Wuchang City.

In the past half a month, Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, has really made the people anxious.

The reason for the civil uprising was that the local government was too strict since Xishan was put into service, so that the officials forced the people to rebel.

In this situation, Zhang Changgeng, as the governor, is a belly.

But as long as the bandits in the west are not suppressed for a day, whether it is using soldiers, serving or requisitioning grain, he will not allow the slightest relaxation.

Even if the people are separated by their wives, the people will return out of ten.

The price is greater, but as long as the officials and soldiers can pacify the Xishan thieves, the world will be peaceful, and then the government will be relaxed and the law will be relaxed, and the people will be able to recover.

The so-called long pain is not as good as short pain.

In order to extinguish the civil uprisings in various places, and also to prevent the civil uprisings in Huguang from causing a big chaos and affecting the use of troops in Xishan, under the dispatch of Zhang Changgeng, two battalions of the superintendent were dispatched one after another to suppress the civil uprisings in many places.

Most of the people in chaos are people, how much combat power can the people have?

Under the vigorous encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, there is now only one chaotic people led by Gong Xuan.

There are quite a few people, and the local newspaper says that there are nearly 10,000.

Zhang Changgeng has no way of knowing how much.

However, this chaotic group of people has already disturbed Daye, Xingguo, Tongshan and other places, and even affected the neighboring province of Jiangxi, so as the governor of Huguang, Zhang Changgeng must be severely suppressed, otherwise Jiangxi will definitely write a letter to impeach him Huguang for "arsoning with thieves and causing trouble to neighbors".

If the scale of the civil uprising is larger, it will also pose a threat to Wuchang.

Therefore, yesterday, Zhang Changgeng sent a letter to Wuchang and Huanggang Prefectures, in addition to the garrison of the flood soldiers, recruited more villagers to go to Gongxuan bravely, and ordered Ma Gongming, the deputy general of the supervision standard to suppress thieves in Huangzhou, to lead his troops into Daye to quell the civil unrest.

There is no need to send troops to the front line to suppress the civil unrest.

In addition to the popular uprising, there is also good news.

There were reports from Tang in Beijing, indicating that Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu who had been in charge of the country of Chaozong, died of illness last winter, and Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, reported to the imperial court, saying that Zheng Jing, the thief leader of the Zheng family, had crossed to Taiwan with Hong Xu and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians because he could not gain a foothold on the mainland.

This shows that the "pirates" Zheng clique have given up the cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and only want to take sides.

This will greatly reduce the military pressure on the coastal areas.

The Zheng Group has a lot of sea vessels, and what the coastal provinces are most afraid of is that Zheng Jing will one day learn from his father Zheng Sen "big ship into the river" and come to Jiangning.

Therefore, the Zheng Group's eastward crossing, whether it is coastal defense or river defense, can make the Qing court breathe a sigh of relief.

The reason that caused Zheng Jing to abandon Jinxia and go to Taiwan was that in addition to the fact that Jinxia, Nanao and other small places could not solve the food and material supply for hundreds of thousands of soldiers, civilians and officials, that is, with the death of his father Zheng Sen, a large number of civil and military generals of the Zheng group surrendered to the Qing court one after another.

Zheng Tai's son Zheng Zhangxu, who was killed by Zheng Jing last year, and his uncle Zheng Mingjun led hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of armored soldiers to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, resulting in further damage to the strength of the Zheng group.

After Zheng Mingjun and Zheng Zhangxu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they immediately cooperated with the Qing army and attacked Jin and Xiamen together with the Dutch fleet, but Zheng Jing could hardly support it.

Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and Li Shutai, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, took the opportunity to send people to appease them.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Jing had no objection to the surrender conditions given by the Qing court, so he insisted on one - not to cut his hair!

The Qing court, on the other hand, insisted that Zheng Jingbu must shave his hair, so that the peace talks broke down as they did back then.

"Money rat tail is the elegant government of the new dynasty. The Zheng father and son know that the general trend of the world has been returned to my Qing Dynasty, and the people's hearts are even more to my Qing Dynasty, but they are stubborn and unwilling to take advantage of the situation, alas, it is a pity that the hundreds of thousands of people who crossed the sea have been crossed. ”

The person who said this was the Daotai Jin Guansan, who was waiting for the approval of the Hou at the governor's yamen.

Mr. Kim was inspired by this hairstyle, because he felt that this hairstyle was very convenient nowadays, not only was it easy to take care of, but he also didn't have to wash his hair every day.

It's convenient to save trouble, why is the Zheng family's father and son so stubborn.

Zhang Changgeng smiled, picked up the pen and approved several official letters of Jin Guansan, and then said: "The battle for clothes and crowns is just a rotten Confucian opinion, but Zheng Jing's refusal to shave his hair may not be because he really wants to protect his clothes, most of them are relying on Taiwan to rely on, and want to imitate North Korea and Annan to be my Qing Dynasty." ”

"I'm afraid that the platform is in his heart."

Jin Guansan got up and poured tea for the Governor.

"This Zheng Jing, I can't see a mouse's eyes, there's nothing to worry about."

Speaking of this, Zhang Changgeng felt and said, "The change in Myanmar in the previous winter, the death of the monarch and the death of the ministers, there is no room in the world, and there is still a line of Zheng Rebellion on the sea, if Zheng Rebellion judges the situation and supports the Lu Fan as the emperor, so that it may be able to prolong Mingzuo for some days, and the thieves in the West Mountain should be able to persist in this matter and not fall apart, but Zheng Jing'er not only refused to support Lu, but even the Zonglu of the Lu Domain was stopped, which is really ridiculous."

It is also God to help me in the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Jing'er is not the material to do big things, this time the eastward crossing is just a lingering breath, when the Xishan army is completed, the imperial court will send a land and water army to attack Taiwan, then it depends on whether this child shaves his hair or not. ”

After that, he showed a confident look.

Referring to the use of troops in Xishan, Jin Guansan couldn't help mentioning the fact that Jingxi General Mulima went to the front line to supervise the troops.

He believed that the joint offensive of the coalition forces of the three provinces, with the Manchurian army supervising the formation, might not drag on for too long, and if it was soon, it might be possible to see victory or defeat in March or April.

After all, Maolu Mountain is only half a county, and the strength of the official army is more than ten times that of the Ming thief, and the blockade is as many as several years, so the Ming thief has long been at the end of the crossbow.

As soon as the words fell, the porter came to report happily: "Your Excellency the Governor, General Jingxi sent the Manchurian Counselor Lahada to report the victory!" ”

"Oh?!"

Zhang Changgeng and Jin Guansan were stunned at first, and then they both got up with great joy, and the former couldn't wait to ask the porter: "But Xishan has won a big victory!" ”

"Big win, big win!"

The porter smiled like a flower on his face, and said that Lahada had arrived at the west gate with the officers and soldiers who reported the victory.

Xishan with soldiers, the province is in turmoil, in order to prevent thieves from entering the provincial capital, Wuchang City only opens a door every day for the people, traders to enter and exit.

Today's opening is the South Gate.

The Manchurian soldiers who reported the victory arrived at the West Gate.

"Quick, prepare the car!"

Hearing that the Manchurian soldiers had arrived at the west gate, Zhang Changgeng immediately informed the sedan chair to be prepared, and personally went to the city gate to listen to the newspaper.

It wasn't him, the governor of Huguang, who pulled down his face to cheer for Mulima, the general of Jingxi, it was actually due to the system.

After a group of people from the Governor's Mansion gathered around the Governor's palanquin to the West Gate, they saw hundreds of Manchurian soldiers in sharp armor waiting outside the city.

The first is a leader.

The full army also knows the rules, waits quietly, and is not impatient.

"Open the door!"

Zhang Changgeng ordered the battalion to open the door, and with the sound of the city gate opening, the city gate was suddenly opened.

Without waiting for the soldiers to enter the city, Zhang Changgeng was already excited: "Don't sing the newspaper quickly!" ”

It's not really singing, but the meaning of raising the voice.

It is necessary to sing all the way from the city gate to the governor's palace, so that the whole city will know and rejoice.

"The general reported the great victory in Xishan, beheaded tens of thousands of thieves, captured 21 members of the thief general soldiers Wang Jia, Zhang Jia, Hu Jia, Zhao Jia, etc., and obtained several thieves and horses, and countless armor and equipment!"

In the sound of the newspaper, a group of Manchurian soldiers rode into the city in an orderly manner on high-headed horses, and everyone's faces were beaming.

As soon as he entered the city, the singing suddenly stopped, and was replaced by a roaring roar: "The Ming army has entered the city, the Ming army has entered the city!" ”

Then dozens of horsemen rushed towards the city with fierce whips, and dozens of others suddenly drew their swords and slashed at the rejoicing gatekeepers.

Zhang Changgeng didn't understand what was going on, his body was light, and the whole person was caught on the horse by a Manchurian soldier.