A large formal military congress in the central group of the Slave Army finally ended with the two-day banquet in which Mr. Zhang personally cooked and arranged a group of generals who had been through the battlefield were all unaware of the battle. According to Mr. Zhang, the brothers had rarely gathered together for more than ten years, and took advantage of this military congress to get close to their brothers. Although the brothers knew that Mr. Zhang had not told the truth, no one dared to dig in front of Zhang Ping'an. Xu Yian, the commander of the detective office, felt that Mr. Zhang strongly advocated attacking Yangzhou, which might be different from the wealthy salt merchants in Yangzhou City. It is easy to contact others. Xu Yian's guess is not wrong at all. Zhang Ping'an, the Duke of China who was rich and could rival the country in the Ming Dynasty, once again fell into an embarrassing situation of no money to be available. As the Ming Dynasty court issued a proclamation to fight against rebellion, the pseudo-Ming court of the Southern Ming Dynasty began to show signs of civil unrest. Shi Kefa, the second auxiliary of the pseudo-South Ming cabinet, was excluded by the four towns in Jiangbei and the chief assistant Qian Qianyi because of his claim to surrender to the Northern Dynasties. Finally, Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong issued an order. Shi Kefa went to Yangzhou as the Minister of War to reorganize the army to fight against the Northern Dynasties. As a result, Shi Kefa was under house arrest in Yangzhou City.

The chief minister Qian Qianyi originally wanted to surrender to the Northern Dynasties, but a proclamation of the Northern Dynasties to combat rebellion cut off Qian Qianyi's last hope. In this manifesto promoted by the Duke of China, Zhang Ping'an, it was clearly stated that any official who was dependent on the puppet dynasty would be deemed to be a serious crime of rebellion, and not only would he be exiled for thousands of miles, but his property would be seized. Most of the people who could obtain official positions in the puppet Ming Dynasty in Nanjing were so-called justice. Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty used these Donglin Party to relied on the gang, causing himself to be hung on the crooked tree. There were not many good people in the Donglin Party, and Qian Qianyi and others who were seeking fame and reputation were definitely the majority. After the officials, they protected the interests of the landlords and gentry and their own family. The Ming Dynasty was about to perish and they were still sucking people's fat and ointment on this withered body. It was the protection of these Donglin officials that the land annexation in Nanzhili reached its peak at the end of Chongzhen. Zhang Ping'an naturally could not tolerate this chaos of harming the country and the people. He issued a secret military order to the inspectors of various wars, collecting as much as possible the land documents of the government in the occupied areas in the future war and destroying them all. Without the official archives, the land deeds in the landlord's hands became empty texts, and thus losing the legitimacy of legal ownership of land.

Zhang Ping'an's strategy for the southern expedition seems to be extremely risky, but in fact it also refers to the essence of the detective office collecting intelligence for several years. The army that the Ming army, the most capable of fighting, was exhausted in the battle with the Dashun Army and Jiannu outside the pass. Wu Sangui's troops in Shanhaiguan depended on the Posou Army, which also made Zhang Ping'an dare to send several scattered battle camps into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Another important reason is that the Posou Army continuously wiped out the Qing and North Korea countries, and aftermath immigration and re-operation of these two vast regions required a large amount of manpower and material resources. Although the Posou Army seized a lot of wealth in the capital, the two large armies of the Southern and Western expeditions needed a huge amount of The materials and military pay for combat, plus the taxes of the civil yamen in Ponucheng Xuanwei can only meet the local needs, and tens of millions of silver seized were found again in a few months. Zhang Ping'an also had to reserve gold for the rest and rest of the people in his future control of the region. In a blink of an eye, the vast amount of gold and silver in his hand became a beautiful memory. In the summary of war experience over the years, Zhang Ping'an deeply understood that robbery is always faster than construction. Eighty percent of the money that the Ponu Army fought in the war in recent years was robbed by him from enemies or enemies. Because of this, Zhang Ping'an always had an unscathing feeling about the noble business of robbery.

The rich people in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty were basically robbed by his subordinates. In addition to the nobles in Nanjing, there were salt merchants in Yangzhou. According to the intelligence collected by the spies installed by these salt merchants in the detective office, the silver and gold in these salt merchants would not be less than 50 million taels. The Yangzhou salt merchants could make a fortune in the southern Zhili period for hundreds of years, and the ability to speculate on the general trend of the world was beyond ordinary people's ability. Before the Possess Army entered the pass, these salt merchants sold their land to hoard silver and gold. Since the opening of the pseudo-South Ming Dynasty, the "Yin Guangju" silver building of the Xuanwei envoy of the Possess City was no longer exchanged for gold.

The silver bills forced these salt merchants to store the gold and silver in their hands at home. In order to ensure the safety of the family's wealth, all salt merchants donated money to establish the Yangzhou militia. Since the Yangzhou salt merchants used enough money, this 5,000 militia and 6,000 official troops were enough to make the bandits of Gao Jie's troops stationed in Guazhou, Yangzhou, who had originally defected to Ma Shiying, always wanted to enter Yangzhou City, which was rich and oily, but Gao Jie's troops were notorious for plundering everywhere. When the people of Yangzhou City heard that Gao Jie's soldiers were going to move into Yangzhou, they all stopped and fought. In order to protect their property from losses, Yangzhou salt merchants took out 500,000 taels of silver to let Gao Jie's troops station 70,000 troops stationed in Guazhou.

Lin Yaohui, the new Yangzhou magistrate, has been very close to Lin Qian, the owner of the "Sanjiang Goods Store". Although both of them are surnamed Lin, they seem to have no relatives on the surface. Lin Yaohui was able to serve as the prefect of Yangzhou, known as the world's largest fatty, thanks to the strong recommendation of Duke Wei Xu Hongji. Although there was the chief minister Qian Qianyi and the second assistant Ma Shiying outside the Southern Ming court, and the eunuch Lu Jiude, the governor of Nanjing, Xu Hongji, who holds the military power of Nanjing, still has a strong voice. Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong is far from being a rival of these cunning ministers, but he also knows when it should be

Maintaining the moderate peace of the court. After the Duke of Wei, Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, occupied the capital, was like a wilted eggplant, and he lost his spirit for a long time. Xu Hongji had a small conflict with the Duke of the Slave Army during the Tianqi period. He was beaten by hundreds of guards under Xu Yian, which also made Xu Hongji realize the strength of the Duke of the Slave Army. Earlier, when the Duke of the Slave Army was still outside the pass, he sent someone to send a message to Duke of Wei Xu Hongji, asking him to redeem dozens of famous prostitutes from the Qinhuai River to send them to Liaodong. Xu Hongji, who had seen the strong wind and waves, understood at the time that it was Duke of Huai Zhang Ping'an who asked him to stand in a team and express his attitude.

However, at that time, Duke Xu Hongji of Wei was deceived by the eunuch Lu Jiude, and foolishly elected Zhu Yousong, a vassal king who had lost his vassal territory, as the emperor, and thus preserved his current status and wealth. Considering that he could control the emperor Zhu Yousong in the future, Xu Hongji, who was frying, immediately joined forces with Lu Jiude to push Zhu Yousong to the throne. Xu Hongji expressed his attitude with his actions, and naturally ignored Duke Hua's extortion. In fact, Xu Hongji did not know that he would offend Duke Hua's Duke Zhang Ping'an, but Xu Hongji had his own little plan in his heart. The Dashun Army was one million.

The army occupied the capital with the strength of the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves. At that time, most officials in Nanjing, Nanzhili believed that the continuous battle of the slave army would not invade the pass in a short time. Although Zhu Cixuan arrived in Liaodong, Xu Hongji speculated that the Duke of China Zhang Ping'an was likely to kill Zhu Cixuan and become king outside the pass. I don’t know that Xu Hongji had missed the history of the Three Kingdoms, but he did not expect that Zhang Ping'an would carry out the affairs of Cao Cao's narrow emperor to order the princes. Therefore, after Zhu Cixuan, the Emperor Xuantong of the Northern Dynasty, ascended the throne, Xu Hongji suddenly realized. It was just that the road was already done, and Xu Hongji had to pay the price for his short-sightedness.

Fortunately, Duke Xu Hongji of Wei did not do anything in Nanjing, and Duke Hua's business in Nanjing was retained under the strong support of Xu Hongji. Xu Hongji left a way out for himself and was soon rewarded. Zhang He, the shopkeeper of the Yinlou "Yin Guangju" who was left behind in Nanjing, sent someone to secretly pass on a letter to Duke Wei. Duke Hua asked Xu Hongji to help Lin Yaohui, the head of the Ministry of Rites, to serve as the prefect of Yangzhou. Duke Xu Hongji, who had completely seen the situation in the world, knew very well that this was the last chance given to him by Duke Hua, and if he couldn't do it, he would

He would no longer have a chance to save his life in this matter. For this reason, Xu Hongji, who had a deep foundation in Nanzhili, jumped up and down to contact his own team, and used various means to threaten Lu Jiude and Ma Shiying, and pushed a humble sixth-rank head of the Ministry of Rites, Lin Yaohui, to the throne of the prefect of Yangzhou. Lin Yaohui was supported by Duke Wei and served as the prefect of Yangzhou, and did not cause much trouble in the Southern Ming Dynasty. Everyone thought that Duke Wei had lost the transaction between Duke Hua and Duke Hua, and wanted to use Lin Yaohui, his own person to continue his great cause of bank profit.

Lin Yaohui was unhappy in the Nanjing officialdom for many years. He defected to Duke Hua as early as the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. However, he was cautious in dealing with things and was not known to outsiders. When Zhu Zhengshan and his group of officials fled Nanjing, Lin Yaohui was asked by Duke Hua not to leave for any reason. Lin Yaohui's years of tolerance was rewarded. He was cooperating with the head of the Investigation Office with important tasks by the Duke Hua to be the inner responder of Yangzhou. Duke Hua Zhang Ping'an also personally issued an order to Lin Yaohui. The Southern Ming court required Shi Kefa to be placed under house arrest in Yangzhou, and Zhang Ping'an ordered Lin Yaohui to directly imprison Shi Kefa to be imprisoned. In Zhang Ping'an's eyes, he also personally issued an order to Lin Yaohui. The Southern Ming court required Shi Kefa to be placed under house arrest in Yangzhou. Zhang Ping'an ordered Lin Yaohui to directly imprison Shi Kefa to prison.

Shi Kefa is a righteous minister with a straightforward personality, and can be used by the Xuanwei Office of the Ponucheng. From Zhang Ping'an's heart, he admired Shi Kefa's teacher Zuo Guangdou. In the year of Tianqi, Zhang Ping'an failed to rescue Zuo Guangdou, who was framed by Wei Zhongxian, and had always had regrets in his heart. Shi Kefa, a student who was able to protect Zuo Guangdou, can also be regarded as an explanation for Zuo Guangdou. The reason why Zhang Ping'an imprisoned Shi Kefa was to save Shi Kefa's life. Shi Kefa became an important official in the pseudo-Southern Ming court. After the war, the new dynasty must liquidate him. Zhang Ping'an wanted to protect him and also damaged Shi Kefa's reputation.

For these people who regard reputation as more important than life, they must try every means to protect their reputation from being damaged when they are allowed to serve in the future. If Shi Kefa was arrested by the Southern Ming court, Zhang Ping'an would have a legitimate reason to protect him from taking office after the war. At this point, the Duke of China Zhang Ping'an made a preliminary plan for Nanzhili before the war, and he could refine the strategy of the southern expedition. In the hinterland of Shaanxi, the Baibone Camp of the Po Nu Army was led by the commander Lu Xiangsheng to rush thousands of miles to the commander of the Dashun Army.

Forced to besiege the area of ​​Xi'an Prefecture. The leader of the White Bone Camp Lu Xiangsheng once again disobeyed the military order of General Zhang and used Mongolian cavalry to cut off the Dashun army's retreat in the west. The reason why Lu Xiangsheng repeatedly disobeyed General Zhang's military order was mainly to annihilate the pseudo-Emperor Li Zicheng in Shaanxi. Although the White Bone Camp had more than 40,000 combat soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng was still not sure how to block Li Zicheng's escape. After all, Li Zicheng's ability to escape had long been good at running away for many years. (To be continued)
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