When Eunuch Feng saw us rushing in, he said unpleasantly, "Who are you? The dignified Governor's Office has become a vegetable market at the door. You don't even need to do anything, come in directly?"

Hu Zongxian shouted, Feng Lingyan, these people are my subordinates, and it’s not your turn to teach you a lesson.

Zhang Yuanjing stepped forward and gave a respectful salute, saying, Master, the origin of these silver is unknown, you can't accept it!

Feng Linggan sneered, whether the origin of the silver is clear or unknown, it is both the silver from the Ming Dynasty, and can also fill the belly of the soldiers in front. Now that the war on the front line is tight, you have to make a decision.

Zhang Yuanjing was a little excited and said loudly, Eunuch Feng, our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army is fighting hard on the front line. If you don’t support me, you will still make trouble in the back and stabbing me, which really makes our Hu family army feel cold.

Feng Ling's voice suddenly became sharp. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army of the Ming Dynasty, not the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army of your Hu Zongxian. This general, if you say so, if you become guilty, you may be suspected of forming a clique for personal gain.

Feng Ling felt aggressive, Hu Zongxian leaned on the chair of the Grand Master, his eyes closed slightly, and he said nothing.

It is obvious that in the court, some people could not see him glory. They borrowed money from Jiangnan people in his name to fight the Jiangsu and Zhejiang army. They were sure that Hu Zongxian would take over the money in order to fight against the Japanese. In this way, his evidence of his crime was implemented. I couldn't help but shake my head. Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Revenue was first in chaos, and now it was the Ministry of War again. Which one is next?

The scene was a bit awkward, and I couldn't say anything about it. After a while of silence, a crying sound suddenly came from the hall. Looking in the voice, it was the governor Feng Linggan who was wiping his tears.

Lord Hu, our family has lost their parents since childhood. In order to have a meal, they were sold to the palace. Unexpectedly, they were all jealous. If it weren't for the rescue of their godfather, they would have died in the palace. Finally, they had to do a job as a general, but they caught up with the Japanese riots. One general was not good and he was beheaded. Our family's life was really thinner than paper.

I thought to myself, Feng Lingyan, Feng Lingyan, you are not only poor in life, but also very thin invisible. This acting is natural, with tears and tears, and it comes with all the sounds and colors. It seems that after staying in the palace for a long time, all of them are old actors, and I feel ashamed of myself.

Speaking of this, Eunuch Feng thrust and knelt on the ground.

You should know that according to the rules of the court, the position of governor is mostly held by eunuchs. Although they do not have command power, they also report power and impeachment power, and at the same time represent the emperor. Therefore, the governors of various provinces generally stay away from him and are not upset. Now Feng Linggan actually kneeled on the ground in person, which made everyone present dumbfounded.

Hu Zongxian no longer pretended to be asleep, so he quickly got up and said, "My father-in-law can't do it, it can't do it."

Eunuch Feng cried bitterly, Lord Hu, you feel sad, don’t you say it, I know. But for the sake of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army and the people of Jiangnan, please be sure to accept the 500,000 taels of silver!

Hu Zongxian was calm for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "I will accept the silver bills." As long as I defeated the Japanese pirates, even if I bear the infamy in the future, I, Hu Zongxian, will accept it!"

Zhang Yuanjing, Zhao Zili and others were filled with tears in their eyes. Hu Zongxian was under great pressure and accepted the silver notes that knew they might kill him in the future, just to drive the Japanese pirates out of the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Zongxian issued several orders in succession, ordering Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang to lead the Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops to urgently reach Songjiang Prefecture, and to fight the Japanese pirates in Songjiang for one generation.

Zhao Zili immediately went to Yingtian, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other Jiangsu and Zhejiang to buy grain. The first batch of grain and grass must arrive at Songjiang Prefecture within 12 hours to be responsible for all supplies. Zhang Yuanjing is a scout, responsible for spying on the enemy's situation, understanding the enemy's military deployment, etc.

Two hours later, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Army set off for Songjiang Prefecture, two hundred miles away. Hu Zongxian refused to listen to the advice and insisted on going. However, Eunuch Feng rode back to Jinling City after seeing the army's actions.

I made an appointment with Xu Ruonan to meet in Songjiang Prefecture, so I went south with Zhang Yuanjing's scout team and headed to Songjiang Prefecture. When I passed Hai'an and Rudong counties, I encountered a large number of refugees who led my family and rushed inward along the Guan Road.

In less than a month, the entire Jiangnan was shrouded in the shadow of the Japanese turmoil. This is different from the Yanmen where we are. Yanmen borders the Northern Zhou Dynasty and has been harassed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty for many years. The Dingbei Army has already figured out their style of conduct and can effectively prevent it. Japanese pirates are different, like locusts, and no grass grows wherever they go.

Zhang Yuanjing looked at the refugees on the road and sighed in his heart that these people left their hometowns in order to avoid the Japanese turmoil, but they didn't know whether they could survive.

I said so many refugees, so the court doesn’t care?

Zhang Yuanjing sighed, Brother Su, do you know how much the price of rice in Jiangnan has increased in the past half month? It’s a full five times! It was originally only one tael of rice per stone, but in less than half a month, it was 8 taels per stone!

I said at this time, what about the granary for disaster relief in the imperial court? I remember that in recent years, in order to prepare for Japanese deeds, the imperial court set up 18 charity warehouses in Jiangnan. Why did the big warehouses cost 50,000 shi and small warehouses cost 10,000 20,000 20,000 shi? What about these grains?

Zhang Yuanjing looked angry and said sadly that the entire Jiangnan officialdom had rotten. Take Changshu Warehouse as an example. He had reserved 50,000 stones of rice in the prosperous year. Last month, he was ordered to adjust grain, but only the chaff that he didn't even eat horses was less than 10,000 stones. Lord Hu was furious and insisted on killing the governor of Changshu, Wu Weicai. Unexpectedly, the governor was the nephew of Yang Ge Lao of the cabinet in the court. He wrote a letter to plead for mercy, but Lord Hu still killed him. If he said that the purchase of grain this time had nothing to do with Mr. Yang Ge Lao, I would not believe it.

The scouts wanted to find out the details of the Japanese pirates before the large troops arrived, so they rushed all the way, even eating and drinking, and they were dealt with immediately. They came out and arrived at Songjiang Prefecture when they were finished.

The Japanese pirate army led by Wang Heng had almost no resistance and occupied Chongming Island yesterday morning.

This move was very clever. I originally thought that the war would start at Hengjiang Port. If the defenders forcefully climbed 6 and had a geographical advantage, the Japanese pirates would fall into a passive scene, but they only used seven or eight ships from Colonel Miyazo to use a trick to take a detour to occupy Chongming Island.

Chongming Island is located where the Yangtze River enters the East China Sea and has excellent strategic advantages. You can advance along the Yangtze River to enter the Central Plains 6, and retreat to escape eastward to the East China Sea. Japanese pirates can occupy this island, which is very strategic.

The prefect of Songjiang, Luo Youdao, had fled with his family. The only guards in Songjiang Prefecture were the garrison Changsheng and the garrison were less than 100 troops. Zhang Yuanjing sent a scout to collect information about Japanese pirates along the way. If necessary, he infiltrated Chongming Island and contacted the undercover agent of the Ming army.

Before, Japanese pirates burned, killed, plundered along the river, mostly retreated after success, and the court determined that it was a Japanese turmoil. Now that they occupied the island, this is not an ordinary bandit crisis, but a formal declaration of war.

The guard Chang Sheng informed Zhang Yuanjing of the Japanese situation. In the early morning of yesterday, fog started on the river. At dawn, hundreds of ships suddenly came from the river. They quickly occupied Chongming Island and captured more than 600 fishermen and villagers on the island. In the afternoon, the Japanese pirates sent three squadrons, about 800 people, and looted the three towns of Taicang, Linjiang and Chonghai along the way, and robbed the three towns of materials and food.

The three brothers Wang Heng, Wang Shu and Wang Zhi were not in the team. This time, the Japanese pirates led the team, Inoue, Rooftop, Watanabe, and three colonels who robbed the three towns of Taicang, were on the street, under the bridge, and Tianye.

I asked these people why their surnames were so weird. Changsheng had been dealing with Japanese pirates all year round, and said, where do they usually get along with each other, so they just named them. I said with a oh, and couldn't help but hum: On the street, under the bridge, and in the fields...

After Zhang Yuanjing made arrangements, he suggested that he sneak into Chongming Island in the evening and asked me if I wanted to go with me. I was going to find Xu Ruonan, but now the military situation is far greater than personal relationships, so I asked Changsheng to guard the garrison to find Xu Ruonan's whereabouts. If I could see it, I would first invite him to Songjiang Prefecture.

It was early summer. At the beginning of night, there was heavy fog in the sky and the visibility on the water was extremely low. Zhang Yuanjing and I drove a small boat, and under the cover of heavy fog, we moved closer to Chongming Island.

According to Changsheng's prompt, we docked the ship in a hidden place, exchanged it for the Japanese robbers that were on the Tianlang at that time, and boarded Chongming Island.

Because we took it on the Tianlang, the temperament and speech that we showed on our bodies did not attract the attention of other Japanese pirates, and we wandered around the island casually.

The Japanese pirates began a carnival, enjoying the snatched cattle, sheep, wine, meat, food, and women on the island. Screams and laughter were endless. This is hell and this is heaven.

Two Japanese pirates dragged a village woman and took off the village woman in front of the Japanese pirates and forcibly humiliated them. The rest of them started to make a fuss. The woman could not bear the humiliation and bit off the Japanese pirate's ears. The Japanese pirate was furious and chopped the woman into meat paste with a random knife.

I was so angry that I saw it that Zhang Yuanjing pulled me and shook his head.

I whispered and said, "You are a soldier, and it's nothing to make some sacrifices for victory, but I'm different. I am a constable, a constable of the people of Daming. I can't watch them suffer."

Zhang Yuanjing said, Brother Su, we are scouts. Military intelligence is the first priority. If you show your ability and miss the opportunity for war, the lives of 1.8 million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces will be destroyed in the hands of you and me.

Although I knew what he said was right, I couldn't suppress my anger. Zhang Yuanjing patted my shoulder and said to go west of the island to see it. If I could find their food supply, this trip tonight would be worth it.

The two of them arrived to the west and on the west bank, and there were about 300 warships docked, not as many as they thought at first. In this regard, there were about 60,000 to 70,000 people on the island this time.

These ships vary in size, Zhang Yuanjing counted them, including 82 of them equipped with artillery, and were guarded by heavy troops and were always ready for war. If the war really started, the reaction time would be only one stick of incense.

After about two hours, the situation on the entire island was almost over. There were about 30,000 Japanese pirates on the island, and 30,000 to 40,000 were installed on the warships. The entire grain supply was not transported to the island, but on the six cargo ships behind the artillery.

I asked Zhang Yuanjing, these people blatantly occupy Chongming Island, aren’t they afraid that our Ming Navy will come to fight?

Zhang Yuanjing smiled bitterly and said, these Japanese pirates were too fed by the army of our Ming court. Not to mention anything else, the mobilization of more than 10,000 troops should be authorized by the Ministry of War. If the Governor and the general Hu Fu really started a war, if the Japanese pirates lost their battle, they would have no way to escape a hundred or eighty miles and leave the defense zones of each garrison.

I said that if you are outside, you will not accept the orders of the king. Can’t you act cheaply?

Zhang Yuanjing said that when everyone is defending against Japanese devils, everyone only wants nothing wrong and not to make merit. If they are dispatched across regions, they will ask the governor for instructions. It will take several days for every trip and they will not be injured.

No wonder three years ago, thirty or forty Japanese pirates fled around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, burning and killing all the way, looting seventeen county towns, and finally leaving. It is said that the emperor was furious and said, "All the officials in Jiangnan have lost their eggs. It seems that there is no reason for this."

Just as we were retreating, we suddenly saw five or six Japanese pirates on the largest tower ship, escorting a woman and walking in.

The person who escorted was Xu Ruonan.

A buzzing sound in my mind, the true energy in the stars sky surged.

Xu Ruo's boy responded and looked at me. Unintentionally, he made a gesture to me, meaning to be calm and restless.

When Zhang Yuanjing saw me as if he had changed his body, he looked at me in confusion.

I said, Brother Yuan Jing, why not go back first.

Zhang Yuanjing asked, what's wrong?
Chapter completed!