On the way to Hangzhou, Li Zicheng received a message from the heralds, and after several days of weighing, Zuo Liangyu finally decided to return to Huaxia.

Zuo Liangyu's troops had 200,000, known as 800,000, but in addition to their families, less than 80,000 soldiers fought.

Zuo Mengeng is the chief general of the ninth battalion, and Ma Shixiu and Guo Zhongjie are deputy generals.

The ninth battalion has two divisions, the commander of the first division is He Yide, the former Changsha general sent by Huaxia, and the deputy division commander is Lu Guangzu, Zuo Liangyu's general; The commander of the second division, who is also a member of the Heavenly Mandate Army, was Zhang Gongri, the Marquis of Longping, who was formerly in the small court of Hongguang, and the deputy division commander was Li Guoying, Zuo Liangyu's general.

According to the practice of the Mandate of Heaven Army, each division has four regiments under its jurisdiction, and the eight commanders of the two divisions are all Zuo Liangyu's people, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Jin Shenghuan, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, and Xu Yuxian.

The 9th Battalion will conduct training for no more than 10 days, and then move south to cooperate with the 4th Battalion of the Mandate of Heaven to march south to Guangdong.

After selecting more than 40,000 soldiers from two divisions, Zuo Liangyu's department left only 5,000 city defense troops stationed in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, and the rest of the soldiers were dismissed as people, and the local government distributed land and scattered resettlement.

Because of old age and illness, Zuo Liangyu was willing to resign from all military and political positions and return to his hometown in Shandong to retire.

Li Zicheng jumped off his horse, folded the message, folded his hands behind his back, and thought through all the contents of the message.

Zuo Liangyu is a warlord, and now he is willing to give up all military and political affairs, there may be two reasons: one is to stabilize and over-turn and hand over power to Zuo Mengeng; The second is that he is indeed seriously ill and will die soon, so he can only return to his hometown.

No matter what the reason, for the current Zuo Liangyu, it should be mainly appeased, as long as Zuo Mengeng is in the ninth battalion, Zuo Liangyu should not do anything foolish.

The current Zuo Liangyu, in addition to returning to the Mandate of Heaven Army and seeking peace in old age, the biggest wish is probably Zuo Mengeng's future.

went to Shandong to retire and left Jiangnan, where he had lived all his life, Zuo Liangyu obviously had no intention of leaving his tail, Shandong was too close to Beijing, and the imperial court should be very tightly controlled, and Zuo Liangyu did not have the ability to re-operate in Shandong.

Why did Zuo Liangyu go back to Shandong for retirement? Is it just an expression of his true obedience?

Li Zicheng thought for a moment, but still thought that Zuo Liangyu was going to transfer the family property!

If it's just a family property problem, don't worry about it for the time being, Zuo Liangyu is saving money and food in Jiangnan, after all, it is a matter of the Ming Dynasty, as long as it is not too much, let him go!

Li Zicheng was quite satisfied with the information, not only did he get a ninth battalion, but the whole of Jiangxi Province returned without a fight, which not only saved the time to unify China, but also avoided the profound disasters brought by the war to the people.

Since Jiangxi Province has been incorporated into the territory of China, it should enter the post-war reconstruction, but unfortunately, with the status of Jiangxi Province in China, it is impossible to develop and attach importance to it on a large scale for the time being.

Since Zuo Liangyu and Jiangxi Province have returned to Huaxia, they must rectify the officials at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels, so that Jiangxi Province can smoothly enter the stage of development as soon as possible.

Unlike the eight prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiangxi Province will implement the "Land Law" and "Tax Law" of Huaxia, and there is a lot of work to be done.

Li Zicheng decided to retain some of the officials, who were more familiar with the actual situation in Jiangxi Province.

Now is the critical moment of the southern expedition, Li Zicheng did not have much energy to pay attention to the affairs of Jiangxi, for the stability of Jiangxi, he decided that the governor of Jiangxi, Yuan Jixian, remained as the governor of the province and lived in Jiangxi Daming

He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, was the president of the court, and Yang Longyou, the deputy envoy of the military garrison from Nanjing and Ma Shiying's brother-in-law, was appointed as the president of the supervision......

The temporarily formed ninth battalion is about to leave Jiangxi, and Zuo Liangyu is also going back to his hometown in Shandong, so there is no need for the Chengtian Battalion Gao Meritorious Service Department to continue to be stationed in Wuchang, and the eighth battalion should be put together as soon as possible, and after proper training, it will be sent south to Yunnan, I don't know what Zhang Xianzhong will do to Yunnan?

On that day, Zhang Xianzhong was forced to go to Yunnan, one is to prevent him from harming the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and the other reason is to use his strength to conquer Yunnan and Guizhou, where there are too few Han people, and the conquest may take a long time.

Zhang Xianzhong brought hundreds of thousands of Han people, regardless of whether he was successful militarily or not, at least brought a large number of Han people to the local area, which was conducive to naturalizing the local alien race......

Huaxia has occupied most of the land of the Ming Dynasty, as well as all the prosperous and rich places, except for Yunnan and Guizhou, only Fujian and Liangguang in Lingnan are left, Li Zicheng suddenly found that the biggest enemy of Huaxia, in addition to the Tartars of Liaodong, is Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest border!

Do you really want to meet Zhang Xianzhong?

Will Zhang Xianzhong give up the opportunity to compete for the world? Unless, Zhang Xianzhong is because of the national righteousness, or because he understands the insignificance of the Tao's own power...... Is this possible?

Li Zicheng put away the message, got on the horse and continued to hurry, and stayed in Jiaxing that night. After dinner, Li Zicheng spent most of the hour delivering edicts to various places, as well as some handwritten letters, and then handed them to He Xiaomi, so that the people of the Han Qing Department could convey them to the relevant personnel as soon as possible.

Li Zicheng did not delay in Jiaxing, and left Fucheng early the next morning, and rushed to Hangzhou before dark under the response of the Heavenly Mandate Army along the way.

Zhang Yuzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, personally led the civil and military forces in the city out of the city to greet him, and Jiang Huang, the commander of the fourth division of the fifth battalion, was also in the welcoming team.

Seeing the familiar generals, Li Zicheng's heart seemed to have a sense of intimacy, the fifth battalion was deployed in Jiangnan, and Hangzhou was almost the southern boundary of Jiangnan geographically, so it was natural to deploy heavy troops.

"Let's be polite!" Li Zicheng did not dismount, but followed Zhang Yuzhen, Jiang Hao and other civil and military officials into Hangzhou City.

Zhang Yuzhen prepared a dinner party for Li Zicheng, and also let the governor's yamen out, as Li Zicheng's temporary line, Li Zicheng thought for a moment, just left Zhang Yuzhen, Jiang Hao and Wu Kexiao to patrol the army, and dismissed the rest of the officials.

The dinner was very sumptuous, the meat and vegetarian dishes were very exquisite, and they could not be brought together, what Li Zicheng did not expect was that Zhang Yuzhen also prepared a lot of after-dinner fruits, longan, olives, betel nuts, sugarcane, watermelon, and longevity fruit......

It turns out that the prosperity of Hangzhou is no less than Nanjing, and even surpasses Jingshi! These fruits should all come from the south, right?

Li Zicheng picked up a piece of peeled, seedless watermelon with a toothpick, and threw it into his mouth, the watermelon was sweet and crisp, with a lot of moisture, and it should be fresh, so he smiled and said: "Lord Zhang, is this watermelon produced locally?" ”

Zhang Yuzhen hurriedly said: "Back to the emperor, although watermelons are produced locally, they have not been introduced to Hangzhou for a long time, and the output is limited.

"Lord Zhang is bothered," Li Zicheng said lightly: "Hangzhou is rich and famous all over the world, I don't know how it is?" Ordinary people, can they worry about food and clothing? ”

Zhang Yuzhen thought that Li Zicheng wanted to investigate the people's situation in Hangzhou, so he said proudly: "Back to the emperor, the wealth of Hangzhou is all outside the city!"

Li Zicheng was stunned, "Outside the city? ”

Zhang Yuzhen hurriedly explained: "Huzhou City in the north of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Post in the south, Xianyan for ten miles, rows of well houses, hundreds of thousands of fireworks, plus the most numerous outside the West City

West Lake ...... of Hua"

Li Zicheng knew that the West Lake must be surrounded by a prosperous place, but what is the relationship between Huzhou and Hangzhou, he doesn't understand, Huzhou Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion seem to be separated by a long distance, so he frowned slightly, and said: "Lord Zhang, what does this mean?" ”

Zhang Yuzhen knew that Li Zicheng was not a native of Hangzhou, so he was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Huzhou City is not Huzhou of Huzhou Prefecture, the so-called Huzhou City and Zhejiang Station refer to the two large markets in the north and south of the Hangzhou city wall, which are the part of Hangzhou City that extends to the outside of the city wall, plus the West Lake in the west, the outside of Hangzhou is more prosperous than the inside of the city!"

Li Zicheng entered the city from the east, no wonder he didn't see the bustling market, "Why is the outside of the city more prosperous than the inside of the city?" Could there be an extraordinary reason? ”

"Back to the emperor, the population of Hangzhou is too large, and the surrounding merchants like to settle in Hangzhou, so the city cannot accommodate the population and the market at all," Zhang Yuzhen said: "As far as Weichen knows, the government did not guide, these markets are the people and businessmen spontaneously gathered, and after a long time, it has become an indispensable prosperous place in Hangzhou." ”

Only then did Li Zicheng understand that it was because of the too large population in Hangzhou and the too developed city!

It seems that the wealth and prosperity of Hangzhou are far beyond imagination, and he said lightly: "Master Zhang, do you know how many people there are in Hangzhou?" What is the annual industrial and commercial output? ”

"This ...... Hangzhou's population should exceed one million," Zhang Yuzhen said cautiously: "As for commercial output...... Because there was no industrial and commercial tax before, Wechen really didn't know, and he was planning to verify and register one by one......"

Li Zicheng nodded, Hangzhou has a population of more than one million, whether it includes women or not, in this era, it is a very terrifying city, no wonder the city cannot be accommodated, and it needs to be extended outside the city.

There has been no war in Hangzhou for several years, and the people have long forgotten the existence of war, and if it was on the northern frontier, such a thing would never have happened.

How good it would be if there was no war!

But it is impossible without war, the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop!

If China wants peace, it must also have strength, the Tartars of Liaodong, the maritime powers of the south...... At least if they are frightened and subdued, it will be possible for Huaxia to win peace.

The gentry and people in Jiangnan, who would have thought that their rich life was bought by countless soldiers with blood, sweat and even their lives?

However, Hangzhou has been so prosperous, there is no need to rush to develop for the time being, changed to Huzhou, resources should be inclined to Huzhou, originally intended to be sold to Hangzhou wealthy businessmen of the eight-spindle spinning machine, flying shuttle loom, for the time being only sold to Huzhou businessmen.

Li Zicheng learned from the conversation that Zhang Yuzhen was not a member of the Donglin Party, so he appointed him as the governor of Zhejiang Province and asked him to implement the "Industrial and Commercial Law" and the "Tax Law" as soon as possible.

However, Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province, and it will radiate the entire Zhejiang Province in the future, and the high school still needs to be formed. ”

"Strange people?" Wu Kexiao pondered for a while, and said: "Back to the emperor, there is a tribute student Zhu Zhiyu in Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, who may be regarded as a strange person......

"Wu Aiqing, please tell me more!"

"This Zhu Zhiyu is said to be very learned, but ......" Wu Kexiao said: "But after he won the imperial examination, he refused to take the imperial examination, and others recommended him as an official at least seven or eight times, but he gave up his career and specialized in learning......"

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