Since the end of May, Jiangnan shopping malls have been completely out of control, and the fierce competition has not been seen in a century.

After the decisive battle under the city of Hangzhou, the officials of the two roads south of the Yangtze River realized that the money, food and materials they thought were enough were not enough. In the middle of summer, there are few drugs to suppress the epidemic, which has become a huge expense accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total.

There is no room for loss in the decisive battle!

Local officials in Jiangnan were under great pressure from Yu Yunwen and other dispatched officials, and even several governors and His Majesty the Emperor, so they had to completely loosen their control over the Jiangnan market, and no longer excessively favor and maintain the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan with strong backgrounds and deep roots.

Therefore, under the impetus of Yu Yunwen, a front-line commander, merchants from Jingnan Road, Sichuan Road, Jinghu Road, Lingnan Road, Fujian Road, Jianghuai Road, and even some merchants from Jingdong East Road competed to stir up trouble in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Jiangnan government also can't care about washing the ground for the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan.

Officials at all levels set up more checkpoints and arenas to extract as much commercial tax as possible to supply more than 200,000 troops, 100,000 armed young men and more than 500,000 hired men from the north and south of the Qiantang River.

As soon as the business war started, it immediately entered the white heat.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of the bulk commodities such as tea, wine, salt, and iron were monopolized by the government, called "forbidden".

Although the government occupies the lion's share of the profits, as long as a large number of goods can be obtained from the "Rong Cargo Service", which manages the monopoly of goods in various places, and trafficked to Jiangnan, the profits are still very considerable.

Outsiders and merchants lost their scruples and began to show their powers.

Those who were able to get cloth, bandages, lime and spirits from the government-run workshops enjoyed the huge profits brought by the open sale. Incidentally, due to the promotion of Li Xiang and Han Shizhong and others, lime, spirits and masks have become straining goods on the battlefield.

Coarse salt, pickles, and iron products are the three major things that no one can lack. As soon as the mouth was opened, merchants with a way not only engaged in a large amount of salt from the Jianghuai salt factory, but also traveled thousands of miles to the coast of Jiaodong to transport salt, which at least doubled the profits as soon as it changed hands.

Foreign businessmen not only frantically snatched the business that was originally monopolized by the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan, but also did not forget to give full play to their own advantages. Medicine, grain, livestock, animal skins, and horns, which were particularly important for the war, could obviously only be transported to Jiangnan from other places.

Merchants competed fiercely, competing to lower prices, and desperately competing for the list of the army and the government, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the pressure on the Great Zhou court.

Yu Yunwen's strategy was very successful.

As one of the main executors of Yu Yunwen's strategy, Li Xiang undoubtedly controls a large part of the market.

Not only the workshop owners and caravans of Mingyuezhuang took advantage of it, but also the martial arts groups and local large household groups who cooperated with Li Xiang were also a lot. Han Yanzhang earned enough money to spend a lifetime, Zhao Zhiqiang's net worth more than tripled, and Ximenbo's status in the family skyrocketed.

Since the local government focused on tax collection, the officials, tooth dealers, and brokers did not have the extra energy to squeeze the merchants and traveling merchants, and the small households along the Yangtze River could also seize the opportunity to make a fortune.

Zhai Wendang, who was born on Jiangnan West Road, heard that the mouth of Jiangnan was wide open, gritted his teeth fiercely, and put together a small fleet in Xiling County, loaded with homespun cloth, local medicine, pickles, and eggs into the Yangtze River.

Hurry up, after paying taxes several times, Zhai Wendang made a lot of money when the fleet changed hands on the goods before they spoiled.

When returning from Jiankang, Zhai Wen took over a job from the shopkeeper of a "Tang family firm" he met by chance, sent hundreds of wounded soldiers to Wuhu Wharf, and made another profit. Zhai Wendang didn't know that he had been infected by the sick shopkeeper.

Near Zhenjiang, a small wharf at the mouth of the river.

Zhang Qingping took the 100th people to defend on the shore, and Ding Shihang led the people to guard the ship.

Chen Jiaxing has been running along the shores of Taihu Lake some time ago, searching for women. Not to mention, this professional trafficker really saved a lot of money for the owner of the village.

Nearly 400 girls and women were tested by Yuan Renyu. Chen Jiaxing was still in a hurry, and asked flatteringly:

"Sister Yuan. The sick ones have been singled out, you see? ”

Yuan Renyu is disgusted with human traffickers. Although she was well aware that for most of the women in front of her, it would be better to survive in another place. Historically, women who have survived in war-torn places have been despised, spurned, and abused by their neighbors and relatives.

I only heard Yuan Renyu frowning and said, "You can go." ”

"Okay, then I'll take my leave."

Chen Jiaxing didn't think it was wrong. He trotted to the tent where Zhang Qingping was and respectfully delivered a dozen letters.

Zhang Qingping immediately gathered together the letters of the past few days, singled out the few urgent letters that had just arrived, and ordered a son of Zhuang Nei to be sent to the ship.

After a stick of incense......

"The shopkeeper of the Tang family's firm died suddenly, and his illness is unknown?"

The hull of the ship swayed slightly. The clerk looked through a few urgent letters and frowned silently.

After seeing the eldest son who was seriously injured and did not wake up, the official has been drifting on the ship, so that it is convenient to send and receive messages more quickly and deal with the friction with the officials and gentry in various places.

The officials were so sad and indignant that they couldn't get worse: no matter how bad his brain is, he is also his eldest son, and the rich gentry and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan are too deceitful!

What's even more terrifying is that once those people succeed and kill the owner of the village through the family man, the fate of the family can be imagined.

However, it is not possible to find someone to take revenge, and Li Xiang can't do it.

The officials are now bent on making more money from Jiangnan as revenge, otherwise the whole person will be suffocated.

Ding Shihang thought about it, smiled mysteriously, and whispered a piece of gossip, "The shopkeeper of the Tang family's business." ”

"I heard that his daughter-in-law, who shared hardships and suffering, watched him very strictly, and she would cry when she saw a certain woman."

When he arrived at Jiangnan Huahua World, he went to the Qinglou Courtyard one by one, and he was infected with some disease. Oh, and I heard that he infected half a boatload of people, and I don't know if anyone else was harmed. ”

The corners of the official's eyes twitched, and after wiping his face, he smiled bitterly:

"Really...... It's not angry, but it's a good seedling. I remember that he was the guarantor, and there was a shipowner named Zhai Wendang who took away more than 100 of our wounded, and there was no problem with the handover, right? ”

"I just received the letter in the morning, and it has been handed over. Eight lives were lost on the way, while others were temporarily unharmed. ”

"That's fine. The children of the village are the foundation of the owner of the village, and they are also the pillars of our Mingyue Village, which must not be underestimated. We can not be bullied because we can fight! ”

"The kid thinks so. On the Yangtze River, most of the merchants can't bend their waists when they see the soldiers and officials, and only the merchants who go south in our village can straighten up and speak. ”

"Like the old man, who has not been settled in the mountains for a long time, I feel even deeper...... Hey, this Chen Jiaxing is really hardworking, not to mention saving a lot of money, he has actually contacted dozens of groups of traffickers. It is time for thirteen,000 or so women to return north. ”

Although Ding Shihang was very disgusted with the trafficking of women, he understood that there were too many disgusting things that had happened in Qinling because of the lack of women. Seeing that the clerk did not mean to breathe a sigh of relief, he asked in surprise:

"More than 10,000 women, isn't that enough?"

The official frowned helplessly, raised three fingers, and sighed: "Thirty thousand, at least thirty thousand women are needed." ”

"So many?! The people in the village are directly handed over the commission in Jiangnan, but it is far from enough, where does the lack of money and food come from? It's not enough to take the whole middle school......"

"One word, borrow!"

"Borrowing money from someone in the village? This is a new method, but the people of Qinling are too poor, how can they pay back the money to marry their wives? ”

"The owner of the village thinks long-term. There was a plan, it was really subtle, simple and feasible......"

In the second half of the night, Ding Shihang advised the overdrawn officials to rest early. According to the arrangement of the officials, he got on an official and military speedboat and sailed to the sea in a low-key manner.

Two and a half days later, Ding Shihang landed in a deserted location in the southern part of Haiyan County, which is equivalent to a tug-of-war zone, that is, on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, and quietly waited for Zhang Yongnian, who was not far away, to complete the deal.

Ding Shihang, who had fought to the death with the army of the Yongle puppet dynasty, really couldn't understand why the owner of the village wanted to make a deal with the Yongle traitors. He looked at Haiyan County, which had been completely destroyed not far to the north, and mourned for the people who had been affected by the disaster.

One of Fang Fei's fat nephews led the deal. After examining the coarse salt and medicine, he politely clenched his fists and said:

"Brother Lao has a word that mosquitoes are everywhere in Hangzhou, and dysentery has killed hundreds of children."

"Next time, please bring more finished drugs for summer heat, and the price can be negotiated again."

Zhang Yongnian was quite impatient, but he was stabbed in the weakness by the other party's "child disease", closed his eyes and nodded:

"All I can say is to the top."

Fang Fei's nephew hid the boat upstream of Xiaohewan and returned to Hangzhou by land.

Asked by a good hand who took refuge in himself why he begged the other party in a low voice, Fang Fei's nephew gasped for breath and gritted his teeth and said:

"Not so. This is the only one that provides a large number of medicines, and other people simply eat people without spitting out bones, can Lao Tzu not be quiet? ”

At present, it is recognized that the most lucrative business is, of course, secretly smuggling with the Yongle puppet dynasty.

Jiangnan is a rich place, where Wenhua is the most prosperous.

Not to mention officials, scholars and wealthy merchants, even those who do not have official positions have to buy a few antique calligraphy and paintings to fill the façade.

After Fang La raised his army, nearly 20% of the good things were destroyed in the war, and nearly 30% of the gold, silver and jewelry fell into the pockets of the "turned elites". The remaining fifty percent was piled up in the treasury of Hangzhou City, which became the straw for the Yongle Dynasty.

Zhang Yongnian and Ding Shihang converged and asked the knowledgeable people recruited from Jiangnan to check the value of the antique calligraphy and paintings, jewelry and jade on the ship, and after confirming that there was no problem, they supported the boat away from the riverbank.

As long as Fang Lajun still wants to get a large amount of medicine, Zhang Yongnian and the others are not afraid of being repaid.

"Shi Hang, the lord of the village has never valued these Laoshizi, why did he risk his enemies to trade with the Yongle thieves? Uncle Fang carried his head to Hangzhou City, what is it worth this? ”

Zhang Yongnian's hair was messy, and he casually checked the calligraphy and paintings, and asked Ding Shi Hangdao, who was "dangdangdang" beating the bronze.

The middle-aged man who bought and sold antiques for a living, and was later caught by Zhang Yongnian, had his whole face twitching, but he knew his identity and didn't dare to step forward to stop him.

Ding Shihang withdrew his fingers and picked up the quaint bronze lamp. He stared at his eyes sour, and he couldn't see the reason, and said depressedly:

"I don't understand, how can such a little thing be worth a thousand? As for the Master's calculations, how can you and I speculate, where did you go to sea last time? ”

Zhang Yongnian replied casually: "Mizhou Port, then Goryeo, I'll talk to you in detail later." ”

Speaking of the experience of going to sea, Zhang Yongnian's body suddenly shook.

I collected some information on the side of Goryeo, and when I came back, I was immediately sent by the owner of the village to keep an eye on the transaction, and by the way, I answered Fang Weiliang, could it be that the owner of the village wanted to persuade Fang La......

Zhang Yongnian shook his head. It must be a mistake, why did the owner of the village do that, there is no reason!

In order to prove that he had more value, the middle-aged man who was squatting on the side of the treasure inspection got rid of the fate of being wiped out afterwards, and took the initiative to interject and introduce the origin of the antique calligraphy and paintings in the cabin to Ding Shihang and the others. In order to make the two ruthless young people understand, he has always focused on the theme of "why antique paintings are valuable".

Zhang Yongnian and Ding Shihang's ships quickly moved away from Hangzhou Bay.

The two ships will make a big bend to reach the JAC. At that time, someone else transported the things away, sent them to the Yangtze River in batches, and then went upstream, straight to Jingnan Road......

The line of sight moved westward from the flare-shaped Hangzhou Bay to the city of Hangzhou, where the war broke out again.

At the end of May, the hourglass-shaped defensive line with more than 50,000 Great Zhou troops and Jiaxing City as the center had lost most of its peripheral positions.

Wuzhen, west of Jiaxing City, has lost all its outlying camps, leaving only the slippery Wuzhen to face nearly 10,000 Zhou troops. The fortified fortifications that were in the shape of horns were also destroyed by the improvised trebuchets of the Great Zhou army, and nearly 2,000 soldiers of the Fangla army were all killed.

Tongxiang City on the southwest side of Jiaxing City is almost surrounded, and only a small road is left to connect with Jiaxing City. Around the only remaining trail, the Fang La army and the Great Zhou army continued to send small units to fight, and the attack was very fierce.

Jiashan County, which is north of the east side of Jiaxing City, is slightly better, and with a slightly undulating terrain, it retains nearly half of the small camps on the periphery. The Yongle Dynasty prepared for dozens of days and drove tens of thousands of people to build the barracks, and the quality was still guaranteed.

The ancient town of Xitang, northeast of Jiaxing City, is the farthest away from Jiaxing City, and has long been cleared of all the outer camps and surrounded by the Great Zhou army. The Great Zhou army attacked every day, and it was impossible to hold it.

The Great Zhou army fought steadily, and it stands to reason that the Fang La army could only be beaten passively.

However, it was impossible to stand up to the pig teammates, which caused the Great Zhou Army to almost collapse the battle situation of the Jiaxing defense line.

The cause of the tragedy is very simple, that is, some people are self-righteous and want to make immortal achievements.

A certain commander of the forbidden army, who was nominally under Yang Keshi's control, didn't know whose way to climb, and he actually wanted to disobey the order and grab merit on the battlefield.

The arrogant commander snorted and snorted, thinking that he had deceived Fang Lajun and forcibly raided Jiashan County. As long as the county seat of Jiashan can be captured, the ancient town of Xitang will soon be broken, and the army of the dynasty can come to the city of Jiaxing and press Shibao to fight.

What a credit!

The division had already set up an ambush, gathered elites, and stabbed the back of the commander of the forbidden army.

The commander of the forbidden army, who was forcibly pretending, was cut into several pieces on the spot. It was not a pity that he died, but he involved 3,000 soldiers of the Great Zhou Army, all of whom were killed or captured.

The commander of the forbidden army did not deceive Fang Lajun, but he kept Yang Keshi, the envoy, secret.

Si Xingfang led 6,000 elite companies to win the battle, and it only took one day to hit Yang Keshi's Chinese army camp located in the north of Jiashan County.

After Yang Keshi knew what was happening, he was so hated that he was about to crush his teeth. In order to maintain the encirclement, he could only boost morale and cut people in armor like a small soldier.

At the cost of more than 4,000 casualties, Yang Keshi repelled the physically exhausted division.

The division retreated unscathed under the reinforcements sent by Shi Bao.

Shi Bao saw that Yang Keshi reacted too quickly, and knew that he had lost the opportunity to change the situation of the battle in Hangzhou, so he had to seize the gap and transfer troops to fight again and again to save some of the declining momentum.

The Jiaxing defense line of the Yongle Dynasty was somewhat restored, and the Great Zhou army had to shed blood again.

The most dangerous thing is that once Yang Keshi is defeated, Shi Bao can lead at least 30,000 troops directly to the city of Hangzhou. At that time, the Great Zhou will definitely be defeated!

Shi Bao can also choose to wreak havoc along the shores of Taihu Lake, drink the Yangtze River, and completely burn the rear of the Great Zhou Army, that is, the area around Taihu Lake!

In either case, the 200,000 troops that the Great Zhou had assembled at great expense and emptying their families would be defeated. Han Shizhong, Wang Yu, Yao Pingzhong and other generals who understood this were so frightened that they collectively contracted their defense, and civilian officials like Yu Yunwen gritted their teeth.

Snowflakes of impeachment flew towards Bianjing, and several high-ranking officials who stretched out their hands indiscriminately were punished lightly and severely. That's another story.

On the first day of the sixth month, after replenishing a large number of weapons, ordnance and firearms, Han Shizhong and Wang Yu, who were eager to recover the declining situation, launched another onslaught on the city of Hangzhou.