"The prince is robbing people again!"

I don't know who said it in the teahouse, and the tea customers who were drinking tea inquired one after another.

"Who is robbing this time? Is that the girl from that house? ”

"Hey, look at what you said, our master has never robbed a good family."

"Ah, isn't it, hey, you said that if it was from those salt merchants, would those people still pay for the money?"

"Liso? They didn't pay for it! ”

For a while, the people were all talking about you, and I was talking about the matter of the lord "cleaning up the salt merchants". For the people of Yangzhou, when it was rumored that De Shizi had extorted four million taels of silver from a salt merchant, they also applauded in private, after all, those people were all very rich, and as for the courtesans who were robbing, they often laughed at it.

Anyway, the silver and courtesans are all old men, what do they have to do with them, as long as the prince is there, the Tartars will dare to come to Yangzhou, the prince is happy, just rob those old men, what's the big deal? Those people made ill-gotten gains!

The feelings of the people are simple, as long as they do not rob them, they are more willing to gloat and watch the excitement.

However, for the eight major salt merchants, they have been living a difficult life these days. Entering the back house behind the shop, Cui Jiudao walked into the old man's room, and first sent someone from the camp to report the matter of urging the silver. In this regard, Qiu Yilin just waved his hand.

"I know about this, wait a little longer, maybe the will of the court will come down in the next two days, as long as he enters the high wall, no one will dare to be as domineering as him!"

"What the master said is that that person is relying on himself to be a clan, and he is horizontal, and no one dares to do anything to him except the emperor!"

The clan seems to be able to step on anyone, but if it is horizontal, not to mention the people, even the magistrates have no choice, after all, without the emperor's will, no one can touch the clan. Speaking of this, he said excitedly:

"The owner, I just heard that the prince did another thing that people and gods were angry about, and his subordinates actually robbed people to Jiangnan!"

Qiu Yilin exclaimed:

"What? Rushed to Jiangnan? Is this news reliable? ”

"Reliable, as soon as the person grabbed it, he sent it to the garden, I heard that it is a famous corner in the pear orchard in Suzhou, surnamed Chen, which can be called the national color, but this national color, how many days can he enjoy it?"

In addition to envy, Cui Jiudao gloated a little:

"The owner, that person broke the rules, I don't know how many rules, I estimate that he won't last a few days, and the officials in Jiangnan will also write to impeach him, I think he did these things are clearly running towards a dead end, as long as we drag him for a few more days, this silver will definitely not need to be taken!"

Qiu Yilin's heart was shocked, and he stood for a long time without saying a word. After a while, he whispered to Cui Jiudao:

"Hurry up and send this news over there quietly."

Cui Jiudao looked at them and said:

"Owner, someone over there is inquiring about news in the city, if we send a letter again, will it ......?"

Qiu Yilin turned to stare at him and said:

"What do you know, they know what they know, the most important thing is that we have to send the news over, which shows that we are attentive to their affairs, this matter is very important, don't say it again!"

Cui Jiudao nodded again and again.

"Yes, yes, the little one knows what to do!"

In fact, two days before Cui Jiudao sent the news, Abatai, who was in Jiangpu, had already learned from the spies sent by De Shizi that he had ordered someone to go to Suzhou Liyuan to rob the people's daughters.

"Hey, it's actually quite pitiful to think about that person now!"

Abatai, who was on the riverside, couldn't help but sigh when he looked in the direction of Yangzhou.

"Now, what he can do is to take advantage of the fact that he was imprisoned in the capital, and enjoy the glory and wealth of all the time!"

"Indeed, Lord Belle, Emperor Chongzhen employs people like this, if he supervises the teacher with virtue, how can we calmly cross the river?"

Turg chimed in.

"Yes, counting, in the Ming Kingdom, only he is the son of the German who dares to lead the troops in my Qing Dynasty field battle, if it weren't for Shi Ke's decree to defend Yangzhou, I'm afraid we won't be able to cross the river calmly, but ......"

Turning his gaze to Hou Fangyu, Turg asked rhetorically.

"Hou Fangyu, why can you conclude that Nanjing has no defense?"

"Nanjing must have defense, but the defense must be extremely weak, after all, Shi Kefa's 100,000 divisions are already the troops of Jiangnan, and the army defending the city in Nanjing is only 10,000 at most! With such a small number of soldiers, how can they stop the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty? ”

Hou Fangyu said quite confidently.

"Besides, they have made up their minds to believe that we can't cross the Yangtze River, so in my opinion, Nanjing must be defenseless now, even if the city gate is closed, but the city must be singing and dancing."

"They thought that if we withdrew all the boats to the south bank, we would not be able to cross the river by waiting, but ......"

Smiling proudly, Abatai glanced at Cui Jiudao on the side.

The salt merchants in Yangzhou have ships!

There are not many of their ships, but more than 100 salt ships can still transport tens of thousands of troops!

And just as Hou Fangyu guessed, Nanjing's defense is indeed extremely empty, the defenders are only more than 7,000 people, and most of them are the old, weak, sick and disabled of Xiaolingwei......

Once again, Abatai set his sights on the east where Yangzhou was located, and even when the prince of De Shizi was having a good time drinking with a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, he still had to guard against it, and even sent troops to loot everywhere to cover up the movement of the army.

That man...... It's really capable!

Dare to fight with Daqing in the wild!

It's really ...... Audacious! But he can still win!

"Lord Belle is still thinking about De Shizi?"

"That person can be regarded as a hero, if it weren't for Chongzhen's unknown employment, he would definitely be a disaster for my Qing Dynasty, but after he was imprisoned in the Fengyang High Wall, he would not be afraid, but it was a pity that he couldn't fight him in the battle......"

In pity, Abatai asked again.

"Hou Fangyu, what kind of appearance do you say is that famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River, who can actually make him addicted to it?"

"Master, the famous prostitutes in Jiangnan are famous at home and abroad, and among them, the famous prostitutes in Qinhuai are the most, all of them are people with excellent talents, if Lord Belle is interested, he can just plunder it after he arrives in Nanjing!"

Hou Fangyu bowed his waist and followed his master's side, while giving advice to his master, his eyes were staring at the Yangtze River and Nanjing on the other side, I am afraid that the people on the other side would never have dreamed that the army of the Great Qing Kingdom would kill the Yangtze River so easily......

"Plunder? Haha......"

Abatai burst out laughing.

"Why plunder, just let them give!"

After laughing, Abatai asked Hou Fangyu,

"Why do you conclude that he won't send troops anyway?"

In Abatai's view, there is only one variable of all the variables now

"Lord Belle. The reason why the minion made such a decision was because he would wait, as long as he wanted to live, he would definitely wait until Lord Belle defeated Shi Kefa before sending troops to rescue Nanjing. ”

Hou Fangyu said quite confidently.

"Oh, why is that?"

"The Ming Dynasty can't tolerate a virtuous king, if he doesn't want to be locked in a high wall, he doesn't want to be killed by the emperor for a reason. He will definitely watch Lord Belle defeat Shi Kefa, only if he is defeated, he will have a way to live, and only in this way can he go against the will of the emperor openly, after all, now that the envoy is about to arrive in Yangzhou, what will be waiting for him? It's locked in a high wall. But if the prince defeated Shi Kefa's army, he would have a reason to resist and disobey the order, and this reason was given to him by Lord Belle. ”

"So I saved him? If he takes the opportunity to call, how will he respond? ”

Abatai wondered.

"Lord Belle. Do you think those people in Nanjing would be able to hold on without this reinforcement? Besides, when the time comes, for that prince, if you take Nanjing, it will be beneficial to him and no harm, and the world will definitely be shaken at that time. On one side is the virtuous king of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other side is the incompetent emperor. At that time, he will not have other thoughts, even if he does not have the people around him, so he will definitely be happy to see you occupy Nanjing. ”

Hou Fangyu's words made Abatai stunned for a while before he said.

"Hey, your people's affairs are ruined in the hands of your Han people."