Several staff members around Tang Hui suddenly pretended to ponder one by one, and after a while, one of the staff members said: "My lord, we can't give 10,000 elite soldiers, otherwise the Liukou from Henan will go south and enter our Huguang, and we will use what to resist."

If Huguang is lost, Your Majesty will have to take you locked up in Beijing to punish you. ”

Tang Hui looked at his staff with a dark face and asked: "Since I can't hand over the elite soldiers to him, then how can I explain to him Lu Xiangsheng, he is now my top boss, and he still holds the Shang Fang Sword rewarded by His Majesty in his hand, if I don't obey his orders, what if he takes the Shang Fang Sword and asks me for it?" ”

"Don't panic, my lordship, I have a plan to make the prime minister have nothing to say."

When Tang Hui heard this, he immediately asked hopefully, "Oh? What a clever plan, tell me quickly! ”

"My lord, Lu Xiangsheng only said that he wanted 10,000 soldiers and horses and money and food, but he didn't say what soldiers and what kind of food he wanted.

Isn't there still some old grain in our Wuchang Mansion treasury for several years, anyway, those grains are also used to send the imperial court for inspection, and now they are also moldy and smelly in the warehouse, so they will simply be taken and thrown to him Lu Xiangsheng.

As for 10,000 soldiers and horses, it's not simple, the adults will post a notice tomorrow, saying that 10,000 soldiers will be recruited, regardless of his old and weak, sick and disabled, as long as it is a man, let's recruit them all, and take two meals a day to coax, anyway, three days later, he Lu Xiangsheng will take people to Jiangxi, and it has nothing to do with us.

Isn't he known as the King of Lu Yan, let him, the King of Hades, take a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, as long as we guard Huguang and don't let the Liukou come in, it will be a good thing for the imperial court, and my lord doesn't have to worry about the imperial court removing you from the post of governor of Huguang. ”

When Tang Hui heard this idea, he couldn't help but applaud immediately.

"Okay, according to your plan, come here, write a notice immediately, and recruit troops tomorrow!"

Early the next morning, notices were posted at the gates of the east, west, north and south of Wuchang Mansion.

The governor's yamen is going to recruit troops, and he will recruit 10,000 people, and the notice says that as long as they are with handles, they can run with kinetic energy, and they all need it.

Not only do I want it, but I also give it two dry meals a day.

At this time, there was a lot of commotion in Wuchang City, and many displaced people from Henan rushed to join the recruiting office.

In just one morning, 10,000 homeless people were recruited from the recruitment offices, and the officers and soldiers of the guards opened the treasury and distributed armor and weapons to these people.

Some of the homeless people were too young, only twelve or thirteen years old, and they were not as tall as weapons, and they could not even walk in leather armor.

But even if it was such a soldier, the people of the yamen did not drive him away, but let him stay in the army.

10,000 homeless people put on armor and picked up weapons, not to mention that they gathered together, and they still looked like an army from a distance.

Tang Hui glanced at the 10,000 'army' on the school field from a distance, and was extremely satisfied in his heart.

He summoned his subordinates and ordered: "Go, tell Lu Xiangsheng, and say that the 10,000 army and the money, grain, and baggage are ready, and they can be delivered tomorrow." ”

Lu Xiangsheng had only stopped in the inn for a day, and the next day he received news from Tang Hui that he had prepared the army and money and food, and that he would be able to go south to Jiangxi with the prime minister tomorrow.

Lu Xiangsheng thought that Tang Hui would cheat in every possible way and not honor his request.

Unexpectedly, it was only one day now, and he Tang Hui had finished the matter, Lu Xiangsheng was suddenly overjoyed, and said that he Tang Hui had changed his personality and knew that he had to focus on national affairs.

But when he arrived at the agreed departure point outside the city the next day, he saw the so-called army of 10,000.

Where is this army of 10,000, it is clearly 10,000 called Hanako.

Lu Xiang was angry and wanted to go back to the city to find Tang Hui's theory, but found that the gate of Wuchang City had been closed.

Above the city, a small official shouted at Lu Xiangsheng: "Your Excellency, the Governor wishes your Excellency a victory in the southward suppression of bandits, and make new contributions to my Ming Dynasty!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was so angry that he couldn't wait to go up and chop this person with a knife.

But after all, he was the feudal official of the prime minister of the five provinces, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but not get angry, he slapped his horse back to the front of the formation, took a closer look at the 10,000-strong army, and was shocked in his heart.

He called his men and said: "Count the number of the army at once, and expel all those who are over forty and under fifteen, and those who are disabled or sick will be expelled, and the rest will be left behind, and they will go to Jiangxi with me!" ”

There are only twenty people under Lu Xiangsheng, and these twenty people are all veterans and veterans who followed him from birth to death.

Twenty people divided the army of 10,000 into twenty phalanxes, and it took half a day to count the numbers.

If you count carefully, more than half of the so-called 10,000 troops are either old or small, and they simply cannot meet the requirements for joining the army.

Lu Xiangsheng did not pity these displaced people from Henan, and directly ordered these people to leave the army, and the remaining 4,000 people were all adult men, although they looked thin and weak, but if they were given a few days to eat, I believe that these people would soon be able to recover their strength.

Lu Xiangsheng felt that he was fully capable of building these people into an army like the Tianxiong Army.

He led the remaining 4,000 men to the southeast, and issued a direct order to the prefect of Huangzhou at Huangzhou (now Huanggang), asking him to prepare ships and food immediately.

Huangzhou Governor Shi Zhanglie is much more reliable than Tang Hui.

Shi Zhanglie was the first year of the Apocalypse, and in the second year, he was awarded the post of Jian'an Zhi County.

Not long ago, after he was transferred to Huangzhou, he immediately took out 500 taels of silver to purchase firearms and weapons with the squires of Huangzhou, and also built a pier platform on the Santai River to prevent the invasion of the Liukou and crossed the river.

Shi Zhanglie knows the general trend of the world better than Tang Hui, and Lu Xiangsheng was appointed prime minister of the five provinces, which is because His Majesty made it clear that he would come to exterminate the bandits and rogues in the southeast region.

Now there are hooves everywhere in Jiangxi, and there are even big thieves who occupy the land of Sanfu and claim hegemony.

Shi Zhanglie did not dare to disobey the orders of the prime ministers of the five provinces, so he immediately ordered the requisition of all ships at the Huangzhou wharf to help the prime minister transport troops.

In addition, Shi Zhanglie also took out 3,000 stone of grain from the Huangzhou Mansion Treasury and gave it to Lu Xiangsheng, and the two had a light meal in the cabin of the dock.

At the dinner table, Shi Zhanglie raised his wine glass and saluted Lu Xiangsheng: "The Prime Minister is an example of humble admiration.

I heard that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others called the adults the king of Lu Yan, and I saw it today, so the rumors must be true! ”

Shi Zhanglie looked at Lu Xiangsheng who was sitting in front of him, and saw that he had a fair face and a tall figure, but his body was thin.

It was hard to imagine that the tall and thin man in front of him was actually the invincible King Lu Yan on the battlefield in the early days.

Lu Xiangsheng also had a very good impression of Shi Zhanglie, and the civil official in front of him was different from many local officials he had seen.

Shi Zhanglie looks very energetic, he is upright, and he is looking for a boat and giving food, Lu Xiangsheng has a very good impression of him.

"Wu Yu praised it, the same is the official of the imperial court, all for the Ming Dynasty, for the court, for the common people, I Lu Xiangsheng wanted to give up this big knife, hoping that he could hold the wolf every day and be accompanied by the document every day, and he could also travel in the mountains and rivers for a few days of leisure, or have a long conversation with his close friends, or discuss with that Kong, Meng, Cheng and Zhu, which can be described as a great joy in life!

Alas, it's a pity that the mountains and rivers are broken, the Tatars outside the gate are constantly harassed, and the Liukou inside the gate has not been extinguished for a long time.

It's not to be able to wipe out the crowd and wipe out the thief chieftains, so that the world can be peaceful for a long time. ”

When Shi Zhanglie heard this, he got up and bowed deeply to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Lu Gong is really a pillar of the country!"

After the meal, Lu Xiangsheng continued to hurry, and with the boat, the speed of the journey was much faster.

Early in the morning of the third day, Lu Xiangsheng led 4,000 men and horses to Nanchang.

Not long after arriving in Nanchang, the Nanchang officials who got the news hurried to the dock.

Shen Kuangji, the prefect of Nanchang, was the first to arrive, followed by Zhu Zhichen and Lin Zhen and other provincial officials, who immediately pleaded with Lu Xiangsheng as soon as they arrived, saying that it was useless to greet him at the dock, and asked the new governor to punish him.

When Lu Xiangsheng came to Jiangxi, he did not embarrass these officials in Jiangxi, but helped everyone up very politely.

"Everyone, please get up, this official is new, Your Majesty has appointed me as the prime minister of the five provinces and the governor of Jiangxi, and I will make every effort to clean up the bandits in the five southern provinces, and I will need the help of my colleagues in the future!"

"What is the Prime Minister, assisting the Lord to suppress bandits, this is my own business, my own business!"

The two sides exchanged polite manners at the dock, and then returned to the governor's yamen together.

After arriving at the Yamen, Lu Xiangsheng did not say any nonsense, and directly called the Jiangxi Provincial Government and the Nanchang Prefect to him, and inquired in detail about the specific situation of the bandits from all walks of life in Jiangxi.

As a permanent high-ranking official, Zhu Zhichen was naturally the first to answer, and he told Lu Xiangsheng all the bandits in more than 30 places in Jiangxi.

The more Lu Xiangsheng listened, the more his brows furrowed, and when he heard about Yuan Zhoumo's question, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.

"If this thief is not removed, there will never be peace in Jiangxi, this thief's ambition is too great, he will actually buy people's hearts to consolidate the territory, and the hundred bandits in Jiangnan are not as powerful as this thief."

"Yes, the first two governors knew that this thief could not sit big, so they sent troops to encircle and suppress, but this is not a question of cunning with soldiers, the two governors were defeated and died, and now there are no soldiers and horses available in Jiangxi, Prime Minister, how can this be good!"

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said: "At present, blindly sending troops will only bring about your own destruction, and you can only slowly try to do it."

I want to send troops to recruit Guangxin Zhang Puwei first, this demon is a demon to confuse the public, but also to kill the clan, for the disaster is very serious, the order, recruit 20,000 soldiers and horses, training for three months, after March, the official personally led the troops to recruit Guangxin, first east and then west.

After the demon road is destroyed, in the spring of next year, the troops will be sent to Yuanzhou, sweep away the Mo thief, and sweep Jiangxi! ”

Not long after, Mo Qian received a report from the Nanchang spies in Yuanzhou, and learned that Lu Xiangsheng was promoted to the position of prime minister of the five provinces and governor of Jiangxi.

As soon as Mo Qian heard that Lu Xiangsheng was coming, he immediately summoned Wenwu to Yuanzhou to discuss countermeasures.

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