Since you are obedient, you will change your flag.

True and false are not important, attitude is important.

It was like the spring breeze blew overnight. In addition to the original "Huai" flag, the "Shun" flag was also inserted into the top of Yangzhou city.

Soon, the officials, gentry and salt merchants and wealthy salt merchants in Yangzhou City knew the fact that the Huai Army had become the Shun Army. Strangely, whether it was the prefect Tan Wendao or the wealthy gentry, they seemed not very resistant to Yangzhou becoming a great Shun rule.

Even people kept asking the Huai Army whether King Xinshun in the north ascended the throne and became emperor, whether the King of Dashun commanded his troops to capture Beijing, and when will the King of the King cross the river to capture Jiangnan?

Some scholars went to the "official government" to ask when the New dynasty would be held to be selected for scholars, and they were anxious to speak. Most of these were not real-life knowledge, but they thought that the New dynasty would definitely be relaxed in their first establishment of scholars, and they could not say that they could "speculate" to achieve success.

Since the Huai Army came from Huai'an and there were canals blocking the canal, most people in Yangzhou City did not know the situation in the north. Therefore, those merchants who were doing business on the canal saw that the "thief army" had become Shun Army. I guess the north was already a large Shun territory, so they called representatives to ask whether the canal was smooth and whether the goods could be transported north. How to collect taxes from the original level...

Lu Si asked Zheng Yuanxun to deal with these things.

This Ming Dynasty Jinshi was very responsible in addition to his courage. After the Huai Army entered the city, Zheng Yuanxun and Lu Si were negotiated with each other for all matters. He ignored this move and might make him famous and even cause death.

When Yangzhou magistrate Tan Wendao saw Zheng Yuanxun willing to do everything, he was so happy to put everything on him, but it turned out to be like Zheng Yuanxun was the magistrate of Yangzhou.

The old man Jiang, who firmly disagreed with Kaicheng at the beginning, privately called Zheng Yuanxun a villain, flattered the thief, had no integrity, and was in vain to lose the children of sages and the fame of the court.

Considering that the Huai Army is not short of money and food, the living conditions of Yangzhou are obviously richer than other regions, and at least they don’t have to worry about food and clothing. Therefore, Lu Si had no intention of a "big purge" in Yangzhou to carry out a traditional rebellion routine of killing wealthy families and helping the poor. Instead, he continued to use the governance system left by the Ming Dynasty like in Gaoyou, so that the situation in Yangzhou can stabilize in the shortest time.

Only with stability can the Huai Army continuously obtain support from Yangzhou, a wealthy city, without having to make a big move to kill people like a slaughter, just like he threatens the "zombies everywhere".

This is also because Lu Siqi intends to use Yangzhou as the basis, but whether it can continue depends on whether the Huai Army can withstand the upcoming military encirclement of the Ming Dynasty. If he can't withstand, he can only clean the wealthy families in the city and quickly turn them in, and become the bandits.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Si asked Zheng Yuanxun to come and ask him to inspect the market with him. As early as New Year's Eve, Lu Si asked Yangzhou Prefecture to offer a list of people, and the general content was "dance dance, horses ran away."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, some brave small vendors mustered up the courage to open up and welcome the first batch of "thieves". After the business was booming and the money was not incurred, the market in Yangzhou became lively immediately.

The original temple fair was also sounded at noon and re-drawn the lights and decorations. The people of the whole city helped the elderly and children to visit relatives and friends, immersed in the New Year and completely forgot that this important town in Huaizuo had changed.

That day, the girls in the pleasure boat on the Slender West Lake had the best business, singing and dancing, and singing, and a peaceful scene.

Even the Yangzhou city gates are open, allowing the people to enter and exit.

Of course, this is on the surface. The Huai Army's senior management, including Lu Si, secretly watched every move in the city. The horses scattered outside the city even reported "safety" every half an hour. Dozens of fishing boats on the Yangtze River were shaking in different areas. Once they found that there was a Ming army fleet on the river, they would fly to report immediately.

While inspecting the market with Zheng Yuanxun, Lu Si discovered that many shops and people took the initiative to paste the word "Huai" on the door without organization.

"The human heart is on the back."

Lu Si was deeply moved. In fact, in addition to Jiangnan and other places, the people in the north were completely in a state and county under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty in order to successfully escape south, the Ming army was passing through the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, these prefectures and counties were extremely welcome to the arrival of the "Shun Army", providing food and drink, which was called on the countryside to hear the arrival of the Shun Army, and they all called on the people. When the Ming army came, the prefectures and counties were firmly closed and could not accept it.

It seems that the person who created this scene was Gao Jie.

Lu Si thought about it and then thought that it was confirmed that Gao Jie's troops pretended to be the Shun Army and headed to Xuzhou through Shandong and southward when they fled southward. However, Gao Jie should still be in Shanxi at this time. This kid would have to take care of his family and pretended to be the Dashun Army and sneaked from Shanxi to Henan, and then traveled from Henan to Shandong, doing the "cheating food and drink" along the way.

This incident was also a great irony of the image of the official army in the late Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the crowded crowds on the street, looking at the dazzling array of goods on both sides, listening to the laughter of the adults and children, Lu Si felt a pain for no reason.

Without his time and space, this pond, corpse and top.

After calming down, Lu Si asked Sun Wujin to buy a few strings of candied haws, and handed one to Zheng Yuanxun, saying, "I heard that Mr. Zheng is good at painting?"

"ah?"

Looking at the candied haws handed to him by the young "thief leader", Zheng Jinshi was really stunned.

Zheng Yuanxun’s ability to draw was said by Cai Yiqing, the ethics officer of Shi Dewei’s army who surrendered with Cao Yuan. According to Cai, Zheng Yuanxun’s landscape scenery was sprinkled and his morale was full of charm. Even the late Dong Qichang admired it.

"eat,"

Lu Si stuffed the candied haws to Zheng Yuanxun and bit a piece of sugar red on his mouth.

"Politics, paintings, calligraphy, and subtle details should be mentioned." Zheng Yuanxun was not good at eating the candied haws, nor was he not good at eating them, which was quite embarrassing.

Lu Si shook his head: "Poetry, painting, calligraphy, and calligraphy are small details, but only small details are peaceful."

After hearing this, Zheng Yuanxun couldn't help but ponder.

"By the way, does the Zheng Gong draw a map?"

Lu Si bit the candied haws one by one.

...........

Cheng Lin reported good news on the fifth day of the first lunar month, and he successfully led his troops to capture Taizhou, but the Gansu general and the military supervisor Gao Qifeng were cunning. He led his men to run to Rugao in the south long before the Huai army was at the city.

After learning that Yangzhou had fallen, the magistrate of Taizhou voluntarily opened the door to surrender. At this point, only Yizhen, Taixing, Tongzhou, Haimen and Xinghua were not included in the prefectures and counties under Yangzhou, and the rest were occupied by the Huai Army.

After Lu Si told Cheng Lin that the Huai Army had become the Dashun Army, he ordered Cheng Linyi to bravely pursue the enemy, so that Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng would not escape.

After receiving the order, Cheng Lin led the Feng Cang to march towards Tongzhou, captured a patrol department along the way, and beheaded more than 30.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Xia Dajun and Jiang Kui and others reported urgently that they had surrounded Xinghua County. The magistrate, who had taken some medicine, would rather die than surrender. They mobilized young and strong people in the city to defend their lives, and their defense was very well organized, which caused the Huai Army to siege the city and hundreds of them were killed and injured.

After receiving the urgent report from Xia Dajun, Lu Si was very cautious about this and ordered Xia, Xu, Jiang, Song and others to leave a battalion of troops to surround him without attacking him. The rest of Si went out of the countryside to remove grain and collect grain on the spot, and mobilized young and strong men to join the Huai Army.

When he returned to the order, Lu Si had already led his troops to the Yizhen City.

After the unification of ideas, it is the top priority of Lu Si's current work to accelerate the construction of the Huai Army and to welcome the upcoming military encirclement and suppression of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible with Huaiyang as the basis.

The first priority is definitely military counter-encirclement and suppression.

Given that although Huai'an was attacked by Zhang Pengyi's troops in the Ming Dynasty, the city did not fall, and the Henan Shun Army in the north launched a large-scale southward news, Lu Si believed that the northern part of the Huai Army would be safe within at least one month.

Therefore, there are only two directions that pose a threat to the Huai Army.

One is Zhenjiang across the river, and the other is Huaixi.

To this end, Lu Si decided to personally lead his army to attack Yizhen City west of Yangzhou. Although this city is a county town, it is connected to Nanjing Liuhe. If the Ming army in Huaixi (Anhui) came to attack Yangzhou under the order of the Southern Capital, Yizhen would be the place to pass.

Military significance is the same as treasures, and it is a major area that cannot be lost.

According to reports, Hu Shangyou, deputy general of Dazhou, Sichuan, defeated by the Huai Army, led more than a hundred remaining soldiers to hide in Yizhen City, and there were no defenders in Yizhen City except this.

Therefore, after arriving at Yizhen City, Lu Si decided to persuade him to surrender.

First, he asked the surrendered Ming Sichuan guerrilla Liu Xing to enter the city to persuade Hu Shangyou to open the city, and threatened the officials and gentry in the city as before, and lived in the city but did not die.

Originally, Hu Shangyou still couldn't see the situation clearly. Even though many of his subordinates had transformed into bandit troops, he still wanted to rely on the city to guard the reinforcements, but he did not kill Liu Xing, who came to persuade him to surrender, obviously wanted to leave a way out for himself.

Until the city was shocked to report that the thief had cannons!

"I, Hu Shangyou, are not a person who is afraid of death. But, the people in the city... I really can't bear to let them suffer this disaster!"

"Even if I die, I would rather die alone than the people!"

Hu Shangyou finally judged the situation, but it was very clear whether he surrendered to the thief or surrendered to the Shun Army, so he specially sent someone to ask clearly.

Surrendering to the thief is too embarrassing and has no future.

Surrendering to the Shun Army is to understand the current situation and have a future.

After receiving a confirmed reply, Deputy General Hu immediately decided to tie up Yizhen's magistrate Peng Dingzhong out of the city, without thinking at all. As if magistrate Peng took him in, Hu Shangyou didn't even have a place to celebrate the New Year.

As his name was, Peng Dingzhong was not afraid after being taken out of the city by Hu Shangyou, and only angrily denounced the rebel group headed by Lu Si.

Lu Si didn't talk so much nonsense, so he ordered someone to kill Peng Dingzhong with one sword, hang his head at the city gate, and to police the city.

The moment the head of the county magistrate Peng landed, Deputy General Hu's eyelids twitched violently, and he was worried that the Dashun Huaian defense would make Lord Lu angry and even he slashed him.

Unexpectedly, Lu Defense Envoy was really a man of great faith. He turned over and jumped over and helped him up and brought him into the city with him. Later, he entrusted his important tasks and gave him three quick horses to Rugao to recruit his brother Li Qifeng.

"Brother Lu, this guy won't run away, right?" Xie Jinsheng was worried that Hu Shangyou would not return it once he went, because he heard Liu Xing say that this guy was very thief.

"It's best if you run away, I'm afraid he won't run away."
Chapter completed!