In the year of Chongzhen, the provinces of Jiangbei have been plagued by disasters for many years, and the people of Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi are all struggling to make a living, but the most miserable is Henan.

To say the extent of natural disasters, Henan is not more powerful than Shandong and other provinces, but * fierce, Henan Zhongzhou, if in ordinary days, located in the Central Plains, the traffic extends in all directions. The land is fertile, the population is large, and it is also a good place of first class, but the result is intermittent, the Ming court has eight vassal kings in Henan, and the rest of the imperial relatives, as well as Zhishi officials, are countless.

These pro-vassal nobles occupy a large amount of land, and the most wealthy and powerful Fu Wang, when the king was crowned a vassal, the fields in Henan Province were not even enough to be rewarded, and they had to go to other provinces to divide. This was also the result of the struggle between the ministers of the court and the Wanli Emperor.

Such a small number of people occupy so much land, but because of the status and fame of these people, their land and tenants do not have to pay taxes and serve the imperial court.

But any increase in the Ming Dynasty, such as training salaries and Liao salaries, is to include Henan in the scope of taxation, these taxes, bear only those landless and landless poor people, and the layer of this maladministration, especially in Henan.

Every time the endowment is added, there are a large number of peasants bankrupt, these peasants' fields are naturally swallowed up by the vassal kings, royal relatives, nobles, most of these peasants become displaced people, become the source of the Ming Empire's troubles, the remaining peasants are less, and the taxes and oppression to be borne are heavier and so on such a vicious circle, so that the living ecology of the common people in Henan has become extremely fragile, and they can't afford a little bit of wind and grass.

For example, during the 12th and 13th years of the Chongzhen drought, Shandong had collective farms similar to the military system, built water conservancy, and rationally regulated and controlled various land resources. Barely able to pass through, but what is there in Henan. Only Zhang Xianzhong's repeated incursions, the brutal looting of the Ming generals and Zuo Liangyu, and of course, the seemingly endless exploitation and oppression.

In March of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there were no pedestrians on the roads in Henan Province. There was no one for hundreds of miles, and a large number of displaced people gathered together to kill officials and rebel.

After Li Zicheng was in Henan a few years ago, there were no more chaotic soldiers and thieves in Henan. But now there are more than a dozen large gangs of more than 10,000 people, except for the prefectures and counties near Beizhili and Huguang. The rest of the place was a mess.

The officers and soldiers and the landlords and gentry stayed in the city. Rely on the capacity of major rivers such as the Yellow River and Yishui to maintain access and rely on urban fortifications to ensure safety.

The attitude of the people in Henan towards these thieves is that as long as they are in the countryside, they will be treated as non-existent, and the officers and soldiers will be exterminated if they can be exterminated, and they will be ignored if they cannot be exterminated. Concentrated about seventy percent of the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty. There is no spare energy to exterminate it, so it can only sit back and run rampant.

But the situation is even so critical. But no one wants to alleviate the situation, land annexation, unbridled tax collection, and no one wants to improve these bad policies.

A certain scholar once suggested to the imperial court, suggesting that the center of the imperial court should have all the land and suppress the annexation, but was refuted by Emperor Chongzhen and said: This policy is not tolerated. There is also an official of Luoyang Mansion who earnestly persuaded King Fu whether he could reduce the land endowment and forced labor of Wang Zhuang's fields, but he was scolded by King Fu, "My Zhu family's fields, my Zhu family's people, how to do it, what is the matter with Guan Qing." ”

Originally, Yang Sichang said in his advice to Emperor Chongzhen that Huguang and Sichuan's encirclement and suppression of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were not only to encircle and suppress these big thieves, but also to exterminate the big thieves at the same time, to deter the thieves in the world, so that they did not dare to have the intention of acting rashly.

No one thought that Zhang Xianzhong's defeat and Luo Rucai's desperation had no deterrent effect on the ordinary people of Henan, but made a lot of trouble.

Among the large gangs of more than tens of thousands of people, the more famous ones are "Song Jiang", "Li Zhenhai", "Breaking the Heavenly King" and so on, since Luo Rucai used "Cao Cao" as a nickname, it is not uncommon to use "Song Jiang".

Among the chaotic people gathered in Henan, three or four of them are the remnants of the old eighth team in Shaanxi, that is, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong when they were active in Henan. These people are the strongest, and they are also the most combative, and the people gathered together are the most. "Song Jiang" is not the largest, nor is it the strongest in combat, but it is the least defeated, and he also appeared in the imperial court's conquest and suppression will.

Because from February of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the "Song Jiang" gang began to move around Kaifeng City, and several times the officers and soldiers at the head of the city could see the men and horses of the "Song Jiang" department, and as a result, Kaifeng City did not dare to open the city gate during the day for three hours, and the city gate was immediately closed at the slightest disturbance.

You must know that the disaster in Henan, the local harvest can not meet the local needs, and we must rely on the supply of the Yellow River waterway, but the "Song Jiang" group haunts the city all day long, and the food and supplies outside the city cannot be replenished, and the city is embarrassed during the day.

And "Song Jiang" this group of thieves in Kaifeng City is really tasted sweet, now Henan is in turmoil, living around the city, in an emergency can run towards the city, the security is much better than those in the countryside, and the city is rich in materials, life outside the city is better than in the countryside.

In this way, there were a large number of ordinary people who still had some wealth, and even small landlords lived outside the city, and these people were much fatter than those peasants who had nothing to grab except for their lives.

Chen Yongfu, the deputy general who guarded Kaifeng City, was guarding the logistics of the army in Nanyang Mansion at this time, and Kaifeng City was extremely empty.

Using the militia to defend the city, although there has been no leakage so far, it is always uneasy, more precisely, frightened, the king of Zhou sent envoys several times to the capital for help. But Emperor Chongzhen was already frightened by the Tartars' entry into the fortress, although there were many soldiers and horses in Beizhili. But none of them wanted to be sent to Henan.

The soldiers and horses of Nanzhili were on full alert in Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing, but they could not draw out a little soldiers and horses, and the soldiers on the border of Shanxi were consumed in the battles with Mongolia and Jurchen Tartars in the past few years, and secondly, they had to defend the Datong Pass. Again, it is impossible to draw troops and horses.

As for the soldiers and horses in Huguang and Shaanxi, they are still chasing Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in Huguang and Sichuan, but they cannot be transferred.

This matter is quite interesting to say, and the soldiers and horses in Shandong are almost ignored by everyone. When the Tartars entered Koubei, Zhili and Shandong, Yang Sichang made a mistake in mobilizing troops and horses. and cooperated with the eunuch Gao Qiqian to force the main battlefield supervisor Lu Xiangsheng to death. After the fact, the merits and demerits were evaluated, and it was a big killing of the governors and generals of Beizhili and Shandong, which was used to shirk responsibility.

To say that Yang Sichang almost put all the responsibility on others, Emperor Chongzhen continued to give him unreserved trust, but there was one person who ruined his plan, Shandong general Li Mengqihe County defeated the Tartar army, beheaded more than 700, this great achievement made Yang Sichang quite embarrassed. The punishment is certainly innocent. Any disposition of the rest of the places will involve his command mistakes in the areas around Kou, Gyeonggi, and Shandong. will push the black cauldron out on your back.

So what Yang Sichang can do is to completely treat this big victory coldly, Yang Sichang, a cabinet bachelor and a secretary of the Ministry of War, is particularly good at doing this kind of thing to hide from the world, and the supervisor Lu Xiangsheng died in Julu for half a month, and he has to make up the fact that Lu Xiangsheng is alive and treat this victory coldly, which is even simpler.

As a result, it is not that the official recognition of this victory is not recognized, but this victory is rarely mentioned, and even in the official newspaper it is only a few words.

And after that, whether it was in the court or elsewhere, Yang Sichang was extremely disgusted with people, and took the initiative to prevent others from talking about anything in Shandong.

Whether it is the victory of Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, in Qihe County, or Li Meng's victorious achievements in quelling thieves and chaos in the past, or Shandong in the year of great disasters, there was a peaceful scene, and the displaced people and disaster victims rarely appeared.

Unlike the modern era from which Li Meng came, there was no rich consultation and media at that time, the center treated a certain place in a low-key and cold manner, and the people below would also ignore or forget, Li Meng had no Austrian aid to rely on in the center, and Liu Fulai, the eunuch who was in a high position in Nanjing, was far away from Beijing, and was later denounced as a people, and Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Liu Yuanbin and Li Meng, the eunuchs of the supervising army, were originally holding each other's handles, and they would not fight for him.

As a result, Shandong, whether it is soldiers or people, has been ignored by the people of the world, there seems to be no chaos in this place, there is nothing outstanding, in general, there is nothing for others to care about.

But after the court's reply returned to Kaifeng City, the King of Zhou did not do it, and now a large number of strong men and people are defending the city every day, spending all the money of the King of Zhou's own money, and the grain is also the private grain he has accumulated. Henan Governor Yamen is poor and even rats are starving to death, naturally he can't count on it, the river Yamen is now in a semi-ruined state, and there is no silver allocated by the imperial court, he is only not stronger than the governor's yamen.

King Zhou knew that this money and food should be out, but if it goes out like this, it really hurts, and it can't stand the cost! But it is also true that the imperial court did not have soldiers and horses.

If other people just accept their fate, but Zhou Wang Zhu Gongfang is a little different from others, the court will come down, the governor Yamen sent someone to notify him, see this reply is really making people want to cry without tears, Zhou Wang Zhu Gongfang is also wondering if it is a eunuch or a certain pavilion old man who wants to ask for a bribe, if there is such a sign between the words, and then make up a sum of silver to send over, it is worth unlocking the danger of unsealing.

At night, he took the transcription of the will and looked at it over and over again, and he felt that something was wrong, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with Shandong, but why didn't he send Shandong's soldiers and horses to support.

Combined with the information learned from Di Bao, Tang Bao and various places, except for a Shandong army and horses guarding the salt field in Huaibei, there are no useful soldiers in other parts of the world. Moreover, in Shandong Province, although it has been repeatedly reported that there is chaos somewhere, and the officers and men are in a hurry to calm down, there is still no uncontrollable chaos.

All kinds of signs can be analyzed, and the soldiers and horses in Shandong Province have no major movements at all, and they absolutely have spare strength.

There are soldiers in Shandong, and Shandong is peaceful, but the world does not hear of it, there must be something strange in this, and there may be some taboos that cannot be touched. King Zhou is also a cautious and cautious person, knowing that although the vassal king is a nobleman. But every move is in the attention of the imperial court and the local government, and the slightest inappropriate move is the sin of cutting the lord and going to prison, and the Dongyu Jurchen is in prison for the second time. Wreak havoc in Gyeonggi.

Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, wanted to raise troops and recruit thousands of soldiers and horses, but he was not defeated by the Tartars, but was surrounded by the official army. In the end, this enthusiastic prince ended up in a trap.

If he violates this taboo, will he end up like King Tang? Zhu Gong, the king of Zhou, was a little undecidable after thinking about it.

But. As soon as the king of Zhou thought of Shandong, he felt angry in his heart, even if there was no act of the imperial court, this Shandong was also a taboo in the Zhou Palace, except for a few cronies who knew the inside story, the rest of the palace officials and servants and women knew that the word Shandong was a big taboo in front of the prince, and whoever mentioned it would have a big temper. No one will take the initiative to touch this mold.

Of course. Everyone also understood, thinking that Zhu Yunyao, the most beloved county lord of Zhou, suddenly fell ill and died. It's normal that something is wrong with the prince.

King Zhou was extremely dissatisfied with his daughter's preference to stay in a remote place like Jiaozhou, Shandong Province, rather than return to Kaifeng Mansion to have a man forget her father, but he also understood in his heart that such an innocent and lively daughter, if she was trapped in this Kaifeng City or other cities for a lifetime in the future, it would really not be a happy thing, and it would not be a bad thing to jump out of the cage like this.

And I heard that Li Meng in Shandong is also a wealthy and powerful person, and his subordinates are full of tigers and wolves, so he can't treat his daughter badly, so he can rest assured that he doesn't think about her anymore.

But now the situation is so urgent, no matter what taboos, but also to drive away the "Song Jiang" gang outside the city first, the more Wang thought about it this week, the more he felt that this Li Meng should come to the rescue, this king's daughter has already paid you a boy, isn't it a natural thing for you to save your father-in-law.

After coming to this conclusion, the more the king of Zhou thought about it, the more he felt that it should be so, and after "Song Jiang" led a large group of men and horses to walk around the city and occupy the Yellow River crossing in front of the city for three days, the king of Zhou finally made up his mind and sent someone to invite the governor of Henan to join the palace to discuss matters.

Local civil officials have the responsibility of monitoring the pro-feudal land, but in this situation, the governor of Henan and the king of Zhou are already on the same boat, and any way to break the siege, no matter what is involved behind it, must be used to try, and if you commit a taboo again, the result is much better than the city being broken and killed.

The matter was indeed urgent to a certain extent, and the messenger sent by the governor of Henan to Beijing was sent out four times, but only ran out on the fourth time, and the rest of the time was actually blocked back by the thieves.

As soon as it was sent to Beijing, the princes of the court were surprised that there were still soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in Shandong, which seemed to be a joke, but it was really born.

In fact, in addition to Yang Sichang's deliberate indifference to such a situation and deliberate low-key cold treatment, the impression of Shandong soldiers and horses on the Beijing Imperial Horse Supervision and the Military Department was not good.

In the past, Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Caozhou in Yanzhou, was vain and unwilling to obey the orders of the imperial court to transfer him to leave Shandong and fight outside Shandong, and never refused to obey, or pretended to be sick, or said that there was a shortage of food, and the relevant officials in the court gritted their teeth with hatred, but they were helpless. And the former Shandong general Qiu Lei is also a similar role, North Korea was captured by the Houjin, the North Korean envoys came to the Ming court for help, and the military department urged Qiu Lei to lead the troops to the sea to rescue, but Qiu Lei delayed.

By the time Dengzhou went to sea, North Korea had already surrendered to Jin for almost a month, and the Ming Empire could not even be defended by the vassal state, which was tantamount to a slap in the face of the imperial court, but in the same way, such a general with troops really couldn't be easily disposed of.

Now Qiu Lei committed suicide in shame, Liu Zeqing died in the raid of the thieves, the new chief soldier Li Meng is not a good stubble, and the daily correspondence with the court is two things, crying poor and asking for money, the court now has no money allocated to the soldiers and horses who are not fighting on the front line, and then Li Meng is crying poor and saying, there is no pay and no food, the army cannot fight, and the soldiers have no morale, such a general soldier is extremely difficult.

Anyway, Yang Sichang was determined to deal with the Shandong soldiers and civilians coldly, and everyone pushed the boat down the river, leaving the Shandong general soldiers and his soldiers and horses behind.

This time, the governor of Henan mentioned that the governor of Henan has nothing to do with Shandong, and if it is not in great distress, he will not calculate the soldiers of other provinces anyway. This is really pitiful to say, anyway, the mobilization of troops and horses is just a decree of the imperial court.

And Emperor Chongzhen is mean. However, he attaches great importance to the nobles of the pro-feudal lords, and if these feudal lords and nobles make a mistake, the local officials and court officials concerned will have great responsibility, and they are basically not far from the crime of abandoning the city and killing their heads. The princes of the court and the eunuchs of the ceremonial and eunuch quickly formed a unified opinion.

This opinion was quickly reported to Emperor Chongzhen. At present, this "diligent saint" is paying attention to the battle report reported by the superintendent Yang Sichang all day long, as well as the military plans of the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, outside the pass, Henan and Shandong, and for Emperor Chongzhen. It's really a small thing that can't be smaller.

Since the ministers and officials below have formed a consensus, Chongzhen is also as good as a stream. Yes. An order was issued to Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the supervising army, and asked them to lead troops to support Kaifeng, Henan, and pacify the thieves.

Now that Beizhili and Shandong are both Taiping boundaries, the eunuch who passed the decree under the escort of Jinyiwei soon arrived in Jinan City, and read out the decree and Yan Jizu and Liu Yuanbin in a big way, and then waited for Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, to come over, and then notify it.

I don't say what's going on in the dark. But on the surface, the soldiers and horses of the provinces were all under the command of the governor and the eunuchs who supervised the army. The general soldiers, the staff generals and the like are just leading the troops below, in fact, no matter how domineering the generals are at present. The Wenchen above can generally command the movement, and the eunuch who passed the decree naturally thought that the situation was the same in Shandong.

Shandong Governor Yan Jizu and the eunuch Liu Yuanbin of the supervising army naturally can't say that in Shandong, some things on the surface don't work, and Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, can't act at all, and they don't need to ask for the consent of the two of them, but because the handle is held in the hands of the other party, Li Meng's behavior can only be smiling.

Fortunately, some of Li Meng's procedural things are still saving face, and the subordinates can't see the flaws, after the two escaped the catastrophe of Yang Sichang's assessment of meritorious deeds, they were both disheartened, waiting for the expiration of their term of office to return to their hometowns, and they would not take the initiative to give Li Meng any orders, and they were bored.

Unexpectedly, the imperial court suddenly made a will, asking Shandong to send troops to rescue Henan, which made the two of them unable to even cry, asking for help in Henan, which was already poor and could not even survive the rats.

For example, how can there be such a loyal military general in the middle of the world, as long as Li Meng does not have the handle of the two of them, this soldier may not be mobilized, let alone Li Meng, a person who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early.

Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei committed suicide in shame, although the two said good things in the middle of the play, but the actual situation The two also know about it, whether the rope around the neck of Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei was put on by himself or Li Mengle, this is a public case that everyone knows, but pretends to be confused.

If Li Meng does not follow this order, the court will be in a hurry, and Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the supervising army, will be a big crime, if Li Meng is in a hurry, Yan Jizu and Liu Yuanbin wonder if they will also be put a rope around their necks by others, and then the two will also commit suicide because of shame.

It is also strange to say, Li Mengming's actions on the face are quite restrained and low-key, and he is highly praised among the people of Shandong, known as the name of benevolence and righteousness, compared to Zuo Liangyu and others, it has a much better reputation, but Yan Jizu always feels that Li Meng is extremely dangerous, and he can do anything domineering, although it seems that Li Meng has never done the same.

Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, politely conveyed the will of the imperial court to Zhou Yang, the governor of Jinan Prefecture, Zhou Yang accepted the will very politely, but did not make any substantive reply, and arranged for a fast horse to send an urgent report to Li Meng, who was on the way.

Yan Jizu, Li Meng's whereabouts, also knew about it, and calculated that it would take up to three days to go back and forth, but when there was no response on the morning of the third day when the news was sent, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, calmed down, and it was better to face it calmly when encountering such a situation.

At noon, the governor yamen was fine, Yan Jizu simply returned to his home and explained the future to his family in a very relaxed tone, but his family was taken aback, because this tone was too much like an explanation of the future.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the old battalion brigade of the Jiaozhou battalion and Li Meng's relatives finally arrived in Jinan City, and according to the rules, the general army came. The governor and the eunuchs did not have to greet them, but when the general army arrived, they had to take the initiative to meet the two commanders. Yan Jizu was already quite discouraged, and originally had an attitude towards Li Meng in private and even towards his boss according to his level, but this time he simply didn't send someone to greet him.

Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the prison army, was not as open as him, and sent his most personal military leaders and housekeepers over. And arrange a private banquet to invite each other in the evening.

As a result, the ceremony of greeting was not over, and Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the prison army, hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Yan Jizu, and it turned out that Li Meng did not come to Jinan.

After coming to Jinan City, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion who followed Li Meng's brigade sent a private letter to Zhou Yang, the fellow governor of Jinan Mansion. After Zhou Yang received the letter, he immediately asked to see the eunuch and the governor of the prison army, and reported the situation.

Conveyed in the message. Shandong General Li Meng's posture was quite polite. said that he knew that the military situation in Henan was urgent, so he went out first and mobilized troops and horses. Please follow the governor and the supervisor, Li was waiting for Yunyun in Yanzhou Mansion, Yan Ji's ancestor who got the news was stunned, then ecstatic, and then a little puzzled, thinking about what was the reason for Li Meng this time. So neatly obeyed the order and set out on the expedition.

Whatever the reason. It is good that people are willing to go on the expedition, as for the messenger who waits for the decree to the general army. That's very easy to fight, listening to the news of Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the prison army, saying that the Jiaozhou battalion also prepared a generous gift for the Qincha, and now he doesn't even have to pay for himself, so he is very relieved.

When they arrived at the old battalion of the Jiaozhou battalion in Jinan City, there were only 100 people in the pro-military battalion, 800 horses, and the rest of the troops were all officers and soldiers.

Li Meng led his own soldiers and a horse team of 3,000 horsemen, and he had already rushed to Jining Prefecture, and transferred 5,000 people, 1,000 veterans, and 4,000 recruits in the Yanzhou army.

The so-called land invites the governor and the supervisor to keep up with the words, that is, a kind word, as soon as the proclamation of the decree is left, these two adults are willing to stay in Jinan and no one cares about him, and they are willing to follow them, but these two must not be willing to go to the rotten place in Henan to see the bloody sword soldiers.

On the seventh day of the fifth lunar month, Li Meng led the cavalry to Jining Prefecture, and after arriving, he refused the large mansions provided by several big merchants in Jining Prefecture, but instead camped in a camp built outside the city.

Kong Sande of Wenru Commercial Bank, the shopkeeper of Fujian Commercial Bank have been waiting in Jining City for a long time, Lingshan Commercial Bank gave Wenru Commercial Bank an advance of 50,000 taels of silver deposit, and the Kong family is now lively in more than a dozen large warehouses in Jining Prefecture, and Confucius Mansion itself Ding Zhuang and Yanzhou military soldiers began to carry and load nervously.

There were eight vassal kings in Henan, three in Shandong, King De who was captured by the Qing army, King Heng who lived in Qingzhou, and King Lu who lived in Yanzhou City.

Shandong is the land of Lu, the first generation of King Lu is the youngest son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, is the crown of the kings of Shandong, after the martyrdom, Zhu Di is extremely favored by the King of Lu, and the result has been passed down from generation to generation, this King Lu is the most stable one, and the relatives of the generations are naturally extravagant and abnormal.

And King Zhu Yipai of Lu likes to have fun, and has no political ambitions, and since the Jiajing generation, the blood relationship with the emperor has also become very estranged, so King Lu does not have too strict restrictions, as long as he does not go out of Rongyang City without the will of the court, then everything is up to him.

Zhu Yi's party has a great preference for women in the south of the Yangtze River, which has become a well-known thing in Yanzhou City's wealth, and every year there are royal purchases, and a few specially trained men are bought in Yangzhou and Suzhou, and they are transported back to Rongyang City in May every year, which has become a practice.

Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, was extremely close to his brother Zhu Yihai, and every year after buying a woman, he had to give one or two to Zhu Yihai as concubines.

The two brothers are both young people, and the housekeeper sent to Jiangnan sent back the news early, saying that on the eighth day of the fifth month, they must send people back. The two brothers of King Lu are naturally looking forward to it, who wants to wait until after May 12, there is still no news at all.

The anxious King of Lu, Zhu Yipai, sent his guards out to look for him, and when he came back from Jiangnan anyway, he must have to take the waterway and transit in Jining Prefecture.

This day is May 15th, and it should also be the day when the guards come back to tell the news, in fact, for these two brothers, the guards of the Lu Wangfu and the people of the Ying Ying are treated according to the attitude of coaxing children, in this era, hundreds of miles apart, it is normal to delay a day or two. Why be in a hurry, but the two brothers are in a hurry. Always take care of their emotions.

When I got up in the morning, after breakfast, King Lu had already scolded my subordinates a few times, and everyone knew that the prince was for the woman who was late. Or the news is hot for a long time, and the head of the palace who has a headache waits for the news at the gate of the palace early, so as not to listen to the noise of the master in the palace.

When lunch is approaching, enjoy the singing music at the gazebo. But he heard the butler hurrying over and came to him. He shouted:

"Lord Wang. News has come back from those who went out! ”

Hearing this, King Lu immediately got up from his seat and said:

"How long is it coming, tell me quickly!"

The butler's voice suddenly lowered at this time, and he said carefully:

"Back to the prince, they have already walked to Jining Prefecture with people, but it will take almost half a month" "You are a killer, this king has never been out of Rongyang City. But it's not confusing. Even if you go from Jining to our Yangyang City, it won't take half a month. Doesn't our palace have a ship in Jining Prefecture? ”

Before the housekeeper finished speaking, King Lu had already scolded, but King Lu and his brothers really didn't have any majesty in this mansion, and the housekeeper was not too afraid, so he calmly explained:

"Lord Wang, it's not to blame them, Jining Prefecture is already closed down, people who are not from Jining City, can't leave the city before May 13, and those people we send out never bring these."

"Who the hell is it!? How dare you be!! ”

The more the housekeeper explained, the more angry the young King Lu became, and he couldn't help but ask loudly, but the housekeeper was not so relaxed when he answered this question, but lowered his voice a little, and said in a low voice:

"Lord Wang, it's Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong"

"A general soldier is so arrogant and domineering, in the end is King Lu him, or is he alone!"

This time, the housekeeper didn't make a sound, but it was Zhu Yihai, the younger brother of King Lu Zhu Yipai, who hurriedly shouted in a deep voice:

"Brother Wang, don't say anything, in this land of Qilu, how can there be a place for our Lu Wangfu to speak, then Li Meng speaks, who dares not to listen."

After saying this, King Lu, who was snorting, was silent, he had indeed never been out of Rongyang City, but he had also heard of the name of Li Erlang.

Jining Prefecture is now in a mess, and it is not a big deal not to be allowed to leave the city for ten days without official status and road guidance, and what makes people even more distressed is that most of the ships passing through Jining have been detained, and only the ships carrying grain to Beijing have been released.

The rest of the ships had to be self-slaughtered, unloaded with goods, merchants and men went ashore to find inns to live in, and boatmen and sailors had to stay on board.

Although it is said that the boat will not be detained, this move itself is too shocking, but the merchants who often run on this waterway know the stakes and the stakes, especially the forces that ask them to do this, so although they complain, they still obediently comply.

Of course, there are also some merchants and other people who walk here for the first time who don't know, for example, these guards in the Lu Palace.

It is not a glorious thing for the dignified relatives to go to Jiangnan to learn from those salt merchants and rich people to purchase women, and the guards of the Lu Wangfu have always been reluctant to find out their identities when they are walking outside.

However, if there is a nosy, especially if someone in the government asks, then show this identity, the guards of the Lu Wangfu, the pro-vassal family of the Ming Dynasty, as soon as this identity is revealed, the people in the official palace are all retreating, and these palace guards feel very happy about such things.

This time, because of the delay on the road, they also knew the temper of their prince, and they thought that if they didn't hurry up, they might suffer when they returned to Rongyang City.

But the officers and soldiers of the Yanzhou army got the order, and naturally they would not let these people leave, and as a result, the two sides clashed on the dock, and the soldiers of the Yanzhou army were numerous, and they were all holding weapons in the army, and the guards of the Lu Wangfu did not dare to do it easily, so they had to show their identities.

Seeing the soldiers of the Yanzhou army like this, the guards of the Lu Wangfu suddenly became arrogant, opened their mouths and scolded without saying anything, and went directly ashore to untie the cable, and pushed and shoved with the soldiers guarding the side.

The recruits of the Yanzhou army have weapons in their hands, but they are frightened by the name of the other party, and they dare not use force, there are many people who are detained by the Jiaozhou battalion on this dock, and those merchants who often walk on this waterway arrange the goods after getting off the ship, and go directly to find the inn and wait with peace of mind.

And on this dock, there are those newcomers who have just arrived, and when they saw the royal palace guards rushing forward to clash, these people also clamoured.

The scene became a little wrong for a while, but it calmed down quickly, and several non-commissioned officers who were chatting on the side heard that something was wrong here, so they came over to check together.

Seeing the palace guards who were pushing, a non-commissioned officer didn't say a word, picked up a thick bamboo pole on the dock, put on a spear posture, and stabbed it flat along the gap in the crowd.

The bamboo pole was very long, and those palace guards were standing on the edge of the dock, and in the midst of the noise, a bamboo pole was stabbed suddenly, and before the person who was stabbed could react, his chest was heavily concentrated, and he fell directly from the dock into the water, and then he heard the non-commissioned officers scolding from behind:

"Pay attention to his bird, whose food do you eat, whose knives and guns do you hold, you are afraid of a ball!"

After another moment, almost all the palace guards were thrown into the river, and the merchants who were still clamoring just now were silent, not daring to say a word again.

On May 11, the Jiaozhou battalion set out to march against Henan's army and collected enough ships. Whether it was for the loading of food provisions, or for the transportation of soldiers and horses.

On May 13th, during the expedition of the army, I wrote a 10,000-word chapter, and I asked you for a monthly pass, my update should be able to resume, and I can also ask for a monthly pass with everyone.