Mrs. Gao is not Li Zicheng's original wife. Therefore, he is only thirty years old. However, in the era of the late Ming Dynasty, women in their thirties, under the aesthetics dominated by scholars, can no longer be regarded as, but a bit of old pearl yellow.

(These damn pedophiles, Lolicon!) Gluttonous creatures! Where did the unkind author beat his chest again. "I'm a mother! Who do you say is a pedophile, lolicon? You've been scolding Huai for so long, and I haven't said anything about you! Now you kick your nose in the face and bully Lao Tzu?! Someone was about to break into the door of the author's house, and the one who had been eating braised pork at the author's house hurriedly stopped: "Sir, you are angry, he didn't insinuate you, he said that he was the guys from Donglin!" ”）

However, in the eyes of Li Shouhan's wives, Mrs. Gao's danger factor is extremely high. is heroic and sassy, and it is better than Aolei Yilan. The level of decisiveness in handling government affairs is far from being left behind by Li Muhua, who is just a big Tusi family. And the traditional virtues of gentleness and virtuousness can be compared with Yan Meier. As for the physiognomy, there have been Han folk songs of Mizhi's mother-in-law Suide since ancient times, and this Mrs. Gao is naturally one of the best. What's even more rare is that after years of fighting and a lot of exercise, she has maintained her figure very well, which is quite in line with Li Shouhan's aesthetic views.

"Eldest sister, this Mrs. Gao is a little like me!" Ao Lei Yilan was straightforward and fast-talking, and she could see at a glance what Mrs. Gao had in common with her. On the way back, he smiled and expressed his opinion to Yan Mei'er.

"Humph! It's also a bit similar to those Tianzhu and goblins from heaven in the house! Look at her waist, legs and feet, she is also a handful of age, how can this be?! In his sedan chair, Li Muhua no longer knew that he had knocked over a few old vinegar jars in Shanxi. She knows that Li Shouhan is famous for not being picky and taboo when it comes to women. It's just cold and unscrupulous. Inside the house, there are already a dazzling array of women, hair, skin color, pupil color, language, food, clothing, religious beliefs, all kinds of things.

"You can't stop it horizontally and vertically! If he wants to take it, then take it! Li Muhua also knows that in this house, she is already isolated and marginalized. The background of the Li Dynasty not only did not bless her, but made many people wary of her openly and secretly. Especially after Li Huayu's death, the wind direction of the inner house, like the vestibule, has undergone tremendous changes, and Li Huabao's market has been bullish all the way. And Yan Mei'er was originally the owner of this inner house, and now, many of the children she raised under her knees, and the orphans she adopted have reached the age of going out to run errands, and her prestige and momentum have reached the peak. Thinking of this, Li Muhua's heart was sour.

However, now that Mrs. Gao is here, there is also a huge group behind her. If Li Shouhan takes her into the room, and everyone focuses on her Li Muhua, it will inevitably be diverted a lot by Mrs. Gao. And she, if Li Shouhan also performs to Li Shouhan's satisfaction in the process of accepting Mrs. Gao into the room, then, as a "jealous" wife, her status in Li Shouhan's heart is bound to rise a lot. This business, in her Li Muhua, there is no loss! That's it! Li Muhua secretly made up his mind.

In the front hall, as the helmsman who took hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and hundreds of thousands of dependents to the Nanyue Army, although Mrs. Gao was jointly invited by Yan Meier and other female relatives to drink tea and talk, but in terms of etiquette, Li Shouhan must meet him. This meeting is actually where the drama lies.

"Madame has worked hard all the way from Gannan to Guangzhou." It was in this nourishing greeting that the talks began.

"Hey! Along the way, there are thoroughfares, and the prefectures, counties, towns and towns where you pass through are provided with food, firewood and grass houses. Every twenty or thirty miles, there is a post station on the side of the avenue for resting. It seemed to us that it was a heavenly day that we could never have imagined. This time going south, it is like playing in the mountains and rivers. ”

Mrs. Gao's words are not exaggerated. In her eyes, this trip to the south was much more relaxed and pleasant than any previous march. You don't have to worry about whether you will encounter resistance at the pass ahead, you don't have to worry about whether there are ambushes in the mountains and forests, you don't have to worry about whether there are enough boats at the ferries along the river, you don't have to worry about people's meals a day, you don't have to worry about the drinking water, forage, beans, salt, etc. for mules and horses. Just take your men to supervise the march, and take care of those dependents who have never been far away.

"Despite this, Madame can control these hundreds of thousands of people in an orderly manner, without any chaos, and the means are clever!" Although the road traffic system from southern Gan to Guangdong is a political matter that Li Shouhan is quite comfortable with, it can allow tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to march hundreds of miles between day and night without reaching the end of the so-called strong crossbow. Fifty miles and fight for profit, then the general will be on the top, and his law will be half to; Thirty miles and for profit, two-thirds to. However, Mrs. Gao led more than 100,000 old and weak women and children, as well as those wounded soldiers and sick people in the army, and the disabled people came from thousands of miles away. Although there were soldiers and horses sent by the Nanyue Army to escort them and coordinate and liaise along the way, these more than 100,000 people went all the way without any major chaos.

"Compared with the marshal's beloved son-in-law who calms Jiangxi while talking and laughing, so that we can take refuge under the wings and survive in order to make contributions to the country again, this means is just a superficial technique." Mrs. Gao is also a cheerful person, and she got to the point in a few words.

After Shi Lang got Li Shouhan's will, he also received a letter from Li Huamei's family, knowing that the handling of this matter was just to raise it high and put it down gently, not to mention, he finally calculated the account and upgraded it to a level! At most, among the troops of the eight towns and 20 brigades that were incorporated into the Dashun Army, there were two more words in the official titles of the commanders at the town and brigade levels, and on the customs defense, "acting." It also means temporary agency. But it's not a big deal. At that time, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang gave Li Chenggui of North Korea the title of "the right to know the state affairs of Korea". It means that he is temporarily in charge of North Korea's affairs. But this does not affect the sticks in the slightest to apply all kinds of grease and powder to their kings in Korean dramas. What Da Chang Jinli honors the emperor, and the male protagonist calls himself me, and so on, abound. Don't they know that when Korea becomes the Korean Empire, and the king can call himself the emperor, it is not far from the bad luck of Korea?

As a result, those Hao Shaoqi, who had been given the position of acting chief soldier of a certain town in the Nanyue Army, looked at the new look of their subordinates one by one, and they were all very proud and eager to try! After the preliminary reorganization of the Dashun Battalion of the Southern Guangdong Army, it can be regarded as a full man, and the family members have been sent to a safe place, and they have no worries, it is the time to show their skills and earn more points in front of their new boss!

However, as a result, the situation in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River suddenly changed greatly!

Gao Yigong and Hao Shaoqi led the troops to besiege Jiujiang. Liu Tichun besieged Nanchang. Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu led their troops west, and with the help of Shi Lang's artillery team, they conquered Changsha in one fell swoop. The governor, the chief soldier and others who had already been surrendered and played the banner of the Qing Dynasty were beheaded and displayed to the public. Dang Shousu and Zhang Nai, on the other hand, galloped north and went straight to Wuchang, claiming to capture Wuchang as a gift to the Duke of the Kingdom! And Shi Lang himself, under the will of Li Shouhan, moved his troops to the east, and could enter Zhejiang at any time from the direction of Jingdezhen, Lead Mountain, and Yushan, and stabbed the Qing army from behind, and joined the Nanyue army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang under the city of Hangzhou! Yuan Zongdi, Luo Hu and others, under the unified command of Shi Lang, reorganized troops and horses in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and responded back and forth. Always ready to send reinforcements everywhere and expand the results!

As a result, the negotiation between Inspector Hong and the treasurer of Lin Da in Nanjing naturally could not go on. Not only could the negotiations go on, but he himself was ordered by the regent three times a day, summoning him to rush to Beijing. Before leaving, he and Lin Kun, the shopkeeper, bid farewell to each other at the wharf outside Nanjing.

"Mr. Lin, you and I have fellowship, and we can be regarded as our own masters, but we are quite deed. However, the front-line generals were encouraged by their subordinates and became angry. These things are not up to you and me to decide. I can't say, after a while, you and I will still see each other. Don't leave it at that! ”

"The old man has said something. Although it is said that the two countries are competing with each other. But between breaths, the famous city was lost, and hundreds of thousands of teachers were lost. It's hard to accept who you change! If it weren't for the old man to help him, I am afraid that Lin's head would already be hanging high at the gate of the city like Wu Zixu! ”

"Huh! Wu Zixu was forced to kill himself and asked his family to hang his head at the gate of Gusu City, in order to see the Yue army enter Gusu City to prove that he was right. Sir, you won't be watching my Qing army enter and leave Nanjing City, right? This time, I went back to see Wei Rugong and asked Dai Hong to greet him. said that the old people of Beijing still remembered the old love. If he is willing to call off the army in the north and south, he will still be the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, and he can govern the southwest and southeast with the gift of the Son of Heaven! However, this banner of the Zhu Ming Dynasty asked him not to fight again. Isn't it good to change to the Li family's own banner, and I am in the north and south of the Qing Dynasty, and the two countries are kings, and they will always be brothers' states? ”

What Hong Chengchou said was the basic conditions that he and Lin Kun had repeatedly fought lawsuits these days, tried each other, and finally came out. The Qing court recognized Li Shouhan as the lord of the south and the son of heaven, but for the Qing court, you can only be the so-called king of the Southern Han. Then the two countries recognize each other's legal status, conduct trade, and so on. However, how to divide the border and territory is a substantive issue. Lin Kun has always been stubbornly bitten, and in the southeast, the Huai River must be guarded, and the Huai River must have the concept of the Yellow River, requiring that the northern border should be at least on the south bank of the Yellow River. At the same time, Xiangyang, Wuchang, Chongqing and other places in the upper reaches should also be controlled by the Nanyue Army. "Otherwise, how can my Lord sleep in peace? Your army can go down the river to Jinling in one day and one night, and at that time, how will my lord deal with himself? ”

But now, none of these problems are a problem.

Lin Kun pointed to the Qing soldiers and horses who were marching as a whole team by the riverside, and were driving eastward, with a chill in his smile: "Boss, I'm afraid that these people won't be able to see us!" ”

These soldiers and horses of the Qing army heading for Songjiang Mansion were sent by the new Pingnan General Jun Wang Le Ke Dehun, preparing to attack Songjiang Mansion and Shanghai County, and drove Li Shouhan's troops and horses into the sea from under the noses of the Qing army in Nanjing!

At the same time, inside and outside Nanjing, the shaving order that had been implemented during Duoduo's tenure was even more intensified. In addition to the fixed head shaving picks in the bustling streets, there are also soldiers escorting the streets and alleys and villages to search for those treacherous people who have evaded the shaving order!

Shaving the head and picking the head, soliciting customers with two different things, in the city with a small wooden stick; In the countryside, an iron tool shaped like tweezers is used, which is called "Calling the Head"; When you pinch your hand and open and close it, it makes a sound of "choking, choking", which is called "calling your head".

The shaving picks we see in museums and old photos are divided into two parts, with a red lacquer cage in front of it, a small charcoal stove in the middle, and a pick of water sitting on it. It's no surprise that a washbasin hangs next to the cage and is designed for shampooing hair. The strange thing is to erect a flagpole, and there is a practice fight; The form of this flagpole is exactly the same as that erected in front of the yamen; It's just specific and subtle.

In the back part is a small red cabinet about two feet long and one foot wide, in which the head shaving equipment is hidden. This is the customer's seat, but in the beginning, it was the seat of the person with the shaved head; The shaved person is not allowed to sit.

It is indeed a fact that the flag man "shaved his head by order", which is quite majestic. Roughly everywhere I went, I called the men from a village and a township with a "call head", and the flags were inspected one by one, and those who had been shaved naturally retreated; The unshaved are assembled on standby. Then "waiting for the edict" held a razor in his hand, and sat on the small red cabinet with a golden knife. And the one who is shaved must kneel before him and bow his head to be shaved: if he disobeys the order and does not shave, he is immediately caught by the soldiers who accompany him, and the Dharma is corrected on the spot, and his head is hung on the concrete and tiny flagpole in front of the shaved head.

This is the so-called "hair without head".

More often than not, they are apportioned and looted in various state capitals. This can be regarded as a much gentler means, and it is more optimistic about which rich family, those wolf-like ghosts under the Qing army, (forgive the unkind author for these guys who first practiced the curve to save the country and protect my Chinese Taoism to find a name that he thinks is more appropriate.) A ghost who fights for the tiger. They will roar and loot the rich family, not to mention the grain, silver, gold and silver, not to mention the clothes and furniture in the house, even the flowers and trees planted in the courtyard, and the bonsai will not be left. The old and weak women in the family, the maids and the women, all robbed and sold the price, and the income was naturally used as salary. Of course, if you are lucky, you may be favored by the generals and stay in your hands to warm the bed or honor your superiors.

In fact, this kind of thing that makes the "people" resentment boil and kills chickens and eggs is something that Hong Chengchou, who is about to go north to see and report on his work, does not want to see. In his opinion, this is undoubtedly to drive the fish from the abyss and the birds from the bushes. The Jiangnan Shilin officials and gentry, who were originally a little dissatisfied with the Li family's father and son, turned into haters of the Qing army. Originally! The Li family's father and son are just collecting taxes and food, although the amount they want is a little higher. But after all, there are rules to follow according to the ancestral system. Moreover, the Li family is to give you silver dollars with one hand and collect Tongbao from you with the other, everyone has been doing business with the Li family and Nanzhong businessmen all these years. It is also a matter of course to pay some taxes to the Li family's father and son. However, this group of pigtailed soldiers came up and started to rob directly! And it looks so ugly when you grab it!

However, Hong Chengchou can't help it. As the No. 2 person in the Qing army in Jiangnan, he is also aware of the current situation. The situation in Jiangxi collapsed, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of King Jin and his two men all collapsed in October. Shi Lang is really Li Shouhan's fast son-in-law, who can do what people can't do, think about things that people dare not think, and contain hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Dashun Army, which can be regarded as a mortal enemy of the Ming army. In this way, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, which might have been fought back and forth by the Qing Army, the Dashun Army, and the Nanyue Army, gradually became the territory of the Nanyue Army!

Faced with such a situation, Hong Chengchou could not say that the approach of Pingnan General Luck Dehun was wrong. After all, in the west, hundreds of thousands of thieves were attacking the city like wolves under the command of Shi Lang, and gradually formed a trend of burning the prairie in the vast land of Huguang. In the face of this fire, it is undoubtedly the best strategy to simply drive the soldiers and horses to fight against it.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly the right choice to raise as much military salaries, grain, and grass as possible in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River to first stabilize the morale of the army. Let the eight masters under him have silver in their pockets, and they will have the strength to charge into battle and attack the city in exchange for more silver. Otherwise, everything is out of the question.

However, looking at the map of the Nanyue Army once again on the ground of Huguang, and all the way to the west, all the way to the north, threatening the Yangtze River, not to mention, the west of the road is even more soldiers pointed directly at Xiangxi, if the remnants of the thieves collude with the remnants of the group of scumbags of the western thief Zhang Xianzhong, I am afraid that the Yangtze River line will be more difficult to clean up!

Therefore, from a military point of view, it is undoubtedly correct to implement the shaving order in Jiangnan and vigorously raise military salaries, and temporarily take a defensive position against the Jiangxi soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army, which are in full morale in the direction of Huguang, and to take an offensive posture in the Shanghai County Trade Zone of the Nanyue Army in Songjiang Prefecture to the east.

You have relied on the benefits of the Yangtze River waterway to turn the Yangtze River waterway into a convenient food route for you. Ship the grain, grass and ordnance hoarded in Shanghai to the west, then I will destroy your supply base Shanghai! Let you fight with me on the same level! When the time comes, see who has more soldiers and who is more powerful!