"This is an idea, Guangdong and Ganzhou we will fight sooner or later, since we have negotiated with the foreigners, then we should do it, the imperial court is now fighting a bloody battle with the Tartars, this is the best time for us to send troops."

Several generals said that they should send troops immediately.

After listening to the general's opinion, Mo Qian turned his head and asked the civil official.

"Li Gong Mei Gong, what do you two think?"

Li Banghua took a deep breath and said: "When sending troops, since the Portuguese are willing to sell, then we should also be prepared, Guangdong sea route leads directly to the Nanyang area, if you take Guangdong, you can trade with overseas, there is no harm." ”

"The old minister also agrees to send troops to Guangdong, there are no heavy troops in Liangguang, and the only garrison army is only five or six thousand people, if the lord sends troops at this time, he will be able to capture the whole province of Guangdong in less than two months."

"Okay, since everyone agrees to send troops, let's send troops!"

At this time, everyone tacitly did not say that Timoqian said before that he would not take advantage of the fierce battle between the court and the Qing soldiers.

However, at this time, the Qing soldiers had already left the pass, and the Qing soldiers robbed the pass in September, and plundered tens of thousands of people and livestock back to Liaodong.

Although Lu Xiangsheng fought bravely, he was alone and could not speak, he alone led the 30,000 Tianxiong army in Shaanxi and the Jingshi area to fight non-stop, and more than half of the 30,000 Tianxiong army was killed and wounded.

At this time, taking advantage of the gap when the imperial court transferred all the soldiers and horses to the north, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng revived.

Zhang Xianzhong coerced tens of thousands of people in Henan and continued to wander around.

Li Zicheng rose again in Shaanxi, without the encirclement and suppression of Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, Li Zicheng developed another 780,000 horses in just one month.

Shaanxi governor Sun Chuanting learned that Li Zicheng had risen again, and immediately led troops to conquest, Li Zicheng learned that Sun Chuanting was killed, and immediately led the flow of people into Sichuan.

Sun Chuanting knew that if the emperor knew that Li Zicheng was resurrected in Shaanxi, he would definitely take him, the governor of Shaanxi, to make a knife for him.

However, Li Zicheng ran too fast, and sometimes he would kill a horse pistol, which overwhelmed Sun Chuanting.

Chongzhen learned that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had risen again, and angrily threw away his favorite inkstone.

"Sun Chuanting misled the country, Wang Jiazhen is hateful, and the two will be dismissed immediately, escorted to Beijing, and handed over to the Criminal Department for discussion!"

Chongzhen was furious, and took down the two governors of Shaanxi and Henan, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng had just blocked the attack of the Qing soldiers in Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen was extremely dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting and Wang Jiazhen, and Li Ziyuan was beaten by Lu Xiangsheng with only a few dozen people left, but he didn't expect that this thief could make a comeback, and as soon as he appeared, there were seventy or eighty thousand horses.

Zhang Xianzhong was severely injured by Mo Wen in Huguang, and was severely injured by Zuo Liangyu's department in Henan, and he was also in the stage of dying, but he didn't expect it to be resurrected.

These two people can be said to be Chongzhen's heart, both of them are the culprits who dug up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family, these two people do not die, and the hatred in Chongzhen's heart cannot be eliminated.

Chongzhen put his expectations on Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, both of whom had a history of winning the anti-thief war.

One destroyed King Chuang, and the other beat Li Zicheng's entire army was annihilated, Chongzhen believes that these two people can succeed in suppressing bandits once, and they can succeed in suppressing bandits twice.

However, Chongzhen wanted to suppress the bandits, but there were people in the court who were not happy.

The Hou Sui of the Hubu Shangshu wrote to Chongzhen that the treasury was empty, and there was no money to support the war anymore.

Chongzhen hurriedly asked Hou Sui: "Aiqing, where did this money go?" ”

Hou Sui replied: "Your Majesty, the imperial court has fought several times, there are Lu Hong and the two of them to suppress the bandits, and then there are Qing soldiers knocking on the pass, this war requires a lot of money, many of the soldiers who died have not yet received pensions, if the war starts again, I am afraid that the soldiers are not willing to fight again!" ”

"No war? If I don't fight, the Ming Dynasty is about to die, I don't care, you want to find a way to get money for me, and if you don't destroy the two evil thieves Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, how can I go to Taimiao to face the ancestors and ancestors, and how can I deal with the people of the world! ”

Hou Sui was blasted out of the imperial study by Chongzhen, Hou Sui left the palace dejectedly, and before he returned home, he saw that his son Hou Fangyu had just come home.

Seeing his son's return, Hou Sui couldn't help but reprimand him angrily: "Chaozong, you fool around outside all day long, and you don't sit down and study hard, you know every day that you are in a brothel, and I think you will be wasted sooner or later." ”

Hou Fangyu reprimanded himself as soon as he saw his father meet, and knew that his father must be disobedient in the court.

He retorted: "Dad, every time you get angry with me in the palace, what do you think of me, I'm not at home for dinner, and a friend asks me out to eat!" ”

After speaking, Hou Fangyu didn't wait for Hou Sui to get angry, and ran out of the house in a puff of smoke.

Seeing that his son was so unmotivated, Hou angrily dropped the teacup in his hand.

The voice attracted Madame, and Madame saw that Hou Sui was in a bad mood, and immediately asked, "Master, but Your Majesty has embarrassed you again?" ”

"Your Majesty ordered Lu Xiangsheng Hong Chengchou to send troops to exterminate the rebels, but now the treasury has long been empty, and I, the head of the household, am now a sewing maker, where is it rotten and where to make up for it, but where does this money come from, this Ming Dynasty has now reached this point, and I really don't know how long it can last!"

"Master be cautious, be careful that the wall has ears!"

Hou Sui was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Madame meant.

Early the next morning, Hou Sui got up early as usual to prepare to enter the palace and the early court, and when the court meeting began, Song Zhipu, the imperial historian, suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen learned that during his tenure in the Ministry of Households, Hou Sui was corrupt and bent the law, and there was a serious crime of dereliction of duty.

However, Hou Shangshu's son, Hou Fangyu, appeared in the most famous brothel in the capital last night, and spent two thousand taels of silver that night to linger with the top Qing people of Cuishan Pavilion all night, and this matter had spread all over the capital last night.

Your Majesty, Hou Fangyu, as the son of the Shangshu of the Dynasty, where did he get so much money to give him such arrogance, it must be his father Hou Sui who was corrupt and corrupted during his tenure as the head of the household department, favoritism, and Weichen asked His Majesty to investigate! ”

Hou Sui didn't expect that as soon as the early dynasty began, he was impeached by the imperial history.

Hou Sui set his eyes on Song Zhipu, who impeached him, and saw that Song Zhipu was making eye contact with Shoufu Wen Tiren, Hou Sui immediately realized that this was Wen Tiren who was going to rectify him.

Hou Sui and Wen Tiren have never dealt with each other, and since Wen Tiren entered the cabinet as the first assistant, the court has not been in peace for a few days.

Hou Sui was about to step forward to explain to Chongzhen, but he didn't expect Chongzhen to immediately conclude that Hou Sui was corrupt after listening to Song Zhipu's impeachment.

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and said: "What a boldness, Hou Aiqing, yesterday you told me that the treasury was empty, and there was no silver to give compensation to the fallen soldiers, but your son-in-law spent 2,000 taels in the Qinglou last night, your father and son are really my good courtiers!" ”

Chongzhen gritted his teeth and finished saying the three words of a good courtier, and then ordered: "Come on, put this thief in the prison, hand it over to the criminal department for discussion, and order Jinyiwei to arrest Hou Fangyu immediately!" ”

Hou Sui didn't even have time to explain, so he was pulled down by two royal forest soldiers.

"Your Majesty, wronged, Your Majesty, the minister is wronged!"

Looking at Hou Sui who was pulled out, the corners of Wen Tiren's mouth, who was standing at the front, couldn't help but show a sneer.

The courtiers of the Ming Dynasty in the Taihe Hall are still intriguing with each other, but Jiangnan at this time is a different atmosphere.

Mo Qian personally led 30,000 troops south and came to Taihe County by water.

The news of the arrival of the 30,000 army in Taihe spread, and Liu Ruge, the magistrate of Longquan, sent someone to deliver the letter the next day.

After Liu Ruge saw the scene under Mo Qian's rule, he knew that Longquan County was no longer able to defend it.

The people of Longquan followed the example of the people of Taihe and demanded to divide the fields and land.

As an official of the imperial court, Liu Ruge did not dare to agree to the conditions of the people, but he did not prevent the people from spontaneously dividing the land.

The people of Longquan invited officials from the rebel army from Taihe County, and they divided the land.

After dividing the fields, Liu Ruge found that his magistrate was basically in a state of being hollowed out.

The people will ask the rebels for help when they have something, and they don't look for him at all, and occasionally the people come to find him, which is also a trivial matter.

In the summer of this year, Liu Ruge was seriously ill, he knew that his time was short, he had already made plans, as long as the righteous army called, he directly ordered someone to hand over the written surrender letter.

Mo Qian took Longquan without wasting any effort, and he did not send troops, but only sent a few civilian officials with ten soldiers to take over Longquan.

On the morning of the next day, an army of 30,000 set out from Taihe, went upstream, and went straight to Wanhe County to kill.

Jiang Wenyun saw tens of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city, but they didn't even resist, and the city gate was not closed, so he directly raised the flag and surrendered.

Seeing Mo Qian's majestic entry into the city, Jiang Wenyun stepped forward to greet him shamelessly.

"Jiang Wenyun of Wan'an Zhi County, knock to see the Governor!"

"It turned out to be Master Jiang, we're old friends, please get up!"

"Your Excellency the Governor smiled, Wenyun had offended a lot before, and asked the Governor not to see him!"

"Hey, how can this governor meet outside, you are loyal to the king, this governor went south this time, I heard that the bandits in Ganzhou are extremely serious, this governor has now accepted the canonization of the imperial court, and he is the governor of Jiangnan.

The south of the Yangtze River is within the jurisdiction of the Governor, and there is such a big bandit trouble in the jurisdiction, the Governor doesn't care about it, Lord Jiang has been in Wan'an for many years, and he must know the local bandits very well. ”

Qian Dayou, Gong Cheng, Kang Yijiu, and others, who followed Mo Qian on the expedition, immediately admired it in their hearts when they heard what Mo Qian said.

"A handsome is a handsome, and he is so high-sounding about expanding his territory, he really deserves to be a scholar."

Jiang Wenyun was also scolding his mother in his heart at this time, "You rebel leader, who doesn't know that you went south to occupy Guangdong, what do you say about suppressing bandits for the imperial court, this excuse is really enough." ”

However, Jiang Wenyun would not be stupid enough to say these words to Mo Qian in person, he said to Mo Qian with a smile: "Don't worry, the governor, his subordinates know a lot about the Nanjiang area, and a gang of bandits is just like crushing an ant to death for the governor." ”

"Hahaha, I love to hear what Master Jiang says!"

That night, Mo Qian hosted a banquet in Wan'an County to entertain Jiang Wenyun, and at the banquet, Mo Qian very tactfully proposed to promote Jiang Wenyun to other places to become officials.

Where did Jiang Wenyun dare not agree, he immediately expressed his obedience to the governor's arrangement.

Mo Qian easily pocketed Wan'an and arranged a new set of leadership teams.

On this expedition, Mo Qian did not only come with 30,000 troops, he also brought more than 800 civilian officials.

These more than 800 people are all talented people who have received education in the system of the righteous military government in Changsha, Wuchang, Jiangxi, and some of them are still from Jinshi.

Mo Qian had already planned to build a local leadership team after building a city, so that he could bring the city under his rule.

After resting in Wan'an for a night, the army continued to march and went straight to Ganzhou Mansion due south early the next morning.

Pan Zenghong, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, didn't know that Mo Qian had come over with a large army, and he was still enjoying his governor's days in Ganzhou City.

In the evening, some soldiers defending the city came to report that tens of thousands of troops had suddenly appeared outside the city, some by water and some by land.

When Pan Zenghong heard about the tens of thousands of troops, his hairs immediately stood up.

"What? Where did the tens of thousands of troops come from? ”

"Coming from the direction of Wan'an, it is under the banner of the governor of Jiangnan."

"Governor of Jiangnan? Isn't that the rebel leader Mo asked? ”

"That's him!"

Pan Zenghong was not calm at once, Mo asked what his identity was now, he was clear.

Governor of Jiangnan, this official is sealed by the imperial court, an official of the first grade, not to mention the feudal officials, and it is not subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

"Immediately send troops and defend the city!"

"Yes!"

Early the next morning, Pan Zenghong came to the city wall early, and when he saw the camp of the righteous army more than ten miles outside the city, he immediately gasped.

"I'm afraid it's not for a small Ganzhou, I'm afraid it's going to Guangdong."

When the sun rose, Mo Qian rode a war horse to the city, and shouted to the city head with a loudspeaker: "Lord Pan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, is there?" ”

Pan Zenghong heard someone calling him, so he immediately came to the head of the city and shouted to the ground: "This official is here, but your Excellency is the governor of Jiangnan, don't ask Lord Mo?" ”

"It's Bento!"

"What do you mean, Your Governor? Why did you lead a large army to the city? ”

"This governor heard that bandits are rampant in the southern Jiangxi area, this governor is the governor of Jiangnan, the south of the Yangtze River is under the jurisdiction of this governor, bandits are rampant in the jurisdiction, you are not effective in suppressing bandits in southern Jiangxi, what should you be guilty of, this governor is at ease for His Majesty, for the people of the world, for the people of Ganzhou, today he led a large army to conquer the bandits, and Governor Pan did not quickly open the city gate and let the governor enter the city!"

Pan Zenghong scolded angrily when he heard this on the city wall: "What bullshit governor, it's just a thief, and he orders that the city gate must not be opened!" ”

After instructing his subordinates, Pan Zenghong shouted down again: "Since the Governor has come to suppress bandits, you can go to the mountains, where bandits are everywhere, why bother to enter the city?" ”

When Mo Qian heard this, he knew that this city gate could not be opened.

He ordered Gong Chengkang directly behind him: "Prepare to attack the city!" ”

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