Zuo Liangyujun, from the commander Zuo Liangyu, to Zuo Mengeng, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, Lu Guangzu all the way to the officers at the general and general levels, just as Shi Lang said, was emotional.

Four or five thousand prisoners of the Left Army have become the behemoth of the ** Zuo Liangyu Army.

The captives were pulled out of the cabin by the soldiers of Shi Lang's sailors and land battalions, tied face to face, and tied to their feet in heavy bamboo cages, which were full of pebbles. (Someone once proposed to tie cannonballs to his feet, but Shi Lang knocked a big bag on his head, "Cannonballs don't cost money?") Cannonballs are for war! How can it be used in such a useless place?! So the stone took the place of the cannonball. Then, he was pulled to the side of the boat and kicked down the river.

Among the four or five thousand left armies, the elite soldiers and horses of the inner battalion who could be selected for the family were cleaned up by Shi Lang within half a day. However, there are also a bit of after-effects.

"Uncle, I let them catch this fish before the execution, so you can eat it with confidence."

That night, when Shi Lang invited Li Peiting to dinner, Li Peiting looked at Yusheng and his brother's porridge in front of him and hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to move his chopsticks. It was Shi Lang's explanation that dispelled the doubts in his heart.

It's not just Li Peiting alone, on the river two or three hundred miles below Xiaogu Mountain, the saying that he has not eaten river fish for three years has spread widely. It can be regarded as a major contribution made by Shi Lang to the construction of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River system. Just like the female reporter surnamed Chai who shouted under the banner of environmentalism and asked Academician Ding why he did not reduce emissions according to Western standards, she is a hero of environmental protection. (Well, it seems that female reporters have also been sensitive hot search words recently!) ）

Such a cruel and tyrannical way to solve the thousands of prisoners of war of the Left Army was naturally seen clearly by the spies of the Left Army and the Donglin Hidden Pile lurking near the camp of Xiaogushan. In addition to these peeping eyes, there are also ships going up and down on the river that have anchored and anchored due to the temporary closure of the river, and these boatmen will also spread this scene quickly on both sides of the Yangtze River.

In order to show off his martial arts, Shi Lang also imitated the practices of the ancients. After killing 400,000 Zhao soldiers in Changpingkeng, Wu Anjun released 240 baby soldiers from the Zhao army and asked them to bring this terrible news back to China.

Shi Lang also concocted the same method. Dozens of young ones were selected from the captives, their right hands were chopped off, and then they were put back on the opposite bank, and ordered them to return to the left army themselves.

For Zuo Liangyu's army, which is tyrannical and murderous, and takes burning, killing, adultery, and plundering as pleasure, it is useless to teach them the great principles of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and filial piety. They advocate violence. They will only be honest when they find out that the other person is more violent and brutal than they are.

As a result, after Zuo Liangyu's army stopped for more than ten days, Hao Shaoqi and Yuan Zongdi's brigade behind it were killed, and Li Zicheng's main force also began to enter the Huguang area from Guanzhong.

-for-tat, the Nanyue Army and the troops and horses controlled by the General's Mansion also began to march westward. At the same time, the General's Office and the Cabinet jointly issued a document prohibiting merchants from importing grain, gunpowder, weapons, and medicines into the areas controlled by the Left Army. Military and economic means are both pronged.

In fact, the trade blockade and embargo against Zuo Liangyu does not need to be such a big move, just Li Shouhan only needs to say hello to Nanzhong Trading Company and give an order. However, there was no joint document between the shogunate and the cabinet to be above board and powerful.

Watching the soup in the pot tumbling, with the thinly sliced fish slices undulating, Li Peiting and Shi Lang were also churning in their hearts. Both of them knew what the other was thinking, but they both hoped that the other would be able to say what they wanted to hear first.

"Honorable Marquis, you want to provoke the left army, and now you have achieved this goal. But what is the purpose of provoking the Left Army? After a while, Li Peiting found a reason and asked questions in the tone of an elder.

"Uncle, you followed your father all the way from the root of Hejing to your current position. This step by step to this day, have you not found a single problem? ”

"What?"

"Since the first time Chongzhen entered the Central Plains King Qin in the ninth year, although he has been added to the rank all the way, if the Ming court has nothing to do, the members of the court will do everything possible to calculate the father and my Nanyue army. Not to mention anything else, Wu Liuqi's younger brother was this group of birdmen who dug the corner of my Nanyue Army, and finally died tragically in Jinzhou City. ”

"So, you can't let the Ming court have a peaceful day?"

"Exactly! Every time my father was promoted and held greater authority, it happened to be the day when the Ming court encountered difficulties! Either Dongnu is rampant, or Li Chuang is powerful. Therefore, if we want to make my father go further today, we can only make a fuss about Zuo Liangyu, a birdman! ”

Shi Lang and Li Peiting's words are already extremely naked. Even the hideous face is poor. Li Shouhan was already a general of Liang Guogong and a general, and at the same time, he also had the official positions of four governors, including the Governor Nanzhong Soldiers and Horses and Money, the Governor Liangguang Soldiers and Horses and Horses, the Governor Shandong Denglai Soldiers and Horses and Horses, the Governor Biyuan, and the Gannan Soldiers and Horses and Grains. In the current Ming court, some people have secretly called him the reincarnation of Cao Cao.

If, as Shi Lang said, let Li Shouhan go further, then, in addition to being crowned king, only the chair under Zhu Yousong's ass at the moment can barely be regarded as the target.

"Exactly! The eastward march of the left army is the first step! If he doesn't go east, he will be eaten by Li Chuang. To the east, our army will destroy the rebels in the name of escaping from the battle, or even colluding with Li Chuang! wiped out the left army, and those who were in the court and their father's handsome yin and yang were weird, and they didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore! ”

"Not bad! These people in the old Zhu family are all pigs! It's all about eating and not remembering! As you said, the more the situation decays, the greater the authority of the lord. Otherwise, they will calculate the lord! ”

"Over the years, my father has endured all kinds of humiliation and burdens, and he has tried his best to keep the Central Plains from collapsing, but these people have all kinds of loyalty and patriotism in their mouths, and all kinds of male thieves and female prostitutes in their hearts! So, we just overturned the table, and don't play with all the little tricks and actions under the table! Pull the horse and play brightly! ”

Shi Lang and Li Peiting's words, if they are heard by others, they will definitely be accused of rebellion against the nine clans. However, the current situation is different from when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were in the court. Don't say that they are surrounded by Shi Lang and Li Peiting's henchmen, even if there are fans of Dongchang and Jinyiwei's beating incidents, who would dare to do something to these two?

The two bold guys, who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, exchanged opinions with each other at this moment.

As we said before, there are also many factions in the Nanyue Army. According to the attitude towards the Central Plains, there is a so-called distinction between the South Central faction and the inland faction. Li Huayu, the eldest prince who has died in battle, is the leading figure of the Nanzhong faction, and this group of people advocates that the Central Plains is the source of labor and population in Nanzhong, the origin of raw materials and the sales channel of products. As for the rest, thank you for not being sensitive.

The mainland faction advocates that the whole world is not the king's land. However, this king should be the commander of our Nanyue Army. The Central Plains should also be under the leadership of our lord. And Li Peiting, Li Peilin's brothers, and many Nanzhong elders, most of the first generation of Nanzhong immigrants are from this faction.

Although the attitude towards the Central Plains is different, these two factions both have fanatical motivation for Li Shouhan to go to the next level.

"Be an emperor! The lord must be the emperor to be the right way of heaven! ”

This is their unanimous opinion. The difference between them is only the question of where Li Shouhan called the emperor and ascended the throne. The mainland faction stubbornly insisted that the lord must ascend the throne and become emperor in Nanjing and Beijing in order to be barely worthy of the status of the lord. And the Nanzhong faction said, the emperor! Where can't you be? Guangzhou can also ascend the throne and become an emperor! He is the emperor in Guangzhou, governs the land of the two Guangzhous, and commands the world. Although the territory is not large, it does not affect the lord to rule the world with the dignity of the ninety-five. If the lord doesn't want to be in Guangzhou, then let's go back to Nanzhong!

"It is useless to just destroy the Left Army and leave the Lin Party in the Middle East of the DPRK without a knife to strengthen their courage. At least not enough. "Ginger is still old and spicy. Li Peiting slowly said what he was thinking.

"You can't let these people in the court rely on it! You can't let the imperial court be quiet! ”

What he said was relied on, and what Shi Lang understood was that he couldn't let the Donglin party in the court have a murderous knife in his hands!

The reason for the lack of authority of the imperial courts in the past dynasties is that there is no dragon slaying knife in his hand to deter the Quartet, and the money bag in his waist is empty.

In this regard, we might as well take the Qing Dynasty as an example. After the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army, although the Hunan army gradually replaced the position of the green battalion, the Qing court could still ignore the Hunan army before the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp were completely destroyed by Li Xiucheng. So much so that the Hunan army was an unidentified black household for a long time, and even the commander Zeng Guofan himself did not know what he was doing and what his official identity was.

However, when the two battalions in the south and north of the Yangtze River were destroyed, the status of the Xianghuai Army was suddenly improved, so that the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were the territory of the Xianghuai Army. However, at this time, there was still a sharp sword in the hands of the imperial court that could be used to strengthen courage, which was the Mongolian Eight Banners horse team led by the prince of Horqin, Seng Greenqin. However, when the monk went to the high-rise village of Caozhou Mansion in Shandong Province and met Zhang Pifang, a soldier of the Anhui Twist Army, this sharp sword no longer existed. From then on, the power of the Xianghuai Army could not be contained. Even in the Gengzi period, openly confronting the will of the imperial court and engaging in the southeast mutual protection movement, Cixi and Guangxu, who were far away in Xi'an, had no choice.

Although Li Peiting does not know the story of a certain historical time and space hundreds of years later, the historical materials of the rise and fall of the successive dynasties of our Celestial Dynasty are piled up, and all kinds of tricks are not uncommon.

"Zuo Liangyu wants to get rid of it, and Jiangbei can't be calm."

Li Peiting took a sip of yusheng porridge and said this sentence in a good time.

In fact, the situation in Jiangbei is also a mess without Li Peiting stirring up the situation.

According to Fan Xiaozeng's plan, the three cavalry generals of Ma Harrier Wang Fuchen, Tuha, and Ekui were responsible for copying Er Liu's rear road, and the Yimeng Garrison Brigade was responsible for the task of frontal attack.

The remnants of the defeated army scattered and fled, and Er Liu could only flee to Yangzhou with a small number of elites in embarrassment, and complained to Lu Mahong, Liao Dongzhi, Wu Xing and others stationed here about the crimes of poisoning the good people and attacking friendly troops. didn't mention how they usually treated Shi Kefa without pretending to be colorful, and often wrote to Shi Kefa, asking him to allocate military salaries, money, food, equipment, and so on.

Shi Kefa didn't care about it, not only wrote to Lu Mahong, asking her to restrain her subordinates, not to do things that are happy to relatives and enemies, and stop the military action against Erliu soldiers and horses, but also allowed Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo to station near Yangzhou to collect stragglers and recover their vitality.

It's not that Shi Kefa is magnanimous, it's that he's really incompetent. In the face of a complex military situation, inaction is not only powerless, he is playing a destructive role. In a sense, he kidnapped the people of Yangzhou. If it weren't for the final death, the traitor's hat wouldn't have been able to run. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that his younger brothers had become veterans of the Five Dynasties (Chongzhen, Yongchang, Hongguang, Shunzhi, and Kangxi Five Dynasties, and, according to a certain family, it was all about the Kangxi Dynasty to erect a monument to Shi Kefa, but it was all about the Kangxi Dynasty), he would not have such a high evaluation. Historically, he was a waste who could do nothing but commit suicide, and of course there will be no progress now. Although Er Liu is already a defeated soldier, Shi Kefa still does not have enough ability to suppress them, not to mention, in terms of what Wu Xinglu Ma Hong is doing so far, Shi Kefa is not without sympathy for Er Liu.

At least, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo were stationed near Yangzhou, and he felt that at least when facing Liao Dongzhi and others, he still had some confidence in his heart. Therefore, although he looked down on Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo in his heart, Shi Kefa could only pinch his nose and agree to the stationing of Erliu, and at the same time sent an inscription to Nanjing, condemning Lu Ma Hong and Wu Xingxing for lawlessness and arbitrary behavior, hoping that the emperor could let Liang Guogong stop it, and at the same time, return the prefectures and counties that were snatched from Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, return the captured soldiers of the two subordinates, hand over the looted equipment, horses and other items, and order each army to return to its original defensive ground.

Regarding Shi Kefa's inscription, Jiang Yueguang, a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Duo, a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion University, Zhang Shenyan, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Zongzhou, the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi, Zhao Zhilong, and others immediately received a treasure, and immediately asked for a court discussion in the name of the cabinet.

As a result, the cabinet of the Hongguang Imperial Court, the six ministries and nine secretaries gathered in the east and west courts, waiting for the upper court.

The courtiers waited for the leakage of five colders. In the cold season of spring, it is early in the morning, many civil and military officials gather in the east and west courts, and the morning breeze sweeps over the empty field, like a knife, but this pain is also not experienced by others.

Things gather like like, and the sincerity of Bo Liu Kongzhao and the Xinjian Bowang family, the Huaiyuan Marquis Chang family, the Xu family of the garrison mansion and other nobles naturally gathered in one place. Although the robe on his body is brilliant, the itching of his hands and feet is a real hidden pain.

If they were to change places, these noble ministers would have to have a stove and foot stove in their hands, and even a glove or something like that. However, how can the court discuss how to dress in accordance with the regulations? Aren't you afraid that those crows are looking for bones in the egg custard?

No way, bear with me! Wait a while to announce that we will go to court, and it will be better. Everyone comforted each other.

In the distance, the sound of hooves was bursting, but it was the pillar of the heart of the nobles, and Li Shouhan, the Duke of Liang, arrived under the escort of his own soldiers.

As a meritorious hero, Li Shouhan received many rewards, and the reward to Chaoma was the most insignificant. At this time, he was under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, and he was extremely conspicuous in the crowd.

However, what attracted more attention was the fleeting bursts of white gas and the aroma that attracted everyone's sense of smell from the continuous rise from his entourage.

"What new tricks do we have for this Liang Guogong?"

"This thief! What are you going to do before you go to the house? ”

Although the nobles and the Donglin Zhengren gentlemen expressed themselves in different ways, they were all quite interested in the scene in Li Shouhan's team.

That's a couple of picks. If these adults and nobles can occasionally look at the street scene among the sedan chairs, they will know that they are no different from the wonton picks and noodle stalls on the street. A bamboo pick, with a briquette stove placed under one end, on top of which was a copper pot with a wooden lid that could not hide the rising heat, and the white smoke rising from time to time above the team's heads was the rising water vapor.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is also a hard time to wait here for His Majesty to summon you. These subordinates of a certain family all said that you are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, but you don't dare to make a mistake. ”

Li Shouhan, who jumped off the horse, shook the sea dragon skin cloak on his body, made a circle to the four directions, and expressed his enthusiasm to the noble officials present.

Six pairs of picks were lined up and presented in front of everyone.

The style of the pickers is the same. One end is the stove, and the other end is all kinds of ingredients and ingredients. Four pairs of wonton picks, the other end of the pick is a drawer type, the wrapped wonton is pulled open and the drawer boss gently wipes all the flat first layer, and the second and third floors are respectively stacked with neatly stacked bamboo chopsticks and porcelain bowls and spoons. The top layer of the pick is the boss's operating countertop, a huge porcelain basin holds half a pot of wonton filling, pink and white, and you can vaguely see tender green shallots and parsley mixed in it, and the boxy wonton skin is neatly stacked. In several bowls of different sizes on the side, there are all kinds of egg skins, seaweed, shrimp skins and other things. There are also a few small porcelain jars, which contain very valuable, pepper noodles, chili oil and other things that have become popular among wealthy families in Nanjing in recent years.

The other two picks are Baoying long fish noodles.

In the huge drying plate, the wild yellow eel, which has been deboned and fried golden in an oil pan, is full of plates. And in the steaming soup pot, ready to welcome the arrival of noodles.

What could be more tempting than eating a bowl of hot wontons with hot noodle soup when it's bitterly cold? Soon, the nobles and military attachés each served a bowl, exchanged a few polite words with Li Shouhan, and began to drink the hot soup with embarrassment.

The pickers who came were all good hands, although there were many people who ate, but the people who took care of the stall were able to cope with it, the left hand pulled a corner of a skin, and the wooden stick in the right hand turned slightly in the meat filling, and the filling on the head of the stick was lightly drummed into the wonton skin in the left palm a few times, and the loose grip was loosely grasped, and the wonton became a shape with six or seven points of strength. The boss tossed it aside, and soon it was piled up into a bowl.

The wooden lid of the pot can't hide the rising heat, and after the water boils, scoop a spoonful of cold water and pour it directly, and the wontons will come out of the pot after boiling the water twice; If it weren't for the yellow glazed tiles on the east-west facing houses, which gradually reflected the sunlight in the morning light, it might have made people question whether this was a palace or a bazaar.

It was Liu Zongzhou, the imperial history of the left capital, who saw such a scene, and couldn't help but be so angry that his beard was curled, "What kind of system, what kind of system!" ”

"Lord Zongxian, but do you have any intention of impeaching Li?" Qian Qianyi, who was standing beside Liu Zongzhou, watched coldly for a long time, and asked in a gloomy manner.

"Exactly! Such a ridiculous act, not only him, but all the officials who eat and drink here are among the impeachments! ”

"Lord Zongxian, the lower officials advise you, forget it! You are impeaching him, and there is a law in his great law that you are not allowed to eat and drink here, how can you refute him? ”

"He shouldn't be blamed for such nonsense?!"

"Lord Zongxian, the so-called injustice will kill oneself. I'll just wait to see how long he can do the opposite. ”

"Humph! The former, his son-in-law and subordinates slaughtered friendly troops in Susong, and thousands of soldiers were buried in the belly of the fish, and now, his widow and subordinates attacked friendly troops between Jianghuai. ”

The two of them asked and answered on the side, and their words were clearly heard by several officials around them who were holding porcelain bowls and tasting long fish noodles. The speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention. Suddenly, these people thought of what Shi Lang did in Susong, and even more thought of the folk saying that they didn't eat river fish for three years in Anqing, and looked at the shredded eel in the bowl in the milky white soup, which looked so abrupt.

Thinking of that terrible legend suddenly makes people churn inside. But he didn't dare to spit it out, so he could only endure all kinds of churning and nausea in his abdomen.

In the court room, Li Shouhan had a spring breeze on his face, talking with his colleagues about the recent military situation. While sandwiching the long fish noodles, he said that God has the virtue of a good life, although the sin of the left rebellion is not forgiven, but its department was also the master of the Ming Dynasty, and there were many people who were coerced by it, so they were released on the spot by the river.

The letter sent by the sailor said that the prisoners of war of the Left Army were released on the spot and let them cross the river on their own. As for why he cut his hands back, he was afraid that the left side would burst out and hurt people, after all, there were many thieves in the left part. Drowned, that's because they themselves are not well watered! ”

These words were clearly heard by Zhao Zhilong, who was standing at the door of the court.

"Fuck you! People can't be so shameless, right? Who doesn't know that your two sons-in-law are both demon kings who kill people without blinking? They are all murderous at every turn! When he was in Liaodong, he was a prisoner of Edonnu as a paving stone! ”