The city of Nanjing changed the banner of the king, and except for a small number of officials from the six departments of the three provinces of Nanjing, who fled in advance after receiving the warning, all the remaining officials and tribes were captured alive.

Mo Qian didn't embarrass these former ministers, but instead of embarrassing them, he sent troops to their mansion to appease them.

This operation directly made the old ministers of Nanjing feel at ease, and everyone felt that although this Han king was born in rebellion, he was still born in Xiucai, read some sage books, and knew some etiquette, righteousness and shame.

is not like the king of the north, he will burn and loot all day long, and he has no respect for scholars at all.

The Han army put up notices in the city to appease the people, but in one day, the city of Nanjing immediately settled down.

The Ming troops in the city were all taken prisoner, and the Han army took all these captives to the Han army camp outside the city for detention.

The Han army confiscated their weapons and sent a large number of men to guard them.

For these prisoners of war, Mo Qian did not intend to kill them at will, among the 20,000 Zhejiang soldiers who sacrificed the city, he had promised Li Ze in advance to include them in the combat units of the Han army.

One night, Li Ze changed from the Zhejiang general soldier of the imperial court to the Zhejiang general soldier of the Han army.

His official position and status remained unchanged, and the number of soldiers in charge did not decrease, but the benefit was that Mo Qian gave him a salary of 100,000 taels of silver.

The 100,000 taels of silver can be said to have saved Li Ze's life, and Mo Qian personally ordered people to send the 100,000 taels of silver to the soldiers one by one according to the official army's salary system.

The Zhejiang soldiers who got the silver all smiled in their hearts.

However, some people were happy and some were sad, and among the officers and men, the officers who had previously relied on empty salaries and drank the blood of soldiers were not happy.

King Han directly sent the salary to the soldiers, then their group of people would have no oil and water to fish.

The officers often began to complain, and gradually, the sound of complaining reached the ears of Li Ze and Bai Yousong.

Bai Yousong said to Li Ze: "Dashuai, this Han King didn't let us pay the military salary, but directly paid it himself, so the brothers at the bottom complained a lot!" ”

Li Ze has been an official in the official army for many years, how can he not know the urine nature of the officers and officers.

He shook his head and said: "The matter of paying silver, this is the system of the Han army, the Han army's salary and silver have always been personally distributed by the Han King's cronies, and the salary is only in the hands of our officers, I have asked, and the officers of the Han army said that this is to prevent people from embezzling and drinking the blood of soldiers."

We are now sending people under the fence, the king of Han is benevolent and righteous, and can make up for the eight months of military salary owed by the imperial court, which is already a great benevolence and righteousness, since we plan to follow the king of Han in the future, we must not be half-hearted, you go back and tell the brothers below, if you want to follow the king of Han, you will stay, if you don't want to do it, go back to your hometown in Zhejiang, I will never stop you. ”

The handsome man has spoken, and Bai Yousong has no choice.

Bai Yousong could only bring Li Ze's words to the officers at all levels, and when the officers at all levels heard that they would no longer be able to drink the blood of soldiers in the future, they immediately felt a little unhappy.

But more people stayed, after all, these years, it was hard to find a unit that could eat well, but they didn't dare to go home and farm casually.

Zhejiang has been working for more than a year, and I really have to go home to farm, I'm afraid I'll starve to death.

Li Ze, as the chief soldier of Zhejiang, originally served in the imperial court and had a lot of subtleties about the imperial court, but now he has voted for Mo Qian, although the degree of freedom is not as high as before in the imperial court, but at least he doesn't have to worry about the hungry of the brothers all day long.

Seeing that Mo Qian's style of acting is very particular, he feels that Mo Qian has the signs of winning the world, so since he has already surrendered, he simply followed the King of Han to the end, and when the King of Han ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, his future as a general will not be bad, and it is a big deal to make more military achievements when fighting in the future.

Mo Qian quickly rectified the surrendered troops and prisoners, and then set his sights on the civil officials in the city.

Nanjing City, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, has a complete set of officials from the six central departments in the city, and these people add up to a small 2,000 people.

A companion capital, not counting the officials and miscellaneous servants in the yamen, there are as many as 2,000 people wearing official hats alone.

There are so many people, not too much, not too little, counting the miscellaneous servants and others, there are as many as 10,000 or 20,000 people in Nanjing who eat imperial grain.

At this time, although the total population of Yingtianfu was one million, the population living in the city was only about 200,000, which was less than half of the Hongwu Dynasty.

In a city with a population of 200,000, there are hundreds of thousands of officials, officers and soldiers together, and so many people are crowded into the city of Nanjing, causing congestion in the city and people living everywhere.

Nanjing is now the most populous city in the Ming Dynasty after Beijing.

Mo Qian was able to conquer Nanjing, which had no less influence in the world than the Manchu Qing Dynasty broke through Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng entered Luoyang Kaifeng, and even Chongzhen died.

Of the two thousand officials in the city, Mo Qian didn't kill any of them, and he didn't have time to deal with this group of civil officials now, so he had to consolidate the fruits of his victory first.

Although Nanjing was conquered, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Yangzhou, Guangde, Ningguo, and Chuzhou were still under the influence of the Ming army.

These eight prefectures surround the city of Nanjing, and the troops of the eight prefectures have been emptied by Chen Guangyu when Mo Qian attacked Nanjing, and now the troops of the eight mansions are empty, and it is a good time to take the eight prefectures.

Mo Qian ordered Gong Chengkang to lead 10,000 troops to cross the river to the north to capture Chuzhou and Hezhou, and ordered Peng Jinhong to lead 20,000 troops to attack Yangzhou.

Ordered Li Ze to lead 15,000 Zhejiang soldiers to attack Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, and Mo Qian put all the remaining soldiers and horses by his side in case of accidents!

Gong Chengkang received the order and personally led all the soldiers and horses of his six battalions to cross the river by warship.

Li Ze led his own soldiers and horses, set out from Nanjing, and went straight to Zhenjiang Mansion in the east of Nanjing, preparing to take Zhenjiang first, and then enter Changzhou, and finally hit Songjiang.

Before leaving, Mo Qian said to Li Ze: "General Li Bing, my Han army soldiers, have strict military regulations, especially for the people, there is no crime in the autumn, today Li General Soldier sent troops, I brought a person to Li General Bing, this is my personal soldier Wang Wu, I will send him to Li General Army, first serve as a deputy general, how about military discipline?" ”

Li Ze knew that this was the person sent by the King of Han to spy on him, but he would not dare to refuse.

Since he has made up his mind to surrender to the King of Han, he is now a courtier of the King of Han.

Li Ze said happily: "King Han, don't worry, I am an acquaintance with Brother Wang, and I will definitely take care of him properly!" ”

"Okay, this time, if General Li can take the four provinces, I will promote you to the commander of Zhejiang, and if General Li can take Zhejiang, I will promote you to the commander of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and the military power of the two southeastern provinces is under your control!"

When Li Ze heard this, his heart was immediately excited.

He said in his heart: "King Han is really good at being a man!" ”

Li Ze said domineeringly: "Don't worry, the king will never come back to see you if you don't conquer Zhejiang this time!" ”

"Okay, have the courage, General Li can rest assured that he will attack boldly, and you don't have to worry about the military food and salary, I will ensure that the supply is sufficient for you later!"

"It's enough to have the king's words, from today on, I, Li Ze, am the king's dog, where the king says, I will fight, there is no ambiguity!"

Mo Qian was very satisfied with Li Ze's attitude, he personally took out the sword he carried, handed it to Li Ze and said: "General Li Bing, this is my sword, although it is not a sword, but it has followed me for many years, today I give him to you, I hope that General Li will make more achievements!" ”

"Thank you for the sword!"

Taking the sword, Li Ze only felt warm in his heart, although the King of Han was not very old, he was extremely sincere in treating people, and with him, Li Ze felt warm in his heart.

Li Ze personally led 15,000 men and horses out of Nanjing City, and slaughtered Zhenjiang in a mighty way.

Peng Jinhong led two battalions of soldiers and horses across the river to the north to attack Yangzhou.

Mo Qian quickly captured the Nanjing Mansion and quickly stabilized the social order in Nanjing, which shocked the remaining Ming officials in Nanjing.

Everyone began to feel that this Han King seemed to be really destined to return, and he actually treated them so politely.

Gradually, bold officials of the former Ming Dynasty began to come to the palace for various reasons, hoping to meet the King of Han face-to-face.

In the palace, Mo Qian and Shi Kefa looked at the prayer posts sent by those scholars, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Mo Qian pointed to dozens of prayer posts on the table and asked Shi Kefa: "Xianzhi, do you think these people can be used?" ”

Shi Kefa shook his head and said: "Betraying the Lord for glory, forgetting righteousness for profit, Nanjing City has only been broken for two days, and these people can't wait to find a new master to serve, it can be seen that their intentions, this kind of person is not available!" ”

Mo Qian nodded and said to Shi Kefa: "Well, Xianzhi is very right, record all the names of these people, and never use them in the future." ”

......

When the news of the fall of Nanjing reached Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and after the anger, Chongzhen was very sad.

He ran to the Taimiao, knelt in front of the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang and cried: "Ancestors and ancestors, grandsons are not filial, Nanjing has fallen, Emperor Taizu's mausoleum is not guaranteed, Emperor Taizu, unfilial grandson Zhu Youzhen has come to ask you for your guilt!" ”

Chongzhen howled and cried in the Taimiao, which was sad for Queen Zhou and a cadre of ministers who were kneeling outside.

Wen Tiren glanced at Wang Chengen, who was standing outside the gate of the Taimiao, hoping that he could do something.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chengen looked at the sky with both eyes, pretending not to see anything, but a few tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and he seemed to be lamenting the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty.

The fall of Nanjing was a major event that shocked the world, and officials and people from all walks of life along the way now knew that the city of Nanjing was beaten down by a thief.

There is also the city of Beijing, where millions of residents were shocked to learn that Nanjing was broken.

Chongzhen cried in the temple for a long time, and finally fainted directly from crying, or Wang Chengen heard that there was no movement inside, so he dared to push open the door, but found that Chongzhen had fainted on the ground.

Wang Chengen was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty has fainted, quickly pass the imperial doctor, quickly pass the imperial doctor!" ”

The imperial doctor hurriedly came, checked the pulse and looked at the eyes, and came to a conclusion that the emperor was fainted because of excessive grief.

The dignified Emperor Ming was stunned by a thief.....

After waking up, Chongzhen found that he had returned to the Forbidden City, and when he called Wang Chengen, he scolded him: "You dog slave, who told you to send me back to the palace?" I want to repent of my mistakes in front of the ancestors and ancestors of the Taimiao, you dog slave, you dare to prevent me from confessing to the ancestors and ancestors? ”

Wang Chengen was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, and hurriedly explained: "Long live Lord, you can't do this anymore, if you continue like this, how can your body and bones stand it, you fainted just now, Long live Lord, this Ming Dynasty, but you still have to support it, you must not have anything to do, the old slave is just distressed Long Live Lord!" ”

"Enough, I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I am the descendant of the Zhu family, the mausoleum of Taizu has been lost, where do I still have the face to live in the world.

Fengyang was burned, the ancestral tomb was burned, I am already sorry for the ancestors and ancestors, now Nanjing is lost again, and the mausoleum of Taizu is not guaranteed, I have no face to see the ancestors and the ancestors, Wang Chengen, go, prepare a piece of white silk for me, I want to commit suicide and apologize to the ancestors and ancestors! ”

When Wang Chengen heard this, he was immediately frightened and lost half of his three souls and seven spirits.

The emperor is going to kill himself? This is no small matter!

Wang Chengen didn't dare to agree at all, so he could only quickly order someone to find Queen Zhou and a cadre of ministers who were outside.

When Queen Zhou learned that Chongzhen was screaming to commit suicide, she was so frightened that she almost fainted, but fortunately, the palace maid next to her quickly supported her, so that the queen did not fall.

Queen Zhou hurriedly entered the bedroom, and when she saw Chongzhen lying on the bed with a face full of vicissitudes, tears immediately flowed uncontrollably.

"Your Majesty, you have to take care of your body!"

"My sins, ten thousand deaths are hard to atone, what face do I have to go underground to see my ancestors and ancestors, queen, you go find a white cloth and strangle me to death, I really have no face to live in this world!"

"What kind of foolish words did Your Majesty say, Your Majesty, this Ming Dynasty, but you still have to support it, this Zhongxing Daming burden, you still have to bear it, have you forgotten the bold words when you registered?"

Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but think of his ambition when he registered.

"No, I haven't forgotten, I said that I want to take back Liaodong, I want to wipe out the Qunkou, I want Zhongxing Daming, I want Zhongxing Daming!"

"Your Majesty, if you die, there will be no hope for this Zhongxing Daming, Your Majesty, if you don't Zhongxing Daming, you will be even more shameless to see your ancestors and ancestors!"

Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but close his eyes, and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Outside the door, seeing Chongzhen's heartbroken appearance, Wang Chengen couldn't help crying.

On the other hand, the ministers outside, Shoufu Wen Tiren still looked like an old god, and the rest of the officials either secretly wiped their tears, or bowed their heads and did not speak.

Yang Sichang, the new secretary of the Ministry of War, has an extremely complicated expression on his face.

His heart will be happy and sad.

Yang Sichang himself felt that he was very contradictory, and his son-in-law had conquered Nanjing, which meant that he was about to master half of the south of the Yangtze River.

But Nanjing is broken, isn't the Ming Dynasty even more hopeless?

After a while, several shouts were heard in the distance.

"Your Majesty, where is Your Majesty? Minister Lu Xiangsheng begs to see His Majesty! ”

Chongzhen, who was in the house, heard the shouts outside the hall and suddenly came to his senses.

He jumped up from the dragon bed in an instant, struggled out of the palace, and waved to Lu Xiangsheng, who was looking at him in the distance, and shouted: "Aiqing, I am here, I am here!" ”

7017k