Cheng Xiaolian suddenly remembered something when he heard this: "The commanders of the whole army have gathered here. ”

All the army commanders were very surprised, Cheng Xiaolian usually discussed things with the generals, and he also told the whole army what he wanted to make public, and there was never a matter of calling them over alone.

There are a total of 8,000 people in the whole army, and there are nearly 800 of them, Cheng Xiaolian deliberately found a high slope, and shouted to the people below: "Since we entered Gansu, we have encountered great obstacles, but those people are all defenseless ordinary people, we are all poor people, so naturally we can't do anything to the people, but they are always looking for trouble for us, what do you say we should do?" ”

Those people were stupid, although they wanted to kill them all, but they couldn't bear it, but now that His Highness asked here, it was not appropriate not to say it.

Finally, one person slowly spoke: "Kill them, otherwise the morale of the brothers will be lower and lower day by day, and they will not be able to do any harm, but it will make the brothers feel blocked." ”

Although the other people looked a little unwilling, they also responded: "Then kill them, otherwise we won't be able to fight this battle." ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "I didn't say that I wanted to do anything to them, I am very pleased that you can show your face, we have fought so many battles, we have never fought a bad battle, we have never fought before, and we will not fight in the future." These people will be our Ming people in the future, and now they are just confused for a while, so we must be considerate of them. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Xiaolian coughed: "From today on, you will go to the nearby villages, carry water and chop firewood for the people, build roads and bridges, and treat this place as your own work, I don't believe it, they will stand up and block our way." ”

Cheng Xiaolian believes that even if Daniel Zhang has any benevolent government measures, it is impossible to make everyone grateful to Dade, he is an official of the Qing Dynasty, but not a rich man of soup porridge, and even if he is a rich person of soup kitchen, it is absolutely impossible to make everyone grateful to him. At most, he is more incorruptible than other officials, so those people will remember his benefits, as long as he does not show any wolf-like temperament, those people will not stand up against him, who will let go of a good life but run out against them?

When those Wu Commanders heard this, they were also a little embarrassed, although they were reluctant to let them slaughter wantonly, but if they were to go to the lower places to wait for people, they were not willing, everyone came out to fight as soldiers, in order to make the family live a better life, who would want to run here to be the third grandson.

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "We came out to win the battle, either you will kill them all, or you will work hard for others, in short, if we can win the battle, we will be able to revive the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and you can live a good life faster." ”

These people glanced at each other and arched their hands: "We are willing to obey His Highness's arrangement." ”

Soon these Wu Commanders began to go back to convey Cheng Xiaolian's meaning, and those soldiers under his command were not willing to suffer this grievance at first, but Wu Chang gave a choice, either with a knife, next to the village to kill, whether it was an eighty-year-old man or a three-year-old child, there was no one left, and if everyone was killed, Daniel Zhang could be killed.

The next day, this strange scene appeared in the nearby villages, a group of soldiers entered the village, did not steal, rob or kill, saw that some houses were in disrepair and began to repair the house, and when they saw that the road was not good to walk, they began to manually pad the road.

Since Gansu does not receive a lot of rainfall every year, there are few rivers, and there are no bridges, so they did what they could.

At the beginning, as soon as they saw the Ming army enter the village, they hid as soon as possible, and if they fought hard, the whole village might be killed, but it would be a big deal.

At this time, they also began to be afraid, and when Daniel Zhang sent people to explain their affairs, he just said that they would let them work, and they did do this out of trust in Daniel Zhang, but as soon as this army entered the village, they found that it was a fatal job. Even if these soldiers killed them, they did it themselves.

At this time, these soldiers began to work, and the remaining people in the village who could not run watched them slowly strengthen the old houses, and found tools, and slowly filled in the potholes in the village little by little, and finally someone came out first, carrying a pot of hot water and a few bowls in his hand: "Come, drink a few sips of water." ”

The soldiers smiled and took the bowl and began to drink, and then more people came out of the room, with food and drink in their hands, and some of them took out an egg and handed it to them.

These soldiers looked at the egg and were a little moved, these years the eggs began to be expensive, especially Gansu is not rich, this egg may be the family to take to exchange for food.

The soldier was a little flattered, and hurriedly pushed the egg back, but he didn't expect to be stuffed into his hand alive, so he put the egg in his arms and began to work desperately.

Chen Cheng'an, who was standing in the distance, saw this scene and sighed: "Your Highness, sometimes I really doubt how you can grasp people's hearts so accurately? ”

Cheng Xiaolian smiled and didn't lie, the Red Army was able to establish a large number of base areas in the countryside, relying on this trick, at that time the Red Army did not have much money, and their soldiers usually had to work for the people when they were hungry, Cheng Xiaolian had silver, if he couldn't even do this little thing, he would really be ashamed to death.

Soon this matter spread throughout Gansu like a spring breeze, and Cheng Xiaolian began to work without reaching a village on the way, and their reputation became better and better, and Daniel Zhang's reputation plummeted in comparison.

Daniel Zhang's use of those people was also spread by Yang Youcai's Jinyi Wei, and now in the eyes of Gansu people, Daniel Zhang is no longer the savior, but uses their executioner, so I even heard that some people listened to Daniel Zhang's words and went to the Daming military camp to prevent fire, and were caught and killed.

Of course, these are all made up by Yang Youcai himself, but sometimes lies are easier to believe than the truth. Even many people who had received Daniel Zhang's order were even more convinced.

Cheng Xiaolian heard the news and glanced at Yang Youcai: "This matter is well done, Daniel Zhang just has a thousand reasons that can't be explained, and Gansu has been disintegrated by us." ”

Yang Youcai smiled and didn't speak, since Qin Song's incident happened, his words have become less and less, he is just doing things desperately, and Cheng Xiaolian deliberately talking to him has no effect.

(End of chapter)