Chapter 289: Ambition, Rumors Deducted

After Jiang Feng and Liu Shier decided, the order was quickly passed to the relevant people. Many soldiers in Shijiu Camp found that there were many new faces around them. It turned out that those soldiers with Lunan accents didn't know where they went. Among Jiang Feng's team, most of the local people with Shandong accents were from new recruits. People with accents near the capital occupied most of the officers and soldiers' leaders, and only a small part of them were from Lunan accents. These people made the new recruits feel a little intimate.

However, these soldiers did not make any statement. The officers in their barracks said nothing and made a fuss. Of course, after those with a Lunan accent left, there were enough recruits to restock. Even if officials came to count the number at this time, they would not be able to find any flaws.

After all, in the official documents, it describes how many soldiers there are in a certain battalion, but it does not describe how many soldiers there are from the craftsmen near the capital, and how many of them are from Weishan Island.

Wendao is a young man with ambitious ambition among the Liu brothers. Liu Shisan is now in charge of the first battalion and is considered a local garrison. Liu Shier is also a master of the planners, and he has a high status in both public and private. These two people are more satisfied with their current position, but Wendao is an alien. Although he is now following Jiang Feng's orders and is on standby as a bandit in the Yimeng Mountains, he always wants to rebel like Liu Liu and Liu Qi, and hopes to wear a yellow robe one day.

Because of this, Liu Shier did not dare to keep him by his side because he knew that his cousin was too ambitious. If there was any abnormal movement around someone with a personality like Jiang Feng, his head would be cut off sooner or later. Moreover, Liu Shier had observed the situation clearly by Jiang Feng's side.

If you raise a strong army now, it will not work without a lot of money, and it will not work without food. The white-clothed magic weapon of Liu Liu and Liu Qi was so powerful back then, but he could never open up any big city. He could only come and go like the wind, plunder and replenish the supplies on the spot. When the court transferred the border troops, they immediately failed and dispersed.

Even though he had ambitions, he could not solve the fundamental problem, which was that there was no stable logistical support and no stable morality. When Chen Shizi rebelled against tens of thousands of people in Lunan and the world was shaken, Liu Shier and Liu Shisan might not be unhappy.

However, Jiang Feng personally led the army. After fighting outside Yuyang City, their brothers were all dead. Judging from the situation, for the descendants of the white-clothed divine soldiers, if they do something, they can only rely on Jiang Feng's power, because Jiang Feng always seems to have some vague ambitions.

But what his brothers thought, Wen Dao might not have thought that he was overjoyed to see more than 400 soldiers coming to join. The people around Weishan Island were originally skilled cavalry, and after training in Jiangfeng's camp, they were even more powerful. Moreover, these people came with two horses and came with enough equipment. Now, it was a good idea. Including his original more than 300 confidants, they could already piece together nearly 1,000 soldiers, and they had sufficient weapons to do anything. The leader of these more than 400 people brought him a private message, which was written by Liu Shier, saying that it would take not long before the White Lotus Sect in Linyi would cause trouble.

At that time, remember to seize the opportunity. Dengzhou will give them various conveniences. Wen Dao noticed something. The letter was not expressed in the tone of official documents, but in Liu Shier's private tone. The four hundred people who came to join him also said that they came from Shijiu, not because they received any official orders, but the oral message from the family issued by Liu Shier and Liu Shisan.

Could it be that Wen Dao thought a lot about being smart, but he was just being smart.

In addition to large cities such as Jining, Tengzhou, and Yanzhou in southern Shandong, Linyi was also among them. Linyi had one of the two vassal kings in Shandong, "King of Jing". This vassal king was indeed a special existence among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. The reason why it was special was that it had a very good reputation.

This is a good reputation from King Heng of Qingzhou because the prince is preparing to rebel and win people's hearts. Since the King of Jing came to Linyi, he has done many things to bully men and women, levy overwhelming taxes, and interfering in local political affairs and conspiracy. He has done many great things to build water conservancy.

In Linyi City, whether it is officials, gentry, vendors, farmers and workers, they all regard this prince as a Bodhisattva. King Jing is already in his fifties this year. Among the vassal kings, when they are in their fifties, various hidden dangers of emptying their bodies due to the extravagant life in the past broke out, so we can consider the funeral.

However, King Jing was quite healthy. There was a very vicious joke among the wealthy merchants in Jining, saying that if he checked agriculture and sericulture every day with King Jing, caring about water conservancy, eating, drinking and having fun, why should he be the prince? What's the point of living for so long?

No matter how clear-minded the governance or how good the weather is, there will always be inconsistent voices. The White Lotus Sect, a cult in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty government, is already an immortal creature that cannot be wiped out. Only every time the White Lotus Sect takes advantage of the unstable situation and kills some.

Then other White Lotus Sects or descendants of Buddha Mother, as well as Taoist congregations called various names of Maitreya, will temporarily remain calm and continue to preach among the people and develop congregations.

Don’t think that there is any justice in these White Lotus Sects. They were anti-Yuan in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, they were anti-Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were anti-Qing Dynasty. Such Taoist organizations were full of anti-social nature, and what they hoped for was chaos in the world.

The kindness that King Jing has made for so many years is to win people's hearts, and the news of dissatisfaction with the current Emperor Jiajing began to spread slowly. Emperor Jiajing was not a close relative of Zhu Di, but Emperor Zhengde had no descendants, so he took office.

To put it this way, it is natural that King Jing, as the uncle Zhengde, has some dissatisfaction with this, but he should have been dissatisfied with it ten years ago. Why did he only start to have ideas now? The flaws of the rumors are quite big. The rumors stop at the wise, but there are too few smart people in the world, so the news began to spread.

However, when the Jingwang Mansion and various local yamen heard this, they laughed it off, thinking that they didn't know that it was the news fabricated by the boring person, and they couldn't see any fluctuations for a while.

The weather was getting colder, and all the gold harvested was placed in the insurance place, and at the same time it was quickly allocated and used on the boat yard at the foot of the mountain. Jiang Feng felt a little relaxed in his heart. Everything is still normal now.

The winter of the Ming Dynasty was much colder than that of the greenhouse modern era, so various military operations in the winter were basically not carried out. If a soldier who was marching in the snow and ice, the lack of necessary protection would cause a large reduction in personnel due to the cold. This kind of thing is really not worth the loss.

In winter, Jiang Feng knew that his time was a little more, but some small signs gradually began to show up. First, the Jiang family army's military pay, and the food, grass, and silver and money of the 10,000 people could only be paid 60% to 70% according to the usual rules, but Jiang Feng's majesty was there, and all the people tried their best to send the 60% to the Jiang family army. You must know that if it is still the same, these staff members would have to deduct 10%.

However, the recent batch of military pay was only 40% of the amount paid. The officers of the Jiang family army have always been accustomed to civil officials. When they saw that they were actually these numbers, they were immediately furious. A few irritable tempers took out the knife.

The civil servant who was in charge of the supply of food and money was so scared that he knelt down and cursed in his heart. When he was sending food and money to Dongchang and Qingzhou, those officers were like grandsons. Why did your Jiang family army look like this? Although he was scolding in his heart, he still had to cry and exchange his defense:

"Brothers, this is the number of people transferred from above. We have no choice but to swallow it? I can't. I want to live longer, how dare I be so brave!"

No matter how hard it was, it seemed that the court had sent these things. Jiang Feng's subordinates also inquired about it and found that the amount of food and fodder sent to Dengzhou camp was indeed the same. At least after entering Shandong, no one had to take it away.

"Damn it, the weather is so cold, and we still deduct money and food from Dengzhou. Isn't this going to force us to death?"

In the Shandong Guerrilla Office in Dengzhou, Zhang Liang was furious in the second hall. The weather suddenly deducted food and salary, and the morale of the soldiers must be greatly affected. Jiang Feng sat there holding tea and sucked slowly. Luo Yi, Yang Da, Yang Shitou and Liu Shisan all looked angry on his face.

"Sir, I'll just transfer the money now!"

Zhao Xiucai made some calculations on the side. Although there are a lot of things to do in making ships and cannons, there are still the shocking investment projects some time ago. Dengzhou Camp is actually not short of money. The reason why the officers below are angry is that they think that someone is indifferent to them. Dengzhou Camp also spends money to make up for the gap in military pay, but now they are not fighting for money but fighting for this tone.

Jiang Feng spoke in a deep voice there and said to Zhao Xiucai beside him:

"No need to make up for it, just send 40% of the food and salary to the subordinates."

Zhang Liang, who was swaying there, turned around in shock, and the rest of the people showed incredible expressions. After a while, someone whispered:

"This...isn't this good!?"
Chapter completed!