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In the spring, the white-headed army on the mountain expanded to nearly 10,000 people. Zuo Ruo's first foot soldiers who entered eastern Zhejiang hid in the Tiantai Mountain Range, which was adjacent to Jinhua Mansion and Taizhou Mansion.

Zhai Zhe bought barren Shantian real estate in Ningbo Mansion, and gradually moved the subordinates of Taihang Mountain to Jiangnan, leaving only Che Feng and Xiao Zhiyan's light horses in Jiangbei.

"Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow to become king."

This is the good policy that the scholar Zhu Sheng dedicated to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, to pacify the world, and it is also the strategy chosen by Zhai Zhe.

In the Ming Dynasty, if a military general wanted to get rid of the control of the imperial court and ensure a stable financial source, the only way to do so was to rely on foreign trade. Mongolia in the north and sea trade in the south. Others, such as land and customs duties, were almost entirely in the hands of the gentry. When Xuanda lost power and lost the position of deputy general of Datong, Zhai Zhe had to set his sights on Jiangnan.

Even if there is a rebellion, there is much more future in Jiangnan than in the Central Plains, because there are enough financial resources here, otherwise Gao Yingxiang would not be so looking forward to going south back then.

"The land of eastern Zhejiang, the people are fierce, adjacent to the world's tax land, will be my dormant place, I will wait here for the world to change." Walking by the warm West Lake in the spring breeze, Zhai Zhe set a strategy. The only thing he could trust now was himself.

Both the Donglin Party and the Fushe will be his stepping stones, and the military power in troubled times is fundamental, and he is the general soldier who has the mark of the Donglin Party. How those literati look down on him now, how they will beg him in the future.

The dormant days were very lonely, but fortunately, he still had two wives and sons as companions.

In June of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Xue Guoguan was impeached and dismissed by Wu Changshi, and was arrested and imprisoned by Jinyiwei for accepting bribes, and was given death by the emperor, and was succeeded by Fan Fucui, who was over sixty years old. Since the month of taking office, Fan Fucui has resigned on the grounds of advanced age, and there have been calls for Zhou Yanru to be used in Beijing.

Quzhou Prefecture is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, and the only road from the south of the Yangtze River to Fujian passes through here. Because of the location of Quzhou Mansion, the famous Longyou Merchants of the Ming Dynasty were bred here, and the reputation of the Hui Merchants and Jin Merchants was slightly inferior, but the wealth obtained was not a lot at all.

As long as there are merchants, there must be bandits, and Qiu Lingxiao, a Fujian man, has been active in this area with ordinary thieves. After the strength of the Baitou Army in Kuocang Mountain grew, it did not invade the nearby prefectures and counties, and began to march to the mountains near Quzhou Prefecture.

In mid-August, the Baitou Army and Qiu Lingxiao met at Jianglang Mountain. Zhu Dabiao took Zuo Ruo and Zhai Zhe's 500 soldiers to go together, and took advantage of the opportunity of the alliance to kill Qiu Lingxiao's father and son, occupying Jianglang Mountain, which is less than 100 miles away from Xianxia Pass, and monitoring the only way to enter Fujian.

"It's all on the way."

Zhai Zhe stayed in the suburbs of Hangzhou, rarely went out, and collected information from all over the world. A powerful white-headed army can become his helper, and he can't take food from the gentry now, only to compete with Zheng Zhilong, and the Zhejiang people will become friends with him.

The days flow quietly like a stream, and when there is no power in your hands, every moment is torment. Sure enough, as Fan Yongdou said, once the power is tasted, it is difficult to give it up.

In the cold winter, Yang Sichang's troops were defeated in Xiangyang, Li Zicheng's troops entered Henan, and the situation in the Central Plains was eroded.

One urgent report after another arrived in Zhai Zhe's hands, making his blood boil, his heart was about to jump out of his throat, and the time to wait was almost up.

The messenger stepped on the thin snow and walked into the house on the outskirts of Hangzhou Prefecture, where Zhou Yanru summoned him.

Zhai Zhe didn't take the carriage anymore, the jujube red horse galloped on the frozen official road, he already had a premonition that something big would happen, and after waiting for a year and a half, he finally had to embark on the journey again. He didn't like to stay at home, and every battle report in the Central Plains made him sleepless at night, and his bones were full of battle blood. How can this era be without his figure.

Bamboo forest thin snow, hat pedestrians.

There are a few magpies chirping happily at the gate of the Zhou family manor outside Yixing.

At the gathering of five people, Zhai Zhe was always the last to arrive, and he didn't know what a few people had discussed before.

Zhang Pu still had a cold winter face, and Zhou Yanru held a fold in his hand, although he had a smile on his face, his right hand trembled slightly. Wu Changshi's smile made people sound a rattlesnake in the desert, and Ruan Dacheng hung his throat and spoke like a song.

Except for Zhou Yanru, no one looked at him.

"The holy decree of the imperial court has been issued, Zhai Dongjia, after the Spring Festival, I will go to the capital to take up my post, have you thought about it?" Zhou Yanru spoke very softly to Zhai Zhe, and he may be one of these people who is kind to Zhai Zhe.

Tiqi had just left the capital, and Jiangnan had already gotten the news. Zhai Zhe's voice replied very simply: "I have thought about it, the general army of Zhejiang anti-Japanese soldiers." ”

"This position is not fat, Zhai Dongjia should not regret it!" Zhou Yanru seemed to be joking.

"If the elder can achieve the last general, he will not dare to be ungrateful." Zhai Zhe saluted.

"Good!" Zhou Yanru nodded slightly.

"Congratulations to Elder Zhou Ge!" Several people laughed, and even Zhang Pu grinned.

The meeting time was very short, Zhai Zhe saw that those people seemed to have something to say, and he quickly became a superfluous person, so he got up first to say goodbye after lunch. Those literati disdained to be in his company, and there was no need for him to make himself uncomfortable.

When he came out of the academy and was about to lead his jujube red horse to the stable, a family member rushed over from behind with his head down, lowered his business and said, "Zhai Dong's family stays, the master still has something to say to you." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhai Zhe turned his head and asked.

The family kept their heads down and didn't say anything, and it seemed that he didn't know.

Zhai Zhe first greeted the soldiers who came with him, and followed the family around several corridors, and the family placed him in a side room to rest.

From the afternoon until dark, Zhai Zhe and the others were restless, and when the lamp was in hand, a servant knocked on the door with a lantern, "The master wants to see Zhai Dong's house." ”

Zhai Zhezheng was lying on the bed with his clothes, and when he heard the call, he immediately got up.

It was already freezing outside, Zhai Zhe didn't feel cold, and followed the family to the backyard. The snow reflected the dim light of the lanterns, making the quiet yard a little eerie. The labyrinthine courtyard made Zhai Zhe a little confused, and his vigilance made him try to remember every corridor he walked through.

"The lord is inside!" The family stopped.

Zhai Zhe pushed the door in the darkness and walked in, and a gust of wind almost blew out the candle flame in the house. Zhou Yanru was sitting quietly opposite, jumping him off in the dim light like a messenger from the netherworld.

"Close the door!" Zhou Yanru's voice was a little stiff.

Zhai Zhe turned around and closed the door, the candle flame stabilized, and the room immediately warmed up a lot.

"Zhai Dongjia, I want to ask you to do something." Zhou Yanru's voice softened again.

"The elder has orders, just say." Zhai Zhe vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"You are a military general, and you control the business, there must be some outlaws in your hands." Zhou Yanru took a long breath and said, "I want you to help me kill Zhang Pu." ”

"What?" Zhai Zhe couldn't believe his ears.

"Kill Zhang Pu." Zhou Yanru's voice was extremely certain.

Zhai Zhe was silent and did not answer, he knew very well the power of the Fushe in Jiangnan that Zhang Pu was not someone who could be killed casually.

"If you don't kill Zhang Pu, I won't let you take up the post of the chief soldier of Zhejiang's anti-Japanese army." Zhou Yanru's tone was vicious, not like the tone he usually spoke.

"Can I find out why?" Zhai Zhe took a step back and hid himself in the shadows under the pillar.

Zhou Yanru threw the fold in his hand on the ground, "This is the official position of the protégé of the Fushe that Zhang Pu asked me for, a total of eighty-three people." ”

"So much?" Zhai Zhe gasped.

Zhou Yanru smiled bitterly, "If I follow him, I don't know who this Ming assistant is." ”

"You help me kill him, I will even give you the position of deputy chief soldier and general of Zhejiang anti-Japanese army, and eastern Zhejiang is your world." Zhou Yanru could somewhat see Zhai Zhe's intentions.

The military garrison roads of Ningbo and Shaoxing, plus the coastal guard post of Taizhou, have a total of 8,000 sailors and a quota of 12,000 foot soldiers. If he could earn enough silver from the sea trade, he would have the power he had never had before.

The hesitation in Zhai Zhe's mind only lasted for a moment, he had been waiting for this opportunity for a year, and he could not miss it again. Maybe the government is destined to be inseparable from the darkness, if it must start, then from this moment.

"I will do it for the elder in the end."

"Good!" Zhou Yanru breathed a sigh of relief, "If you can help me, I will remember." ”

After talking to Zhou Yanru, Zhai Zhe left Yixing overnight. He must do his best to arrange this matter, and the assassination of Zhang Pu must be arranged without leakage, as long as he leaks a little bit of tone, he will have no place to stand in Jiangnan.

The snow in the south of the Yangtze River painted a layer of elegant makeup on this beautiful mountain and river, and the iron hooves of the jujube red horse hit the ground quickly, as if **** this beautiful woman.

There are no eggs under the nest, and the northern border of the Central Plains has been in chaos for so many years, how can Jiangnan escape from this catastrophe?

No matter who wants to take over the scepter of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan is an indispensable piece of the puzzle, because it is one of the two largest grain producing areas in the Ming Dynasty. "Suzhou is ripe, the world is full!" It is not only the grain that is here, but also the most skillful craftsmen, the richest gentry.

Zhai Zhe often thinks about his failure in the Mongol campaign for nearly ten years, not because he is not shrewd enough, nor because the soldiers under his command are not good at fighting, but because he does not have a stable rear. No money, no food, no one, backed by Xuanda Town, is one of the poorest border towns in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, he was doomed to failure from the beginning. Even if Lu Xiangsheng did not die, Xuandazhen could only remain on the defensive against the Qing captives, and the Mongols could not match the Jurchens in the steppe at all.

For so many years, he has seen through that the defeat of the Ming Dynasty is like the rushing water of the Yellow River, and he cannot control it.

The imperial court had no money and food, and could not support the soldiers and the people, and the imperial court levied salaries, and the people became boiling.

Where is the money and food? Which of the official gentry families in Fushe and Donglin is not full of money? But not only Zhai Zhe couldn't move, but the emperor couldn't move either.

It is said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and see how the hearts of the people in the world change? Li Zicheng was able to enter Beijing, but he could not feed the people of the north.

Zhai Zhe knows very well what he is doing, he has one chance to turn the tables, only one chance!