Lord of the House

Zhao Qinmin waited all night in Yanqing. Although he was accompanied by Sun Jingtang, his heart was full of discomfort. He didn't even know that Huaidong had hidden from him anything that would make Lin Fu's face change. Although he was dissatisfied, he also knew He was only a guest of the Gu family, and he did not show his dissatisfaction on his face.

The next day came the news that Lin Fu fell ill in Jianling. Lin Fu had a precedent of pretending to be sick in Jiangning. Naturally, Zhao Qinmin did not believe it. Accompanied by Sun Jingtang, he rushed to Jianling to meet Lin Fu.

Jianling is an inconspicuous small county on the northeast corner of Hailing Mansion. The circumference of the city is about two li. It has been in disrepair over the years. Covered with snow.

Lin Fu demanded that the eleven counties of the two prefectures in Huaidong should rectify their military equipment and repair the city, but these were related to local financial resources. drag down.

Zhao Qinmin entered the city and went to the hotel where Lin Fu was staying, only to find out that Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu and others had come from Chongzhou; the little lady, Xiaoman, also came from Chongzhou to serve Lin Fu.

Lin Bie rested in Jianling for two days, and when he regained some energy, he invited Zhao Qinmin to come in, and asked Xiaoman to serve tea himself, saying, "Mr. Zhao is rarely here, and I didn't take the time to entertain, which is really negligent. Uncle Mengde. I happen to be going to Jiangning, so I can send Mr. Zhao off on my behalf..."

Seeing that Lin Mengde would come to Jiangning to explain the matter in person, Zhao Qinmin knew that Lin Fu was determined to win the prefect of Hailing, and no longer insisted on persuading him. Even if Gu Wuchen will have opinions and dissatisfaction with Lin Fu's stubbornness, but they are Weng's son-in-law after all, why does he squeeze into the middle to be a villain?

Send Zhao Qinmin into the hotel to rest, Lin Fu wears a leather robe to keep out the cold, and only let Qin Chengzu, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu and others talk with him in the warm pavilion.

"It's best to convince Jiangning to cooperate and act together," Lin Fu said to Lin Mengde, pressing his voice down, "If the opinions cannot be unified, we can only proceed according to our own arrangements. I have written a few books. Zhezi, you take it all with you, and act according to the circumstances..."

Several excerpts: First, to the Jiangning Ministry of Personnel, the Governor's Office and the Ning Prince's Mansion, to impeach Liu Tingzhou for his dereliction of duty as a concurrent military commander-in-chief. The military commander and envoy, in short, wanted the seat of the prefect of Hailing to be vacated; the second was to complain to the Jiangning Household Department, the Governor's Office and the Ning Wangfu that the price of grain in Jiangdong had risen sharply, which caused the cost of grain transportation to Jinhai to increase greatly, and the merchants and the people were angry. , If the court does not appease, I am afraid of running out of food.

When these books were presented, Yue Lengqiu, Zhang Xi and others would naturally understand that Lin Fu was seeking the prefect of Hailing, but if Huaidong opened up this intention by himself, it would be a little too rigid.

First of all, we still have to convince Gu Wuchen that he is willing to cooperate with Huaidong.

At this point, in addition to the sharper conflicts with the Ning Wangfu family, the differences within the Dongyang family will also be more dazzling and exposed to outsiders.

No one knew that the Western Liaoning front collapsed, and everything should be in the front. After the negotiation here, Lin Mengde didn't care that it was getting dark, so he set off from Jianling and rushed to Jiangning.

Before Lin Mengde, Wu Qi had already left for the north, initially planning to go to Jinhai to take a seat, and he might even sneak into Beijing to see the situation in person.

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Zhao Qinmin looked at the **** sunset in the distance in the snow and knew that it would be very hard to drive at night even in a carriage.

Soon, the horse team galloped into the silent, boundless night.

On the front corner of the carriage was a special lantern made by Huaidong. It swayed with the rut, and the dim light mixed with the cold air came in through the window. More than 30 riders accompanied the escort. , in the quiet snowy night, it can be heard very clearly.

Zhao Qinmin sighed in his heart: Lin Mengde ranks in the history of the Huaidong Army Director, ranked sixth, and Jiangdong County has a higher official rank than him by a lot. According to the system, officials and generals below the fifth rank can only take four entourages when they travel. It’s just that the powerful and powerful don’t pay attention to these these days.

The dim light came in, Zhao Qinmin looked at Lin Mengde's frost-white temple hair, and asked, "Brother Mengde hasn't turned fifty this year?"

Some words, Zhao Qinmin was inconvenient to say in front of Lin Fu, but in front of Lin Mengde, he did not have those scruples.

"You are only two years older than Qinmin," Lin Mengde said with a smile, "it's just that the white hair on your head is much more than you..."

"The matter of Huaidong has made you work too hard," Zhao Qinmin replied with a smile, "It's not as leisurely as I was in Jiangning—of course, Brother Mengde is a person with big ambitions, and he can't imitate me in Jiangning."

"What kind of ambition is not ambition," Lin Mengde said, "Qinmin is planning and calculating for Lord Gu, how can it be considered a mess? It's just that I am smart and knowledgeable, not as talented as you are, and I hope that diligence can make up for my clumsiness, so I added more. Just some white hair."

"When it comes to great talents and great aspirations, there are few people in the world who can compare to the envoy of the system," Zhao Qinmin said, "I heard people talk about it when I was in Jiangning. He was successfully appointed as the prefect of Hailing, but the name was changed to be more realistic..."

Lin Mengde glanced at Zhao Qinmin vigilantly, a look of vigilance flashed across his face, he turned his eyes to the wind and snow outside the window, and smiled lightly: "It's just wild talk from the village, it only adds to the confusion. When I read Minsheng Sheji, I feel a little impatient, but I also feel that the situation is urgent—as for authority and so on, if you replace Qinmin, you will live a lifetime, but you will only seek shelter for your descendants..."

At this time, Gu Wuchen will never support Lin Fu's secession of Huaidong - this is the fundamental reason why Gu Wuchen does not support Lin Fu's strong takeover of the Hailing prefect this time.

Gu Wuchen, as the servant of Jiangning's military department, his power came directly from the Dayue court system, that is, the Jiangning water camp, and it was impossible for him to rely on Yang Shi to control it alone.

On the whole, Jiangning Water Camp is still a force loyal to the Yuan Dynasty.

Even though Gu Siyuan, Chen/Yuanliang, and others had some power in Qingzhou, they were too weak and scattered. They could only rely on the righteousness of the imperial court to keep the Liang family's tentacles out of Qingzhou.

If you really have any ambitions, many fatal contradictions will be exposed in Qingzhou first.

Although Lin Tingli has a strong control over the Dongyang Army, Lin Tingli himself does not have any special ambitions. At this stage, including Lin Xuwen, they will not support Lin Fu's separatist control of Huaidong, which is sharply opposed to the Yuan court.

In the eyes of Lin Mengde and others, only when the Yuan Dynasty's court collapsed in an instant and Gu Wuchen, Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen and others all lost their allegiance, the forces in their hands could gather with Huaidong as the core...

Of course, it is very difficult to do this. Even if Yanjing defeats Donglu, King Ning can still be established as the new emperor here, and the Yuan Dynasty's normal unification will not be cut off.

Zhao Qinmin suddenly raised the dazzling word "King Huaidong" at this time, how could Lin Mengde not be vigilant?

This is the way of the world. Liu Tingzhou made things difficult for Huaidong, but people in Huaidong thought he had integrity - Sun Zhuang was in Huaidong, secretly colluding with the red jacket girl, people in Huaidong pretended not to see, but thought he knew Loyalty.

Just like Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan and others, they did not agree with Huaidong's approach very much, and they were all outside the Huaidong system, but the people of Huaidong were also very closely related to them.

Regardless of the relationship with Huaidong, Zhao Qinmin can still be loyal to Gu Wuchen, but he has a precedent of changing to the court, and the people of Huaidong treat him coldly.

"It's not fake..." Zhao Qinmin laughed. Lin Mengde was born in a businessman, and he stood alone in Jiangning for the Lin family in his early years. He had long been an elite person, so he would give Lin Fu such support, and he did not expect to dig out anything from Lin Mengde's mouth.

At this moment, there is a fast horse approaching, listening to the shouts from the outside, it is the post horse who came from Jianling to send the pond copy - Lin Mengde has a special position in Huaidong, in addition to ensuring that he and Lin Fu keep in touch at all times, He will also keep him aware of the latest changes in the situation. If there is any pond, someone will send it to him.

Lin Mengde took the Tang Chao handed in by the cavalry guard through the window, looked at the lantern outside the car window, and sighed slightly: "Jiang Ning decided to transfer troops from northern Zhejiang to Dangtu... Chen Zhihu's troops and horses went south, blocking the red The road for the rebel army to flee to the west—" Such news did not have to be concealed from Zhao Qinmin, Lin Mengde handed him the tang copy handed over from Jianling.

Zhao Qinmin took the tang copy and read it through the horse lantern. On the margin of the tang copy, someone made an annotation with charcoal.

Zhao Qinmin recognized Lin Fu's handwriting, and he looked at Lin Fu's annotation more seriously than the content in the Tang copy: "Influenced by the influence of western Liaoning, Jiangning's public minds have also become frivolous. Such mobilization is a vain attempt to invade Liaoyang in the north of Ji army. At that time, the situation in Huaisi was solved in one fell swoop, but the advance or retreat was too much, or it could lead to bad consequences..."

Zhao Qinmin thought carefully, but agreed with Lin Fu's judgment.

Before Luo Xiancheng led his troops to the south, Jiangning hurriedly dispatched Tao Chun to guard Luzhou, guarding against Changle bandits fleeing east, and dispatched Jiangning water camp to garrison quarrying. It was entirely on the defensive to prevent the situation on the east-west line of Jiangning from deteriorating, even in the west of Huaiyang. Open the gap in the face~www.readwn.com~ lure the red-jacketed bandits to the west and attack them again...

At this time, the army of northern Zhejiang was moved westward to Dangtu—obviously seeing the heavy forces of the She family gathering on the western front, and the east front being seriously attacked by the Huaidong army, the pressure faced by the army in northern Zhejiang was reduced to a minimum, so the northern Zhejiang was transferred to the north. The army took the lead to quell Luo Xiancheng's tendency to flee east or south. Chen Zhihu also ordered Chen Zhihu to block the way the red jacket bandits escaped from Huaiyang to the west. The next step is probably to transfer Tao Chun to lead the Changhuai army to the north, completely trapping the red jacket bandits in Huaiyang City and annihilating them.

The Changhuai Army was transferred, and Jiangning was in a hurry with the deployment of troops, but Zhao Qinmin did not think that this was a performance of insufficiency of advance and retreat and frivolous progress-he believed that this was precisely inspired by the great victory in western Liaoning, and the princes of Jiangning had a fighting spirit again in their hearts. .

The adjustment of the troops in this way is more conducive to the attack, and it was too conservative in the past.

At least compared to Huaidong's original proposal to move the Jiangning water camp westward to block the Changle bandit crossing the river, Jiangning's military adjustment at this time is still conservative.

However, these comments were all written by Lin Fu. Zhao Qinmin knew what kind of prestige Lin Fu had in the hearts of the people of Huaidong. !"

Lin Mengde didn't hear Zhao Qinmin's words for a while, and responded with emotion: "Yes."

Unless it can be very quick, like the Huaidong Navy rushing southward, in just three or five days, the front of the army will directly point at the mouth of the Minjiang River, which will catch the She family by surprise. Otherwise, tens of thousands of troops and horses will be mobilized. It's hard to hide from the enemy's eyes.

Even if many people can't see the possible bad consequences in western Liaoning, but as a normal strategic choice, the southern front should be stopped at this time and the original strategy should remain unchanged: the battle of Songcheng in western Liaoning made many people's mentality change. A big change is never a good thing. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter