In Jiujiang City, a servant walked into Zuo Liangyu's mansion and reported: "Master, the imperial edict has arrived."

Zuo Liangyu sent someone to set up the incense case and received the edict. The court ordered the generals to quell the bandits to send troops quickly to recover Wuchang. Zuo Liangyu was just perfunctory to the eunuch who came to Xuanshou. He did not dare to cause trouble for Zhang Xianzhong, but he still hurried in Jiujiang City.

In the mansion of the general who pacified the bandit, Zuo Liangyu leaned on the sickbed. His son Zuo Menggeng, Lu Guangzu, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yuxian, Li Guoying and other generals surrounded the surroundings. All the generals under Zuo Liangyu were here.

Zuo Liangyu summoned them to discuss the matter. Now the biggest problem facing Zuo Jun is whether to go to Wuchang according to the imperial edict.

"The court asked us to cooperate with Li Laoer to attack Wuchang, why not let Li Laoer fight himself? Obviously this is the court's partiality!" Li Guoying said angrily.

Zuo Menggeng said: "My father, it must be the thief Li Laoer, who is the dog thief, who came to the court to let us take the lead and die, and they will take advantage of it behind!"

Lu Guangzu stood up and said, "Master General, although Li Lao Er's army is elite, the number of people is too small. Once you encounter thieves who are defending the city, Li Lao Er will not use his elite to attack the city, right? There are many thieves in Wuchang. If Li Lao Er's elite attack the city, they may not get any benefits! It must be this dog thief who reported to the court and let our people open the way for him! This dog thief is really hateful!"

"That's it!" Zhang Yingyuan said, "Li thief is good at cavalry fighting and wave battles, and is not good at siege. If the elite thief enters the siege, what's the difference between this thief's elite and our army? If his elite thief climbs the city wall and throws the thief's wooden stones down on the top of the city, no matter what elite thief, he will still kill him?"

Zuo Menggeng said again: "My father, our army has also made great contributions to the court. The court is so partial. We don't follow this bird edict!"

After hearing what his adopted son said, Zuo Liangyu nodded slightly. Anyway, he has disobeyed more than once. What can he do if he disobeys again this time? Could it be that if Li Guodong outside really dares to attack Jiujiang if he doesn't send troops?

Zuo Liangyu kept dragging her back and refused to send troops. Li Guodong did not send anyone to urge him, but asked the land army to camp on the north bank, and confronted the Zuo family army across the river. The navy patrolled the river, putting great pressure on Zuo Liangyu who was stationed in Jiujiang.

The two Ming armies were in stalemate in Jiujiang. Zhang Xianzhong, 600 miles away from Jiujiang, lived a very comfortable life in Wuchang City. Zhang Xianzhong, who was proclaimed as the King of the West, opened a vocational school and admitted many scholars to join the Daxi Army camp. Zhang Xianzhong also started construction around Wuchang. A large number of gentry in Wuchang and nearby counties were killed, and their fields became a homeless land. Zhang Xianzhong distributed the land to his soldiers, and the Daxi Army soldiers rented the farmland to farmers to cultivate.

In this way, the old landlord was destroyed and a new landlord was born.

If there was no pressure from Li Zicheng to Zhang Xianzhong, if there was no incident of the Qing army entering the pass, Zhang Xianzhong would have developed in Huguang, established his own territory, and transformed from peasant uprising generals into a new landlord class.

In fact, in terms of construction, Zhang Xianzhong is far better than Li Zicheng. Zhang Xianzhong is more visionary than Li Zicheng. He is unwilling to be a bandit forever and wants to have his own base and develop steadily. Li Zicheng only invaded Xi'an after he got two military advisors, Li Yan and Gu Junen, and became emperor in Xi'an. But even after Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an, he still could not change the nature of his bandits and took the lead.

Li Yan compiled a song that the King of Chuang would not pay grain when he came, but under the feudal system, the income from the agricultural tax was the main income. If the farmers did not pay grain, the army would have to rob the rich and support his army. What should we do when the rich robbed them all? In the end, we should rob the poor? Moreover, the army could only rely on robbing the rich to maintain the army's expenses, so they were destined to be hated by the gentry all over the world.

Zhang Xianzhong did not say that the Western King would not pay food when he came. After he occupied Wuchang, he wanted to use Huguang as his base and appointed governors, prefects, county magistrates and other officials to open statutory ranks and appoint scholars, from hating gentry to accepting gentry step by step, seeking steady development.

If it weren't for the Qing Dynasty outside, after Li Zicheng attacked the capital, he might have become Zhang Xianzhong and destroyed the rebel army. The one who laughed to the end might be Zhang Xianzhong.

But something happened not long after Zhang Xianzhong's good life.

In the camp of Li Guodong in Huangmei, a detailed figure walked into Li Guodong's central army tent and reported to Li Guodong: "Lord, the thief posted a notice: If someone can capture Xianzhong and sacrifice, he will reward a thousand gold!"

Upon hearing this news, Li Guodong laughed: "The thief is jealous of the thief! It seems that the thief will abandon the city soon! I will pass on my order and order Master Lu to prepare and prepare to go to Wuchang."

Li Guodong was preparing to "recapture" Wuchang, but he wanted to confuse Zuo Liangyu on the other side, so he ordered the Lu army to quietly leave the camp at night. The camp was still brightly lit, leaving the auxiliary soldiers in the Lu army camp, creating the illusion that the Jinyang army was still in Huangmei.

Just as Li Guodong was about to send troops to Wuchang, Zhang Xianzhong in Wuchang City welcomed Li Zicheng's envoy.

The envoy congratulated Zhang Xianzhong, but then gave Zhang Xianzhong a sentence: Ma Shouying has surrendered to the King of Chuang, Luo Rucai and He Yilong have been killed by the King of Chuang because of their ill-belief.

Zhang Xianzhong secretly summoned his four adopted sons and asked Zhang Kewang and others about the matter of Li Zicheng's envoy: "Blind Li is so arrogant to Zhang, dear children, what should I do?"

"Entertainment Father, we might as well submit to the King of Chuang." Zhang Kewang said.

"No!" Zhang Dingguo raised an objection, "Will the adoptive father not see Cao Cao? Will the enemy's wife end up?"

"Yes, Dingguo is right!" Zhang Xianzhong nodded and said, "If we defect to Blind Li, we will die without a place to bury!"

Zhang Dingguo said again: "Enjoyed Father, let us first send some gold and silver to the envoy of the King of Rebellion, and let him take it back to the King of Rebellion to stabilize them. Then we give up Wuchang and go south to avoid the King of Rebellion."

"This is a good idea!" Zhang Xianzhong sighed, "I just gave up Wuchang, and Zhang was unwilling to accept it! But if I don't give up Wuchang, Li Blind Li is here, how can we stop it? What's more, there are two armies of Wuweibo and Zuo Liangyu downstream. Although Wuchang is good, it is a place for four battles and it is difficult to stay for a long time. But I'm really unwilling to give up like this."

Just when Zhang Xianzhong was hesitating whether to give up Wuchang, someone came to report: "King, Wu Weibo's envoy is here again."

The envoy who came was Xu Liang, who was on the last envoy to the army camp.

"Congratulations to General Zhang, you are already the King of the West." As soon as you saw Zhang Xianzhong, Xu Liang bowed to him.

Zhang Xianzhong sighed: "Hey, this Wuchang City is a hot potato! Although this place is good, there is Blind Li in the north, and there are also the army of you and the left thieves in the east."

Xu Liang laughed: "Xi Wang, our lord said that you are our friend, of course we will not attack you. And Liang Yu, the left thief, has long been beaten by you, and he dared not act rashly. What the king has to worry about is the thief entrenched in Jingxiang."

After saying that, Xu Liang took out a notice posted by Li Zicheng from his sleeve and presented it with both hands: "This is a notice posted by the thief in Jingxiang, please check it out."

Zhang Xianzhong took it and opened it. His face changed drastically: "Blind Li bullied people too much! He actually posted a notice to offer a reward for Mr. Zhang! He did not talk about the friendship between him and the other party!"

Xu Liang said: "Our lord also learned about the thief's notice and ordered Xu to come to see you, King of the West. It seems that Wuchang cannot be kept anymore. I just hope that King, you should maintain the city as much as possible when you leave Wuchang, and in addition, keep the people you don't want, and let us accept it."
Chapter completed!