"Dingxi Hou, meet again." Liu Haiyang was dressed in a navy spring and autumn uniform, with a saber at his waist, and walked majestically towards Zhang Mingzhen and the others. He and Zhang Mingzhen had only met once or twice, and they were not familiar with each other, but this did not prevent him from making cordial gestures.

"After a long time, Liu Junmen is also unharmed." Zhang Mingzhen is also a free and easy person, seeing that he did not make the slightest pause, he stepped forward to hold Liu Haiyang's hand, and said with a smile: "Over the years, my brother has heard for a long time in Wentai that Liu Junmen controls the great river and points at Songhang's prestige. ”

"The Tartar jumped off the beam clown, and he was lucky enough to be crazy for a while, stealing from China. However, there are no good men in the land of my Shenzhou, as long as all the heroes work together, they will be able to expel the Tartars and restore China. Liu Haiyang responded with a smile, and asked everyone to donate their past suspicions and contribute together.

Zhang Mingzhen himself does not have such a strong view of the door, he studied literature as a young man, and then traveled all over the world, and he has dealt with people of three religions and nine streams. In the last years of Chongzhen, he was already an official to a deputy general, guarding one side, and since the Qing soldiers went south, he has been painstakingly maintaining the situation in eastern Zhejiang for many years.

However, Zhang Mingzhen didn't mention it, which doesn't mean that others won't mention it. No, Lu Ruoteng, the representative of the Zheng family, who had just arrived here for two days, came out to speak: "Liu Junmen has good intentions, but some words have to be made clear first. Your country claims to be a descendant of the former Song Dynasty and Miao, and the name of the country is also named with the word Huaxia, but where does this put me in the Ming Dynasty? Since the Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, I have leveled the thieves and driven the Tartars. Win the world in a hundred battles. Since ancient times, there is no one who has won the country more righteously. What's more, I have thousands of reading seeds. The style of learning is not comparable to your country, and it is clear where this Huaxia Zhengshuo is. In the future, when the king expelled the Tartars and restored the Shenjing......"

"Mr. Ruan, be cautious!" Afraid that this somewhat straightforward old man would say anything that would make everyone unable to come to the stage, Zhang Mingzhen immediately interrupted in a hurry: "Liu Junmen of the Eastern Dynasty repaired water conservancy, revitalized agriculture and mulberry in Ningbo, punished spies, and persuaded industry and commerce. Now that the Tartars have entered the customs, Shenzhou is in a bloody state, and this time of survival is at stake. There is no benefit to the people, the court, and the emperor, and the Tartars laugh at it! Be careful! ”

Lu Ruoteng originally wanted to say something more, but after hearing Zhang Mingzhen's words, he seemed to remember the ardent expectations of the king of Yanping County before the trip, so he forced himself to endure it, and after snorting, he didn't say anything. In fact, he didn't want to talk about this, but after coming to Ningbo these days, he intermittently came into contact with a lot of old people in the past (he used to be Ning Shao's sea patrol), and he had a general understanding of what these overseas visitors from the Eastern Dynasty had done in Yinxian and other places, and he was very angry for a while. This time I took this opportunity. They all had a seizure, not wanting Zhang Mingzhen to interrupt him.

Of course. This is just to vent his personal feelings, and he still remembers his own job, which is to take the opportunity of the alliance to get more benefits from Liu Junmen of the Eastern Dynasty. As for letting the king of Yanping County lead his army to Ningbo to meet the alliance and attack the Tartars, don't even think about it, they have already made up their minds to conquer the city in Fujian and expand their influence for the son of Yongli, and do as little else as possible.

Liu Guochang, the general of the Dashun Left Battalion who was standing behind Liu Haiyang, also smiled coldly when he heard this, he was born in poverty, and he hated these gentry who wantonly oppressed and exploited the peasants. Believe it or not, we will make peace with the Tartars today, and tomorrow Zilharang will lead the main force to cross the mountains and go south to serve you in a pot?

Liu Haiyang didn't think he was angry about what Lu Ruoteng said, but he didn't pay attention to his stubble, but beckoned everyone to sit down in the small building on the first and second floors of the dock. The hall on the first floor of the small building is quite spacious, and at this time there is a very long conference table, Liu Haiyang is not humble, and sits directly on the main seat, and two staff officers sit behind him, holding a notebook in their hands to prepare to record.

Zhang Mingzhen only brought Ruan Jin and another older master inside, but he didn't say anything at this time, and sat down in the first place; Lu Ruoteng seemed to be entangled for a long time, and finally sighed, and sat opposite Zhang Mingzhen with two friends; Then there was Liu Guochang on the Dashun side, he took Yuan Bao and Zhang Guangcui, two generals of his sons and nephews, and first glanced at Lu Ruoteng and others coldly, and then slowly sat down; In the end, there was another person who sat alone, and this person was Hao Shangjiu, the confidant general of Li Chengdong in Guangdong and the new Taihou of the Southern Ming Dynasty. A while ago, he led the army to pacify the Qing army that invaded the Chaozhou capital, and after colluding with the people on the east coast, he sold a large number of Chaozhou prisoners to the east bank in exchange for a large amount of urgently needed military funds. This time the Ningbo Alliance, Li Chengdong thought twice, and still sent Hao Shangjiu to take more than 2,000 people to Ningbo on the east coast ship, which was considered to mean and give face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I, Liu Haiyang, am a rough person, I don't like to be polite, so I can say anything directly." Liu Haiyang looked at the representatives of the various forces sitting at the bottom, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "Everyone has seen the shape of this year, the Qing court soldiers are divided into three routes, respectively from Shaanxi and Gansu, Henan and Jiangbei to the south, sweeping hundreds of thousands of horses and horses, sweeping away all the righteous armies with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai. At this critical moment, our army cannot sit idly by, so I want to lead the army up the Yangtze River, capture Zhenjiang, Nanjing and other places along the way, interrupt the deployment of the Qing court, and strive for a favorable shape for the rebels in various places. ”

"This is the right thing, I can't wait for it." As soon as Liu Haiyang's voice fell, Hao Shangjiu, the "tuo" who brought his own dry food, shouted: "Liu Junmen is noble, he should be the leader of the alliance, if he needs us to contribute, he should not do it." ”

Hao Shangjiu is a native of Henan, born as a thief, and has always been the northerner general relied on by Li Chengdong's army. Before Li Chengdong was beaten by the Qing army led by Chen Tai to the south, and the losses were quite large, and the army, mainly from the north, lived in Guangdong for a long time, and the epidemic was rampant in the army, and the morale was extremely low, and it was the end of defeat. At this time, it was Liu Haiyang's attack on Hangzhou that relieved him of the siege, and Chen Tai led the main force of the Qing army north to rescue Hangzhou with Jierharang who was heading eastward; In this way, Li Chengdong picked up a life, he and his subordinates rekindled their confidence, reorganized the troops and entered Chaozhou, and repeatedly tug-of-war with the soldiers and horses of Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Fujian, and then coincided with Zheng's large-scale entry into Fujian from the sea, Zhao Guozuo contracted his forces, so that Li Chengdong defeated the local remnants of the Qing army and recovered the entire Chaozhou capital.

Two months ago, the East Coast Fleet went south to warn the Dutch, and went around Guangdong by the way, and got into contact with Li Chengdong very smoothly. After hearing that the East Coast could sell old yellow-clothed guns (retired artillery, each with a life of hundreds of shells) and other military resources, Li Chengdong was overjoyed and immediately ordered his troops to sell a large number of local Chaozhou Qing troops captured in the Battle of Chaozhou by Hao Shangjiu (how many of them were innocent civilians) to the East Coast as piglets, in exchange for a batch of urgently needed military funds.

And after making this deal with the people of the East Coast, Li Chengdong suddenly became interested in the East Dynasty. After hearing that Liu Junmen, who was stationed in Ningbo, planned to launch the Yangtze River Campaign with the various armed forces of the Alliance, he said with a shy face that he was willing to send some soldiers and horses to fight with him - anyway, he was also a local powerful faction on the side of the Southern Ming Dynasty, with more than 100,000 troops at hand (of which about 50,000 or 60,000 were brought from the north), and his independence has always been strong, so even if the Yongli Emperor has not yet expressed his opinion on the matter of the Alliance (he has not even heard of it), Li Chengdong has already made a decision to have Hao Shangjiu transfer 2,500 people from the Chaozhou garrison to the north, Participate in the Battle of the Yangtze River to deepen ties with the Eastern Dynasties.

Of course, Hao Shangjiu knew his boss's thoughts, so as soon as Liu Haiyang got up, he jumped out to express his support for the first time, which made Zhang Mingzhen, Lu Ruoteng, and Liu Guochang look sideways for a while. And Liu Haiyang nodded approvingly at Hao Shangjiu, which made Hao Shangjiu as comfortable as drinking cold water on a dog day, and shouted in his heart that he had earned it, and Liu Junmen was happy as long as he leaked something out of his fingers, it was enough for more than 2,000 people to change their clothes collectively.

After Hao Shangjiu spoke, Liu Guochang was a little depressed, because he was the trust arranged by Liu Haiyang in advance, but he didn't expect this job to be robbed, so he could only say quite angrily: "What Commander Liu said is very true!" Our troops are fighting this time, and there are many of them, but there are 4,000 people, and they are all battle-hardened warriors, not comparable to some rabble. I'm afraid that some people's chests will be loud before the war, but when it comes to the battle, they will be sparsely tightened, so that we will lose the face of our old soldiers. ”

Hao Shangjiu's boss Li Chengdong was originally a general of Gao Jie, so Liu Guochang couldn't be wrong when he said that they were from the old Chuang army, and he himself had always had a contemptuous attitude towards the original Chuang army of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally didn't have a good face at this time. And after Liu Guochang said these words, he thought that Hao Shangjiu would be angry and retorted, but he didn't think that people were very thick-skinned, and he had already made up his mind to mix some good things before leaving this time, so he didn't move whatever you said, so Liu Guochang was helpless.

And after two people were perverted, everyone's eyes fell on Zhang Mingzhen and Lu Ruoteng who were present. In particular, Zhang Mingzhen, who currently has a large area of territory in Wentai and other places, has always been the one with the highest strength and prestige in the Lu Jianguo system, and his statement is extremely important to the success of this alliance. (To be continued......) R1292