The next morning, Sheng Huaien took a personal soldier and two or three entourages to Shangrao to pay a return visit to General Yu and the prefect, leaving Li Dan to garrison in the camp.

"I was busy with the association last night, and I didn't have time to say something to you." Sheng Huaien suddenly called Li Dan before getting on the horse and told him softly, "I think I still have to say hello to you first."

"What is my brother going to say, so mysterious?" Li Dan was a little strange.

"I want you to have a number in your heart, don't think about what you can do if you make great achievements." Sheng Huaien sighed:

"I know these old men too well, they are all like red-eyed fighting cocks in front of the merits, but they pass the buck to each other in battle, and they have all become weak chickens! Look, maybe they're already fighting in the city by now!"

"Understood, brother, this is pouring some cold water on me, telling us not to expect too much and too much?"

"That's exactly what you say!" Sheng Huaien leaned closer and said, "I know that we have seized a lot, so we might as well find a time to divide it, even if it is to give everyone more to stabilize people's hearts."

But it is unlikely that there will be such a thing as a reward for officials, especially those generals, you can talk about them one by one when I am away. I think I'm afraid I'll have to help them think of a way out."

"Brother means ......, the court won't accept them?"

"Even if you accept it, it won't be too comfortable." Sheng Huaien smiled bitterly: "It doesn't matter if you are a soldier, the officers and soldiers will continue to eat food, but they are different from those who have been officers of the Lou family, do you understand?"

"I see." Li Dan smacked his lips: "Okay! I try my best to talk to everyone, and if they are willing to follow me, I will take in as many as I can.

Alas, I'm afraid that some people will not be convinced, and they will turn around and run back to the Lou family, that's bad!"

Sheng Huaien saw that he had understood what he meant, so he turned over and got on his horse, and then said loudly:

"If there is something wrong with Yushan, it is said that there will be no news from Chashan, and the virtuous brother must be sent to Shangrao as soon as possible. I reckon we'll stay for two more days at most, and then we'll be ready to return to Goyang.

I will send someone to inform you when I get the storage documents (documents proving that the goods have been received) from the General's Office. Oh, yes, and ...... firearms and bows and crossbows?"

"Brother, don't worry, I have ordered it to be collected, but two of the guns were blown up in the battle, and the rest will be transported to Shangrao today!"

Sheng Huaien listened to it and knew what this "bombing" was about, so he smiled knowingly, nodded and shouted, "Let's go!" Turn the horse's head. Behind him were more than a dozen horsemen, all riding captured war horses, and galloping towards Shangrao with a "boom".

A day later, Yushan's emergency messenger was rescued by the officers and soldiers patrolling the ferry and sent to the camp with his wounds, and half an hour later than him, the scouts sent to Yushan also returned.

After Li Dan understood what had happened before and after, he immediately wrote a document and sent a guard to send the messenger to Shangrao in a four-wheeled carriage, and by the way, he also brought the fire gun that he promised to return. Sheng Huaien also rushed back the next night and immediately sent someone to inform Li Dan to meet him.

"The meaning of the general, since the Lou thief has broken through the Jade Mountain, it is estimated that he has the intention of opening up Jiangshan County and retreating to the east." Sheng Huaien pointed on the map and said:

"Therefore, he decided to strengthen the defense of the Chashan camp, and the Li guerrilla association led 3,000 people into Chashan, and the task of transporting grain for you and me is over."

"It's so good, we can go back to Goyang happily. But...... Why does my brother have a look of displeasure on his face?" Li Dan asked attentively.

As soon as he saw Sheng Huaien in the big tent, he felt that the other party's gaze was a little flickering and evasive.

"The meaning of the general and the prefect is that since your department is a regimental training, you don't need to be armed too much, so ...... It would be nice to keep the force of five hundred."

"Oh——, understood. It's nothing, unload the mill and kill the donkey. After all, we're too strong and they're going to be scared, understandably." Li Dan was actually a little prepared, and he nodded:

"Then please ask my brother to reply to the general, and the regiment will return to Guangxin Kamisakadu, and after joining up with the people who remain there, I will reorganize the team there, and keep 500 armed men to escort the people and the convoy back to Geyang.

How about asking the officers and soldiers to send someone to count and receive the remaining weapons?"

"Okay." Sheng Huaien nodded, paused and said, "This is not Sheng

The original intention was that the general proposed that the enemy was still on the side, so the local regiment in Shangrao should be expanded."

"I don't blame my brother, and you and I both know that now the reported regimental training is 2,000 people, but the actual number of troops is close to 4,000, and the government must not allow such a huge number."

"You're right." Sheng Huaien nodded, "I was about to tell you about the surrender. At present, we have less than 4,000 prisoners, and the number of troops surrendered by Tie Tiezi, Shi Sanlian, and Wan Siyou is more than 3,000.

These more than 7,000 people, we were originally going to talk to Shangrao, and leave all the prisoners to them, and those who are willing to surrender can be incorporated into part of the official army.

But what General Yu meant was that they didn't want so many prisoners, and at most a thousand people were left to use as auxiliaries. He hoped to leave 2,000 men for Shangrao, and distribute them to the battalions after they were dispersed."

"Well, it seems that the losses in defending the city are not small, and they hope to make up for it." Li Dan nodded: "Can you mention the placement brothers of the leaders?"

"Nope." Sheng Huaien looked outside with his eyes and replied softly: "People like Monk (Gao Hanzi), Tie Linglong (Liu She), and Dou Ziwan (Wan Siyou), if they leave the official army, they will definitely not dare to use it, and they will also be miserable, why bother?

So I'm going to take as much as I can, and if it's not convenient for me here, you can take them in."

"It also depends on everyone's own will, and it can't be forced." Li Dan said:

"Jia Mingjiu and the people in the wine field have already taken the road to Yu Gan and retreated, but not everyone is as willing to follow me as he is, this may be true.

I have talked to several people in the big camp, Tie Hammer (Tie Xiao'an), Shi Sannian and Monk Gao have agreed to follow back to Geyang, and they are selecting their henchmen to talk to one by one.

Most of the other leaders are still in Dayuan, and their intentions are not clear."

"Okay, then I got it." Sheng Huaien nodded: "Hand over the camp first, and then go back to Shangsaka to gather together." I'll reply to General Yu right away."

"Okay, let them pick the captives first, they can choose as many as they want, and we will take the rest back to Geyang, and put the disabled in the nearby temples .......

But what do they do with you and your men, brother?" Li Dan suddenly remembered and hurriedly asked.

"That's what annoys me." Sheng Huaien smiled bitterly: "What General Yu means is that the Upper Ban Fort has been built and has an important location, and it needs to be guarded."

"He told you to keep it?" Li Dan was surprised.

"He wants me to take Fengshan Fort and Dayuan Town. Hmph, it looks like it's a big place, but it's actually a separate slap!" Sheng Huaien no longer hid his dissatisfaction. Look at the book

"You promised?"

"Not yet, I just said that I was originally under the Wannian Division, and I didn't think about transferring to Shangrao, so I need to think about it."

Li Dan tilted his head and thought about it, and suddenly asked, "Brother, do you know the whereabouts of that Sun Shoubei in Guangxin?"

He sent troops to participate in the war against Yintuo this time, and he also replaced him to fight a round in the Kamisaka bridgehead, which is said to have military merits, and the battle report submitted must have praised him, a local military attaché, as a greater role than you, and he should not be able to run away from promotion and transfer, right?"

"What do you mean......, let me go and ask for this garrison position with Yu Sen?" Sheng Huaien looked at him in surprise: "This is an idea!"

Guangxin County originally only guarded a thousand households, because of the frequent incidents of the miners, Jiangxi commanded the envoy to send the general to suppress the affairs, realized the importance of Guangxin as the rear of Shangrao, set up a garrison here, the general management of the guard, the militia and the reserve army recruitment, training affairs, and at the same time responsible for guarding the hoarding in Guangxin armor, gunpowder and grain and other materials.

Li Dan's idea was to let him go to the general to fight for this garrison position, and he was enough in terms of level.

It's just that Sheng Huaien was promoted to the general manager of Qian, and it was a little too fast to be put in the county garrison position according to common sense, but fortunately, his combat achievements were enough and could be exchanged. However, in this way, Sheng Huaien lost the possibility of being promoted again in the short term.

This can't be helped, there will always be a give-and-go in everything.

General Yu must also have a headache at this time, if it is really based on merit, Sheng Huaien has already compared them to all the Shangrao generals

How to reward, how to promote, how to fill in and report in the credit book? It's all troublesome.

If Sheng Huaien takes the initiative to ask Shou Guangxin, Dayuan and Kamisaka are still his defensive range, and Yu Shenjiang can use the garrison position that seems to be more responsible, and easily solve the trouble of how to write Sheng Huaien's credit.

Sheng Huaien can not look so dazzling, and the generals and colonels of Shangrao can also share the credit from him, and everyone is happy.

"Okay, that's it!" Sheng Huaien figured it out and immediately made a decision.

In this way, most of the 1,500 people under his command, including Tie Jie Zi and Shi Sanlian, can be transferred to the ranks of the Guangxin Defender Army, and a few will be handed over to the Shangrao official army for digestion, so that his own strength can be preserved, and he has not broken his promise to Tie and Shi.

As far as Li Dan is concerned, Guangxin will be handed over to Sheng Huaien, and the important hub of doing business in the future will be in his own hands.

Sure enough, Sheng Huaien sent Dou San'er to Shangrao to talk to the general, and the reasonable General Yu agreed almost immediately.

In fact, for him, Sun Shoubei has been promoted to the commander of Ge Yangwei stationed in Guixi, and it is better to let Sheng Huaien, who has a bit of "combat friendship", to vacate this position than to let someone he is not familiar with at all come over.

Besides, the wine that Lao Sheng brought tastes really good, and this transaction should be very profitable!

Then the rest will be easy. According to the request, Li Dan sent people to Dayuanzhai to mobilize 700 people to Chashan to join Li Ting's official army, and the rest of the troops withdrew to Guangxin with Sheng Huaien.

Li Dan took some people to Dayuan on the way, where he met Yang Dayi, who had been lost for a long time, and met Ma Jiuye and others. Only then did he know that Yang Dayi came only because of his aunt's worries and thoughts, and he couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

I had to write a letter to the county lord and my aunt overnight, plus the letter of Yang Yi and others wrapped a large package, and sent three brothers from the original green shirt team to Yugan on horseback.

The next day, on the shore of Dayuandu, more than 220 steps away from the wharf under restoration, Li Dan held a barbecue party, the main ingredients were fish and shrimp and other river fresh, and at the same time he informed everyone present of the situation of the Chashan Society, and more than 40 people were recruited into the society on the same day.

Dayuan mobilized more than 500 people to Guangxin to assemble, ready to accept the incorporation of the official army, led by the old and steady Lin Ziyang, as a typical example, he was quickly appointed by the Shangrao official army to a general position.

Wei Zhou'er led 300 people to garrison Dayuan and turned into Sheng Huaien's subordinate officers, and the remaining 100 people followed Ma Jiuye's escort team and returned to Xishan to wait for the arrival of the brigade.

Sheng Huaien selected more than 1,000 soldiers and prisoners from the surrender and prisoners to be sent to Shangrao to be incorporated into the official army, and he left the most elite part to form two battalions of garrison.

With Liu Shengju as the general of the Shangban Bridge, his subordinates defended 300. Lin Baihu was transferred back from Fengqi Pass, and he would lead three hundred people to Dayuan as a guard.

Li Dan returned to Kamisaka and carried out the third absorption of members of the Chashan Society.

This time, more than 200 people joined successively, including the 60 people who first joined the Yugan team, the Geyang organization group training period who joined one after another, and the leaders and outstanding soldiers in the reformed soldiers.

According to the original plan, Wu Mao was escorted by Kuroki and left behind three backbones selected from the staff officers and personal guards. They had to make some preparations in Shangrao and then head to Guangzhou.

Because the rebels unexpectedly captured Yushan, the road to eastern Zhejiang was no longer passable, so the five of them decided to take some risks to cross the river by water, and then go southeast over Shamaoling to Pucheng.

After entering the territory of the official army, it was decided to go to Wenzhou or go south to Ningde, and wait for the opportunity to take a boat to Guangzhou.

To this end, they had to wait for Sheng Huaien to officially take office and issue a letter of guidance, explaining that they were assigned by Guangxinwei to go to Guangzhou to recruit craftsmen to repair firearms and armor, and asked military and civilian officials from all over the country to make contact with them for convenience.

With this document, they are not homeless people or merchants, and they can even stay at the post house with confidence.

handed over most of the captured armor in his hands to Mr. Sheng Qian, and then Li Dan took a large group of people and a convoy to start returning along the way.

When I arrived at Fengqi Pass, I saw that Nanshan and Fengling Town were also stationed with two or three hundred guards sent by Guangxin respectively.

After meeting at the West Mountain

Seeing that the factories here had been dismantled and transported away by Chen Sanwen, the original workers were either dismissed on the spot or followed to Yugan.

Only the workshop that produces the grate is still there, and it has transferred 30% of the shares to Song Xiucai (Chu Lian'er's family, where Zhang cymbals robbed his relatives, is his tenant farmer).

Because this Xiucai's family is not very wealthy, but he often helps the Chu family, Li Dan thinks that the family's virtue is not bad, so he agrees to entrust this workshop to his family.

Song Xiucai was grateful, and when he saw the return of the team, he specially prepared some local products to thank him. The two had a meal by the lotus lake, sang two poems, and suddenly felt that the relationship had improved a lot.

Song Xiucai is also a local rich peasant, who neither wants to take the imperial examination nor become an official, preferring to live in seclusion like this. Li Dan saw that this person was just an ordinary person, so he didn't feel at ease, who knew that he didn't have the intention of hearing him mention himself in the chat.

"Oh? Brother Tai and Lou Liang are familiar with each other?" Li Dan was surprised and immediately asked, "But that Mr. Kezhen?"

"Exactly, exactly! Hey, defense (Li Dan has completed the task of transporting grain, so he has also handed over the temporary temporary post of patrol in the north, so Xiucai is commensurate with his official position as a defense envoy) also knows him?" Song Xiucai asked in surprise.

"I've heard a little." Li Dan nodded: "I heard that he seems to be intoxicated with Mr. Wu Kangzhai (Wu and Bi)'s Gewu Theory, and is determined to learn from him, I don't know if he is studying with Kang Zhai Gong now, or in his own home?"

"You know that?" Song Xiucai was even more surprised: "Zai Xia and Kezhen are enlightened by the same teacher, so there is a friendship between teachers and brothers.

I have indeed heard him mention the wish of Shi Kang Zhaigong, but I really don't know where he is now. Since Shangrao was recruited, there has been no news of him for several months."

Lou Liang, the mentor who led Wang Yangming to embark on the road of mental learning. Originally, Li Dan was not sure, but his place of origin and the words on the table were correct, indicating that it was indeed this person.

If he exists, then this plane does not seem to be completely different from the plane in which the previous life was located, at least there are similarities or identical places.

Li Dan tentatively threw out Lou Liang's mentor Wu Hebi (the word Kang Zhai), I don't want this person to exist!

Li Dan was slightly disappointed when he heard that the two had broken contact, but after thinking about it, he still gave up:

"In the name of Mr. Danjiu, it is a pity that he has to lead the team back to Geyang first. I wanted to bother my brother to write a letter of introduction, so I ordered my henchman to take him to find his whereabouts.

If there is a chance, it is very good for Dan to visit or ask Mr. to go to Geyang for a talk. I wonder if it's convenient for my brother?"

"Eh, why bother." Song Xiucai waved his hand: "If the defense is trustworthy, you can repair a book, and then go to the foot of the Golden Mountain on the other side of the river for you."

I just heard that the war had ceased, and the rebels had fled east or south one after another, so it was not a big problem. In the next day, I will only take a child to visit my friends, and I will return as soon as I go to the boat."

"Brother doesn't need to be in a hurry, but after some time, wait for the river to calm down before setting off, it's not too late." Li Dan hurriedly reminded the other party to pay attention to his own safety.

Unexpectedly, Song Xiucai smiled: "Defense is a noble person who forgets things, and I went to visit Lou Lianghe, so it's okay." Even if he met those bandits, he knew that I was a guest of the Lou family, who would dare to mess around?"

Li Dan suddenly realized that the Shangrao Lou clan where Lou Liang was located and Lou Zishi were from the same source, so Xiucai told himself that he didn't have to worry, as long as he took out Lou's name.

That night, Li Dan wrote a long letter. In addition to the accident of mentioning his admiration, the letter talked in detail about his understanding and knowledge of Gewu Zhizhi.

Li Dan said that the so-called Gewu is to fully study the principles of things in order to obtain knowledge, and the research process is divided into four stages: cognition, understanding, verification and accurate definition.

He said that the science of the saints is a spiritual theory, a so-called philosophy. And Gewuxue is the theory of matter, which is the so-called applied science.

Philosophy is based on the Gewu, which is higher than the material and originates from the material, and is the foundation and origin of all doctrines.

Philosophy that does not study matter is apt to embark on the road of rhetoric, and without the guidance of philosophy, the study of applied sciences has no direction and method.

The two kinds of learning are interdependent, and we cannot talk about which is better or which is inferior, and which is more preordinate

After.

Those who are engaged in philosophical research must be engaged in applied research, but without material satisfaction, spiritual research and inheritance will become ideals and empty talk.

Early the next morning, the team continued its journey. The long convoy carried the supplies back and carried nearly 3,000 captives back to Goyang. A rider dismounted outside Song Xiucai's house with two spear guards and handed him the package on his shoulder.

"In the next Zhong Siqi, it is the guard of the defense. This is a defense order sent from below, and there is a letter, twenty taels of silver tattoos, and a new pair of boots for Mr.

Defense said: If there is a result or an echo, please pass it on to Master Wuxing of Lingyan Temple, and he will try to pass it on or convey it to Geyang. Please keep me aware!" After Zhong Siqi finished speaking, he gave a military salute, turned around and got on his horse to chase after the team.

A few days later, under the banner of the "Geyang Defense Envoy", after more than a month, Li Dan finally saw the long-lost Geyang City again.