Chapter 570, Livelihood 10
In the following time, I ran to arrange the aftermath of the family, and during this period, I seized the opportunity to have several trysts with Jia Yejun and greedy love.
After directly piercing the knot in her heart and persevering for many years, she gradually let go of her reserve and shame, and from the original retreat to live alone, her lonely and quiet temperament has become extraordinarily blazing. Almost wholeheartedly attached to every second of time alone with me, it was like a bride who had just tasted human affairs.
But no matter how short the reunion is, or the reluctance to give up, the parting period has come quickly.
Looking at the distant figure on the shore, it had disappeared for a long time, and I returned to the cabin.
Compared with the number of people in the entourage before coming, there were several times more people on the return trip. In addition to the local recruits and defectors, the main ones were the two battalions from the left of the Longzhou regiment led by Wu Jue to supplement the troops, as well as the thousands of men and horses assigned to the Neijiang Naval Division under my command.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, they should have had more than 2,000 posts. However, due to various reasons, such as sudden illness, injury, falling into the water, accidents at home, etc., less than half of them were able to arrive at the assembly site in time.
This time, in addition to the three and Jiajia who were originally scheduled to continue to follow me, I also brought another little tail with my head - holding my head and squatting, according to the mysterious creature, let her take care of my body and life.
After all, compared to the attendant and vase arrangement, I can only do three pieces of housework in a mess, or Jiajia, who is young and needs to be taken care of, and needs to continue to cultivate, I do need a caring person around me who knows the roots to take care of me, and also deal with some private things, such as letterheads involving family exchanges.
Therefore, she is smiling and staying on my left hand side at the moment, and Jia Jia, who occupies the right hand side, is very happy with her big eyes and small eyes. Coupled with the helpless expression on his face, the three standing behind me.
I suddenly realized that with such a large and small daily style, three women can make up all the scenes in one play. I also felt the arrangement and intention of some kind of malicious interest from the enigmatic creature.
This time, I had to go by sea.
In addition to the fact that the number of people has increased and it happens to follow the southeast tide to the north, there is also the reason that the land route to the north is not very peaceful.
Following the intensification of the great rebellion of the remnants of the Great Cloud Bright Sect in Fujian, for a time the inland states such as Tingzhou, Shunchangjun, Nanjianzhou and Shaozhou were all affected by its turmoil.
In the territory of Jiangxi Province, the so-called "money change" has occurred. As the name suggests, it is the large-scale chaos and rebound caused by the issuance and use of new banknotes in the Jiangxi region outside the overloaded mountains.
The root cause is also very simple, that is, some ugly-looking guys who have already done anything to directly take the military money of the Southern Dynasty with limited hairstyles to forcibly buy the property of the locals, and even directly use it as salary and severance pay to the soldiers retained by those local military towns.
Therefore, under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, these soldiers who were in an uproar, under the difficulties of real life, angrily robbed the arsenal and the official warehouse, and then simply broke the tank and broke it, and the series of rebellions became chaotic.
The local people who were exploited by the new corrupt officials of the Southern Dynasty also responded one after another, and for a time, the trend of money change spread to more than a dozen states between Jiangxi Province and Jinghu Road.
However, the two major recruitment camps of Jiangxi and Jinghu, which were in charge of the local area, were unable to contain them at the first time because they were fully engaged in the Northern Expedition and the emptiness of the limited troops in the rear.
The most direct consequence is that the middle route army, which originally retreated to the front line of Xiangfan, was cut off from the grain route, and the defense line collapsed in several places.
However, this banknote mutiny did not allow people to catch their breath, and then it crossed the line of Poyang Lake and Raozhou, and spread to the territory of Gangdong Province, which also used a large number of military money, and caused chaos in Xinheng Prefecture.
For a time, mobs and rebels from the southern states of Jiangdong Province were on the road, and the local government was overwhelmed by bullets and extinguishments everywhere, and they rushed to Jiangning like snowflakes to ask for help.
As a result, Shaoguan, the neighboring states beyond Meiling, had begun to impose martial law and prepare for the enemy. Therefore, the way I came from is no longer suitable as a route to return to the north.
In fact, even I could not have predicted that the far-reaching impact of this money change affecting the southeast half of the country would far exceed the negative consequences of the failure of the Northern Expedition, because he also meant that the economic credit system under the rule of the Southern Dynasties was a corner and symptom of a chain avalanche in the south of the Yangtze River.
But this qiē is not directly related to me for the time being. At present, it seems that it is just ordinary local chaos, coupled with the revival of cultists.
According to the order from Jiangning, 100,000 people urgently asked me to return to the town in the shortest possible time and preside over the overall situation north of the Huai River, so as to contain the changes and changes that may occur in the north.
Therefore, the Cantonese side did not dare to slack off, and after I complained about the difficult sea route and the difficult conditions, they immediately requisitioned more than a dozen Flying Fish-class clippers with a large loading capacity to me nearby, and couldn't wait to send them on the road as soon as possible.
According to the assurances given to me by the relevant people in the DPRK and China, these sea ships responsible for carrying me and my men on the road, together with the men who operated the boats on them, will go straight to the Huaidong side after arriving at the shore, and there is no need to return them back, and the rest of the hands and tails and related affairs are all the affairs of the imperial court.
Although the load of these Exocet-class clippers is limited, and the largest one is only a thousand materials, which can only be used to transport people and passengers or express light and expensive goods, and cannot be compared with the special official or military version of the large transport ships with thousands of material units, but it is not a problem to change them into patrol ships for checking smuggling and stealing in the offshore waters.
However, when passing through the states of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and docking for supplies, although it was still the daily life in the city that did not smell the fire, the market was still the same as before, and there was no sign of a large-scale exodus, and it seemed that he was very confident in the rule of the dynasty in the local area.
However, with the flow of people from all walks of life who fled to the vicinity of coastal states and counties, all kinds of rumors and bad news, true and false, have filled the streets and alleys of the suburban markets.
It is said that the inland officers and troops have been defeated, and they are unable to support them and are full of thieves; It is also said that the rebels of the Great Cloud Sect have crossed the lofty mountains and mountains in the northwest of Fujian and killed them in Jiangxi outside the road; It is also said that the soldiers and horses of the two Zhejiang provinces who entered Fujian to help were blocked by the line of Liancheng and could not make an inch of progress, and they were killed and wounded in front of the rebels who were defending the stronghold.
For this reason, I also specially sent people to disembark from the ship to inquire about the situation, and at the same time to survey the hydrology and flood season, and survey and map the geographical topography nearby, so as to make arrangements and preparations as soon as possible. In this way, in the unlikely event that things go wrong, I may even consider sending troops on the other side of the river to Yizhou to try to hold one or two of its coastal points with ports.
When I arrived at Hu Tuzhou (near present-day Lianyungang) at the mouth of the Yangtze River, I found that the number of personnel waiting here had been tripled.
Then, Tang Huai and others, who were temporarily in charge of leading the team in Cining Palace, learned that during this time, something happened in Jiangning's base camp.
For example, the prison country took advantage of the power of the previous counterinsurgency, and with the backing of the three armies of the imperial camp, it learned from the pain and learned from the pain, and carried out a drastic initial integration and reorganization of the guest troops stranded in Jiangdong Province and Liangzhejiang Province, and more than a dozen routes and two sea routes.
As for the possible backlash and disputes, the main means of division and disintegration are adopted. For example, in the name of promotion and reward, the elite of them were selected to be the two military numbers of Fengsheng and Gongchen, and about ten battalions of men and horses were included in the defense sequence of Jiangning Mansion together with the front, middle and rear armies of the imperial camp.
He also selected the old, weak, wounded and sick among them, and allocated them to the military field for resettlement and recuperation.
These guest army units that came from afar and lacked foundation, and the people's hearts were a little panicked, were weakened and decomposed one by one. Then, the remaining dozens of battalions of guest soldiers and horses were replaced and adjusted by the upper-level generals; They were re-designated and resettled, and the local government was ordered to provide for them in proportion, and so on.
After these measures, these guest army units, which were still a little uneasy and had been criticized and complained about by the local government, finally stopped.
And the extra 1,000 heads under my command are the product of this major adjustment and blood exchange in the army. Obviously, in addition to the original group of trainees, those who are not easy to place for the time being, or the thorns who are not very peaceful, have all been thrown under my hands in the name of going north to study actual combat.
But for me, no matter how troublesome they are, after leaving the subordinates who can dominate and agitate, what is left is the strength of individuals, as long as they are separated and put into my front-line troops, there will be no waves at all.
On the battlefield on the front line, it is not too easy for a misfit troublemaker or a black sheep who lacks collective spirit to die on the battlefield or disappear in battle.
In addition, when passing through these coastal areas, in addition to the official ships that routinely transported supplies and military Zizi, a group of merchant ships volunteered to follow us north.
Therefore, when I left Hu Tuzhou at the mouth of the Yangtze River again, the fleet of my companions had grown several times, and it could be called a large group
Canton, Paiwei City
Zhao Futu, the master of the view of all beings, looked at it with some regret, the temple shrine that has lived for many years has been poured with fire oil.
Then he set it on fire with his own hands without hesitation, and burned it down along with the secrets and secrets inside, and his subordinates and friends who couldn't take it away were also drugged by him himself and buried inside.
In fact, even a stand-in of his own resemblance was ready.
From then on, there was no longer the eight-sided and black-and-white Guan Master Zhao Futu, only the Great Cloud Light Sect, the loyal secret hall protector Sauron.
As his competitor, the Night Protector Marven, has already taken the lead and started to lay out and harvest in Fujian.
Naturally, he can't be left behind, even if he gives up the connections he has been operating in Guangfu for many years and the Fanren groups and small gangs that he secretly controls.