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And it only took the second half of the night for Zhao Teng to let the white dragon soldiers brought by his subordinates, and those city defense soldiers who temporarily defected.

captured Dong Dawei and Jiang Yufeng alive, and most of the generals of the city defense army also turned back.

This rebellion, led by Dong Dawei and Jiang Yufeng, carefully planned in Shanyang, has ended before it has even begun.

And on the same night, in Yangzhou City, the same scene also happened.

It's just that the situation in Yangzhou City is not more responsible in Shanyang City, but the White Dragon Army also has more people and horses over there, so it can't just shed more blood and kill more people.

After dawn, most of the rebels in Yangzhou City were arrested and killed.

This rebellion, which was secretly planned by a small number of Ming officials who were dissatisfied with Li Zixiao, was more like a farce.

And the direct consequence of this farce was to bring out the last group of officials in Jiangbei who opposed Li Zixiao, businessmen and gentry.

Let Li Zixiao have the opportunity to wipe out all these people, and from then on, it can be said that Jiangbei has completely become Li Zixiao's private fief.

In the future, in this land, the decrees of the imperial court and the will of Chongzhen will have no effect, and the only thing that can be passed is Li Zixiao's orders.

"General, General Wei and Captain Zhao sent back messages from Yangzhou and Shanyang respectively."

A personal guard reported to Li Zixiaotong.

Li Zixiao had already returned to his General's Mansion at this time, and was chatting with Lin Wan'er, Guan Mingxi and Lin Yuluo.

Among them, Lin Wan'er and Guan Mingxi, the two daughters, will give birth in two months, and Li Zixiao also hurriedly took out this rare time to accompany them.

"Very good, the tumor has been cleared, and when I go to Liaodong again, I don't have to worry about a fire in the backyard." Li Zixiao said with a smile on his face.

"Send an order to Qian Guangyuan, Wei Hong, Han Lushan, Zheng Guangming, and my old father-in-law, three days later, Xuzhou, I will set up a Jiangbei Patrol Embassy.

Since Chongzhen gave me the official position of Jiangbei Patrol Envoy, wouldn't it be a waste not to have to go up. Li Zixiao said with a smile.

Before, some of Jiangbei's orders had actually obeyed the imperial court, but they were in Li Zixiao's General's Mansion, which was mainly controlled by Qian Guangyuan.

But Li Zixiao's General's Mansion is nominally not allowed to meddle in civil affairs, and it can be said that it has always been unjustifiable.

This time, Chongzhen gave Li Zixiao an official position as a Jiangbei Patrol Envoy, and Li Zixiao established the Patrol Embassy, so that he could justifiably manage Jiangbei's civil affairs, and the imperial court couldn't say anything.

Three days later, with Qian Guangyuan, Han Lushan, Lin Yongnian and other Li Zixiao's henchmen, they all arrived in Xuzhou.

These people have also learned that Li Zixiao is going to set up a Jiangbei Patrol Mansion in Xuzhou, which makes everyone excited.

Because they know what this means, who can take charge of the Patrol Mansion this time will establish their position as ministers under Li Zixiao.

Among them, Qian Guangyuan needless to say, Li Zixiao's position as the first person under Wenchen is something that no one can shake.

Compared with the excitement of Han Lushan, Zheng Guangming and other civil officials, Wei Hong, Zhao Teng and other generals of the White Dragon Army, they are much calmer.

Even if Li Zixiao sets up a patrol embassy, it will not have much impact on them, they are military generals, even if Li Zixiao sets up a patrol embassy, they will not be under the jurisdiction of the patrol embassy.

At the same time, Dong Dawei, Pan Ying and a large number of captured officials were also sent to Xuzhou to accept the referee.

It is said that with the official positions of four or five grades of these people, Li Zixiao has no power to judge them, let alone kill them.

However, this time Li Zixiao didn't plan to let go of these people, and now Li Zixiao has begun to ignore the laws and regulations of the imperial court, and as for these rotten rules, he doesn't plan to ignore them.

He was very perfunctory and wrote to Chongzhen, saying that these officials colluded with thieves and tried to cholera Jiangbei, and the crime was unforgivable and should be executed.

Li Zixiao had an attitude of punishing traitors for the imperial court, and he had no intention of sending these people to the capital and handing them over to the criminal department for trial.

After Chongzhen received Li Zixiao's letter, he almost had a crooked nose and dropped several teacups in a row.

Chongzhen roared in the palace: "Those are my courtiers, and if you want to kill them, you have to give me orders." Li Zixiao, you rebellious thief. ”

Chongzhen has now completely understood Li Zixiao, this is a 'feudal town' that supports the army and is not under the command of the imperial court!

But even if Chongzhen saw the essence of Li Zixiao, what about it, he couldn't do anything about Li Zixiao at all.

Send troops to discuss, don't be kidding, at this time, all the elite of the border army of the Ming Dynasty are gathered in the Jinzhou area, and they are preparing for a decisive battle with the Tartars.

Chongzhen has troops in his hands to recruit Li Zixiao, as long as those guards in the country are really sent to recruit Li Zixiao, they will simply go to deliver food!

What's more, Li Zixiao's wolf ambition was clearly revealed, but he didn't raise the anti-flag anyway, and still worshiped Chongzhen as the king.

Even, he also sent men and horses to cooperate with the official army in Henan to resist the army of thieves.

In this way, Chongzhen can't even make an order to condemn Li Zixiao, otherwise Chongzhen will feel aggrieved!

Three days later, on the order of Li Zixiao, he led 3,000 White Dragon troops to the north to meet Zhao Zilong, who had Liu Zeqing's 10,000-strong army, and good news also came.

"General, Zilong has news!" Quartz happily ran to tell Li Zixiao.

"Say!"

According to the scout's report, two days ago, Zilong and in the area of Jinxiang, Yanzhou Prefecture, he faced Liu Zeqing's 10,000 army, and after a fierce battle for half a day, Liu Zeqing's troops were defeated and fled.

Zilong led his troops to chase closely, all the way north, until the capital of Yanzhou before returning to the division, destroying more than 3,000 enemies.

According to the order of the general, they did not take prisoners, and all the prisoners were let go on the spot, and our army suffered no more than 200 casualties. ”

"Well, Zilong has the demeanor of a general, and he has already begun to show his edge, maybe one day he will really become my 'Huo Qu'.

Liu Zeqing has learned a lesson this time, presumably he will not dare to hit my Jiangbei idea again in the future, and if he dares to come again next time, I will ask for his head. ”

After listening to Quartz's report, Li Zixiao also smiled and nodded, very satisfied with the result of this battle.

"It's a pity, now is not the time to go north to occupy Shandong, otherwise this time Liu Zeqing will use troops without authorization, which is an excellent excuse!

At this moment, Liu Zeqing was broken, and he must be much more honest in the future, and we are trying to find excuses, so it will be a little troublesome. ”

At last; Li Zixiao said with some regret.

Subsequently, after Li Zixiao set up a patrol embassy in Xuzhou, he officially convened his henchmen and ministers for a closed-door meeting.

At the meeting, Li Zixiao officially appointed Qian Guangyuan, Zheng Guangming and Lin Yongnian as the directors of the Patrol Mansion, responsible for the civil affairs of the entire Jiangbei, and directly responsible to him.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also reformed the official system in Jiangbei, in addition to continuing to retain the three governments, the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Finance, the Department of Industry, and the Department of Criminal Law were added.

It is simply a miniature version of the imperial court, and the four halls are more like the six miniature imperial courts, and the patrol mansion is the three provinces.

With the help of this restructuring, Li Zixiao clearly informed his subordinates of his ambitions, and the setting of this patrol house can be regarded as a pilot.

At the same time, Li Zixiao retained the General's Mansion, and directly governed all the White Dragon Army, the City Defense Army, and the militia in Jiangbei, which was independent of the Patrol Mansion.

Li Zixiao separated military power from political power, and at the same time separated civil affairs from finance, Li Zixiao referred to the Ming official system at the same time, but also joined some later systems applicable to this era.

Of course, Li Zixiao only borrowed some of the systems available in later generations, and he did not intend to implement any democratic system.

This is the era of feudal dynasties, and this general trend cannot be changed by someone casually, it is a matter of the future, and he can't control it.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao held the first meeting of the Patrol House, and the main topics were two.

One is about Li Zixiao's long confession about the establishment of Jiangbei Bank, and it was an official money bank established by the government.

At this time, there were many money houses in the Ming Dynasty, but all of them were established by private merchants, and the imperial court never set up money banks.

And Li Zixiao wants to build a money village in the name of the government, which is equivalent to a bank in later generations, Li Zixiao knows the role of the bank, that is, a weapon to collect money.

At the same time, the bank also has other important roles, in short, Li Zixiao attaches great importance to it and directly hands it over to Qian Guangyuan to be personally responsible.

Another issue is the issuance of Jiangbei's own currency, which was also proposed by Li Zixiao before, and Zheng Guangming has been planning.

Whether it is the construction bank or the issuance of currency, this needs to be carefully planned, Li Zixiao only gave them the general requirements, and handed over the rest to Qian Guangyuan and others for specific planning.

Li Zixiao accompanied Lin Wan'er and Guan Mingxi for a period of time, and all the businesses of the Li Mansion were handed over by Li Zixiao to Lin Yuluo and Li Zifeng to take care of.

The time was not until the beginning of April of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao received a secret report from Zhang Fugui from Liaodong, and the Tartars launched a fierce attack on Jinzhou City.

At this time, Hong Chengchou, who had been staying in Ningyuan, could no longer sit still, and he had no choice but to solve the crisis in Jinzhou.

However, at this time, Hong Chengchou, as in history, still did not dare to advance, and the main force of the Ming army was stationed in Ningyuan, and he began to send the Ming army to rescue Jinzhou.

The Tartars sent troops south to block it, and the men and horses of both sides fought fiercely between Songshan and Xingshan, and the battle was deadlocked.

In southern Liaoning, Liu Chong completely gained a firm foothold in Jinzhou, and Shang Kexi led more than 10,000 traitor troops, who came to attack several times in the past two months, but were blocked by Liu Chong in the area of Hongzui Fort and were not allowed to enter.

Even, in the past two months, the attack did not defeat Jinzhou, but the more he fought, the more Shang Kexi found that there were fewer people in his hands.

Every time they fight with Liu Chong, even if they have a lot of people, they can't find a bargain, but they have to lose a lot of manpower.

In the end, Shang Kexi simply led his troops back to Gaizhou and set up defensive lines in the vicinity of Yongning and Fuzhou, as if he did not intend to continue the attack on Jinzhou.

Anyway, the bottom line that Huang Taiji gave him was to hold the front line of Gaizhou and not let the White Dragon Army break through, he just had to complete this goal.

As for continuing to conquer Liu Chong and attacking Jinzhou, Shang Kexi was reluctant to fight anyway.

Moreover, as the weather warms up and the Liaohai Sea is unblocked, the navy on Tamna Island can already transport supplies to Port Arthur.

In this way, Liu Chong has a sea channel, and he can obtain sufficient supplies of food and ammunition, and it will not be a problem at all to hold the area of Jinzhou in southern Liaoning.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao left Xuzhou and went to Haizhou, preparing to set off from Haizhou and return to Tamna Island.

Before leaving, Li Zixiao paid attention to the situation in Henan at this time.

Since Li Zixiao secretly returned to Xuzhou, Qi Wei led his troops to capture Xi'an, and Li Zicheng was forced to withdraw his troops from Kaifeng City and withdraw to Xingyang.

Li Zicheng did not lead his army back to Xi'an, but continued to stay in Kaifeng, Li Zicheng still did not give up on Kaifeng City.

In the following month, Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of thieves under his command to attack Kaifeng again, but to the west of Kaifeng Mansion.

After the capture of Xingyang and Zhengzhou, Li Zicheng led people to capture Xinzheng, and even went straight to Xuzhou in the south.

However, at this time, the imperial court officials and troops who came from all directions were all in place and began to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng.

At this time, most of the officers and troops who rushed to Henan were guards from all over the imperial court, and although their combat effectiveness was low, they must have been able to fight with Li Zicheng, and their numbers were also very large.

It's just that because of this, Ruzhou was occupied by the White Dragon Army, which was bound to block Li Zicheng's westward retreat, so that his strategic space was crushed.

In the face of the official army surrounded from all sides, Li Zicheng had no choice but to lead his people to retreat westward, so he could only fight back to the north and fought several major battles with the official army.

As a result, the official army still failed to destroy Li Zicheng, and the thief army under Li Zicheng also suffered heavy casualties after a month of continuous fighting.

During this period, Qi Wei, who was sitting in Xi'an, and Li Yan, who still stayed in Ruzhou City, did a good job.

They ignored the fierce fighting between the officers and Li Zicheng in the western part of Kaifeng, buried themselves in recruiting and training new soldiers, and continued to wait and see how the situation developed.

After Li Zixiao got the details of Henan's battle report, he couldn't help but shake his head, as long as Li Zicheng didn't leave Henan for a day, the chaos in the Central Plains would not end for a day.

On 7 April, Li Zixiao waited in Haizhou, and the Third Fleet led by Hong Sheng came specifically to pick up Li Zixiao and return to Tamna Island.

A day later, Li Zixiao set foot on the land of Tamna Island again, and the port here has now been built very well by the White Dragon Army.

The entire island became the White Dragon Army's seawater base.

After Li Zixiao returned to Tamluo Island, the first thing he did was to send someone to Ningyuan City from the sea to contact Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui, and he was going to Ningyuan.

Li Zixiao went to Ningyuan to make a deal with Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui.

Li Zixiao knew the result of the Battle of Songjin, the Ming army was defeated and exhausted the last elite.

But at this time, Li Zixiao still wanted to provide some help to Hong Chengchou, and Li Zixiao did not expect Hong Chengchou to be able to reverse the outcome of this battle.

Li Zixiao only hopes that Hong Chengchou can hold on longer, give more damage to the Tartars, and don't let the Tartars win too easily.

Because, this will be related to Li Zixiao's next combat operations in Liaodong, the more fierce the fight on Hong Chengchou's side, the more beneficial it will be to Li Zixiao.

At the same time, trading with Hong Chengchou, Li Zixiao can also get a lot of silver, and he won't lose anything.

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