Rich for a while!

Generations of wealth!

Although both are wealthy, they are two completely different outcomes, and they are also two completely different choices.

In the face of these two choices, after understanding the links, if it were someone else, I am afraid that I would have knelt down and begged the eldest master for mercy, and then I would dare to have other thoughts. After all, everyone knows what it means to be rich at this time.

But Zheng Xia seems to be different from ordinary people in the end, even after understanding the link, in the face of the danger of losing his head at any time, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Junmen, thanks to the words of the Junmen, I don't dare to ask for anything else, I just want to be able to serve the Junmen!"

Looking at Zheng Xiaru who was kneeling on the ground, Zhu Mingzhong didn't speak, but he remembered Qian Lei who was far away in Changzhou, in fact, that kid was the most suitable for dealing with people like Zheng Xiaru. Now that the overall situation in Jiangnan has been decided, there is no need for him to stare at Gao Jiming in Changzhou.

Well, it's time for him to come over! I haven't seen him these days, but I miss him a lot.

But then again, this Zheng Xiaru is a little similar to him, they are the kind of people who will seize the opportunity at any cost!

He may have done things for some reasons, but on the other hand, for his own wealth. Such people will never miss an opportunity!

Listening to his words when he kowtowed, Zhu Mingzhong looked at him, and that thought once again appeared in his heart.

This person, kind of interesting!

In this exclamation, Zhu Mingzhong just drank tea and didn't speak, he was thinking about one thing in his heart - salt!

For salt merchants, wealth is nothing more than a handful of salt!

For himself, salt is the capital of military training. But how can you train strong soldiers just by relying on the million taels of salt tax?

Find a way to open source!

No, we have to find a way to increase the salt tax! How can the salt tax be raised without an increase?

Thinking like this in his heart, when Zhu Mingzhong, who was holding the teacup, was silent, Zheng Xiaru, who was kneeling on the ground, became more and more nervous. Although he knew that the Zhu Junmen in front of him needed someone who knew about salt affairs to help him master salt affairs, so as to obtain salt profits. But he also knows that he is not the only one who has such a person in Yangzhou, and there are countless salt merchants who are willing to drive him. What is he worth in comparison?

Value!

If you don't see your own value, how can you be valued by others?

Zheng Xiaru, who was thoughtful, saw that Zhu Mingzhong didn't speak for a long time, and only thought that the other party was considering weighing him, so he hurriedly said.

"The military gate, if the military gate wants to go on a northern expedition, I don't know if I should say it or not!"

Zhu Mingzhong, who was originally thinking about the salt tax, heard Zheng Xia say this, and his interest suddenly came, so he motioned for him to continue.

"Military gate, at present, not only the puppet officials in Yangzhou City are panicked all day long, Jiangbei Zhucheng is like this, and Jiangbei Zhucheng, the heavy one is not out of Yangzhou, Qinghe two places, and Qinghe is where the governor of Caoyun is located, if the military gate waves the army to seize the Qinghe, it will shake the two Huai, then the two Huai cities must be heard of the wind and surrendered, the two Huai can be determined, he can be the two Huai as the foundation, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains ......"

Zhu Mingzhong, who was sitting on the chair, listened to Zheng Xiaru mention Qinghe, Qinghe was the Huai'an of later generations, of course, it was not this place that caught his attention, but the governor of Caoyun himself, and his heart jumped slightly inadvertently. This is a character with a very dramatic ending in itself!

When it's overwhelmed!

In history, because of his great responsibility, he had to "send a division to Gaoyou" to help Nanjing, but he had long been frightened, thinking that if he did not die to the enemy, he would die in the law, and he actually committed suicide by jumping into the water from a boat on the way on July 21. And now, after Nanking was taken for himself on July 16, he survived this time.

Such a person sits in Qinghe, and it seems that ...... There is nothing wrong with laying down the clear river.

"Moreover, according to the news obtained under the investigation, there are no less than 500,000 stone cao grain under the Qinghe River, if the military gate takes the Qinghe, not only can you get this hundreds of thousands of stone grain, and the Qinghe is also an important town, its wharf has no less than hundreds of boats, if the military gate does not seize the Qinghe, more than 1,000 boats of the Qinghe River and the Qinghe Shipyard will be used by the Qing Dynasty. If the military wants to go north, it must be based on the Qinghe! ”

Since ancient times, the south ships and the north horses, but this is not necessarily the case, at least along the Grand Canal of the Ming Dynasty, there are tens of thousands of boats, plus tens of thousands of guards led by Caofu, so that the north also has people who are good at making boats, and the Qing army relied on the boatmen recruited on both sides of the Grand Canal, the scattered guards, transported hundreds of thousands of Qing troops across the Yangtze River, and even now, the Qing army from Beijing all the way to the south is also along the canal, sitting on the boat all the way south.

If they are allowed to seize the Qinghe, with hundreds of thousands of stone grain from the Qinghe, and the shipyard as a basis, even if the Qing army cannot cross the river in the short term, then with the Qinghe as a backer, the pressure on Jiangnan can naturally be imagined!

Strategically speaking, the importance of Qinghe is even much greater than Yangzhou, Yangzhou is the gateway to Jiangnan, but Qinghe is the foundation of whether the Qing army can attack Jiangnan!

"But, Shijie, this Qinghe has been an important town of Caoyun since ancient times, although the city wall is in disrepair, but the outer city is prosperous for no less than dozens of miles, the siege of the city is not only blocked by the outer city, after defending the city, the Caoyun Governor Yamen led the Cao camp of no less than 5,000 people, if you want to attack the city, unless you set fire to the city, there is no possibility of attacking the city......"

Zhu Mingzhong is no stranger to Qinghe, and he naturally needs to know about the situation in the cities of Jiangbei these days. Qinghe is so important, how can it be ignored?

Cast his eyes on Zheng Xiaru, his face was full of curiosity, Qinghe is not a strong city, in fact, the city wall of Qinghe County is only one zhang high, but the prosperous outer city outside the city is the biggest barrier for its defenders, unless the outer city is set on fire, otherwise. The siege can only be carried out along a few main streets, which naturally increases the difficulty of the siege. But if you set fire to the city, you will burn all your own things, and you will not do it unless you have to do it.

"The military gate, I thought it was ,......"

Zheng Xia, who was extremely nervous at the bottom of his heart, knew that whether he could be appreciated by the military gate would depend on whether he could convince others.

"I think that Qinghe Caoding is not to be afraid, most of them are from the former court guards, and it is okay to scare the people and boatmen at ordinary times, if it is a march to fight, I am afraid that if I don't go out of Qinghe, Caoding will be scattered, and then ......"

After a slight pause, Zheng Xiaru said his biggest bargaining chip.

"If the military gate intends to attack Qinghe, it can help the army to capture the city!"

Help the army enter the Qing River!

This is Zheng Xiaru's biggest bargaining chip! Before leaving Yangzhou. He had already made up his mind to use Qinghe as his way to advance here!

"Oh!"

In addition to Jiangyin, whether it is Changzhou or Nanjing, Zhu Mingzhong, who "opened the city gate by fraud", naturally tends to use tactics to seize the city instead of attacking it, and now when he heard him say this, he suddenly became interested, so he bent down slightly and asked.

"Tell me, how can you help me take the city?"

"Military gate, this Qinghe is located in the hinterland of Jiangbei, although the gate of Yangzhou is closed, but Qinghe is still as usual, the city gate is wide open, in the downward salt for many years, in Qinghe also has some relationship, if the military gate is trustworthy, in the next can arrange in advance manpower to mix into the city, to the military gate when the siege of the city, and then with the military gate should be outside, so Qinghe can be light......"

Zheng Xiaru's suggestion made Zhu Mingzhong's eyes shine, and the success of the two surprise attacks in Changzhou and Nanjing made him very clear that in this era, the city is either attacked or defrauded, and for him, he is more inclined to the latter than the former who suffered heavy casualties.

Even when he was in Nanjing, he deliberately thought about how to build the city, unless there were hundreds of heavy artillery, a strong attack would always be the next policy!

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong looked at Zheng Xiaru and said.

"Shijie, you came to see Zhu today to prevent Yangzhou from being burned by soldiers, so you put yourself in danger and wanted to save the people from fire and water, which is really admirable!"

The sudden praise made Zheng Xia Rulian dare not take it, although the military gate had not answered him, but he did not know that the other party was afraid that he was already moved.

Just when Zheng Xiaru didn't dare to say anything, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly knocked out.

"If Zhu can capture Qinghe this time, you Zheng Shijie will make the first contribution! But you have to understand one thing...... How can you be rich and prosperous for generations, these days, you should think about it! ”

After hearing this, Zheng Xiaru breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, he looked at the military gate and said,

"If the military gate wants to use troops to clear the river, you might as well order the army to change to a salt boat, so that you can go north along the Grand Canal to the Qinghe River, and it will not be known to outsiders......."

Zhu Mingzhong just smiled at Zheng Xiaru's suggestion, and then he asked some things about Qinghe, especially the relationship between Zheng Xiaru and Qinghe, which is different from people in this era. He would never underestimate the influence of businessmen, and Zheng Xiaru in front of him was not a simple businessman, he was also an official, and even organized a righteous army, if this person has nothing to do with Cao Ding, then it is the most strange thing.

But in the end, to Zhu Mingzhong's surprise, Zheng Xiaruo's contact was not the imaginary Cao Bing Guanzuo, but another group of people, a group of people who had been ignored before.

However, despite this, when Zheng Xiaru mentioned that group of people, Zhu Mingzhong's eyebrows raised slightly, looked at him and said.

"So these people can be used, but are you sure they are reliable?"

If Zhu Mingzhong is compared with the people of this era, the biggest difference is that he believes in the phrase "unite all forces that can be united." "The more this time comes, the more you need to unite all the forces that can help you. and will not despise the other party in the slightest because of their identity.

After getting an affirmative answer, Zhu Mingzhong nodded and said.

"In that case, then please Shisuke!"