At the end of March of the first year of Emperor Longwu, Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Menggeng were cut alive at Caishikou, Dongmen, Wuchang.

In less than two months, the Central Army destroyed Zuo Liangyu's rebellion with a destructive force. After conquering Wuchang, Wang Pu realized that Zuo Liangyu's rebels actually had less than 200,000 troops. Except for more than 8,000 people who died in battle and more than 20,000 people disappeared, the remaining 150,000 rebels were all captured.

Wuchang, Wang Pu’s residence.

Although Zuo Liangyu and his son were dead and the rebellion was suppressed, the matter in Huguang was not over. Due to the burning, killing and looting of the rebels, the agricultural production of Chengtian, Huangzhou, Jingzhou and De'an prefectures around Wuchang had been severely damaged, and the people were displaced and suffered heavy casualties. It required a lot of food and a large sum of silver to help the affected people rebuild their homes.

Fortunately, the new governor of Huguang, He Tengjiao, had arrived in Wuchang. As soon as He Tengjiao arrived in Wuchang, he came to pay homage to Wang Pu and discuss the matter of appeaseing refugees and helping the people.

After the two greeted each other, He Tengjiao said respectfully: "Mr. Marquis, I have a preliminary understanding of several counties in Huangzhou and Wuchang Prefectures. I found that the degree of military disaster was very serious. Almost all the young and strong in these counties were killed by the rebels, and all the young women were robbed by the rebels. Many villages were left with elderly people and children. Those who had no food could only starve and did not have charcoal to keep warm. In the winter, those who could only hide in the thatched hut with air leakage were frozen."

Wang Pu's mood also became heavier and asked, "Is there anyone dead?"

"Yes." He Tengjiao sighed and said sadly, "The officials dare not hide the Marquis. Just the counties that were secretly visited, there were more than 10,000 dead people! If the dozens of counties in Wuchang, Jingzhou, Huangzhou, and De'an were in this situation, the most conservative estimate was that there were more than one million dead people! What's more serious is that it is the beginning of spring, and it is the time for spring famine. It will take at least three months to collect spring grain. I don't know how many people will starve to death in these three months..."

At the end of the day, He Tengjiao was already crying.

"This is all the evil committed by Zuo Liangyu, a traitor." Wang Pu clenched his fists and said hatred, "If a person can die twice, I really want to cut him off again!"

"Marty."

He Tengjiao suddenly knelt in front of Wang Pu, and said in tears, "Xiaguan has never asked anyone in his life. He has never kneeled for anyone except heaven and his parents. But today Xiaguan has knelt down for you! You must save the people of Huguang. Now you can only save the people of Huguang!"

"Get up quickly, Lord He." Wang Pu quickly stepped forward and helped He Tengjiao up and said movedly, "Mr. He is admirable. Don't say that I am the governor of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Even if I am just a Marquis of Anle, I will never watch the millions of people in Huguang starve to death!"

He Tengjiao said with gratitude: "I sincerely thank the Marquis on behalf of millions of creatures in Huguang."

He Tengjiao insisted on knocking three times before he was willing to get up.

Holding He Tengjiao in his seat, Wang Pu said solemnly: "Mr. He, there are about 30,000 shi of military rations left in the army. In addition to leaving 5,000 shi of return rations, the remaining 25,000 shi of military rations will be allocated to the Lord. In addition, the treasury of Yanziji camp still has 120,000 shi of military rations left. After this marquis returns to Nanjing, he will send a naval fleet to Wuchang one after another. With this batch of military rations, it will be enough for Huguang refugees to survive a month."

He Tengjiao choked and said, "Mr. Marquis, the official..."

Wang Pu reached out to stop He Tengjiao and continued: "But this little food alone is not enough to allow Huguang refugees to spend this difficult time. Moreover, the rebels burned a large number of villages and the people also needed a lot of money to rebuild their homes. These all require Lord He to find another way. Has Lord He ever had a trait?"

He Tengjiao said solemnly: "The lower official does have a vain case, but he still needs the best help from the Marquis."

Wang Pu said: "Mr. He, please tell me that as long as I can help, I will definitely help."

He Tengjiao said: "With the 150,000 shi of military rations provided by the Marquis, the food for the affected people will be settled for a month. With this month, the officials can calmly raise grain and silver. The officials plan to sell all the imperial houses of the most severely affected mansions. Even if the annual land price is halfway, the imperial houses of more than 500,000 mu can sell more than three million taels of silver!"

"Imperial Village?" Wang Pu Ning said, "Mr. He is talking about the land of King Chu?"

"That's right." He Tengjiao said solemnly, "The whole family of the King of Chu has been killed. Instead of letting it be abandoned, these hundreds of thousands of acres of royal villages are better exchanged for some silver, which can at least save millions of refugees who have no food and clothing!"

Wang Pu said sternly: "Has Mr. He never thought about the consequences of doing this?"

He Tengjiao dared to take his ideas to the King of Chu's imperial village. Wang Pu couldn't help but admire his determination and courage to plead for the people.

He Tengjiao straightened his clothes and said solemnly: "There is no great disaster to eliminate death. As long as millions of hungry people can survive, what's the harm of the old officials even if they have old bones? However, the officials know few people, and even if they have good fields, they can't sell them at a good price. So I asked the marquis to deal with it and persuade the Zhejiang-Zhijima to come to Huguang to buy industries."

Wang Pu moved and said, "Okay, I will definitely help you with this busy man!"

In fact, at this moment, Wang Pu had a great idea in his mind. One could not only help the victims of Huguang rebuild their homes, but also properly resettle more than 100,000 prisoners, and also benefit the Wang family. It can be said that it can be said that it can be achieved by three goals in one fell swoop!

The key to this plan is to ask the Wang family to prepare enough money to buy the 500,000 acres of farmland that He Tengjiao was about to sell, and then use more than 100,000 prisoners of war for free labor to grow grain, mulberry and cotton for the Wang family. This is a profitable deal for the Wang family.

However, because more than 100,000 prisoners of war exist, Wang Pu must leave enough Central Army to suppress, and the concentration camps where prisoners of war must also leave enough troops to garrison, which will inevitably lead to suspicion of pretending to be public and personal gain. However, this is not a problem for Wang Pu. Even if there is a censor in the court impeachment of him for this, he will not take it seriously.

Hearing Wang Pu's full promise, He Tengjiao stood up and bowed to Wang Pu, and said in a move: "Marty, I won't say more about thanks. Today I just want to say one thing to the Marquis! There are so many royal relatives in the world, you are the first Marquis that the Hou has met who is really considered by the people!"

Wang Pu bowed his hand and apologized and said, "Mr. He is over-reputable."

He Tengjiao said solemnly: "Disa relief is a big deal. The Marquis Rushi has no other instructions. The official is planning to go to the camp to collect grain. In addition, he also asked the Marquis to send two thousand troops to assist the official in setting up a porridge shed."

"It should be like this." Wang Pu said this and turned around and shouted, "Tang Sheng!"

Amid the heavy footsteps, Tang Sheng walked straight into the signing room and saluted: "Here."

Wang Pu said: "Take two thousand brothers and Lord He to the treasury to bring grain, and then assist Lord He in setting up a porridge shed."

"Yes!" Tang Sheng responded with a loud bang, and then said to He Tengjiao with a stern hand, "Mr. He, please."

"General Tang, please."

When He Tengjiao and Tang Sheng left, Wang Pu called Liu Qingyan into the signing room and ordered: "Sister Yan, please send a letter to Chuzhou immediately and ask my elder brother to prepare three million taels of silver!"

Liu Qingyan nodded and asked again: "Are there any other orders?"

Wang Pu thought about it and asked again: "Have you found out about Zuo Liangyu's sudden rebellion?"

Liu Qingyan said: "Some of the eyebrows have been found. Judging from the current situation, Zuo Liangyu should have been instigated by a mysterious person, and this person may have been sent by King Lu."

"King Lu?" Wang Pu's eyes showed murderous intent and said in a stern manner, "It turned out to be him!"

Liu Qingyan said: "It's just possible, it can only be confirmed after you catch this mysterious character."

Wang Pu nodded and said, "Then don't go back to Nanjing with me this time. Stay in Wuchang first and find out the truth before you can tell me about this matter. In addition, we will draw elite personnel from the halls of various places to infiltrate Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces to improve our intelligence network as soon as possible."

"Yeah." Liu Qingyan said softly, "I will listen to you."

Wang Puyuan gently relaxed his arms and hugged Liu Qingyan's delicate body into his arms, leaned against her pink earlobe and said, "Slutty hoofs, when you return from Wuchang to Nanjing in a few months, I should have mastered my Sumimei, hehe."

Datong, blood flows and corpses are hidden all over the field.

On the day Zuo Liangyu was executed by Lingchi, Dorgon's Jiannu army also captured Datong.

In order to vent the resentment in his heart and to appease the uneasiness of the Mongolian tribes, Dorgon ordered the massacre of the city and allowed the Mongolian cavalry to carry out inhumane burning, killing and looting the entire Datong Prefecture. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Datong City were slaughtered, and nearly 300,000 people in the entire Datong Prefecture finally had less than 20,000 people left to escape into Shaanxi.

Datong City was in good condition, and Dorgon held a tent.

The angry Duoduo walked in one after another with Ajig. Ajig looked bad and turned around while walking, cursing: "What's his damn thing? You dare to compete with me for a woman!"

"Shut up." Dorgon couldn't bear it anymore and said furiously, "Old Twelve, when will you be able to make progress?"

"Old Fourteen?" Azige glared at Dorgon and said angrily, "Why are you turning your elbow out?"

"Twelfth brother." Dorgon's tone softened and he smiled bitterly, "Do you know how sinister the situation we Manchus are facing now? Do you think it's worth offending a Mongolian tribe for a Han woman? Isn't it just one woman? Just turn around and I'll just ask Hong Chengchou to offer ten beauties to you, it's really..."

"This is what you said." Aziger immediately turned angry and said happily, "Old Fourteen, you have to keep your word."

Dorgon and Dodo looked at each other and smiled bitterly. In the past, when the Eight Banners children only needed to charge in battle, Ajige relied on his bravery and good at fighting, but now he needs to use his brain, Ajige can't help at all, and he still makes up all the trouble. If it weren't for Ajige's brother of the two mothers and compatriots, he really wanted to send this guy back to Liaodong, but he would have failed all the things that were enough to fail.

"Okay." Dorgon said angrily, "You go and rest first, Lao Shiwu and I have something to discuss."

Azig responded and turned around and left.

Dorgon sighed and smiled bitterly, "What a good brother to us."

Duoduo also smiled bitterly and said, "Fourth Brother, don't worry about the Twelfth Brother. This time the Mongols sent more than 100,000 cavalry to the Pass, but in the end they did not lose much benefit. Even the princes of Korqin were full of complaints and their words were very unpleasant. If they could not comfort them well, something might happen in the end."

"Who said it was not?" Dorgon rubbed Taimoe's hole in pain and lamented, "When I first entered the pass, everything went smoothly, and I could seize half of the Ming Dynasty, but it turned out that Wang Pu was disrupting the situation. On the surface, the battle in Liaocheng seemed to end the draw, but in fact our army was defeated."

A trace of slaughter flashed through Duoduo's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Fourth Brother, our Manchu population is too small. If we want to defeat the Han people, it is impossible to defeat the Han people without the help of the Mongolians. In order to appease the dissatisfaction of the Mongolians, we had to sacrifice the Han people. It would be better to divide Shuntian, Baoding, Xuanfu, and Taiyuan into hunting grounds for the Mongolians, right?"

When Dorgon heard this, his expression changed slightly. He divided these mansions into hunting grounds for the Mongolians, which meant that the people of these mansions would become prey of the Mongolian cavalry. In this way, although the emotions of the Mongolian cavalry were comforted, these mansions would also become barren lands.

"All right."

Dorgon hesitated for a while before nodding gently. It was not because he was sympathetic to the millions of Han people in these prefectures, but because after the Mongolian cavalry destroyed these prefectures, Jiannu lost several major prefectures that collected grain and tax. Jiannu's money and grain were already stretched, which made it even worse.

"Fourth Brother." Duoduo said again, "Do you want to send an Eight Banners soldier to stay in Shanxi to monitor Wu Sangui?"

"No need." Dorgon shook his head and said, "There are less than 60,000 people in our Manchu Banners. We can no longer dispose of soldiers. Shanxi will be handed over to Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui's situation is no longer as good as Jiang Xiang and the others. Jiang Xiang and the others' retreat for returning to the Ming Dynasty has not been cut off, but Wu Sangui is like Hong Chengchou and cannot return to the Ming Dynasty. If he betrays the Qing Dynasty, he will only die faster."

"That's true." Duoduo nodded, "Wu Sangui has tried his best to encircle Jiang Xiang this time. Almost all of Jiang Xiang's 100,000 rebels were annihilated by his Guanning army."

Dorgon carried his hands on his back, looked at the dazzling starry sky outside the tent, and said in a faint voice: "I wonder if the battle between Wang Pu and Zuo Liangyu has been decided?"

Duoduo said: "I have a premonition that Wang Pu may have won."

Dorgon nodded and sighed, "I think so too. If Wang Pu can't even deal with Zuo Liangyu, he is not worthy of being my Dorgon's opponent, and it is even more impossible to force my Qing Dynasty to such a mess today! I really want to mention the army's southern expedition and fight Wang Pu Jue to the death. Unfortunately, the food and grass are not enough, and the Mongolian cavalry's horsepower is also weak. Only when the autumn is high and the horses are fat can we go south again. Alas..."

Duoduo said in a grim voice: "Fourth Brother, half a year has not been long and it has passed quickly."
Chapter completed!