Shen Xi's car left Haifeng County, but the gentry suddenly had an illusion of reluctance, they didn't feel very welcome when they came, but when they left, they felt that this governor was very "kind". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is best for Lord Fu to stay in Haifeng and not leave, regardless of the pirates and pirates of the Fujian and Guangdong generations, and the most important thing is to keep the peace of our Haifeng County.

Reunions are always short-lived, although Shen Xi asked someone to collect all the notices in the city, but he was not ready to return to Haifeng, even if he wanted to return to Guangzhou Mansion in the future, he would go south by boat.

When others were thinking about him, Shen Xi was lying on the carriage and sleeping leisurely, and in order to ask Ren Wenwen for money and food, he tossed and didn't sleep for another night.

Leaving Haifeng County, the three armies went north along the official road, crossed Jieshiwei and went to the direction of Huilai County, where he would ask for a sum of military funds from the local government, and then he would meet the fleet at Haimen to see if the situation would enter Chaoyang County again, and then he would make every effort to prepare to attack Nanao Island.

Nowadays, Nanao Island is marked as "Nanao Mountain", because the Ming Dynasty imposed a ban on the sea near the coast, making Nanao Island has always been deserted and has become a paradise for pirates and pirates.

There are hundreds of bandits on the island, the specific force is unknown, like an independent small country, and the main errand of these pirates on weekdays is to rob merchant ships, or go ashore to contact and trade with smugglers, buy and sell people and goods, and even go ashore to rob the local people.

In the southeast coastal generation, most villages had to build defense facilities, and a small village was a small city, and it was necessary to ensure the safety of the residents in the walled city.

The hereditary military households have no sense of winning honor on the battlefield, and no one is willing to fight hard without material incentives, so they would rather let pirates and pirates develop.

Many people are unbearable to be attacked by bandits, and in natural disasters, they may directly fall into the grass and oppose the imperial court.

During the day, Shen Xi hid in the carriage to rest, and at night when he arrived at the post house or camp, he rested very late, Shen Xi found that he seemed to have become a night owl, and the result of reversing the day and night was that he had more energy to do things at night.

On the one hand, this bad habit is that you can't do anything in the carriage during the day, and you simply sleep, on the other hand, it is the bad habit brought by the previous life, as a postmodern human being, you are very uncomfortable with the life of sunrise and sunset, and you feel uncomfortable if you don't stay up until the middle of the night.

There are many rivers in Guangdong Province, and the most troublesome part of the overland march is to cross the river, which requires temporary ferries, food and people need to be transported in batches, and after crossing the river, certain fortifications need to be built to prevent sneak attacks, and scouts have to set off twenty or thirty miles to explore the surrounding environment.

In the second half of the journey, because there were more people and materials transported with the army, coupled with such a boat and car transfer, it was very difficult to march more than 40 miles a day, Shen Xi calculated the days, and it was impossible to arrive at Haimen before March 16, so he could only postpone the time until March 18.

Four days after departing from Haifeng, on March 16, the army arrived at Huilai County, because it was a coastal official road, Shen Xi did not go to the inland prefecture and county to ask for money and grain, and after entering the city, he did not beat around the bush, and directly found Jian Fang, the county governor of Huilai, and reported the amount of money and grain he asked for.

Jian Fang's attitude towards this was very direct, and she finished raising money and food early in the morning.

Unlike the reluctance of Haifeng County, Huilai County is now being attacked by bandits, the officers and soldiers of the local guard station are inactive, and the inspection department is not of great use, and the local squires have begun to spontaneously train the villagers to defend their homes, and the arrival of Shen Xi's troops is simply a big savior for Huilai County.

It is more pragmatic to hand over the money and grain to the officers and soldiers under the command of Shen Xi and let the officers and soldiers come to quell the bandits than to feed those villagers who are used to holding hoes.

Shen Xi opened his mouth to ask for 300 stone of grain, 1,000 taels of silver, in Jian Fang's opinion, Shen Xi looked down on the squire of Huilai County, Jian Fang directly said that he would prepare 1,600 stone of grain and 5,000 taels of silver, as well as clothing, military uniforms, weapons, etc., and it was ready-made, and the local gentry would soon send things.

Even if it is too late to deliver it within a day, it will be replenished to Haimensuo, and even Huilai County can prepare certain siege equipment in case of emergency, after all, there are many pirates and pirates entrenched on Nanao Island, and there may be cottages that are difficult to capture and need to be used.

Back at the post house, the county government had already sent some necessary materials over, and even some local gentry paid homage to Shen Xi, but they were directly listed on the list by Shen Xi as military supplies.

Jing Yue said happily: "My lord, it seems that this place is still good in Huilai County, and then look at Haifeng County, tsk...... Can't compare to anything. ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, if Haifeng County was attacked by pirates every day, and there was a pain in his skin, he believed that the enthusiasm of Haifeng County for the bandits would be even higher than that of Huilai County.

Someone will do the work of sorting out the list, Shen Xi went in to wash his face, and when he came out, it was the county government that sent people to send chickens, ducks, fish and vegetables, and also sent a large number of people to the military camp outside the city, saying that it was a reward for the soldiers of the three armies.

Before the battle started, he first served with good food and drink, which was also to learn that Shen Xi led the troops south to level many bandit cities in southern Guangdong, and now Shen Xi and his officers and soldiers are offered as ancestors, and in a few days, these big-headed soldiers will go to the battlefield to fight with the bandits, and they may really have to go to see their ancestors, and send some delicious food and drink first.

Although the Huilai County Government did not hold a banquet, the people from the county government continued to send things to the post house one after another, which made Shen Xi a little embarrassed.

He originally came to ask for money and food, but now that people took the initiative to send money and food, he suddenly felt that something was missing. However, the soldiers were very happy, and after walking for more than ten days, they were bandits fighting Elephant Head Mountain, and they had worked hard all the way, and now they finally settled down a little, and there was meat to eat, and they were just right to feast on the tooth sacrifice.

The soldiers were elated, not in the slightest expectation of the danger a few days later, while Yu Niang somehow got the latest news from the capital and came over to pay tribute to Shen Xi.

Yu Niang and Shen Xi met alone in the official post living room, and the news she brought was very simple, the imperial court intended to take advantage of the civil strife in the grassland, when the Dayan Department and the Fire Sieve Department were exhausted, marched to the grassland, and harvested the Hetao Plain in one fell swoop, and used the Qiantao, Houtao, Dengkou and Helan Mountain as strategic support points, and then advanced the entire northern defense line to the line of Daningwei, Kaipingwei and Dongshengwei in the early Ming Dynasty, so that the northern situation of the Ming Dynasty could be completely changed.

At present, the imperial court is deliberating on the choice of leading troops.

Judging from all aspects, Emperor Hongzhi favored Shen Xi, and even if he was not allowed to lead the troops, he was likely to be the quartermaster of logistics supply, or the governor of Shaanxi. The transfer from the governor of the three provinces to the governor of Shaanxi is not considered a high promotion, and it is roughly a transfer at the same level.

Shen Xi said: "The bandit has not been completed yet, how could Your Majesty suddenly send this official to the three sides?" ”

Yu Niang shook her head: "Lord Shen, the slave family just told you the news that you knew, you may have to be mentally prepared, although the three sides are hard, but it is a place for men to make contributions, Lord Shen doesn't think that staying on the three sides has a better chance?" ”

There is a chance, but there is a better chance to bury a small life.

I'm fighting a bunch of rogues in the southeast. The first reaction of this group of rogues when they saw the officers and soldiers was not to start a war, but to spread their legs and slip away, or to retreat in the walled city, and what I basically had to do was to open a boat and open artillery to bombard, or to pursue, and the initiative was mine. And went to the northwest, the situation happened to turn around, and the first reaction of the Ming officers and soldiers when they encountered the Tatars was not to start a war, but to flee, find a place with a walled fortress and hide in it as a shrunken turtle, and the initiative was in the hands of the Tatars.

Although fighting in the northwest has a better chance of promotion, but the credit I made last time was not small, where is the reward?

Shen Xi waved his hand: "Hearsay is not enough to believe, even if the order is sent now, this official will wait until the bandits are quelled first." ”

At this time, Shen Xi adhered to the principle of "not being subject to the orders of the kings abroad", and sent me to the southeast coast to fight bandits, and you want to send me to the northwest with a paper order, but there is no door.

The reason for refusal is very simple, the battle of the bandits here is in full swing, and the slightest carelessness may wipe out the entire army, Your Majesty, you don't want to see the soldiers and horses of the bandits led by me be buried, right?

Yu Niang was helpless about Shen Xi's attitude, but she also knew that the matter of the appointment was not up to her.

Now there is no shortage of people in the northwest, Yang Yiqing, Wang Qiong, these people, are all famous capable ministers in history, even if the attack fails, it is more than enough to stick to the city defense, take a step back, isn't there still hundreds of Franc machine guns newly cast by the imperial court?

Shen Xi took ten cannons to bombard the Tatars and couldn't find the north, and you have hundreds of cannons on the city, if you still have to lose, it's really unreasonable.

Shen Xi asked: "The Yiyu master knows, which senior member of the court wants to let this official go to the northwest?" He wanted to find out the "culprit" who recommended him to the northwest, was it Xie Qian, or Liu Daxia or Ma Wensheng?

These three people probably took a fancy to Shen Xi's ability and wanted to "entrust them with important tasks", among which Liu Daxia was the most likely, after all, he was the secretary of the military department, and he had personally seen Shen Xi's performance in the first battle of Yuxi River, and Shen Xi came to Guangdong and was also recommended by Liu Daxia.

Ma Wensheng is unlikely, because Ma Wensheng is not very in charge of things at this time, and the main things are basically handed over to the left and right attendants, and he will retire in the office of the secretary of the ministry. As for Xie Qian, although he was sinister and treacherous in Shen Xi's eyes, he definitely didn't want to see his precious granddaughter as a widow.

If it weren't for the recommendation of these three people, then Shen Xi felt that he had to be careful, because it was very likely that some people who couldn't see his rapid promotion were done.

The northwest is a relatively easy place to make meritorious achievements, but it is also a bitter cold place that is very easy to die and be punished, Shen Xi can freely establish his own power on the southeast coast, and he will also have a basic plate for promotion to the court in the future, after all, the officers and soldiers of the three provinces are also a huge force when they gather. Therefore, some people wanted to guard against him and deliberately transferred him to the northwest.

No matter how heavy the authority of the northwest is, after all, there are many nobles, and newcomers have not been able to establish their own power in the past, and the situation of pressing power in the northwest abounds, with great merit, first of all, we must share the profits of those nobles, and finally it is the turn of a "rising star" like Shen Xi.

Yu Niang said hesitantly: "This ...... The slave family didn't know, and if Lord Shen wanted to know, I'm afraid he could only write to someone who knew him in the court. ”

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