If no one can save himself, no one can save him. This sentence is most appropriate to interpret Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong was destroyed, Liu Guoneng surrendered, and most of the other small bandits did not escape the fate of destruction and were destroyed by Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou. Only Li Zicheng led a thousand defeated soldiers and fled into the Qinling Mountains.

After Gao Yingxiang was destroyed, Li Zicheng was upgraded to the King of Chuang, and officially took over Gao Yingxiang's mantle, enjoying a lofty prestige among the rioters and even some of the people. What's more, although Li Zicheng only had more than a thousand men, most of these thousand men were bandits with years of combat experience, and were not comparable to bandits who stood on their own on the hills in various places.

Based on the above two considerations, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou cooperated closely to seal several mountain exits from the Qinling Mountains tightly and sent heavy troops to the mountain to search for Li Zicheng.

The Qinling Mountains are sparsely populated and the food sources are almost gone. In order to survive, the soldiers had to use the sharp blades of killing people to dig out tubers and hunt wild animals with the bows and arrows of hunting officers and soldiers.

This is not the age-old bandit that caused great headaches to the Ming Dynasty, and it has become a refugee.

Li Zicheng's army was unable to eat, and he was in a state of escape for a day, which was extremely miserable.

Just as Li Zicheng was in extreme danger and his destruction was imminent, the court suddenly issued a strict order to transfer Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou to the capital!

Li Zicheng finally got a chance to breathe.

However, the situation is still not good for Li Zicheng.

Before leaving Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou ordered General He Renlong to lead more than 7,000 elite troops to stay in Xi'an to shock the entire Shaanxi area. He Renlong was brave in fighting, both wise and brave, and his hands were covered with the blood of the rioters. The rioters were extremely afraid and called him He Crazy.

Li Zicheng had only two thousand soldiers, so how dare he go to Xi'an to tease He Renlong's tiger beard?

So Li Zicheng aimed at Feng Xiang.

Li Zibing thought that Liu Guoneng had just surrendered to the court under the pressure. As long as he led his army, Liu Guoneng would undoubtedly rebel. However, what surprised him was that Liu Guoneng not only did not surrender, but was also ready to use it?

?'s blind plan was used and he was killed in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng received an insider's notice and avoided the disaster.

Li Zicheng was furious and immediately sent troops to attack Fengxiang. Thousands of troops attacked the city were completely a joke. Li Zicheng was rushed by Liu Guoneng, and his command was in chaos and fled to the Qinling Mountains in a panic.

However, Li Zicheng did not gain anything when he attacked Fengxiang City. He captured a large number of people and food along the way, and his troops expanded sharply to more than 5,000. Although most of them were mobs, his momentum began to grow.

More importantly, the silenced nearby bandits took advantage of the situation and either defected to Li Zicheng or Zhanshan as the king, and opposed the government. These bandits who occupied Shan as the king involved most of the energy of He Renlong and Liu Guoneng. Where did He Renlong and Liu Guoneng have the energy to deal with Li Zicheng?

So Li Zicheng finally got rid of the predicament that could be destroyed at any time and began to reorganize the army, resulting in more than 3,000 elite troops.

However, food and weapons have always been difficulties that Li Zicheng could not solve.

Just when Li Zicheng was at a loss, Wang Dengku sent his confidant to find Li Zicheng and proposed to support Li Zicheng's food and weapons.

Li Zicheng had no doubt about the abilities of these Shanxi merchants. He just felt strange why the Shanxi merchants with deep background and wealth were eager to support him.

Wang Dengku's confidant did not hide it and told him directly that this was the wish of the Qing emperor.

Li Zicheng's order is almost gone, and he can't get funding from the Qing Dynasty. As for any nation or civilization, it is nothing in his mind. In the original history, the Dashun regime he established openly regarded Li Jiqian from Dangxiang as Taizu, which is evident.

Before the Qing Dynasty's funding arrived, Li Zicheng was in a desperate situation again: the food and grass were gone!

Li Zicheng was unable to do so, so he had to target Fengxiang Mansion again. He regarded this war as a battle of life and death. If he lost, he continued to be a savage; if he won, he broke out into the sky, and the sky was high and the birds could fly.

With a mindfulness and unintentionality, he used his superior force to fight against Liu Guoneng, who was outside the main force. Li Zicheng opened the city gate through the inside line, and captured Liu Guoneng alive and occupied Fengxiang, an important town in Shaanxi.

The news first spread to Jingzhou. Lin Chunhong immediately summoned the Gemu envoy in Jingzhou to Xinggong Tower to discuss the variables in Shaanxi.

All judgments, including Lin Chunhong, were surprisingly consistent: Shaanxi was about to be in chaos, and Li Zicheng's voice was bound to rise sharply after carrying the people, and he might become another force besides the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty Tartars, Zheng Zhilong, local forces in Jiangnan and Jingzhou.

However, when discussing solutions, huge differences arise:

Zhou Wang and Lu Shiming strongly advocated sending heavy troops to fight, including western Henan and Shaanxi in the cap, and moving towards the mid-term goal of the strategy of war horses, that is, to re-draw.

Thinking about this kind of argument makes people excited, but when Zhang Daohan and Zhu Zhiyu shouted that there was money and food, Zhou Wang and Lu Shiming became depressed.

Zhang Daohan and Zhu Zhiyu did not oppose the enterprising of western Henan and Shaanxi. However, they used force beyond Jingzhou's ability and fell into Jingzhou's difficulties.

The five envoys of the Pavilion all turned their eyes to Lin Chunhong, their eyes full of anticipation.

Lin Chunhong understood what they meant, and expected him to immediately allow Jiangnan Haozhuang to set up a money shop and sell some heavy workshops in Jingzhou.

Lin Chunhong has been unable to cause these two things, on the one hand, because although the finances of Jingzhou are difficult, they can still be barely maintained. On the other hand, he is still waiting for the best opportunity to take advantage of the court, Fan Yongdou and Li Duoyi, and attack hard, disrupting the trend of the combination of the court, Shanxi merchants and local forces in Jiangnan, disrupting Yang Sichang's rhythm, and setting Jingzhou in a more favorable position.

Lin Chunhong pondered but didn't answer, and was so anxious that Zhang Daohan was: "Governor, Jingzhou has been trapped by money and grain for nearly a year, and he has tied his hands and feet in everything he does. Over the past year, his subordinates have heard the sound of asking for money, but they still have the sound of asking for money. They can't live this life at all!"

"According to the deployment of the governor, before completely controlling Jiangnan, Yuezhou, Changsha, Changde, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Baoqing, etc. in southern Huguang should be included in the company. At the same time, the wealthy prefectures in the Sichuan Basin should also be completely in their hands. Around this goal, Jingzhou has been preparing for five or six years, and all the personnel have been in place. Just by the governor's order, the population controlled by Jingzhou can reach more than 16 million, and the land area is enough to double!"

"Along with the strategy of war horses, we have never been as close as we are now. Shaanxi is about to be in chaos. If we don't take action, do we have to wait for Li Zicheng to ruin Shaanxi into a white land and we will clean up the mess?"

"Also, after the Spring Rain Action, Xingzhishu Hall Shanghai Branch was established, with more than 10,000 registered scholars, and urgently needed a large amount of money to invest; Zhijiang General Hall, Guangzhou Branch, and even Manila Branch, the number of registrations increased sharply, and more teachers and more facilities were urgently needed. If you are not in a hurry, it will cause the hearts of scholars, and it will probably delay the spread of practical learning..."

Lin Chunhong was surprised. He didn't find these words at all strange when Zhou Wang and Lu Shiming said them. Now Zhang Daohan has become so radical. It seems that the early Spring Rain Action allowed Zhang Daohan, Zhu Zhiyu and his group of Jinshi Juren to see the soft power of Jingzhou and were eager to promote the Jingzhou model to various parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Chunhong was silent, but his heart was quite uneasy.

He made this fortune in Jingzhou with one hand and one step at a time. He wanted to expand it sharply than anyone else. But is the right time now?

At present, Jingzhou's institutional construction has been at the forefront of the Ming Dynasty. Money flow, people flow and logistics are all smooth, far from comparable to other areas of the Ming Dynasty. With the help of frequent money flow, people flow and logistics, Jingzhou has invested vigorously, consumption continues to increase, and more and more products are produced. It is almost standing on the threshold of the industrial revolution, waiting for steam engines, trains and other things to appear, kicking out.

Moreover, taking advantage of the current situation of the Ming Dynasty and Jingzhou, funds from all over the Ming Dynasty poured into Jingzhou like a tide. Funds are always profitable. It is easy to make money in Jingzhou, and naturally it is like a black hole, attracting funds from all over the country. At the same time, Jingzhou's production capacity is becoming increasingly terrifying. Relying on the developed water transportation, huge amounts of goods are sold to all parts of the Ming Dynasty every day.

Someone once made a statistics that there are more than 300 three-masted sailboats passing through the Yangtze River every day, and the number is still increasing.

To make an inappropriate analogy: except for the Jiangnan region, Jingzhou regarded other places in the Ming Dynasty as colonies! Moreover, this colony did not need to be managed by people, nor did it need to be managed by the army, nor did it need to be responsible for trivial matters of the people.

This is more cost-effective than the investment from the colonies!

Of course, this is a last resort when Jingzhou is not strong enough. Once Jingzhou has spared its strength, Lin Chunhong will take action without hesitation and promote the Jingzhou model to the whole country.

Now, in order to include Shaanxi, south of Huguang and Sichuan, it will disrupt the established financial and monetary strategy. Is it worth it? You should know that once the court successfully cooperates with Shanxi merchants and local forces in Jiangnan, it will disrupt the current financial order and cause more serious damage to Jingzhou!

Lin Chunhong frowned and was quite embarrassed.

"Governor..." Zhou Wang also stood up and advised: "Now Li Zicheng has just gotten out of the predicament. Just sending a cavalry from the army is enough to kill Li Zicheng, and the money and food consumption is not large!"

Lin Chunhong shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng is a hero. There are too many hungry people in Shaanxi and Henan. If he is not careful, he will take advantage of the situation. What's more, the Tartars are now in a move and must not underestimate the enemy."

"Governor..." Now, Zhu Zhiyu, Li Chengzong and Lu Shiming also stood up and persuaded Lin Chunhong to actively promote the money shop and the sale of heavy workshops.
Chapter completed!