Chapter 156: Down to Nanjing

The person who came in the middle of the night was Zhang Chengye, who called himself "Mr. Nanshan", a thief from Nanshan. During the day, the scholar who was still lying on the bamboo bed was kneeling on the ground with a disgraced face, but his face was full of flattery, Li Meng was completely confused, and it took half a day to give a reward, why did it take a few hours to come, and asked suspiciously:

"What are you?"

"The villain heard that the adult offered a reward of three hundred taels, and felt that it was a pity that the money was given to others, so it was better for the villain to vote for himself and take this reward......"

Li Meng was stunned at first, and then laughed loudly, although this Zhang Chengye was obscene, it was also very interesting, stopped laughing, and said:

"Mr. Zhang's abandonment of the darkness and the light, Li will naturally not be stingy with this reward, and this silver can be given to you now."

As soon as he heard that three hundred taels of silver had been credited to the account, the southern thief immediately smiled, knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, and then said:

"I'm not afraid that the adults will be surprised, the villain still has a request, ask the adults to answer?"

Li Meng's face sank slightly, this person is so dissatisfied, Zhang Chengye came so risky, even if Li Meng cut off his head, it should be, the silver here has been paid, and he still has to have other requirements, this is not looking for death, the Nanshan thief swallowed a mouthful of foam, and pleaded:

"The villain sees the military power of the adult, it is really the army of the tiger and wolf, the brave and invincible journey, the admiration is very great, the villain usually keeps accounts for those traitors and anti-people, and leads the generals, only asking the adult to give a small position, and also has a place to stay in this Jiaozhou camp."

It seems that this Zhang Chengye has completely forgotten what this shame is during the period of being a thief, Li Meng stared at this person, and his heart was also quite depressed, thinking that other people's kings were full of domineering, and the civil ministers and military generals worshiped one after another, and took the initiative to take refuge, how come they are all obscene people on my side?

However, this Zhang Chengye is a very flexible person, and it is indeed rare to see a scholar who is alive in these years, Li Meng pondered for a while, nodded and said:

"Just follow me from now on."

When Li Meng fell asleep again, he thought that Zhang Chengye, a thief in the South Mountain, was afraid that he would not kill him and take him in, after all, he came in the middle of the night to risk being killed, with such gambling, such knowledge, and so obscene, he could be regarded as a talent.

After thinking for a while, Li Meng fell asleep again......

But the soldiers and officers of the Jiaozhou battalion did not sleep well, and the next morning, a group of people came over from Xiajin County, and when the soldiers thought they were going to fight, who would have thought that they would come to receive the reward with the head of the leader of the thieves.

As soon as the reward of five hundred taels of silver came out yesterday, the entire Xiajin County exploded, and the rebellion was not just trying to live a good life with a full stomach, with these five hundred taels of silver in hand, wouldn't these be realized?

That night, the leader of the thieves was cut off by his cronies, and some people went to Zhang Chengye's house to find someone, and there was a strange story here, after Zhang Chengye ran back to Xiajin County during the day, after half an hour, the cavalry who shouted arrived, which shows how fast he fled for his life.

Those rebellious people who went to Zhang Chengye's house to find people naturally didn't find anyone, and even Zhang Chengye's family members didn't find them, so they had to give up stupidly, and they took the head of the leader of the rebellious people out of the city before dawn and came here to receive the reward.

This battle against bandits is really easy, and it is estimated that it will not take much effort for other officers and soldiers to come, presumably this is the reason why the governor and the general handed over this task of suppressing bandits and quelling chaos to Li Meng.

Since it was Kaecheng surrendered, it also saved a lot of effort on Li Meng's side, sent soldiers to take over the city, and at the same time sent fast horses to report to the yamen of the Dongchang prefect.

Coincidentally, the matter was only resolved here, and the messenger from Jiaozhou came here with urgent news, saying that the Zheng shopkeeper of the Ba Min Commercial Bank sent someone to send a message, saying that the matter entrusted to do it had some way, and asked Li Meng to rush over with something.

Li Meng didn't expect that what he entrusted to the shopkeeper Zheng would be so quick to have eyebrows, and Li Meng also had a sense of urgency in his heart, since there was news, he had to hurry up and do it. What he didn't know was that after the shopkeeper Zheng returned to Jining Prefecture, he immediately hurried all the way to Nanjing City.

The shopkeeper Zheng knew that this kind of thing might not be what he could call the shots, so he directly told the Zheng family's principal in Nanzhili, who was Zheng Zhilong's close cousin, and was called Zheng Shark.

Now that Shandong has this good opportunity, and it is a profitable deal, several principals of the Zheng family in the south did not hesitate, and immediately agreed to handle it for Li Meng, of course, there are also people who laugh at Li Meng's bad brain in private.

The matter has an eyebrow, that is to say, there is a place to send money, but the Zheng family will definitely not advance this money, and the transfer of gifts and officialdom is best handled by the parties concerned, so as not to be blamed. The Zheng family also wants to be fast, so the back and forth movements are all used to speed up and rotate the transfer, which is naturally much faster.

Xiajin County has no value except for blockage, whether it is military or economic, since it is to pacify the chaos, Li Meng has no interest in here, and arranges for a few small leaders to stay, let Ma Gang's brigade return to Jiaozhou, and he himself is to rush back to Jiaozhou with cavalry and fast horses.

By the way, Zhang Chengye, a thief in Nanshan, actually recruited more than 200 people to be by his side, and he couldn't survive farming in this year, and some people saw that the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers had enough food and moved the idea of becoming a soldier to eat food.

Li Meng gave these people to Ma Gang's command, and he returned to Fengmeng Town day and night, he didn't enter Jiaozhou City at all, fortunately, he had the experience of going to Henan, and the Jiaozhou battalion knew how to handle it, this time it was still two hundred followers, but these people's equipment was much better than last time.

Deposited 60,000 taels of silver, Li Meng directly took away 50,000 taels of silver, and all these people in the Jiaozhou Battalion who were counselors felt that Li Meng was currently in such an identity, but he was always running around, which was really a bit too reckless, in case there was a danger outside, all the accumulated strength would be crossed.

On the contrary, the things that Mu Yunyao considered were more different, she was very worried, worried that Li Meng would bring back a woman when she went to Nanjing this time, and Qin Huai Fengyue over there was not at ease.

Although Li Meng doesn't read much, he also understands the truth of the white dragon fish suit, killing machines everywhere outside, and his identity is rarely in danger of killing his head if he is careless outside, but he can't help but go.

Today's Jiaozhou battalion has no talent capable of taking charge on its own, except for himself, and the troops have moved from Shandong to the area of Huguang and Jingxiang, even if they send envoys to handle it, will the other party resist and misinterpret their own meaning, so they can only negotiate and handle it themselves.

Li Meng made a hurried preparation, left Jiaozhou before the end of October, and took his men and gold and silver along the waterway to Nanjing.

Returning to Jiaozhou from Xiajin County, and then setting off from Jiaozhou, Li Mengdu hurriedly prepared without delaying any time, and it was too late to read those newspapers, not to mention that a letter was sent half a month after he left.

Going to Henan along the water system near Caoyun and Jining is a completely different experience from going to Nanzhili, the former is looking at the miserable scene of the world, and the latter is looking at the entire most prosperous area in the world in this era. Almost from the Jiajing period, whether it was tax supervisors, pirates, pirates, or anything else, they could not hinder the gradual prosperity of the Jiangnan region, which was formed by Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and the eastern part of Jiangxi.

Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou handicrafts and commerce are extremely developed, all kinds of goods they produce are sold to all over the world through the sea trade routes, Japan's gold and silver mines, Spain and Portugal in South America and Southeast Asia loot gold and silver from here are all into the Ming Dynasty, exchanged for a boatload of porcelain, silk, stationery and various goods, shipped back to the country and then earn more high profits.

This kind of pure entry into the super, so that the land south of the Yangtze River has become an extremely rich area, and Nanjing, as the southern center of the Ming Dynasty, is the culmination of these prosperous people.

Follow the canal from the Yangtze River into the Yangtze River, take the waterway to Nanjing, this way to Li Meng's feeling, it is simply a change of world, the newspaper said that people in Henan cannibalism, marching in several provinces in Shandong, starvation on the roadside is not rare, the face has a dish is ordinary, but the people in the south of the Yangtze River are looking much better, even if the posture of the pedestrians on the road is also leisurely.

Everywhere shows the prosperity and wealth here, and the civilians are also following the peace and happiness a lot, this way through Huai'an, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou are all famous cities and mansions, but Li Meng did not have the kind of interest in Henan that day, first, the matter is urgent, and there is no time to delay, and secondly, the more he sees this prosperity, the more Li Meng thinks of the tragic situation after the destruction of these prosperity, he should not be able to change anything, Li Meng feels that he is just a stone thrown into the long river of history in this era, and it will not even cause waves. And not the so-called butterfly that flapps its wings to attract a hurricane.

Sitting on the bow of the boat every day and looking at the two sides of the strait is enough for Li Meng, the more prosperous and beautiful scenery, the more solemn the mood, just don't look at it.

Zheng shopkeeper in Nanjing near the ferry to greet, here the boats and boats gathered, people come and go, the so-called urban scenery is like this, I don't know why, here Li Meng remembered that he went to Shanghai and Beijing in modern times, when he got off the train, if it wasn't for the clothes people were wearing. It's exactly what a modern metropolis looks like, and the atmosphere is so similar.