The 100,000 army led by Liu Zeqing was stationed near Hainingwei, which belonged to Jiaxing Mansion, in fact, the Jiangning Battalion army entered Ningbo Mansion, Liu Zeqing was completely aware, but he had no idea of fighting with the Jiangning Battalion at all.

To say that this Liu Zeqing also has a certain reputation in the imperial court, when Chongzhen was six years old, he became the chief soldier, but later Su Tiancheng and Jiangning Battalion sudden, so that his role began to be slowly forgotten by the imperial court.

After Liu Zeqing was stationed in Zhejiang, many years have passed, and his life has been comfortable, but the sergeants under his command are arrogant and extravagant, and the people are prey, for which the local government has been impeached many times, but in the end they are all gone, on the contrary, some local officials who have opposed him have finally left in disgrace, which further fuels Liu Zeqing's arrogance.

Zhejiang, is also the land of fish and rice, the merchants here, are generally relatively wealthy, the army is stationed in such a place, thinking about relying on the poor military salary allocated by the imperial court, I am afraid that life is very difficult, even if it is the general soldier Liu Zeqing, don't think about living a comfortable life, so it is a matter of course to exploit the people.

Hainingwei is close to the sea, the production of illicit salt here is particularly arrogant, the government can not ask at all, the reason why this situation occurs, many officials are clear, the biggest boss behind this is Liu Zeqing, sometimes, there will even be the army escorting the smuggling salt dealers, this is the case, how can the government ask.

After receiving the emperor's holy decree, Liu Zeqing didn't care. He once was crowned as the right governor, and the rank of the military attache has reached the first grade, and it doesn't matter if he has the false title of the secretary of the military department, besides, this is also the emperor is in a hurry. That's why I thought of letting myself resist the Jiangning battalion, who didn't know the courage of the Jiangning battalion, and he took the soldiers to fight hard, if he was defeated and lost many sergeants, it would be nothing at that time, such a thing, Liu Zeqing still understood.

Liu Zeqing's plan is very perfect, and it is a matter of being the king and hegemon. He didn't dare to think about it, and it was impossible under the current situation, but he could still do it with self-respect, at least in Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou Mansion and even Hangzhou Mansion, these places can be counted if they speak by themselves, and their own army can also rely on these places to feed, and he will never take the initiative to fight with the Jiangning battalion, if possible. He wanted to make direct contact with Su Tiancheng and say what he wanted. Being able to canonize a place is like being a prince in the Spring and Autumn Period, isn't there such a thing in history?

After receiving the holy decree, Liu Zeqing still discussed with his subordinates, and as a result, everyone's thoughts were surprisingly unanimous, and no one agreed to conquer the Jiangning camp. But everyone also made a request, since the court asked the army to crusade, then it was necessary to allocate silver taels, who would fight without silver, if the court could not allocate silver taels. The army will figure it out for itself.

Liu Zeqing felt that this opinion was very good, so he wrote a fold in disguise, on the one hand, he thanked the emperor for his trust and canonization, on the other hand, he stretched out his hand to ask the court for silver, and also advised his officers and sergeants not to act for the time being, waiting for the emperor's holy decree, Liu Zeqing actually knew very well that the emperor saw such a twist and turn, and he couldn't get angry, where would he allocate the silver, he must have asked the army to solve it on the spot, or simply ignore it.

Liu Zeqing was born in the military, and sometimes his thoughts are very simple, the battle between Su Tiancheng and the imperial court has just begun, who wins and who loses, or something that is not clear, to say that the two sides have their own advantages, Jiangning Camp is strong, but the emperor has an orthodox status, as well as the support of many scholars, such a battle, I still don't want to get involved, besides, Su Tiancheng's rebellion also reminded Liu Zeqing that holding the army in his hand is the king.

In less than ten days, Li Juesi, the governor of Zhejiang, rushed to Jiaxing, found Liu Zeqing, and brought the emperor's holy decree, the meaning of the holy decree, and asked the governor of Zhejiang, Yamen, to solve the grain and grass affairs of the army.

When he talked to Liu Zeqing, he was not polite, saying that the governor Yamen was trying to raise grain and grass, but in a short period of time, it was impossible to gather too much grain and grass, but the army still had to start conquering the Jiangning battalion.

Where would Liu Zeqing listen to Li Juesi, he didn't expect that the emperor actually had a holy decree, and he directly asked the governor of Zhejiang Yamen to solve the problem of grain and grass, from this point of view, the court and the emperor were also very anxious, so Liu Zeqing superficially promised the army to start preparations, but he said a lot of difficulties, including the military salary is too low, including the lack of grain and grass in the barracks, it is difficult to maintain the conquest of the army, etc., in fact, he is forcing Li Juesi to praise and agree to the army to collect grain and grass along the road.

Li Juesi understood what Liu Zeqing meant, if he agreed to Liu Zeqing's collection of grain and grass along the road, the people would definitely suffer a great loss, and Huzhou and other places suffered a catastrophe, and they are still in the process of recovery, and there are still a lot of victims in various places.

The holy decree is difficult to disobey, since the emperor has issued an edict to the governor's yamen, it shows the seriousness of the situation, and Li Juesi, who is helpless, only agrees to let Liu Zeqing collect grain and grass on the spot.

Li Juesi knew what it meant to agree with Liu Zeqing to collect grain and grass on the spot, so he did not stop in Jiaxing, nor did he urge Liu Zeqing to lead the army to go on the expedition, and went straight back to Hangzhou.

Liu Zeqing, who achieved his goal, was very happy, and he even secretly thanked Su Tiancheng, if it weren't for the rebellion in Jiangning under Su Tiancheng, where would the army have the opportunity to collect grain and grass on the spot, this is the emperor's intention, the army can blatantly loot, and when the time comes, won't the silver of the white flowers enter the pocket.

As for the crusade against the Jiangning camp, there is no need to be in such a hurry, anyway, the army still needs time to collect grain and grass, and then get the silver first.

Capital.

Fan Jingwen finally set off.

When he left the capital, Fan Jingwen's mood was sad, his suggestion was not adopted by the emperor, seeing that the atmosphere in the court was becoming more and more tense, Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fanzi were rampant, as if it had returned to the situation during the Apocalypse, if this situation was maintained for a long time, I don't know when the Ming Dynasty would fall to the ground.

All this was caused by Su Tiancheng's rebellion, so when he set off, Fan Jingwen gritted his teeth and hated Su Tiancheng, it is said that Su Tiancheng relied on the imperial examination to enter the imperial court, and was appointed by the emperor as a role model, but he did not know how to be grateful, but he openly rebelled.

When Fan Jingwen set off from the capital, the news that Su Tiancheng established himself as the king of Germany had not yet reached the capital, but on the way, he had heard the news, and the news came from Zhejiang.

Fan Jingwen is indeed a rare loyal minister in the imperial court, and his ability is also good, a few years ago, he was Su Tiancheng's direct boss, at that time he served as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and he also had some contact, but later he didn't expect that Su Tiancheng's position rose too fast, but in more than ten years, he became a cabinet scholar, a prince and a teacher, and a Ji Liao supervisor, and he was the first person to directly lead the army among the cabinet scholars.

In any case, Su Tiancheng's status has risen so fast, it is impossible without the emperor's trust, although Su Tiancheng led the Jiangning camp and made a lot of contributions, but loyalty to the monarch is something that every scholar understands, even if the emperor has any misunderstanding about the courtiers and cannot explain it, he can only endure it, not rebel.

Fan Jingwen's itinerary is still a little fast, this time he left the capital, originally there was no other ministers of the court to accompany him, and at such a time, there would be no one to accompany him, but after Fan Jingwen thought about it, he still decided to take someone with him, so as not to say something unclear, thinking about it, he decided to take Wu Weiye and Yan Zizhang, who were still in the prison, both of whom were imprisoned because of some involvement with Su Tiancheng.

The emperor still supported Fan Jingwen's decision and personally asked Jinyiwei to release Wu Weiye and Yan Zizhang.

Along the way, Fan Jingwen discussed with the two many times, and Wu Weiye put forward a lot of suggestions, but Yan Zizhang didn't say anything and remained silent.

Seeing that he had entered the territory under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Mansion in Zhejiang, Fan Jingwen breathed a sigh of relief, it was still time to come, at least Su Tiancheng had not been able to occupy Hangzhou, this was an opportunity, he must admonish Su Tiancheng, don't think about rebellion, don't think about violating the way of heaven, otherwise you will suffer from heaven.

Zhejiang Governor Li Juesi specially received Fan Jingwen, and Li Juesi admired Fan Jingwen very much for daring to come to Zhejiang and dare to meet Su Tiancheng, and thought that he couldn't do it.

Li Juesi also talked about the actual situation in Zhejiang, because last year suffered a locust plague, the Fuzhou County mentioned by many places have been affected, Huzhou has suffered the greatest losses, and the common people who have fallen into the disaster are also the most, and there are many difficulties in the expenses of the governor's yamen, so the silver taels for the army to be conscripted cannot be made up for a while, so Liu Zeqing can only be asked to solve it by himself, that is, to raise military salaries and grain and grass on the spot.

Of course, Fan Jingwen understood the meaning of this, but at this time, his main mind was still to see Su Tiancheng, say the words that had to be said, and do his best to persuade Su Tiancheng not to rebel. (To be continued......)