The eunuch rushed back to the palace again and reported to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen was very satisfied with Ma Shiying's attitude, and said aloud again:

"Spread the decree, seal the capital of Ma Shiying's Hetao, and immediately go north to help Li Yutian, the capital of western Liaoning, recover the Hetao, and make meritorious contributions."

The eunuch flew away for the third time, arrived outside the city gate, and loudly announced Chongzhen's will.

Ma Shiying burst into tears, "Thank you, Lord Longen."

"This life has been saved, and this official has also been saved, thanks to the gods and Buddhas, thanks to the ancestors and ancestors, and thanks to the emperor of the Holy Ming!"

Ma Shiying knelt for a day and a night, this time he was very happy and sad, his eyes were dark, and he almost fell, but fortunately, the servant on his side was fast, supported him, held him and bowed, ate some food, and went into the city to thank him.

……

The news was transmitted back to Nanjing on the third day.

Hongguang was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.

Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the imperial court, took away all the elites in Nanjing, and Nanjing could never be defended.

On the same day, Hongguang took 1,000 cronies of Nanjing Wuxiang Zuowei, packed up the gold and silver in the treasury, and left Nanjing City in a panic and went straight to Huang Degong's military camp.

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After taking control of Yangzhou Mansion, Chongzhen no longer consciously controlled the spread of news, and he had no ability to control the continued blockade of such explosive news.

After all, the powerful figures of the Nanjing court and the leaders of Donglin all went to Yangzhou and took refuge in Chongzhen.

This immediately proved that Emperor Chongzhen did not die.

Seeing the unparalleled combat power of the Northern Army, it is enough to prove that Chongzhen's recovery of Shaanxi, Gansu and Jin, pacification and captivity, annexation of Korea, and control of southern Mongolia are all true.

Plus the news that Hongguang escaped from Nanjing.

Where is there anyone who does not go to Yangzhou to surrender!

What made all the officials panic was not surrender, but Chongzhen's attitude towards Hongguang officials.

Except for a very few people, most of the officials and generals were imprisoned by Chongzhen, and what was even more terrible was the confiscation of family property and the distribution of Liaodong.

Emperor Chongzhen's meanness and unkindness were vividly expressed.

In particular, the local tycoons and wealthy families are even more panicked.

The wealth they have accumulated over several lifetimes has reached a point where it is precarious.

Everyone heard that in order to stabilize the people and buy people's hearts, Chongzhen began to open a knife to merchants and wealthy households, confiscating real estate, real estate and cash, and distributing them to the people.

"All the silver of the white flowers is given to the poor, and it is evil!"

"Such a fertile land, just buried for nothing, distributed to those red people in vain, and ruined the heavens!"

"The Ming Dynasty and the scholars rule the world together, why do you abandon the scholars now!"

The matter has intensified, and the policy of land reform has not only been hotly discussed around Yangzhou Prefecture, but has gradually spread to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinces, causing widespread discussion and controversy.

During this period, Gu Jishen (Gu Yanwu), Huang Zongxi, and Wang Fuzhi were extremely supportive of Emperor Chongzhen's approach.

Historically, since the Qing army entered the customs, Gu Yanwu invested in the Southern Ming court, pinned the hope of revenge on Hongguang, full of enthusiasm, "thinking and making suggestions", and wrote "On the Military System", "Theory of the Situation", "Theory of Tian Gong", "Qian ***", to make suggestions for the dynasty, in view of the abolition of the Nanjing regime and various shortcomings in the late Ming Dynasty, from the aspects of military strategy, troop sources and financial rectification.

More importantly, Gu Yanwu advocated "benefiting the country and enriching the people", and believed that "those who are good for the country should hide it from the people". He boldly doubted the power of the monarchy and put forward the idea of "rule by the people" with the overtones of the early democratic Enlightenment.

Huang Zongxi put forward the democratic idea of "the world is the master, and the monarch is the guest".

He said that "the rule of chaos in the world is not the rise and fall of one surname, but the sorrow and happiness of all the people", and advocated replacing the emperor's "law of the family" with the "law of the world", so as to limit the power of the monarch and ensure the basic rights of the people. He is a person who criticizes the absolute monarchy from the standpoint of "people-oriented", and can be said to be the first person to enlighten Chinese thought. He wrote more than 50 kinds and more than 300 volumes in his lifetime, the most important of which are "Ming Confucianism", "Song and Yuan Studies", and "Ming Yi".

To be interviewed", "Mencius Shi Said", "Funeral System or Question", "Breaking the Evil Theory", "Thinking of the Old Record", "Yi Xuexiang Number Theory", "Ming Wenhai", "Xing Dynasty Record", "Today's Water Classic", "Datong Calendar Deduction Law", "Siming Mountain Chronicles".

Wang Fuzhi is anti-asceticism, advocating that we cannot leave human desires, talking about heavenly principles, and criticizing Cheng Zhu Lixue's "preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires". He also pointed out the view that "those who are equal to the world are all in the world".

These three people stood up one after another to support the confiscation of the land of the gentry and distribute it to the people free of charge.

It is extremely certain that Chongzhen has made a knife on himself and distributed the Huangzhuang and Guantian to the people.

Emperor Chongzhen responded quickly, and at the same time summoned three people to Beijing to assist the crown prince in supervising the country.

At the same time, the scientists Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi, the flintlock pistol expert Bi Maokang, the firearms expert He Rubin, and the optical expert Sun Yunqiu all received the holy decree of Chongzhen, ordering them to go north to serve in the Shengong Academy or the Arms Bureau.

At a time when officials everywhere are panicking and people from all walks of life are emotional.

Emperor Hongguang arrived at Huang Degong's camp in Wuhu.

It was learned that Emperor Hongguang had come to his barracks. Huang Degong was surprised, "At this time, the emperor's most trusted person is actually me!"

He excitedly left the camp and immediately knelt down: "If Your Majesty is guarding Nanjing to the death, we can still resist as much as we can, why did we come here in a hurry? Now that people's hearts are fluctuating, how can the last general protect your safety?"

Hongguang panicked: "I have nothing to rely on except you."

Huang Degong was about to go to Yangzhou to surrender, but after listening to Hongguang's words, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and sighed that he died for his confidant: "The last general is willing to die for Your Majesty."

At the same time, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, who learned that Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying had surrendered, could no longer sit still.

They quickly pulled out the camp, followed Ma Shiying's example, and took Ma Dong, the people of their headquarters, to surrender.

Gao Jie, who fled to the southwest, also stopped, turned his head and ran back, hoping that Chongzhen would forgive him.

The three of them marched separately, divided into three routes, and marched east into Yangzhou, lest Chongzhen's crusade soldiers and horses arrive first, so that they would lose the opportunity.

Liu Liangzuo was very bad, and every time he went to a city, he claimed to surrender with local officials.

Officials in various places were already afraid of being liquidated, and they were not like Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa who had military power, and it was difficult to atone for their crimes, so they were all afraid.

Now there are people who are leading, and naturally they are happily following.

Who knows, after Liu Liangzuo arrived in Yangzhou with hundreds of officials from Luzhou Mansion and Chuzhou Mansion, he was immediately killed in the city, claiming that he had taken down Hongguang and came to surrender.

Liu Zeqing was even more desperate, he did not deceive anyone, he attacked the city and plundered the land directly from Anqing, led the troops to kill the Taiping Mansion, rushed into Yingtianfu and Nanjing City, escorted the four or five hundred officials taken by force, and prepared to go to Yangzhou to join Chongzhen.

When passing through Wuhu, Liu Zeqing saw that Huang Degong's camp was still as stable as Mount Tai, and immediately surrounded him like a prey.

Huang Degong learned that Liu Zeqing was coming to attack and went out of the camp to investigate.

"Dong Pingbo, why do you use soldiers against me?"