Li Yan saw that the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, did not despise them as a reckless man born as a thief, so he hurriedly dismounted and knelt directly on one knee in front of the governor of Huguang: "Shaanxi filial piety Li Yan lived up to the grace of the saint, although he was forced by corrupt officials and corrupt officials to embark on the road of rebellion, but now the sinner Li Yan knows that he is deeply guilty, and his majesty the Ming Emperor is in danger in the land of Gyeonggi, and today I ask the angel to punish him!" ”

Huguang Governor Du Yinxi naturally knew that Li Yan's plea was just a gesture, he naturally would not really want to cure Li Yan's crimes, he was not a perennial Beijing official in the court, and he naturally knew more about the army from ordinary people, and now when he saw Li Yan pleading guilty, he naturally ran over in a panic and helped Li Yan up: "Mr. Li, please get up quickly, this is absolutely unacceptable, Your Majesty has already made a clear decree, those who belong to the Ming Dynasty, no matter what heinous crimes they have before, they are all forgiven, even Your Majesty is so benevolent, How can we, as ministers who defend the land, carry the will of the king! ”

As he spoke, he helped Li Yan to come to him, patted Li Yan's hand, and even made another gesture directly to Li Yan: "Mr. Li is willing to lead the righteous army to join the imperial court, which is really a move of great righteousness, and allows a certain generation of monarch's father to express a trace of respect to Mr. on behalf of the world!" ”

"The blocking platform is really tormenting Li, absolutely not, how can Li be virtuous, how can he receive such a heavy gift from His Majesty and the world", Li Yan naturally did not dare to let Du Yinxi perform this heavy salute, and hurriedly helped up Block Yinxi.

And Du Yinxi intends to consolidate the support foundation of Li Yan and other troops among the people of Huguang, and he knows that the main force to resist the Qing army in the future Huguang territory is the hundreds of thousands of troops who are about to join the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Du Yinxi directly pulled Li Yan to the grain team, and said to Li Yan and the army behind him: "This is the food that the gentry and people of Huguang Province have heard that Mr. Li and hundreds of thousands of brothers in the army intend to join the court to fight against the Qing army. ”

Li Yan saw that the countless homeless people in front of him were ragged but did not move a cent of the food in front of him, so he was naturally not very emotional, and he couldn't help but burst into tears for a while: "I heard that Zuo Liangyu was a disaster for Chu, and the people of Chu were hungry, but now Li does not know that the people of Chu are so affectionate and friendly, please rest assured, if my Dashun Righteous Army is attached to the imperial court, it will definitely live up to the high expectations of the people and live up to the grace of Your Majesty!" ”

"Mr. Li, please come with Du", Duyinxi said and pulled Li Yan to the middle of the people, and shouted to the people in front of him: "Everyone, this is Mr. Li, the military division of the army, now Li Zicheng is dead, Mr. Li can't bear to see the people of Chu suffer from the disaster of the war again, and no longer be the enemy of the people, he is willing to belong to the court, and together with the court, together with the people, to fight against the Hu Lu who is about to go south, and now whether my Huguang territory can no longer suffer from the military disaster, it is all in Mr. Li and the hundreds of thousands of brothers who are behind him can resist the southward movement of the Qing army, Let's salute Mr. Lee! ”

"The safety of Chudi depends on Mr. Yu!"

As soon as Du Yinxi shouted like this, the people also shouted, many of them are low-level gentry who lead the grassroots people, and they naturally have a very good understanding of the fact that the erosion of Chu Di is closely related to the military disasters.

Li Yan was originally a person who was enthusiastic about pillows, and the generals behind him were all simple people, and now that he was so admired by Plug Yinxi, he naturally felt that he had a responsibility.

Plugging Yinxi did this, which can be regarded as building a basic bridge communication between the army and the people of Chudi, and for a while, the lonely army had basic public support.

And Li Yan's various units of the army also have a sense of belonging here.

As soon as Du Yinxi came, he showed his magnanimity and high hopes for the army, which was a good start for appeasing the army, Liu Fangliang, Chen Zilong, Jin Yiwei and others all showed admiration when they saw this.

As for the promise of 100,000 stone grain to the people, because Gu Yinxi established a relatively friendly relationship between the Chuang army and the people of Chu at the beginning of the contact, so when Du Yinxi proposed to spend 20,000 stone from the first batch of 50,000 stone grain to help the accompanying people and the poor people in the city, the Chuang army, who was originally from the poor, knew that the people of Chu were in difficulty but were still willing to support them, and they did not have any objection to taking out part of the grain to help the people.

In addition, Li Yanben is also a person who takes care of the overall situation, and he can also understand the difficulties of blocking Yinxi's political side, and he does not blindly consider only the needs of his own army.

Basically, a contradiction between the needs of appeasing the intrusive army and appeasing the common people was smoothly carried out under the reparation and careful handling of the left and right of the governor of Huguang.

Of course, this is not the end, it also depends on whether the current productive forces of Huguang can be well coordinated in the future to meet the military needs of the invading army and the relief needs of the people to restore their vitality.

Fortunately, Du Yinxi still had enough grain reserves, as well as his familiarity with the local civil affairs of Huguang and his full understanding of the peasant army, which made it entirely possible for him to make Huguang an important anti-Qing base in the future.

Liu Fangliang also came over at this time, still calling Li Yan the old way, and directly hugged Li Yan's shoulder: "Strategist, Liu thought that he would never be able to meet you again in this life, but he didn't expect that you and I would be able to fight side by side today, please rest assured, Your Majesty is not a faint king, and you can make some achievements with the court now, and now you can also see that not all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are greedy and cruel, just like blocking Taiwan, but in the past, there were traitorous parties and chaotic governments, and the virtuous people were not talented. Selecting talents and promoting talents, a vulgar martial artist like me Liu can still lead the army, and I don't have to worry about being among the high-ranking officials with the talent of the military division! ”

Li Yan only smiled when he heard Liu Fangliang say this, he didn't expect Liu Fangliang to be able to chew words now, as if he had drunk a lot of ink after joining the imperial court camp, so he also gave Liu Fangliang a heavy hug, and took Du Yinxi and others into Wuchang City.

Plug Yinxi couldn't help but take a closer look at the current Wuchang City, only to see that there are almost few complete houses in the entire Wuchang City, and even the officers and soldiers stationed in Wuchang are sleeping in the open air, and these officers and soldiers not only have no place to live, but even the clothes are very thin, and even many are bare-chested, and the weapons in their hands are just incomplete swords, although they are smooth, but because there is no place to smelt, so that although they are all old rogues who have been fighting for many years, the quality of equipment is still not as good as that of the officers and soldiers.

"What have your troops relied on to fight the Tartars these days, even if there is no supply of military supplies, it should take a lot from the hands of the officers and soldiers," asked Du Yinxi.

"From last year to now, those that have been robbed from the hands of the officials and soldiers have almost been used up, and it is not Li's intention to offend, most of the military departments of the imperial court are shoddy, and the officials and soldiers themselves have not been able to use practical tools, so what good is it for our army to take them!"

Li Yan replied.