One yuan restarted, Vientiane renewed, the seventh year of the apocalypse ended, and the Ming Dynasty changed to Chongzhen.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming court can be described as a mess, the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong committed suicide, but the eunuchs still filled the entire court, Chongzhen wanted to control the whole situation as soon as possible, but he didn't dare to clean up all the eunuchs, because in that case, the entire court would be empty, and he didn't have to do anything!

Thinking about it, he had to recall the Donglin Party back to the court and entrust him with a heavy task to liquidate the eunuch party, but unfortunately, the Donglin Party had been almost killed by Duke Wei, and he recruited a total of about a dozen.

It is difficult to use more than a dozen people to liquidate thousands of people, so it took three years to liquidate the eunuchs, and during this period, the chaos in the Ming Dynasty can be imagined.

At this time, Fujian, southeast of the Ming Dynasty, was a different scene.

At the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, the helmsmen of the five major business gangs, including the Huizhou Merchant Gang and the Fujian Merchant Gang, received a notice from Zhang Bin, the governor of Fujian, that on the sixteenth day of the first month, please come to Yuegang to get together, and those who want to rent land to build houses in Yuegang and do business are all coming over, and the land is ready!

This is a big deal, not only a few people at the helm of the major merchant gangs, but also a lot of merchants below.

After going back, they will also transfer a large part of the share of the leased land in their hands to other merchants, of course, the price of this transfer is not 100,000 or 1 mu, but they have paid hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and they will naturally charge some interest when they change hands.

It is rumored that the merchants of the major merchant gangs have a strong interest in the lease right of Yuegang, and the lowest bid is 200 21 mu, and later, this lease right is higher and higher, and the most powerful Longyou merchant gang is said to have finally fried the share of each mu of land to more than 300 21 mu!

In other words, these helmsmen not only recovered all the money they donated, but also made a lot of money, so they were all quite happy, and as soon as Zhang Bin called, he ran over with a large number of merchants under his hands.

How many merchants are coming?

Each merchant gang has 4,000 acres of land, even if each merchant transfers the lease right of ten acres of land from them on average, there are nearly 400 merchants, and the four merchants are more than 1,500, this number is a bit terrifying, you know, the entire Chenghai county is less than 1,000 households!

In short, more than ten restaurants in Yuegang City are all full, and there are still a large number of merchants staying in private residences, and the entire Yuegang City has been overcrowded since the tenth day of the first month.

There is also an outlier in these five major merchant gangs, this outlier is naturally the Fujian merchant gang, when the donation was raised, except for Zhang Bin's grandfather, that is, the big shopkeeper of Dongshengtang, Mr. Huang, who supported it strongly, everyone else was trying to trick under the hint of the eunuch party officials, so the share of the 4,000 acres of land of the Fujian merchant gang finally fell into the hands of the Dongshengtang family.

Old man Huang is also ruthless, these people are not willing to help, right, not a single mu of shares in his hand will be transferred, even if after Wang Ruoji's downfall, other big merchants come to him to beg him, he will not transfer, these 4,000 acres of land, Dongshengtang will be swallowed alone!

Zhang Bin naturally raised his hands to support this, Daming can just this one treaty port, what will the land of Yuegang look like when the time comes, I can only say that I can't imagine!

With the arrival of the major merchants, Yuegang City, whether it is the old city or the new city, is very lively, every day there are merchants running to the vacant land of the new city to compare everywhere, looking at that, I am afraid that I can't wait to rent the land immediately and start building houses.

After a few days of bustling and lively, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month finally arrived, and at the end of the day, the sky was just dawning, and the streets and alleys of Yuegang City remembered the loud shout: "All merchants, please gather on the east city wall before the hour." All merchants, please meet at the eastern wall before the hour. ”

This shout lasted for nearly half an hour before it gradually dispersed, and the merchants gathered in Moon Port City must have heard it.

What does it mean to assemble on the eastern wall?

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the city wall is not a rare thing, the government city, the state city, the county seat, as long as it is a city, almost all have a city wall, the entire Ming Dynasty is full of city walls, and there is nothing to see on this city wall!

Although they didn't know what to see on the city wall, all the merchants got up quickly, freshened up a little, and hurried to the east wall.

At this time, the helmsmen of the major merchant gangs were invited to the city gate tower of the east gate, and there were also many soldiers scattered on the entire east city wall, and all the merchants would get a warm greeting after going up: "Please stand here and wait!" ”

When the hour came, a loud song came to mind near the east gate: "The governor has arrived." ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin was surrounded by a group of civil servants and quickly climbed the East Gate City Gate.

After he went up, he didn't give any explanation to the merchant gang boss who was already waiting there, but just greeted him around, and then shouted, "Begin." ”

"Start", "start", "start" ......, and a burst of sound quickly reached the city walls.

"Knock knock knock", a burst of majestic war drums suddenly came from under the city wall, "kill", with a roar like a tsunami, countless steps quickly gathered under the city wall from all directions, and quickly lined up into a phalanx.

"Boom, boom, boom", a burst of artillery roar immediately sounded on the Jiulong River outside the city wall, and the warships lined up in a neat queue, went down the river, and slowly sailed across the river outside Yuegang City.

"Kill", "kill", "kill", there was another roar, and the steps under the city wall began to practice.

The merchants on the city wall exploded, and what the governor let them see turned out to be the Ming army's drill, and it was also the practice of the foot and the sailor at the same time, the dense human heads, the warship that could not be seen at a glance, it was simply too shocking!

Under the east gate, it was the newly formed 5,000 Qi family army, 400 mandarin duck formations and platoons in neat arrays, and 40 tiger squatting cannons were guarded in the middle.

"Kill", the wolf flies;

"Kill", the shadow of the gun is like rain;

"Kill", the sword shines;

"Kill", there are many palladiums;

"Kill", gunshots;

"Kill", the roar of artillery fire;

When the fire erupted from the tiger cannon, all the merchants were almost on the ground in fright, but the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the city wall!

Fortunately, there were only flames, no shells, and the Tiger Squat Cannon was only filled with gunpowder, but the power was terrifying.

The Ming army drilled, and most of the merchants saw it for the first time, and it was the first time they had heard of it.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops, hundreds of warships, that scene is enough to shock people.

At this time, all the merchants understood that the governor was showing his strength, and he wanted to tell everyone: You can rest assured that you can rent land, build houses, and do business here, with such a powerful Ming army, the pirates will be wiped out!