"This is not something that the court forced him." Jiang Guozhu sighed. He knew that the news of Shunzhi's personal expedition would not be hidden for long, so he told his commander of the Bian battalion.

When he heard that the emperor was about to come to Nanjing, the commander of the Biaoying was so shocked that he could not speak. As Jiang Guozhu's confidant, he knew something about Jiang Guozhu's connection with Deng. He knew very well that this was a serious crime of raiding the family and extermination of the clan. If the emperor arrived in Nanjing, the possibility of the fact being exposed would be greatly increased.

Jiang Guozhu summoned several of his confidant aides to discuss the matter together. After learning that Shunzhi was about to come to Nanjing within two months, several of his aides also had the same idea as Jiang Guozhu, which was to immediately resolve Deng Ming by force. As long as Deng Ming could be eliminated, he would not be afraid of any rumors. If anyone wanted to cause trouble, the Governor Jiangning could fully interpret these actions as a means to paralyze the enemy.

Some excited aides asked Jiang Guozhu to immediately write down the war under Deng's name and start the war immediately. However, the commander of the Biao Battalion repeatedly claimed that it was almost impossible to solve Deng Ming by force. Once he broke up with Deng Ming, he could only solve the problem quickly than Deng Ming when he left the city to fight. Now the Jiangnan Green Camp can defend Nanjing by relying on city defense, but other prefectures are likely to be out of order. The only person who can prevent Deng Ming from attacking was probably just because Deng Ming was reluctant to sacrifice his elite armored soldiers.

"After the war issuance, we will immediately hide all the canal ships in the water city, let all prefectures close the gates, give up all the land outside the city to hold the city, and stop navigating the Yangtze River to prevent our ships from being taken away by Deng Ming." Despite facing great pressure from the staff group, the commander of the Biao Battalion would rather be called a coward by them than agree to the war: "Only when we can launch an attack immediately, there will be benefits to start a war. Now, when we start a war, we must give up the Yangtze River, and then give up a large piece of land to defend with all our might. What is the purpose of this war?"

Although Jiang Guozhu did not know the statement that "tactics serve strategy", he is now in this dilemma, strategically requiring him to break off diplomatic relations with Deng Ming and start a war, but tactically he has no reason to start a war.

"Maybe the emperor will take back his life." The insistence of the Biao battalion commander made the aides gradually lose the determination to start the war. Finally, an aide told his luck: "Maybe the emperor will not really fight in person."

This sentence made Jiang Guozhu's determination to start a war immediately even more. Yes, if the emperor did not end up personally, what would be beneficial to tear down the agreement to start a war? It is easy to fight by Deng Ming, and maybe he would have to accept the more humiliating alliance under the city. If the emperor changed his mind and did not plan to fight in person, he saw that Jiangnan had suffered a series of defeats and lost prefectures one after another, but insisted on launching a personal expedition, wouldn't Jiang Guozhu cause trouble for himself?

Finally, Jiang Guozhu decided to observe the changes for the time being. While reducing contact with Deng Ming, he would save money and grain and accumulate troops. If the emperor did not personally fight, he would be more confident when he was forced to go to war with Deng Ming.

"Since you are going to fight Deng Ming, does the training of Jiangning Green Camp need to be strengthened?" The commander of the Biao Battalion asked another question before the meeting: "Is it temporarily changed to one exercise every five days? Or one exercise every three days?"

Jiang Guozhu was in trouble, and an aide who didn't care about money and food said angrily: "Why are you still lazy at this time? You should practice day and night."

"I dare not think about practicing day and night, but if the governor agrees, it is of course best to practice every day." The commander of the Biao Camp replied happily.

But before Jiang Guozhu could speak, other aides had already scolded the person who said just now, and blamed him for not coming out to yell without caring about money and food.

Every time you go out to the battalion, you have to give the soldiers at least double rations. If the soldiers are not full, the officers dare not let them go to the playground and will definitely be shot behind the scenes. Moreover, the practice requires rewards, not only to the soldiers, but also to officers at all levels. If you perform well and do not receive rewards, the number of accidents will increase significantly next time. Even if you perform properly, some of them should be given appropriately, otherwise the accidents will still increase. Last point, exercise will inevitably lead to material consumption. Needless to say, bows and arrows will definitely cause damage to armor and weapons. Funds will be required for repair, even if the scarecrow is a target, you will have to pay silver.

As long as the superiors are willing to allocate funds, soldiers can eat a full meal, and lower-level officers can get rewards, and senior officers and warehouse management have extra money. This is naturally a happy thing. So the commander of the bidding battalion did not dare to hope to practice day and night. As long as he could fuck x every day, he would be overjoyed. However, if the army did not give money, he would be allowed to increase the number of training, so wait for a mutiny. Jiangning's inventory has long been empty due to many disasters and difficulties. Now Jiang Guozhu wants to assemble troops to save food and prepare for war. It would be good to keep fucking. What else should I do?

Jiang Guozhu weighed the pros and cons, but in the end he did not agree to the request of the commander of the Biao battalion. The commander of the Biao battalion, who failed to earn extra money for himself and his colleagues, left embarrassedly. While feeling resentful to the staff, he also developed a revenge: "I am not willing to give more money at this moment. Well, I am not alone in the trouble. I will do it twice this month, and I will finish it once."

In fact, the Governor Jiangning did not understand the wishes of his officers, but he was really in trouble. These officers were not in charge of their own affairs and did not know that the wealth and rice were expensive. Last time, Liang Huafeng reinforced thousands of green camps in Yangzhou, and Liang Huafeng had to leave tens of thousands of taels of excise. Afterwards, he reported that he had died in battle, and the loss of ten thousand arrows, and the rewards of dozens of meritorious officers - because Lin Qilong was causing trouble, Liang Huafeng claimed to be pensions and supplemented. The rewards were only half for Jiang Guozhu and he took away a lot of money. Although Jiang Guozhu felt that there must be a fraud, he did not dare to rebel against the general at this time, so he still gave it to Liang Huafeng.

In order to borrow Zhou Peigong, Jiang Guozhu also paid a large sum of silver. Although the Jiangning vassal treasury is not far away, it is not far away. He gathered troops to Jiangning and still had to drive the silver. After arriving, the various troops and horses would have to reward silver, and the guest army would have to pay two meals a day. During the war, he would have to give two dry meals every day... If he had to do it, Jiang Guozhu would know that the vassal treasury would have to see the bottom next month. At that time, the soldiers would have been trained, but they would not be able to send out the silver in advance, and they would not be able to provide pensions and reward silver afterwards. Even if the soldiers were trained well, they would still not be able to drive them to fight Deng Ming. What's the point of training?

When Jiang Guozhu was having a headache, the Yangzhou officialdom was in chaos. After Lin Qilong learned that the emperor was going to fight in person, his first thought was to escape back to his resident Huaian and not stay in Yangzhou again. However, Lin Qilong thought about it again that if the emperor found out the truth and if he was not around, he would not have the opportunity to justify himself, the consequences might be worse.

Moreover, Lin Qilong and Jiang Guozhu also thought of going together, that was to start a war with Deng Ming before Shunzhi's personal expedition. If Deng Ming was lucky enough to defeat him, then any mistakes he had before could be covered up. However, after asking about his own command of the Bian battalion and the generals who commanded the river soldiers, Lin Qilong also gave up this crazy idea, because everyone pointed out that this was suicide - without a navy, he would take a group of river soldiers who would bully the canal workers to fight Deng Ming, who had the power to control the river. It is estimated that half of the soldiers who crossed the river could be able to drive a small trip.

Moreover, Lin Qilong's Bian Battalion is far less powerful than Jiang Guozhu's. Although the customization of other governors' Bian Battalion is one thousand armored cavalry, the Governor of the Valley rarely encounters when he needs to go to war, so the court never intends to spend this money in vain. Lin Qilong's Bian Battalion is just a guard with a size of 100 people.

When the river soldiers were unreliable, Lin Qilong placed his hope on Liang Huafeng. Although the other party was a general of Liangjiang, Lin Qilong had a great advantage, that is, he is much richer than Jiang Guozhu. The contributions he received from the salt merchants and the income from the speculators, Lin Qilong made a fortune. After the wealthy Governor of the Cao Transportation Department made a crazy deal, he was now holding millions of taels of silver.

Lin Qilong offered Liang Huafeng the condition that he was responsible for giving Liang Huafeng extra money. If he wanted to expand his troops, Lin Qilong could also sponsor some of it. In exchange, Liang Huafeng had to ensure that he had a contribution from the Governor of the Valley Transport. In other words, whether in the memorial or in the face of the emperor's inquiry, Liang Huafeng would include the river officers and soldiers in the sequence of combat against Deng Ming.

Liang Huafeng had no objection to this, and immediately agreed to Lin Qilong's request, saying that he would immediately expand the army to 5,000 armored soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, and the part that exceeded the number of troops would be temporarily named as a brave man. Needless to say, the military pay required by the army would be built by the Governor of the Grain Transport immediately. From now on, Liang Huafeng would also urge the army to practice day and night in order to become a strong army that should not be humiliated as soon as possible.

"Ten thousand taels of silver per day." Liang Huafeng offered a price. In addition to the equipment cost and the resettlement fee for recruiting Ding Yong, Liang Huafeng also asked Lin Qilong to pay a month's training fee first: "300,000 taels, please give the Governor General a note to the final general. After taking the silver from Curry, the final general will start training tomorrow."

"Ten thousand taels a day..." Lin Qilong was mentally prepared to quarrel with Liang Huafeng, but even so he was still shocked. Although the governor of the canal transportation was a fat, the silver that Lin Qilong could lose in a year was about 50,000 taels of silver. When he reached an agreement with Deng Ming last time, he was complacent, thinking that it was equivalent to being the governor of the canal transportation for twenty years, and Liang Huafengguang would have to take away the training fee for six years, which was only one month: "Why don't you go and grab it?"

"The Governor is so serious. The general only knows how to do things in a decisive way, but he doesn't know if there is him." Although Lin Qilong, who was furious, had already started to curse, Liang Huafeng strictly abides by etiquette and his expression did not fluctuate at all: "In order to train a strong soldier as soon as possible, the governor just instructed the general to practice day and night. He always had to give the soldiers four meals this day. If the training is so tight, there must be some wine and meat every day... In order to achieve rapid rewards and punishments, not only rewards, but also a lot of injury medicine... After eight hours of training every day, the archer shoots a hundred arrows, not too much... Even if the straw chopper is cut, the knife will be dull for eight hours a day... And practice at night, the torches and rosin are also silver, and the accumulation of small amounts of money..."

In the end, Lin Qilong gave up the idea of ​​practicing day and night and changed to practicing one day. Despite this, Liang Huafeng still demanded 120,000 taels of silver for the first month of training.

After moving the silver from the warehouse, Liang Huafeng secretly ordered a confidant to go to Beijing with 100,000 taels to deliver it to the senior officials in the court.

"Governor Jiang is going to be in trouble this time, and Governor Lin is in trouble." Liang Huafeng thought to himself: "When the emperor arrives in Yangzhou, I will go and report it. I am just a martial artist and don't know anything. Deng is all made by them, and I just obey orders." Liang Huafeng knew that most of the mistakes in the east window would be wrong. If he didn't think he could not hide it, Liang Huafeng would not be willing to be this villain. Now he still needs to consider how to make up for the emperor's impression of himself: "Train troops well, and then take the lead in front of the emperor in order to obtain forgiveness from the emperor."
Chapter completed!