Bow makers and kiln workers were taken away by Zhao Han with their families. The total number of women and children exceeded four thousand.
It is difficult to deal with the elite soldiers, mainly because they are reluctant to part with their families.
It's okay to insist on taking the surrendered soldiers away, but it's hard to tell the morale of the army, and one day they may turn against each other before the battle.
Therefore, Zhao Han specially stayed for a few more days, and the stragglers went to various villages to "pick up" their families. It was delayed for another sixteen days, and the Lantern Festival was over in the blink of an eye.
The boats were used to transport supplies. Apart from those recruited by Tian Younian, Zhao Han also snatched more than a dozen boats himself.
Elderly people, young and young children also sat in the boat, and the rest all proceeded along the river bank. After joining up with Fei Ruhe from Fenyi County, the entire team has tens of thousands of people, marching towards the Ganjiang River.
Arriving outside Xinyu (Xinyu) County, Tian Younian went ashore in person, and shouted at the base of the city: "I am Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou. I am going to Ji'an to suppress bandits. Hurry up and collect food and grass!"
Damn the bandits, they stayed in Fucheng for half a month, and the news had already spread to Xinyu County, everyone knew that the prefect of Yuanzhou was a thief.
New Yuzhi County can't be offended. Seeing bandits dragging their families with them, it seems that they are just passing by here, and immediately ask the big households in the city to prepare food and grass. It's like spending money to buy peace, and it took half a day to get a thousand stones, and a merchant ship as a gift, and carefully sent the anti-thief gifts out of the country.
After walking for another two hours, it was already evening, so we camped by the river to rest.
A small boat sailed back, and the spy reported: "From here to the north of Zhangshu Town, there are no officers and soldiers from the general town."
"Okay, you go to rest." Zhao Han said.
Tian Younian frowned and said: "It shouldn't be, the army of Li Maofang and Wang Siren should have arrived in Zhangshu Town after receiving my secret letter."
"It doesn't matter, let's go back and talk about it first." Zhao Han didn't bother to think about what happened to the governor.
Four days later.
Zhao Han led a large army to Zhangshu Town, which belongs to the medicine capital of the world and is the distribution center of traditional Chinese medicine in the whole south.
Zhangshu Town, Jingdezhen, Hekou Town, and Wucheng Town are known as the four famous towns in Jiangxi. Back then, when Wang Yangming put down King Ning's rebellion, he gathered troops in Zhangshu Town and went northward.
This place is extremely prosperous, and the number of merchants in a town is more than that of Zhao Han's Ji'an City.
Merchants have long been aware of the thieves, the shops are closed one after another, the merchant ships also fled to the north, and there are not many people in sight even at the pier.
The material fleet entered the Ganjiang River and returned to Ji'an along the south.
?There were constant spies paddling small boats to the north to investigate the information of the officers and soldiers. Finally, on the ninth day, news came back that the governor led the troops to the Yangtze River waterway.
"It must be the rogue bandits from the Northwest who have flooded into the territory under the jurisdiction of Southern Zhili." Tian Younian guessed.
Zhao Han knew that Zhu's family's ancestral grave had been dug, but he forgot the year. He smiled and said, "The rebels may have gone to Zhongdu (Fengyang)."
Tian Younian was taken aback, nodded and said, "Very likely!"
A few days later, the spies had passed the boundary of Xiajiang County, and the spies finally came back to report: "Northwest rebels have entered the south from Henan!"
This information is very late. When Zhao Han was still in Yuanzhou Mansion, the bandits had captured Fengyang.
In Fengyang City, the central capital where thousands of people were stationed, the rogues took advantage of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival and sent 300 soldiers in disguise to enter the city.
Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong were all involved. The imperial mausoleum was destroyed, the temples were burned, and the Longxing Temple (Huangjue Temple) where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk was burned. Thousands of officers and soldiers in Fengyang were killed even if they surrendered, and more than 60 eunuchs were also killed. The rogues raised the banner of "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor" and drank happily in front of the ancestral grave of Lao Zhu's family.
It was Zhang Xianzhong who proclaimed himself emperor, and Zhang Xianzhong also took down Fengyang City. Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng ran a little slowly.
As for Emperor Gu Yuan Zhenlong, that is a legend of the White Lotus Sect. In order to win over the White Lotus Sect, Zhang Xianzhong assumed the title of Emperor, and fell out with Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng because of this.
They are all brothers who rebelled together. If you suddenly proclaim yourself emperor, then what should I be?
After that, the spoils were distributed unevenly, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had a complete falling out.
Li Zicheng walked northwest and went up the Yellow River.
Zhang Xianzhong was walking south. At this moment, he was besieging Quanjiao. He wanted to cross the river and occupy the capital of Nanjing
In mid-February.
The Jiangxi army of Li Maofang and Wang Siren set off eagerly by boat, wanting to protect the emperor's ancestral tomb.
On the way, I heard that Fengyang had fallen and the bandits were attacking Quanjiao. So, the two got off the boat by the Yangtze River and went to rescue Quanjiao on foot. They were considered loyal to the king and the country.
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Tian Younian replied: "Tian Younian, the magistrate of Yuanzhou, when Meng Angong was the Minister of the Ministry of War, he was the head of the Ministry of Households in Xiayang."
"It turned out to be Mr. Tian." Li Banghua was very surprised, but Zhao Han actually subdued the prefect of Yuanzhou.
Chen Maosheng stood beside him with a gloomy expression on his face.
Pang Chunlai looked across the Gan River, completely ignoring the scene in front of him.
Zhao Han felt that the atmosphere was very strange, something must have happened, which caused conflicts between Li Banghua, Pang Chunlai and Chen Maosheng.
After returning to the General Military Mansion, Xiao Huan handed over a letter.
Zhao Han opened it and saw that it was sealed as a suicide note.
Written by a female member of the mission team, she used to be a prostitute in Ji'an Prefecture, and later joined the mission team. Just during the Chinese New Year, the mission group organized performances in the countryside to visit grassroots officials and peasant association members in various towns.
In the middle of the journey, I got help from the mayor's home. The mayor was a recruiter from a thief. Because of his outstanding performance in dividing the land and his high education, he was quickly promoted to mayor.
This guy doesn't know what to do, but he is greedy for the beauty of female missionaries. Or, thinking that the other party has been a prostitute before and doesn't care about bed affairs, she even insulted the female missionary in the middle of the night.
The next morning, when the mission leader learned about this, he immediately sent the mayor to report to the authorities.
Ouyang Zheng, the county magistrate, suddenly felt overwhelmed, so he could only hand over the case to the General Military Office, because the mayor and the missionary team were involved.
Li Banghua and Pang Chunlai quarreled over this, and the female missionary teacher became more and more delusional, and even left a suicide note to commit suicide. Fortunately, a good sister discovered it in time.
Chen Maosheng was so angry that he not only wanted to dismiss the mayor, but also accused him of raping women.
Officials of the Jishui faction also united, thinking that a prostitute pretending to be a martyr and committing suicide by leaving a letter is just acting.
The contradiction between the veteran faction and the Jishui faction broke out all at once.
Zhao Han sighed: "The expansion is still too fast. Those scholars are still thinking before. It's time to kill a few!" </div>