Xia Nan called Huang Mengjia over: "You saved the situation of the battle under the rain mountain, and you caught King Chuang again in the old mountain, which is indispensable." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info good people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, now I will escort the king into Beijing to the task of handing over to you, let him lose in your hands, be captured in your hands, and finally send Huangquan Road is also in your hands, Chongzhen's reward is also in your hands. ”

Huang Mengjia grinned: "Thank you for the general's kindness." ”

Gao Yingxiang's body trembled, and for a moment he thought about biting his tongue and committing suicide, so as not to be humiliated by these people. But after thinking about it: with his appeal in the rebel army, Chongzhen may not kill himself, maybe he still expects himself to persuade the rebels from all walks of life to surrender, and he may not die if he is sent to the capital, so he gave up the idea of committing suicide.

Huang Mengjia remembered something, pulled Huang Long, and introduced: "This time I was able to capture the thief alive, this person helped a lot in the battle." ”

Xia Nan smiled, it turned out to be a leading party. Although emotionally he despises such a wall grass, but from the overall situation, such a person is indispensable, and he must be treated favorably, set a benchmark, attract more leading parties, and save a lot of effort in the future by fighting with the rogue. He asked with a smile: "If you can help my army capture the thief, that's meritorious, what's your name, why do you help us?" ”

Huang Long knelt on the ground and was extremely flattering: "General, the little one is called Huang Long, who was originally a general under Gao Yingxiang. Gao Yingxiang is harsh on weekdays, the villain is not angry for a long time, today it happens that he does not know the height of the sky, against the heavenly soldiers, so that he is defeated, and then drilled into the hole to die, God-given opportunity, the villain led the snake out of the hole, to help General Huang capture this fang. ”

Xia Nan nodded: "Very good, the person who knows the times is Junjie, you have made the right choice, I will not treat you badly, follow the army first, and I will give you a suitable official position when I go back." ”

Huang Long hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him: "Thank you, General!" ”

After sending Huanglong away, Xia Nan turned to Wei Lianheng and said: "Zhang Xianzhong fled eastward, he definitely didn't dare to come here again, so let Hong Chengchou go to clean him up, the battle is over, clean up the battlefield, temporarily go back to Nanjing to rest, and send these prisoners back to Lingao by the way." ”

Wei Lianheng responded: "Yes, General." "Then I went to arrange it.

In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), the combined forces of Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, who were in Anhui and fought until the junction of Anhui and Jiangsu, were defeated neatly in Jiangpu County along the Yangtze River, and Gao Yingxiang was captured alive, and the news spread to the capital, and the government and the opposition were boiling.

Since the first year of Chongzhen, peasants from all over the country have risen up one after another, the imperial court has spent huge manpower and material resources to encircle and suppress, and has also won battles, but it has never killed a heavyweight leader of the rogues, let alone captured him alive. Later, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and others, who were very active, suffered a lot of defeats at the hands of officers and soldiers, but they died without stiffening, and they could be resurrected in a different place, which made the victory of officers and soldiers meaningless.

Among these people, the strength and fame of Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang", are even more above all walks of life, and he can be regarded as the first person after the king uses himself. But this person is very cunning, wandering through the provinces, fighting thousands of miles, getting stronger and stronger, from Yang He to Chen Qiyu have no way to take him, although Hong Chengchou won a few battles, but he can't exterminate it, but let him take Zhang Xianzhong to penetrate the entire Anhui and almost enter the south of the Yangtze River.

This time, the Qiong Navy, who has made great contributions to the sky, has once again entered everyone's field of vision. Before the establishment of the military town, the Qiongzhou battalion successively defeated the Japanese who flowed south of the Yangtze River and the red hair who surrounded the Zhongzuo Institute, showed off their muscles, and had already shown their strength. However, hundreds of Japanese and a few red-haired warships obviously cannot be compared with the Liukou who can shake the Ming Dynasty and the society, the Qiong Navy broke the Gao and Zhang 50,000 coalition forces with only 5,000 people, and also captured Gao Yingxiang, which is something that Yang He and Chen Qiyu can not do when they gather troops from several provinces, and Hong Chengchou, who is known for his outstanding talent, cannot do it, and the strength of the Qiong Navy can be seen.

Huang Mengjia escorted Gao Yingxiang on the way, but the news had been rushed to the capital for 800 miles.

Knowing that the No. 1 Liukou leader of Tianzi was about to be escorted into Beijing, Chongzhen was very excited from the day he heard the news, and even the uninterrupted review and reading was temporarily stopped, and he summoned the cabinet members, the military department, and the Ministry of Rites to the Qianqing Palace to discuss how to take advantage of this great victory to hold a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, so as to announce the world and inspire the hundred officials.

Wang Yingxiong, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, first reported to Chongzhen on the process of the gift of the prisoners: "Your Majesty, according to the ancestral system, it is reasonable to tell the heavens and the earth, the temple, the shrine, the Yuedu, the mountains and rivers, the palace and the shrine within ten miles of Beijing, and perform a gift with preserved wine. Take the captured enemy chieftain to the Taimiao and Taishe to pay a farewell salute in Bai Lian, and then perform the prisoner salute at the noon gate, and assign the minister to read the good news in public, and then the criminal department will make a proclamation, and the prisoner will be sacrificed to a certain place, please hand it over to the department for disposal......"

Chongzhen interrupted him impatiently, and said categorically: "You don't need to deal with it from the Criminal Department, you will be directly punished by Ling Chi!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but shudder when they heard this. This son of heaven has a strong personality, deals with people mercilessly, and is sentenced to Ling Chi at every turn. In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, was executed by Ling Chi, and his family was exiled for 3,000 miles, and the scene of confiscating the family property is still vivid, and now he is going to cut people again. Fortunately, this time it was not the minister, but the thief.

Wen Tiren coughed, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, there is an old system to follow for the gift of prisoners, and the Ministry of Rites will handle it according to the regulations, there is no need to discuss it, but Qionghai Town has made such a contribution in the first battle after the new construction, do you want to be rewarded?" ”

Only then did Chongzhen remember that the reward for the hero had not yet been decided, so he asked Zhang Fengyi: "What do you think of this soldier (alias of the military department)?" ”

Zhang Fengyi hesitated and said: "Back to Your Majesty, Qionghai Town has only been rewarded for a short time, within a year, Xia Nan has been promoted from a staff general to a deputy general and a general soldier one after another, and now he has added the right governor, it has reached the top, and the minister really can't think of how to reward him?" He muttered in his heart, if this official is promoted again, he can only be the governor of the Metropolitan Mansion of the Five Armies, or give him the position of the secretary of the military department?

Chongzhen thinks it makes sense, but with such a big credit, he can't say anything if he doesn't reward him, and he doesn't give anything, won't he become a merciless king?

He thought for a moment and asked everyone: "A thousand taels of bounty and a thousand acres of fertile land?" ”

Such a "rich" reward stunned everyone, and even Wu Zongda, the second assistant who never expressed his position easily, and Wu Zongda, a scholar of the household department and a scholar of Wuyingdian University, couldn't listen to it, he didn't say that such a reward was too shabby, but just said euphemistically: "Such a great merit, rewarding gold and silver acres seems to be hasty, Your Majesty might as well consider knighthood......