Seeing Zhou Xian's tone resolute, Gu Yanwu breathed a sigh of relief. "Then I'll go and learn about the generals and let them ignore him."

Zhou Xian said: "If Li Hong is smart, he should try his best to win over Bai Huo and let Ding Keze pay attention to the situation there. Other generals, without saying much, they also know what to do. Zhongqing, you have more important things to do. When you integrate the academy, the newspaper matters cannot be stopped. You publish some of the dangers of the monarch's power, the responsibilities that the ministers should bear, and the idea that the monarch is inferior to the people, the more people they are concerned about, the better the more scholars they discuss."

Gu Yanwu looked puzzled and said, "Master General, are you?"

Zhou Xianxiao said: "If you want to reform the system, it is easy to implement it from top to bottom. But from bottom to top, it is a truly irreversible change. If I want to weaken the imperial power, I must first let the scholars in the world understand that 'family and the whole world' are not necessarily the only choice. Only in this way can we obtain the support of the lower-level scholars and promote the upper-level to be forced to make changes."

Gu Yanwu said: "Master General, you are not going to create..."

Zhou Xian smiled bitterly and said, "The time is not ripe. It is easy to change an emperor, but it is difficult to maintain long-term stability after changing it. Also, Your Majesty has the kindness of knowing me, and until the end, I will still be a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Everything I have done is just to protect it."

Gu Yanwu was more radical than Zhou Xian. Seeing that Zhou Xian had already said this, he didn't say much. He just bowed and said, "Don't worry, the villain will do this well."

Zhou Xian nodded, "There is one thing you need to know in advance. After conquering Qufu, I will welcome Mencius' tablet to the Confucius Temple. Moreover, because Yan Shenggong first attached to Liu Zeqing and the thief, he will definitely punish him severely."

Gu Yanwu was stunned at the local area, "General, moving Mencius out of Confucius Temple is what Emperor Taizu did!"

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "This is how people in the world understand. 'The people are the most important, the country is the next, and the king is the least" is a famous saying that can never be changed. Moreover, it is not that I want to welcome Mencius to the Confucius Temple, but that the scholars from Shandong want. Do you understand if I say this?"

Gu Yanwu thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Mr. Governor, I understand."

After Zhou Xian arrived in Tai'an, the first thing he did was to reorganize the soldiers under Wang Jun. In the end, only four thousand-person teams were selected and organized into a camp of restraints. The others distributed gold and silver and then dismissed them. Wang Jun did not dare to disobey, and honestly followed Zhou Xian's orders, and everything went very smoothly.

Wang Jun served as the assistant to the cavalry camp and was in charge of the garrison. Xia Kuiyuan and Chao Yuguang both led the Qianzong. The other two Qianzong were transferred from the Renjian and incorporated some original low-level official troops to divide the power in Wang Jun to the greatest extent. All the horses in Wang Jun's army were taken by Zhou Xian and handed over to Sun Xuan. In this way, even if Wang Jun had other thoughts, he would not dare to act rashly.

Seeing Wang Jun cooperated so much, Zhou Xian was unwilling to do it too much. In the past, Wang Jun robbed countless gold, silver and jewelry, but Zhou Xian did not pursue it too much, but only asked him to be responsible for the severance of his soldiers. In response, Wang Jun reciprocated and took the initiative to give it a large part to Zhou Xian. Zhou Xian used the gold and silver as military pay for the self-reward camp, and promised to treat everyone equally in the future.

These people are used to being thieves and their discipline is loose. When Zhou Xian trained them on the first day, he killed several people who disobeyed orders and punished dozens of them severely, which completely reversed their decadent aura. After a few days of training, he became more and more sensible.

On this day, Zhou Xian called Tan Shimai and Wang Jun and issued an order to advance to them. Things were much easier than he expected. In less than half an hour, the army crossed Sishui.

The defenders of the rebel army on the south bank completely evacuated without any resistance. Before the official army arrived on the shore, they all retreated to Qufu City and held the city. Three thousand cavalrymen hunted the surrounding areas, threatened and restrained the official army, but did not launch an attack.

When we talked, we moved to Qufu, and we had three sides missing one, and we were also wary of those who broke into the stalkers.

Not long after, Zhou Xian arrived.

Basically, at the same time, war reports came from Linyi. Li Dingguo sent troops from Xia Pi to attack Tancheng. Zhao Qin led his troops to fight, and was ambushed on the road, losing nearly 2,000 soldiers, and retreated back to Linyi. Most of the defenders in Tancheng were new soldiers. Seeing that reinforcements were defeated, they raised white flags to surrender to Li Dingguo.

The troops of Xuzhou sent troops at the same time, occupied Zaozhuang, Tengxian and other places, plundered a large number of people, and used them to expand their troops. In the end, the bandit army arrived at the city of Linyi. However, Li Dingguo saw that the city of Linyi was strong and it was difficult to break for a while. He ordered Bai Wenxuan to besiege Linyi and build siege tools. He personally led 5,000 cavalry to conquer the surrounding cities of Linyi to force the official army in the city to fight. Zhao Qin sent troops several times, but was defeated by the bandit army outside the city, so he could only ask Zhou Xian for help.

Li Yan avoided fighting, and Li Dingguo's advance speed was far beyond his imagination. For a moment, Zhou Xian was a little worried. Many places on the south side were newly occupied, and most places were not even sent to basic local officials. If Li Dingguo was allowed to continue making trouble, not only around Linyi, but also Zibo, Tai'an and other places would be affected. Before, because they knew each other's fault, Zhou Xian attached great importance to Li Yan. But at present, Li Dingguo was the direct threat. Just as Zhou Xian was considering whether to lead troops to Linyi, Li Yan suddenly sent an envoy to ask to meet Zhou Xian.

In front of the two armies, four horses slowly stepped forward and finally stopped in the middle. Li Yan was him and He Jin, and Zhou Xian brought him to Tan Shimai.

Li Yan was covered in spring breeze and clasped his fists to Zhou Xian and said, "Brother Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time. I wonder if everything is still fine?"

Zhou Xian said: "I ask Brother Li for his blessing, everything is fine. I wonder what Brother Li asked me to come, what's the matter?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "I know Brother Zhou is about to leave. I want to see you without meeting you. Who is the pity? I'm here to see you off."

Zhou Xian glanced at Li Yan, "What is this Brother Li? I'm leaving, where to go?"

Li Yan deliberately looked surprised and said, "Brother Zhou is going to Linyi? If you don't go at this time, you will regret it when General Li takes over Linyi."

Zhou Xianxiao said, "What if I want to defeat Brother Li and then go to Linyi!"
Chapter completed!