"This is not forced by the imperial court." Jiang Guozhu let out a long sigh, he knew that the news of Shunzhi's personal expedition would not be hidden for long, so he told the truth to his standard battalion commander.

Hearing that the emperor was about to come to Nanjing, the commander of the standard camp was also speechless, as Jiang Guozhu's confidant, of course, he also knew about Jiang Guozhu's contact with Deng, and knew very well that this was a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, if the emperor arrived in Nanjing, it would greatly increase the possibility of the truth being exposed.

After Jiang Guozhu summoned several of his confidants and aides to discuss the matter together, and after learning that Shunzhi was going to Nanjing in two months, several of his staff also had the same idea as Jiang Guozhu, that is, to immediately solve Deng Ming by force, as long as Deng Ming could be eliminated, then there was no fear of any rumors, and if anyone still wanted to make trouble, the governor of Jiangning could completely interpret these actions as a means to paralyze the enemy.

Some excited aides demanded that Jiang Guozhu immediately submit a war letter to Deng and start the war immediately. However, the commander of the standard battalion repeatedly claimed that it was almost impossible to solve Deng Ming by force, and once he tore his face with Deng Ming, the field battle out of the city could only be solved faster than Deng Ming; Now the Jiangnan Green Battalion can defend Nanjing by relying on the city defense, but the other prefectures and cities are likely to be unsafe, and the only thing that can stop Deng Ming's attack is probably only because Deng Ming is reluctant to sacrifice the elite armor soldiers under his command.

"After the war letter is issued, we will immediately hide all the ships in Shuicheng, let all the prefectures and counties close the city gates, give up all the land outside the city to hold the city, and stop navigation on the Yangtze River to prevent our ships from being taken away by Deng Ming." Despite the tremendous pressure from the staff group, the commander of the standard battalion would rather be scolded by them as a coward than agree to the war: "Only if we can launch an attack immediately, it is beneficial to start a war, and now the war is to abandon the Yangtze River, and then give up a large area of land to defend with all its might, what is the purpose of this war?" ”

Although Jiang Guozhu did not know the assertion that "tactics serve strategy", he was now caught in this dilemma, and strategically demanded that he immediately break off the war with Deng Ming, but tactically he did not have any reason to go to war.

"Maybe the emperor will take back his fate." The insistence of the commander of the standard battalion made the staff gradually lose the determination to go to war, and finally one of the staff members told him about his luck: "Maybe the emperor will not really recruit in person." ”

This sentence made Jiang Guozhu's determination to go to war immediately even more shaken, yes, if the emperor did not personally conquer in the end, what good would it do to tear up the agreement and start a war? was beaten by Deng Ming, and maybe he had to accept an even more humiliating alliance under the city; In case the emperor had changed his mind and did not plan to go on a personal expedition, but seeing the successive fiascos in Jiangnan and the successive losses of prefectures and counties, and insisted on launching a personal expedition, wouldn't Jiang Guozhu have caused trouble for himself?

In the end, Jiang Guozhu decided to wait and see the changes for the time being, while reducing contact with Deng Ming, saving money and food, accumulating troops, if the emperor did not personally conquer, it would be forgotten, and if the emperor personally conquered, he would be more confident when he was forced to go to war with Deng Ming.

"Since you are going to fight against Deng Ming, does the training of the Jiangning Green Battalion need to be strengthened?" Before the meeting ended, the commander of the standard battalion asked another question: "Is it temporarily changed to a five-day exercise?" Or a three-day-a-day? ”

Jiang Guozhu's face was embarrassed, and a staff member who didn't care about money and food said angrily: "What are you lazy at this time, you should practice day and night." ”

"I don't dare to think about practicing day and night, but if the governor agrees, of course it is best to practice every day." The commander of the standard battalion replied happily.

But before Jiang Guozhu could speak, the other staff members had already scolded the person who spoke just now, and blamed him for not coming out and shouting regardless of money and food.

Every time they go out of the camp for drills, they must be given at least double rations, and if the soldiers are not fed, the officers will not dare to let them go to the playground, and they will definitely be shot in the back. And the drill also needs to be rewarded, not only to the soldiers, but also to officers at all levels, if the performance is not rewarded, the next drill accidents will increase significantly, that is, the table xiàn generally has to give some appropriately, otherwise the accident will still increase. Finally, the drill will inevitably lead to the consumption of materials, not to mention the bow and arrow, it will definitely report the damage to armor and weapons, and all need to be repaired, even if it is a scarecrow as a target, it will cost silver.

As long as the above is willing to allocate funds, the soldiers can eat well, the junior officers can get rewards, and the senior officers and warehouse management have extra money, which is naturally a happy thing, so the commander of the standard battalion just now did not dare to expect to practice day and night, as long as he could drill every day, he was overjoyed. However, if you don't give money and let the army increase the number of exercises, then wait for the mutiny, and Jiangning's inventory has long been empty because of many disasters and difficulties, and now Jiang Guozhu has to gather troops, save grain and grass to prepare for war, it would be good to keep fighting, what else to add?

Jiang Guozhu weighed it, but in the end he still did not agree to the request of the commander of the standard battalion to add exercises, and the commander of the standard battalion, who had not been able to earn extra money for himself and his peers, went away, and at the same time resented those staff, he also had a sense of revenge: "At this juncture, I am not willing to give more silver, okay, anyway, I am not alone in my luck, I will practice twice this month, and once I will go through the motions." ”

In fact, the governor of Jiangning is not ignorant of the wishes of his officers, but he really has difficulties, these officers do not know the value of wealth and rice, the last time to reinforce the thousands of green battalions in Yangzhou, Liang Huafeng had to go for tens of thousands of taels of opening fees, and afterwards reported 500 deaths, 10,000 arrows of attrition, and dozens of meritorious officers of the reward -- because it was Lin Qilong who provoked the incident, so Liang Huafeng claimed that Jiang Guozhu only asked for half of the pension, supplement, and reward, and took away a lot of silver -- although Jiang Guozhu felt that there must be fraud in it, But he didn't dare to disobey the general's intentions at this time, so he still gave it to Liang Huafeng.

In order to borrow Zhou Peigong, Jiang Guozhu also took out a large sum of silver, and now although the Jiangning Domain Treasury is not yet to the point of running mice, it is not far away. Gather troops to Jiangning to draw silver, after arrival, all military horses will be rewarded with silver, guest troops will also have double pay, and they will be given two dry meals a day during wartime...... If he did it more, Jiang Guozhu knew that the treasury would be able to bottom out next month. At that time, the soldiers have been trained, but they can't issue the silver in advance, and they can't get the pension and reward silver afterwards, and the soldiers still can't drive them to fight with Deng Ming, no matter how well they train, what is the point of this training?

When Jiang Guozhu had a headache, Yangzhou officialdom was also in chaos, after Lin Qilong learned that the emperor was going to conquer in person, his first thought was to flee back to Huai'an, where he was stationed, and never stay in Yangzhou again, but Lin Qilong thought about it, in case the emperor found out the truth, if he was not around, he would not have the opportunity to justify his clever words, and the consequences might be worse.

And Lin Qilong also thought of going to Jiang Guozhu together, that is, to start a war with Deng Ming before Shunzhi's personal expedition, if he was lucky enough to defeat Deng Ming, then any mistakes he had before could be covered up. However, after asking the commander of his standard battalion and the general who commanded the officers and soldiers of the river, Lin Qilong also dispelled this crazy idea, because all of them pointed out that this was suicide -- in the absence of a sailor, if he took a group of river soldiers who would bully the river workers to fight Deng Ming, who had the right to control the river, it was estimated that half of the soldiers who had crossed the river would be able to desert.

And Lin Qilong's standard camp is far less powerful than Jiang Guozhu's, although the customization of other governors' standard camps is a thousand armor horses, but the governor of Caoyun rarely encounters a time when he needs to fight, so the imperial court never intends to spend this unjust money, Lin Qilong's standard camp is just a hundred guards.

In the case that the river soldiers were unreliable, Lin Qilong pinned his hopes on Liang Huafeng, although the other party was the general of Liangjiang, but Lin Qilong had a great advantage, that is, he was far richer than Jiang Guozhu now. With the donations obtained from the salt merchants and the income from the speculators, Lin Qilong made a fortune ruthlessly, and the wealthy Caoyun Governor is now holding millions of taels of silver after making a frantic move.

Lin Qilong's condition to Liang Huafeng was that he was responsible for giving Liang Huafeng extra money, and if he wanted to expand his troops, Lin Qilong could also sponsor a part, in exchange, Liang Huafeng wanted to ensure that he had a share of the credit of the governor of Caoyun, that is, whether it was in the chapter or in the face of the emperor's inquiry, Liang Huafeng had to include the officers and soldiers of the river in the sequence of fighting against Deng Ming.

Liang Huafeng had no objection to this, and immediately agreed to Lin Qilong's request, saying that he would immediately expand the army to 5,000 armor soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, and the part that exceeded the number of soldiers would be temporarily named Yiyong. Needless to say, the military salaries needed by the army, even the equipment needed by these armored soldiers, had to be built by the governor of Caoyun immediately; From now on, Liang Huafeng will also urge the army to practice day and night, in order to become a strong army that cannot be humiliated. 、

"Ten thousand taels of silver a day." Liang Huafeng offered a price, in addition to the cost of equipment and the settling-in fee for recruiting Ding Yong, Liang Huafeng also asked Lin Qilong to pay a month's training fee first: "300,000 taels, bother the governor to give the last general an approval, and after taking the silver from the treasury, the last general will start training tomorrow." ”

"10,000 taels ......a day" Lin Qilong was mentally prepared for Liang Huafeng's extortion, but even so he was still stunned, although the governor of Caoyun was a fat shortage, but Lin Qilong's net silver in a year was about 50,000 taels of silver, and he was still complacent when he reached an agreement with Deng Ming last time, thinking that it was equivalent to being the governor of Caoyun for twenty years, and Liang Huafengguang's training fee was going to be taken away for six years, and it was only a month: "Why don't you rob it?" ”

"The Governor has spoken seriously, and the last general only knows how to do things honestly, and he does not know that he is there." Although the angry Lin Qilong had already begun to scold the street, Liang Huafeng strictly abided by etiquette, and his expression did not fluctuate in the slightest: "In order to train a strong army as much as possible, the governor just instructed the last general to practice day and night, and the soldiers must be given four meals on this day...... In order to achieve a quick reward, the punishment must be heavy, so not only the reward, but also a lot of medicine...... Eight hours a day of training, an archer shoots a hundred arrows, isn't it...... Even if it is a grass cutter, the knife will be dull for eight hours a day...... There are also night exercises, and these torches and pine resin are also silver, and the little things add up to a lot......"

In the end, Lin Qilong dispelled the idea of practicing day and night, and changed to one exercise a day, despite this, Liang Huafeng still asked for 120,000 taels of silver for the first month's exercise.

After removing the silver from the treasury, Liang Huafeng secretly ordered a henchman to immediately bring 100,000 taels to Beijing and send it to the high-ranking officials in the court.

"Governor Jiang is going to be unlucky this time, and Governor Lin is also choking." Liang Huafeng pondered in his heart: "As soon as the emperor arrives in Yangzhou, I will go to tell the truth, I am just a martial artist, I don't know anything, this Tong Deng is all made by them, I just follow orders." Liang Huafeng knew that most of his own faults would be made after the East Window incident, if he didn't feel that he couldn't hide it, Liang Huafeng didn't want to be this villain, and now he still needs to think about how to make up for the emperor's impression of himself: "Train the troops well, and then take the lead in front of the emperor to seek the emperor's forgiveness." ”

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