Li Zicheng's death put an end to the resistance of the Shun army......

Of course, he just doesn't die, and the Shun army won't resist, Li Zicheng is because he understands this in his heart, so he duel with Yang Feng, to put it bluntly, he is begging for death by himself, so as not to see the betrayal of these old brothers, and at the same time to avoid their psychological burden. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is his best choice.

Dying in battle at the hands of Yang Feng is more dignified than being captured and beheaded or committing suicide.

Immediately after the opening of the city gates in Tu, the most elite veterans of the Shun army, who still had more than 36,000 people left, chose to surrender to the Ming army, and then received a pardon from His Majesty the Emperor and went to the concentration camp in Nanjing, where they would then be loaded onto boats and transported along the canal to the Shanhaiguan in Beijing. Their final settlement place is in northern Liaoning, that is, the Liaoyuan area of Siping, Changchun, where they will settle down in the future and the government will provide seeds, cattle and farm tools, and then cultivate the land just like the agricultural reclamation corps of later generations in history, open up the Great Northern Wilderness for the Ming Dynasty, and by the way erode the territory of the Mongol tribes and the Saurons.

These have enough force value.

They don't care about a fight with these minority brothers or something.

So far, the Chuang Wang military group, which has been rampant in the world for more than ten years, has collapsed.

The dawn of the end of the chaotic era of the Ming Dynasty is emerging.

However, it will take a long time before the real end, before the surrender of the Shun army, Jin Shenghuan in Wuhu has already surrendered, but there are Zuo Liangyu who occupies the Jianghan Plain in the upper reaches, Zhang Xianzhong who occupies Sichuan, and there is an alliance between Liu Zongmin and Jiang Hao in Guanzhong, and there are remnants of the Qing army led by Hao Ge in the northeast, that is to say, there are still five separatist forces in the land of the Ming Dynasty at this time, although these five forces are no longer a threat to Yang Feng, but it still takes a short time to clean them up.

Of course, that's for later.

Yang Feng then returned to Nanjing.

He had to settle accounts with some people first.

"Former Zhejiang Governor Zhang Bingzhen, former military department waiter Liang Yungou, former Ministry of Officials Jixun Shilang Zhongxiong Wenju, former ......"

"Don't read it anymore!"

In front of the Zhengyang Gate in Nanjing, Yang Feng interrupted Liang Chengnian's list with a gloomy face.

Before Jinyiwei had already entered Nanjing in advance and began a large-scale search, it is obvious that their results are quite good, at this time there are more than 100 old ministers who are kneeling in front of Zhengyang Gate, and there are even several former nobles, such as Yongkang Marquis Xu Hongjue, Xiang Cheng Bochang is often handsome, and there is actually a concubine, Taichang's son-in-law Qi Zanyuan, plus a few generals captured during the rout of the Shun army in Yangzhou.

"Where's Qian Qianyi?"

Yang Feng said.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, so far he has not captured Qian Shun, it is said that he fled with Wu Shun Weiye after the recovery of Yangzhou, he should have fled to the area of Hangzhou, and the minister will arrange for someone to continue the pursuit."

Liang Cheng said.

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, I want to see where he can escape!"

Yang Feng sneered.

As for you......

He looked at the pillars of the former country kneeling in front of him and said: "You wait for the world to receive the country but do not think of loyalty to the country, in a high position but do not think of loyalty to the ministers, wagging the tail and begging for mercy on the thieves, to be powerful and blessed to the people, without any shame, it is simply in vain, erect a row of wooden poles on this Zhengyang Gate, hang them up, hang them all, check how much silver they gave to Li Zicheng, and then give me how much, otherwise, they will all be punished according to the rules of those rebels in Beijing, as for Qian Qianyi......

Twice as much.

If you can't hand it in, you will be punished by the ten clans! ”

As soon as Yang Feng finished speaking, there was a ghost crying wolf in front of him, and all those noble officials were like whipped dogs, lying on the ground crying and begging for mercy, and some even crawled in front of Yang Feng's rhinoceros, but then they were kicked aside by the Jinyi guard.

Of course, it is useless to beg for mercy.

Yang Feng cleaned them up not only to vent his anger, but also to promote practical interests.

Yang Feng is now waiting for their silver.

Up to now, those former officials and gentry in the north have made up a full 30 million taels of silver for him, in order not to be punished by him, those officials and the gentry of their nine tribes can be said to have hollowed out the bottom of the box, and countless landlords and old wealth cried and scolded, to dig out the jars of gold, silver, jewelry and even copper coins they buried in the ground, and then continued to cry and handed over to the palace in Beijing, to the hands of Her Royal Highness the princess, who was personally in charge of the matter, and sent to the mint to mint silver coins with the emperor's portrait. The newly built People's Bank vault under the palace became a guarantee for the bank to continuously print and issue banknotes, allowing His Majesty the Emperor to gradually control the capital market of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Yang Feng copied a large sum from Li Zicheng this time, this is far from enough, after all, he has subtracted too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the industrial and commercial taxes cannot make up for the gap in the short term, so fighting local tyrants is the only choice.

As for the crying of the local tyrants......

Then let them weep!

Soon those brocade guards erected wooden frames on the city wall of Zhengyangmen, and then dragged them up in the struggle and crying of those officials and nobles, and tied them to the shelves like Jesus on the cross, as for the nails, they also had a task, they also erected them on the city wall for two days for the common people to see, to see what these guys who usually blow the sky are actually something, and then put them down to raise money for the emperor.

Yang Feng is not worried that they will run.

They have nowhere to run, so they can't hide in the mountains and forests as savages, right? Then they are also bankrupt, not to mention that the monks can't run away from the temple, they ran away and their nine clans, the nine clans are a huge family, Fang Xiaoru killed eight hundred and seventy-three people back then, although he is one of the ten clans, but counting these officials and nine clans, there are hundreds of people. How do so many people run? And there is no need to run, it is not too difficult for so many people to raise money, the nine clans of these people are also rich, hundreds of dozens of families pay a thousand taels and tens of thousands of taels, they can take it out by gritting their teeth, but if they run away, they will have to raid their homes and exterminate the clan, they will not be so stupid and irrational choices.

So in this way, these officials and nobles were all hung on the shelves, hungry in the wind and rain.

The water should still be given to them.

In fact, the guys hung on a wooden shelf for five whole days.

It wasn't until five days later that His Majesty the Emperor suddenly remembered them, and then let Jinyiwei put them down, at this time, ten including Xiong Wenju had been hung up, and more than half of the remaining ones were blocked by blood circulation, resulting in limb necrosis, and five more died when they were pulled home, and all those who didn't die were amputated and disabled, and not only these people, and then Jinyiwei captured them one after another, all of them were put on the shelves first, and at most there were more than two hundred hanging on the Zhengyangmen city wall, which was considered to let the people of Nanjing see the cruelty of the emperor.

However, this move also deterred those around who had not yet been arrested, in order to avoid being on the shelf, some of them knew that they could not be spared, and they didn't even wait for the Jinyi guard to come to the door, so they scraped together the money as quickly as possible and ran out to surrender to the emperor.

But they were not completely spared.

The city wall is exempted, and the Zhujiu clan is also exempted, but it is impossible to be exiled to Taiwan, but fortunately, it is only exiled by himself, and his family is not in the scope of exile, so these people have to suffer to protect their families, and honestly pack up and go to Taiwan to be a mining slave for Zheng Zhilong.

Nan Anhou likes this the most now, of course, it's not too much work, these people can't work, Zheng Zhilong uses them to work, so it's better to go directly to catch Nanyang slaves, what kind of work can these people do? Usually they are the family to raise a sum of money to give him, and then they can do some clerical work in Taiwan, or even simply cultivate their own farmland, these people bring Zheng Zhilong a lot of extra income At the same time, it also greatly promotes the development of Taiwan, many people simply take root there, and future generations live in Taiwan together, which can be regarded as Yang Feng's windfall.

After returning to Nanjing, Yang Feng also had a bunch of trivial matters immediately after, establishing military management, re-selecting officials, dividing fields, and of course, paying homage to filial piety.

In less than half a month, the entire Yangtze River Delta was taken, and Zhang Mingzhen and others who went south from the north together with Zheng Zhilong, who went north from Fujian, also quickly recovered Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places.

Zheng Chenggong's department went west along the Yangtze River to fight until the mouth of the lake, Zuo Liangyu gave up all the defenses downstream, and took Jiujiang as a fortress to defend the mouth of Poyang Lake, and the next battle was no longer possible to be solved by land, after learning that his son was even named the king of the county because of the merits of the battle of Tianmen Mountain, Zheng Zhilong was like a chicken blood, and after getting the emperor's permission, he pressed almost all the main forces of the Fujian and Guangdong naval divisions into the Yangtze River, vowing to help his son fight the mouth of the lake and the Jiujiang River to smash Zuo Liangyu's lair.

Since this is the case, Yang Feng has fulfilled his loyalty, and he simply threw it to the father and son in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Anyway, Zheng Chenggong's department has increased to four infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade and one artillery brigade, which is enough to beat Zuo Liangyu, and there are still two forbidden troops from Henan to the south, as for the heavy cavalry brigade, because it is not suitable for upstream water network operations, it was transferred to Nanjing by Yang Feng.

In fact, these days, all armies are basically bloodless, and they are accepted peacefully wherever they go, even the most unwilling gentry have accepted their fate at this time, and even if they don't accept their fate, what can they do? Their Holy Lord Mingjun is gone, and there is no one who can be cultivated to become a Holy Lord Mingjun, where can they find a shoulder to rely on when the world is so big?

Accept your fate!

The way of this!

Countless Jiangnan gentry sighed sadly and indignantly, looked up at the gray sky above their heads with wordless eyes, silently cursed the dog emperor for not dying well, and then wiped away a tear from the corner of his eyes, and continued to lower his head and dig the silver he buried in the ground, and handed it over to the dog emperor in exchange for his family's life!