Zhu Shuren scolded Li Dingguo with a whip and cane, and to put it bluntly, he was also protecting Li Dingguo.

After all, there will be no more punishment for one crime, and the current situation is special, in order to better appease Zhang Xianzhong's surrender to the army, after the expedited trial of Li Dingguo, if there are no other changes in the future, it will be difficult for others to turn over old accounts.

Li Dingguo, who was scolded by the cane, was nominally imprisoned in prison for a month or two, but in fact, he was also recuperating from his injuries, and he had to recuperate from his injuries anyway, so he couldn't do anything for the time being.

was locked in prison, did not abuse him in life, and did not lack medical treatment, Li Dingguo quickly stabilized emotionally, and sincerely began to repent and re-understand the world.

I have to say that most of the peasant army generals in this era have a very limited understanding of the world, and the most likely limitation is because of geographical differences-

Many generals from Shaanxi and Henan have indeed never seen the people suffer in their lives, and they feel that the Ming Dynasty is really heinous, and the people are not happy, and finally even developed to the point that "they were abused by the government like this, and they didn't follow us to resist and kill the officials, that is, they helped the people to abuse and deserve death!" "Thoughts.

But in fact, there were indeed several provinces in the south at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the people could barely get by, and these people also couldn't understand why the northerners hated the court so much.

This is also why, after the Qing army entered the customs, there were individual provinces in the south that insisted on resisting for 20 years. The people of these places did not suffer much from the Ming Dynasty, so why should they support the rule of the Tartars?

Those who can't survive under the Ming Dynasty will be as eager to smash everything as they are to start over like a long drought.

It can only be said that the land of China is too vast, with different customs for hundreds of miles, and the specific conditions of each region can be very different.

In an era of information congestion, it is difficult to expect people from different regions to understand each other spontaneously.

Historically, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others, also after entering Sichuan for a year or two, gradually realized this problem, and gradually found that there are many people in the south who really want to be Ming, so they feel that "Daming may really be unfinished", and gradually reconciled with the imperial court.

Now, Zhu Shuren doesn't have so much time left for him, so he can only retreat in prison for a month or two, striving to be more efficient than outside, and it would be best to figure out the problems that took him a year or two to figure out outside in a month or two.

This article is not only applicable to Li Dingguo, but also to Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan.

Zhu Shuren also specially imprisoned these captured generals in a prison, usually placed in different single cells, but allowed them to gather together every day when the wind was released, and they were allowed to receive ideological reform together.

Zhu Shuren also specially arranged for Gu Yanwu, a staff member with the highest level of political philosophy and theory around him, to personally explain to these high-ranking generals, "There are those who have lost the country, and there are those who have died in the world." Those who defend the country are sought by their kings and their ministers, and those who eat meat; Those who protect the world are cheap and responsible".

Gu Yanwu is best at this job, but since he finished writing "The Continuation of the Thief" last year, he has not had the opportunity to display his talent in this area for more than a year.

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It will take a month or two to transform the generals and restore the ruling order around Chengdu.

The city of Chengdu in history was slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong three times before and after, and finally almost completely became an empty city.

Now because of the butterfly effect of the Zhu Shuren, Chengdu has only been slaughtered once, but this time it lasted longer, and after calculation, it was about half the killing compared with the same period in history, and more than 200,000 people in the city barely survived.

Zhang Xianzhong just basically killed all the rich and scholars, leaving behind a group of destitute people who he regarded as a potential source of soldiers.

Objectively speaking, Zhang Xianzhong's massacre also greatly alleviated the contradictions of land annexation that had accumulated in Sichuan for more than 200 years - all the landlords were killed, there were borderless lands everywhere, and woolen yarns were annexed.

Zhu Shuren can also copy the model of last year in Xiangxi, like the three prefectures of Changde, Changsha and Hengzhou, and the government will come forward to reassure the people, re-register and make a register, and posthumously recognize the original tenant right of the land. For those who are inconvenient to confirm their rights, they will first be collected as official tuns, and the displaced people and thieves will be allocated to the old and weak.

There is nothing to repeat about the details of the restoration of agricultural production, Zhu Shuren just asked about it and inspected it for a few days, and the follow-up specific work will naturally be handed over to the genuine Sichuan governor Fang Kongzhi.

Now that Sichuan has a Sichuan governor directly appointed by Chongzhen, Zhu Shuren should theoretically not interfere in civil affairs work. Fang Kongzhi listened to his advice, that was love, and it was his duty not to listen to him.

In the end, Zhu Shuren negotiated with Fang Kongzhi and finalized the point, that is, because Sichuan's agricultural production this year has been too seriously damaged, and spring plowing in many places has been delayed for a while, even if it is immediately put back into production, at least half a season's grain will be lost.

Now that production is resumed quickly, we can only ensure that the summer grain is planted on time and the autumn grain can be harvested in full. It is also necessary to pay close attention to the security of the people's rights, distribute seeds, and promote them as soon as possible in areas suitable for promoting new crops.

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for the whole province to be completely tax-exempt this year, and Chongzhen's side actually expected this situation when appointing Fang Kongzhi, and in order to appease the thief, he also verbally agreed to deal with it in this way.

As for next year, after Zhu Shuren and Fang Kongzhi summed it up, Fang Kongzhi drew a line, Chengdu, Chongqing, Luzhou, and Tongchuan were seriously affected by Zhang Xianzhong's war disaster, and they were exempted from poll tax and field tax for another year.

Considering that except for Chengdu and Chongqing, the other prefectures in Sichuan are relatively poor and the population is not large, which has basically exempted two-thirds of Sichuan's agricultural tax next year.

However, the commercial tax part, except for the transportation of grain, other commercial taxes are not exempted, and the imperial court has been experimenting with the centigold in Huguang and Nanzhili for more than two years, and the Sichuan region will also be fully levied from now on.

On the whole, this year's governance of the Sichuan region, Zhu Shuren is definitely upside down, next year can be able to collect support peace, at least until the year after that, Sichuan can have more room to export money and grain to support the country's great cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Of course, even this year and next year, if there is no need for foreign support in terms of money and food, but only some military service population is drawn to join the army and go out of Sichuan to resist the Tartars, then it can still be done, there is only a shortage of money and food, not a shortage of population.

In the end, when Zhu Shuren captured Li Dingguo, he also seized most of the gold and silver brocade obtained by Zhang Xianzhong from sacking Sichuan and Xiangxi, which was also a huge wealth, all of which added up to more than 20 million taels.

This money is no more ruthless than the income from serious tax collection in Sichuan for several years, and in the past 12 years of Chongzhen, the total annual salary of the whole country is less than 20 million taels.

The money that Zhang Xianzhong was recovered by Zhu Shuren after the robbery is about equivalent to the income of the national three salaries for one year and two or three months.

Taking advantage of this time, the local bureaucrats and gentry in Sichuan were all killed, and all the vassal kings were killed, and they were all wiped out, and they couldn't even find a fish who could inherit the title as a son.

Zhu Shuren and Fang Kongzhi want to implement reforms in Sichuan, and the resistance is much smaller, and there is no one to resist at all, basically whatever the government says.

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While counting the money and seizing the prisoners of war, and resuming the land with the right to the people, Zhu Shuren did not relax militarily, and the final pursuit of Zhang Xianzhong himself was, of course, the top priority.

Therefore, after April and a half, Zhu Shuren soon continued to march into Mianzhu, Jiangyou and other places.

Along the way, Zhang Xianzhong's remnants have been leaderless, because Zhang Xianzhong himself has disappeared for a long time, and these remnants of the defeated soldiers can only listen to Liu Wenxiu's orders, and the soldiers have no heart to fight.

Zhu Shuren also tried to get Li Dingguo to write a letter of persuasion to surrender and have someone send it to Liu Wenxiu, asking him to surrender directly. But Liu Wenxiu obviously hesitated because he didn't know whether his father-in-law was alive or dead, but he also knew that Zhang Xianzhong's army was gone, so he didn't dare to be rude to the messenger, but just sent it back respectfully.

Since he was unwilling to surrender directly, Zhu Shuren would not be polite and continued to attack sharply. On April 15, the officers and troops regained Mianzhu, and there was almost no bloodshed. Sixteen days to recover Deyang, nineteen days to recover Mianzhou (now Mianyang. Mianzhu and Mianyang are two places, don't get confused)

After recovering Mianzhou, the next step will be a fork, either continue to insert due north to Jiangyou, or go to the northeast to fight Zitong first, and then Zitong will enter Jianmen Pass.

The generals under his command are still a little divided about where to hit first, and many people feel that they should go straight to Zitong, and even bypass Zitong to block the sword gate first.

But Zhu Shuren had other ideas, he knew that even if Zhang Xianzhong escaped to Jianmen Pass, he would still die in the end, because Hanzhong had blocked the northern exit of Jinniu Road, so there was no need to be in a hurry to block this road.

In contrast, there are other dangerous roads that may escape directly from the Sichuan area, which are more worth blocking.

So Zhu Shuren attacked Zitong and posed as if he wanted to take Jianmen Pass, but in fact secretly divided his troops to go in the direction of Jiangyou, but did not attack Jiangyou, but went out day and night, bypassed the city with a small number of troops, and set up an ambush in the dangerous mountain road north of Jiangyou.

This kind of ambush is certainly a bit risky, and it is likely that nothing will be gained by squatting for a long time.

Moreover, since he had to deceive Liu Wenxiu's army stationed in Jiangyou City, there could not be many troops sent out, and the armor and stomach should not be too distinct, and even the clothes of the exiled people should be put on the outside to disguise.

There is no way to guarantee the logistics of the troops' food routes, so they can only rely on their carry-on food for 10 days and half a month.

Fortunately, on the issue of the portability of grain and grass, Zhu Shuren's troops have a natural advantage, that is, Zhu Shuren has already done some research on the issue of "food shelf life" as early as Huguang, and has developed high-energy-density foods including honey condensed milk, dried canned green beans, and cooked canned cured minced meat (similar to luncheon meat).

Even at the end of April, in the hot and humid climate between early summer and midsummer, these foods can last for at least a few months, and they are lighter to carry than rice noodles fried on the back.

Therefore, it can be carried together with dry and fried rice noodles, and with a little bit of wind oil essence that Shen Jiajun borrowed from the Fujian Zhengjia navigation insect repellent recipe and made himself, you can ambush for a long time in the humid and hot environment of the mountains and forests.

These things are unimaginable and unpredictable for Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers.

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Zhang Xianzhong went out day and night in Qingcheng Mountain, fled north, and naturally did not go fast, and in the first ten days and half a month, no one knew where he would flee.

But Zhu Shuren is willing to believe that Zhang Xianzhong will definitely be as Li Dingguo confessed, and finally for the purpose of meeting Liu Wenxiu, so it will definitely not be wrong to withdraw in the general direction of Jiangyou, Zitong, and Jianmen Pass.

If the bet is really wrong, Zhang Xianzhong went all the way west from Qingcheng Mountain, to Daliang Mountain and even the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it can only be said that Zhu Shuren was unlucky, and he passed by Jiaguan Jinjue. But from the perspective of the country and the nation, even if this wave of bets is wrong, it is actually not a big deal.

If Zhang Xianzhong went to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he would not be able to endure the calamity of the Han people in the Central Plains again, and it would be nothing more than a few more years of survival. As long as he shows his head in the future, he will be killed by Zhu Shuren sooner or later.

Zhu Shuren can also get an extra year and a half of the excuse window period, and he can be more confident to listen to Chongzhen and not listen to the announcement, so Zhu Shuren has a very good mentality.

Maybe providence is also more concerned about people with a good mentality, in the second half of April, the official army did not catch Zhang Xianzhong's traces.

Until the ninth day of the fifth month, Liu Wenxiu's garrison in Jiangyou City suddenly opened the north gate of Jiangyou City, and quietly ran more than 1,000 horsemen to the north with light equipment, and went north along the steep Fujiang River valley.

Until that day, the official army had not completely besieged Jiangyou City, but only established a siege camp from the south of the city, preparing to attack this stronghold where Liu Wenxiu was stationed. Therefore, the thief army attacked from the north of the city, and it was completely possible to avoid the ears and eyes of the officials and soldiers.

Even the thieves and defenders in the city didn't know that Liu Wenxiu had personally abandoned the city with a thousand horsemen to break through, abandoning the remaining soldiers in the city.

And the reason why Liu Wenxiu chose this point is precisely because two days ago, Zhang Xianzhong went over the mountains and mountains very dangerously and took a small road, detoured from Qingcheng Mountain, bypassed Wenchuan and Maoxian, arrived at Jiangyou, and connected with Liu Wenxiu.

Liu Wenxiu saw that his father-in-law was still alive, and he didn't have the courage to directly betray his father, so he finally obeyed the order, and asked him to withdraw with some henchmen.

In fact, the high-level thieves already know very well that most of the people who have fallen into the Sichuan Basin, even if they are the old camp brothers, will not be able to escape from the Sichuan Basin, and to break through, they can only be hundreds or thousands of small groups of people, learning from Deng Ai and Fu Youde to cross the mountains and mountains.

However, Zhang Xianzhong obviously underestimated Zhu Shuren's level.

When Liu Chan was hit, it was unprecedented, and he was not on guard. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the young master of the Ming Xia regime, Ming Sheng, was recruited, and he was also young and knowledgeable.

Zhu Shuren is familiar with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he is also familiar with the meritorious life of Fu Youde, a general in the early Ming Dynasty, in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

The Sword Pavilion and the Golden Bull Road lead to Hanzhong, and in the case of Hanzhong being blocked, it is no longer meaningful to take that road.

Therefore, of course, Zhang Xianzhong is very likely to smuggle Yinping directly from Jiangyou, try to go directly to Longnan, Lintao, and Didao from here to Longxi, and then go back to Guanzhong.

In terms of the geographical common sense that later generations of officials can understand, that is, the road from Sichuan directly to Shaanxi was blocked by Hanzhong, so it was a little detour, first from Sichuan to Longnan into Gansu, and then from Gansu to Shaanxi - and Zhang Xianzhong planned this way, betting that Li Zicheng might defeat Sun Chuanting and re-enter Guanzhong.

On the evening of the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Wenxiu trekked for a whole day in the mountains north of Jiangyou.

Qingchuan is the later Qingchuan County, and now there is only one nominal health office in the local area, and there is no official office in charge of civil affairs. Even the health office has long existed in name only, and there are only one hundred and ten Zhuang households left, which are theoretically military households from the early years of the Ming Dynasty. After Qingchuan County to the north, it is the most precipitous skyscraper on the Yinping Ancient Road.

Zhang Xianzhong walked so sleepy that he saw that the skyscraper on the left hand side was extremely steep and abnormal, and it was really difficult to cross, so he had to rest his horse first.

But not long after Zhang Xianzhong stopped, there was a sudden uproar on the Motianling, muskets rang out, and a group of officers and soldiers condescended to defend the danger and launched a final attack on Zhang Xianzhong's guards.

"Zhang Xianzhong's dog thief is killed! The governor of my family has sent us to wait at the foot of the Sky Ridge for many days! ”

"Grandma's, if it weren't for canned food and insect repellent oil, she would have been bitten to death by mosquitoes these days! Brothers, all the hardships you have endured these days must be made up for by the dog thief! ”

Zhang Xianzhong was shocked, he didn't expect that he would escape to Motianling, and he would be intercepted by the officers and soldiers who had already come to ambush in advance.

The cavalry next to him was completely devoid of spirit and could no longer resist. And Liu Wenxiu was also full of despair, recalling the persuasion letter of his second brother Li Dingguo, saying that Zhang was exhausted, and his life was still alive, and his heart was like ashes.

There is no way, although Liu Wenxiu really wants to insist on not selling his father's discipline, but at this point, there are not many remaining festivals.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered to charge and break through, he coldly smashed his father-in-law's helmet with the back of his knife behind his back, and asked his soldiers to tie Zhang Xianzhong and hand it over to Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses who came to ambush - Zhu Shuren wanted to use his own descendants to fortify, but his troops were really not suitable for the environment of the mountains and dense forests in Sichuan, so he had to give Qin Liangyu some good things such as wind oil essence and canned food, plus he also gave a little credit to Qin Liangyu's department.

Qin Liangyu also knew that this was the Governor Governor who was promoting their old Ma family, so he asked her son Ma Xianglin to personally bring someone to block Zhang Xianzhong, and squatted under this Sky Ridge for many days.

Ma Xianglin didn't rush to kill for long, and the opposite side threw it all, which made him quite unsatisfied.

Since Liu Wenxiu stunned Zhang Xianzhong and tied him up, he couldn't kill Liu Wenxiu again, so he asked people to tie him up and send him back to Chengdu.

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From Jiangyou to Chengdu, it is only 300 miles. Counting the more than 100 miles from Qingchuan back to Jiangyou, three nights and two days later, on the morning of 12 May, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Wenxiu and their entourage were finally escorted to Chengdu.

Liu Wenxiu was soon thrown into prison, first with Li Dingguo, Feng Shuangli, Bai Wenxuan, and others, waiting for his merits and demerits to be determined before being dealt with.

Considering that he tied up Zhang Xianzhong at the last moment, it should be no problem to survive. But this kind of "poor vote", it is impossible to directly get an official reward.

Ma Xianglin was full of energy and offered a prisoner to Zhu Shuren, and seeing that Zhang Xianzhong was finally bound, Zhu Shuren was also overjoyed.

Finally, I got a heart disease.

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