Zuo Liangyu is in Wuchang and has always wanted to expand his territory, but he has not fought and he can't fight his own people, so he can only nest in Wuchang.

In the past, Zhang Xianzhong could fight, and he would occupy a place when he recovered it, but now he is in Wuchang, surrounded by friendly troops, and it is always difficult to fight Jiangxi and Hunan, so it is impossible for the imperial court to tolerate him.

Huang Shu suggested that he take advantage of Gao Yihuan's battle with the Tartars to take over Gao Yihuan's territory in Huguang, and Zuo Liangyu was still very moved.

However, his strength is far inferior to Gao Yihuan, and the elite in his hands lost a batch in Yuncheng, a group in Xiangyang, and was defeated by Zhang Xianzhong, and has not recovered so far.

At this time, although Zuozhen claimed to be more than 500,000 people, there were only 20,000 or 30,000 people who could really play a role.

Therefore, although he coveted Gao Yihuan's territory, he did not dare to take Gao Yihuan's territory without understanding the specific situation.

To be on the safe side, he sent only 3,000 men across the river to establish an outpost in the north of the river.

This is to give an explanation to the Donglin Party so that they can continue to obtain money and food from them, the second is to control a place on the north bank, so that his army can cross the river later, and the third is to leave a room for maneuver, if the situation is not right, it can be ended.

Zuo Liangyu had already made a good calculation, if Gao Yihuan was defeated, then he could immediately cross the river with his army and take over the defense of Jingzhou and Xiangyang, if Gao Yihuan was fine, he could control the conflict within a certain range and reduce losses.

Kong Youde was sent to Nanjing after the Yuan Festival, and Nanjing already knew the results of the war in southern Henan, but because of the distance, the messenger who delivered the news was still on the way, and Zuo Liangyu did not know the news of southern Henan.

At this time, Zhang Yingxiang's troops occupied Hanchuan County for seven or eight days, but the Wei Wujun in Huguang did not move, did not carry out a fierce counterattack, and did not even say a word, as if they silently suffered this dumb loss.

In order to change the situation, the Lord and faction asked Huang Shu to return to Wuchang quickly, instigated Zuo Liangyu to cross the river, and gave Gao Yihuan a knife in the back, so that Gao Yihuan could suffer a defeat, so as to deal a blow to the arrogance of the main battle faction, thereby changing the passive situation of the main and faction, and at the same time collecting Xiangyang and Jingzhou, and taking Hubei into their hands.

Huang Shu allocated 200,000 taels of silver and 100,000 stones of grain to Zuo Liangyu and asked him to send troops, but Zuo Liangyu sent 3,000 men and horses across the river, and there was no movement.

Wuchang Nanning Hou Mansion is magnificent.

After Gao Yihuan was crowned the prince, Zhu Cihong also rewarded the generals of the Ming army in order to envelop the army.

However, the exploits of the generals of the Ming army, compared with Gao Yihuan, are really incomprehensible, only Huang Degong was crowned duke, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and others were just marquis and uncles.

Originally, with Zuo Liangyu's merits, it would be good not to ask about the crime, but his self-respect as a mercenary made Nanjing have to throw a rat bogey.

The imperial court needs to stabilize Gao Yihuan, and it also needs to stabilize hundreds of thousands of horses in Zuozhen, not only giving him a marquis, but also giving him a large amount of money and food every year to stabilize this warlord and prevent him from messing around.

This is also one of the main dilemmas of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court does not pay much taxes, and has to spend a lot of money and grain every year to stabilize these warlords, if the imperial court does not give, hundreds of thousands of people in Zuozhen, enter Huguang, Jiangxi, and even go down to the south of the Yangtze River to find money and grain, then the Ming Dynasty will collapse, so the court will not give it.

However, these money and food, which were originally intended to raise the army, were given to the warlords, and these warlords did not help the imperial court to fight and did not obey orders, so the imperial court never had money and food to train the army that directly obeyed the orders of the imperial court, thus forming a vicious circle.

The current Ming Dynasty has been kidnapped by these warlords, and if they want to break the situation, unless they can increase their income, find a new amount of money and food to organize and train the army directly under the imperial court, or find a way to get rid of these warlords, they can only be destroyed in the end.

The imperial court does not have an army, and if you want to get rid of the warlords, it is basically impossible, and if you don't get rid of them, the imperial court can only continue to be sucked by them.

On this day, in Nanning Houfu, Huang Shu took Hou Fangyu and other Donglin cadres to visit Zuo Liangyu again.

"Master Hou, now is the best time to do it!" Huang Shu sat at the bottom of the hall and persuaded Zuo Liangyu in a serious tone.

Hou Fangyu also spoke: "Hou Ye sent three thousand troops across the river, and the Wei Wu army on the north bank did not move, and chose to endure it, which means that they don't want to conflict with Hou Ye now." Later Sheng thought that the more silent they were, the more Hou Ye should do it, otherwise when Wei Wujun in Xiangyang and Jingzhou were ready, Hou Ye might not be able to take Hubei in a short time. ”

The Donglin Party controlled the resources, money and grain in Jiangnan, but there was no army in their hands, so they could not stand up in the court.

The soldiers and horses in Jiangbei are either Gao Mingheng's people or Ma Shiying's people, and the Donglin Party looks left and right, and can only choose to win over Zuo Liangyu who was picked up, and Zuo Liangyu really needs to find strong reinforcements in the court, so the kings of both sides looked at the mung beans and looked at each other as soon as they came up.

The Donglin Party attaches great importance to Zuo Liangyu's people, not only providing him with money and food, but also sending many Donglin backbones over, Hou Fangyu is one of them.

Zuo Liangyu's heart was already moved, after all, there were 30,000 Wei Wu troops in Huguang, if they were ready, even if Gao Yihuan was defeated, it would be difficult for him to take Hubei, but it would be easy to cheapen the Qing army.

Now taking advantage of the fact that Gao Yihuan is entangled by the Qing army, and the Wei Wu army in Huguang is leaderless, it is indeed an opportunity to take Hubei.

For a while, Zuo Liangyu swayed a little, and he was silent for a while, "The two Rong Benshuai will think about it for another day!" ”

In Hanchuan County, since the Left Army entered the city, the people and gentry in the city have suffered great crimes.

The gentry in the city originally thought that when the officials and soldiers came, they would be able to regain the right to speak in the county, but they didn't want to be even worse than when Gao Yihuan ruled.

Gao Yihuan just asked them to collect less tenant rent, not to evade taxes, they should get a lot, life and property can be guaranteed, but the left army is different, they really don't care how much tenant rent you collect, and it doesn't matter if you steal taxes or not, they take it directly from your family, what you take, you just collect ten percent of the rent, and it can't fall into your own pocket, it's all theirs.

In just a few days, the people in the county were plagued by the left army several times, and many people couldn't stand it and fled one after another, but the gentry's family business was in Hanchuan, where could they run?

On this day, in Sun County's house, more than a dozen squires came to the door and sat together, all with sad faces.

"County Order, in this situation, you have to come up with a way!" An old man thumped his chest.

Sun Xianling had a bitter face, "What can I do?" As he spoke, he glanced at everyone, "What about Wang Jinshi?" Why didn't he come? ”

"Don't mention it, General Zhang lives in the king's mansion and rapes Wang Jinshi's daughter-in-law. Now his daughter-in-law hanged herself, her son was beaten to bedridden, Wang Jinshi has fallen ill, and he doesn't know if he can stop! One sighed.

Everyone was silent for a while, it was originally good, it was not to contact the south, but now it is like this, what is the matter.

Sun Xianling was silent for a while, "Everyone, there are only two ways now, one is to have a showdown with Zhang Yingxiang, and then make up the money and send him away, or you can only go to Xiangyang to ask for troops and drive them to the south bank!" Which one do you choose~"

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