Taiyuan City has fallen!

Bai Rumei, the governor of Shanxi, and Yang Zhenwei, the governor of Shanxi, took the initiative to surrender the city outside the city gate, which also means that Shanxi has fallen into the hands of the Ming army. On the day of its surrender, the Ming army entered the city in a mighty way.

Because Taiyuan City was surrendered with the door open, the Ming army did not kill people in vain after entering the city, and they were not allowed to enter the houses at will. The Ming army that entered the city that day was only a few thousand men, and occupied the important yamen and all eight city gates, and then patrolled the streets to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the fire to loot.

The more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers of the Qing army who surrendered and 20,000 young men who were no more than 35 years old among the more than 40,000 people were all released from their weapons and temporarily detained in the camps in the suburbs.

At the same time, with the posting of the notice of Anmin, this Taiyuan City Li Ziyuan had settled down before he arrived. While the market was regaining its vitality, Yang Zhenwei seemed a little worried in the Admiral's Yamen, even if he had a guarantee, he was still worried that he would be liquidated. After all, he knew very well that in the eyes of many Shanxi people, if he hadn't surrendered the city back then, how could there have been massacres by the Qing army later.

"Just rest assured, the marshal is a man of promise, and besides, the gentry in this city have made up a full two million taels of atonement silver for you, which is a great sin, and it can be redeemed!"

For several days, Yuan Taoqi, who had been accompanying Yang Zhenwei in the yamen, noticed the uneasy look on his face and comforted him softly.

As a local gentry, he naturally did not want to see the scene of the burning of jade, after all, his family business was in Taiyuan City, besides, although Li Ziyuan did not have the reputation of slaughtering the city, but at the beginning in Nanchang, he was also the people who helped the Qing army to defend the city.

In these days, human life is not valuable!

Whether it is the Qing army, the Ming army, or the thieves, don't they all kill the people if they want to?

Instead of using the silver to help the Qing army defend the city, it is better to use the silver to help Bai Rumei and Yang Zhenwei atone for their sins. Only in this way can we protect 100,000 people in Taiyuan City. In exchange for two million taels of silver in exchange for agreeing to donate the city, this business is worth it, but as the person in the middle of the contact, Yuan Taoqi must appease the Shanxi governor in front of him.

"Are you sure Li Shuai will let me go?"

Yang Zhenwei's tone still carried a trace of uncertainty in his tone, after all, he was carrying the heads of Jiang Jiu and others to the city back then.

"Li Shuai is a person who keeps promises, and the military doesn't need to worry!"

Li Ziyuan is a person who keeps promises!

This sentence is just talking, but Yang Zhenwei still has a trace of luck in his heart, for him, he feels that for Li Ziyuan, he has some use. Just as he guessed, after Li Ziyuan entered Taiyuan, he immediately summoned Yang Zhenwei, and when the two met, he praised him even more, and appointed him as the chief soldier of Shanxi. He even discussed with him about sending troops and troops from all over the country to wait for his Northern Expedition. In his opinion, this is undoubtedly telling him that the marshal is useful to him, and even he took the initiative to ask for the Northern Expedition with the army, in the face of his request, Li Ziyuan naturally did not refuse, and directly incorporated it into the Left Route Army, just before he was about to go to the Left Route Army, he received Bai Rumei's invitation, because the two of them were demoted, this invitation Yang Zhenwei did not refuse, and he also hoped to be close to Bai Rumei, after all, the two of them were also sharing hardships.

"In the final analysis, in this troubled world, it's still a time for people like my brother to show their talents!"

Bai Rumei, who was demoted, said with some sigh when she saw Yang Zhenwei, who had changed into a Ming-style general military robe.

"After this Northern Expedition, it is naturally just around the corner to come to his army to seal the marquis."

Bai Rumei's tone was full of envy, but at this time, Yang Zhenwei's face no longer had the anxiety of the past, but replied quite smugly.

"This is not the grace of the great handsome. Actually, Lord Bai, you are not bad, you are not still the governor of Shanxi, in the future, when I wait for the Northern Expedition, this rear can be all directed to you, Lord Bai! ”

Yang Zhenwei's words made Bai Rumei nod, and then said.

"Of course, this is of course, but Bai has something unclear."

Bai Rumei, who had already put down the wine glass, looked at Yang Zhenwei and asked,

"Since the military gate knows that the military gate can have today, it is all due to the grace of the commander, then why did he collude with the Qing prisoners and plot against him?"

When the words fell, he immediately slammed the wine glass in his hand,

"Someone!"

What the?

Before Yang Zhenwei could scream, he heard a sound of footsteps coming from outside, and before he could stand up, there was a sharp pain in his head, and he fell to the ground.

Half an hour later, a human head was presented to Li Ziyuan's case, and after a slight glance at the human head, Li Ziyuan just asked calmly.

"What about the others?"

"Back to Dashuai, the people who rebelled with Yang Zhenwei back then have all been killed!"

In that year, Yang Zhenwei led more than 600 officers and soldiers to mutiny, killed Jiang Jiu, his brother Jiang Lin and his younger brother Jiang Youguang, and surrendered out of the city with his head. In the past ten years of warfare, only three or four hundred of the defective officers and soldiers survived, and most of them were officials of the Shanxi Green Battalion.

Of course, it was not only these officials who were killed, but also their families, who were also killed, how many people died, Li Ziyuan didn't care, compared to these heads, he was more concerned about another thing.

"Hou Di, now that Yang Zhenwei has been conferred, what should I do next?"

It was Xu Yuncheng's idea to use Yang Zhenwei's mind to exchange the hearts of the people of Shanxi, but Li Ziyuan had his concerns.

"Today, Li killed him Yang Zhenwei, what if others don't dare to descend Li again?"

"Dashuai, this Yang Zhenwei must be killed, just because his hands are stained with the blood of my Han people, and the reason why he killed him is not to kill him for no reason, besides, Bai Rumei has confessed, the reason why Yang Zhenwei surrendered is not to surrender, but to buy time, so as to gather the green camps in Taiyuan, so that he can fight back against the marshal, if it is not for the marshal to act decisively, I am afraid that this Taiyuan has been re-established, and I don't know how many people have left because of this......"

Killing Yang Zhenwei naturally has an excuse to kill him, and sometimes there is no need for an excuse, surrender does not mean that he is exempt from death, even if he is exempt from death, if he has a different intention, he can also be killed, in a word, the dead man can't speak. Not to mention explaining, it is naturally impossible for the dead Yang Zhenwei to stand up and say his wrongs.

"As for the others? Even if other people know, they also need to understand, in this world, except for you, who will be surrendered by them? ”

This is the reason why Xu Yuncheng suggested killing Yang Zhenwei, because there is no better choice for others besides Li Ziyuan, at least in comparison, only Li Ziyuan doesn't care about what they do, and doesn't care about their reputation as a "traitor".

"That's it, this Shanxi green camp, it is still necessary to disrupt and separate the battalions, if it has different intentions, the battalions can directly cut it first and report later!"

Li Ziyuan has never been a soft-handed person, he doesn't care about Yang Zhenwei's life or death at all, and he doesn't even care about the more than 30,000 people in the Green Camp in Shanxi, and what he cares about is whether he can win the Northern Expedition. After all, for him, there is nothing more important than the Northern Expedition, he needs to use the Northern Expedition to establish his position and tell the world that there is not only one Zhu Mingzhong, one Zheng Chenggong, and he Li Ziyuan in this world.

After deciding the life and death of tens of thousands of green camps in Shanxi in a few words, Li Ziyuan leaned over and asked.

"What is the attitude of those Jin merchants now? Are they willing to make atonement for their sins with silver, or are they? ”

After all, in addition to the eight imperial merchants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the merchants in Jiexiu, Qixian, Taigu and other places who started by cooperating with the Manchus are no less than hundreds, and these people have hundreds of thousands of taels of family business, and more than millions.

Unlike Zhu Mingzhong's exile of traitors, Li Ziyuan's attitude towards those puppet official families is very simple, that is, let them sacrifice silver to atone for their crimes, in this way, they can not only ease the relationship with those puppet officials, but also obtain the silver salary of the Northern Expedition.

However, as soon as his words fell here, Xu Yuncheng sneered over there.

"The big man was surprised, as the saying goes, everyone gets the traitor and is punished! If such traitors do not punish their clans and raid their homes, how can the people of the world be a warning for them? How can they warn future generations so that they dare not be traitors? ”

Such righteous and stern words are obviously different from the previous attitude, and the reason for this is simple, those people are just businessmen, in Xu Yuncheng's eyes, they are just a group of fat sheep, just like Zhu Mingzhong copied the home of a Jin salt merchant in Yangzhou, and it is entirely because they are traitors? Traitors are nothing more than their crimes, and silver is the reason for killing them.

"Kill!"

Spit out a word coldly, Xu Yuncheng's eyes narrowed and snorted coldly.

"Not only do we have to kill all these profiteers, but we are also punishing the three tribes, how can we be angry and lose their property if we don't kill them, and how can we be worthy of the Han people who died......