However, Gao Yihuan heard that Zhou Ronghua came to buy grain, and thought that Li Zicheng in Guanzhong began to want to farm, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

However, if you think about it, before the Liukou were mobile and fighting, they were chased by officials and soldiers on all sides, and they could only run in all directions, so it was naturally impossible to farm, but now that the threat of the officials and troops has been eliminated and there is a stable territory, the nature of the peasants' attachment to the land has been manifested again.

After Gao Yihuan agreed, he couldn't help asking: "Brother Zhou, did the imperial court start to divide the fields in Guanzhong and start encouraging farming?" ”

"Nope!" Zhou Ronghua was a little puzzled: "Why does Brother Gao ask that." Prime Minister Niu is keen to plan the Eastern Crusade, wanting to overthrow the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible and be the real founding prime minister. ”

Gao Yihuan couldn't help frowning, "Brother Zhou, where did you come from?" ”

Zhou Ronghua was a little smug and said: "Brother Gao, you don't know this." Guanzhong is full of ownerless fields, like the fields of the King of Qin, as well as the fields of other old rich people, all of which have been abandoned. I saw that Brother Gao, you did a good job in Runing, so I thought that I would grow one myself, anyway, those places were panicked, so I circled a piece. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Ronghua's face suddenly became angry, "Mother, who knew that I was in a circle, and others followed in the circle, and in the end, I saw a large piece of land, which was robbed by Zhao Hou, my uncle today." ”

After listening to it, Gao Yihuan understood that the division of land in Guanzhong was completely done by some Shunjun officers and the displaced people who followed the customs.

The hope of land and being a small landlord is the dream of the vast majority of intruders and displaced people.

Zhou Ronghua and his group, as well as some other leaders of the army, took advantage of Li Zicheng's lack of attention, so they took the opportunity to divide up, enclose the land, and divide the land into a few places.

After Gao Yihuan heard this, he was a little disappointed that Li Zicheng was still the same, it was really muddy that couldn't support the wall, but it was not a bad thing for the Shun army and the displaced people to spontaneously fight for land.

When the fertile land is planted, there will be grain harvest, and if Li comes back from success or failure, he will not run out of food.

Gao Yihuan felt that as long as Li Zicheng could spend some time governing Guanzhong, even if he was defeated in the future, there should not be much problem in sticking to it, but his mind didn't seem to be on people's livelihood.

Gao Yihuan stood up, "Brother Zhou, let's do it!" I'll give you 5,000 stone to seed first, and I'll give you another batch after the autumn grain is harvested. ”

There is no rice to grow in the north, so Gao Yihuan can only buy rice from the south to eat and squeeze out a little wheat for Zhou Ronghua.

The two were talking, when Zhao Zhuzi suddenly walked into the lobby, he glanced at Zhou Ronghua, walked to Gao Yihuan, and whispered a few words.

Gao Yihuan's face changed, his eyes glanced at Zhou Ronghua, and suddenly pretended to be surprised and said loudly: "What are you talking about, Zhang Xianzhong defeated Wuchang?" ”

Zhao Zhuzi was afraid that Zhou Ronghua would hear it, so he whispered, but he didn't expect Gao Yihuan to suddenly repeat it loudly, his face couldn't help but be stunned, and then he hugged his fists and said: "Second brother, it can't be fake, I have already confirmed it." ”

Zhou Ronghua originally wanted to ask for more, but as soon as he heard Gao Yihuan's words, he knew that there was no play.

Zhang Xianzhong is a big man of the same generation as Li Zicheng, Gao Yihuan wants to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from entering Henan, he must fight, and fighting will consume military rations, so he can only swallow the words that come to his mouth and swallow them into his stomach.

At this time, Gao Yihuan looked at him, "Brother Zhou, it's not easy for you to come here, my brother was supposed to entertain you well, but the situation in Huguang has changed, and my brother won't accompany you!" ”

Zhou Ronghua stood up very interestingly, and arched his hand: "The big thing is important, brother, I won't bother Brother Gao." ”

After speaking, Zhou Ronghua turned around and left the lobby, and Gao Yihuan immediately turned his head and asked Zhao Zhuzi: "What's the matter, you tell me carefully." ”

"Second brother, the news is that Wu Shizhao came from Xinyang." Zhao Zhuzi hurriedly replied: "Zhang Xianzhong more than 200,000 people besieged Wuchang, He Tengjiao, Yang Wenyue and other Ming Dynasty officials gathered in the palace of the king of Chu, kneeling and begging the king of Chu to donate money, but this guy did not pull out a dime, disappointed the defenders, sold the city to Zhang Xianzhong, He Tengjiao and Yang Wenyue ran to Yuezhou, the king of Chu and the clan in the city were drowned by Zhang Xianzhong. ”

Among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, the most stupid were King Fu who died in Luoyang and King Chu who was drowned by Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, instructed his subordinates to beat Zhao Kehuai, the governor of Huguang, who had a grudge against him, to death in his early years.

And he reigned for sixty-three years, the money in the palace was piled up, and the vast number of people in the lake gathered in the mansion to let him help with the salary, but he did not pull out a dime, pointed to the gold-wrapped chair given by the Hongwu Dynasty, and said: "This can be used to support the army, he has nothing!", which made the Chuzhong officials extremely disappointed.

After Wuchang was captured, all the wealth of the royal family was cheap Zhang Xianzhong, "the western thieves took millions of gold and silver in the palace, and carried hundreds of cars", Zhang Xianzhong smiled and said: "There is such a wealth without guarding, Zhu Huzi is really mediocre!" then threw Zhu Huakui into the Yangtze River and drowned.

Then, Zhang Xianzhong drove all the clans surnamed Zhu in Wuchang City to the river and ordered them to throw themselves into the water. For a time, the cry on the bank of the Yangtze River shook the sky, and the floating corpses flowed downstream.

Gao Yihuan originally thought that Zuo Liangyu was in Xiangyang, and the situation in Wuchang would have some changes, and he didn't want the city to be broken, and the king of Chu still died a very disgraceful death.

Zhao Zhuzi looked at Gao Yihuan frowning and pondering, and couldn't help but worry: "Second brother, Zhang Xianzhong defeated Wuchang, will he go north to fight Xiangyang!" ”

Gao Yihuan frowned, it was not impossible to do so.

Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu are also a pair of enemies, and since Zhang Xianzhong occupies Wuchang, it is impossible to ignore Zuo Liangyu in Xiangyang.

Gao Yihuan immediately said hurriedly: "Zhuzi, you immediately send a fast horse to Nanyang to pass on my order, just say that I have received Li Zicheng's will to go to Zhang Xianzhong, let Wang Tizhong point up troops and horses, and prepare to follow me to the south." ”

Zhao Zhuzi hurriedly clenched his fists when he heard this, "I'll go now." ”

"Come on, go and call Lu Fujun over!" Gao Yihuan didn't wait for Zhao Zhuzi to retreat, and yelled outside the hall.

Xiangyang is in the hands of Zuo Liangyu, it is easy for him to take it, if it falls into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, it is unlikely that Gao Yihuan wants to take Xiangyang.

Gao Yihuan thought about it, Zhang Xianzhong had Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Sun Kewang, and Ai Nengqi, and his heart trembled a little.

At that moment, Gao Yihuan sent a fast horse to order the king of Nanyang to prepare to go south, and on the other hand, he arranged for the matter of staying behind, and ordered the army to pack up and prepare to leave.

Gao Yihuan occupied Runing in November last year, began to recruit new pawns, and reorganized and demoted pawns, and it has been ten months now.

During this period of time, the new pawns and the descended pawns have passed the training and experienced the round battle of Chaya Mountain, so it can be said that they are already worthy of a battle.

Gao Yihuan divided the land for the new pawns, encouraged them to settle down, and took the homeless women as wives and other means, and it took nearly a year to basically digest this group of people.

On the third day of the eighth month, in order to take Xiangyang before Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yihuan made a little preparation, and led 5,000 soldiers and horses, plus 3,000 people, to carry a large amount of grain and grass forward.

Nanyang Mansion, in the mansion of the mighty general, a group of generals gathered.

Wang Tizhong took the warrant sent by Gao Yihuan, "Gao Yihuan asked me to reorganize my soldiers and horses and follow him to the south, what do you think?" ”

The generals looked at each other, and someone stood up, "General, don't go!" If you bump into the Eight Kings, it will be miserable. ”

"Yes, yes, if the Eight Kings don't come to fight us, we will burn high incense, why do we still mess with the Eight Kings. Besides, it's a mess in the south, and it's no good, so what are we going to do? ”

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