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As soon as he came up, Han Jinxin reported worriedly: "Guogong, Li Jiantai, a scholar of Dongge University, suggested that the Son of Heaven should split the town of Nanzhili into Jiangbei East Town and Jiangbei West Town, with a number of 30,000 soldiers per town. This is quite strange. ”

Li Zhi asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Han Jinxin said: "The so-called plague of thieves is that there are hungry and cold people first, and then there are thieves who rise up, just like the incident in Shaanxi and Henan. However, the south of the Yangtze River, where the 'Jiangbei Second Town' is located, is rich, and the people are well fed and clothed, and there has never been any worry about thieves. The soldiers and horses of Nanzhili Town are enough to guard Jiangnan, and neither thieves nor thieves have ever been able to attack the abdomen of Nanzhili. ”

"And now the Donglin Party is going to increase its troops by 60,000 in Nanzhili at once, which is obviously not to prevent thieves."

Li Zhi nodded, and Han Jinxin said again: "After Li Jiantai went up, the Son of Heaven did not reply immediately. Three days later, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately went to the chapter to talk about the addition of the second town, and there was a great momentum of not giving up until the goal was achieved. The Son of Heaven had no choice but to agree to this matter, but did not allocate any food and salary to the two towns. ”

"At the beginning of November, the first court pushed the general soldiers of the second town, and the civil officials seemed to have said it, and they all recommended Zuo Liangyu as the general soldier of Jiangbei West Town, and Wu Sangui as the general soldier of Jiangbei East Town."

After the establishment of the second town, Qian Qianyi, who had returned to his hometown, was busy with traffic in front of the door, and celebrities from all over the country came to visit. The informant in Jiangnan said that I am afraid that Qian Qianyi is about to start raising money for the second town. ”

Hearing this, Li Zhi frowned.

Obviously, these two towns were established by the Donglin Party. The Donglin Party is willing to pay out of its own pocket to raise funds to raise troops, which is certainly not a good thing. He is the number one enemy of the Donglin Party, and these two towns may have been set up specifically to deal with him.

Li Laosi said: "Wu Sangui has always been praised as young and promising, and his soldiers and horses are quite combative. Although Zuo Liangyu always plundered by arson, he was picked up by Hou Sui, a member of the Donglin Party, and he has always respected scholars very much, and he was also regarded as a reliable person by the Donglin Party. Both of these people are known for their good fighting, and the Donglin Party chose these two people as the chief soldiers of the Second Town in order to turn the Second Town into a combatable private soldier who only listens to the dispatch of the Donglin Party. ”

When everyone heard Li Laosi's words, they were all silent. The Donglin Party wants to develop a private army that is good at fighting, but this is a new situation. In the future, if Li Zhi wants to develop his forces in the south, there will be military resistance. I am afraid that it will be difficult to simply replicate the action of directly attacking Suzhou City like the original killing of the leader of the Restoration Society.

I just don't know what kind of weapons these two towns will be equipped with in the end. Is it equipped with muskets and cannons like the new army of the Son of Heaven?

Li Zhi thought about it, stopped thinking about this question, and asked instead, "What's the news about Tartar?" ”

Han Jinxin replied: "The Tatars and the Jin merchants have purchased a large amount of grain and cotton in the past few months, and it seems that they are preparing to attack Korea south in the winter and reintegrate Korea into the system of the Tatar Qing. ”

Hearing that the Jin merchants were collaborating with the enemy, Li Zhi said unhappily: "These Jin merchants are so lawless. ”

Han Jinxin said: "These Jin merchants have been doing business with Tartars for more than a day or two, and the amount of business is very huge. But because the silver was in place, the local military attachés were all in cahoots with them, and the civil officials in the court also turned a blind eye to this. If it weren't for these Jin merchants, the Tartars' armaments would be much weaker. ”

Li Zhi thought for a moment and didn't speak.

Han Jinxin took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi took the piece of paper and looked at it, and it was the amount of materials that Han Jinxin had heard about from Zhangjiakou to the outside of the plug in the past few months. The numbers are staggering.

Li Zhi handed the piece of paper to Li Xing and asked him to pass it on to the other generals.

Zhong Feng looked at the piece of paper, his eyes widened, and he seemed to be a little disbelieving. Then he scolded "thief".

"Commander, let's send troops to Shanxi and wipe out all these Jin merchants. Otherwise, if these Jin merchants are allowed to trade with the Taqing Dynasty, the Tatar Qing will quickly recover. ”

Li Xing slapped the coffee table and said, "Big brother, these Jin merchants are so rich, if we do them, we will definitely be able to make a lot of money." ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "These Jin merchants fornicated with Dongnu, they really deserve to die. Since we want to conquer the Tartars, we should first put the Jin merchants in the Ming Dynasty. ”

"However, these Jin merchants are far away in Shanxi, if we cross the capital and directly kill the family, it will be a bit too domineering. We asked the Son of Heaven to allow us to go to Shanxi to censor the Jin merchants. ”

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In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Zhi's recital and was silent.

Wang Chengen secretly looked at Na Zhangzhang in the back for a while and spat.

Zhu Youzhen asked, "Wang Chengen, what are you spitting?" ”

Wang Chengen bowed down and said, "Holy Lord, the slave maid thinks that this Li Zhi's hand is too long. He has to take care of the affairs of Tianjin, he has to take care of the affairs of Shandong, and now he also has to take care of the Jin merchants in Shanxi? ”

"Holy Lord, how much silver does this Jin merchant send to the civil officials in the court in a year. If Li Zhi kills the Jin merchants, those civil officials will be furious. ”

Zhu Youzhen said lightly: "I just promised the Donglin Party to set up Jiangbei Town and Jiangnan Town, which can be regarded as selling a favor to the Donglin Party. Now the Donglin Party's mind is on the construction of the second town. At this time, Li Zhi was sent to investigate the traitorous Jin merchants, and even if the civil officials were dissatisfied, they could not make a big move. ”

Wang Chengen thought about it and felt that this was the truth. Now the Donglin Party is bent on developing the army, as if as long as there is a year, it will be able to pull out an army comparable to Li Zhihu's army in Nanzhili and look down on the world. At this time, the Donglin Party was obscure for this Jiangbei army, and it was a good opportunity to clean up the Jin merchants at this time.

Wang Chengen bowed down and said, "Emperor Shengming." ”

Taking a breath, Wang Chengen said again: "Just let Li Zhi copy the Jin merchants like this, the emperor, wouldn't the Duke of Jin Guogong be even bigger?" Li Zhi said that he would conquer the Tartars next year, and if Li Zhi really succeeded, then thousands of miles of fertile fields in Liaodong would belong to him, and it would be even more difficult to weaken him in the future. ”

Zhu Youzhen put Li Zhi's piece on the imperial case, and said lightly: "Jin Guogong is a loyal man, I don't think Li Zhi has the idea of rebellion." On the contrary, the Tartars are restless day and night, and they will enter the customs and loot at any time, eyeing the Jiangshan Society of our Ming Dynasty. It would also be a good thing if the Duke of Jinguo destroyed the Tartars. ”

"This time, the Duke of Jin Guo crusaded against Dongnu, and I did not give the Duke of Jin a tael of silver and military funds. These Jin merchants should be regarded as the military expenses I gave to the Duke of Jinguo. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said, "Regarding the review of the Jin Shang, I agreed to let Li Zhi operate. However, let the eunuch bring a message to Li Zhi, once the conclusive evidence is found to copy the Jin Shang's house, Li Zhi can't privately swallow all the silver, and the copied silver will cost me five million taels! ”