Gao Yihuan asked Zhang Yingxiang and the three of them to write a confession, and wrote out how Zuo Zhen stabbed him and how he harmed the people of Hanchuan.

At the same time, he also asked Chen Mingxia to write a note full of grief and indignation, and played the little emperor.

Song Shu emphasized that he was dedicated to the court and fought against the Tartars for the court, but the court stabbed him in the back, which made him very chilled and disappointed.

In the whole piece, Chen Mingxia emphasized that Gao Dashuai was still very loyal to the emperor, and he believed that the emperor would not harm him, but the court was obviously controlled by treachery, otherwise he would not have come to harm him.

This is a traitor who blinded the emperor's eyes, and wanted the emperor to bear the infamy of cruelty to Zhongliang, it doesn't matter if I Gao Yihuan was wronged, but I can't let the court be controlled by these treacherous, so he is ready to remove these treacherous ones for the emperor.

Gao Yihuan was very satisfied after watching the recital, and immediately asked people to take a detour to Nanjing, and then prepared to use this as an excuse to collect the land.

However, Wei Wujun is not good at water warfare, Zuo Liangyu turtle shrinks Wuchang, and people patrol along the river, and it is not easy for Wei Wujun to kill across the river.

Moreover, if after crossing the river, the sailor is cut off from the way back, it is also a troublesome thing.

At this time, several days had passed since the battle on the river beach, but the two armies were only facing each other across the river, and there was no clash again.

This made Zuo Liangyu breathe a sigh of relief, and said to the generals, "What if Gao Jingzhong can fight?" Can he still fly across the Yangtze River? ”

Zuo Liangyu's cheap appearance made Wei Wujun a little unhappy, but there was really no way to take Zuo Liangyu for a while.

Gao Yihuan has the ambition to build a powerful sailor, but the reality is relatively skinny, and with Wei Wujun's current situation, it is destined to be impossible to have a powerful sailor, unless he makes another windfall.

Now after Wei Wujun incorporated the remnants of the Shun army, the total strength has reached 130,000 people, and the annual military salary will cost nearly 2.5 million taels, and if you add military rations, equipment, rewards and pensions, at least 2 million taels.

In order to maintain the army, Gao Yihuan has to spend at least 4.5 million taels a year, plus other expenses, it needs to spend 6 million taels a year, while the territory controlled by Gao Yihuan has only 3 million yuan in tax revenue a year.

This is also the result of the heavy taxation in Huguang, and the land of the clan and the fertile land of the gentry are included in the tax system.

Wei Wujun has been able to support it until now, except that Gao Yihuan paid the land as silver to the soldiers to reduce the consumption of silver. It was previously obtained from He Tengjiao, Sun Kewang, and Li Zicheng a sum of money and grain, so that there was still a lot of balance in the treasury, otherwise Gao Yihuan would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

Not long ago, Gao Yihuan asked Xia Hu Cao and learned that there were more than 4 million taels of silver in the treasury.

This seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is estimated that it will be spent on fighting a war with the Manchus.

Fighting the Manchus was a loss-making deal and a huge drain. If you lose the war, you will suffer heavy losses, and if you win, what you will get is just a ruined land, and you have to put it upside down and invest money and food to appease the place.

This phenomenon will be a long-term phenomenon, unless it hits Beijing and takes back all the money looted by the Manchus, it will be a loss-making transaction in the early stage.

This means that Gao Yihuan needs to be upside down for a long time, and he needs to keep throwing money until the Manchu Qing Dynasty is resolved.

Although there is still a lot of silver in the treasury, Gao Yihuan can't squander it at will. It is already very difficult to maintain 130,000 Wei Wu troops now, and it will definitely cost money in the future, so Gao Yihuan can only cancel the plan to build a huge sailor. Because the water army is even more expensive than the horse army.

To the north of Wuchang, on the edge of the Yangtze River, Gao Yihuan rode a horse and stood at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River.

Gao Yihuan raised his horsewhip and pointed to the river, "This place is good, the place where land and water meet, it is really a waste for Zuo Liangyu." If Ben Shuai is in Wuchang, he must do a good job, just set up a card here, and just collect the taxes of the past merchant ships, and he can make money every day. ”

"Zuo Zhen's military discipline is corrupt, small businessmen don't dare to come over, big businesses have a backstage, Zuo Liangyu is greedy for immediate profits, and he will let him go after receiving a little money, but he doesn't know how to go for a long time. If he collects taxes, he will definitely be much more filial than the business, and I think he is holding a golden rice bowl and asking for food! Chen Mingxia fanned his fan on a cold day, and he was very contemptuous of Zuo Zhen.

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, obviously agreeing with his point of view.

At this time, Gao Yihuan glanced at the river, then looked at Sun County Order on the side, and ordered: "Sun County Order, this Shuai will give you a task!" ”

Sun Xian ordered a busy salute, "Please command!" ”

Gao Yihuan's horse whip pointed at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, "Ben Shuai allocated you an engineering team, you provide them with logistics and resources, within a month, build a simple fort here for Ben Shuai, and Ben Shuai will block the river." ”

Gao Yihuan's sailor is not good, and the sailor of Hu Guangming's army is also commonplace.

Thousands of miles of the Yangtze River, Gao Yihuan wants to cross the river, it is difficult to say, it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult.

Gao Yihuan was not worried about the sailors of Huguang and Zuozhen, what he was really worried about was that the Ming Dynasty guarded Nanjing, and the sailors stationed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River drove to Huguang.

The sailors in the south of the Yangtze River are equipped with gunboats, not small sailboats in Huguang, and the small sailing boards can be compared, if they really go to the river, give Gao Yihuan a hundred courages, and dare not cross the river.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan planned to build a number of forts along the river to block the river and prevent the sailors of Jiangnan from passing through Wuchang.

In this way, Gao Yihuan does not need a strong sailor, and he can still be the king and hegemon in Huguang.

Sun County's order listened to it, and he hurriedly received the order, "Don't worry, Dashuai, you will definitely do a good job and don't miss the construction period." ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, and said with satisfaction: "You do a good job, Ben Shuai is very optimistic about you." ”

After instructing the fort, Gao Yihuan asked again: "Yicheng, have you contacted Zhang Xianbi, are you willing to help Ben Shuai cross the river?" ”

Gao Yicheng said with a smile: "Dashuai, I got in touch." However, General Zhang said that after his defeat last time, he was demoted to a general by Nanjing. This time, I hope the big handsome won't beat him too badly! ”

Gao Yihuan laughed, "Tell him, when Ben Shuai crosses the river, give him a chance to win the battle." ”

In the city of Nanjing, in recent days, some picture books about Gao Yihuan have begun to appear in the world, the content of which is to slander Gao Yihuan, describing him as an out-and-out warlord, and Zuo Liangyu has become a positive character.

These and the picture books are naturally from the hands of Donglin, they don't have half a good word about Gao Yihuan, they say that they are extremely vicious, lascivious, murderous, and the people under their rule are not happy, in short, they do their best to spread rumors and slander, and they don't have a word about Gao Yihuan's resistance to the Qing army, and they also directly put Zuo Liangyu's things on Gao Yihuan's body, describing him as a complete bad person.

These pamphlets, half sold and half sent, spread at an astonishing rate, and the three of them became tigers, and many people did not delve into the truth after seeing these, and when they saw that there was such news all over the world, they felt that it was true.

In Ma Shiying's mansion, Ruan Dacheng was holding a booklet, with three beautiful italics "Zhu Quanzhong" on it, with a picture of a chest hair sweating, raping people's girls, and the production was quite exquisite.

"Donglin's old routine, but it's really vicious!" Ruan Dacheng smiled and handed it to Ma Shiying, who had also been given such a hand by Donglin back then.

Ma Shiying took it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's pure out of nothing, but it's okay for Donglin's gang to bite Gao Jingzhong, and we just want to reap the benefits." ”

The mansion of the university scholar He Tengjiao, a folk pictorial, was placed on He Tengjiao's desk, and several eye-catching big characters on it were stunned, "Wei Wujun attacked the official army and wanted to seize Wuchang, what did Gao Jingzhong want?" ”

He Tengjiao crumpled the pictorial into a ball with some annoyance, and was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, "This Gao Yihuan knows how to cause trouble for the old man, and the old man will be killed by him sooner or later~"

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