In the small village six or seven miles away from Taozhai Town, it was already noon, but there was no smoke rising, and the village was filled with a depressing atmosphere.

"Bang!"

Qian Yuan, who was pale, gasped for breath, and after being stunned for a while, he flew up and kicked the round stool away.

Yang Wen and Zhang San, who were wearing horizontal knives at their waists, all held their breaths, they had been following Qian Yuan for two years, and they knew that this young master was usually kind, and he didn't pay much attention to the humility of the upper and lower levels in his speech, but he was a ruthless character when he was angry.

"It can only be said that Xu Hai is too cunning." Li Liangqin, who came to report the news, reluctantly whispered and persuaded, "Zhifu also said that this is a non-war crime. ”

"Hmph, what did Xujiang Gong say to the ghost?" Qian Yuan sneered and scolded in a low voice: "It's not wrong to be so happy, it's wrong to have no self-knowledge!" ”

Li Liangqin, Yang Wen, and Zhang San all looked approving.

Qian Yuan's heart was full of frustration, in the past few days after Zhang Jing was escorted to Beijing, how much energy and how many words he spent to persuade the generals to temporarily return to Zhao Wenhua's command.

I did so much, but in the end, it was useless.

Yu Dayou, Lu Bo, and Mrs. Wa Lao led the troops to encircle and suppress the Japanese Kou, hoping to capture and kill Xu Hai, but at the critical moment, Zhao Wenhuamao, who thought that he was sure of victory, rashly went to Jinshan.

The news that Zhang Jing was escorted into Beijing had long been spread in the army, and the army's morale was already unstable, and Zhao Wenhua's appearance could stabilize the army's morale, but the problem was that when the trapped beast and the wolf rushed into battle, Zhao Wenhua was so frightened that he fell off his horse.

This is typical waste!

The commander fell off the horse, the officers and soldiers were in chaos, Xu Hai took the opportunity to break through from the west side, Yu Dayou, who was in charge of interception, could not stop it, and finally Xu Hai led more than 1,000 Japanese to escape from the sea near Nanhui.

After Li Liangqin left, Qian Yuan stood there for a long time, and his success was successful, Xu Hai really had a small life.

At the beginning of the year, Chongde met and escaped from Qian Yuan's knife, and at the end of the year, he escaped from the encirclement and suppression of the army, does he really want his fellow countryman and old enemy Hu Zongxian to solve it?

At this time, there was a noise outside the village, Yang Wen opened the door curtain and went out, and came back after a while and said in a low voice: "Zhao Wenhua is here." ”

Qian Yuan snorted and found a round stool to sit down, until Zhao Wenhua entered the room with a dry smile and ignored it.

"Zhancai, it's not to blame for my brother...... Zhao Wenhua said with a bitter face, "That horse is from the Suzhou Mansion, and he has never been on the battlefield, so the ghost knows that he will fall down for his brother." ”

"I'm also anxious for my brother......"

"Talent?"

"If you don't have that diamond, don't do porcelain work!" Qian Yuan glared fiercely, "Isn't it good to stay in Hangzhou City a few days ago to listen to the battle report?" Why didn't you go to Linping Mountain at that time?! ”

"It's not ......"

"Surrounded by an army, the chance of victory?" Qian Yuan sighed, "The good situation is ruined!" ”

"Destroyed?" Zhao Wenhua listened ignorantly, "Not really, right?" ”

Qian Yuan laughed angrily, "Who do you know about Xu Hai?" ”

"You just think he's just a bandit leader?"

"Since the beginning of the 28th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded the southeast coast, and the leaders were all from maritime merchants.

"Until Xu Hai appeared, this person was born to be a robber, even before Ligang was destroyed, he made a living by plundering, and then unified the Japanese bandits, searched for the weak and retained the strong, and gathered 20,000 Japanese robbers, which is an unprecedented scale."

"The most important thing is that Xu Hai has a great relationship with Japan, and he can recruit samurai and ronin in Japan at any time...... This is called the real wolf. ”

"If you can capture and kill Xu Hai, send a messenger to appease Wang Zhi, and ...... southeast At least most of the area can barely be maintained, and then clean up from scratch, recruit new recruits and train them into the army......"

"Now Xu Hai has gone away,......" Qian Yuan sighed: "I'm afraid that Jiaxing, Songjiang, and Suzhou will not have peace in the past few years." ”

Zhao Wenhua was speechless, hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Chaozhong?" ”

"The fall of the horse under the gaze of thousands of people has caused the army's morale to be disrupted, do you think the DPRK and China will not know?"

"I'm not afraid, I'm afraid that someone will poke ...... it."

"Yu Dayou and Lu Bo don't have the courage to do so, and the only ones who dare to report to Zhejiang Inspector Wu Baipeng." Qian Yuan nodded impatiently, "I'll say it." ”

Zhao Wenhua breathed a sigh of relief, this is the reason why he came here today.

"The previous agreement is still valid, right?" Qian Yuan paused, "Where are the Tianzhou wolf soldiers?" ”

"Rest assured, a batch of materials has been mobilized from Taicang Prefecture to give priority to the supply of Tianzhou soldiers." Zhao Wenhua smiled dryly: "I just received the news that Zhou Xuan, the newly arrived governor of Susong, was transferred to the post of governor of Zhejiang. ”

Qian Yuan sneered twice, "No wonder! ”

Zhao Wenhua's face was a little red, it was because he received the news that the new governor of Zhejiang was about to arrive, so he tried to capture Xu Hai first, but the result was ......

"This person has been a scholar in Jiajing for eleven years, and he has no background, so he should have nothing to do with Xu Huating." Zhao Wenhua introduced in a low voice: "It is said that Zhou Fu played the Ten Difficult and Three Strategies of the Imperial War, and His Majesty appointed him. ”

Zhou Xuan...... Qian Yuan has no impression of this name, and he shouldn't do anything.

Historically, Zhang Jing was escorted to Beijing, and Zhou Fu was deposed only one month after he was transferred to the governor of Zhejiang, and the leader was Zhao Wenhua.

Seeing that Qian Yuan was still frosty, Zhao Wenhua changed the topic, "It's more than ten days before the New Year, will you go back to Hangzhou?" ”

"Back." Qian Yuan said with a straight face: "Maybe go to Huizhou Mansion." ”

"Go to Huizhou...... Oh, your uncle is in Huizhou, is he going to study and prepare for the exam? ”

Qian Yuan nodded, everything that happened before and after in Taozhai Town was vivid, although he was well-connected, although he was a traverser, although the weight was not light, but a talent and fame were never enough.

"This is the right matter, the Nanzhili scholars are all selected by the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and when the news comes out, I will collect examples for my brother for you." Zhao Wenhua was very attentive, and saw that Qian Yuan's face looked a little better, and then asked, "Next?" As a brother, he is really not good at military strategy, and Wu Baipeng and Yu Dayou are both ......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Wenhua sighed, "It's obviously Xu Huating's hand, but someone Zhao is here to take the blame...... Now everyone thinks that I instigated the hand of the old man of Yan Ge, what is this called! ”

Although Zhao Wenhua has appeased Yu Dayou, Lu Bo, and Wu Baipeng a lot in the past few days, these people are quite cold, and Zhao Wenhua is also bitter in his heart, and he can't reveal the matter clearly.

Qian Yuan unceremoniously scolded back, "Whoever asked you to hurry to grab the credit, whoever benefited, who masterminded!" ”

After thinking about it in his mind for a while, Qian Yuan raised a finger, "The first is the Tianzhou wolf soldiers, you must leave Mrs. Wa Lao, otherwise the Japanese invaders will come ashore and the officers and soldiers will be powerless to resist, and you will carry these black pots!" ”

"Yes, yes, this time I can see it clearly for my brother." Zhao Wenhua gritted his teeth, he fell off his horse and got up from the ground, and the chaotic Ming army around him almost threw him to the Japanese Kou.

Qian Yuan raised a second finger, "The second is recruitment, recruiting troops in Zhejiang and Susong, and the guest soldiers are unreliable, and it is impossible for Tianzhou wolf soldiers to be stationed in the southeast for a long time." ”

"But whether it is to leave the Tianzhou wolf soldiers or recruit new soldiers, a large number of silver taels are needed."

"So, the most important thing is silver."

Fighting a war is fighting logistics from a certain point of view, this sentence is not known to the Ming Dynasty, but they understand this truth.

Zhao Wenhua also understood, so he frowned, you must know that the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is really worrying, and he knows that it is basically impossible for the court to allocate money.

"Did Zhan know about the method of compilation?" Zhao Wenhua asked in a low voice, this is still Hu Zongxian's proposal half a year ago, and he was going to let Li Tianpet poke him out, but unfortunately this guy didn't have the courage.

Qian Yuan blurted out after listening to Zhao Wenhua's explanation, "Isn't this just a plus faction?" ”

The so-called mention method is aimed at Junyao, one of the three major conscripts of the Ming Dynasty, and some of the servants served in person, which is the force difference, and some are converted into silver and paid, which is the silver difference.

The method of compilation will arrange the difference between silver and force into ten first, and if one is insufficient, it will be mentioned to make up for it, which should be a round a year.

But in fact, because of the frequent wars on the southeast coast, a shortage of first-class soldiers is the norm, which will lead to two problems.

First, there will definitely be a situation of early collection, which will be revised this year and next year, next year, and even the year after next.

Second, no matter how much the ordinary people squeezed it, they could not squeeze too much oil and water, and a large number of wealthy businessmen could become targets, and the so-called rich businessmen could generally be directly regarded as maritime merchants on the southeast coast.

Qian Yuan's eyes flickered, he wasn't sure if Zhao Wenhua had taken these into account, but he wasn't ready to remind the other party.

No way, the Ming Dynasty said that it was rich all over the world, but the silver that could actually be withdrawn was pitiful, and the southeast anti-Japanese war was said to be two or three million silver a year later, what if it was not distributed?