Mo Li stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and suddenly said: "Immediately announce the news of the fall of the Jingshi and the death of the emperor." 8 Chinese>1) In addition, the official ordered that the officers and men of the three armies and the officials of the state capital, including the soldiers fighting on the front line, should all be vegetarian, mourn for the emperor and the queen, and hold a national memorial, without mistake. ”

Everyone was stunned and came back to their senses from their grief. Dongfang Jin pondered for a while, and seemed to understand Mo Li's intentions.

"Ming Shen, you immediately draft a document to beg for thieves, and immediately distribute it to criticize Li Zicheng's contempt for insulting the body of the first emperor and queen, and to expose the atrocities of the traitor in Beijing to the world. At the same time, it is necessary to forcefully express the confidence and determination of our new Liao army to raise troops to fight against the traitors. ”

exposed the atrocities of the traitor Li Zicheng to the world, and first seized a commanding heights from public opinion and morality, so that everyone in the world could see Li Zicheng's face clearly, and they all came to condemn Li Zicheng's atrocities and make him lose the support of the people.

The power of public opinion is powerful, and Mo Li firmly believes in this.

"Yes, my subordinates will do it immediately." Chen Yan immediately responded.

"This official decree is that all generals are not allowed to leave the camp, and they must pay attention to pacifying the soldiers, grasp the mood of the army, prevent the collapse of morale and riots, strengthen training, and be on call at any time.

The officials and soldiers who stayed in the states and counties immediately stopped all vacations, actively trained, raised food and grass materials, and prepared for the Northern Expedition to cope with the changes in the world! ”

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With Mo Li's orders one after another, all the officials and soldiers in Huguang were vegetarian, and the chief officials of various states even set up a dojo at the entrance of the yamen to pray for the blessings of the emperor and empress of Daxing.

In the military camps in various places, according to Mo Li's instructions, the commanders and generals also recruited soldiers one after another to publicize Li Zicheng's evil deeds in Beijing, and analyzed in detail the reasons why Li Zicheng's various actions were angry and resentful, unpopular with the people, and bound to be defeated.

At the same time, in the name of Moli, he called on the generals to train hard, in order to lead the troops into the Beijing division in the future, avenge the Daxing Emperor, and put down the rebels.

The reason why Mo Li immediately begged for the thief and the people's proclamation, prayed for the blessing of the Daxing Emperor, etc., was nothing more than to tell the people under Huguang's rule that although the emperor was dead, but he Mo Li was there, the sky in Huguang would not fall, so that the people could farm with peace of mind, and the Mojia army was fully capable of ensuring their safety.

Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiangyang City, was furious when he learned that Emperor Chongzhen had collapsed, fell seriously ill, and was bedridden and died within two days.

Zhu Yiming's eldest son Zhu Changqing died a few years early, and now only his second son Zhu Changcheng is left with a single seedling. But Zhu Changcheng was only six or seven years old at this time, and he couldn't handle any official business at all, and after Moli led his troops into Xiangyang City, he presided over the memorial of Emperor Daxing, so all the affairs of Xiangyang City were also handed over to Moli.

After Mo Li reported the death of Bu Chongzhen and the mourning of the soldiers and civilians, his orders were quickly conveyed and quickly implemented.

In Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Wuchang, Changsha, and even the prefecture capitals and counties controlled by the Mojia Army in Jiangxi, all the officers and soldiers and officials were all plain, dressed in mourning clothes, and hundreds of ordinary people, soldiers and civilians wept bitterly.

The feelings of the common people are very simple, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Chongzhen court may have brought deep suffering to many people, but the idea of divine authority has always been the simple idea of the general public. In their view, the emperor is the heaven above their heads.

But now that the sky is falling, and they are told that the emperor is dead, almost everyone is feeling helpless. Many of them are uneducated, they don't know that the emperor is actually a human being, as long as he has the strength, anyone can do it.

Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom. In the territory of Huguang, there is a white expanse everywhere. It's just this white, in addition to the snow falling from the sky, there are also mourning clothes on countless soldiers and civilians. This piece of white makes people feel uncomfortable and desolate.

Fortunately, the confusion of the people of Huguang was quickly alleviated.

Because, Moli, the governor of Huguang, successively asked for thieves' documents, proclamations for the people, and various measures. At the same time, the Mojia army was frequently mobilized, vigorously trained, actively advanced to Henan and Shanxi, and strongly attacked Li Zicheng's rebels.

This kind of action is all declaring the strong existence of the Mojia army in Huguang, and telling all the people that the sky has not completely collapsed, as long as there is Mo Li and the Mo army, the sky in Huguang will not collapse.

In the past year, Moli has promoted the cultivation of miscellaneous grains and new forms of planting and breeding in the vast number of lakes, and the grain harvest has been bumper in all parts of the lake, and the output has been greatly doubled. Now in the minds of the people of Huguang, Moli is simply a god-like existence.

The people trusted Moli, the young man who had brought them a stable life and abundant food.

They also firmly believe that as long as there is the Mo army, they will be able to ensure that Huguang is safe in the future.

When the news of the emperor's collapse reached Nanjing, everyone was shocked.

The officials who stayed in Nanjing, the capital, were all shocked, wept bitterly, and sacrificed to the Daxing Emperor who hanged him.

Since Yongle, the Ming Dynasty has been using the two Beijing system, Nanjing, like the Beijing Division, still retains the leadership of the six departments and nine Qing, which is also the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty.

There are a total of thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty, and in terms of daily governance, it has been divided into six in the south and seven in the north, and the Nanjing team is responsible for the governance of the six provinces in the south.

Because the Nanzhili region where Nanjing is located has jurisdiction over 15 prefectures and three Zhili prefectures, which is equivalent to the two provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Shanghai, but there are no three divisions, namely, the political department, the judicial department, and the capital command department, and the functions and powers performed by the original three divisions are in charge of the six departments in Nanjing, among which the power of the Nanjing household department and the Nanjing military department is the heaviest.

The household department of Nanjing was responsible for collecting taxes and grains from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces (these four places accounted for almost half of the Ming Empire's taxes and grains), and was also responsible for the transportation of salt and the exploration of salt throughout the country.

As for the Nanjing Military Department, it was responsible for the garrison of the Nanjing area, and the 49 guards in the Nanjing area were all under the command of Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department. The secretary of the Nanjing Military Department generally holds the title of "Counselor and Aircraft Maintenance", and manages all the affairs of Nanjing together with the eunuchs of the town guard and the lords of the Nanjing garrison.

Moreover, Nanjing, as the capital of Liu, also has a very important role, that is, once the Beijing division guarding the country falls, Nanjing can immediately substitute for the battle and perform the functions of the central government.

After crying, people remembered that the emperor is gone, you can stand again, Beijing is gone, and Nanjing, the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the previous dynasties is that it has always retained a complete set of leadership team in Nanjing, the capital of Liudu, and even the eunuchs of the Si Li Bingbi should have all the complete, compared with the Beijing Division, there is almost no emperor.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, even if the capital falls and the emperor is in power, as long as an emperor is re-established, according to common sense, the institutions of the entire empire can resume normal operation.

But the question is this emperor, who will be the emperor?