Chapter 374: Chaos (5) (Text)

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"When the country is in trouble, I see the loyal ministers, and His Majesty is like a mountain of grace to the adults, please ask General Zhai to recruit soldiers, practice day and night, and wait for the time of the Northern Expedition."

Chen Zilong handed over the edict and the seal letter to Zhai Zhe. In addition to Wu Sangui, Zhai Zhe was the first chief soldier to be knighted after the four towns of Jiangbei and Zuo Liangyu. The four towns in Jiangbei have the merit of supporting policies, Zuo Liangyu has been famous for a long time, and Ma Shiying's method can only be understood as winning over Zhai Zhe.

"It must be so!" Zhai Zhe turned his hand and handed these things to Fang Jin, who was standing behind him.

"The Ministry of War has approved Ningshao Military Town to recruit another 10,000 soldiers, and the military salary will be increased by 10,000 people, you can ask Huang Mingjun, the governor of Zhejiang, to assist in handling this matter."

"Brother Wolzi, hard work!"

Zhai Zhe wore a beige robe, and his chin was neatly trimmed with an inch-long short beard, completely looking like a Confucian general. For example, Chen Zilong and other civil officials also saw that Zhai Zhe was not rude at all, so they would call him brothers.

He waved his hand and ordered the soldiers behind him to bring a silver plate, which was the practice of the Ming Dynasty to send some happy money to the imperial history of the decree.

Chen Zilong didn't have much joy, accepted the money, said a few more greetings, and after inspecting Zhai Zhe's barracks, he said goodbye and left.

At this time, Ningshao Military Town, Feng Qin and Zuo Ruo led 20,000 foot soldiers to practice in Taizhou Tiantai Mountain, Zhai Zhe led 10,000 Chinese troops to garrison Ningshao, and Zhang Mingzhen 2,000 foot soldiers to guard Shipu. Wen Linzhu and Zhang Cheng's 8,000 sailors were stationed in the ports along the Ningbo Sea and the Zhoushan Islands, and Chen Huwei's 2,000 pirates were stationed in the Taizhou Sea.

As soon as Chen Zilong left, Zhai Zhe ordered Zong Mao to go to the Hangzhou Governor Yamen to pursue his salary and submit a plan to recruit troops.

The military and government of the Ming Dynasty were separated, and the salary of the household department would be sent to the governor's yamen first, and then transferred to the military town. For example, for recruitment, it is also necessary for the governor's yamen to give approval to the local county orders, and then the local county orders and military towns cooperate to complete the recruitment.

After waiting for three or four days, Zong Mao ordered someone to come back to tell him, but Huang Mingjun avoided him.

Last winter, the seizure of Caoyun grain, because the city of Beijing was captured by thieves, of course, will not have any more results. Now Zhai Zhe has not only not been disposed of, but has been knighted, so how can Huang Mingjun swallow this breath. He also belongs to the Donglin Party sequence, but the Donglin Party does not all want to see Zhai Zhe, and now the battle between the East Lin and the Eunuch Party is fierce, and Zhai Zhe has been added to the title for no reason, so that people have to doubt.

"I just don't cooperate with you, what can you do!" Huang Mingjun is familiar with the prevarication of officialdom. If he wants to embarrass Zhai Zhe as an official, it is not easy, unless Zhai Zhe wants to rebel.

The news in Jiangbei is becoming more and more urgent day by day, and Zhai Zhe is in a hurry, but he encounters a governor who makes things difficult for him.

In the big tent, Zhai Zhe's face was gloomy, like a cloudy sky in June, maybe this is his original face.

Several commanders of the Chinese army, Xiao Zhiyan, Li Zhi'an, Bao Guang and Che Feng did not dare to come out.

"Vice General Xiao!"

"The last general!"

"You lead a hundred soldiers to Nanjing, report this matter to Ruan Dacheng, the squire of the military department, and don't come back for the time being without my order."

"Yes!"

Xiao Zhiyan left with his front foot, and Zhai Zhe urgently summoned Ji Hong.

The weather was hot, and Ning Shao's army returned to Ningbo from the bank of the Qiantang River to escape the heat. Warships are being built in coastal ports, not the kind of big ships that can be loaded with twenty or thirty cannons, but warships that are only seven or eight zhang long, and Gu San Mazi is personally supervising the work.

Less than ten days after the army returned to Ningbo, an astonishing news came that the remnants of the Baitou Army in Dongyang rebelled and captured the two county towns of Dongyang and Yiwu, and the east of Zhejiang was shaken. Xu Du has been in business for many years, and the Baitou Army has a great influence in eastern Zhejiang, although most of them have been quelled, but there are still a few people hiding in the mountains and forests. Since Zhai Zhe collected Xu Du's body, protected Xu Du's family, and recruited Zhu Dabiao, the Baitou Army and Zhai Zhe have had an indissolubly connection.

Ning Shaojun Town reacted quickly, and Zhai Zhe led the army back to the Qiantang River and faced Hangzhou from afar.

Zhai Zhe and Chen soldiers on the Qiantang River, neither advancing nor retreating, happened to block the way of the Zhejiang General Army Fang Guoan's march. When Ruan Dacheng was in power, and several members of the Donglin Party were in full swing fighting with Fuma Shiying, Huang Mingjun, as a member of the Donglin Party, actually wanted to stab the hornet's nest in Junzhen, so he couldn't complain that he was polite.

The prefect of Jinhua played the governor of Zhejiang, but Huang Mingjun did not dare to hide it, and asked the military department to play the Zhejiang soldiers and horses to suppress the Baitou army.

At the beginning of July, the approval of the imperial court came down, "Zuo Guang first booby-trapped Xu Du, and did not practice good governance, so as to incite; The previous rebellion of the Baitou Army was killed by Zhai Zhe, the general soldier of Ning Shao, and Huang Mingjun supervised Ning Shao Town's camera to suppress it. This paragraph of the reply is very mysterious, and directly negates Zuo Guangxian's behavior of killing Xu Du, Zuo Guangxian is the younger brother of Zuo Guangdou, the patriarch of the Donglin Party, and has a vendetta with Ruan Dacheng.

Huang Mingjun had no choice but to enter Zhai Zhe's barracks and urged the army to march to Dongyang.

Zhai Zhe didn't give Huang Mingjun a look, but he still respectfully invited him into the big tent, and the army marched to Dongyang, walking more than ten miles a day.

Along the way are familiar landscapes, and Fuyang County has not been out of Fuyang County for three days. Huang Mingjun was about to go crazy, summoned Zhai Zhe, and asked: "In the two counties of eastern Zhejiang, the bandits are plundering, why don't you rush to the army!" ”

"There is no pay in the army, and the soldiers are slacking off!" Zhai Zhe's expression was indifferent, "The Ministry of War has verified that there are 32,000 soldiers in my Ningshao Town, and the salary has been owed for three months. ”

"You, you ......" Huang Mingjun was angry, pointed at Zhai Zhe and scolded: "You just wait to be unlucky with me!" ”

Zhai Zhe saluted and withdrew.

After half a year, the overall situation of the world has changed, although the military towns of the Ming Dynasty dare not openly disobey, but it is impossible to mobilize the army without money. Zhai Zhe now wants money, food, and soldiers, and no one believes it, and other military towns are the same.

The struggle between the DPRK and China turned upside down, and after Ruan Dacheng took office, he finally seized the opportunity to fight to the death and life with the Donglin Party. A discerning person can see through at a glance that half of the south of the Yangtze River is on the verge of collapse, and even the gods can't save it.

The messenger Pegasus from eastern Zhejiang continued to send to Nanjing every day, reporting the military situation and contacting the private party.

The banks of the Qinhuai River.

Singing and dancing are still the same.

Xiao Zhiyan walked aimlessly by the river, and there was a faint fragrance in the air, I don't know if it was the fat powder from the woman, or the blooming summer flowers in the Hefang Garden.

He really didn't like to stay in this place, and there was nothing more painful than a man like him, who regarded righteousness as his life, surrounded by people who were scheming and framing each other for pleasure. It's like a cleanliness person falling into a filthy pond of silt.

A few days ago, the military department played to Chen Zilong in the matter: "Dongyang is chaotic again, all because of the county officials' urging for radical changes!" ”

The remnants of the Baektu Army are not in a hurry, and they are arguing about the reasons for the rebellion of the Paektou Army. can have a chance to rehabilitate his friends, of course Chen Zilong doesn't want to miss it, Xu Du's family is still living in the shadows.

Xiao Zhiyan understands what is involved in this, he is not a fool, Zhai Zhe's methods are getting more and more sophisticated. The Donglin Party is not monolithic, this is co-authoring and calculating Zhejiang Governor Huang Mingjun, Chen Zilong was just pushed out as a gunman.

The river flows quietly and is somewhat muddy.

Gu Mei has been staying in Shaoxing, and Xiao Zhiyan has no mood to look for flowers and ask willows.

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the road ahead, and a group of soldiers chased and beat two people.

"Kill him, kill him, the thief still dares to return to Nanjing."

"I didn't!" A stocky young man straightened his chest and forced his head, "I'm not a thief." His head was scattered and gathered together, his face was covered with dirt, half of his buttocks could be seen through a large hole in his pants, his shirt looked like he hadn't been washed for more than half a year, and he was holding a bamboo stick in his hand.

Before he could finish his words, a pile of stones and sticks smashed into him, and one stone hit his head right on, and blood leached from his forehead.

"Brother Mi, stop arguing, run!" Another scholar next to him jumped in front of him to block it. This person Xiao Zhiyan can see clearly that it is Huang Zongxi, whom he met in Nanjing a year ago, and later returned the silver to the guard.

The Confucian scholars who were chasing after him were gossiping: "The imperial court is pursuing the thief, and someone saw you kowtowing to the thief in Beijing." ”

Xiao Zhiyan took a few steps closer and saw that the person was Fang Yizhi, who was fiddling with the clairvoyant mirror in the river square that day. The year before last, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and after winning the Jinshi, he has been staying in Beijing, and it is estimated that he met Li Zicheng to break through the capital, and he has not escaped until now.

Fang Yizhi stood there, his face flushed, tears in his eyes, and he stoiced not to fall. He begged all the way, and there were chaos along the way, and he walked from Beijing to Nanjing on a pair of feet in more than two months, and this is how he ended here.

"Huang Zongxi, don't protect him, we don't have such shameless members in the society." Someone is shouting.

Fang Yizhi stood there stubbornly, his eyes no longer wanted to be as sharp as before.

"Fang Yizhi, you said it yourself, have you ever knelt down for the thief?"

"Yes!" Fang Yizhi roared, his eyes swept over the Qinhuai River not far away, and suddenly had the idea of rushing over and jumping into the river. If you don't kneel, you will die, he is not afraid of death, and he just wanted to keep his body at that time and have some effect. Every courtier who took refuge in the thieves said so, but few were able to beg all the way from Beijing to Nanjing.

"You see, you see, he confessed." The onlookers sneered, "Go and report to the official!" The prison is where he should be. ”

"Brother Mi, let's go!" Huang Zongxi opened his hands.

Fang Yizhi's eyes became darker and darker, and the fragrance in the air was very strong, making him want to sneeze. The taste of Qinhuai River is no longer so familiar to him. During the three months he had been on the run, he had seen and heard more on the road than anything he had ever seen before in this life.

Xiao Zhiyan hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and shouted: "Huang Zongxi, take Fang Yizhi to Shaoxing, and find General Zhai to protect him." ”

After the city of Beijing was breached, eighty percent of the ministers in the capital took refuge in Li Zicheng. These days, the DPRK and the Central Committee are pursuing this matter, and all families who have been thieves will have their property confiscated and arrested in prison. On this point, Ma Shiying and the Donglin Party reached a consensus. For when they oppose it, they give it to others.

Fang Yizhi has been testified, so he can only escape first, if he is filled in the prison, looking at him now, he has no money to go up and down, I am afraid it will be difficult to come out again.

"Where to run!" The Confucian scholars shouted, and a servant was coming in the distance.

Xiao Zhiyan stepped forward, pulled out the saber at his waist, and shouted: "Who dares to stop it." "There are still seventy or eighty percent of the momentum of being a horse thief back then.

Fang Yizhi lowered his head and disappeared around the corner of the street after Huang Zongxi.

This group of Confucian students pointed at Xiao Zhiyan and spat into the sky, but they didn't dare to approach it when they looked at the bright knife edge.