Chapter 375: The Collapse of the Kingdom (1) (Text)
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"Dongyang County ordered Yao Sunju to be greedy and radically change Xu Du, still dare to search and sell thieves' property, and the daily affairs are punishable, which provokes a catastrophe, and the crime cannot be punished. Huang Mingjun, the governor of Zhejiang, neglected to cause trouble. ”
The sharp voice sounded in Huang Mingjun's ears, and in a ridiculous farce, Xu Du's Baitou Army uprising was actually rehabilitated.
It's amazing, isn't it? Zhai Zhe looked at Huang Mingjun with pity.
Huang Mingjun is from the Donglin Party, and he is from Fujian. Chen Zilong was anxious to eliminate the misunderstanding of several members of several societies about him, and remembered his old relationship with Xu Du and his apology to Xu Du, and was willing to give Zhai Zhe a shot. He is good at handling things in the military department, and the articles he played are exactly what Ruan Dacheng wants.
Ruan Dacheng wanted to take revenge on his old enemy Zuo Guangxian, but Huang Mingjun just caught fire at the city gate and affected the pond fish. The governor of a province was unable to appease his subordinate military towns, so he was making trouble for the cabinet, and Ma Shiying did not hesitate to remove him.
Now it is not as good as before, first of all, we must coax the major military towns well, I heard that with the reputation of Shi Kefa, in the riverside Yangzhou hard work, it is still impossible to avoid the friction between the four major military towns.
Zhai Zhe made it clear that he was watching the fire on the other side, and if the court did not solve the contradiction between him and Huang Mingjun, he would not go to solve the rebellion of the Baitou Army.
"Mr. Zhai, let a traitor like you get your wish!"
The literati scolded people, and they were really not soft-mouthed at all. Huang Mingjun looked at Zhai Zhe's gentle expression, no matter how he looked at it, he was mocking himself, and he couldn't wait to step on it.
"A traitor is a traitor!" Scolding the literati is asking for hardship, and Zhai Zhe will not be angry.
Huang Mingjun left the barracks on the front foot, and the new governor Ren Tiancheng came with 200,000 taels of silver to reward and make up all the arrears.
Without his urging, Li Zhi'an and Meng Kang urged the two soldiers and horses to march into Dongyang, and Zhu Dabiao contacted the old department, and the soldiers were bloodless all the way, with Dongyang on the seventh day and Yiwu on the tenth. All the way south, the Baitou army was driven from Lanxi into Quzhou. In addition to the Fucheng, Jinhua Mansion is all under the control of the soldiers and horses of Ningshao Town.
Jinhua Mansion is not of much value, and Zhai Zhe's goal is Quzhou Mansion. Quzhou Mansion is at the key point of the handover of Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and Xianxia Pass, the only dangerous pass in the south of the Yangtze River into Fujian, is here.
Li Zhi'an led the army to suppress the formation, and Zhu Dabiao led the vanguard army into Longyou in Quzhou.
With the official letter of the governor of Zhejiang, the county orders and Ning Shaojun Town collected a total of 10,000 soldiers in Wenzhou, Jinhua, Quzhou and Chuzhou and sent them to Taizhou urgently. Zhai Zhe distributed 3,000 recruits to Zhang Mingzhen, the deputy general of Ning Shao, and ordered all armies to step up drills.
So far, Ningshao Military Town has 42,000 infantry soldiers and 10,000 sailors, and its strength can be compared with the four towns in Jiangbei. But these recruits have only been on the battlefield when they are chasing down the Bald Army, and if they want to become elite soldiers, they need to fight at least three times in blood. Fortunately, there are the remnants of the Tianxiong Army and 4,000 grassland elite horsemen as the skeleton.
The imperial court provided 30,000 military salaries, and Zhai Zhe himself supported 20,000 people. Now that the imperial court does not dare to deduct military salaries, Zhai Zhe reduced the monthly military salary to eighty percent and released it on time, and finally reached a balance between income and expenditure. This year, the trade of the business alliance to the north has been cut off by eighty percent, and it only relies on Yang Zhigao to run ships to Japan, Xiamen, and Taiwan to make money. Zhai Zhe ordered Liu Quan to sell off the business alliance's properties in Jiangnan except Hangzhou in batches.
Both Shaoxing and Ningbo have money, but the military town cannot withdraw it at will, and needs to be handed over to the imperial court for unified distribution.
After recruiting troops, money and food, and getting what he wanted, Zhai Zhe hid in Dinghaiwei, as long as the monthly military salary arrived on time, the disputes in various parts of Jiangnan had nothing to do with him.
Finally, at the end of midsummer, the rice in the paddy fields all over Shaoxing Mansion is growing vigorously, the previous season has been harvested, this is the second season, and it will take two months to harvest.
Shaoxing and Ningbo don't see anything unusual. Only at the foot of Tiantai Mountain, a remote place in Zhoushan Island and Taizhou, can we see the enthusiasm of Ningshao Military Town, and Zuo Ruohe Fengqin was given important tasks.
Dinghai Guard, heavily guarded.
Eighty percent of the veterans who have followed Zhai Zhe for many years here can make people feel fearful just by looking at it.
"My lord, there is a Confucian and a beggar outside begging to see you!"
"Confucian scholars and beggars?" What an interesting match.
"That Confucian scholar claimed to be Huang Zongxi from Shaoxing, and said that he came to you in Nanjing City to listen to Vice General Xiao's words."
"Xiao Zhiyan?" Zhai Zhe didn't know what to do, "Take the two of them in." ”
After Huang Zongxi took Fang Yizhi and was rescued by Xiao Zhiyan that day, he fled all the way back to Shaoxing, and the sea fishing documents of the Criminal Department had been posted, and Fang Yizhi, who was a thief, was on the list. Now there is only this way, otherwise you can only leave Jiangnan and flee to Guangxi.
Along the way, Fang Yizhi followed Huang Zongxi like a walking corpse, and only when he heard that the military general who saved him was Gu Mei's husband, he showed a slightly surprised look.
"Meet the Chief Soldier!" Huang Zongxi saw the salute, Fang Yizhi looked at Zhai Zhe for a moment, and also bent over.
"This is my friend Fang Yizhi of the Restoration Society, who is very familiar with Vice General Xiao and General Zong, because the court mistakenly thought that the thief was being hunted down, Vice General Xiao told me that I could take refuge here with my lord."
"Fang Yizhi!" Zhai Zhe vaguely seemed to have heard someone mention this name to him.
"You said he came back from Beijing?" Zhai Zhe pointed at Fang Yizhi.
Fang Yizhi stubbornly held his head there.
"Exactly!" Huang Zongxi answered for him.
Zhai Zhe suddenly remembered that this person was the fourth son of the Restoration Society who Zong Mao had told him that he could disassemble the clairvoyant mirror.
"Are you a thief?" Zhai Zhe stared at Fang Yizhi.
"Nope." Fang Yizhi opened his throat, his voice hoarse.
"If not, how can anyone else see it with their own eyes."
"What if I'm a thief?" Fang Yizhi suddenly laughed, "Who is qualified to let me be martyred?" ”
"No one deserves to be martyred!" Zhai Zhe slammed the table and shouted loudly, stopping Fang Yizhi's laughter in fright. After Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng, ninety percent of the courtiers took refuge in Dashun, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many of them did not want to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty and fled back to the south of the Yangtze River. Whether Fang Yizhi took refuge in Dashun or not, Zhai Zhe didn't care at all.
"You still don't want to die when you escape. But there are no useless people left in our army. ”
Huang Zongxi and Fang Yizhi glanced at each other.
"The head of the General Army's Mansion is busy, if you stay in our army, you can transcribe the accounts for him."
Huang Zongxi's face changed slightly, and he arched his hand and said, "My lord, the secret brother is a jinshi. ”
Zhai Zhe did not speak with a cold face.
Fang Yizhi chuckled lightly and said, "I'm going, I'm going to have a meal, and I'm a thief, can't a secretary still deserve it?" ”
"Don't be surprised, the food and grass in our army have been tight recently, and they really can't afford to support people who eat for nothing. You have been a thief for a few months, it is nothing, there is a staff member in our army who has been in Gao Yingxiang's army for four years. After saying this, Zhai Zhe clapped his hands and ordered Fang to come in and lead Fang Yizhi to change his clothes.
These words stunned Huang Zongxi.
Of course, Zhai Zhe wanted to keep Fang Yizhi to work for him, but he didn't need a madman. Among the scholars of the Restoration Society, Chen Zilong has the most appetite for him, and this Huang Zongxi looks pretty good. A scholar who talks so loudly and can only write a few articles and sing a few tunes, he doesn't want to stay by his side.
Huang Zongxi said goodbye and left.
A cup of tea.
After changing his clothes, Fang Yizhi stood in front of Zhai Zhe again, recovering a little of his former demeanor, but he kept slightly arching between his eyebrows. He has practiced boxing since he was a child, and his skin is a little darker, which is a little more simple than those self-proclaimed and suave sons.
"The fourth son of the Restoration Society......" Zhai Zhe chuckled.
"Those reputations, adults say it makes me embarrassed!" Fang Yizhi bowed respectfully.
"You go to the sect master first, he's been very busy these days, and finally found a helper for him."
"Yes!" Fang Yizhi said goodbye and left, walked a few steps and turned around, and asked, "My lord said that there is a staff member in your army who has been a thief for five years. ”
Before Zhai Zhe could speak, Fang Jin watched Fang Yizhi go out outside the door thinking that he was leaving, and said, "Mr. Liu is back." ”
I can't help but chatter! Liu Suifeng said that he would come back more than ten days ago, but he didn't expect to arrive at this moment.
Zhai Zhe waved his hand to order Fang Yizhi to leave, and said with a smile: "They are all in our army, and there will be a chance for you to know each other in the future." "This is the first jinshi he recruited, or because he was hunted down by the imperial court.
When Fang Yizhi went out, he took a look at Liu Suifeng, who was entering the door, and couldn't help but take a few more looks. He was among the thieves for more than a month, and he fled for more than two months, and every day was like tormenting in a pot of oil, and this man had been among the thieves for five years.
Liu Suifeng entered the door and drank a bowl of clear spring water handed over by Fang Jin, breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded: "It's useless for me to stay in Nanjing, so as not to be angry at those birds." ”
His complaint is becoming more and more severe, and there is a tendency to show Meng Kang.
"Haven't you always been familiar with the affairs of the imperial court?" Zhai Zhe laughed.
"It's so shameless, it's so shameless!" Liu Suifeng was indignant, and suddenly laughed as he spoke, sighed and said, "Actually, they can't help it." ”
"The court's agreed policy is to "join forces to destroy the emperor", not that the ministers can't see the threat of the Qing Emperor, but they can't even take revenge on the emperor, the Qing Emperor is still under the banner of avenging the emperor! Only Chen Zilong of the military department said a word, and he was almost scolded to death. Zuo Maodi had already led the delegation to Beijing, and the courtiers all had the heart of dividing the north and the south. ”
"The assistant has begun to sell officials, one hundred taels of hope, five hundred taels of the lord, three thousand taels of staff, eight thousand taels of county orders, and even the governor has a price." Liu Suifeng's face showed sadness, and he sighed: "Although Fu is greedy, he was also forced by the military suppression, and you are quite restrained, my lord." The four towns in Jiangbei, with 50,000 salaries per town, have arrived in November and are still urging. Zuo Liangyu's army was paid 100,000 people, but it was not enough. Whoever is in charge knows the difficulties, and if he does not sell his official position, he can only levy additional salaries. ”
"In addition, the auxiliary favors Ruan Dacheng, Ruan and the Donglin Party are incompatible, and the two sides are fighting to the death, and now I don't have to work, someone came to the door to probe the wind, saying that he would contact Zuo Liangyu and the adult alliance, Qingjun side, and crusade against Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng. The cabinet has ordered that Zheng Cai and Zheng Hongkui of the Zheng clan in Fujian be summoned to Zhenjiang and Jiujiang respectively, and to summon Zheng's naval division to the north to guard the Yangtze River, in order to prevent Zuo Liangyu from going south and the Qing army from moving south. ”
"Shameless indeed!" Zhai Zhe stretched. This is the appearance of the dead country? Each of these three things is wrong, but it seems that each of them is helpless.