The words are divided into two ends.

On the side of the capital, there was a confusion over "the killing of King Xiang and other vassal kings, whether it was a thief sneaking in to assassinate him, or losing land and trapping a domain".

On this side of the Huguang battlefield, Shen Shuren was already busy with his own affairs, frantically receiving and expanding the territory, and officially exercising his power as the commander of the Huguang army and the imperial history of the capital.

He knew that in the matter of quelling the Xiangyang Rebellion and avenging King Xiang, he himself was absolutely meritorious no matter what.

Even if there is a sin, it is the sin of Yang Sichang and others.

Shen Shuren himself must only have the possibility of being further rewarded, and he does not have to worry about his personal future at all. After all, when he came to Xiangyang to quell the rebellion, the control of Xiangyang had not yet been handed over to him. The situation is also true for other Huguang areas that were not originally part of his jurisdiction.

To put it bluntly, the role played by Shen Shuren is like Sima Yi, who had just been restored to military power by Cao Rong and caught up with Meng Da to respond to Zhuge Liang's rebellion on the way to office.

At that time, Sima Yi had no obligation to "immediately quell the rebellion against Meng Da". From Wancheng to eight days and 1,200 miles, rushed to Shangyong in seconds, Meng Da, of course, it is a great achievement to get rid of it in seconds, and it is not Sima Yi's fault that it can't be lost in seconds.

In the last few days of late July, Shen Shuren took advantage of the aftermath of Xiangyang's destruction by Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry troops, and quickly achieved control over the situation in all aspects of Xiangyang-

Speaking of which, he also has to thank Zhang Xianzhong for clearing the obstacles for him to hold power with an iron fist in the local area. Because as we all know, after Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry entered the city, they burned and killed for more than an hour, not only killing two vassal kings, but also killing many ministers.

The "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that "Yun Xiangdao Zhang Kejian, Tuiguan Kuang Yueguang" and other important officials in Hubei were all killed when King Xiang was killed, and other officials with slightly lower positions are not recorded in the history books, but in fact, they are definitely not killed.

Zhang Xianzhong vacated at least two Taoist level and three or five prefect-level official positions around Xiangyang. After all, Xiangyang was originally Yang Sichang's line, and there must be a lot of high-ranking civil officials.

It will take several months to complete the vacancy statistics of these personnel, and Chongzhen is still busy dealing with Yang Sichang's qualitative work.

Even in peacetime, there is a three-month term for the handover of officials, not to mention the wartime. Therefore, in the autumn of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, it is impossible for the imperial court to discuss how to replace these officials, and it is estimated that they will be discussed after the winter, but counting the term of office, it is not necessary to wait until the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen to take office.

In the past six months, the only way to exercise the functions and powers of these slain officials was to rely on Yang Sichang's temporary instructions to find some people to work part-time.

And the favor of Shen Shuren to "save Yang Sichang" is there, and Yang Sichang has the final say, which is equivalent to his Shen Shuren's final say.

Shen Shuren will not be polite to Yang Sichang, after arresting Ai Nengqi and destroying Zhang Xianzhong's surprise attack team, he went directly to Nanyang to visit in private as soon as possible, on the one hand, to show his merits, and on the other hand, to set conditions.

After this incident, the relationship between the two has become more and more tilted. Yang Sichang was already in his last years, and at this time in history, he had been dead for half a year, but now Shen Shuren saved his life again, and he was seriously ill, so he didn't dare to put himself on the official shelf at all, but just made friends with friends.

Shen Shuren also gave him enough face, and the conditions put forward were ostensibly out of public intentions, in order to restore the ruling order around Xiangyang as soon as possible. On the one hand, he proposed to let his subordinates temporarily take charge of the government affairs of Xiangyang and other places, and on the other hand, he proposed a bunch of candidates to be promoted.

"Ge Lao, Xiangyang, Yunyang and other places are in chaos, vacant officials, I think of a few reliable people here, and I also ask Ge Lao to help mediate, and strive to be appointed after the year.

Chen Xinjia and Chen Shangshu also have a certain right to appoint the magistrates in the war zone, so I can only count on you to greet Chen Shangshu. ”

As he spoke, the Shenshu people reported a few names.

He hoped that at the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, his friend Fang Yizhi in the same year, and Ge Shizhen, who was the top two in the same year, would serve as the prefects of Xiangyang Mansion and Wuchang Mansion respectively.

Fang Yizhi is because he has family forces to help him make meritorious contributions, and Shen Shuren also helped him before he had a good relationship, so now he has achieved the same knowledge of Anqing Mansion.

The level status of Anqing Mansion is not low, after all, the name of "Anhui" in later generations is from Anqing Mansion and Huizhou Mansion each take a word. Fang Yizhi was promoted to the deputy position of Tongzhi in Anqing Mansion at the beginning of this year, and after working for one year, he performed well and was promoted to the prefect, which is normal in the last years of Chongzhen.

Ge Shizhen's family background is not prominent, but he has been the leader of Chongzhen for thirteen years in history, and now because of the butterfly effect of Shen Shuren and the first-class trio of that year, they have all been replaced by traitors and subordinates in later generations, and Ge Shizhen has been squeezed into the fourth place in the overall list.

As a preacher, after the palace examination, he is also qualified to serve as a gilding priest, and the speed of promotion will be much faster than that of those who are directly released to the place in the same year. Therefore, it makes sense that Shen Shuren wants to operate him as the prefect and use the same year as his confidant.

As for the other friends of the same year that Shen Shuren made at the beginning, they either lack merit or lack qualifications, and it is impossible to operate to the prefect level, but it is no problem to be a fellow acquaintance and a general judge.

Among these people, many of them who lack relationships are still in the local magistrates, and Shen Shuren are willing to see the friendship of the same year to help them, and they will naturally feel the kindness of Shen Shuren, and their loyalty and control will be absolutely guaranteed at that time.

Of course, in order to save enough face for Yang Sichang, Shen Shuren did not say "which person I want to be assigned to which position" from beginning to end, he just introduced the list and resume, and said the level of the vacancy he hoped to fill.

As for who to use as which official at the same level, it all depends on Yang Ge's old suggestion!

In other words, Yang Sichang can decide whether to let Fang Yizhi be the prefect of Xiangyang, or the prefect of Wuchang, or even the prefect of Hanyang. As long as these people are the prefects, who knows which house, the people of Shenshu fully respect him.

Fortunately, Yang Sichang didn't think it was too much, but just examined the list of Shen Shuren fairly, and said officially: "After all, this Ge Shizhen is a legend, and he has also mixed up with Shu Jishi, so it is understandable to rise a little faster."

Fang Yizhi is the same as you, just the last few in the second grade, but you have so much credit, what does he have? If you want to be the prefect of Xiangyang or Wuchang, you can only hope to make some more contributions in the second half of the year-

The fifth battalion of the left has now been wiped out. Ma Shouying, the westernmost and strongest, took refuge in Li Zicheng. Lin Chengcheng, the easternmost and weaker one, is still entrenched in the mountainous areas between Huangzhou and An and Lu.

If you can solve the problem of Lin Yangcheng completely beating rabbits in the second half of the year, and let Fang Yizhi make some more contributions during the period, your appointment can be realized. Also, don't you want to promote Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong, if you can also give them some credit in the process of dealing with Lin Chengyang, these appointments can be realized. ”

Shen Shuren's goal was achieved, and he respectfully thanked him:

In this case, the students went to make arrangements. This year's series of battles, it's time to rest, Zhang Xianzhong was annihilated by us several sneak attack of the dead, plus the 'ten-sided net' deployed by you, the part against Zhang Xianzhong has not been broken. He should not be able to launch any more large-scale raids.

I think that in the second half of this year, we should be able to ease our breath militarily. We should step up efforts to restore the people's livelihood in Huguang, plant corn and potatoes extensively, popularize fast-growing chickens, fish, and pig breeds, and try to rely on gold and commercial taxes to ease the burden on peasants.

and then give the land of the vassal kings and magnates who were attacked and killed by Zhang Xianzhong to poor peasants at low rents, I believe that the hearts of the people in Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places can also be quickly restored. ”

Now it's the end of July and the beginning of August, and when the people of Shenshu clean up the situation, there will definitely be no food to grow this year. At most, a little closer to the north, you can plant some winter wheat, and the other is to plant some vegetables with a short growing period to barely support it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the disaster was mainly in the north, and the two lakes region was barely self-sufficient. This time, Zhang Xianzhong killed a lot of vassal kings and magnates, but also vacated some borderless land, and after reducing the rent for the poor peasants, the situation should be much better.

"The Exotic Reclamation of Vegetable Skeletons"

The area of the royal grange occupied by the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty is very exaggerated, for example, King Fu, who was killed by Li Zicheng in Luoyang before, was rewarded by the Wanli Emperor with 40,000 hectares of land, that is, 4 million mu, when he became a vassal in the last year of Wanli.

Basically, half of the fertile land in the Luoyang Basin was occupied, and later Tianqi and Chongzhen over the years, King Fu had further greedy for money and annexed land, and it was really difficult to count how much there was before he was finally killed. But it is not unjust to say that he occupies more than half of the fields in the Luoyang Basin.

The land of other vassal kings is not as exaggerated as that of the Fu King, but there are still thousands of hectares. The group of people killed by Zhang Xianzhong this time added up to at least millions of acres of borderless land, which really reduced the ruling burden of the Shenshu people.

One piece and one relaxation, the way of civil and military.

Shen Shuren has been fighting for so long this year, and he has been busy with the military for four months, and seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, it is time to take a break and handle internal affairs and farming well.

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After negotiating with Yang Sichang's officials and powers, Shen Shuren should also leave Nanyang again and officially return to his own territory to enjoy the fruits of victory.

Xiangyang Mansion has been taken over, but there are also Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion that should also belong to him, but he has not been free so far, and he has not been there once.

However, on the morning when he was about to open and return south, Shen Shuren's men were still packing up their final packs, and suddenly a huge army came from outside the city, and Yang Sichang did not let the army enter the city to station, because he couldn't stay, so he let him camp outside the city.

Shen Shuren and his henchmen and guards were also inevitably curious, and when they went to the city to look, it turned out to be Zuo Liangyu's banner - before King Fu was killed and Luoyang fell, the emperor's disposition was finally implemented.

Zuo Liangyu, who was punished for the title of general of the Ping Thief and ordered to move to Nanyang, did not dare to directly and openly rebel in the end, and chose to admit this planting, abandoning the territory population in Wuchang and Hanyang, as well as the troops of the local guards. With only his descendants' troops and all movable property that could be transferred, he went north to Nanyang, and was responsible for intercepting Li Zicheng's southward movement from then on.

When the enemy meets, he is naturally very angry. After all, Shen Shuren also knew that the son of a daughter could not sit down, so he would not deliberately stimulate Zuo Liangyu in person.

Otherwise, if Zuo Liangyu is emotionally unstable and desperately becomes a thief, he will also take revenge, and Shen Shuren will not die at a loss. The possibility of being impulsive and reckless for a person with this kind of ** background is much higher than that of a Sven person like Shen Shuren.

Since the framing has been successful, it's good to make a fortune in a muffled voice, why bother the villain to pretend to be forced to slap his face and provoke in person.

At most, go back and clean up Li Xiangjun, which can be regarded as a perfect end to framing Zuo Liangyu.

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Change the map chapters, there will be some farming and daily life later, everyone give some patience.

It is also impossible to fight all the time. My rhythm is all about one wave a year, and then I need to digest and absorb it.