The eldest prince responded immediately after learning that Tonglu had fallen, but when he gathered his troops and was about to arrive in Tonglu, he received a message. The thief who occupied Tonglu actually ran away. Not only did he run away, but he set a fire before leaving, burning all the entire Tonglu.

When he learned this news, the eldest prince was furious and hurriedly asked about the whereabouts of the thief. When he learned the news that the thief was going up the river, the eldest prince frowned and quickly called someone to bring the map to look carefully.

From Tonglu up the river is Hangzhou City. Could it be that these thieves are brave enough to fight Hangzhou City again? The eldest prince shook his head after thinking about it. This possibility is not impossible, but the possibility is very small. Although Hangzhou was beaten to pieces in the previous war, Hangzhou is a big city after all. Not only are there troops stationed, but the young and strong people raised in the previous war can be organized anytime and anywhere. There are not many thieves occupying Tonglu. If they go to Hangzhou, they will definitely be bleeding.

In addition, Lin'an, not far from Hangzhou, is the current garrison of the Right Route Army. Sun Dazhan's thousands of elite troops can support Hangzhou anytime and anywhere. But where will these thieves go if they don't go to Hangzhou? The eldest prince's fingers are moving on the map. Could it be that these thieves need to go to the sea along the river? But how can they go to the sea without a sea boat? Then there are only two roads, one is to cross the river to Fujian, and the other is to go north.

The eldest prince could not judge these two directions for a while. It is logical that the possibility of going south to Fujian is relatively high. Fujian is easy to hide, which is the best place for these thieves to hide. But if you go north, you think of this eldest prince a little hesitant. The road to the north is not easy to go north. Hangzhou is Huzhou. These thieves can't even defeat Hangzhou. Do you have the courage to go to Huzhou?

In less than two days, when the new news came, the eldest prince was surprised. What surprised him was that Zhu Jiancai not only did not follow the path to Fujian that he thought was the most appropriate, but went north. Zhu Jiancai was very brave and actually brought people directly from the Wuchaoshan area west of Hangzhou and east of Lin'an. After the large team of people passed, Hangzhou and Lin'an had reacted.

It was already late when they realized it. Zhu Jiancai went through Hangzhou and Lin'an without stopping and rushed directly to Deqing County. Then he burned and killed and looted around Deqing and did not stop at all. He threatened a large number of people and headed north.

Zhu Jiancai's actions shocked the eldest prince and even more frightened. The eldest prince keenly realized that this rebel was different from before. The other party seemed to have no purpose at all, just plundering the place where the threat was, and then kept wandering around.

This is a typical way of fighting with bandits. Just like the bandits in the late Ming Dynasty, they had no clear destination at all. They shot and swayed around the world, and their whereabouts were uncertain, but the destructive power caused to the local area was extremely powerful. At that time, the people said that bandits would not grow in a single grass when they passed by.

For bandits, the best solution is to seize the opportunity to continuously compress the other party's living space, and then encircle and eliminate it. However, the troops brought by the eldest prince are all in southwest of Hangzhou, while the right-wing army closest to Zhu Jiancai is already lacking in food and grass and cannot be dispatched. It is not so easy to catch up with Zhu Jiancai and other troops, at least it must give the eldest prince a certain amount of time.

But then again, the longer the time, the more destructive the bandits will be, the greater the destructive power and strength of the bandits will be. The eldest prince has no better way at the moment. He urgently issued a military order to strictly guard the city in various prefectures and prefectures. At the same time, the green camps stationed in the local area, including the Eight Banners, are ready to defend, minimize the destructive power of the bandits, and also provide the opponent's traces for the subsequent army.

As for the right-wing army in Lin'an, the eldest prince ordered the troops to be sent immediately. At this time, he could not take care of any food and grass. He would raise all the food and grass on the spot first, and then replenish them after the food and grass behind him were in place. The most important thing now is to bite Zhu Jiancai's tail first and not give him the opportunity to move freely.

Zhu Jiancai's sudden departure from Tonglu made the entire Jiangnan earth-shaking, and even failed the plan of the eldest prince who was responsible for the encirclement and suppression. As Zhu Jiancai swept all the way, his team became bigger and bigger like a balloon. It was like a locust passing through the border, and there were heavy losses in various places.

Just as Zhu Jiancai and the eldest brother rushed to chase each other one after another, and were extremely busy, Yuan Qi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly brought people to Qingyang. Since the eldest brother's main force was attracted by Zhu Jiancai in the east, Yuan Qi's troops unexpectedly took down a town near Qingyang. Although there was no big gain, they learned that there was a batch of military rations in Chizhou not far away and were about to be transferred to the Jiangnan front line. Yuan Qi was very happy to learn about this news and hurriedly sent people to set up an ambush halfway, intending to rob the batch of supplies to supplement their strength.

At this time, Zhu Yicheng, in Ningbo, east, was taking time to talk to the two of them. One of them was his dog-headed military advisor Liao Huanzhi, and the other was Liao Huanzhi's friend Jiang Jin.

Jiang Jin quickly surrendered to Zhu Yicheng after the city of Ningbo was destroyed. On the one hand, it was because of Liao Huanzhi's persuasion, and on the other hand, it was because Ningbo had been destroyed. As a local official, he would have only a dead end if he did not surrender.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. Jiang Jin, like Liao Huanzhi, is also a person who cherishes his life. Since he has a way out, can he take the initiative to go to death? After surrendering to Zhu Yicheng, Jiang Jin has made a lot of efforts in controlling Ningbo in order to reflect his value. The reason why Zhu Yicheng was able to control the surrounding areas of Ningbo in a very short time after taking Ningbo, and minimize the influence of occupying Ningbo City among the people is that Jiang Jin can make an indelible contribution.

With the efforts of Jiang Jin and Liao Huanzhi, and some other people who were forced to "follow the thief", Ningbo is still peaceful now. However, with Ningbo as the base, Zhu Yicheng still needs to do many things, such as local governance, maintenance of trade routes, comfort of the people, expansion of military strength, training of the army, etc., all kinds of things must be solved one by one. Before Zhu Yicheng came to this era, he was just a student, and he became the largest official since childhood and was just a young master in elementary school. As for how to solve these problems, in addition to some clues in expanding the army, training and trading routes, he didn't know where to start.

Fortunately, with the assistance of Liao Huanzhi and Jiang Jin, he barely put on the airs of governing. But looking at the people under his command, Zhu Yicheng still felt that there was too little talent, both in terms of literature and martial arts.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Hong, I have already contacted you. Those rich dealers will attend the banquet tomorrow." Jiang Jin patted his chest and promised in front of Zhu Yicheng that Zhu Yicheng had a task a few days ago, that is, to ask him to summon some local rich businessmen to come over and he wanted to invite these people to dinner in the best restaurant in the city.

Jiang Jin was not surprised by this task. He only felt that after Zhu Yicheng occupied Ningbo, he was planning to peel off the wealthy businessmen, but he just took a fancy to their wealth. This understanding is very normal. Not to mention a rebel army like Zhu Yicheng, even the Qing Dynasty's official army also looked for wealthy businessmen in the local area. To put it bluntly, these wealthy businessmen just raised pigs to be killed. If you blame them, they were rich.
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