In the early morning of the ninth day of October, Cao Ying, who had been in chaos all night, finally quieted down.

Due to the presence of Luo Rucai's uncle Luo Dain, the Cao Ying soldiers who did not escape were all absorbed by Li Zicheng.

Hearing that Ji Jue and Yang Chengzu had escaped, Li Zicheng sighed with emotion: "I lost a talent."

Last night, Li Zicheng led 20 cavalry to break into Luo Rucai's sleeping tent and kill the dazed Luo Rucai.

Then in the face of the influx of Cao Ying soldiers, Li Zicheng took out a letter from Luo Rucai and Gao Mingheng on the spot.

This trick has a rather limited effect.

In the eyes of the Cao Ying soldiers, Li Zicheng was only the nominal leader of the alliance. As the leader of the alliance, it is unforgivable to kill their commander.

So the whole battalion mutinied.

Thanks to Luo Dain, who had already been bought by Li Zicheng, he came forward to stabilize some of the Cao Ying soldiers.

Most of them followed Ji Jue, Yang Chengzu and Wang Long to Yunyang.

Three days later, Li Zicheng returned to Xiangjing.

He received a letter from Ma Shouying.

Ma Shouying said in the letter that he would not surrender to Li Zicheng, nor would he become an enemy of Li Zicheng, and begged Li Zicheng to give him a place to live and let him live in Yiling for a day.

Li Zicheng replied with a letter, asking Ma Shouying to behave for himself in the future, and if he didn't follow the letter he wrote, he would wait for the army to crusade.

After writing the letter, Li Zicheng handed the letter to the herald and said:

"The big picture has been decided, what should we do next?"

"King Chuang, you are already the absolute leader of the Henan and Huguang Righteous Army, why don't you call yourself the emperor? With Huguang and Henan as bases, we can establish political power and be upright externally, and we can prevent this kind of thing from happening again internally."

Yang Yongyu, who was born in Qin Tianjian, persuaded to advance.

When Niu Jinxing heard this, he immediately stood up and objected: "Zhou owns two-thirds of the world, and he still submits to Yin Shang. Ming Taizu owns half of the south of the Yangtze River and still leads the king of Xiao Ming.

Now King Chuang only occupies a corner of the Ming Dynasty, and his foothold is not stable. At this time, rashly claiming the title of emperor will cause reactions from all sides and fall into a passive situation surrounded on all sides.

It is better to establish a political power initially, wait for Sun Chuanting to be eliminated, and then talk about the matter of becoming emperor according to the changes in the situation."

Li Zicheng listened to it and thought it was reasonable.

After careful deliberation, it was decided to organize a new government agency in Xiangjing with the old title of "Generalissimo of Fengtian Changyi" in Xiangjing.

Li Zicheng named Niu Jinxing as prime minister, renamed the six ministries as the "six governments", and each set up a squire to manage it, and Niu Jinxing was in charge of government affairs.

The government (ministry) of the government (ministry) was served by Yu Shangyou, who was the head of the stone in Jingzhou Prefecture, and was one hundred and eighty Jinshi in the fifth year of Chongzhen (1631).

This list has our old acquaintances, Wu Weiye, the eye of the list, and Zhang Pu, the first of the top three Jinshi.

Yu Shangyou was dismissed at home for offending Wen Tiren, and he was submissive to Li Zicheng for less than three months.

The household government (household department) squire was appointed by Xiao Yingkun, who was a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou Prefecture, and the sixth Jinshi in the top three in the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616).

There are also many old acquaintances on this list, such as the famous Hong Chengchou and Xie Lian, who was killed for failing to level the thief......

Xiao Yingkun had previously served as a political envoy in Guangxi, and he and Yu Shangyou returned to Li Zicheng together.

The courtesy government (Ministry of Rites) was appointed by Yang Yongyu, who was a native of Zhaoyuan in Dengzhou Prefecture and had been a doctor of Qintianjian.

This person is familiar with the Ming system, and has formulated a set of official systems with the cooperation of Niu Jinxing.

The squire of the military government (military department) was served by Li Zhensheng, who was a native of Mizhi in Yan'an Prefecture, and was the governor of Huguang at the time, and was captured after the Chengtian Mansion was breached.

He and Li Zicheng are fellow countrymen, but their backgrounds are different.

One is a native of Xiaosangping in Mizhi County, and he was a jinshi in the eighth year of Chongzhen (1634). One is from a poor family in Lijiazhai in Mizhi County.

At present, Li Zicheng awarded him a military government squire, which is pure wishful thinking.

The squire of the criminal government (criminal department) was served by Deng Yanzhong, who was a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou Prefecture, and was born in a noble family.

The squire of the Ministry of Industry (Ministry of Industry) is served by Yao Xiyin, and Yao Xiyin is

A native of Shangzhou, Xi'an, he was born.

From the origin of the six government squires, we can clearly see that with the passage of time, the Ming Dynasty has been crumbling.

From the regional analysis, Li Zicheng crisscrossed Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Henan and other places in the first half of his life, and almost no scholars were born to work for Li Zicheng.

There are only those who are born in the imperial examination, only Niu Jinxing.

Song Xiance used to be a man who walked the rivers and lakes.

Due to Huguang's successive years of war, and the inaction of successive supervisors, all the landlords and squires in Huguang were finally pushed to Li Zicheng.

Among them, there is one who is particularly worth mentioning, this person is a person from Zhongxiang of Chengtianfu, and he was born in Xu.

His name is Gu Junen, and he is engaged in the military government.

At the local level, Li Zicheng sent defense envoys to govern in accordance with the Dao-level system of the Ming Dynasty, and each prefecture set up a prefecture and a county order.

Li Zicheng also carried out a major reorganization of the Cao army of Chuang Jun and Luo Rucai, and four of the five battalions of the five battalions of the left and left battalions, and reorganized the Zhongquan pro-army and the five battalions of the left and right front and rear field armies, and set up a general to command.

On top of the five-battalion generals, there are two right generals, which are served by Tian Jianxiu and Liu Zongmin.

It is somewhat similar to the Eight Banners of the Nurhachi era, and on top of Gushan Ezhen, there are all the real Fei Yingdong and Eyi under the jurisdiction of the people.

Among the five battalions, He Jin served as the general of the Zhongquan pro-military system, but the army under his command was only the field troops that originally belonged to him.

The one who really commanded the "pro-army" was Li Shuangxi, the general of Zhengwei and the adopted son of Li Zicheng.

The four-battalion generals on the left and right sides were Liu Fangliang, Liu Xiyao, Yuan Zongdi, and Li Guo.

Subsequently, the distribution of generals stationed in various places began.

Yuan Zongdi led the army into Dengzhou to guard against the Ming army's Sun Chuanting Department.

Liu Fangliang led the army into Yingzhou to guard against the Ming army You Shilu Division.

Ren Guangrong, who was born as a general of the Ming Dynasty with the title of general, guarded Jingzhou and guarded against the counterattack of the Ming army in the south.

The general Liu Zongmin led the elite to attack Yunyang Mansion, which was held by Wang Guangen, Hui Dengxiang and others, and opened the road to Shaanxi.

Sun Chuanting will not die for a day, and Li Zicheng will be restless for a day.

Li Zicheng also sent Li Guo to lead the army into Henan to deal with the armed group spontaneously organized by the local gentry - Li Jiyu, Liu Hongqi and others.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zicheng sent Zhou Fengwu, who was born as a general, into Henan.

Zhou Fengwu was originally a general of You Shilu, and surrendered after You Shilu fled to Xiangyang, surrounded by peasant troops.

He worked very hard, captured Yuzhou as soon as he arrived in Henan, and also searched for King Huaiqing of the Ming Dynasty around Mi County, so frightened that King Huaiqing fled to Jiyuan.

Li Zicheng was very satisfied, changed Yuzhou to Junping Mansion, and appointed Zhou Fengwu to guard it.

Since Li Zichenghuo and Luo Rucai and the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo, the pace of expansion has been much faster than before, and a large territory has been carved out in the belly of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng, with the assistance of Niu Jinxing and Gu Junen, began to govern these areas.

Since then, Li Zicheng has officially established power, and he no longer has to wander around.

However, five years have passed since Yang Chengying eliminated Houjin and established the Zhou Palace.

Yang Chengying ruled southern Liaoning for 16 years and western Liaoning for 9 years.