On the second night after the Wind Tiger Cavalry came ashore, outside the Beitu camp, Ye Wang's cronies and guards were surrounded by dozens of times the Wind Tiger Cavalry and disarmed. The three armies of the Ming State were all commanded by Ye Wang, this person had absolute authority and influence among the Wind Tigers, if he was in the Beitu camp at that time, he might be able to calm the situation. But at this time, he insisted on accompanying Zhou Qing to escort him, he intuitively didn't like Zhu Tingshen's son, maybe because he felt that Zhu Yichuan was too cowardly compared to his father, so he was unwilling to let the sick Zhou Qing live alone in the Mei Palace.

After the incident, Ye Wang got the news. He made the right judgment almost immediately, and Zhu Yichuan reversed. His reaction was no different from Baili Yu's, which was to kill this cage first. He was very close to his war horse whenever and wherever he was, so he got on the horse and took the sick Zhou Qing to try to fight his way out of the palace. The spear in his hand wrote the same legend in this battle as in the battle of the Northern Continent Dragon Slayer, and the Ye hero broke through the courage of the guards. This fear lasted until the unification of the Eastern Continent, when he raised his jet-gold spear in front of the Sakai Pass in the Ming Kingdom, promising not to take anything from the people if he surrendered, and beheading all adult men if he resisted. The shogun stationed at Sakai Pass remembered the legend of this gun, and after a day and night, Kaesong surrendered. Ye Wang summoned him and praised him for his knowledge of current affairs, but he also sarcastically mocked him for his cowardice. The guard only said: "This murderous gun, but I don't want this city to become a field of bones." ”

The record in the "Beizhen Chronicle" is: "The thief is heavily clothed and armoured, carries a gun and rides a horse, and threatens the emperor to fight." The incompetent. Then the fence was put up at the four gates, and every time the thief came to the door, the bow and crossbow were fired indiscriminately, and the arrows were like rain, but the thief pulled the arrow with a spear, and there was no injury, but he could not come out. His horse was two people, and he was extremely tired, and he died of arrows. The thieves were angry, and they cracked the stones with their guns, and threw the guards with flying stones, and all of them died. Su Changlong, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, known as brave and resolute, led the crowd to advance with shields, fought with thieves, and hundreds of people formed a siege, but they could not be defeated. Changlong shot at close range with a crossbow, wounded the thief's arm, the thief turned his gun and killed dozens of people with his sword, and he was captured. The "thief" in this record refers to Ye Wang, and the "emperor" refers to Zhou Qing. It can be seen from this that the tragedy of that battle, Ye Wang is almost unstoppable like a martial god, the guards only dare to hide behind the fence and shoot arrows, if there is no Ming brave general named Su Changlong, they can only let Ye Wang rush and kill in the palace. After Su Changlong injured his arm, Ye Wang also killed and injured dozens of people with a sword in one hand, which was unstoppable. Fortunately, Fu Ming and Zhu Yichuan have thoroughly understood that the so-called "Imperial Party" is a group of outlaws, and even a military advisor can draw a sword and fight to try to break through, they did not expect a brave general like Ye Wang to be captured. The Ming Kingdom was well prepared for this battle, and although Ye Wang was brave, he was only a trapped beast.

Ye Wang's behavior provided the perfect reason for his arrest - to coerce the emperor with the intention of killing the emperor. Of course, the reason is not important, even if Ye Wang honestly tied himself and Zhou Qing up and handed them over to Zhu Yichuan, there would be no better fate waiting for him. He chose to rise up when it was absolutely impossible, and the heroes of the Zhou Wu Dynasty were never people who recognized their fate. Ye Wang went to prison and met his comrade Baili Yu, and Zhou Qing, who was under house arrest at this time, could finally see his brothers. There is a very special note "Listening to the Tao Record the Day", the author is Ye Xingjun, a commander in the Meigong Palace Guards at that time, although this duke is a guard, he is also elegant and good at writing and ink, leaving such a notebook. This notebook was written by a martial artist, the writing was not very smooth, and the content was lackluster, but it described in detail the process of the three people meeting, Baili Yu reprimanded Zhou Qing, and the original words were like this: "Without my news, why did you return to Luan?" Take risks lightly, would you rather risk your life? Zhou Qing sighed and said, "Wen Jun is bitter and uneasy. Baili Yu then asked, "Then you forgot the time of Yoye?" What a fool! Zhou Qing said: "I hope to stand side by side with the public." ”

Baili Yu was furious and said: "Yu, born in a humble life, died as a brave martyr, why should Lao Jun remember?" I'm dead, I'm dead! Tens of millions of people will die! These tens of millions of people! All my brothers! Zhou Qing was speechless. Separated by tens of thousands of pages of history books, I can still imagine Baili Yu's tragic voice. After all, this person is not just a strategist, after all, he still has the sticky and burning blood of the heroes of the wind and flame in his body. Baili Yu did not guess wrong, Zhou Qing's power collapsed, and the result was not just a few deaths. Zhou Qing and Bai Liyu were immediately "escorted" back to the imperial capital, and at the same time, the princes all got the news. Now for Zhou Chun and Wen Fuming, only the tens of thousands of elites in Su Jin's hands are really to be afraid of. With more than 700 large ships and an army returning from the battlefield, Su Jinshen was currently almost the most combat-ready army in the Eastern Continent, and this army was completely loyal to the emperor. The core mountain formation of the infantry is not as easy to be rebelled against as the Wind Tiger, first of all, it is difficult for the Duke of Chu's influence to reach the north shore of the strait, and secondly, the Chu State, as the imperial party for a long time, is the most ambiguous in this statement against the emperor. Therefore, now the control of the entire army is in Su Jinshen's hands.

If Su Jin waved his army south, it was difficult to say whether he would be able to sweep away the Eastern Continent. After all, the princes don't have much army left, the only one who can fight is the wind tiger, and the wind tiger's military heart is still extremely unstable, Ye Wang's arrest made the senior generals of the wind tiger cavalry heartbroken, dozens of generals submitted their resignations, Ye Wang's deputy Yue Zeming has been extremely self-blaming, the above table is Ye Wang's appeal, kneeling in front of the palace and begging until he faints, which also caused a lot of waves among the soldiers. Zhu Yichuan followed Zhou Chun's order and urgently transferred the entire Wind Tiger Cavalry to the camp near the Tobacco Hippodrome and blocked the information against them in an attempt to stabilize the army. After all, the families of these soldiers still live in Bizhi and several nearby cities, and the soldiers remember their families, as long as they are not enthusiastic, they should not do anything rebellious. It was Wen Fuming who was ordered to contact Su Jin.

Wen Fuming crossed north in a small boat, only bringing a few boatmen and his sheng. Su Jin greeted the envoy of the imperial capital in the camp. Six days later, Su Jin handed over his sword to Wen Fuming, expressing his willingness to accept the moderation of the ancestral hall party. This paragraph is the reason why some people in later generations did not like Su Jin, because he held a large army, but surrendered without a fight. Compared with Ye Wang, he let down his comrades who went to the Beilu battlefield together, and he was shameful for cowardice. But this is precisely the difference between the generals of the broken army and other heroes of the Zhou Wu Dynasty, just as some historians in later generations said, Ye Zheng is "fierce", Li Dangxin is "righteous", Ye Wang is "brave", and Su Jin is "benevolent". No matter how much he longs for the northern expedition, Su Jin is a person who cherishes life. Unlike Ye Zheng, he never killed a person in vain, let alone sent a comrade-in-arms to death by mistake. It was this kind of character that made him refrain from saving Ye Zheng when he was hanging in the wilderness, because he was unwilling to die thousands of people to save one person, even if Ye Zheng was one of his best friends. In his later years, he wrote poems to mock himself: "It will be dyed red, but by the blood of brothers." ”

Among them, grief and indignation are like carving bone marrow. But in any case, he could not send his tens of thousands of men to the battlefield again. He knew that this army was tired, even hopeless, and that if the fight continued, everyone would go crazy. Su Jin is not Ye Zheng, and he doesn't want his subordinates to become "soldier wolves". And even if he fights, there will be no benefit, the ancestral party will not release Zhou Qing because he is worried about starting a war, and the result of the war between the two sides can only be the collapse of the Great Zhou. He put forward the conditions. Since everything is because of that huge debt, then the ancestral party should immediately contact the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce. Fu Li Xindi and Lai Su Jin did not accept it, he believed that the debt should not be forgiven, and could only be deferred or partially reduced, and the guarantor of the repayment was originally Zhou Qing, and it is still Zhou Qing. This is in fact tantamount to a request to ensure Zhou Qing's personal safety, and as long as Zhou Qing is still the guarantor of this huge loan, the ancestral hall party will not dare to depose him easily. No one dared to underestimate the potential power of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, which was to bring Zhou Qing under the protection of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce. And there is Jiang Di in Wanzhou, this is the last person Su Jin can hope for. In addition, Su Jin said that he believed that the emperor could hand over some of his power, but the emperor should not be responsible for the Northern Expedition, which was a political demand of the officer group, and the emperor was only influenced by the soldiers. Personally, as the leader of this group of officers, he was willing to take all the blame for the Northern Expedition, but his subordinates were innocent and should not be punished. These soldiers fought hard in the north for the Empire, and now they should be pardoned and return home safely to reunite with their families. Su Jin was worried about his subordinates, as Wen Fuming told him that the princes were already discussing punishment for the radical Northern Expeditionary officers, who were loyal to the emperor. The princes accused these officers of "forming a party and disrupting the government", which was a great crime.

Wen Fuming agreed to these conditions, completely agreed. He was a very clever man, and he knew that it was impossible to completely repay the debts, so he proposed the plan of defaulting on the debts only to win over the princes who were almost financially bankrupt. In fact, even if they depose the emperor, they may not be able to get rid of the debt, and the Wanzhou merchants will be furious, they do not have enough military strength, but they will use economic means to affect the income of all the vassal states. This kind of economic confrontation is also very terrible and can turn into an uncontrollable crisis. As for pardoning the soldiers, Wen Fuming also agreed very much, of course, he was responsible for the Northern Expedition of Emperor Ming Zhou, but Wen Fuming did not agree with the deposition of the emperor, which will be discussed in detail later. If these conditions were met, Su Jin promised to land at Bizhi Harbor and hand over all his weapons.

Wen Fuming returned to the apocalypse as quickly as possible and reported the news to Zhou Chun, who was sitting in the center. Zhou Chun was very satisfied with Wen Fuming's efficiency, and his own efficiency was also very high, the merchants of Wanzhou had gathered in the imperial capital, and negotiations could start at any time. For the first time in history, the royal family and princes said that they could no longer pay off their debts and asked for the merchants' forgiveness. The merchants of Wanzhou were also helpless, they believed what Zhou Chun said, the kings were unable to repay, and even if they forcibly demanded it, they would not get anything. Nor would it be possible for the kings to give all their future taxes to the merchants, as agreed, and they would not be able to feed their courtiers and armies. Both sides must seek a balance. Around this equilibrium point, the two sides fiercely tug-of-war for nine days. In the end, both sides took a step back and reached an agreement. The ancestral party agreed to continue to use the emperor as a guarantor to repay seventy and a half of all loans, which would last for sixteen years, apportioned among the taxes of the royal family and princes. All interest is exempted, but as compensation, from now on, the merchants of Wanzhou will only pay a very low amount of transaction tax to the imperial capital, agricultural tax, forestry tax, mining tax, fishery tax, handicraft tax and other various taxes are exempted, and all production will not have to pay any taxes without transactions.

This additional tax exemption is directly aimed at the Wanzhou Jiang family. Among all the wealthy merchants in Wanzhou, only the Jiang family was supported by the financial industry, that is, the opening of silver banks and the trading of promissory notes. Jiang owned very few shops, fields, forestry farms, mines, fisheries, and workshops, and made huge profits from lending and investing. Under the new tax law, Jiang's business basically has to continue to pay taxes, while many of the operations of other wealthy businessmen are exempt from tax. This was a great blow to the development of the Jiang family. Jiang Di did not participate in this negotiation, he waited quietly in Huai. The news of the agreement was sent to Huai'an, and in the early morning of the next day, Jiang Di committed suicide.

In the evening, this "Yuntian Prince" spread out a mat on the side of the post road outside the city as usual, and invited passers-by to drink wine and sing happily, which was very relaxed and comfortable. When the morning dawned, he ordered his subordinates to take pen and ink and inscribe a poem on the sleeve of a maiko: "Listening to the bell for fifty years, Huai'an City looks at the moon; The flowers under the moon bloom, following the changes of spring and autumn; People are hesitant in business, and there is no leisure for them. Then he walked to the cliff by the post road, jumped off, and ended his life.

Later generations rumored that Jiang Di was full of energy before he died, fluttering out of the dust, he was already close to fifty years old at that time, but he looked like a young man. Until he walked to the edge of the cliff, people thought he was just going there to watch the sunrise, and they didn't expect him to take a leap. The maiko was also a passerby, and later recalled the voice and smile of Yuntian Gongzi before his death, and he was very sad, so he composed his own song and dance "The Ballad of Yunwai", which is a seven-character long poem with music, telling the story of Jiang Di. This woman sang and danced in the store, attracting countless drinkers, since it was to listen to the story of the wealthy businessman Jiang Di, she couldn't be too stingy with her shot, so the guests thought about the ancient people, passed on Jiang Di's last words, and squandered a lot of gold baht, and the woman was also rich in ten years. Jiang Di, who was pinned on by Su Jin, failed to accompany the emperor to the last moment, because he was already extremely tired at that time, and he was not pretending to be free and easy when he was dying, but he was too tired, and death was also a relief for him. When the imperial party was on an expedition to the north, it was he who was backed by the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce and tried his best to ensure logistics.