Huzhou Prefecture, located in the northernmost part of Zhejiang, borders Taihu Lake in the east, and a large hilly area dominated by the Tianmu Mountains in the west.

The topography has also created Huzhou's agriculture is extremely developed, it is the land of fish and rice in the traditional sense, and Huzhou's raw silk is famous at home and abroad, it is the most famous raw silk production area in China, and the Lin family has opened a number of main raw silk warehouses and commercial houses in Huzhou.

Of course, for Lin Zhe now, Huzhou's agriculture is underdeveloped, and he doesn't care about the economic situation, but he is most concerned about the military strategic position of the place.

Because Huzhou is the gateway to northern Zhejiang, and the west is hilly and mountainous, this also causes the Taiping army to enter northern Zhejiang from the border areas of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, the most convenient direction is naturally to take Huzhou, especially the east of Huzhou, close to the three counties of Changxing, Wucheng and Gui'an near Taihu Lake.

As long as these three areas can be taken, then the large hilly land in the northwest of Zhejiang can be bypassed, so that Jiaxing and Hangzhou can be reached directly in one horse.

As a result, although Changxing County, the northernmost part of Huzhou, was flat and unsuitable for defense from a military point of view, it was still regarded as a strategic town in northern Zhejiang by the Qing army and even the Taiping army.

The Qing army once stationed more than 3,000 Qing troops here, but with the establishment of the Jiangnan camp in Jinling, the Qing army was also in urgent need of troops in Suzhou, and at the same time, it was also necessary to guard against the Taiping army from infiltrating the hills and mountains in northwest Zhejiang, so the Qing troops in this area were successively transferred.

By the time Lin Zhe arrived in Changxing County, there were only less than a thousand Qing soldiers left, and they were all green battalion soldiers who were not in sight and even less useful.

Lin Zhe outside the city could see that the Qing army on the city wall not far away seemed to be facing a great enemy, and seemed to be extremely wary of the arrival of himself and others, or panic!

Lin Zhe beckoned, and the king next to him, Lu Yunce, immediately stepped forward, and Lin Zhe spoke: "Send in the letter from the governor, and let them open the city gate immediately and let us enter the city to rest and camp!" ”

Lin Zhe's tone of voice was as flat as before, and Wang Luyun next to him immediately said, "Yes, my lord!" ”

Then, he stepped forward with several cavalrymen of the personal guard, and soon sent the letter in, and after a while, a military general who was also wearing an official robe went out of the city gate.

"Xiaguan has seen Lord Lin!" The person who came was a military general about forty years old, and the official robe should be a garrison!

Immediately, Lin Zhe talked to him and learned that this person was the Zhengwupin garrison of the Zhejiang governor's standard, and the Qing army stationed in Changxing was one of the battalions of the Zhejiang governor's standard.

It's just a battalion, but this battalion doesn't look like a battalion no matter how you look at it, because there are too many people, it is obvious that during the war, Huang Zonghan also vigorously rectified the governor under his command, and even made a super-scale expansion, but whether it can be fought is only God knows.

Anyway, when Lin Zhe entered the city, he saw that the soldiers of this battalion were old and young, and they didn't have a standing posture, and even the people who were squatting and lying down looked very lazy, so he knew that such a battalion would run away as soon as they fought.

No wonder Huang Zonghan wants to let himself come to Changxing, Huzhou, it seems that he also knows that the battalion under his command is unreliable!

After Lin Zhe took the troops into the station, the original Qing army was gone, and before leaving, Lin Zhe asked a few words, and the generals who led the team told him with a bitter face that they were going to Liyang to support other local Qing troops.

The area around Liyang is close to Nanjing, which is an important war area repeatedly attacked by the Qing army and the Taiping army.

The original Qing army is gone, no matter what their fate will be in the future, Lin Zhe no longer cares, he only cares about two things now, the first is the training of the troops, and the city defense of Changxing.

The second thing is to make money!

Although Lin Zhe is the supreme commander of this army, he actually does not interfere in the training of the troops and the detailed combat affairs, not that he does not want to, but he really does not know how to march and fight.

Whether it is doing business or engaging in this group exercise, most of what Lin Zhe does is to grasp the strategic direction, and the detailed affairs are handed over to the people below to do.

Therefore, Lin Zhe doesn't take care of training and defense very much, but if he wants to make money, he has to go into battle himself.

On the day that Yongying of Yuyao County entered Changxing County, Lin Zhe went to meet Hou Bingqu of Changxing County.

Hou Bingqu is different from Huang Peizhi, the first county magistrate Lin Zhe knew, Huang Peizhi is a corrupt official, and he is a corrupt official who does not hide it at all, while Hou Bingqu looks about forty years old, with a Chinese character face, and a relatively strong body, without the appearance of a corrupt official with fat intestines and pig brains.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, it made Lin Zhe feel very bad!

"Lord Lin, it's not that the lower officials are unwilling to help raise military funds, but the county treasury is really limited!" As soon as Hou Bingqu heard that Lin Zhe asked for military resources, he immediately cried and shouted that there was no money.

"Originally, there was still some money left in the county treasury, but there were thousands of officers and soldiers stationed in my Changxing in the past few months, and the county treasury had already been exhausted!"

Facing Hou Bingqu's words, Lin Zhe's face darkened suddenly, although he had expected that it would be difficult for him to get too much money from the local government, but he didn't expect that this Hou Bingqu would be a dime, and he didn't want to give a dime.

'Hmph' Lin Zhe snorted lightly, he was very dissatisfied with Hou Bingqu's attitude, this Hou Bingqu was determined and didn't want to take out a dime, so Lin Zhe didn't need to be polite to him.

"Although there is no money in the county treasury, those big-headed soldiers under my command can't help but pay them, in case of trouble, it's not easy to be pressed!" Lin Zhe was not polite to Hou Bingqu at all, his words were already very obviously threatening, if Changxing didn't give money, don't blame me for letting the soldiers make trouble in the city at that time.

Since you don't give it, I'll take it myself!

When Hou Bingqu heard this, his face also darkened, what Lin Zhe said was so obvious, how could he not hear it, and immediately cursed Lin Zhe several times in his heart, where did this come out of the second stunned, he didn't understand the rules of officialdom at all, he had to draw his sword just after saying a few words, which made many reasons and words that he had prepared for a long time useless.

Lin Zhe is coming, Hou Bingqu already knew a few days ago, because Changxing has been stationed in many Qing troops during this time, these Qing troops have been asking for military funds from Changxing County, Hou Bingqu is naturally able to push it, and if he can't push it, he doesn't want to give it anyway, after all, his Changxing County is so big, the taxes of the imperial court have to be paid, and if you have to pay the garrison, then you can't loot Changxing to the bottom.

He Hou Bingqu is an official, and he can't help but consider the pressure of the people under his rule, if he Hou Bingqu agrees to the salary, then where will the money come from? It is not yet to be apportioned to the people under his rule, but in the end it is the people who suffer.

From this point of view, in fact, Hou Bingqu is still a good official!

In the face of Lin Zhe's threat, Hou Bingqu naturally will not give in lightly, if every military general who comes to Changxing can coerce him, then he doesn't have to be an official, and the things in the officialdom are all going around and around, and many things don't mean that what the surface looks like must be what it is.

It's a pity that Lin Zhe he met was not an official in the traditional sense, in fact, Lin Zhe never regarded himself as an official of the Manchu Dynasty, he was engaged in group training, not to be an official.

So naturally, Lin Zhe can't be expected to have the same scruples as ordinary officials or care about more unspoken rules in officialdom.

The next day, Lin Zhe instructed the soldiers of Yongying in Yuyao County to set up multiple checkpoints on the main roads in and out of the city, and collect tolls from passing merchants.

Playing this road is opened by others, and this tree is planted by others, if you want to pass by from now on, you will leave the taste of buying road wealth.

In this regard, Hou Bingqu was very dissatisfied, and the past business trips were also very dissatisfied, but what made Hou Bingqu even more dissatisfied was still to come.

On the third day after the Yongying process in Yuyao County, Lin Zhe issued a notice, saying that spies from the Taiping Army had recently infiltrated Changxing County, and for the safety of the county, martial law was declared and a large-scale arrest was carried out.

On that day, the soldiers of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, carrying all the Minnie Bu' guns, patrolled around the city, and occasionally bursts of gunfire could be heard.

In the eastern corner of the city, Lin Zi was dressed in a military uniform, standing majestically in front of a mansion and shouting: "Listen to the thieves inside, wait for half an hour to open the door and hand over the long-haired thief, otherwise don't blame the gentlemen for being polite!" ”

The door was still closed, and there were sounds of footsteps and shouts faintly heard inside, Lin Ziquan snorted coldly and turned back, then pulled out his command knife and said to the more than thirty soldiers behind him: "The first row is ready to hit the door, the second row and the third row are covering, if you resist, you will be killed!" ”

After saying this, the closed door finally opened, and then a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper and a few subordinates came out, only to see him hurriedly trotting over: "The military master is angry, the military master is angry, our family is a good citizen who keeps his own peace!" ”

While speaking, he quietly handed over a red envelope to Lin Ziquan, and Lin Ziquan knew that there were only ten taels of silver at most without looking at it, and immediately snorted coldly: "Get out!" ”

Then he turned to the soldiers under his command: "Go in and search for the thieves, and if anyone resists, you will be killed!" ”

While saying that, he secretly despised in his heart: Just more than ten taels of silver want to send us away, hmph, the young master said very clearly when he lectured in the morning, if he didn't cut off a piece of meat on the big family in Changxing this time, the military expenses in the next few months would be gone.

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