Liu Chengzong was not in a hurry to allocate land in Ganzhou because summer had arrived.
The weather is hot in summer, and this season is inseparable from the busy farming season. During the busy farming season, you must not be able to bear the trouble.
This year's spring plowing on the Zhangye Oasis was based on a melee between the two armies. Zhang Tianlin and Gao Yingdeng's subordinates were able to quickly retreat and reorganize the old Ming army after losing their organizational structure, because they had many consensuses, such as being from Shaanxi. Plant the land quickly.
Many officers who led the army occupied the fortress. The first thing they did was to urge the rest of the army to cultivate the fields. The Ming army wanted to do this, and the marshal's army also wanted to do this.
From the perspective of the soldiers, the outcome of the battle at Gaotai, which determined the ownership of Gansu, had little impact on them. However, since spring plowing was delayed and they were unable to eat white flour and rice in the fall, everyone suffered.
Liu Chengzong did not dare to make drastic changes, because from the moment he advanced into Ganzhou, the largest grain-producing area in the Marshal's Mansion changed from Hehuang to Zhangye, and he finally owned a piece of land whose productivity per mu exceeded the national average.
The troops he led increased in number. The number of troops that entered Jiayuguan was only 20,000, but now the number has reached 30,000.
If there is a little more trouble, his soldiers will not be able to eat white flour and rice in autumn; if there is trouble in autumn, his soldiers will not be able to eat cabbage in winter.
White flour, rice and cabbage are very important.
Ganzhou City is the most important place on the Zhangye Oasis. This city gathers the best talents of the Ming Dynasty's commanders and envoys in Shaanxi Province. Gansu Town and Gansu Governor's Yamen are both here.
Normally, the problem of occupying Ganzhou should be very complicated, but Zhang Tianlin's solution is simple and crude... He has soldiers, and he holds a super-staffed battalion of 7,000 people. What does this mean for Ganzhou?
There are only more than 20,000 households in Zhangye, and there are only two or three people in each household in Ganzhou. All those who could serve as soldiers were killed or injured in the battle of Gaotai, and all the remaining men of suitable age are enough to make up to 7,000 people.
He summoned all the exiled officials, hereditary military attachés and local snakes he could find inside and outside the city of Ganzhou, and told them that from now on, everyone from the Tianshan Mountains to the Qilian Mountains would have the surname Liu. A gift to Liangzhou.
If you want to stay in Ganzhou and not leave, who dares not to listen to Marshal Liu? Don’t blame me, Zhang Wu, for being rude!
Faced with his request, the veteran generals, gentry, and hereditary military attachés of Ganzhou who had no power to fight back, a few of them, such as Zhao Zongli and Zhao Zongzhu, who were over seventy years old, chose to be sent to Liangzhou as gifts, and the rest accepted the surrender. The fate of the Marshal's Mansion.
When Liu Chengzong arrived in Ganzhou City, more than a dozen fortresses he passed had already planted Liu-character flags. Facing Zhang Tianlin, who led the gentry and common people to walk on the Qingshui Street with loess paving, he only stopped for a moment and said a few words. He went straight into the city and went to the governor's office.
He wanted to see the governor of Gansu, Bai Yiqing.
Bai Yiqing is an old unlucky guy. When the war spread to Ganzhou, he originally wanted to defend the city, but seeing that Li Hongsi's army was in chaos, he planned to leave with Li Hongsi, but he didn't have long left the city. Far away, the team was dispersed by Zhang Tianlin's soldiers, and the driver was killed.
With no other choice, Bai Yiqing returned to Ganzhou City and recruited a new coachman. Zhang Tianlin occupied Ganzhou City before the second breakout. The most unfortunate thing was that the newly recruited coachman was a member of the Sanjie Congregation.
This coachman is also from Ganzhou, his name is Bao Shizhong. He is a coachman who was laid off as a postman and changed his job. It is said that he knows his roots well. Eight generations of his ancestors have been postmen and they are loyal and honest. Only Bai Yiqing dared to recruit him to drive a coach. However, in this era, laid-off postman is It's a very risky profession, and even the most honest people will behave badly.
There was no bloody scene with swords and swords. Bai Yiqing and his family were sitting in the carriage, and Bao Shizhong drove the carriage into Zhang Tianlin's camp outside the city.
Bao Shizhong said to Zhang Tianlin: "General, Mr. Bai is a good man. He will be harmed by the imperial court when he returns."
Bai Yiqing did not have a good life in the hands of Zhang Tianlin. Ever since he heard that Yang Jiamo died on the high platform, he tried to hit the wall. After hitting it once, Zhang Tianlin tied him up. Later, he tried to go on a hunger strike. Zhang Tianlin asked Bao Shizhong to feed him. As a result, Bao Shizhong was bitten.
No matter what Bao Shizhong said, nothing worked. Seeing that Bai Yiqing was so hungry that he could no longer hold on, Liu Chengzong finally entered Ganzhou City.
In the inner room of the governor's office in Ganzhou City, Liu Chengzong laughed out loud the first moment he saw Bai Yiqing. He saw a man wrapped up like a rice dumpling and thrown on the bed in Qiangong Babu's bed.
Zhang Tianlin explained at her side: "Commander, I didn't lock him in prison. It's the same wherever he is. He can't escape in our hands. The eight soldiers are watching. Except for not eating or drinking, there is nothing else to do." All are pretty good.”
Liu Chengzong nodded, waved someone to untie Bai Yiqing, and ordered the sergeant to prepare the meal. Then he moved his deputy chair and sat opposite Babu's bed, saying: "Governor Bai, you know who I am, and I also know you."
Bai Yiqing was so hungry that he had no energy to talk, let alone run away now. He sat up on the bed so hard that his eyelids were shaking. He glanced at Liu Chengzong for a few times, then raised his eyelids and said angrily: "Who are you? "
Liu Chengzong ignored his tone, just laughed, and asked slowly: "When you were in Gansu, you sent many scholars to Hehuang. Those people are now the talented people who built the reservoir in my Generalissimo's mansion. You wrote to Several of their letters were also seized by my anti-smuggling soldiers. There are all the witnesses and physical evidence of your intercom to the Marshal's Mansion. Why are you going on a hunger strike now, for fear that the emperor will kill you?"
To be honest, the hunger strike did not starve Bai Yiqing to death, but he almost made him angry to death due to Liu Chengzong's confusing words.
It's okay not to mention these things. When Bai Yiqing is mentioned, he gets angry. He especially wants to point his finger at Liu Chengzong and scold him. What kind of lunacy is there in the Marshal's Mansion?
There are more than a dozen letters exchanged between each other. You can find out if the letter is delivered with great care, whether it is hidden in the goods or stuffed in a sock, even if it is hidden in a thousand layers of paper... The letter with Bai Yiqing's name written in his arms was able to be sent to Gansu intact.
It wasn't until Liu Chengzong said the name of the Anti-Smuggling Soldiers that Bai Yiqing suddenly realized that these birdmen were specially responsible for investigating smuggling and were not responsible for interrogating correspondence. If you hid it, you would be detained. If you didn't, you might be fine.
"Gansu fell, and Bai can't escape the blame. How can he have the face to live in this world?"
Liu Chengzong looked at Bai Yiqing mockingly, leaned on the back of the chair, and said: "Yang Jiamo is dead. Zhang Tianlin should have told you. I have said all good and bad things to you, but he refused to surrender and ordered the soldiers on the city to burn me with kerosene." The siege army was finally defeated and died in fire."
"He died on a high platform and deservedly died as a man because the soldiers fought for him in vain. If he were still alive and had been defeated and escaped, I would despise him."
Liu Chengzong suddenly raised his brows as he spoke, clapped his hands, opened his arms to Bai Yiqing, and said in confusion: "Gansu has lost the battle, the general officer must die; Gansu's army is gone, the governor must die; the people of Gansu are still alive, you What's so good about a governor?"
Bai Yiqing blinked. He felt that Liu Chengzong's logic was wrong, but he didn't want to talk to Liu Chengzong anymore, so he simply crossed his legs on the bed and closed his eyes, not listening to Liu Chengzong's chanting.
But Liu Chengzong didn't seem to care whether he answered or not, and he wasn't angry at all for talking to himself: "The day before yesterday, Mr. Qian, who had set up a high platform and reached the first place first, asked me why he rebelled. I didn't tell him and let him use his own eyes. Go and see. You have done military preparation and consultation in Shaanxi. You know why we raised the army."
"You are a scholar. Let me ask you, is the name of Zhu Youjian's family more important, or is the family name of Zhu Youjian more important?"
Bai Yiqing opened his eyes and said: "The world does not belong to your Liu Chengzong family!"
Liu Shizi was very satisfied: "That's right. Have you seen Six Tao? Two thousand and five hundred years ago, Jiang Taigong said that the world is not a world for one person, but a world for everyone. Those who share the benefits of the world will win the world; those who are good at the world will win. Those who benefit from it will lose the world. When heaven has time and earth has wealth, those who can share it with others are benevolence. Where benevolence lies, the world will return to it."
"If you admit this, it means that the two of us can still communicate. Don't pretend to be bent on death. People die every moment in the Ming Dynasty. One more Bai Yiqing from you is not much, and one Bai Yiqing from you is not enough." few."
"We all have to die sooner or later. When we are in a high position, what we should consider is leaving something to the world. If you die like this, your life will be in vain if you read it in vain. In this way, I will make a promise with you."
Liu Chengzong said: "Let's talk openly and have a meal together later. After eating, if you want to die, I will send you wherever you want to die; if you want to die, I will help you die how you want." ?”
Bai Yiqing blinked, thinking that you bastard came to my place for a long time just to watch the fun, just to see how I die, right?
"You, officials always think highly of themselves and call people by their names. What's the difference between people? Don't act like the sky will fall when you die. We are all people. Just three days ago on Gaotai City .”
Liu Chengzong shook his head and raised his hand to point to the west: "There are more than two thousand people. They are all the same heroes wearing the same uniforms and armor. For a completely avoidable battle, they used all the weapons they could find in the world and died. Well, who are you and who am I compared to them?"
"Today people call me a traitor, but I just did the same thing as Emperor Taizu, so why am I guilty?"
Bai Yiqing seemed to think about this question seriously, and then said: "Emperor Taizu expelled the barbarians, restored China, established laws and regulations, and relieved the people. What have you done? How can you be compared with Emperor Taizu?"
Liu Chengzong smiled, raised his finger and pointed at Bai Yiqing, paused in front of him, and said: "I admit that the Hu barbarians have not been destroyed and the people have not been saved. I have not done enough. When my army captures Beijing, I can completely eliminate the barbarians." problem, we can also solve the problem of rescuing the people on the Eastern Expedition."
Bai Yiqing glanced at Liu Chengzong and said, "You are arrogant. You only occupied a corner of the river and used the Fanlu to defeat the imperial court's national policy of isolating the Fanlu. You still dare to talk about completely solving the Hulu problem."
"Where are the Hulu and Panyi?"
Liu Chengzong grinned easily, showing his neat white teeth: "If you are born in the mountains, you are a Fanyi, and if you are born on the grassland, you are a Hulu. As long as you look like us, don't worry about the bloodline during the period when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong. Too dead, they are all Han."
Liu Chengzong's words created a huge gap between the two.
Bai Yiqing said: "It's okay for Marshal Liu to deceive himself with what he said. If the dynasty was really strong, would you dare to rebel?"
He thought that if in the early years of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng was in the cabinet, he would be able to wipe out all the hair from your Marshal's Mansion with just a single general.
Liu Chengzong was silent.
He was silent for a long time, gently rubbed the short beard on his upper lip with the pad of his left thumb, sighed softly, and then said very seriously: "Mr. Bai, the Central Plains Dynasty I am referring to is not the Ming Dynasty... it is I."
"I have expanded the land three thousand miles to the southwest. With such martial arts, can't I be called powerful? If it is not enough, when I broke through Jiayuguan, my brother and his officials led the army to advance to the Tianshan Mountains four thousand miles to the northwest and recover Hami. Is that enough? ?”
Bai Yiqing opened his mouth and lowered his head in silence.
In fact, he has a lot to say. These are incomparable and huge achievements. Even if these things are assigned to a hundred people, everyone can make their ancestors proud. Even what the Marshal's Mansion did in Corning is enough to make these one hundred people proud. The chieftain who has become a local leader for generations to come will still be regarded as a symbol of glory by the people of a place even five hundred years later.
But he couldn't speak, on the one hand because Liu Chengzong was the enemy of Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand... his throat was burning and he was really speechless.
At this moment, the soldiers sent by Zhang Tianlin brought meals to the room, including gluten broth from Gaotai, cold mutton from Zhangye, mutton rolls from Shandan, local chicken rolls from Ganzhou, and even some Two bottles of rice wine.
Liu Chengzong asked people to remove the wine. Ganzhou was not a suitable place for drinking for him, and now was not a suitable time for drinking. Bai Yiqing was not a suitable person for drinking.
Now that things are going on, it can be said that everything is moving in a good direction, and no one is bound to die.
If he succeeds in persuading Bai Yiqing to surrender, what if this guy drinks too much, sobers up tomorrow, forgets that he has surrendered, turns around and finds a rope to tie to the beam to hang himself, how uncomfortable it will be.
On the contrary, seeing Bai Yiqing's dry mouth and no saliva at the delicious food, Liu Chengzong asked someone to bring a large pot of water. Finally, he pointed at the dishes on the table with his chopsticks and said with a smile: "I guess that's it." Thanks to Mr. Bai, I haven't had a decent meal for a long time. Don't be polite. This is enough for ten people. I can't finish it by myself. Let's try our best to add more food and don't waste food."
Bai Yiqing didn't make any excuses. Anyway, Liu Chengzong also said that he would die if he wanted to after the meal. There was nothing polite about treating this meal as a decapitation meal. He picked up the kettle and started drinking.
After drinking enough, he wiped his mouth and asked, "What does Marshal Liu usually eat?"
Liu Chengzong raised his hand and took off two small leather bags from his waist. He opened them and placed them on the table with a smile: "Food for the march: fried noodles, dried meat, and salted fish."
Bai Yiqing took the skin bag and looked at it. The small skin bag was very exquisitely made, and the stitching materials were all of the best quality. It was divided into three pieces, containing fried noodles, dried meat, and salted fish, but the smell was not very good.
They are all high-energy items. They don’t look like they contain much, but they are enough for four or five meals.
He frowned and took a spoonful of fried noodles into his mouth and tasted it. It smelled of sugar, salt and butter. It should be said that the taste was better than he expected, but it might be because he hadn't drank water for a long time. He was so dry. Feeling like vomiting.
I took another piece of dried meat and frowned because it was so salty. It seemed like sauce was added when it was dried. It tasted much worse than expected, and it was so hard that I almost chipped my old teeth.
When he raised his head again, the look in Liu Chengzong's eyes was completely different. He said to himself that the marshal's level of self-denial was almost the same as that of Lord Chongzhen, and his food was not as good as that of a scholar. I, Bai Yiqing, gave you this decapitation meal to celebrate the New Year.
This actually made Liu Chengzong feel more competitive, thinking that I am a great commander, commanding thousands of troops, and conquering rich lands all over the world. Why do you look at me with such sympathy?
"This is not how you eat it. You have to drink fried noodles with water, and you have to hold the dried meat in your mouth for a while. This is military rations. Do you know what military rations are? It doesn't affect the march. You need salt, oil, and oil. After eating, If you have the strength, you want to eat well.”
Liu Chengzong patted the alms bowl put aside: "In the cold winter months, put this on the fire, boil a bowl of water, put three pieces of dried meat in it, stew three handfuls of fried noodles, mix it up and drink it, mount a horse and fight for thirty round."
After that, he waved his hand: "I don't always eat this. There is no point in being poor and self-denial. If I can't eat well, my soldiers can only eat worse. After the war, they should eat meat, eat meat, and eat it with fire." Burn on fire, burn donkey meat on fire, burn horse meat on fire, whatever animal dies more will be eaten.”
"Eat fish near the river, pheasants and goats near the mountains, cattle and sheep from the nomadic tribes nearby, Huang fish in Xining, chicken stewed with cordyceps in Kangning, a big pot of cordyceps, you have never seen this way of eating in your life. , birds in the sky and beasts on the earth, I am the best in the world at hunting.”
"In short... I will eat whatever my soldiers eat."
Liu Chengzong lowered his head and picked up a piece of cold mutton, dipped it in the refined salt brought from Qinghai, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. After swallowing, he looked into Bai Yiqing's eyes, raised his hand and pointed slightly behind him: "Go out and have a look, this is not what I gave you. I have prepared a decapitation meal and captured Jin Zhangye. Today my whole army will eat meat, what can Ming do to stop me?"
Good evening!
