Beiyang new warlord

"elder brother!"

"The third child!!!"

Seeing Yuan Xiang'er running out quickly, Yuan Shizhong almost rolled his eyes.

"Why did you come back?"

During the Ming Dynasty, the four great classics had already been written into three books, especially "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which deeply influenced these grass-headed heroes. A Juyi Hall was also built on the top of this cottage, where Juyi There are twelve chairs in the living room, and a tiger leather chair is placed on the top.

Unlike other leaders of the Peng Army, Yuan Shizhong was born as a landlord and had read some books. Yuan Xianger was one of his own, and did not hold any welcome meeting. , went to Yuan Shizhong's study.

When he was at the gate of the stockade, Yuan Shizhong was full of vigor and confidence, but when he sat down in the study, fatigue and anxiety were evident on his face.

The last time Song Xiance sent a letter, Dongjiang had already eliminated Liu Ze, but his information was not that behind, so he nodded straightforwardly in response.

"The two are the adults under the command of Shuai Dongjiang Mao!"

"I have met Chief Yuan, my official Dongjiang praised Song Xiance, this is General Wen Mengwen of Dongjiang, the uncle of Mao Jue and Mao Shuai, Chief Yuan forgive me, my sister is virtuous and virtuous, my family Wen is not arrogant Forbidden, it is already a private life, so this time I will come to the door in person to meet uncle!"

No wonder Song Xiance asked Wenmeng to "take down" Yuan Xiang'er before setting off. He counted all this kinship into the price tag.

It's just that Wen Meng is a little silly, why does he have an extra brother-in-law for no reason?He didn't come back to his senses for a long time, so Song Xiance hurried behind him and slapped him hard on the heel of his hind leg. Wen Meng suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly clasped his fists a little naively.

"I met my uncle."

Yuan Shizhong was also taken aback by such a relative. After a while, he raised his eyebrows at Wen Meng's meeting.

The Xiaoyuanying under Yuan Shizhong's management is really a bit like Mao Jue's Dongjiang, or another copy of the Ming government. He led his men to open fields in this Taihang Mountain area, and divided his men into villages. Under the leadership of a well-known villager in the army, several villages set up a town, led by an old master. This old master acted as the commander of the county magistrate and guards. He usually took care of farming and harvesting grain. In order to attack the army, he was responsible for gathering the young and strong in several villages, and followed Yuan Shizhong to resist.

In addition to these, Yuan Shizhong also has a core force of 3 to [-] people. Under this management, the entire Xiaoyuan camp is organized in an orderly manner. The population of several counties has rarely maintained a piece of paradise in this troubled world.

Following Yuan Shizhong to patrol his little kingdom, Song Xiance was still persuading him while walking.

"The leader is also an outstanding person for a while. He protects the environment and the people, protects one side, why bother to bear the name of a thief? My family is now expanding the territory of Liaodong, and lacks the help of the leader. Come to Liaodong and join hands with my family Mao Shuai Wouldn't it be nice for a prisoner to drink blood with a sword and leave his name through the ages?"

This is face, and after giving face, you have to give it to Lizi. After looking at Yuan Shizhong's handsome head and nodding secretly, Song Xiance shook his penetrating tongue even more vigorously, and then gave it to Lizi.

"If Chief Yuan is willing to accept Zhao'an, the land in Liaodong will be granted to each person with ten acres of land and ten taels of silver to settle down. From this year to next year's autumn harvest, all the grain will be provided by Dongjiang. The tax is the same as Dongjiang. Ten taxes are three. I am willing to join the army. Those who list ten regiments separately, Chief Yuan, you are the general, what do you think?"

This condition is quite affordable in the Ming Dynasty Zhao'an, and it shows Dongjiang's sincerity. The first to implement the policy of appeasement is Yang He, the governor of the three sides, but Yang He's Zhao'an is more like a face-saving project. In addition to the imperial decree of Zhao'an, Yang He could not provide any silver taels of food to resettle the refugees in Zhao'an, nor did he have enough land to resettle them, so that the Fuju Bureau of the Ming Dynasty ended in bankruptcy and had to be replaced by Hong Chengchou. Extermination to eliminate excess population.

Song Xiance's promise of grain for the whole year, ten acres of land, and ten taels of silver is infinitely more favorable than the conditions in Zhao'an offered by Lu Xiangsheng, Song Xiance, Yang Sichang, etc.

My younger sister is considered to be married to Mao Jue's uncle. If Mao Jue becomes emperor, he will be counted as a relative of the emperor, and Song Xiance's visit in person has given him a lot of face. Yuan Shizhong is obviously moved, but he hesitates. After a long time, Yuan Shizhong bowed heavily to Song Xiance.

"Master Song, please follow the villain!"

Changed two horses in the cottage, and rushed along the mountain road to another section of the mountain. After running for about half an hour, they turned over three ridges in a row, and stood in front of a wooden pagoda village. Reach out and point down.

"Lord Song, look!"

"so much!!!"

Taking out the binoculars from his pocket, Song Xiance exclaimed in disbelief.

He character general flag, tiger character general flag, Cao character general flag, the brightly lit camps are like Go, densely spread on the plain outside the Taihang Mountains

Chapter Four and Four. The Devil's Deal

Just because Yuan Shizhong was an outlier among the thieves in the late Ming Dynasty, he also became a favorite in the eyes of a lot of wolves, tigers and leopards!

Beat Li Zicheng, beat Zhang Xianzhong, beat Gezuo Wuying, everyone is poor and only one life is left. There is a reward of 30 taels for one head, but in fact, if you cut off a hundred heads, you may not get three taels of silver.

But fighting Xiao Yuanying is different. Even if you don't win, you can still rob money, food, and women, and you won't suffer at all.

Not only the subordinate generals, but even the powerful figures such as Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Datong, are all eyeing him. If he obtained Xiao Yuanying's family fortune, he would be relieved.

In this troubled world, everyone is vying for that pitiful life-saving food.

Surrounded by several imperial troops, Yuan Shizhong had quite a bit of face, but he was also firmly suppressed in the Taihang Mountains. Even if he wanted to Zhao'an, it was not up to him to decide whom to Zhao'an.

This was beyond Song Xiance's ability. After two days of delay in Xiaoyuanying, Song Xiance still had to choose to submit the question to Mao Jue.

There were no telephones in this era, and when the news was retransmitted from Shandong, even if it was borrowed from the bird to send the book twice, it had been more than a month before it reached Mao Jue's hands.

It is more appropriate to describe Heilongjiang, which Dongjiang took over, as changing with each passing day. Along the plains near Mudanjiang, the green rice has grown tall and has begun to ear. Although the weather in Heilongjiang is cold, it will take a few months to mature, but this What is heavy is hope.

Heilongjiang is too vast and sparsely populated, and the large tracts of land cannot be developed anyway. Mao Jue simply followed the example of the Yankees of later generations. Not far from the residential area next to the rice fields, many Dongjiang soldiers carried large bundles of Dongjiang wire In the last Dongjiang war, Mao Jue captured many Mongols, which came in handy at this time. Under the free exchange, thousands of Mongols came out of the labor camps in Dongjiang , obediently entered the ranch surrounded by wire circles, and started working for Mao Jue.

Large ranch grazing! The vast grassland is sprinkled with grass seeds to cultivate pastures, groups of cattle are lazily chewing with their heads down, and there are also sheep traded from the Yalu Riverside market, and the mountains are full of sheep. Hundreds of acres More than a dozen Mongols waved their whips lazily on the land. Dongjiang will no longer have to worry about eating meat this year, and the army's beef jerky reserves can be raised to another level.

Not only that, in the yamen of Mudanjiang City, in a single large courtyard, a puff of black smoke rose slowly, several dark railway tracks were laid side by side on the ground, and a bigger iron guy whined and sprayed steam.

In fact, invention is not too difficult, but it is rare to think of things out of thin air, just like the Mayan civilization in South America, they can build huge and complex pyramids, stone cities, but until their demise, they did not invent wheels and iron Products, now there are steam engines, and the rest is one experiment after another, how to improve it better.

How Tsarist Russia and later the Soviet Union ruled the vast Siberia did not depend on the main artery of the Siberian Railway. Mao Jue wanted to use the sparse population to develop and rule the vast Heilongjiang Wusuli River Basin. It would be great if there was a railway.

It's a pity that the locomotive that can pull hundreds of thousands of tons is still in the experimental stage. A lot of crooked fruit devils with red hair and green eyes followed the old Taoist Xuankong and they were gesturing, but Mao Jue was involved by Song Xiance's problem .

Sitting at the desk and reading Song Xiance's letter three times in a row, Mao Jue threw the letter heavily on the table, leaned his head on the back of the chair tiredly, resting his arms on his pillow.

Adelena, who was supposed to be in charge of Mao Jue in Iron Mountain City, came again! Seeing her man's expression, she also asked with difficulty.

"You need a concubine, why don't you bring that person here?"

After another tens of seconds of hesitation, Mao Jue finally nodded fiercely.

"I want to see him! Send someone to invite him to Mudanjiang City!"

In Song Xiance’s letter, the suggestion to Mao Jue was still the old way, and it was resolved through the court. He asked for 100 million taels of silver, went north to the capital, bribed Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the dynasty, followed Yang Sichang’s path, and tried to find a way to get Yuan Shizhong’s 20 taels of silver. The refugee's enlistment rights were won to Dongjiang.

To be honest, if these 20 people can go to Dongjiang, not to mention 100 million taels of silver, 200 million, 400 million taels, Mao Jue is willing to spend, Heilongjiang is full of treasures, all it needs is the population to dig them out, but this Road, too difficult!

Chongzhen was narrow-minded, and Mao Jue's threat completely destroyed the bad relationship between him and the emperor. Although there was no blind command from the court, the disadvantage was any court meeting that was beneficial to Dongjiang. If you don't agree, it will be difficult for the emperor to pass 20 people to Mao Jue.

Let’s look at Xue Guoguan, a scholar of Shoufu University. Even though he is still famous now, Mao Jue comes from the memory of later generations, but he knows that he is a grasshopper after autumn, and he will not be able to jump for a few days. In the case of Wen Tiren, Chongzhen changed his ministers as frequently as he changed his clothes. In just 17 years, more than 50 cabinet members changed. Even if Xue Guoguan was bought, he would step down before the 20 people arrived in Dongjiang.

As for Yang Sichang, if 20 refugees were used to draw in the relationship between him and the powerful warlords in the Northeast, he would be willing to go along with the flow, but he is an out-and-out emperor faction, and he learned from his father Yang He's lessons. As long as the emperor objects, He absolutely did not stand up to it, just like Zhaoan Zhang Xianzhong, he clearly expected that he would rebel again, but even Chongzhen forgave this bastard who dug his ancestral grave, and Yang Sichang didn't say a word of nonsense.

In terms of closeness and closeness, I am not as good as Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the bandits!Yang Sichang's path is too difficult to get through.

Taking the route of the imperial court is not without a chance of success, but it is only 20%. The Emperor Chongzhen who gambled was in a good mood that day, but Mao Jue needed Yuan Shizhong's more than [-] refugees so much!Nothing to lose!

This time, he can only sell his soul to the devil!