"In the general town, there are people who call themselves Zhao Han of Lead Mountain who ask to see you."

"Huh?"

Zhao Han raised his head with a strange expression, and then smiled again: "Please let him in." ”

Fei Yu is working outside, and he is one of the three secretaries. After a while, when Fei Yinghuan and Wei Jianxiong were brought in, they almost screamed in surprise, but immediately buried their heads and continued to deal with the official documents.

Fei Ying didn't squint, was brought into the house, and arched his hand and said, "Zhao Han of Lead Mountain, meet Zhao Zongzhen!" ”

Zhao Han was a little surprised, and hurriedly got up and said, "Uncle, please take a seat." ”

Wei Jianxiong retreated outside the house and closed the door to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

"Brother Han has done a great job." Fei Yinghuan laughed and ridiculed, as if he was ridiculing, as if he was complaining, and with a little sigh.

Zhao Han was very thick-skinned and said, "Lord Taishan praised it falsely. ”

"I've also seen some of your governance, so I won't ask anymore," Fei Yinghuan went straight to the point, "I only ask you, when can you take Jiangxi?" ”

Zhao Han said: "Nanchang Mansion will be taken next year." ”

"I heard that there is a Fujian and Guangdong army in the south, I thought you would go down to Ganzhou first," Fei Yinghuan was a little disappointed, "If you take Nanchang first, I'm afraid the imperial court will send more guest soldiers to encircle and suppress." ”

Zhao Han explained: "I discussed with a few gentlemen, and I also wanted to take Ganzhou first, but Nanchang was too deceitful. The private Nanchang banknote customs were taxed heavier than those of the eunuchs, which greatly affected the commerce and people's livelihood under my rule. If they take their own death, then it will be done to them! ”

Fei Yinghuan asked again: "How sure are you that you will win Nanchang?" ”

"Pretty sure." Zhao Han replied.

"So confident?" Fei Yinghuan asked.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "If it weren't for consolidating the territory, I would be able to occupy half of Jiangxi this year." ”

Fei Yinghuan no longer asked, he said: "I want to go south to Funing to be the governor, but what can I help you?" ”

"Funing in Fujian?" Zhao Han wasn't sure.

Fei Yinghuan said: "On the seaside of Fujian. ”

Zhao Han said with a smile: "If Lord Taishan is willing to help, you can make friends with Zheng Zhilong for me." ”

"Okay, I see." Fei Yinghuan nodded.

"Alas!"

Fei Yinghuan suddenly sighed: "When I took your brother and sister back to Jiangxi, how could I have expected today's situation?" ”

Zhao Han said: "Even if you don't come to Jiangxi, your son-in-law will find a place to rebel." ”

"You're so fond of rebellion?" Fei Yinghuan asked.

Zhao Han shook his head and said, "It's not that I like rebellion, but this Ming is hopeless." ”

Fei Yinghuan smiled and asked, "Do you know that many of the courtiers have the idea of favoring the south?" ”

"I don't know." Zhao Han said.

Fei Yinghuan explained: "This kind of idea was first put forward by folk scholars, and gradually spread to the court. It is believed that the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are the land of wealth in the world, and the northern provinces not only cannot harvest money and grain, but also need the imperial court to continue to pay for wars. Simply don't want the north, move the capital to Nanjing to rectify the government, and then move the army north after eliminating the accumulated evils. ”

"It's beautiful to think about, after being safe, how can anyone still want to go on the Northern Expedition? That's what the Southern Scholars think, right? Zhao Han sneered.

"Indeed," Fei Yinghuan nodded and said, "Although it is widely circulated, it is all discussed in private, and no one dares to say it openly." Now, if you start an incident in Jiangxi, I'm afraid there are fewer and fewer people who intend to be peaceful. ”

Suddenly, Zhao Han asked: "Lord Taishan, why don't you go to the inner house to rest for a while, and call Rulan and Ruhe to talk." ”

"No need," Fei Yinghuan raised his hand and said, "There are many people, it's better that I don't see them, I'll leave after I finish talking here." Zhang Yinghe, the prefect of Guangxin, is a person who can govern the people and fight, he has trained 5,000 village bravery, you should be careful. ”

"Thank you, Lord Taishan, for reminding you," Zhao Han said with a smile, "No matter how elite the townsmen are, after they leave their hometowns, their combat effectiveness will drop exponentially, because they don't know why they are fighting." ”

"Okay, that's all I have to say, I'll go first." Fei Yinghuan got up and said.

He really said that he would leave, but he didn't see his son and daughter, and he had to rush to Fujian to take up his post.

Fei Yinghuan soon came to Ganzhou by boat and headed southeast along the Gongshui, where Huichang County had been recovered by officers and soldiers.

Halfway through, I suddenly saw a large number of ships coming from the opposite side. It was the army of Zou Weilian, the governor of Fujian, that the boats were used to transport baggage, and about 10,000 soldiers (including people's husbands) walked along the riverbank.

Fei Yinghuan was not stopped for search, and arrived in Huichang County smoothly.

When I inquired at the dock, it was Ruijin that the thieves had been destroyed, and only hundreds of remnants fled into the mountains.

Fei Yinghuan was a little worried about her son-in-law, so she immediately took a boat back and went to Ganzhou to meet Zou Weilian.

In the barracks outside the city.

Zou Weilian was on a killing spree, and sixteen middle-level officers lined up waiting to be beheaded.

The Fujian soldiers he brought with him, after entering Jiangxi, always ran to burn, kill, and plunder. There was even a general, after slaughtering the village, he killed Liang and risked his merits, and Zou Weilian was so angry that he beheaded this person on the spot.

Zou Weilian is from Jiangxi!

Let him lead his troops to Zhejiang to suppress bandits, maybe he will turn a blind eye. can bring troops back to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, how can you allow your troops to come chaotically? That's going to be poked in the backbone by the hometown fathers!

The governor of Liangguang, the governor of Jiangxi, and the governor of Fujian, among the three governors, Zou Weilian was the most eager to suppress thieves.

Because his hometown of Xinchang (Yifeng County) is just north of Fenyi and Xinyu counties. At most, in another year and a half, the Luling Zhao thief will occupy his hometown, can Zou Weilian not be in a hurry?

A fire broke out in the backyard of the governor of Liangguang, and he withdrew his troops back to Guangdong to quell the rebellion.

Zou Weilian stayed alone in southern Gansu, but instead intensified his efforts to suppress thieves, and recaptured Ruijin County in only one month.

He left 500 soldiers each to garrison Ruijin and Huichang, and then led a large army to Ganzhou.

"Kill!"

The knife flashed, and the head fell to the ground.

The soldiers were solemn, and the generals were resentful.

In order to prevent the guest soldiers from plundering his hometown, Zou Weilian could only pay in full. And you have to bypass the generals, otherwise the generals will definitely be deducted.

Therefore, ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers are very supportive of Zou Weilian.

But the middle and high-level generals hated Zou Weilian to the core. If you don't give them the blood of the soldiers, and don't let them loot, then they came to Jiangxi from Fujian to do Mao? Isn't it good to be honest and enjoy happiness at home?

"Fu Shuai, there is an old friend to visit." The staff handed over a letter of greeting.

Zou Weilian picked up the greeting post and looked at it, and immediately said happily: "It's actually Zhao who is here, please, please!" ”

Fei Yinghuan strode over and arched his hand: "Brother Dehui, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"Brother Jokhang," Zou Weilian returned the salute and said with a smile, "Please sit down in the tent and drink." ”

These two people were raised by fellow villagers in the same year, and they also went to Beijing together to take the entrance examination.

Zou Weilian is only four years older than Fei Yinghuan, he lost his father when he was young, and he was forced to drop out of school.

He didn't have the money to buy books, so he borrowed them from the neighbors' children. Reading at home, reading on the way to chopping wood, reading anytime and anywhere. I was afraid of getting my books dirty, so I wrapped them in cloth when I was working.

Zou Weilian only has a teacher, no teacher, the four books and five classics are all self-taught, and he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of nineteen.

After entering the county school, he finally worshipped the scripture teacher and studied the Confucian classics. Then, at the age of twenty-one, he was raised as a man, and at the age of twenty-five, he was a jinshi.

"Why is Brother Jokhang here?" Zou Weilian asked.

Fei Yinghuan replied: "The foolish brother was transferred to Funing Zhizhou, and when he heard that there was a Zhao thief in Jiangxi, he personally went to Ji'an Mansion to investigate. ”

"Oh, what's the catch?" Zou Weilian paid attention to it, and he also had Ji'an Shizi under him, but they all came from Taihe County and Wan'an County. The gentry of Jishui, Luling, and Anfu preferred to run to Nanchang and Jiujiang.

Fei Yinghuan said: "This thief has three things, which is quite unpopular. ”

Zou Weilian asked, "What three things do you dare to ask?" ”

Fei Yinghuan said with a smile: "How cruel is it to divide the fields of the big clan and divide them among the small people?" The second is to release the slaves, and release all the domestic slaves, military households, and happy families. The three said to despise scholars, whether they are lifting people or showing talents, but anyone who is an official under Zhao Thief has to start from a small official. ”

Zou Weilian was stunned and said in horror: "How is this unpopular? This is an act of inciting demagoguery! ”

The "human heart" in Fei Yinghuan's mouth is the heart of the gentry.

The "human heart" in Zou Weilian's mouth is the heart of the head of Qian.

Zou Weilian asked, "Did the Zhao thief kill the landlords and gentry indiscriminately?" ”

"It's not indiscriminate killing," Fei Yinghuan said, "Every village or town will kill the most heinous local criminals to vent the anger of the people." The rest of the landlords were forcibly divided into fields, but they kept their money, grain, and houses. ”

"Is there a merchant?" Zou Weilian asked again.

Fei Yinghuan said: "Merchants are all happy with the politics of Zhao thieves. On the contrary, it was the governor of Jiangxi and the political envoys who had already complained because of the heavy taxation of private banknotes. ”

Zou Weilian sighed: "This thief is really extraordinary. ”

Fei Yinghuan took out a copy of "Datong Collection": "The ships passing by Linjiang Mansion and Ji'an Mansion will be forcibly sold a book of anti-thieves, Brother Dehui, please take a look." ”

Zou Weilian opened it and read it carefully, at first he was angry, and then his heart was shocked.

The articles written by these anti-thieves have a lot of content, which is the same as Zou Weilian's own thoughts.

In addition to the rebellious remarks in it, Zou Weilian likes this book very much, and even hates it a little bit.

Fei Yinghuan suddenly asked: "How many soldiers does Brother Dehui have, but he has the confidence to defeat the Luling Zhao thief?" ”

"Where is the faith?" Zou Weilian sighed and said, "I heard that Zhao thief, who defeated two governors before and after, must be even stronger now." Although I have more than 10,000 soldiers under my command, there are only three or four thousand men who can fight. The only people I relied on were more than a thousand birds, and more than a dozen Francophone cannons. ”

Fei Yinghuan asked again: "Why didn't Brother Dehui quickly enter the army and kill that Zhao thief by surprise?" ”

Zou Weilian shook his head again and again: "In southern Jiangnan, I have won big victories repeatedly, and my subordinates are all arrogant soldiers. I stopped them again, and they were not allowed to plunder in Jiangxi, and the generals under my command were becoming more and more disobedient. This time I moved to Ganzhou, first, to raise money and food, second, to recuperate the team, and third, to strictly enforce military discipline! If the military discipline is not strict, I will definitely not dare to go north to suppress the bandits. ”

"Brother is a man who knows soldiers." Fei Yinghuan was impressed.

In the next few days, Fei Yinghuan was not in a hurry to leave, so he helped Zou Weilian in Ganzhou, and by the way, he explored the reality in his army.

Wei Jianxiong quietly went north and sent a letter to Zhao Han.

Even the name of the general in Zou Weilian's army is clearly written in the letter, not to mention how many guns and artillery there are.

(Regarding Yuan Chonghuan, the discussion is more intense.) I can only say that the content of the previous chapter, except for the time of Wang Ting's dismissal, which was mistakenly corrected by me for two months, is all recorded in the history books. Yuan Chonghuan must have done a lot of, but in his attitude towards Mao Wenlong, he first helped, then helpless, and finally angry. There is so much content that I will write next in the author's words. ）