After Shen Minghuang sent away the Wei family's army, he was also going to return to Huadu. Before he left, Ann came and confessed his sins. An Luo unloaded his sword and knelt on the ground, knocking his head on the ground: "Your Highness, the last general has failed to live up to the trust of the emperor and the cultivation of the imperial court, the danger of pirates has been solved this time, the Qiantang Mansion has been saved, and the last general has fulfilled his wish and is willing to accept all the charges." Shen Minghuang didn't reprimand him angrily, but said lightly: "An guerrilla, you get up." An Luo refused to get up, but just read in his mouth: "The minister's capital crime, the minister's capital crime." ”

He comforted An Luo: "This time I have been in Jiangnan for more than half a year, I see what you are doing." In the first two years, you didn't fight to kill the enemy, obviously you were constrained, and this time you won the victory in Qiantang, you are the first to take credit. I think that the emperor has a good sense of everything, and you will definitely be able to atone for your crimes. He lowered his voice again and said, "After I leave, the Qian Governor's Mansion will be released soon, and you will inform him of the corruption situation in the Lingzhejiang army that you know, and let him compile it into a book and send me flowers as soon as possible." ”

An Luo raised his head, a little hesitant, after all, this is a very offensive thing, if he does this, he is afraid that he and the Qian Governor will not be able to gain a foothold in the local area. Shen Minghuang saw that he still didn't open his mind, so he assured him: "An guerrilla, you can't hide it for them." Only by making meritorious contributions can you save yourself. And don't worry, the prefect of Qian sent the book, and I presented it to the emperor, and I have nothing to do with you. He looked at An Luo and continued to enlighten him: "There are so many positions for that general, and others can't go down, how can you get up?" Wei Bingyue is only twenty-two years old, and he is already a general from the fourth grade; You're in your early thirties, and you're still a six-grade guerrilla. Since ancient times, beauties have been like famous generals, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world. If you don't hurry up, do you want to stay in the position of the sixth product until Zhishi? ”

An Luo was awakened by his words, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Highness, for mentioning something, and the general will go to sort out the evidence." Shen Minghuang knew that he was honest, and reminded: "Well, if someone asks about you, you will pretend that you don't know anything, and only say that after finding me, you just got a temporary order to fight." You can put everything on me. An Luo thanked him again and again, and then withdrew.

Shen Minghuang also took a boat to the north and returned to Huadu through the canal. After leaving for more than half a year, the moment he entered the east gate of Huadu, he was like a world away. The naval battle is over, and the battle of the court has just begun. He returned to the palace and changed his official uniform, and went into the palace non-stop to see Emperor Jiahu, and carefully talked about the battle of Qiantang that he designed. He only said how brave the Weijia cavalry and the Qiantang sailors were, but did not mention Wang Chengdan's collusion with the pirates.

The emperor was very satisfied and said: "Well, this Weijia army really lived up to expectations, and the Qiantang Water Master was not effective before, and under your deployment, you can also be brave, which shows that you have done a good job this time." Shen Minghuang was very humble: "This is all the blessing of my father." Erchen went to Gusu here, talking less and learning more, but he learned a lot of strategies for using soldiers with Wang Zongbing, and it was really better to read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles. If there is such an opportunity in the future, Erchen still wants to go through the experience. However, I am afraid that the second emperor brother will be unhappy. The emperor smiled lightly: "You brothers, the affairs of the six departments have to be studied in turn, and there is nothing to be unhappy about." The father and son talked for a while, and then he went to Queen Tang to ask for peace, and then returned home.

After another three months, there were great victories in Lingzhejiang one after another, Wang Chengdan led the three naval divisions of Lingzhejiang to fight against the water demon ship and the Haisi ship, and fought three battles and three victories! Tuo Bujing and Cheek Bo Snow Butterfly were already unfamiliar with the road, and besides, this Wang Zongbing didn't know why he was suddenly so brave, as if he had installed a tracking artifact on their ship, no matter where they ran to rob, they could meet the officers and soldiers. There were also a few times when they encountered a demonic wind, and no matter how they rowed on the sea, the boat would circle in place, almost trapping them to death.

After a series of defeats, Tuo Bujing and Cheek Bo Snow Butterfly decided to leave Jiangnan and go to Beihai County. Although the terrain of Beihai County is difficult to get ashore, they are almost running out of food, and they can't care about it. But what they didn't expect was that they suffered another defeat when they arrived in Beihai County, and almost half of their troops were lost. This Beihai general soldier is obviously not the same as Wang Chengdan, he didn't give them any respite at all, and chased them all the way north.

This came and went, and in November, the northern counties were all frozen. It's even harder to get a little food. Seeing the performance of the officers and troops in the coastal counties, it was obvious that they had received a message from Wang Chengdan that they wanted to destroy them all. The two of them discussed that instead of starving to death at sea, it would be better to return to the north, where they would be familiar with the environment, and they could move in the desert, and they would more or less find an opportunity to plunder the caravan.

* Haixi Blue Camp, Wei Bingyue showed the news he received to Wei Yangyang.

Wei Yangyang said strangely: "Oh, this Wang Zongbing, a few years ago, he was not effective in suppressing bandits, why did he become diligent after we fought." Three battles and three victories, hum! Wei Bingyue patted her on the head: "Winning the battle may not be a good thing." ”

Wei Yangyang was even more puzzled and asked, "How is that possible?" Even if he didn't fight well before, but this time he won the battle, and he drove away Tuo Bujing and the cheek wave snow butterfly, will the emperor forgive him, right? Wei Bingyue smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's wait, the show has just begun." ”

* Three battles and three victories, not only Wang Chengdan is very satisfied with this result, but even Baiquan Wang Shenmingbao is also very satisfied. Emperor Jiahou also personally recruited Wang Chengdan to Beijing to report on his work.

Wang Chengdan is the flower capital of October 14, and when he went to the court on October 15, he was dressed in court clothes and bowed to the temple, which was very proud. Dayang convention, courtiers are not allowed to be knighted without military merits, even if they enter the cabinet, become a scholar, and are extremely popular ministers, there is no title. This time, after King Fengquan left, he led the water division to lose the main force of the water demon, and in terms of merit, he was named an earl, but I am afraid that it should be. So when he knelt down, his face couldn't help but show joy.

Emperor Jiahudi sat on the dragon chair, his face expressionless, and only said, "You have done a good job." Then he said to Yun Shu, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor: "Read the book of Qian Ai, the prefect of Qiantang, to him." Na Yun Shu is articulate, and the official words are excellent. After listening to the emperor's words, he took out Qian Ai's recital and read it aloud word by word. His voice was so loud that everyone in the hall could hear him. That Qian Ai wrote the evidence of Wang Chengdan's corruption in great detail, where and where he took advantage of the pirate attack to rob the people; where and where they falsely reported their soldiers and embezzled military salaries; It is even detailed that the household department provides the soldiers with two catties of fine grain per day, but the soldiers receive less than one and a half catties of food, and such things are written on it. He read for a quarter of an hour before he stopped. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all shocked on the spot.

Wang Chengdan's face turned from yellow to red and then to black, and finally he had to kowtow and say: "The minister is wronged." Baiquan King Shenmingbao also stood up to intercede for Wang Chengdan: "Father, please investigate thoroughly." Otherwise, as soon as General Wang won a big victory, he disposed of the heroes, which was really chilling to the courtiers. Emperor Jiahudi looked at him and asked, "Do you think he was wronged?" Shen Mingbao looked at the emperor's face and did not dare to answer rashly.

The emperor looked at Li Anmei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and said, "What happened to your interrogation of those three pirates?" Li Shangshu walked out and saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty, the confession of the pirate leader Xiao Diao'er and the other two is here." Hearing him say Xiao Diao'er, Wang Chengdan was shocked, didn't King Fengquan say that he had been beaten to death? Li Shangshu took out a booklet from his arms, and then said: "Xiao Diao'er pointed out that every time he went to various prefectures to loot, it was Gusu guerrilla Pei Youzhi who sent someone to contact him. Where you have robbed and who you have connected with, the ministers have recorded it clearly here, please take a look at it. ”

Emperor Jiahou took the booklet handed over by the little inner eunuch, read it from beginning to end, and then said to the little inner eunuch in a very mocking tone: "Take it and show it to General Soldier Wang." The little inner supervisor put the booklet in Wang Chengdan's hand. The more Wang Chengdan looked at it, the more frightened he became, the three pirate leaders were interrogated separately, and the confessions they made were basically correct, and they could all be taken care of in Qian Ai's notebook. And the reason why the three of them spat was that the emperor was gracious and promised to release their parents.

The emperor looked at Wang Chengdan and asked, "You don't want to say that it was Qian Ai and the pirates who colluded to make a confession, right?" He waved his hand again, and the two little inner supervisors brought up a small box and placed it in front of Wang Chengdan. In it, there are all the officials of Lingzhejiang and Zhejiang counties who have participated in his recitals over the years, and the main force is that Yin Qingduo. The emperor said again: "Let's talk about it, why did you not suppress the bandits effectively in the first five years, and after the King of Fengquan exterminated the pirates, you won again and again?" ”

Yes, this is the strategy set by Shen Minghuang, the more Wang Chengdan wins, the faster he will die. Because, the emperor believed that he was afraid that his crime of collusion with pirates would be exposed, so he was willing to help suppress the bandits, not for the sake of the society and the people. These three battles and three victories in military exploits have become his three life-urging talismans. The emperor threw the notebook in front of him, which was very insulting. At this time, the officials in the entire hall knew that the king's general army was over. Therefore, when Wang Chengdan was taken off his official hat by the Imperial Forest Army and escorted out, King Baiquan did not say a word for him very interestingly.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the emperor ordered the arrest of Pei Youzhi's edict, and then he left Huadu and passed in the direction of Gusu. A month later, the emperor decreed that King Baiquan would be fined one year for failing to supervise the corruption case in the military department; Wang Chengdan, the chief soldier of Lingzhejiang, was guilty of capital crimes; Gusu guerrilla Pei Youzhi, capital crime; Qiantang guerrilla settled, suppressed bandits meritorious, promoted to the general of Cong Sipin, in charge of Zhezhou County.