Chapter 605

Wu Zongda was not completely stupid. He also sent several of his trusted family members to go north with the fleet. He was afraid that they would make mischief on the way. Several of his family members were loyal and would never collude with these people to murder the interests of the court.

Therefore, after he sent away this huge fleet, he settled down and continued to recite poems against each other and enjoy his life as a famous scholar. Recently, Wu Zongda was very happy. The main thing was that Qian Qianyi, a famous scholar in the world, also came to visit him. The other party was a famous famous scholar all over the world, but he was very respectful to himself, which made him very proud and happy, It's a pleasure for both sides to write poems against each other every day.

Qian Qianyi is a well-known celebrity in the world, the leader of the Donglin Party and the clear stream among the clear stream. When the first auxiliary of the cabinet was vacant in the second year of Chongzhen, the imperial court pushed him. He was ranked first by Zhou yanru and Wen Tiren. He was kicked out of the imperial court only after being suppressed by the joint efforts of two important officials, but he was the first pushed by the imperial court!, Although Zhou yanru and Wen Tiren were not as popular, it can be seen that he had a high reputation. Even now he is no longer an official, his reputation is still great. Wu Zongda has always admired and cherished each other.

Although Qian Qianyi is famous, his fame in the imperial court has been bad since he was kicked out of the imperial court after the failure of the imperial court, and he is no longer sought after in the officialdom, but his fame and talent are even greater. His fame in the Jiangnan area can be said to be unmatched. No one can hold him down. All people are proud to make friends with him.

Wu Zongda knew that the Emperor didn't like the Donglin Party and Qian Qianyi. If he was in the imperial court, he probably didn't dare to contact him, but now he is in the south of the Yangtze River, with high mountains and far away from the emperor. He is also the local emperor of this place. Naturally, he can do whatever he wants.

Of course, he made friends with Qian Qianyi in order to consolidate his rule and position in the south of the Yangtze River. This is because he is very weak in local control, and the local dignitaries and gentry are very dissatisfied with him.

That's why he took a famous man into the gang and waved the flag for himself.

After Wu Zongda took over the military affairs in Jiangnan, he found that if he wanted to manage this place well, he could not travel with a piece of imperial edict. As a Jiangnan governor, he did not leave Fengyang house.

It's difficult to completely subdue the dignitaries here. There are too many dignitaries here. If you offend them, it's easy to attract trouble. As the emperor said, it's a little difficult to collect the material resources in the south of the Yangtze River to meet the needs of thieves.

If the imperial court was defeated, he still obeyed the instructions of the imperial court, but after the defeat, he also wrote a letter to scold the imperial princes, the mediocre officials in charge, and trapped the loyal officials and good generals in the Jedi.

Naturally, he was worried that he would become the next Lu Xiangsheng and the next Tianxiong army, so he also firmly disagreed. He sent a letter to the imperial court for instructions in the cold winter. He would not use troops in Shandong until the warm spring flowers bloom at the latest. Before that, he would gather his troops, prepare food and grass, appease the place, and do a good job in the place, and then send troops decisively.

Of course, this also shows that he was very taboo and afraid of Liu Jun. before the collapse of Tianxiong army, he was not so afraid of Liu Jiajun. He didn't send troops just because the troops had not been assembled, but now he is really afraid. He thinks he is extraordinary, but he is not more powerful and powerful than Lu Xiangsheng, Even such an awesome character was destroyed by the Liu family Legion at one fell swoop. What can he get? That's hard to say?

Of course, Wu Zongda has no doubt about his loyalty to the imperial court. As a scholar born in the imperial examination, he is a scholar in the morning and ascends the emperor's hall at dusk. Today, it all depends on the kindness of his majesty, so he has no doubt about his loyalty to his majesty.

But now he has some reservations, mainly because the treacherous officials in the court are in charge, the mediocre and incompetent people are in important positions, and he is afraid of being killed by these people who don't know anything,

Just like Lu Xiangsheng, the government and the public basically have a consensus on Lu Xiangsheng's death, that is, he died a glorious death to his country, but the people talk about it one after another. Many people think that Lu Xiangsheng will not be destroyed by the whole army. The main reason is that the ministers who don't know and don't know the soldiers in the back of the court command indiscriminately, and finally let him fall into a Jedi, destroy the whole army and die for his country.

In this way, Wu Zongda absolutely didn't want to be the second Lu Xiangsheng. He was still firm about this matter, but he couldn't do it if he wasn't firm. None of his generals could fight, and there were no elite troops. He had more than 100000 Cao soldiers in name, but he really went to the battlefield, I'm afraid there's no difference with more than 100000 people. It's barely possible for them to transport food and bully the common people and bandits and mountain bandits. If they really fight with the Liu family, a strong army in the world, it's a dead end.

With this idea, he had some reservations. He chose to postpone the date of the decisive battle to next year. This is also because the northern court is now greatly weakened and has no strength to organize another large-scale encirclement and suppression.

If he doesn't send out the northern army, he can't deal with Liu's army just by relying on the shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the south.

Therefore, they must organize a large-scale joint suppression, which can destroy the Liu family army. Now, relying solely on the strength of the south, they want to win the Liu family army, which is self destruction.

Therefore, he was at ease and lived a leisurely life by singing poetry here.

At this time, his staff suggested to him that Liu Jiajun and Liu Bu had served as the general army of Fengyang. After their transfer, they also left some left behind troops in all parts of Fengyang. Although there were not many, there were also many left in all parts of Fengyang. They were scattered in all parts of Fengyang mansion, with hundreds, at least dozens, and tens of thousands. His screen friends suggested that these people should be eradicated first, So as not to cause trouble.

Wu Zongda directly agreed to such a mature proposal. After all, the other party was well intentioned and relatively safe. In his territory, there were people from Liu Jiajun still staying here and living a leisurely and complacent life. It was not easy. He ordered Wu Fanfan, the number one general under his command, to lead his own soldiers to go to various places, First, wipe out the remaining troops of Liu's army one by one.

It's a piece of cake. Wu Zongda also thinks that killing chickens doesn't need an ox knife, so he asked Wu Feifan to do it well. He didn't even ask. He believes that in a few days, there will be good news. He doesn't dare to take the initiative to attack the Liu family's territory in Shandong, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't dare to deal with the Liu family's soldiers in his own territory. He doesn't want to go on an expedition and waste money and food, Doesn't mean he's scared.

Wu Zhong ordered his generals to take charge of this matter, eradicate Liu Jiajun's influence in Jiangnan, and confiscate all Liu's shops and fields in Jiangnan. After confiscating these things, they just filled his pocket to make up for his lack of expenses.

Wu Zongda thought that when he became a supervisor in Jiangnan, the local government would respect him with ice, carbon and various common practices. In his position, even if he didn't ask for people, these people should take the initiative to contribute a lot of money and food to him. Who knows he was completely wrong.

After the Mayday silver, Jiangnan is extremely poor. Local officials are very poor, and many people still owe. Although Zhu Dadian put forward the slogan that debt is uncle, after all, not everyone can be uncle. Everyone can toss about like this. Many people owe a lot of money, so they have reduced their expenses.

For example, there is no doubt that there is less money to honor his Jiangnan supervisor, because everyone has no money to honor his boss. If he is unhappy, everyone will not do well. Anyway, basically everyone poked a big hole during his term of office like the high expectation of Yangzhou magistrate. This hole can't be filled at all. If he can get away, It's a good thing for her.

Wu Zongda didn't expect such a situation. Because of his lofty character, he was embarrassed to ask his subordinates for money or to search for people's money, so he could only live a miserable life. Therefore, he expected to confiscate the Liu family's land this time to make up for his lack of expenses.

But what he thought was too naive. The good news he imagined didn't come, but a very amazing news came.

This is because of the amazing news from the sea, that is, their fleet met Liu Jiajun's team and was captured by the other party. All the food was robbed. No ship escaped, but only people came back in a small sampan.

When Wu Zongda heard the news, he was practicing calligraphy in the garden with Qian Qianyi. It was too frightening and shocking. He trembled. The paper was full of ink. A piece of writing that was not easy to write was destroyed.

If it was normal, Wu Zongda would certainly feel extremely regrettable. Today, he played an extraordinary role and was very satisfied. However, because of his carelessness, he sprinkled a few drops of ink into it, which destroyed this masterpiece and outraged nature.

But when he heard such shocking and frightening news, he would never dare to have such leisure. In fact, he was directly frightened. It was not easy for him to raise the 500000 stone grain. It can be said that he had exhausted the strength of nine cattle and two tigers. It can be said that he could not raise so much grain in the short term.

Now it's gone, and it still falls into the hands of Liu Jiajun, which means that the other party is stronger and he is weaker.

He Wu Zongda is really frightened now.

Wu Zongda hurriedly summoned his staff to discuss with them how to deal with the aftermath and how to solve the problem, but their men were stunned. They knew how difficult it was to get this batch of grain. Now the prestige of the Ming Court has been lost, and it has become very difficult for them to collect taxes.