Chapter 4: Divergence

(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

"It's just nonsense, if Tang Gong is in the capital, he will resist to the death, so that King Lining can't do ......"

Leaving the Governor's Palace, Lin Jian sat in Gu Wuchen's carriage, and the two of them discussed the affairs of King Ning in the carriage, and Gu Wuchen's attitude was fierce, which surprised Lin Lian.

"Zhang Xie, Chen Xixin, and Hao Zongcheng's second and third sons, thieves who mislead the country, have no ability to conspire." Gu Wuchen regarded Lin Tie as his own at this time, and there was no previous barrier in his speech, and he also showed his sharp side in front of Lin Tie, in the past, even if he was dissatisfied with Zhang Xie and others, he would not scold them with "traitors" in front of Lin Tie.

Lin Jian sat quietly and listened to Gu Wuchen's complaints, and then thought about where the difference between his and Gu Wuchen's thoughts was.

In recent decades, the central control over the southern counties has been weakened a lot, at this time in eastern Henan, Luxi and other places broke out large-scale civil unrest, in addition to the Jinhai grain road reluctantly, the north and south blocked, the center is likely to lose control over the southern counties, the appointment of the king of Ning as the successor, with the old establishment of the six departments of Jiangning, it is easy to form the political power center of the southern counties in Jiangning, which is conducive to concentrating on suppressing the rebellion of the luxury family and the surging civil unrest in various places, and can concentrate on ensuring the smooth flow of the Jinhai grain road.

If the king of Lining is not established, the authority of the six departments of Jiangning is not enough to dominate the southern counties, once the north-south communication route is blocked, except for Jiangdong County, the grain of the other southern counties will not be so honestly gathered on the Jinhai grain road and transported to the north.

With such a position, Lin Jian guessed that there was a possibility of canonizing King Ning, and he also agreed with this approach.

Lin Liancai didn't care who was the emperor, and calming down the situation was the most important thing.

A large-scale civil uprising broke out in the Central Plains, and the southern counties could not concentrate resources and troops, and it was likely that the luxury families would be defeated.

In reality, Yu Wangao in Eastern Fujian did not listen to the orders of Liangzhejiang County, Dong Yuan did not listen to Yu Wangao's jurisdiction in Liangzhejiang, and Jiangxi County and Jiangdong County had nothing to do with each other, so they were a plate of scattered sand.

Gu Wuchen's attitude towards King Lining was very different from Lin Lian, Gu Wuchen was concerned about whether the Yuan Emperor's power could be passed on smoothly, and he was worried that King Lining would lay an indelible bane for the future inheritance of the imperial throne.

Don't say anything else, as long as King Ning can get the loyalty of a Li Zhuo-style character in the future, King Ning is likely to have the idea of asking the emperor to abdicate as soon as possible and take care of the mandate of heaven.

In Lin Bin's view, it is important to tide over the current difficulties rather than thinking about the future crisis of imperial power for the current emperor. Emperor Qingyu was assassinated, and Emperor Delong succeeded to the throne, where is it clean behind this?

Lin Jian didn't argue with Gu Wuchen about anything, and said: "The matter is a foregone conclusion, and we can't interfere, it's useless to think about it, this side is over, when Xunniang arrives in Jiangning, I will stay for another day or two, and I will go back to Chongzhou first......"

Gu Wuchen frowned, and said thoughtfully: "I don't know how Yu Xinyuan will deal with the trouble, if Cao is still rushing to Huaikou this autumn, it will simply attract Liukou to rush to the Huai River, there are a lot of problems, and I can't see any clue." Xianxia Pass and Shanguan were sealed, and western Zhejiang and southern Jiangxi could not draw troops to seize it, and I don't know what the situation of Yu Wangao was in northern Fujian...... I see, maybe it won't be long before Luwenzhuang will establish himself as the king of Fujian! ”

If Yu Wangao could not pose a threat to the luxury family in northern Fujian, so that the luxury family had the ability to connect northern Fujian with southern Zhejiang, it was very likely that Luwenzhuang would be the king.

"I can only fight for the island land with the luxury family at the moment," Lin Jian said, "It is not easy to fight for the island, the luxury family will not easily give up Changguo and Daishan Islands, but they are not afraid of naval battles, the casualties of seizing the island are too heavy, it is likely that the battle will be carried out on the Daishan line in a short time, and the luxury family cannot afford to send warships to harass the sea area north of Shengsi......"

Lin Jian organized two strong attacks on Daheng Island, the first time to defeat the defense line of the remnants of the Kou soldiers in Qingshi Bay, the second time to capture the camp fort at the northern foot of the country, two strong attacks to destroy 1,600 enemies, and his own casualties were about 1,200 people, which was completely a tough battle of "killing 1,000 enemies and inflicting 800 self-inflicted losses".

In a short period of time, Lin Jian will not forcibly attack Daishan and Changguo Islands, but will mainly consolidate the Shengsi defense line, supplemented by striking at Koubing Island and blocking its sea routes, and gradually expand the advantage in the Shengsi sea area.

With the mobilization ability of the luxury family at this time, fifty or sixty thousand elite troops can still be drawn from Jin'an. If Haowenzhuang would not be too stupid, he should mainly crack down on the wealthy families and win over bankrupt farmers in eastern Zhejiang, and even in western Zhejiang, he could encourage a large number of bankrupt miners to join the luxury army (although western Zhejiang is mainly mountainous, there are more silver mines in the area north of Xianxialing).

Lin Jian was not so mad that he strangled the luxury family to death in the cradle with the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army's family.

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When he arrived at the Xuanfu Envoy Si Yamen, Lin Jian got out of the carriage first, and his left political rank was unlikely to receive a real position in the Xuanfu Envoy Si Yamen, but after all, he was to be regarded as the adjutant of the Xuanfu Envoy Wang Tian.

deliberately pressed the speed of the car on the road, Lin Jian rushed over, and Wang Tian, Han Zai and others had already returned to the yamen first. Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, Liu Shidu, Meng Xinshi and other prefectural officials also went to the Xuanfu Envoy Yamen to settle down to discuss matters.

Lin Jian doesn't care about the money and food of Jiangdong County, he has the title of left to participate in politics, but Wang Tian will not give him real power, he is also a lonely person in the Xuanfu Envoy Division, there is no support, and he can't ask Wang Tian for power.

He was concerned about the salary of the former Ninghai Town Water Camp, and how the Xuanfu Envoy would pull it out to him.

Lin Tie was full of spirit, and Jiangdong needed Lin Tie to guard the mouth of the river and protect the flanks, and Wang Tian did not make it difficult for him in the matter of food and salary, so he allocated the share of the grain and salary of the original water camp in Ninghai Town to the Jinghai Sea Camp, which was paid by the local government according to the summer and autumn grain season.

Fortunately, at the time of the incident, the most important autumn grain of the year had not yet been paid, and Lin Jian was able to get more than 25,000 taels of silver at once, which was a good thing.

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Lin Jian spent half a day in the Xuanfu Envoy, and it was late before he and Lin Tingli came to the Gu Mansion to drink and discuss important matters.

When I arrived at Gu's mansion, I felt that the atmosphere in the mansion was a little depressing, and the servants and maids were cautious, for fear of doing something wrong.

Lin Jian thought that Gu Wuchen was still worried about the matter of King Ning, and he was angry when he took down people, but when he met Zhao Qinmin, he knew that there was something else to worry about.

"There is a drunken lieutenant in the Jiangning Water Camp who broke into the yamen in the afternoon to make trouble, saying that they were deducting their food and salary, and asked the adults to spit it out," Zhao Qinmin shook his head and sighed and said, "The adults tied that bastard to the compound and whipped him eighty times, which caused hundreds of people to come over and make trouble." The adults asked Yang Pu and Liu Xilin to bring people over to arrest and suppress them, but Cheng Yuqian jumped out to be a peacemaker, and the adults couldn't stand up, where did the shortened food and salary come from? ”

"This question is tricky......" Lin Jian also smacked his lips.

In order to limit the power of the Jiangdong Left Army, Yue Lengqiu deliberately strengthened the strength of the Jiangdong Defense, and in the past two months, he had greatly increased the allocation of silver to the water camp, not only benefiting the water camp in Ninghai Town, but also greatly increasing the silver allocation to the water camp in Jiangning.

Xiao Taoyuan's rebellion, the disbandment of the water camp in Ninghai Town, and the transfer of Gu Wuchen by the imperial court to serve as the left attendant of the Jiangning military department, and the Jiangning water camp under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning water camp made the Jiang defense force out of Yue Lengqiu's grasp - and the consequence was that the food and salary allocated to the silver that had been greatly increased through Yue Lengqiu's efforts returned to the previous low level.

The water camp in Ninghai Town has been disbanded, and the money and salary will not shrink, as long as Lin Tie admits it, it will not have any impact.

Jiangning Shuiying fell out and overturned, and the general's salary for two months suddenly changed back to the original state, how could he be willing?

As for today's troubles, it is probably because someone is making trouble behind his back, and Cheng Yuqian is in the way, Gu Wuchen still has no way to catch a group of people and kill a group of people.

Rushing Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin over, Lin Jian and them went to the Houyuan Corner Pavilion to find Gu Wuchen, Gu Wuchen also forcibly eliminated his anger, and said with a wry smile: "Headache when there are no soldiers in your hands, headache when you have soldiers, these soldiers are really difficult to treat, no wonder Li Zhuo has been in Jiangning for more than a year, and with his talent in governing the army, he has not been able to change the appearance of Jiangning Water Battalion...... Lin Bin, come on, what should I do! ”

"The way of fairness is nothing more than strict discipline, squeezing out vacancies, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, and improving the substitution of the remaining generals with the money and salaries squeezed out, and then promoting the brave and healthy and training into the elite. The generals are good at fighting and dare to fight, more than a thousand are enough to block ten thousand divisions, cowardly and brave, although one million is not enough to stop an army," Lin Jian thought about it outside, and directly answered Gu Wuchen's question, and said, "Li Zhuo basically did this in Jiangning, but he was restrained by Cheng Yuqian, and he didn't see any effect in a short time." Now that Cheng Yuqian is in a heavier position, he wants to control his elbows and shelter those mediocre generals, but there is no way - it is not that there is no way to fight back. ”

"Tell me about it." Gu Wuchen was confident when he heard Lin Bin, but he also relaxed and asked everyone to sit down and listen to Lin Bin's words.

"In the first battle of Jiyang, most of the Donghai Kou were still Donghai Kou, but by the summer and autumn of this year, the Donghai Kou was actually more of Jin'an's old soldiers," Lin Jian said, "If the Jiangning Water Camp is so rotten that no matter how big the root flower is, it can't be transformed, then it can only be consumed by him, and then replenish fresh blood from elsewhere!" This is a policy. Or Yong transfer two battalions from Dongyang Township, led by Yang Shi into the Jiangning Water Camp, and start again, with this foundation, it is also feasible to gradually cut off the other hills of the Jiangning Water Camp......"

Gu Wuchen touched his chin and beard, thought for a while, and said, "Two-pronged, faster." Zhedong asked for help, and the Jiangning Water Battalion allocated it to help, and gave it to Dong Yuan to struggle, thinking that Dong Yuan would not have the mind to spare the troops for me...... I have 400 people around me, 800 people are transferred from Dongyang, and another 400 auxiliary soldiers are recruited, and I should be able to form two battalions of sailors, so I will let Yang Shi take them to you for training for three months. ”

"Okay, I can use two more battalions of sailors in Chongzhou." Lin Jian smiled, and Shuangli agreed.

Lin Tingli also has no opinion, after Gu Wuchen controls the Jiangning Water Camp, he can promote the interests of the Lin and Gu clans, and besides, Gu Wuchen transferred Yang Shi to his side, and the generals of the Dongyang Army are headed by Lin Jiyuan and Chen Shouyan, and he is more handy to call, what's wrong?