Poor Xie Qiguang was beaten by a group of old men and women with an average age of seventy, and soon he was covered in bruises, and then he was carried back by his entourage like a Chihuahua that had been ravaged by a group of Tibetan mastiffs......

Lu Xiangsheng remained silent about this.

What if he wasn't silent, Huai'an was not his control area.

King Zhennan said that he didn't know anything at all!

He really didn't know.

He's drinking tea in his own place!

Huai'an Mansion said that the person who did it had already voluntarily surrendered, and Xie Langzhong was only slightly injured, at most it was a brawl, but the youngest person who did it was over eighty, so he could only be released in accordance with the law in the end. I have to say that Xie Langzhong's beating is a bit speechless, but he is also in the prime of life, and it is still too exaggerated to be beaten by a group of old people, if Xie Langzhong has any objections to this, he can go to the capital to beat the drum.

Of course, a famous minister like him who reads poetry and books, and a group of old men and old ladies are entangled in this issue is too contrary to the way of the sages.

Everyone is eighty!

What if I hit you a few times!

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, even if you kill someone, it is just a redemption, that is, you will lose a few taels of silver to pull it down, and if you exceed ninety, you will not even be compensated for the silver, let alone just beat you twice.

Huai'an Prefecture is absolutely in accordance with the law.

Of course, this is a matter for the future, in fact, Xie Langzhong can only consider himself unlucky, saying that he was not killed, that is, those old men and old ladies are not strong enough.

In short, Lu Xiangsheng failed to have a direct conversation with Yang Xin, although he then sent two groups of envoys in a row, but the envoys he sent could not pass the defense line of the old man and the old lady at all, and this terrible team mission was this.

At the same time, the volunteer army continued to cross the river, Lu Xiangsheng was powerless, the garrison opposite him was already in full array, and even the Fengyang garrison had entered the forward fortress in Suzhou, ready to fight at any time, in this case, Lu Xiangsheng could only continue to deploy troops and generals, and set up defenses in various fortresses just in case.

In the end, it was not until the Volunteers completely crossed the Yellow River and marched into Pizhou that the siege of Zhennan Wang in Huai'an was lifted.

Then the king of Zhennan crossed the river and went north

As for the volunteer army in front, it must have nothing to do with the king of Zhennan.

He's just going down the same path.

So......

"What can I do?

I am also very helpless, although I am the governor of the military administration of the three provinces, but this kind of thing is caused by the loyalty of the people of the three provinces to Your Majesty, and I have no right to stop it.

I'm going to go to Beijing to rescue the driver.

But the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also have to go to Beijing to save the driver! ”

King Zhennan said helplessly.

"King, we are not outsiders, Sun and the king have known each other for many years, there is no need for us to waste our lips and tongues on this kind of thing."

Sun Yuanhua said very dryly.

At this moment, the two of them are already in Pizhou, but Pizhou City is not the modern Pizhou, but the ancient Pi on the bank of the abandoned Yellow River.

At this time, the north of Huai'an to the south of Pizhou Zhihekou, the Yellow River and the canal share a waterway, but in the mouth of the Zhihe River separated, every March Cao boat enters the Zhihe Estuary in the Zhihe Estuary to the north, bypassing the turbulent floods of the Yellow River in spring and summer, passing through modern Pizhou all the way to Weishan. The old canal, which runs from the mouth of the Zhihe River to Xuzhou and then north to Weishan, is open until September every year, and the channel of the Zhihe River is closed at the same time, that is, it is used in turns for half a year, mainly to avoid the Yellow River, which often bursts its banks.

Because the water source of the Zhihe River to the north mainly comes from the Luo River, this water transport line is also called the Xinyun River, and the meeting point of the Xinyun River and the old canal, Weishan, or the current name Xia Village, has become the key point of the canal.

Originally, in history, Xu Hongru forced the imperial court to be anxious because of the occupation of Xia Village.

However, Yang Xin still had good luck when he went north.

Although the old canal has also been frozen, it is practically impossible to move forward by boat, but ......

But he was going to Xuzhou.

He was going to force Lu Xiangsheng to take a stand.

Then Sun Yuanhua had to come to meet the king of Zhennan in person on behalf of Lu Xiangsheng, at this time the vanguard of the volunteer army had reached Shuanggou, although Lu Xiangsheng built a large number of fortresses in the Xuzhou area, but the problem is that this thing can't prevent Yang Xin from bypassing from the outside! Yang Xin didn't have to go through the canal, he had a huge cavalry corps of 20,000 horses and 2,000 camels, as long as he bypassed the fortress group in the Xuzhou area, in fact, Lu Xiangsheng was also very popular at this time.

This bastard deliberately tricked him.

With Yang Xin's current army composition, he doesn't need to go through Xuzhou at all, or even go to Luxi, just go north to Yizhou and Benqingzhou.

That's pure cavalry.

As for supplies......

As soon as Yang Xin's magic weapon of fighting local tyrants is sacrificed, he still needs any logistics, just fight local tyrants all the way like a rogue.

At that time, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't catch up even if he chased him, at most he went north to intercept him in the area of Jinan Mansion, but it was difficult to say whether it could be blocked, in fact, most of it couldn't be blocked, after all, if Yang Xin was really allowed to burn the fire in Shandong, he would be anxious just to put out the fire. It can be said that Yang Xin bypassed Xuzhou and went north to Yizhou, and he could easily get rid of him, but this bastard didn't, so he had to go to Xuzhou to tease him, and he had to push him into an embarrassing situation so that he had to make a choice.

It's shameless!

"What do you mean by this, you make it clear, our old friendship is an old friendship, and we still can't talk nonsense."

Yang Xin said dissatisfied.

"King, don't act, you just coax those people, our friendship over the years, Sun doesn't know your temper the king, now let's be honest and honest, we don't want to act.

We admit it, and we are not sure what happened to His Majesty, whether he simply fell into the water and contracted the disease or was poisoned.

But we admit that there is a possibility of being poisoned.

And it's huge.

Your Majesty's new policy, though not like yours, will still arouse the discontent of the gentry, and most of these gentry are supporters of the eunuchs or Sun Ge Lao, and it is not impossible that they will take risks in order to make their minds faint. The Jiangnan gentry were able to meet your direct sword soldiers for you, and the northern gentry would also meet with Your Majesty for the sake of Your Majesty's new policy.

After all, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry!

Therefore, we have sent Lu Gongxiang to the capital to meet His Majesty, and to find out the real cause of the death of the little official of the Imperial Hospital, and we also have our intelligence sources in the capital.

We are waiting for news from him.

If Your Majesty is really poisoned, then we will give way, we will not allow anyone to dare to attack Your Majesty, this line cannot be touched, whoever touches it is our enemy, but the king also needs to swear to us that you have no dissenting intentions. As for your coming to the capital to rescue Your Majesty and help Your Majesty continue the new policy, that is not something we are qualified to interfere in, we are foreign ministers, and we do not prejudge internal affairs. Don't say that it's just the gentry who pay the grain as an errand, you just divide the fields of the gentry in Beizhili, and we won't take care of it, we are only loyal to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty can do whatever he wants, as long as it is not His Majesty's coerced order, we will obey it.

If anyone rebels against His Majesty because of this, then as long as His Majesty gives an order, we will also turn our heads and suppress it for Your Majesty.

But

These must be intentional.

If someone coerces the Son of Heaven to order the princes to force His Majesty to do what he does not want to do, we will also fight to the end to defend His Majesty.

In the same way, if someone takes the opportunity to usurp the throne, we will also fight to the end.

Therefore, our request is very simple, you wait here for half a month, and Lu Gongxiang will return from the capital after half a month, if the news he brings back is that His Majesty is simply sick, then if you want to continue to move forward, we can only meet you with guns. If he brings back the news that His Majesty has indeed been poisoned, then we will open the road and send you north, and even send a cavalry to follow you into Beijing.

In short, you wait for half a month.

Half a month later, it was the war and the results of Lu Gongxiang's trip. ”

Sun Yuanhua said.

He's been open and honest enough.

In fact, it is not surprising that they are like this, in the final analysis, whether it is Lu Xiangsheng, the Liaodong Army, or the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regiments, they really have no obligation to protect the northern gentry.

Lu Xiangsheng is loyal to the apocalypse.

To put it bluntly, the Liaodong Army is a mixed meal, and they are leading the army to fight.

The Jiangsu-Zhejiang regimental training was unwilling to surrender to Yang Xin at the beginning, and he was reluctant to accept the official position he had already obtained, so he turned to the emperor's side, and in essence, he ate the same meal as the Liaodong Army. Before, they were indeed full of hatred for Yang Xin, but now with the economic development of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, their relatives and friends who stayed in their hometown have not declined because of the loss of land, on the contrary, most of them are still doing well.

Especially Shen Tingyang.

Although he did announce that he would end up in the countryside from now on, how could the Chongming Shen family have been in the countryside for generations of maritime trade, in fact, his family is at the level of Su Song's shipping overlord.

Although Shen Tingyang really doesn't ask about the world and closes his door to show his pride, his brothers and nephews still have to make money, plus the industry and commerce established during the previous group training, although all the land of the Shen family has been divided, but now the business is booming. Coupled with the traditional friendship with the Dutch, the Shen family's sand fleet was the main collaborator of the Dutch at Songjiang Customs, and every year a large number of goods were transported through them and loaded onto Dutch merchant ships in Shanghai to Europe.

Especially in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

After all, there is a Nanyang Company on the sea, and it is difficult for the Shen family to develop too much, but the inland waterway shipping of the Yangtze River, canals and tributaries along the way does not have a giant like the Nanyang Company, and the Shen family's sand fleet is just right for inland waterways.

It can be said that the changes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have made the original Jiangsu and Zhejiang group practitioners more and more demoralized.

"That's it!"

Yang Xin groaned.

Sun Yuanhua waited quietly.

Although his family's land was also divided, because he began to lay out the land very early, and sold a large amount of land to recover funds to invest in industry and commerce, he has now become a representative family of emerging capitalists in Songjiang, including the Xu family and the Chen Yujie family.

He also had no intention of fighting Yang Xin.

"Okay, I'll give you face!"

Yang Xin said.

Sun Yuanhua let out a sigh of relief.