"The head town is clear, we have been studying for ten years, and we will try to succeed, and we will be the officials of the Ming Dynasty, not the officials of the head town. Today, the people are making trouble, we cooperate with the army to suppress it, those who should be caught, those who should be arrested, and by the evening, the foreign salt Ding and the Jiangnan scoundrels are also gone, I don't know, where is there any labor to be served by officials? ”

Since Wei Yue is not polite, then these officials are also tearing their faces, and a pusher official stepped forward to question, with a black gauze hat on his head, a blue official uniform, and official boots, which are also magnanimous.

If it was before, showing off talents could be exchanged with the general army on an equal footing, and the officials of the prefecture and county, where could they look at a general town?

The garrisons in various places were empty when they were peaceful, and there were not many soldiers and horses under their command. Here in Yangzhou, check the smuggled salt, check the river boats, and even the soldiers themselves are river bandits, there are many things that violate the law and prohibit in ordinary times, and the deputy general of the general army is also a common thing to be rumored or questioned by the local officials.

When Zhong Zhong was the prefect of Suzhou, the commanders of the guards everywhere were restrained, and they did not dare to offend this mansion at all.

The time interval is not too far, seeing that the miscellaneous officials are being called by people like people, dignified and dignified, and the same as the boiling water and land dojo, it is messy and unorthodox.

Everyone was originally sad and indignant in their hearts, but at this time, they couldn't help it, so they naturally rose up and questioned.

"What I caught during the day, it's just those Miluo errands, you adults don't think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Ben Shuai will be satisfied, right? Dealing with errands is very bad for the current situation of the adults! "Wei Yue was besieged, and the soldiers were all pressed on their waist knives, exuding a murderous aura. These soldiers are all soldiers who have experienced the Nanjing Mutiny and have seen bloody killings, and they feel different.

And Wei Yue himself is still eating dry food cakes, and his face has not changed in the slightest.

It's just that when I answered with these dirty officials, although my expression was not moving, my words were as sharp as a knife!

Zhu Cihong's general, both inside and outside, calm and scheming, before Zhu Cihong left, the so-called not to kill, but also never indulge, the meaning of the words, is also to let Wei Yue understand.

What's the use of catching some scoundrels?

Besides, there are many salt people who have been instigated and used, and they are all bitter one by one, killing one person is equivalent to killing the whole family, why do such a thing that hurts the conscience?

Moreover, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to take Jiangbei, especially Huaiyang as the center of gravity, with Huaiyang as the core, and the entire Xu, Si, Feng, Lu, Taiping and other peripherals as the foundation, Nanjing and Jiangnan are temporarily beyond the reach of the whip, and Chongzhen is in Nanjing, and the old forces of the entire Nanming are also all in Jiangnan, and they can't stretch out their hands for the time being, so there is no need to think about it.

But with these places, it's enough. Even if you don't even have hidden households, if you really hold all these state capitals in your hands, the number of households with male Ding Nafu has exceeded 100 households, Huai, Yang, and Tai have the benefits of salt classes, Taiping guards the upstream geographical advantages, Ma'anshan has iron ore that is very easy to mine, and there are large copper mines, all of which were mined in the Ming Dynasty and supplied to the military, which is very convenient.

Therefore, people's hearts are very important, and it is the top priority to attract the hearts of the small people and sweep away the unconvinced heroes.

In the past, Zhu Cihong understood these truths, but he was inexperienced and ruthless enough. This time, when he made up his mind and ordered Wei Yue, he spoke with a strong murderous aura.

Follow Yu Jiu's henchmen, if they don't understand this at all, they will be in vain as the commander of the army.

A person like Wei Yue is dedicated to leading troops, but as a general, how can he know nothing about politics? I didn't show it before, but I didn't want to show it, and when I used it, it was all overlooked.

"This, this ......"

"Do you want to catch it again?"

Wei Yue's words, like a stone thrown into a river, immediately stirred up a thousand waves to come out.

"It's hard for this official to obey his fate!"

The prefect of Yangzhou has been watching coldly, unwilling to lose his identity, at this moment, he couldn't help but stand up, brushed his sleeves and said: "Deal with the salt merchant gentry, don't act without authorization, it's a small matter to damage the boundaries of Yangzhou, and it's a big thing to disturb the court." Mr. Wei, have you weighed the stakes? ”

The prefect of Yangzhou Mansion was the core figure of this conspiracy, and he was also very dissatisfied with the prince's encroachment on his power and interference in everything.

But on the surface, there is no way, the dismissal of the governor of Caoyun and the dismissal of the governor of Huai'an, all of which are all things that the prince can do as soon as he plays. Then set up the military affairs office, the guard office, the emperor has set up a foothold in Nanjing, and the discerning person can know at a glance that these are the beginning and end of the prince's suggestions, so the crown prince, rather not afraid?

Therefore, we can only take advantage of the fact that the Generalissimo's Mansion is seizing the time to train the troops, and when the prince has no distractions, he can use the people's will and public opinion to add a little blockage to him and add a little chaos.

In fact, everyone privately calculated, and the more than one million folded colors allocated to the prince a year, plus one million true colors, I am afraid it is enough for the prince to raise fifty or sixty thousand soldiers.

With this strong army, plus Gao Jie and Huang Degong's subordinates, it is not a problem to make progress, and it is always not a problem to defend the Huai Gujiang River and maintain the trend of partial security.

Under the Great Tomorrow, it has been chaotic for more than ten years, Fengyang has been lost, Luoyang has been lost, even Jingshi has been lost, countless relatives have been killed, and luck has also decayed to the extreme.

Even if there is a small repetition now, but the officials all think, don't toss, it's better to keep this half of the country, and then like the Southern Song and Eastern Jin Dynasty, continue a hundred years of luck, even if it is the manifestation of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty!

Not only local officials, but even central officials, all of them think the same way.

Historically, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan almost all fell into the hands of the former officials of the Ming Dynasty, and no matter how powerful Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying were, they were the same in this regard.

Ma Shiying was afraid of angering the Eastern Prisoners, and Shi Kefa was willing to "get through", anyway, at most he persuaded the northern gentry officials to go south and send troops north, which would never dare.

Liu Zeqing killed all the way to Linqing with more than 100 recruits, among whom he did not see a single soldier of the Qing army, on the contrary, all the gentry and officials who defended the land for the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, the Liu family's own soldiers, killing in and out, are all their own people who are killed!

Since he is unwilling to forge ahead, what kind of army is full of troops, full of soldiers, it is a joke, the prince stays in Huaishang, honestly guards the north for Nanjing, Zuo Liangyu guards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo guard the north of Anhui, and they are also stuck on the main road of the Yangtze River, as long as these towns and the prince can hold it, the overall situation of partial security will be completed.

Yangzhou Mansion is also a big government, and I know these political and local twists and turns in my heart.

asked him to work hard with sincerity, and said that he was unwilling to do this, even if he had a lot of energy, he would never dare.

Seeing this bureaucrat in his fifties, slightly chubby, and with a fair complexion, Wei Yue was also disgusted.

He is a small military attache in Beijing, and he has seen a lot of such court officials, full of prestige, excellent maintenance, talking about his surname, the head is the Tao, and when it comes to government affairs, he doesn't know anything, or he doesn't want to learn at all.

In the front, they are also finger-in-hand, the most hateful, that is, Zhang Ruolin in the military department at that time, after reading a few books of Sun Tzu's soldiers and horses, he dared to hold the army hostage, even Hong Chengchou was forced by him and Chen Xinjia together, a group of corrupt Confucian civil officials, coaxed Chongzhen, who did not know military affairs, to meddle in the military, under the pretext of insufficient food and salary, morale can be drummed up and not leaked, and the Songshan War was forced to be forced, and the last troops of the Ming Dynasty that could fight, especially the troops of several chief military officers such as Cao Bianjiao, were all lost.

What Wei Yue saw with his own eyes, the appearance of Zhang at that time, was the face of this Yangzhou Mansion.

Self-righteousness, contempt for military attachés, shameless acts, don't think too much.

With the help of a vegetable leaf, he swallowed the last mouthful of dry food, stood up, and patted the dust on his hands.

Such a casual move, but not taking the other party seriously, not only the prefect, but also the rest of the officials, as well as the officials and officials who were busy, were all stunned.

The prefect of Dafu, located in the fourth grade, is dressed in a scarlet robe, and is extremely noble.

was insulted like this, which simply shocked everyone to stumble.

"You, you, you ......" The prefect of Yangzhou himself was also stunned, he came out to speak, he originally felt that he had lost his identity, and he confronted the same chief military officer face to face, and thinking about it at this time, Wuda had to endure it.

Unexpectedly, the other party had such an attitude, which was really unimaginable to him.

All of a sudden, the education and cultivation that the prefect had received in the first half of his life, as well as all his experience and experience, collapsed in the blink of an eye.

"Mingfu should not kill himself."

Wei Yue had already finished slapping, the iron armor on his body was clanging, he pressed his sword and walked over, all the officials around him were pale, and hurriedly hid aside.

The prefect was still stiff, but the beads of sweat on his forehead were as big as beans, which also betrayed all his nervousness.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in Huaiyang to reorganize the army, and the local civil affairs are also supporting the military and political affairs, under this overall situation, all sabotage will inevitably cause the monstrous anger of His Highness. Today's matter, if the Ming Mansion bows its head and pleads guilty and changes its course, I am afraid that at most it will be cheaper to go to the official and lose office. If you still dare to carry it, His Royal Highness holds the Longquan Sword of Emperor Taizong in his hand, and is the prince and the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses...... Do you think that those filthy officials behind you can protect you? ”

As soon as he spoke, the prefect was drenched in cold sweat, knowing that he was too stupid, and the rest of the officials were also cold and couldn't move.

"After today, His Royal Highness will inevitably clean up the gates of Jiangbei Prefectures and Counties again, and you will do it yourself."

Wei Yue strode forward, glanced around coldly, and saw that all the officials and officials were still in a daze, so he smiled slightly, and said loudly: "What are you still doing?" Your errand, but it's really not done yet. ”

Salt merchants, gentry, petty officials who were directly in the crowd, instigating riots, and retiring officials, these native natives were also within the scope of arrest, but they had to be arrested overnight, otherwise the longer it dragged on, the wider the involvement.

Since he didn't want to spread too widely and hurt the vitality of the place, he had to rely on these officials and officials to take people overnight.

Outside the palace, the cavalry of the new army had already finished resting, lit the torches, stood straight one by one, and when they saw Wei Yue coming out, they only saluted visually.

"Well done!" Wei Yue was very satisfied, turned over on his horse, and said sharply: "For His Highness, if you are not satisfied, you need to ignore your fatigue and go bravely, gentlemen, you are reluctant!" ”

(To be continued)