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Zhai Zhe sent ten bloody human heads to Hangzhou and sent back 75,000 stone of grain, and finally put an end to the matter of taking grain. These people were all death row inmates he bought from Ning Shao's prison, and with only one head, no one knew who they were.

Ningshao Junzhen and the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen both need to go down a step.

Although the major military towns are unruly, except for Zuo Liangyu and Liaodong Military Town, the others have only disobeyed the imperial decree and openly cut off the imperial court's food and salary. Zhai Zhe didn't want to break with the imperial court because of this, but just used a small means to let the newly appointed governor of Zhejiang know that Ning Shaojun Town could not be bullied at will.

In the past three days of the Lantern Festival, in the territory of Xiaoshan, a column of knights rode slowly.

The group was silent, no one spoke. Xiao Zhiyan is the look of loving and ignoring people, and only those who are familiar with him know how good he is. Zhang Mingzhen had a black face, and he could be said to have been completely placed by Zhai Zhe this time. Although he did not suffer in the governor's prison, anyone who was locked up for a month would not be in a good mood.

As he was walking, the soldier in front suddenly went to the opposite side and greeted: "The chief soldier is here!" ”

Zhang Mingzhen raised his head and saw the "Zhai" flag fluttering, and there were more than 100 cavalrymen coming directly opposite.

"Vice General Zhang!" Zhai Zhe's far away place was immediately handed over.

"Lord Commander!" Zhang Mingzhen was a little surprised, and hurriedly urged him to step forward, turn over and dismount to salute.

Zhai Zhe dismounted and grabbed Zhang Mingzhen's shoulder and said, "You have suffered for me Ning Shaojun Town!" ”

"The last general will not dare!"

"If I hadn't been forced to the point where I had no way out, I wouldn't have made this decision!" Zhai Zhe sighed.

Ming people didn't say dark words before, Zhang Mingzhen has been in the army for a long time, and it is hypocritical to make up nonsense. Zhai Zhe came from such a distance to greet him, just to calm the mustard in Zhang Mingzhen's heart. For him, a united Ning Shao was particularly important, he spent four years in Jiangnan, first using his relationship with Zhou Yanru to expand the army, and then using the conquest of the Baitou Army to establish a thin reputation and win the Zhoushan general.

But among Ning Shao's scholars and gentry, he is really not as famous as Zhang Mingzhen. In the past few years, all his energy and thoughts have been focused on the whole army, how can he have those efforts to become familiar with those officials and gentry, that is, he has only recently become familiar with them. That's why he spared no expense to make a big fuss about Xiao Zhiyan's marriage, and the color of Ning Shaojun's restoration of the society became stronger and stronger.

"Your Excellency!" Zhang Mingzhen pursed his lips and ate the yellow lotus dumbly. Zhai Zhe said everything about this, and he still dared to reprimand Shangguan?

"I only took enough money and food for Ning Shaojunzhen's share, and the rest was returned!"

"My lord......" Zhang Mingzhen wanted to persuade, but he didn't dare to speak.

"The Central Plains thieves are rampant, you and I may soon go to the battlefield, and cutting off the soldiers' salaries at this time is destroying the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhai Zhe was heartbroken.

For a bold and upright person like Zhang Mingzhen, he only needs to use small means. asked Zhang Mingzhen to urge food, and then was detained in the governor's prison, and finally released because of returning food, now Zhang Mingzhen can't get rid of this matter, and can only swallow the reputation of wearing a pair of pants with Zhai Zhe. Zhai Zhe does not want Zhang Mingzhen to become a cronie, he only needs Zhang Mingzhen to fight for him.

With Zhai Zhe, a few people talked more, and the road was a lot more lively, and the group went straight to Dinghaiwei, and Zhai Zhe set a surprise banquet in Ningbo Mansion to wash the dust for Zhang Mingzhen.

A meal of wine to resolve grievances, Zhang Mingzhen is not a person with a small belly.

The front foot sent Zhang Mingzhen away, and before Zhai Zhe could rest assured for two or three days, the messenger of the Hind Foot Business Alliance brought an astonishing news, which made him both excited and worried.

"Li Zicheng's troops enter the city of Beijing!"

The north and south of the Ming Dynasty have gathered thousands of miles, and Zhai Zhe has gotten the news more than a month ago. The excitement is because he has been preparing for this moment, worrying that his situation has not yet opened, and the situation is changing too quickly, so fast that it is dizzying.

After Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting, he invaded Shaanxi, proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, and marched from Datong Xuanfu to Beijing City, which was unstoppable. After the Datong general soldier Hu Dawei died under Kaifeng City, his successor was Jiang Ting, who was once commensurate with Zhai Zhe's brothers. Lei Yanqian was also promoted to the deputy general of Xuanfu under the condition that the previous deputy generals of the general army continued to die, and it seems that after leaving Zhai Zhe, the degree of promotion is faster.

The walls of Datong City are thick, and if Jiang Zhi is determined to resist, Li Zicheng will not be able to attack Beijing so quickly. But even Zhai Zhe himself has the heart to preserve his strength, in the situation that there is no rescue outside, will Jiang Zhen be martyred for the imperial court? After experiencing so much, his fantasies of youth had already been buried deep in the earth with Duke Lu's corpse.

But if no one believes it, then life is not very boring!

Zhai Zhe suddenly remembered one thing, no wonder the emperor would call himself lonely or widowed. When you are in a high position, you are surrounded by people who want to get some benefits from yourself, and your mind is full of this calculation and that, that calculation and this all day long, and even the women around you have their own thoughts, how to live that day. So he cherishes Xiao Zhiyan as a friend.

"Fang Jin, call Liu Suifeng over!"

The soldiers outside the door agreed, and their footsteps gradually faded away, and after a while, Liu knocked on the door and walked in.

There are only two people in the study, Zhai Zhe and Liu Suifeng, some plans are destined to be lost, and the fewer people who know, the better.

Zhai Zhe handed over the secret letter, wanting to hear Liu Suifeng's construction.

"For now, we can only wait, there is no way but to wait!" Liu Suifeng finished reading the secret letter in his hand, and respectfully presented it, "Will Your Majesty go south?" Will the prince go south? Will the Qing prisoners enter the customs? None of this is clear, and if you move, you will make mistakes, and you will give people a handle. ”

"The Qing army will enter the customs!" Zhai Zhe replied in the affirmative.

"That's a lot of trouble!" Liu Suifeng frowned, he thought that Zhai Zhe had a reliable source, "In this way, the three thieves, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are all enemies of each other, and the situation is comparable to chaos." ”

Zhai Zhe pondered for a long time and nodded in affirmation: "Yes, I can only wait until the situation is completely festering before I can stand up!" He tried hard to make his heart as solid as a rock, and he said that Ci was not in charge of the army, and all along, his heart was not as hard as he expected.

"Zuo Liangyu has 800,000 troops, and he is still considered to be the pillar of the Ming Dynasty!" Liu laughed dryly with the wind and sighed: "If Duke Lu is still there, he will definitely stop the thieves in the Xuandawei Imperial Court!" ”

It's a pity that several capable governors who can be loyal to the court died and surrendered, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, two upright and capable governors, died on the battlefield, one was mortuary for three months and was not allowed to be buried, and the other was suspected of being a thief by Chongzhen and did not give a mourning order. However, Yang Sichang, who misled the country and the people, and Hong Chengchou, who took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, asked the emperor to pay tribute in person, and also made the imperial "Mourning Hong Sutra" clear to the world. It is said that Chongzhen is diligent and frugal, and such a king of the dead country is also unique.

Zhai Zhe's mind gradually became clearer, and said: "It has been more than 200 years since Emperor Taizu drove out the Mongolian people to establish the Ming Dynasty, although it has lost the hearts of the people, it is not something that the still weak Ning Shao military town can bear, the only thing to rely on is that the generals around me work together, 30,000 people are better than Zuo Liangyu's 800,000!" ”

Ningshao is the sea in the east, the mountains in the east of Zhejiang in the west, and the only exit is in Hangzhou, which leads directly to the rich Hangjiahu Plain, so Hangzhou is the outlet of Ningshao. Without Hangzhou, Ning Shao is a dead end, and with Hangzhou, Ning Shao is completely revitalized.

Liu Suifeng is good at dancing in the officialdom, analyzing the pros and cons, and is far inferior to Zhai Zhe in terms of battle planning. All he did was help Zhai Zhe find the best strategy in such a situation.

Waiting is the best strategy at the moment, and patience is essential for predators when everything can go wrong.

At the beginning of February, on the orders of Zhai Zhe, Shangmeng made a series of heavy moves, selling several properties in Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Songjiang, and acquired three inns and five restaurants in Hangzhou, as well as many houses.

Zhai Zhe completely handed over the affairs in the military camp at the foot of Tiantai Mountain to Zuo Ruohe Fengqin, and led Gu San Mazi, a water coward who took refuge, to the places around Hangzhou, Songjiang and Nanjing, as if he was playing, but in fact he was surveying the terrain everywhere.

The East China Sea and the Yangtze River estuary surround the Hangjiahu Plain, with Taihu Lake in the center, and the waterway is vertical and horizontal, but the waterway into Taihu Lake is narrow, and sea ships cannot enter. There is Chongming Island outside Songjiang to stop. The Yangtze River flows into the sea, Jiangyin has Jingjiang Jiangxinzhou, Yangzhou has Yangzhong Jiangxinzhou, can garrison, and then Zhenjiang and Nanjing are in the depths, and go straight to Wuhu.

Jiangnan's advantage lies in the naval army, whether it is Li Zicheng's Dashun or Liaodong's Qing capture, the naval army cannot match the Ming army. But the most powerful naval army of the Ming Dynasty was not the Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Water Division, but the Fujian General Zheng Zhilong's Water Division.

Gu San Mazi knew all the waterways well, led Zhai Zhe out of Hangzhou, along the coast to Wusong, and went retrograde along the Yangtze River, and said the half-hung Zhai Zhe clearly.

The willow trees by the river began to tender leaves, the warm breeze smoked tourists drunk, and along the way, it was common to see the sons and daughters who played with prostitutes. Only Zhai Zhe and his party are nondescript, they are all big men, and they are many fierce looks, and pedestrians on the road avoid them.

"There are about seventy or eighty thousand people on Chongming Island, and Gu Rongzeng, the general of the island, is also a pirate, and he has been commensurate with my brother!" Gu San Mazi cherished this opportunity to show himself in front of Zhai Zhe, and shook out his knowledge and capital.

Zhai Zhe looked very carefully, entered the Jiangyin boundary in early March, and the group walked along the riverside. Gu San Mazi pointed to an island in the Yangtze River and said, "There are only a few hundred fishermen in Jingjiangzhou who cultivate, but four or five thousand people and horses stationed on it are more than enough. ”

These were all places where he had wandered, and he was not very familiar with them further along, so he said a few more words.

"Yan Yingyuan, the warden of Jiangyin, is a character, there were many thieves here, and since he took office, there have been several waves of water and salt thieves who have suffered losses here, so that the Jiangyin realm has been peaceful."

"There are capable people in the recklessness!" Zhai Zhe sighed. For example, Zuo Ruo used to be the president of Yulin Military Town, and many people did not get the opportunity to show their talents until they died.

There are not many pedestrians on the riverside, and they are all strong men who pass through the lively Huangtian Port, pointing, and most of the pedestrians they meet on the opposite side of the road hang their heads to avoid it, for fear of provoking the murderer.

After crossing the 20th and 30th road of Huangtian Port, two officials wearing soap suits stopped the way and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

"Gu San Mazi!" One of them saw the appearance of Gu San Mazi, who was walking in the forefront, and exclaimed. It's only to blame Gu San's pockmarks on his face for being too conspicuous, and he can't keep a low profile after becoming famous.

The two didn't wait for Zhai Zhe and the others to reply, and ran away.

"I'm in trouble!" Gu San Mazi sneered. He threw himself into Ningshao Military Town, was grounded for half a year and did not leave Zhoushan Island, and there was no news of him on the rivers and lakes. Zhai Zhe has never publicized this matter, so there are many people who don't know that Gu San Mazi is now working in Ning Shaojun Town.