Chapter 289: Ambition Rumors Buckled

After Jiang Feng and Liu Twelve decided, the order was quickly conveyed to the relevant people. Many soldiers in the Shijiu battalion found that there were a lot of new faces around them, and it turned out that those soldiers with Lunan accents didn't know where they went, and in Jiang Feng's team, most of the people with local accents in Shandong were from new recruits, and people with accents near the Beijing Division occupied most of the positions of officers and soldier leaders, and only a small part of the positions were Lunan accents, which made the recruits feel a little intimate.

However, these soldiers did not say anything, the officers of their own barracks did not say anything, they made a fuss about something, of course, after those people with Lunan accents left, they were immediately replenished with a full number of recruits. Even if an official came to count the number of people at this time, no flaws could be found.

After all, on the official documents, it is written how many soldiers there are in a certain battalion, but it does not say how many of these soldiers are from craftsmen near Jingshi, and how many are from Weishan Island.

Wen Dao is in the Liu family brothers, belongs to a very ambitious young man, Liu 13 is now in charge of a battalion, which is considered a local garrison, Liu 12 follows Jiang Feng's side, and is also the identity of the mastermind, whether it is public or private, they have a high status, these two people are more satisfied with their current position, but Wen Dao is an outlier, although he is now also obeying Jiang Feng's orders, and is on standby as a grass coward in the Yimeng Mountains, but in his heart he always wants to do a huge rebellion like Liu Liu and Liu Qi, and he also hopes to wear a yellow robe one day.

Officially, because of this, Liu Twelve didn't dare to put him by his side, because he knew that his cousin was too ambitious, and if there was any change in a person of Jiang Feng's character, he would be cut off sooner or later, not to mention that Liu Twelve had observed the situation clearly by Jiang Feng's side.

Now if you raise a strong army, you can't do it without a lot of money, and you can't do it without food, Liu Liu Liu's white-clothed soldiers were so powerful, but they have never been able to open any big cities, they can only come and go like the wind, loot and supply on the spot, and wait until the imperial court transfers the border army, and it is a sudden defeat and collapse.

Even if Wen Dao is ambitious, there is a fundamental problem that cannot be solved, that is, there is no stable logistical support, there is no stable morality, when Chen Deaf rebelled and coerced tens of thousands of people in Lunan and the world shook, Liu Twelve and Liu Thirteen may not be unmoved in their hearts.

However, Jiang Feng personally led the army, after the field battle outside Rongyang City, their brothers were all dead, and after seeing the situation, at present, for the descendants of these white-clothed divine soldiers, if they make a difference, they can only rely on Jiang Feng's force, because Jiang Feng always seems to have some vague ambitions.

But what his brothers thought, Wen Dao may not have thought of it, seeing more than 400 soldiers coming to defect, I was really overjoyed, these people and horses around Weishan Island were originally skilled cavalry, and after training in Jiangfeng's camp, they were even stronger, and these people were all one person and two horses, with a sufficient amount of equipment to come, this is good, counting their original more than 300 cronies, they are already nearly a thousand pro-soldiers who can be pieced together, and the reserves of weapons are sufficient, nothing can be done. The leader of these more than 400 people brought him a private letter, which was written by Liu Twelve, saying that it would not be long before the White Lotus Sect in Linyi would cause trouble.

At that time, remember to seize the opportunity, Dengzhou will give them all kinds of convenience, Wen Dao noticed one thing, this letter was not expressed in the tone of an official document, but in Liu Twelve's private tone. These 400 people who came to defect also said that they came from Shijiu, not to receive any official orders, but to send a message from the family together with Liu 12 and Liu 13.

Could it be that I think a lot about being smart when I smell the knife, but it's just that I'm smart.

In addition to Jining, Tengzhou, Yanzhou and other big cities in Lunan at that time, Linyi was also among them, Linyi had one of the two vassal kings of Shandong, "King Jing", this vassal king was really a special existence among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why it was special was that it had a very good reputation.

This is good with the reputation of King Heng of Qingzhou, because the prince is ready to rebel and buy people's hearts, since this King Jing came to Linyi, there is no thing to bully men and women, there is no thing to expropriate tyranny, there is no thing to interfere in local political affairs and conspiracy, and there is a lot of good things to build water conservancy.

In Linyi City, whether it is an official gentry, or a merchant or a farmer, they all regard this prince as a bodhisattva, King Jing is already in his fifties this year, and in the vassal king, when he is in his fifties, because of the various hidden dangers of hollowing out his body from the extravagant life in the past, he can think about the future.

However, King Jing is quite healthy, and there is a rather vicious joke among the wealthy businessmen in Jining, saying that if he and King Jing check the agricultural mulberry every day, care about water conservancy, and eat, drink and have fun, why do you want to be a prince, what is the point of living for so long.

No matter how clear the governance is, how smooth the wind and rain, there will always be discordant voices, the White Lotus Sect, a cult in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty government, is already an undead creature that cannot be exterminated, only every time the White Lotus Sect takes advantage of the unstable situation to rebel, kill some.

Then the other White Lotus Sect or the Buddha's Mother descendants, as well as the Taoist congregations of Maitreya Sect with various titles, will temporarily settle down for a long time and continue to preach and develop the congregation among the people.

Don't think that there is any righteous element in these White Lotus Sects, when they were in the Mengyuan Dynasty, they were anti-Yuan, in the Ming Dynasty, they were anti-Ming, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were anti-Qing, such Taoist organizations are full of anti-social nature, and what they hope for is chaos in the world.

King Jing's hospitality for so many years is to buy people's hearts, and the news of dissatisfaction with the current Jiajing Emperor began to spread slowly, Emperor Jiajing was not a close branch of Chengzu Zhu Di, but Emperor Zhengde had no heirs, so he ascended the throne.

Speaking of which, it is natural for King Jing, who is Zhengde's uncle, to be dissatisfied with this, but if he is not satisfied ten years ago, he should be dissatisfied, why do he start to have ideas now. The flaws of the rumors are quite big, and it is said that the rumors stop at the wise, but there are too few smart people in the world, so the news began to spread.

But when the Jingwang Mansion and various local yamen heard this, they all laughed, thinking that they didn't know that the news was made up by that boring person, and they couldn't see any fluctuations for a while.

The weather was already slowly getting colder, and all the gold that had been caught had been put in a safe place, and at the same time, it was quickly allocated out and used in the shipyard under the mountain, Jiang Feng's heart was faintly relaxed, and everything was normal now.

The winter of the Ming Dynasty was much colder than the modern greenhouse, so all kinds of military operations in winter were basically not carried out, and if the army marched in the ice and snow, the soldiers who lacked the necessary protection would cause a large number of attrition because of the cold, which was really worth the loss.

In winter, Jiang Feng knew that he had a little more time, but some small signs gradually began to emerge, first of all, the Jiang family's military salary, the grain, grass and silver money of 10,000 people, although it was according to the usual practice that only sixty to seventy percent could be issued, but Jiang Feng's majesty was there, and all the cadres and others tried their best to send the sixty or seventy percent to the hands of the Jiang family.

However, the latest batch of military salaries has only been paid to forty percent of the full amount, and the officers and officials of the Jiang family army have always been arrogant and domineering in their treatment of civilian officials, and when they saw that these numbers were actually these amounts, they were immediately furious, and a few short-tempered ones directly took out their knives.

The civil official in charge of the supply of food and salary was so frightened that he knelt down at that time, and he couldn't stop scolding in his heart, when he gave food and salary to Dongchang and Qingzhou, those officers were all like Sun Tzu, why did you Jiang Jiajun people become like this, although they were scolded in their hearts, they still had to exchange justifications with tears:

"Brothers, that's all the numbers allocated from above, and we can't do it, engulf? Impossible, I still want to live longer, how dare I be so bold! “

No matter how much it tossed, it seems that the imperial court has indeed allocated these things, Jiang Feng's subordinates also inquired up and down, and found that the grain sent to the Dengzhou camp was indeed this amount, at least after entering Shandong, there was no one to deduct it.

"Damn, the weather is cold like this, and you still deduct our money and food from Dengzhou, isn't this trying to force us to death?"

In the Shandong guerrilla yamen in Dengzhou, Zhang Liang thundered like thunder in the second hall, and the current weather suddenly withheld food and wages, and the soldiers' morale was bound to be greatly affected. Jiang Feng sat there holding the tea, sipping it slowly, and Luo Yi, Yang Da, Yang Shishi, and Liu Shisan all had angry looks on their faces.

"My lord, shall I put the money down now!?"

Zhao Xiucai summed it up on the side, although it costs money to build ships and cast guns, but sea ships, private salt, and the amazing and terrifying entry some time ago, the Dengzhou battalion is actually not short of silver, and the reason why these officers below are angry is that they feel that someone is yin them, and the Dengzhou battalion also spends money to make up for the gap in military pay on weekdays, but now it is not for this money but for this tone.

Jiang Feng spoke in a deep voice there, and said to Zhao Xiucai on the side:

"You don't need to make up for it, just send this forty percent of the food and salary to the bottom."

Zhang Liang, who was there with his teeth and claws, looked back in amazement, and the rest of the people all had incredible looks on their faces, and after a while, someone whispered:

"This ...... Isn't that okay!? ”