Be the emperor from the postman

"Then what do you think we should do with them?"

Zhang Fuzhen may not have enough people under the lord's command for such a large territory in Shaanxi.

But in the spirit of rather lack than abuse, don't want to Ming these old bureaucrats.

Their surrender was probably not sincere, they just wanted to keep their own glory and wealth, and if the hammer bandits could succeed in the future, their own family would also benefit.

At least the available ones can be selected, and they can't be used immediately, and they have to be tapped.

"My lord, send it to Yang He's prison for prisoners of war, let them teach young children to read and write to support themselves."

Zhang Fuzhen squeezed his beard and said: "Although my lord appointed Yang He as the principal of the prison, he is not very popular.

But at present, he is a polished commander, and if these people want to show off, they can't show off Yang He's. "

"I forgot about this, hahaha."

He Jinzhao didn't bother to use these old bureaucrats, but he couldn't support them for nothing.

Zhang Fuzhen didn't care too much about catching the officials in Shaanxi.

There are even some corrupt officials he found out, and they used money and continued to make money in office.

It would not be considered a disadvantage if the money sent out was doubled and returned. Officials like this in Daming have never been a small group.

Relying on these people to collect taxes, the designated tax is much higher than the imperial court's target.

The excess falls into one's own pocket, and even the taxes handed over to the court have to be delayed to generate some interest.

In short, in today's officialdom of Ming Dynasty, it is the custom to suffer a big loss if you don't take advantage of it, but it is not wronged at all.

As far as officials in Shanshan and Shaanxi are concerned, there are really not many foreigners who want to come here to be officials, and the danger is too high, so this kind of corrupt and bribery is allowed to stay.

Previously, Zhang Fuzhen was a pig raised for Hong Chengchou, and he would attack them after the military expenses were really exhausted.

Even though their flesh was cut, they dare not speak.

Now it's all cheap Hammer bandits!
Zhang Fuzhen's methods of punishing these corrupt officials are extremely rich, not to mention that now he has blessed the halo of the "bandit" of the hammer bandit.

It doesn't work at all to seek out the relationship and influence of high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and even a little more can be picked up.

After letting them spit out all the people's fat and people's ointment they ate, they had to be tried by the people and then beheaded and paraded through the streets.

He Jinchao's conquest of Xi'an was naturally publicized throughout Shaanxi, further disintegrating the fighting spirit of the remaining officers and soldiers, and at the same time issued a call to action.

At the same time, immediately deploy to wipe out all the strongholds of Ming Dynasty in the northwest region, so as to relieve the worries of the future.

A wave went south to Hanzhong, but Hanzhong resisted steadily.

Then there are two roads to remote places such as Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai.

In Ningxia, as soon as the Hammer Bandit's call came, Ding Qirui, the deputy envoy of Shaanxi who quelled the military chaos in Ningxia, and King Qing, who was entrusted here, were helpless.

Chen Chong and other local officials and landlords did not cooperate with Ding Qirui to resist, and even encouraged a large number of people to surrender to the hammer bandits.

In particular, He Huchen, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, also reportedly surrendered. His son He Zan was also a general under the hammer bandit He Jinzhao, and he went to attack Hanzhong and other places.

After all, we are all from the Ningxia army, and we may still be able to maintain our glory and wealth by taking into account our old friendship.

If you dare to resist, when the army of hammer bandits arrives, no one will be able to eat.

Most of the generals have no intention of resisting, especially Niu Chenghu, the deputy commander-in-chief, who vowed to resist his old boss and the prestige of Cao Wenzhao to the death?
How much money does Daming give you, is it worth your life for him?

Why did Ningxia mutiny, do these civil servants have no idea?

In the end, if the six scapegoats were not pushed out, then the mutiny would be considered resolved.

But the problem is that Ningxia's soldiers didn't have enough food and clothing. When the hammer bandits came outside the city, they wished they could open the city gate immediately and capture a few leaders of the Ming Dynasty to surrender.

Who dares to touch this mold?

Prince Qing's clan and civil and military officials gathered in Prince Qing's mansion, and after a day's discussion, they decided to surrender to the hammer bandits collectively.

What resistance?
It’s better to keep the green hills. If Daming regains our homeland in the future, we can continue to enjoy the blessings.

Ding Qirui remained silent, and after seeing that everyone had made up their minds, he took dozens of confidants dressed as Qiao Zhuang, and went to Datong Mansion via Mongolia to return to the imperial court, and must tell the emperor the news.

Shanxi Town and Ningxia are almost all determined by rumors.

Only Gansu and Qinghai are quite remote, requiring the hammer bandits to march westward.

Gao Yigong led the army and continued to set off, conquering Qinzhou (Tianshui City) in one fell swoop. As a result, all the counties along the road to Lanzhou surrendered and did not dare to resist.

Gansu Deputy Commander-in-Chief Ma Yan, Ouyang Gun and others were shocked three times a day.

They persuaded King Su to go west to Ganzhou (Zhangye) with money, conscription and stick to it, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, the climate is not good, and there are Mongols and other forces who can provide foreign aid.

King Su disagreed to leave Lanzhou, so Ma Yu and others led the troops and ran away.

In short, because of the large-scale offensive of the hammer bandits, people in Shaanxi were panicked, and they had no intention of resisting at all.

What He Jinchao had to deal with was to organize all the people under him after occupying a vast territory, so as to avoid making wedding dresses for the local gentry.

As for the news that the whole of Shaanxi was about to fall, it had been automatically blocked by the officials of the Ming Dynasty and had never been reported to the capital.

Even if they knew about it, the news might have spread to many hands.

After Lu Xiang was promoted to the Tianxiong Army of his old subordinate, he began to carry out the army's farming operations in Datong, Xuanfu.

Before he had enough rations, he absolutely refused to have any conflict with the hammer bandits.

Otherwise, there is no food in hand, not only can't fight the war.

The people under the rule had to be forced to pay taxes, and they had to be driven to the hammer bandits.

He has seen this kind of thing a lot, and he will never allow it to go on like this.

Xu Dingchen, a small warlord, was also watching what Lu Xiangsheng was doing, to see if there were any signs of fire in his new office.

Now that Lu Xiangsheng's first thing is to start farming, Xu Dingchen is really impressed. He is indeed the one who caught the thief Gao Yingxiang.

Maybe next year, if Wu Guojun, the Marquis of Jingliao, leads his troops again, and they join forces, they may have a chance to invade Shanxi.

Xu Dingchen has also been waiting for an opportunity.

Although I, Xu Dingchen, occupy the gold mines to raise private soldiers, I only do this for the future of Daming.

Otherwise, put it in the hands of those corrupt officials, and put all the orders in his own pocket, and collude with the hammer bandits by the way.

But this October, not only Shaanxi has changed.

Hong Chengchou defeated the newly promoted king Li Zicheng once. With Gao Jie's help, he lost Li Zicheng and suffered a lot.

The soldiers under his command were scattered, and there were only more than [-] soldiers and family members led by King Li Chuang.

It took half a month for Li Zicheng to reconcile with General Qi, the general under his command, and there were more than [-] people around him, who wanted to leave Sichuan.

Hong Chengchou sent troops to pursue, but Fu Zonglong, governor of Sichuan, dispatched Sichuan soldiers to intercept.

It turned out that Fu Zonglong was the first to preside over the matter to fight the fire because Gao Yingxianghe broke into the palace to kill the emperor, and was then dismissed by the angry Chongzhen.

As a result, after being idle for several years, Li Zicheng aggressively attacked Sichuan.

After conquering more than 30 prefectures and counties in Sichuan, and even went to Chengdu to show off his power, he was remembered by Chongzhen and continued to fight the fire in place of Wang Weizhang.

Chongzhen also made up for himself, if Fu Zonglong was the governor of Sichuan, how could the bandit soldiers get to this point?
Fu Zonglong was indeed a qualified firefighting captain, he repelled Li Zicheng, and cooperated with Hong Chengchou to attack him.

The rebels suffered heavy losses.Li Zicheng escaped from Sichuan in embarrassment.

Li Zicheng retreated back to Huguang, and when passing through Henan, he was attacked by Zuo Guang first, and there were not many troops at once.

Li Chuangwang's troops suffered setbacks one after another, and there were only less than 500 people left around him.

Li Zicheng's core general Qi Zongguan lost his fighting spirit in the face of failure.

He felt that Li Zicheng could not bear the banner of King Gao Chuang.

After all, even King Gao Chuang was captured by the army, and now he failed again and again, so he decided to surrender to the army.

Li Zicheng's situation became more and more difficult, so he took refuge in the mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan.

This wave of rebels was almost suppressed under the siege of several networks.

After Li Zicheng took over Gao Yingxiang's Chuangwang banner, he first had no ability to command a large army to fight.

When he encountered the encirclement and suppression by the Ming army, he dispersed and dispersed again. He did not concentrate his forces to confront the Ming army, which was indeed a mistake.

It is convenient to command with a small number of people, but in the face of encirclement and suppression by superior forces, the soldiers under his command are not opponents.

In addition, Li Zicheng failed to integrate the subordinates who were originally subordinate to Gao Yingxiang, and some people were not firm in their will.

Seeing that Gao Jie was so highly valued, he also surrendered to the army.

As a result, there are fewer and fewer people available around Li Zicheng.

Without tyrannical strength, he rashly took over Gao Yingxiang's title of Chuangwang, but Hong Chengchou seized the opportunity to chase and beat him fiercely, and he was naturally defeated.

Hong Chengchou also began to ask the court for payment, but there was no reward, and it was difficult for the soldiers under his command to maintain more morale.

Otherwise, the risk of suppressing thieves is too great, and the superiors have been giving you verbal rewards without any substance. Who would want to follow you all the time?
Now that Hong Chengchou has no base, he can't make money, so he can only ask for it from the court.

Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, had no choice but to allocate part of the salary increase to support him.

When Hong Chengchou went to fight Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong seized the opportunity to reconcile with Lao Huihui and attack Xiangyang with 20 troops.

The rebel army defeated Qin Yiming, the general soldier, and Huguang was shocked, which can be regarded as an indirect support for Li Zicheng.

When Hong Chengchou and others arrived, Zhang Xianzhong pretended to attack Xiangyang again, then turned around and went down the river with Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, Chuang Tatetian and others, throwing off the officers and soldiers.

This caused Hong Chengchou to rush to Zhang Xianzhong.

But with Hong Chengchou's victory over Li Zicheng, Yang Sichang was extremely excited. He promised the emperor that he would work hard for three months and understand the problem of bandits for several years.

Chongzhen strongly approved this plan, and ordered the governor, prime minister and governors of all walks of life to follow it.

But Zhang Xianzhong became cunning and began to fight mobile warfare, moving east or west from time to time.

Either divide the troops, throw off the official army, and then meet up at the next location, and defend according to the danger, so that the official army cannot conquer it.

After Azige and other Qing troops returned to Shenyang, they were grandly received by Huang Taiji.

When he heard that He Jinzhao had also come to meddle, he was very anxious, and quickly sent someone to tell Azig not to fight with the hammer bandits.

Always keep in mind what you are going to Daming this time.

Fortunately, Azig was sensible, and after suffering some losses, he really withdrew his troops with little loss.

Huang Taiji was very satisfied with Azige's handling.

This plunder brought great excitement to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty.

In particular, the more plundered the more popular, whoever can charge forward for this will be the Qing Dynasty's Batulu.

As for He Jinchao's coming to add trouble at the end of the period, it doesn't matter at all if he wants to get a piece of the pie.

Huang Taiji believed that He Jinzhao was near the capital of the Ming Dynasty. If Chongzhen still chose to forbear and not do anything, what majesty would there be for the Ming Dynasty?

After this looting, Huang Taiji had a thorough understanding of Daming's reality, and he was sure that he would attack North Korea together, and Daming would not have the strength to attack at all, so he was relieved.

Just to let his subordinates rest for a while, he is ready to lead an army of [-] to conquer North Korea.

Whoever asked himself to be enthroned at the enthronement ceremony, the North Korean envoy put eye drops on himself, it is impossible not to avenge this revenge.

After the Qing army crossed the river, they made full use of their strength in field warfare, abandoned the strong city without attacking it, and drove southward, arriving at the city of Wangjing in just twelve days.

Li Zhen sent people to escort himself and the family members of the ministers to Jianghua Island to take refuge first, and then he was worried that he would be captured by the Qing army on the way.

He didn't run with him, so he fled to Nanhan Mountain City, and was besieged by Huang Taiji.

Li Ji was unwilling to submit to the Qing Dynasty, so he personally patrolled the city, encouraged the soldiers, and ordered people to work hard for the king.

As a result, the Qing army sent out a skillful encirclement to fight for aid, and all the Qin Wangshi were defeated and retreated.

The Korean defenders in Namhan Mountain City attacked and were defeated by the Qing army.

There was no escape, and they couldn't fight again. Huang Taiji also led the main force to Nanhan Mountain City, and the two sides began to negotiate.

One side under Li Ji's command fought and the other side quarreled with each other, but there was no decision until the news came that the Qing army captured Ganghwa Island and captured their families.

The last straw that overwhelmed them was that they were determined to accept Huang Taiji's statement, sever ties with the Ming Dynasty, and pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Jing led the ministers out of the city to bow three times and nine times to bow to Huang Taiji, abandoning Daming's service, and should wear the sable fur given by Huang Taiji to thank him.

Huang Taiji pacified North Korea at this point, and then slowly collected prisoners, captured women and returned to Shenyang, and by the way investigated which side of North Korea was the main fighting faction, and planned to chop them all when they returned to Shenyang.

When North Korea received news of the Qing army's attack, it quickly asked Ming to send troops to rescue them.

After Huang Taiji besieged the King of Korea, Chongzhen received the news of North Korea's request for help.

The Qing army had just looted a wave in Daming, and not long after returning to recuperate, they attacked North Korea.

Especially Chongzhen only received the news from Ding Qirui a few days ago that He Jinzhao conquered Xi'an City, Guyuan Town, Ningxia and other places waited and surrendered.

This incident already disturbed Chongzhen and diluted Hong Chengchou's good mood of defeating Li Zicheng.

As a result, the bad news came one after another, and he couldn't save North Korea.

Facing the Qing army, Daming is now too busy to take care of himself. How can he spare any energy to support North Korea?

Both He Jinchao and Huang Taiji were not idle after returning from the ravages of the capital.

Obviously, there was a little hope, but then so many bad news came. When Chongzhen looked in the mirror, he found that he had white hair on his head.

Chongzhen accepted the strategy of making peace at home before fighting against the outside world. Regarding the Qing army's occupation of North Korea, he could only choose to ignore it.

If the Qing army can be stabilized, it is best to give him time to deal with the bandits and hammer bandits.

Due to the actions of the Qing army, the DPRK and China were also divided into two factions, the main war faction and the main peace faction.

But regarding this situation, as the supreme ruler of Ming Dynasty, it was not easy for Chongzhen to reveal his true thoughts to the outside world.

He seemed worried, and it was difficult for him to speak and talk about such things. He couldn't bear to lose face, so Chongzhen had no choice but to hint to the minister to propose.