Ouch, that's okay!

Li Zhongshan looked at Shang Shuying, who took the lead in kneeling down to him, and then looked at Liu Jinzhong, who was standing still in the back, and immediately returned the bow, and said to Shang Shuying in gentle words: "Princess North, you are a dignified princess, how can you give such a big gift to me?" Are you trying to torment the lower officials? Hurry up. ”

Shang Shuying was also not polite, stood up, looked at Li Zhongshan with a smile and said: "Since the cabinet supervisor asked the prison state to transfer the concubine as a general, the prison country also agreed, the concubine should obey the dispatch and serve the supervisor with military etiquette, and the supervisor must not break the rules of the army because the concubine is the concubine of the king of the north." If the concubine violates the military law, although the superintendent punishes her, she will ask Shang Fang to cut off the head of the concubine with a sword, and the concubine has no complaints. The king of the north, he will definitely not blame the overseer for his strict military law! ”

Hey, Li Zhongshan glanced at his military advisor Zhou Chang out of the corner of his eye - this Shang Shuying has become smart and has seen through our plan!

Then Li Zhongshan looked at Liu Jinzhong again, Liu Jinzhong said with a smile: "Supervisor, Shuying has led soldiers into battle, knows the rules of the army, she is now a general under your command, and naturally has to abide by military law." If she really violated the military law, she deserved it if the superintendent beheaded her with a sword! ”

Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "The king of the north is serious, although the military law is ruthless, as long as you keep it honestly, it will be fine." Then he shouted again: "Little Ring! ”

"The slave is here!"

Yang Xiaohuan was also dressed in a military uniform and stepped forward from behind Li Zhongshan.

"General Shang will be assigned to your family camp," Li Yat-sen instructed, "and you must take care of it." ”

"Yes!"

The so-called family camp is actually a hostage camp!

Of course, Li Zhongshan transferred Shang Shuying to his command not to let her charge, but to treat her as a hostage mortgaged by Liu Jinzhong. And it is not Liu Jinzhong who wants to hand over the hostages!

Liu Jinzhong's subordinates, including his own system and the generals of the original Shun Gongfu system, all had to be handed over hostages.

If the hostages handed over were female dependents or minor children, a team of Guangdong Hakka female soldiers led by Yang Xiaohuan would be in charge of guarding them, and it would be called the family camp.

If the hostages handed over were Jian'er teenagers, they would be assigned to Li Yat-sen's "Shanzi Battalion", that is, his personal barracks.

When Li Yat-sen was pulling the team in Guangdong, he did not force the officers under him to hand over hostages.

Because the foundation of the new army in Guangdong was the township army, the backbone of which came from the township soldiers who were assigned to the fertile land along the coast - the entire capital (equivalent to the administrative unit of the township) was all township soldiers, and every household was allocated land from the Li family and sent soldiers to serve as soldiers. The families of these township soldiers are naturally under the control of the Li family, and there is no possibility of rebellion at all.

The military backbones who followed Li Fuchen and Li Yat-sen's father and son from the north to Guangdong were all with their families, and these family members lived in Zhaoqing at the beginning, and Zhang Xiaoyu and Zhang Xiaobao were responsible for taking care of them.

Later, some of the family members who followed Li Yat-sen's backbone moved to Macao, Foshan and Guangzhou, and were taken care of by Wu Xiaosu and Li Fuhan.

Later, those officers who came out of the Guangdong Lecture and Martial Arts Hall also divided their houses in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing. Of course, their families are also in the city!

Of course, the above-mentioned resettlement of military dependents is carried out on a voluntary basis, not compulsory.

However, this principle of "not coercion" can no longer be implemented in Nanjing, Yingtian is surrounded by enemies, the situation is still a bit crisis, if there are no more hostages, it is the kindness of women.

Therefore, the families of the regimental training army in the five counties south of the Tianjiang River are now all detained by Lu Sanhao in Nanjing City for "protection".

Most of the backbone of Li Zhongshan's Huai army were strong men from Chuzhou, Fengyang, Hezhou, and Sizhou in Jiangbei, and it was of course impossible for them to bring their families to Nanjing to join the army. But this time, isn't Li Zhongtang going to lead the team through Huaixi? What's so polite? Control as much as you can, and at least if there's a small leader on the team, you'll have to hand over the hostages!

As for Liu Jinzhong's department. They didn't bring their families with them when they followed Geng Jingzhong to Nanjing, but at this time, many people's families had already arrived from Chaozhou Mansion, and some people, such as Liu Jinzhong, had newly married a daughter-in-law in Nanjing.

And these Liu Jiajun's family members are now living in Jiangpu County, and they were not sent to Geng Jingzhong.

Li Yat-sen proposed to ask Shang Shuying to be his general, in fact, he was suggesting that Liu Jinzhong would take the lead and hand over his wife to him as a hostage!

If Liu Jinzhong is willing to take the lead, then the others will have nothing to say, who can not pay?

And hand over the hostages. It's tantamount to surrender!

Liu Jinzhong was half a vassal of Li Fuchen and Li Yat-sen's father and son, and his territory in Chaozhou Mansion belonged to the protection of the Yamen, the governor of Liangguang, and his army in Jiangbei was also raised by the Guangdong Customs Road with 50,000 taels of silver every month, but he did not hand over the hostages, nor did he officially declare himself a vassal to the Li family father and son. Moreover, he is also the king of the north of the Ming Dynasty, theoretically on an equal footing with Li Fuchen, and even married Gege Shang Shuying of the Pingnan Palace, the enemy of the Li family. And it was under Geng Jingzhong's mediation that he did a good thing!

This Liu Jinzhong's position made Li Zhongshan and his dog-headed military advisor Zhou Chang a little uncertain.

And Zhou Chang proposed this method of testing Liu Jinzhong by asking Shang Shuying as a general, if Liu Jinzhong handed over Shang Shuying very happily, it means that he married Shang Shuying in order to swallow the people of the Xushun Mansion. Now that the goal has been achieved, we must continue to be the eagle dog of the Li family. Then this vassal (the Li family's vassal) can continue to be raised.

If Liu Jinzhong refuses to hand over someone. Then this Liu Jinzhong must not stay!

As for Shang Shuying, Zhou Chang's suggestion was to wait for the task of Jing Luo Huaixi to be completed, and then find a reason to kill her justifiably with Shang Fang's sword, so that she could borrow her well-looking head and use it to force the letter of the monk Geng Jingzhong!

But seeing that Shang Shuying is so well-behaved now, it's a bit difficult to find a reason to kill her!

Thinking of this, he glanced at Shang Shuying again, and found that this woman was standing beside Yang Xiaohuan, also looking at herself!

"The last general, the general of the Taiping Mansion, Ma Weixing, see the cabinet supervisor!"

As soon as Li Zhongshan withdrew his gaze from Shang Shuying, another general who participated in the court announced loudly.

Li Zhongshan turned his head and saw that it was a bearded man about the same age as Liu Jinzhong, with a fierce face and a strong voice.

"Mr. Ma, please get up," Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "You are an elder when you talk about seniority, and Ada, and your old brother Uncle Ma are commensurate with brothers." ”

This Ma Weixing and Wu Sangui's fierce general Ma Bao are brothers, originally surrendered to Wu Sangui together, and later the Qing court felt that there were too many thieves under Wu Sangui, so it was not good, so this Ma Weixing was transferred to Fujian, and Geng Jimao and Geng Jingzhong were controlled. This belongs to the Pingxi Palace, on behalf of the Pingxi Palace, to Fujian and Jingnan Palaces to exchange rebel experience!

"Inspector, it is the Three Treasures who call the King of Nan brothers, not the lower officials." Ma Weixing stood up, and did not use his relationship with Ma Bao to get close to Li Zhongshantao, but stepped aside and asked others to continue to report their names and official positions.

It is not surprising that he has such a cold attitude, Zhou Chang has already analyzed with Li Zhongshan. Liu Jinzhong may happily hand over Shang Shuying, but Ma Weixing will never hand over hostages to Li Zhongshan.

Because Ma Weixing's younger brother is Ma Bao, he was originally Wu Sangui's family, and he went to Fujian to exchange experience in rebellion. Now that he wants to return to Wu Sangui's camp with his troops, how can he hand over hostages to Li Zhongshan?

However, Li Zhongshan ordered Ma Weixing's generals to help Ma Weixing return to Wu Sangui's camp, or rather, he wanted a fierce general like Ma Weixing to help his good friend Wu Shifan, and at the same time weaken Geng Jingzhong.

After Ma Weixing's salute was named, Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing's subordinate generals saluted Li Zhongshan one by one, and in the end, Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong met each other in a peaceful manner.

Although Liu Jinzhong has already handed over the hostages, he is the king of the north of the Ming Dynasty after all, and Li Zhongshan is only a secretary of the military department and a supervisor of Jiangbei, and he is not qualified enough to let Liu Jinzhong attend the court.

After the two finished saluting, Liu Jinzhong smiled and pointed to Puzikou City, which was not far from the dock, and said, "Supervisor, please speak in the city." ”

Li Zhongshan smiled: "Okay! This official has something to say to Beiwang and Ma Zongzhen! ”

"Overseer, please!"

Although Puzikou is only a town, it is the key point from Huaixi to Nanjing, and Nanjing City is separated by a Yangtze River, which has always been the only way for Huaixi merchants to travel to and from Nanjing. This town was already very prosperous in the era when Zhu Yuanzhang sat in the world, so it was also well repaired by Zhu Hongwu, an infrastructure maniac. In the following hundreds of years, it continued to be built and repaired, and when the Hongguang Dynasty was about to end, Ma Shiying sent people to repair Puzikou City well. It's a pity that it didn't work in the end!

But now this Jiangbei bridgehead in Nanjing has become a truly impregnable fortress with the joint efforts of Lu Sanhao and Liu Jinzhong!

The 15,000 Northern Expeditionary Army led by Li Yat-sen will temporarily settle in this fortress, and before he himself crosses the Yangtze River, the Northern Expeditionary Army that arrived in advance is already under the control of more than 10,000 troops led by He Tianran, Yu Haitao, and Wang Leiyong.

Probably because Jieshu's army had already arrived in Hezhou, and it was very close to Puzikou Town, so this originally very prosperous town has become a fairly simple military city. Almost all the shops in the city were on the door panels, and the merchants had long since fled, and only the people recruited from Jiangpu County were like industrious worker ants, pushing carts and carrying flat burdens, and constantly picking the materials transported from Nanjing City into Pukou Town from the wharf.

Liu Jinzhong occupied a rather spacious and luxurious mansion in Puzikou Town, and at this time he had already prepared a banquet for Li Zhongshan in the mansion. It's not yet time to eat, the cook invited from Yangzhou is busy in the back, and Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing invited Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang into the second hall to taste tea and talk.

Li Zhongshan greeted Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing for a while, and finally began to get down to business. I saw him with a straight face: "King Bei, Mr. Ma, this time the official is carrying an important errand, everyone understands." Now that the city of Nanjing is surrounded by enemies, the Tartar army is marching step by step, and the situation is difficult to open for a while, so the king of the east proposed this method of using the Northern Expedition to encircle Wei and save Zhao. ”

Hearing Li Zhongshan mention the Northern Expedition, Liu Jinzhong couldn't help frowning: "Supervisor, the decree of the superintendent says that we should follow the method of Emperor Taizu's Northern Expedition, cross the Huai River and the Yellow River in the north, smash Youyan, and recover the Northern Capital!" Are we really going to fight like this? Seems a bit risky, right? ”

"Isn't that a little risky?" Li Zhongshan smiled, "It's just a very risky adventure!" ”

"Then you want to cross the Huai River and the Yellow River north and go straight to Youyan?"

"Yes!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Wasn't Emperor Taizu so in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and restored China? ”

"But our current territory and strength don't seem to be comparable to Emperor Taizu back then, right?" Liu Jinzhong frowned, looking worried about the future of the Northern Expedition.

"That's why we have to follow the method of Emperor Taizu's Northern Expedition back then!" Li Zhongshan said, "How did Emperor Taizu go on the Northern Expedition back then?" There are three thousand tigers, and it is the Han and Song Red Turban Army that swept directly into the land of Youyan, not our Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. King Bei, do you remember how Emperor Taizu went on a northern expedition? ”

"This. Emperor Taizu didn't defeat Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng and others, and then go on a northern expedition after unifying the southeastern half. Liu Jinzhong said, "We are still far away!" ”

Li Zhongshan said: "Taizu also rose step by step!" At that time, Emperor Taizu was a monk who asked for food at the beginning, and he was about to go to Haozhou, which is now Fengyang Mansion, where he voted for Guo Zixing. Then he gradually emerged under Guo Zixing, and then got the opportunity to take Chuzhou, and then took Hezhou, and only crossed the river to seize Jiqing Road the year after Guo Zixing's death. After taking Jiqing Road, Taizu really flew to the ninety-five. We now have Yingtian, that is, Jiqing Road, but why can't we fly too high? In my opinion, it is the lack of Haozhou and Hezhou. ”

"Missing Haozhou, Hezhou?"

Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "Jiqing is a good place, with a lot of money and food." The only fly in the ointment. There is no Huaixi elite! The Jiangnan regimental training practiced by Lu Zhongtang is always a little less interesting than my Huai Army and your Jiangbei Army of the Northern King, right? This time, we will aim to eat Hezhou, Fengyang, Sizhou, Yingzhou, Luzhou, and Lu'anzhou! Take the source of Huaixi soldiers in your hands, and then open up the contact with King Li Zhong and King Wuxi, and form a siege of Jieshu entrenched in Jiujiang, Anqing, Nanchang and other places! ”

This Li Zhongshan has a lot of appetite!

After listening to Li Zhongshan's words, Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing already understood his thoughts.

What Li Yat-sen wanted was not only Huaixi, but also Anqing, Jiujiang, and Nanchang. and the Jiangxi territory between Guangdong, Jiujiang and Nanchang.

After taking these sites, the land traffic between Nanjing and Guangdong will be unimpeded. At that time, Li Zhongshan will not only get the Huaixi soldiers from the energy source, but also get muskets, artillery and silver from Guangfu!

The powerful Guangdong New Army can also go north to help in the war!

At that time, the old Li family can not only swallow Geng Jingzhong, drive away or eliminate Yue Le, Li Zhifang, Fan Chengmo and others, and completely control the southeast, but also break Wu Sangui's wrists, and if you don't do it, you can break Wu Sangui into Chen Youliang!

Liu Jinzhong thought for a while and asked: "But now that there are two large battalions of soldiers from Jiangbei and Jiangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty north of the Yangtze River, how can we eat Huaixi, the source of soldiers?" We only have an army of 20,000! ”

"Let's pretend to be the Northern Expedition!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "Let's pretend to learn from the Han and Song Red Turban Army, give them a tiger with three thousand, and sweep the land of Youyan!" And we can also let Wu Shifan cooperate. He fought from Nanyang to Luoyang, and after we crossed the Huai, we cut off the canal and went north along the Grand Canal. ”

"But is Wu Shifan willing to cooperate with us?" Liu Jinzhong was a little unsure.

"Then there will be the town of Rauma!" Li Zhongshan turned his head and looked at Ma Weixing, "Does Mr. Ma want to return to the command of the Western King?" Do you want to assist the grandson of King Xi? ”

Ma Weixing didn't want to get involved in the Northern Expedition, but he was named by Li Zhongshan and had to go north. Now that I suddenly heard Li Yat-sen talk about his return to the Xiwang Mansion, I felt like I had lost my luck.

And he can also directly cast under Wu Shifan. From now on, he will be the old man of Shisun Mansion! Although he is old and may not be able to see Wu Shifan ascend the throne, he still has sons and grandsons!

"Zhongtang," Ma Weixing still couldn't believe it, "Xiaguan is the third prince's courtier, and the Dongwang's subordinate. Can you really go to the West Palace? ”

Li Zhongshan smiled: "Of course you can!" But you have to take a little risk, as a tiger Ben 3,000 who smashes Youyan directly, as long as Ma Zongzhen is willing to fight north for a while after me and Liu Beiwang cross the Huai and cut off the canal, and then come and go, it is up to Ma Zongzhen to decide for yourself, no matter where you go, Beiwang and I will carry it for you!

In addition, I will also repair a book and recommend you to Mr. Ma! ”

"Good!" Ma Weixing is a cheerful person, "A word is a certainty!" ”

At the same time, Jiangsu Province, Huai'an Province!

Huai'an is the old purpose of the Caodu Yamen, and it is still the core of the Caoyun business. Although Mingzhu moved the Caodu Yamen to Yangzhou before, what could be moved away was a yamen, and the warehouses, wharves, shipyards and other things related to Caoyun were still left in Huai'an.

So he was ordered to transfer rice, silk and cloth to the pearl of Beijing, and he returned to Huai'an to work these days. Along with him, there are also Cao Xi made in Suzhou and Yuan Linjing, the owner of the Jiangnan branch of Credit Suixin Hall. These two didn't plan to stay in the southeast anymore, so they had to hurry up and run away together with the benefits they had earned in the past two years, as well as the inventory of Suzhou weaving, and the remaining silver deposits of Credit Suisse Hall

And just as they were about to take the official ship north, an astonishing news reached Huai'an!

It turned out that Fengyang Fucheng, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, was broken in one fell swoop by a Northern Expeditionary Army of tens of thousands of people sent by the "Little Ming Dynasty" in Nanjing!

And the Ming army that broke through Fengyang did not mean to stop, and immediately crossed the Huai River, and posted everywhere what "three thousand tigers, straight to the land of Youyan", looking at the meaning of the Northern Expedition to fight Beijing!

That's too much of an appetite, isn't it?

And the transportation to the north will not be interrupted because of this Northern Expeditionary Army, right?

No, you have to get on your way!

(End of chapter)