In order to further make up for the loopholes, or to silence the doubters more effectively if something happened in the future, Feng Yi stayed in Jinling to handle the affairs assigned by Han Qian, and then deliberately used his connections to catch up with the Navy of the Five Tooth Army and go to Yueyang.
For the fleet that changes defense, consider changing ships back to Xuzhou after arriving at Yueyang.
It was already quite hot in Jinling at the end of April. On the embankment to the west of the naval camp, two young men in brown clothes stood with their hands folded, looking at the fleet of ships drifting away, their eyes full of confusion.
After Anji Xiang replied to Yang Yuanpu's order, he officially went to Jinyun Division to assume the command of the right capital in the past two days.
Although according to Yang Yuanpu's plan, he and Chen Ruyi, the commander of Zuo Du, were each responsible for their own affairs, it would be best to form a system of mutual supervision and checks and balances in a year or two.
Or perhaps out of the two of them, only one of them will gain trust in the end and stay in Jinyun Division.
The two are actually in a competitive relationship, but as far as the current situation is concerned, both Anji Xiang and Chen Ruyi know that if they don't work together at this time, they will rush to hold each other back. As a result, no one is qualified to take charge of Jinyun Division.
Become the leader of His Majesty's minions.
"Why did they take the navy's warship to go to Yueyang first?" Chen Ruyi looked at Anji Xiang in confusion.
"Perhaps Han Qian warned them and asked them to tell His Majesty that there is no direct force in Xuzhou lurking in Jinling..." Anji Xiang guessed.
Of course, they must find some trouble that is not beneficial to Xuzhou. It can be said that Feng Yi and Han Dong intend to take the opportunity to get close to the naval generals.
However, at this time, the remnants of the Louchuan Army, which still had considerable combat power, fled into Hongze Lake and were not completely annihilated. Whether it was defending Jinling or clearing Shouzhou, the imperial court relied heavily on the Five Tooth Army Navy. An
Ji Xiang guessed that His Majesty would never want to see them casually involving the Five Tooth Army Navy Division now.
"Then all the people who came here this time have returned to Xuzhou?" Chen Ruyi asked.
"Looking at the list, everyone has returned." Anji Xiang said.
He went to Jinling with Feng Yi, Han Dong and others on the same ship, but after returning to Jinling, his mission came to an end. There was no reason to contact Feng Yi, Han Dong and others again. They could only take the responsibility of bringing Feng Yi, Han Dong and others
From Honglu Temple, where he was received as an envoy, he got the list of Feng Yi and others' departure from the city.
Jinyunsi's spies who were responsible for keeping an eye on the post house these past few days found nothing unusual. It seemed that Feng Yi, Han Dong and others had already received instructions from Han Qian. After arriving in Jinling, they were responsible for eating, drinking and having fun, and had no contact with their old friends.
Rarely, very well behaved.
"Let's go back to the city." Chen Ru thought that there was nothing to gain, so he and An Xiang walked down the river embankment, met up with the dozen or so horsemen guarding the river embankment, got on their horses, and galloped toward Jinling City together.
They also didn't notice that in the grass in the distance, there was a pair of shining eyes staring at their departing bodies. After a while, they recovered their attention and looked at the fleet of ships sailing four or five miles on the river.
After a while, Han Donghu stood up and walked towards Chidao. He had already put on a pair of tattered clothes stolen from a farmer, and walked toward Jinling City like an honest villager...
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A few days after the ceremony of enthroning the Queen, Shang Mansion also fell into a busy state.
Shang Wensheng, the head of the Shang Mansion, went to Guangde Mansion to serve as the magistrate, and his eldest son Shang Mengtong was sent to Danyang, Runzhou, to serve as the county magistrate. They all left after the ceremony of instituting the queen.
Although the second son Shang Zhongjie was eventually acquitted, as the "chief culprit" who gathered the village soldiers to defend Donglu Mountain and killed and wounded thousands of Chishan Army generals, there was no way he would have any achievements to report after the war. At this time, he still
White body.
Shang Wensheng then thought of keeping his second son as a staff member and taking him to Langxi to take up his post.
Shang Zhongjie also felt that there was nothing wrong with this, but he felt that a few old slaves could be left to take care of the family home in Jinling City, while other slaves and servants still had to be taken to Donglu Mountain to rebuild Shangjia Fort. He discussed with his mother Liu, and also
He decided to stay in Donglu Mountain for a while and was not in a hurry to leave with his father.
After procrastinating for five or six days, in addition to packing up all the soft things in Shang's mansion, he also disposed of two warehouses in the city and raised tens of thousands more money as funds to reorganize Shangjia Fort. Shang Zhongjie finally
He and his mother Liu, together with more than a hundred slaves and maidservants, and more than a dozen carriages, left Jinling City and set off back to Donglu Mountain first.
Shang Zhongjie rushed to Lishui City and stopped for a day to meet with Wei Zhen, the magistrate who temporarily supervised Lishui County, to complete the land deeds and house deeds of the Shang family in Donglu Mountain. He heard that Shangjiabao was occupied by some refugees at this time, so he
Most of the family members stayed in Lishui City, and first returned to Shangjiabao with more than 20 family soldiers.
At this time, Shang Zhongjie still felt resentful in his heart, thinking that when the Shang family was at its most powerful, it had thousands of servants and more than 400 soldiers. How could it be that it was like today that it was like this, with even the house being stolen by bandits?
Looking at the wild wormwood growing all over Lishui County, it is also desolate.
Although it had been more than two months since Jinling was recaptured, even before the general attack on Jinling, the counties in Lishui and Nanling that were initially under the control of Yueyang's troops had already started the work of returning villagers to their hometowns and resuming farming, but the results were far from ideal.
As the area most severely "mutilated" by the Chishan Army, not counting the civilians who were forcibly recruited by the Wei clan and other clan clans, more than 80% of the slaves in Lishui County had devoted themselves to the Chishan Army.
Coupled with the people who died in the war and those who have not returned from exile, the actual number of Dingkou in Danyang County has dropped to less than 40% of what it was before the war.
There is a serious shortage of labor force, especially young and middle-aged workers.
The children of the aristocratic clans were not engaged in farming, so a large number of farming equipment was forged into swords and armor during wartime.
Only about 20% of the county's fields have been plowed in the spring, and more fields are still barren and overgrown with weeds.
Wei Zhen has not joined the Six Ministries as an official for the time being, and together with many generals who have made meritorious service after serving His Majesty, such as Fu Gengwen and others, they first went to Lishui, Jiangcheng, Fanchang, Dangtu and other counties to take charge of recuperation and recuperation.
Wei Zhen presided over the affairs of Lishui County. Even though large areas of fields were deserted, she still insisted that the fields and houses should return to their old owners.
Even though he did not have the authority to restrain the slaves who had surrendered to the Chishan Army and settled in Guangde Mansion, he still tried his best to send out the limited number of county government servants and sword archers to help the master's family hunt down the slaves who had fled to the depths of Yishan or Jiuhua Mountain.
slave.
He also checked the identities of the refugees stranded in Lishui County, and first detained those who were runaway slaves in the county jail, and then notified the old owners via post to pick them up.
He did everything possible to restore the old order in which aristocratic families controlled the countryside.
Of course, Zheng Yu, who was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, had such considerations when recommending Wei Zhen, Fu Gengwen and others to temporarily take charge of the counties in Jingzhao Prefecture.
This has also been recognized by Yang Zhitang, Zhang Chao and many others.
Emperor Yanyou Yang Yuanpu did not object strongly. After all, only the conquest of Anning Palace, the land owned by Prince Yang Yuanwo and Xu family generals in the counties of Jingzhao Prefecture amounted to nearly two million acres. In addition to being used to reward meritorious deeds,
Part of the land can be sold to raise money and grain to make up for the lack of funds for rebuilding Jinling City.
At this time, the Privy Council also took over the camp military mansion that originally belonged to the Nanya Imperial Guards and the Guards and Guards. It was enough to accommodate the newly formed Imperial Guards and Guards and Guards, and even left a certain amount of space for the subsequent expansion of military households.
room.
In any case, all parties are working hard to control the negative impact of the Chishan Army and Guangde Mansion to a minimum.
Shang Zhongjie first took a group of healthy servants and soldiers back to Donglu Mountain. Shangjia Fort at the northern foot was in a mess. Only the inner fort was barely intact, but more than a dozen families of refugees lived here secretly. The garden in the back mountain
It has actually been reclaimed into fields to grow wheat and vegetables, covering almost a hundred acres.
Shang Zhongjie first led seven or eight able servants to block the stone path outside the north fort gate with their swords, and then personally led more than ten soldiers to climb up the back mountain in a detour and rush into the inner fort from the south.
The vast majority of the dozen or so households were either poor tenant farmers with no farmland nearby, or slaves who were timid and fled into the mountains to escape the war. After the war, the situation seemed stable, but when they came back they saw that their homes had been destroyed by the war, and they had nowhere to go.
So he first went to the abandoned Shangjiabao to stay.
When they saw Shang Zhongjie gathering his soldiers and coming in with swords, they didn't resist, so they were captured. They were still thinking that they would become homeless again after being expelled, and their hearts were filled with panic, but
Little did they know that a more miserable fate awaited them.
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Shang Zhongjie pulled out the bloody sword from the chest of a little girl whose face was covered with dirt. The sky was already bright, and his mind controlled by anger finally came to his senses.
At this time, on the stone paved square south of the North Gate of Shangjiabao, there were already more than fifty corpses lying in a pool of blood.
Everyone's hands were tied behind their backs, and their mouths were stuffed with rags or straw balls to prevent them from screaming when they struggled.
Only at this moment did Shang Zhongjie feel regret and fear. Unexpectedly, he beat three refugees to death last night and failed to vent his resentment. He got up in the morning and tortured these refugees again.
However, stuffing their mouths with rags and straw, and beating them with iron whips, could not relieve the hatred in his heart. When his brain became hot, he drew his sword and stabbed these refugees to death one by one.
Although these refugees had stolen the land and house of his Shang family, he could assemble his own soldiers and drive them out by force. Even if there were some casualties during the drive, they would still be able to hold on to their rights and would not have to worry about being held accountable.
However, none of these people resisted, so they were captured. According to the rules, he could either drive these people out directly, or drag them all to the county government for disposal. He could not execute them without permission.
Even in the army, killing prisoners will be severely punished. What's more, he is just a son of the Shang family who is guilty of the crime, not to mention that what he killed was just a group of unarmed refugee women and children?
How to deal with these fifty or sixty corpses?
Shang Zhongjie regained his composure at this time and looked grimly at the dozens of soldiers behind him who were frightened by his atrocities just now. Although their bodies could be buried in the back mountain.
There is chaos these days. There are several cemeteries outside Lishui City with dozens of corpses. After a while, no one will notice anything unusual. But can he guarantee that these soldiers will not leak out?
It was those bastards who betrayed the Shang family in the beginning, and they were the most vicious and ruthless in killing Shang Jiabao.
"Tap-tat..." The sound of galloping horse hooves came straight from the bottom of the mountain trampling on the stone path. After a while, someone saw the half-opened fortress door being pushed open from the outside.
Shang Wensheng, who had a thin face and a three-inch long beard on his chin, almost fainted when he saw the bloody scene in front of him. He grabbed the riding crop in his hand and whipped it towards his second son, Shang Zhongjie, shamelessly: "You...
Damn you, you are really crazy!"
Last night, Shang Zhongjie beat three refugees to death. Some of his subordinates felt that something was wrong with him. They couldn't bear to see the refugees die so miserably. However, they could not persuade the second son, whose temperament became extremely violent after the war, so they could only stay overnight.
He led his horse quietly out of the fort and galloped to Langxi to report to the master of the family, Shang Wensheng.
After receiving the letter, Shang Wensheng did not delay. He took five or six personal guards and drove nearly ninety miles in the morning light back to Shangjia Fort. Unexpectedly, he was still a step too late, and all he saw were corpses lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
