Hearing Li Xiao's words, Qian Qianyi slowly raised his head.

There was an inexplicable fear in his eyes that were very deep and ringed like lizards, and he peeked up again, and quietly looked at Li Xiao who was sitting on the dragon chair before he hesitated and said: "King Tang, in the previous Hongguang Puppet Dynasty, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and other villains, controlled the government, manipulated authority, and wantonly persecuted my members of the Restoration Society, which is really hateful!" It's hateful that at that time, Weichen was weak and powerless, so he could only sit back and watch him do evil and be lawless, but in his heart, he really hated it day and time deeply! “

When Qian Qianyi said this, he paused deliberately, and then squinted and peeked at Li Xiao's expression.

He was a little disappointed to find that Li Xiao was expressionless when he made this grand statement, and there was no change in his expression at all.

Qian Qianyi couldn't guess Li Xiao's true thoughts, so he continued: "Now it is fortunate that the Tang King has led his troops south, swept away the evil spirits, and reproduced the light of my Ming Dynasty. It's just that now, in the Nanjing Imperial Prison, as well as in many other states and counties, there are still many students who have been reinstated in the department. Therefore, Weichen hopes that the Tang King can be lenient, sweep away the evil of the pseudo-dynasty, and release all these members of the restored society, so that they can be stained with the rain and dew of the Holy Dynasty, and bathe in the grace of heaven Xuanhua, then Weichen is very grateful to him, and the resumption of the society is also grateful to the Tang King. ”

Hearing Qian Qianyi's words, Li Xiao fell into a deep groan.

Having traveled from his previous life and skimmed the history of the Ming Dynasty, of course he knew what kind of organization this Restoration Society was.

To put it bluntly, the Restoration Society is a literary society in the late Ming Dynasty. It was in the second year of Chongzhen, founded in Yinshan, Suzhou, which was formed by more than a dozen associations such as Yunjian Society, Zhejiang West Wen Society, Jiangbei South Society, etc., and the main leaders were Zhang Pu, Zhang Cai and others. Become a group of readers who form a group.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Pu and others felt bitterly that "the world is declining, and the scholars do not know the scriptures, but they are plagiarized and painted, and they are fortunate to be in Yousi, Dengmingtang can not lead to the king, and Changjunyi does not know the people", so they contacted people from all over the world and advocated that "reviving retro learning will make those who are different from Japan useful", because of the name "Restoration Society"

Although the main task of the Restoration Society is to figure out the eight stocks, learn from each other, and improve their conduct, they also have a strong political color, and they take up the post of Donglin's successor, and they advocate "renting money, abolishing the nationality, withdrawing the envoys from the Central Committee, and stopping internal exercises" (Wu Weiye's "Chronicle of the Restoration Society"), which reflects the interests of the landlords and businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River such as the "Wujiang surname", and also echoes the struggle of the burghers in this area, so it has a fairly broad foundation.

Its members are mainly young scholars, with a total of 2,255 people, and its momentum is all over the country. When the society gathers in the spring and autumn, it is well-dressed and out of the city, and the social impact is great. The main assemblies were the Yinshan Assembly in Wujiang (1629), the Jinling Assembly in Nanjing (1630) and the Tiger Hill Assembly in Suzhou (1633). In the past few years, many members of the Restoration Society have ascended to the top one after another, moving the government and the opposition, and many civil and military generals, sergeants, doctors, and school students have claimed to be Zhang Pu's subordinates, "tens of thousands of people have followed it" (Du Dengchun, "The Beginning and End of Social Affairs").

In this era that Li Xiao crossed over, the scholars of the Fushe Society in Nanjing, dissatisfied with Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others swaggering through the market and embezzling bribes and misleading the country, once jointly wrote "Staying in the Capital to Prevent Chaos and Public Exposure", announcing many crimes of Ma Ruan and others.

Later, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng supported King Lifu and controlled the government, and Ma Ruan, who hated these members of the Restoration Society, immediately carried out severe revenge and persecution against those members of the Restoration Society who had opposed them.

Famous figures such as Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Fang Yizhi, and Chen Zhenhui were all imprisoned in Nanjing Imperial Prison, where they were tortured to extract confessions. As for the rest of the scattered members of the Restoration Society, Ma Ruan and his wife ordered them to arrest them in the name of the prison state, and strictly ordered the officials of various prefectures and counties to arrest them, and imprisoned all these members of the Restoration Society in the prisons of various prefectures and counties, and even their family members and protégés who were implicated in the prison were also imprisoned. The entire force of the restoration society has been dealt a near-devastating blow.

There is a saying that the weeds must be cut to the roots, and the action will not leave any trouble, and the terrifying atmosphere created by Ma Ruan and others is, of course, not only to scare these re-established workers, but to kill them step by step.

According to the original intention of Ma Shiying and others, after the charges against them were confirmed and the evidence was confirmed, they would all be beheaded, so as to completely eradicate all the members of the Fushe Society in one fell swoop, so as to prevent future troubles.

Like Qian Qianyi, who is now reporting to Tang King Li Xiaoyu, he is actually a member of the Restoration Society, but as soon as he saw Ma Shiying and others in power, he quickly changed and began to write to Ma Shiying without shame to sing praises to Ma Shiying.

And Ma Shiying saw that he was so knowledgeable about current affairs and knew how to advance and retreat, although he despised him as a person, Qian Qianyi's sycophants were really useful. Therefore, in order to win over this well-known so-called backbone of Donglin Qingliu and Fushe, in order to show his mind and skill, he recommended Qian Qianyi to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Hongguang Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Qian Qianyi escaped the catastrophe at this time, turned disaster into blessing, and lived a shy life in the Hongguang Dynasty from then on.

It's just that Ma Shiying and others didn't expect that when the work of fabricating charges was about to be completed, Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty, suddenly led his troops south and captured Nanjing in one fell swoop.

Li Xiao noticed that after Qian Qianyi said this, the other demoted officials under the rank were also secretly observing him, wanting to see how Li Xiao reacted.

To put it more bluntly, they want to see which side this Tang King Li Xiao stands on.

After all, now that people such as Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng have fled, most of them are sympathetic or appreciative of the resumption of the society. If Li Xiao can smoothly release these detained detainees, it will undoubtedly show them a very credible attitude of closeness. With this attitude as the premise, then the restoration personnel and their sympathizers will definitely have a bright future in the future that is completely different from that of the Hongguang puppet dynasty.

Seeing their obscene and cowardly inquiry, Li Xiao couldn't help but smile in his heart.

Speaking of which, compared to the successful victory over Jiangnan in the end, what Donglin Party and what Restoration Society are, for Li Xiao, they are just passing clouds, and there is not much worth paying attention to.

Moreover, in Li Xiao's employment system, such partisanship and disputes in the late Ming Dynasty did not benefit him at all.

It's just that in order to win people's hearts, Li Xiao is still happy to give these unlucky people in prison a bright way to live that can be seen and touched.

After all, in Li Xiao's past experience, he has always been generous and good at using these scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Even if it can't be used, no one who reads it has ever harmed him.

Li Xiao is happy to see this reputation of valuing scholars and loving nurses, and is willing to deliberately maintain it.

Therefore, after Qian Qianyi said this, Li Xiao looked around at everyone, and finally said lightly: "Qian Shangshu's words, in the eyes of this king, are very reasonable. If I want to make a pilgrimage to Enlong, I will never allow anyone to take the public into proclamation for personal gain and manipulate authority. How can this hypocrisy of the old evil be allowed to continue? According to the king's decree, all those who were unjustly imprisoned in prison should be released immediately, and those who were willing to serve as officials in this dynasty would be selected and recorded. ”

Li Xiao's words immediately set off a lot of commotion below, and many demoted officials whispered to each other, but their faces were full of relief and joy.

The reason why they are happy is not entirely for the sake of those scholars who have returned to the society, but perhaps more for their own future prospects. Therefore, when they saw that Li Xiao was lenient and released all the members of the re-establishment society, they loved the house and Wu, and they were inexplicably happy.

Qian Qianyi immediately knelt down in a hurry, and said with a happy face: "Thank you King Tang!" Tang Wang loves nurses so much, lifting up the clear stream, and everyone in the world is grateful for it! Here, for the rank of reinstated scholar, thank you. ”

The rest of the people also stepped forward one after another to express their gratitude to Li Xiao.

Seeing their expressions, Li Xiao smiled secretly in his heart. On the surface, though, he just smiled softly and waved his hand, motioning for them to step back first.

After all, for the current Li Xiao, how to take the entire Jiangnan as soon as possible is the most important and urgent.

And now, rescuing the detained students is nothing more than a handy effort, nothing at all.

It's just that Li Xiao focused all his thoughts on military warfare, but he couldn't help but underestimate the energy of these scholars who were let go.

What he didn't expect was that scholars such as Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu who were let go would cause him big trouble one day in the future.

Next, following Li Xiao's plan, the soldiers and horses of the Tang army in the three towns attacked and killed in the area south of the Yangtze River, which was simply overwhelming and invincible. Wherever its soldiers and horses went, triumphant songs were played, and all surnames were attached.

The soldiers and horses of the Eighth Town of Liu Zehan's department, now the entire southern part of Nanzhili are like no one, and they have quickly taken all their Xiazhou counties into their pockets. Like Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Taiping, Ningguo, Chizhou, Huizhou, etc., almost all of them were decided by one drum, and in many places there was no battle at all.

In the end, the soldiers and horses of the eighth town of Liu Zehan's department occupied the richest southeast land of Nanzhili in less than a month and a half. Subsequently, according to Li Xiao's plan, the whole army marched westward and went straight to Jiangxi, preparing to cooperate with Huang Degong's troops and horses.

And Cao Bianjiao's seventh town soldiers and horses, since Nanjing City all the way south, quickly captured the entire Yingtianfu, and then advanced into Guangdezhou, after the Guangdezhou Mansion surrendered without a fight, Cao Bianjiao immediately entered the southeast, and the whole army entered the boundary of Xiaofeng County, Zhejiang.

Xiaofeng County quickly opened the door and surrendered, Cao Bianjiao did not stop, with the entire seventh town soldiers and horses, continued to march eastward, and the troops arrived in Hangzhou.

Seeing the arrival of the Tang army, Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, and Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, opened the gate of Hangzhou together to welcome the Tang army into the city, and Hangzhou, a paradise on earth, finally fell into the hands of the Tang army in a complete way. The whole city of Hangzhou celebrated, and the people praised it.

Then, in the next two months, Cao Bianjiao divided his troops into several units and attacked in all directions, quickly bringing the entire territory of Zhejiang under the rule of the Tang Army. In the end, the three battalions of soldiers and horses in the seventh town, one battalion was stationed in Hangzhou and other important cities, while the remaining two battalions went all the way south to the outside of Xianxia Pass.

The Tang army's approach to this pass into Fujian made Zheng Zhilong, who only wanted to protect the whole province of Fujian, panic.

He immediately transferred troops from the entire territory of Fujian, so that the garrison of the entire Xianxia Pass reached nearly 100,000 troops, hoping to discourage the Tang army from attacking with the advantage of troops and terrain.

It's just that he didn't expect that in fact, the Tang army was already quite satisfied with the current results, and didn't want to continue to attack south at all, but just wanted to maintain huge pressure on him in this way of approaching the city, so that he didn't dare to peep north into Zhejiang.

Therefore, although the Tang army and Zheng Zhilong's troops and horses were nervously facing each other across the pass, for a while, they were all right.

The soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's Ninth Town attacked all the way west from Nanjing City, and attacked Jiangxi all the way from Nanzhili.

Originally, the northern part of Jiangxi was originally where Zuo Liangyu's territory was located, but because some time ago, in order to keep Luzhou Mansion and other places in the north of the Yangtze River from being captured by the Tang army, Zuo Liangyu transferred a large number of troops to the north to support from such a rear territory in northern Jiangxi, and the entire northern part of Jiangxi was in a state of extreme emptiness.

Zuo Liangyu never expected that the Tang army would be able to quickly capture Yangzhou and go straight to the south, and after taking Nanjing, he instead sent troops to attack his weak points, and he was caught off guard.

At present, places such as Guangxin Mansion, Nanchang Mansion, Yuanzhou Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Linjiang Mansion, etc., because there are almost no garrisons, basically all surrender without a fight, and are quickly included in the jurisdiction of the Tang Army. Only Jiujiang Mansion, which is still strong in troops, is still resisting stubbornly, and it can be regarded as barely retaining the last fulcrum in Jiangxi.

In order to keep this rare fulcrum, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to continue to send troops and horses from Huguang to aid Jiujiang. He hoped that this fulcrum, located in Jiangxi, would not be quickly conquered by the Tang army.

After all, one gram of Jiujiang, the northern border of Jiangxi is in the hands of the Tang army, and the entire eastern gateway of Hubei is completely open, and the Tang army can directly attack Zuo Liangyu's nest Wuchang, so that Zuo Liangyu's department will completely fall apart, which is the last thing he wants to see.

What made Zuo Liangyu feel a little relieved was that after Huang Degong took the entire northern part of Jiangxi, he did not take a strong attack on Jiujiang, but only concentrated two battalions of soldiers and horses and surrounded Jiujiang City to prevent its rescue and let the enemy army sit in the city of sorrow.

And after Liu Zehan's soldiers and horses of the eighth town arrived in Jiangxi, this heavily besieged Jiujiang City became more and more noisy, and all the defenders were very frightened. Because they don't know if the Tang Army is going to take Jiujiang City next.