Yangzhou.

"Is this going to play the Battle of Yangzhou?"

Yang Xin stood on the south bank of the canal and looked at the Rujiang Gate across the river in amazement.

He couldn't get into the city.

Because the pontoon bridge that originally crossed the canal in front of him had been disconnected, and this was the only way to cross the canal except by ferry, this pontoon bridge crossed the canal, and all passing ships had to pay taxes here, and then the pontoon bridge opened the middle passage to pass. But now the middle is disconnected, and a large number of green worms are looking at each other proudly, and the smiles on their faces can be seen even from a distance of hundreds of meters.

"Lord Admiral, there are no boats on the nearby shore, the boats have moved to the other side, and even those small sampans are gone, why don't we try to call those boats on the river to come?"

Huang San wiped his sweat and said.

There wasn't a single boat on this side of the canal.

But the channel dozens of meters offshore, it is densely packed with boats, and there are even next to the pontoon bridge, but the boats are also full of green insects.

In fact, they blocked the canal here.

More than a dozen large ships sank in front of the pontoon passage in confusion, and then more ships crowded between the sunken ships to fill the gap in the channel, and it is clear that the script of this scene is that these big ships compete to collide when crossing the pontoon bridge, and after sinking, there are too many ships behind to stop and continue to collide. Although this script is exaggerated, it is impossible to know that the speed of these boats is not a car, and the canal is not a highway.

However, this kind of excuse can be meaningful, and it doesn't matter whether it is reasonable or not.

Anyway, there is an explanation.

Then they emptied all the large and small ships on this side, including the one on the other side of the pontoon, and at this time, unless they went to Guazhou, found a new boat to transport the Dangkou army over, and built their own rafts, there were still a lot of houses on the shore, and they could quickly set up rafts by demolishing a few houses. But it is not easy to cross the river, because this section is all blocked, and the boats are crowded without leaving any gaps, at most they look downstream for gaps to pass, and you have to be careful that these boats deliberately collide, after all, rafts can't hit these boats.

Otherwise, return to Guazhou, and then take other waterways to Yangzhou again.

That's what these green worms are for.

They wouldn't really think that this way would be able to stop Yang Xin from entering Yangzhou, this was a kind of humiliation, deliberately slapping Yang Xin in the face.

"The banknote is in charge of the central government, right?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Back to the matter, it was originally yes.

It's just that after the first emperor succeeded to the throne, he completely withdrew.

Originally, the eunuch Guangyi Zhen could collect tens of thousands of taels from the palace every year, and the first emperor withdrew the world's mine supervisor and tax supervisor, in addition to the garrison eunuchs in Nanjing and Fengyang, the weaving in Nanjing and Suzhou, and several people who could collect money for the palace were withdrawn.

His Majesty did not recover after he succeeded to the throne, and now the banknotes here are under the control of the Ministry of Households. ”

The accompanying Jinyi Wei said.

"Loser!"

Yang Xin sighed.

We can fish 180,000 taels on this pontoon bridge in a year, this is a public figure, plus the officials who manage it, it is estimated that there are 380,000 taels every year!

Thanks to this, Taichang has only been in office for a month.

He wants to be a little longer, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to last in the year of Jiashen, just the current Liaodong has filled in the bottomless pit of 20 million in the past two years, which is not at all the Ming Dynasty's Tianfu can support, you must know that the Ming Dynasty last year, the total amount of Tianfu converted into rice was only 20 million stones. With the addition of wheat and the like, it is actually only 25 million stones, which means that it is 27 million in the year of Hongwu, and even if you add cloth, silver, copper coins, and so on, it will be less than 20 million silver. But this is the total amount, not to say that it was sent to the capital, deducting the necessary expenses such as the clan, the officials' salaries, subsidies to scholars, disaster relief in various places, etc., including those that were greedy for ink, and finally could be used for Liaodong......

Hell knows how many are left!

The Liaodong battlefield is actually supported by the additional Liao.

"You even dare to criticize the first emperor?"

Yan Shenggong said.

"Uh, can you sue me? I have said it many times in front of my uncle, and I have also said it in front of His Majesty, and His Majesty said that he deeply felt the same way, and he was the emperor for a month, and he scattered more than half of the belongings that Emperor Shenzong had saved all his life. His Majesty himself said that the hole left by the first emperor was too big, and he couldn't fill it if he didn't want to use a ruthless trick, if you were willing to sue, I would be willing to use the gold and silver of the Yansheng Mansion to fill this hole for His Majesty.

You must know that this hole has not been filled yet, the last time Li Sancai's house was copied, the stone Buddha mouth was copied, and the one copied these days is comparable to what the first emperor scattered in a month, but the first emperor promised that he had not had time to scatter it, and His Majesty couldn't wipe his face, and finally cashed out millions to him.

In this way, I still have to copy a million to His Majesty to really fill the hole, if Yan Shenggong wants to be this good person, then I am very welcome. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Uh, just kidding!"

Yan Shenggong said without hesitation.

However, what Yang Xin said was the truth, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Tianqi had to fulfill the promise of millions for his father, and the highest sum was 600,000 at once.

It is estimated that Apocalypse is also scolding his father for being a loser!

Moreover, his father had just withdrawn the tax supervisors, and even some of the tax supervisors who had been removed only returned to the capital at the end of the year, and it was impossible for the apocalypse to lift the coffin board when his father had just entered the grave, so those tax supervisors have not been released so far. You must know that the money collected by these tax supervisors still has to feed the entire internal official system for Tianqi, all the palace maids and eunuchs actually eat the emperor's small treasury, if it weren't for the two huge sums of money that Yang Xin gave him before, Tianqi would have to cut back on food and clothing.

As for the household......

Well, Your Majesty, the money of the household department is for business, not for you to spend indiscriminately.

"A million!"

Yang Xin looked at Yangzhou City in front of him.

"It was as if I saw a million taels of silver glittering!"

He said.

"Put the gun on the rack!"

He then shouted.

The soldiers of the artillery team behind immediately set up the four cannons on the shore and carried the ammunition boxes from the following wagons to load.

The green worm on the other side looked at it suspiciously.

And on the Rujiang Gate of Yangzhou behind them, there are also countless idlers watching, which shows that the city has completely fallen to the green worm, although the city has a bunch of yamen, what Huaiyang Road, two Huai salt envoys, household divisions, Yangzhou Mansion, etc., are all here. But these officials of the Ming Dynasty just sat back and watched them block the canal, and they also sat back and watched them stop Jinyiwei here, in fact, at this time, the governor of Yingtian should also be there, and at this time, the governor of Yingtian was still the governor of Caoyun. Caoyun has been blocked for five days, and the governor of Caoyun has not come, so it is complete nonsense, obviously they all chose to watch the emperor's liveliness.

Even like Guo Xiang, he contributed to the deterioration of the situation.

Soon the shells were reloaded.

"Shout at that ship, come here at once, or fire!"

Yang Xin pointed to the nearest civilian boat.

On the deck, a few green insects were shaking folding fans there to watch the excitement, this time it was 5,000 green insects who went north, they either belonged to their own families or rented them, a total of nearly 1,000 boats, and all of them lined up into the canal with the cooperation of Guo Yan.

So the boats here are all theirs.

Jin Yiwei immediately shouted.

Then there was a laugh on the other side......

"You wait for the gelding, if you want to come, you will come, this son has no time to serve the gelding!"

A green worm shouted.

These guys still have a Gannan accent, and obviously don't know who their opponents are, this time the Donglin Party mobilized more than 5,000 scholars, and even Sichuan has people coming, but the vast majority of them are Nanzhili and Jiangxi.

"Fire!"

Yang Xin said very simply.

"Are you really fighting?"

Yan Shenggong's eyes widened instantly.

"Do you think I'm joking?"

Yang Xin said.

"Get out of the way, jump down, they're going to fire!"

Without hesitation, Yan Shenggong shouted at the green worms on the ship.

"This is the Holy Father? Kong Sheng has descendants like Your Excellency, it is simply a shame, Your Excellency returned to Qufu, but you still have the face to face the Dacheng Palace? Yan Shenggong is willing to be the minions of the eunuch party, and he is the tiger to poison the gentry and brutalize the loyal and good, which is simply an ancient anecdote! If I were Your Excellency, I might as well jump into this canal at this moment, so as not to continue to shame the world! ”

The green worm folded the fan in his hand and shouted.

"Brother Li, if he really had the courage, then he wouldn't follow these geldings!"

The green worm next to him said.

"Kong Sheng's soul in the sky is disgraced!"

Another said.

"This is not necessarily, to say that Qufu this Yan Sheng Gong was not a serious thing, when the Jurchen went south, Yan Sheng Gong followed the Song family to the south, and what remained in the north was just a group of Kong rebellions, and then Hu Yuan's Quzhou Kong family was ashamed of being a Tartar captive, so this group of rebels stole Qufu. What kind of Yan Shenggong are they, then the Confucian family in Quzhou is the real heir of Confucius, they are just a bunch of rebellious descendants. ”

Another green worm said.

"In this way, it turns out that the family style is like this! I said how to hug the eunuch's thighs so simply, it turns out that it has always been like this! ”

The first green worm said.

Then a bunch of green worms laughed merrily.

"Wait, wait, wait......"

Yan Sheng Gong pointed at them angrily, his lips trembling and he couldn't speak.

He's not angry.

In fact, this kind of statement has been spread in Jiangnan for a long time during this time, which is nothing, and there are even some more sensational ones when the tabloids picked up Hu Yuan, after more than a month of exercise, Yan Shenggong has seen this statement relatively lightly.

Besides, he's in a good temper now.

Under Yang Xin's torture, his already good temper has long been honed very generous.

Spit on his own face, he recognizes himself to do it.

This kind of insult is completely tolerable.

But......

Yang Xin will seize the excuse!

With his understanding of Yang Xin, this bastard is the best at using the topic to play!

"Bold, it's just madness, even the Holy Father of Yan dares to insult, Yang Mou, as the guardian of the Holy Land, how can Rong Er and others wantonly insult the Holy Duke of Yan, open fire, and dare to insult the Holy Duke of Yan to death!"

Suddenly, there was a roar behind him.

Yan Shenggong turned his head with a sad face, and then saw the four cannons behind him spew flames at the same time, accompanied by a deafening cannon sound, and then the whistling of the cannonballs passed by him, and he turned his head with a sad face, and then saw the green insects on the opposite side turned into flesh and blood......