Chapter 398 The real enemy
.The king used to make a journey of sun and moon, but instead of horses, and finally arrived in Hangzhou at 10:00 on the next day, and went straight to the Governor's Office to ask for a meeting.
The Governor's yamen is the yamen of the highest officials of several southeastern provinces. The regulations are usually very strict, and today it is surrounded by the guards. If you look closely, you will see that you are all in a good position! The Governor, Governor, Governor, and Censor are all outside, and it seems that a major meeting is being held.
With so many guards together, Hu Zongxian's personal captain was naturally responsible. He was wearing a straight red military uniform, covered with a half-body mountain armor, a pure black cloak on his shoulder, and pressed the hilt of the shark leather knife with his backhand, standing majestic at the gate.
Under these neatly armed guards, the entire large ping in front of the Governor's Mansion was extremely quiet and stern, and no one dared to approach.
Seeing this majestic scene, he was a little proud. He followed Hu Butang step by step to today, and finally achieved his personal dream - to become the most powerful personal captain in the world!
Just when he was inexplicably moved, he actually heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the street on the east side of Daping. The captain of the personal soldiers browed unhappy, and immediately a group of personal soldiers ran towards the sound of horse hooves and stopped the uninvited guest!
The visitor was Wang Yongji. He turned over and dismounted the horse, threw the whip at the person behind him, and shouted to the captain of the personal soldiers: "The magistrate of Wuxian County of Suzhou Prefecture, Wang Yongji, is ordered by the prefect of the prefecture, and comes to ask the minister for help!" He said with a deep tribute: "100,000, please inform me quickly!"
"The Master is discussing with the Lords." The captain of the personal soldiers said, "This Lord, let's go to the concierge to take a break first."
"Please make sure to report it!" Wang Yongji held the hand of the captain of the personal soldiers, and a ticket came to the other party without any smoke. He said earnestly: "The chaos in Suzhou Prefecture is imminent, and every second cannot be delayed!"
When he heard that it was a disturbance, the captain of the personal soldiers was surprised and said, "Rebellion?"
"If the treatment is not enough, it will definitely happen." Wang Yongji said in a deep voice. The captain of the personal soldiers did not dare to neglect and hurriedly led him into the door.
Walking inside the gate, I realized how big the office of the Southeast Governor's Office was. Wang Yongji was led by the captain of the personal soldiers, and he couldn't remember how many gates he had been guarding by heavy troops before he arrived outside the signing room.
There were no soldiers standing guard here, only two scribes guarding the door, one of which was the white-haired Wen Weiming.
Mr. Hengshan, Suzhou Prefecture has an emergency military situation, please report to the ministry. "The personal soldiers captain uses the sound of the king on his own.
"Suzhou?" Wen Weiming tightened his face, but he wanted to shake his head and said softly: "There is a discussion of war, and no matter how urgent the matter is, you cannot disturb it." As he said that, he said to Wang Yongji: "This adult might as well talk to me first. "Huh" Are you Mr. Hengshan?" Wang Yongji seemed to have heard the personal captain call him like this.
"Old Wen Weiming." Wen Weiming smiled.
"No respect and disrespect." Wang Yongji quickly saluted. The four talented men of Wuzhong who were still famous today, as the only remaining one, Wen Weiming enjoyed a high reputation in his hometown of Suzhou City, which made Wang Yongji and his younger generations admire him.
Wang Yongji was naturally overjoyed to meet this old man in the Governor's Office and would tell him what happened in Suzhou City.
The outside of the signing room was polite and whispering, but the atmosphere inside was not harmonious.
There were a bunch of red-robed officials on the chairs in the house, but most of them only had ears and no mouths. The two people who actually spoke, Hu Zongxian, the Governor of Southeast and Ruan E, the Governor of Zhejiang.
For Emperor Jiaqing, who is crazy about the way of checks and balances, it is unacceptable to hand over half of the power of Che Zheng to one person. So there is Zhang Jing and Zhao Wenhua and Zhou Xuan. Now it is Hu Zongxian's turn to be the banker, so Jiaqing naturally has to give him a thorn in his side that he can't get rid of!
This nail is of Ruan Ming Ezi, who is a disciple of Wang Xue and Zhao Yeji's best friend.
He should have been the supervisor of Yingtian, but later changed to Zhejiang to serve as a senior student. Shortly after the Japanese pirates besieged Hangzhou, and tens of thousands of villagers wanted to enter the city to take refuge, but the defenders in the city were afraid that the Japanese pirates would take the opportunity to enter the city, so they closed the door and refused to let them in. A tragic massacre was about to happen. Ruan E, who felt that the horse was about to take the opportunity to enter the city, was furious and said, "As an official, he is for the people, why not sit back and wait? The thief is still dozens of miles away, are you going to abandon my people for the thief?" He then held a sword in his hand and supervised the Wulin Gate and held troops in the city to prevent it. He ordered those who carried the baggage from the left, and the elderly and weak from the right, and did not trample on each other in one process. He ordered soldiers to run horses to deliver food, and all the refugees were able to enter the city without any harm. Soon after the bandit arrived, Ruan E led all the heroes out of the city to fight, kill many people, and the thief fled. The court praised his merits and was promoted to governor of Zhejiang and also governed Fujian. Since then, he has become famous and is not afraid of Hu Zongxian.
In fact, he was quite disgusted with Hu Zongxian who was framed by Zhao Wenhua, who became the leader of Hu Zongxian. Moreover, Zhao Zhenji investigated and dealt with Zhao and Hu people two years ago and wrote a letter to him about Hu Zongxian's bad deeds infringing on car fares.
So Ruan E despised Hu Zongxian even more, but he was also very wise and knew that anti-Japanese war was related to the overall situation, so he never brought the feelings of Ba to the crowd. One was in charge of the car and the other was in charge of command. Except for important military meetings, if there were any matter, they would be transferred to each other, and they would be in peace.
But now Ruan E couldn't help it. He looked down at a wrinkled piece of paper on the table and looked at the bloody paper in cold eyes. He wrote in a crooked manner: "Mr. Master Xu Yan led tens of thousands of Japanese pirates to attack in a hurry. We suffered heavy casualties and struggled to support it. We must ask reinforcements to arrive within three days. If you are slow, Zong Li will die! Sanli Bridge is in danger! The end of the year will come to worship!"
He has read these sentences many times. But every time he read them, he felt ashamed and ashamed, calming down his tumbling blood. He said to Hu Zongxian patiently: "Mr. Zong's Heshuo soldiers were ordered to go to Fujian. It was just that the Taoist sutras in our Zhejiang. It's just that Xu Hai's attack was too fierce and we were in a difficult position, so we were sincerely invited to stay." He took a deep breath and said: "General Zong, but he didn't say anything, and then he obeyed the order and led the army to attack!"
Hu Zongxian nodded silently.
"They won consecutive battles and helped us to solve the siege of Zhapu, Jiaxing and Zaolin. One on the left congratulations and the other on the right congratulates, saying that the General is your thunderbolt = the vanguard, and I wish the whole world knew that you had left him. Why did you pretend not to know him when he accidentally fell into the siege and cried and asked for help? He snorted coldly and said, "This is too ungrateful, cold-blooded and ruthless, right?"
Hu Zongxian browed slightly, slowly opened his eyes, and sighed: I am accused of orders. You must not chase Tongxiang. This order was conveyed to General Zong at least three times, but he was careless and underestimated the enemy and was surrounded by ten times of Japanese pirates. There was no possibility of survival."
Ruan E frowned unhappily and said, "As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you have to work hard!" As he said, he raised his voice and said, "Once Sanliqiao fails, the Japanese pirates can drive straight to Tongxiang. At that time, Chongde and Hangzhou's doors are open, so they will lose one and the other!"
The Zhejiang general Lu Tong, who was next to him, couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Whether to rush to Sanli Bridge to support him, please make the decision quickly. If you hesitate, Tongxiang will be in danger!"
Seeing that his confidants and generals were all inclined to Ruan E, Hu Zongxian knew that he had to make it clear: "It's so bad to speak far away. Xu Hai is so cunning. He is skilled in water wars. General Zong did not take Xu Hai's miscellaneous naval troops seriously. He fought several times. Xu Hai's army was about to collapse at once."
"The continuous victory made General Zong blinded. He thought Xu Hai was just a small character who had a reputation, so he ignored the Japanese orders and rashly eliminated Tongxiang and went to Sanliqiao. Xu Hai concentrated his elite naval army and unexpectedly launched a merit, and eliminated Zong Li's main force in one battle." Hu Zongxian pointed to another piece of paper on the table and said, "This is the information he deserves to send. The Heshuo soldiers have already sent 78 areas in ten areas. Only seven or eight hundred remaining people are trapped in Sanliqiao. Xu Hai was just trying to win and won a complete victory. Now he has survived. The strangeness must be guarded." He said slowly: "Look at Yema, Xinwulang's army, one left and one right, one right, and Xu Haicheng's tripod. He stared at it and looked at the movements. It was clearly a trap to set up a formation, and to rescue our army, or suddenly divided the troops to trap me Chongde and attack Hangzhou; or three groups of encirclements and annihilate our army..."
Lu Tong asked in confusion: "What is the consciousness of that temple?"
Hu Zongxian did not answer immediately, but raised his eyes toward Tongxiang in the south. His face was sad. His eyes slowly turned red. After a while, he sighed and said quietly: "It is difficult for the left and the right. Only by putting the overall situation first, the hero cut off his arm, and defending Hangzhou while then he was passed on to all the troops and horses to ensure that the provincial capital is not lost, and then he tried to attack and suppress it. This is the best strategy."
After 34 and 35 years of peace in Jiaqing, Xu Hai's offensive this year was far beyond Hu Zongxian's expectations. In his opinion, the defensive line, which was greatly increased, became riddled with holes and left-handedness, and had no ability to fight back.
After judging the situation, Mr. Hu admitted that, judging from the current situation, he must shrink his defense and make plans until the enemy's aura disappears.
Seeing that Hu Zongxian was determined to eat the weight, Ruan E stood up and said resolutely: "The lord is not kind, but the subordinates cannot be unrighteous. Since you don't go, then I will go by myself!"
"Without my order, no one is allowed to dispatch troops!" Hu Zongxian said coldly.
"Hmph!" Ruan E snorted coldly: "I only mobilize Zhejiang soldiers, what can the ministry do to me?
Ruan Yingjiang, how dare you disobey the horse?" Hu Zongxian said angrily: "I am the governor of the Southeast. I control the troops of the six provinces. You must listen to me!"
"Your Wang Ming Chess and Cards can only kill the fourth-rank official, but I can't kill me, the governor of Zhejiang!" Ruan E said unafraid: "You can stop the army if you don't let it be, but in the lower house, the governor of Zhejiang is admiring military affairs, dispatching the province to use troops to suppress Japanese and thieves. The seven rescue efforts are the responsibility of the subordinates. The soldiers in front are fighting and bleeding. How can Ruan not save them!"
"Do you know the consequences of disobedience?" Hu Zongxian said with a dark face.
"Hmph." The weakness suddenly turned into the eyes of this governor who was afraid of death, and he sneered in the eyes of the disaster prevention: "Mr. Master, please participate in my disobeying the army's orders. Just like you did to Yang Yi, Cao Bangfu and others, you will push the blame for failure on the Xiaguan." As he said, he said with a righteous look on his face, "As long as you can solve the danger of Sanli Bridge and rescue General Zongli and Heshuo Army, my head of Ruan E is just to give you the ball to kick, so what?"
After saying that, he ignored Hu Zongxian, picked up his official hat, and shook his hand out.
"So that's it." Wen Weiming listened to Wang Yongji's story and nodded solemnly: "I will help you talk to the ministry later, and you have to help Suzhou City overcome this difficulty."
"Mr. Xie Hengshan Gao Yi..." Wang Yongji bowed to the end.
Wen Weiming was about to say "You're welcome, I'm from Suzhou too", but he was shocked by the door. He was frightened and saw the governor of Zhejiang Ruan E, holding his official hat and holding his head up. His expression seemed to be like someone who paid him one million.
No one dared to stop the angry governor and let him leave.
Wang Yongji and Wen Weiming looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh: "The situation of anti-Japanese war is already serious. Today, the governor and the governor have a new rift and are divided into pieces. It is even more difficult to win!"
After a while, a group of high-ranking officials in red robe came out one after another. The two of them bowed and let everyone go, Wen Weiming whispered: "Wait, I haven't waited for a long time to come in, and then came out and said: "Minister Wang, the ministry invites you in."
Wang Yongji quickly tidied up his clothes and found that he was running all the way and was dirty all over. He was really nervous to see the master of the ministry like this.
Wen Weiming urged him again before he quickly followed him in.
When he entered the signing room, Wang Yongji saw a thin and tired-looking official in the red robe sitting behind the big case, closing his eyes to rest.
Wen Weiming sighed lightly and signaled Wang Yongji to stay calm. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Hu Zongxian slowly opened his eyes and looked at Wang Yongji and said, "Sorry, I have sniffed for a while, so I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Wang Yongji quickly bowed to the emperor of the department.
"Get up and talk." Hu Zongxian was deeply lifted by the emptiness and said, "Yesterday I had already received a letter from Fei Ge from Zhu Yan, and I basically understood Suzhou's disobedience." As he said, he pointed to the chair and signaled him to sit down, and then said, "I submitted a memorial to the court yesterday, asking the court to urge Huguang to transfer grain to the king. All the loan notes were stamped with the seal of my Governor's Office."
When Wang Yongji heard this, he immediately expressed his joy and said, "That's great, Suzhou is saved!"
Hu Zongxian looked dark and shook his head and said, "Don't be happy first. The soldiers did not borrow food. All the grain merchants said that the food had been sold out." He sighed and said, "The canal comes and goes every day. They are ships for transporting grain. We are not recruiting, but borrowing and repaying them. Why can't we borrow money? "As he said, Wang Yongqiu glanced at him and said, "Have you ever thought about the reason?"
"The lower official didn't know." Wang Yongjiu looked sweat on his forehead and said, "Who is not able to get along with our Suzhou Prefecture?" He could not imagine that the four great masters in Suzhou City could cause such a storm and wave.
Humph." Hu Zongxian snorted coldly, and said with a cold light in his eyes: "Who else can there be except those people?"
"Those people?" was frightened by Hu Zongxian's tone, and Wang Yongji's voice began to tremble.
"The person who wishes to kill me." Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice: "Now I wish to kill you Lord Shen."
"For Hansen?" Wang asked in a trembling voice.
"Because of me, we cut off their financial path." Hu Zongxian said with a look like a knife: "Those greedy parasites colluded with each other with the Japanese pirates, trying to make the court lose control of the sea forever and allow them to monopolize smuggling forever!" As he said that, he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "They killed Zhu Zhi, but now the butcher's knife pointed at me again, towards Shen Mo! As long as someone wants to correct the situation, they will be attacked by them crazy! They are the real cancer of my Ming Dynasty, my real enemy!"
Seeing Wang Yongji's face was unbelievable. Hu Zongxian calmed down and said, "I can clearly judge that the attack on Suzhou Prefecture was because a few days ago, Mao Haifeng destroyed the Japanese pirates from the Zhoushan Islands and re-loaded the waterway of Zhoushan Island on Chongming Island into the hands of the court. In the eyes of those maritime merchants, they would not declare war naked, and intended to suffocate Suzhou. This was a colleague who stuck my neck and wanted to reimburse us together."
Wang Yongji did not believe Hu Zongxian. It was just that he was unacceptable to the powerful existence described, and murmured: "Is there really such a powerful force?"
"Yes." Hu Zongxian said in a deep voice: "Zhu Zhi is an example. Zhu Zhi and I have had an experience of the past year. Another example. Do you still remember the sunshade sentence that Zhu Zhi said?" As he said in a sad tone, "It is easy to steal foreign countries, but it is difficult to steal from China; it is easy to steal from China frequently, but it is the most difficult to steal from China's clothing and hats!"
"Those Chinese thieves are all high-sounding families of eunuchs." Hu Zongxian said with grief and anger: "They are hidden behind Japanese pirates, maritime merchants, and giant thieves, and do not directly participate in anything. You can't catch the handle. But they secretly provide them with protective umbrellas to cut off all enemies that can threaten maritime merchants and Japanese pirates." He said, "Look at it, my sage will definitely be impeached by the imperial envoy."
"What should we do?" Wang Yongji asked uneasyly.
Chapter completed!