As for the remaining subordinates of Zhang Xianzhong, most of them chose to surrender to the Xingtian Army after receiving Zhang Xianzhong's handwritten letter, including Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu, as well as the former battalion general Erhu, the right battalion general He Guoguan and others, all of whom also surrendered to the Xingtian Army, only a few people were unwilling to surrender, but these people could not become any climate, Xiao Tianjian was not interested in cleaning them up for the time being, and it was not too late to clean them up after pacifying Huguang.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian easily solved Zhang Xianzhong's big trouble with lightning speed, and at the same time easily incorporated the northwest of Huguang, including Gucheng, Baokang, Nanzhang, Xingshan, Fangshan and other counties, into the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, and ordered each ministry to send a small group of people to take over these territories, responsible for forming local reserve battalions in these territories, and also appointed a group of temporary scribes to manage these places.

As for the tens of thousands of horses and horses under Zhang Xianzhong's command, Xiao Tianjian selected them in a unified manner, did not want any soldiers, eliminated all ruffians, and selected them according to the criteria for selecting soldiers in the Xingtian Army, leaving more than 7,000 people, and the remaining more than 20,000 people were dismissed on the spot, and arranged for them to land for the people, go back to their old jobs, and continue farming.

And for Zhang Xianzhong, Xiao Tianjian will not compare him with Luo Rucai, on the surface he is very polite, but in essence he is put under house arrest, considering that there are too many of his old departments in Xiangyang, there may be trouble, so after reorganizing the soldiers and horses under his command, Zhang Xianzhong's family will be moved to Jinnan to find a place to organize and manage, Ronghua Fugui does not dare to guarantee that he will continue, at least for the time being, to ensure the safety of his family's life, let them be fed and clothed, for Xiao Tianjian to arrange him like this, although Zhang Xianzhong is not happy, but he didn't dare to fart, so he had to be honestly "escorted" on the road by a team of guards, and went all the way to Shanxi, which completely cut off the connection between him and the old department, and his old department had no more thoughts.

Of course, I have to mention Xu Yixian and Pan Duao, when Xiao Tianjian captured Zhang Xianzhong, he also captured the two of them together, and privately recruited them to the tent to chat, and found that these two people were relatively useful, otherwise they would not be relied on by Zhang Xianzhong, so he appeased them and asked them what they thought, whether to go or stay.

The reason why literati like them are "thieves" are actually not peaceful people, they just want to do something to get ahead in this troubled world, now they are all people who want to be caught and killed by the imperial court, Zhang Xianzhong is finished, this is not to be thought about, people like them will not follow Zhang Xianzhong to the black, and at the same time, they also found that Xiao Tianjian is actually not the kind of soft-hearted person, compared to Zhang Xianzhong, more heroic, Now let them decide for themselves whether to stay or not, in fact, it is just to see the performance of the two of them.

That's, where can you go? There are still a few people in the world who can still be counted, and only Li Zicheng is left with a higher reputation? But when the two of them assisted Zhang Xianzhong, they both had a gap with Li Zicheng, so there was nowhere to go, so both of them could only choose to stay and follow Xiao Tianjian, although in the Xingtianjun, their status may be much lower than when they followed Zhang Xianzhong, but they can also get mixed up, so both of them immediately knelt down and confessed to Xiao Tianjian, expressing their willingness to follow Xiao Tianjian from then on.

For the two of them to take refuge, Xiao Tianjian of course laughed, in fact, in Xiao Tianjian's heart, as long as these two people say to leave, he will immediately send someone to kill them, such a person is also a scourge to leave other people, and must not be let go, as for the two of them are also very wise, they chose to stay, so Xiao Tianjian ordered them to temporarily do the work of the military counselor, that is, the staff officer, and the staff of Li Xin temporarily obeyed the order, and then decided whether they were the main civil affairs or military affairs depending on their strengths in the future.

This time Zhang Xianzhong was killed, Xiao Tianjian also seized a lot of Zhang Xianzhong's war horse armor, of course, over the years, Zhang Xianzhong has made a lot of money in the southern and northern wars, although he spent a lot during the dormant period in Gucheng, but Zhang Xianzhong still has hundreds of thousands of taels of silver inventory, which were also accepted by Xiao Tianjian.

After solving Zhang Xianzhong's big trouble, Xiao Tianjian had no worries, and immediately gathered to discuss the next move, after discussion, Xiao Tianjian officially ordered Li Xin to write a letter to discuss the current imperial court, which once again listed all kinds of things that the imperial court was not doing, recruiting heroes from all over the world, and jointly asking for it, and announced that once the Xingtianjun took Huguang, then the people of Huguang would be immediately exempted from the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, leaving only the taxes they should pay, and at the same time, they would also be given a two-year exemption.

Xiao Tianjian will not learn the kind of thing that Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng did at the beginning, in order to buy people's hearts, he will call out the exemption for three or five years at every turn, Li Zicheng even simply shouted out some bullshit slogan that the king is coming and does not pay food, if it is really like them, the world will be exempted! What will he rely on to eat and drink in the future? Therefore, what he wants is to re-establish a normal and reasonable tax system, so that on the one hand, the people can benefit and bear it more easily, and on the other hand, they can also meet the military and administrative expenses of the Xingtian Army by collecting taxes.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian also took out 200,000 taels of silver from the property obtained from the battle of Xiangyang, to help the surrounding refugees who were affected by the military disaster, and re-settled them on the land to resume agricultural production as soon as possible.

Therefore, no matter at any time, he kept this in mind, that is, whenever a land is laid, he will operate a land, and restore agricultural production as quickly as possible, so that the people can obtain the most basic living capital, and the people are actually very easy to appease, as long as they have food to eat, they will not starve to death, and few people will be willing to take risks and play with knives.

With the release of this document by the Xingtian Army in Xiangyang, as well as the relief of the victims, the news quickly spread in the Huguang area, the people have really suffered a lot over the years, and after hearing about it, they are all looking forward to the Xingtian Army, and in many places they simply spontaneously pulled the pole and did it, just waiting for the Xingtian Army to kill, they immediately responded.

In terms of the use of troops, such a large corps now assembled by the Xingtian Army, originally a part of the staff of the General Staff Department thought that the whole army could move south, take Jingzhou in one fell swoop, and then go south along the Yangtze River to capture Wuhan, but Li Xin expressed his opposition and proposed a plan to divide the troops, suggesting that Xiao Tianjian attack Suizhou with a group of men and horses, contain the official army from the north, and then the main force should go south to attack Jingzhou, and then the two troops and horses would go hand in hand to kill Wuhan, so that it would be more secure.

After Xiao Tianjian considered it, he adopted Li Xin's suggestion and ordered Luo Li to lead his own troops to attack Suizhou with Xu Yixian's assistance, while Li Xuanzhu's department left some men and horses, and Zhao Erdonkey sat in Xiangyang, on the one hand, to control Xiangyang so as not to be recaptured by the official army, and on the other hand, to monitor the official army in Yunyang, in case the official army in Sichuan and Shaanxi took advantage of the gap to advance eastward.

The rest of the men and horses followed Xiao Tianjian south to Jingzhou with the Guards Division as the main force, looking for Zuo Liangyu to face off, and taking advantage of the situation to capture the Jingzhou area in one fell swoop.

After agreeing on the plan, the Xingtian army, which had rested for a while, moved again, Luo Li immediately led his troops from Zaoyang and attacked the past in the direction of Suizhou, while Xiao Tianjian led a large number of men and horses to start southward along the Hanshui and land routes, and approached Chengtianfu, the gateway to Jingzhou.

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