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Chapter 309: Political affairs in Nanzhi, focusing on virtue

Nanjing Forbidden City, Fengtian Hall.

"Huang Xixian, a common man, meets the king."

An old man with gray hair bowed to Liu Sheng.

"Flat body."

"Thank you king."

As news came one after another that Huizhou, Ningguo, Suzhou, and Songjiang prefectures had changed their banners and returned to Wei, some Ming Dynasty officials captured in Nanjing also returned to Wei.

Huang Xixian is one of them.

This was the original Governor of Yingtian in the Ming Dynasty. He was actually in charge of the five prefectures of Yingtian, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang, so he was also called Governor Susong.

When the Tai army took over Nanjing, Huang Xixian happened to be in the city and was captured.

This gentleman is from Yuanzhou Prefecture in Jiangxi Province. He was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Tianqi. He is 56 years old this year.

Born into a small landowner's family, his original name was extremely tacky, called "Huang Huanggui".Probably Emperor Tianqi couldn't stand such a tacky name. After he became a Jinshi, he ordered him to change his name, so he changed his name to Huang Xixian.

Liu Sheng had learned that Huang Xixian had been promoted step by step from the local magistrate and had good ability to govern the local area.Knowing that he was willing to return to Wei, Liu Sheng specially summoned him.

"Sir, do you have any family members in your hometown?"

Huang Xixian shook his head, "No, my family all came to Nanjing with the grassroots, and only the clan is left in Fenyi."

Liu Sheng said: "Our army will capture the entire Jiangxi soon, and Mr. Jieshi can go home and take a look."

Huang Xixian knew that Liu Sheng said this to reassure him - as the governor of Yingtian, he was also a high-ranking official in the border area, and his return to Huihui would definitely attract attention and might affect the clan.

If the Yi army could capture Yuanzhou Mansion as soon as possible, he would have no worries in this regard.

Liu Sheng added: "I know that your husband has done a lot of good governance in the area. He was the governor of Ming Yingtian before. Are you willing to take up the post of Zuo Buzhi of Nanzhili and continue to benefit the people of Jiangnan?"

After Huang Xixian decided to surrender, his attitude was very upright and he immediately responded: "I accept the order and thank you!"

Liu Sheng nodded with a smile, and immediately chatted with Huang Xixian about the fourth mansion of Susong Town. Huang Xixian had been the governor of Yingtian for several years, and he knew a lot about the officials, gentry and people in these mansions.

Many officials were demoted this time, and Liu Sheng always wanted to know which officials were capable, which officials were incompetent, and which officials were corrupt.

Among the prefects who took the initiative to change their banner and return to Wei this time, Zou Yan, the prefect of Huizhou, Ding Yunyuan, the prefect of Suzhou, and Chen Heng, the prefect of Songjiang, all made outstanding contributions.

After Liu Sheng learned about the situation of the three people, he ordered Zou Yan and Ding Yunyuan to serve as Southern Zhili counselors concurrently.

The reason why Chen Heng was not selected is because he is too young, only this year!

This gentleman was a Marquis of Fuzhou (Fucheng Fu Guo). He was a scholar and a scholar at the age of 15. He was a Jinshi at the age of 16 (Chongzhen 13th year). He was first appointed as the county magistrate of Huating (Songjiang Fu Fu Guo).

After Chen Heng took office, Fang Yuegong, the former magistrate of Songjiang, was framed, and a group of officials including Songjiang Tongzhi and Tongsuan were arrested and questioned. When the government office was empty, Chen Heng acted as the county magistrate.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the relevant officials were unable to select a suitable candidate for the prefect. Seeing Chen Heng's outstanding political achievements, they officially appointed him as the prefect of Songjiang this year.

Although Chen Heng was very good and took the initiative to surrender, Liu Sheng was still not prepared to undermine the situation, so he continued to serve as the prefect of Songjiang.

After Huang Xixian left, Liu Sheng met with another Ming minister who had recently expressed his return to Wei, Wang Sunfan, one of the former Nanjing censors.

This person was born in Juren in the 46th year of Wanli. He successively served as Changping Xuezheng, Jining Zhizhou, Shaanxi Supervisor Yushi, and Nanjing Supervision Yushi. He had outstanding political achievements as Jining Zhizhou.

After Liu Sheng had a conversation with him, he appointed him as the right envoy to Southern Zhili.

However, Wang Sunfan was from Xiong County, Baoding, North Zhili, and his family and relatives were all in the north. He did not dare to surrender to Wei by his original name, so he took the word "Sun" in the compound surname "Wang Sun" and changed his name to Sun Fan.

At this point, the officials at the provincial and prefecture levels in the southern Zhili province of Yibu have basically been settled.

Governor Ma Shiying, left chief envoy Huang Xixian, right chief envoy Wang Sunfan and Zhang Kuang also served as left counselor, Zou Yan also served as right counselor, and there were other counselors Ding Yunyuan and Li Daoying.

Li Daoying was originally a brigade administrator of the Second Division of the Wei Army. After the Wei army captured Yangzhou, he was transferred to the prefect of Yangzhou. He was only in his twenties...
After talking to Wang Sunfan, Liu Sheng stood up, stretched, and walked around the Fengtian Hall.When I returned to Fengtian Hall half an hour later, I saw An Xiaofeng waiting outside the hall, looking a little anxious.

When he saw Liu Sheng, he immediately came up to him and saluted, "See you, Your Majesty!"

"Looking at your look, could it be that there is an emergency military situation coming from somewhere?"

Liu Sheng asked this, but he was thinking in his heart that An Xiaofeng had just taken the position of deputy commander of Xunfengwei not long ago, and he was not as calm as Li Weiqi when things happened.

An Xiaofeng said: "Report to your Majesty, Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai a few days ago and annexed his tribe. After that, he sent more than [-] troops to the east to take over the cities in eastern Henan that Luo Rucai controlled in the past. It is very likely that he will take the opportunity to capture the entire Guide Mansion."

With that said, he handed over a piece of translated information.

Liu Sheng frowned slightly after reading it.

Luo Rucai neither surrendered to Li Zicheng nor stayed away from him. He did not realize the drastic changes in the general trend of the world. He always wanted to cooperate as he had done a few years ago. Liu Sheng was not surprised that Li Zicheng would annex him sooner or later.

But if the Chuang army wanted to seize the opportunity and return to De Mansion, he would have to pay attention to this matter.

Today, Guide Mansion is jointly occupied by the Ming Dynasty, Chuang Army, and Yi Army.

Previously, Luo Rucai's tribe controlled Suizhou and Ningling, Li Zicheng's tribe controlled Kaocheng, and the Wei tribe only occupied Luyi and Yongcheng.

The government governs Shangqiu, Yucheng, and Xiayi, as well as Dangshan County, which belongs to Xuzhou in the east, and the dense market towns around these four cities are still in the hands of the local Ming army.

Both the Yi army and the Chuang army were capable of destroying the Ming army guarding Shangqiu and other places.The reason why they didn't take action before was because they didn't want to cause disputes between them.

Now that the invading army is advancing eastward, if it takes full control of Guide Prefecture, it can move down the Yellow River from here and threaten Xuzhou and Huai'an Prefectures in Huainan Province.

In addition, Liu Sheng originally intended to go north, and it was really difficult to let go of the remaining four cities in Guide Mansion.

But if there is a war with the Chuang army, the Yi army will have to send more troops to the north, which will affect the progress of the Yi army in taking over Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Considering the current situation, Liu Sheng really doesn't want to go to war with the Chuang Army because of these four cities...

After sitting on the dragon chair in Fengtian Palace with the intelligence and thinking for a while, Liu Sheng asked An Xiaofeng, "Didn't Xunfengwei send people to contact the Ming army in Guide Mansion to try to surrender? How is the progress?"

An Xiaofeng said: "Guide magistrate and Tong magistrate died at the hands of the invading army in the battle of Suizhou. Now the Shangqiu cities are dominated by three people, Shangqiu magistrate Liang Yizhang, push official Wang Shixiu and Fu Tong magistrate Yan Zekong."

Liu Sheng was slightly stunned after hearing this, "You have ranked the county magistrate with the lowest position at the front. Could it be that this county magistrate is so powerful that he has surpassed the prefectural magistrates and officials?"

Although Xunfengwei failed to persuade the Ming army to surrender in Shangqiu, they obtained a lot of information.

An Xiaofeng recalled the information he knew and replied: "Yan Zekong was mediocre in ability and did not know military strategy. Liang Yizhang was both civil and military, well versed in military strategy and a strong man, so Shangqiu was dominated by him.

However, this person is from Qingyuan, Baoding Prefecture. In his hometown, the three brothers are all famous for their talents, and they are called "Baoding Sanliang".

Although Xunfengwei failed to find out who specifically prevented Shangqiu and other cities from returning to our Wei tribe, the general guessed that it was probably this person's idea. "

Liu Sheng said: "You Xunfeng Guards only need to collect intelligence and classify it into categories. You don't need to do the derivation, so as not to mislead the generals."

Hearing this, An Xiaofeng was shocked. Knowing that he had violated a taboo, he hurriedly bowed and said: "The general made a mistake, please punish me!"

"I'll give you a month's salary to serve as a warning."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness."

After that, Liu Sheng signaled An Xiaofeng to go out and think about how to best solve the matter in Guide Mansion.

'By the way, aren't Hou Xun and Hou Fangyu from Shangqiu?Why not let the father and son try to persuade them to surrender? '

　I'm not in good condition today, so I can only owe one more update.

　　Sorry.

　　
　
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