In the first few days after Cheng Hai and Zhou Fanzi left the Beijing Division, they didn't even dare to rest, and hurried away, and the people who escorted the team were nervously guarded.

However, five days later, the group finally determined that there were no pursuers sent out, and breathed a sigh of relief, and after walking a short distance, they could almost enter the territory of Shandong, and on the ground of Shandong, this team was not in any danger.

In fact, after they entered Shandong, they learned that the news that came out of the Beijing division was that Sun Chuanting occasionally felt cold in the imperial prison, coupled with his weak body, the treatment was ineffective, and he died of a serious illness.

Emperor Chongzhen had no concern for this criminal who had made great contributions, only Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, felt the friendship of his colleagues that day, and secretly sent several of his subordinates to Beijing to collect the corpse and help the Sun family to deal with the funeral.

However, after coming, he was told by the edict that the weather was hot, and Sun Chuanting had been sick for many days, for fear that the corpse would stay too long and cause an epidemic, and Sun Chuanting's family had disappeared, so he simply hurried to burn it, and in the end he just returned to Luanzhou with the ashes.

The prison guards, Luo Tou worked for another month, saying that there was something at home, resigned from his position in the prison, and left the Jingshi.

Robbing the prison and saving the prisoners, a big case, but Sun Chuanting is just a criminal minister, and no one cares about it at all, and the jailers work together to hide this matter in order not to take this responsibility.

But then again, Sun Chuanting, who was in prison, was of little value to anyone, or neither the court nor the jailers felt that it was of any use to rescue this criminal who had no power or office.

As long as you are in the officialdom system of the Ming Dynasty, it is meaningless for you to save Sun Chuanting, he has no strength, he is just a civil servant who treats crimes. Maybe his experience and insight may be able to be a good staff and master, but to save the sinners of the imperial court with all the great difficulty, just doing such a small thing, the risk and benefit are inevitably disproportionate.

And if you want to find a staff master, how many people are studying all day long, why take such a big risk.

What needs Sun Chuanting is a system that is completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty. There are dissenting forces.

Sun Chuanting has been choked by Zhou Fanzi's laxatives in prison for the past few months, but after leaving the prison, it is easy to solve this problem, starting with light porridge and vegetables for a day or two, and then starting to use chicken soup and broth to recuperate, and the person's body will slowly recover.

It is said that escaping from prison is tantamount to coming out of the place of death. But Sun Chuanting's behavior was quite strange, no matter what he thought, no one would take such a big risk to save him, but Sun Chuanting didn't ask out loud. At that time, the literati were all loyal and loyal.

The Son of Heaven ordered people to be imprisoned, and the so-called "the king wants his ministers to die, and he has to die", and he was rescued by others, although he escaped with his life, but it can be regarded as disloyalty. The reputation is already a big loss, if it is the so-called "upright minister", I am afraid that now I will angrily reprimand these people who saved them.

However, Sun Chuanting was sitting in the carriage, silently, no matter how the people who escorted him were arranged, he accepted it silently, and the request on the road was to lift half of the curtain of the carriage, Sun Chuanting just looked at the scenery on the side of the road blankly. Not a word.

One thing Cheng Hai did now, that is, when he greeted Sun Chuanting, he could hear it on the right. The left side was very slow to react, and when he asked Zhou Fanzi, he found out that before he was imprisoned, he did not get a response to his statement several times, but he was asked to be imprisoned, and his heart was on fire, and his left ear was already deaf.

Entering Shandong from the side of Dezhou City, Jinan Mansion was the last Shandong prefecture and county controlled by Li Meng. The civil affairs of places such as Tuntian Grange have also just begun.

Although the current Jinan Mansion is the center of Shandong. Compared with other prefectures and counties, it is still a little tattered, but when walking in the territory of Jinan Prefecture. Sun Chuanting still showed a look of surprise on his face.

Of the 9,000 Yanzhou troops led by Chen Liu, 5,000 troops had just fought with the Liukou "Song River" in Kaifeng, Henan, and the repair time was only five days, and the whole army directly went south along the canal to Huaibei.

Huai'an Mansion has become a pot of porridge, and the local displaced people are causing trouble everywhere in the locality, even if the soldiers and horses mobilized by Nanzhili are stationed, they can't take care of it, and the chaos in Henan and Huguang is gradually becoming apparent, and the officers and troops in Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing cannot act rashly, and must be stationed there.

The only mobile soldiers and horses, in the area of Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion, can only defend those cities, receive a battle report from the local government for help, and then send troops to rescue.

But when the troops rushed over, those homeless people had already dispersed, so many small groups of rogues were harassing and looting everywhere, Huai'an Mansion was full of beacons, and those Nanzhili soldiers and horses who came to help were already exhausted by tossing.

But what is the use of such a rescue, there are many salt merchants and the estates and estates of the noble and wealthy families in Nanjing, as well as the salt pans and salt fields near the sea, which are all outside the city.

There are also peaceful places, that is, the Haizhou area guarded by Zhangjiang, and the area guarded by the Huaibei Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion, there are no rogues and thieves at all, and all those who appear nearby are ruthlessly defeated. But this force is just unwilling to go to other places to rescue, and keeps saying that it is its duty.

Nanzhili's own soldiers and horses are not easy to use, and the Huaibei army does not come to the rescue, so it can only count on the Yanzhou army led by Chen Liu, the mobilization of these 9,000 soldiers and horses, baggage and supplies, and the barracks stationed in the local area are not a simple project.

Nine thousand troops along the canal all the way south, in Suqian began to march along the 6th road, to the two Huai gentry felt pleasantly surprised, as soon as the Shandong soldiers and horses appeared, the lawless hooligans immediately became much smaller, and the Huaibei army gradually took root in Haizhou.

Thinking that this Shandong army of soldiers and horses will also be stationed in Huai'an Mansion, and a good relationship with them will definitely be of great benefit to the future, and all the gentry and wealthy businessmen with this status have taken the initiative to express goodwill and support to the Yanzhou army.

At the beginning of September, the Yanzhou army led by Chen Liu was temporarily stationed in the area of Liujiazhuang near Shuyang, temporarily resting, and preparing to start the battle against the thieves in mid-September.

A large amount of grain, grass and supplies were transported along the canal, and Wenru Commercial House made a very good deal, and the grain and grass that had been hoarded for many years finally found a buyer, and Kong Sande was also vigorously praised in the Confucian Mansion. It's not a ridiculous thing, Shandong is full of disasters and famines, but the Kong family, a big landowner, has accumulated a lot of grain.

The Yanzhou army has not yet started fighting, but the local law and order has improved a lot, perhaps because the thieves are afraid of the military might of the Jiaozhou battalion.

In Shuyang, Chen Liu let out a rumor, saying that it was Huai'an Mansion's strategy of leveling thieves, and it was mainly based on appeasement. Eradication is supplemented by not causing too much damage to the locality.

Shandong's statement was unexpected by many people, but as long as the local area can be peaceful, no one cares what method is used.

Immediately after this rumor was released, the benevolent and righteous gentry took the initiative to invest in the acquisition of those destroyed fields and estates, and connected them into pieces. Prepare to recruit landless displaced people to cultivate in Nanzhili.

Lianghuai area, prosperous industry and commerce, salt industry, both of which require a lot of manpower, and the manpower required for farming, has always been in conflict, in this land is fertile, prosperous and rich in the land of Nanzhili. In fact, some people have a tendency to have less land and more land, and many landlords also feel that industry and commerce and salt industry are more accounting than farming, and agriculture is relatively depressed.

The "benevolent and righteous gentry" bought the land, recruited displaced people to cultivate, and promised not to blame the past, which is a merciful and prudent move no matter how you look at it, but although these benevolent and righteous gentry are all people from all over the two Huai, they spend money to buy the land. And the specific people who run these granges are all from Shandong.

Along with the Yanzhou Army, there were also personnel from various Tuntian Granges in Shandong. These people have a lot of knowledge about how to manage displaced people, cultivate the fields more efficiently, and conduct semi-military training.

The policy of the Yanzhou Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion was almost immediate, and the situation that seemed uncontrollable before coming quickly calmed down, and the displaced people of the brigade took the initiative to come to Tuntian Tianzhuang and lay down their weapons. Pick up farm tools.

The situation in Huaibei quickly calmed down. However, many of the displaced people fled to Huai'an Fucheng and the areas around Shanyang and Yancheng.

The task of the Yanzhou Army of the Jiaozhou battalion was to pacify the place, although the bandit suppression soldiers and horses of Nanzhili repeatedly stated. The Yanzhou army still marched south, leaving 2,000 people to garrison Shuyang, and the rest of the brigade returned to Suqian, where they took a boat south and entered Huainan.

These homeless people are the result of the deliberate guidance of the Jiaozhou battalion, but almost every unit, there are manpower arranged by the Jiaozhou battalion, and this manpower is often the leader of the entire team When the Yanzhou army entered the suppression, most of the displaced people were under the guidance and entered the Tuntian Grange to farm and eat grain.

But there are also some people who have already tasted the sweetness of looting, and are no longer willing to sit on the hard peasantry, so that they have transformed into bandits.

Such bandit gangs did not dare to confront the Yanzhou Army and the Huaibei Army in the north of the Huai River, and could only continue to move south, but these bandit gangs could not cause any obstacles to the Yanzhou Army except for giving the Yanzhou Army an excuse to go south.

And the original means of hiding the officers and soldiers are completely useless, no matter how they dodge, they can always be found by the Yanzhou army, and they will be defeated by the annihilation.

The actions of the guest army are often restricted by being unfamiliar with the local situation, and the local forces are quite hostile to these foreign soldiers and horses, and the combat effectiveness is much weaker, but the Jiaozhou battalion has not encountered such a problem.

The whole Fang family is also smiling, since the chaos in Huaibei, their family's salt business income has increased by two percent, which still deducts all the part given to Shandong.

The business has achieved such a scale as the Fang family, and it is already difficult to take another step up, this year is tantamount to a leap out of thin air, and the whole family feels that the day and the Shandong General Army took the initiative to show goodwill, how correct this action is.

However, the turmoil in Huaibei was a catastrophe for most people, and the original small and medium-sized landlords were still living very nourishingly, and there were also many wealthy people who relied on the salt industry to do some small private salt business.

There were even five salt merchants with official status, who were also merchants of the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Association, all of whom lost most of their land and silver in this rebellion because the salt shipments from the salt works could not be delivered. On the contrary, they were taken advantage of the situation by the Fang family to acquire a lot of shares, and after the turmoil, all they had left was a scene.

In order to quell the rebellion of the displaced people, Nanzhili hastily gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, in the guerrilla war with the Liukou exhausted, after the Yanzhou army came, the generals and soldiers were relieved, did not think about anything. Just retreated to the Dahewei camp near Huai'an Fucheng.

But in October, these soldiers and horses from the south and the horses from Shandong were stationed in Qinggou, which was about thirty miles away from them.

Looking at the situation of Shandong's soldiers and horses, it seems that it is not aimed at the displaced people, but at themselves who are also officers and soldiers. But the matter has come to this point, what can be done, the place where the Yanzhou army is stationed is the Fang family's big manor in Qinggou. Supplies and grain and grass were partly supplied by the local gentry, and partly brought in from the canals.

There are so many soldiers and horses stationed in the territory, Huai'an Mansion and the adjacent Yangzhou Mansion can't feel at ease, although they thank them on the surface for protecting the territory and the people, but secretly they continue to say to all sides that the land of Jiangbei and Huai is already peaceful, and there is no longer any need for the help of foreign troops.

This makes sense. The local gentry are all supportive, who would have thought that the salt merchants of Yangzhou Mansion and the gentry of Huai'an Mansion all asked for Shandong soldiers and horses to be stationed in unison, saying that if this is not the case, the local area will not be peaceful, and some officials in Yangzhou Mansion and Huai'an Mansion also have a nostril of anger with these gentry.

Old Lady Fang and the Fang family had a great influence in the land of Lianghuai, and there were several salt merchants who were firmly allied with the Fang family, and there were many officials on their periphery who had taken advantage. For these officials, there was nothing to do with the soldiers and horses stationed in the land of Lianghuai.

Anyway, they are all officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, what is the difference. This Jiaozhou battalion Yanzhou army has strict discipline, and it can keep the place peaceful, and it is better to stay than before, so why interfere with anything.

The voice of the people is so high, and there are people on the side of the Nanjing Military Department who are not idle, and Wu Jiawei, the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, waved his outspoken merits again.

In mid-September, he went to the court of the Beijing Division, and it was written in the fold that the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili guarded the two important places of Nanjing and Fengyangzhongdu. It is also necessary to deploy defenses along Hehuguang and Henan. The strength is already somewhat insufficient, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is overstretched. At this time, Henan was in turmoil, and the Liukou could enter Nanzhili at any time, and this time the rebellion of the two Huai refugees showed that there were also hidden worries in the land of the two Huai.

The main combat power of the world's soldiers and horses is divided into two parts, one part is concentrated in the Huguang and Sichuan areas to exterminate Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's troops, and the other part is in Beizhili and Guanwai to resist the Jurchen offensive.

The only remaining soldiers and horses have to be stationed in various important cities, the land of Jiangbei is the Ping Domain of Nanjing, and it is necessary for a powerful general to be stationed and defended, Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, has always been cautious and cautious, and the soldiers and horses are well dispatched, and a place in Shandong has been safe since its town was guarded.

Moreover, after the Shandong soldiers and horses entered Nanzhili, the rebellion of the displaced people in Nanzhili was quickly quelled, and the local gentry and landlords also hoped that this army would be stationed.

Wu Jiawei, the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, seemed to think about the people everywhere in the compromises, but then there were some heart-wrenching words, saying that Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, guarded Shandong and operated for too long. Collusion between the military and the local government is not a good thing after all.

The Shandong army is adjacent to the Beijing Division of Beizhili, if there is an abnormal movement, it will be a monstrous disaster, although now the Shandong general Li Meng is loyal, but it is also necessary to take precautions.

At present, one-third of Shandong's soldiers and horses are in the land of Lianghuai, so it is better to leave these one-third of the soldiers and horses in Lianghuai and disperse his Li Meng's forces, which is a completely safe strategy.

Of course, the generals definitely don't want their soldiers and horses to be divided elsewhere, presumably Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, will also have a lot of resentment in his heart, so it is better to give him the title of guarding the two Huai.

The soldiers and horses are divided into two provinces, and the land north of the Yangtze River in the south is a rich place, and over time, Li Meng's soldiers and horses must be differentiated, so it is easy to control.

Just looking at this twist and turn, it is full of distrust and vigilance of military generals, and it is almost from the worst point of view to speculate on Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, who is bent on suppressing thieves and quelling chaos, and has come up with all kinds of calculations and means to limit him.

There are many military generals fighting bravely on the front line, but the civil officials and traitors are behind the scenes, for the sake of selfish interests and dirty considerations, getting along with all kinds of restrictions, if this twist and turn spreads, this Wu Jiawei may also wear the hat of a traitor.

But Wu Jiawei's idea is the consensus of the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, and the Shandong literati occasionally produced two figures who can make a voice ten years before Chongzhen, and they can't become the climate. But over the years, the Yan Party and the Lai Party have also taken shape, although most of them are folk scribes, but they are incompatible with Jiangnan scholars.

The reason for this is that the high-ranking officials and generals in Shandong are supporting them, and I don't know what these Shandong scribes think, the Donglin Party, the Zhejiang Party, and even the Eunuch Party all talk about "scholars and emperors rule the world together", but the Yan Party and the Lai Party talk about the dictatorship of the Holy Monarch all day long, assisted by Wenchen.

When it comes to party struggle, it is necessary to ignore the people's livelihood and society, and give up everything to fight, which is the fine tradition of Donglin Zhugong for many years.

In recent years, there have been many twists and turns in attacking Shandong, but it has always involved Li Meng, the commander of the Shandong army, and the imperial court has always been cautious and cautious in dealing with powerful generals.

Most of the twists and turns put forward by those officials from Jiangnan were just empty attacks with no specific means, but this time, the twists and turns of the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department really provided a method.

After Wu Jiawei, the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department, arrived in the capital, whether it was the six cabinets or the eunuch of the celebrant supervisor, they all thought that what Wu Jiawei said was Lao Cheng's serious words, although the imperial court was fighting against the thieves and the Jurchens outside the Guan, but the peace of other places should also be guaranteed.

Shandong has been safe and sound all these years, but Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, has always won battles, and the soldiers and horses below should also be dispersed and mobilized, and he cannot be controlled for too long, which is also the way of the emperor who controls the generals.

Although the imperial court has nothing to do with these generals who lead the troops now, Wu Jiawei's plan to keep the Yanzhou army in Huai is extremely suitable, and it will not make Li Meng have too much disgust and anger.

The guest army is in the local area, the military salary and grain are all supplied by the local government, and the army will naturally show intimacy to whom, even if it is in person, the Yanzhou army and the Huaibei army will definitely become more and more alienated from Shandong as long as they stay in the land of Jiangbei.

Of course, the princes of the court and the central government would not understand what the army of the Jiaozhou battalion relied on to maintain it, nor did they know how Li Meng controlled the generals under him, and they didn't even know the fact that several generals were fellow villagers with Li Meng.

On October 12 of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order, Li Meng, the governor of the left capital and the chief military officer of Shandong, to give the military affairs of aiding and suppressing the two Huai, and the guerrilla Chen Liu, and the garrison Zhang Jiang led the Lu army to be stationed in the two Huai to protect one side.