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When Tong Yangjia heard Qian Lide say that the emperor had found the army, he couldn't help but feel anxious and asked quickly: "Have your army handled it completely?"

Qian Lide quickly nodded and said, "Of course, please don't worry, my father-in-law. The son-in-law has dealt with the other side. The messenger was also killed on the battlefield, and the wounds and witnesses were all complete!"

"Where is the family of the messenger?"

"The son-in-law chose orphans at that time, and he had no family at all. He died if he died!"

Tong Yangjia felt relieved when he heard Qian Lide say this: "Since you have cleaned up, what are you afraid of?"

Qian Lide said with a bitter face: "My father-in-law, the son-in-law is not afraid of this! The son-in-law is afraid of the secret detective team being exposed. If the emperor knew that the son-in-law had hidden his hand from him, then the son-in-law..." Zhu Hongsan, who was cruel in Qian Lide, was so scared that his whole body trembled. When he was in Wuchang, the shadow of childhood left by Zhu Hongsan on him was too serious.

Seeing Qian Lide like this, Tong Yangjia not only cursed the trash in his heart, but also wanted to do something big, such a irresponsible thing!

However, the only thing Tong Yangjia could trust was Qian Lide. He could not speak to stimulate him, so he could only persuade him with kind words.

"Son-in-law, don't worry, I have a way to prevent the emperor's investigation from continuing!"

When Qian Lide heard that Tong Yangjia had a solution, he quickly looked up and asked, "Really? What good is the father-in-law?"

"Son-in-law, Chen Zizhuang is in trouble now, and Ma Mingyuan is the prime minister. It seems that the emperor must have a peace talk with the Qing Dynasty! In the peace talks, the rights in your hands must be reduced, so in order to ensure the rights in your hands, the emperor will not investigate the Nanchang case, so the only way to ruin the peace talks!"

Qian Lide looked at Tong Yangjia with goldfish eyes open. He didn't know what it would have to do with him! Tong Yangjia couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw Qian Lide's idiot. Qian Lide was really incompetent, but now he had no one around him. Although Gong Dacheng was close to him, this kind of thing was not something that Gong Dacheng, who was timid and afraid of things, could not participate in it. All he trusted was his nephew Tong Tuchang, but Tong Tuchang was still serving as a governor in Fujian and had just been promoted for less than half a year, so he could not be transferred to Nanjing.

When Tong Yangjia saw Qian Lide's ignorance, he had to slowly explain to him: "Son-in-law, I am in charge of military affairs, you are in charge of intelligence. Do you think the emperor will definitely reduce the allocation of military and intelligence after the peace talks?"

Qian Lide still knows this. Isn’t it just for money to get into a gang in the court yesterday? But that was Tong Yangjia’s business. The funding of Jinyiwei was not made in the treasury, but was directly allocated by the emperor’s inner treasury. Therefore, Qian Lide was not afraid that Ma Mingyuan would take the opportunity to get stuck.

"My father-in-law, that's the case, but the son-in-law's allocation comes from the inner treasury and has nothing to do with the national treasury!"

Tong Yangjia was really speechless by Qian Lide's ignorance. Tong Yangjia stood up and said, "Why can't you see clearly, your son-in-law? Now your confidant in the Jinyiwei can only grasp the Beizhenfusi, and the Nanzhenfusi is Zhao Mengguan's person. Does Zhao Mengguan listen to you? As soon as the war stops, the emperor received a secret report from the Dongchang incident. Do you think you can not investigate your Jinyiwei? But the reopening of the war is different. As long as the war starts with the Qing Dynasty, your Jinyiwei will be in charge of the intelligence. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the war, the emperor will definitely not investigate the bad things of your Jinyiwei, and I can also get funding from the cabinet. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Qian Lide reacted after hearing Tong Yangjia say this, yes! As long as he continues to fight, Emperor Zhu Hongsan is a person who knows the overall situation and will not continue to investigate the Jinyiwei for the sake of the trivial matter in Nanchang, and at the same time give himself time to clean up his hands.

Thinking of Qian Lide, he asked happily: "So that's it! I wonder if my father-in-law has any good plans to reopen the war?"

This is a difficult problem. Tong Yangjia sat down and twisted the goatee and said, "Now the imperial army is looking at the great success of many parties, but it is already at the end of the strong. There are holes everywhere on the front line, but only a few key points make the emperor suffer losses can make the emperor decide to continue to fight. One is Yangzhou, but the emperor stationed heavily in this place, and Boss Ma is stationed there. Although Boss Ma is pedantic, he is extremely smart, so it is difficult for us to start. Another is Wuchang, where the troops are weak, only Ma Liang's 18,000 plus less than 5,000 new recruits. Hanyang opposite is stationed with more than 100,000 troops from Wu Sangui of the Qing Dynasty. This place can be done! There is also Anqing, this place is north of the Yangtze River. Anqing has always been a must-fight place for military strategists. He occupied the Anqing Shunjiang River and could go to Nanjing in less than two days. This place can also be done!"

Qian Lide heard Tong Yangjia analyze it, and suddenly he thought of a good idea and said, "My father-in-law, the son-in-law has an idea!"

Tong Yangjia was stunned. Can you, a waste, have this brain?

"What did the son-in-law think of? Tell me out quickly!"

"Has my father-in-law forgotten about King Gui Zhu Youlang? King Gui has hundreds of thousands of troops there. If he enters Guangdong in Guangxi, I believe that His Majesty the Emperor will never give up!"

When Tong Yangjia heard Qian Lide's plan, he was stunned on the spot. Unexpectedly, Qian Lide did not have any benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. In order to achieve his own goal, he would use any means to join King Gui to fight into Guangdong?

Tong Yangjia was in charge of military affairs. He knew that there was another Ninth Division in Guangdong to guard against King Gui in Guangxi. Guangdong is really important. For Zhu Hongsan, it is the rear. Most of the factories and most of the military factories are in Guangzhou. If it is destroyed, it will cost Zhu Hongsan half his life. However, it is not because it is Zhu Hongsan's fatal point, so when he is attacked, Zhu Hongsan must fight back, and there is no hope for peace talks.

Tong Yangjia knew that Qian Lide's plan was very cruel, and it could be said that he would be rescued. But Tong Yangjia was a scholar after all, and he knew that with the prosperity of Guangdong, as long as King Gui's army entered Guangdong, it would be burned and killed. I don't know how many people would die at that time. Tong Yangjia wanted to divert the attention of Emperor Zhu Hongsan and prevent him from paying attention to the Jinyiwei, rather than killing Zhu Hongsan directly. Therefore, Tong Yangjia was still hesitant when he heard Qian Lide's idea.

When Qian Lide saw Tong Yangjia hesitating, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: These stinky old ninths are really not enough to make trouble. I think of some people and other things. If Zhu Hongsan is replaced, he will definitely agree to do this directly.

Qian Lide slandered Tong Yangjia here, but he had no choice. The final decision was Tong Yangjia.

Tong Yangjia thought for a long time and decided to take action along the Yangtze River. After all, Guangdong is Zhu Hongsan's foundation, and what he wants is to attract the emperor's attention rather than killing the emperor directly.

"The Guangdong side will be put on the spot first, mainly in Anqing and Hanyang. You can send people to contact the Qing Dynasty and see what they think!"

Hearing Tong Yangjia set the tone, Qian Lide had no choice but to prepare for it, but he didn't think so. Tong Yangjia might not be able to do some preparations in Guangdong, so it would be better to do some preliminary preparations by himself. Should he prepare for it? Qian Lide thought about this and was complacent that he could use an idiom.

Today is New Year's Eve, and it is finally possible for the people of southern China to have a stable New Year, but north of the Yangtze River, under the city of Yangzhou, there is no such thing as New Year's atmosphere.

Zhao Guodong stood on a slope in the camp ten miles away from Yangzhou City, looking at the dark Yangzhou City opposite. As the admiral of the Yangzhou Station District, Zhao Guodong was deeply ashamed of his incompetence. He had attacked Yangzhou City for a whole month and a half, and was still trapped under Yangzhou City.

Zhao Guodong originally thought that he was carrying tens of thousands of troops, and he was still a new victorious army. He didn't even pinch the defeated soldiers of Hong Chengchou with his hands? So after he arrived at Yangzhou City in mid-November, he immediately launched an attack. Hundreds of artillery guns of the entire army bombarded Yangzhou City, and then immediately began to attack the city. But he didn't expect that Hong Chengchou used tens of thousands of scattered soldiers to block his attack and caused a large amount of damage to himself. So far, Zhao Guodong's side has suffered more than 5,000 casualties. You should know that he had a total of less than 40,000 people, and the casualties of these 5,000 people have been damaged.

Zhao Guodong followed Emperor Zhu Hongsan for more than ten years. From the beginning of suppressing bandits to the bloody battle in Xinyang, most of China came to Guangdong in exile. In addition to the later Jiading offensive and defensive battle, Zhao Guodong had a lot of experience in the war. He knew that it was not the fault of his subordinates to fight Yangzhou in this way. The main reason was as His Majesty said in class that year, when fighting, you must use your own strengths to attack the enemy's shortcomings. The smooth battle back then was to use the strengths of the new weapons to attack the shortcomings of the Qing army's cold weapons, and thus it was all invincible.

But now it is different. Under the leadership of the cunning Hong Chengchou, the Qing army learned its lessons and knew not to fight against the New Army, but instead used the solid city walls to fight offensive and defensive battles with the New Army. The New Army was not powerful enough artillery and the lack of soldiers, so the Qing army took advantage of the city of Yangzhou.

Zhao Guodong stood on the dirt slope and looked at the dark canal outside Yangzhou City, and said to Zhao Guoliang beside him: "Guoliang, look at when will the navy's cannon arrive?"

Zhao Guodong and Zhao Guoliang have now received the news of the imperial edict, knowing that the emperor sent Ma Jiyuan to Yangzhou to take charge of the overall situation, and had loaded the naval heavy artillery at the Guazhou Ferry and arrived soon. But it was very unbearable to wait like this. Zhao Guodong almost every day had to go to the canal to see if the artillery had arrived.

Zhao Guoliang also knew that Zhao Guodong was anxious to wait. Just as he was about to speak, he saw large areas of lights gradually lit up on the dark canal, and a large fleet of ships slowly came from the south of the canal.
Chapter completed!