Jing Jie, who went south to pursue the Japanese invaders, had already fought several battles with Matsudaira Nobutsuna in Taizhou Mansion and Wenzhou Mansion.

The impact of the Japanese soldiers in frontal battles is far inferior to that of the Xuanjia army, but they are very good at building forts and defending them, and they are constantly fighting to the death with the pursuing Xuanjia army along the way.

Jing Jie's expedition this time brought enough weapons to attack the city - artillery, although the battle was stalemate, it was smoothly advanced all the way, from Taizhou Mansion to Wenzhou Mansion.

The west of Wenzhou Mansion is mountainous, and the east river is staggered, which is not conducive to cavalry, but is conducive to infantry melee combat.

The two sides pursued and retreated in Wenzhou Mansion for two months, and the battle situation was still inseparable, but fortunately, with the Xuanjia Army's tail pursuit, the Japanese soldiers were still too late to protect themselves, and they did not dare to rape and plunder in Wenzhou Mansion.

Fang Yuan spent another two months in Shaoxing Mansion to carry out a series of land exchanges, exchanging all 900,000 mu of official land for land between Linshanwei and Shanyin and Huiji counties.

He also planned to specially arrange for 10,000 sergeants from the Xuanjia Army Infantry Battalion to be stationed in Linshanwei, one is to guard the two prefectures of Shaoxing and Ningbo south of Hangzhou Bay, and the other is to carry out militarized management of nearly one million mu of official land and 100,000 mu of private land belonging to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan arranged for the families of the gentry and wealthy merchants who were used as labor to build ten large granaries around Linshanwei to store these special strategic reserves.

The 900,000 mu of official land was planted with hybrid rice, and the tenants who planted it were still handed over to the tenants on the previous land, with a yield of 800 catties per mu and a land rent of 70 percent, and the rations left for these tenants were 250 catties per mu, which was far more than the income of the surrounding state capitals.

The 560 catties of grain harvested per mu should yield at least two or three stones of rice per mu, in addition to the cost of about one stone of grain and half a stone of grain handed over to the field. 900,000 mu, the annual yield of rice is 2 million stones. All of these are used as strategic reserves, which are sufficient to cope with the relief of natural disasters in the entire Nanzhili and Zhejiang, as well as the allocation of military rations for emergencies. If there is still surplus grain, it can also be cleared regularly and exchanged for silver for military expenses.

After Fang Yuan took Shaoxing Mansion, the entire five prefectures of northern Zhejiang, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Huzhou, and Jiaxing, have been recovered, and only Hangzhou Mansion, which Zheng Sen guarded, has not yet been brought under control.

His iron-blooded purge in Shaoxing Mansion made the surrounding mansions tremble, and Lu Ziyue even came to the door on behalf of the gentry and wealthy businessmen of Ningbo Mansion to persuade him, if Fang Yuan wanted to carry out this kind of purge in Ningbo Mansion, he would rather die than put the Xuanjia Army into Ningbo Mansion.

Fang Yuan's plan this time was to target Shaoxing Mansion and never spread the scope of the attack. The gentry and wealthy businessmen of a mere Shaoxing Prefecture will be slaughtered if they are slaughtered, and as long as they do not affect other state capitals, they will not have much impact on Fang Yuan's rule.

He repeatedly appeased Lu Ziyue, promising that this purge was only because of the gentry and wealthy merchants in Shaoxing Prefecture, and had nothing to do with the gentry, wealthy businessmen, and ordinary people in other state capitals. In Ningbo Prefecture, only the petition policy will be introduced, and the rest of the land taxes and commercial taxes will be collected in accordance with Suzhou and other state capitals, and Lu Ziyue will be asked to go back to reassure the people and control the panic in Ningbo Prefecture.

Lu Ziyue returned to Ningbo Mansion in disbelief, and according to Fang Yuan's instructions, he began to issue a notice to the people.

At the beginning of June, Fang Yuan was in Shaoxing Prefecture to take stock of the fields and inspect the cultivation of hybrid rice. Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, and Wang Yi, the general soldier of Hangzhou, suddenly came to the door in person. This time, the two of them came secretly without Zheng Sen's ears and eyes, and when the brocade guards led the two into the mansion, they found that the two of them were wearing cloth clothes, their hands were tightly tied, and they came to meet Fang Yuan with a posture of guilt.

The intention of the two of them on this trip is clear to Fang Yuan at a glance. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Zheng family is in Zhejiang, and they did not come to surrender Fang Yuan as soon as possible, but chose to continue the confrontation, and it is estimated that the fate of Hangzhou Mansion is exactly the same as that of Shaoxing Mansion. Surrendered earlier, Fang Yuan was a smiling man with a heavy punch, and even if he liquidated it afterwards, at least he could save his life.

When Zhang Bingzhen saw Fang Yuan, he immediately knelt on the ground, and Wang Yi also knelt side by side with him.

Zhang Bingzhen kowtowed again and again in fear, "Governor Fang, the subordinate Zhang Bingzhen came to ask Governor Fang for his guilt on behalf of the three million people of Hangzhou Mansion!" ”

Fang Yuan saw the funny appearance of the two of them taking the guilt of pleading, and knew that why did they bother in the first place today? He smiled faintly and said, "What is Governor Zhang's crime?" What are the sins of the people of Hangzhou? ”

Zhang Bingzhen touched a soft nail and continued embarrassedly, "There are only less than 5,000 soldiers in Hangzhou, how can you stop the Zheng family and the tiger and wolf army of the Japanese soldiers?" For the sake of the safety of the people, Governor Zhang and I can only endure humiliation and deal with the evil wolf. I am waiting for Governor Fang Wang Shi to go out on the expedition like a long drought and hope for Ganlin, and ask Governor Fang to hang the people and save the people living in the water and fire in Hangzhou Mansion! ”

These two people are obviously the two ends of the first rat, but now they are packaging themselves as learning to practice and endure humiliation.

Fang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to this show of using the people as a shield, it didn't matter how they acted, the important thing was that their attitude at this moment was on Fang Yuan's side, which was enough.

Fang Yuan said with a smile, "Governor Zhang, General Wang, how can I trust you when you surrender in the vernacular?" What if you are a spy sent by Zheng Jun and are ready to cooperate with the outside world? ”

Wang Yi shook his head again and again and said, "Playing tricks in front of Governor Fang, isn't it an axe from the Banmen?!" ”

Fang Yuan saw that this martial artist couldn't even say a compliment, so he smiled and said, "So Ben Du is an expert in tricks?" ”

Wang Yi hurriedly changed his words and said, "It's me talking nonsense, Governor Fang is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, the teacher of the king, where can he play any tricks?" ”

Fang Yuan smiled but didn't answer, but Zhang Bingzhen guessed that Fang Yuan was not unwilling to surrender, but wanted to assign tasks to the two, and asked tentatively, "What is Governor Fang's decree, and the next official should follow it." ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "This, the decree can't be discussed, what I need is a letter of nomination from the Hangzhou Mansion and the Zheng family to draw a clear line, can you two hand it over?" ”

He could be regarded as drawing a line, but he was still only halfway through his words, Wang Yi hurriedly asked, "What does Governor Fang want, it's good to give some mention!" ”

Fang Yuan played with the Xuanjia Army military order in his hand, and said leisurely, "You go and arrest a key figure of the Zheng family to surrender!" ”

Zhang Bingzhen and Wang Yi glanced at each other, and thought that Fang Yuan's letter of surrender was for the two of them to arrest Zheng Sen and come to surrender, wasn't this in a hurry to send them to death?

Zhang Bingzhen said with a sad face, "Governor Fang, Zheng Sen is heavily guarded, and there are tens of thousands of Zheng troops stationed in Hangzhou, this, this, we have nothing to do!" ”

Wang Yi also echoed and said, "The guards of Hangzhou Mansion are not the enemies of Zheng Jun, Governor Fang wants us to die!" ”

Fang Yuan inspected the two of them and said slowly, "Did I say that I wanted you to arrest Zheng Sen?" What I want you to capture is Gan Hui, the fierce general under the command of the Zheng family! ”

Ever since he first confronted Zheng Sen and was almost beheaded by Gan Hui, he has always wanted to capture this fierce general of the Zheng family and take it for his own use. There was an opportunity to miss before, but now Zheng Jun is panicked, and the opportunity to capture Gan Hui has finally arrived. As long as Zhang Bingzhen and Wang Yi are willing to cooperate, Fang Yuan will be able to capture the fierce general Gan Hui alive.

Zhang Bingzhen and Wang Yi discussed for a while, Zhang Bingzhen "Governor Fang, Gan Hui is stationed in the vanguard of Hangzhou, and every five days he will bring his own soldiers to Hangzhou Mansion to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, if we take this opportunity to arrest Gan Hui, we will be able to succeed in one fell swoop." ”

Wang Yi said, "When we deploy 3,000 volts in the city, Gan Hui will have three heads and six arms, and he will inevitably be captured." It's just that this Gan Hui, Governor Fang is going to die or live. ”

Fang Yuan said, "Let's live!" What is the use of a dead Ganhui Bunduk? The governor is waiting for the two good news in Shaoxing Mansion. ”

Zhang Bingzhen responded repeatedly, glanced at Fang Yuan secretly, and said embarrassedly, "But if Zheng Sen learns the news and immediately leads his troops to attack Hangzhou Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion will not last a few days." ”

Fang Yuan knew that he was retreating and asking himself for support, so he smiled and said, "When you capture Gan Hui, immediately send a message to me, and I will immediately send the Xuanjia Army to attack the Zheng army in Hangzhou Mansion." At that time, Zheng Sen will be unable to protect himself, and he will hate to give birth to two legs when he escapes, where will he dare to attack Hangzhou City? Scold! ”

He promised to send troops to help, then Zheng Bing was bound to be defeated, and Zhang Bingzhen and Wang Yi happily accepted the order.

Fang Yuan looked at the backs of the two of them, and muttered to himself, "Gan Hui, as long as there is this fierce general, Fujian will definitely be in our original bag!" ”