Li Mingxun rode into the city and saw the deathly spirit in Guangzhou. The people were not happy at all. The pedestrians walked in a hurry on the road. When they saw the soldiers, they avoided them from afar, as if most of these soldiers were plague gods.

Suddenly, he smelled a stench. Li Mingxun turned his head and saw a string of intestines hanging on the door of a closed shop on the side of the road. The green and yellow are connected, and the fly is flying around. It has already rotten. It looks like it is not a common pig and sheep internal organ. Looking around, there are many shops and house doors hanging. Li Mingxun asked Gao Feng in confusion: "What is that?"

"Your Excellency, that is the heart, lungs and intestines of human beings." Gao Feng said.

Li Mingxun's face shook. Although he knew before traveling, the customs of Guangdong were different from other places, especially the recipes were wide and the things with legs were said to be eating all but tables, chairs, and benches, but it was absolutely impossible to hang people's internal organs in front of the door.

Gao Feng explained: "During the Shaowu Dynasty, he had donated taxes in Guangzhou, but the people in the city had long been plundered by Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time, and could not get the money. The Shaowu court also raised pirates of four surnames, and those pirates came to collect taxes on their own. Whenever they resisted the donors, they would hang their hearts and lungs in front of the door to intimidate them!"

Li Mingxun asked in confusion: "The Qing army stayed in Guangzhou for more than half a month, and the coalition forces entered Guangzhou for seven or eight days, but no one cared about this matter?"

Gao Feng said in embarrassment: "When the Qing army was in Guangzhou, they also came to charge taxes. The coalition forces entered Guangzhou City. The Ming army was the same. The people privately said that the Qing army and the Ming army were all bandits, and the four surnames were also official pirates, all of which were birds of the same feather, so the people never dealt with it!"

Li Mingxun sighed and said, "The people's hearts have been lost!"

The two of them entered the city together. The 6th Army gave the Guangdong Provincial Government Office to the commander-in-chief Chen Zizhuang, and the commander-in-chief occupied the Guangzhou Government Office. The two of them entered the city. Li Mingxun saw that the government office had been cleaned up in an orderly manner, the soldiers patrol and guarded, and the staff were serious. Li Mingxun didn't wait for a break and asked to report the battle situation as soon as possible.

In Gao Feng's statement, the 6th Army fired guns to drive away some rioters who wanted to rob supplies and did not participate in any decent battle. After restoring Guangzhou, Tong Yangjia led more than 40,000 troops to camp in the north of Guangzhou City, with twelve camps in a row. It would be impossible to conquer such a large camp without detailed information. The 6th Army was still collecting intelligence and waiting for the artillery battalion to arrive. Chen Zizhuang scolded the community for its passive and lazy battle and led Hong Tianzhuo's troops, Li Mingzhong's troops and the volunteers to attack. As a result, the murdered ones were defeated, losing nearly two thousand people.

Facts have proved that loyalty is a virtue, but it has nothing to do with ability. The noble character of morality and faithful loyalty will not increase a little military literacy. Of course, it also proves that good people can do bad things, and they will not be held accountable after doing it.

On the map, the red and blue areas were clearly divided. The coalition forces recovered Guangzhou, Foshan, Xinhui, Xinning, Gaoming and other counties, but that was the case. After the failure to attack Tong Yangjia's camp, Chen Zizhuang sent various troops to attack Zengcheng, failed to attack Dongguan's reinforcements. Gaozhou General Li Mingxun attacked Sanshui and fought with Li Chengdong's adopted son Li Yuanyin there for three or five rounds, but actually surrendered directly, and also cheated thousands of volunteers who helped the team.

Li Chengdong's troops made great strides in attack. Zhaoqing and Wuzhou issued an edict. Li Chengdong's troops continued to chase and kill. Zhu Youlang was the emperor who escaped. When he was just reincarnated, Ganzhou, Jiangxi lost his feet. He ran from Zhaoqing to Wuzhou, Guangxi, which caused the disappointment of Guangdong's gentry and people, so he supported Shaowu. The last two emperors had civil war. Zhu Youlang returned to Chaqing again, but Guangzhou was captured, and Zhu Youlang ran to Wuzhou again. Soon, Zhu Zhijian, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi who stayed in Zhaoqing, and Chen Bangfu, the Wuzhou garrison, fled without fighting. Zhu Youlang continued to escape and went to Guilin. Since then, Guangdong has lost contact with the emperor, not knowing whether it is death or life.

Li Mingxun knew that his elder brother-in-law would not fight the enemy in Guilin. He went north to Quanzhou first, and then went to Hunan to join the governor of Huguang He Tengjiao.

Since then, the ten prefectures in Guangzhou have been under the jurisdiction of the prefectures, and most of them have fallen into the hands of the Qing army. The coalition forces have controlled only the four backward prefectures in western Guangdong, the coastal areas of the second prefectures in Guangzhou in Zhaoqing and some towns on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary.

Looking at the controlled area, Li Mingxun's face turned extremely ugly. He asked, "What's the situation in the coalition?"

Gao Feng said: "We allies are really hard to describe. Chen Zizhuang, the Minister of War, is full of passion, but he is an old stubborn person and difficult to deal with. Lin Shizhang and Yuan Shizhong are trustworthy, but they are too few soldiers and horses. Hong Tianzhuo is Ding Kuichu's man, and they are in trouble with Lin Shizhang. In addition, the main soldiers and the rebels are constantly fighting, and the foreign troops and local soldiers are frequently dirty, which is simply a mess. Moreover, everyone talks about the great truth of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, which is very difficult to deal with!"

After Gao Feng finished speaking, he was silent for a while and said, "Your Excellency, I feel that it is not that we have recovered Guangzhou, but that he has been defeated by Tong Yangjia and asked you to get into the trap. Although I can't break the plan, I'm always a little nervous!"

Li Mingxun smiled: "You are right, Gao Feng, we have indeed fallen into the trap!"

Gao Feng's face changed drastically and he blamed himself: "Maybe I should have waited for you to come in Guanghaiwei before going to fight!"

Lee Mingxun shook his head: "You don't have to blame yourself. Actually, you did it right. Even if I know it's a plan, I will make the same choice as you."

As the two were talking, a servant came in and said, "Your Excellency, Chen Zizhuang, Minister of War, please go to the military for discussion with the Admiral."

Li Mingxun nodded and said to Gao Feng: "Let's go, let's see those old stubborn ones."

The two of them came to the yamen of the governor and the generals had already sat down. On the right seat was a thin old man with a slim face, with a bright eyes, staring at Li Mingxun like two lightning bolts.

"Everyone, Mingxun is polite here." Li Mingxun looked around for a week and saw him with the courtesy of a friend.

Chen Zizhuang's face changed slightly, but she was not annoyed. She stood up and changed her face to a warm smile: "Mr. Li, we're meeting again."

Again? Li Mingxun smiled and asked, "I have met you for the first time."

Chen Zizhuang shook his head slightly: "I have seen the prestige of an adult in Nanjing for the past year."

Only then did Li Mingxun realize that when Nanjing fell, Chen Zizhuang was an official in Nanjing, perhaps because he had seen himself torture the surrendered noble officials, but he was not afraid at all. In terms of military strength, the land of Guangzhou took the community as its own, and money and food. These people called themselves here for this purpose.

"Everyone of the traitors was punished by the traitors. Lord Chen is polite. Mingxun just did what Mingxun should do." Li Mingxun sat down and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Seeing that the power of the game was useless, Chen Zizhuang sat down and said, "The state affairs were difficult. Although it was happy to recover Guangzhou, the Qing enemy was surrounded by enemies. How to defeat the enemy and restore Quan Guang, please work together with this official."

"Abide by the Lord's teachings!" The generals of the Ming army stood up to respond, Li Mingxun brought tea in his hand and responded calmly.

"Mr. Hong, Lord Lin, you and others are herdsmen. I wonder how the tax and donation are carried out?" Chen Zizhuang asked when everyone sat down.

Hong Tianzhuo and Lin Shizhang both stood up and looked ugly. Speaking of which, Lin Shizhang was Governor Qionglei of the Longwu Dynasty, while Hong Tianzhuo was Governor of western Guangdong in the Yongli Dynasty. Neither of them was in charge of the surrounding areas of Guangzhou, but most of the officials in Guangzhou Prefecture surrendered to the Qing army, and Chen Zizhuang could only let these two men take over, but they had never given corresponding official positions. After all, even Chen Zizhuang, the Minister of War, was rejected by him. Hong Tianzhuo had a great reputation, and Lin Shizhang had a territory, and no one was convinced.

"Qiongzhou, Leizhou delivered 30,000 shi of military rations, and the subordinates recruited more than 10,000 silver from the surrounding areas of Guangzhou." Lin Shizhang said in embarrassment.

Hong Tianzhuo said: "Xinhui, Xinning and Gaoming counties have collected taxes for two years, but the people have no food and only get 14,000 stones of rice and grain!"

After the two finished speaking, the generals started to discuss, how could they fight without money or food? But everyone present understood the situation in Guangdong. During the Longwu Dynasty, they collected taxes this year. Last year, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Ding Kuichu levyed violently, and Shaowu beat and extorted them again. The Qing army robbed them. No matter how rich Guangdong was, it was still exhausted. This not only led to the inability to collect taxes, but also caused a large number of prefectures and counties to rebel against the Qing army.

Tong Yangjia simply ordered that he no longer pursued taxes in previous years, and received support from many prefectures and counties in Guangdong.

"Mr. Li, what do you think?" Chen Zizhuang looked at Li Mingxun with a smile.

Li Mingxun smiled. He knew that the answer he had just right was to show him, so he smiled and said, "This is an internal problem of the Ming Dynasty. We have no right to argue. The community army is here to assist in the war, and there is no other idea!"

Chen Zizhuang originally wanted to sell miserable things, so he asked for some money and food from Li Mingxun, but he never thought that Li Mingxun saw through it directly, looking like he was unable to get into the oil and salt.

Seeing that it was impossible to make a mistake, Chen Zizhuang simply said: "I wonder if Dongfan can support some money and food?"

Lee Mingxun asked, “How many?”

Chen Zizhuang said: "I heard that Dongfan had already had an appointment with the Lu State. The late emperor had made an appointment to provide 100,000 shi of rice and grain every year. If Zi inherited the Grand Principal today, I wonder if the aid grain can be fulfilled?"

Lee Mingxun stood up and said loudly: "Cash, how can you not cash out?"

"When will it be fulfilled? I also heard that the 100,000 shi of last year was given to the Lu Jianguo in the East, but did not give us. If we add the 100,000 shi of this year, it would be 200,000 shi!" Chen Zizhuang felt strange when he saw that Li Mingxun agreed so readily, and quickly added.

Li Mingxun said: "This is a bad word. Last year, due to the fall of Zhejiang and Fujian, we cannot contact Emperor Longwu. Later, Yongli and Shaowu fought to give it to Lord Lin Shizhang and Lin. Naturally, we can't give it to him anymore. As for the 100,000 stones this year, please send an envoy to come, so we can negotiate where to deliver it."

Chen Zizhuang was speechless for a moment. Zhu Youlang ran too fast, maybe he was in Guilin or not. Even if he was in Guilin and was cut off from Guangdong by Li Chengdong, how could an envoy come?

Chen Zizhuang didn't expect 200,000 shi, so he had to say: "I saw that Lord Li is not a pedantic person, so I naturally understand the principle of urgently following power. Otherwise, I would not have given the aid grain to Governor Lin last year. This time, the situation in Guangdong was tense, so I asked Lord Li to deal with it urgently and hand it over to me."

"No, Lord Chen refused to be appointed as an official in Yongli, but now he rashly takes the position of Minister of War as the Minister of War. It is not legal. If I give you rice and grain, and the court refuses to admit it, what if I ask me for 100,000 stones again?" Li Mingxun asked.

"Then let it be left to Lord Lin!" Chen Zizhuang took another step back.

Li Mingxun still shook his head: "No, Lord Lin, Governor Qionglei's position as Governor has not been recognized by Emperor Yongli!"

"You just don't want to give it to me, right?" Hong Tianzhuo slapped the table and asked.

Wu Mu drew his sword in his hand, protecting Li Mingxun, shouting: "Those who know understand that you are asking for help, and those who don't know think you are collecting debts. Haha, it's so great and majestic!"

Chen Zizhuang grabbed Hong Tianzhuo and asked, "Mr. Li, you could give it to Lord Lin last year, why can't you give it to me this year? What's the reason?"

Li Mingxun looked at Lin Shizhang and said, "Mr. Lin is my friend. If you are in trouble, you will naturally help me. But you are not. You don't want to be my friends, otherwise you wouldn't have been showing off your skills as soon as you enter the door and even act for me."

Lin Shizhang could no longer sit still and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, how can we judge the major affairs of the country based on personal feelings? Mingxun is not a person who does not know the general knowledge. First, there are indeed inappropriate things in our affairs, and second, Mingxun has always been smart and capable, and he must have his own ideas. Why not be honest about everyone? "

Chen Zizhuang and Hong Tianzhuo took over, and Li Mingxun said: "I, Li Mingxun, have never been stingy in aid. There are 300,000 shi of rice and grain in Hong Kong, which can be withdrawn at any time, but the money and grain are taken by myself, so I have to use it. I can't watch the money and grain waste!"

"What do you mean?" Chen Zizhuang asked.

Li Mingxun said: "Don't you think we've fallen into the trap? Haha, Guangzhou City, the largest city in Lingnan, is such a big incense bait, so fragrant that everyone forgot how much they have."

Seeing everyone's doubts, Li Mingxun clapped his hands and several advisers hung the map. From Guangzhou to the south and then to the west, the narrow areas along the coast and to the west, plus Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, Leizhou and Gaozhou are all the territories currently controlled. Li Mingxun said: "You have also seen that we control these territories now. The four prefectures in western Guangdong have always had few acres of land and are not abundant in production. It is already the limit that Lord Lin can provide 30,000 stones of rice and grain support. Looking at Guangzhou, it is still on the west bank of the Pearl River.

The town of this country, but because people are mostly planting sugarcane, mulberry fields and other economic crops, there are not many grain fields, and there are also non-agricultural populations. We need to import grain from Huizhou and Guangzhou North. To be honest, we have a population of 1.7 million, but we only have land to support one million people. Even in Changping, rice and grain are not enough. Now Guangzhou has been extorted for several rounds, and there is not much grain in stock. I would like to ask, how many months can we support you with 100,000 stones of grain?"

"Tong Yangjia is located north of Guangzhou to consume. If there is not enough money and food, the coalition forces will naturally fight infight. You can also borrow your national righteousness to let the community invest food resources into consumption. Until the Ming Dynasty and the community part ways, Guangdong will naturally be the Qing Dynasty." Li Mingxun said lightly.

"What a poisonous plan!" someone shouted at the moment.

"Then does Lord Li have any countermeasures?" someone asked at the moment.

Li Mingxun said: "Either we defeat the Qing army camp outside the city, cut off Li Chengdong's retreat, and recover the entire Guangdong, or......"
Chapter completed!