200,000 people unloaded their armor, and the next step was to recruit and surrender the rebels, which was very complicated.

Zhu Youzhen did not make it too difficult for the Eighth General Army who voluntarily surrendered, but only relieved them of their military powers, and sent them and other guerrilla generals and above officers to Nanjing to attend the advanced class of the military academy in the name of training and study. If these people perform well in training and study, they will have the opportunity to lead the troops, otherwise they can only hang idle pensions in the future, and it is impossible to lead the troops again.

The rebel generals were sent away, and the rest were the big men and junior officers, most of whom were farmers or fishermen, but also some of whom were hereditary military families. It's much easier to deal with them. All you need to do is distribute a sum of money and food to repatriate to your hometown.

After they return to their hometowns, they can farm, fish, and work, Jiangxi is the land of fish and rice, industry and commerce are very developed, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, they can always find a way to live. In addition, it will soon be Juntian in Jiangxi, and even the poorest peasants will have their own fields in the future, so it is not a big problem to work hard and eat well. And this is what many prisoners yearn for, they have long wanted to leave the army and return to their hometowns, and most of them were forced to enter the army in the first place.

But you can't just put them back so easily, you need to use this time to do something to them.

Do what? Naturally, it is necessary to carry out ideological education, and then let them return to their hometowns, so that a lot of things will be saved in the future.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou ordered that the 200,000 captives be reorganized according to the counties and townships where they were located, and each county was reorganized into a battalion, and each village was reorganized into a team. Each battalion sent a propaganda officer to serve as the battalion leader, and each team sent a supervisor as the captain.

More than 2,000 people were sent to participate in the reorganization of the Praetorian Guard, which led to a significant reduction in the number of Xuanfu of the original prison army. For this reason, Zhu Youzhen ordered a group of literate soldiers to be re-selected from the Praetorian Guard to serve as supervisors, and a group of candidates from the military officers were selected to serve as Xuanfu officers in the army.

In the next half month, the prison guards and Xuanfu officials would conduct strict ideological education on these captives, teach them to read and write, explain the principles of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism and equality of all, and preach the emperor's policy of exempting the land from taxation. While carrying out ideological education, talents will also be selected from among these captives. After all, there are more than 200,000 people, even if most of them are ignorant peasants who can't read big characters, there must be heroes and heroes among them.

Select strong and martial arts to enter the army, select flexible minds to train, and later work in the local government, and so on.

On the second day of the surrender of the 200,000 army, news came from Nanchang that Nanchang Wenwu had surrendered the city, and Chen Yongfu's army had taken control of the city and was waiting for Zhu Youzhen to enter the city.

Leaving Hong Chengchou to reorganize the army at Poyang Lake, Zhu Youzhen went to Nanchang under the protection of Li Dingguo's ministry and entered the city of Nanchang the next day.

Under the leadership of Chen Yongfu, Nanchang officials such as Xie Xuelong and Wu Zhaoyuan, who were scholars of the puppet imperial court, greeted him outside the city gate.

"The sinner Zhu Yousong pays a visit to Your Majesty." Zhu Yousong was naked, kneeling outside the city gate, and pleaded guilty to Zhu Youzhen with a face full of shame.

Looking at this clan clan that was closest to his bloodline, and looking at the fat and pig-like guy in front of him, Zhu Youzhen's expression was complicated.

Emperor Taizu Gao, look at what kind of bastard descendants you have raised in the Yourong National Policy that you have single-handedly formulated!

"Do you dare to compete with me for the throne?" Zhu Youzhen rode on the horse, pointed at Zhu Yousong's back with a horsewhip and asked coldly.

"The criminals don't dare, it's all Lu Peng and Yuan Chonghuan who deceived the criminals, and the criminals fell for them." Zhu Yousong knelt on the ground and trembled.

"They lied to you, are you a fool? It's not that you've always been dissatisfied with me that you have the intention of rebellion. Zhu Youzhen sneered.

At the beginning, he copied the Fuwang Mansion on trumped-up charges and imprisoned Zhu Yousong in Fengyang Prison, presumably Zhu Yousong had a grudge against himself from then on.

"Sinners don't dare, don't dare." Zhu Yousong was so stunned.

"Humph!" Zhu Yousong snorted coldly, beat the horse and entered Nanchang City, and didn't pay attention to this guy anymore.

As for Zhu Yousong's crime, he will naturally be convicted by the Zongren Mansion and the Sansi Dynasty in the future, and there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to think about it. However, with the great crime of rebellion, and creating such a big war, this guy must be doomed.

For Xie Xuelong, Wu Zhaoyuan, Zhou Yingqi and other rebellious officials, Zhu Youzhen was not polite, and ordered Jinyiwei to ask all of them for questioning, as for their initiative to surrender the city, it was far from worth their sins.

Nanchang has been down, 200,000 rebels surrendered, and now the overall situation in Jiangxi is basically settled, although there are still Fuzhou and other prefectures and counties in the south have not been decided, but Zhu Yousong has been arrested, and the remaining rebels in the prefectures and counties still have the courage to resist? Naturally, it depends on the ability to pass on.

At the moment, the only one in Jiangxi that is still at war is Fuzhou. The rebel university sergeant Lu Wenli was leading a large army to resist Li Yanzhi's army in the capital city of Fuzhou.

Li Yanzhi's subordinates were all elite of the Praetorian Guard, many of them were veterans who had fought with the Dutch, and the guns and artillery in their hands were even more complete, and their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable to the rebels under Lu Wenli.

However, after Lu Wenli arrived in Fuzhou, he adopted the method of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, and ordered a shipwreck to block the Jianchang River. Li Yanzhi had tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of ships in the sky, but he was blocked by the sunken ship and was unable to break through.

Because it was Jiangxi, which had crossed hundreds of miles of Wuyi Mountain and attacked from Fujian, Li Yanzhi's army did not carry red-coated cannons, and he couldn't use artillery to break through the city wall. And if you forcibly attack the city, the casualties will inevitably be very large.

And Lu Wenli led his troops to hide in Fuzhou City, and he didn't come out at all, not giving Li Yanzhi a chance to win the field battle.

Therefore, for more than half a month, Li Yanzhi's troops were blocked south of Fuzhou, and there was no way at all.

And at this time, the news came from Nanchang, the city of Nanchang was broken, and Zhu Yousong, the prisoner, was arrested. When he heard the news, Lu Wenli let out a long sigh and did not doubt the authenticity of the news. Because he knew in his heart that it was too difficult to block the more than 100,000 Praetorian Guards led by the emperor himself with the strength of Nanchang. And whether it is Zhu Yousong or Lu Peng, he is not a capable person.

"Kaesong surrenders." Lu Wenli sighed and ordered surrender. And he himself came to a corner tower in the mansion alone.

"Husband." His wife, Wen, wept and fell to the ground.

"Madam, the army has been defeated, and our end has come." Lu Wenli sighed.

"Husband, why is this so, you are a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and a courtier of His Majesty, why did you fall to this point." Wen cried. She has always had an opinion on Lu Wenli's disobedience, but Lu Wenli didn't listen.

"The matter has come to this, what can the husband say" Lu Wenli closed his eyes.

"Let's light the fire."

A lighted torch touched the curtain, and immediately a raging fire burst into flames, quickly engulfing the entire turret.

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