The Jinyang army walked in Henan for five days. After five consecutive days, Li Guodong had not seen a living person.

The drought and locust plague would not kill all the people in the province. What's more, there were clan forces at that time. Some clans had large gentry, and some gentry would have some food to support poor relatives in the clan. But after a long time, no one could afford it. What should we do? Naturally, we left our hometown and ran away.

So where did the people go? Only a small number of them went to Shandong or Huai'an, and were accepted by Wang Quan, and those people survived. More people went to western Henan.

"I seek promotion in the morning and marriage in the evening. Recently, the poor man is unable to survive. I open the door early to worship the King of Chuang, and I am happy to discipline all the big and small. Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and mud, open the city gate to welcome the King of Chuang. When the King of Chuang comes, I will not pay grain. I will eat his mother, but I will not eat enough. If I don't take the job or pay grain, everyone will live a happy life."

In Shangluo Mountain, Gao Guiying, a wife from the Wushang Mountains, came to meet with Li Zicheng with the Jianfu Camp. In addition to leading her thousands of Jianfu Camps and more than 10,000 soldiers from the Break Army, Gao Guiying also brought more than 100,000 victims who came to join the King of Break Army.

"Friends, don't worry, you will survive when you arrive at the King of Chuang!" The female soldiers from the Jianfu Camp comforted the fleeing people.

Before the Qing army invaded last year, Li Zicheng was almost destroyed by Sun Chuanting, and was beaten to the point where only seventeen cavalry remained. He fled into Shangluo Mountain in a panic. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were preparing to surround the mountain, cast a net on Shangluo Mountain, and started intensive searches, trying to annihilate Li Zicheng in one fell swoop. Who knew that the Qing army had invaded, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were forced to give up their last attack on Li Zicheng and took their troops back to Beijing to serve the king.

After Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting left, Li Zicheng quickly recovered his vitality.

Within ten months before Li Zicheng's comeback, he first gathered his lost old subordinates, and then attacked around with Funiu Mountain as the center, incorporated local poles (bandits), defeated many gentry and wealthy families, and seized a large amount of food. So now those hungry people come to join, and Li Zicheng has enough food to support them. Of course, eating is impossible, so they can only eat half full. Those people escaped the fate of starvation, and then they have to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder for Li Zicheng.

Speaking of which, in this year of disaster in Henan, the rebel army not only did not harm the people, but instead saved many ordinary people. Although they finally became cannon fodder for the rebel army, some people survived after all. If Li Zicheng did not accept them, they would starve to death sooner or later. If Li Zicheng was used as cannon fodder, at least half of the people would survive.

The porridge sheds were built one by one. Li Zicheng took out the grain and made porridge to provide them with the victims who brought their families to join him. Gao Guiying and Hong Niangzi's female soldiers were busy in the porridge shed to maintain order and gave the victims lined up with steaming bowls of porridge.

Although the porridge is very thin, it is made of coarse grains mixed with rice bran and wild vegetables, but it can make ordinary people who are hungry, swelling all over their bodies, or bloated by eating Guanyin dirt and bloating.

"The grass people thanked King Chuang for his life!"

"The King of Chuang is very kind and great, and we are willing to repay our lives with our lives!"

"The King of Chuang said that he would fight against a powerful man, and we should go through fire and water!"

After a bowl of porridge, the surviving people were ready to work hard and expressed their willingness to work for Li Zicheng. For a moment, the morale of the Chuang Army was high.

As for Li Zicheng massacred Henan, he actually killed some gentry and royal family who were unkind and unkind, and did not attack the innocent people. If he said that he had done something bad, the water flooded Kaifeng and the innocent people would not be able to escape.

The major disaster from the 12th to the 15th year of Chongzhen gave Li Zicheng the opportunity to flourish, especially the major disaster from the 13th year of Chongzhen. Not only did the north suffer drought and locust plague, but even the south suffer disaster: Huguang, Suzhou, Songjiang and other places suffer major floods!

Speaking of the 13th year of Chongzhen, it was really unfortunate. There was a severe drought in the north and a severe flood in the south. Why didn’t God share some rainfall in the south to the north?

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, the food production land in the south was hit by disaster, which made the poor people even worse. The grain prices in the north soared to more than ten taels of silver, or even twenty taels of silver per stone! How should the northern people who were already short of food survive?

Fortunately, Li Guodong has already started to make arrangements in the south. He helped Lu Xiangsheng and Qian Qianyi transform the farm. In fact, Wang Quan and the others have to do one more thing: build the embankment!

The river embankment is raised, the pond is dug, and the ditches are widened. This can block the surge in the river water backflow, evacuate the flood, and reduce the disaster. Li Guodong's seemingly unintentional action can make more people live.

In the Shangluo Mountains, the terrain was complex and Li Zicheng gradually recovered his vitality and attacked the wealthy families, the local Ming army came to attack Funiu Mountain. However, these Ming army, who were born in local military families, were actually a group of farmers who had not received any training, and suffered a crushing defeat in Shehukou and Shimengu.

The Ming army, which was defeated by a crushing defeat, was indeed a good player to harm the local people. The retreating Ming army burned, killed, plundered and plundered the local area, and did similar things to the Qing army, and some places were even worse than those of the Qing army.

This time, Yang Sichang went south and dispatched troops in Xiangyang. He was not Li Zicheng, but was preparing to wipe out Zhang Xianzhong first.

The first to attack Zhang Xianzhong was the plan to suppress the bandits set by Emperor Chongzhen. Because Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang and burned the imperial tomb, Chongzhen was embarrassed and cried and fainted at one point. Therefore, Chongzhen hated Zhang Xianzhong to the core.

"King of Chuang, we send out news from the inside of the official army that the official army gathered in Xiangyang, and it seemed that we were preparing to attack Zhang Xianzhong!" Song Xiance stepped forward and said.

Li Yan, a new adviser of Li Zicheng, said: "King of Chuang, we should not rush to send troops at this time. We should take the opportunity to seize the Song family village in the mountains. The wealth accumulated by the Song family for several generations is enough for us to expand 100,000 refugees. First, we will pacify the surrounding gentry and powerful people. When the officers and soldiers chase Zhang Xianzhong and enter Sichuan, we will fight out of the mountain and conquer Shangzhou and Luoyang in one fell swoop."

Liu Zongmin, Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo and others all agreed with Li Yan's suggestion, thinking that Zhang Xianzhong should be used to attract officers and soldiers and then go out to conquer the city and territories.

Just when Li Zicheng was in a meeting, someone hurriedly reported: "The King of Rebellion, the young men caught a soldier who had been involved in the disaster victims and did a detailed job!"

"Bring it up!" Li Zicheng said.

After a while, the man was brought up.

"Who are you? Why did you come to Funiu Mountain to spy on military information?" Li Zicheng asked coldly as he looked at the unpretentious Ming army's detailed work.

"Please also ask the King of Breaking to Mingjian! I was not a detailed work by the court. Chen was entrusted by Wuwei Bo Li Guodong and specially warned the King of Breaking to him." The man stood in the middle of the hall with neither arrogant nor humbleness, and replied with his head held high and his chest raised.

"What's the matter?" Li Zicheng's attitude was much better when he was under Li Guodong's command. After all, when he was still following Gao Yingxiang, he was surrounded by the Ming army in Hequ, but Li Guodong generously sent them a large amount of food, allowing most of the founding army to survive.

The man said, "King of Chuang, if your army attacks Luoyang, our Wuwei Bo will definitely not make things difficult for you. But our uncle has a saying, I hope that King of Chuang should not open the seal. King of Zhou is not the stingy person of King Fu. He will pay money for grain and labor, so it will be difficult for you to fight."

Li Zicheng laughed: "We will definitely attack Luoyang! We will definitely execute this person with great public anger. This person has been entrenched in Henan for many years, and it can be said that he has done all the bad things. I heard that guy weighs more than 300 pounds?"

"That's right, I've seen King Fu!" the man replied.

Li Zicheng said "Oh" and asked again: "What's your name?"

"Return to the King of Chuang, Chen is named Mingjie. I hope Chen can help the King of Chuang!" the man replied.

"Chen Mingjie, you always claim that you are under Wu Weibo, do you have any certificates? If you have nothing to say, why should you trust you?" Li Zicheng sneered.

"Hahaha! King of Breaking, you said I was doing it in detail," Chen Mingjie laughed, "Will anyone who does something like me leave real evidence?"
Chapter completed!