[I haven't updated it for a few days, so I'm sorry about it.] I'm really, really sorry! Don't say anything, I'll send it to death today! 】

[The next chapter takes Lin Daiyu back to Kyoto, Song Jiang's plot is not easy to write, let's end it first...]

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At the end of February, Duan Huangui, the general of Yuhang, sent troops to Taihu Lake and went to Huzhou to sit in battle. King Shui Rong of the Qin Chabei Jing stayed in Hangzhou and acted cheaply after the war.

After coming forward to see Duan Huangui away on this day, he returned to the government office and thought about it behind closed doors. He didn't know anything about the military formation, and he knew that General Yu Hang's success or failure was unpredictable, so he had to ask people to inquire about the situation.

Now that the battle has begun, if Duan Huangui is defeated, the Taihu Lake water thieves will definitely be even more rebellious. He's a messenger, so he doesn't have to think about recruiting people anymore...

Speaking of which, when Shui Rong went out of Beijing with the holy decree of Zhao'an last year, he wanted to build a meritorious career.

This Taihu Lake thief swept through the south of the Yangtze River in less than a year, and it must have been caused by the stupidity of the place. As the book says, Shui Rong has the heart to go south to save the people of Jiangnan Li from fire and water, so before the war in the Yuhang General's Mansion, he invited the Wang family and the Xue family to discuss, thinking that the relationship between the Jing Wangfu and the Jia family in the north should be enough to invite the rest of the four families in Jinling to contribute.

or build a soup kitchen, or collect servants, and then he was exempted from responsibility as a messenger, so as to attract the water thieves in Taihu Lake who wanted to go ashore and return to the good people.

How many people in the world are willing to be thieves and defile this innocent body? If the water is really soluble, it is like boiling a frog in warm water, which is enough to make the Taihu Lake water thieves self-defeating.

I didn't think that the prince of the Wang family was coming, but I thought that I would first put pressure on the water dissolver and let the four Jinling families interfere in the Jiangnan salt politics and tea politics.

Jiangnan Yanzheng missed a little, that is, the business of making money every day, and the four families in Jinling have been coveted for a long time. Shui Rong is the imperial court, and in his name, the four families of Jinling came to Jiangnan to grab food.

This matter was naturally rejected by Shui Rong in the end, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the Wang family because of this.

When the Jiangnan Salt Administration was founded, the annual tax revenue was 9.7 million taels, and it exceeded 15 million taels at its peak. It's a pity that the situation has deteriorated since then, and when it came to Emperor Taishang and Emperor Yonglong, private salt was overflowing, officials were greedy, and the annual income of the imperial court salt government was only five million taels.

Shui Rong remembered that after breaking up with Wang Zisheng that day, Wang Zisheng changed hands and took away Jia Lian, whom he had promoted, which made Shui Rong sigh.

"Alas...... The mansions of the four kings and eight princes have spread far away, and the Rongguo Mansion is the same as the four families of Jinling..."

Shui Rong was sitting in front of the desk like this, and when he was pondering, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Someone came over outside the door and asked for instructions through the door: "Lord Wang, a barbarian named Dai Zong sent a letter, saying that it was given to you by an old man who did not reply to the letter before. ”

Shui Rong thought about it and called someone in. He took the envelope in his hand, but he didn't rush to check it, but first asked about Dai Zong's appearance.

The man with the letter replied: "Back to the prince, that Dai Zong is dressed as a general Jianghu person, and there are a few propaganda cards hanging on his waist, and he walks very fast, and he has never seen it in the blink of an eye." ”

Shui Rong nodded, although the Dai Zong who sent the letter was not famous, he thought that it should have been sent by that person.

Shui Rong asked the person with the letter to close the door and go down first, and then he opened the letter, and took out the letter that Jia Lian gave him and checked the handwriting.

Sure enough, this letter was written by Song Jiang.

A vague figure of Song Jiang seemed to appear in front of the water-soluble book case, and he kowtowed and asked for peace: "Lord Qiqi, the letter written by the Emperor will not be checked for a while, and the people on Dongting Island will intercept it and call me to confront me... Seeing the murder and disaster, Song Jiang had no choice but to go to Haining Prefecture, lest the old and young in the village turn into powder......"

In this letter, Song Jiang was explaining to Shui Rong why there was no response to Zhao Anxin last time, although there were only a few sentences in the letter, it was enough to imagine Song Jiang's danger at that time.

There are groups of water thieves in Taihu Lake, but there are only three groups in the climate, which occupy the largest Dongting Island, Nujiao Island and Wushan Island in Taihu Lake. Song Jiang, as a halfway monk, occupied Wushan Island, and his forces were much inferior to the other two islands, so he had to leave the old and young behind, and first led the people to attack the imperial court and county to show loyalty to the other two islands, so as to avoid a firefight.

Now that Song Jiang has opened up Haikou and gone overseas, the old and young on Wushan Island have come one after another, and they have once again started to think of being recruited, which is why Dai Zong sent a letter.

Shui Rong slowly read the letter, and pressed his brow with one hand and groaned. The so-called people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, Song Jiang let him rejoice in the air, is it true or false to do it again? And General Yu Hang is now on his way to send troops, and he has to avoid suspicion of the water thieves, otherwise it seems that the two ministers are out of harmony in the eyes of outsiders.

Eventually, Shui Rong suppressed the letter with some hesitation.

"Let's tell General Yu Hang first, and see what the situation is on his side before making plans."

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In mid-March, Yuhang General Duan Huangui decided to fight against bandits and recapture Dongting Island of the imperial court!

Rampant for more than a year, the Taihu Lake bandits, known as more than 100,000 thieves, were wiped out, and only Song Jiang and his gang escaped overseas through the Qiantang River through Haining Prefecture among the three major thieves.

Under Duan Huan's coercion, he did not scruple to dissuade him, and informed the coastal prefectures and counties of Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces to arrest the Song Jiang thieves.

Because of the severe punishment style of General Duan Huangui of Yuhang, he never forgave a single thief in Taihu Lake. After the defeat of the thieves on the original Dongting Island and Nujiao Island, many island leaders were afraid, either alone, or gathered some subordinates to escape to the sea and defect to Song Jiang.

There are Zhu Wu, the former military advisor on Dongting Island, Liu Tang, etc., and Mu Hong, Mu Chun, Bao Xu, etc., the leaders of Nujiao Island, etc., so Song Jiang and his gang continue to grow...

Now that the waters of Taihu Lake have been cleared, Shui Rong and Duan Huangui met in Hangzhou, after some discussion, Duan Huangui temporarily left the Jingwei place, and Shui Rong led the Qincha team to set off to the north, first entering the dynasty to return to the Yonglong Emperor.

Although Shui Rong's southward journey was a futile, since the suppression of bandits was successful, Emperor Yonglong would also be regarded as a co-follower of Shui Rong and the Qincha team.

When going north, Shui Rong took the waterway, and within a few days by boat, the Qincha team reached the territory of Yangzhou.

Overseas, Song Jiang heard about the traces of the water dissolution, so he sent Dai Zong to send a letter along the river again.

Dai Zong sent a letter, but because he was helpless on the ship, sparing him for a journey of 800 miles a day, he was also caught by Jia Lian and Shi Xiu as a joint effort. Fortunately, the letter was not opened, and it was still sent to the king of Beijing.

Song Jiang did not mention a word in the letter this time, which made the imperial court wanted along the coast, but it made Shui Rong ashamed, and when he looked at it again, his brows were furrowed, and he asked the Qincha team to stop in Yangzhou, so that people could investigate a group of fallen white coal mountain bandits in Yangzhou.

Because Song Jiang said in his letter, this white coal mountain thief is secretly engaged in the business of smuggling salt, and the financier behind it is the head of the Jiangnan family - the Zhen family.

Shui Rong is a northerner, when he was in the imperial court, he often heard that the illegal salt dealers in Jiangnan were rampant, but he didn't expect it to be such a rampant method!

Because of Song Jiang's letter, Shui Rong made up his mind to wade into the muddy waters of Yangzhou White Coal Mountain. But in the past two days, the direction of his investigation has hit a wall everywhere, and the progress has been slow, and even the White Coal Mountain has been set on fire by unknown people.

On the third day, the body of a soldier of the Beijing camp who had gone out to investigate was placed outside the water-soluble house.

Shui Rong saw that he didn't have time to be angry, so he received a message from the governor of Jiangnan, urging Shui Rong to go north, and not to make the court wait for a long time.

The people of the Governor's Mansion stood bowed in front of Shui Rong, looking extremely deferential, but he arrived after the body of the Jingying soldier was found, apparently to force Shui Rong to give up the investigation.

The huge Jiangnan Salt Administration, the annual income is only five million taels of silver. When Shui Rong wanted to investigate the corruption case of Song Jiangxinzhong's thief, the official file was perfunctory, the white coal mountain was burned, and blood was already seen in a few days, and a governor was dispatched!

The first case is so difficult, and it is definitely not something that a Zhen family can do.

Shui Rong only now suddenly remembered what Prince Zhongshun said in front of the noon gate before he went south last year-

"The prince of Beijing knows that the ministers in the court have always advocated soothing first and then suppressing, why is it that only you, the prince of Beijing, speak and recruit peace this time?"