Immortal Master a pill at this time. Chongzhen finally made up his mind to raise one million taels of silver and 100,000 yuan to suppress the rebel army and rushed towards Laizhou and Dengzhou.

Although the spies from the two palaces have now gathered tens of thousands of troops, with strong strength and extremely sharp musketeers, the ministers in the court did not believe it.

These two mansions have always been a bitter and cold place. Even if they have eaten up the gentry's food, they cannot raise so many soldiers. At most, they have collected some of Kong Youde's remnants. Chongzhen still has to report that many of Kong Youde's soldiers and horses went out to Lushun with Kong Youliang.

The Golden Wolf Immortal Master promoted tens of thousands of troops, and must have bluffed the situation to scare the court and prevent the court from using force easily.

As for musketeers, many of the sons and nephews of ministers and nobles in the court were in Shenwu Camp. They knew the power of those musketeers. Not to mention the slow shooting speed, they often exploded. It was difficult to find musketeers to use them. It must be that those spies did not make up the world. When they saw the power of musketeers, they would send news back in horror.

Of course, some officials with delicate minds found something strange. They said that the other party deliberately exaggerated their troops and intended to prevent the court from attacking them. But how could they treat Wang Chengen so arrogantly? They knew that doing so would definitely cause the court to be furious and sent a large army.

I'm afraid that this mysterious Golden Wolf Immortal Master has a lot of confidence. After all, more than 10,000 troops and horses were destroyed by him, and his territory of more than 10,000 square kilometers was instantly controlled by him. This method is by no means something ordinary bandits can do.

However, countless ministers in the court were in charge of war, and these officials who found it strange did not dare to say anything at this time.

After three days, there is no need for source crystal to open the channel and enter the secondary plane. Therefore, if Ye Feiyu has time, he will go to the colonial plane No. 1 to deal with some emergencies.

In the afternoon, he and Meng Xiaoyun went to the Provincial College of Finance and Economics to see Ye Zixin, leaving behind an intermediate brain sensor, and returned to Xijiang City in the evening.

Although Meng Xiaoyun was interested in Ye Feiyu, she suddenly confirmed her relationship and naturally would not accept Ye Feiyu completely so quickly. She would definitely go home, and she also had to take care of her father and elder brother.

Ye Feiyu left Audi to Meng Xiaoyun, saying that if something happened, Meng Xiaoyun could also quickly drive to Yejia Village and the provincial government to protect Ye’s father and Ye’s mother and others. Meng Xiaoyun thought for a moment and kept the car.

There is only a special company to help Ye Feiyu inspect the ship, so Ye Feiyu doesn't have to worry about it. Then, if you contact the arms dealers in Europe and the United States, you can be sent to the No. 1 colonial plane after modification.

In the middle of the night, Ye Feiyu entered the colony plane No. 1, but at this time, the colony plane No. 1 was in broad daylight. Ma Dingyuan and others received a report from the court to send troops and were discussing countermeasures.

Ye Feiyu is elusive and often lives in the Heavenly Court. From time to time, he can't wait for Ye Feiyu to appear before handling the matter. Ma Dingyuan must be ready to fight. The court can even bribe one or two small officials and secretly spread news to the Mingwei Fort.

Moreover, the 100,000 troops set out, with a huge momentum, and it cannot be concealed by those who are interested.

Seeing Ye Feiyu suddenly walked out of the inner hall, Ma Dingyuan and others were all overjoyed. Ma Dingyuan said anxiously: "Sir Ye, you finally appeared. The court has sent 100,000 troops to us. You can come here in at most three days. That boy Zhang Wencheng, this time, I am really reckless. I have sent someone to scold him hard!"

Now Fort Mingwei is the base camp for training reserve forces, and Zhang Wencheng and others are not there. In fact, Ma Dingyuan is just researching the combat plan. Other generals are the coaches of training reserve forces, so they cannot affect Ma Dingyuan's decision.

Ye Feiyu used thunder to deal with the two prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou, but lacked the background. He accidentally asked several management talents to deal with government affairs in the county government office. Ma Dingyuan drove the ducks to put them on the shelves. Now that Ye Feiyu appeared, he threw the burden back on Ye Feiyu's shoulders.

Ye Feiyu smiled: "General Ma does not need to scold Zhang Wencheng. Anyway, we cannot submit to the court. It would be better to fight with them with real swords and guns, and hurt them, so that they can know the power of our two prefectures in Dengzhou and Laizhou, so they naturally dare not come again."

To be honest, Ye Feiyu is actually more optimistic about Zhang Wencheng than the somewhat indecisive Ma Dingyuan. He is not afraid of his subordinates being ambitious. With his means, even if Zhang Wencheng is ambitious, he can firmly control it.

"How many troops do we have now? How are the situation in the two governments recently?" he asked again.

Ma Dingyuan scratched his head, but he remembered the number of the army. The other data made him a little embarrassed, so he had to ask a middle-aged man dressed in a military master to take out an account book and introduce the current situation of the two prefectures in Dengzhou and Laizhou.

This aide was an accountant, but was selected by Ma Dingyuan among the refugees some time ago and became a master in Fort Mingwei. It is the first time I saw Ye Feiyu, an immortal master. I couldn't help but feel nervous. I licked my fingers in a habitual way. I suddenly realized how indecent she was. I quickly wiped my hands on my robe, and then opened the account book and introduced it to Ye Feiyu.

"There are a total of 13,700 active-duty soldiers in Laizhou and 53,300 reserve soldiers."

He was a little surprised when he spoke: "There are so many armies in the two palaces now?"

The terms active and reserve service were learned by Ma Dingyuan from Ye Feiyu. He nodded and said, "Yes. Active-duty soldiers were soldiers trained by our Fort Minway, as well as soldiers selected from the reserve service, and their qualities were all good."

"Because Zhang Wencheng expelled the imperial envoy of the court, the last general estimated that the court would send a large army to suppress the rebellion, so the number of active-duty troops was increased."

Zhang Wencheng was also very familiar with the military situation and continued: "Because Qingzhou Prefecture and other places nearby knew that we provided food to refugees and distributed land for free, many refugees flocked in. We found it difficult to arrange their livelihoods for a while, so we simply recruited these people into the reserve service. After the land was measured well, some reserve soldiers who were not suitable for military service would be discharged from the army and return to the farm."

It’s not that the land of the two prefectures in Dengzhou and Laizhou was distributed to foreign refugees, but Ye Feiyu was really short of staff. It took a lot of time to deal with the land distribution of the people in the two prefectures. It would be even more troublesome to register the foreign refugees and allocate land.

Ye Feiyu had only controlled the two governments for two months, so he could not handle these matters quickly. It was a temporary solution to allow refugees to join the army, arrange their families and other refugee camps outside military camps in various places.

Ye Feiyu nodded, and the master continued: "The total number of people on the two governments is 380,000 households... The food for disaster relief consumes 130,000 stones, and the grain stored is 780,000 stones... The refugees entering the two governments..."

There are a lot of data on people's livelihood in the two governments, and Ma Dingyuan, a warrior, must not be able to calculate it. However, among these data, there is no figure in the treasury of the two governments, because most of the gold and silver were taken into private space by Ye Feiyu and converted into Yuanjing.

There is not much grain reserved for 780,000 shi, which is only enough for the people of the two palaces to eat for two months. Most of this was collected from the gentry grain merchants. Now the sequelae have emerged. In this month, no grain merchant has transported grain from outside.

A large number of tenants have begun to plant grain crops in the fields assigned by the land, but it is impossible to produce them so quickly. During this period, there is no place to buy food even if you have money. You can only rely on the government office to open warehouses to provide disaster relief, and the inventory of grain consumes a lot.

Ye Feiyu could forcibly confiscate the grain of gentry and grain merchants, but he could not force them to transport food outside. In fact, it is difficult to transport it now. There is a shortage of grain all over the country. Historical books record that the Ming Dynasty transported grain from Dengzhou to Liaodong for military food and grass, one stone and one gold, which shows that the high price of grain is so high that even if there is food, ordinary people cannot afford it.

Because Kong Youde was in trouble here, there were many refugees, but other places were not much better. A large number of people could not buy food and were forced to rebel. In the end, Chongzhen was forced to commit suicide by these hungry peasant soldiers.

After listening to the situation of the two palaces, Ye Feiyu said lightly: "Very good, I brought a lot of guns this time. You can select another 3,000 elite troops to form a new musket team, and prepare to compete with the imperial army." (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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