Although Zhang Xianzhong is only called the king, not the emperor, he has set up the governor's mansion of the six ministries and the five armies, and even opened a department to take scholars, needless to say, what will he do next!

This kind of situation, no matter which dynasty it is, will never be allowed.

The localities did not dare to conceal the report, and they all rushed to report it.

Even with the current power of Xingguo Gong, it is impossible to suppress this news.

Of course, Zhang Mingwei didn't think about pressing, he didn't mind how the process should go.

Generally speaking, in this case, the imperial court must strictly urge the relevant people to exterminate this kind of thief who intends to be emperor as soon as possible. The pressure on the local area will definitely be very great.

However, now the one who is responsible for leading the army to attack Zhang Xianzhong's thieves is Zhang Mingwei, the Duke of Xingguo.

The will given by Emperor Chongzhen is that everything is fully responsible for the Xingguo Gong, and the specific affairs are decided by the Xingguo Gong.

And Zhang Mingwei's side is still the same, as if Zhang Xianzhong's claim to be the king has never happened, what it is, it's still the same.

Every time the army recaptured a place, it was not in a hurry to advance, but Zhang Mingwei personally intervened in local affairs and settled the people.

During this period, it was the busiest time for military Chinese artists. Songs, sketches, turns.

Even Zhang Mingwei went down in person and made up several new sketches.

For example, there are sketches that mainly play a family that was originally living well, but as soon as the thieves came, the family was ruined;

For another example, there is a sketch that mainly plays a family who has a very hard life, even if they are very hardworking, they often eat the last meal but not the next meal, and as a result, the court reduced half of the taxes, and then, the government promoted the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes, the kind that does not occupy the farmland, and then the family is full one by one.

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In many cases, when the court makes a will, it may have been originally well-intentioned, but when it is implemented locally, it has completely changed and harmed the people.

In this process, there are problems of understanding, there are also problems of local officials deliberately misinterpreting the will of the imperial court based on their own selfish interests, and there are also problems of obstruction by local tyrants and inferior gentry, and so on.

As a result, when some good policies are implemented at the local level, not only are they not implemented, but bad policies are implemented.

One of the simplest, and most common, is actually that the local government often adds taxes in addition to the taxes prescribed by the imperial court!

And for ordinary people, they don't know the words, let alone understand the will of the imperial court. Anyway, what those magistrates say, what the local squires say, they can only believe what it is.

And this time, the army is stationed, and the female soldiers in the army are going to put on a show. Don't say that there are no entertainment programs in this era, even if there are, this gimmick alone can attract people to watch.

And the easy-to-understand songs, as well as the sketches with a very sense of substitution, just after such a performance, these people who are far away from the Beijing division all know: Oh, so that's the case!

What Zhang Mingwei wanted to convey was transmitted at a very fast speed through this very fresh means.

In addition to this kind of public opinion propaganda, Zhang Mingwei is of course also doing practical things.

For example, for places that have just been ravaged by thieves, or even those places that have been fought back and forth by thieves and officials and soldiers before, and have suffered military disasters again and again, it will be a little difficult to quickly resettle the people, after all, everything is destroyed under the war.

Therefore, Zhang Mingwei organized those displaced people to carry out militarized management with soldiers who were disabled and could no longer fight, and led these displaced people to either open up wasteland, build water conservancy, or even rebuild houses on broken walls.

At the same time, cement factories were also set up, which could be used for these things.

In short, when Zhang Mingwei set off with the army, what was left to the local area was full of vitality.

In this regard, Zhu Yujiao couldn't help but say: "Sir, if the thief comes again, it will be a pity!" ”

She followed Zhang Mingwei to fight in the south and the north, and along the way, she naturally saw all kinds of tragic situations. Now that the ruins are being rebuilt, of course, it is very emotional.

"Therefore, we must solve the problem of thieves and give the people an environment to live and work in peace and contentment!" When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he replied with a smile, "A large group of thieves, under our steady attack, it is impossible to go around the rear. If a small group of thieves are concerned, I believe that they don't want to be ruined by the thieves, and they will definitely rise up to resist. I keep some veterans in the local area and use militarized means to manage them, which is actually the same purpose. Not to mention, there is also a local government. ”

When Zhu Yujiao heard this, she immediately nodded, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "If I had done this earlier, maybe there would have been no ...... There is no such thing! ”

Because there are people around her, she originally wanted to talk about the death of the country, but she changed her words in time.

Of course, Zhang Mingwei understood what she was going to say, but he didn't agree, so he heard him say to Zhu Yujiao: "It was impossible to do it before. Think about it, how much does it cost to do this? The reason why we were able to do it was because we got a large sum of money from Yangzhou Mansion, and the prince did his best to support us behind the scenes, otherwise, it would be difficult for a good woman to cook without rice! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yujiao thought for a while, and finally nodded convincingly and said, "What Mr. said is extremely true!" ”

After finishing speaking, she looked at Zhang Mingwei, and suddenly added: "Fortunately, Mr. is here, Daming is today!" ”

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he just smiled and was not modest.

But the people around the two of them couldn't understand this last sentence, what was the luck that Mr. came, what did it mean?

To be honest, what is the most mysterious thing in the Ming Dynasty today?

The origin of Xingguo Gong is definitely one of them!

So far, they don't know where Xingguo Gong came from!

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In this way, Zhang Mingwei led the army to advance slowly, and arrived not far from the Huangzhou Mansion, that is, when the Huanggang of later generations was located, the Yangtze River in the south and the Ba River in the east, where Zhang Xianzhong hoarded heavy troops as a barrier to Wuchang.

The leader of the army is Li Dingguo, who is not the most outstanding among Zhang Xianzhong's sons, but the most stable. Of course, at this time, he was still called Zhang Dingguo, with Zhang Xianzhong's surname.

After Zhang Mingwei learned of this situation, he did not rush to attack, but the army was stationed, and while resting, he started a public opinion offensive again.

But this time, the thieves also have a means to deal with it, that is, they have also engaged in a war of public opinion, publicizing the incompetence of the imperial court, the mediocrity of the emperor, the traitorous ministers in power, the rampant corruption of corrupt officials, and the brutality of the officials and soldiers.

Relatively speaking, this is definitely an improvement over Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai at the beginning, if they had used it earlier to deal with the imperial court officials and soldiers, maybe the current momentum would be greater.

However, now they are facing the imperial court officials and troops led by Zhang Mingwei's department, which not only has the best military discipline, but also is a model demonstration place where they have passed.

The so-called saying a thousand things and ten thousand is far from being as true as what you see!

Zhang Mingwei is happy with this confrontation of public opinion warfare, because he knows that the thieves are all repeating the same old tunes, and today's court is no longer the court of the past.

Ordinary people have eyes, and they can see for themselves, and what they say is right in the end.

He has every reason to believe that as long as such a public opinion battle continues, in the end, Zhang Xianzhong's army will not be much better than Li Zicheng!

However, after all, the thieves are prepared. For example, after Zhang Xianzhong became king, he also announced that he would be exempted from taxes for three years, which has to be said to be very popular with people.

In this regard, Zhang Mingwei made a move here and used the way of asking to publicize.

The thieves said that they would not collect taxes for three years, so what did they eat and drink for the past three years? The army fights, not a family, even if some money is confiscated, can it support the thieves for three years?

If the thieves are going well in the war, and they will take a place if they fight a place, then maybe they can solve the problem by constantly raiding the house, according to the thieves, that is, chasing the stolen goods.

However, the reality today is that the thieves are surrounded in Huguang. The imperial court army is gathered, and the thieves can continue to chase the stolen goods and help them?

Also, since the incident of the King of Chu, under the strict orders of the imperial court again, the city defenses in various places have been significantly strengthened. If the thieves want to conquer a city, the price they have to pay will be even greater.

All these have tilted the balance of victory in the war of public opinion in favor of the officials and troops of the imperial court.

However, Zhang Mingwei was not happy because of this, because at this time, he finally received the news from Xichuan.

What people didn't expect was that Zuo Liangyu's department, which had been defeated before and was almost forgotten, had already advanced west along the Yangtze River and secretly attacked and took Kuizhou, the gateway to Sichuan.

Just when Zuo Liangyu got carried away and used troops against the hinterland of Sichuan, Li Zicheng followed up and took Kuizhou, which was occupied by Zuo Liangyu.

Today's Sichuan is at war between the imperial court officials, Zuo Liangyu and Hou Sui's rebels, and Li Zicheng's thieves.

Although Qin Liangyu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, was already 68 years old, she was still in good health, and she had rich experience in warfare, although the incident happened suddenly, she still immediately took measures and sent troops to guard the 13 passes. to stop the rebel attack.

As a result, this Chen Shiqi didn't understand military affairs, and even looked down on female generals, so he didn't agree at all, and he was delayed for a lot of time.

However, at this time, the eight-hundred-mile urgent messenger sent by Zhang Mingwei to warn Sichuan had arrived, saying that Li Zicheng would lead his troops to attack Sichuan, and Zhang Mingwei also made it clear in the letter that he would reuse Qin Liangyu.

At this time, Chen Shiqi began to do serious things and entrusted Qin Liangyu with important tasks, however, after all, it was a little late, and Zuo Liangyu broke into Sichuan.

Subsequently, Zuo Liangyu, at the suggestion of Hou Sui, went around to form an alliance with Sichuan Tusi and win over those Tusi. When the two sides were fighting, Li Zicheng killed.

However, at this time, Wu Sangui led the army to arrive.

Therefore, the current situation in Sichuan is a situation in which the three forces are at war with each other.

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