In fact, droughts have been happening all the time since ancient times. But why is it so serious in the end of the dynasty? That is because in the end of the dynasty, officials often refuse to be in charge of the directors. Water conservancy facilities have not been repaired for many years, and they are no longer sufficient to use. Therefore, droughts seem particularly serious when they come.

Let’s talk about Henan. Henan spans four major water systems, including Haihe River, Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River. More than 1,500 rivers are intertwined, and there are 493 rivers with a basin area of ​​more than 100 square kilometers. With such a rich water conservancy resource, as long as the original water conservancy facilities are slightly repaired, it can withstand drought. But no one is doing these things!

Someone is doing it now. Although the time is a little hurry, it may not be able to do it perfectly. But finally, a crop has been planted. As long as there is a harvest in the summer harvest in the three palaces, the ground will be peaceful!

However, as time goes by, the drought in Henan became more and more serious. By the beginning of May, refugees had already appeared everywhere.

However, this year, these refugees did not blindly wander around, or stayed in place and waited to starve to death. Because some people said that they would either flee south or run east and would have a way to survive, and other places would be dead!

The refugees fleeing east naturally disappeared without a trace when entering Shandong. The refugees fleeing south would be intercepted by the people and brave men as soon as they entered southern Henan. After careful identification, they were sent to various counties to work and provide relief for work!

At this time, a lot of land was vacant, all of which were the land of the "dead" officials and gentry, which had long been registered and registered by the local government. Therefore, these refugees were arranged in various tasks. Among them, the good ones would be assigned to the land! This gave the victims the motivation!

By June, the drought in Henan was a foregone conclusion. However, this time, Liu Pei was draining the traffic to Shandong and consuming a batch. The county magistrates comforted a batch. Although the land of Henan was full of hunger, it was not as good as people ate each other!

At the same time, the two men of Shao Potian wandered in Henan again. However, this time they ran to the northern part of Henan, and then rushed to Henan South Road again after taking over a large number of people. Qi Qitao felt that it was hard to support himself, so he wrote to the court to ask the court to say that he had lost his troops after the battle with the bandits.

The general was already unable to bear the battle again. He asked the Shandong general to lead troops to support him.

However, the imperial court's plan of division has not been completed and he is determined not to allow it. However, in order to encourage him as a rising star, the court still rewarded him and asked him to maintain order in southern Henan and eliminate bandits.

Therefore, Qi Qitao had to confront two bandits in the Changge area of ​​Kaifeng Prefecture. But strangely, the team immediately continued to force the people to fight against them but the number did not increase. Instead, it continued to drive the people to build water conservancy and have a rooted orientation.

This forced Qiqitao to continue to attack and force the bandits to retreat. In the end, Qiqitao launched a surprise attack, leaving more than 200,000 people to flee without knowing where to go. As a result, with the joint cooperation of Qiqitao and county magistrates from various places, the hundreds of thousands of victims were fully resettled!

When the news spread, even the senior officials of the court were amazed! Even Emperor Chongzhen said that there were real talents and scholars among the donated officials!

So even if the drought in Henan Province has passed, in fact, a large number of people still died. However, Liu Pei and his friends have saved millions of victims as much as possible, which is a blessing!

But just like God refused to let Henan go, not long after winter began, Li Zicheng and Li entered Henan again, gathering more than 300,000 bandits, claiming to be a million people, and the target was directly aimed at southern Henan! Because in this ghost place in Henan, only southern Henan has output this year.

After Qi Qitao received the news, he hurriedly notified Liu Pei. Liu Pei immediately lit up the army and set off. The southern part of Henan that he had just held in his hand was still very fragile and could not withstand the toss and troubles at all. Therefore, Liu Pei had to block the bandits at the junction of Runing Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion and Nanyang Mansion.

Liu Pei ordered a 60,000 army to enter Henan this time. Now, in addition to the larger cities in southern Henan, it is also in the hands of the government, and all other small counties have fallen into Liu Pei, so his march is very smooth.

When Liu Pei sent troops from Shandong to Henan, the court was angry and anxious to receive news, and there was still some hope.

Qi is Qi Liu Pei and Qi Qi Tao do not obey the order. Liu Pei sent troops to reinforce Qi Qi Tao, which shows that the plan for differentiation did not work, and Liu Pei gained a larger territory in vain.

What's urgent is that Liu Pei is already

The tail is too big! He can actually send 60,000 troops and still has the strength to garrison in Shandong. This shows that this person has endured for a long time and has a great plan!

As for hope, it is better to have both lost money and both lose money. However, the imperial court actually puts hope on both lose money and lose money, which shows that it has already weakened to the extreme.

That night, Liu Pei, surrounded by a group of officers, looked into the distance on a small hill. Opposite was Li Zicheng's camp. This camp is endless, dozens of miles long.

Liu Pei sighed and said, "I originally wanted to raid Li Zicheng at night, but his camp is so big that the raid will not work at all!"

Qi Qitao said: "Yes, as soon as the chaos was created, there was an alarm elsewhere, and it didn't work."

Liu Pei said: "It still has its effect, at least it can tell them that we are not easy to mess with!"

Liu Pei's words caused everyone to burst into laughter. At this time, Yang Jingfa said: "Master, we should leave. The bandits are coming soon!"

Liu Pei took a last look at the endless camp, whipped the whip and said, "Let's go!"

In fact, tonight, Liu Pei came to see the enemy's camp, and all the officers opposed it. But Liu Pei had to insist on going to see it himself. That's why other officers accompanied him on a long journey.

Now both the enemy and us already know the existence of each other. However, the rebels could not suppress the opponent at all, but were suppressed by Liu Pei's cavalry! They only knew that a Ming army was approaching quickly, but they didn't know the specific information at all. So Li Zicheng was more cautious. However, the two armies were moving opposite each other, and they would meet again in two or three days.

The reason why Liu Pei came to see it in person was to know if there was a chance to force Li Zicheng to turn around and go north through a rapid attack. But now it seems that it is difficult to achieve the goal through an attack. However, before they came, they had already decided on a night attack plan. Now they have cleared out the cavalry of the rebels from different directions for two consecutive days, making them lose sight of the other and unable to understand the direction.
Chapter completed!