Chang Yanling didn't get any letters, so he was sent to rest by Zhu Cihong. Subsequently, Prince Zhu ordered someone to invite the military advisor Li Yan to return to Wuchang to participate in the military meeting.

A few days ago, Li Yan went to Huaixi to transfer troops, and brought with him the Left Division of the New Army, which was originally stationed in Fengyang Prefecture, and several New Army Guards stationed in Runing, with a total of about 20,000 people. Advancing from Huangzhou, they occupied Huangpi (belonging to Huangzhou), Xiaogan (belonging to De'an), and Hanchuan (belonging to Hanyang), and advanced to the east bank of the Hanshui, and then pressed along the Hanshui to Hankou, and now occupied the county seat of Hankou (north of Hankou Town), and the advance reached Houhu and Yuangong Dike.

According to the original plan, Li Yan's subordinates began to attack the town of Hankou after receiving support from a mortar battalion (equipped with eighteen 24-pounder mortars) brought in from downstream.

Li Zicheng's defense of Hankou was carried out on the basis of the Yuan Gong Embankment, which was limited in height, but it was so wide that it was impossible to destroy it with cannons. However, this difficulty is not a matter for "artillery expert" Zhu Cihong. Because the defenders left behind by Li Zicheng did not have much artillery at all, and they were all concentrated on Guishan, there was not much fire support on the front line of Yuangong Dike at all.

Zhu Cihong's mortar transferred from Nanjing could be placed on the front line very close to the Yuangong Causeway, and then fired 24-pounder flowering shells.......

However, Li Yan, who came back from Jiangbei, brought Zhu Cihong another clever plan to seize Hanyang Mansion and even sweep the Jianghan Plain.

This clever plan was not given by the military advisor Li Yan, but by Jing Muqing, a person from the Chengtian Mansion who broke through from Jingmen Prefecture City.

This Jingju person had previously pulled a regiment to practice and defended in Jingmen Prefecture, and was besieged by Li Guo's regiments. He originally thought that the Great Shun Army would not be able to stay in Chengtian Mansion for a long time, but what happened next made him a little desperate again.

The policy of "calculating and granting fields, free debts and interest" of the Great Shun Dynasty has won the almost unanimous support of the poor people of Chengtianfu!

Although Li Zicheng did not mobilize these poor people to join the Dashun army, he also ordered Li Guo to organize the regimental training army of the Dashun side.

Therefore, the landlord regimental training in Jingmen Prefecture soon fell into a panic, and Jing Muqing couldn't control the situation, so he had to take advantage of the opportunity of Li Guo's troops to relax the siege of Jingmen Prefecture City a little (because Li Yan launched an offensive in the direction of Huangzhou and De'an), led his troops to break through, and also grabbed a few fishing boats by the Han River, and fled to the east bank of the Han River.

And on the way to escape, he suddenly had an idea, and he thought of a clever plan to deal with Li Zicheng in the same way!

"Please!"

Although he didn't believe that this filial piety surnamed Jing had a way to pacify Xiangyang quickly, in the spirit of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, Zhu Cihong still summoned Jing Muqing Jing Juren, a hero who guarded Jingmen Prefecture, in the main hall of the palace.

In Li Zicheng's southern invasion, the entire Chengtian Mansion was lost, and Jingmen Prefecture held on for a period of time under the auspices of this Jingju person, maybe this Jingju person really has some ability?

After a while, a black-faced strong man in his thirties, wearing a Zhuge scarf, holding a goose feather fan, and wearing a white cardigan Confucian suit, walked in under the guidance of Yan Yingyuan and Li Yan.

Seeing this person's appearance and dress, Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanfu were stunned.

This whole thing is that Zhang Fei stole Zhuge Liang's clothes and put them on the ...... A black face with a mustache like a pig's bristles, and eyes that are as wide as leopard eyes, do you look so embarrassed to lupine scarf? You should carry the Zhangba snake spear and go to fight Li Zicheng's general!

"Late born Beijing Muqing respectfully invites His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Jin An!"

Just when everyone was stunned, "Meng Zhang Fei" had already spoken, his voice was loud and full of neutrality, how could he have a little Zhuge Kongming's appearance...... Zhuge Liang wants to be like you, what else can Sima Yi hope for?

"Are you from Wuju?" Zhu Cihong saw that he really didn't look like a civil official, so he asked.

The man named Jing Muqing frowned when he heard this, how can you judge people by their appearance? Ben Juren just looks a little thicker, but he is actually a famous talent in Huguang, and he writes beautifully with a hairpin in one hand!

"Chitose Lord, Jing Xiaolian is a talented man in Huguang." Li Yan, who came over together, spoke, of course he understood the situation and knew Jing Muqing's ability, so he brought him here.

Li Yan introduced: "Although Jing Xiaolian has been a general for generations, he himself is a Confucian student, known as a prodigy of Jingmen when he was young, and he was promoted at the age of eighteen. ”

It turns out that this is a military person, and his ancestor is a fierce general under Zhu Yuanzhang, so he looks similar to him, and he is "atavistic to his ancestors".

"How do you keep filial piety for nine years?" Zhu Cihong didn't understand a little, didn't it take three years to die one? How do you keep nine years of filial piety?

Jing Muqing sighed, revealing a sad expression: "The late adoptive father died in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and the late adoptive mother died in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the biological father of the minister died of illness at the age of eighty-four......

Oh, so you still have a real mother...... Zhu Cihong said: It's too delayed, and it will take 12 years to finish it one by one! If you are a wine bag and rice bag, forget it, if you really have the ability, it is a mistake for the country!

"Sure enough, it's a filial son!" Zhu Cihong nodded, "This palace is also a filial son, so naturally I value filial piety the most, give me a seat!" ”

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie."

After thanking the seat, Jing Daju sat down on an embroidery pier in a big way, looking at a big one, like an iron tower.

"This palace heard from the military advisor that you have a clever plan to quickly level Xiangyang?" Zhu Cihong looked at Jing Muqing, "Can you say that it is with the palace?" ”

Jing Muqing shook her feather fan, stroked her bristle beard, and said in a crepe manner: "There is a strategy in the late life, I don't dare to call it good, maybe I can hit the key point of the thief." ”

"Really?"

Jing Muqing nodded, "The way to be late is to use the way of the other and give back to the other!" ”

What? Zhu Cihong was stunned, what do you mean?

Seeing that Zhu Cihong was stunned, Jing Daju stopped playing dumb riddles, and smiled: "It's the prince who came to divide the fields!" ”

Yes? The prince came to divide the land...... Learn from Li Zicheng?

Zhu Cihong shook his head, "Jing Xiaolian, this palace is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, not a rogue!" Moreover, counting the population of Huguang and Fujian and Guangdong, there are more than 100 million people in the southeast and the most cultivated land is only 500 million mu. If the land allocated to heroes and soldiers is deducted, there will be only 400 million mu of land at most, and the per capita land will only be a few cents of three mu...... It's not enough to stay stable! ”

Jing Muqing was also stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that Prince Zhu had studied the matter of dividing the fields and land!

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise." Jing Muqing complimented, and then said, "It is indeed not advisable to engage in Juntian in the whole country, but if the prince wants to go straight to Xiangyang, he has to Juntian in Xiangyang Mansion." ”

"In the territory of Xiangyang Mansion......" Zhu Cihong's eyes suddenly lit up, "That's right! Li Zicheng encircled all the land in Xiangyang Mansion and distributed it to his old battalion soldiers! ”

Li Zicheng is the path of the feudal dynasty after all, he can do the calculation of the land, but at the same time, he has to enclose the land. Otherwise, how would the old battalion soldiers under him be the masters? If you don't give them the master, Li Zicheng's team will break up directly!

Therefore, Li Zicheng could be a liberator of the poor and middle peasants in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an and other prefectures, but in Xiangyang Laochao, he was the general leader of the armed landlord class.

For the people of Xiangyang Mansion, Li Zicheng was a worse existence than Emperor Zhu...... The local landlords and rich peasants and profiteers in Xiangyang at least did not hate Emperor Zhu, and Li Zicheng was a demon who took away their family property and turned them into slaves in the eyes of all the people in Xiangyang Mansion!

Li Zicheng is really ashamed of Xiangyang's father!

And the class contradiction in Xiangyang is also Li Zicheng's weakness!

Zhu Cihong laughed: "It's really a clever plan!" Li Zicheng used Juntian to bewitch the hearts of the people in Hunan, and the palace also used the method of Juntian to bewitch the hearts of the people in Xiangyang...... Sure enough, it is the way of the other, and the other is the same! ”

He looked at Jing Muqing, who was like Zhang Fei, and said with a smile: "Mr. Jing, you are a native of Jingxiang, can you preside over Xiangyang Juntian for the palace?" After the matter is completed, how much your family loses, the palace will compensate you with the official land of Wuchang Mansion! ”