"Eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to meet the king, and break into the field when the king comes!

The rent is heavy, the profit is high, and it is difficult for the poor to survive recently. Open the door early to worship the king, do not pay rent and do not repay debts, and discipline everyone is happy......"

On the first day of November in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the ballad of King Yingchuang once again resounded in the mountains and fields outside the city of Jingmen Prefecture.

This means that the army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, has been welcomed by the poor peasants and marched into the land of Jingmen Prefecture under the rule of Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Wuchang, the governor of Hubei, the governor of the Ming Dynasty.

Jingmen Prefecture is a subordinate state under Chengtian Prefecture and the northern gate of the Jianghan Plain. The terrain of Jingmen Prefecture is very dangerous, the west of the city is the remnant vein of Jingshan Mountain, the east of the city is a low hill called Baota Mountain, and the north of the city is not far from the tributary of the Han River.

In addition to the difficult terrain, Jingmen Prefecture is also located at the junction of the rich Jianghan Plain and the Jingxiang Mountains. To the north of Jingmen Prefecture is a large area of mountainous hills, which stretches to the vicinity of Xiangyang Prefecture and the vicinity of Hanshui (there are also large areas of fertile flat land around Xiangyang Prefecture and along the Hanshui River). To the south of Jingmen Prefecture is the fertile Jianghan Plain.

Before Li Zicheng's defeat at Shanhaiguan, Jingmen Prefecture used to be the territory of the Great Shun Dynasty, and Li Zicheng also set up a Jingmen army in this area and sent a Jiedu envoy. However, Li Zicheng did not work hard to manage this land, and after the Battle of Shanhaiguan, in order to concentrate on confronting the Qing army, Li Zicheng gave up his Jingmen army. Zuo Liangyu's army took advantage of the situation and occupied the entire Chengtian Mansion, including Jingmen Prefecture. Heavy troops were also deployed in Jingmen Prefecture to prevent the Dashun army of Xiangjing Prefecture in the north from moving south again.

In the more than a year that Zuo Liangyu's subordinates occupied Jingmen Prefecture, this already strong city has been further strengthened. The rammed earth walls were heightened and thickened, and the ditches on all sides of the city were widened and deepened, and filled with water. Three forts were also built on the Pagoda Hill in the east of the city to cover the city of Jingmenzhou.

Now this Jingmen Prefecture City is once again shrouded in the atmosphere of war, the gates of the city are closed during the day, only the south gate is open for a few hours a day, and they dare not open the whole door, only half of the door is opened, so that the burden of Chai He can enter the city. There are still a group of men standing at the gate of the city all the time, ready to close the gate at any time and block the city gate.

Why is it a group? Where did the heavy troops of Zuo Liangyu's department go? Of course, the heavy soldiers had already rushed to Jingzhou Mansion with the looted goods.

It was Jin Shenghuan, a powerful figure in the left army, who was sent by Zuo Liangyu to serve as a meat shield in Chengtianfu before - the left army has two factions, the Liao family and the Shaanxi family, the former is the descendant of Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng, and they are all the old brothers who Zuo Liangyu pulled up when he served in the Jiliao army. The latter are the traitors who were recruited by the Liukou when they were chasing the Liukou, most of whom were from Shaanxi. Jin Shenghuan is a big brother in the Shaanxi family.

Because he was before and after the fall of Beijing in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he was asked by Lu Zhenfei to help defend Huai, and when he returned to defense, he easily pulled away part of the Huaiyang regiment training army adapted from the grain transportation army, so his strength was very strong, and he didn't buy Zuo Liangyu's account. That's why Zuo Liangyu sent a general soldier to guard the town of Chengtianfu and threw him to the front line as a meat shield for more than a year.

However, Jin Shenghuan has been very nourishing for more than a year, and he does not fight with the Dashun army, so he is busy doing business. Especially after Li Zicheng's side began to enclose land and grant land, business became better - Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers became landlords, and his consumption power naturally increased greatly. And Xiangjing, Nanyang, Shenyang, Hanzhong, and Xi'an did not have any industry and commerce to meet the needs of the landlords of Dashun, so they naturally had to trade with the merchants of Huguang.

Jin Shenghuan is also a master who sees money, and directly opened a mutual market in Lexian Bridge, where Yicheng County intersects in Jingmen Prefecture and Xiangjing Prefecture. And everything is sold! Not to mention the good iron produced in Xingguozhou, even the turtledove foots transported from Guangdong thousands of miles away, as long as Li Zicheng's people can afford it, they can buy it in the Lexian Bridge Mutual Market.

So in the past year, Jin Shenghuan has made a fortune, and the gold millions have become a million!

And after making a fortune, Jin Shenghuan naturally became even more desperate for his life. As early as when the new version of "Yingchuang King" began to be sung in the countryside of Chengtianfu, he began to lay out a retreat for himself.

After King Chuang began to gather his "old camp master", Jin Shenghuan, the chief guard of Chengtianfu, led his troops to retreat to Jingzhou Mansion, and lost the defense of Chengtianfu to the regimental training pulled up by the local landlord Lao Cai.

Therefore, what remains in the city of Jingmen Prefecture now is the local landlord group training in Jingmen Prefecture. And the landlords and gentry of the four townships of Jingmen Prefecture also took refuge in this fortified city with their families.

When King Chuang's army came last time, most of the gentry and landlords in Jingmen Prefecture did not enter the city to hide. At that time, most of them took refuge in earthen bunkers in the countryside - most of the gentry and landlords had some clan power to rely on. When the peasant army came before, as long as they pulled some strong men of the same clan and clan, and found a remote and dangerous place to build an earthen fort to hide, most of them could get through.

But this time it's wrong, this time people are not "three years free of grain", but they don't pay off their debts...... And "high rents and heavy profits" have always been the two hates of the poor and middle peasants. Li Zicheng now not only wants to divide the land, but also forgives the debts of the poor and middle peasants.

This is really a great joy for the people!

Therefore, no landlords dared to continue to stay in the countryside, and they all ran to Jingmen Prefecture. After entering Jingmen Prefecture, they learned that Jin Shenghuan and Jin Da's general soldiers had already run away, and only a group of landlords led by Jing Muqing, a local tyrant and celebrity in Jingmen Prefecture, barely guarded the city.

This Jing Muqing has read a lot of military books, and he has also served as a staff member in Sun Chuanting's army, so he still has a bit of discipline.

Now in the city of Jingmen Prefecture, no matter day or night, there are regimental patrols on the streets. Every dusk, in addition to the group going to the city, every household in the city has to go out of Ding Zhuang to the city, knocking all night long.

The martial law notices of the Jingmen regimental training yamen are posted everywhere, and there are still a lot of bloody human heads hanging on both sides of the wall in front of the original state yamen and the current regimental training yamen, saying that the spies who were caught and infiltrated into the city were killed - only God knows whether they are real spies or not! However, the hearts of the people in the city were shocked, and the law and order were also guaranteed, and every family was willing to go to the city.

However, what can be slightly stable is within the Jingmen Prefecture City, and outside the Prefecture City, there is already a jubilant scene to welcome the king.

Li Laiheng, who drove by land, now found a little bit of the feeling of being "Shun Taizong", and the three thousand "old camp warriors" he led and the same number of auxiliary soldiers (all of whom were tenants of the old camp warriors) acted as Li Guo's vanguard, and now he was walking mightily on the official road from Lexian Bridge to Jingmen Zhou City in the south. Along the way, I didn't meet a single resistance to the Ming army, but I met many poor people who greeted the king, helping the old and the young, singing songs, and everyone was beaming.

Obviously, the latest version of "Yingchuang King" has achieved good results - compared with not paying the emperor's grain, dividing the land and not paying off the debts is a great thing that the people want!

Several scouts Pegasus came to Li Laiheng, and the first one was a strong man wearing blue cloth iron armor - after enclosing Juntian, most of the "old camp warriors" of the Dashun army had added some armor, and their equipment was much better than in the past, and this scout named Chen Zhong added a cloth armor to himself.

"Chen Laosan," Li Laiheng recognized Chen Zhong, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" Can the Ming army in Jingmen Prefecture run away? ”

"General Hui Zhi," Chen Zhong arched his hand on horseback, "the gate of Jingmen Prefecture is closed, and there are all kinds of flags and soldiers patrolling and guarding the city wall. ”

Li Laiheng smiled: "This Dousu (Jin Shenghuan) is so courageous, dare to resist the great Shuntian soldiers!" ”

"General Cheng misunderstood, that's not a bucket of people," Chen Zhong said with a smile, "My subordinates caught a soldier who went out of the city and asked, and learned that it was the Jingju people from the mouth of the Zhanghe River who guarded Jingmen Prefecture." Because he pulled up a thousand regiments, he was used by Yidousu as a regimental training officer. Now that Yidousu has run away, the Jingju people have entered Jingmen Prefecture City. ”