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Chapter 76 The overall situation

Since the fall of Master Jiang in the first year of Lu in the regent of the country, until Chen Wenguang restored Jinhua Prefecture in the second half of last year, this land had been occupied for five years.

During the past five years, the general general of Jinhua of the Qing Dynasty, Ma Jinbao, has been unwavering since the Jinhua Massacre, or has been enjoying it, and has been willing to harm the local gentry and people. It can be said that he is the mortal enemy of Jinhua Mansion. After capturing him alive, Chen Wen pulled him back to the mansion where he was the most evil, and he was executed in public. In the eyes of local people, he was naturally indispensable to the recognition of a hero.

Because of this, killing Ma Jinbao can not only vent his anger, but also will inevitably have a more favorable impact on the current situation of rebellion everywhere in Jinhuafu with Cao Conglong forming a group training.

However, Chen Wen was born in an era when he had long regarded him as barbaric. Chen Wen was really not interested in this punishment of cutting off the meat piece by piece. Of course, there are also reasons why Chen Wen lacked enough personal feelings about the numerous evil deeds done by Ma Jinbao. If it were Cao Conglong, who had just insulted him, led to the Ming army being forced to give up the victory, he would still appreciate the ugly behavior of that guy under the punishment for a while.

However, Cao Conglong is now missing. According to the investigation in the past two days, the last place where the governor Chejia appeared was in the East City of the Fucheng City, and he had obviously escaped from the city.

The Fubiao camp, which had more than 2,000 people, was wiped out under the psychological offensive without a battle, and there were no soldiers in his hands. The next route of Cao Conglong's escape was nothing more than a trip to Taizhou and Wenzhou to return to Lujian State to live in Kinmen, Fujian, or to go north to Yiwu, Dongyang escaped from Jinhua Mansion, and then continued north to Hangzhou.

Reduce to Qing Dynasty!

The big thing was not done, and the Lu Jianguo Group's final reliance was completely offended. Even if Cao Conglong did not die, his career was completely completed. As for surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, such an infighting dog might still be an official in the Qing Dynasty, but in this way, Chen Wen was completely invincible in the current social public opinion. At that time, even if someone forced his words to slander him with "Chen Wen attacked friendly troops and forced Cao Conglong, who was a military supervisor, to surrender to the Qing Dynasty" to slander him. After all, Confucianism is firmly sitting in Diaoyutai, and even the Tartars have to cover up the orthodox Confucianism with the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, rather than fleeing to other countries for revenge with soldiers.

In any case, Cao Conglong is no longer afraid, and the key to Chen Wen is how to minimize the impact and sequelae of the rebellion.

On the execution platform, Lingchi against Ma Jinbao was still in progress. From the fourth knife, gentry and civilians took out silver to buy the meat that had been taken from Ma Jinbao's body.

"Eat your meat and sleep with your skin"

This was the most normal behavior in the eyes of the ancients to express and vent hatred. Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Ji Liao who was executed by Lingchi twenty-two years ago, enjoyed such treatment. However, Ma Jinbao, the martial artist, did not write the literary level and opportunity of such poems as "After death, there is no worries about the brave general, and the loyal soul will still guard Liaodong", and it is even less likely to be known as a "national hero". Who made him now behave like a man inside and outside?

However, Chen Wen did not have the time to use the scene in the venue to think about the scene in the third year of Chongzhen. When the master in charge of the execution was resting for the first time, he stood up and returned to the governor's office, where more things needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.

When Chen Wen took down Tangxi County, it was not the center of the rebellion and the location was relatively remote, so he was not very clear about the details of Jinhua Mansion. However, when he recovered the city, the information and documents left by Cao Conglong in the Governor's Office quickly figured out the current situation.

Tangxi and Fucheng have been recovered, but Lanxi and Wuyi are still in the hands of the rebels. The situation in Yongkang County is still unclear. In addition, there is a big or small problem. Jinyun County was captured by the Qing army in Chuzhou.

In fact, it is not so much a conquering, but rather a local former garrison was transferred back to the Fucheng. Due to the chaos in Yongkang County, the rebels' garrison was blocked on the road, resulting in the unprepared defense of Jinyun County. Jinyun is actually very close to the Fucheng in Chuzhou. As the battle between Quzhou was in full swing, the left-behind troops of the Qing army in Chuzhou took the courage to occupy the county seat of Jinyun County, the Wuyun Town without a wall, which was also considered to have recovered the lost land from the Qing Dynasty.

The news was only spread to the Governor's Office the next morning after the Ming army took Tangxi and crossed Dongyang River. Previously, Chen Wen not only captured Longyou County in Quzhou, but also surrounded Quzhou Prefecture City. Cao Conglong's rebellion caused the fall of a county town in the Ming army's occupied area. I really don't know what Cao Conglong's expression would have been at that time.

In addition, Yin Yue, the general of the Ming army on the Northern Front, and Lin Zhongxiao, the guerrilla general stationed in Anhua Town, sternly refused Cao Conglong's recruitment. Even the civil servants of Yiwu and Pujiang counties did not participate in the rebellion, which made Chen Wen feel some comfort. However, Liu Cheng, the garrison of Dongyang County, chose to abdicate. Thinking that Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army was originally a defense area for this person, this guy may have participated in the rebellion earlier.

This guy is not afraid. As long as he appears in front of the troops stationed in Dongyang County, the soldiers will definitely give up resisting. Chen Wen still has this confidence.

However, in this half month, Cao Conglong transported most of the food and grass accumulated in the city and military supplies to Yushan Town in Dongyang County, trying to use this as a base for attacking Taizhou. Moreover, there are also summer taxes in Jinhua, Tangxi, Lanxi, Wuyi and Dongyang counties.

If the army had no food, it would be scattered. Chen Wen's command had nearly 10,000 soldiers and officers, and the cost of the army was even more amazing. If it weren't for the aftermath of the problem, he would never have formed an army of such a large scale while staying in Jinhua Prefecture and attacking Quzhou. If the resources could not be recovered as soon as possible, he would not have been able to continue to maintain the tax revenue of Jinhua Prefecture, which would inevitably be affected by the rebellion.

In addition, the military order to form a group training by itself was also a huge problem, and the problem was even so big that there were different degrees of tax resistance in all counties.

Tax resistance was a normal thing in the Ming Dynasty. There were many records in historical books, but this time the tax resistance leaders were those gentry and wealthy families who formed the tutoring group training, which changed the overall nature and must be suppressed as soon as possible to minimize the degree of sequelae.

This rebellion is no longer a matter of being decided by taking down the city. Chen Wen needed to use the county towns of each county as a fulcrum to use this rebel-fighting force of less than a thousand people to regain the entire Jinhua Prefecture in his hands.

Lanxi County is located at the intersection of Qujiang and Dongyang River. The Qiantang River flows downstream. The geographical location is extremely important. Chen Wen sent Chen Guobao to lead the water camp and nearly half of the counter-rebel troops along the Dongyang River. Only by taking the place back into his hands can he be assured to recover other counties. As for the Ming army on Yiwu and Pujiang River and the northern line, Chen Wen has sent people to comfort him, and even Dongyang County also sent messengers.
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