In the city of Suzhou, the three major family houses are hidden in a corner, and unknown young people have entered secretly, from last night to the present, to reach the scale of thousands of people.

Two miles east of the city, in a forest, led by the eldest sons of the three great families, a full eight thousand gray-clothed men gathered here, armed with steel knives or long swords, murderous, among them there were 1,500 people holding muskets of strange shapes, if there were people from the Zheng family here, they would definitely be able to recognize at a glance that these muskets were exactly the same as those in the hands of the Dutch, and there is no doubt that the muskets held by these 1,500 people must have been purchased from the Dutch.

"What people!" Suddenly, a gray-clothed man with a long sword shouted violently.

A weed at the edge of the woods burst out of the woods and quickly fled out of the woods!

"It's not good, they're Jinyi Wei spies, kill them quickly!" Han Bixuan, the son of the Han family, was shocked and immediately ordered the dead to be chased and killed!

"Drive!" Hundreds of gray-clad men with horses immediately rode their horses to chase after them.

As the dead man chased away, Han Bixuan, the son of the Han family, Wang Chule, the son of the Wang family, and Xu Ning, the son of the Xu family, waited anxiously for the news, and as the time passed little by little, there was even a little sweat on the foreheads of the three people, showing a trace of panic in their hearts.

A stick of incense, two pillars of incense time passed, and finally, the dead man who went to chase and kill returned.

"How?" Han Bixuan hurriedly asked.

"Hui Gongzi, those few people are not bad at martial arts, and their subordinates are incompetent, let one of them escape!" The Commander looked ashamed.

"Useless stuff!" Han Bixuan was furious and scolded: "Waste, hundreds of people can't even kill a few people, and they still make excuses!" After Han Bixuan finished speaking, he kicked the commander in the face and kicked him to the ground.

"It's over! If those people are really Jinyi Wei secret agents, the court will definitely think that the three of us are rebelling, and the Ying Long Army is here to exterminate us! Xu Ning, the son of the Xu family, looked dead.

The three of them were all frightened, and raising soldiers and horses privately was like a rebellion, although each of the three families originally raised two or three thousand dead soldiers, but most of them were scattered, and it was extremely difficult for the court to find out.

This time, if it weren't for the Jinyi Wei secret agent and Ying Longjun, the two emperor's henchmen, pointed to Suzhou at the same time, the three families were weak-hearted, in order to save their lives, they had to all gather together, unexpectedly, before Ying Longjun entered Suzhou to reveal their true purpose, they were exposed first, there was only one result, the three families privately raised so many soldiers and horses, and they were discovered by the imperial court, and it reached the ears of the emperor, they were either rebels or rebels.

"The matter has come to this, if Ying Longjun really dares to make a move, it is a big deal that the three of us will flee overseas." Wang Chule, the son of the royal family, said in a deep voice.

Han Bixuan and Xu Ning nodded, this was the last plan of the three of them.

"Send someone to tell the family about the situation just now, and prepare early!"

As a last resort, no one wants to leave their hometown, and they will die overseas in the future, as long as Ying Longjun shows no signs of making a move, the three families will still have luck, and they are unwilling to completely tear their faces with Daming and cut off their own back roads.

After all, if they flee overseas, the three families will inevitably lose all their family business in Daming, even if they rely on the accumulation of hundreds of years of the three families, their lives overseas will not be poor, but after all, they will not have the current prestige.

Five miles west of Suzhou, Yan Yingyuan led the Fourth Army to approach Suzhou.

"Junzuo, you can already see the city wall of Suzhou." A scout descends from an open dirt slope to report

Yan Yingyuan nodded and ordered the army to continue marching.

"Newspaper"

"Military seat, the Jinyi Guard's secret agent has important information!"

I saw a man in Tsing Yi covered in blood, riding on a horse in a very embarrassed manner, as if he had just experienced a bloody battle.

Yan Yingyuan hurriedly looked at the brocade-clothed secret agent.

"Commander Yan, nearly 10,000 unknown people have gathered in the woods two miles to the east, they are well-trained, just like regular generals!" Jinyiwei's secret agent is eager to report.

"Hehe, this is all expected by the emperor, the reason why the emperor sent Ying Longjun here with such fanfare is to force all the forces in these people secretly out and wipe them out!" Yan Yingyuan sneered.

"Order, speed up the march, and go straight to Suzhou!"

The Fourth Army immediately accelerated its march and rushed to Suzhou with great vigour.

Zhu Cihong's central flowering strategy is very simple, that is, directly arrest all the officials and governors of the Salt Administration Department and search out the account books from their homes.

Even, Zhu Cihong has to implicate those powerful people who dominate the side as much as possible, and disintegrate some of the powerful forces before the next step of agricultural reform.

The governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy waited anxiously at the city gates.

Finally, after another pillar of incense, the first thing that appeared on the horizon was a banner of the Ying Long Army, embroidered with a mighty five-clawed golden dragon and the fourth two characters under the dragon claw, representing the fourth army of the Ying Long Army.

Then, the figure of the soldiers of the Fourth Army of the Ying Long Army appeared and slowly approached the gate of Suzhou.

A tense atmosphere enveloped the whole of Suzhou, the governor of Suzhou at the city gate, and the salt envoy. The Han family, the Wang family, the Xu family, and some large and small merchants involved in private salt in the city were all inexplicably nervous.

"Presumably you are Commander Yan, the governor of Suzhou, and you are here to greet you!" The governor of Suzhou smiled and thought that Yan Yingyuan would bow his hand.

It stands to reason that a civil official of the same rank came to greet the military attaché, which was definitely to give this military attache a great face, but it was a pity that Yan Yingyuan, who was the emperor's descendant and had a mission, did not appreciate it.

"Governor of Suzhou?" Yan Yingyuan glanced at the governor of Suzhou with a smile, and then turned to look at the salt envoy next to the governor of Suzhou: "He is the governor of Suzhou, presumably you are the salt envoy of the Salt Administration." ”

Yan Yingyuan's smile was a little cold, and it was weird, the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy couldn't help but tremble at the same time, and cold sweat broke out in an instant.

"Yes, Yan Jun has good eyesight, and he is the salt transport envoy below." Yan Yun's envoy Qiang smiled and stepped forward and arched his hand to Yan Yingyuan.

After confirming the identities of the two, the expression on Yan Yingyuan's face changed suddenly, and he pointed at the two of them and shouted: "Take them down!" ”

"No" Under the panic of the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy, more than ten soldiers of the Ying Long Army pounced on them and captured them in an instant.

"Yan Yingyuan, what are you going to do, we are the three members of the imperial court, without the emperor's holy decree, how dare you do this!" The governor of Suzhou and the salt transport envoy drank in horror, they couldn't believe all this, Ying Longjun actually started directly at the city gate, could it be that the emperor already had enough evidence, otherwise it wouldn't be like this.

They are afraid that they are going to be finished, and the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy will look dead.

"At the behest of the emperor, the governor of Suzhou and the salt transport envoy and other cadres bent the law for bribes, colluded with profiteers, and disrupted the salt administration, resulting in the current order of the Ying Long Army General Er and others to be imprisoned and wait to be released!"

After Yan Yingyuan finished saying this, he waved his hand and ordered the Fourth Army behind him: "Ying Longjun attack, capture all the people involved in the case, etc.!" ”

"Killed" 20,000 Ying Long Army swarmed in, killing Han, Wang, Xu Sanjia, and some other powerful heroes in batches.

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