The next day, Du Lisan was rushed to the execution ground, and his head was shaved on the spot in front of countless people.
The death of Du Lisan, the giant bandit in western Liaoning, shocked the green forests of the three eastern provinces. After all, Du Lisan was one of the most powerful bandit leaders recognized. The imperial court even killed Du Lisan, so wouldn't it be easy to capture them by annihilating them?
For a moment, the whole green forest was shaking, and I was afraid that when I woke up the next morning, the army would attack at the door of my house.
Many timid beards are eager to change their positions immediately and switch to the business of committing crimes. Those with big beards are also trembling with fear. Some smart beards have other thoughts.
For example, surrendering to the imperial court, or "recruiting peace".
At the same time, Li Jie's name was also resounding throughout the three eastern provinces. With just a weak title, he led the team to defeat the famous Du Lisan. Anyone with a discerning eye could see clearly that this man would soar to the sky.
The facts were indeed as expected. Within two days, Li Jie received the commendation order, and Xu Shichang directly promoted him to the front line commander of the patrol battalion (similar to a brigade commander).
In addition, Li Jie was also selected for the first phase of the Army Lecture Hall of the Three Eastern Provinces. It is not surprising that he was selected to enter the school, but he was appointed by the Governor to enter the school, which deserves everyone's attention.
The first phase of the martial arts hall is expected to recruit 200 students. Except for Li Jie, no one else has received this "honor".
Although in the eyes of outsiders, it was an extremely honorable thing for Li Jie to be appointed by the governor to enter the school, from Li Jie's own perspective, entering the martial arts school was really the worst choice he had ever made.
To put it bluntly, I searched the entire Qing Dynasty, and even the whole world, but could not find anyone qualified to be his teacher.
However, who knew that this was appointed by Xu Shichang? Even if Li Jie didn't really want to go to further studies, he had to hold his nose and admit it.
If he didn't go, there's no telling what Xu Shichang would think.
Fortunately, the academic system of Jiangwu Hall is only one year, and those with excellent grades can graduate in half a year.
In short, there is not much difference between the Dongsan Province Lecture Hall founded by Xu Shichang and the previous "Fengtian" Lecture Hall founded by Zhao Erxun. Both are crash courses.
If we insist on distinguishing the difference between the two, we can only say that the teachers in the martial arts halls of the three eastern provinces are stronger. After all, Zhao Erxun was just the "General Shengjing" before, while Xu Shichang was the de facto ruler of the entire eastern three provinces.
The resources they can mobilize are vastly different.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and Li Jie successfully graduated from the Martial Arts Hall with perfect scores in all subjects.
The perfect score in all subjects was so astonishing that it even alarmed Xu Shichang, who was busy with everything. On the day Li Jie graduated, Xu Shichang came to the Martial Arts Hall and personally held a medal ceremony for him.
In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Shichang found Li Jie again at the Governor's Mansion. As soon as they met, he got straight to the point and issued new instructions.
Suppress bandits!
Go to Taonan to suppress the bandits!
Strictly speaking, this operation is more of a counterinsurgency than a suppression of bandits!
Half a year has passed, although there have been waves of bandit suppression operations in various places, the results are not satisfactory, and the banditry in Northeast China has not subsided to this day.
This is something Xu Shichang absolutely cannot bear. If the local environment is unstable, how can the economy develop? If the economy cannot develop, there will be no solution to the predicament in Northeast China.
Secondly, the Northeast, as the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, had a very special status. In order to boost the Northeast, the Queen Mother gave him almost unlimited rights. If he could not make some achievements in a short time, he would not be able to explain it to his superiors.
Among the many bandits, the most egregious ones were the Mongolian bandits. Now that the Qing Dynasty was completely defeated, the descendants of Genghis Khan on the grasslands no longer surrendered to the Nurhaci family.
Among them, the most powerful among the Mongolian bandits was Taoke Taohu. This man was one of the main leaders of the anti-Qing and anti-reclamation uprising. He was a Mongolian of the Borzhijin clan. Although this man was only from a lower-class noble family, he was
He is a direct bloodline of the Golden Family, and his ancestor is Hasar, the second brother of Genghis Khan.
In order to suppress the bandit Taoke Taohu, Xu Shichang sent troops to encircle and suppress him several times. However, Taoke Taohu was born in the grassland and was very familiar with the local terrain. Moreover, each of the Mongolian bandits under his command was equipped with two horses.
When one horse is tired, it is replaced by another group. Its mobility is far superior to that of the Qing army. The weather, location, people, and Tao Ke, Tao, and Hu take two of the three, and this battle is impossible to fight.
Therefore, these several troop dispatches all returned in vain. Not only did they not destroy Taoke Taohu, but they actually strengthened the opponent's strength, because Taoke Taohu often made sneak attacks on the Qing army by virtue of its terrain advantages and mobility.
Taoke Taohu seized a large amount of supplies and firearms in one sneak attack after another.
On the other side, when Li Jie heard this transfer order, his heart did not waver. When he received the call from Xu Shichang, he guessed that Xu Shichang would probably send him to Taonan to suppress the bandits.
This is not difficult to guess, because Tao Ke Tao made such a big fuss.
Compared with the Qing court's backward intelligence system, Li Jie knew more about Tao Ke Tao Hu.
Speaking of which, the Mongolian rebellion is directly related to the large number of immigrants coming to Guandong.
After the Sino-Japanese War, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties signed a series of unequal treaties, requiring huge amounts of silver to be compensated to the great powers every year. Where did this much silver come from?
Naturally, wool comes from sheep, and taxes in the late Qing Dynasty became heavier year by year, which is why.
Compared with the high taxes, the Qing Dynasty's productivity did not increase much, and people who could not survive poured into the country in large numbers.
With more people outside the customs, the area of cultivated land has become increasingly tight, and patches of grassland have been reclaimed into cultivated land.
Since ancient times, the Mongolian people have made a living by grazing, and the grasslands have been turned into cultivated land, which is equivalent to encroaching on their activity space.
Since then, the relationship between the two parties has become increasingly tense.
As we all know, when conflicts accumulate to a certain extent, it only takes a small spark to detonate them.
Faced with the Qing government's land reclamation again and again, the Mongols couldn't bear it, so they directly killed officials and rebelled!
Back to business.
In the original history, although Taoke Taohu was driven out of Mongolia by Zhang Yuting and defeated Tsarist Russia, he eventually died.
But this time it was Li Jie who was leading the team. If he took action with all his strength, Taoke Taohu would definitely have no chance of escaping.
However, Li Jie has not decided yet whether to force Tao Ke Tao Hu back or to destroy Tao Ke Tao Hu.
Objectively speaking, the Taoke Taohu uprising was completely forced by the Qing court. Who would have embarked on the path of rebellion if they were not desperate.
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Three days later, many people gathered outside Fengtian City after hearing the news. Yesterday, a rumor suddenly spread in the city, indicating that General "Zhu Chuanwen" would once again lead troops to suppress bandits tomorrow!