Li Zicheng withdrew to Xiangyang, Song Xiance immediately ran to make a small report, some military instability in the camp, the old brothers in northern Shaanxi secretly discussed, "Eighteen Sons of the Main Artifact" eighty percent refers to the naturalized Hou of Datong, the status of the people is high, the name is famous, no matter how you look at it, there is a statue of the Son of Heaven than King Chuang, everyone is from Yulin, and it is not bad to work with the naturalized Hou. Li Zicheng's lungs were about to explode, but he didn't dare to say bad things about Li Yu, that person really couldn't afford to provoke him, but hated Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, and scolded Cao Ying and the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo for escaping from the battle, wanting to trap the righteous army to death.

Niu Jinxing took the opportunity to add to the fire, if you want to seek the cause of the king, you must first unify the military order, the righteous army is difficult to change the habits of the Liukou, each has its own government, the shape is like scattered sand, it is difficult to become a big thing without unifying the military system, and the fluctuation of the people's hearts can not be underestimated, the title of "Fengtian advocates righteousness and civil and military generalissimo" at the beginning of the year, the brothers did not take it seriously, so they must be called the king as soon as possible, and the name is justified in building the country, and the world is chased, Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying, etc., are greedy for money, not seeking progress, and it is said that they also have private contacts with Datong.

In mid-March, Li Zicheng hosted a banquet for Luo Rucai and He Yilong, Lin Yangyang, Liu Xiyao, and He Jin from the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Left. Li Zicheng had a showdown at the wine table, forcing the four to hand over the military power, He Yilong jumped up on the spot to oppose it, threatening to break up and go it alone, Li Zicheng angrily accused He Yilong of fornicating with Datong and intending to rebel, He Yilong did not have time to resist, and he was hacked to death by the ambush soldiers who broke in with his entourage, Lin Yangcheng, Liu Xiyao, and He Jin were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, expressing their willingness to hand over their military power and obey military orders.

Killed He Yilong, Li Zicheng rushed to Cao Ying overnight, falsely claimed to talk about important matters and broke into Luo Rucai's bedroom, waved a sword and stabbed it, Luo Rucai just got up from the bed, looked at the long sword inserted into his chest and couldn't believe it, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Li Blind, you're finished", and fell into bed - Luo Rucai has done a lot of evil, but thieves have thieves, kill corrupt officials and not clean officials, and also be righteous to his brothers, Li Zicheng relied on his help to not die under Zhang Xianzhong's knife, and it was also because of his help that he repeatedly won the official army in Henan, this person has no ambition and will not hinder other people's affairs, But it was a stumbling block that had to be removed. Luo Rucai died, Cao Ying's group of dragons had no leader, and after a while, they surrendered to the breaking army.

Ma Shouying, the third person of the rebel army, was more lucky, and was rushing to Yanzhou during the infighting, and when he heard the news of the death of Luo Rucai and He Yilong, he hurriedly retreated to Songzi south of the Yangtze River, and confronted the Chuang army in Jingzhou across the river, but he was old and frail, unable to set off waves, and soon retreated into the Yiling Mountains, and since then he has separated from Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng incorporated the four divisions of Cao Ying and the five battalions of the Ge Zuo, and established himself as the "new Shun King" in Xiangyang in April, and then unified the military system, and organized the elite into the Zhongquan pro-army and the left, right, front, and rear five battalions, and set up 22 generals, with the right general Tian Jianxiu to "supervise the battalions", and the right general Liu Zongmin commanded the Zhongquan pro-army, and the 5th battalion and 22 generals became the main force of the Shun army. Niu Jinxing asked to set up a magistrate to appease the displaced people to reclaim the land, Gu Junen asked the west to enter Tongguan to appease the Qin army, Li Zicheng adopted them one by one, but immediately the Son of Heaven had no time to farm, Yuan Shizhong's small Yuan camp rebelled, he wanted to clean up the gate and send the general Li Guo to quell the chaos.

Yuan Shizhong heard that Luo Rucai and He Yilong were killed, and knew that it would be his turn next, so he preemptively erected the anti-flag, and asked Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, to attack the Shun army, but Chen Yongfu did not wade into troubled waters, but hoped that they would fight as hard as possible, and let Li Guo kill Suizhou directly. Yuan Shizhong is also a man, knowing that he is invincible, he dares to go out of the city for a decisive battle, but the bandits can't defeat the thieves in the end, and they are finally defeated and killed. Li Zicheng killed Yuan Shizhong, but offended the people of Henan, and the local tyrants in various places formed villages to protect themselves and divide one side, and the Shun army occupied Henan on the surface, but in fact it was unable to control the place.

Datong was indifferent to the Wuchang Revolution and the internal strife of the thieves, and concentrated on his own affairs; this year was another major drought, and by virtue of the work of overhauling water conservancy and reclamation for two consecutive years, Shanxi's sown area has quadrupled, the grain yield per mu has decreased but the total amount has increased substantially, and it is still possible to eat half full without famine. What makes people have a headache is the epidemic, the soldiers who withdrew from Shandong and Zhili returned home spread the tragic situation of the epidemic all over Fengzhou and Shanxi, and then Pingding and Lingqiu also broke out of the epidemic, thousands of people died, the people were frightened, and spontaneously took action to block the border. In the past, they only used sticks to drive away the people of Zhili who had fled the famine, but now they actually used swords, spears, and firearms, and the prefectural and county governments not only did not stop them, but secretly encouraged them, and bloody clashes continued to occur.

The upper echelons of Datong are also full of rumors, the new governor of Xuanda, Wang Jimo, is a native of Fugu, and the Yansui people of Fengzhou are close, once drank too much and cried that the Gyeonggi epidemic was raging, ten rooms and nine emptiness, countless corpses on the side of the road, the emperor had to collect the funeral only after the internal money, and the Longhua Democratic Sect fled from Beijing to confirm that this statement was true, and the people quickly spread that the epidemic fell from the sky and died soon. Li Jianji jumped out at this time and said embarrassedly, in fact, the Li family is the remnant of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, but it has been scattered all over the country for a long time, and he has sent a master from outside the world to Ningzhai to investigate, but it is terrible, but in the year of the great drought, the cemetery of the president's family is green grass, barnyard double spikes, and green smoke is straight out, and the locals also say that the president was born on the day of the room full of red light, the sky is like a dragon. The rumors became more and more bizarre, Hadari casually said that when he was a child, he saw Li Yu shoot a red-haired wild boar to death, and it was immediately adapted into the story of "the president shot a red pig", and even Li Yu forgot all about his parents and ancestors. A group of clans headed by the King of Chu, the King of Jin, the King of Zhou, and the King of Dai also joined in the fun, and issued statements on major newspapers that the Ming Dynasty belonged to the four families of Zhu Lao and had nothing to do with them, they loved the federation and the new life, and sincerely hoped that the president would continue to rise - Li Huai was frightened, and begged when he met people, spare the Li family, it doesn't matter who sits in the world, it is not the third child of his family.

Li Huai is telling the truth - Li Yu started in the steppe outside the border, but he did not have the bloodline of the Zi'er Jin family, and relied on the support of Lamaism and Mongolian tribes to gain authority, but the Mongols were proud, free and loose, and extremely stubbornly opposed to sinicization, Kublai Khan accepted the sinicization and became emperor, and their ancestors dared to pat their butts and return to their hometown, and Li Yu would also be abandoned when he became emperor, unless he dared to hold the banner of opposition to sinicization as emperor, which was of course impossible. Li Yu's life is not good, not only is he not worthy of the throne, but he can't even be called Khan, if he is called Khan, the grassland will definitely be sweaty, and the naturalization alliance will probably become a plate of scattered sand in an instant.

Yang Wenyue and Yan Jizu were mixed into the Senate after arriving in Datong, and took the initiative to offer advice, and the president was born after the Tang Dynasty royal family, which shows that God blesses China and the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty can be the emperor of the Han family and the heavenly khan outside the Saiwai, so why can't the president be both the emperor and Hutuketu Batulu? The Mongols opposed Sinicization and gave more money to stay outside the Guan, and the division of Huayi was also very good. This proposition has been supported by many people, mainly the abolished officials and fugitive officials of the Ming Kingdom, these guys have no way out, and they have to put Li Yu on the throne at the risk of their lives, otherwise they will not be able to clear their hands. The Prime Minister's Office immediately rebuked the erroneous views of Yang Wenyue, Yan Jizu and their gang, and solemnly stated that the unity of the same race and different customs is the established national policy of the Federation, and the Federation has only one nation that integrates Huayi and will never follow the old road of Huayi division and rule. As soon as this statement came out, the Toyoshu scholars were angry, and the Kannai scholars began to criticize each other again, and the relationship between the republicans and royalists within the Shigakusha was already tense, but now it has become even more precarious.

Li Yu came back from Jinlianchuan, showed up in Guihua and Datong respectively, and went to Baoketu on vacation, but when he left, he asked the emperor to move the capital to Nanjing. The imperial court was in an uproar, and moving the capital to Nanjing was equivalent to giving up the Zhili to Jiannu, which was a great shame, and the impeachment of Li Yu was flying all over the sky, angrily denouncing him for today's An Lushan and Shi Jingtang, the emperor was furious, and ordered Li Yu to be stupid and ignorant, and mislead the country, so that he thought about it behind closed doors - Datong officials were very strange, and the president stabbed a big basket to pass the test, and even the official position and title were not moved; Businessmen are also pondering, how can the president's casual writing of the seal make the silver deposit of the banknote bank rise by two percent? Ordinary people think that it has nothing to do with them where the emperor moves, anyway, there is a great epidemic in Gyeonggi, and whoever stays there is unlucky; The Senate was indifferent, and the councillors were discussing the military expansion proposal put forward by the Terracotta Division, the infantry of the eight towns, the cavalry of the four towns, and the artillery of the two towns, and they all understood the president's idea of fighting the Qing country with their butts, but this required an increase in military spending.

The royalists couldn't figure it out, and successively published articles denouncing Datong's intention to betray the country and giving up the great rivers and mountains of Zhili to foreign invaders, and some radicals also went on a hunger strike in Freedom Square in the north of Datong City.

Five days later, hundreds of scholars gathered at the tomb of Zhaojun, and there was no house to accommodate so many people, so everyone sat in a circle on the ground according to the customs of the grassland. The republican and royalist factions of the Shixue Society sent their own elites, and the leaders of the republican faction, Ortai, Li Fugui, Yunrong, and Chang Shu, all attended the scene, and the royalist faction's Liu Zongzhou, Sun Qifeng, Jin Sheng, and the governor of Xuanda, Wang Jimo, the governor of Datong, Wei Jingyuan, the governor of Shanxi, Cai Maode, and the governor of Xuanfu, Zhu Zhifeng, also arrived as scheduled.

Wu Zhu had some talents, and he re-entered the cabinet from his hometown in Xinghua, and achieved nothing for more than two years, but he was used by the emperor to balance the first assistant Zhou Yanru, and he also intended to provoke discord between the two. Wu Xian resisted Zhou Yanru a few times according to the emperor's wishes, and the courtiers immediately took advantage of the loophole and automatically formed the Jiangbei Party headed by him and the Jiangnan Party headed by Zhou Yanru. The court party quarrel was boiling, the case of Jiang Yu and Xiong Kaiyuan almost involved the courtiers, and the emperor himself caused trouble, but blamed Wu Xian, and drove him to Huguang to supervise the division to suppress the thieves, and the army and food and salary were solved by themselves. Wu Xian did not have the consciousness of dedication to the imperial court, and found all kinds of excuses to rely on the Beijing Division, and it happened that the first assistant Zhou Yanru was commanded by the Jinyi Guard to make Luo Yangxing report false war exploits, the emperor did not expect that the most trusted person would also lie to him, and in a fit of anger Zhou Yanru was dismissed as a citizen, Wu Sacrifice was useless and was dismissed - these two years were simply played as a monkey, on the way home, the more Wu Xian thought about it, the more angry he became, and he turned into Shanxi, he patrolled Shanxi for many years to win the general favor of the gentry, and was invited to enter the real school as soon as he appeared in Taiyuan, and today he also came to help the royalists.

Wu Shan followed the example of the others, sat on the grass with one butt, and several officials on the opposite side hurriedly came over to salute, all of them were former acquaintances, Wu Shan stood up and asked with a smile: "What about Hermes, why didn't you see him?" ”

"Hermes-Epitek went to Baoketu, he is used to being a shopkeeper, he has always been tired of government affairs, even the emperor said that he was dull and ignorant, please Lord Haihan!" Yun Rong replied with his hand.

"The Naturalized Marquis is not stupid and ignorant, it's almost the same to say that he is extremely smart, but it's a pity that some people are always self-righteous," Wu Xian waved his hand at Yun Rong, turned his face to Li Fugui next to him and saluted, "Wu doesn't know that Lord Li is a representative of the clan, please forgive me for any offenses in the past." ”

"My surname is Li, not Zhu, so I don't need to mention the past." Li Fugui smiled faintly.

The scribe set up a map of Zhili in the middle of the circle, and praised the military affairs department of Gonchuke and Li Guoying first explained the current situation - Zhili and Shandong have been in drought for several years, and the epidemic has completely eroded after the epidemic, and the Datong army can see abandoned villages and abandoned land everywhere on the way north, and the displaced people have either died of hunger, epidemics, or become bandits, and the canal transportation has also been blocked. At present, the most important thing is to restore order, and carry out disaster relief and self-help, but the imperial court is worried about internal and external troubles, and it is difficult to protect itself, and it does not care about the life and death of the people, and Datong still has to solve the problem of displaced people in Shaanxi and Henan, and has no time to take care of Shandong, and only recruits displaced people in Qingzhou Mansion to save themselves, and can not do anything about other regions.

"The situation in Zhili is sinister and difficult to maintain, and it is meaningless for the imperial court to stay in Beijing except to consume money and food, so it is better to take a step back and keep the country, so that at least the burden on the people can be reduced and a glimmer of life will be left for Zhili and Shandong." Gcuri finally said.

The audience was silent, and after a long time, Liu Zongzhou sneered: "Moving the capital to Nanjing will definitely shake Zhili and Shandong, and Jiannu can just go down in one fell swoop, I heard that Li Hanmin and Jianshen have met once, probably some conspiracy, right?" ”

Ge Curi glanced at the other party and replied: "Mr. Qishan has said, we only have Yangmou and no conspiracy, Zhili and Shandong are extremely erosive, no matter how bad they are, they can't go anywhere, I am a Yehe person, and my hatred for the Qing State is by no means less than yours, but I have to admit that the Qing State is full of vitality, people's hearts are upward, and the governance of the country is vigorous and resolute, Zhili and Shandong fall into the hands of the Qing State, I dare to say that they can quickly restore order, and depose the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, clean up the officialdom and greed, and wait for them to learn the Ming officialdom It will be ten or twenty years later, These guys are coming, and the hope of the people's survival is greater, don't be unconvinced, I saw with my own eyes that the magistrates of Zhili counted all the taxes and additional assignments of the fugitives on the heads of the people who did not leave, and forced them to pay grain and taxes, and as a result, the whole county was forced to flee and forced people to die. ”

Liu Zongzhou was so angry that he shouted: "Ge Kuli, you are so shameless, Jiannu is cruel and tyrannical, poisoning creatures, you abandoned the people of the Ming Dynasty in dire straits, but you think you have a plan, and there is nothing more traitorous and rebellious than this." ”

"I am a citizen of Datong, the traitorous rebellion of the Ming State is not my turn, you use your brain to think about whether it is good or not, Manchuria has only a large population, they are not familiar with life and do not have three heads and six arms, how many bad things can they do, what really does bad things is the court minions running all over the place, in the troubled times, you must save the people first, and take care of his emperor and the court." Ghkuri argued.

Li Guoying hurriedly added: "Don't be angry, Mr. Qishan, the president has played a big game of chess, and it doesn't matter if the Qing army enters the customs, we have prepared two battlefields in Shandong and Henan, and they are obedient to everything, and if they are disobedient, they will destroy them, and just solve the problem of Liaodong together." ”

Liu Zongzhou ignored these two soldiers, pointed to Ortai and Li Fugui to get angry, Shanxi Governor Cai Maode held him down, and said to the Datong officials very sincerely: "Introduce the Qing army into Guannei, use the two battlefields of Shandong or Henan to consume and annihilate its elite main force, and then take advantage of the situation to attack Liaodong, the idea is very good, but you ignore a problem, the imperial court has been imposing heavy taxes on Suhu and other places since the founding of the country, and opening two lists in the north and south to suppress the scholars, Jiangnan people have been resentful for a long time, I am from Kunshan, I know this best, the momentum of the imperial court's retreat to the south has been weakIf the Qing army can't stop the Qing army and let its troops respond to Tianfu, the imperial court is very likely to collapse, and the world will be in chaos at that time, how will Datong deal with it? ”

No one has thought about this problem, this set of Du Wenhuan's idea many years ago has always been the final plan for the people of Fengzhou to solve the Qing Dynasty, but now it is being challenged, the officials whispered, Li Huai shook his head with a wry smile: "We can only do this step, it is not enough to govern China without great chaos, this is the price of great unification." ”

"The military affairs have been explained clearly enough, many problems cannot be predicted in advance, only when the time comes, let's stop here, we should talk about the country's problems, Datong is not guilty of speech, you gentlemen can speak freely." Li Fugui waved his hand and said.

Wu Xian stood up, nodded and said: "If the problem of the country is not solved, there is no way to talk about military affairs, okay, let's talk about the country, you first answer a question, does the Datong Federation want to be Huaxia or Yidi?" ”

Yun Rong gritted his teeth and replied firmly: "The Datong Federation is not a barbarian China with the Quartet, it doesn't matter if Huaxia and Yidi, all Han people, Mongolians, and Manchus belong to one nation - Datong citizens, this is our bottom line, absolutely unwavering." ”

For the first time, Datong officials publicly denied that they did not belong to Huaxia, and they did not even want to talk about the changes in Huayi, and the scholars were excited, and a fierce debate began.