Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 188 Xiushan

Spring and January of Zhang Hua's 42nd year.

Zheng Wu had a fierce battle in the middle of the Yangtze River in this time and space, and the Zheng army was defeated first and then won.Although the sergeants and civilians suffered tens of thousands of casualties, they successfully burned down six large warships of the state of Wu, and even captured ten large ships of the state of Wu.

On January [-]th, Zheng Jun, who had finished repairing, attacked Wu Jun's Jimingwa Water Village from both land and water.

In the water battle of the day before yesterday, the vice general of the Zheng army, Zhao Gongju, lost a quarter of his small boats and troops, but the seven large ships he brought to Dazheng from Southern Wu were well preserved.In addition, the emperor assigned eight intact captured ships to Zhao Gongju's command, which greatly expanded his strength.

Fifteen large ships were the main force blocking the entrance of the water village in Jimingwa. Wu Jun would not dare to go out to fight, so he could only watch him use the catapults from the big ship to tear down the wall of the water village little by little.

During the Lantern Festival, Jimingwa Shuizhai fell.

However, although Chen Shanyao in Qiancheng of Southern Wu had only seven large ships in his hands, he did not leave the battlefield too far.

When Zhao Gongju was demolishing the wall at Jimingwa Water Village, he led the fleet upstream and attacked Zheng Jun's supply point at Pengxiangdu.Wu Guo's water army rushed ashore, caught the Dazheng garrison by surprise, and one-third of the stored grain was burned.

Emperor Dazheng was unmoved, but instead saw Chen Shanyao's true purpose, and ordered a fire to burn down the Jimingwa water village. Zhao Gongju's navy retreated to Pengxiangdu to protect the Zheng army's water transport.

On January [-]th, Zheng Jun surrounded Zhaoyang County, the gateway to Southern Wu.

In Jiangling City, Lengmeiyuan.

Various low-key and luxurious carriages were parked outside the gate, and there was another stack of greeting cards in Menzi's hand.

In the garden, Mrs. Shentu didn't see anyone, she only talked with Meng Xiaowan by her side.

"It was only six or seven days after the emperor announced the start of war, and these sons and daughters of dragons and phoenixes rushed to Jiangling, but there was no slush on the shafts of the carriages, so they clearly arrived in Jiangling a long time ago." Mrs. Shentu shook her head, "No wonder the emperor's southern expedition will happen Leaked, too many people know about it.”

Facing this topic, Meng Xiaowan just smiled lightly, but didn't speak to her.

Mrs. Shentu looked at Meng Xiaowan approvingly.

"Yesterday, I mentioned something to Chan'er, and she talked for half an hour, hey, you should be more sensible."

Meng Xiaowan Gu Zuo talked about him.

"You didn't see Junior Sister Chan'er today?"

"You refused to make arrangements for me in the front, so I entrusted her to go, and now I am having a good chat with those wives who come from everywhere. Besides, although she is from the uncle's house, she is clean after all, and Now that you have the title of an eighth-class child at any rate, she won't feel comfortable seeing you, so let her do the work."

"What kind of child?" Meng Xiaowan felt troubled again when she heard this. "This battle is really unpredictable. He was obviously in the back and almost ran into Wu's arms. He is a scholar, but he still has to come up with such a decisive plan." Ways to save your life. Teacher, Wan'er wants to ask you to intercede again and let him go back to Jiangling. Our husband and wife don't need any title and property."

"Stupid boy," Mrs. Shentu sighed, "now that the battle is tense, let alone a scholar, even if he is His Majesty's own son, he will not be released at this time. Otherwise, the morale of the three armies will be demoralized once this hole is opened. Halfway through. However, I heard someone report back that your husband has been sent to a quiet place. "

"A quiet place?"

After Zheng Jun besieged Zhaoyang, he began to quickly clean up the rest of Zhaoyang County.

On the 25th of the first month, all the counties in Zhaoyang were occupied by the Zheng army, and the two counties of Xiushan and Yandu were directly assigned to Jiangling County in Jiangbei by the Emperor Dazheng.

Zhang Zhe was arranged to take his five hundred beggar soldiers to Xiushan County for repairs, and the newly appointed Xiushan County Magistrate was also accompanying him.

Xiushan was behind Zheng Jun's defense line, and the local resistance forces were cleared by Zheng Jun a few days ago, so it was a very safe place.

"A certain was only 11 years old at that time, and my father wrote three letters to Master Wu, talking about clarifying the land and acres." The newly appointed Xiushan County Magistrate Yue Tang, who was born in the top three the year before last, was five or six years older than Zhang Zhe, and he was extremely talkative. "I learned from my mother later that my father had already had a death wish at that time, and the Southern Wu family must not tolerate him. Sure enough, he found an opportunity to kill my father back then, and my mother took me to escape to Jiangbei. After ten years of hardship, but now Finally returned to Jiangnan."

"The misfortune of a family in the south of the Yangtze River is so serious?" Zhang Zhe and Yue Tang were in the same carriage. A few days ago, he was promoted to Xuan Yilang's false official title, only inferior to Yue Tang, who was a seventh-rank and a half-rank. Nor is it presumptuous.

Yue Tang sneered again and again, and suddenly pointed at Zhang Zhe with a strange expression and reminded him in a low voice.

"Your Majesty rewarded Xinzhi with the newly confiscated six hectares of land and a house in Xiushan County. When Xinzhi arrives at the land, Zhuangzi who has really seen your six hectares of land will know the severity of the disaster of the Wu family."

Snow fell in Jiangbei, but it became freezing rain in Jiangnan. The actual temperature was colder than Jiangbei.

Not to mention the five hundred beggars under Zhang Zhe, even the two hundred county soldiers led by Wei Po, the new county captain, were all shivering with cold.Like the five hundred beggars, hay was stuffed in every crevice of the clothes.

The beggars are still made up of civilian husbands, but many of them have some tattered knives and guns in their hands, which were "picked up" by these guys on the land battlefield after they landed.

Zhang Zhe was also very curious. They just passed by the edge of the battlefield sparingly, and didn't see a few people leaving the team or bending over, but after a while, many people had a lot of things in their hands.Probably beggar's professional skills!

Zheng Jun also had special troops to clean the battlefield, but he didn't care about them because of the face of these people who set off a series of fire boats.

Although the weather was cold, there was still a group of people standing by the east gate of Xiushan County.

Most of these people are scholars and officials who have just voted for Dazheng. As for the local gentry, there are none, and their heads are all hung on the west gate.

These gentry clans were the most resolute in resisting Dazheng in Southern Wu.

According to Yue Tang, [-]% of the land in Southern Wu is in the hands of aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families control more servants than ordinary people.And clarifying the land and acres is the unchangeable national policy of Dazheng, and it is also the most intolerable for the aristocratic families in Southern Wu.

When Xiushan County was conquered, the officials in the county ran extremely fast, but there were [-] people from the rich families in six counties to resist, and they were finally slaughtered by Zheng Jun.

The process of welcoming the new county magistrate was even more humble than what Zhang Zhe had seen in the most humble TV dramas. Even the new county magistrate knelt down to greet Yue Tang.Both Zhang Zhe and Wei Po were extremely surprised by this, but Yue Tang told them indifferently that this was normal in the officialdom of Wu.

The master book was Jian Ba's original county official, not from a family or imperial examination background, and Yue Tang was actually a conqueror, so as soon as Yue Tang entered the city, Wei Po arranged for the county soldiers to take over the four gates and the warehouse. expressed no objection.

Yue Tang and Wei Po are very busy, but Zhang Zhe is very leisurely, his task is just repairing.

What can a group of beggars and peasants fix?It's nothing more than eating and drinking.

Under the secret guidance of the new chief bookkeeper Cao, Zhang Zhe led people to a large yard in the back street where the Hu family's "private warehouse" was written.

The owner of this private warehouse has been razed because of his rebellion against Zheng Jun, and now it is being privately occupied by a few remaining "servants".

When Zhang Zhe arrived here, five or six old servants of the Hu family were selling grain at a high price at the door of the private warehouse, and yelling at the county residents who came to buy grain, looking very unhappy.

(End of this chapter)