Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Storm Settles

In fact, there is nothing to explore for Zhu Qizhen's southbound route.

It's nothing more than going south along the gallop.

I've said it before.

The Liangjing Chi Road runs parallel to the canal.

In this way, the parallel land and water made it convenient for Zhu Qizhen to take a large number of troops and go south with hundreds of officials.

What Zhu Qizhen wanted was not for Shi Jing to explore the route, but to let the wind out. Of course, there may be some homework to be done along the way.

After all, Zhu Qizhen definitely had a lot of people going south this time.

However, in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, the more important thing is to finalize this matter. Han Yong can't be allowed to go back on his word.

Han Yong also understands this matter.

Han Yong pondered for a moment and said, "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, this matter is very important, so it is natural to prepare one or two in advance. However, the minister thought that His Majesty would definitely be escorted by a large number of soldiers on his southern tour this time, and the minister thought that Zhu Yi, the Duke of Chengguo, was loyal and upright, and could accompany him with his horse Shi Jing. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and asked, "Then who is in charge of the Beijing Division?" ”

Han Yong said: "Your Majesty, it's time for Duke Wei Guogong to return to Beijing. ”

After Zhu Qizhen heard this, he naturally understood Han Yong's calculations.

Han Yong has always been wary of the military generals group.

Since Zhu Qizhen is going to tour the south, and he is afraid that he will stay in Nanjing for a while.

If you let the garrison around the Beijing Division, the original structure is still maintained. In Han Yong's opinion, it is not too reliable.

So Han Yong changed his previous mind and asked Wang Yue to replace Zhu Yi.

As I have said before, any high-level personnel change is not just a change of one person, and at this time, Wang Yue's replacement of Zhu Yi will be a large-scale personnel transfer.

Wang Yuejiu is in the Western Regions, and his descendants are all in the Western Regions. Zhu Yi can be in the cabinet for such a long time, so naturally he will not be without a team.

This change of power will not end immediately. It also made it possible for Han Yong to intervene in Beijing.

When Wang Yue really grasps power, Zhu Qizhen will probably come back from the south.

Zhu Qizhen's intentions for Han Yong can also be guessed, and he has no reason to refuse, and said, "Okay." ”

Although Han Yong felt that he could control the situation in the imperial court, the news still caused an uproar. Of course, today's court is not the original court.

At the beginning, the imperial court really had a group of ministers who adhered to morality and principles. But now, because of Zhu Qizhen's change of law, these people have long been pressed.

No one dared to look directly at the authority of the emperor and the first assistant.

Therefore, while emphasizing various objective difficulties on the emperor's southern tour, they also increased the impeachment of Wang Shu. For a while, countless bullets almost drowned Wang Shu.

Because in the eyes of many people, the reason why the emperor toured the south was because Wang Shu mishandled things in Jiangnan

, coupled with what Wang Shu did in Jiangnan, he has offended many people.

After all, although the business of scholars is the most prevalent in Jiangnan, it is not right to say that it is only in Jiangnan.

Many people did not dare to oppose the commercial tax policy head-on, but they dared to attack Wang Shu secretly.

However, these impeachments were suppressed by Zhu Qizhen.

This can be regarded as Zhu Qizhen's responsibility, and the people who are doing things will generally not be disturbed, but after the things are done. It's time to settle the ledger.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't do it, and all kinds of rumors also spread to Jiangnan.

However, at this moment, Wang Shu breathed a sigh of relief, because he had passed the most dangerous time.

When Wang Shu was most dangerous, it was the thieves who divided their troops into multiple ways, well---, it was not considered a division of troops, after all, there was no coordinated operation within the so-called Great Zhou Heavenly Army, and they fought separately.

Wang Shu can only fight the enemy separately.

I have to admit that Suzhou has been peaceful for a long time, and the people are weak, if it is in the countryside, it is fine, because even if it is a folk in the south of the Yangtze River, many villages have other things in order to compete for water sources, and there are also fights.

But where have the local people of Suzhou experienced such a scene.

Even if the Zhuangding in Suzhou, or the militia are several times larger than these rogues, they still can't be defeated.

However, the large number of people can finally hold on for a while.

Waiting for Wang Shu to personally take more than 1,000 people from Maojiang's department.

A rabble is a rabble.

Although there are only more than 1,000 people in Maojiang, the elite of the Beijing camp is like chopping vegetables and melons in the face of these rabble, and the city of Suzhou has been controlled, and the speed of this army is also very fast.

As a result, within a few days, Mao Jiang's department was transferred everywhere in the urban area of Suzhou. In one day, there were as few as five engagements, and as many as seven or eight engagements.

There are not many opponents faced each time, and the largest one is only one or two thousand.

But even so, it is impossible for Wang Shu to protect the entire city of Suzhou.

In the outskirts of Suzhou, more than 1,000 houses were burned down, and how many Suzhou people died because of it was not a matter that could be found out at that time.

It's never even clear.

However, after a few days, the city of Suzhou was not attacked again.

Because Mao Rui achieved a decisive victory.

This victory in itself is more than mentioned. The only problem Mao Rui faced was to find out where the main force of the so-called Great Zhou Tianjun was? Mao Rui fought a battle and killed dozens of generals, more than a dozen governors, and six or seven princes. More than 3,000 beheadings. Tens of thousands were captured, and the rest were scattered.

However, Mao Rui's victory was not a complete achievement.

Without him, although Mao Rui's department is a southerner, it is not a navy after all. And Jiangnan is a water town. And there is a big lake near the city of Suzhou.

Naturally, it is Taihu Lake.

The thieves who could not withstand the army of the imperial court all fled in

in the middle of Taihu Lake.

Mao Rui couldn't help it for a while. You can only report to Wang Shu.

Wang Shu immediately ordered the prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake to blockade Taihu Lake and prevent the people from coming into contact with the thieves. Then he asked for reinforcements from Nanjing.

Because there is a water division in Nanjing, which is from the founding of the country, that is, the Yangtze River water division.

Of course, today's Yangtze River Naval Division is no longer the time of the founding of the country, and the strong army of Chen Youliang in the west and Zhang Shicheng in the east has long been dilapidated.

In the military reform of Zhu Qizhen, it was also a large-scale reduction.

Without him, in the military arrangement of Zhu Qizhen, there is no position for the Yangtze River Water Division. Just think about it, who is Zhu Qizhen going to fight if he leaves an inland river division on the Yangtze River?

Or in the entire Yangtze River Basin, who is the enemy of the Daming Water Division?

Zhu Qizhen placed the center of gravity of the water war on the sea.

What the Yangtze River Navy Division is facing is downsizing, downsizing, downsizing, and then downsizing. Of course, this is also the reason why they themselves are not useful, if they are really useful. Zhu Qizhen also needs a lot of generals in water warfare at sea.

However, in any case, the Yangtze River valley is vast, and although there is no enemy, there is still a certain need to exterminate the water bandits. Therefore, the Nanjing Yangtze River Naval Division maintained a large battalion, that is, 10,000 people, dozens of warships of all sizes, and to some extent, there were more ships than people.

As for the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, it cannot be said that they cannot go to Taihu Lake, but most of them are not suitable for river operations.

In such a war, it is still the Yangtze River sailor major.

The Yangtze River Sailor soon arrived.

But at the same time, Cao Nai also arrived.

Hearing that such a big event happened in the south of the Yangtze River, how could Cao Nai sit still in Nanjing.

Cao Nai, who stayed behind in Nanjing, was originally intended to exist to deal with this special incident. If it's too peaceful, staying in Nanjing is almost like a furnishing.

But now that something has happened, Cao Nai has the power to unify the southern provinces.

As soon as Cao Nai came, he first listened to Wang Shu's report. He immediately ordered the troops left behind in Nanjing to transfer several battalions. and sent the Beiyang Navy Division Songjiang to a section to be transferred over, and in addition to Taihu Lake, the other thieves scattered in various provinces were eliminated one by one. He also sent an order to the governor of Zhejiang, asking him to bring Zhejiang's troops to meet on the edge of Taihu Lake.

Together with the armies of the various ministries blockade Taihu Lake.

After all, Taihu Lake is also the boundary lake between Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and if the two provinces do not cooperate with each other, it is easy to be exploited by thieves.

As a result, there are as many as 70,000 or 80,000 mobilized troops, and if you add the people and other things, it is properly more than 100,000.

It can be said that the teacher has moved the crowd.

But Jiangnan is too important to Daming.

Therefore, Cao Nai would rather mobilize the army and mobilize the people, but also fight a quick battle, and try to minimize the losses caused by this war to Jiangnan.

However, people are not as good as heaven. Cao Nai never expected that the matter had come to this point, and it was far from the end of the time.