The 200,000 stone military grain traded by Fang Yuan and Zuo Liangyu was a newly produced hybrid rice in Guantian, Shaoxing Prefecture.

A month ago, the rice from the official fields of Shaoxing Prefecture had just been harvested in the official warehouse, and this year it was quite smooth and the harvest was quite abundant. The rice harvested in the autumn is deducted from half a stone per mu, and the tenants receive two stones, and the emergency reserve official warehouse has more than two stones. There are as many as 2 million stone rice in 900,000 mu of official land, and the 10 newly built official warehouses have been piled up.

Jinhua Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion spent 500,000 stone for disaster relief;

He traded 200,000 koku with the Shimazu family, in exchange for a large amount of silver, iron ore, Japanese swords, and 3,000 young women from the Japanese country;

Fang Yuan took out another 500,000 stone to calm the rising grain prices in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and beat the grain price from 2 taels of silver/stone to 1.5 taels of silver/stone, which was regarded as a gift package that was neither big nor small to the people;

Finally, welfare shelters were set up in various state capitals, but all homeless people who were temporarily homeless in the Jiangnan provinces could be provided with porridge and food for five days; Those who meet the conditions for joining the Xuanjia Army, or are willing to go to Guantian as tenants, can provide for half a month's porridge. For this expense, another 100,000 stone was allocated.

In this way, a little bit is spent in the east, a little bit is spent in the west, and there are still 600,000 or 700,000 stones in the official warehouse, and there is no place to use it at all, and this transaction with Zuo Liangyu can be regarded as clearing the grain inventory.

Fang Yuan and Zuo Jun reached a tacit understanding of the transaction, but they would not personally participate in the transaction. This kind of dirty thing that has to be done, he will not do it, and can only be handed over to Xu Hua, a big official and businessman, to operate.

In the name of a rice bank under his name, Xu Hua purchased 200,000 stone of grain from the official warehouse on credit and transported it to the Jingkou wharf. Then the left army sent a hundred transport ships, first ship-by-boat to transport porcelain and women to the Jingkou wharf in Zhenjiang. After counting the numbers, boatloads of military rations were transported from the Zhenjiang wharf.

After the last batch of 50,000 stone army grain was transported to Jiujiang, Jiangxi, the left army, which was full of grain and grass, launched the second fierce attack on Fengyang Mansion, Hezhou and Chuzhou in Nanzhili.

This military operation, because of Fang Yuan's tacit approval, also has the support of military rations. The left army no longer had any worries, and dispatched at least 200,000 troops, together with the 100,000 troops who had stayed in Anqing and Luzhou.

In the whole campaign, the left army sent as many as 300,000 troops, which can be said to be pouring out.

Li Guoying, the chief military officer, led an army of 100,000 troops, and Jin Shenghuan, the general of Anqing and Luzhou, marched in two ways to attack Fengyang Mansion; Zuo Mengeng personally led an army of 100,000 troops, and divided his troops with Wu Xueli and Ma Jinzhong, attacking Chuzhou all the way and Hezhou all the way.

The war was rekindled in the territory of Nanzhili, and this time the offensive of the left army was more fierce than the last time, and it was a posture of not giving up if it did not take Fengyang Mansion, Hezhou, and Chuzhou in Jiangbei.

Huang Degong, who was stationed in Fengyang Mansion, immediately sent an urgent report to Ma Shiying in Nanjing City asking for reinforcements; Liu Liangzuo, who was stationed in Hezhou and Chuzhou, was so frightened that he immediately gave up Erzhou and withdrew all his troops to Quarshiji, south of the Yangtze River, wanting to confront the left army with the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

Ma Shiying's initial calculation was to take advantage of Zuo Liangyu's serious illness and the new retreat of the left army to recuperate, first squeeze out the forces that Fang Yuan extended into Nanjing City, and then deal with the eastward invasion of the Left Army and swallow Nanjing City alone.

Who knew that the development of the situation was greatly beyond his expectations, Zuo Mengeng directly went out for his father, and the scale of the troops was unprecedentedly powerful, which caught him off guard.

There are even rumors that this time it was Zuo Liangyu and Fang Yuan who jointly sent troops to Nanzhili, and the two sides agreed to divide Nanzhili. Zuo Liangyu attacked Fengyang Mansion, Hezhou, and Chuzhou in Jiangbei; Fang Yuan attacked Nanjing City, Huizhou and Chizhou, and pocketed all the Jiangnan Prefectures of Nanzhili.

And Ma Shiying's side, 30,000 Ming troops in Nanjing City, 30,000 Ming troops in Fengyang Mansion Huang Degong, 40,000 Ming troops in Quarry Rock Liu Liangzuo, and 110,000 Ming troops together, it is also quite difficult to single out Zuo Liangyu, not to mention the 60,000 Xuanjia troops at the Taihu Lake base.

After some careful consideration, Ma Shiying could think of the only countermeasure that was to divide Zuo Liangyu and Fang Yuan and attack them.

The Left Army was a bandit without any shame and plunder, and the Left Army had no reason to talk about, so it could only be rejected by strong troops, and the Ming Army in Nanjing City had to go to support the Jiangbei battlefield. Ma Shiying also sent a letter asking for help to Zhu Yihai, the vassal king of Huai'an Mansion, who had formed an alliance before, asking Zhu Yihai to send troops to support Fengyang Mansion again.

After all, Fang Yuan was a concubine of the imperial court, and he was even more concerned about reputation and feathers, so the other party could only arrange the troops according to the situation.

Ma Shiying thought of a three-pronged approach to deal with Fang's possible invasion.

First, the most critical part is to imitate the ghost idea of Tie Xuan guarding Jinan City in the Battle of Jingjing, and order the sworn friend Ruan Dacheng to hang the tablets of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang on all the gates of Nanjing City. As long as Fang Yuan was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he would not dare to bombard the Nanjing City Gate with artillery. In the case of ordinary siege warfare, with the solidity of Nanjing's city defense, it will not be easily breached. The longer Fang Yuan attacked the city of Nanjing, the more passive the pressure of public opinion would become.

Second, he freed all the prisoners in Nanjing, forced 5,000 people, and promised that if he participated in the defense of the city, he would be pardoned after the war. He also left 5,000 Ming troops to Ruan Dacheng, enough for 10,000 troops to defend the city.

Third, Ruan Dacheng was ordered to find someone to send news to the "Guangming Daily" run by the indignant Qing Gu Yanwu, exposing the inside story of Fang Yuan's collusion with the infamous Zuo Liangyu to embezzle Nan Zhili, hoping to launch a public opinion propaganda offensive to put pressure on Fang Yuan, and played a public opinion war with Fang Yuan.

To do a good job in the garrison of Nanjing, Ma Shiying took the 25,000 Ming troops of Nanjing City south to Quarry Rock to meet Liu Liangzuo's department to discuss the recovery of Jiangbei Hezhou and Chuzhou.

Ma Shiying's three-pronged strategy did pose a big problem for Fang Yuan.

Although Gu Yanwu was over 30 years old, he was still an old and angry young man, and as soon as his "Guangming Daily" received the inside information from Nanjing City, he immediately wrote a large article, condemning Fang Yuan's act of colluding with the violent Left Army.

For a time, the mansions under Fang Yuan's jurisdiction were full of rumors, and even directly spread the peach-colored scandal that Zuo Liangyu used a hundred beauties to buy Yuan, which made Fang Yuan greedy and forgetful.

The students of Zhufu hated Zuo Liangyu's brutality, and the other party's original collusion with Zuo Liangyu was even more indignant.

In less than five days, in Canglang Pavilion, 500 students had gathered in front of the Governor's Mansion to hold a sit-in demonstration, demanding that Fang Yuan immediately come forward to explain and cut off contact with Zuo Liangyu.

Within 10 days, at least 1,000 students from all over the world poured into Suzhou City.

Qin Zhan, who was in charge of Jinyiwei's work, saw that the situation was getting more and more serious, and immediately came to ask Fang Yuan if he should send Jinyiwei to forcibly suppress them, drive all these students out of Suzhou City, and send them back to their hometowns.

Fang Yuan wanted to suppress these rioting students, which was a gesture. But the fuse that triggered this riot was indeed lit by Fang Yuan himself. Most of the students were just enthusiastic and upspoken, not to take the opportunity to cause chaos and overthrow Fang Yuan's rule. If it is forcibly suppressed, it is to forcibly extinguish the patriotic enthusiasm of the people.

Once people's hearts are broken and their blood is cold, reconstruction will not happen overnight.

Fang Yuan had to admire Ma Shiying, his three-pronged strategy directly brought the political advantage of Nanjing City to the extreme, and suppressed the military advantage of Fang Yuan's side to the extreme. It seems that this person is the same as Gonggong Wei back then, although his character is bad, but his ability value is first-class.

In response to this emergency, violent suppression is absolutely not advisable, since Ma Shiying wants to play a public opinion war, then solve it in the form of public opinion war.

Fang Yuan immediately summoned Liu Rushi, who was in charge of public opinion propaganda and presided over the compilation of the "Jiangnan Daily", and Xu Hua, the direct person in charge of the military grain exchange for porcelain trade, to discuss the way to deal with it.