February 16 of the eighth year of Wanli. The night in the capital still seems a little cold, but on the gate tower of Chaoyang Gate, a civil official in a red official robe is pacing back and forth, and beside him, a military general wearing armor also looks a little restless, and looks at him from time to time. I opened my mouth, but I couldn't say anything in the end.

"But, let's hope everything goes well......"

Gao Guangxian prayed secretly in his heart, and despite his determination, he could still feel his palms sweating.

It's really going to get this far!

In fact, as far as his heart is concerned, he has never thought of coming to this point, after all, his purpose as an official in the court is nothing more than to support his family's business, and he has never thought about what the first assistant or cabinet minister. But now it's different, and if he doesn't, he's likely to lose everything.

"Gangneung wants to be the enemy of the world! First is Jiangnan, and the next is our salt merchant in Shanxi! ”

Why the officials in Jiangnan and other places will do their best to oppose Zhang Juzheng, in the final analysis, it is because of his clearance of the land, his recovery of arrears, the most painful thing is the gentry everywhere, maybe the common people in the world are more or less in arrears, but as we all know, it is those gentry who take the lead, they are the relatives of those officials, as for the common people, it is just the name of the gentry officials, they encourage the people to default, encourage the people to resist taxes, borrow the people to put pressure on the local officials, and in the end the people pay eighty percent, and they are at most fifty percent. But now Zhang Jiangling is forcing them to pay eighty percent, which is equivalent to paying twice as much, how can those people be willing? Therefore, they will naturally do everything possible to resist Zhang Juzheng's reforms. Obstruct his reforms in every possible way.

At that time, he and his fellow countrymen were supporters of Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

But how did you get to this point now?

Although he still had some doubts before, when Gao Guang first thought of Zhang Juzheng putting his hand on the salt tax, he also understood.

Born in the Jin merchant family, he never cared about the tax per acre, the Jin merchants relied on salt, and eight or nine out of ten of the salt profits of the Ming Dynasty fell into their hands, in contrast, the acres of land were just a drop in the bucket!

And in order to get their support, Zhang Juzheng also turned a blind eye to the salt law. In this way, everyone will naturally cooperate happily. But now that he Zhang Juzheng wants to stretch his hand here, he can't accept it no matter what!

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents!

Gao Guangxian did not doubt Zhang Siwei's words, after all, according to his understanding of Zhang Juzheng, he would never turn a blind eye to salt profits, and he had always wanted to "open source" for the imperial court, how could he let go of the salt tax of at least 10 million taels a year.

Okay, now that he is about to solve the affairs of Jiangnan, the next thing is to do something to them, could it be that Zhang Ge will resign and make it for a long time for this reason!

Everything was straightened out in Gao Guangxian's heart, and they were also connected one by one, when he sighed Zhang Juzheng's "ruthlessness", he knew that he was also forced to a dead end, and now there is no way back, to the back, today's Jiangnan Zhugong is tomorrow's them! If they don't take action, then in the future, they will be like those people in Jiangnan who let Zhang Juzheng fish and meat.

If we join forces now, there is still a possibility of winning, but if we wait until the future...... It was too late to say anything.

"Hoo ......"

Taking a deep breath, Gao Guang first secretly cheered himself up in his heart.

"It's okay, it's okay, this thing can definitely be done!"

Just when Gao Guang was cheering himself up in his heart, he heard the movement under the city gate, and hurriedly looked outside the city gate, through the light on the city gate, he could vaguely see the thousands of troops and horses in the dark shadow, this is the soldier from the capital, and then he heard someone shouting.

"Brother Zixiao, don't open the door quickly."

When he saw who the person who came down from the city tower was clear, Gao Guangxian immediately ordered.

"General Li, open the door, open the city gate quickly!"

"This, this ......"

Seeing that Li Deyi was a little hesitant, Gao Guangxian persuaded again.

"What is this, General Li, if you miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

Then he said in a deep voice.

"General Li, whether it will be successful or not, but in the general's thoughts, don't forget the 200,000 taels of silver, as well as the promise of the elder of the pavilion, in the future, the new monarch will ascend to the pole, and then he will be able to treat you badly?"

For the smooth implementation of the plan. As early as five days ago, they had already raised millions of taels of silver. All the money was used to buy these people, to reward those officers and soldiers. Of course, in addition to the silver, there were also some promises made to them.

Promotions and fortunes, as long as they are willing to participate in it, what so-called grace of knowing is just a joke.

Perhaps persuaded by Gao Guang first, he finally nodded, and then said.

"That's it, that's it......"

With that, he waved his hand and commanded.

"Open the gates!"

With an order, the closed Chaoyang Gate slowly opened, almost at the same time as the city gate was opened, a civil official under the city gate led thousands of people into the city gate, and when he entered the city gate, he bowed to Gao Guang first.

"Zixiao just waits for me to get better...... Yes! ”

Suddenly, his words stopped, and he was in the urn city, and he saw the surrounding city walls sticking out of the pipes, pointing directly at them.

"Gao Guangxian, you, you ......"

Just as he was about to speak, he saw an extra man on the wall.

It's Qi Jiguang!

Almost instantly, he only felt dizzy, and then he heard Qi Jiguang on the city wall shouting loudly.

"Wait for the soldiers of the Beijing camp to listen well, this army came to arrest the rebel by the emperor's holy decree, and now the emperor's holy decree is transmitted. Listen to the command from the soldiers...... Today, there are rebels who use your rebellion to try to usurp the throne, and the soldiers are deceived by them, which is really an unintentional mistake, as long as you wake up very early, I promise not to investigate the past......"

When the soldiers of the Beijing camp under the city gate heard this, they were stunned for a while, and then they didn't know who shouted, and directly pulled the official Zuo who was riding on the horse off the horse, after all, even fools can see that now, as long as they move in the urn city, they will definitely all die here.

Catch a turtle in an urn!

That's the word!

Putting away the holy decree in his hand, Qi Jiguang stared at Gao Guangxian, who had been taken down on the side, looked at his dead gray face, and said coldly.

"Gao Shilang, I don't know how I feel when I see this military gate today!"

"How, how is it possible, how is it possible, you, how did you come, come so fast, no, impossible......"

Although everyone was tied, Gao Guangxian still muttered with wide eyes. He couldn't believe all this at all, and even when he saw Qi Jiguang walking out of the arrow tower, he had only one thought in his heart - hell.

In his opinion, even if Qi Jiguang got the news, he would have to wait until the next day when he rushed to the capital, but now he was standing in front of him alive. Suddenly, he set his eyes on Li Deyi's body, glared at him and said.

"Okay, you Li Deyi, you, how can you treat me like this, have you forgotten who mentioned you in the first place!"

It was he who promoted Li Deyi to his current position at the beginning, although he knew that the so-called grace of knowing was just a joke, but now the betrayal of the other party made it really difficult for him to accept.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Deyi stared at Gao Guangxian and said sternly.

"The squire and the lower official are both His Majesty's courtiers, and everything that the lower officials have is given by His Majesty, what are you? Actually let Lao Tzu rebel with you, fortunately, the Holy Son of Heaven is aware of everything, otherwise he wouldn't let you rebellious ministers and thieves be commended......"

In fact, when he said this, Li Deyi's back also broke out in a cold sweat, and he clearly remembered how Qi Jiguang suddenly sat in front of him just before nightfall. Then he coldly took out a letter from the emperor.

At that moment, Li Deyi knew that everything was over, what was soaring, and what he was knighted. Everything, from the moment he saw Qi Jiguang, he knew that it had come to naught, after all, Qi Jiguang came, and his Qi family army must also come......

However, no matter what, he didn't expect that Qi Jiguang only brought a few hundred people over.

In fact, only a few hundred people are needed. In fact, since Qi Jiguang came over, Li Deyi had already thought very clearly, since the matter had been revealed, it was impossible to participate in it no matter what. If you insist on going your own way, you will definitely die. So he made a choice that was best for himself. That is to stand on the side of the imperial court, not to mention that he still holds the emperor's holy decree on his side.

Well, now these rebellious ministers and thieves are also stepping stones for their own promotion and wealth. With this matter, if nothing else, it will definitely be no problem to promote a town general soldier in the future.

"General Li is so loyal, this army will definitely report to the first assistant truthfully, and when the matter is over, the imperial court will definitely reward the general."

Qi Jiguang looked at each other with a smile. In fact, until now, he still has a sweat in his heart, after all, the people he brought over are only a few thousand. These people seem to be a lot, but there are actually hundreds of people scattered in each place of the several gates scattered in the capital. If these people resist, a bloody battle will definitely be indispensable at that time.

At least now everything is unexpectedly smooth, looking at the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp who have put down their weapons, as well as the civil officials who are dejected, Qi Jiguang's heart suddenly remembered the sentence that the old people often say.

"Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out for ten years."

Perhaps this sentence is also in line with today's incident.

"Chief soldier, what next?"

Li Deyi looked at Qi Jiguang and asked.

"Naturally, I want to go into the city to arrest the rebels."