When the Tang Dynasty conquered Wuzhou City, many high-ranking civil and military officials failed to escape with Wang Yue, and in the end, some of these people died or committed suicide, some of them surrendered voluntarily, and a few people expressed their willingness to surrender on the spot, serve the Tang Dynasty, and serve Li Xuan, the eternal saint.

There are also some who are forced to surrender, and in addition, it is indispensable to be unable to resist being captured after being injured like Shen Xiyi.

For these middle and high-level officials, Li Xuan has always been treated separately, those who are willing to take the initiative to surrender are all reused, and those who are unwilling to take the initiative to surrender are also tried to persuade them to do it anyway, not because Li Xuan values their abilities so much.

In fact, in Li Xuan's heart, in military affairs, the Tang Dynasty actually did not need the supplement of the senior generals of the Ming army, because the combat methods of the Tang Dynasty were completely different from those of the Ming Dynasty, and those traditional cold weapon generals could not lead the troops of the Tang Dynasty without systematic study.

In terms of civil officials, in fact, Li Xuan didn't think that he had to use these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials who were admitted step by step to the Jinshi were not necessarily better than those officials who only had ordinary culture under the current Tang Dynasty.

To be an official, the knowledge is average, the main thing is to have a sensitive sense of political smell, to put it mildly, just let a dog be an official, you can do better than a large number of officials of the Ming Dynasty, at least the dog will not be corrupt!

So sometimes it's actually inappropriate to call an official a dog official, because it will insult the dog!

Therefore, Li Xuan's demotion to the Ming Dynasty was not about their personal ability, but about their political influence.

If a few high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to themselves anyway and made public appeals, the political influence caused would be huge, and it would shake the resistance of more people, and they would think, those adults have all defected to the puppet Tang thief army, why should they resist?

Can you be as sincere as these adults?

Maybe you can get the title of high-ranking official!

And after the breakthrough of Wuzhou City, the Tang Dynasty Wangshi's treatment of these demoted officials was the same as before, letting them anyway as much as possible, but even so, there are still not many people who are really willing to surrender.

The few people who appeared in front of Shen Xiyi now, except for one who was the captain of the Guards who was responsible for guarding these high-ranking prisoners of war, the others were all demoted officers of the Ming army, both civil and military.

One of them is also the commander of the Guangxi Metropolitan Zhong Guangjun, who once led the remnants of the army to resist stubbornly with the Liangguang Governor's Mansion when the city was broken, and it also caused a lot of trouble to the Tang Dynasty's royal division, and the Liangguang Governor's Mansion was beaten into ruins in this way.

Later, because of the heavy casualties and the heavy troops of the Tang Dynasty's division to attack, he was forced to lead nearly 1,000 remnants to surrender.

Because this person fought well in the battle, it also attracted the attention of some senior generals of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, he thought that this person was the commander of Guangxi and had great political influence, and he was a senior general in the Ming Dynasty, so that after he surrendered, Li Xuan personally met him and recruited him.

At first, he still squirmed and refused to agree, but after knowing that the family in Wuzhou City was still in the city and had been controlled, and Li Xuan's conditions were not bad, he promised that he would give him 3,000 troops after surrendering, if he was unwilling to lead the troops, then he would go to the Ministry of War, of course, a high-ranking official of the level of Shilang was not to be expected, but he could give him a position as the director of the Ministry of War, and he could also go to the Privy Council to be a senior operational adviser.

Zhong Guangjun naturally can't look down on the latter two conditions, and he will definitely not be able to touch the real power position of the Ministry of War, and the adviser in the Privy Council behind him, as soon as he hears this word, he knows that it is a false position, but the condition of letting him continue to lead the troops is worth considering.

Three thousand troops are a lot, at least enough to gain a firm foothold in this pseudo-Tang Dynasty.

The safety of his family coupled with Li Xuan's promise to give him the actual power to command the army, so he still couldn't hold back, and finally accepted the recruitment of the Tang Dynasty, put on the dark blue military uniform of the Tang Dynasty, and served as the commander of the 14th Regiment under the newly formed Seventh Garrison Brigade, awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army, according to the establishment of the garrison army of the Tang Dynasty, a garrison regiment of nearly 3,000 people, which shows that Li Xuan fulfilled his promise.

Of course, Li Xuanken gave him a garrison belt, and that was also because Zhong Guangjun also took out his own letter of surrender, and personally ran to persuade others to surrender together, and the effect was quite good, under his persuasion, some middle and senior officials in the Ming army expressed their willingness to serve the Tang Dynasty.

And also wrote a letter anyway, the letter naturally said how bad the pseudo-Ming is, how good the Tang Dynasty is, Li Xuan is the eternal saint who has not been out for thousands of years, and called on the majority of the military and civilians to defect to the Tang Dynasty.

Then through the channels of the Tang Dynasty, the letters were now circulated to Zhaoqing.

After Wang Yue learned about this, he was furious, because Zhong Guangjun was still the highest-ranking general in the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the pseudo-Tang thief army, and his surrender was able to cause a huge sensation, at least, those who had promoted and reused Zhong Guangjun at the beginning would be burdened with a black cauldron that he didn't know.

What's worse is that even high-ranking officials like the dignified commander have surrendered, and more people must not be provoked to surrender!

Zhong Guangjun is so knowledgeable, Li Xuan naturally will not break his promise, after all, recruiting Zhong Guangjun is also a daughter to buy horse bones, if this person is treated preferentially, more Ming generals will take the initiative to surrender in the future.

can make more enemies take the initiative to surrender instead of stubbornly resisting, just from this point of view, Zhong Guangjun is worthy of Li Xuan's wooing.

Of course, the 7th Garrison Brigade has not yet been formed, and the soldiers in the 14th Garrison Regiment are still in the prisoner of war camps.

Because his own troops are still just empty shelves, during this time, Zhong Guangjun's job is another one, that is, to persuade others to join the Tang Dynasty, especially those high-ranking civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty who have great political influence.

And Shen Xiyi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, is an important target of his persuasion!

But as soon as he entered the door, he heard Shen Xiyi snort coldly: "You are a beautiful woman, but you are a thief!" ”

Hearing this, Zhong Guangjun's face was a little unnatural, Rao is that he had already written a letter that was widely distributed all over the world, and everyone in the world knew that he had betrayed the Ming Dynasty and then joined the thief army, but he was still a little unbearable when he was said so in person.

But even so, he didn't react angrily, he came today to persuade Shen Xiyi to also join the Tang Dynasty, as long as he can succeed, his own credit will be great.

Because Shen Xiyi is the deputy chief soldier of Guangdong, this level is higher than him Zhong Guangjun!

If Zhong Guangjun's surrender is at most to cause a shock in the Liangguang region, then once Shen Xiyi surrenders, it will definitely be a sensational event throughout the country, and it is even enough to shock the jaws of the adults in the capital!

A dignified deputy commander of the Ming Dynasty turned out to be a thief? I don't think anyone will believe it!

But when Zhong Guangjun came to persuade Shen Xiyi today, the effect was not very good, even if there was a person next to him who came to act as a white face and said that the Tang Dynasty had conquered Guixian County, and when the Shen family was under house arrest, Shen Xiyi was still unmoved.

So Zhong Guangjun and they did a useless job, and when Li Xuan learned about it, he was also a little disappointed.

If Shen Xiyi also surrendered, then the political influence would be much greater, but he was unwilling, and he had no good way, after all, Li Xuan was not just a prisoner, he wanted him to join voluntarily and shout for the Tang Dynasty, if he was unwilling to do so, he would at most forge his documents for propaganda as before.

But people in these years are not stupid, after Li Xuan did it a few times before, then no one believed it outside, and the parties did not show up in public and preach how good the Tang Dynasty was, and how bad the pseudo-Ming was, it was difficult for people to believe that they had sincerely surrendered to the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.

So Li Xuan simply ignored it, anyway, there were many demos who refused to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and there were not many of them.

So Li Xuan personally issued an order to imprison this Shen Xiyi and other middle and senior officials who refused to surrender to their hearts, these people killed words, and after the word was spread, not many people would lead the army to surrender, after all, not everyone who surrendered was running anyway, and then came to work for Datang, they were likely to save the lives of their subordinates and save their own lives, but it was only limited to this, and it was impossible for them to work directly for Datang.

This is also the reason why so many middle and high-level officials have been arrested, but few of them are willing to take the initiative to do it anyway, and it is also the reason why Zhong Guangjun can be treated preferentially.

These demoted officers can't be killed or used, so they are all taken into custody first, and continue to stay in the prisoner of war camp as prisoners of war, as for what to do with them later.

Of course, they may also wait until the day when the imperial court counterattacks back to Wuzhou, but when they see these officials, will the Ming Dynasty kill these officials who surrender thieves as soon as possible.

Although the crime of surrendering a thief is a little lighter than that of a thief, it is definitely not any better, for the Ming Dynasty, it is to be dealt with seriously, otherwise, in the future, wouldn't everyone have the same example, and the war will be unfavorable and surrender immediately?

Putting down Shen Xiyi, Li Xuan looked at the handling report of the Wuzhou prisoners sent by the Ministry of War, and after reading the report, he finally smiled, compared to the extremely tough demotion officers, especially the middle and senior demotion officers, he still likes those ordinary soldiers prisoners of war, no, according to the Ministry of War, the preliminary results show that the handling of this batch of more than 20,000 prisoners of war is still very smooth, and the surrender of troops who are willing to serve Datang anyway may exceed expectations!