After Zhao Zhicheng withdrew, Zhai Zhe closed his eyes and pondered.

"Is there finally something going to be wrong with the Manchu interior?"

In the past five years, in order to stabilize Jiangnan, he has been focusing on military power, and even had to suppress Zong Mao, handing over the government to Chen Zilong and Zhang Guowei and other Donglin parties, maintaining the balance of the government like a tightrope.

"Give those people hope and don't let them get what they want. The courtiers are like the two Haidongqing, they have to keep their hunger so that they can stretch out their sharp claws when catching their prey. ”

The Donglin Party is too comfortable, they have the richest head land in the Ming Dynasty, and they are protected by the most generous policies of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhang Bingyin"

"Wechen is in"

"...... you say, will people cut flesh on themselves?"

Zhai Zhe had no clue when he asked this, Zhang Bingyin couldn't figure out because of the second monk, he looked up and looked blank, not knowing what the regent thought of at the moment.

"This king heard that the mountains and forests of Huizhou in the south of the Yangtze River are dense, and there are often fierce beasts and poisonous snakes in the jungle. There is a kind of snake called the five-step snake, which will attack the heart within five steps of biting a person, and there is no cure. Mountain people go up the mountain to pick tea and pick fruits, once they are not unfortunate enough to be bitten by this snake, they often break their arms and cut meat to survive, but there is such a thing? ”

Zhai Zhe stood up, looked out the window and asked.

The summer breeze blows through the green bamboo, and the swaying leaves are accompanied by the sound of "whooshing" in the dazzling sunlight to cut broken shadows.

Zhang Bingyin groaned slightly, he didn't know who had told the regent this allusion, and he couldn't guess what the regent meant by saying this.

"Chen grew up in Tongcheng since he was a child, and he has never heard of such a thing. The minister thought that even if the mountain people were bitten by a five-step snake and knew that they would not escape death, few people would be able to survive with broken arms. He wasn't sure enough, but he was telling the truth.

Fang Yizhi recommended him to serve by the regent's side, because he valued his temperament and Zhai Zhe's appetite, and he would definitely be reused.

"That's the case," Zhai Zhe grinned, "You are really a sincere person"

This sentence is better than any flowery compliment.

The resistance encountered by Zong Mao to change the salt system shows that not only the Donglin Party, but even eunuchs like Ma Shiying are unreliable. Because, they are all from scholars.

When the Manchu Qing were unable to confront the Ming Dynasty, his tolerance for the civil officials in Jiangnan came to an end. Chen Zilong resolutely resigned and avoided the court, and it was difficult to guarantee that he did not guess his intentions.

In the court, every place is scheming.

There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and another attendant, Zhu Zhixi, walked to the door, poked his head inside, and came in to pray: "Tell the prince, the general Zhang Qiu has led his troops to board the boat in the canal, and he is going to Huguang." ”

The sudden voice disrupted Zhai Zhe's thoughts.

The battlefields that the Ming and Manchu Qing paid the most attention to were in Huaiyang. The canal is the shortest road to the city of Beijing. Huaiyang was defeated, and Beijing City was behind. He personally sat in Yangzhou, especially showing the importance of the Huaiyang battlefield. But the battlefield where the Ming may be the first to make a breakthrough is Henan.

After Zuo Ruo went to Shaanxi, the strength of the Ming army in Huguang did not decline much, but its strength decreased a lot. The snake can't do without a head, Zuo Ruojun was originally the head of the Huguang army.

Zhai Zhe raised his head and ordered: "Order Zhang Qiu to lead his troops to wait in the Yangzhou section, and this king will personally go to the soldiers to make a strong march." ”

The regent personally sent a general on the expedition? It is rare for the general soldiers and even the generals to have such an honor.

Zhu Zhixi didn't dare to ask more, bowed down and agreed, turned around and retreated.

After he left, Zhai Zhe turned his head again and asked with interest: "Zhang Bingyin, you have worked with Zhao Yucheng a lot of times, do you say that Jierharang will secretly find this king to negotiate peace." ”

Accompanying the regent, you often have to go through this kind of test, you can't say you don't know, but you can't say too outrageous answers.

Zhang Bingyin said: "If the Qing court is defeated in Henan, the contradiction between the two yellow banners and Dolgon must no longer be able to hide it." ”

"Hahaha" Zhai Zhe laughed, "I can't hide it now"

"Let's go, follow this king to see off the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty," he got up and walked to the inner hall.

It had been a long time since he had put on his armor, and the guards bent down to tie chain armor around the regent's waist, and when Zhai Zhe bent down, he saw that his lower abdomen was slightly raised.

Fang Jin urgently notified the Yangzhou prefect to clear the passing streets. Half an hour later, the General's Mansion escorted the regent out of the city.

After the cavalry left Yangzhou City, they marched slowly to the canal, and the golden banner was gilded with a layer of pale red by the setting sun. Along the way, the people who saw the flag of the regent all knelt down on the side of the road to send them off.

After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, the canal ran like a big white python across the fertile fields to the west.

There are willows on the shore and warships in the river.

The cavalry suddenly increased, like arrows from the string to the riverbank, and the cavalry of the personal guards were all elite in a hundred battles, and many of them followed the regent from the north to this day.

The naval warship was quietly moored in the water, and two thousand soldiers knelt neatly on the shore.

Zhang Qiu is not tall, he is a native of eastern Zhejiang, participated in the battle of Hangzhou City, and was later recommended by Feng Qin to enter the lecture hall. He came out immediately after receiving Li Zhi'an's order at noon today, and he never expected that the regent would come to see him off in person.

The galloping cavalry brought out the tight wind hanging noodles, and the tall and sturdy white horse stopped before Zhang Qiu's five steps, Zhai Zhe said: "Are you Zhang Qiu, raise your head"

Zhang Qiu looked up, and in front of the regent's horse, he felt as small as an ant.

"You go to Nanyang and bring a few things to Xiao Zhiyan for this king," Zhai Zhe waved his hand back. Fang Jin beckoned the knights behind him to dismount, and the soldiers took off more than a dozen tight packages from their horses and stepped forward, and Fang Jin walked over with a wooden box in his hand.

"In this box is the waist knife that Lu Gong gave me back then, you handed it over to Xiao Zhiyan, all the armies in Henan are controlled by him, and those who do not obey the order can be dealt with on the spot."

"The last general will obey the order," Zhang Qiu replied loudly. He didn't understand why the regent only gave the golden sword at this moment, did the Huguang army still dare to disobey the order?

The sergeant was in high spirits.

Zhai Zhe couldn't help but boast: "Okay, you go, with a young man like you, why can't you defeat the Qing Dynasty"

Praised by the regent himself, Zhang Qiu's heart was agitated, his helmet touched the ground, and he said: "Serve the regent, never give up"

The military attache who came out of the martial arts hall only knew the regent, not the Ming Emperor. When Jiangnan was anti-shaving, the current Emperor Longwu was trapped in Fuzhou by Zheng Zhilong.

The soldiers boarded the boat, headed south overnight, and turned back to the west in the Yangtze River waterway.

When Zhai Zhe returned to Yangzhou, the sky had turned from orange to iron.

The Ming army's dominance in Henan was not without its hidden worries.

The two generals he trusted, Feng Qin was in Huaiyang, and Zuo Ruo was in Shaanxi. Although the number of Ming troops who entered Henan from Huguang was large, the composition was complex. Li Dingguo is the newly surrendered Great Western Army, Xu Yiyang's army was only reorganized at the beginning of the year, and Xiao Zhiyan and Che Feng's cavalry have not yet officially formed an army. Gong Chen's command is the Shanxi Righteous Army, and Jin Shenghuan's army is the strongest, but it may not be able to convince Xiao Zhiyan.

In recent years, the waist knife, which he carries with him, has slowly become a burden.

Xiao Zhiyan, only Xiao Zhiyan understands the meaning of this knife to him, so he can send it away.

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