Compared with Chen Wen, who is still being held back by Fan Wencheng and Sun Kewang in Jiangxi, there are not many cards in Jierharang's hand, so every card must be used well to have a chance to win. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Tianlu is a powerful faction and needs to be wooed; Although Liu Liangzuo also has more than 500 Han army flags in his hand, these soldiers are all from each banner and their own Niulu, but they are only blended together by him for the time being, he also came with the Han army flag this time, as long as the flag is returned, but this defeated army must be severely punished, otherwise Yue Le's death will not be gently put down; As for the same defeated generals, Kakhamu and Guan Xiaozhong, although these two guys have little strength, they have a deep understanding of the environment in Jiangnan, and he also needs to show a certain amount of tolerance to ensure that more Jiangnan officials support him wholeheartedly, and the punishment can only be put aside for the time being.

In Zilharan's army, the Green Battalion was already on its way. This army is strong enough to fight a field battle with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, but he still needs more odds to make a move, after all, this is the strongest wave for both sides.

The rainstorm does not repeat, and the wind does not end.

In the next half month, some elite green battalions from Shanxi, Zhili, Shandong and Henan arrived in batches, but in terms of food and salary, Ma Guozhu's collection speed never kept up with expectations.

No way, before Zheng Chenggong's army attacked, the local chaos was in a mess, although the officials came and went, and Zierharang also made a position by letting Kaqam and Guan be loyal to Dai Sin and make meritorious contributions, but the areas once occupied by the Ming army were looted by the Qing army from all walks of life to varying degrees, and the local damage was not small, coupled with the problem of the time period of tax collection, it was really difficult to provide sufficient food and grass for the 20,000 Eighth Banner Army and 30,000 green battalion soldiers in one go.

In Jilharang's journey, Ma Guozhu trembled and told Jierharang about the preparation of grain and grass in detail, nodding his head, he couldn't help but secretly raise his eyelids, looking at Jierharang's eyebrows wrinkled, and the anxiety in his heart became more and more serious.

After a while, Ma Guozhu finished reporting on the food and salary situation, and the shortage was very large, which was simply not enough to support the whole army's operations in the next six months. Moreover, this is just a normal expenditure, the reward of the guest army, the reward of sending troops, and the fact that Zilharang originally planned to rely on the reward of goods to boost morale, now there is no place at all.

Counting on the capital side, it is impossible. Zilharang knew very well that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's finances had fallen into a predicament of making ends meet, and he was counting on him to be able to make a fortune in Zhejiang and Jiangxi after defeating Chen Wen.

"Ma Guozhu, it's been half a month, you have raised such a little food, and the consumption of the garrison can't last for a few months, let alone the reward for the expedition, what the hell are you doing this as a minion?!"

"Minions deserve to die, minions deserve to die."

Ma Guozhu fell to his knees and kept kowtowing. Zilharang also knew that the Manchu occupation area in Jiangnan was now only Jiangning, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Ningguo, Chizhou, Taiping, and Guangdezhou, which were seven prefectures and one prefecture, and it was really not so easy to support the sudden increase in the food and salary of the 50,000 army in the next six months in a very short time. Unless, unless, unconventional, it is not so easy.

"Have the thieves come out?"

Zilharang jumped over from the matter of food, it stands to reason that Ma Guozhu should be happy, but when he heard this, Ma Guozhu was in a cold sweat, and he swallowed his saliva before answering.

"Back to the prince, the servants have personally gone to see Haikou Ganhui, Yu Xin, and Wanli in the past few days, but they all refused to return to the court. The minions thought that these thieves were all diehards of the pirates, and they had killed a hundred. ”

Hangzhou fell, the Ming army rebelled against the acting admiral's deputy general Xu Xin and others, although most of the officers who were rebelled against died in the suppression of the Eight Banners Army in the city, but this still gave Ma Guozhu a wake-up call, Wang Jiangke was robbed by the Ming army in Nanjing last year, although these three hot potatoes have been heavily guarded, but who knows if there will be similar things again. Rather than this, it is better to kill it to save your mind.

Ma Guozhu's mind was that he couldn't deceive Jierharang, originally he planned to recruit the three of them, but also to prepare for the future, after all, there were very few officers on the Qing army's side who were good at water warfare, and the quality could not be compared with Zheng Chenggong's officer corps. Now that the three of them refuse to surrender, it will be a disaster to stay and not do well.

"Hey, it's only been a few years, and the good generals of the Green Camp have withered to this point."

The Green Battalion was the main force of the Manchu Qing to conquer China, and relying on these traitors, the Manchus created a miracle of the 50,000-Ding cold weapon tribe conquering the 70-million-Ding Chinese Empire. But in the past few years, Chen Wen alone has killed too many famous generals in the Green Battalion, and even forced some famous generals to become mediocre generals, no wonder Zierharang has such feelings.

Ji'er Harang is like this, but Ma Guozhu didn't dare to answer, Liang Huafeng's matter was suppressed for the time being, and he made meritorious contributions in the appointment of the chief soldier of Su Songshui's division, but he didn't need to touch this mold.

"Then pull them out and cut them, can't they still be kept by the Zhejiang bandits!"

"The minions obey."

"What about the others?"

As soon as these words came out, Ma Guozhu's body shook slightly, not because of the amount of energy that the person Zierharang was referring to, so big that it could make him, a feudal official, fearful, just some things, affect the whole body, and now the Manchu rule in Jiangnan is in danger, but whether it is really time to take this dose of tiger and wolf medicine, he does not dare to draw this conclusion.

"Back to the prince's words, the servants persuaded and persuaded them, even if they arrested their families and threatened them, it didn't work. These rebels are obviously bent on death, and they will never be obedient. ”

Hearing this, Zilharang's face was relaxed, and then he said: "In this case, then there is no need to bother with them, and pull them out and cut them together with those pirates." ”

"The minions obey."

"In addition, according to those letters, arrest all the traitors who have not yet been caught. The next thing, you know what to do. ”

"The slave understands that the slave must eliminate the evil."

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On August 23, the ninth year of Yongli, Yamen, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, signed an order to behead Gan Hui, the commander of the Fujian Ming army, Wan Li, the later commander, and Yu Xin, the forward Zhen Yuxin, who were captured in the first battle of Nanjing, as well as other captured Fujian Ming soldiers who were not executed on the spot.

In addition, after the war, a large number of anti-Qing people who provided intelligence, personnel, food and salary and other support for the Fujian Ming army in the First Battle of Nanjing, including Li Zhichun, the head of the military department, He Wangsheng, and the general Ping, were also beheaded for public display.

The killing of these anti-Qing activists who actually participated in Zheng Chenggong's attack on Nanjing seemed to be an understanding of the Manchus, but the subsequent development quickly surprised everyone.

A few days later, the magistrate of Jintan County, Changzhou Prefecture, sued Cai Mo, Yu Hou, Zhou Sheng and other ten Confucian scholars and other enemies on suspicion of fornicating with Haikou and made a blacklist of 38 people.

After the plaintiff and the defendant went back and forth to eat enough, Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Jiangning, a famous corrupt official in the early Qing Dynasty and known as "Zhu Baidi", jointly ruled with the household department and the criminal department that the plaintiff was framed and the defendant was released and returned home.

However, at this moment, "Zhu Qingtian" has not yet been promoted to this official position, and time has changed, and the 38 defendants were immediately arrested and sent to Jiangning for trial. Next, 65 people from Jintan County, including Wang Mingxian, Feng Zhengyuan, and Li Mingchang, were implicated.

After these wealthy gentry who "related to the sea" were sent to Jiangning, they were quickly convicted, and their family property was confiscated. Seeing that they could win in one case, the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River were in full swing, especially the gentry and wealthy households who had previously participated in the rebellion against the local government and the green camp were the first to bear the brunt. For a time, the only remaining seven prefectures and one state in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River were in turmoil.

In Xuanhuali, Kunshan County, Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Jiajing Dynasty Nanjing Taifu Temple Cheng Gui Youguang's grandson southeast anti-Qing people Gui Zhuang mansion, last year here also discussed the anti-Qing plan, pointing out the passionate words, but now it is completely a school of preparing to flee.

The servants of the family were hurriedly packing their things, and Gui Zhuang was entertaining a member of the Hidden Poetry Society in the study, and the family had such news because of the news brought by this person.

"Hengxuan, Chen Sandao has been arrested, I received the news and hurriedly came to inform you, don't pack up your things, let's go, the Tartars are crazy, they want to kill all the gentry in Jiangnan, only the king of Huiji County is safe."

The surname of the person is Wu Mingyan, a person from Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, a member of the Hidden Poetry Society, and in history this person was killed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty because of his involvement in Zhuang's "History of the Ming Dynasty". The Chen Sandao he mentioned was also a person from Suzhou, although he was not a member of the Hidden Poetry Society, but he and Wei Geng and Qian Zhangzeng of Huzhou, Qi Lisun and Qi Bansun of Shaoxing used the formation of the Poetry Society to resist the Qing Dynasty, and Wei Geng and these people had made suggestions to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan in the Battle of Nanjing in history, and were killed because of the fact that the matter was related to the sea.

is also a person from Suzhou, Guizhuang naturally knows these people, and because he is connected to Qian Qianyi on this line, he also knows that Wei Geng and others are involved in the anti-Qing movement like them.

Chen Sandao's arrest means that many things are possible, and it is possible that the Manchu Qing government dug up this line in Jiangnan, so it was followed by the vine. In this way, Qian Qianyi's side is in danger.

"Chiming, you're right, there's no need to pack up these things, you should leave quickly, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave if you delay it any longer."

"What about you?"

"I'll have to inform the others."

"Who else needs to be notified, Yixin and Ning Ren have long been in Zhejiang, Litian and Yin Xu are still in Wujiang, and I have already asked my uncle to go back overnight to inform you, you are their inevitable character, and it will be too late if you don't leave."

Wu Yan knew that this matter was huge, and he was so excited that he pulled Guizhuang's sleeve and was about to go out. Unexpectedly, Guizhuang didn't seem to plan to flee south like this, and as soon as the two of them pulled, their sleeves happened to be ripped out.

"Stab" came, and both of them were stunned, and then returned to Zhuang and smiled bitterly: "Chiming, you go first, I really have something important." When I arrived in Zhejiang, I remembered to greet the people of Ning and Yao on my behalf. Also, you must tell Ning Ren that his family's servant Lu En colluded with Ye Fangheng, saying that he had already sued the government for Zhejiang, and asked him to go and not come back. ”

Guizhuang put on a posture of sending off guests, and Wu Yan had no choice, so he stomped his feet in frustration before turning around and leaving. After Wu Yan left, Guizhuang didn't care about packing up those belongings, so he dismissed the servants at home and hurried to Changzhou Mansion.

Sitting in a carriage, Guizhuang went all the way to the northwest, there were many people on the road distributing portraits, Guizhuang knew that these people were taken captive by the Qing reinforcements of the First World War in Nanjing, and they rushed to Suzhou to find it, but the hope of really being able to find it was very slim.

"It's all a good thing that the Tartars did, hey."

Through the window of the carriage, the anxious faces appeared in front of him, and Gui Zhuang didn't know what to say for a while.

Last year, they originally planned to organize anti-Qing people in Jiangnan to welcome Chen Wen north, but they were taken off topic at the conference. This matter is related to the original loose structure of their Hidden Poetry Society, which reached an internal consensus, but did not have the ability to implement this resolution, but the contradictions between Chen Wen and the gentry class and the gentry had another option of Li Zhichun also had a great relationship.

Now Li Zhichun's operation of the Fujian Ming army to the north is completely shattered, Chen Wen is not very clear why he chose to stop after killing a Manchu prince, and now the Jiangnan government began to expand the Tonghai case, in order to fight against the Qing gentry, Chen Wen is not sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, waiting for the Manchu Qing to kill all the southeast gentry and then pick peaches.

"Nope! The king of Huiji County is not that kind of person, the king of Yanping County goes north, as long as Yue Le is released to help, and he can solve the problem with the king of Fujian with the king of Fujian. He didn't do that, and there was no need to sit back and watch the Tartars slaughter the scholars who wanted to be in the court. ”

In the midst of his thoughts, the carriage advanced some distance, and there was a jam in front of it, and several Qing soldiers were standing checking the people. Guizhuang's servant drove the car, turned around and asked him to tidy up his makeup, since Guizhuang had already received from Wu Yan the Suzhou government's intention to arrest him, this time he went north to make a special disguise and disguise, so as to facilitate the confusion.

There is a lot of traffic in the card, and he has some experience in returning to various places, and he specially chose an old carriage, plus the money to open the road, and finally passed the card between Suzhou Mansion and Changzhou Mansion.

After passing the card, Guizhuang re-boarded the carriage, and the servant drove the car to continue to travel in the direction of Changzhoufu. But in the distance, two idlers were staring at them and whispering.

"Are you sure?"

"That's right, it's him."