November 10, 1643, Tuesday, the Ming Empire 16th year of September 29.

Regarding the appearance of the Guangdong New Army with the Qiongzhou battalion as the main force, Zhao Youheng was skeptical at first. In the past few years, except for a few fierce men, in the face of the cunning and fierce Zhang Xianzhong and others, the internal provincial officials and troops have hardly fought many decent victories. In his eyes, being able to stay undefeated is the biggest victory.

After repeatedly confirming that the battle report was written by Shen Tingyang himself, Zhao Youheng, the governor of Guangdong, was finally convinced that the new army he formed annihilated Zhang Xianzhong's southbound rogues with an absolute victory and kept Shaozhou, the northern gate of Guangdong. Needless to say, the six hundred miles of urgent notification to the governor of Jiangxi, Lu Daqi, and the emperor of Beijing, in the face of the details of the battle report from his subordinates, Zhao Youheng also had more confidence to clear some things that were in the way.

In the private spread of the Qiongzhou battalion, a group of middle-level old officers who were afraid of war, such as the guerrilla general Zhou Ting, were basically known to the whole army, and even the teahouses in Guangzhou were laughing at the stupid stories of Zhou Ting and others who fled back to Shaoguan in fear because they did not want to make great contributions. As Zhou Ting's direct appointee, Shen Youlong, the governor of Zhaoqing's Liangguang, was also silent, and he had the intention of no longer caring about it.

It is a sure thing that Zhou Ting was marginalized and even rolled up and left, and the garrison Zhang Jianye was ordered to be in danger, and he showed his true ability to win more with less. Zhou Ting said that he was not sick, and with Shen Tingyang's intentional promotion, Zhao Youheng waved his pen and appointed Zhang Jianye to command the Qiongzhou battalion, and will be promoted to the imperial court as a guerrilla general in the future. In the second battalion of the left and right battalions in Guangzhou, Zhao Youheng also took advantage of the situation to replace the chief officer with his confidant of the Fubiao battalion. Subsequently, Zhou Ting, who was not even hot in Qiongzhou, was transferred to the Humen Patrol Battalion in Guangzhou.

It is said that after this battle, Zhang Xianzhong has given up the route of going south to Liangguang, and is now turning his head to fight Zuo Liangyu in Jiangxi again, and Liangguang has turned into safety. I thought it would be a protracted confrontation, but I didn't expect the problem to be solved so easily, the consumption of food and salary was much lower than originally expected, but a lot of money and food were seized, and even if the reward was awarded, I had the confidence.

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The city of Guangzhou is full of joy. The squires who were waiting for the news in Qiongzhou City were even more arrogant. The benefits brought by the Qiongzhou battalion are obvious, those hairy boys who are stuffed in, basically everyone has military exploits, and they will inevitably be vigorously promoted by Zhao Youheng.

However, for Zhao Youheng, the governor of Guangdong, the most important thing at present is not to deal with the follow-up affairs of the Guangdong New Army. Zhang Xianzhong's turbulent waves have triggered a huge wave of refugees from Huguang and Jiangxi to the northern part of Liangguang. In the past month, more than 300,000 refugees from Huguang and Jiangxi have poured into the border between the two regions, including those who fled south directly through Guò and Shaozhou. There are nearly 200,000 of them, half of whom have already reached the outskirts of Guangzhou, and it is not known how many refugees will flow in the future.

In the past, there were also waves of displaced people in the famine years in Liangguang, but both the number and distribution were within the tolerable range. At present, it is different, these families are ruined and displaced, and the refugees from Huguang, Jiangxi or the north of Liangguang have poured in almost instantly, and most of them are coming to Guangzhou, which has become the biggest burden for Guangdong. If it is not handled well, it may lead to a catastrophe that is no less than a rebellion by the rogues.

Zhao Youheng also thought that he was a good official who was sympathetic to the people, so he had to send a large number of manpower and money to the prefectures and counties near Guangzhou Prefecture to help the refugees. The money and grain seized by Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang's troops immediately went in and out with their left hand, and it seemed far from enough. Because suddenly there were so many refugees waiting to be fed. It was also the beginning of the winter period when grain prices were at their highest, and with the purchase of a large amount of relief grain, the market price of rice in Guangzhou City suddenly climbed to two taels of silver per stone, and there was a continuing upward trend.

Looking at the money and food account books handed to him by his subordinates and the influx of refugees from the north. Zhao Youheng was frowning and helpless. In desperation, I had to write a letter to Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang who had a bad relationship during this time, hoping that the other party could give a solution.

"Brother-in-law!"

The tip of the pen has just dropped the first drop of ink on the rice paper. I heard a familiar voice coming from the door of the study. When I looked up, I saw Liu Yaoyu smiling and holding a letter.

"Have you made an inquiry?" Zhao Youheng hurriedly put down the pen and pushed the tea he hadn't drunk by the way.

"Brother Sicheng has not yet returned from Luzon, but I met Qian Laosan, the manager of the Hong Kong branch of the Oriental Union Group."

Probably in a hurry, Liu Yaoyu didn't care about any etiquette at this time, and directly drank a big sip of tea: "The next batch of Huawu military ordnance has arrived in Nanyang, and it will arrive in Hong Kong in a few days." OUCC has promised that the payment can be deferred for half a year. As for the supply of grain and grass, Manager Qian said that Hong Kong's reserves are insufficient and it is difficult to raise them, but he has come up with a perfect solution......

Speaking of this, Liu Yaoyu hesitated slightly, but seeing that Zhao Youheng's face was very calm, he knew that the other party had already been mentally prepared after several contacts with the Oriental Union Group, so he could sit down and say: "Manager Qian said that the Nanyang area is rich in water and soil, and there is a lot of labor required for agricultural reclamation. ”

"Since the beginning of Wanli, the border people of several southeastern provinces have often gone abroad to reclaim land in the year of famine, ranging from hundreds to thousands per year, and the imperial court has repeatedly banned it. Since the second year of Chongzhen, this number has exceeded 10,000 ......" Zhao Youheng touched his beard, his face was very strict, "In the disaster year, wars and disasters are frequent, and the people are displaced. ”

"Manager Qian said that the Oriental Union Group is willing to bear the cost of recruitment, and every person recruited, regardless of men, women, old and young, will pay two taels of silver and one stone ......of grain," Liu Yaoyu said, and secretly glanced at his brother-in-law's face, "My old Taishan is also willing to organize the old gentry of Qiongzhou Township to accept the displaced people from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Liangguang to reclaim Qiongzhou, but the silver grain can't be raised." ”

Qiongzhou, where the resettlement of displaced people is vast and sparsely populated, has long been proven to be effective, and it is still an old policy approved by Emperor Chongzhen. If it were in the past, Zhao Youheng would definitely not hesitate to divert most of the refugees to Qiongzhou to settle down after receiving the statement, and rely on Qiongzhou, where workers and peasants are thriving but there is a shortage of labor, to solve the hidden danger of displaced people. But at this time, Liu Yaoyu raised the price of the Oriental Union Group to make a comparison, and it seemed that the Qiongzhou gentry were too picky.

Every time a refugee is recruited, regardless of men, women, old and young, the yamen of the governor of Guangdong can receive two taels of silver and one stone of rice. Not to mention too much, just let the Oriental Union Group pull away 50,000 refugees from the north of Guangzhou. That's 100,000 pieces of silver and 50,000 stone of grain! With such a large amount of money and food, the pressure on the new army's food and salary in the bright year has been greatly reduced, and the problem of relief for the refugees can be quickly solved at present.

After thinking carefully for a long time, Zhao Youheng quietly spread out his pen and ink, and began to write in front of his brother-in-law, while whispering softly: "Since the Nanhai business and Mr. Wang are willing to share their worries, they naturally can't ask for it, and the official has to write a letter to thank him." The people in the Huguang area are very good at farming, which is also a major event for Qiongzhou. If you can prepare all the boats, the official should report to the court and arrange for it...... If the Oriental Union Group wants to hire workers or recruit farmers to reclaim Nanyang. It's better to wait for the people to settle down in Qiongzhou, and then discuss it with Lord Shen......"

Hundreds of thousands of Huguang, Jiangxi or Liangguang displaced people, Zhao Youheng did not dare to let foreign Fanyi point out. To put it mildly, it is to use work for relief, diversion and pressure reduction, and to put it mildly, this kind of behavior is almost no different from those "human teeth" who wander around the city of Guangzhou all day long and collude with maritime merchants to secretly sell piglets overseas.

Nominally, all of them were covered up by the old policy of the imperial court to relocate the displaced people to Qiongzhou, and the displaced people left Guangzhou on the grounds of being sent to Qiongzhou, as for the rest of the matter. It's not about me. The money and grain obtained should be regarded as the donation of the Nanyang maritime squire to the imperial court.

When it is time to be an official, it is also a last resort. At least he couldn't let Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, catch the big handle. Besides, in recent years, Qiongzhou has been openly introducing displaced people to settle for settlement, and every year, a large number of people in Liangguang County who can't survive go to Qiongzhou or Hong Kong to work as hired laborers to earn a living, and Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, has also turned a blind eye and has not really intervened.

After making up his mind, Zhao Youheng suddenly wrote like a fly. Soon the letters were completed, one was handed to Liu Yaoyu to send to the Ding'an Wang family, and the other was written. It was prepared to be sent to the Liangguang Governor's Mansion in Zhaoqing.

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A week later, tens of thousands of refugees from Guangzhou boarded the boat, and half a day later they entered the western suburbs of the Governor's District of Hong Kong. With so many people pouring in at once, the Governor of Hong Kong, Elson, had to ask for help from the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the Wehrmacht's Eastern Brigade, which had only arrived in Hong Kong for two days.

The number of refugees staying at the border of Guangzhou Prefecture has exceeded 200,000, and in order to transport this group of refugees, Nanhai Trading Company and Oriental Union Union Group have mobilized a lot of transportation capacity. This first batch of tens of thousands of refugees alone used several large and medium-sized merchant ships of the Oriental Union Union, which carried at least one or two thousand people on one ship, like sardines. Fortunately, the journey of several hours is extremely short, and this kind of transportation, which does not care about the lives and deaths of the refugees, has not yet caused any major tragedy.

After the refugees from Huguang or northern Guangdong escaped with the old and the young, each person could only drink a bowl of thin rice porridge every day before they got on the boat.

The Hong Kong Governor's Office prepared relief food for refugees is several grades better than that of the Guangzhou Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, with a large bowl of rice and vegetable leaf porridge, thick noodles and corn nests for everyone, and women and children can also receive a little extra salted meat, dried fish or a few rock sugar to replenish their energy. Such a huge difference made the frightened refugees after disembarking from the ship grateful to Dade.

Under the organization of the Hong Kong police, the well-fed refugees were sent to several nearby sheds to take turns to bathe, then change into new clothes, and then take them to the recruitment shed on the other side of the wharf as a family unit for questioning. Because the number of refugees is too large, the Hong Kong branch of OUCC even invited a lot of people from Guangzhou City to help them choose.

"Before, you worked as a mason? Would you like to go to sea with your family? People are gorgeous but after the former Song Dynasty, you don't have to worry about anything there, and your son can still study. ”

"Carpenter is good, I heard that in Huamei, carpenters are all people with status! Sign this, and you will get a hundred taels of Anjia silver to the place! ”

"The land of that beautiful place is so fat! An old man like you, it's a spicy meal for the whole family there...... Selling yourself as a tenant? No, no, no, people call them state-owned farm workers, and those who get monthly money will be about ten taels of silver per month......"

"Thirty years as a blacksmith? Yes, as long as you are willing to go to sea, you will be paid at least fifteen taels of silver per month when you get to the place! The settling-in fee can be added extra! ”

At the end of the day, the Far Eastern Affairs Department of the Ministry of Immigration commissioned the Hong Kong branch of the Oriental Union Group to screen a total of more than 2,000 new immigrants. Selected migrant families are taken out of the port and settled in temporary camps, where they are soon to assemble in groups on OUCC merchant ships to Temasek's migrant transit destination.

Of course, a much larger number of Daming refugee families have not been granted immigrant visas. Instead, they were led to live in another camp, and what awaited them would be a different line of fate.

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Near dusk, in a shed not far from the temporary refugee camp, a group of dying refugees were lining up under the organization of a handful of Hong Kong police officers to be treated by military doctors from the field infirmary of the 1st Battalion of the Oriental Brigade of the National Defense Force stationed on Pearl Island.

Second Lieutenant Military Medical Officer Lu Yuzhou's image has undergone a lot of changes in the past year, and the strict military life has made the once weak and white-faced young man stronger, and his body shape looks more well-proportioned and tall.

At this moment, Lu Yuzhou was carefully pulling the penicillin injection needle out of the arm of a purple-faced refugee child of the Ming Dynasty. Looking at the sick children who had fallen asleep, Lu Yuzhou smiled at the nervous Daming refugee couple beside him: "Madam." I have treated my child's wounds, antipyretics and antibiotics. You take this list and come back tomorrow at this time to change the medicine and get the injection. Don't worry about letting your child drink plenty of clean water, and it will get better in two days. ”

"Thank you, Master Jun! Thank you, Master Jun, for saving your life! The Daming refugee couple quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, tears and dust mixed together.

"Sergeant, hurry up and replace the next patient." Seeing the patient's family go away, Lu Yuzhou sighed deeply. Seeing that there were more and more Daming refugees gathered outside the greenhouse, the second lieutenant medical officer, who had been busy for several hours, hurriedly went back to work.

"Second Lieutenant, there is a telegram from the Far Eastern Regional Command of Pearl City!" At this time, a corporal came from outside. After one was upright, a telegram was handed over.

After taking it apart and looking at it a few times, Lu Yuzhou's face changed greatly, and even the fingers holding the message trembled a little.

"Permission to transfer out of the Eastern Brigade. Go home quickly. The telegram was less than twenty words, but it was not only the Army Command, but also his mother Tang Yue.

"Second Lieutenant Lu Yuzhou. Going to the city to play billiards at night? ”

At this time, a young officer wearing the rank of captain also walked into the shed and was looking at Lu Yuzhou with a smile. The person who came in was Ren Xingzhong, deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion and commander of the 1st Company of the Eastern Brigade, and the eldest son of the Ren family of COSCO International Group, whose seniority in the National Defense Force was 10 times stronger than that of Lu Yuzhou.

The Lu family and the Ren family had very little contact in China and the United States, and Lu Yuzhou was a few years younger than Ren Xingzhong, and the relationship between the two was estimated to be limited to a few holiday gatherings when they were children. However, this did not prevent Lu Yuzhou and Ren Xingzhong from becoming friends with a common language on Hong Kong Island, which is tens of thousands of miles away, especially since Lu Yuzhou also belonged to the battalion medical officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Eastern Brigade, and was a comrade-in-arms of the same unit and had a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

"Captain, look at the posture here, I'm afraid it's going to be busy until late. There are too many patients for the Hong Kong hospital to cope with, otherwise they wouldn't have asked us to come and help. Lu Yuzhou hurriedly got up and saluted Ren Xingzhong, then beckoned the other medical soldiers to take over the work, and then led the other party to the back of the medical shed.

"It's really hard for you to be so busy when you arrive in Hong Kong...... Well? Got a letter from home? Seeing that the other party really couldn't get out, Ren Xingzhong was not reluctant, but he was a little embarrassed that he couldn't share his worries for the other party.

"Hehe, my sister's, she was admitted to the Capital National University this year to major in clinical medicine......" Lu Yuzhou covered his mouth, and the moment the message was gently put into his pocket, he was already crumpled into a ball by his hand.

"There are only two doctors in your family...... Hey, there are too few doctors here, I heard that many people died before they got on the ship......" Speaking of this, Ren Xingzhong sat down beside Lu Yuzhou with a little sadness, took off his military hat and slowly pinched it, "It is said that the Hong Kong Governor's Office will sell the remaining people to Luzon, and Luzon already has a ship parked in Hong Kong." ”

"Sell?!" Lu Yuzhou was startled, and then immediately realized that his words might be heard by the Ming refugees outside the medical shed, and quickly lowered his voice, "Captain, are you sure that the Eastern Union Group did it?" ”

Seeing that the other party's expression was a little ugly, Ren Xingzhong knew that the other party had misunderstood: "The newly established Republic of Luzon needs a large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, so they paid for it and entrusted the Far East Branch of the Oriental Union Group to be responsible for transportation. I heard that it was a joint decision of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not what my dad meant! ”

Looking at the eldest son of the big man of the Oriental Union Group, Lu Yuzhou was silent, he knew that these things were decided by the fathers who held the power of the state, and these little characters had no ability to change at all. All he could do was to do his duty to relieve the pain of these Ming patients queuing up as much as possible.

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In the building of the Hong Kong branch of Oriental Industrial Company of Oriental Union Group, manager Qian Laosan is accompanying Liu Yaoyu, the chief manager of Nanhai Firm. and another delegate from Luzon having dinner.

“…… Thank you Manager Qian and Shopkeeper Liu this time, it really solved a big problem for me in Luzon! Premier Li is there, and it is easy to explain it in the future. The representative of Luzon raised his glass again and smiled at Liu Yaoyu and Qian Laosan, "However, the strength of the maritime merchant ships in Luzon is limited, and I hope that Director Qian will help more." In this way, for every immigrant transported by the Oriental Union Group and the South China Sea firm, Luzon is willing to ship ten dollars and five stones of rice! ”

In order to solve the shortage of the Chinese population in Luzon, the two people in front of them are the targets of the Luzon Republic's desperate efforts at present. Seeing that the other party promised to get at least 20,000 Ming refugees for Luzon in the next two months. The Luzon delegates from Manila were thankful. Otherwise, with the current ability of Luzon, even with the help of some old maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to be able to get a few thousand piglets in two months.

With a large loan aid and a small war fortune at independence, the Luzon Provisional Government now has a lot of money. In order to enrich the Chinese population in various parts of Luzon in a short period of time and speed up local construction, the Luzon magnates headed by Li Guozhu have made a bloody investment. Not only did they pay a lot of money to invite Daming's old relatives to pull people around, but they also found the Nanhai firm and the Oriental Union Group, hoping to expand Luzon's channels for gaining population by virtue of the other party's strong influence in the two Guangzhou.

"That's nature. The establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries is meant to help each other. OUCC is willing to solve problems for the Republic of Luzon and Prime Minister Lee. After glancing at Liu Yaoyu, Qian Laosan chuckled and nodded on the table, "But now is the busy period for trade and transportation, if you go all out into immigration transportation." I'm afraid the OUCC Group can't handle it......"

The representative of Luzon was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that his offer was still too low, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then raised it a little more as soon as he gritted his teeth: "Since this is the case." For every person brought in, Luzon was willing to pay eighteen dollars and ten stone of rice! ”

Luzon has more places to use money. However, rice is very cheap, and the price proposed by the Luzon deputies this time is also within the scope of Li Guozhu and others' consideration in advance.

"Hey, it's all for the sake of the compatriots in distress in the world, and my third brother has nothing to say!" Qian Laosan, who got a better offer, laughed like a slippery old man at this time, as if the previous "strength is not enough" disappeared in an instant.

In the name of resettlement of displaced people in Qiongzhou, the Nanhai firm obtained the approval to relocate 150,000 displaced people in the next year, and how to secretly divert the displaced people in the middle of the way is completely up to the Nanhai firm and the Oriental Union Group. Luzon can eat about 20,000 people, each of whom bids $18 and 10 stone of rice, but Zhao Youheng can only receive $3 and 1 stone of rice.

In this way, not only can the troubles of the two Guangxi governments be alleviated a lot, but Qiongzhou will also be able to get more displaced people to resettle the land, and Zhao Youheng, the governor of Guangdong, will easily get a large amount of relief funds and food for the new army, and even Luzon, which has established a business overseas, can also get the long-awaited immigrants, and the so-called everyone is happy. Among them, OUCC Group is the biggest beneficiary.

In this regard, Liu Yaoyu, who was also at the banquet, just smiled silently, but was secretly surprised by the flattering and brazen tricks of the Oriental Union Group.

Although he watched the displaced people be transported to the South Seas like sold piglets, the Ming Dynasty was really unable to feed these poor people at present. Liu Yaoyu, who is close to the age of confusion, also saw it at this time, at least based on what he saw and heard, those Chinese people who flowed into Nanyang would be better off after all than to fend for themselves in Daming, and those who could be favored by Huamei to immigrate to Taixi would be even more earth-shattering good luck.

What made Liu Yaoyu and Luzon even more unexpected was that the same transaction was still being carried out in the branch of the Oriental Union Group on Pearl Island, and Liu Xiang of Lanfang Freedom Collar and the representative of the Yan family of Dayuan Island are now also bargaining with the Oriental Union Group, planning to "shelter" 10,000 Daming refugees each.

For many years, the Grand Commander sent fleets to collect displaced people, and at one time was one of the main sources of Chinese immigrants, at a cost of about $15 per person. This time, the Oriental Union Group actually "peddled" to the big people in turn, which made the big people stunned for a while. Fortunately, Dayuan Island, which is introducing a large amount of Chinese and American industrial and agricultural capital, is also eager to get more refugee labor, so after talking, the Dayuan Yan family is willing to accommodate 10,000 people at a price of $12 per person.

Temasek's Liu Xiang is poorer, and his usual means of collecting mainland piglets are even less adequate, and although the price is not as generous as the others, it has reached the price of US$10 per person.

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In the following months, the Fubiao battalion under the command of Zhao Youheng, the governor of Guangdong, was dispatched, and more than 80,000 Ming refugees were sent out of Guangdong. For a time, the wharves along the coast of Guangzhou were crying fathers and mothers, which made people cry.

Half of the capacity of the Far East branch of the Oriental Union Group was used to transport refugees, and the South China Sea firm also summoned as many Nanyang maritime merchants as possible to transport people to Qiongzhou and Hong Kong. The ships waiting to be loaded in Hong Kong are full of ghosts, snakes and spirits from all walks of life, including Temasek, senior and Luzon.

During this period of time, more than 20,000 Ming refugees arrived in Luzon by sea, and most of the refugees who disembarked cautiously saw the smiling and amiable Luzon Chinese.

Qiongzhou itself, in just a few months, transported in more than 40,000 refugees, and then scattered into various prefectures and counties in Qiongzhou for resettlement, slightly filling the local pioneer labor gap, but also made Shen Tingyang, who was planning to large-scale reclamation and share worries for the imperial court, feel that "Zhongxing is hopeful".

The Chinese American Immigration Department has obtained more than 10,000 new immigrants in one go, which is the highest record per unit of time. It's just that due to the lack of ocean transportation capacity, except for a small number of direct placements in Pearl Island and Hong Kong, most of them can only be temporarily settled in Liu Xiang's Temasek immigration transit base, and it will take about a few months to transport them all.

Even the Huamei Xing Group, which privately sent representatives to the Far East to replenish the labor force of the South African Governorate, gritted its teeth and ran to Hong Kong to "borrow" the remaining refugees from the 2000 election from the OUCC Group.

Zhao Youheng, the governor of Guangdong, also became a small winner, earning a total of 80,000 taels of silver and 40,000 stone of rice, which not only greatly alleviated the problem of refugee detention and relief in Guangdong, but also solved some of the ordnance payments for the Guangdong New Army. Probably Zhao Youheng never thought that dealing with these troubles was not only so simple, but also made a lot of money, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is difficult to make a fortune.

This large-scale migration of refugees was completely self-inflicted by the Ming Dynasty, and may be inconspicuous in the historical background of the entire Ming Dynasty's upheaval and displacement of the people and human lives, but no one knows how many refugees from Huguang and northern Liangguang were displaced overseas from the end of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen to the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

The only loser is probably the Ming Empire and the emperor himself.

First of all, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, was defeated and died, and most of the prefectures and counties in Henan were once again occupied by Li Zicheng, who called himself the "King of Xinshun", and then Tongguan was lost, the Shaanxi official army collapsed, Li Zicheng's army rushed into Shaanxi, and it was only a matter of time before Xi'an and even the whole of Shaanxi fell.

As for the south, Zhang Xianzhong, who called himself the "King of the Great West," failed to go south to Guangdong, and then turned back to fight with the officials and troops under the command of Lu Daqi, the governor of Jiangxi, and it is still difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser. It's just that the prefectures and counties at the junction of Huguang and Jiangxi have become hell on earth, whether it is the thief Zhang Xianzhong or the official army Zuo Liangyu, they all show the most tyrannical side, and the local people are trampled on like pigs and dogs, and life is worse than death. (To be continued......)