Chapter 673

The number of officers and soldiers in Nanjing is already very small. When calming the chaos of extravagance and security and the chaos of roving bandits in the Central Plains, they have continuously mobilized troops from here to suppress them, so the local garrison is even less.

In the whole nanzhili area, its military strength is only 30% or 40% of the usual. It is simply unable to defend such a huge place, and Nanjing city is empty.

In this area, the most powerful in the open should be the governor Ying Tian's permission law.

Shi Kefa, a native of Xiangfu, Henan Province, has the word Xianzhi. He is called Daolin. His ancestors have made contributions. He is a hundred family official of the royal guards. It has been passed down from generation to generation. He was a senior scholar in the first year of Chongzhen. He was granted the official promotion of Xi'an government, slightly moved to the head of the household department, and worked as a foreign Lang and a doctor.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he moved to the right to participate in the deliberation, guarded Chizhou and Taiping, supervised the armies in the north of the river to block the roving bandits. The year before last, he was appointed as the governor of Jindu, toured the government and counties such as Anqing and Guangzhou, supervised military affairs, restrained the roving bandits, and made contributions to the governor of Yingtian.

This is a well-known celebrity. After he took over as governor Ying Tian, he resided in Suzhou.

Yingtian governor's management is not Yingtian's government. Nanzhili is divided into Fengyang governor in the north of the Yangtze River and Yingtian governor in the south of the Yangtze River; Yingtian governor is stationed in Suzhou and has jurisdiction over Jiangnan governments and anqing government in Jiangbei under nanzhili. Daniel Renhai Rui has been Yingtian governor.

Governor Ying Tian's government office was first located in the Tongwen Museum in Nanjing. After the second year of Wanli, it began to move to Jurong. Since the 31st year, it has been stationed in Suzhou, but all the states under its rule have their own platforms.

Shi Kefa is also a well-known figure. As a disciple of the famous minister Zuo Guangdou, Shi Kefa has gained a lot of benefits from his reputation as a loyal and unyielding teacher. With the support of the Donglin Party, he has been promoted rapidly. He has lived up to the expectations of the public and performed well in suppressing the rebellion of the roving bandits, Only in a short period of ten years can he be promoted to the governor of Yingtian.

The so-called Ying Tian governor has the same jurisdiction as the Jiangnan in the traditional sense of the Ming Dynasty. Basically, it belongs to him, so it is also one of the best fat and lack.

If someone else is doing this job, he must get a pot full and a golden mountain and a silver mountain. It's like that the quality is not as good as his water transportation governor Zhu Dadian. He has got so much silver and can raise thousands of servants.

However, Shi Kefa took Zuo Guangdou, a famous minister's teacher, as an example in everything. He would never make money from corruption. Moreover, after he took office, he also vigorously cracked down on all kinds of corruption. It can be said that after he took office, he was a qualified official. He also had the intention to rectify the administration of officials and did something.

However, after he took office, Jiangnan was a scene of disaster after maysilver. Dignitaries in various states and governments basically lost a lot in this maysilver incident.

Since they have suffered heavy losses, they will try every means to get money to make up for their losses. In this case, even if he has the intention to rectify the administration of officials and various illegal acts in the local area, it will have little effect, because the officials under him are basically crazy in order to make money.

Moreover, the court of the Ming Dynasty is now very corrupt. It is the whole officialdom that corrupts. This is true of all officials and nobles. He can't change anything by himself.

There is a saying that let your officials be as clean as water and our officials be as smooth as oil. He can't change anything if he comes here alone.

As the governor of Yingtian, he mainly had to manage local military affairs, because Daming had begun to enter the war, there was war everywhere, and every place had to rectify military affairs to make changes. He was sitting in the richest Suzhou government of Daming, and he also had plans to get a sum of money and food to train a strong army.

What Shi Kefa admires most is a generation of famous Minister Lu Xiangsheng. He regards him as a teacher. As an object of learning, if he did not shine in the suppression of the bandits, he could not become an official so soon and train a elite army for the imperial court. It has become a top priority.

But after he came here, he knew that it was really not easy to do it. These officials were very crafty. All his energy was spent fighting with these officials and local dignitaries.

Among the successive governors of Yingtian, the most famous one is, of course, the first famous minister in the world, Hai Rui. This Lord Hai Rui, how awesome he was. When he forced the local officials not to be his opponent, he tried to get a sum of money to make him rise step by step, move away from here, and make him invisible.

Shi Kefa also thought that being a famous official like Hai Rui would not waste him being an official in the same place as the sages, but he was much worse than Hai Rui in the process of fighting wits and courage with the dignitaries in these places.

Shi Kefa can be strict with himself. He won't stretch out his hand and covet a penny of money, but the people around him can't do it. The people around him can do anything in order to reach out for money.

That is because the whole officialdom in Yingtian is so corrupt.

Shi Kefa wanted to train an army, but you need money and food to train an army. After all, this is Suzhou, the richest place in the Ming Dynasty. There is still money and food, but the imperial court's persecution and apportionment are also heavy.

There are too many places for Daming to use money. The imperial court's pressure on taxes has reached an extremely severe level. As a governor, if he can't urge the local grain roads to hand over enough food, even he can't help eating and hanging.

The above forced apportionment, the local and modern officials have created ingenious names, corruption and corruption, which makes the local burden extremely heavy. The landlord has no surplus food and no surplus money. Therefore, he has no way to save enough money and food and train an army, because he can't do anything if everyone doesn't cooperate with him.

When Lu Xiangsheng's death came, he looked up to the sky and wept, drunk for several days.

Just when Shi Kefa wanted to be strong and do something, a shocking thing happened. This is Yangzhou opposite. Chen Wenruo's military rebellion actually happened, and he took the whole Yangzhou City and threatened the north of the river!

What happened later made Daming's rule in Jiangnan like an avalanche.

Liu Jiajun actually crossed the sea and entered from Yangzhou. He marched eastward. He directly surrounded Nanjing, the capital of nanzhili. Jinling was as dangerous as hanging eggs.

The siege of Nanjing city is a worry to Shi Kefa. He is governor Ying Tian. This is his jurisdiction. If something happens, the imperial court will cut off his head.

Even if the imperial court did not cut off his head and was conceited with his pride, he lost such an important place, he would have no face to be an official again.

So he immediately raised food and troops locally, ready to rush to Nanjing.

But he was still like before. He wanted to raise food, but he couldn't raise it at all. These officials would rather buy Yangzhou lean horses for a thousand, would rather be beheaded, but would not hand over his money and food.

In addition, Wuzhong has always been the richest place in Daming. You can live well and survive without looking for a job. Therefore, the people are not interested in becoming a soldier.

People in Suzhou don't want to be soldiers at ordinary times. Now is the time of war. It's time to work hard with people. It's even more difficult to let them be soldiers, especially when you want to recruit and don't have money and food.

After the accident in Nanjing, Shi Kefa showed great righteousness, posted notices and shouted loudly, asking these people to go to the national disaster with the imperial court, actively join the army and protect the country. However, he could not come up with enough money and food to recruit troops. Therefore, there were few recruitment offices. There were no other soldiers except the placards of more than 2000 people directly under the control of the governor. He was governor of Wu, It's like a hollow big man.

Even so, he immediately ordered his general Li Yong to lead the more than 2000 troops as the vanguard to support Nanjing.

Rescuing soldiers is like fighting a fire. Now Nanjing is at a critical juncture of life and death. Even sending a person there can give great encouragement to the soldiers and people guarding the city and give them the courage to support.

Who knows that Li Yong is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. He usually works as an official, sits on one side, bullies the people and sets up cards to collect taxes. He is very good. He asked him to fight with famous armies all over the world, which is a little difficult. Especially he heard that there are hundreds of thousands of Liu Jiajun, who captured the important town Zhenjiang in a short time. Now he is commanding millions to besiege Nanjing city. He has only two thousand people to go, What can be done? With one mouthful of saliva, the other party can drown it and kill it.

Li Yonghe arrived outside Wuxi after leaving Suzhou Fucheng. He didn't want to take a step forward. He knew that if he took a step forward, he would be killed by Liu Jiajun.

After Shi Kefa knew about this situation, he was very angry. According to his plan, Li Yong was asked to go to support as a leading force. After raising a batch of food and more troops, he supported immediately.

Who knows that Li Yong is so greedy for life and afraid of death. He doesn't want to work hard at all. He doesn't want to move forward any more in the ten mile post outside Wuxi.

So in his anger, Shi Kefa no longer recruited troops in Suzhou, but led his men and horses to Wuxi immediately, seized Li Yong's military power, and personally led the army to support Nanjing.

Shi Kefa had the integrity and ability of a generation of famous officials. He knew that the Ming court was in trouble, so he didn't hesitate to lead these troops to support Nanjing city immediately. He knew that Nanjing city was very critical now. Saving soldiers was like fighting fire. As long as his foreign troops arrived, they could greatly boost the morale of the soldiers and people guarding the city.