On June 12, Wu Shigong led a main force of 6,500 people and more than 8,000 merchant escorts to leave Ye County and rush to Ruzhou. After entering Ruzhou, Que was surprised to find that Ruzhou was quite "clean". There were no traces on the road.

There were no pedestrians, and there were no farmers working on either side of the road. But before Wu Shigong could express his doubts, an "old friend" from Ruzhou came to greet Wu Shigong. That person was none other than Yan Jingyan, whom Wu Shigong had greeted with fists and kicks.

Same knowledge.

This time Wu Shigong went on an expedition with an official document issued by the Henan Governor's Yamen asking the officials along the way to supply food and grass. The first stop for the Runing Army and the most important supply point was Ruzhou City.

Because the Runing Army will move at a high speed in the future, and the county towns along the way have been besieged by roaming bandits for many years, there is not much food stored in the county town, so the Runing Army will supply most of the food and grass for this peace in Ruzhou City.

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But Yan Jing's attitude was quite good. Before the Runing army arrived at Ruzhou City, he rushed to the border of Ruzhou to deliver food to his door. However, the food and grass delivered was only 30-40% of the original supply. How could this happen?

Why not make Wu Shigong furious?

So as soon as Wu Shigong finished counting the amount of food and grass at the camp gate, he immediately scolded Yan Jing in public: "What's going on? How did you, Yu Zhizhou, do things? Can he afford to delay the military plane?"

Yan Jing knew that Wu Shigong had always been domineering, and also knew that Wu Shigong had a personal grudge with Yu Zilian, the prefect, but when he heard Wu Shigong reprimanding him like a gray grandson, he still couldn't stand it. So Yan Jing retorted: "We, the prefect, are very busy.

, I don’t have time to take care of this food and grass matter, Ruzhou City can only scrape together this food and grass, I hope Lieutenant General Wu will take care of it!"

Yan Jing also had resentment in his heart. Originally, when the old magistrate of Ruzhou resigned, Yan Jing should have been naturally promoted to the position of magistrate. Unexpectedly, Yu Zilian suddenly appeared and snatched the position halfway. He even surpassed the original official title of Yu Zi.

Yan Jing, who was still taller than Lian, was crushed beneath him.

Moreover, the last time he was beaten by Wu Shigong, the imperial court instead of punishing him, promoted him to deputy general. This was obviously a sacrifice for himself. And this time Yu Zilian sent himself to deliver the insufficient food and grass, which was clearly an errand to be scolded.

, how could this make Yan Jing happy? So faced with Wu Shigong's reprimand, Yan Jing couldn't help but contradict him.

But after the confrontation, Yan Jing was a little nervous again. He still remembered the physical pain he suffered last time. He was afraid that Wu Shigong would go crazy again. If he beat himself up, he would not be able to find a place to reason.

Unexpectedly, Wu Shigong heard Yan Jing's rebuttal. After looking at Yan Jing for a few times in surprise, he then said with a smile: "My old friend came to visit. I am indeed a little neglectful. I am polite here. Please come in, sir."

Let’s take a short break before we talk.”

This sudden change of attitude made Yan Jing confused. Could it be that this warrior wanted to trick him into the tent and give him a beating? Yan Jing suddenly shuddered. He hesitated but did not dare to move for fear.

He entered the tiger's den again.

"What's the matter?" Wu Shigong took a few steps and saw that Yan Jing didn't follow, so he couldn't help but become a little impatient, "Is my camp a dragon's mountain and a tiger's den? What does Yan Tongzhi have to be afraid of?"

Yan Jing thought to himself: "Your camp is really a dragon mountain and a tiger's den." But he couldn't show his timidity in the public, so he was heartbroken and followed Wu Shigong into the camp with his chest raised. The momentum was really great.

It smells like "the wind is rustling and the water is cold"!

But as soon as he entered the big tent and before Wu Shigong invited him to take a seat, Yan Jing immediately bowed and made a big salute, and then begged: "General Wu! It's not the lower officials who are neglecting the army. It's really the Lord Zhizhou who deprived the army of food and grass."

.I hope General Wu will learn from this!"

Anyway, in private, he was not afraid of losing face no matter what he did, so Yan Jing was able to bend and stretch himself, even calling Wu Shigong "general" without leaving his mouth.

Wu Shigong was stunned for a moment by Yan Jing's deferential look. Then he immediately realized why he was like this, so he smiled and comforted him: "Yan Jing! Is there any misunderstanding? I just want to talk to you.

The last few words have no other meaning!"

Yan Jing also felt that he had lost his composure, so he concealed a smile and said, "No! No! If you don't often go to the military camp, you will inevitably feel uneasy and lose your composure."

The reason why Wu Shigong invited Yan Jing into the big tent was not to show his generosity, and he didn't have the time to do this superficially. It was because he just heard the discord between Yan Jing and Yu Zilian in Yan Jing's tone, so

I just want to know about Yu Zilian and Ruzhou’s situation through Yan Jing.

In fact, Wu Shigong just got to know him as a routine. Unexpectedly, this time he learned about it, which surprised him.

Yu Zilian had only been in Ruzhou for more than three months, but as soon as he got off the bus, he immediately started comprehensively studying the Runing Army without stopping.

In fact, although Yu Zilian was obsessed with Wu Shigong in Ningling County, he had been carefully observing Wu Shigong's every move. At first, of course, he wanted to find out Wu Shigong's flaws to take revenge, but as the observation deepened, he

Gradually I started to see some flavor.

After Yu Zilian carefully considered every bit of what Wu Shigong did, he found that he did it very systematically, and some of them gave Yu Zilian great inspiration. Of course, the Runing Army in Ningling County did not avoid Yu Zilian very much.

Lian was the county magistrate, so whether it was political management or military training, Yu Zilian learned many aspects of the Runing Army.

It should be said that Yu Zilian is actually a very smart person. In addition, he studied hard from Wu Shigong, his enemy, so he was the one who learned everything about Wu Shigong. Of course, Yu Zilian did not learn all this before.

There is room for use, and Yu Zilian himself would not admit that he learned all this from his enemy Wu Shigong.

As soon as he arrived in Ruzhou, Yu Zilian, who had been let go, was about to make great plans. The first thing he wanted to do was to stabilize Ruzhou and ensure that Ruzhou would no longer be invaded by the peasant army, bandits and Wu Shigong's reclamation business.

The first is to actually implement the three decrees of the Runing Prefecture; the second is to mobilize the official warehouse and raise money and food from the local gentry; and the last is to organize and train the local people.

In fact, these three steps are not surprising. The reason why the previous officials were not very willing to adopt it was because there were too many obstacles from all aspects. These officials were afraid of infringing on the interests of the local officials and gentry and losing their own future.

But Yu Zilian no longer cared, he used his iron fist to forcefully carry out the three steps.

And Yu Zilian also happens to have some advantages:

Because the peasant army has crossed the border several times, and the Runing army's reclamation business has also aggressively occupied the "terra nullius" in the south of Ruzhou, the local officials and gentry in Ruzhou have become extremely insecure and desperately hope that an iron-fisted and powerful parent official will appear.

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The successful precedent of Runing Prefecture also spread to Ruzhou, making the opposition much smaller;

In addition, Yu Zilian has been oppressed by Wu Shigong for five or six years, and he has broken the pot this time. If he fails, he will have no choice but to return to his hometown to retire, or to endure the oppression of the Runing Army in the position of magistrate of Ningling County.

There is no difference. But if he succeeds, then Yu Zilian will have an armed force in his hands, and he will have a foothold in this troubled world, and may even be promoted in the officialdom.

In a word, it was Wu Shigong, the enemy, who stimulated all Yu Zilian's energy.

After all, Yu Zilian is the highest official in Ruzhou, so when he works hard, he appears to be extremely vigorous and resolute. It is not the same as when Wu Shigong was returning to Germany and Runing was cautiously groping forward.

Therefore, Yu Zilian quickly gathered and raised a batch of money and food, then recruited, recruited and mobilized military households from thousands of households in Ruzhou, and soon organized an army of more than 1,300 people.

After that, he learned the military training method of the Runing Army to train the troops. Although Yu Zilian only learned a superficial knowledge at that time, it is undeniable that the military training method of the Runing Army was the most advanced in the Ming Dynasty at that time.

The three hundred people were well integrated. Coupled with the convenience of the civil servants, they got some mules, horses and weapons from the governor's office and local places, so the army became more impressive. But in tit-for-tat, Yu Zilian

Name this army Ruzhou Army.

Then Yu Zilian started practicing as a combat leader without waiting for me. Without saying a word, he personally led the troops to the north and west of Ruzhou to wipe out the bandits and mountain bandits. So this time Yu Zilian was not in Ruzhou.

Zhoucheng.

However, because a lot of money and food were used to support the Ruzhou Army, there was not much food and grass in Ruzhou City, so the food and grass supplied to the Runing Army this time was very insufficient. There was no way, the Zhizhou Order, so Yan Jing could only

Bite the bullet and send it over.

After hearing these words, Wu Shigong couldn't help but feel a little amused by Yu Zilian's ridiculous and angry behavior. Although Wu Shigong also thought that there must be something wrong with the Shanchuan Division and the Military Intelligence Bureau not reporting that there was such an additional army beside the Runing Army.

dereliction of duty.

But Wu Shigong had nothing to worry about. Obviously, the army created by Yu Zilian was just a miscellaneous army! Its combat effectiveness was at most a little stronger than the bandits, and its number was not large, so Wu Shigong didn't care at all.

On the contrary, Wu Shigong felt that in Yan Jing's words, his resentment towards Yu Zilian was revealed intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, it is not surprising that Yu Zilian has an iron fist, so he will definitely deprive Yan Jing of his power as a colleague. In addition, there are always some officials

The gentry suffered some losses under Yu Zilian's iron fist, so these local Ruzhou forces gathered around Yan Jing.

The combination of these new hatreds and old hatreds made Yan Jing and Yu Zilian deeply conflicted. So when Wu Shigong, a good person, discovered this situation, he immediately acted like a fly that found an egg with a hole in it.

Wu Shigong never mentioned the beating of Yan Jing in the past, but instead continued to show his goodwill like an old friend. After a few times, Yan Jing suddenly realized it, so the two people immediately forgot their previous unpleasantness and sat together for a common enemy.
Chapter completed!