The White Lotus Sect led by Xu Hongru first went north, then south, and finally north again in the past few days, and walked the road from Zhejiang to Fujian and Fujian to Zhejiang three times, and finally exhausted the heart and energy of the White Lotus Sect.

I saw that these 50,000 or 60,000 White Lotus Sect disciples were moving fast and slow, and after walking for a short time, they dragged into a "long snake formation" that stretched for more than ten miles, and the organization was very chaotic, and they couldn't take care of each other.

If it weren't for Ji Qingwen's intention to concentrate the White Lotus Sect under Wenzhou City, and then gather and annihilate it and kill them all, otherwise he could launch an attack at any time and anywhere, thus separating the White Lotus Sect from the middle of the team into several sections and quickly defeating it.

But in this way, it will make the team of the White Lotus Sect, which was originally very loosely commanded, become even more six gods and no masters, and maybe they will scatter and flee before they can fight with the official army, and in the face of such a big flood and sand situation, the official army at the end of the Ming Dynasty has no way to stop these tens of thousands of scattered White Lotus Sect disciples. And these more than 50,000 White Lotus Sects are more than 50,000 hidden dangers of unstable factors, scattered to the rich coastal areas of Zhejiang, and they will immediately make a disturbance here.

This is what Ji Qingwen does not want to see, and it is also what he wants to avoid, which is also the starting point of his battle plan this time.

So Ji Qingwen led the soldiers of the Ming Wu Army, and united with the Jingshi Battalion under Shen Liangzuo, a total of more than 3,000 people, who moved inseparably on the west side of the White Lotus Sect team. They didn't dare to go too far, for fear of losing control of the White Lotus Sect; He didn't dare to get too close, for fear of scaring the White Lotus Sect, which had become a frightened bird, to disperse; When he encountered the White Lotus Sect who had deserted, he had to urge them to catch up with the team quickly.

It's more worrying than being a mother.

In this way, Ji Qingwen and the others wasted their strength, and finally drove the entire army of the White Lotus Sect across the Feiyun River and came to Wenzhou City again.

Wenzhou City is an empty city as usual, but Zhejiang is still a rich area in the south of the Yangtze River after all, and some materials can still be found in the city and outside the city.

So Xu Hongru ordered that all the clothes, weapons, food, and even firewood and grass found in all parts of the search be handed over, and then presided over by Xu Daoqing and distributed them uniformly, striving to make every disciple in the sect have a full meal.

This Xu Daoqing is not an incompetent person, and he is quite fair, he gathered all the food and calculated it, which is enough for more than 50,000 disciples to eat for fourteen or fifteen days. However, the food for these ten days is only the minimum guarantee, and it is definitely not enough to support the long-term confrontation between the White Lotus Sect and the official army.

Therefore, compared to Ji Qingwen, Xu Hongru is more eager to start a decisive battle quickly.

So Xu Hongru wrote a war letter by himself and sent a powerful person from his cronies to Ji Qingwen - anyway, Ji Qingwen was very easy to find, and he could be found by following his extremely eye-catching banner of the "Ming Wu Army".

Ji Qingwen was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle: he was now in a hurry to have enough soldiers, and he had concentrated all the main forces of the White Lotus Sect near Wenzhou City south of the Oujiang River and north of the Feiyun River, and it was not a matter of delaying it a little.

Therefore, after discussing with Li Yan, Ji Qingwen made a fuss about the word "system" that he hated: he was not the commander of this counterinsurgency battle, and he could not accept the war letter sent by Xu Hongru, and the war letter should be sent to the hand-picked commander of the three armies, the Nanjing garrison commander Xun Gui Chengyi Bo Liu Kongzhao.

The guy who was sent by Xu Hongru to deliver the letter was named Wang Xiaowu, who turned out to be a broker who ran lawsuits and relationships in the county, and he also quite understood the operating rules of the Ming Dynasty. Why don't you let the villain go and report the news? ”

Ji Qingwen deliberately delayed, so he joked: "Lord Liu is Liu Bowen's son, and his old man Shenlong can't see the end, how can I know?" ”

For officials who mess with things in the Ming court, it is much more important to serve their superiors than to take care of the people, how can there be a reason that the subordinates do not know where the upper peak is?

So Wang Xiaowu, the White Lotus Sect disciple who came to report the news, suddenly had an idea, a flattering smile appeared on his face, and said, "Lord Ji, you let the villain go to find Lord Liu...... That's not impossible...... However, the villain's eyes were dark, and he was afraid that he might not be able to find Lord Liu if he searched for ten days and half a month here in Zhejiang. It's better to do this, please ask Lord Ji to run for the little one - the little one's battle book will be left here first, and the trouble will be sent to Lord Liu. ”

As he spoke, Wang Xiaowu took out a piece of dog's head gold the size of a child's fist from his sleeve, held it in both hands and sent it to Ji Qingwen, and said: "For this money, please ask the adults to reward their subordinates, so that they can also bring a little energy when they run errands, right?" ”

This piece of dog's head gold was dug out by Xu Hongru from the bottom of the goldfish tank of a large family in Wenzhou City, which is not only full of weight and excellent color, but also rare to naturally grow into the appearance of a rabbit's head. Therefore, the value of this piece of dog's head gold far exceeds its own weight, and it can be said to be a priceless treasure.

And now Xu Hongru is trapped in an empty city of Wenzhou, the most important thing is food, followed by weapons, and he does not attach much importance to the gold and silver treasures that he can't eat when he is hungry and can't wear them when he is cold.

Therefore, Xu Hongru gave this piece of gold to Wang Xiaowu, and asked him to act at the opportunity, so that he could do a good job of delivering the war book.

The person who sent the letter was also shrewd, and he immediately saw the key to the matter, and only now did he take out this piece of dog's head gold, wanting to bribe Ji Qingwen, the five-product weaving admiral.

But he had found the wrong person after all.

In the eyes of others, this piece of dog's head gold can be regarded as a treasure to some extent, but in the eyes of Ji Qingwen, it is just an ordinary object.

I saw Ji Qingwen mention this piece of dog's head gold, weigh it in the palm of his hand, and said with a smile: "This brother is interesting." This thing is not big, small or small, light or light, not heavy, I don't know what it is for? Making paperweights? It seems to be a bit sketchy. Pickles? It doesn't seem to be big enough. It's too much of a problem to put here for me, so you might as well take it back. ”

That Wang Xiaowuyi panicked when he heard it - Ji Qingwen didn't accept gold is a trivial matter, but if he doesn't accept gold, he won't help with things, that's a big deal.

According to Wang Xiaowu's experience when he was helping in the yamen in his early years, when he encountered this situation, it was usually not that the person receiving the gift was selfless, but that he disliked that the gift he gave was too ordinary and worthless.

So Wang Xiaowu hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, Lord Ji, this thing is not melted with scattered gold, but made from nature. Like this piece of dog's head gold, it is only twenty or thirty taels, but it is worth a hundred taels of gold in the world! ”

"Oh? A hundred taels of gold? That's a thousand taels of silver? That's a lot of money! Ji Qingwen said with a smile, then turned his head to Li Yuanyin, who was sitting next to him, and said, "Commander Li, you are the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and you are well versed in the laws of the Ming Dynasty, you tell me, what is the crime of accepting a bribe of 1,000 taels of silver from the rebels?" ”

Li Yuanyin was originally a very serious person, but after following Ji Qingwen for two or three years, he became a little more flexible and relaxed, knowing that Ji Qingwen was deliberately playing tricks on this Wang Xiaowu, so he said alarmistly: "This sin is not small. First, according to Taizu's "Great Message", incumbent officials who accept bribes with 60 taels of silver will have to be stripped of the skin and grass, and 1,000 taels of silver will have to be executed by Ling Chi. Second, if you accept a bribe from the rebels, it is the crime of collaborating with the enemy, and it is a crime to connect the nine clans......"

Before Li Yuanyin finished speaking, Ji Qingwen interrupted: "Yo, Commander Li, you are scaring me." It's Ling Chi's execution again, and it's the Zhulian Nine Clans, how dare I still accept this amount of money? ”

Wang Xiaowu on the side was stunned.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's criminal law is extremely strict, if he acts in strict accordance with the decree of the great grandfather, I am afraid that there will be few officials in the Ming Dynasty who can live. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the Ming Dynasty has been passed down for more than 200 years, and no one takes the things in "The Great Message" seriously, but I don't know why this Jinyi Wei man next to Ji Qingwen brought out Zhu Yuanzhang, who died so hard.