In mid-to-late August, Kaiyuan Army's three thousand headquarters with a total of eight thousand soldiers continued to advance towards the prefectures and counties in Dengzhou, sweeping thousands of troops to kill the Wenxiang Sect rebellious people.
The remnants of the Wenxiang Sect fled in a hurry, making little resistance, and fled from Dengzhou to Laizhou.
The rebels retreated all the way to the southwest. A large amount of gold, silver and cloth were randomly discarded. Thousands of abducted women were thrown between Dengzhou and Laizhou, all of which were captured by the Kaiyuan Army.
Entering the border of Laizhou, the rebels had no time to catch their breath. Burhanggu led his cavalry roaring in and defeated them again.
The prefect of Laizhou was well aware of what happened in Dengzhou. This prefect was not as upright as Yuan Keli, so he readily accepted the two thousand taels of silver from Kang Supervisor's army, provided three days of food and grass for eight thousand troops, and asked Deng Changxiong and others to hurry up Leave your jurisdiction as soon as possible.
The Wen Xiang Cult thugs were frightened, and their numbers were getting smaller and smaller.
In just half a month, 50,000 to 60,000 horses died and fled. When they escaped from Laizhou, only more than 10,000 people were left.
They knew that they were no match for the Kaiyuan Army and would only die if they stayed in Laizhou, so they continued to flee to Yanzhou.
Yanzhou is the home base of the Wenxiang Sect. Xu Hongru, the chief cabinet officer, was eagerly waiting for the triumphant return of Sangui, until he heard that Kaiyuan's army had entered Yanzhou, and a general named Deng threatened to kill him with a thousand swords.
Xu Hongru panicked when he heard that Sangui was cut into pieces by Liu Zhaosun and died miserably in Wendeng County.
He immediately gathered the remaining believers and gathered more than 30,000 people, preparing to abandon Yanzhou and flee to southern Zhili.
Southern Zhili just suffered from floods this year. Now there are homeless people everywhere and overgrown grass. Xu Hongru believed that when he went south at this time, as long as he raised his arms and shouted the slogan of Maitreya, the heavenly general, to save the common people, he would surely get hundreds of responses.
When the time comes, he will occupy Fengyang first. Anyway, the imperial city and palace there are already ready, so he can continue to be his Zhongxing Fu Emperor.
It's a pity that Kaiyuan Army did not give Dashi the chance to continue to be emperor.
On August 26, Burhanggu led his cavalry to cut off the roads between Yuncheng and Juye, blocking the southward escape route of the rebels.
Two days later, the main force of the Three Thousand Headquarters approached Jining and Tengzhou successively, completely cutting off Xu Hongru's possibility of escaping to the west or south.
At the last moment, Xu Hongru did not sit still and wait for death.
Dashi personally went to the city of Yanzhou Prefecture to perform the ritual, and invited twenty-eight immortals including Lishan Mother Chen Tuan, Ancestor Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun and so on.
The gods gave divine water to the believers overnight, and the believers who smelled the fragrance were told that they were invulnerable.
The next day, Daqi personally led the magic soldiers to fight decisively with the entangled Kaiyuan Army in Nancheng of Yanzhou.
The result was no surprise. It was another crushing battle. After the Wenxiang Sect's "magic soldiers" killed more than a thousand people, the entire line collapsed. More than 30,000 people fled in all directions. Xu Hongru only managed to gather 5,000. Multiple people.
Yanzhou was besieged on three sides. Kaiyuan's army rested outside Yanzhou City and did not attack the city immediately.
On the second day of September in the second year of Taichang, the Wenxiang sect, which had been entrenched in Yanzhou for nearly half a year, suddenly set fire to the city, then took a large number of gold, silver and cloth people with them, left the city through the north gate, and fled to Qufu.
Qufu is where Kong Yinzhi, the Duke of Yansheng, lived.
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In the summer of the second year of Taichang, Fengyang, Peixian, Xiaoxian and other places in South Zhili were hit by floods, and a large number of refugees who lost their homes flocked to Shandong.
Some of the refugees were coerced by the Wenxiang sect and became cannon fodder for Xu Hongru's attack on the city. Others evaded the Wenxiang rebels and begged along the way, all the way to Dengzhou Prefecture.
The Wenxiang Sect swept through half of Shandong, massacring gentry and officials from all over the country. The refugees flowed from Lunan to Weihai without any hindrance. The arrival of Fengyang refugees also aggravated the disaster in southern Shandong, and more people Being involved in this army of refugees.
After the Wenxiang Sect was driven out of Dengzhou, the number of refugees who flocked to Wendeng County every day increased sharply, reaching thousands.
The 1,000 headquarters dispatched 2,000 soldiers, under the command of various civil affairs officials, to gather and screen these refugees who had fled from the south.
Senti, the instructor of Dongguan, together with his deputies, gave porridge and relief at Wendeng South Gate for ten consecutive days.
When the porridge was almost ready, the instructor stood in front of the iron pot and loudly preached to the half-starved refugees about the benefits of Kaiyuan.
Hearing the crowd's excitement, they pushed Senti aside and ran to the front to grab some porridge.
The soldiers who were guarding the surrounding area picked up wooden sticks and beat them randomly. The refugees in front were beaten until they cried for their fathers and mothers. Then they retreated in a polite manner and continued to listen to the Guangdong preaching.
"Brothers from Southern Zhili, our Marquis of Pingliao is true to his words! Marquis Pingliao said that we will stay in Wendeng, each of us will have thirty acres of land, and pay 40% of the land as a tenant. We will go to Liaodong and give you sixty acres. You only have to pay 20% of the rent! So I suggest you all go to Liaodong, where there is a lot of land! It is also easier to find a wife!"
After drinking the porridge and having food in their stomachs, the refugees began to enjoy small dishes.
An old man wearing a broken straw hat squeezed to the front and shouted to the instructor:
"Sir, I have thanked Mr. Liu for his life-saving grace and bought so much food for us refugees. But we won't go to Liaodong. There are Tatars there. When we were young, we Listen to the elders in the village."
When the straw hat old man said this, he suddenly stopped. He looked around, hesitated for a moment, and then mustered up the courage to say:
"The emperor of the Zhu family who killed that day moved the people all over the world. The people from the south were driven to the north, and the people from the east were driven to the west. We people in South Zhili were forced to go to Liaodong to farm in Liaodong. There are many Tatars who are cannibals, and I would rather starve to death in Shandong than go there."
A group of refugees around him all agreed, saying that they did not dare to go to Liaodong. The old man with a straw hat had obviously expressed their feelings.
Senti laughed heartily. Under the protection of the Zhenfu soldiers, he took two steps forward and walked up to the old man. He pressed the paper trumpet against the old man and shouted loudly:
"Old man, don't be afraid! Tartars don't eat people!"
"The Tatars have been killed by our Kaiyuan army a long time ago. I sent you there for your enjoyment, not to feed the Tatars!"
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On the second day of September, at the main tent of Wendeng camp, Marquis Pingliao summoned all his officials to discuss the matter of refugees.
Director Xie of the Ministry of Civil Affairs reported the amount of food and money spent on recruiting refugees in the past half month.
"A total of 38,927 refugees were recruited, including 31,000 strong men, 5,500 strong women, and more than 2,000 elderly people and children..."
When Xie Yang said this, he quickly looked up at Mr. Liu and explained in a low voice:
"These old and weak people are all the family members of the refugees. Most of the refugees are trackers. Mr. Qi Qian said that they are good candidates for the army."
Liu Zhaosun waved his hand and said with a smile:
"We are not from the Wenxiang Sect. We will not let their families be destroyed. Since we have family members, we will bring them with us, as long as there are not too many of them."
"How much money did the refugees spend on food in total?"
Xie Yang wiped his face and forehead, took out an account book from his sleeve, and glanced at Kang Yingqian next to him. After Kang Yingqian coughed, the Civil Affairs Secretary said:
"Sir, excluding the 30,000 taels of disaster relief silver and the 2,000 shi of disaster relief grain allocated by the imperial court to Dengzhou, we have landed in Weihaiwei since the sixth day of August. As of today, we have spent a total of 123,677 silver to recruit refugees. Twelve taels, consuming thirteen thousand grains..."
Everyone was stunned, Liu Zhaosun showed an incredible expression on his face and exclaimed:
"so much?"
Seeing that Shangguan was blaming him, Director Xie quickly explained:
"Sir, this is all done according to the method agreed before. You said that there is no limit to the number of places. As long as they meet the conditions, all civilian soldiers will be recruited. In mid-August, thousands of people flock to Wendeng every day to eat porridge. There were more people in the past few days, 4,000 the day before yesterday and 5,000 yesterday. Some refugees ran away after eating the porridge and did not go to Liaodong, but came back to eat again the next day."
Liu Zhaosun's face was gloomy, and he turned back to look at the instructor Senti sitting next to Yuan Chonghuan.
Dongguan Zai fell to his knees with a plop, and said angrily:
"The lower-level officials were incompetent and preached to the unruly people every day. They refused to go to Liaodong. The soldiers drove the refugees away, and they came again the next day..."
Although Senti tried his best and his voice was hoarse, these refugees heard that they were going to Liaodong, but they couldn't live or die.
In the impression of people in southern Zhili, Liaodong is a place where prisoners are exiled, and it is an extremely remote place with poor mountains and harsh waters.
Even if they become refugees, they are unwilling to go to Liaodong.
The five cities in Liaodong need a large number of people to farm and expand the army. At present, money and food are spent, but in the end this is the result.
Liu Zhaosun felt like a failure.
Kang Yingqian heard this and said angrily:
"Master Liu, you are still too soft-hearted. Don't allow unruly people to take advantage of you. Otherwise, others will follow suit and millions of dollars will be spent!"
"We have occupied Wendeng and have very few manpower. We must not cause trouble at this time."
Shao Jiechun also said: "No matter how kind Mr. Liu is to these people, what can we do? As long as we don't get their way for a moment, they will turn around and curse us."
Even Qiao Yiqi also advised:
"The people only look at the present and don't know the long-term. When Taizu moved the wealthy families from the south of the Yangtze River to Fengyang, he gave them tax exemptions for three years. Those people got the benefit and turned around and made up songs to curse Taizu. It was the Fengyang Flower Drum we heard last time. , Kaiyuan gave them food today, Mr. Liu, guess whether they will scold us tomorrow."
Ping Liaohou nodded to everyone and agreed with these views.
"What you all said makes sense, but you must not be soft-hearted towards these unruly people."
"The people in the pass have misunderstandings about Liaodong. If the unscrupulous people slander us behind our backs, others will not go to Liaodong."
"Those who have eaten the porridge and meet the conditions will be shipped back to Liaodong. If these refugees are left in Shandong, they will become thieves sooner or later if they do not starve to death. The 1,000 headquarters is responsible for this matter. We must use force and rely solely on It won’t work if the instructor opens his mouth.”
Now that they are on their own ship, they cannot allow these people to get off halfway.
Depending on the arrival of the monsoon in September, in the next few months, the wind and waves in the Bohai Sea will be difficult, making it impossible to sail, and the food will be almost exhausted.
Liu Zhaosun ordered his soldiers to forcibly escort these refugees across the sea to Liao.
There were more than 38,000 refugees, 10,000 of whom were left to farm around Wendeng.
The area around Wendeng had just suffered a massacre, and the population suffered heavy losses, especially the big families in the city, who were all wiped out by the Wenxiang Sect.
In Wendeng County, hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland were vacant and uncultivated for a while. These fields were all under the name of Wendeng Camp. They were actually the private property of Pingliao Marquis and were enough to accommodate tens of thousands of households for farming.
The remaining 28,000 people were escorted by the 1,000th headquarters soldiers, crossed the Bohai Sea, and transported to Jinzhou in batches.
After arriving in Jinzhou, the refugees were divided into five parts again and sent to Tieling, Qinghe and other cities in Fushun.
From Wendeng to Weihaiwei, and across the sea to Jinzhou, more than two hundred refugees died of illness during the exhausting journey, eating and sleeping in the open air.
Resistance against Ping Liaohou and Kaiyuan began to spread among the refugees.
It was not what Qiao Yiqi expected.
A Fengyang flower drum modified by the refugees quickly became popular in the five cities of Liaodong.
This is how the song goes.
Talk about Kaiyuan, talk about Kaiyuan,
It was a good place to open.
Since Mr. Liu came,
We fight nine years out of ten.
Rich people pay for it,
All the small families died;
No son of the slave family has died.
He joined the army and traveled far and wide on behalf of his father.
When fighting a lawsuit, there is a prefect.
I want to write a petition and mail it everywhere.
As long as Lord Liu is gone.
I am worthy of being a mother-in-law in this world!
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