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Chapter 193 Soldiers and Thieves

When you are an official, you should be like Jin Wu, and when you are married, you should be like Yin Lihua.

Zhijinwu was originally a Qin official named Zhijinwu, who was in charge of Xunjing. In the first year of Emperor Wu's reign, he was renamed Zhijinwu. He had great power. He was responsible for patrolling, supervising and prohibiting rape and violence in the capital. He was in charge of the Northern Army and the Weiwei Xiang in charge of the Southern Army.

For the inside and outside.

Jinwu is also the name of a bird. It is responsible for auspiciousness. When the emperor travels, he is responsible for taking the lead and guarding against unforeseen events.

During the Tang Dynasty, there was the Jinwu Guard, responsible for the security of the capital.

Jinwu Town of Lu Jianguo is also famous in Shaoxing. It was the first town of Jianguo's Northern Expedition and the only town where the cavalry outsmarted Wujiang, entered Suzhou, and defeated Changzhou Prefecture with iron hooves.

Jin Wuqi is the vanguard of the Jianguo Kingdom and the elite of the Northern Expedition.

Jinwu's cavalry appears, and after the yellow dragon plays with Jinwu's flag, the prisoner will definitely be there.

Zhu Shengli held the Jinwu flag and rushed to the crowd in an instant, while the soldiers and civilians retreated.

Song Zhipu led his ministers to greet him.

Zhu Shengli looked at these ministers wearing pythons, jumped off his horse, put the flag on the ground, bowed his head slightly to them, and then said, "The last general, the royal camp, the pro-army horse army, the first town of Jinwu Town, the chief military officer Zhu Shengli, pay my respects

My lords."

"His Royal Highness Jian Guo will send a message to all your lords at the end of his life. His plans have changed and his itinerary has been changed. He will return to Shaoxing in a few days."

"My lords, please come back."

Song Zhipu and others were extremely surprised when they heard this.

"Where is Your Highness?"

Zhu Shengli said, "His Royal Highness's whereabouts are top secret and cannot be revealed." After saying that, he said goodbye, quickly got on his horse, pulled up King Wu's flag and gave the order.

The hundred Jinwu cavalry behind them all turned around.

Then he left immediately after Zhu Shengli, and in the blink of an eye he was gone, leaving only the smoke and dust.

It turns out that the overwhelming momentum just now was actually just a hundred Jinwu Cavalry.

A group of red-robed ministers sitting on jade belts didn't care about the smoke and dust choking their faces at this time. They just looked at me and I looked at you.

"Your Highness, this is another surprise attack." Song Zhipu said helplessly, "Everyone, please go back."

Liu Zongzhou was blowing his beard and staring in anger. Lu Jianguo liked to act like this too much. He suddenly launched troops for the Northern Expedition before, and now he suddenly changed his schedule.

Fang Fengnian asked Wang Zhiren, "Has Governor Wang known something before? Your Highness will not lead the imperial camp to attack Hangzhou, right?"

Wang Zhiren was not in a hurry. Jian Guo fought from Ningbo to Changzhou and almost reached the gates of Nanjing without losing a single hair, so there was no need to worry about Jian Guo's safety.

"I don't know, but the supervisor will definitely not go to Hangzhou."

In vain, I got up in the middle of the night and drove twenty miles to this wilderness to wait for someone, but ended up waiting lonely. Everyone was helpless.

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West of Hangzhou, Fuyang.

It is located on the north bank of Fuchun River in the upper reaches of Qiantang River, so it was also called Fuchun County during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty belonged to Hangzhou Prefecture.

It is located at the intersection of Hangzhou, Shaozhou and Yanfu. The overall landform is two mountains sandwiched by a river. The remnant veins of Tianmu Mountain stretch to the northwest, the remnant veins of Xianxia Ridge meander in the southeast, and the Fuchun River enters the west and exits in the east.

Zhu Yihai stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the scenery on both sides of the Fuchun River.

The river is clear and there are endless bamboo forests on both sides.

"If your highness comes in winter, you can also taste the famous Fuyang winter bamboo shoots here."

"In three months, we will be able to eat Fuyang winter bamboo shoots. There is no rush." ​​Zhu Yihai smiled.

Fuchun has produced many famous figures. For example, Sun Jian, who founded the Sun Wu foundation of the Three Kingdoms, was a native of Fuchun in Wu County, the Tiger of Jiangdong, and the Little Overlord of Jiangdong. His reputation is not in vain.

"Fang Guoan's hometown seems to be on the south bank of the Fuchun River, right?"

"Well, Fang Guoan is from Zhuji, Shaoxing."

Zhu Yihai looked at the green mountains and green waters on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and couldn't help but said, "Then he has caused harm to this hometown, so he doesn't have any conscience at all?"

Chen Qianfu, who was following the driver, answered, "How can such a person have any sense of propriety, justice and shame in his heart? He is a soldier and a thief!"

The phrase "soldier and thief" fully describes the character of General Fang Guoan, as well as his current predicament.

Fang Guo'an, a general of the imperial court, had already become the governor-general in the late Chongzhen years and had the seal of Pingman general, and was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Huguang to restore Huguang.

After the fall of Beidu, he quickly participated in supporting Hongguang, and later became an earl. After Hongguang was captured, he went to Hangzhou to support King Lu and supervise the country. King Lu surrendered, and he was able to lead troops to defeat the prisoners.

But he himself was a rogue cattle thief. After joining the army, he suppressed the peasant army for a long time. The court was short of food and pay, forcing Fang Guoan, like his old boss Zuo Liangyu, to rely on military raids to survive, and even learned to support them.

He respected himself as a soldier, constantly recruiting troops, annexing friendly forces, and taking prisoners, and then used this to ask for official rank, food, and salary from the imperial court.

By this time, there was no distinction between soldiers and thieves.

Anyway, wherever Fang Guoan leads his troops, he will capture them.

They retreated from Hangzhou and ran all the way to Jinhua to capture Zhu Dadian's head. As a result, Zhu Dadian organized the brave people of the village to resist the city and defend it. Fang Guoan fought for a long time but could not defeat him and suffered heavy casualties.

Later, Yanzhou Mansion was assigned to him as a garrison, which also caused widespread complaints.

When the troops went out to Fuyang, Lin'an and other places, they used the excuse of surrendering the captives in these places and looted them unscrupulously. Even if Fuyang, Lin'an and other cities were later recovered by the Ming army, Fang Guoan had already controlled these places and continued to loot.

Later, the Qing army counterattacked, and many rural gentry and civilians immediately led the way to attack the Fang army. After Fang Guoan's security department was defeated, Zhang Guowei, Yu Ying and other troops came back to recover, so they asked Fang Guoan to stay in Yanzhou Mansion. As a result, Fang Guoan still sent his subordinates frequently.

Come and plunder.

Even not long ago, Fang Guoan asked Zhu Yihai to allocate all the Yanhang prefectures in Jinqu to him and ask for local wages. He even claimed that he had a hundred thousand soldiers and horses under his command. They were short of food and pay, and the soldiers were hungry.

With threats. They even directly sent troops to forcibly take over Fuyang, Lin'an and other cities in the north of Fuchun and west of Hangzhou.

Then he asked Ruan Dacheng, who was close to him, to submit a letter to Fang Guoan every year, requesting that Fang Guoan be granted the title of Duke, Governor, and the title of Minister of the Ministry of War to appease Fang Guoan.

After Zhu Yihai received this letter, he immediately decided to change his itinerary. Instead of returning to Shaoxing, he entered the Qiantang River directly from Hangzhou Bay, then went up the river and headed straight for Fuyang.

Fang Guoan challenged his bottom line again and again, and he couldn't bear it anymore.

Does a warlord really think that there is no one in the court and that Zhu Yihai is incompetent?

Fang Guoan wanted to coerce Zhu Yihai with his tens of thousands of bandit soldiers, but that was impossible. Not to mention if he wanted to be a Duke, even if he just wanted an admiral, Zhu Yihai would not be able to give it to him.

If he is really dedicated to resisting the Qing Dynasty and can obey the imperial edict, then it can naturally be discussed. Let alone the Duke, if he really has enough merit, Zhu Yihai will not even mind being granted a royal title after his death in the future.

But Zhu Yihai has to give it to you before you can ask for it.

If I don't give it to you, if you force me to do it, you are courting death.

Fuyang City.

Fang Guoan was checking the boxes of money that had been brought in. When Zhang Guowei and Zhu Dadian were there, he was still a little scrupulous, but one of them went to Huguang and the other to Jiangxi. Even Huang Daozhou from Quzhou, who always likes to nag, went

Huizhou.

Wang Zhiren also went to Jiangxi before, and Zheng Zunqian went to Huizhou.

As a result, Fang Guoan did not wait for Lu Jianguo's decree to grant the title, so he sent his troops eastward and captured the four counties of Fuyang, Lin'an, Yuqian, and Changhua. However, he did not take them from the Tatars, but from the Ming Dynasty.

It was forcibly taken over by the army.

He had previously occupied Fuyang and other places, but they were raided by the Qing army and recovered by Yu Ying and others. He was unable to defend the city from the Qing army, but he had the nerve to rob his own city.

Fang Guoan moved to Fuyang. As soon as he arrived, he ransacked the homes of the four major local families of Wu, Jin, Jiang and Sun, saying that they were connected with the Tartars. Then he implicated their relatives and ransacked their homes, confiscating a total of more than 400,000 taels of silver.

In addition, there are a large number of land deeds, house deeds, and many slaves.

He killed all the local men of the four families, and then sent the women into the camp for the pleasure of the army. He also kept several young and beautiful ones himself.

"These thieves still dare to file a lawsuit. I asked him to file a lawsuit again. Now that Huang Quan is a ghost, my wife and daughter are allowed to enjoy my life, and all the money belongs to me. How dare he file a lawsuit in his next life?" Fang

Guoan looked at the boxes of money and was extremely proud.

"In times of trouble, I have tens of thousands of brothers and tens of thousands of swords and spears. I am the king. How dare you fight me? What if you file an imperial complaint? I dare to fight even the supervisor Zhu Dadian, so why are you afraid of them?"

"Even if Lu Jianguo comes in person today, he wouldn't dare to do anything to me!"

He said these treacherous words unscrupulously, but the generals and staff in the courtyard didn't take it seriously at all. They just commented on the gold and silver treasures, proudly and arrogantly.

In troubled times, isn’t that the case all the time? What kind of national system and royal laws are all bullshit!

If you are desperate, just make another person named Zhu the emperor!


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