You still need to clearly calculate the pros and cons and possible consequences of every decision you make. Now he knows that even if it is only for other local officials in the areas controlled by the imperial court, he will now have to use high-ranking officials and generous salaries to support these people. An army of 200,000, which he had trained painstakingly on his own but lacked good generals, was simply not enough to conquer the world.
Although the Imperial Guards were too bad to be feared, they were no match against the elites of the Four Camps and the Xijing Camp. The most important thing is that Jiangnan cannot be beaten to pieces. That is the foundation for his true future to compete with the imperial court and the Northern Liao Dynasty. Without Jiangnan's strong financial and material support, no matter how rich his own Guilin County Prince's Palace is, it will be difficult to provide long-term support.
What are those officials doing? I am not here to be a good old man, let alone for the so-called ambitions and ideals. Serving the country and the people, assisting the Holy Emperor in governing the world, are just slogans shouted from the mouth. If you can't get promoted and make a fortune, who will work for you? After three years of clearing the magistrate's office, he earned a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver and served as an official for thousands of miles just for food and clothing. Getting rich is the real ideal for most people to become an official.
And the reason why those people took refuge in me was because I didn't know how much I had smashed into it. Those who have good money give away large amounts of gold and silver according to their levels every year. For those who are lustful, beauties from all over the world are sent to their door. Although the imperial court was in arrears with the salaries of civil servants, it had always been in arrears with the salaries of military attachés. If you don't spend a lot of money on them, why should they work for you? How much loyalty can there be if you buy loyalty with money?
These people can betray the court and seek refuge with themselves for the sake of profit. Tomorrow, someone else will offer greater benefits, and betraying yourself will happen overnight. How could I not be clear about these principles? But the reality today is that he is not strong enough yet and cannot spare his hands to deal with them for the time being. And many of these people are now taking advantage of the chaos to support their own troops, and have even developed into separatists.
If those deputy envoys and military envoys, large and small, feel that they have touched their interests, they can turn against themselves at any time. It is necessary to remove them from military power, but it is not time to deal with them now. If you move too early, you will be the one who gets into trouble. Now his biggest rival is the nominal son-in-law in Beijing. If you don't let those officials see the benefits of surrendering to you, how can you attract them to surrender?
If they side with the imperial court, how much price will they have to pay? As for now, even if those officials support their troops and respect themselves. However, those former military and horse envoys and regimental training envoys only had one or two thousand soldiers and horses, and the territory they controlled was no more than one or two prefectures, or even a few states and counties. As long as their money and food are in their hands, how big a threat will they pose to themselves in a short period of time?
His eyes were still staring at the whole Jiangnan, and he was too calculating in his mind. The businessman's habit broke out again. He always planned to pay the minimum price to seize the entire world. The Guilin County Prince hesitated for a long time, and finally gave up accepting Zhang Gongming's suggestion. After everyone left, the somewhat tired Prince Guilin did not stay here any longer. He turned around and left, walking to a room at the back.
And inside the room, there were two beautiful women wearing only veils. When he saw the Prince of Guilin entering the room, he immediately followed him quickly. Like two snakes, they entangled the King of Guilin. One of them squatted on the ground with a charming smile and opened his mouth. The Prince of Guilin was not polite at all to the two women who came up to them. He held down the one on the ground with one hand and hugged the other directly with the other.
If outsiders saw these two women, they would probably be shocked. Among the two bewitching-looking women, one is the concubine of the Prince of Yuzhang. It stands to reason that she should be the current empress of Emperor Hongwu. One is the crown prince appointed by the emperor and the crown princess of his eldest son. The Guilin County Prince had just entered the former Yuzhang County Prince's Mansion and was now the residence of Emperor Hongwu.
When Emperor Hongwu, who was so frightened that he trembled all over and thought that he would have his sacrificial flag chopped off, called his wife and daughter-in-law to personally pour tea and water for the current King of Han, these two women were killed on the spot. He got it. After greeting each other and having an in-depth discussion about Emperor Hongwu's succession, he brought the two women to his residence that night.
And it's completely ridiculous. There are hundreds of beauties in the house who have been seized by him or bought by force. Ever since the old man reinstated him, he had indulged in wine and sex. It had been many years since Emperor Hongwu had entered the concubine's room. I am so confused that I still don’t know that my half-old wife, my wife, was taken away from my palace by force, and she has not returned yet.
Nowadays, I am even more busy, dreaming about spring and autumn and have no time to take care of it. As for the Crown Princess, this is also the reason. It's because that prince, although not as absurd and unethical as his own master. But he is obsessed with cultivating the art of immortality. As long as his wife does not disturb him, he will refine his elixir and practice meditation. Not to mention running away with others, even if he went to a brothel to sell it, he wouldn't worry about it.
The two men had no time to pay attention to their wives. As for these two women, one husband has not touched her for many years, and the other husband has never touched her at all. It can be said that they have been in the open for a long time, and when they encounter dry wood, they will naturally be burned by fire. When I was first brought here, I was still a little reluctant, but as time went by, I became content with the situation. It’s even reached the point where I can’t live without it every day.
As for Huang Qiong, the father-in-law, although he is still considered a vigorous man, he is still in his late teens and is already over sixty years old. One woman is already giving her full support. When encountering these two tiger and wolf women, they need medicine every day to keep them entertained. Strange to say, as the contemporary king of Guilin, he is entrenched on Guangnan West Road. He can be said to be the local emperor there, and he holds huge wealth in his hands.
In his palace, there were not only hundreds of local beauties of all kinds, but also women of all kinds from Dashi, Persia, Korea, and Japan, as well as a large group of warblers and swallows. The surrounding barbarian tribes also give him dozens of women every year. As the contemporary king of Guilin, what kind of beautiful and fragrant woman does he want? But when he met these two half-old ladies, he lost his soul.
With the support of the medicine, after half an hour of fighting, the exhausted three people came down and fell asleep. Little did he know that outside the door of this room, one of the guards patrolling closely, after hearing that the room had calmed down, his eyes flashed. When he got off duty and returned to his residence, a homing pigeon rose into the sky after a stick of incense and flew south towards Guangnan West Road.
But at this time, inside the so-called Xing Zai, there was a man as fat as a pig. Pulling himself out from a group of pink arms, he went down to the ground and hurriedly took out a pill from a box. It was too late to take it with water, so I swallowed it in one gulp. He turned around and shouted to the babies, I'm here, and rushed back to the bed. Then, before even having time to put down the bed curtain, there was another wave.
Along with this fluctuation, there were bursts of shouts in Dashi language mixed with Persian, and the meaning was unknown. However, after less than two cups of tea, this extremely obese man shivered for a while, didn't even bother to wipe himself, and fell asleep directly. The group of Persian dancers and beauties who originally surrounded him sneered at the Hongwu Emperor.
Then they invariably looked outside, at the young guards outside the window. Some of them were brave enough to go outside without even wearing any clothes and try to attract the guards outside. And these guards outside are all his confidants transferred by the Guilin County King. No one took this so-called emperor seriously. Some would just take these women away.
Just when this man was fighting desperately to prove his dignity as a man. In another courtyard of this street, a young man in his twenties, wearing a Taoist robe, kept knocking the wooden fish in front of him. On the other hand, he kept looking at the heat of several alchemy furnaces in front of him. Around him, there were more than a dozen Taoist priests who were constantly casting spells to control the fire.
It wasn't until midnight that the blazing fire under the alchemy furnace gradually extinguished. When the morning light fell on Ganzhou City, a Taoist priest carefully opened an elixir furnace and presented a shining golden elixir in front of the young man. He kept saying congratulations and congratulations on the success of the crown prince's golden elixir. When this young man saw the shining golden elixir in front of him, he grabbed it and swallowed it directly.
This night in the so-called "Xing Nei" in Ganzhou City was not just chaos, let alone absurdity. Emperor Hongwu, who had long been drained of wine and sex and was fast asleep, didn't know that the dancers around him were being divided up by the guards outside his door. Even his own concubine was disturbed by those guards, and there were many secret connections with them.
Huang Qiong didn't know about this scene in Ganzhou. Here, the King of Guilin County is busy dispatching troops and generals, pulling out his most elite 20,000 troops and horses. He was entrusted to the leadership of one of his best generals, the original deputy envoy of Guangnan West Road Jiedu, Zheng Tong. Carrying a large amount of grain, as well as a large number of horses, they quietly left Jianchang Mansion. It passes through Junyang Mountain, bypasses Guangxin Prefecture, and goes straight into Raozhou Prefecture.
And these 20,000 people were discovered as soon as they entered Raozhou Prefecture. Nowadays, among the entire Jiangnan West Route Guards, only a few capable guards have been transferred to Nanchang Mansion. There were only 700 miscellaneous soldiers and a thousand regiments left, and the soldiers and horses guarding the entire Raozhou Prefecture did not dare to send troops to intercept them. He could only hurry up for eight hundred miles and report the matter to Zhao Wusha, who was currently acting as the envoy of Jiangnan West Road.
After receiving the report from the Raozhou Prefecture Guards, Zhao Wusha, who was in Nanchang Prefecture where the Jiangnan West Road Administrative Office was located, couldn't help but be surprised. Raozhou Mansion is located at the intersection of Jiangnan West Road, Zhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road. You can go straight to Jiangning Mansion to the north, and you can enter the two Zhejiang provinces at any time to the west. Controlling Raozhou Prefecture would mean cutting off the connection between Jiangnan West Road and the two Zhejiang provinces, and would also threaten one's own flanks.
It was not unexpected that the rebels bypassed the Nanchang Prefecture where they were firmly entrenched and avoided the Nanchang Prefecture defenders to enter Raozhou Prefecture. However, this rebel army did not launch any siege. Instead, they bypassed all the prefectures and counties in Raozhou Prefecture and entered the vast mountains at the junction of the three roads. This can only show that the rebels do not want to control Raozhou now. Explain that their goal is either West Zhejiang or East Jiangnan Road.
If the target of this rebel army is in the direction of western Zhejiang, Zhao Wushu is not too worried. But if it is Jiangnan East Road, it will be worrying. In addition to Jiangnan West Road, it is not far from Jiangning Mansion. Today's Jiangning Mansion is not only filled with autumn taxes that have just been put into the treasury, but also with mountains of grain, money and silk. Moreover, Jiangning Mansion, the ancient capital of six dynasties, is the core of Jiangnan in the hearts of the entire Jiangnan people.
Once Jiangning Mansion is lost, not only the mountains of grain, grass, money and silk in the city will also fall into the hands of the rebels. Together with the surrounding prefectures of Songjiang, Suzhou, Ningguo, Taiping, Changshu, Zhenjiang, and Changzhou, I am afraid they will not be able to defend it at all. Although these six mansions are not big, together with Jiangning Mansion, they account for nearly 40% of the entire Jiangnan wealth. If it is lost, it will become the biggest sinner of the imperial court.
