Xie Ming

Chapter 325 Xiao Qiu Night Confrontation (I)

At the night meeting in the rear residence, the issue of logistics transportation loss and corruption was discussed, and everyone present was deeply saddened!
Moreover, Xiao Lang followed the prince's wishes and finally took the responsibility of ensuring partial self-sufficiency in the supply of Shandong's military horses on himself.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cilang was rarely happy and laughed out loud!
"Hahaha!"

"Okay, great!"

"Xiao Lang, this is what I've been waiting for you to say!"

"With you and Admiral Huang in charge in Shandong, I have nothing to worry about!"

"Now that we have a support at the frontier, after I go south, I can also do my job in the rear of the southern border, pick up those scums, and squeeze out those festering festering flesh in our court!"

"Xiao Lang, Huang Qing, Zhizhong, as long as we can be one ruler and one subject!"

"Then this world will definitely be saved!"

"The country can be stabilized! The country can be restored!"

"Ah?! Hahaha."

After saying this, he briefly talked about some minor details, which made Zhu Cilang happy, and the night meeting in the back hall finally came to an end.

After the meeting, Xiao, Qiu, Huang and others dispersed.

At the beginning of the hour of Hai, the prince was about to go to sleep.

It seems that after following the army for several days, plus the hard work today and tomorrow, Zhu Cilang, who is already weak and suffering from a cough, has reached his physical limit.

It was not easy to hold on till this hour, so he lay down to rest and fell into a deep sleep.

At this moment, Xiao Lang stayed in a side room in the front yard of the Yude government office for the night!
There are two reasons why no rear house was left.

On the one hand, keeping it in the front hall can also protect the prince and make it easier to withdraw manpower.

Secondly, if Zedan has some other matters or comes to visit from other towns, it would be better not to disturb the rear quarters and disturb His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's rest!
Everything was put on hold and about a quarter of an hour had passed!
Two quarters past the hour of Hai (21:30 pm)!

Boom boom boom!
Suddenly, there was a light knock on the door of the side room where Xiao Lang stayed.

"Who is it?!" Xiao Jingchuan asked casually while sitting at the table in the inner room.

"General! It's me, Changting." Changting replied softly.

"Ah, come in!"

"Why knock on the door?" Xiao Lang answered while pouring his tea.

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As soon as the door opened, two people stepped in from the outside.

"Haha, Lao Xiao!"

"Can't sleep?!"

He stood in front of the hall and led Qiu Zhizhong in. Afterwards, he went out again and stood guard at the outer door.

"Oh?"

"Fei Yu (Qiu Zhizhong), you are so patient. I thought you should have come here half a quarter of an hour ago!"

"You made me wait so long!" Xiao Lang teased.

"Hmph! You, stop it!"

"Alas, the next morning, I will have to go south with the Crown Prince!"

"I have so many things to say to you, but I haven't had time to explain them to you yet!"

"Is it okay for me to come here quietly?!"

While the prince was resting, Qiu Zhizhong found a path under the corridor, sneaked out of the back house, and secretly went to Xiao Jingchuan's room in the front yard.

"Well, you said that the prince had never leaked any news to anyone before!"

"We have agreed in Shunde that we should stop at Jinan for a few days and send troops to escort the prince south!"

"Humph! That's great. He blurts out in the first meeting that he will leave for the south tomorrow!"

"Isn't this a test for me?!"

"He didn't just deal with all the mess in Shandong, but just dumped it all on me?"

"He's just fine. He just patted his butt, said a few nice words, and then he left!"

"Really are"

"Hey, Feiyu, tell me, did he do it on purpose?" In front of De Zhizhong, Xiao Lang naturally told him everything he knew. It was only because of him that he could be so heartless and dared to show all his inner feelings in front of others.

"Alas, it's not just you. When I first heard it during the meeting, I was also shocked and stunned!"

"Old Xiao, don't you feel that the prince seems to be a little out of control since entering Jinan City?" Zhi Zhong reconsidered.

"Yes, that's right!"

"Hey, this matter, I have been thinking about it in my mind tonight!"

"I think you should talk about our current situation. After all, our troops are weak."

"If I don't come, I will always be optimistic. I think the four towns may not be as strong and well-equipped as expected."

"But this time when I entered the city, I found that the news was true!"

"The garrisons left in these towns are still far away, so let's not talk about them. Just look at the number of soldiers and horses around Jinan City just now. It's enough for us to have a good drink!"

"Why, before we went down to the back house to discuss matters, I told Hu Chen to send scouts back as soon as the city gates were opened tomorrow morning, so that Pei Zhong and others in the rear formation could rush over quickly?"

"It's because I'm so uncertain in my heart!"

"His Highness, if he leaves like this again tomorrow, hehe"

"Ugh!"

"Fei Yu, our team needs to find a way to grow faster and faster!"

"Compared to this, if the prince is out of our control, there is really nothing we can do about it!"

As he spoke, Xiao Jingchuan raised his hand and poured tea for De Zhizhong, and continued the conversation later.

"But, I want to, too!"

"The prince now has a sharp spirit in his heart!"

"Before this, I followed the army southward. Because it was still far from the southern border, his state of mind might not have been obvious yet!"

"Now, as they are about to reach Nanjing, he is like a fish entering the sea or a dragon soaring into the sky!"

"That excitement is all over his face, and it can't be hidden at all!"

"I think it's not a bad idea to take advantage of the situation and ask him to go to the southern border to have some fun!"

"You see, right after the night meeting, I deliberately provoked the Southern Territory bureaucrats to tell him about corruption."

"Just wait and see, our prince will enter Nanjing and ascend the throne!"

"The first thing to do is to take action against those nobles and civil servants who have been pampered in the past!"

"It would be better if he could personally deal with those corrupt scholars of the Donglin Party!"

"Do you think it is or not?!" Xiao discussed it for a while and then asked further questions at the end.

Hearing this, Zhizhong took a sip of the tea.

"Well, the Donglin Party started during the Wanli reign!"

"It's been forty years now! The tree is big and has deep roots, and its branches are tangled!"

"Right now, we have lost all of Northern Zhili in the northern border, and we followed the prince right into the Donglin Party's lair in the south!"

"These bureaucratic political groups headed by the Jiangnan scholar-officials cannot be completely eliminated overnight!"

"It's not so easy to go against this class! " Zhizhong sighed with a sad look on his face.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Lang smiled in response.

"Haha, it's hard to fiddle with!"

"In my opinion, it is impossible to reverse the decline of the Ming Dynasty!"

"If you don't break, you won't stand!"

"If you don't root out these people, they will be nothing. They will rise again with a gust of wind!"

"So, even if the prince is very determined, it is impossible for him to accomplish anything just by thinking about pasting and mending!"

"Of course, with his physique, it's hard for him to hold on!"

(End of this chapter)