Ganzhou put down the rebellion, and the court's commendation did not come down for a long time, probably busy dealing with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were successively kings. Meng Ke's position of a thousand households has always been temporary, and he has not been officially appointed by the imperial court.

But this did not prevent him from establishing a high prestige among the 1,200 soldiers, who were now not only full, but also young and strong from among the 3,000 armor;

The folk customs of southern Gan are already strong, and these young and strong people have attacked Ma Yongzhen with Qin Mu and Meng Ke, and now after getting the land, under Meng Ke's strict training, the army has a new look, and the combat effectiveness is also rapidly improving.

Ling Zhan and Cui Feng also stayed here to serve as a hundred households, and became Meng Ke's right-hand men.

Gu Xiancheng gathered two or three hundred men and horses in Dongjiang Town, Longnan County, Longnan County was greedy for life and afraid of death, and the rebels also hit the county seat, so he abandoned the city and fled, which made Longnan County easily fall into the hands of Gu Xiancheng.

Ling Zhan and Cui Feng hated it after hearing the news, according to Qin Mu's arrangement, these months are to concentrate on training the army to deal with the upcoming Zhang Xianzhong army, and now that Gu Xiancheng has captured Longnan County, Yang Tinglin is bound to not sit idly by, and will definitely send them to encircle and suppress, which will undoubtedly disrupt their original training.

Sure enough, Yang Tinglin's order arrived soon, asking them to start as soon as possible and march towards Longnan, and be sure to completely eradicate the scourge of Gu Xiancheng.

After receiving the order, Meng Ke immediately beat the drum and gathered the generals to discuss the dispatch of troops.

Xie Zhaobei, who was in charge of military grain and grass, said first: "General Meng, the so-called three armies have not moved, grain and grass go first, our army has grain in stock, the daily supply is still too tight, the consumption of grain and grass has increased exponentially during the war, and the state government has no grain and grass to allocate it, how can this be good?" ”

"Then the only way to feed the enemy is to feed the enemy with war." Meng Ke replied in a deep voice, and then asked, "Do you have any other questions?" ”

Ling Zhan thought for a while and said: "Gu Xiancheng has just experienced a big defeat in Niuxi Town, and now he has gathered some chaotic people, there is nothing to fear in frontal combat, I am afraid that he will avoid us, this Gannan Mountain is densely forested, if he hides in the mountains, we don't know how long it will take, according to me, it is best for us to show weakness first, attract Gu Xiancheng as much as possible, and then find an opportunity to encircle and annihilate him in one fell swoop." ”

Cui Feng shook his head and said: "It's very difficult, after the battle of Niuxi Town, Gu Xiancheng is only afraid that the palpitations have not disappeared, and it is unlikely that such a frightened bird wants to attract him." ”

Meng Ke said: "Ling Zhan's idea is very good, you might as well try it, if it doesn't work, let's try our best to force Gu Xiancheng in the direction of Huichang, and then we and Huichang Qianhu can form a two-sided encirclement." ”

Cui Feng said with a smile: "What General Meng said is very true, when we get to Huichang, there is another benefit to us, that is, we can get food in Huichang." ”

Meng Ke was silent after listening to Cui Feng's words, although he did have this intention, but thinking that if Qin Mu, the miser, knew that he was beating him, he was afraid that he would not hesitate to raise the debt of 120,000 taels to 200,000 taels.

It is really not easy for Qin Mu to say, although the sergeants and soldiers of the army have been allocated to the military field, if the food and salary in front of them are not guaranteed, it will be difficult for the soldiers to train with peace of mind;

Yang Tinglin wants to relieve the refugees in several counties, and the food and salary that can be allocated to the army is extremely limited, and the Xinfeng Thousand Households can maintain such a high morale, all of which depends on Qin Mu's secret support. This kind of thing can't be hidden for long, but fortunately, Qin Mu doesn't need to hide it for long.

After drawing up a rough battle plan, Meng Ke asked Ling Zhan to lead 400 men to stay in Xinfeng, and he and Cui Feng took 800 people to Longnan County.

Longnan County is located in the south of Xinfeng, about two hundred miles away, according to the normal marching speed, two hundred miles to walk for four days, Meng Ke felt that this was too slow, so he asked Cui Feng to take two hundred former men and horses as the forward, go as fast as he could, and force to Longnan County as soon as possible.

Meng Ke didn't send these two hundred forwards to win, on the contrary, Cui Feng's task was to cheat and defeat, even if he couldn't attract Gu Xiancheng, he would try to stabilize him first.

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In Nanchang City, Ma Shisan returned to the mansion in a hurry, and recounted the news he overheard to Ma Mingyuan in detail: "Master, I have inquired clearly, that woman is not from Rentong Trading, but Li Xiangjun, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai."

"What, Qin Huai's famous prostitute Li Xiangjun? No wonder, no wonder, come on, how did she end up here? Hearing that the petite and delicate beauty was actually Li Xiangjun, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, Ma Mingyuan was both surprised and a little surprised, no wonder the demeanor was so graceful, which made people forget it at first sight.

"Master, this Li Xiangjun redeemed himself a few days ago, and then followed the caravan of Rentong to Ganzhou, to find Qin Mu, the magistrate of Huichang, who had just filled the vacancy in Huichang."

Ma Shisan vividly informed Ma Mingyuan of the news he heard one by one, including the Rentong caravan in distress on the road, and the things that were later rescued by the Red Lady were also said word by word.

Ma Thirteen said with his eyebrows fluttering, Ma Mingyuan listened to it with joy, as a patrol envoy, he is good at discovering problems The necessary "traditional virtues", if there is no problem, he must create problems, otherwise how to rectify people? What kind of envoy is a royal envoy who can't be rectified? How can you reflect the value of your life if you can't be a whole person?

Judging from Ma Mingyuan's many years of experience in rectifying people, Li Xiangjun has a big problem this time.

He smiled indifferently and said with a leaky mouth: "God helps me, Li Xiangjun, Li Xiangjun, hehe"

Ma 13 laughed and said softly: "Master, as long as you give them a big crime of fornicating with traitors, everything will be easy." ”

"Huh?" Ma Mingyuan snorted lightly and glanced at Ma 13 coldly, Ma 13 was suddenly frightened, "Is this big crime of fornicating with traitors arbitrarily deducted from them by this official?" They had already fornicated with traitors, and as the imperial envoys, they were in charge of supervising hundreds of officials, inspecting counties and counties, correcting prisons, governing old ways, and punishing adultery and evil. ”

"Yes, yes, small gaffes, small gaffes, please punish the master."

"You immediately go to the Inspection Department to find Han Tiesan, and ask him to hurry up and get someone, if you let the person who fornicated with the traitors escape, I will ask him, well, don't be idle, follow and see."

"Don't worry, the little one knows what to do, and he won't let the master down."

"Go ahead."

Shopkeeper Xu took good care of Li Xiangjun, in addition to being entrusted by Li Lizhen, more importantly, after arriving in Nanchang, he learned a lot of news about Ganzhou, Qin Mu put down the rebellion in Ganzhou in one fell swoop, and the future was immeasurable;

Then there is Xu Yingjie, the owner of Rentong Firm, who has a request for Qin Mu, and wants to get more salt sales share from Qin Mu.

Therefore, the shopkeeper Xu reserved the most haode courtyard in the semicolon as Li Xiangjun's temporary residence, and all the supplies were the most haode and took care of them meticulously.

Li Xiangjun has visited the Tengwang Pavilion, and has never gone out to show her face, since the day she came out of the Meixiang Building, she has decided to wash all the lead from now on, but since leaving Nanjing, she has never received Qin Mu's letter, and she is always a little apprehensive in her heart.

At this moment, she was wearing an eight-piece Hunan skirt embroidered with red plum blossoms on a green onion and white background, and was leaning against the window with her cheeks, imagining how he would react when she saw Qin Mu, whether it was surprise or surprise, whether he would despise her or be full of emotion;

Thinking about things in her heart, she made her pair of distant mountain eyebrows frowning and comfortable, and her pretty face was sometimes bright and beautiful like spring, and sometimes melancholy like the rain in the western mountains, which was extremely pitiful.

Her heart had already flown to Huichang, but as the destination got closer and closer, her heart became more and more troubled, and she couldn't even think of Qin Mu's reaction when she suddenly saw her.

She was full of contemplation, and she couldn't help but whisper to the small pavilion cloud shadow outside the window: "Who thinks that the west wind is cool alone?" Xiao Xiao Huangye closed the window, pondering the past and setting up the remnant sun. was surprised by the wine and slept heavily, and the gambling books were consumed with the fragrance of tea, which was only ordinary at that time. ”

This is one of the poems Qin Mu sent him, I don't know when he wrote it, but this "Huanxi Sha" seems to have been written for her state of mind at the moment.

When I first saw Qin Mu, although I had left a very good impression, but at that time, he was just an ordinary guest, who would have thought that today he would be involved in his soft intestines and be willing to follow him in life and death?

"Alas!" A faint sigh sighed how many daughters' hearts were on their minds.

"Girl, don't worry, since Lord Qin has long admired the girl, how can he look down on the girl because of this, the girl doesn't care about the eyes of the world, and goes to great lengths to find him, as long as there is still some conscience, who will not be moved." Xing'er was a little unbearable, and gently comforted.

"The closer I get to Ganzhou, the more worried I become, and I don't know what's wrong, Xing'er, do you think he really won't despise me?"

"Don't worry, girl, no, Lord Qin is not that kind of person."

"How do you know he's not like that?"

"Girl Hui Lanxin, how can there be anything wrong with the person you like?"

Li Xiangjun was about to say that she had missed Hou Fangyu before, but before she could speak, there were bursts of shouting and reprimanding outside the courtyard, and someone was shouting to arrest the spies of the fornicating bandits;

Then I saw a team of soldiers from the inspection department rushing in, and they arrested people when they saw them, and when they caught them, they were punched and kicked, which was extremely fierce;

Outside the small courtyard, chickens and dogs were already jumping, and the guys of Rentong Semicolon were either dodging in panic, or kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

Hearing someone shouting to arrest the spy who had fornicated with the traitors, the shrewd Li Xiangjun secretly said that it was not good, and pulled Xing'er and ran to the back door.

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PS: The temperature rose sharply, the cold rain was falling, and when I came back from outside on a motorcycle, I was drenched, and the birds were so cold that I almost couldn't pee, woohoo!