When Li Shouhan woke up from his coma, he was already in Shanghai.

It's not just that he arrived in Shanghai, looking out of the window, on the Huangpu River, the sails are like clouds, the masts are like forests, the flags are like the sea, and the rigging is like hemp. From the wharves on both sides of the Huangpu River to the road to the business district and the county seat of Shanghai, the open space, among the ancestral halls, temples, and Taoist temples, was full of the Nanyue army.

Compared with the prosperous and ever-changing business district, the county town of Shanghai, which is adjacent to him, seems a little depressed and devastation. The county seat of Shanghai was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was originally used to "prepare for the Japanese", the city circumference is nine miles, the city wall is two zhang high and four ends, the size of the six city gates, the four gates of the southeast and northwest, named Chaozong, across the sea, Yifeng, Yanhai, in addition there are two gates of treasure belt and Chaoyang, commonly known as the small east gate, the small south gate. Originally, it was also a rich and prosperous place in the southeast, but in these years, a large number of wealthy merchants and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River brought countless gold and silver property to Shanghai to take refuge under the protection of the armed forces of the Southern Guangdong Army. Although it is beyond the reach of others, it is still a little far from the comparison.

Li Shouhan's line was set up in Tianhou Temple.

Knowing that his father had woken up, Li Huamei, Li Huabao and others came to the sickbed to greet him as soon as possible.

"Several doctors have said that my father's illness is that he is worried about state affairs, and he was overworked some time ago, and after learning that Duoduo went south and the situation in Jiangbei was eroding, he was in a hurry. It caused vomiting blood and fainting. ”

As the eldest daughter, Li Huamei naturally has the right to speak. In fact, everyone also knows that Li Shouhan's illness had the root of the disease as early as Tashan, when Li Huamei knocked down the flagpole with a cannon, and Li Shouhan fainted in a hurry. In the past few years, it was Li Zicheng who captured Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide, and it was Dolgon who led the army to fight with Li Zicheng in Shanhaiguan, and the Qing army won and entered Beijing. By the time Emperor Hongguang succeeded to the throne in Nanjing, Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying implemented new policies in various parts of the Yangtze River. This one thing after another, which one is not painstaking? Which one does not consume a lot of energy and physical strength of a person?

There is another matter, Li Huamei and Li Huabao are not good to say much as children. That is the problem of Li Shouhan's harem. Dozens of people from south to north, east to west, all kinds of languages, colors, habits, and beliefs. Every time Li Huamei and other adult children come back from a business trip, they must first quietly inquire about whether there has been any increase in population in the house recently? The so-called increase in population does not mean whether there is a new aunt again, but whether the people around the father have added younger brothers and sisters to them. If so, you should prepare two gifts, one for your younger siblings and one for your new aunt.

According to the rules of the Li family, the woman who slept with Li Shouhan was not necessarily his aunt's wife, at most her treatment was somewhat improved. Only those who have given birth to children are eligible to become aunts. However, the children they gave birth to, according to the rules, must also be sent to Yan Mei'er to raise.

Therefore, on the one hand, there are all kinds of bad and sad situations, and on the other hand, it is to entertain oneself with sound and color, in this case, it is strange that the body can be better! (So, fellow travelers, if you plan to open a harem after crossing, you must first weigh your body to see if you can afford to eat.) After all, not everyone can be like Xiao Liuzi, who spent all kinds of money eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling and smoking when he was young, and he can live to be one hundred and three years old. It will not be like Hou Longtao, there is no panacea that can allow you to plough a dozen or even dozens of fertile fields with a plough stick. ）

Li Shouhan, whose whole person was wrapped like a candle bag, leaned on the bed obliquely, and drank the decoction sent by the doctor in small sips: "How is the situation?" He slowly asked Li Huamei and Li Huabao, the two siblings. As the commander of a group and an army, he is first and foremost concerned with the overall strategic situation.

"We're retreating all the way, what are the losses?"

"Enlighten the Father! Retreating from upstream, we had only some ammunition consumed and no horses lost, except for a few dozen wounded in the section of the Nanking River. The second brother organized a retreat from Nanjing, and on the way there were three or four hundred soldiers who enlisted in Jiangnan, and those who had a small family in Jiangnan deserted and became deserters, and lost hundreds of mules and horses. However, the lost mules and horses, Aunt Seven recovered them from the pursuers in Bull Running Town. It's just that in Benniu Town, we have more than 100 casualties. However, because they were all members of the Seventh Aunt's clan, they were not included in the military register that day, and it was not easy to count as the number of casualties in the army. ”

"Hmm." Li Shouhan nodded, expressing satisfaction with the pair of children in front of him. When others were in a state of collapse, his own army was able to maintain such organizational ability and centripetal force cohesion, and Li Shouhan was very proud of his capital.

"How's Nanjing going? What happened to Your Majesty and the Queen Mother? After a slight pause, Li Shouhan single-handedly raised the questions he cared about.

"Nanjing, when the eldest sister led the team through Nanjing, she encountered the Qing fleet, and in order to break through the barrier on the river, the eldest sister ordered the fleet to use rockets on the city of Nanjing. At present, from the information we have received, about 10,000 houses have been destroyed inside and outside Nanjing. The docks and stacking houses in Shimonoseki and other places cannot be used in the short term. In addition, the Jinghai Temple and Tianfei Palace built by the Yongle Emperor in that year suffered great losses and burned down the main hall and other houses. ”

In addition, nearly one million stones of grain and rice and dozens of stacks of forage originally stored in the Jinchuanmen grassland were originally planned to be transported back to Shanghai by his son, but unfortunately the transportation capacity was insufficient. He was also afraid of being disturbed by the traitors in the city, so he created public opinion, claiming that his son planned not to leave a grain of rice in Nanjing, and would starve to death the people of Nanjing. And then coerced the people in the city to make a rebellion, and instead plunged our army into a quagmire. Therefore, he endured the pain and did not carry it. However, the eldest sister made a decision to kill and attacked the inside and outside of the Waijinchuan Gate with hundreds of rockets, burning all the forage and nearly 600,000 stone of grain and rice with a single fire. ”

"Right now, it's the spring famine season soon, and Jiangnan has long stopped growing grain. There are mulberry trees everywhere, and when the time comes, we will have to see where the hundreds of thousands of people in the Qing army and the group of dog thieves who surrendered to the Qing army will go to find food to fill their internal organs! I'm afraid that by then, the people of Jiangnan will come to welcome our counterattack! ”

Li Huamei's expression is carved out of the same mold as Li Shouhan, and she is also used to biting her back molars to speak when she is ruthless.

But she was telling the truth. Jiangnan has long planted a large area of cash crops such as mulberry, tea and rush grass. It has long been said that "mulberry fights for rice fields". However, at that time, although it was said that "Su Song is familiar with the world's feet" is no longer true, it is replaced by "Huguang is familiar with the world's feet". Jiangnan has changed from a grain export place to a grain import area. Later, a large number of Nanzhong Grain and Rice arrived by sea, which further stabilized the grain supply, and then caused a slight drop in grain prices. However, now, the grain in Nanzhong will not be imported into Jiangnan in a short period of time, and the grain storage in Jiangnan will face the consumption of millions of people and horses in the Qing army's Duoduo Department, how can it be satisfied? Since you can't be satisfied, you have to grab it from the people in Jiangnan. The people of Jiangnan mentioned here are not those who welcomed Duoduo at the gate of Nanjing, but farmers and machine owners, these people at the bottom.

"And the second brother retreated to the east, and he had ordered all the merchants and garrisons in my south to sweep away all the stored grain, rice, oil, salt, cloth, tea and other things in their hands. The younger brother ordered that even if he threw away a single ingot of silver or a bundle of silk, he could not leave a bag of rice! ”

"Nowadays, along the way from Nanjing to Songjiang, the rice shops in various towns are basically good-looking. It is barely enough for the local people to eat for more than a month. After two months, I didn't know where to find the rice to cook. If there is any more military food consumption of the Qing army, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive for a month. ”

Regarding the two sisters and brothers Li Huamei and Li Huabao in front of him, who had a strong wall all the way to the wilderness, and did not leave excess grain and rice for the Qing army to take advantage of, Li Shouhan nodded in approval. Because of the enemy's food, this is your own ability, but you must not let others use it on your own body. "Lao Tzu is not a national army! I am reluctant to give my own rice to my army, and I leave it to the devils, so that they can eat enough to hunt us down? When the time comes, eating Lao Tzu's rice, carrying Lao Tzu's machine gun, wearing Lao Tzu's military coat, burning Lao Tzu's gasoline, and using Lao Tzu's reluctant medicine for his soldiers, Lao Tzu almost ran to Xikang?! ”

"What is the current situation in Shanghai and Songjiang?"

Seeing that his daughter and son did not mention the situation of the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong and the Empress Dowager Zou that he cared about, Li Shouhan was inconvenient to ask more, so he could only take a detour and first ask himself about the situation of the territory under his feet, whether the defense was stable and the people's hearts were stable.

"Before the second brother came back, there were people in the business district, Shanghai County, and even the entire Songjiang Mansion. I also want to be like the group of dog thieves in Nanjing, and surrender to Duoduo Xiancheng. It's a pity that they miscalculated, and the second brother led the people to return to the division quickly. Seeing the arrival of the soldiers of my Nanyue Army everywhere, those young people can only put away their wolf ambitions. There is a leader, who was arrested by the second brother in one go, and all the old and young were tried on the street, and then in the name of the Nanjing garrison, they invited the king's order banner and beheaded them all to show the public. Before and after, thousands of people were killed by the second brother. Today, the ground in Songjiang is very stable. ”

After the banner of my father appeared on the Huangpu River, the hearts of the people who were originally a little flustered in the city suddenly settled down. It's that prices have stabilized a lot. The merchants who were originally selling their goods and preparing to flee, as well as those residents who frantically snapped up grain, rice, oil and salt, and exchanged the antique calligraphy and paintings in their hands for jewelry and other small things that were easy to carry and escape, were no longer flustered. It is said that the prince is here, and it doesn't hurt to expect it, everyone still just lives their own lives. ”

Li Huamei and Li Huabao are in the same gear, just like a pair of storytellers, introducing Li Shouhan to the changes in the situation outside these days. Although they tried their best to be light and relaxed, Li Shouhan was a weathered veteran, and it could be heard that there were countless thrills in it.

Not to mention anything else, just saying that Li Huabao killed thousands of people along the way to stabilize the situation, from this number, Li Shouhan can guess how many people are ready to surrender to the Qing army everywhere. Thanks to the children of the Li family, they have received a combination of two ginseng, one change and three combinations of education since they were young, and they all grew up rolling and groping in practice. He has never been the kind of nerd who has been brainwashed by rotten Confucianism and only knows the so-called royal means of benevolence and righteousness. Like Li Huabao, the second son, in order to build roads, dredge rivers, and build wharves and ports in Guangxi, he doesn't know how many Tusi Tuguan he killed and how many powerful heads he cut off. Therefore, this way to the east, as long as Li Huabao hears that there are some local leaders in a certain place who are planning and plotting to prepare to meet the Qing army and change the dynasty. He sent a battalion of soldiers and horses with a smile and invited all the families of these people. Then, make public all kinds of criminal evidence found in your home, such as letters to the leaders of the Qing army, documents stamped with the seal of the Qing army's customs and defense, and materials to comfort the Qing army, such as grain, wine, meat, and so on. Then, the canonical punishment was executed. Chop off the heads of your family, young and even the whole clan, one by one in front of you, and pile them in front of you.

The thousands of human heads along the way, in the most barbaric, but the simplest, direct and effective way, shattered the dreams of those who were planning in the shadows to prepare for the arrival of the "Wang Shi". After all, although high-ranking officials are beautiful, they also need to have a head on their necks to enjoy it, right?

As a result, in the current territory of Songjiang Prefecture, people's hearts are extremely calm.

"What about the Emperor? What about the Queen Mother? ”

Suddenly, Li Shouhan violently threw this question to Li Huamei and Li Huabao, and the two sisters and brothers were a little speechless, and they stopped talking.

"Say! What's going on with the two palaces right now?! ”

Li Huamei's sister and brother still looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"My lord. The eldest lady and the second son are also working hard these days, so it is better to let them go down and rest first. also spread the news of the gradual recovery of the lord's illness to the military and civilians everywhere. As for the matter of the two palaces, I will come to tell the lord one or two. How is it? ”

Just when Li Shouhan was about to reach the edge of madness, outside the door, Li Peiting's voice rang out. Immediately afterwards, a personal guard raised the door curtain, and Li Peiting walked in.

Li Peiting's arrival gave the Li family father and son a good buffer, and also gave Li Huamei and Li Huabao a good step down.

"It's fine. Brother Zong, please take a seat. These days, it's really hard for you. While ordering someone to bring a chair to Li Peiting, Li Shouhan waved his hand to signal that his daughter and son could go out first. Don't look at Li Huamei's face as usual in the wind and waves, facing the enemy's artillery fire, talking and laughing freely. However, when it comes to facing the thunderous wrath of my father, it is more terrible than anything else. Seeing that his uncle came to relieve himself and his younger brother, he immediately got up and retreated, walked out of the door, quietly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and cast a grateful look at Li Peiting's back.

"My lord, Dordor, regardless of the back road, has gone south with all his might, disrupting our entire plan. It also gave the group of mad people from the government and the opposition a chance to take advantage of it. If it weren't for this move, we would have turned around and rectified the soldiers and horses in Jiangbei after defeating Zuo Liangyu's father and son. Then, the camera went on a northern expedition. However, he first went down to Yangzhou and then crossed the Yangtze River. Turned my Ming soldiers and horses into his strikers. ”

Li Peiting first made a summary analysis of Li Shouhan. It can be regarded as giving him an acceptable reason. It's not a mistake on your part of command or strategy, it's just that you've run into a crazy opponent who doesn't play his cards by common sense, and a bunch of pig teammates who have long had bad intentions. It's not your failure.

Indeed, Duoduo's strategic actions were like a-stirring stick, finding a point of outbreak for the various contradictions hidden in the depths of the Nanjing court. It's like using a stick to puncture the hard shell on the surface of a manure pit, and the stench, flies, and maggots come out. (Ugh!) I was a little disgusting and wanted to throw up. But I really couldn't find a better description. ）

"Nowadays, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, except for Songjiang Mansion and Ningbo Mansion, which we directly control, and the commercial and trade area of Hangzhou, are full of thieves. Everywhere there are all kinds of characters who are shaved and easy to wear, ready to surrender to the Qing army! Li Peiting didn't know whether he was excited or angry, and his tone involuntarily raised a few decibels.

"What about the Emperor? When I was in Jiujiang, I heard that the emperor was preparing to go west to join us. What's going on now? Where's the Royal Drive? Not in Shanghai? If it's in Shanghai, I'm going to go and plead guilty! At this time, Li Shouhan still had a trace of luck in his mind. Although his reason told him that at this time, he was only afraid that the emperor would be more auspicious. But as the prince and minister of the Ming court, he was still willing to hear the emperor's statement that there was nothing important. After all, it was the emperor of the Ming court, the legitimate leader.

"As long as Your Majesty is here, Da Ming will not be finished! I can reorganize the men and horses, the Northern Expedition! Restore the old mountains and rivers! Li Shouhan was full of confidence, and he didn't know if he was telling Li Peiting or himself.

"My lord! Don't think about the Hongguang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Li Peiting really couldn't listen to it anymore, and he interrupted Li Shouhan's self-talk in a loud voice.

"When you were unconscious, we crossed Wuhu, and Erya sent someone to Wuhu Huang Degong to meet the driver, and asked His Majesty to accompany us to the east. Come to Shanghai and plan again. However, he was rejected by His Majesty! ”

"This!? Why? Li Shouhan's eyes were dark again, he couldn't imagine that Zhu Yousong would make such a bastard decision.

"Why? This is the emperor's mental technique, don't you know? You are bent on being the Duke of Zhou and a courtier of Zhongxing Daming. However, people are afraid that you will be Cao Cao! I'm afraid that Erya and Huabao will do Cao Pi! ”

Li Peiting's words echoed in the room like the howl of a wild wolf in the middle of the night in the mountains.