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The fourth battalion of Li Jibu, under the response of Zhang Qi in the "Chu Mansion Soldiers", successfully took the Wenchang Gate and the Security Gate, and the city of Wuchang was broken, and Li Zicheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because of the pilgrimage to Beijing, there were not many civil officials in Wuchang City, and the main ones who were captured in the city were some military generals.

These people did not have much achievement in military strategy, and they took the initiative to retreat in Wuchang City and passively waited for the Heavenly Mandate Army to surround them, and even Cui Wenrong, the general in the city, couldn't see it.

But these generals are not useless, inside and outside Wuchang City, the strength of the Ming army and the Mandate of Heaven army is very different, but these generals did not abandon the city and fled, but fought bloodily on the front line, and their loyalty and martyrdom are still very admirable.

If Zhang Qi hadn't opened the city gate in secret, no one could have said when the battle would end.

Li Zicheng did not embarrass the captured officials, although they were detained in the Wuchang Mansion, they were not bound, but were served with good wine and food.

The members of the clan represented by Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, were not as lucky as the officials, and Li Zicheng directly ordered that all the families be raided and exterminated!

Li Zicheng confiscated all the palaces in Henan, the only reason was for money and food, but after the Heavenly Mandate Army entered Huguang, there was no shortage of money and food, at least money and food were not as important as when they entered Henan.

He continued to raid the palace, although there were also reasons for money and food, but mainly to divide the relationship between the Zhu clan and ordinary officials, after a long time, someone must be able to find a certain law from it: the clan is the clan, the official is the official, in the face of death, the official can choose to be loyal to the clan, the court, or the Mandate of Heaven.

Li Zicheng deliberately put the Mandate of Heaven Army on an equal footing with the imperial court.

When raiding the palace, the Mandate of Heaven army still had a lot of gains, just one Chu palace, found 400,000 stone grain, more than one million taels of silver, as well as a lot of gold, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and painting, porcelain, etc., the specific value is unknown, and there are countless kinds of property......

In the next placement of Wuchang officials, Li Zicheng made a difficulty, because the political envoys of Huguang, the Wuchang prefect, and the Jiangxia prefect all entered the Hajj and did not return, and the new Wuchang prefect had some difficulties in childbirth.

He Fengsheng, a former cabinet minister, first entered Li Zicheng's field of vision, He Fengsheng had previously served as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, a scholar of Dongge University, and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion.

If He Fengsheng can become the prefect of Wuchang, it will definitely greatly increase the positive influence of the Heavenly Mandate Army in Wuchang, at least the officials and beings who are close to him will be closer to the Heavenly Mandate Army.

It's a pity that He Fengsheng committed suicide!

Li Zicheng set his sights on the governor of the palace Shi Xu Xueyan, Xu Xueyan took Jiangxia affairs, belonged to the acting Jiangxia magistrate, he had a certain experience as an official, and had the ability to serve as the prefect of Wuchang, but Xu Xueyan refused to be an official, clamoring to be loyal to the king of Chu.

Li Zicheng naturally doesn't believe such nonsense, he really wants to be loyal to the king of Chu, there are many ways to commit suicide, hanging, hunger strike, hitting the wall, biting off the root of his tongue, etc., the Mandate of Heaven army has no hands and feet tied, you can fall to death when walking, you can choke to death when you eat, and you can drown when you drink water!

Whenever a woman was upset, she stood by the river and shouted, "I don't want to live," and if a fool really believed and pulled desperately, the more the woman struggled into the river.

The rational way to deal with it is to ignore it, completely ignore her existence, make a noise, and go back by yourself, if you really want to find death, quietly go to the bottom of the river, and don't know it, isn't it the easiest

Wish-fulfillment?

The most afraid is that when I meet someone with ulterior motives, I will clearly pull the woman to the shore, but in fact, the "strength" is not as good as the woman......

Who doesn't cherish life if they can live well?

Li Zicheng knew that Xu Xueyan was not unwilling to join the Heavenly Mandate Army, he just looked down on the Heavenly Mandate Army, or lacked a reason to defect to the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Xu Xueyan's matter was the most suitable to be handed over to Niu Jinxing, but Niu Jinxing was not in Wuchang City, so Li Zicheng handed him over to Li Xin.

According to the Sichuan model, it is necessary to establish the Wuchang Court and the Wuchang Supervision Yuan, and Li Zicheng is not eclectic, with Zhusheng Mingrui as the president of the court, and Li Yuying is sentenced to be the president of the Supervision Yuan.

In the matter of appointing officials in Wuchang, Li Zicheng once again realized the importance of reserve officials, so he was also born as a Wujin soldier, and Cui Wenrong, the commander of the Jiangdu Division, and Cui Wenrong, a staff general, did not serve, but only served as temporary staff members with the Mandate of Heaven Army.

Wuchang is the capital of Daming Huguang, the Tianming Army occupies Wuchang City, and even the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction have been taken, do you want to settle the Huguang Provincial Capital of the Heavenly Mandate Army in Wuchang?

Li Zicheng was a little hesitant.

Wuchang is a famous city, a big city, all the yamen are complete, basically do not need to rebuild, but Wuchang also has a disadvantage, from a geographical point of view, Wuchang is too far to the northeast, it is difficult to radiate, take care of the southern and southeastern territories.

After careful consideration, Li Zicheng still decided to move the provincial capital to Wuchang, and let the governor Zhang Dingyan take all the officials to settle in Wuchang for two reasons:

Although Wuchang is not the geographical center of Huguang Province, it is the economic center and geographical center of the entire Huguang Province, and the richest place in Huguang is the Jianghan Plain, and Wuchang is the center of the Jianghan Plain.

Secondly, Wuchang is the eastern gate of Huguang. Huguang is Sichuan, north belongs to Henan, are the territory of the Mandate of Heaven, and the south is the mountains, if the imperial court wants to fight Huguang's idea, it must send troops from the east, tracing the river, if Wuchang is established as the capital of Huguang and the seat of the provincial capital, you can concentrate money and grain, heavy troops to defend Huguang, and block the Ming army from Huguang.

In Wuchang City, the normal order was gradually restored, the people happily appeared on the streets, shops and markets were reopened, and the lintels of many shops were hung with the words "Warm Welcome to the Mandate of Heaven".

Li Zicheng moved most of his troops outside the city, and only two hundred city guards were stationed in the city, which not only guarded the city gates, but also assisted in the arrest and maintenance of law and order inside and outside the city.

The prefect Xu Xueyan recruited some officials and rushed to register the people and redistribute the cultivated land!

However, Li Zicheng found that although Huguang was also seriously annexed with land, and the clan and gentry occupied most of the cultivated land, the poverty of the common people was mainly due to the increase in the imperial court's endowment and the troubles of soldiers and bandits.

Could it be that Huguang is different from Gansu and Henan?

On 7 March, Li Zicheng saw that the overall situation in Wuchang had been decided, so he held a banquet in his big tent to celebrate the achievements of the commanders of the battalions and regiments of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

In addition to the Chengtian Battalion's Gao Meritorious Service Department, which was not in Wuchang, the 1st Battalion, the 4th Battalion, the 7th Battalion, the 1st Battalion, the 17th Regiment Commander of the 5th Battalion of the Fengtian Battalion, and Li Zicheng himself, plus Luo Rucai, the nominal general of the Chengtian Battalion, a total of 24 people.

Just after the hour, the commanders of each battalion came in twos and threes, and everyone's faces were full of color

With a smile, the Metropolitan Governor has always been stingy with rewards, this time I don't know if it is a promotion or a reward for silver, it would be nice if there was another hot little girl......

When it was close to noon, Luo Ru sent a message: he was unwell and could not attend today's banquet!

Li Zicheng's face changed slightly, and he gestured to the two soldiers behind him, and the two nodded silently, and then disappeared.

The commanders of the battalions were unaware and continued to talk about their own topics.

Li Zicheng entered the camp tent of the banquet guests, exchanged a few words with everyone, swept his eyes, coughed, and He Xiaomi immediately entered the account with his fully armed personal soldiers.

Before everyone could understand it, He Xiaomi and Xiaoqi's personal soldiers had already caught He Yilong and Lin Chengcheng and tied them with ropes.

Everyone was shocked, Ma Shouying wanted to draw the knife, but his right hand was empty, it turned out that when it was recorded, everyone was disarmed, and Liu Xiyao unconsciously leaned towards Ma Shouying's side.

Li Zicheng's eyes swept away, and he had already seen everything in his eyes, Liu Yunshui, Li Ji, Song Wen, and Li Xin, although they were very stunned, they all stood still, and seemed to be stunned.

"Don't be nervous," Li Zicheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "This matter has nothing to do with everyone, after it will be resolved in a while, everyone can drink and eat!" ”

Seeing Li Zicheng's smiling face, everyone's nervousness relaxed slightly, and many people were already reflecting on themselves, whether they had violated the laws of the Heavenly Mandate Army during this time.

Ma Shouying's heart was still extremely nervous, the two people who were arrested were both from the Fengtian camp, and his reaction just now was ...... He glared at Liu Xiyao, Liu Xiyao only slightly distanced himself from Ma Shouying, this is Li Zicheng's big tent, if he really wants to anger Li Zicheng, he has no strength to resist at all......

Ma Shouying met Li Zicheng's gaze and arched his hand: "The Governor of the Metropolitan ......"

"General Ma doesn't need to worry," Li Zicheng had a gentle smile on his face, "The Governor of Pondu will explain to you soon," he pointed at He Yilong and Lin Yangsheng, who were bound, with his hand, and said, "The Governor of Pondu will also give them a chance to appeal!" ”

It didn't take long for Li Zicheng's personal soldiers to escort the bound Luo Rucai back, "Metropolitan Governor, Luo Rucai is as cunning as a fox, he wants to escape secretly, and he was ......caught by the brothers who were waiting."

Li Zicheng laughed and said, "Luo Rucai, the governor of Pontus kindly invited you to drink and eat, and recounted your merits, why did you run away?" ”

Luo Rucai saw He Yilong and Lin Yangsheng who were tied to the side, and couldn't help but look like ashes, he lowered his head and said tremblingly: "I'm not guilty......"

At this time, someone seemed to understand something, if Luo Rucai didn't have a ghost in his heart, why did he run away?

"Is there any crime, let you comment," Li Zicheng said coldly: "In Henan that day, Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated and voted, did you secretly fund Zhang Xianzhong's fifty war horses?" ”

"At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was a friendly ......"

"Allies? Why didn't Pontus know? Li Zicheng said angrily: "Could it be that you, Luo Rucai, have privately formed an alliance with Zhang Xianzhong?" What alliance? ”

“……”

"The governor of Pontus only admits the facts," Li Zicheng glanced at everyone, and said: "Luo Rucai privately gave Zhang Xianzhong's war horse, put it aside for the time being," suddenly took out a letter from the left pocket, which was still in front of Li Zicheng's eyes, "Take a closer look, this is the letter from Gao Mingheng, the guard general in the city, when the second siege of the Heavenly Mandate Army was opened, right?" ”

(End of chapter)

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