Five hundred and twentieth eight chapters shake the country
When the Tang Dynasty king's army conquered Wuzhou City, many senior civil and military officials failed to escape with Wang Yue. In the end, some of these people died in battle or committed suicide. Some of them surrendered voluntarily, and several people expressed their willingness to surrender on the spot to serve the great nation.
He served as the king of Tang Dynasty and was loyal to Li Xuan, the eternal sage.
Some of them were forced to surrender. In addition, some of them were injured and unable to resist and were captured like Shen Xiyi.
Li Xuan has always treated these middle and high-level officials separately. Those who are willing to surrender will be given high priority, and those who are unwilling to surrender will be tried to persuade them to change their ways anyway. This is not because Li Xuan values their abilities so much.
In fact, in Li Xuan's mind, in terms of military affairs, the Tang Dynasty did not actually need the supplement of senior generals of the Ming army, because the combat methods of the Tang Dynasty's royal divisions were completely different from those of the Ming Dynasty, and those traditional cold-weapon generals did not go through
Systematic learning cannot lead the troops of the King of the Tang Dynasty.
As for the civil service, Li Xuan actually didn't think it was necessary to use these high-ranking officials from the Ming Dynasty. Officials who passed the Jinshi examination step by step may not be able to do better than those officials who only have ordinary education under the Tang Dynasty.
To be an official, average knowledge is enough. The main thing is to have a keen sense of politics. To put it bluntly, if you let any dog become an official, it will do better than a large number of officials from the Ming Dynasty. At least dogs will not
corruption!
So sometimes it is inappropriate to call an official a dog official, because it will insult the dog!
Therefore, when Li Xuan was demoted in the Ming Dynasty, what he valued was not their personal ability, but their political influence.
If a few high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty surrender to themselves anyway and publicly appeal, the political influence will be huge and will shake more people's resistance. They will think that those adults are all
After surrendering to the puppet Tang traitor army, why do you still resist?
Can I surrender like these adults?
You might even be able to get a high-ranking official with a generous salary and title!
After conquering Wuzhou City, the Tang Dynasty King treated these demoted officials in the same way as before, trying to get them to change their ways as much as possible. However, even so, there were still not many people who were really willing to surrender.
Among the people who appeared in front of Shen Xiyi now, except for one who was a captain of the Guards who was responsible for guarding these senior prisoners of war, the others were all demoted from the Ming army, both civil and military.
One of them was Zhong Guangjun, the commander of the Guangxi capital. When the city was broken, he once led the remnant soldiers to resist with the help of the Governor-General's Palace of Guangdong and Guangxi. He also caused a lot of trouble to the Tang Dynasty king. This is how the Governor-General's Palace of Guangdong and Guangxi was beaten.
of ruins.
Later, due to the heavy casualties and the fact that the Tang Dynasty King's Division also invested heavy troops in the attack, he was forced to surrender with nearly a thousand remaining soldiers.
Because this person fought well in the battle, he also attracted the attention of some senior generals of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, they also thought that this person was the commander of the Guangxi capital and had great political influence. He was the chief official of the Ming Dynasty.
Bajing's senior general, so much so that after he surrendered, Li Xuan personally met with him and recruited him.
At first, he was still reluctant to agree, but after knowing that the whole family in Wuzhou City was still in the city and had been controlled, and the conditions given by Li Xuan were pretty good, he promised that he would surrender after surrendering.
Give him the commander-in-chief of three thousand troops. If he is not willing to lead the troops, then he can serve in the Ministry of War. Of course, don't expect a high-ranking official of the rank of Minister, but he can give him the position of director of the Ministry of War.
You can go to the Privy Council and become a senior combat advisor.
Naturally, Zhong Guangjun doesn't like the last two conditions. He will definitely not be able to access the real power positions of the Ministry of War. And the advisers in the Privy Council will know that it is a false position as soon as they hear the word, but it is worthwhile to let him continue to lead the troops.
consider.
Three thousand surrendered troops is a lot, at least enough for me to gain a firm foothold in this pseudo-Tang Dynasty.
Because of the safety of his family and the fact that Li Xuan promised to give him the actual power to command the army, he couldn't hold back and finally accepted the recruitment of the Tang Dynasty, put on the dark blue military uniform of the Tang Dynasty, and served as the new commander.
The commander of the 14th regiment under the 7th garrison brigade was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. According to the establishment of the garrison of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, a garrison regiment had nearly 3,000 people. This shows that Li Xuan fulfilled his promise.
Of course, Li Xuan was willing to give him a garrison leader. That was because Zhong Guangjun also took out his own certificate of surrender and personally ran to persuade others to surrender together. The effect was quite effective. Under his persuasion, some middle- and high-ranking Ming army soldiers
Officials all expressed their willingness to serve the Tang Dynasty.
And he also wrote a letter in his own hand. The letter naturally said how bad the False Ming Dynasty was, how good the Tang Dynasty was, and how Li Xuan was an eternal sage who would never leave the country for thousands of years. He also called on the army and the people to defect to the Tang Dynasty King.
Once you come here to seek wealth and prosperity, it’s no problem!
Then it spread all over the world through the channels of the Tang Dynasty, and this letter has now spread to Zhaoqing.
When Wang Yue learned about this, he was furious, because Zhong Guangjun was still the highest-ranking general in the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the puppet Tang rebel army. His surrender could cause a huge sensation, at least for those who had promoted and reused Zhong Guangjun.
They will all be blamed for not knowing who they are.
What's even worse is that even high-ranking officials like the dignified commander Qian Shi have surrendered, so how can we induce more people to surrender!
Since Zhong Guangjun is so sensible, Li Xuan will naturally not break his promise. After all, recruiting Zhong Guangjun means buying horse bones with thousands of gold. If he is given preferential treatment, more Ming army generals will take the initiative to surrender in the future.
It can make more enemies voluntarily surrender instead of resisting. From this point alone, Zhong Guangjun is worthy of Li Xuan's win over.
Of course, the 7th Garrison Brigade has not yet been organized, and the soldiers in the 14th Garrison Regiment are still in the prisoner-of-war camp. They will have to be selected by the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War and then undergo simple training by the Training Department.
Supplementary entry into the 7th Garrison Brigade.
Because his army was still empty, Zhong Guangjun's job during this period was to persuade others to do the same and join the Tang Dynasty, especially those senior civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty who had great political influence.
officials.
And Shen Xiyi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, is an important target of his persuasion!
But as soon as he entered the door, he heard Shen Xiyi snort coldly: "You are a beautiful lady, how can you be a thief!"
Hearing this, Zhong Guangjun's face became a little unnatural. Even though he had written a letter that was widely spread all over the world, everyone in the world knew that he had betrayed the Ming Dynasty and joined the rebel army, but he was told this in person.
I still have a bit of a look on my face.
But even so, he did not react in an angry way. He came today to persuade Shen Xiyi to surrender to the Tang Dynasty King. As long as he could succeed, his contribution would be great.
Because Shen Xiyi is the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, her rank is higher than that of Zhong Guangjun!
If Zhong Guangjun's surrender would at best cause shock in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, then once Shen Xiyi surrenders, it will definitely be a big sensation across the country, even enough to shock the jaws of the adults in the capital!
A dignified deputy general of the Ming Dynasty turned into a traitor? No one would believe it!
But when Zhong Guangjun came to persuade Shen Xiyi today, the effect was not very good. Even if there was a white-faced person next to him, he said that the Tang Dynasty had already conquered Guixian County, and all the Shen family members were under house arrest. At that time, Shen Xiyi remained unmoved.
Therefore, Zhong Guangjun and the others had done a useless job. When Li Xuan learned about this, he felt a little disappointed.
If Shen Xiyi also surrenders, his political influence will be much greater, but if he doesn't want to, he has no good solution. After all, Li Xuan wants to be more than just a prisoner. What he wants is for him to voluntarily join and serve the big people. The Tang Dynasty shouted that if he was not willing to do this, the best he could do was to forge his documents for propaganda as before.
But people these days are not stupid. After Li Xuan did it a few times in the past, no one believed it anymore. The person involved did not appear in public and promote how good the Tang Dynasty was and how bad the hypocrisy was. It was difficult for people to believe them. I have sincerely surrendered to the Puppet Tang Dynasty.
So Li Xuan simply ignored him. Anyway, there were many demoted officials who refused to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but he was not the only one like him.
So Li Xuan personally issued an order to imprison Shen Xiyi with other middle- and high-level demoted officials who refused to surrender. After these people were killed, not many people would lead their troops to surrender after word spread. After all, it was not Everyone who surrendered came to work for the Tang Dynasty anyway. They probably did it to save the lives of their subordinates and themselves, but that was the limit. Let them directly serve the Tang Dynasty. Effectiveness is unlikely.
This is also the reason why so many middle- and high-level officials have been arrested, but few are willing to take the initiative to tell the truth. It is also the reason why Zhong Guangjun can receive preferential treatment.
These demoted officers cannot be killed or used, so they are all detained first and continue to stay in the prisoner-of-war camp as prisoners of war. As for what to do with them in the future, we will talk about it later.
Of course, they may also wait until the day when the imperial court counterattacks back to Wuzhou, but when they see these demoted officials, will the Ming Dynasty immediately kill these officials who demoted thieves?
Although the crime of surrendering to a thief is a little lighter than that of surrendering to a thief, it is definitely not that much better. For the Ming Dynasty, it must be dealt with seriously. Otherwise, everyone will follow the same example in the future. Surrender immediately if the war goes badly?
After putting down Shen Xiyi, Li Xuan looked at the handling report of the Wuzhou prisoners sent by the Ministry of War. After reading the report, he finally smiled. Compared with the extremely stubborn demotion, especially the middle and high-level demotions, he still I like those ordinary soldiers and prisoners of war. No, according to the Ministry of War, preliminary results show that the processing of this batch of more than 20,000 prisoners of war is still very smooth. The number of surrendered soldiers who are willing to serve the Tang Dynasty may exceed expectations. !