"Pass in..."Zhang Rui in the room put down the work at hand and slowly commanded the guards who followed him.

In Fujian, Li Guozhong (army commander) and Jiang Hong (army official) are currently in charge.

At the beginning, Bai Ding grew up as a country boy to become the commander of the first army of the bandit army, Li Guozhong relied not only on his loyalty to Zhang Rui, but also on his calm and capable Zhang Rui.

As for Jiang Hong, he was the backbone of the bandit army when he was directly connected to the mountain, and his style of action is also a calm and steady person.

Zhang Rui was a little puzzled, judging from the information collected by the Shadow Department and the General Staff, if the two of them acted according to the plan formulated by the General Staff, there should be no major problem, why would there be an urgent military situation?

"Yes..."

After a short while, a dusty signal soldier entered the door.

"Report, Sixth Brother. Fujian Military Situation Emergency..."The signal soldier respectfully saluted Zhang Rui and handed out the military information letter with both hands.

Seeing this, Liu Shishi naturally walked over to take the letter, and then opened it and handed it to Zhang Rui.

Liu Shishi's behavior was not because Zhang Rui was lazy or because he did not respect the signal soldiers who sent military intelligence. It's just that this time is different from the past, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the bandit army, Zhang Rui has to pay attention to his own safety.

At the same time, in later generations, all kinds of assassinations, poisonings, espionage killings... Under the influence of movies and TV series, how dare Zhang Rui act willfully with his own safety? After all, he is no longer a poor mountain villager with no real power. Now, under all kinds of messy and intertwined interests, if you have three strengths and two shortcomings, the bandit army may fall apart in an instant, and disappear in defeat.

In fact, some people proposed to Zhang Rui that they should get married as soon as possible, as long as they gave birth to an heir, they could stabilize the hearts of the army and the ministers.

For their proposal, Zhang Rui naturally understood. However, it has only been a little more than a year and a half since the uprising. Even Zhang Rui was unexpected, and he could only say that his heart was not clear.

But when it comes to the issue of heirs, Zhang Rui's body is only seventeen years old now, and he can only be regarded as eighteen after the New Year.

This coming-of-age ceremony has not yet arrived, and it is considered early for the ancients who married at an early age. Having sex too early is always a damage to the body. Zhang Rui didn't say anything else, even if he wanted to compare with Qianlong who could live a long life in this world, Zhang Rui also hoped to live past Qianlong, who was already forty-six years old, otherwise it would become a joke in the world.

However, compared to these, Zhang Rui believed that the top priority was to take Nanjing, and then occupy half of the southeast. If Nanjing can't take it, it will be counterattacked by the Manchus. Then don't talk about any heirs, lest he be born and suffer, just as Hong Xiuquan's son Hong Tianfu was executed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The letter paper is not large, and the content does not have many words, probably only a few hundred words. At the end of the right side of the letter, the names of Li Guozhong and Jiang Hong were signed.

At this moment, Zhang Rui took the letter from Liu Shishi's hand and glanced at it a few times.

As mentioned above, Fujian has been hit by a strong typhoon in recent days, and the sea ships transporting military rations have been damaged by the wind and sunk into the sea. Even if the Guangdong side was able to receive the information as quickly as possible, it would take nearly three months to prepare for the delivery of military rations to the Fujian military camp, and the army would have already run out of food.

The typhoon passed through and the people were affected. Officials of the local government are so corrupt and short of grain that Fujian does not have enough grain to provide disaster relief. The grain merchants in Fujian had grain in their hands, but they refused to sell it to the bandit army for disaster relief, but they had to sell it to the people at a high price, so that the people were miserable.

Disaster relief is like fighting fires, and at present, the two are negotiating Zhang Rui's request for instructions on whether to suspend the offensive against Hangzhou first and make every effort to provide disaster relief. Can unscrupulous profiteers act cheaply? At the same time, the two of them are currently "detaining" two grain ships from North Korea to use them for grain parity. For North Korea, how is the sixth brother going to look at it?

After reading it, Zhang Rui frowned slightly. As more and more affairs were handled, Zhang Rui's eyebrows even wrinkled.

At this time, Zhang Rui sat down with a letter paper. Picked up the brush on the desktop and glued the ink in the inkstone, and wrote quickly:

The offensive cannot be stopped, and a small number of soldiers and horses can be left to supervise the relief of local officials. As for the profiteers, they are allowed to act cheaply. North Korean grain ships, don't care, just pay at a low price.

As Zhang Rui quickly finished reading it, he folded the letter and handed it to Liu Shishi, and asked him to arrange for someone to send it back to Li Guozhong.

"Taiping, go and get Qin Yan for me." Zhang Rui seemed to suddenly remember something.

"Yes, Sixth Brother. I'll arrange for someone to go over to find Head Qin. Chen Taiping replied.

After a while

"My subordinates have seen Sixth Brother." Qin Yan came quickly, gave a military salute and said.

"Commander Qin, have those squires and landlords in Chizhou sent all the grain over?" Zhang Rui asked.

"Yes, Sixth Brother. They've all been shipped. Qin Yan replied respectfully.

No wonder Zhang Rui was nervous. With the rapid advance of the anti-bandit army, the pressure on the logistics of the anti-bandit army is getting heavier and heavier. In order to ensure that the war could advance more quickly, Zhang Rui had to adopt the method of eating as much as possible. Only in this way can we reduce the pressure on logistics and transport food, so that they can transport more weapons, artillery, guns, ammunition, and other combat materials.

This method is not necessarily good, and it is easy to put the army in danger of running out of food. It is precisely because of this that Zhang Rui had to wait in Chizhou and stock up on enough grain and grass.

said that it was to eat the local area, but in fact, the main thing was to ask those landlords and squires to pay for food. This method was naturally unfair to the local landlords and squires, but compared to their own army. Zhang Rui could only whisper sorry.

Money and food never fall from the sky.

Since you want money and food, you can only ask those who have it. Ordinary people can't cut a few taels of meat even if they use a knife. Moreover, Zhang Rui did not ask them for nothing, this is just "borrowing", and there will be interest to repay them.

In fact, it is not Zhang Ruiduo's "benevolence and righteousness", for those Han people who have not been traitors, their money and food are not easy to come by. As for those who refuse to cooperate at all, they have no choice but to make an example of the monkeys.

You must know that the landlords and squires of this period had the absolute right to speak in front of the local people. Sometimes the orders of the court are not necessarily better than their words.

In order to tie more landlords and squires to the chariot of the bandit army, Zhang Rui's method has to be said to be a good thing, although it is not bright.

Victory over the Manchu Qing, everything is easy to say. Invincible to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is no money and food, and he seeks more blessings.

For this reason, the local landlords and squires had to cooperate with the propaganda team of the anti-bandit army to recruit soldiers.

Suddenly, the recruitment of the bandit army became much easier than it had been...