Tongguan was taken in this way, and Li Zicheng thought that Zhang Bin would send all the captured peasant soldiers back to his hometown like Xiong Wencan, so he didn't make a noise at all when he left, and even let the soldiers defending the city resist when he went out of the east gate!

In doing so, he directly gave Zhang Bin a big gift, 150,000 peasant sergeants were captured in one fell swoop, and none of them escaped, these people were basically caught by Xiong Wencan last time, they had an experience, and they didn't seem to be very afraid of the officers and soldiers, and they surrendered if they couldn't fight, anyway, they were finally sent back to their hometowns, and they were regarded as going home to visit their relatives.

Zhang Bin didn't expect things to be so simple, after the West Gate was opened, 60,000 troops pushed the chariot and swarmed in, and in less than an hour, Li Dingguo sent someone to report that Tongguan Pass had been taken, and all the thieves in the city had surrendered!

He thought that most of the thieves had escaped, but in the final settlement, there were about 150,000 prisoners, that is, no one escaped at all.

This result was really a bit unexpected to him, and he didn't expect that Li Zicheng, the anti-thief who was raging in Guanzhong, would be wiped out so quickly.

What's next?

He stood on the towering wall south of Tongguan and fell into deep thought.

If he sent a large army into the mountains to search for Li Zicheng at this time, it was really possible to arrest Li Zicheng, but he couldn't do this, he wanted to raise Kou Zizun, but how could Chongzhen fool him, and said directly, I won't chase it, it will definitely not work, I must find some excuse or be busy with other things.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally remembered a very important thing, that is, to recover Guanzhong, at this time, most of the cities in Guanzhong are still in the hands of the thieves, he knows that there are only a few hundred old and weak soldiers in those cities at most, so Zheng Chongjian can recover them by sending some people over casually, but he just doesn't know.

A lot of things, he pretended not to know!

He wrote this to Chongzhen, after nearly half a month of fierce battles, he fought all the way from Lantian to Xi'an, and from Xi'an to Tongguan, a total of six cities, captured more than 400,000 thieves, now the passage between Shaanxi and Henan has been opened, but the thief chief Li Zicheng is still missing, he will command the army to recover the state capitals in Guanzhong, while searching for the thief chief Li Zicheng.

He is going to grind for two months first, and then play for Chongzhen when the time comes, if he can't find the thief chief Li Zicheng, people insist on hiding, so he can't be blamed!

Of course, he didn't have nothing to do in the past two months, and more than 400,000 captives were enough for him to keep busy.

He planned to transport the captives to the base overseas of Matsue Prefecture by wheels, and then order the Zhenyuan cruiser to transfer the captives to Toban.

Regardless of the section from the overseas base of Songjiang Prefecture to the east for the time being, it is enough to travel more than 3,000 miles from Tongguan to the overseas base of Songjiang Prefecture, and when you go downstream, it only takes about three or four days, but when you come back, it takes six or seven days, that is to say, it takes more than ten days to go back and forth, and more than 800 wheels can only transport more than 100,000 people in one trip, and it takes at least four trips to complete it, and he has to work for more than 40 days alone.

Of course, Chongzhen doesn't know what medicine Zhang Bin bought in the gourd, judging from the situation described in the song, it seems that there are still many thieves in the pass, the only thing to be thankful for is that all the cities on the line from Xi'an to Tongguan have been recovered.

As for the 400,000 captives, Chongzhen has no doubt at all, although these captives don't need to be checked one by one, but the list has to be handed over, and it is clear to pair the name and place of origin with the yellow book, as long as he is captured, he will definitely not be able to find this person in his hometown, if there is no name and place of origin in the yellow book at all, or the corresponding person is still in his hometown and did not participate in the rebellion, it must be a false report, so this cannot be faked at all.

After Zhang Bin finished writing the recital, he simply sat in Tongguan to direct the recovery of various parts of Guanzhong and the transfer of prisoners, as for Xi'an City, he was too lazy to go, because there were people from the Qin Wangfu there, and he was really too lazy to deal with these pig-headed and pig-brained imperial relatives.

If you want to say that the most important thing at this time is not to recover the state capitals in Guanzhong, but to transfer prisoners, more than 400,000 prisoners is not a small number, at this time the total army of the imperial court is only 450,000, if they are gathered together, it is really scared to death, if it is not dealt with as soon as possible, it is likely that there will be problems, Li Zicheng wants to go to which prisoner gathering place to rebel or something, then something big will happen.

He first ordered Yu Chenglong to transport 100,000 captives from Tongguan to 100,000, and then ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead an army of 10,000 to Weinan to sit in the town, and at the same time ordered Li Dingguo to lead 10,000 horses to transfer 50,000 captives from Huayin to Tongguan, ordered He Renlong to transfer more than 100,000 captives from Lantian to Huayin, and ordered 5,000 defenders of Lintong to transfer 50,000 captives to Weinan.

In this way, the remaining 300,000 captives were gathered in Weinan, Huayin and Tongguan, and Weinan and Huayin had Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew in charge, and he could rest assured that as for Tongguan, there was no problem if he had his own town.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng ran away, but left hundreds of thousands of stone grain in Tongguan, and it was not a problem for his 100,000 troops and these hundreds of thousands of captives to eat for two months, but it also saved him from mobilizing grain and grass everywhere.

After the prisoners were transferred, he began to arrange for the recovery of the state capitals in Guanzhong.

He first ordered Qin Gongming to lead 30,000 Henan soldiers to come to Tongguan to assemble, this Tongguan City, he was ready to hand over to Qin Gongming to guard, he was going to lead 100,000 Fuguang troops to leave here after all, such an important pass is definitely not guarded by anyone.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered Wang Shangli to lead 10,000 horses to recover Yan'an Mansion, Bai Wenxuan to lead 10,000 horses to recover Pingliang Mansion, Feng Shuangli to lead 10,000 horses to recover Fengxiang Mansion, Ma Yuanli to lead 10,000 horses to recover Gongchang Mansion, Zhang Hualong to lead 10,000 horses to recover Lintao Mansion, and He Renlong to lead 10,000 Qin troops to go back to guard Xi'an.

As for the 30,000 Shaanxi soldiers, they were going to go to the state capital to receive the city, and the Fuguang army took one of them, and they just went to receive one, and each city was temporarily garrisoned by 500 people.

He was busy mobilizing people, transporting prisoners, and recovering the city, and Chongzhen and Xue Guoguan, the two traitorous ministers of the faint monarch, were also very busy during this time, because he had recovered so many places, and he had to appoint and dismiss local officials.

The thieves will not be polite to the local officials, and in the places they occupy, except for the real Qing officials, the other officials will die in their hands!

How many real Qing officials have there been in these years, so where the thieves have passed, the local officials have almost been killed, and after these places are recovered, people must be arranged to govern them, and these are the responsibilities of Xue Guoguan, the secretary of the Ministry and the second assistant of the cabinet.

Chongzhen is fighting with Xue Guoguan at this time, as long as it is nominated by Xue Guoguan, he doesn't want to think about it, all of them are gracious!

As everyone knows, at this time, Xue Guoguan began to play Chongzhen, and he began to secretly win over other eunuch remnants, form gangs, form parties for personal gain, and even secretly began to buy and sell officials!

The official he sold is not the kind of fictitious position that he gets, but a real local official, from Luoyang Mansion in Henan Province to Xiangyang Mansion in Huguang, Chengtian Mansion, Wuchang Mansion, and then to the entire state capital in Guanzhong, from the left and right political envoys, criminal envoys to the prefect, governor, and county, as long as you are willing to pay, you can buy it, if no one pays, he will arrange his own henchmen or other eunuch remnants to take over!

At this time, the spring of the remnants of the eunuch party and corrupt officials came again, when Wen Tiren was cut down, they all thought that their end had come, Chongzhen used a large number of capable officials under Zhang Bin, and the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party of the various yamen of the imperial court were almost wiped out.

Seeing that this fire was about to burn on them, Yang Sichang suddenly took the position, this Yang Pavilion was ordered to form a party, as long as you are willing to listen to him, he doesn't care if you are a remnant of the eunuch party, a corrupt official or a corrupt official, you are fine, the remnants of the eunuch party and the corrupt officials in the court finally got a rare respite.

However, it didn't take long for the Yang Pavilion to hang up, and all of a sudden, the remnants of the eunuchs and corrupt officials in the court began to worry again, and they couldn't stop worrying.

Fortunately, the emperor's "wise and martial arts" suddenly enabled Xue Guoguan, the authentic remnant of the eunuch party, Xue Guoguan figured out the holy will, flattered him, and won the emperor's trust, and at this time, he finally obtained the power to appoint and dismiss officials.

Although he only got the power to appoint and dismiss local officials this time, it is also quite good, the eunuch remnants and corrupt officials in the court don't want to go to the place, they can arrange their own henchmen or relatives and friends to go, three years Qingzhi County can get 100,000 snowflakes of silver, this time even local high-ranking officials like the political envoy and the prefect have to buy, so don't hurry up to Xue Guoguan Xue Cifu to get closer!

As long as you join his disciples, or get closer to him and stuff him with silver, you can be promoted and make a fortune, two capitals and thirteen provinces, except for the capital and Jinling, other places, you can go wherever you want, left and right political envoys, criminal envoys, prefects, prefectures, and counties, whatever official you want to be will be arranged for you!

In other words, isn't it only the officials in Luoyang Mansion in Henan, Xiangyang Mansion in Huguang, and Hanzhong Prefecture in Shaanxi Province that have become vacant, and why have they become where they want to go?

This is simple, for example, you want to go to Shanxi Datong Mansion to be the prefect, but, Shanxi Taiyuan Mansion has a prefect, what to do, simple, transfer the prefect of Taiyuan Mansion to Luoyang Mansion or Wuchang Mansion to Ren Governor's Mansion, this son will not vacate for you.

If you want some officials to be transferred, you can find something to get rid of others, let you go, these days, there are a few people whose butts are clean, I really want to find him, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find it!

At present, almost all the places in Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang provinces where anti-thief activities are rampant or have been conquered have been replaced by eunuch remnants and corrupt officials, and these places have simply become gathering places for corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

They have paid the price for promotion, and they don't work hard to get to the local level, it's not enough to make enough money, they have to let themselves live a luxurious life, and they have to take out the money for continuing to be promoted, and they have to take out all the money for pension and future generations!

The chain of corrupt interests that was cut off after Wen Tiren's death was connected by Xue Guoguan, and the Ming Dynasty fell into a corruption frenzy again!