It can only be said that the distance between Beijing and Jinling is too far, and it will take about ten days to arrive in Jinling no matter how fast the news is.

Even if Jinling wants to do something, it will not be a matter of time.

On the contrary, Monk Feng replied to the news and had already received a reply from Qichun Army.

Both sides were in a standstill and did not enter Hongzhou.

The two sides took Hongzhou as the boundary, the Qichun army attacked the west, and the Chuzhou army attacked the east.

Regardless of whether the Qichun Army is sincere or false, the idea that I don’t want to meet the Chuzhou Army for the time being is the same as that of the Chuzhou Army.

Monk Feng has already begun to return to Muzhou.

On the fifth day of June, Deng Jian led 80,000 troops to attack Huzhou.

Originally, everyone thought that it would be easy to capture Huzhou with tens of thousands of troops.

Everyone’s main battlefield is not Huzhou, but Hangzhou.

Unexpectedly, the Huzhou commander led his men to raid on the road and blew up the firearm camp of the accompanying army, causing heavy casualties in the Chuzhou army.

When the Chuzhou army surrounded Huzhou, the Huzhou magistrate and Huzhou commander led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to fight to the death, and the Chuzhou army was killed and injured again thousands of times.

Even if Huzhou City was finally broken, Huzhou Magistrate and Huzhou Commander died in the city, it would not calm Deng Jian's anger.

Deng Jian ordered the slaughter of Huzhou City...

...

When the news reached Huo Bao, Huo Bao and his party had already returned from Shuzhou and Shouzhou to Yangzhou Prefecture.

The drought in Shuzhou and Shouzhou is more severe than expected.

Half of the county towns have severe land drought, and there are no severe droughts left. Many people have run away due to war, and there are limited places to restore spring plowing.

These two places were won in March and April. When the new officials arranged by the Jinling direction took office, it would have been delayed to catch spring plowing.

Nowadays, people's livelihoods in the two places have withered and the people have lost several percent, which is not much better than Chuzhou last year.

If you want to stabilize people's livelihood and resume production, you can follow the path of Chuzhou last year.

Resettlement refugees in different places, borrow seeds, and farm tools.

"You can just place refugees in Henan..."

Huo Baodao.

In order to stabilize the Yangtze River, the refugees of the Huanghuai River naturally placed the Yangtze River as the boundary and were placed in the prefectures of Huainan.

However, Chuzhou has different meanings and should not be very active.

Compared with Jinling, Hezhou is also mainly stable.

It is not easy to enter a large military camp in Luzhou.

Those who can accommodate refugees are Yangzhou, Shuzhou and Shouzhou.

Yangzhou has developed commercial business and its land is highly concentrated, either in the hands of big landlords or in the hands of wealthy merchants.

However, Shuzhou and Shouzhou have lost population and can re-plan the land and resettle refugees.

Now that there are places to resettle refugees, all that is left is money and food.

The food can barely be squeezed from Luzhou Prefecture, what about the money?

Of course, they are the rich men in Yangzhou City.

Whether it is Huo Bao or Song Lin, they all think of the Huainan Chamber of Commerce.

But commercial tax is not added casually. Last year, the Quyang officialdom was rectified due to the "tax increase case" of Quyang. Now it is a joke to increase taxes in Yangzhou.

How can I squeeze out money without taxes?

Song Lin was born as a gentry, so he naturally did not take merchants seriously.

But he understood that no matter how low the status of a merchant is, he should not move his private wealth easily.

Otherwise, the Chuzhou army would get used to it in vain, and it would be difficult to guarantee that it would not attack the gentry in the future.

The group arrived in Yangzhou. President Li of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce followed behind the Yangzhou Prefectural Prefect and arranged the friendship of the landlord.

From the youngest son Li Yu, President Li learned about the content of this "inspection" and assessed local civil and military officials.

President Li did not serve as an official, but he was also one of the most famous figures in Yangzhou.

Because he took over as the president of the Chamber of Commerce after "Feng Baiwan" and sent his son to be his companion by Huo Bao, the "young master", no one inside and outside Yangzhou City dared to underestimate him.

But he was also sensible and held the Yangzhou magistrate in his head everywhere, and refused to steal the limelight of the magistrate.

The acting prefect of Yangzhou was either someone else, or Song Lin's second son Song Er.

Yangzhou is located in different locations. Chuzhou goes north and Huai'an and Taizhou are located in the north.

When he first got Yangzhou, Huo Wu sent Song Lin to stabilize the place.

When Yangzhou was stable inside and outside, Song Lin was transferred back to Jinling and Song Er came over.

The Chuzhou Army held an examination of officials in various places, and there was no shortage of minor officials, but the chief officials were still very nervous.

Civil officials are different from military officials.

The military officers guard the place where they are simple and rashly occupy high positions, as long as they adhere to the military rules and regulations, they will not make any big mistakes.

However, if the civil servants are not selected properly, they will harm the local area.

Song Er had experienced the position of prefect before and was pulled over to become the acting prefect of Yangzhou.

Among the civil servants of the Chuzhou army, Song Er also calculated that this was due to his own reasons and Song Lin's side.

Now a group of "inspectors" came to Yangzhou on duty, but Song Lin and Song Er, Li Yu and President Li are also reunited.

This welcoming banquet was also very close and comfortable.

As a result, after three rounds of wine and five flavors, someone hurried to find Huo Bao.

"Brother Qing!?"

When Huo Bao saw the person coming, he quickly got up and looked solemn.

The one who came was the guard of the Taiwei Mansion, Niu Qing.

Niu Qing was exhausted and didn't bother to stop and said, "Xiaobao, Uncle Wu said that you and Shuishu will return to Jinling..."

"But the Qichun army is moving?"

Upon hearing this, Shui Jin stood up and asked.

Before they came out, they happened to catch up with Monk Feng and his subordinates to confront the Qichun army outside Hongzhou City.

I promised to quit the Qichun Army. Could it be that the Qichun Army overestimated its ability and had to face the Chuzhou Army at this time?

Niu Qing waved his hand quickly: "It's not the Qichun army, it's Huzhou...Ship Deng slaughtered Huzhou City..."

A stern on the table.

Song Lin frowned, and Monk Zhiran was already furious and slapped the table: "Massacre? How dare he? He really thought he was a butcher?"

Huo Bao also changed his expression, but he said, "My cousin is not a targetless person, but what happened in Huzhou?"

When Niu Qing heard this, his eyes turned red and he looked at Huo Bao for a long time and couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Huo Bao felt a slump: "But...who has he lost?"

Which general?

Under Deng Jian, the oldest and strongest person is Zhang Duwei, and Jin Cuo is the newcomer. Who else?

Niu Qing choked and said, "It's a leopard... Huzhou Commander set up an ambush halfway and exploded the firearm camp of the accompanying army. The leopard was in it..."

"who?"

Huo Bao thought he had heard it wrong: "Leopard? Huo Bao..."

Niu Qing closed his eyes, nodded and choked, "I'm just blowing it up, leopard..."

He didn't say the rest.

But everyone has seen the power of a firearm, but how could they not think of the unfinished meaning?

Not only was Huo Bao dead, he was afraid he would still be crushed to pieces.

Monk Zhiran looked dull, obviously he didn't expect such an outbreak.

The father and son of the Song family looked at each other, and their faces were also shocked.

The father and son of the Li family were also full of fear.

The Huo family died!

There are only a few people in the Huo family!

Among them, the closest relatives to Huo Wu and his son are Huo Hu and Huo Bao brothers.

The two have been with Huo Wu and his son since the Chuzhou Army's uprising. They have made many contributions over the past year and are now valued.

Death is so tragic!

However, this is not the reason why Deng Jian wanted to massacre the city.

Huo Bao only felt his head "buzzing", but the more he did, the clearer he felt in his heart, and gritted his teeth and said, "Who is Huo Bao's man? How could Huo Bao think about following the army? Can you find the inside where the firearms are leaked?"

There are many eyewitnesses from all forces in Jinling City.

Since the attack on Yangzhou last year, the Chuzhou army has used firearms.

However, most of the firearms in the past were artillery confiscated along the way. When the "Eastern Expedition" was in February this year, the Chuzhou Army's firearms became rich and used several new firearms developed by the firearm battalion.

This time Deng Jian went south to attack Hangzhou, so he was naturally equipped with a large number of firearms.

If the Huzhou commander was just an ordinary local military officer, the news would not be so well-informed.

At most, he knew that the Chuzhou Army now had firearms, but he might not know when Deng Jian's troops would go south and where was the accompanying firearm battalion in the army.

No traitor sent detailed information, and there would be no ambush so accurately.

"I don't know, I don't know, I haven't."
Chapter completed!