It can only be said that the distance between the capital and Jinling is too far, and no matter how fast the news is, it will take more than ten days to reach Jinling.

Even if you want to do something on Jinling's side, it's not an overnight effort.

On the contrary, it was Monk Feng who replied to the message, and he had already received a reply from Qi Chunjun.

The two sides made a truce and did not enter Hongzhou.

The two sides took Hongzhou as the boundary, with the Qichun army fighting in the west and the Chuzhou army fighting in the east.

Regardless of whether Qi Chunjun is sincere or false, he doesn't want to run into the Chuzhou Army for the time being, and the idea is the same as the Chuzhou Army.

Monk Feng has begun to return to the army and go to Muzhou.

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Deng Jian led 80,000 soldiers and horses to attack Huzhou.

Originally, everyone thought that with tens of thousands of troops pressing the border, it would be easy to take Huzhou.

Everyone's main battlefield was not Huzhou, but Hangzhou.

I didn't want to, so the Huzhou Lieutenant led people to ambush on the road and blew up the firearms battalion with the army, causing heavy casualties to the Chuzhou army.

When the Chuzhou army surrounded Huzhou, the Huzhou governor and the Huzhou governor led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to fight to the death, and the Chuzhou army suffered thousands of casualties again.

Even if the city of Huzhou was broken in the end, and the governor of Huzhou and the governor of Huzhou were martyred, it could not calm Deng Jian's anger.

Deng Jian ordered the slaughter of Huzhou City......

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When the news reached Huo Bao's side, Huo Bao and his entourage had already returned from Shuzhou and Shouzhou and came to Yangzhou Mansion.

The drought in Shuzhou and Shouzhou is worse than expected.

Half of the county towns have a severe drought in land, and there are no major droughts left, and the people have run away a lot due to the war, and there are only a limited number of places to resume spring ploughing.

These two places were taken in March and April, and when the new officials arranged in the direction of Jinling took office, they wanted to grasp the spring ploughing, but it was already delayed.

Now the people's livelihood in the two places has withered, and the people have lost several percent, which is not much better than Chuzhou last year.

If you want to stabilize people's livelihood and resume production, you can take the road that Chuzhou did last year.

Divide land to resettle displaced people, borrow seeds, borrow agricultural tools, and so on.

"It is possible to resettle the ...... of displaced people in Henan"

Huo Bao Dao.

For the sake of stability in the south of the Yangtze River, the Huanghuai refugees naturally took the Yangtze River as the boundary and settled in the Huainan prefectures.

However, Chuzhou has a different meaning and should not be moved.

Hezhou and Jinling are also stable.

The large area of military tuns in Luzhou is not easy to enter.

Those who can resettle displaced people are Yangzhou, Shuzhou, and Shouzhou.

Yangzhou has developed commerce and highly concentrated land, either in the hands of big landlords or wealthy merchants.

However, in Shuzhou and Shouzhou, the population is lost, and the land can be replanned to resettle the displaced people.

Now that there is a place to settle the displaced people, all that remains is money and food.

The grain can barely be squeezed from the Luzhou Mansion, so what about the money?

Naturally, they are the rich men in Yangzhou City.

Whether it is Huo Bao or Song Lin, they all think of the Huainan Chamber of Commerce.

It's just that the commercial tax is not added casually, last year because of the Quyang "tax increase case" to rectify the Quyang officialdom, and now the tax increase in Yangzhou is a joke.

If you don't raise taxes, how can you squeeze out the money?

Song Lin was born as a gentry, so he naturally didn't take businessmen in his eyes.

It's just that he understands that no matter how low the status of a businessman is, his personal wealth should not be touched lightly.

Otherwise, the Chuzhou army will get used to it, and it will be difficult to guarantee that it will not do anything to the gentry in the future.

When the group arrived in Yangzhou, President Li of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce followed behind the acting governor of Yangzhou and entered the friendship of the landlords.

From his youngest son, Li Yu, Chairman Li knew the content of this "inspection" and assessed local civil and military officials.

Chairman Li is not an official, but he is also one of the most important figures in Yangzhou.

With him taking over as the president of the Chamber of Commerce after "Feng Million", and sending his son to be a companion next to Huo Bao, the "young master", no one inside and outside Yangzhou dared to underestimate him.

It's just that he is also sensible, and he raises the acting prefect of Yangzhou everywhere, and refuses to steal the limelight of the prefect.

The acting prefect of Yangzhou is none other than Song Lin's second son, Song Er.

Yangzhou is located differently, with Chuzhou in the north and Huai'an and Taizhou in the northeast.

When he had just arrived in Yangzhou before, Huo Wu sent Song Lin over to stabilize the place.

When Yangzhou was stable inside and outside, Song Lin was transferred back to Jinling, and Song Er was transferred over.

The Chuzhou army has held officer examinations in various places, and there is no shortage of junior officials, but the chief officer is still very nervous.

Civil officials are different from military attachés.

It is much easier for military attachés to guard places, and those who are bold in high positions will not make a big mistake as long as they abide by military rules and discipline.

However, if the civil officials are not properly appointed, they will endanger the local government.

Song Er had been trained in the position of governor before, and was pulled over to be the acting prefect of Yangzhou.

Among the civil officials of the Chuzhou Army, Song Er is also the first, which is due to his own reasons and Song Lin's side.

Now the "inspection envoys" are in Yangzhou on business, but Song Lin and Song Er, Li Yu and President Li can be regarded as a reunion.

This reception banquet is also very close and comfortable.

As a result, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, some people hurriedly came to find Huo Bao.

"Brother Qing!?"

Seeing the visitor, Huo Bao hurriedly got up and looked solemn.

It was Niu Qing, the chief of the guard of the Taiwei Mansion, who came.

Niu Qingfeng was dusty, and he couldn't take a breath, and said: "Xiaobao, the fifth uncle passed you and Shui Shuai back to Jinling......"

"But Qi Chunjun's movements?"

Shui Jin heard this, and "Teng" got up and asked.

Before they came out, they were just in time for Monk Feng to lead his subordinates to confront Qi Chun's army outside Hongzhou City.

said that he wanted to make a truce with the Qichun army, could it be that the Qichun army was not self-sufficient, and he had to confront the Chuzhou army at this time?

Niu Qing hurriedly waved his hand: "It's not Qi Chunjun, it's Huzhou...... Deng Shuai, slaughtered the city of Huzhou......"

There was a slap on the table.

Song Lin frowned, and the monk Zhiran was already furious, and he took the case: "Slaughter the city? How dare he? Did he really think he was a butcher? ”

Huo Bao's expression also changed greatly, but he said: "Uncle Cousin is not a person without a target, but what happened in Huzhou?" ”

When Niu Qing heard this, his eyes were red, and he looked at Huo Bao and couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Huo Bao's heart sank: "But...... Which general did you fold? ”

Which general?

Under Deng Jian, the oldest and strongest is Zhang Duwei, and the new one is Jin Cuo, who else?

Niu Qing choked up and said, "It's a leopard...... The Huzhou Governor set up an ambush halfway and blew up the firearms battalion with the army, and the leopard was among them......"

"Who?"

Huo Bao thought he had misheard: "Leopard? Huo Bao ......"

Niu Qing closed his eyes, nodded and choked up: "Blow it up, the leopard is ......"

The rest of the words, he didn't say.

However, everyone has seen the power of firearms, and how can they not think of the unfinished meaning.

Huo Bao is not only dead, but I am afraid that he will still be broken.

Monk Zhiran looked sluggish, obviously he didn't expect such a cause.

The father and son of the Song family glanced at each other, and their faces were also shocked.

The Li family's father and son were also full of panic on their faces.

It was the Huo family who died!

There are only a few people in the Huo family!

Among them, the closest relatives to Huo Wu's father and son are Huo Hu and Huo Bao brothers.

The two of them have been with Huo Wu and his son since the Chuzhou Army, and they have made a lot of contributions for more than a year, and now they are all reused.

Such a tragic death!

It's just that this is not the reason why Deng Jian wants to slaughter the city.

Huo Bao only felt that his head was "buzzing", but the more this was the case, the clearer his heart became, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Who is the governor of Huzhou?" How could Huo Bao think about joining the army? Can the inner room where the whereabouts of the firearms battalion be leaked? ”

There are many eyeliners of various forces in Jinling City.

Since the attack on Yangzhou last year, the Chuzhou army has used firearms.

It was only during the "Eastern Crusade" in February this year that the firearms of the Chuzhou Army became rich, and several new firearms developed by the firearms battalion were used.

This time, Deng Jian went south, and in the end he was to fight Hangzhou, so he was naturally equipped with a large number of firearms.

If the Governor of Huzhou was just an ordinary local military attaché, the news would not be so well-informed.

He knew at most that the Chuzhou army now had firearms, but he might not be able to know when Deng Jian's troops would go south and where the accompanying firearms battalion would be in the army.

Without the detailed information sent by the mole, the ambush would not be so accurate.

"I don't know, I don't know, I don't."

Niu Qing said in a sullen voice: "Fifth Uncle sent you back to investigate this matter, and another marshal was transferred back to replace Deng Shuai to fight Hangzhou ......"