Zhao Qinmin waited all night in Yanqing, although he was accompanied by Sun Jingtang, his heart was full of discomfort, and he didn't know that Huaidong had any major things to hide from him that could make Lin Lian's face collapse - although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he also knew that he was only a guest of the Gu family, and he did not show his dissatisfaction on his face.

The next day, there was news that Lin Lian was sick in Jianling, Lin Lian had a precedent of pretending to be sick in Jiangning, Zhao Qinmin naturally didn't believe it in his heart, and he rushed to Jianling to meet Lin Lian accompanied by Sun Jingtang.

Jianling is a very inconspicuous small county on the northeast corner of Hailing Mansion, the circumference of the city is two miles, it has fallen into disrepair for many years, the earthen wall of the version is somewhat broken, the copper nails on the city gate are also missing a lot, and the city gate building is covered with snow.

Lin Jian asked the two prefectures and eleven counties in Huaidong to reorganize their military equipment and repair the city, but these are related to local financial resources, the prefecture and county cannot raise money, and the military department cannot subsidize so much for a while, so the matter of repairing the city can only be delayed.

Zhao Qinmin entered the city and went to the pavilion where Lin Jian stayed, only to know that Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu and others had come from Chongzhou; The little lady Xiaoman also came from Chongzhou to serve Lin Bin.

Lin Jian rested in Jianling for two days, and when he recovered his spirits, he invited Zhao Qinmin to come in, and asked Xiaoman to serve the tea himself, and said: "Mr. Zhao is rare to come, and I didn't take the time to entertain him, so I was really sluggish." Uncle Mengde happens to be going to Jiangning, so he can send one off to Mr. Zhao on my behalf......"

Seeing that Lin Mengde would personally go to Jiangning to explain the matter, Zhao Qinmin knew that Lin Lian was determined to win the position of Hailing prefect, and he no longer insisted on persuasion. Even if Gu Wuchen will have opinions and dissatisfaction with Lin Lian's stubbornness, they are Weng's son-in-law after all, why should he squeeze into the middle to be a villain?

Sent Zhao Qinmin into the pavilion to rest, Lin Jian wore a leather robe to keep out the cold, and only let Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu and others talk to him in the warm pavilion.

"It's best to convince Jiang Ning's side to cooperate," Lin Jian suppressed his voice and said to Lin Mengde, "If we can't agree on the same opinion, then we can only do it according to our own arrangements first." You have written several excerpts with you, and you will act when the opportunity arises......"

Several excerpts: one is to the Jiangning Officials' Department, the Governor's Mansion and the Ningwang Mansion, impeaching Liu Tingzhou for his dereliction of duty as a military commander, and refusing to cooperate with the Huaidong Military Division. The second is to complain to the Jiangning Household Department, the Governor's Mansion and the Ningwang Mansion about the sharp rise in grain prices in Jiangdong and the transportation of grain from Jinhai, the cost has increased greatly, and the merchants are resentful.

These folds were presented, and Yue Lengqiu, Zhang Xi and others could naturally understand that Lin Lian was seeking the position of Hailing prefect, but if Huaidong poked this intention by himself, it would be a little too blunt.

First of all, we still have to persuade Gu Wuchen to be willing to cooperate with Huaidong, but if it really doesn't work, then I can only ask for it.

At this point, in addition to the contradictions with the Ning Wangfu family will be more acute, the differences within the Dongyang family will also be more dazzling and exposed to outsiders.

No one knew that the Liaoxi front would collapse, and everything should be fought for ahead. After the discussion was over, Lin Mengde didn't care about the dark sky, so he set off directly from Jianling to Jiangning.

Before Lin Mengde, Wu Qi had already set off to the north, initially planning to go to Jinhai to take charge, and it was even possible to sneak into Beijing to watch the situation in person.

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Zhao Qinmin looked at the bloody sunset in the distance in the snow, knowing that it would be very hard to rush to the night even if he sat in the carriage, and he was reluctant in his heart, so he could only follow Huaidong's arrangement and follow Lin Mengde on the road.

Soon, the horse team galloped into the silent, boundless night.

The head of the carriage held a special horse lamp made by Huaidong, and as the ruts swayed, the dim lights mixed with the cold air penetrated through the window of the carriage - more than 30 horsemen accompanied the escort, and the sound of the horses' hooves walking in the snow was scattered but not chaotic, and it was particularly clear to listen to in the quiet snowy night.

Zhao Qinmin sighed in his heart: Lin Mengde is the director of the Huaidong Army, and he is listed in the sixth rank, and the official rank of Jiangdong County is a lot higher than him. According to the system, officials and generals below the fifth grade can only bring four entourages when they travel, but the powerful and powerful no longer pay attention to these in these years, but they are escorted by a team of cavalry when they do not move, and there are really few people in Jiangdong County.

The dim light came in, Zhao Qinmin looked at Lin Mengde's frost-white sideburns, and asked, "Brother Mengde hasn't reached fifty this year, right?" ”

There are some things that Zhao Qinmin is inconvenient to say in front of Lin Bin, but in front of Lin Mengde, he doesn't have those scruples.

"It's only two years older than Qinmin," Lin Mengde smiled, "It's just that there are many more gray hairs on your head than you......"

"Huaidong's affairs have made you too tired," Zhao Qinmin replied with a smile, "It's no more leisurely than me in Jiangning—of course, Brother Mengde is a person with great ambitions, and he can't learn from me in Jiangning." ”

"What ambition is not ambition," Lin Mengde said, "Qinmin is planning and calculating for Lord Gu, how can he be considered a foolish life?" It's just that I'm intellectually thin and knowledgeable, and I'm not as talented as you are diligent people, and I hope that diligence can make up for my clumsiness, so I just added some more gray hair. ”

"If you want to talk about great talent and great ambition, there are few people in the world who can compare with the system and the envoy," Zhao Qinmin said, "I was in Jiangning, and I heard people talk about the power of the system and the envoy, which is comparable to the king of Huaidong; If I can successfully be appointed as the prefect of Hailing this time, it will be more worthy of the name......"

Lin Mengde glanced at Zhao Qinmin vigilantly, the look of vigilance flashed on his face, he turned his eyes to look at the wind and snow outside the window, and said with an indifferent smile: "It's just a wild language in the village, and listening to it is just to increase confusion." The adults are thinking about the people's livelihood and society, and they are a little impatient, but they also feel that the situation is urgent - as for the authority or something, if you change the diligent people, you will live for a lifetime, and it is nothing more than asking for a shade for future generations......"

Gu Wuchen would never support Lin Tie to secede Huaidong at this time - this is also the fundamental reason why Gu Wuchen did not support Lin Tie to forcibly take the Hailing Prefect this time.

Gu Wuchen is the squire of the Jiangning Military Department, and his power comes directly from the Dayue Imperial Court system, which is the Jiangning Water Camp, and it is completely impossible for him to rely on Yang Shi to control it.

On the whole, the Jiangning Water Camp was still a force loyal to the Yuan court.

Even Gu Siyuan, Chen/Yuanliang and others have some forces in Qingzhou, but they are too weak and scattered, and they can only use the righteousness of the imperial court to keep the tentacles of the Liang family out of Qingzhou.

If there is really any ambition, many fatal contradictions will be exposed within Qingzhou first.

Although Lin Tingli has a strong control over the Dongyang Army, Lin Tingli himself does not have any particularly big ambitions, including Lin Xuwen, they will not support Lin Ting's secession of Huaidong at this stage and sharply oppose the Yuan court.

In the eyes of Lin Mengde and others, only if the Yuan court collapsed in an instant, and Gu Wuchen, Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen and others lost their allegiance, it was possible for the forces in their hands to gather with Huaidong as the core......

Of course, it is difficult to do this, even if Yanjing is broken by Dongyu, King Ning can be established as the new emperor here, and the time of the Yuan clan's positive unification will not be cut off.

Zhao Qinmin suddenly put forward the dazzling word "King of Huaidong" at this time, how could Lin Mengde not be vigilant?

This is the way of the world, Liu Tingzhou made things difficult for Huaidong in every way, but the people in Huaidong thought that he had integrity - Sun Zhuang was in Huaidong, secretly colluding with the girl in the red jacket, and the people in Huaidong also pretended not to see it, but thought that he knew loyalty.

For example, Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan and others did not agree with Huaidong's approach, and they were all outside the Huaidong system, but the Huaidong people also had a very close relationship with them.

Not to mention the relationship with Huaidong, Zhao Qinmin can still be loyal to Gu Wuchen, but he has a precedent of switching to the court, and the people of Huaidong treat him coldly.

"That's true...... Zhao Qinmin laughed. Lin Mengde was born in business, and he stood alone for the Lin family in Jiangning in his early years, and he was already a refined figure, so he would rely on Lin Meng so much, and he didn't expect to dig out anything from Lin Mengde's mouth.

At this time, there was a fast rider approaching, listening to the cheers and answers from the periphery, it was a post horse who came from Jianling to send Tang Bao - Lin Mengde has a special position in Huaidong, in addition to ensuring that he and Lin Jian keep in touch at any time, he will also keep him aware of the latest changes in the situation, and if there is any Tang copy, there will be someone to send it to him.

Lin Mengde took the Tang copy handed in by the cavalry guard through the window, looked at it through the horse lamp outside the car window, and sighed slightly: "Jiangning decided to transfer troops and horses from northern Zhejiang to be Tu...... Chen Zhihu's soldiers and horses went south to block the way for the Red Jacket rebels to flee west-" There is no need to hide such news from Zhao Qinmin, Lin Mengde handed him the Tang copy handed from Jianling.

Zhao Qinmin took the Tang copy, read it with the help of the horse lantern, and on the side of the Tang copy, someone took a charcoal pen to annotate.

Zhao Qinmin recognized Lin Bin's handwriting, and compared with the content contained in the Tang copy, he looked at Lin Bin's annotations more seriously: "Under the influence of Liaoxi, the mentality of the princes of Jiangning has also become frivolous. Such a transfer is a vain attempt to solve the situation in Huaisi in one fell swoop when the Ji army invades Liaoyang in the north, but the advance and retreat are already excessive, or it may lead to evil results......"

Zhao Qinmin thought about it carefully, but agreed with Lin Lian's judgment.

Before, Luo Xiancheng led his troops south, Jiangning hastily transferred Tao Chunfen troops to defend Luzhou, to guard against the eastward movement of Changle bandits, and transferred Jiangning water battalion to garrison quarrying, which was completely on the defensive to prevent the situation on the east and west lines of Jiangxi from deteriorating, and even opened a gap in the west of Huaiyang to lure the red jacket bandits to flee west and strike again......

At this time, the Northern Zhejiang Army was transferred to the west to Dangtu - it was obvious that he saw that the heavy troops of the luxury family were gathering on the western front, and the eastern front was seriously attacked by the Huaidong Army, and the pressure on the Northern Zhejiang Army was minimized, so the Northern Zhejiang Army was transferred to suppress Luo Xiancheng's eastward or southward trend. He also ordered Chen Zhihu to block the way for the Red Jacket Bandits to flee west from Huaiyang, and the next step is likely to be to transfer Tao Chun to lead the Changhuai Army to the north, completely trap the Red Jacket Bandits in Huaiyang City, and annihilate them.

The Changhuai army was transferred back and forth, and Jiangning was a little busy in the deployment of troops, but Zhao Qinmin did not think that this was a manifestation of inappropriate advance and retreat and rash advance - he believed that this was precisely because of the encouragement of the great victory in western Liaoning, and the fighting spirit of the princes of Jiangning rose again.

In this way, the adjustment of troops is more conducive to attacking, but in the past, it was too conservative.

At least compared with Huaidong's initial suggestion to transfer the Jiangning Water Battalion to the west to block the possibility of Changle bandits crossing the river, Jiangning's troop adjustment at this time was still conservative.

However, these annotations were all written by Lin Tie, Zhao Qinmin knew what kind of prestige Lin Tie had in the hearts of the people in Huaidong, he would not say that Lin Tie was not in front of Lin Mengde, but said in a smooth annotation tone: "It's a bit messy!" ”

Lin Mengde didn't hear Zhao Qinmin's bad words for a while, and responded with emotion: "Yes." ”

Unless it can be done very quickly, just like the Huaidong Navy Division rushing south, in just three or five days, the front of the troops will be directed at the mouth of the Min River, so that the luxury family can be caught off guard, otherwise, it is difficult to hide the enemy's eyes from the mobilization of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Even if many people can't see the possible bad consequences in western Liaoning, as far as the normal strategic choice is concerned, the southern front should be even more static at this time and keep the original strategy unchanged: the battle of Songcheng in western Liaoning has caused a great change in the mentality of many people, which is by no means a good thing.