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On the 23rd, a large number of Kou ships took advantage of the east wind of the night, rushed across the estuary, entered the shallow waters of the East Beach, and went to the aid of the Hecheng army to stop the remnants of the Kou. The Jinghai Sea Battalion stationed in Jiangmen was unable to intercept it, and the number of Kou soldiers assembled in the Hecheng military fortress increased to four or five thousand -- and the situation in Chonghuai suddenly became tense.

The rice will sink at the end of September, and it will be harvested in ten days and half a month, and the two banks of the Yunyan River will be golden autumn yellow, and the avenue will be sandwiched between the rice fields, and it will go south and wind.

Several horses went south, and the forest was bound to walk slowly, looking at the scenery of the coastal meadow, and the sunset was also golden.

Lin Mengde, who rushed over from Jiuhua, saw Lin tied to the embankment on the north bank, galloped across the dam to greet him, and asked, "People from eastern Zhejiang view the Chongzhou war like this?" ”

"The person who came is a serious person, and he did not despise the Kou soldiers because of Chongzhou's victory," Cao Ziang said, "but there will still be some actions in eastern Zhejiang, but it is only a matter of the size of the movements, and this may be ...... the messenger of eastern Zhejiang."

"Ming, Jia, Hui, and Hu are the places where the two Zhejiang are rich and the essence of the rich, and they have been ruined, and the taxes of the two Zhejiang provinces have been reduced by seven or eight, and the pressure on the use of troops in eastern Zhejiang is extremely great......" Lin Mengde has to deal with the affairs of the financial management, especially the pressure brought about by the sudden decline in wealth, and sighed slightly.

Lin Jian looked into the distance, looked at the number of riders in the distance, and didn't say anything.

The number of cavalry who went away were officials sent to Chongzhou by the governor of the two Zhejiang provinces to observe the movements of the northern front of the East China Sea Kou through military liaison, and the leader was Tian Chang, the military commander of the Mingzhou military department and the military staff of the Admiral's Office.

Although in the past few days, the Kou soldiers often marched north out of Saibao, attacked the Huainan Yanchang, and attacked Yanpu, Qingjiangpu and Tinghu (under Huai'an Prefecture) and other counties as far away, the defense line in the north of Chongzhou was solid and stable as Mount Tai. He looked at the Hecheng military fortress at sunset in the distance, and thought that it had been eight days since the luxury flying tiger left Jiangning, and he didn't know if he had infiltrated the Hecheng military fortress to secretly preside over the affairs of the northern line of the East China Sea.

Lin Jian was not worried about the situation in Chongzhou, there was a great victory ahead, the morale of the army and the people was high, and the military orders and government orders he passed on in Chongzhou were all-encompassing, and the number of conscripts and ships far exceeded the original plan. As long as Chongzhou's war resources can be mobilized more thoroughly, it will be twice as many troops as the Donghai Kou in Hecheng, and Lin Jian will be sure to defend Chongzhou as solid as an iron bucket.

Lin Jian was worried about the extravagant plots in eastern Zhejiang, the Huaishang where hundreds of thousands of rogues gathered, the Yellow River embankment in Jinan Prefecture where 300,000 people were piled up with hard labor, and the Dongyu who were about to be detained and imprisoned again...... As long as Quan Ciqing and the soldiers of the two Zhejiang counties gathered in eastern Zhejiang are greatly damaged, the luxury family is likely to raise the flag of rebellion again.

Five Tigers of Eastern Fujian, Zang Mingxin died of sudden illness just after the year of confusion, Lu Jingyan died in Jinan, Chen Zhihu served as the governor of Datong Town, Dong Yuan came out of Weiyang, only Yu Wangao stayed in Eastern Fujian, served as the commander, and governed the military affairs of Eastern Fujian, but the 100,000 elites at the beginning of the war were less than 20,000 left in Eastern Fujian - as long as Donghai Kou can control the rich eastern Zhejiang, the Taiwen Prefectures in southern Zhejiang are sandwiched between eastern Zhejiang and northern Fujian, and it is difficult to act, and the luxury family will not have much to worry about raising the flag of rebellion again.

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Several horsemen galloped along the avenue on the south bank of the river, and the first rider was the close entourage of Wu Meijiu of Nazhi County, galloped to the front and dismounted and saluted: "Lord Wu told me that Lord Lin knows that Liu Fuzun and Lord Zhang Yan Zhang have already arrived in Changsangli, rest, and will be able to rush over to inspect the military situation in a while......

Lin Mengde only came one moment earlier than Liu Shidu and Zhang Yan, and there was an encounter on the road; Wu Meijiu sent someone to announce it again, his mind was clear and clear, and he hoped that Lin Jian could meet him from afar and give Liu Shixi and Zhang Yan a face.

Liu Shidu was the prefect of Hailing Mansion who only arrived in the early spring of this year, but he did not concurrently prepare for military affairs, and could only control local military preparations through Si Kou's participation in the army, but he had no jurisdiction over the garrison, so he could not be regarded as Lin Lian's boss.

Zhang Yan was an internal servant and a provincial servant before he released salt and iron - the ministers could let go of the outside to take power, and almost all of them were close confidants around the emperor - no matter what, Liu Shidu and Zhang Yan were two figures, and Lin Jian couldn't afford to be lazy.

Lin Jian hesitated for a moment, and said to Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde: "Let's go and greet it!" Ao Canghai gathered more than 100 personal guards and cavalry to escort them.

Although the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division is also in the city of Weiyangfu, it is two yamen that have absolutely nothing to do with Weiyangfu, and the salt and iron make Zhang Yanguan rank four, and the rank is even one level higher than Dong Yuan, who is the prefect of Weiyang and supervises the army.

The Weiyang Salt and Iron Division was originally under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu Supervisor, one of the Nine Qings, and was later merged into the Ministry of Households. When Qingyu was restructured, the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division and the Changlu Salt and Iron Division were independent from the household department, and the salt and iron envoys were allowed to be selected from the inside to be elected by the province, and the huge profits of salt and iron were exclusively enjoyed by the inner court.

According to the system of salt and iron monopoly, the tunhu under the jurisdiction of the two Huai salt places fried the boiled salt, and transported it to Weiyang at a price of ten yuan per bucket to pay all the amount to the salt and iron division, and the salt and iron division increased the price to two hundred yuan and sold it to the salt merchants, who sold it wherever they went, and forbade the counties to draw salt taxes to ensure the smooth flow of official salt - in this way, the salt produced by the two Huai salt and iron made a profit of two million taels of silver every year.

In order to protect the salt profit, the Weiyang Salt and Iron Division set up four salt farms in Lianghuai, and the grass storage, salt storage, transshipment, and salt sales were divided into ten supervision divisions, and the other thirteen patrol courts were placed to preside over salt affairs, check and prohibit private salt, and set up left and right salt school captains to take charge of the salt pawn, which was an unusually large yamen, and Liu Yan's authority was not weaker than that of the county department, which was not comparable to Dong Yuan.

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Surrounded by the guards, Lin Lian led Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Ao Canghai and others to gallop to Changsang to meet Liu Shidu and Zhang Yan.

The dammed Yanhe River on both sides has dried up and has no water, there is a bamboo pavilion near the embankment on the south bank, Zhang Yan, Liu Shidu chariots and horses are parked around the bamboo pavilion, Zhang Yan, Liu Shidu, Wu Meijiu, Song Xiaobo and others stand on the embankment, looking at the dry water of the Yanyan River and pointing.

Zhang Yan is about forty years old, white-faced and beardless, except that he has no beard, he is no different from a normal man, wearing a crimson official robe, and his bearing is quite extraordinary. Liu Shidu is close to the age of sixties, the beard under the chin is three or four inches long, neatly organized, frost white, the face is quite thin, and the person looks very capable.

"Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy Lin Lian has seen Lord Zhang and Lord Liu......" Lin Lian was wearing armor and walked to the bamboo pavilion, but what he gave Zhang Yan and Liu Shidu was the gift of Wenchen.

"Lord Lin is polite," Zhang Yan squinted his eyes and glanced at Lin Bin, and reached into him into the bamboo pavilion to speak, Lin Bin's ministry is only six grades, but the loose rank is enough to wear the scarlet, and there is a knighthood in his body, not to be taken lightly, besides, he came here to ask for someone, pointing to a military general next to him to introduce Lin Jian to know, "Mao Duwei is the captain of our company's left salt guard, I heard that you have exchanged letters before, and you haven't met yet, right?" ”

Mao Wenjing's military rank is from the fourth rank of the cavalry captain, but the military attache has always been lower than the civilian official, and the Lin Lian's from the fifth rank of the court is equivalent to Mao Wenjing's cavalry captain.

Lin Jian arched his hand towards Mao Wenjing and called: "It turned out to be General Mao, and I have admired him for a long time." But he glanced at Song Xiaobo, and saw that his face was quite normal, and he knew that Wang Chengfu's strategy had not gone wrong at this time.

Mao Wenjing's attitude towards Lin Jian was even more cold, he arched his hand, and said bluntly: "It turned out to be Lord Lin, and I have admired him for a long time." ”

Although Jiangdong's tax is the highest in the world, it is less than half of the Jianghuai salt profits, and the salt and iron division has its own system, and has nothing to do with the locality.

After the fall of the Hecheng military fortress, Song Xiaobo begged for refuge in Chongzhou, and Lin Jian was able to rein in the Hecheng army. Lin Jian intended to join forces with the Salt and Iron Division to recapture the Hecheng military fortress, and sent a messenger to contact Mao Wenjing, the left guard of the salt school in charge of the Huainan Salt District, but received no positive response.

Although the sudden attack of the Kou soldiers made the defense area of Huainan Yanchang from Qingjiangpu to the south almost in the day and night, but the victory in Chongzhou came too quickly, and the Kou soldiers who committed the northern attack on Sheyang were forced to shrink to the south before they had time to deploy, and they were forced to hold on to the Hecheng military fortress for reinforcements, and Mao Wenjing was able to lead his troops to easily restore the defense line - maybe it was too easy, maybe it was because Song Xiaobo begged Lin Tie to transfer the charge of losing the city to several of Mao Wenjing's henchmen and became resentful, Mao Wenjing disdained Lin Tie's joint army suggestion, Even on the 22nd, the nearly 1,000 Hecheng troops that had been assembled in Chongzhou were all transferred, and the Jiangdong Left Army was unceremoniously forbidden to enter the Hecheng defense area to fight.

On the 23rd, after receiving reinforcements, the remnants of Hecheng did not dare to invade Chongzhou in the west, but they were able to go north to collect food.

On the 25th, Mao Wenjing led his troops to fight with Kou soldiers in Dafeng, and fled back to Sheyang in defeat, which led to Zhang Yan's eastward journey.

Liu Shidu came to Chongzhou at the invitation of Zhang Yan, after all, Liu Shidu was nominally Lin Lian's boss, and if Zhang Yan came to talk about the joint army, he might be closed.

Seeing that Lin Jian and Mao Wenjing did not meet harmoniously, Zhang Yan smiled and said: "This official returned to Beijing in the spring to report on his work, and talked with Lord Hao at night, Lord Hao praised Lin Du Envoy as the pillar of the country, after returning to the south, he was entangled in secular affairs, and only today I met with Lin Du Prison Envoy, if I really saw a real person, I knew more about the demeanor......

Lin Lian is not as knowledgeable as Mao Wenjing, and said with a smile with Zhang Yan: "Lord Zhang has an overreputation, Lin is just loyal to the court, and by chance, he has made some achievements by luck - Lord Zhang is in charge of salt and profit for the court, although it is not obvious, but it is really a great merit of the society." ”

Liu Shidu smiled beside him: "You two brag about me, but you can embarrass the old and useless!" Liu Shidu was good friends with Zhang Yan when he was in Beijing, he was very old, and he was Lin Yan's boss, so he didn't feel abrupt when he said such a joke.

After the greetings, Lin Jian asked Zhang Yan and Liu Shidu to continue to go east to Shutai to inspect the defense.

The defenders of Hecheng West Garrison are mainly Fengli Foot Battalion, Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and Cavalry Battalion, accompanied by Minyong Township Soldiers, with a strength of up to 5,000 people, the camp is built along both banks of the Yunyan River, and the garrison is in the middle, and there is a dam to connect it, and the military appearance is cold. Zhang Yanxun looked at the defense of the Jiangdong Left Army, looked at Lin Lian's side face, and said secretly: Maybe after the Yannan War, some people think that this son is just more shit luck than others, but he can't pick up shit luck again and again.