After today's duty ended, Yan Song and Xu Jie did not rush to leave, but stayed, discussing the specific salary increase plan, the entire cabinet was brightly lit, and only two figures were left busy.

"Come, let's have a cup of tea first!" Xu Jie said, pouring a cup of tea for Yan Song, who was in deep thought.

And the thoughts in Yan Song's mind were completely disturbed by Xu Jie's words, so he simply stopped thinking about it, picked up the teacup, and took a sip.

"Good tea! It's better than the tea that His Majesty gave me. Yan Song immediately put the teacup aside and commented.

"Elder Yan Ge is really a saint, Your Majesty actually gave you tea to drink?" When Xu Jie heard what Yan Song said, he was secretly unhappy in his heart, but he still put on a look of great admiration on the surface.

"If Xu Ge wants to drink, I'll have someone send some to your house another day." Yan Song said with a warm smile on his face.

"Then thank you Yan Ge for being old!" Xu Jie responded with a smile.

"Alas, Your Majesty has found us a hard job, this matter is related to the fortune of many officials in the imperial court, if it is not formulated perfectly, not only will Your Majesty's side not spare us, but even those officials big and small will have to poke our backbones in the back!

Yan Song said, picked up a book of reviewed recitals, and read it.

"Yes, we're caught in the middle, and we're angry at both ends."

Xu Jie also sighed with emotion.

"Keep thinking about it, no matter what, we have to come up with a definite and feasible way."

"yes!"

……

Fujian, Zhangzhou Prefecture.

Since the First World War in Shouning County, the army commanded by Hu Zongxian has been like a bamboo, fighting more than a dozen battles large and small, and without paying many casualties, it has successfully marched all the way to the east in accordance with the strategy formulated before the war, and all the areas occupied by the Japanese invaders along the way have also been recovered!

The three-way army also joined forces, totaling more than 9,000 people, camped together on the outskirts of Zhangzhou City, and only waited for tomorrow morning to launch a general attack, and completely wiped out the last group of Japanese robbers entrenched in Fujian Province!

In the main tent, Hu Zongxian looked at the map of Fujian Province hanging on the wall, and asked everyone: "Is the naval division over there in place?" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, the naval division over there of the Ministry of War has been put in place, and the escape route of this group of Japanese robbers on the sea has been completely blocked, and now, this group of Japanese robbers has become a turtle in the urn!"

When Yu Dayou saw Hu Zongxian asking, he immediately stood up and responded.

"Well, just wait for early tomorrow morning, and order the whole army to launch a general attack to completely exterminate this group of Japanese robbers and rescue the people from the dire situation!" Hu Zongxian looked around at everyone and commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

"Oh, by the way, how did you do with the things I told you to do?" After Hu Zongxian finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Tan Lun and Yu Dayou on the side and asked.

Tan Lun and Yu Dayou naturally knew what Hu Zongxian was referring to, the purpose of this army dispatch was not only to suppress the widows, but also to clean up those gentry who hid the population and annexed the land!

Immediately afterwards, Tan Lun stood up first, took out a booklet, and handed it to Hu Zongxian: "Your Excellency, this is the list of the gentry I have disposed of!" Except for some to reward the soldiers, the rest of the goods were kept intact and could be transported back to the court after the war was over. ”

Hu Zongxian took the booklet from Tan Lun's hand, looked through it roughly, and saw that it was densely packed with people's names, and then Hu Zongxian turned it to the last page, which recorded in detail the confiscated property, a total of 7.33 million taels!

"Well, you're doing a great job." After Hu Zongxian read the contents of Tan Lun's booklet, he turned his attention to Yu Dayou.

"Lord Governor, this is the last general's booklet, and what the last general wants to say is the same as Lord Tan!" Yu Dayou said, and also handed a booklet to Hu Zongxian.

Hu Zongxian took the booklet and looked through it roughly, the number of gentry disposed of by Yu Dayou was not as large as Tan Lun, but the confiscated property was much more than Tan Lun, a total of 8.69 million taels!

"This time the army went out, the expenses were added together, and it was a million taels, but in a blink of an eye, more than 20 million taels of silver were copied from the homes of these gentry landlords, and we came to make money for the imperial court on this expedition!"

Hu Zongxian said, stroked his beard, and laughed loudly.

"Oh, by the way, are the one hundred and fifty furlong cannons ready?" In addition to being happy, Hu Zongxian immediately asked such a question.

"Your Excellency, you're all set! When the city is attacked tomorrow, the Japanese can taste the power of the cannons. Qi Jiguang immediately came out of the queue and replied loudly.

"Good! Let's go down and rest first, recharge your energy, and just wait for tomorrow morning to launch a general attack! Hu Zongxian commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

……

In the Zhangzhou City Mansion, Zhang Lian, the leader of the Japanese Bandits, looked anxious and kept pacing in the room.

At this moment, the person he had sent out to inquire about the news returned to the mansion, and Zhang Lian hurriedly asked, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, "How is it, has you found out anything?" Who commanded the Ming army outside the city? ”

"Report ...... According to the leader, the Ming army outside was led by Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, and his subordinates also included Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun and other generals. ”

The person in charge of inquiring about the news did not dare to conceal it, and retold the news he had inquired to Zhang Lian in its original form.

"Let's go down." After listening to the news reported by his subordinates, Zhang Lian's whole person waved his hand as if he had lost his soul, and said in a hoarse voice.

"Yes!" Seeing this, the subordinates hurriedly left, for fear of implicating themselves.

"It's over, it's over, it's all over!" After his subordinates left, Zhang Lian sat on the ground like a walking corpse, muttering incessantly.

Everything makes sense now, why this Ming army is so brave, in just one week, it has recovered all the territory previously occupied by its own people.

Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun all have extremely proud records, and they are even better at how to deal with the Japanese invaders!

Even if the troops in his hands are several times that of the other party, Zhang Lian is not confident that he can beat these few, at present, these famous generals with more than 9,000 well-equipped elite Ming troops, soldiers are coming to the city, just wait for tomorrow morning, and launch a general attack.

At this moment, Zhang Lian's heart has been filled with endless remorse, he hates that he shouldn't be so reckless, and he shouldn't listen to the of those gentry landlords, so as to put himself in this lifeless situation.

Zhang Lian knew that with these people in Zhangzhou City, he would definitely not be able to defend the city! These people are more active than anyone else in robbing homes and robbing people, and once the war officially starts, they will definitely be crushed.

Therefore, Zhang Lian decided to sneak away with the looted treasures, so that he could stay in Qingshan without fear of running out of firewood, lay dormant with peace of mind, and wait for the right time to do things again!

With this in mind, Zhang Lian summoned his cronies, a dozen people, with a large amount of treasure, and sneaked out of the palace and marched towards the port, where several ships were parked for escape.

As soon as everyone walked to the port, they were stopped, and a group of soldiers who came out of nowhere surrounded Zhang Lian and his cronies.

"What do you want to do? Want to rebel! Zhang Lian looked at the soldiers around him who did not have good intentions to approach him, tightened the burden containing the treasure into his arms again, and then pulled out his long knife and opened his mouth to threaten.

"Hmph, is the leader going to abandon me and wait?" The leader of the group of soldiers stepped forward and mocked.

Without waiting for Zhang Lian to answer, he continued: "I'm sorry, Lord Chief, you are not the only one who wants to live, we also want to live, so we are offended." ”

"Do it!"

"Ahh A scream sounded, and Zhang Lian's cronies were all killed.

(End of chapter)