Chapter 68: The Township Soldier Takes Himself
(The second update, ask for a red ticket)
Strengthen the water camp of Ninghai Town and the water camp of Jiangning, and watching the Jiangning Mansion distribute one-third of the silver, Wang Tian was even more worried about how to raise the remaining two-thirds of the silver apportioned by the Xuanfu Envoy.
Don't look at the other nine prefectures in Jiangdong County under the jurisdiction of the Xuanfu Envoy except Jiangning, but the power of the prefectures and counties is expanding day by day, especially since the establishment of the township army, all localities have used the excuse of raising salaries for the township army to resist the exploitation of the Xuanfu Envoy. At this time, it seems that the local government has actually made a bad start, and the situation of local troops supporting and separating the territory has become increasingly serious. However, bandits frequently arose in various places, and the imperial court was unable to exterminate them, so it was also a last resort or a way to quench thirst.
Weiyang Mansion and Pingjiang Mansion themselves are richer than Jiangning Mansion, but they have always refused to pay an extra tael of silver.
Dong Yuan was in Weiyang Mansion, privately expanded the number of township troops by more than 8,000 people, called himself Ruifeng Army, and recruited his old troops in the Eastern Fujian Army as generals, so that Ruifeng Army was like his private army.
Liu An'er started an incident in Hongzepu, although there were nearly 10,000 people in Weiyang Mansion and Weiyang Salt Iron Division, but it was Dong Yuan's Ruifeng Army formed in Weiyang Mansion that really resisted the exiles abroad.
The Ruifeng Army receives 200,000 taels of silver every year in the form of nuclear grain, which is raised from the local government of Weiyang Province.
When Li Zhuo was in Jiangning, Dong Yuan cooperated with everything, Li Zhuo left Jiangning, and the county secretary didn't think about getting an extra tael of silver from Weiyang Mansion.
After Lin Tie led the Jiangdong Left Army into Chongzhou, the Donghai Kou never crossed the middle line of the Jiangkou to the north, but the Mingzhou, Jiahang, and Pingjiang prefectures entered the Kou more and more frequently.
Although Pingjiang Prefecture has nearly 10,000 people stationed in the Zhoubu Battalion of Ninghai Town, the town's combat strength is weak, and it has been defeated repeatedly, or it has repeatedly dared not fight, and Pingjiang Prefecture has to expand the township army on a large scale. At this stage, Pingjiang Province has the largest township army, with a total of more than 20,000 people. In fact, the township army in Pingjiang Prefecture was controlled by the wealthy clans of each county, and their names were also chaotic, including the Bai Nao Army, the Hufeng Battalion, the Haiyu Township Battalion, and the Jiyang Righteous Brave, all of which had private generals, ranging from hundreds to thousands, and without a unified command, they could only defend their own territory and fight, and they could not effectively curb the infiltration and invasion of the Donghai Kou.
With such a large-scale township army and the Donghai Kou frequently entering the Kou, although Pingjiang Mansion is known as the rich in the world, there is actually no surplus wealth for the county secretary to exploit.
Wang Tian thought about it, but he couldn't think of a way to raise an extra 100,000 silver every year, and said secretly: Do you want to learn from Lin Tie to do something to the monasteries in Jiangdong County? Wang Tian also knew that the monastery was a big piece of fat, and so far no one knew how much Lin Jian had made by clearing the monastic forces in Chongzhou by taking advantage of the bandit case, but it was definitely not a small amount. Or find a big family to start with? Gu Wuchen did the reversal of the Qu family, not only fattened his own family, but also made the Dongyang Township Party rise in Jiangning, and only the fundraising within the Dongyang Township Party supported half of the military resources of Dongyang Township Yong.
Wang Tian thought about it, but he didn't have a plan, and it was not a simple matter to raise an extra 100,000 taels of silver in Jiangdong County, which was rich in the world, and the most fundamental reason was that his control over the place was getting weaker and weaker.
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In the south of the city, after Du Rong died in Taihu Lake, there was no person who could replace Du Rong to take over Qingfengxing, and the vigilance and vigilance of the Jiangdong County Division against Qingfengxing became increasingly strict, which also restricted the normal business of Qingfengxing, and the courtyard of Qingfengxing Hall was cold.
"I'm leaving Jiangning ......," said Yu Feihu, sitting at the stone table under the ancient locust tree.
Qin Zitan can understand the mood of the extravagant flying tiger, now they are like beasts trapped in a cage in Jiangning, although they have fangs and claws, they can't play any role, but where do they go after leaving Jiangning?
The eldest prince is at sea all the year round, and if they go back to Jin'an, will it cause the suspicion of the eldest prince?
After the failure of Chongzhou's assassination, Lu Feihu's temperament became more and more depressed, making it difficult to see clearly, Qin Zitan sometimes couldn't figure out what he was thinking, he just waited cautiously by his side, and when he suddenly said that he was going to leave Jiangning, he was quite determined, and he didn't know how to reply to his words for a while.
Seeing that Qin Zitan was silent, Feihu looked up at him and said, "You make arrangements, I plan to go to Changguo to meet my eldest brother......"
"Okay," Qin Zitan responded, "but it is not easy to go to sea at this time, and the young marquis must have some patience and let his subordinates make arrangements." ”
"It's come to this point, and I still have the patience." Fei Fei Hu said in a low voice.
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Haiyu County is located in the northeast corner of Pingjiang Prefecture, bordering the Yangtze River in the north, the East China Sea in the east, facing the Shengsi Islands across the sea, and the Dongjiang River connected with Taihu Lake traverses its territory.
Haiyu County and Chongzhou face each other across the river, the water surface of the estuary is extra sparse, in the dry season, it is often thirty or forty miles wide, and in the summer and autumn flood season, the river sky is white and boundless, and the end can not be seen far away. Also due to the existence of the Yangtze River, Haiyu has close ties with the surrounding Tinghu, Jinhu and Jiyang counties, and has very little contact with Chongzhou County, which faces the river.
Haiyu Chen's eunuchs have been eunuchs for generations, and last year Chen's protégé came out, and his reputation rose sharply. The Chen family is outside the official family, but they have been operating silkworms for generations, and they are the largest silk cloth merchants in Haiyu. Yudong belongs to the Chen family's mulberry garden of more than 2,000 hectares, the family is one million, ten years ago when the sea was built Yu City, the Chen family donated 50,000 taels of silver.
Pingjiang Mansion is rich in the world, and the Chen family does not dare to call it the head clan in Pingjiang Mansion, but it is really the head clan of Haiyu County.
Because Haiyu County is close to the East China Sea, the Shengsi Islands east of Haiyu have been a pirate den for decades before the Donghai Kou infiltrated the luxury family. The extermination of this gang was not followed by a few years of occupation by new pirates, and for sixty or seventy years, it has not been cut off. Haiyu County has been invaded by pirates for decades, and the township has a strong sense of anti-theft, and the city and the township fort are well repaired and solid, and there is a relatively strict township soldier organization in the early years - this is also the main factor for the slight loss of Haiyu County when the East China Sea Kou Taihu Lake last year.
The scattered and unintegrated Donghai Kou could not pose much of a threat to Haiyu County.
The Chen family built in Yudong is surrounded by the Chen family as many as four sides, with thousands of houses inside, and more than 400 zhang in circumference, which is even easier to defend and difficult to attack than ordinary fortresses. Long before the imperial court opened its mouth to allow the local army to be prepared, there were as many as 1,000 soldiers in Zhihu Township controlled by the Chen family. Although the Zhihu Township Soldiers in Haiyu County in the early years were still in the nature of township soldiers who produced in peacetime, trained in leisure time, and assembled in wartime, they were also brave and good at fighting among the township soldiers because they often fought with pirates.
After the imperial court opened its mouth and allowed the local self-construction of military garrisons, especially the infiltration of the Donghai Kou to the luxury family, the power rose sharply, and the Haiyu clan also realized that the situation in the sea was severe, so the Chen family was the leader, based on the previous Zhihu Township soldiers, and formed a standing township soldier, calling itself the Haiyu Township Battalion, with more than 5,000 soldiers and 100 warships.
Chen Mingzhe held the reins in his hand, and walked slowly on the embankment, which is the mouth of the Dongjiang River that flows into the Yangtze River, and then ten miles to the east, it is beyond the boundary between the river and the sea. The Donghai Kou of the Shengsi Islands often invaded the hinterland of Haiyu like a war, and since the establishment of the Haiyu Township Battalion, the Dongjiang Estuary was the focus of defense, and the Chen family funded the construction of a dock at the Dongjiang Estuary, and stationed a battalion of township soldiers.
Chen Huazhang, the youngest brother of Chen Huazhang, the head of the Chen family, was the Cheng of Haiyu County, and later served as the governor of Haiyu County with the county Cheng, presiding over the local defense of Haiyu, and was quite familiar with military affairs. In the autumn of last year, Chen Huawen presided over the defense of Haiyu in Taihu Lake in the East China Sea, won several battles, and defended Haiyu City when the East China Sea Kou landed on a large scale, and was quite prestigious in Haiyu.
When the Haiyu Township Battalion was formed, the Chen clan undertook almost half of the military resources, and Chen Huawen naturally obtained the control of the Haiyu Township Battalion.
Gu Wuchen designed the composer, so that Chen Xiyan was implicated and forced to apologize, although Chen Mingzhe had the name of the champion, but he was isolated and helpless in Yanjing, so in the name of marriage, he asked for leave to return to his hometown to complete the marriage, and left Yanjing, the land of right and wrong. When he first returned to Jiangdong, Chen Mingzhe pretended to be in Jiangning, contacting Wu Party officials and scholars, hoping to find a shortcut to the rise of the Wu Party.
After the Dongyu broke the border and entered the Kou, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to the north to King Qin, made meritorious contributions in Yannan, and his reputation was greatly enhanced.
Even after the split between Zhang Xie and Tang Haoxin, the position of the Chu Party in the government and the opposition became more and more stable, and the Western Qin Party seemed to have a tendency to revive after Li Zhuo became the secretary of the military department, but there was absolutely no chance for the Wu Party. After Yue Lengqiu arrived in Jiangdong, while suppressing Gu Wuchen, he did not forget to suppress the Wu Party headed by Yu Xinyuan.
Although Chen Mingzhe did not receive an official position, after all, he was a well-known protégé of the Son of Heaven, and he was even more well-known in Pingjiang Mansion. He returned to Haiyu to join the township camp, which immediately made the Chen family's position in the township camp as solid as a rock, and the morale of the township camp generals was also quite invigorated, and they repelled several invasions of the Donghai Kou in succession, so that the losses suffered by Haiyu County since the summer and autumn were far less than those of Tinghu County in the south.
Even if Chen Mingzhe joined the army, he was dressed as a scribe, wearing a lake-blue cloth shirt, riding on a horse and overlooking the river. Chongzhou Zilang Mountain is a hundred miles in the northwest, watching the Taotao River pass away, Chen Mingzhe can't help but think about Lin Lian's many actions in Chongzhou recently: what does he want to do? In this turbulent autumn, can the precarious Yuan dynasty get out of the current crisis and resume ruling the world?
Chen Mingzhe was a famous young man and had a high family background, so he was naturally very arrogant, but after gaining the greatest fame, he was repeatedly frustrated, and everything had to be pragmatic. He longed for the emperor to move to Jiangning, and if the Yuan clan wanted to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong, he would inevitably use the Wu Party, which had power all over Jiangdong, and the Wu Party would naturally be able to gain an advantage in confronting the Chu Party at once, and Chen Mingzhen thought that he would naturally be able to get the reuse of the imperial court at that time.