Although Zhou Guiyong is the commander of Changsha Guard, to put it bluntly, he is just a small person in front of King Tangtangji.

However, at present, Changsha is in danger, and in order to recruit people to defend the city, Zhou Guiyong also let it go.

I knelt on the ground and said to Zhu Cixuan: "Lord, now there are 7,000 rebels in Yuanzhou, Jiangxi outside the city who are attacking the city, and most of my Changsha defenders have been transferred to Xiangyang and Yunyang by the governor, and now the army in the city is empty. ”

As soon as Zhu Cixuan heard this, his eyes immediately straightened.

He said angrily, "What? Let the king take out the money and the grain and give them to the people? I am the dignified Prince of Ming, you magistrates, you dare to ask my prince for money, come here, I will beat this guy out! ”

Zhou Guiyong didn't expect this auspicious king Zhu Cixuan to be so stingy, not only did he not pull out a dime, but he also sent someone to knock him out of the house.

Out of the palace, Zhou Guiyong rubbed the painful parts of his body, and couldn't help but stumble back to the city tower.

When he came to the city tower, Zhou Guiyong met the prefect Wang Qi.

Wang Qichen looked at him like this, and basically guessed in his heart that the matter must not have been done.

He sighed and said, "Well, how is it now? ”

"Your Excellency, you can put up a notice and recruit the people to defend the city together." A servant came out to give Wang Ji an idea.

Wang Qizhen shook his head and said: "The treasury is empty, what to use to let the people come up and fight with the thieves, King Ji is rampant in Changsha, most of the fields in the people's homes are occupied by the Ji Wangfu, and the people of Changsha have long been looking forward to the Mo thief coming over to divide the land for them, how can they help us defend the city?" ”

Zhou Guiyong was also indignant when he heard this, he said: "My lord, what are we doing this for, this Daming, is it the Daming of our people, not the world of his Zhu family?" Let's ignore what this King Ji did in Changsha for the time being, isn't he afraid that after the city of Changsha is broken, the entire palace of King Ji will be slaughtered by thieves? ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence above the city tower.

The big guys know in their hearts that it is impossible to hold Changsha with only the remaining more than 800 people, there are soldiers and food in King Ji's mansion, but King Ji is too stingy and unwilling to pay, how can this city be defended!

Just when everyone was at a loss, suddenly something flew over the city, and everyone fixed their eyes to see that it was actually a group of black altars.

Before everyone could figure it out, suddenly the black thing exploded in the air, and all they could feel was a buzzing sound in their ears.

When the smoke cleared, a group of officials were stupid, and the defenders on the city wall actually died a hundred people.

Wang Qichen was shocked instantly, he couldn't imagine that there were such powerful firearms in the anti-thief army, this battle could not be fought, and if the fight continued, the officers and soldiers of the city would have to be wiped out.

He immediately shouted: "Commander Zhou, quick, open the city gate and surrender!" ”

Zhou Guiyong didn't want to fight this nest of battles for a long time, and after eating a meal at King Ji's, he didn't want to defend this Changsha City anymore.

Anyway, eighty percent of the wealth in Changsha City is in the Ji Wangfu, and he Ji Wangfu is reluctant to send troops and money to defend the city, so there is no need for him to work hard for his old Zhu family.

Zhou Guiyong immediately ordered people to raise white flags and shout surrender, and sent people to lower the drawbridge and open the city gate.

The remaining defenders of the city dropped their weapons and walked outside the city with their bare hands, kneeling and surrendering.

Qian Dayou thought that he would have to throw dozens more thunderbolts to fight them, but he didn't expect to surrender directly after losing only one round.

He was overjoyed and immediately ordered his troops to march into the city of Changsha.

In Changsha City, Wang Qixing led Changsha's civil and military teams to welcome Qian Dayou into the city at the city gate.

Everyone didn't kneel, but just bent down slightly to Qian Dayou.

"The prefect of Changsha Wang Qixing led the civil and military officials in Changsha City to ask the general to surrender!"

"Lord Wang is polite, Lord Wang has made a contribution to the city, and after the Lord returns to Jiangxi with the general, the general will definitely recommend Lord Wang to the marshal!"

Wang Qiqing's face was more happy when he heard this, and he saluted: "Thank you for the general's love, the general, please enter the city!" ”

The army soon entered the city, and after entering the city, Qian Dayou immediately arranged for someone to post a notice to the people in accordance with the tradition of the rebels.

In addition, I received a report from the surrender officials in Changsha, and then I learned that there was a large-scale Jiwang Mansion in Changsha City.

As for the informant, it happened to be Zhou Guiyong, the commander of Changsha Wei.

Zhou Guiyong followed Wang Qi to surrender the rebel army, and when he thought about the stick he received during the day, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

The so-called step back, the more you think about it, the more you lose, the more you think about it, the more you lose, Zhou Guiyong doesn't do it, and he simply tells Qian Dayou about the large amount of wealth hidden in King Ji's mansion.

As for why Zhou Guiyong dared to be so bold in informing, the main reason was that his hometown had long been occupied by the rogues, and his family was also taken to Changsha by him.

Without worries, he Zhou Guiyong is not afraid that the court will track him down, anyway, now that he has fallen to the thief, he is a dead person, it is better to tell the righteous army, once the Ji Wangfu is copied, then he will be equivalent to a great achievement.

Sure enough, after Qian Dayou heard about the viciousness of the Ji Wangfu and the wealth in the palace, he immediately ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses to surround the Ji Wangfu.

King Ji belongs to the prince, and Zhu Cixuan has the right to raise 600 armor soldiers, and in addition to these 600 people, Zhu Cixuan has privately raised more than 300 people.

The main reason why Zhu Cixuan dared to be tyrannical and oppress the people in Changsha Mansion was that he had soldiers in his hands.

Although the military power of the vassal king at the end of the Ming Dynasty was greatly weakened, it was still possible for a prince to raise 600 armor soldiers.

Zhu Cixuan didn't know that Changsha City had been captured by the righteous army in King Ji's mansion, and he was still enjoying himself in the mansion.

In the evening, the soldiers in the palace suddenly came to report that the palace was besieged, and Zhu Cixuan was furious when he heard it.

"Who is so bold as to besiege the palace? I think he's tired and crooked! ”

The guards of the palace replied: "I don't know the little one, but I see that General Zhou, who has just come to us, is also there!" ”

"What? Zhou Guiyong, a son of a bitch, dared to bring troops to surround my palace, come here, follow me out of the mansion, and watch this king slaughter that house! ”

Zhu Cixuan rushed straight to the gate of the palace with hundreds of guards, and just opened the gate of the palace, he saw a rain of arrows flying.

Zhu Cixuan couldn't even figure out what was going on, so he was directly shot into a hedgehog by the rebel soldiers guarding the door.

"Brothers, give me a flat palace!"

The rebel soldiers rushed into the mansion and slaughtered them, and when they entered the mansion, as long as they saw that it was a man, they immediately killed them without saying a word, and as for the women, they were all arrested and imprisoned.

More than 900 guards and family members in the palace were killed by the rebel soldiers.

These people can be said to be full of evil in Changsha City, even if there are a few good ones, Qian Dayou has no time to screen him, so he simply killed and gave a bad breath to the people of Changsha.

After killing all the men in the palace, the rebels began to search the palace on a large scale, and soon found the entrance to a secret passage in the backyard of the palace.

Open the secret passage and send someone down to investigate, it turns out that there is a cave under the secret passage, and there is actually a secret room.

Qian Dayou went down to the secret room, and as soon as he entered the secret room, he saw that the room was shining with gold, silver, jewelry, etc., and there were at least hundreds of boxes to fit it together.

"I'm a good girl, how much does it cost?"

Yu Changjie walked to the cabinet and picked up a book, opened it and saw that it was actually an account book.

After turning a few pages, he said excitedly to Qian Dayou: "General, we have made a fortune, there are 100,000 taels of gold and 800,000 taels of silver in this secret room, and there are countless treasures. ”

Qian Dayi was shocked when he heard this, "So much? With this money, will the problem of military salaries, which is a headache for the marshal, be solved? ”

"Of course, such a large sum of money, let alone raising 20,000 soldiers and horses, is enough to raise 200,000 soldiers, which is enough to pay for two years' military salary!"

Qian Dayou was even happier when he heard this, he clapped his hands and smiled: "Haha, now I see how Lu Zhao'er can compare the credit with me, hum, he thought that he would be able to win the first credit if he occupied Nanchang, but I won Changsha and gained such a large amount of treasure, this time the handsome will definitely count the first credit on my head!" ”

Yu Changjie also laughed when he heard it, he said: "Congratulations to the general, set up a magnificent attack, with this gold and silver, the problem of the salary of the righteous army will be solved, and after waiting for the expansion of the army, the general will definitely be the main general of the new army!" ”

"Of course, I am now the deputy chief soldier of the second battalion, the marshal is the chief soldier, the marshal has long had the idea of expanding the army, but there is no grain and no silver in the treasury, and now Ruifeng Cang has been taken, and we have copied the hometown of Jiwangfu, the treasures of the seven generations of Jiwangfu, now all of them are cheap us, I think the marshal must be happy this time, and immediately write a letter to inform the marshal of the news!"

When everyone left the secret room, Yu Changjie immediately wrote a letter asking for merit, and sent the harvest of the second battalion and the list of meritorious soldiers to Nanchang and handed it over to Mo Qian.

Mo Qian, who was far away in Nanchang, was really overjoyed after receiving Qian Dayou's letter.

He summoned Cao Guoqi and Cheng Zhidun and told them the good news.

"Qian Dayou fought well in Changsha, not only captured the four cities of Changsha Mansion, but also captured the old bottom of the seven generations of King Ji, now our headache can be solved, I decided, immediately expand the army by 30,000, add three battalions, four battalions and five battalions, and transfer one battalion and two battalions of thousands of households as the backbone, fall into these three battalions, in order to be the backbone, what do you think?"

suddenly became rich, Cao Guoqi and Cheng Zhidun were naturally very happy, Cheng Zhidun has always opposed the expansion of the army too quickly, mainly because there is no money in the treasury.

As the Minister of Logistics, he has a clear foundation for the Righteous Army, and the Righteous Army seems to be getting bigger and bigger, but the expenses are getting more and more day by day.

Meritorious soldiers should be rewarded, and soldiers who died in battle should also be compensated, but these are all real money, without gold and silver, he, the logistics minister, is an empty shell.

If there is no money, the soldiers of the righteous army will be bored when they start fighting, although the lord's propaganda policy has played a very good role in the army, but the soldiers have to support their families when they become soldiers.

If there is no reward for meritorious service, the enthusiasm of the soldiers to fight will be discouraged.

For this point, Mo Qian, as the commander of the righteous army, is also clear in his heart.

He really wanted to do the same thing as the future generations and mobilize the masses to rebel, but he found that sometimes the people were not so easy to mobilize.

To mobilize the people, what is needed is a charismatic cowman, Mo Qian knew that he didn't have that ability, so he could only treat the soldiers with rewards.

In administering the army, meritorious service must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished, and rewards and punishments are clearly distinguished, so that a good army can be trained.

Empty mouth and white teeth fooled the people to join the army willingly, and did not pay military salaries, this thing can only be done in specific things, in the current Jiangxi, he can't complete this kind of epic difficult task.

If it is said that the Manchu Tartars have entered the customs and killed the people in the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, he Mo Qian is sure that he has the ability to fool the people into rebelling with him.

Because it was time to die in the country, but not yet, now he is just a thief and a grass king.

Juntian Ce won over the hearts of the people, and the clear rewards and punishments stabilized the morale of the righteous army.

Now with such a large sum of money, Mo Qian can finally carry out his plan for the second step of expansion, he wants to increase his troops and train his troops to consolidate the territory he occupies now.

He said to Cao Cheng and the others: "Changsha's geographical location is the land of four wars, surrounded by plains, Qian Dayou has now captured Changsha, I believe that soon there will be a counterattack by the imperial court."

Now that we are in Nanchang, once Lu Xiangsheng learns the news, it is very likely that he will lead the army south, and then we will fight on two fronts, and you must do a good job of expanding the army.

In addition, spring ploughing will be more than a month away, and the policy of equalizing fields in Nanchang Province must be implemented quickly, and I want the people of Nanchang Province to distribute the fields before sowing seedlings.

In addition, he told Qian Dayou not to stick to Changsha, and to send troops out when the time is appropriate to capture a few more county seats.

In addition, let Qian Dayou recruit troops on the spot near Changsha, and give me a firm hold on to Changsha City, Changsha is surrounded by fertile land, is a grain production land, and ordered him to quickly carry out the Juntian policy, and strive for spring ploughing money to distribute the land to the people, I hope Changsha can have a bumper harvest in summer! ”

Feeling Mo Qian's ambition, Cao Guoqi and Cheng Zhidun didn't dare to be sloppy, and the two hurriedly returned in unison: "Yes, the subordinates will do it immediately!" ”

Seeing off the two, Mo Qian picked up a pen and paper again and began to write a letter, which was addressed to Li Banghua, who was in charge of Ji'an.

Li Banghua is an old man in the officialdom, he has experience in politics, and now that Qian Dayou has just occupied Changsha, he must send capable civil officials to govern.

After thinking about it, Mo Qian felt that Li Banghua was the most suitable.

There are two reasons, the first is that the Ji'an Mansion under Li Banghua is now very peaceful, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment.

The second is that Li Banghua is very capable, he not only knows the soldiers, but also knows how to govern the people.

Li Banghua's two points of governing the place made Mo Qian very satisfied, and he could pick up this kind of old minister to work for him, Mo Qian felt that it was really a wise choice for him to attack Ji'an.

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Banghua, who was in Ji'an, received an order from Mo Qian, ordering him to rush to Changsha immediately and take up the post of prefect of Changsha.

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