Half a month.

I can't last half a month!

Five days later, the apocalypse received the news of the fiasco of Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang.

Pan Ruzhen led the 8,000 troops of the Zhejiang General He Binchen Division, supplemented by 5,000 people of the Ningbo Customs Anti-Smuggling Team who were about to be mobilized, and counterattacked Jinhua by land and water, but the latter failed to counterattack Zhuji alone, and fled back to Shaoxing in a blink of an eye to hold on. Their defeat caused Zhang Mingzhen to capture countless guns and ammunition, and then turned his head and bombarded the Pujiang River with three captured cannons, and then led the army of Yiwu miners as the core to run for hundreds of miles day and night, and suddenly appeared behind He Binchen......

The latter is attacking Lanxi.

But the Lanxi gentry, who had just been stimulated by the Xiangxian Association, fought side by side with the Datong Army stationed in Lanxi to hold Lanxi.

Of course, the main reason is that He Binchen's attack ability is too poor

In the Ming Dynasty, there were no soldiers who could fight under the general army, that is, they raised a group of cronies, and then raised some miscellaneous soldiers to maintain the establishment and eat empty salaries. And the cannon fodder is also the worst cannon fodder, he is stationed in Zhenhai City, Ningbo is prosperous in business, Zhoushan and Yang Xin's factory, good men who go to be soldiers, can also run to be cannon fodder are some ruffians.

The main purpose was to follow the robbery.

But it would be an exaggeration to say that these people were to storm the city.

He Zongbing, who was at a loss, was suddenly attacked by three thousand well-equipped Yiwu miners led by Zhang Mingzhen, and there were thousands of doves alone, and it can be said that the camp was blown up in an instant, and the 8,000 army collapsed in a blink of an eye, and it is said that more than 100 people drowned just by fighting for the ships to escape.

Fortunately, General He successfully broke through.

But when his army of 8,000 ran to Yanzhou Mansion, he counted less than 2,000.

"This, that's too much, isn't it?"

Yang Dudu said in amazement.

He Binchen was actually sold by Ningbo Tuanlian.

Those regimental exercises were not to attack Zhuji at all, but to send guns and ammunition to Zhang Mingzhen, their 5,000 were comparable to the elite of the new army, and the Hongyi cannon alone brought 12 guns, more than 3,000 turtledoves, and enough ammunition to fight for a month.

It was said that he was attacked by Zhang Mingzhen, but after fleeing back to Shaoxing, there was almost no damage.

Instead, he threw all the cannon ammunition and 2,000 turtledoves in Zhuji, all of which were used by Zhang Mingzhen to arm his subordinates who were still using knives and spears, and all the turtledoves and bird guns in He Binchen's hands may not add up to 1,000. On one side is the well-equipped miner army with plenty of ammunition, and on the other hand, there is the cannon fodder mentioned by the governor with a three-eyed gun and other tattered guns, how else can he fight this battle, he can escape, that is, there are more than 100 under his command.

But that's not surprising.

The group training was all supported by the gentry themselves, how could they contribute to the imperial court.

If I guessed correctly, the guns and ammunition they discarded were probably given money by Xu Du, and they just took this opportunity to send Zhang Mingzhen in this way. ”

Xu Xianchun said with a smile.

In fact, he must have guessed correctly.

But Xu Du may not have spent money, this result is obviously deliberate by the gentry in Ningbo Shaoxing, they are deliberately making Xu Du bigger, Xu Du's set is what they all like, they also hope to join, but the current Xu Du strength is too weak, if they join rashly, then Xu Du may not be able to hold their place when the imperial court attacks. Therefore, they need Xu Du to be stronger, and they are responsible for smuggling arms to Xu Du, and when Xu Du's strength is strong enough to fight against the imperial court, then they can join at an appropriate time and live a good life together under the blue sky of the Xiangxian Association.

They won't fight Xu Duzhen.

After Zhang Mingzhen occupied Zhuji, several families in Zhuji left Zhuji for Shaoxing in a grand manner under his gifts, and their property did not move at all, but left the housekeeper to take care of it, but the family sent him some silver and grain to make military supplies.

Nothing remains the same.

The land is still their land, the shop is still their shop, and the slave is still their slave.

The only change is that they are no longer in Zhuji, they disdain to be thieves, but what the steward who takes care of their property does is none of their business, and their people will definitely not be implicated in them, and they also directly participate in the Xiangxian Association as their spokesperson to ensure that their interests are not damaged.

Similarly, the industries of the gentry in Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places in Zhuji are still theirs, and they also have people who join the Xiangxian Association as spokespersons.

In fact, even Jinhua's Shoucheng Qianzhuang was not moved, but it was taken over by Xu Du to become the Datong Army, and there were also some eunuchs and nobles, clans, and industries in that area were all taken over by the Datong Army, including the Yang family's shops there. Then there is the land of the imperial court, such as the land of the guard, those military households were very simply ordered to be removed from the people, and the land they cultivated originally belonged to them, so these military households were equally grateful to him.

This is what Zhang Mingzhen insisted on.

Zhang Mingzhen, who was born in Nanjing Jinyiwei, knows very well what the military family wants.

In short, they did not move on to the interests of the local gentry and the surrounding gentry.

Confiscate the eunuchs, nobles, clans and court officials led by the Yang family, and then use these industries to expand their army, such as Xu Du's Shoucheng Qianzhuang in Jinhua, which controlled 100,000 taels of silver at once, only a very small part of which was saved by the local gentry, and the vast majority of them were shipped over to facilitate the eunuchs to do business in the Jinhua area.

This alone is enough for them to last for a month.

And disciplined.

Robbery and the like are strictly prohibited, and Xu Du was originally like this in history, and those who dared to rob were beheaded for public display.

The Datong Army quickly showed a world of Datong that met the standards of all the gentry, as if realizing the ideal they had been pursuing, and vaguely they seemed to see a bright future and a prosperous era that truly belonged to the gentry.

In this way, Yang Xin is not in a hurry.

Why is he in a hurry, wouldn't it be better to let these guys stand in line?

"Let's go, go see Long Live Lord!"

Yang confidently got up and said.

"It's time to let the governor lead the troops south, Mada, if we continue to make trouble, we will lose a lot!"

Xu Xianchun said.

He also had a shop in Jinhua that was raided.

In fact, at this time, the eunuchs with the nine thousand years old as the core also turned to industry and commerce under the leadership of Yang Xin, Xu Xianchun also has a large number of shops in various places, these shops are based on Shoucheng Qianzhuang as the core, Shoucheng Qianzhuang will follow wherever these shops go, and then the Qianzhuang provides exchange, credit and other services, and finally weaves a huge business network.

The Datong army copied all their money.

Yang Xin didn't speak, and got up directly and went to the Academy of Sciences.

There was no suspense in the result, the apocalypse, who was angry by this fiasco, directly ordered him to lead the troops south, and it happened that it was almost May at this time, and after nearly half a year of training, both infantry and cavalry were already available.

Nine thousand years old did not oppose it anymore, and it must be suppressed quickly.

Sun Chengzong and the cabinet did not object again.

They knew that it was useless to oppose unless they could quickly solve Xudu, but since Pan Ruzhen's encirclement and suppression had failed miserably, it was impossible to solve it quickly, because there was no available army around at all, even if the army was transferred from Jiangxi, it was useless, and Jiangxi's troops were stronger than Zhejiang's? Except for the nine sides, the rest are the same, unless the loyal warriors are transferred or those regimental training, but the nine thousand years old oppose the transfer of the loyal warriors, and the result of the transfer of the loyal warriors can only be to let Nanzhili's side also fight, and the regimental training is even more impossible, and even if it is transferred, the result may be worse.

They also know the truth.

The gentry of eastern Zhejiang can deliberately be the captain of the transportation brigade for Xu Du, why can't the gentry of Susong?

The gentry of eastern Zhejiang welcomed the Datong Army, and the gentry of Susong also welcomed it! Who wouldn't be welcome? Where did the gentry not like this set? Don't want the magistrates sent by the imperial court, don't worry about corrupt officials and corrupt officials, get together to choose magistrates, replace those who don't like them, and replace those who are corrupt and pervert the law, which gentry would not like this kind of good thing? They wish that Xu Du really succeeded on the side of the Qing monarch, and then the entire Ming Dynasty would be like this!

In this case, I really don't dare to expect group training.

Although Yang Xin went south and was in danger of turning those militias into soldiers, he couldn't take care of these at this time, and Sun Chengzong still considered himself loyal after all.

Of course, the main thing is that they all know very well that the Ming Dynasty is actually raising the north in the south, and the southern gentry are all doing this in the north, and they are all playing the Datong country, who still pays taxes to the imperial court, without the support of taxes and transportation in the south, the capital will starve to death, and the court officials will not even be able to pay for it. When Emperor Yuan Shun was gone, there was no southern Caoyun, and the capital starved to death at most 300,000 at a time, and it was only supported by Zhang Shicheng's relief, although now there is Yang Xin's reclamation area, which is useless.

What really supports the capital is the annual transportation of four million stones.

This thing is already going sour.

For these sober-minded northern ministers, they can help the southern gentry fight Yang Xin, but the southern gentry can't try to leave them alone, this is already a matter of principle, and the reason why Xu Du was able to turn Zhejiang upside down in just over a month is that the southern gentry don't want to continue the old system. The old system was that the south raised the north, or raised the north Zhili, and the tax in Shanxi was still very high, but the land area of the north Zhili was more than two-thirds of that of the south Zhili, and the annual land tax was only one-tenth of the latter.

Now they don't want to go on like this.

This is definitely not going to happen.

The south is playing like this, who will feed these gangs in the capital?

In the end, it's not to add the burden to the north, and besides, it is the south that Yang Xin releases to harm, and it is still the north that profits, but if Yang Xin is not released, these guys in the south will abandon the north.

It has to be released.

It was necessary for the Marquis of Hejian to lead his army to go out again to quell the rebellion for the Ming Dynasty.