Chapter 24 Lu Zhenfei rises

No matter how hard Zhang Xuan is in his heart, what supports this is strength.

Although some of the circumstances were not explicitly stated, Zhang Xuan knew very well that when the two sides reached an agreement, the intensity of Zheng's attacks on the coast would be reduced.

The so-called no profit is not early.

Before the Zheng clan, he attacked various places, not necessarily for the sake of trading with people.

Earn money while sitting, who wants to fight and kill.

And the battle between the two sides on the coastline, it can be said that each has its own victory and defeat, Cao Ying's men and horses are relatively scattered, but the men and horses are elite, every time the Zheng clan attacks, the victory or defeat is not said for the time being, but the war has never been one-sided.

And Zhang Xuan also has to consider the livelihood of the people at the bottom of the Yangtze River.

The second half of last year was not a very good year for the people of Jiangnan.

In any case, the military discipline of the righteous army is good, and it is also compared with the official army, but how can the war not bring harm to the civilians, not to mention anything else, for many people, the closure of the city for a few days will bring great difficulties to the people.

Especially Suzhou, Hangzhou, Changzhou, this urban belt.

Suzhou is a large city with a population of more than one million, and such a large city naturally has the rise of the citizen class.

As for what the culture symbolizes, let's not talk about it, just talk about the living habits of these citizen classes, they are similar to the current urban situation, the people at the bottom are dependent on work to eat, most of them are weaving workshops, and other workshops.

After the war, many weaving mills stopped working, and these poor people would be reduced to the point of having no food.

Others may not have this awareness, but how can Zhang Xuan not have this awareness, so to a certain extent, reaching an agreement with the Zheng family is also beneficial to Cao Ying.

Where there is a market, there is demand, and where there is demand, there is production.

Since for a while, he couldn't find a way to counter the Zheng family, Zhang Xuan didn't mind taking a step back. But taking a step back is for the better.

After Zhang Xuan made this decision, he didn't pay much attention. Instead, a letter arrived in Nanjing, asking Nanjing to deploy troops to the south, and only 20,000 or 30,000 elites were needed.

The feedback from Nanjing has not yet reached Ningbo, and the proceeds of Dinghai's transaction have already reached Zhang Xuan.

"Sixty thousand taels." Zhang Xuan was taken aback and said, "This time there are 60,000 taels?" ”

"Less than sixty thousand taels." Zhang Su said: "The difference is more than 1,000 taels, and Zheng Cai will make up 60,000 taels." ”

Zhang Xuan has not seen the market, and he can extort one million taels in Yangzhou, but the 60,000 taels are only a commission, and half of the commission is calculated, and this time the transaction volume is more than one million taels.

Of course, with the large number of transactions, Zheng's income may not be so large, but Zhang Xuan thinks that there will be at least a hundred thousand taels of income.

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And because of the road, as well as Cao Ying's integrity of the gentry in various places, many powerful big families did not participate in this transaction at all.

That is, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this income.

"Haimao is really rich." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart. For a while, Zhang Xuan had a kind of simplicity, and it was okay to cooperate with the Zheng family, anyway, the interests of both parties were so compatible.

Immediately, Zhang Xuan thought again, such a huge profit, he was reluctant to let go if he wanted to come to Zheng Zhilong's side.

If Zhang Xuan just wanted to reach a tacit understanding with Zheng Zhilong, with such an interest, Zheng Zhilong would probably agree. But what Zhang Xuan wanted was for Zheng Zhilong to stand on Cao Ying's side.

In this way, if Zheng Zhilong is not given a great threat, Zheng Zhilong may not change his court.

It's not just about money.

Just when Zhang Xuan was happy, a bad news came. Zhang Xuan received Luo Yulong's letter, and when he opened it, Zhang Xuan's face suddenly darkened.

The reinforcements don't even think about it.

There is a crisis in the north.

Lu Zhenfei entered Gao Jie's camp alone, persuaded Gao Jie to be loyal to Daming, Gao Jie bowed to him, Gao Jie's tens of thousands of troops were used by Lu Zhenfei, and Ding Chukui and other Ding family troops were also dominated by Lu Zhenfei.

Lu Zhenfei and Huaiyang have also trained some soldiers, I don't know how strong they are, but there are a lot of them.

On the top of Lu Zhenfei's letter to persuade Chongzhen to move south, he said: "Hundreds of thousands of loyal and brave people in Lianghuai are looking forward to Your Majesty. ”

"What a Lu Zhenfei." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "I always thought that Chongming and Zhoushan were the main forces of Lu Zhenfei, but I didn't want to be just a partial teacher and used to contain them." This time is the main force, and Gao Jie is also the right time. ”

If there is no Gao Jie, Lu Zhenfei's tens of thousands of newly trained soldiers are not enough to see at all.

However, there are 40,000 or 50,000 elites of Gao Jie, plus tens of thousands of newly trained divisions, and there have been regimental training in Huaiyang and Yang, and what Lu Zhenfei said about hundreds of thousands of loyal and brave people is not a lie.

With such an army, even Cao Ying must be cautious.

In fact, Lu Zhenfei's original intention was to go north to save the driver. But there are many soldiers in this army, and their hearts are mixed, and Lu Zhenfei cannot fully control this army.

Not to mention, otherwise, Gao Jie would not want to fight with Li Zi.

If Gao Jie dared, why did he retreat from Shanxi to Henan, and then from Henan to Xuzhou.

And in the case of the local gentry, who the emperor was, they didn't care at all.

Let them abandon their homes and businesses to save the emperor, don't even think about it, what they want to deal with is Cao Ying. So Lu Zhenfei could only start a war with Cao Ying.

Yuan Shizhong had already fought several battles with Gao Jie, defeated several towns in a row, retreated to the vicinity of Fengyang, and ceded Guide and even all the places north of the Huai River to Gao Jie.

And Lu Zhenfeibing is divided into two ways, one with Gao Jie as the main one, and one way

It is to attack Yangzhou based on regimental training.

It's not that Lu Zhenfei wants to do this, but many times Lu Zhenfei can't control it.

After all, he wanted to pull out hundreds of thousands of troops in the land of the two provinces, and Lu Zhenfei had too many concessions to the local gentry.

At this time, Nanjing was preparing for the army to go north to fight Lu Zhenfei.

With the deployment of Cao's battalion, one confronts Zuo Liangyu, and the other goes north, which is already very difficult, where can another front be opened to attack Fujian. Even the garrison in Jiangnan had to be drawn a lot.

However, there is also a little benefit, in such a big war, Shen Tingyang may also pay attention to the Yangtze River. I am afraid that there will be much less attacks along the Yangtze River.

Although this battle seems to be huge, Zhang Xuan is not too worried.

First of all, Lu Zhenfei made a big mistake, that is, to divide the troops.

If Gao Jie's department is the core, and the recruits are used as assistants, the army may be able to win in one place. But the soldiers are divided into two ways, and the one that attacked Yangzhou has no veterans as the backbone, which is absolutely easy to deal with.

But the words came out again, what kind of person is Gao Jie, he was born in a rogue, and the place he passed through was not a single inch of grass, but he was also not very friendly to the local gentry.

And the Huaiyang Army pulled up by Lu Zhenfei has too many local gentry forces, and behind these people are either Jinshi or officials of the court, how can they be willing to be under Gao Jie.

The division of troops is also a helpless thing.

That's how the world is, a lot of things that are obviously right, but you can't do them.

And there is actually some friendship between Gao Jie and Luo Rucai, which is also what Luo Yujiao told Zhang Xuan, Luo Rucai is one of the three giants of the Righteous Army. His connections in the rebel army are as wide as you Zhang Xuan imagined.

However, for Zhang Xuan, Luo Yulong's letter is not all bad, first of all, Luo Yulong said that he will lead the troops north, so Zhejiang Province will let Zhang Xuan take care of it.

and promised that Zhang Xuan could cut taxes and expand the army, first cutting and then playing.

Zhang Xuan had already had an idea about the expansion of the army.

It's just that now it's not as good as it was at the beginning, the original Cao Ying was almost a thief camp, the relationship between Zhang Xuan and Luo Rucai is closer to the relationship with the partner, Zhang Xuan has Zhang Xuan's people, and Zhang Xuan's people are not Luo Rucai's people. Therefore, Zhang Xuan has the strength to expand the army, so it is naturally possible.

And now Cao Ying is transforming into a dynasty. Zhang Xuan wanted to expand the army, and asked the military department to agree first. And Luo Yulong obviously wanted to receive the power to expand the army in the future to the military department.

Zhang Xuan naturally didn't want to have a hard fight with Luo Yulong at this time for this matter.

However, since Luo Yulong has let Zhang Xuan go, Zhang Xuan will not expand the army on a large scale, and he is not sorry for Luo Yulong's relaxation at all.

Zhang Xuan remembered that he was brewing and abolished the strategy given by the guard, and he was even more eager to try it in his heart, and wanted to try it here in advance.

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