Time is the essence of diluting everything in the world.

Even if you have the most memorable experience in the world, it will eventually fade away with the baptism of time.

Whether it is Zhao Zongwu, Zhang Weixian, Zhu Chunchen, Xu Xi, or Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Ciran, they are all moving forward for their own interests.

In the process of self-correction, Chongzhen's seven years passed quietly, and the wheel of history slowly pressed towards Chongzhen's eight years, but Chongzhen's eight years were an unbearable process for the Ming Dynasty......

In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Fengyang Mansion Taihe County.

"Lord County Commander, the ordnance required by the county this time has been returned again, for the same reason as the previous times." Lord Bo Yue Wu Sheng frowned, holding the familiar document in his hand, and told Wu Shiji, who was eating porridge.

Wu Shiji, who was eating porridge with the same taste as chewing wax, stopped the movements in his hands after listening to Yue Wusheng's words, looked at Yue Wusheng with a slight frown, and paused for a moment, "Have the people in the county and the West been abnormal recently?" ”

For what Yue Wusheng said, in fact, there is a certain number in Wu Shiji's heart, but there is preparation in his heart, and he is prepared, but in the current situation, the high-ranking officials of Fengyang Mansion did not realize that the danger was approaching, which made Wu Shiji very indignant in his heart!

Wu Shiji, the word compilation, the number is clumsy, Wanli forty years of Renzi raised people, because of the integrity of the temperament, do not understand the way of drilling, so the career is not very smooth, until the first year of Chongzhen, only fortunately in the township officials with the help of the help of the Taoist officials, in Lishui County to do the teaching, and this is the teaching.

It wasn't until later that the county magistrate of Taihe County was promoted, and Wu Shiji had to fill the post of magistrate of Taihe County in the future, and this was because Taihe County was too 'poor' and no official was willing to go to the post, so he finally cheapened Wu Shiji, otherwise the post of magistrate of Taihe County, no matter how it turned, it would not be his turn Wu Shiji.

The Westerners in Wu Shiji's mouth are not red-haired ghosts and yellow-haired ghosts, but they actually refer to Shanxi and Shaanxi businessmen living in Taihe County.

Although it shows that the situation at the end of the period is turbulent, on the other hand, it also makes commerce developed, which is more or less related to officialdom corruption, which also makes the merchants of the Ming Dynasty more and more active, and this group includes Jin merchants.

The most representative of the Jin merchants is the eight Jin merchants, and because of their betrayal of their ancestors and collaborating with the enemy, Zhao Zongwu used means to eradicate them all!

However, this does not mean that the power of the Jin merchants will disappear.

After all, no one can ignore the temptation of profit.

Besides, this Fengyang Mansion across the Jianghuai, adjacent to Chu Yu, as the Ming Dynasty's Longxing land, where the capital is located, that is definitely one of the core of the Ming Dynasty, although Fengyang Mansion is a lot lower than the early Ming Dynasty, but as the main channel for the transportation of Ming goods from east to west, the business in this area of Fengyang Mansion is very prosperous, so the choice in Fengyang Mansion, settled, rooted in the foreign businessmen are not a few.

And a large part of them are businessmen from Shanxi and Shaanxi.

As the golden area in this core, Taihe County is the intersection of Henan and Nanzhili, which also makes the merchants who live here extraordinarily large.

The local forces are complicated, and the people in the county are poor and white, which has created a relatively unique status quo in Taihe County.

Yue Wusheng said: "There is no change, since the lord promulgated the notice of 'checking and compiling the Liuyu', the rumors that originally appeared in the city slowly dissipated, and the Taihe gentry headed by Zhang and Zhao did not secretly collude with the 'Westerners' and entrenched in the territory of Guide Mansion to target the 'Westerners' in the county on the grounds that they wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble. ”

Although it is said that during this period of time, Zhao Zongwu's subordinates continued to clarify the feelings of the family and the country, the distinction between small families and everyone, which also made the people of Li under his rule begin to have such a consciousness.

But for other parts of the Ming Dynasty, when there is turmoil in the country and locality, they do not think of national interests and national interests, because in their consciousness, there is not such a noble spirit, and their most direct approach is to take advantage of this turmoil to obtain huge benefits.

Take this Taihe County as an example, since the Liukou army moved from Huaiqing Mansion in Henan Province to Guide Mansion, the news about the Liukou raiding Fengyang Mansion has never dissipated, but the senior officials of Fengyang Mansion don't care much about this, or they don't care about these ......

After such rumors also appeared, the local gentry of Taihe County began to launch an impact on the mountain and Shaanxi merchants living in Taihe County, and the most direct feeling here is that they obtained no less than 100,000 taels of silver and nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land with the help of this matter!

Wu Shiji nodded and said: "In the current situation, everything must be based on the overall situation, although it is said that the Liukou are entrenched in the territory of Guide Mansion, but after two months of waiting, they have not waited for them to attack, in order to resist the army that may come at any time, Taihe County must maintain stability."

Although the identity of the Westerners is very sensitive, if their hearts are unstable, how can we stabilize the hearts of the people in Taihe County? Since it is said that the government is not ready to transfer weapons to us, then we can only find a way to solve it ourselves. ”

Since Wu Shiji succeeded to the county magistrate of Taihe County, the former peaceful Taihe County gradually became busy, in order to resist the possible attack of the rogues, Wu Shiji made an appointment with the local gentry, and asked them to help the county consolidate the city defense, train the militia, and build weapons, but in the final analysis, there was still a lack of silver.

"Let's go! I'll wait to see how the city defense supervision is doing! Thinking of this, Wu Shiji stood up abruptly and said to Yue Wusheng beside him.

Because of the lack of silver in his hand, Wu Shiji seemed overstretched many times, although he had many ideas in his heart, but he was defeated by this reality after all.

On the third day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, he returned to the border land of Defu, Luyi and Bozhou.

After half a year of wandering, the army of Liukou, which was originally divided into Huaiqing Mansion, finally successfully moved to the east of the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division in Henan Province in accordance with the established plan.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, it was definitely a dreamy year for the army of rogues led by Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong, and Gao Yingxiang, because of the existence of Zhao Zongwu, so that the originally strong army of rogues continued to move west and south in order to survive and not be captured, and finally faced Zhang Weixian and their 'fierce pursuit', and under the situation that the power was far less than before, they were forced to entrench themselves in Huaiqing Mansion and lick their wounds.

The cruel reality forced Wang Ziyong to seek a breakthrough, and finally set a new strategy for the development of Huguang in the quarrel.

But in order to paralyze the Ming court, and in order not to let Zhao Zongwu know about their plans, Wang Zi used them to make a series of measures in Huaiqing Mansion.

It's just that what Wang Ziyong didn't know was that under Zhao Zongwu's conscious intervention, they rose strongly in the second half of Chongzhen's seventh year, so that they began to hallucinate in their hearts again, thinking that their invincible bull breaking physique had returned to their side.

In this second half of the year, the power and gentry in Henan led by King Fu were dealt a fatal blow, and it was also in the second half of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the tentacles of power under Zhao Zongwu began to officially penetrate into the territory of Henan and secretly develop the forces of the department, among which the most powerful spokesperson was Zhu Yousong, the king of new blessings!

On the other hand, Wang used the wealth and grain they had obtained from plundering to continuously gather displaced people, bankrupt households, and tenants, and finally successfully arrived at Guide Mansion through Henan Mansion and the northern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Wang Ziyong wore an ill-fitting manglong robe, and the horse golden sword sat on the main seat, and on his left and right sides sat Chong Guangdao, Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang, Liu Guoneng, He Yilong, He Jin, Dangjia, and Eight King Kongs; At the starting point of these eight people, there are the big and small leaders of the Liukou, such as the King of Chaotian, the Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun, the Lamplighter Zhao Sheng, the non-muddy Zhang Cunmeng, Zhang Miaoshou, Bai Jiu'er, a gust of wind, and Qilang.

"We've been here for a while, and presumably after this period of precipitation, the forces under your command have basically been expanded." Wang Ziyong squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the crowd and said: "Although it is very comfortable to stay here, you and I both know very well in our hearts that a small Guide Mansion is not enough to feed our army.

More importantly, the Ming court has too much dissatisfaction in our hearts because of our pushing behavior, and in order to avenge the revenge in Henan, the Ming court has dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses from all over the country, which makes the king most worried about whether there will be Zhao Zongwu's soldiers and horses involved. ”

When Wang Ziyong said this, the hearts of everyone present sank, as an arrogant and unreasonable man, Zhao Zongwu was definitely the shadow of everyone here.

There are too many rogue leaders who have died in the hands of Zhao Zongwu over the years, and even the big leader they were loyal to before, Wang Jiayin, died in the hands of Zhao Zongwu!

Zhang Xianzhong frowned slightly and said: "Alliance leader, at this time, we must find a way out, since the Ming army is entrenched around Guide Mansion, then we must use the simplest and rude way to attack their military hearts with the greatest strength!" According to my thoughts, our army might as well use Fengyang Mansion as the main attack place, if it can break through Zhu Ming's dragon vein land, this will definitely be a fatal blow to the officers and troops who come to attack!! ”

The tyranny hidden in his bones, after all these years of inducement, has made Zhang Xianzhong seem more and more brutal, which seems to be more in line with King Zhang Yan, who is known as the murderer in history!

He Yilong slapped his thigh and said: "This plan is very good!" If our department can capture Fengyang Mansion, then we will be able to loot a huge amount of wealth, and even if it is difficult to capture that vast land at that time, we will not worry! ”

This strategy proposed by Zhang Xianzhong was quickly approved by Chongguangdao, Liu Guoneng, He Yilong, He Jin, Dang Jia, Ba Kong, Chaotian King, Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun, Lamp Lamp Zhao Sheng, Zhang Cunmeng, Zhang Miaoshou, Bai Jiu'er, Yifeng, Qilang and other leaders of the Liukou.

Although in this process, Gao Yingxiang also put forward some different ideas, but they were only put forward on how to divide the troops and attack Fengyang Mansion, in fact, Zhang Xianzhong proposed this strategy, but also very recognized.

After discussing the corresponding progress, Wang Ziyong said: "That's good! Then the king will send two deployments, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng, you will march east from Bozhou and seize Mengcheng......"

I saw that Wang Zi was issuing military orders with his eyes like torches, and with the issuance of military orders, it also announced that the Liukou army was determined to win Fengyang Mansion.

"General, the leader of the alliance is very biased! Obviously, the city of Mengcheng is easier to capture, but they sent Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng to occupy it, and let the general make a detour to attack Taihe County, which will inevitably attract the attention of the officials and troops of Yingzhou, and if it is not handled properly, it may bring a big threat to our army! Huang Xing frowned, with a complaint in his tone, as the first general under Gao Yingxiang, he won Gao Yingxiang's trust.

Gao Yingxiang couldn't see joy or sadness on his face, and said: "Although the capture of Fengyang City is a big deal for our department, it may not be a good thing for us, thinking about the land of Zhu Ming's dragon vein, how can it be easily destroyed, the first person to enter Fengyang and destroy the land of Zhu Ming's dragon vein, it will inevitably cause the world to spurn!" ”

Since Li Zicheng, Li Guo and other generals were 'killed' by Zhao Zongwu's department, Gao Yingxiang has cultivated new generals under his command, after all, this battle on the battlefield is by no means something he can do alone.

Zhao Kai said: "Then according to what the general said, in this attack, the route of our advance is the most favorable?" ”

Gao Yingxiang said: "Yes, Taihe, as the core area of communication, must have a huge amount of wealth, and there are not a few villagers entrenched here, my department will go to Taihe this time, we will use Taihe as the foundation, and expand the power under our command again, so as to deal with the many impacts of the next conquest of Huguang!" ”

Under Gao Yingxiang's narration, the department and Chongzhen on the seventh day of the first month of the eighth year, secretly operated to the territory of Taihe County, and brazenly launched an attack on Taihe County, although Taihe County ordered Wu Shiji to prepare a lot, but in the face of Gao Yingxiang's confession of tens of thousands of troops, the officers and soldiers of Taihe County were not their opponents at all, but in two hours, Taihe County was broken, and Gao Yingxiang's department successfully took Taihe County!

Also made remarkable achievements, there are Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, He Yilong, Dang Jia, Eight King Kong, Mixed Heavenly King, Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun, Lamp Zhao Sheng and other Ying Liukou army.

The Daming place, which has rotted to the roots, is not the opponent of the murderous Liukou army at all, so that in just a few days, many places in Fengyang Mansion were captured by the Liukou army, and for a time Fengyang Mansion was shaken!

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Chongguangdao and other departments took advantage of the victory to capture Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

As the spiritual place of the Ming Dynasty and the dragon vein of the Zhu family, Zhang Xianzhong showed great tyranny after they captured Fengyang.

In order to deter the Ming army, they destroyed the imperial mausoleum, burned the Longxing Temple, killed more than 60 eunuchs, and killed thousands of officers and soldiers who stayed behind in Zhu Guoxiang.

Later, it set up the banner of "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor", and drank together to celebrate his victory.