At the end of June, it is the summer weather, Jiangning City is steaming like roasting, standing outside the Donghua Gate, looking from a distance, the city seems to have hot steam steaming out, making the magnificent and majestic Donghua Gate City Tower look distorted. Those who have good deeds will break the eggs and smear them on the stone, and they will be cooked in a moment.

In addition to the occasional pedestrian resting in the willow shade on the riverside, the post road outside the Donghua Gate can not see the shadow of the carriage and horse passing by for half a day......

At this time, smoke and dust rose from afar, and although no sound could be heard from a distance, the experienced veterans who defended the city knew that there were fast horses galloping from a distance, and thought: In such a hot weather, and still riding on horses like this, people can bear it, and horses can't bear it.

Five fast horses galloped from afar, the sound of hooves was eager to run to thunder, all five of them were brown armor with swords, carrying big bows, tying a circle of blue and black belts around their pockets, and wearing earth-colored military uniforms under the armor. The junior colonel on duty did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly went down to the city gate tower to inspect the city gate, and asked, "Dare to ask where these five military masters came from?" ”

Galloping to the downstairs of the city gate, the head of the post rode off the horse, took out the swarthy iron sign from his arms, handed it over, and said: "Huaidong Hou, Zhedong, and Huaidong have made a special fold into Beijing to present the saint, please make it ......convenient for the master."

"Isn't it that the Marquis of Huaidong won another battle in eastern Zhejiang?"

"I just passed the victory a few days ago, how can I win the battle so easily this year?" The Huaidong Yiqi led by him said with a smile.

"It's all saying that Huaidong Hou is the reincarnation of Wuquxing, the military god of my Dayue Dynasty, and all the generals under him are the reincarnations of heavenly soldiers and generals - I don't think it's fake. If others want to win a battle, they can't get it even if they use their strength to eat milk, but Huaidong Hou leads the troops, and it's as easy as taking something out of his own pocket," the little colonel of the city gate heard that it was Huaidong's messenger, and his mind was a little settled, grinning and showing yellow teeth, squinting and smiling, and stammered, "Master Jun, don't think I'm exaggerating, I've been guarding this Donghua Gate for some years, and it's coming from outside, how many things are not frustrating, but I hope that all Huaidong military masters can go to Jiangning for two more miles......"

At this time, there was a carriage going out of the city, the carriage was extraordinary, the sunshade canopy and the light veil hung down, only two people could be seen sitting in the carriage, and there were four swordsmen behind the carriage; Listening to the conversation at the city gate, there was a soft cold snort from the carriage. In the silence of the city gate cave where only the sound of cicadas came from, the cold snort was clear, as if he was quite disdainful of the city gate school's compliment to Huaidonghou's stammering words - the city gate school looked at the carriage and the entourage of the entourage, and knew that Jiangning had now become the imperial capital, and there were many nobles like carp crossing the river, all of whom he could not afford to be guilty of, so he humbly avoided the Huaidong post and let the carriage go out of the city first.

The carriage went out of the city gate, galloping quickly on the hot hard dirt road, blowing the hanging veil away with the wind, but the two people sitting opposite each other in the carriage were Dong Yuan, the right attendant of the military department who had just been appointed as the envoy of northern Zhejiang and went to Beijing to report on his work, and Yu Bijiang, the new governor of Haozhou.

The most inexplicable and profound hatred in these years is jealousy, and Lin Tie wantonly promoted officials from non-imperial examinations in Huaidong, how could this method be recognized by Yu Bijiang, who was born in the serious imperial examination-he studied hard for ten years, and he wanted to climb over the dragon gate through this, and saw that others could find another way to occupy a high position, how could he balance his heart?

Listening to the city gate colonel touting Lin Jian as a martial arts star and a military god in the world, how could Yu Bijiang feel comfortable in his heart?

"It's just that the shaft has the will," Yu Xinjiang sat in the carriage, seeing Dong Yuan's face gloomy and resolute, I don't know if he was thinking about the war in eastern Zhejiang, and said, "Speaking of which, it will be a great victory or Lord Dong has the greatest credit, if it weren't for Lord Dong presiding over the defense in Hangjia, dragging the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels to the point of collapse and low morale, how could the shaft be so easy to pick the fruit?" Huaidong's request for merit did not mention the merit of Master Dong at all, which is infuriating! ”

"......" Dong Yuan exhaled lightly, he had just stepped down from northern Zhejiang, and the Huaidong Army had won a great victory in destroying more than 10,000 enemies and recovering Huiji City on the west bank of the Cao'e River.

Although Yu Xinjiang comforted him so much, in the hearts of more people in Jiangning, they thought that his role in Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang was insignificant and not worth mentioning, and that it was a correct decision made by the imperial court to transfer him Dong Yuan from northern Zhejiang......

This made Dong Yuan somewhat embarrassed when he arrived in Jiangning.

Yu Bijiang saw that his words made Dong Yuan's face soothe slightly, and then said: "The pride of the erector is only for a while, the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels have assembled a large army in Xiaoshan and Shanyin, and the Huaidong army will inevitably fall a big heel - look at their faces when the time comes!" ”

Dong Yuan was in a complicated mood, although he would not have no city like Yu Bijiang, he directly blurted out that the Huaidong Army would defeat the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Huiji, and he must know that the Huaidong Army was really defeated by the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Huiji, and Jiangning's life would definitely not be easy, but the Huaidong Army was like a broken bamboo on the Eastern Front, which always made him feel depressed and unable to vent his resentment.

At this time, there is a car driving in front of us, and there are also several riders accompanying each other, and there are several people sitting under the sunshade of the carriage, and their bearing is extraordinary.

When Dong Yuan first came to Jiangning, he didn't know too many people, but he didn't recognize those people who were extraordinary, but Yu Bijiang's face suddenly tensed. The carriage was speeding from the direction of the Jinchuan estuary, and Dong Yuan could guess that the people who made Yu Pijiang unhappy were probably the Dongyang Township Party or people with close ties to Huaidong.

The two cars crossed hands in the blink of an eye, and Yu Bijiang said: "The clowns have jumped on the girder - the person sitting on the south side is Wen Bing, the son of the River Gang, and the others don't know each other." ”

Dong Yuan turned his head and glanced back, the carriage was getting farther away, and several people in the carriage were also turning their heads to look at them.

The most different thing between Lin Jian and others is that there are too many people of all kinds under his command, regardless of their background; There are several fathers, sons, uncles and nephews of the Sun family, who were born in the Xihe Society of the River Gang, but they are just characters who can't get on the stage in the lower nine streams, and they have always been despised by scholars, and now they are all important figures in Huaidong.

Dong Yuan sighed in his heart and didn't say anything.

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"Dong Yuan has been in Jiangning for a few days, but he has been close to the father and son of the Yu family," Sun Wenbing watched the carriage that Dong Yuan was sitting in gradually drifting away, turned around, and said to Lin Mengde and Zhou Guangnan, who came from Chongzhou to Jiangning this time, "They should be going to Sanliuzhuang......

Sanliuzhuang is located in the east of Quyang Town, the west bank of Moling Lake, Sanliuzhuang was originally the property of the Qu family, after the Qu family gave the Zhu family, including Sanliuzhuang, many Tian Zhai family property to copy as the official owned.

After Chen Xiyan became the first assistant, the influence of Wu Party officials in the DPRK and China increased greatly.

In order to further strengthen the momentum of the Wu Party in Xinjing, Chen Xiyan, Yu Xinyuan and other Wu Party bigwigs invested in the purchase of Sanliuzhuang on the shore of Moling Lake, and moved the Xixi Society, which was far away from Jiangning City, to the vicinity, making the west side of Moling Lake a place where humanities gather for a time.

Lin Mengde said: "Before Dong Yuan joined the Wu Party, the adults had expected it beforehand, but they didn't expect him to be so ......."

Sun Wenbing thought to himself, Dong Yuan's identity is not comparable to Yu Bijiang, even Yu Bijiang's father Yu Xinyuan, his reputation may not be comparable to Dong Yuan - he has been in Jiangning for a few days, he has surrendered his identity, frequently haunted restaurants and tea shops with Yu Pijiang, and deliberately curried favor - this is someone else, and he may not be able to lower this posture.

But Dong Yuan's biggest disadvantage is that he does not have the support of factions. Although he made peace with Yue Lengqiu before, it was when Yue Lengqiu first came to Jiangning, and there was no one to rely on. After Yue Lengqiu supported Deng Yu and Tao Chun, what are the benefits, first of all, they are all for the Changhuai Army and the Huinan Army, and finally they will think of Dong Yuan.

Even this time, Yue Lengqiu was also worried that the Changhuai army stationed in Daliang was too protruding in front of the Hehuai defense line, and he also hoped that Huaixi would have a general to preside over it, and he could provide strong support for the Changhuai army from the flank and rear, but he was the first person who agreed with Chen Xiyan to transfer Dong Yuan to Huaixi.

If Yue Lengqiu is resolutely opposed, and the situation in northern Zhejiang is closely interdependent with southern Huinan, how can Chen Xiyan transfer Dong Yuan from northern Zhejiang so easily?

Dong Yuan deliberately befriended the Wu Party at this time, which is not incomprehensible, Sun Wenbing said again: "Dong Yuan will be in Huaixi, and there are rumors within the Wu Party, Dong Yuan wants to use Wu Party officials - I am afraid that it will not be long before the Wu Party will regard Dong Yuan as its own......

Sun Wenbing accompanied Lin Mengde into the city, went to Lin Xuwen's house first, and rushed Lin Xuwen to meet in front of the house when he just returned from the political party.

"Lin Xiang......" Lin Mengde got out of the carriage and gave Lin Xuwen a salute.

"Uncle Mengde, when did you get so angry with me?" Lin Xuwen smiled, held Lin Mengde's arm, and entered the house together, Zhou Guangnan and Sun Wenbing followed, Lin Xuwen asked as he walked, "Uncle Mengde and Guangnan are now the God of Wealth in Huaidong, how can they have time to come to Jiangning?" ”

"Return the God of Wealth," Lin Mengde said with a wry smile, "Zhedong is fast, very glamorous, and I am bitter over there!" ”

Lin Xuwen laughed and said: "You still have a sad face when you win the battle, how can you make those who have lost the battle embarrassed?" ”

Zhou Guangnan said in the back: "My lord intends to borrow hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Huaidong Qianzhuang as military funds, and Huaidong Qianzhuang is also tight. Master Lin and I came to Jiangning this time, firstly, to hand over the money and grain accounts with the household department, and there was a quarrel to quarrel; The second is to come to Jiangning to raise money - Jiangning's big families are always more than Huaidong......"

"There are many big households in Jiangning," Lin Xuwen sighed when he heard this, "I said that Xie Chaozhong, he has only been in charge of the imperial camp for a year, and a few days ago he spent 200,000 taels of silver to buy a large mansion in Xicheng, planning to tear down and build a new general's mansion ......"

The new emperor ascended the throne in Jiangning, Jiangning opened a new capital, and Emperor Yongxing and Chen Xiyan both had the ambition to reform the old and make the new, but the Jiangning regime inherited the old dynasty, and how could the corruption of the bureaucracy be fundamentally eliminated in a short period of time?

Xie Chaozhong won the trust of Emperor Yongxing, and jumped from the command of a small guard camp to the command of the imperial camp army, not only holding the military power of 80,000 imperial camp troops, but also governing the defense and security of Jiangning City and Gyeonggi counties, and Yu Xinyuan became a marriage to borrow each other's power and power.

Lin Mengde and Zhou Guangnan looked at each other and smiled, if Jiang Ning is clean and honest from now on, how can there be a chance for Huaidong?

Putting aside all kinds of greed and contempt in Jiangning City, Lin Mengde mentioned the incident of his encounter with Dong Yuan when he entered the city just now, and asked: "Dong Yuan Jiangning has been almost ten days, why hasn't the matter of Huaixi been decided?" ”

Lin Xuwen said: "Although Chen Xiyan had the intention to transfer Dong Yuan from northern Zhejiang and send him to Huaixi to preside over the defense, he did not expect that Huaidong would cooperate so much, and Dong Yuan agreed so simply - when Dong Yuan was in Jiangning, the DPRK and China had not yet discussed a clue on how to organize the defense of Huaixi......"

"......" Zhou Guangnan smacked his lips and didn't say anything.

The main force of the Qingzhou Army has been besieged in Yangxin for a month, and urgent letters are delivered almost every day, and Dong Yuan is very cooperative to transfer it out of northern Zhejiang, and on the defense of Huaixi, Jiangning's side has not yet come up with a clue for ten days - Zhou Guangnan, who has been accustomed to the rhythm of Lin Binding, feels incredible for Jiangning's slow decision-making efficiency.

Regarding the fact that Dong Yuan and Wu Dang were close, Lin Xuwen thought of another thing and added: "With the help of Yu Pijiang, Dong Yuan added a ready-made village on the shore of Moling Lake and moved his family from Hangzhou to settle ......"

"Dong Yuan is determined to be the emperor's party, and he moved his family to Jiangning, so that the emperor and the Wu party can rest assured." Lin Mengde sighed softly.