Xu Ruyu took Jiangning, and the Zhu clan also knew that it was very strong and could not be recaptured, so they only wanted the two families to be at peace, and did not dare to provoke lightly. It has been two years since the Battle of Fuzhou, except for the boundary of Wenling, the bandits, bandits, and pirates who have been suffering for decades have all disappeared in the territory of Yuejun, and even the bandits in Wenling City do not dare to leave Wenling City lightly, and the land of Yuejun has recovered a lot of vitality in the past two years, and the people's livelihood has been recuperated.

The three borders were lined with dogs, and there were no more people except for the patrolling soldiers, and the trenches, wooden walls, horse barricades, thistles, towers, and shiny armor and blades divided the two columns of patrolmen who occasionally staggered by each other into two opposing camps.

Go deep, this winter goes to spring, Fangfei is in full bloom, and the mountains and rivers on the land of Yue County are splendid like clusters.

In Jinhua City, Quchang Garden is an extremely elegant place, with lakes and stones, grass and trees, and meandering water pavilions. Fan Che often sat quietly in the west garden of Qu Chang Garden and pondered.

Xu Ruyu was able to rise so quickly, and "County Policy" played a considerable role. Especially after the Battle of Fuzhou, Xu Ruyu integrated Yongyang's forces to ensure the complete victory of the Battle of Southern Fujian, and rose to become the first force in the southeast in one fell swoop.

Although everyone in the world says that the county policy began to chaos in the world, but seeing the rise of Jiangning's power, the big families have followed suit, and the Zhu and Fan clans are no exception.

The foundation of the county system lies in the elimination of private soldiers, the reform of the field system, the division of towns and counties, and the weakening of the family. The roots of the Yuejun family are complex, and without the courage and perseverance to innovate, it is impossible to take back the secular power from the hands of other families.

The foundation of the Jiangning military system lies in the military tun, Xu Ruyu obtained a large amount of wasteland in Jinghai, Qingjiang, and Dongyang, to ensure that the military tun used a large amount of land, to avoid fierce conflicts with the old family forces because of the land system, and with the support of big families like Mei and Xu, they were able to successfully remove the private soldiers of the family.

The military system implemented in Jiangning ensured that the military power was firmly in the hands of Xu Ruyu, and at this time, Xu Ruyu reformed the field system and divided the towns and counties within his jurisdiction, and the opposition was much weaker.

The Zhu and Fan clans do not have such conditions, and if they want to learn from Xu Ruyu to get rid of the private soldiers of the family, they need millions of acres of fertile land to support these people.

Fan Che thought that the wasteland on the coast could be used to reclaim Tunding.

In the past few decades, the Puji pirates often invaded the coastal areas, and the villages and market towns in the coastal areas were in ruins. Coupled with the coastal area of Zhujia Wuzhou Mansion, the wasteland that can be reclaimed is no smaller than the boundary of Jinghai Mansion.

Fan Che was just worried about the adverse reaction after the removal of the family's private soldiers, perhaps as long as the news was announced, most of the families adjacent to the Jiangning territory would probably join the idea of annexing Jiangning.

When Xu Ruyu integrated his forces in Yongyang, Wanrong was attached to Wanling, and Longyouyi was also drawn out of the Yongyang territory. Such a lesson is both comforting and inconclusive.

In the past two years, Yuhang Mansion has also learned from Jiangning, choosing dangerous places to build cities, changing towns into counties, and setting up more than 10 counties in Yuhang Mansion, large and small, but such "placing counties" is very different from Jiangning's "County Policy". The Fan clan was unable to collect troops and additional taxes from other families, and the construction of cities and counties could only be said to have strengthened the overall defense of Yuhang Prefecture, but it increased the financial pressure on the Fan clan and dispersed the forces of the Fan clan.

The Fan clan first fought with Baiyi for decades, and then fought with Puji Island for nearly twenty years, without a moment's pause, the financial resources of the clan were almost exhausted, except for the territory and troops, but the strength was no match for the Mei family and the Xu family. If there was a war with Jiangning, Fan Che really had no confidence in winning. However, the situation in the world has changed drastically recently, and various forces are entangled, and Jiang Ning probably does not dare to provoke others lightly.

In recent years, the Yue County has been fighting for a truce, and the people's livelihood has been recuperated, but the Fan family has not had much benefit.

The salt and iron of Yuejun and the East China Sea are the most profitable, but the way in and out of Yuejun is under the supervision of Jiangning, and there are lucrative transactions in copper and iron, silk tea, lacquered wood and other sects, and Jiangning is extremely strictly controlled. However, Jiang Ning did not refuse to allow families other than Fan and Zhu to make profits from it, not only that, but Jiang Ning also acquiesced to the families of Yuhang, Wuzhou, and Liyang to sell smuggled salt from Yongyang to the three places, so as to reduce the windfall profits of the Fan and Zhu salt and iron franchises.

On the one hand, Jiangning maintained an active offensive posture towards the Zhu and Fan families, forcing the Zhu and Fan families to maintain a relatively high level of armament. On the one hand, they co-opted and divided the small and medium-sized families in Yue County, and colluded with internal and external parties to smuggle salt and iron to sabotage the salt and iron franchises of the Zhu and Fan families, and increase the financial pressure on the Zhu and Fan families.

Fan Che also thought about forming an alliance with Puji, and had a secret meeting with Zhu Lianzhi in Wujiang several times, but he finally had too many scruples and couldn't make a decision.

Footsteps shattered, and a herald passed through the moon gate and into the garden. Fan Che raised his eyelids, it was rare to be idle for a while, Fan Che ordered that unless there was important military information, everything else would be left to be dealt with by Ming Yu.

Fan Che took the letter from the herald's hand, unfolded it, stood up with his left hand on the stone table, sighed, waved his hand, and asked the herald to retreat.

The herald turned around, and the nearly three-inch-thick stone table clattered into rubble and rolled down to the ground; But it was Fan Che who unconsciously used his yin energy to shake the stone table like this.

The herald turned around suddenly, and when he saw Fan Che's gloomy expression, he was shocked, and he didn't dare to ask anything, turned around and went out through the moon gate.

More than a hundred miles away, in the Qingyan military camp in the southeast of Yantan City, Feng Yuanyuan also received a letter with the same content in the evening, but it was a secret letter from Jiangning Siwen Cao Thorn Army Siyue County Room.

Feng Yuanyuan read the letter again in the blazing campfire, handed it to the scribe behind him, and said, "File." Seeing Li Yi and Lin Seng Xiang coming over, he chuckled: "Fan Wenlong's family has arrived in Xin'an, it's not a big deal." ”

Li Yi glared and opened his mouth, and said, "Is the general saying that Fan Wenlong has attached Jiang Ning?" ”

"At the beginning of the year, the Fan clan sent Fan Wenlong north to disadvantage the adult, Fan Che never expected, Fan Wenlong had already had the intention of belonging, the adult was able to get out of danger, he contributed a lot, and then he has been following the adult's side, this matter is listed as a top secret military aircraft. At this time, Si Wencao's people had escorted his relatives to Xin'an safely, and he chose to go to Jiangning, and there was no need for strict secrecy. ”

Lin Seng Xiang said happily: "General Feng said easily, if it weren't for the prohibition of alcohol in the army, it would be worth drinking three bowls for this matter alone." Fan Wenlong is known as a prestige in Yue County, and before the Battle of Fuzhou, Fan Che was also quite respectful. ”

Before the Battle of Fuzhou, Feng Yuanyuan and Lin Seng Xiang were both bandits from Yue County, but Lin Seng Xiang only operated near Huaiyu Mountain, unlike Feng Yuanyuan who led the black warrior battalion to gallop through Yue County, and had attacked the jurisdiction of Fan and Zhu several times, but every time he would carefully avoid the main forces of the two families, and he did not have the opportunity to meet Fan Wenlong. However, he has confronted Li Yi around him several times, and has a grudge with the people in Fuzhou.

Later, Feng Yuanyuan returned to Shun, repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and served as the commander of the Xiaowei Army, becoming one of the core generals of Jiangning.

The generals and officials of the Minzhai system are headed by Zhang Xu, Zhang Ji, Gu Mingshan, Ban Biao, Ban Zhaolin, Xue Mingrui and others, and among the generals and officials of the Shanzhai department, only Feng Yuanyuan, Tu Wenyong, Yang Shang, and Li Yin are in important positions, and the power is naturally not comparable to the Minzhai system, but it is much more complicated to add the forces of the sea bandit system such as Jimo Mingxi, Wei Yu, Wei Yan, and the Baiyi system.

However, Mei Tierui and Yi Guanyuan in the Political Affairs Hall, Shao Haitang and Xu Boying in the Changshi Mansion, and Jiang Lingtian and Zhang Zhongdao in Sima Ya all have considerable majesty, even if Xu Ruyu is not in Jiangning, Jiangning is not afraid of factional disputes.

Feng Yuanyuan smiled, glanced at Lin Seng Xiang, and said lightly: "I have done a lot of wrong things in the past, adults ignore the past suspicions, give me the opportunity to change my mind, the past, I don't want to think about things anymore." ”

Lin Sengxiang's face froze, then turned into a smile again, and said: "Fan Wenlong is attached to our side, and the blow to the Fan clan goes without saying, and when the adults return, it will be the time for our army to show its talents." ”

After the six villages on Huaiyu Mountain were attached, Lin Seng Xiang was the most famous, but he was only teaching the school captain, and it was brought up by the Xiaowei Army to expand the army. After the war in Nanmin is completely over, many excellent generals will return to Jiangning, and Jiangning will also select a group of generals from the Nanmin garrison to serve in Jiangning.

Whether Lin Seng Xiang can make up for it, Feng Yuanyuan can play a key role, he naturally doesn't dare to be careless.

According to the Jiangning military system, although General Wei and General Ce are in high positions, they usually command only one guard, which is equivalent to the captain. In wartime, with the authorization of Sima Ya, General Wei and General Ce could command the soldiers and horses of several guards or armies. Therefore, in addition to the general manager, the lieutenant is the most powerful level in the Jiangning army.

Jiangning Sima Ya Zhongce generals are Jiang Lingtian, Zhang Zhongdao, Wei Yu, and Liang Bao, who are at the top of the Qingyan military rank, and below them are Jimo Mingxi, Wei Yan, Feng Yuanyuan, Zhang Xu, Mei Liting, Xiao Wuye, Mi Yusheng, and Xing Kunmin. After that, there were dozens of captains and generals, namely: Ban Zhaolin, Xue Mingrui, Feng Lin, Li Yi, Yang Shang, Li Gonglin, Ding Mianchen, Luo Shanyang, Peng, Ziyang Yalan, Xu Zhaorong, Ji Ziheng, Li Yin, Ning Yueshan, Shen Yi, Shen Bingling, Zhou Shilong, Zheng Ke and others. Among them, there are four naval captains, and based on the calculation of 6,000 to 10,000 troops in one guard, Jiang Ning's infantry battalion captains will be maintained at about 20 in the future, and there will not be too many people who can be promoted.

The Xiao Wei Army was only strengthened during the Battle of Nanmin, and the only senior generals were the Wei General Feng Yuanyuan and the school captain Yang Shang, Feng Yuanyuan did not enter Sima Ya, then the Xiao Wei Army still lacked a school captain, Feng Yuanyuan wanted to enter Sima Ya, and the Xiao Wei Army lacked two school captains. Regarding the candidate for lieutenant, can Xu Ru not listen to Feng Yuanyuan's opinion?

Li Yi smiled secretly, glanced at Lin Seng Xiang from the corner of his eye, and said secretly: You know in your heart that when the adults integrated the Qingjiang forces, if Huai Yushan had stood up earlier, he wouldn't have bothered to drill the camp now.

Li Yi was originally a captain of the Qingwei Army, and Jiang Lingtian went to Yueqing to organize an offensive against Wenling, and also transferred Zhang Yi, who was quite familiar with the situation in Wenling, to Yueqing. Thinking that he was only an outsider here, Jiangning's military system was still improving, and he only had the general framework of the six armies of the infantry battalion, and no one was sure that his position in the army was solid, Li Yi felt disdain in his heart, but he did not show his face.

Feng Yuanyuan said with a smile: "In front of our army is the Puji bandits entrenched in Wenling City, but we want to prevent Fan Che, the old thief, from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and order the Yantan garrison to be careful of the movement in the direction of Jinhua City." After a pause, he said: "Wei Shuai sent an urgent order from Dongyang, asking the Yueqing infantry battalion to increase the offensive against Wenling. ”

Li Yi said: "Pushing the twenty stone-throwing crossbows brought from Lishui to the front together, I thought it was not yet time to attack the city. The sergeant suggested that hard soil bullets should be made out of loess and lime water, and the soil bombs would become powder when they hit the head of Wenling City, and they were not afraid that the Puji bandits would be smashed back again. And the size and weight of the soil bomb are easy to control, which is more convenient than the stone bomb. I would like to report to the Ordnance Division for credit for this sergeant. ”

Yantan and Yueqing have the important task of defending the direction of Jinhua and Wenling, and the infantry soldiers stationed in the two places plus the water camp are nearly 50,000 people, and the infantry soldiers are a mixture of the Su Guards and the Xiao Guards, with more than 40,000 people. However, the most elite part of the Su Guard Army was led by Ban Zhaolin and stationed in Quanzhou, and at this time, together with the Hutian Yi Camp and the Southern Fujian Garrison, was brought under the banner of Xiao Wuye and advanced to the Yan clan in Putian. The most elite part of the Xiao Guard was led by Yang Shang and stationed in Gantang Bay. Although there are a large number of foot soldiers here, they cannot be regarded as the most elite combat power in the Qingyan Army, and if they forcibly attack Wenling, the losses will definitely be heavy.

The sea area on the east side of Yue County was blocked by the warships of the Winged Tiger Water Battalion, and there were very few grain ships that could pass through the blockade line and enter Wenling, so it would be greatly advantageous for them to delay time.

Wei Yu's military order only called for an intensified offensive against Wenling, and Feng Yuanyuan nodded and agreed with Li Yi's suggestion to postpone the siege.

For civilians, the truth is always hidden somewhere in the unknowable. In the Battle of Fuzhou, the Fan people abandoned Yueqing City to the Puji bandits, causing thousands of civilians in the city to be slaughtered by the Puji bandits. Later, Zhang Xu led the army and arrived to defeat the Puji bandits who were killing the people, so that the Battle of Puji had a near-perfect end.

The land of Yuejun has had too much blood and killing in the past few decades, and the memory of blood and killing for the living people is not deep. Although the Fan clan pushed the responsibility of giving up Yueqing City to Fan Wenlong, the people of Yuejun had been recuperating for nearly two years, and although they had not forgotten that memory, it was not too profound. After all, I have experienced too many things like this.

The civilians who survived the Yueqing disaster were all incorporated into the military households in Jiangning, and the military households in Jiangning were counted as five, with each household with 20 acres of land, 5 acres of mulberry tea fields, a number of farm tools and grain seeds, and 10 households with a cow or mule and a horse. Although the household registration management is extremely strict, the people of Yueqing, who have only had a simple desire for survival for decades, are quite satisfied. The soldiers who are conscripted into the army, although the salary is meager, but it is enough to make up for the vacancy of field labor, the dead and disabled have a pension, and there is no danger of the future, if they make war merits, the reward will be very rich, and the accumulated merit can be a small order and a soldier, and the rationed acres of land will be as much as 50 or 80 acres. The land in Yue County is fertile, and a household owns 100 acres of fertile land, which can be regarded as a wealthy family compared to ordinary households that only have 15 acres of land per household, farm tools need to be rented, and grain seeds need to be purchased on credit.

At this time, Jiang Ning told them that Fan Wenlong's abandonment of Yueqing was actually forced by Fan Che's Yinwei, and Fan Wenlong secretly did many things for the people of Yueqing, for example, Fan Wenlong did not obey Fan Che's order to destroy the inner city of Yueqing, and the arsenal of the inner city was also deliberately left by Fan Wenlong. Those military households who were originally from Yueqing accepted such a truth without thinking about it.

Hatred is not important, the important thing is a peaceful life in the future, that is, the aborigines of Fuzhou and Lishui talked about Feng Yuanyuan and Yang Shanglai, and there were many looks of admiration on their faces.

The territory of Jiangning is the responsibility of the Jing'an Division, but the same version has spread to Yuhang, Wuzhou, and Liyang, and it is the affairs of the other two divisions of Si Wencao.

Even when more than ten of Fan Wenlong's relatives suddenly disappeared from Yuhang City, Fan Che still did not give up other fantasies. Until such rumors spread widely in Yuhang, the servants of the Duwei Mansion were whispering about Fan Wenlong taking the opportunity to go north this time to join Xu Ruyu, and Fan Che knew that the matter was irreparable.

The beautiful maid with her hair knotted in pairs stood aside, holding a bronze mirror in both hands, and her sleeves were tucked up, revealing a piece of her wrist.

Fan Che looked at the bronze mirror that refracted the millimeter in a daze. In just a few days, there were many frost marks on his temples, but he was like an old man who was old and frail, and he no longer had the spirit of the male lord of the county.

Back then, Gongliang Youqin spread out an army of 100,000 in the narrow front of Jinhua, but it didn't make Fan Che so worried.

At that time, King Yi led 900,000 Yi people down Wuling Mountain, but Fan Che was not worried.

The finely carved red sandalwood door "beep" knocked.

The only one who could enter Fan Che's living room without notice was his eldest son, Fan Zhan.

The beautiful maid put down the bronze mirror, walked to open the room, and let Fan Zhan in.

Fan Zhan is about forty years old, with a strong body, thick bones, thick cheeks, and a rough appearance, but he is a delicate person, Fan Che is in Jinhua, and the big affairs of Yuhang Mansion are mostly taken care of by Fan Zhan, although he is only middle-aged, his manes have been frosted early, and his eyes look a little haggard.

Fan Che waved his hand, let the beautiful maid go down, looked at Fan Zhan, and asked, "How about discussing with the Zhu family this time?" ”

Fan Zhan took a closer look at his father's expression and said in a low voice: "Zhu Lianzhi said: Nanping is big, coveting one side, Jiang Ning will not dare to have a plan." Fan Wenlong took refuge in Jiangning, firstly, the Fan clan owed him too much, and secondly, Fan Wenlong and Xu Ruyu cherished the heroes. ”

Fan Che's forehead was bruised, and he roared in a low voice: "Zhu Lianzhi, this child, is so short-sighted!" Jiang Ning remained silent, but he was afraid of my alliance with Puji. Now that the Puji bandits in Wenling have no food and grass to sustain, they are about to withdraw from Yuejun, and the Puji bandits have retracted to Puji Island, and they will be more resilient, and they will no longer be able to interfere in the affairs of the mainland. Xu Ruyu accepted Fan Wenlong at this time, and ordered the people of Jiangning to build momentum in our territory, which has already exposed his ambition for Yuejun. ”

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