Ma Shouying died, and no matter how high his martial arts were, he could not resist the crushing of the three thousand cavalrymen. When Li Guodong rushed up with three thousand cavalrymen, Ma Shouying avoided the assassination of a horse spear and knocked the Ming cavalry down with a knife. However, Li Guodong came from behind. The horse spear hit Ma Shouying's chest with the help of the war horse, and stabbed him to the heart.

In this battle, Li Guodong's Jinyang Army and Wang Quan's Huai Army beheaded more than 35,000 levels and captured more than 100,000 people. Among the more than 100,000 prisoners, more than 20,000 old camp soldiers with Ma Shouying were identified. After Li Guodong's identification, he would deal with them. More than 6,000 god soldiers were all beheaded by Li Guodong. More than 8,000 old thieves who committed evil deeds were also beheaded, totaling nearly 15,000 people, all of which were beheaded, and all of them were beheaded, and all of them were counted into the number of beheadings at the camp and sent to the capital to perform their merits. More than 5,000 old camp soldiers were sent to the new camp camp for brainwashing and transformation, and they would be incorporated into the cannon fodder camp. The more than 80,000 refugees captured were either organized into engineering soldiers or military households. Some refugees without wives and children were organized into the new camp camp of the caravan guards, ready to be sent overseas as guards.

The news of the Jingzhou victory reached the capital, and Chongzhen was very happy.

"Okay! OK! OK!" Emperor Chongzhen said three good words in a row, "Regain Jingzhou, Ma Shouying will be the head, and Wu Wei Bo will make great contributions again! I want to be a marquis for him!"

But Chongzhen's idea was not to mention writing an edict and submitting a cabinet ticket to pass. At the meeting of the next day, he only mentioned it, and was immediately opposed by the ministers in the court. The ministers asked that Li Guodong could reward silver, but not to be granted a marquis. Chongzhen had no silver, so where did he get the reward silver to Li Guodong? Recover Jingzhou, beheaded Ma Shouying, beheaded more than 50,000, and captured 80,000. Such an unprecedented victory, he would not have to give a reward of one million taels of silver? Where did Chongzhen give birth to this million taels of silver?

In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen had to write a letter asking Li Guodong to forgive him. There was no money in the court, so he had to write a blank note. When the bandits were pacified and production resumed, and after the taxes came up, he would make up for the rewards owed Li Guodong the previous two times.

Although Li Guodong's Wuwei Bo did not become a Marquis of Wuwei, and except for a piece of white paper and no silver for a piece of copper, his wife He Xiuying received the title of a first-class lady of imperial edict and was also awarded the title of a land of nobility in Jingxiang.

When the angel who announced the edict left, Han Dashan said angrily: "Brother, our army has made great contributions to suppressing the thieves, but the court did not even have a reward! I saw a blank note! The court still owed us a lot of money. When the time of fighting Jiannu, when the last time we fought the thieves, did we win a great victory? But what about the silver? We have worked for the court for so many years, but we haven't seen a few copper coins in military pay. All the expenses are almost earned by our brothers themselves, so we rely on the reward of silver to reward brothers. But now, we owe even three times to reward silver."

Even Cao Bianjiao sighed: "Boye, I didn't expect that the court was short of silver! When I was in the Guanning Army, the court never owed military pay or rewards."

Wang Quan said: "Brother, the court always gives some useless verbal rewards and white slips. We brothers could have lived a good life without worries. The money we earned is no less than those gentry in Jiangnan! But you have used it all to subsidize the military! In my opinion, it would be better to hand over the army to others and let us go to Jiangnan to live a rich family life!"

"This is a bad statement! How can we end up with the collapse of the nest? If we have no army and go to live the life of a rich family with the Donglin Party members, once the Ming Dynasty is over, how many days will our good days be? When the bandits come, we will rob us, and when the Jiannu comes, we will rob us! A real man should put the country first! Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country." Li Guodong retorted.

Cao Bianjiao said in a touching voice: "Brother is so loyal!"

"Brother Xiao Cao, to be honest, to be honest, if you want to be loyal, Li is not as loyal as you think. But if the country is gone, will the ending of us be good?"

News of the pacification of the bandits in Jingzhou came to Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting was ecstatic: "Jingzhou was recovered, and the thieves were attacked from both sides. The bandits were unable to send troops to harass them. We can cultivate and rest. When the troops are strong, we will come out to Tongguan to suppress the bandits!"

The reason why Sun Chuanting was unwilling to take the opportunity to attack was because he had just been released from prison and had been defeated in the Battle of Persimmon Garden. He needed to lick his wounds and regain his energy before he could fight again. Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing did not obey the order at all, and Sun Chuanting's food was insufficient, and the court had no food to send to them. Sun Chuanting's food was all harvested by the grains he had accumulated before Sun Chuanting was imprisoned by several incompetent people from the Chongzhen Sect, so Sun Chuanting's life was extremely difficult.

"Supervisor," Gao Jie suggested, "Since the general who pacified the thief did not obey the order, why don't you let Wuweibo send troops north to attack Xiangyang?"

Sun Chuanting shook his head and sighed: "Although Wu Weibo's command is an elite army, the number of people is too small. If he attacks Xiangyang's city, he may have a great loss. Although it took only one day to break the city, the loss was not small. He only had 60,000 people, and the battle of Jingzhou lost nearly 10,000. This was just a fight against Ma Shouying, who had only more than 100,000 people. If he attacked the thief with a million troops, he might not be able to do so. To fight the thief, he still needed a general who had many soldiers and generals to pacify the thief."

As an excellent military talent, Sun Chuanting certainly understood that Li Guodong had few soldiers, but was very elite, and was not suitable for attacking a strong city like Xiangyang. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the Xiangyang moat, which is 80 meters wide. How many people do it need to fill it? Only Zuo Liangyu, who has a lot of cannon fodder, can do it.

Li Guodong, who had just recovered Jingzhou, is very busy now. On the one hand, he has to guard against Zuo Liangyu, the thief, to rob Wuchang, and on the other hand, he wants to settle the people of Jingzhou.

It is better than Wuchang, which was just recovered not long ago. The situation in Wuchang was that the bandit army took all the young and strong men away. There were almost no young and middle-aged men around Wuchang. If they wanted to resume agricultural production, Li Guodong had to transfer people from other places. Jingzhou City was captured and a large number of prisoners were captured, many of which were local farmers.

"Everyone, you are all locals. The thieves killed all the local gentry and rewarded the land to the old thieves. Now that the thief army has been defeated by me, Ben will make the decision. From then on, you only need to pay one tenth of the grain to Ben Bo every year, without additional land rent, nor do the court's heavy taxes (nonsense, Emperor Chongzhen still owes his own silver, just use the tax silver here to offset the court's arrears). Except for this tenth of the land rent, the rest of the grain is your own. But one thing is that if the grain you harvest is to be sold, it must be sold to Ben Bo, who will be purchased at the market price. Well, now each of you will get your new household registration and you can go back to reunite with your family." Li Guodong stood on the stage and spoke loudly to the local farmers who have become thieves.

The captured refugees were either captured as slaves, or used as cannon fodder, or even beheaded. Unexpectedly, Li Guodong actually let them go home to reunite with his family! And he also distributed the land to himself, which was so surprising.

If you charge one-tenth of the land rent, you don’t have to pay the court’s heavy taxes. They don’t dare to think about such a good thing on weekdays.

When some of the farmers were self-cultivated farmers, the court's heavy taxes were all distributed to them. There was no other way. They just had to contribute land to the gentry and royal family. After the land was donated, they had to pay one-third of the income to the gentry and royal family as a contribution fee.

On the surface, the land you invested can be returned at any time, but after many people donated the land, over time, the land was cleverly taken away. Farmers who lost the land became real tenants, and half of the land rent was considered to be very conscientious as the landlord. The normal rent was 60%, even 70%, and 80%!

Now, only one-tenth of the land rent is paid and there are no heavy taxes. Where can I find such a good thing?

Not only was the locals released by Li Guodong, he also asked him to re-register the household registration locally. All the farmers were given land, and those lands belonged to Li Guodong in name. Farmers only had to pay 10% of the land rent to cultivate these farmlands.
Chapter completed!