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I also asked the five alliance leaders to bring a message to the Tokugawa shogun, and the imperial army will arrive soon.

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Wang Tiqian arrived in Yangzhou, he should have arrived two days earlier, and on the way, Wang Ji was delayed.

Wang Ji is the new governor and governor of Caoyun Fengyang.

This duke is the seventeenth year of Wanli Jinshi, once served as the imperial history of the capital, the governor of Baoding, and then moved to the right of the Ministry of Households. When Li Sancai entered Beijing as the head of the household department, Wang Ji was the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Fengyang.

In the words of later generations, this is the rank of the deputy state who was promoted to the rank of governor and minister, and jumped from the deputy minister of real power to the rank of vice country. Not surprisingly, with this public's experience in serving in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he will soon be a cabinet director.

The governor of Caoyun is also an important position that can shake the southeast half of the country, in addition to the eunuchs and garrison lords of Nanjing.

In a sense, the governor of Caoyun was actually the head of the army of the Ming Dynasty, and his power was even more prominent than that of Li Chengliang in Liaodong.

Because the Caoyun Governor Yamen commanded more than 120 guards in several provinces along the canal, the adjustable soldiers reached as many as 120,000, and the Caoyun Governor Yamen had more than 100,000 Caoyun boats.

On the other hand, on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, which town has a huge number of soldiers up to 120,000. Not to mention the food and clothing of the nine sides, most of which are still allocated by the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun.

There is money, food, soldiers, and a river of gold and water, no wonder people say that Cao Du is the head of the local governor.

When Li Sancai was Cao Fu, his favorite thing to do was to send troops to arrest the little eunuchs under the mine supervisor and tax envoys, and to kill or close, and also to blackmail Shandong mine supervisor Chen Zeng with more than 100,000 taels of silver, but Chen Zeng was silent and did not dare to speak.

In the last years of Chongzhen, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, was able to make decisions on the southern capital, relying on the soldiers and horses of Fengyang, who were originally subordinate to the governor of Caoyun.

And the fact that Wei Liangchen, the admiral and maritime eunuch, was able to run rampant in the north and south of the river with a few thousand soldiers, which was also related to the governor of Caoyun.

The Ming Dynasty was chaotic in the southern bureaucracy, the south had the right to transfer troops, and the Cao Governor also had it, and all the guards were promoted by the governor, some were transferred to the command of the guard, and some were under the general staff of the general army, and there was also the Nanjing Military Department, and there was the Beijing Military Department above the Nanjing Military Department, which made it difficult for the Nanzhili soldiers to come out in a short time, and it was even more difficult to act decisively despite the pressure of Beijing.

In the year of Jiashen, the southern provinces went their own way, on the one hand, there was no common master, and on the other hand, it was also caused by this accumulation of shortcomings.

Therefore, Wei Liangchen, the eunuch who suddenly went south, was like a mouse that got into the porcelain shop, even if the porcelain shop was full of people with sticks, he could act with swagger.

Of course, this also has to do with his military spirits.

It's just that Gonggong Wei didn't know that his arrogance made it difficult for the Nandu side to move, but Huai'an's Caoyun Governor Yamen was eyeing him.

To be precise, Wang Ji, the governor of Caoyun, wanted to learn from his predecessor Li Sancai, and used the Wei eunuch to make a name for himself.

This is also a fuse, good and dignified, Wang Ji is a newly appointed governor, and there is a mess of things waiting for him to be smooth, how can he have the kung fu to manage the affairs of Jiangnan.

You must know that this Cao Yun is the fattest mouth of the Ming Dynasty, and there are millions of people who rely on the canal to eat. Wang Ji's new official took office, how to appease the old people, and how to take care of the new people, one by one, not a year and a half, Wang Jixiu wanted to straighten out.

What's more, the eunuch Wei sealed the Yangtze River shipping, not to cut off the transportation, and the governor Yamen was full of food and wanted to fight with him.

asked people to target it, but it wasn't Gonggong Wei who was looking for it himself.

The Qian family, who was destroyed, was the Caokou of the Gaoyou section of the canal, and the Caoyun Yamen appointed the collector in Gaoyou.

It must be understood that in addition to the 120,000 soldiers under the governor's yamen, there are still hundreds of thousands of dependent forces.

Officers and soldiers are used to maintain order on the surface, and those hundreds of thousands of dependent forces are the real core of Caoyun.

This force is a Caokou organization like Qian Wenye, all of whom are young and strong, and they are not only responsible for transporting money and grain, but also responsible for maintaining the order of interests in each section.

In addition to the so-called bright rules, there are also dark rules, which are intertwined layer by layer, forming the current status quo of Caoyun.

In the absence of the original history of Wei Gonggong, the influence of these Caokou in the future even reached the Republic of China, and the Qinggang was an extension of Caokou.

Zhongzheng Gong is a senior, and they are all disciples and grandchildren of the Cao Gang.

Caoyun runs through several provinces, but in fact, it is an independent existence of several provinces.

It is very closed, and the local government cannot interfere at all, so even if the gate is cleaned, it can only be done by the Governor of Caoyun, and outsiders cannot do it.

Wei Gonggong killed Qian Wenye, undoubtedly committing the taboo of the governor's yamen.

If Wang Ji doesn't make any moves, how will the people below look at him.

This is also a good opportunity, and if done properly, Wang Ji will undoubtedly be able to win hearts and minds.

Therefore, Wang Ji politely kept Wang Tiqian for two days.

As a governor, he is not weak in eyeliner.

After leaving Beijing, Wang Tiqian went south along the canal, which was the territory of the governor of Caoyun.

An internal official, escorted by brocade guards, came to the capital, and the destination was the south, without thinking about it, Wang Ji also guessed that it must be related to the Wei eunuch who made a lot of noise in the south of the Yangtze River.

He was also sure that this official surnamed Wang must have the emperor's decree in him, so the governor wanted to know what His Majesty's decree was.

This has a relationship between him being a eunuch of Wendou Wei or a eunuch of Wudou Wei.

Wang Tiqian is also an old fox, a person who has been immersed in the palace for thirty years, and no one is a fool. I saw through Wang Ji's mind at a glance, and Wang Jixu and the snake, in Huai'an for two days, I didn't let Wang Ji find out anything.

Wang Ji was a little annoyed, but he didn't dare to detain people, let alone rob the other party of the holy decree, so he could only release people.

After leaving Huai'an, the more Wang Tiqian thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he no longer took the canal and rented a carriage to come to Yangzhou.

He knew that Wei Liangchen was in Yangzhou.

Thanks to the "spread" of merchants along the way, the deeds of the maritime Wei eunuchs in Jiangbei will have long been spread to the capital.

Wang Tiqian and his entourage arrived in Yangzhou in the evening, and according to the rules, they should go to the prefect's yamen branch first, but he didn't go, but came directly to this drunken Yuan Building.

"The head of the small case is full of red face, I think there is a happy event?" Wang Tiqian joked and hurried over, and there was still a red tide on his face.

"The prince Mo and the younger generation laughed, the father-in-law came, there is no bad thing, the younger generation will be happy, how can there be any happy event."

Gonggong Wei laughed, he and Wang Tiqian are really not outsiders, and a few hundred taels of silver is filial piety. In my heart, I was savoring the words of the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family upstairs, what does it mean to be inconvenient.

"Does my father-in-law announce the decree first, or eat first?"

Father-in-law Wei knew that Wang Tiqian was doing things well, so he asked directly. Then I greeted Li Wei and Tian Gang who came together.

"Don't worry, I'll give you something first."

Wang Tiqian instructed Li Wei a few words, and after hearing this, the latter hurriedly led people to move a few boxes from the car into Zuiyuan Building.

"The prince is really polite, how can there be seniors who give gifts to younger generations."

Father-in-law Wei was very curious, and asked Tian Gang what was in the box with his eyes, but the latter didn't know.

"These are brought by the Imperial Horse Supervisor Liu Dugong, but they are not our things." Wang Tiqian smiled slightly and motioned to his entourage to open the box.

Inside the first box was a stack of official certificates issued by the Imperial Horse Warden, and a box of official seals.

The other two boxes are brand new military attache court clothes and regular clothes.