The wheel of history drove into the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), showing its powerful inertia. Even if the butterfly flapped its wings in the summer, the time to come still came after all, and big historical events happened one by one.

In May of that year, Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor in Shengjing (now Shenyang), named the country Daqing, changed the Yuan Chongde, changed the clan name Jurchen to Manchuria, and forced the Li Joseon to submit to the Qing Dynasty. Joseon was known to the Qing Dynasty as a former brother, and was more courteous to a vassal courtier. At the end of the same year, General Azig, who had suffered a defeat in Guannei, atoned for his crimes, led troops by land and water to attack Kepi Island, and beheaded Shen Shikui, a Ming general, completely relieved the Qing Dynasty's worries about attacking Guannai.

After Yang Sichang escaped Xia Nan's military admonition under the protection of Chongzhen, he successfully replaced Zhang Fengyi, who died violently after taking rhubarb, and became the secretary of the military department, vigorously promoting his strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net". In order to implement his political proposition, he suggested that Chongzhen collect 7.3 million taels of training and 2.8 million taels of salary, and removed Wang Jiazhen, the prime minister of the five provinces, who was mediocre and incompetent in his eyes, and recommended Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, to take over and bear the burden of encircling and suppressing the liukou together with Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces.

The strategy of concentrating on dealing with the Liukou soon paid off, and Zhang Xianzhong suffered defeat at the hands of Zuo Liangyu and retreated to Gucheng (now Hubei). In the second year, under the strong offensive of the official army, in order to preserve their strength, Zhang Xianzhong was in Gucheng and Luo Rucai was in Yunyang, and they respectively accepted the "appeasement" of Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the military department. Of course, both of them surrendered fraudulently, refused to accept the adaptation and dispatch, and first surrendered and then reversed after two years, these are all afterwords.

The only one who was affected by butterfly wings was Li Zicheng. In the original history, his life was not better than Zhang Xianzhong, and he was defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in the southern plains of Tongguan, and took Liu Zongmin and other remnants of 17 people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi, and began a three-year hierarchies. However, after accepting the materials and artillery funded by the Qiong Navy, under the "enthusiastic" suggestion of Liu Heizi, Li Zicheng bypassed Tongguan through Shangluo, jumped out of the encirclement of officers and soldiers, and changed his fate. After he entered Henan, he took in the hungry people, opened a warehouse and gave relief to the hungry people, "the hungry people from far and near went to hoe and hoe, and those who responded to it were like flowing water, day and night, calling for millions, and its momentum could not be extinguished", and the army swelled to nearly 100,000.

In order to show the sincerity of the alliance and express his gratitude for the material and ordnance support of the Qiong Navy, Li Zicheng adopted Liu Heizi's proposal and sent some of the displaced people to Shandong. Anyway, there are so many displaced people in Shaanxi and Henan that he has so many people that he has no food to raise, and he doesn't have so many weapons to arm, so he can get rid of some burdens that can only be cannon fodder, and he can also exchange for the continuous support of the Qiong Navy, why not. Not to mention other materials, just the shells consumed in fighting with officers and soldiers and the barrels that explode from time to time, he can't make these things, he can only rely on the blood transfusion of the Qiong Navy to supplement the consumption, and the head is exchanged for artillery, no matter how you look at it, it is cost-effective.

For the Joan Navy, the deal was more cost-effective. Using relatively low-cost white-mouthed iron mountain cannons and solid ammunition in exchange for a steady stream of population resources is simply a lucrative business. Although Li Zicheng played a little trick, when selecting people, he picked out all the strong ones, and the displaced people sent to Shandong were mixed with many old and weak women and children, even if they were young and strong, they were thin and weak, and there were different degrees of malnutrition and other diseases, but for Qionghai, this was nothing. The body is weak and can slowly nourish the body, and the food is there; The old homeless people can't be soldiers, but they can cultivate the wasteland; Women can work, and they can also improve the gender imbalance and solve the marriage problem for the tunding and the army; According to the age, teenagers can be tunding first, or they can be sent to Baicao Garden to study and train as technicians.

In order to ensure the smooth migration of the displaced people, Su Thick Leg opened a "green channel" on the border of Shandong and Henan according to the instructions from Lingao, and guarded it with heavy troops. Li Zicheng's men took the displaced people through the Luohe River to Guide Fu (present-day Shangqiu City) on the border between the two provinces, and waited for the soldiers of the nearby Independent Regiment to escort the displaced people along the route of Tengxian (present-day Zaozhuang) and Lanshan County (present-day Linyi), and then sailed from Rizhao Port. Such a route is the closest to the sea, saving the trouble of traveling long distances to Dengzhou. Shandong has now basically become the world of the Qiong Navy, and the armed forces of the whole system have been reorganized or incorporated by Su Rutu, and are indirectly controlled or directly under the jurisdiction of the Qiong Navy, and neither the government nor the officers and soldiers dare to ask about the affairs of the Qiong Navy, and the road is unimpeded, and the only concern comes from the territory of Henan.

Because he was worried that something would go wrong and affect Xia Nan's immigration plan, Su Thick Legs personally led troops to sit near Guide Mansion in batches of tens of thousands of people, monitoring the entire handover process and ensuring that the displaced people arrived safely in the hands of the Qiong Navy.

One afternoon in March of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the fifth group of displaced people was escorted to Guide Province. According to the news from Liu Heizi and others in advance, the number of people in this batch was close to 20,000, and Su Bujiao did not dare to be careless, and led the two battalions of the independent regiment to rush to the junction early to wait.

After noon, a large number of staggering figures appeared on the horizon, next to the intruding cavalry shuttling back and forth. At this time, Henan was still very cold, and in the cold wind, the displaced people were in rags, their clothes did not cover their bodies, and they were trembling and struggling to move forward. They, young and old, were strung together in long ropes, like exiled prisoners.

For these abandoned "cannon fodder", the soldiers did not have a trace of mercy, brandished their horsewhips and kept whipping, and scolded in their mouths: "Thief, your mother, you melon peels should go faster!" On such a cold day, how good it would be to hide in the house and drink some wine, and to suffer this sin with you......"

The outcasts who had been whipped tried to speed up their pace and take fewer beatings, but some of the older people staggered and fell to the ground, and then the connected ropes dragged down the others, and dozens of people fell to the ground like dominoes.

The soldier was furious, drew his knife and slashed at the fallen man, scolding: "You are so useless, you have wasted your efforts in vain, and you have to hurry back to drink with your brother!" ”

The homeless people who were slashed by the knife screamed loudly, and the people next to them were frightened and wanted to escape, but they were strung together by ropes and could not walk away, so they could only watch.

Su Fujiao frowned, and said to his subordinates: "In the past, I persuaded you, you have to kill people for such a trivial matter, if you kill all the people, how can we explain to the general?" ”

The soldiers who were stopped squinted at the Qiong Navy soldiers who came to dissuade them, and asked provocatively: "What's the matter, the people haven't been handed over yet, these melon skins are still in the care of the foreheads, your hands are too long, right?" ”