Fujian, that is, Fuzhou, Jianzhou.

How important it is to establish a state can be seen from the name.

Of course, Tong Guan knew that the Great Song Dynasty was completely finished, but anyone could surrender, but the "six thieves" could not surrender.

Because the "six thieves" were proposed by the Prince of Daming, if the six thieves are not dealt with ruthlessly, where will the face of the Prince of Daming be placed?

We must fight to the end!

Although Liangzhejiang Road is gone, Jiangnan Road is estimated to be gone, but there are still Fujian and Liangguang, Tong Guan feels that he can hold on for a while.

If Fujian also falls, it is a big deal to lead troops to join Zhong Xiang, and he must not defect to Emperor Zhu anyway.

"The thief of Jianzhou, you must exterminate it quickly!" Tong Guan said undoubtedly.

Xin Xingzong wore armor, knelt down on one knee and said, "Zong will live up to his trust and bring the head of that Fan thief to meet!" ”

Tong Guan said, "Go ahead." ”

Xin Xingzong, who swore in front of Tong Guan, looked sad after leading the army to set off.

The Shengjie army has been completely abandoned, and although the armor is excellent, it has no fighting spirit. Most of them are children of Shaanxi, and they have made up a batch in Gyeonggi, and they all belong to the northerners anyway.

was forced to flee with Song Huizong, and his heart was not happy, how many people wanted to return to their hometown.

These guys give up on themselves, get drunk and dream all day long, and drinking heavily in the barracks is the norm. Harassing the people when they are not fighting, refusing to contribute when they start a war, and robbing friendly troops of their exploits with the momentum of Tong Guan.

Xin Xingzong can't take care of it yet, once it is too strict, the Shengjie army will definitely mutiny!

Such a waste of troops, just bully the Xiang army and the people, where can they have the ability to attack the fortified Jianzhou City?

Can only be appeased.

Xin Xingzong had already discussed with Tong Guan that as long as Fan's uncle and nephew were willing to surrender, they would all be made envoys of real power, and let them be warlords in the seven counties of Jianzhou, maybe they could still block Li Bao's army.

Before recruiting the thieves, Xin Xingzong still had something to do - to get military rations.

The food he carried at this time could only last until the troops arrived in Jianzhou. Although the prefectures and counties along the way would provide grain and grass, Xin Xingzong knew in his heart that the magistrate would not be able to take out a few grains at all.

Because he just came back from there with his troops, the various states and counties have already given food once!

When Tong Guan and Xin Xingzong learned that Hangzhou had fallen and Song Huizong's whereabouts were unknown, their first reaction was not to kill him, but to quickly lead his troops to control Fuzhou, and at the same time look for the clan to support the new monarch.

Only by helping an emperor up, whether they are puppets or not, can they continue to resist in the name, and they are qualified to let the magistrates send troops and food.

Although the puppet emperor has not yet ascended the throne, the edict of succession has long been issued.

……

When the army crossed the border, the first to suffer was Minqing County.

Xin Xingzong first looted Chang Ping, and then sent troops to loot private granaries, and then plundered the people on the outskirts of the county, and even confiscated the grain in the temple.

Xin Xingzong got military rations, and the soldiers also got money, and they all gained a lot from top to bottom.

It's just that the army was delayed for ten days.

When they arrived at the city of Nanjianzhou, they found that the city gate was closed, the people of Fuguo had withdrawn into the city, and the people of the countryside had fled to the mountains.

Xin Xingzong was furious and personally went to the city to shout: "I am Xin Xingzong, the Taiwei of the Great Song Dynasty (the puppet emperor), and I was ordered to go to Jianzhou to beg for thieves, and the officials in the city did not come out quickly to greet him!" ”

Chen Yuan was standing in the city at the moment, and there was a large group of scholars beside him.

Jiang Can, the Taishou of Nanjian Prefecture, reprimanded angrily: "You are plundering in Minqing County, and you still want to loot the people under my rule?" Shoot him! ”

The defenders in the city did not have many bows and arrows, and they all aimed at Xin Xingzong.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy was wearing armor, he would probably have been dead on the spot.

Xin Xingzong, who was hit by several arrows in his body, was furious, and he led his troops to Jianzhou to beg for thieves, but he was blocked by Nanjianzhou halfway.

Carefully observing the city defense, Xin Xingzong was made to lose his temper, and he didn't want to break through the city in a short time.

Facing the water on both sides and backing the mountains on both sides, where is it easy to fight such a strong city?

Although there are not many troops in the city, there are many people defending the city. What he did in Minqing County had already been reported here, and officials, wealthy households, and ordinary people were forced to work together.

Xin Xingzong stopped outside the city for a long time, and said disheartenedly: "Withdraw the army!" ”

He didn't dare to bypass Nanjianzhou City to suppress the thieves, first, he might be cut off, and second, the army was seriously short of food. This trip to Jianzhou, there are mountains and valleys along the way, and you can't grab a few grains along the way, so you have to loot frantically in Nanjian Prefecture to get enough military rations.

Xingshi mobilized the crowd to suppress the thieves, and withdrew the army in disgrace.

But the soldiers of the Shengjie army were happy, they didn't have to fight with the thieves, and they also robbed a lot in Minqing County, which was a good deal for them.

Seeing Xin Xingzong lead his troops to withdraw, Zhizhou Jiang Can breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Yuan asked: "Taishou has offended Xin Xingzong, and he is still unwilling to change his banner?" ”

Jiang Can smiled bitterly: "If you don't change it, you have to change it, so let's change the flag." ”

Jiang Can lost his father when he was a child and was raised by his uncle Jiang Zhiqi since he was a child.

The most famous thing Jiang Zhiqi has done is to impeach Ouyang Xiu for picking up ashes......

Of course, this is nonsense, the real reason is that Jiang Zhiqi is on the wrong side, and the new emperor must draw a line with Ouyang Xiu. But this line is also drawn too far, Ouyang Xiu, who was confused about having an affair with his daughter-in-law, couldn't wait to pick up a knife and hack Jiang Zhiqi to death with his own hands.

Although his morality is very problematic, Jiang Zhiqi belongs to the law reform faction, and in the process of implementation, he takes the initiative to correct the various shortcomings of the new law.

When he was an official in Fujian, he encountered natural disasters and recruited victims to build water conservancy, "employing millions of workers, irrigating 9,000 hectares of farmland, and living 84,000 people."

As Jiang Zhiqi's nephew, Jiang Can also belongs to the pragmatic school and built fourteen docks in the south of the Yangtze River. Don't talk about persuading Nongsang to talk about these clichés, Jiang Can is an official and "suppresses the arrogant"!

With only the three words "suppressing the strong and strong", he will be able to mix well in the new dynasty in the future.

It was precisely because he suppressed the strong in Zhejiang and offended too many gentry that Jiang Can was demoted to Fujian by Song Huizong of the Southern Hunt to be the governor of Fujian......

Seeing that the city head was replaced with the "Ming" flag, Jiang Can said to Chen Yuan: "Brother Zhimo, do you know what I want to do?" ”

"Defend Nanjianzhou and wait for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to receive it?" Chen Yuan said.

Jiang Can shook his head: "In the past few years, there have been continuous military disasters and bandits, and the people of Nanjian Prefecture have been miserable. Now that the price of grain is soaring, it is too late to wait for the Ming court, otherwise I don't know how many low-class households will starve to death. I plan to destroy the temple, use the food in the temple to attract hungry people, and use work as a substitute for relief to build water conservancy in various counties. Especially those obscenities, they must all be destroyed! ”

Chen Yuan persuaded: "I am afraid of provoking a popular uprising." ”

This is not alarmist, the so-called obscenity is the folk gods, there is a mess of everything, and the poor people believe in that set very much.

Jiang Can said: "If the people have work and food, they won't believe that." Of course, we can't just do it brutively, we have to go step by step, recruit some hungry people first, and 'borrow food' from the temples in the city first. Before that, we have to kill a few corrupt officials, otherwise the people below will not be obedient! ”

Li Bao made Song Huizong disappear, and both people and ghosts are showing.

Jiang Can also plans to show off his operation, he has been very aggrieved in the past few years, and wants to take advantage of the window period between the old and new regimes to let go completely according to his own will.

For example, there are a few officials in this state city, and Jiang Can has wanted to clean them up for a long time!

A strange situation arose in Fujian, where Fan Jizhong and Fan Ruwei slaughtered large landlords in Jianzhou, beheading the big landlords, and then distributing grain and land to the people.

In Nanjianzhou next door, Jiang Can, the Taishou, also killed corrupt officials privately, and then destroyed the temple to work for relief, built water conservancy, and even dealt with some disobedient heroes.

One chaos and one rule, clear and clear.

But what they do, Zhu Ming likes it very much!

……

However, it was said that when Xin Xingzong led his troops out, dozens of sea ships also came to Fuzhou.

Hangzhou has Luopu Town, and Fuzhou has Min'an Town, both of which belong to the outer harbor of the big city.

"Something is wrong!"

Li Bao personally observed with a telescope and found that there were few ships in Fuzhou, where maritime trade was busy, and the port of Min'an Town.

Quite simply, Tong Guan has gone crazy, killing chickens and taking eggs to rob maritime merchants in order to raise money for military expenses.

When Xin Xingzong led his troops out, Tong Guan recruited another 5,000 new troops. He also gave some of the goods he had stolen from the maritime merchants to the soldiers, and many to the Fuzhou officials.

At this time, the river was four or five miles wide in Min'an Town.

Many merchant ships sailed in and were immediately discovered by the Fuzhou navy.

"Fat sheep again!"

The sailors were overjoyed, for fear of scaring away the merchant ships, and waited until they were all close to the port before they set out.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

As soon as the naval warship came up to it, several shells came at it, and then dozens of merchant ships all hung the sun and moon flags.

It's just a bluff.

The Fuzhou Navy was stupid, they thought that the dozens of merchant ships were all used to transport the Ming army.

Even if a ship transports 500 soldiers, there are 20,000 or 30,000 troops.

These are all large sea ships, and they really have to be stuffed into them, and even people and food, a ship can carry a thousand soldiers!

Forty or fifty thousand Ming troops came?

Li Bao sailed through Mawei in a boat, observed the situation with a telescope, and found that although the city was in a panic, it was not as defenseless as Hangzhou.

Unless there is still a "fine work" in the city to cooperate with the arson, it cannot be taken in one fell swoop.

Li Bao ordered the fleet to retreat to Min'an Town, and dragged it out until the evening.

In the darkness of the fire, squad after squad of soldiers landed to collect the harbor's cargo boats and forcibly enlisted the townspeople to help set up camp.

Soldiers came and went, from the barracks to the town.

From time to time, small groups departed, returned to the big ships in small boats, and then landed in the dark with torches.

The soldiers standing on the top of the mountain to observe the situation were shocked, and ran back to report to Tong Guan: "There are many soldiers coming from the puppet Ming, dozens of boats transporting troops, and at least a thousand people on one boat, I am afraid that there are fifty or sixty thousand people in the calculation!" ”

50,000 or 60,000 people......

Tong Guan only knew that Li Baoqi attacked Hangzhou, and then the Jiang defense forces quickly collapsed, and he didn't know exactly what the situation was.

At this moment, Tong Guan suspected that Li Bao was playing a plan to increase troops, and was also worried that Li Baozhen would bring fifty or sixty thousand people.

He not only wanted to defend Fuzhou, but also feared defeat and capture.

So the riot operation came.

Tong Guan took the puppet emperor and hundreds of officials, as well as his own soldiers trained in Fujian and Zhejiang, and withdrew from Fuzhou City overnight to escape, intending to join Xin Xingzong's Shengjie army. But he let his generals lead the troops to defend the city, and the city was full of van troops and recruits......

He wants everything, he wants everything!

(End of chapter)