"What an eventful season!"

That night, Chang Wei learned from He Chong's mouth: Xu Hongru of the White Lotus Sect in Shandong led the army to Yuncheng, opened a warehouse to release grain after Juye, and relieved the people. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info gentry officials from all over the country were terrified and fled one after another.

In mid-July, Xu Hongru marched eastward, crossed the canal, conquered Zou County, and sentenced Zheng Yijie to flee with his family. Waving Teng County again, Yao Zhiyin, the magistrate of the county, fled from the wind, and the White Lotus Sect was mighty, and hundreds of thousands of people flocked to follow.

Meng Chengguang, the sixty-sixth grandson of Mencius, was killed by the White Lotus Sect for assisting the government, and the local government was solemn, and no gentry and wealthy families dared to organize righteousness to deal with the White Lotus Sect.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Hongru ran Zou County, and sent troops to attack Yanzhou and Qufu, attack Juye in the west, and expedition to Peixian, Rizhao and Tancheng, Hengge Canal, and crisscross the Lunan region.

On July 15, just two days before Chang Wei returned, Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong, the capital of Shandong, attacked Zou County. Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong were defeated.

Then, Xu Hongru avoided the real and attacked the false, went straight to Xia Zhen, an important ferry port of the canal, grabbed the throat of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, cut off the passage of the imperial court to transport grain and wages, and intercepted 40 official grain ships in Pengjiakou, and surrounded Qufu.

Yang Guosheng led his troops to arrive again, but Xu Hongru feinted to attack Qufu, the main force copied the official army barracks, the general Zhang Bang was killed, Yang Guosheng's troops were defeated like a mountain, and the White Lotus Sect harvested a large number of grain and grass weapons, and the prestige was shocked......

The next day, Chang Wei went to Liu Tingyuan's mansion to hand in the order, and the war was over, and his mission as the right commander of the Shenji Battalion was completed, but Liu Tingyuan and Wei Liangdong both stopped him.

claimed that the battle of Fengyang was fought quite beautifully, so the two of them had already written to the emperor to ask for the position of permanent commander of the Shenji Battalion, and these two official positions naturally fell on the heads of Fu Zhouzi and Chang Wei.

The meaning in the words of the two was that they were quite satisfied with Chang Wei's battle report, so they wanted to win him over and Fu Zhouzi.

However, Chang Wei was not so easy to deceive, and asked the purpose of the two in a few simple words.

In view of the swiftness of Chang Wei and Fu Zhouzi's Fengyang rebellion, and the strong combat power of the Shenji Battalion, the imperial court will definitely give priority to letting Chang Wei and Fu Zhouzi lead troops north to Shandong.

Chang Wei thought for a while and said, "This matter is very important, let me think about it!"

Liu Tingyuan said with a smile: "Don't worry, you have just come back, take a good rest first, and the soldiers also need to repair and replenish the equipment, grain and grass." Besides, now the situation in Shandong has not been so eroded that it is out of control, and the Hou Ye is also taking precautions, and if the court really wants to make an order, it will have to wait for half a month. ”

Liu Tingyuan's-for-tat confrontation in the past to his politeness now made Chang Wei sneer in his heart, "The battle report listed him in front, and it really made this old dog's attitude change greatly!"

Out of Liu Tingyuan's mansion, Chang Wei turned around and entered the Wei State Mansion.

Seeing Xu Hongji, Chang Wei got straight to the point and said, "Grandpa Xu, Wei Liangdong wants to set up a permanent commander of the Shenji Battalion!"

Liu Tingyuan and Wei Liangdong's intentions, Chang Wei has already understood, the powerful combat power of the Shenji Battalion made the two of them red-eyed, and taking the opportunity of the White Lotus Sect to cause chaos, the two wanted to capture the Shenji Battalion in their hands.

In this way, Xu Hongji's power was weakened, Xu Hongji had made concessions in the post of secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, if it was weakened again, the power of the eunuch party would increase greatly, and in the long run, Nanjing, Ying Tianfu, Nanzhili, and even the entire Jiangnan would be eaten away by Wei Zhongxian, and at that time, maybe Wei Eunuch would really make a move to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne.

Even if the consequences of the matter are not so serious, Chang Wei also has considerations about himself.

At the time of the gambling house assassination, the killers had already scolded him for being a eunuch, and after the first battle of Fengyang, the Church of Our Lady scolded him for being an accomplice of the eunuch party, and the Fengyang officials also confirmed this point, and his position as the envoy of Beizhen was still given to him by Wei Liangdong, no matter how contrary these things were to his wishes, but in the eyes of the world, he was already a eunuch celebrity.

Things in the court are so weird and unreasonable, no matter how much you flaunt your position and political opinions, others only look at your camp, once the camp is different, you will be suppressed and eradicated, although Chang Wei does not care about official positions, but he can't ignore the feelings of his relatives and friends.

The eldest brother Chang Kuan, the second brother Chang Tong, his friends He Chong, Fu Zhouzi and even Shen Kuang and Tang Men, these people are all closely related to his honor and disgrace, in other words, the bigger Chang Wei's official does, the greater the power in his hands, and the harder the backers, the safer these people are.

Now the most powerful and hardest backer is undoubtedly Wei Zhongxian, but taking refuge in Wei Gelding is something that should not be thought of!

Let's not talk about the fate of Wei Eunuch's inevitable defeat, let's just say that the conduct and reputation of the eunuch party are incompatible with himself!

Wei Liangdong is a person who can often live with power, and it is okay to be a snake for the time being, but the best long-term reliable ally and backer is undoubtedly the Xu family.

Although it is difficult for Chang Wei to be promoted rapidly with his back to Grandpa Xu, his ambition is not in the officialdom, Chang Wei already knows how powerful the rivers and lakes are, so his ambition is to hold the rivers and lakes with self-respect! And he has the opportunity to control the power of the rivers and lakes in front of him.

Xu Hongji's eyes shone brightly, and a powerful momentum burst out from his body that Chang Wei had never seen before, "The left and right commanders of the permanent Shenji Battalion?"

Then, he returned to normal and asked calmly, "Dauntless, what do you think?" Do you want to take charge of the Divine Machine Battalion?"

"Wei Liangdong wants to take this God-given opportunity to take the Shenji Camp for himself, and I have the same position as Grandpa Xu, advancing and retreating together, how can I act as an accomplice of the eunuchs?"

Politics is like this, most of the time everyone is fooling each other, getting by, but once the most fundamental interests are involved, there is absolutely no room for ambiguity and wait-and-see, and we must take action to make our position clear at the first time, otherwise there will be a catastrophe of death in an instant.

"Okay!" Xu Hongji nodded solemnly and said, "The power structure of the Shenji Battalion will never change. And if you offend Huang Qiulin and Liu Tingyuan, presumably this Jinyi Weibei Town envoy will not be able to do it for long. Now that the world is so chaotic, I suggest that you organize a township brave army to deal with the remnants of the thieves in Fengyang Mansion, if you think Fengyang is too far away, you can also go to Taihu Lake to clean up the twelve chain docks. ”

"Grandpa is far-sighted and fearless and admired!" Chang Wei said sincerely.

In his heart, he said: "He is worthy of being a super big man who can fight against Wei Zhongxian, what an old fox! The Shenji Battalion will not change, which shows that Wei Zhongxian will not be able to take away the army in his hands." Let me find an excuse to resign as the envoy of Beizhen, I agree with me from the bottom of my heart, if I really want to be an official, I will definitely rise to the top in Nanjing. Let me form Yiyong, I have seen the prelude to the opening of troubled times, in troubled times, official positions are all false, only one's own force is the most reliable!"