It was also Zhang Zhen who overestimated the speed of the spread of this ancient information.

Unlike any news in later generations, as long as it spreads on the Internet, it spreads to the world in an instant.

The news of the Ming Dynasty was spread by word of mouth, and the remnants of Dong Changyi crossed the canal to go to King Chuang, and they did not alarm the government along the way, but they were also afraid of Zhang Zhen's first battle, and they were afraid of any more damage, and they were despised by King Chuang, and they couldn't even mix with a general, so the fun was great, and they went out to the west day and night, and the looting was also clean and neat, and they never left a living mouth.

And the shipwrights who came and went were afraid that they would get into trouble by reporting the rebellion.

Second, Nanyang is still in the hands of Zhang Zhen, and before the Ming Dynasty takes it back, no one dares to offend the overlord of the party who even robbed the tribute ship and intercepted the rebellion on the side of the canal.

Being able to let the ships go back and forth has already made the shipowners grateful in their hearts, and they still report it? That's really the impatience of the old birthday star hanging himself.

It is precisely because of the low-key actions of these two parties that Zhang Zhen has rebelled for two days, and Daming has not learned any news.

And it was also by chance that a few of the people who guarded the camp in this city were able to meet him.

To say that this city garrison is also the most bizarre team in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

This city guard camp does not belong to the Daming Guard, nor to the vassal king, let alone to the official inspection department, and it is not a thief, nor a thief.

This is a team spontaneously formed by the gentry of Jining Prefecture, saying that it is a city defense camp, and it has nothing to do with defending the city.

To be precise, this is a tobacco protection team, similar to the mine protection team of later generations, of course, the scale is much larger than that of the mine protection team, and the origin of the team has to start from the rise of Jining Prefecture.

There is a saying that is quite straightforward, saying that 'if the canal is prosperous, Jining will prosper, and if the canal is declining, Jining will decline.' As the Ming Dynasty gave up the strategy of the Yuan Dynasty to focus on shipping, and turned to the Daxing Canal, all the towns on the front line of the canal benefited, and the biggest benefit was none other than Jining.

Not only is the Yamen of the governor of the river located in Jining, but the boats that dock every day make this important riverside town have more than 100,000 taels of silver every day.

Although there is a saying that the poor are rich and martial, this is a different thing in Jining City.

During the 31 years of Hongwu of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, there was only one Jinshi in Jining.

With the rise of the canal, there were eleven Jinshi in the next 70 years, which has exceeded the average of the Ming Dynasty.

And then it is even more exaggerated, in the 170 years in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were 53 Jinshi, and almost every subject examination had someone in high school top three, even the imperial examination family in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were also sideways.

This is due to the fact that outside the canal, it is because of the tobacco in Jining.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, Jining Prefecture produced the most tobacco leaves, and sold more than 2 million taels of silver every year.

Jining Prefecture has these two major advances, the local gentry wantonly set up schools, and the imperial examination is prosperous, and the gentry is also different from other places where the gentry is strong or strong, it is completely a family of scholars and merchants, to put it bluntly, it is the collusion of non-commissioned officials and businessmen.

It is precisely that there are people in the imperial court who are good at doing things, even if Chongzhen issued the first smoking ban in China, and there is the cruel natural environment of the Xiaoice River, but there is no impact on Jining and bones, but in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the tobacco protection team has been transformed into a city garrison.

Of course, the name is there, but the number of people can't be reported too much, otherwise there will be a suspicion of rebellion, and in the end, the city garrison declared that there were only 300 people, and they were to help defend the city when the displaced people were in rebellion.

Because of the importance of Jining City, an important canal town, even if it was known that the soldiers of the so-called city garrison were ten times that of the three hundred, the imperial court would turn a blind eye and let the existence of the city garrison exist.

In this famine for many years, not only the price of rice has risen, grass can be sold for silver, but the price of tobacco has naturally risen.

However, the wandering victims did not care how much silver the tobacco leaf could sell for, for these hungry and green-faced deserters, this tobacco leaf was the best big steamed bun.

Every day, the victims steal the tobacco leaves that have not yet been harvested, and this is all silver! That's when conflicts happen.

Just now, these little leaders led people to repel the robbery of hundreds of people, and killed seventeen people.

The brothers were taking advantage of a little drunkenness to argue about which Qinglou to go to for a hangover, and no one expected that between these words, they heard the news of Nanyang's rebellion from the neighborhood.

Listen to it again, and I actually say it carefully! How can this be, several leaders glanced at each other, suddenly got up, 'swished' a few times, the knife was unsheathed, and the arrow stepped over to surround the three people at the table, and the knife was on the neck.

"Uncle spare your life! Spare your life!! ”

Originally, the three fellow villagers who sailed the boat, fortunately left the rebellious place of Nanyang safely, and drank and suppressed the shock here, one of them sighed casually mentioned the rebellion, and was stopped by the two fellow villagers or eyes or waves, seeing that no one cared, thinking that it had been exposed, which thought that the adjacent table suddenly broke out, and in a blink of an eye it was put on the neck by a fast knife, unable to move, and kept shouting for help in panic.

"It's about the thief, just beg for mercy, and the acquaintance quickly said it, lest the uncles send you to prison, and it will be difficult to die when you want to!"

Hearing this, the three of them thought that they had met the Jinyi guards who were patrolling in micro-clothes, and they were immediately half frightened to death, and how could they guess that the leaders of the city guards were not from the government at all, and they said everything they knew at the moment.

After a short silence, someone soon sighed: "That Zhang Zhen is the opposite, his good breed, that is, the master heard about it, and he also bluntly said that the price is better than gold, how many brothers, do you have a vote?" ”

"Do you have pig hair in your ears? I just didn't hear it! People have muskets, and thousands of homeless people are crushed with one blow! It took so much effort for our brothers to kill hundreds of people, wouldn't it be sent to death if they went? ”

"Isn't this Jiningwei? The people in charge can talk to them, they also have muskets, they are all muskets, are they afraid of him Zhang Zhen? Our city garrison will send some manpower, and the guard will work together to strike, they will take the credit, let's take the grain, it's a big deal to divide more food with them. ”

"San'er is reasonable, even if the Wei Institute takes the good seeds, it is not easy to sell, and it is not to sell them under our pretenses? We have the credit for reporting the news, and we can't get a good seed? The price is better than gold! ”

"It's done! Shopkeeper, in order to avoid leaking the news, you should follow along! Get acquainted! Don't force a few brothers to be strong! ”

The shopkeeper knows the details of these people, the city guard camp, the gentry relatives or ruthless people who can be the leader, these few famous people are the latter, they can't afford to provoke them, although they complain in their hearts about how they are so unlucky today, but they don't dare to make a mistake, simply clean up, take Xiao Er to close the tavern, and was half escorted and half held back to the city guard camp.