Li Zicheng felt that the people who were hungry and cold could not wait any longer, and Chengtianfu and its subordinate counties must restore the government as soon as possible and assist the people in arranging spring ploughing.

That night, he summoned the surrendered civil and military officials and reappointed them.

Wang Ming and his wife were reinstated and re-appointed as the prefect of Chengtian, with full responsibility for the civil affairs of Chengtianfu; Shen Shouchong, the left-behind capital of Xingdu, served as the president of the Chengtianfu Court and independently exercised the power of criminal and civil trials; Zhang Fengzhuo, the deputy envoy of the sub-patrol, served as the president of the supervision of the Chengtian Mansion and independently exercised the right to supervise all officials of the Chengtian Mansion.

Li Zicheng built a framework for Chengtian Mansion according to the "Sichuan model", and the original Hindu Detention Division was abolished, and Chengtian became an ordinary prefecture.

Also abolished is Zhongxiang County, Zhongxiang County Ya is in Chengtianfu City, and there is a lot of overlap with the prefect's yamen in terms of institutional setup and functional division.

Xiangfu County in Kaifeng, Xiangyang County in Xiangyang, etc., were abolished because they were in the same city as the government office.

After Zhongxiang County was abolished, Xiao Han, the former governor of the county, was reappointed as the tax officer of Chengtianfu, and under the leadership of Wang Ming, the prefect, he was responsible for the tax collection of Chengtianfu, however, Chengtianfu did not need to collect taxes for the time being, and Xiao Han's current job was to distribute all the land to the people evenly as soon as possible according to the standard of 12 mu per ding.

Li Zicheng sent his own soldiers to investigate the disaster in Zhongxiang County, knowing that Xiao Han did not lie and trusted him, so he entrusted him with such a heavy task.

Zhang Guoyun was originally the deputy of the prefect Wang Ming, but Li Zicheng asked him to go to Shizhouwei with Ying Tianying, once Ying Tianying took Shizhouwei, it would be changed to Shizhou Mansion, and he would be the first prefect of Shizhou Mansion.

Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, is one of the best civil officials in Huguang, but Huguang already has the governor Zhang Dingyan, Li Zicheng thought about it again and again, and remembered Liang Wencheng's last letter.

Liang Wencheng told him in the letter that the old man Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu Province, was old and frail and had been in poor health, so he took the initiative to ask for Zhishi.

Mei Zhihuan was the first high-ranking official to join the Heavenly Mandate Army, Li Zicheng promised him at that time, after becoming the governor, the term of office was five years, but it has been eleven years, and there has been no suitable candidate, Mei Zhihuan's age is already sixty-eight years old, and his health is not good, so he is indeed not suitable to continue to serve as the governor of Gansu Province.

Song Yihe was the best candidate, and Li Zicheng personally issued an official certificate, allowing him to take the ship of the navy, pass through Sichuan, and then go to Lanzhou along the official road to take office.

Li Zicheng's meaning was to let Song Yihe visit the construction of Sichuan by the way, not only to let him serve the Heavenly Mandate Army with all his heart, but also to let him learn the Sichuan model and complete the change of identity as soon as possible.

The last character is Yang Yongyu, the doctor of Qin Tianjian, at the beginning, Li Zicheng thought that he was a eunuch in the outer prison army, and only after asking did he know that it was probably: it turned out to be a conversion of time, which belonged to the category of astronomy.

Since he is a scientific and technological worker, in this era, it is really rare, Li Zicheng left Yang Yongyu alone.

Yang Yongyu is just a doctor of missing carvings, from the petty officials of the ninth grade, he is the most basic petty official of Qin Tianjian, and he has always been responsible for the conversion of the astronomical calendar, and "missing engraving" means "time".

Li Zicheng questioned and found that Yang Yongyu did not have much scientific knowledge, but only assisted in the conversion of time when the Qintian Supervisor was revising the calendar, which was a mechanical work.

Qin Tianjian's work is a lifelong job and must not be withdrawn, Yang Yongyu does not even understand human feelings and sophistication except for converting time.

Li Zicheng pondered left and right, and finally made him the pastor of the Catholic Church in Chengtianfu, responsible for reciting God's kindness in Chengtianfu.

There is Jixiang Temple in the city of Chengtianfu, there is Pumen Temple in the north of the city, there is Bailu Temple in the east of the city, in the era when the people are not living, all the three temples are changed to churches, attracting the people inside and outside the city to believe in Catholicism.

If he is a scholar, Yang Yongyu is not an excellent official, but he is literate, coupled with an introverted personality, he is a suitable person to preach, perhaps under his promotion, Catholicism in the "center of Huguang" blossoming, there are a lot of Tusi in the west and south of Huguang, if Catholicism spreads to the local area, it will definitely be able to defeat those primitive religions, and it will also play a role in promoting the naturalization of the people.

The new Chengtian Mansion began to operate normally, but Li Zicheng did not leave the Chengtian Mansion, but took his own soldiers and personally inspected inside and outside the city.

Li Zicheng was originally going to Jingzhou Mansion to meet Zhou Kun, but the navy had already taken Jingzhou and was heading east along the Yangtze River, so he adjusted the target of the march to Wuchang Mansion.

The Gao Li Meritorious Department of the Chengtian Battalion, which had already gone south, began to assemble in the direction of Hanyang, and the cavalry of the first battalion of Liu Yunshui's Department also went south first and entered Hanyang Mansion.

At this time, the independent battalion had already taken the entire territory of De'an Province and reappointed officials, and Li Xin had obtained Li Zicheng's permission last time, so on the basis of prisoners of war, he recruited some young men and expanded them into four regiments at one time, and the independent battalion reached the establishment of eight regiments, which was the largest number of all battalions of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Li Zicheng sent an order to Li Xin, asking him to temporarily live the recruits of the four regiments in Suizhou, De'anfu and Xiaogan County, strengthen drills and training, and form an army as soon as possible, while the four main regiments marched east to Hanyang to complete the encirclement of Hanyang Province.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Zhensheng, Zhang Guoyun, and Qian Zhongxuan took Yingtianying south to Shizhouwei, and Li Zicheng also left Chengtian and personally led the seventh battalion and Fengtianying to the south, approaching Hanyang.

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Zuo Liangyu left Chengtianfu, and the army advanced by land and water, along the Han River to the south, and entered Wuchang.

At this time, the Mandate of Heaven Army was still in the counties of Chengtianfu, a few days away from Wuchang, and across the Yangtze River, Zuo Liangyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the trouble has been with Zuo Liangyu, the army of 200,000 under his subordinates, the imperial court only allocated 25,000 people's food, just this amount of food, can not be allocated in time, has been missing for several months, since leaving Xiangyang, the army has been looting along the way, but the money and food obtained, not even compared to the consumption along the way, that is, the further south you run, the heavier the arrears.

While scolding Li Zicheng, he racked his brains and thought of getting a large amount of food.

The imperial court can't count on it, Zuo Liangyu understands in his heart that maybe the imperial court is thinking about how to punish himself at the moment!

The people are too poor and weak, and they have no property, so they can only rob the big households, in Wuchang City, the biggest big family is the king of Chu, but the king of Chu is a prince, unless he is completely rebellious and self-reliant like Li Zicheng, the king of Chu will never move.

After careful consideration, Zuo Liangyu decided to visit the King of Chu.

Salute first and then soldier, and he is unwilling to make too stiff with the king of Chu as a last resort, so as not to become the target of the imperial court.

Zuo Liangyu himself understood that although there were 200,000 soldiers under his subordinates, most of these soldiers had recently been recruited in Fancheng and Xiangyang, and the training time was short, and they had not participated in real battles, and they were not much better than the young and strong among the people.

If you annoy the imperial court and are surrounded and intercepted by the armies of the imperial court, I am afraid that the end will be even more tragic than He Renlong, who cut off his head!

Zuo Liangyu is not a bachelor, he will never do anything like a bachelor.

He stationed his army outside the city of Wuchang, entered the city with only his own guards, and generously asked to see Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu.

When Zhu Huakui heard that Zuo Liangyu was visiting, his head suddenly became bigger, Zuo Liangyu looted along the way, and the corruption of military discipline was famous, and when Zuo was still in Xiangyang, someone reported Zuo Liangyu to the Chu Palace, saying that he connived at his subordinate soldiers, robbed the people's property and wives and daughters, and even the gentry did not let go.

If this demon king stays in Wuchang, although he doesn't dare to fight the idea of the palace, the property of the palace in the city and the world outside the city will definitely suffer, even if he knows that it is the property of the palace, with Zuo Liangyu's temperament, he will pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Because he was afraid of Zuo Liangyu, Zhu Huakui didn't dare not see it!

But you always have to think about it, if you can't send Zuo Liangyu away, Wuchang will have endless troubles.

Zhu Huakui thought about it for a long time and decided to send Zuo Liangyu out of the country.

He asked Fu Ding to pass the word and summoned Zuo Liangyu in the outer study where three charcoal braziers were lit.

Zuo Liangyu made a big salute, "Minister Zuo Liangyu, knock to see the prince!" ”

"Well, well......" Zhu Huakui coughed violently, and he couldn't speak, and the servant of his mansion told Zuo Liangyu while beating his back, and told Zuo Liangyu that what the prince meant was that he was exempt from courtesy and got up.

Zuo Liangyu was on the luxurious chair below, but he was "groaning" in his heart, it is rumored that Zhu Huakui is seventy-five, but he didn't expect to be so old, as if he might go to see Hades at any time.

He waited patiently for Zhu Huakui to come to his senses, and Fang arched his hand and said, "Lord Wang, the minister led his troops through Wuchang, but the imperial court has always owed food, and the soldiers are starving...... The prince accumulates good deeds and virtues, and is born with compassion and compassion, can you pay 200,000 silver first......

"Ah......" Zhu Huakui barely raised his drooping head, but he just glanced at Zuo Liangyu, and didn't seem to understand.

Zuo Liangyu sighed secretly, and said helplessly: "Liukou is about to go down the Han River, and he will reach Wuchang in a few days, as long as the prince pays the food and salary, the 200,000 troops in the hands of the ministers will protect the territory and the people for the prince, and Wuchang is foolproof!" ”

Zhu Huakui scoffed, although you have 200,000 horses, you can't even keep your lair Xiangyang, how can you keep Wuchang? He hung his head again, as if he didn't understand anything, just said "hey" and stopped talking.

Zuo Liangyu swallowed his anger, arched his hands and said carefully: "Lord Wang, Liukou is about to come to Wuchang, and the minister is worried about ......"

Zhu Huakui said "hey" as usual, without even raising his head, but raised his hand to touch the tea cup on the table.

The mansion serving Zhu Huakui hurriedly said carefully: "General, the prince is not in good health and needs to rest......

Zuo Liangyu knew that there was no hope for the silver, so he glared at the mansion fiercely, got up and arched his hand and said, "The prince is resting, and the minister is retiring!" ”

After leaving the palace, Zuo Liangyu immediately plundered the army, the fire illuminated the Yangtze River, except for the palace of the king of Chu, he did not even let go of the gentry of the clan, and the officials and gentry could only run to the nearby valley to avoid the enemy.

Zuo Liangyu plundered almost near Wuchang, and heard that the Heavenly Mandate Army had approached Hanyang, so he led his troops to move east to Jiujiang, pointing to Nanjing and the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River.