After getting rid of several local sticks from Zhengjia Village who were tyrannizing over the villagers, the magistrate of Xin'an County re-established the Peasants' Association and formed a new peasant-soldier team.
This time, the fields in Zhengjia Village truly belong to the villagers of Zhengjia Village.
After settling things in Zhengjia Village, the magistrate of Xin'an County returned to the Xin'an County government office with the government officials and soldiers.
Hong Chengchou, who came back first, was already waiting for him in the county government office.
"Is everything done?" Hong Chengchou picked up the bowl of tea on the table, brought it to his mouth and blew on it.
The magistrate of Xin'an County said: "It's all done. The backbone of the peasant association is all the villagers who were oppressed in Zhengjia Village in the past. The peasant soldiers are also young and strong people selected from each household. They are all people at the bottom, and the fields are divided. , stabilizes the people's hearts, and they will only look towards our tiger-character flag in the future."
"This incident is a lesson." Hong Chengchou said, "The incident in Zhengjia Village was not a big deal, but it had a bad start. If you were more serious and careful in your work in Xin'an County, the incident in Zhengjia Village would not have happened. This is a lesson, and you have to remember this lesson.”
After hearing this, the magistrate of Xin'an County lowered his head and said, "I will definitely remember the lessons learned this time."
"You must grasp the peasants and soldiers from all over the country. The army is currently besieging Kaifeng Mansion. There are no extra troops for you. The only force you can rely on now is the peasants and soldiers." Hong Chengchou suggested.
The magistrate of Xin'an County agreed: "Xiaguan will arrange for the mayors of various towns to go down as soon as possible to directly open up the connection between the county government and the farmers' associations in various places, and cut off the opportunities for local clans and gentry forces to interfere with the farmers' associations."
"You are right to think so." Hong Chengchou praised him, and then said, "We can use it for the officials from the old dynasty who have taken refuge in the county government, but we must also suppress them and we must also be on guard. This is what happened to Hu Jiaoyu. A lesson, a small instruction, almost broke the foundation of the Tiger Flag in Henan."
Peasants' associations and peasant soldiers everywhere are the policies adopted by the Tiger Banner to regain the people's support in the local areas.
Once all the peasant associations in Tiger Character Banner become like those in Zhengjia Village, changing the soup without changing the medicine, but giving the local gentry and local thugs more excuses to bully the people at the bottom, then the people of Henan will only The tiger character flag alienates.
It also made it a joke for the Tiger Flag to regain the hearts and minds of Henan people.
The matter in Zhengjiacun seemed to be a small matter, but what they were doing was to dig into the foundation of the Tiger Flag. This was one of the reasons why Hong Chengchou rushed to Xin'an County in person.
The magistrate of Xin'an County said: "The official was careless. He never thought that Hu Jiaoyu was secretly instigating what happened in Zhengjia Village. Originally, the official thought it was Master Li who secretly sent someone to do it. After all, Hu Jiaoyu was just a human being. Although scholars have some status in the yamen, they have never been high and they are not as powerful as Chief Li."
"The more scholars you are, the more you have to be on guard." Hong Chengchou said, "These scholars are devoted to the imperial court. They don't care much about the life and death of the people. They regard the tiger-character flag as a bandit. For the sake of their righteousness, they can Sacrifice the people to deal with the Tiger Flag."
"You are still a ruthless scholar!" The magistrate of Xin'an County sighed, and then thought that Hong Fantai in front of him was also an orthodox scholar, and hurriedly explained, "Xiaguan does not mean Hong Fantai, but people like Hu Jiaoyu. A kind of scholar."
"It doesn't matter." Hong Chengchou waved his hand disapprovingly.
When he was in charge of political affairs in Shaanxi, he sacrificed the lives of the people under his rule in order to deal with the Tiger Banner army that invaded Shaanxi.
If you are an official in the imperial court, you have to be ruthless, otherwise you will be devoured and even the bones will be left.
Hong Chengchou said: "The matter in Xin'an County has almost been solved. The rest is left to you. Futai is still waiting for news from me in Luoyang City."
Putting down the tureen in his hand, he stood up from his seat.
The magistrate of Xin'an County hurriedly stood up together with him.
Hong Chengchou walked to the door of the house and stopped, turned around, and said to the magistrate of Xin'an County who was following him: "I will leave a small group of soldiers for you. When the situation in Xin'an County stabilizes, we will transfer them back." Luoyang."
"I would like to express my gratitude to Hongfantai in advance." The magistrate of Xin'an County clasped his fists in gratitude and saluted.
The three classes of yamen servants in the yamen basically obey the orders of the chief clerk. As the county magistrate, he has almost no available force in Xin'an County, otherwise he would not ask Luoyang for help regarding Zhengjia Village.
Now that he has a small team of soldiers by his side, he can intimidate the less obedient government servants in the government office. Once he has mastered the peasant soldiers, he can directly replace those disobedient government officials.
Although farmers and soldiers are not as good as combat soldiers, they are sufficient as a local armed force.
As Hong Chengchou left Xin'an County, Director Li and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they didn't betray the Tiger Flag like Hu Jiaoyu did, they did a lot of small tricks secretly. As long as Hong Chengchou was still in Xin'an County, they were afraid that they would be beaten up and beaten, so they all dealt with it. After all, They are also surrenderers, worried that they will be liquidated one day.
Kaifeng Mansion.
The Tiger Banner army besieged Kaifeng Fucheng outside the city for three days.
Tongxu, Chenliu, Zhongmou, Xiangfu and other places all fell, and the southward passage of Kaifeng Prefecture was completely blocked. Except for parts of Zhangde Prefecture, Guide Prefecture and Runing Prefecture, all other state capitals in Henan Province fell. Tiger flag in hand.
"It has been three days of siege. When will the general attack be launched?" Sun Chuang walked in from outside the tent and sat down on a chair, looking at Chen Xunping behind the table.
Chen Xunping raised his head, smiled and said to him, "Are you anxious?"
"Are you not in a hurry? The attack on Datong Town has never been so troublesome." Sun Chuang said.
At this time, Qin Rong, the chief of staff on the side, said: "The situation when we attacked Datong Town was different from the current attack on Kaifeng Fucheng. There were not many defenders in Datong Town at that time, but in Kaifeng Fucheng in front of us, because Yang He surrounded it All the troops have been mobilized into the city, and the garrison in the city is probably 10,000 or 20,000, so this city is not easy to attack."
"Then flood the Yellow River with water and dig a hole in the Yellow River, directly submerging the city of Kaifeng. I don't believe that the people in the city will not leave the city and surrender." Sun Chuang said.
"You can't do this."
When he heard that the Yellow River was being flooded and flooded Kaifeng Mansion, Qin Rong hurriedly spoke out to stop it.
Chen Xunping said: "We can't just flood Kaifeng Prefecture just for us to capture Kaifeng Prefecture. Don't forget, once the mouth of the Yellow River is dug, the water will not only flood Kaifeng Prefecture, but also other places. This is not good for the tiger character." Banner’s future governance of Henan.”
"Shi Zheng is right." Qin Rong looked at Sun Chuang seriously and said, "We must not dig an opening from the Yellow River. Others can do it, but we must not do it. Even if we do not attack Fengfu City, we must not do it. This kind of thing.”
