The guards hesitated, but Li Xin's personal soldiers had already rushed over, and the gate of Jiangdu was slowly opened after a few efforts.

Li Xin laughed three times, "The elder doesn't have to send it again, you have to say goodbye to you for a thousand miles!" ”

Zhang Fangyan only felt that his body was being dragged tighter and tighter by Li Xin, knowing that he was telling a lie, and his angry face was blue and speechless.

A group of mermaids ran out of the city, and not far in front of them was Jiangdu Wharf, faintly visible lights, and they no longer hesitated to rush to the wharf. Until this time, the chasing soldiers arrived, and the person at the head was He Tengjiao, who let out a long breath when he saw Zhang Fangyan standing outside the city gate unharmed.

"Tianxing Pavilion is unharmed!"

He Tengjiao thanked God, Zhang Fangyan ordered with a calm face: "Why don't you go after that Li Xin?" ”

But it was too late, the three guards and others waited for the boat to abandon their horses, and when He Tengjiao arrived at the canal, several large ships had already gone dozens of paces away. In the light of the fire, Li Xin stood on the bow of the boat, and said from afar: "Today's old hospitality, Li Xin remembers the five, and he will have a recompense for his leisure!" ”

Looking at the pitch-black surface of the canal, He Tengjiao was silent, he knew that this time he had completely broken with Li Xin, and all the previous feelings had been cut clean from today. Zhang Fangyan followed closely behind and came to the shore of the wharf, and when he heard Li Xin's words, his body couldn't help but stagnate.

After a long time, he said tremblingly: "Today's matter, stealing chickens will not be a loss of rice, it will become a joke!" Then he popped and vomited a mouthful of blood, and his body was already shaky.

This frightened He Tengjiao, and hurriedly got off the horse to help Zhang Fangyan. Zhang Fangyan waved his hand, signaling that he was okay and could stand it.

"It's self-defeating today, and I can't keep Li Xin, I don't know what he will ......do when he goes back."

When Li Xin and his party returned to the Longtan camp, the sky had already brightened, and when they learned that Zhang Fangyan was really so despicable and plotted against the general, the generals of the Three Guards Army said that they would send troops to Jiangdu and would definitely give that old man some color to see.

"Shut up! Are you going to force Ben Shuai to rebel? ”

Originally, everyone thought that it was natural for Li Xin to take revenge on Jiangdu, how do you think of the general's meaning, a bit of a need to endure humiliation?

"Give me all my own to you, who dares to say a word of nonsense, don't blame the ruthlessness of military law! Mi Yuan Chang comes with me! ”

Mi Yan followed the angry Li Xin into the study, and Li Xin said again and again before he could sit down: "You drafted a bullet seal overnight, and Ben Shuai wants to impeach Zhang Fangyan for suppressing people with power and harming colleagues, let the emperor call the shots for us, how to phrase it is up to you to decide ......"

"The bullet seal is easy to write, but I don't know how to send it to Jingshi?" Mi Yan asked this question naturally because the thieves moved to Shandong, and the Grand Canal was cut off from north to south. Li Xin smiled: "How pedantic is the habitual thinking of the world, can't we go through the Beijing Division except for the Grand Canal?" ”

Mi Yan didn't understand what he meant, and asked tentatively: "Detour to Huguang?" "However, the detour to Huguang is not much better, there are men and horses of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution at the junction of Huguang and Henan, and Henan is the hardest hit area of Li Zicheng's wreaking havoc, but I am afraid that the future is even more unpredictable than Shandong.

Li Xin secretly sighed that the people of the time turned a blind eye to the sea and did not hear it, so it is no wonder that there was a move to close off the country.

"Yuan Chang is only half right, he does want to make a detour, but not by detouring to Huguang, but by detouring to the sea, from Tianjin Wei to Beijing!"

After listening to Li Xin's words, Mi Yan suddenly realized, why did he ignore the sea route? Besides, there are many sea ships in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not a problem to recruit a few.

However, Mi Yan was still a little worried: "Will Elder Zhang Ge be ashamed and angry, and lead his troops to chase after him, and at that time, it will be difficult for the shameful knife to enter the sheath, and we will really not be able to start a war with him?" ”

Li Xin sneered: "He won't come, I'm afraid that at this moment, he is just like Ben Shuai, and he is about to go to the court." So let's hurry, this bullet must arrive in Beijing before Zhang Fangyan. ”

Early the next morning, Li Xin sent people to Nanjing City to look for Huang Yu, but he didn't think about it, but he had to report that the deep mansion had already been empty. Knowing that Huang Yu said goodbye again, Li Xin couldn't help but feel stunned, and he didn't know when he could see him again today.

In a blink of an eye, it is the end of April, Ying Tianfu has faintly had the appearance of early summer, the sun is scorching the earth, it is actually since the beginning of spring, the rain has not fallen, the seedlings are planted for a few days, the water in the field is almost bottomed out, and there is a danger of harvest if it does not rain again.

"Straight thief mother, there was a big drought in Hebei last year, and a big drought in Jiangnan this year, and God doesn't let people live?"

Outside the city of Nanjing, there were ordinary people chattering and scolding the thief, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, followed by a team of cavalry and horses.

The people panicked and dodged one after another, "I heard that the Huangmei thief in Chizhou Mansion is making a lot of trouble, and the fast horse is more than half a day's journey away from our Yingtian, isn't it a thief......"

"Bah, bah, we should have the Duke of Wei in Tianfu, and the Marquis of Longtan and the Marquis of Zhen, who would dare to send the two generals to death?"

But I heard someone refute: "Don't mention Wei Guogong, in the middle of the month, he personally led troops to Ningguo Mansion to encircle and suppress the Huangmei thief, didn't he come back from a defeat?" How else can you invite Shi Butang, who is still guarding at home, back? ”

Someone asked curiously: "Which Shi Butang?" But it attracted a burst of ridicule: "Which other Shi Butang can it be, of course it is the auspicious charm Shi Kefa!" ”

The person who was ridiculed seemed to know a lot about the affairs of the court officials, and when he heard what this person said, he explained in detail: "Shi Kefa is worried about the system with the right attendant of the household department and the right thrifty capital of the imperial history of Ding Wei, and now the dispatch is undecided, so he said that the ministry should not be in line with the court etiquette system. ”

However, he was despised again and again, "Even sent, don't bully me I don't understand, if it weren't for Ding Wei's system, Shi Butang would be the governor of Fengyang, otherwise how could it be cheap Ma Shiying's killing talent?" ”

"Don't say it, don't say it. The soldiers who came from the front looked at Xiang Shi Butang. ”

The man who was despised by everyone also looked at it, and sure enough, he faintly saw a big historical character embroidered on the banner that came with the war horse. It's just that this standard horse team did not come to the Nanjing City Gate, but went around the circle to the Yangtze River.

Shi Kefa was once convicted of suppressing the Huangmei thief, and then he was finally activated again, and now the Huangmei thief has a tendency to approach the northern thieves, how can he be taught not to worry. Therefore, after receiving the will to seize the love, he resolutely returned to the Chizhou army, and this time he entered Nanjing for grain and grass.

However, he found an extraordinary garrison in Longtan County, south of Nanjing, as we all know, the garrison of Yingtianfu was controlled by the Houjun Governor's Office, and it was also under the banner of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, but this garrison was completely different, and you could feel the murderous aura from a distance, which was by no means comparable to the Houjun subordinate soldiers who had been peaceful and sparse for a long time.

When he learned that this group of people was the Three Guards to which the famous Zhenyu Marquis belonged, this dusty Ming official, his face was so gloomy that he could almost drip water.

The subordinates couldn't figure out why this Shangguan was displeased, but they all vaguely felt that it must be related to the Marquis of Zhenyu, but the prestige of the Marquis of Zhenlu has been threatening for several months. Previously, Ruan Dacheng openly and secretly stumbled and played tricks on the Three Guards, but as a result, he fled from Nanjing with a disgraced face and was rectified by the Hou of Zhen, not to mention, and he also lost face in front of the Jiangnan gentry, and his reputation was ruined.

Later, Zhang Fangyan, the governor of Zhejiang, wanted to rectify the Zhenlu Hou, but he was made a single knife to the meeting by the Zhenzhu Hou, which made him lose face and became a joke in the officialdom of Nanzhili. Zhang Ge himself has also lost his prestige so far, although he is the governor of Zhejiang, he is not out of Jiangbei, and no one in Jiangnan buys it. Therefore, in the officialdom of Nanzhili, people have reached a consensus tacit understanding, that is, no one can provoke the marquis. Moreover, although this town is arrogant and domineering, he is a person who does not offend me and I do not offend others, and after a long time, a rare balance has been reached between the two sides, and the well water does not violate the river water.

It's just that a few subordinate officials heard a few words from the mouth of this superior, but they couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and some words of advice were afraid that it would be counterproductive. When he was hesitating, he suddenly saw a soldier of the Three Guards digging a ditch in the field to fill in the soil, and he didn't know what he was doing.

Shi Kefa turned around and asked the subordinate officials, "What are these people cultivating?" ”

No one could answer clearly. Seeing that Shangguan's face was gloomy and almost dripping water, finally someone couldn't bear the pressure and simply said bluntly: "The marquis of Zhenyu is not under the jurisdiction of our Nanzhili, and they have no right to intervene even if they are subordinates!" ”

Unexpectedly, it was okay not to say this sentence, but it caused Shi Kefa to question for a while: "Don't you have the right to ask?" Are you all subordinate officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Is this Ying Tianfu the territory of the Ming Dynasty? I am a Ming official in my Ming territory, what is there that I can't hear about? ”

Several subordinate officials were reprimanded by Shi Kefa, and they asked this subordinate who was ineffective in rectifying the situation with a lot of means, for fear that he would become the chicken that he killed the monkey in his comeback. In this case, it is better to be silent than to say anything, and the talkative official already regretted it as soon as he said it, and he wanted to slap himself a few times, but the matter had to be left to the official's fate.

Unexpectedly, Shi Kefa did not deal with his subordinates as rumored, but sighed, "I can't complain about you, what does it have to do with your subordinate officials?" ”

Several subordinate officials finally wiped the cold sweat on their faces, and said in their hearts that Shi Butang finally said a fair word.

Mi Yan was ordered to deliver official documents to Nanjing City and Sun Jie, the governor of Nanzhili, but when he left the city, he didn't want to meet Shi Kefa, who led the troops to kill the Huangmei thief. The marquis of his own town has a very high opinion of this person, but his right eyelid is jumping endlessly.

Mi Yan, who was harmed, muttered in his heart, the Shi Butang in the mouth of the people also had the intention of rectifying the town, but from this person did not enter the city first and inspected the surroundings, he felt that it was very difficult. And he seems to have some prestige among the people, if he is really embarrassed by the town, I am afraid it will be a little tricky.