After leaving Xingshan, Wang Wu led his troops to Jingzhou, and the first stop was Guizhou, where he had come.

At the front station with a thousand cavalry of the department, the wounded people transferred from the mountains followed behind by the old and weak women and children, and another thousand people led by Zhao Jinzhong and Cao Diwei were responsible for protection.

Zhang Changgeng and the attachés are in the back.

said that he asked the governor to take care of it on his behalf, but in fact, he stuffed Zhang Changgeng in the rear team as a "hostage".

The meaning of the rat bogey.

Zhang Changgeng also knows this, but he doesn't break it.

The reason for this arrangement was that Wang Wu was afraid that Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang, would give him a "Southern Anhui Incident".

Compared with Zhang Changgeng, a civilian governor, Dong Xueli, who was born as a ruffian, is undoubtedly much more complicated, that is, he is very cunning and belongs to the old fox.

Moreover, the contradiction between Dong Xueli and Shunjun is irreconcilable.

Because this guy is a big traitor to the Shun army.

After Li Zicheng's defeat at Shanhaiguan that year, the situation was actually not very serious, because the entire north was controlled by Dashun.

However, Dong Xueli, who was named a marquis by Li Zicheng and occupied Henan, was the first to surrender to the Qing army after learning that Li Zicheng had not been able to fight the pigtailed soldiers, resulting in the collapse of Henan, Shandong, Beizhili and some areas of Jiangbei in Nanzhili, which were originally owned by Dashun, so that Li Zicheng could not gain a foothold in the Central Plains, nor could he hold Yanjing, so he had to retreat to Shaanxi and Hubei.

After serving as the governor of Huguang, Dong Xueli also spared no effort to launch an offensive against the Ming army in Kuidong.

Although the Ming army could not be defeated, with the "sea of people" tactics and the continuous replenishment of soldiers and materials, the possibility of the Ming army breaking through to Huguang was blocked.

The two sides have been fighting fiercely for several years, and there have been countless casualties, which is really a blood feud.

In this way, how could Dong Xueli watch his rivals being appeased by the Qing court, and he didn't believe that Wang Wu, the Ming general who had defeated Mulima, really surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so he secretly transferred troops to block Wang Wu's way back to Jingzhou.

Wang Wu had repeatedly hinted that Zhang Changgeng would find a way to kill Dong Xueli, but Zhang Changgeng, who was still loyal to the Qing court deep down, refused.

Lao Zhang did the work of other people at most, so that they could obey the arrangements of the imperial court, obey the military orders of the governor, and not do anything to undermine the overall situation of the appeasement.

For the rest, Lao Zhang is definitely unwilling at the moment.

It's about having a minimum bottom line.

If he really wants to cooperate with Wang Wu to kill Dong Xueli, then he, Zhang Changgeng, will not want to get off Wang Wu's thief ship in his life.

The mentality is similar to that of the big girl who just got on the sedan chair, and it takes a few more times to think before she can completely let go, so Wang Wu also understood, so he didn't force Zhang Changgeng.

You can only be cautious yourself.

Arrived in Jingzhou safely, not to mention Dong Xueli, even Babur, the Jingzhou general, Wang Wu didn't pay attention to it.

Last time, I really calculated the accounts of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Jingzhou with Zhang Changgeng, because Wang Wu had absolute confidence to slaughter the city of Jingzhou.

The trousers of the Eight Banners of Jingying were torn by him, and he was afraid of hanging.

What he was afraid of all along, it was the Green Battalion, not the Eight Banners at all.

Guizhou was the first stop for supplies on the way south.

As the commander of the Han army and the commander of the Jingzhou General Army, and with the right to sign the letter of appointment of the Jingzhou General Army, there is no garrison of the cronies secretly assigned by Dong Xueli in Guizhou, and it is not a trivial matter to enter the city.

I didn't think about it, this door didn't open in the first place.

The reason is that Qian Wentao, a Taoist who had ordered Wang Wu to surrender, and Nu Dahai, a Manchurian, pretended to be soldiers to deceive Xia Guoen, the governor of Guizhou, and Wang Tailai, the commander of the green battalion stationed in the city, to open the city gate, and then disarmed the green battalion soldiers in the city, and looted the silver stored by the officials of the state when they left.

So when the familiar faces came to call the door again, Xia Zhizhou and Wang Qian, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know whether the king of the city is the real capital or the fake capital.

This time when I entered the city, I would not like to disarm them again and wash the warehouse.

After much hesitation, the door finally opened.

No way, they were taken into the small dark room to write a letter of repentance and a letter of guarantee.

In the case of uncertainty about whether Wang Dutong was a Ming army or a Qing army, personal interests were definitely greater than the interests of the imperial court.

Even if you can not offend, you must not be offended.

The left and right are just things outside the body, not their own, if they are gone, they will be gone.

"Why is it so slow? I don't know, I think you two are going to rebel in the city. ”

Wang Wu was not very happy after entering the city.

Xia Zhizhou and Wang Qian were only stunned, not knowing what they should say.

"Tell the people of the Yamen to mobilize the people to prepare food for 10,000 people,"

After Wang Wu arranged the work by himself, he asked Xia Guoen how much silver he still had in the treasury?

Xia Zhizhou hurriedly accompanied him and said carefully: "If you go back to the capital, you have been robbed by the capital"

Wang Wuyi was immediately unhappy when he heard this: "What robbery? Didn't I write an IOU? ”

"Yes, yes, since the last time I was borrowed 30,000 taels by Lord Dutong, the yamen has not been able to turn around, and I don't hide it from Lord Dutong, and I owe two months of monthly reward money for the six rooms."

After a long time, Xia Guoenguang poured bitter water and cried poorly.

Wang Wu listened impatiently and asked Xia Guoen's treasury how much money he had.

"If you don't say it, I'll ask others, and then you won't have a chance to say it."

The words are full of threats.

In desperation, Xia Guoen had no choice but to confess that he had just received 14,000 taels from the Huguang Governor Yamen, which was used for the summer flood control project in the territory.

It is to repropriate the people to strengthen the embankments of several rivers in the territory.

"You're also a county-level city, why are you so rich?"

Wang Wu frowned, he would not take away the silver used for flood control in Guizhou, but he definitely couldn't leave empty-handed this time, after all, he had to use money everywhere after he arrived in Jingzhou.

After thinking about it, he instructed Xia Guoen: "You will send people to call the rich people and those with merit in the city to the yamen, and ask them to make up money for the official, 50,000 taels, not a single son." ”

"Fifty thousand taels?!"

Xia Guoen and Wang Tailai on the side had green faces.

With such a large amount of money, I am afraid that those gentry are unwilling to pay.

"Didn't the adults do nothing to the people last time? And the people said that the adults loved the people as sons."

Lord Zhizhou thinks it's better to play the emotional card, and he doesn't want money to boast about it.

"That was when I was an official of the Ming Dynasty, and now I am an official of the Qing Dynasty, what did I do when I returned to the Qing Dynasty without any offense in the autumn? Won't I live a hard life in the Ming Dynasty? ”

Wang Wu's face is not like you have a nervous disorder.

“”

Zhizhou and Qian were dumbfounded.

It makes sense, but it is really difficult for the gentry in the city to make 50,000 taels come out, and if the money is spread, the rich gentry will definitely make trouble with them.

There are people in the county in the township, there are people in the prefecture in the county, there are people in the province in the province, and there are people in the court in the province

Which one can be called a big family, which one they dare to offend easily?

If someone writes a letter to relatives and friends in the DPRK and China, will they have a better future?

When it comes to his own future, Xia Zhizhou can only fight on the basis of reason, and he is quite excited.

"You're a good official,"

Wang Wu's face became darker the more he listened, but for some reason he suddenly slowed down, and then said in a harmonious voice: "After the 50,000 taels are collected, I will take 40,000 taels and go, and you will divide the remaining 10,000 taels." ”

"Oh?"

Wang Qian, who had never dared to speak, was full of energy when he heard this, and patted his chest and said: "Lord Dutong, don't worry, if they dare not make up money, they will bring troops to their house to borrow it!" ”