After nightfall, the city of Yangzhou seems to be a little quiet. In the twilight shrouded city, you can occasionally see soldiers patrolling with big swords on their waists, which is probably the biggest difference between Yangzhou and previous years, these loyal soldiers who defend the city are not only used to defend the city, but also used to maintain order.

Although according to the rules of defending the city, the whole city will be closed at night after the hour. In order to avoid violating the night curfew, people often rush home early, so that this is just the time to come, and there are no passers-by on the street, but although it is a night curfew, there are still oil lamps lit in front of the street where the mansions in the city are located, and these oil lamps are probably set up by the rich families who live on this street, which also makes these lights a rare place in the city.

The lantern hanging on the lamp pole was gently blown by the wind, which caused the lantern to be written with the word "Zhang", reminding people passing by that this lamp is the lamp of the Zhang family, and the oil is the oil of the Zhang family.

Although the time has passed, but in the flower hall of Zhang's house, it is still brightly lit, in this flower hall, several local salt merchants in Yangzhou seem to be discussing something there, but the expression is all a look of brilliance.

"This Minister of Internal Affairs General Da has already arrived in Xuzhou, and he will take the Qinghe River and restore the north of the river in a few days.

When Zhang Yuanping said this, his whole person seemed a little excited, in the past period of time, what he thought and thought about every day was when this Yangzhou could return to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and not fall into the hands of pirates like now.

"No, this general is really, if we can come a few days earlier, maybe we can save 200,000 taels of silver......"

It was Fan Chengqin who spoke, as a Jin merchant, he was a distant relative of the Fan family, and it was common for people like him to have a relationship with the Eight Emperors in Yangzhou. The 200,000 taels he said were the military supplies that the Yanyun Yamen had just extorted under the pretext that the Yanyun Yamen had just extorted, although he was a little willing, but in the face of "power", he had to bow his head and make up the money of the labor army.

"Save money? Can it be saved? ”

Lu Chuanfeng looked at Fan Chengqin and sneered.

"Do you think that we have to pay for the silver in this pirate city, and this Lord Da is here, so we can save the silver, look at the hair and braids on your heads?"

Lu Chuanfeng's rhetorical question made everyone tremble, the braid had already been cut off, and now hair nearly an inch long had grown on their heads. As for the money rat tail, there is no shadow, there is no other reason, that Lord Zheng doesn't let them have braids!

"This, isn't this all forced by pirates, Lord Da will definitely be considerate of everyone when the time comes, and then ......"

As he spoke, Fan Chengqin looked at Zhang Yuanping.

"Lord Da is good friends with the Fan family, how can he pursue these!"

"Not necessarily!"

Zhang Yuanping shook his head directly.

"The Manchurians are all really temperamental, maybe they will really take it as a crime for us to cut our braids, and when the time comes, Lord Da will not ask anything else, only ask me what I have done, and how should I explain it then!"

After a moment of panic, everyone who was accustomed to dealing with officials immediately thought of a way to solve the problem - take silver. But in just a moment's effort, no less than 1 million taels of silver have fallen on a piece of paper, these silver are the silver they use to labor the army, as for how much will be used by Da Su to labor the army, they don't care and don't know, but it is certain that when these silver reaches Da Da, their lives and net worth can always be saved.

After discussing one thing, they naturally began to discuss another matter, and this matter took a little risk, although there was a risk, but in the end they reached a consensus, after all, their net worth is in Yangzhou. If the army attacks the city, when the time comes, even if they give out the money under the rebellion, they may not be able to keep their wealth in the hands of the rebels, and because of this, how to sacrifice the city is something they have to consider.

Sometimes, things seem complicated, but the implementation is not necessarily how complicated, in the eyes of these people, when the time is nothing more than to make silver, as long as enough silver, naturally can keep this Yangzhou City.

"This matter is so decided, when the time comes, just wait for the good news of Qinghe, there are only hundreds of pirates in Yangzhou City, how can the surnamed Zheng not know that the general trend has gone, as long as we know the reason, he Zheng Xia Ru does not know how to save his life......"

Almost everyone did not doubt that Zheng Xia would surrender at that time, because Zheng Xia was such a businessman, he was opportunistic last time, and this time it will not be so.

"What the original duke said is very true, this matter is so decided, when the time comes, this Yangzhou can be saved, the original duke is the first hero! At that time, the original father will be the reborn parents of 100,000 people in Yangzhou! ”

"What is nameless, Zhang doesn't care, it's just that this heavenly land in Yangzhou can't be destroyed by fire anymore!"

Zhang Yuanping's exclamation is full of pity for the past, although more than ten years have passed, but this Yangzhou is still not as good as it was back then!

After almost half an hour, after everyone left, Lu Chuanfeng, who had never left, looked at Zhang Yuanping and said.

"Yuan Gong, will you be able to win?"

Lu Chuanfeng's tone carried a hint of uncertainty in his tone, after all, no one could say for sure about this march and battle.

"Twenty years ago, when Zhang came to Yangzhou for the first time, the prosperity of Yangzhou was only comparable to heaven, and how many people in Yangzhou salt merchants thought that the Qing Dynasty could win the world?"

After this rhetorical question, Zhang Yuanping continued.

"Virtuous nephew, you are still young, when Lingzun and I were on an errand for the imperial court together, what I saw along the road, but you have never seen it, the reason why the Qing Dynasty can win all battles with soldiers, do you think it is only by soldiers?"

After taking a sip of tea, Zhang Yuanping half-closed his eyes, and seemed to think of what he saw and heard along the way when he ran food and goods with the army, although it was shocking, but in his opinion, it also laid the foundation of the Great Qing Kingdom, and also let him know that the Great Qing Kingdom would never be defeated!

"Not by soldiers? So what else does it depend on? ”

Lu Chuanfeng asked in surprise.

"If the virtuous nephew is interested, this time you go to Xuzhou, in addition to befriending Lord Da, you will go south with Lord Da, and when the time comes, you will naturally know that in addition to soldiers, what does this Great Qing Kingdom rely on to win the world!"

(Today's power outage, the update is late, there are only two changes, I hope you understand)