"We're not on the side of the Qing monarch now.

Since Your Majesty has issued an order that this king will lead you to defend Jiangsu and Zhejiang, then we must obey the holy decree, which makes it clear that all armies under Nanjing must guard the defense area and not cross the border without authorization, so they cannot cross the border without the holy decree.

What do you want to do?

Do you want to disobey Your Majesty's holy decree?

And sweep away the traitors? Are you going to go back to war? ”

King Zhennan rebuked angrily.

"King, even if we disobey the holy decree, we can't sit back and watch the king make a mistake.

The king was not alone at this time.

The king is the 40 million fathers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if the king has any case, what will the 40 million fathers rely on? Doesn't the king think of 40 million fathers? Even if the king wants to be a loyal minister, how can the 40 million fathers and elders be innocent? Even if the king is worried about the safety of His Majesty, doesn't the king want to think about the safety of 40 million fathers and elders?

We are following the king, and we are thinking that the king can protect the people and seek the well-being of the people, and today the king is only for the loyalty of His Majesty, abandoning 40 million fathers, how can the king face these 40 million fathers? ”

An officer said solemnly.

"Bastard, this king is a minister of His Majesty, how can Your Majesty sit idly by if he is in trouble?"

Yang Xin shouted weakly.

"Then please ask the king to let me wait to go north first, I am willing to sweep away the traitors with 100,000 athletes first, and then march into Beijing with the king drum on my shoulder!"

The officer said.

"The holy decree prohibits the armies of Nanjing from leaving the country!"

Yang Xin continued to shout weakly.

"The king is worried about Your Majesty, we are just as worried about Your Majesty, the king wants to enter Beijing to protect Your Majesty, we want to enter Beijing to protect Your Majesty, the king wants to be a loyal minister, then I want to be a loyal minister, as for the holy decree prohibiting all armies from leaving the country, isn't it the same for the king? The king can save His Majesty at the expense of the name of resistance, so why should we regret this? What's more, is it important to save the driver or to adhere to the holy decree? The general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, Nanjing is thousands of miles away, His Majesty is in danger, and where can he take care of so much. ”

The officer said.

"What about the Holy Decree? We are the king's soldiers, so what does the divine decree have to do with us? ”

The other officer said impatiently.

And then there are a lot of echoes on the side, in short, these guys are getting more and more disagreeable.

"You guys, do you think this king doesn't dare to march the law?"

Yang Xin shouted.

"The king wants to march the law, his subordinates dare not flee to death, the life of his subordinates is the king's, the king wants his subordinates to die, and his subordinates will give themselves a shot now, but his subordinates can't sit back and watch the king take risks."

The officer said.

"You think you can stop me?"

Yang Xin shouted.

"The king's miraculous skills, if you want to force out, your subordinates will naturally not be able to stop you, but if the king is like this, then we will also follow the king to the north, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Jingnan army will also follow the king to the north, does the king want to stop hundreds of thousands of soldiers with one person?"

The officer said.

"Get out of the way, this king will see who dares!"

King Zhennan was furious.

Then he kicked out the officer who was in the way, and he was about to move forward.

He has to take a boat to cross the Yellow River, but also have to cross the locks, Huai'an is a complex water transport hub, the Yellow River, the Huai River meets here, the canal crosses the Yellow River here, even the boat is not able to pass smoothly, so it is difficult for the king of Zhennan, if he takes Fengyang, it is much simpler, and even Xuyi is very simple, directly take the pontoon bridge to cross the Huai River, but now he has to face more and more fathers and villagers in Huai'an.

Just when he picked off those officers, several old men who were also kneeling next to him came to their senses, pounced on him at once, and instantly hugged his legs......

"Old men, don't do this!"

King Zhennan said weakly.

"If the king wants to leave, step on the old decay!"

The old man holding his leg howled like some old disrespectful.

Then the other old men hugged their legs one by one, dragged their arms and dragged their arms, and some people simply hugged their waists, and howled with snot and tears in their eyes, and quickly made him look like a beggar in the python robe of the king of the county, and the poor king of Zhennan was completely powerless to struggle at this moment.

"King, you can't go!"

"Don't abandon us, King!"

……

Then the crying around became louder.

Not to mention the old man, even many old ladies flocked to him, and some children cried and stepped forward.

This is absolutely sincere, as the last to join the Huai'an area controlled by King Zhennan, these people are really hit by happiness.

Especially those salt farmers, according to the new salt law, they have completely shaken off the hard life of the past.

In the past, they were heavily pressed by officials, rich stoves, and salt merchants, although a pound of salt in Huguang would cost a few pounds of silver, but here a tael of silver can buy a thousand catties.

Salt is cheaper than grain......

In fact, at the local price of rice, one catty of rice can be exchanged for almost ten catties of salt.

It is said to be as cheap as sand.

However, the king of Zhennan forcibly stipulated the price of salt, and no matter how the price of rice changed, it was always the price of one salt and one stone of rice.

It is said that this was the system of the time of Taizu, and the king of Zhennan only restored the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is.

Zhu Yuanzhang was the rule, the salt household is teaching salt, that is, the salt that must be handed over every year is a stone of salt and rice, no matter what the price of rice is, in short, it is to pay a stone of salt for a stone of rice, and after completion, the rest is casual, and if you are willing to continue to make salt, it is called residual salt, and the same standard as the salt is purchased by the salt farm.

In fact, Yang Xin's salt industry system is indeed similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, at least in the salt field.

It's just that he buys silver instead of rice, and then the salt farmers take the silver from selling salt and go to the grain store he opened to buy grain, which is much freer than when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, after all, salt farmers don't just need rice, they also need money to buy something else. If the price of grain rises, then the purchase price of salt will also rise, and the price of rice will fall, then the purchase price of salt will also fall, but no matter whether it rises or falls, the ratio of one salt to one stone of rice must be maintained.

Anyway, the salt farmers are also militiamen.

They also have weapons in their hands, and it is not illegal to smash them like this.

In fact, the salt collection place and the grain store are all built next door, and the salt farmers will know immediately if there is a violation on either side.

In addition, Yang Xin also stipulated that as long as the salt households sell salt, the salt farms must collect it, and similarly as long as the salt households buy rice, the grain stores must also sell it. At present, the grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is monopolized by the grain company, and if there is no guarantee that the grain store in the salt field has enough grain, it is to find the person responsible at the first level, but generally this kind of thing will not happen.

After all, Huainan was originally the main grain-producing area.

And during this period of time, based on the salt river, a large number of branch canals were built, basically all the salt fields have canals between them, Haizhou is still a freeze-free port, shipping is equally convenient, and even the land transportation between the salt fields has been repaired, and there is no problem with the grain transportation of the salt works. It can be said that salt farmers don't have to think about anything, just work hard to make salt, the more they make, the more they make, the more they make, the better their lives will be, they don't have to care about anything else, and they don't need to pay any taxes.

The salt farmers are not all crazy.

At this time, the two Huai salt farms have all been improved into new methods, that is, pouring ash or cutting mud to take brine, brick pond drying brine, no need for frying pan at all, and the cost of drying salt is very low.

Salt farmers no longer have to worry about not having enough to eat and wear.

You must know that even in the past, one ding of the salt household was twenty leads, and the average of three trips per household, sixty leads is sixty stone rice, not to mention the dry one, even three meals a day, and the remaining money to buy clothes is also enough, even if you eat meat occasionally, it is no problem. What's more, the salt households are all on the seaside, who doesn't fish occasionally, plus raise some ducks on the beach, the life of that family is very beautiful, and the past was so poor that they couldn't even wear clothes, and compared with the days when they burned barefoot in the salt brine, it was like a dream!

But what does it depend on?

God opened his eyes, the emperor, the corrupt officials, and the salt merchants suddenly changed their minds?

Joke!

It is impossible for them to take the initiative to change their minds, and if they can change their minds, it is simply the sun coming out of the west.

It was all up to the king of Zhennan to beat them away.

Without the king of Zhennan to save the salt households, these guys above continued to make them unable to even wear clothes, and they were soaking in the salt brine with their bare legs one by one, and they were still hungry, just like livestock.

It's not even as good as an animal!

Now that the king of Zhennan is brain-dead, he wants to go north alone, he wants to be a loyal minister, and he wants to commit suicide, so can he still do it? Wouldn't he have to go back in time without him? No matter what, he couldn't let him go, even if he pressed it, he had to hold him down, so with those cries, the huge encirclement continued to tighten, and Yang Xin struggled as if he was trapped in a quagmire. Although those generals and soldiers did not join, they were all there to watch, in fact, these ordinary people also had a lot of reserves, in short, at this moment, there was no distinction between soldiers and civilians, whether men or women, all began to crowd forward.

It's just about who will take out an ochre yellow robe again!

But obviously no one is prepared this time, after all, the king of Zhennan is going to save the emperor, if His Majesty the emperor suddenly dies at this time, then someone will definitely take out the ochre yellow robe, but the apocalypse still has a good reputation among the military and the people over the years......

He's not a faint king.

At least better than his grandfather's reputation.

"Folks, don't do this, you have tormented Yang!"

King Zhennan shouted.

His shouts were completely drowned out by the cries around him.

"The representatives of the four people are here!"

Suddenly, there was a chaotic shout.

Yang Xin immediately turned his head to look south, and then saw the boats on the canal coming one after another, and the representatives of the four people were all standing on the deck......