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Chapter 216
After dawn, with the end of the war, Shen Shuren rode his horse into Changsha city which had just been burned by fire.

After seeing the tragic situation in front of him, he was also rarely angry.

These guys who killed the people were so cruel. When they lost the city, they had to set fire to attack the government and army's follow-up food collection, causing more killings and chaos.

Faced with this new sudden viciousness, Shen Shuren was also forced to adjust the captive policy again.

For those troops who stayed in the city last night, of course, all the soldiers can be pardoned and not killed, but they are only assigned to hard labor camps and death camps, but the officers are still all killed.

For those troops who take the initiative to open the door to respond, even the officers may not be killed, as long as the officers' superiors are killed, and the head is used as atonement.Ordinary soldiers can avoid entering the death camps, as long as they serve a year of hard labor.

As for those who follow Liu Jinzhong and set fire to the city when the city is broken, the whole army will be executed!From officials to soldiers, no one is left behind!
Shen Shuren was clearly rewarded and punished. At noon that day, Zhu Wenzhen took more than 2000 captives who had tasted the sweetness of robbery and murder and followed Liu Jinzhong stubbornly.

In front of a small number of Changsha people who survived the disaster, they clearly stated their crime of setting fire to create chaos last night, and then lined up and beheaded more than 2000 people, leaving no one behind. as a warning.

The blood dripping from the heads of more than 2000 people immediately filled the intersection, and at least the ground within a diameter of [-] feet was not blood-red.

Seeing this scene, the rest of the prisoners were all scared out of their wits. Fortunately, Shen Shuren quickly announced the rewards and punishments at all levels, and he didn't kill more ordinary soldiers, which quickly made people feel at ease again.

"This Shen Futai is really ruthless. It is much more ruthless than Chen Futai in Shaanxi and Governor Xiong in Xiangyang!"

Some rogue officers who had experienced Chen Qiyu's and Xiong Wencan's period felt chills on the back of their necks, and at the same time they were glad that they had killed Shangguan last night to surrender, otherwise they might not have escaped death at this moment.

Because of having an absolute superior force, Shen Shuren is not afraid that these descended troops will make trouble again.With the power of murder and legitimate reasons, the surrendered troops were directly disrupted and reorganized with the momentum of thunder, and the officers and soldiers were detained and reformed as soon as possible, so as to cleanse the remaining poison of the rogue troops' random killing and looting.

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Because of the severe damage suffered by Changsha City, Shen Shuren estimated that he would be dragged back for several days in order to restore order, appease the people, and clarify rights and responsibilities.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong getting more and more out of control, Shen Shuren was also deeply worried. After the first time, he was afraid of "when will this pursuit end".

For being able to chase Zhang Xianzhong all the way and let Zhang Xianzhong help him do the things he couldn't do, Shen Shuren was actually quite happy in his heart.

If Zhang Xianzhong only killed local tyrants, evil gentry, vassal kings and nobles, even if he smashed some wealth, Shen Shuren would bear it.

But the problem now is that Zhang Xianzhong seems to realize that "he will never gain a firm foothold in the Huguang area, and everything here is not worth nostalgic for."Therefore, in Zhang Xianzhong's eyes, only the soft things that can be taken away need to be cherished.

Even the source of soldiers, people's hearts, and even miscellaneous troops are not taken seriously by Zhang Xianzhong—although Zhang Xianzhong never said it explicitly, Shen Shuren can observe this point.

The lethality of this kind of sabotage under the mentality of jumping over the wall in a hurry is very huge.For example, a torch burned almost [-]% of the urban area of ​​Changsha City, and the poor and peasants were massacred without distinction. This damage to social productivity is too serious.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a population explosion, and there was no shortage of people. Even if a few percent were killed, the remaining population would still be enough to farm.But Zhang Xianzhong burned the city and material wealth at every turn, and it would be very difficult to resume production quickly.

It is destroyed if you can't get it!He also refused to leave it to Shen Shuren!The destruction of this twister is too great!
Can't keep chasing like this!At least he can't be allowed to run around in Huguang again!Must fight!

Either kill him at once, or force him out of Huguang immediately if he can't!

In short, the key is "immediately"!Can't drag!
The idea was soon clear, but the next step, how to implement it, Shen Shuren fell into a thousand troubles again.

He still lacks Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang type of staff and wise generals.

Although there are several staff members, they are all scholars of literature or internal affairs talents.As for military generals, he has no shortage of people who directly lead the army, but he has to rely entirely on himself for intrigues and tricks.

"Oh, that's all, I can't figure it out even if I'm stuck in a dead end. Let's deal with the internal affairs first, and then think about it slowly." After a long time without finding a result, Shen Shuren had to accept his fate for the time being, and do some simple tasks to change his mind, hoping for a flash of inspiration.

Then he plunged into the post-war order restoration work in Changsha City.

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The whole day's internal affairs appeasement work was soon over. Shen Shuren almost took a quick tour of Changsha City to understand the difficulties of various places, post-war losses, sequelae, and deal with the on-site office. the transfer,
He also roughly counted the list of dead vassal officials, rich and powerful gentry, and sorted out how many farms around Changsha would become unclaimed land.

At the same time, try to collect the lease contract books of these dead rich and powerful gentry, so that we can confirm to whom these fields were leased to before the war. If the tenants are still alive, they will directly recognize the direct transfer of these land without owner inheritance For the original renters to use, as long as they directly bear the national tax to the country.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Shen Shu returned to the Changsha magistrate's yamen, ready to take a rest and discuss military plans tomorrow.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was destined not to let him calm down. On that night, Zhu Wenzhen, the general in charge of the cavalry, came to see him late at night, and had an urgent military situation to report.

Shen Shuren was doomed to sleep badly for another night, so he put on his clothes and pretended to be interviewed and listened to the report. Zhu Wenzhen was also unambiguous, and said straight to the point:

"Master Futai! The general sent scouts to the south today to search, and captured a few defeated soldiers who fled here through the Hengshan Guards to escape the chaos. He said that Zhang Xianzhong had already broken the city of Hengzhou! The officials and vassal kings of Hengzhou are probably all He was murdered!"

Shen Shuren only felt a slight "buzz" in his head, and his breathing was heavy and dull for a while.

He is not afraid of the death of the vassal king, in fact he also thinks that there are too many vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, which is too much of a hindrance, but if Zhang Xianzhong continues to toss like this, Shen Shuren is afraid that he will not be able to cover the cover and will not be able to live in the last year and a half of Chongzhen. The local power has been stabilized.

He scratched his hair annoyedly: "How come our army has to attack a city for at least five or six days, seven or eight days, but it only takes three or four days at most for Zhang Xianzhong to break the city! At least our attack is a city that Zhang Xianzhong broke once! Ordinarily, the city defense should be even more dilapidated!"

After hearing this complaint, Zhu Wenzhen was also a little depressed. It was not his fault, but fortunately, before he came to report, he had already asked more carefully, so he immediately played it in detail:
"I heard that it was He Yide, the commander-in-chief of Hengzhou, when the city was just besieged, he was forced by His Royal Highness King Gui to send troops out of the city to cover the people in King Gui's mansion to break out of the siege.

He Yide was already out of strength, and under this pressure, he was afraid of being convicted. In addition, among the troops fighting with him was the Changsha General Yin Xianmin's troops who surrendered the bandits. "

Shen Shu was so angry that he smashed his teacup on the ground: "The old guards in the south of Huguang are so corrupt! I think they are ashamed to live in this world! One rotten one can pull out a bunch of rotten ones! The general surrendered You can still cast chains! This place hasn’t been at war for too many years, alas..."

Zhu Wenzhen also accompanied him with a wry smile: "The matter is already like this, please make a decision, Mr. Futai, what should our army do next?"

Shen Shuren also smiled helplessly: "What else can I do? Repair the people in Changsha City for three days, and then march south! Anyway, this is already the case, haste makes waste, and our army will be exhausted if we chase too fast and give the enemy an opportunity.

Fortunately, in the south of Hengzhou, there were no vassal kings worthy of Zhang Xianzhong's deliberate killing and snatching.Now that the Hengshan natural danger is also in his hands, he should not be too eager to run.In the past few days, I have to think of a plan so that Zhang Xianzhong will no longer want to harm Huguang, but make a quick end. "

(End of this chapter)