Dominate the Country

Hu Wenxian is a native of Huai'an. He is 25 years old this year and has passed the examination for a scholar. But now he has cut off his braids, put on a red vest, and become a clerk in the logistics unit of the Fu Han Army. The reason why he joined the army was certainly not out of hatred for the Qing Dynasty and the desire to recreate the Han Dynasty, but simply because he was too poor to survive.

Poor scholar, poor scholar!

Although scholars are also members of the gentry class and are respected by farmers and countrymen in the countryside, they are far less popular than Juren. Especially after the implementation of the policy of Yongzheng's officials and gentry serving as officials and paying taxes, there are poor scholars everywhere in the world. Juren also serve as officials and pay taxes, but who has ever heard of a Juren whose stomach growls with hunger?

Hu Wenxian has old and young people, and a large family of seven or eight people are crying, so he can only join the Fu Han Army. At least his family can survive first. He was just a little scholar, not a top scholar like Qin Dacheng. Righteousness, bullshit righteousness.

Can righteousness buy food?

The Hu family was starving to death. The food of Hu Wenxian's family was confiscated by the government troops. Bullshit righteousness.

Hu Wenxian joined the Fu Han Army, not for a long-term future, but just to save his family's life. After joining the Fu Han Army, the Hu family became military dependents. Can there be military dependents who are hungry in the Fu Han Army?

Not only are they no longer hungry, they can eat meat. Chen Ming will add eggs to the Boy Scouts when the doctrine allows, no matter whether it is chicken eggs or duck eggs, as long as conditions permit. In just a few days, the faces of the old and young in the Hu family have become a little ruddy. Just for this, Hu Wenxian is willing to sacrifice his life.

When he first joined the army, he was with a bunch of illiterate mud legs. If he was a scholar who had never suffered, he might not be able to get rid of his status for a while. But Hu Wenxian was different. When he was at his lowest, he personally went into the water to catch fish and shrimp, dug wild vegetables, and even stole things to save his parents, wife and children from starvation. He had long since thrown away the airs of a scholar.

There were also militias in the Yancheng area. Hu Wenxian used to be a clerk in Ding Da's militia, and he didn't have much money and food. If the Hu family had only three or four people, they could still have enough to eat, but Hu Wenxian's wife was a good fertile woman. Since she married Hu Wenxian, she gave birth to a child almost every year. Two of them didn't survive, but they still had five children. Together with his parents, there were eight people in the family, not counting Hu Wenxian himself. The Hu family could only hang on to life.

When the Fu Han Army followed the Yunyan River to Yancheng, Ding Da patted his butt and ran away with his men, but Hu Wenxian couldn't run away. If he ran away, what would happen to his family?

The Hu family was originally half dead, relying on Hu Wenxian's money and food to survive. After Ding Da ran away, the rice and food ran out in a few days. Hu Wenxian was very decisive and cut his braids directly.

Hu Wenxian was the clerk of the porridge shed No. 6 outside Yancheng. He wore a red vest, which was one level higher than the yellow vest. The clerk was also responsible for recording the daily consumption of food and firewood. He could be said to be a figure in the No. 6 porridge shed. Hu Wenxian's relatives, neighbors and acquaintances also settled down in the No. 6 porridge shed these days thanks to him. The porridge provided by the Fu Han Army was very affordable. Although it was a mixed grain porridge, the porridge was really thick. The chopsticks would not be crooked when inserted, but they could stand in the pot for a while.

In addition to Hu Wenxian's relatives and neighbors, there were also Hu Wenxian's classmates, classmates or classmates. Regardless of whether they were scholars or students, they were all poor people who drifted to the No. 6 porridge shed to eat. But among these people, there were only a handful of people like Hu Wenxian who cut a film and directly joined the Fu Han Army.

"The righteousness of the court? Can it be exchanged for a pound of grain? The emperor is good, and I did pass the imperial examination, but how can these compare with my parents, wife and children? The grain in the family was confiscated by those plagued soldiers. If I don't join the Fu Han Army, all nine people in the Hu family will die." In Yancheng, no one will buy even the children they sell. Although it is not to the point of exchanging children for food, as long as the Grand Canal is blocked and there is a drought next year, northern Jiangsu will sooner or later become a living hell.

This year, northern Jiangsu was dry and even had a locust plague. The summer grain harvest was very few, and then there was chaos and chaos, and the autumn grain was also delayed. How could there not be chaos when millions of people had no food?

In Hu Wenxian's eyes, as long as the Fu Han Army persisted in Jiangnan for a year or two, northern Jiangsu would explode.

After entering the Fu Han Army system, Hu Wenxian also understood the Fu Han Army. Unlike before when he was watching flowers in the fog from the outside, he could see it clearly now. Although the system of the Fu Han Army is very different from that of the Qing Dynasty, and even from the previous dynasties, how can I say it? After careful consideration, it is indeed good. It is very good for the people!

Unfortunately, the people outside rarely know about these things. The pigtail dramas and propaganda dramas performed by the Fu Han Army themselves can only be performed in Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and other big cities where the Fu Han Army has strong control due to various pressures. Even so, the art soldiers who performed the dramas, well, the Fu Han Army is not called actors, but art soldiers, and they were attacked and killed by the Qing Dynasty.

The activities of the Sticking Rod Office in this month are also rampant. This makes the Fu Han Army reveal a flaw that is not a flaw-don’t look at the Fu Han Army’s dark camp. When it really comes to their turn to deal with such despicable means, they are also in trouble.

For example, among the refugees in Yancheng, there must be people from the Sticking Rod Department. These people used the means of the secret camp to deal with the Fu Han Army. They mixed in with the refugees to spread rumors, stir up chaos, attack and kill people from the Fu Han Army, and even poison the water source, etc. The Fu Han Army has not caught anyone yet.

There are many of Hu Wenxian's relatives and friends in the No. 6 porridge shed. This is to take care of his own people, and also to let these relatives and friends be his eyes and ears and be alert to the sticking pole. Hu Wenxian doesn't want to die yet.

Especially in the war where Huai'an is not a big problem, as a clerk left behind in the rear logistics, it would be very worthless to die. Hu Wenxian is still thinking about going to Yangzhou and Nanjing. The Fu Han Army has so many cannons and so many gunpowder shells that they are afraid that Huai'an can be flattened. When the army retreats, he can also spend two days in Yangzhou or Nanjing. Now the things in the porridge shed seem simple and ordinary, but every day can be exhausting.

Hu Wenxian shouted to the people around him as he walked: "Don't crowd, everyone has porridge to drink. It's not the first day that the Fu Han Army has distributed porridge in Yancheng, and everyone knows the rules. Our army is not short of food, so don't crowd."

It's a very simple thing, just scattering food to win people's hearts. The strategy formulated by Chen Ming himself can greatly improve his status in the hearts of refugees.

In fact, after these few days, the image of the Fu Han Army in the hearts of the refugees in Yancheng has indeed improved a lot. Every time the porridge is served, there are always refugees who can't control their emotions and come out to "vent" their gratitude. The Fu Han Army's recruitment office in Yancheng has also received one or two thousand new recruits these days.

The men in northern Jiangsu really provided a great source of soldiers for the expansion of the Fu Han Army, so much so that it was rumored in the south of the Yangtze River that after the Fu Han Army took Nanjing, seven out of ten new recruits were from northern Jiangsu. Whether it's refugees or boatmen! This statement is too absolute, but it also reflects the facts from one side.

The porridge was served. A skinny old man with two children held a large bowl carved out of wood and filled a bowl of porridge. This bowl was enough for the three of them to survive. The old man seemed to have just arrived here. Seeing his two grandsons drinking sweetly from wooden bowls, tears welled up in his old eyes: "The Fu Han Army is a good team, and the Grand Commander is a good man! Give us poor people a way out. I am old, and I can't repay the Grand Commander's kindness until I die. If there is an afterlife, I will work like a cow or a horse to repay the Grand Commander's great kindness." After that, he kowtowed repeatedly in the direction of Huai'an.

The refugees around nodded one after another, and many people followed and kowtowed in the direction of Huai'an. No matter what the Fu Han Army is now, these refugees will have a miserable fate if the Qing government does not provide relief. The Fu Han Army is now saving their lives, so don't talk about winning people's hearts. The hearts of these people were all towards the Qing Dynasty at the beginning, but the Qing Dynasty pushed them out. In front of life, food is real.

At this juncture of natural disasters and man-made disasters, let these impoverished refugees really see a glimmer of hope for survival in despair.

Hu Wenxian smiled and stretched out his hand to ask everyone to be quiet. He was very satisfied with what he was doing now. After all, because of his talent, he helped many of his relatives and friends. Whenever he thought about it at night, he felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Listen carefully, everyone, put your heart in your stomach. I say it again, the Grand Commander has said that as long as there is food for the Fu Han Army, the porridge will not be interrupted or short, and you will not be left hungry."

The refugees cheered. Hu Wenxian walked all the way from beginning to end, and met at least 20 to 30 people crying. "The Grand Commander is a living Bodhisattva. God bless, bless the Grand Commander to be safe and smooth."

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While the main force of the Fu Han Army was besieging Huai'an City, Chen Ming also sent a detachment to sweep Qingjiang and Funing.

The latter was not difficult to fight. After Yancheng was abandoned by the Qing army, Funing was also abandoned by the Qing army. Qingjiang, on the other hand, is an important place in Huaiyang Town, and the local militia has also been organized, and the resistance is much more intense than Funing.

At night, Chen Ming received a quick report from Qingjiang - the local H tribe was willing to release the area defended by the religious group, and only asked the Fu Han Army to guarantee the safety of the lives and property of the Muslims, regardless of the previous resistance of the Muslims.

Chen Ming did not discriminate much against the Muslims and the Xingyue Sect. Compared with this, he was more disgusted with the True God Sect. Moreover, Chen Ming also knew that the Xingyue Sect and the Xingyue Sect, and the Muslims and the Muslims were also very different. The Xingyue Sect and the Muslims in Qingjiang, Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other places were completely different from the Xingyue Sect and its believers in the northwest of this era. The latter's gradually flourishing and spreading sect system was intolerable to any powerful centralized government. Those people's ambition was to truly establish a completely independent Xingyue state on Chinese soil. They worshiped the Sultan of Istanbul and recognized him as their spiritual leader and the Caliph of the Xingyue Sect. Chen Ming could not tolerate such extreme Xingyue Sect and its believers - the Tongzhi H Rebellion in later generations. The Xingyue Sect and its followers in Qingjiang, whether in terms of purpose or personal living habits, or even thoughts and culture, are deeply integrated with Chinese traditional culture. Compared with the disciples of those sects, they are completely acceptable to Chen Ming.

Just like Chen Ming's H-classmates, friends, and H-class relatives in his previous life - his cousin's husband, these are two completely different things.

"We can guarantee the safety and property of their followers, and we can ignore their resistance [to the sect], and we will not destroy their churches or blaspheme their beliefs. But the firearms in the hands of the sect must be handed over. They are allowed to keep cold weapons, but not firearms. And they have to pay a sum of money and grain as their sin atonement."