On the second day of November, Li Meng's army arrived in Jining Prefecture, but this time there were no guests along the way, but instead stationed in a military camp outside Jining City.

Originally, all the big businessmen in the city were ready to go to visit, but they were killed on the street in the bustling neighborhood of Jining, and this bloodshed made everyone silent.

It is not an outsider who kills, but a tax collector of the Jiaozhou Camp and Gold Bureau, to say that there are some official status of the servants, the most bullish of that family, in the past, it was the salt transport envoy Yamen, and the servants of his family were all rich and oily, but now they are the tax collectors of the Jiaozhou Camp and Gold Bureau, and the small tax collectors don't even sell the face of Zhizhou.

No matter what kind of background the big businessmen, in front of these tax men must be polite, the tax members of the Lijin Bureau are veterans of the Jiaozhou battalion, often or meritorious veterans can serve, a year of tax ding, the salary is already ten times the full salary of the soldiers, higher than the Jining Zhizhou Lu, even if it is placed under the big tomorrow, this is also a first-class rich income

Although everyone knows that the reason for the majesty of these tax collectors is that the huge Jiaozhou battalion stands behind them, you have to sell this majesty.

However, some businessmen who are active in their minds have also come up with some crooked ways, no matter how loyal and majestic the tax collector is, he is also a human being, and he likes gold and silver wealth, so he will send money and bribes, or give women fields or something, this taxpayer has become his own person, of course, when estimating the value of the goods and drawing cents of gold, he will be merciful. You can even buy and sell some prohibited materials, which is not a huge profit, and the little silver bribed is naturally nothing.

Now, the tax collectors who collected the money were beheaded to the public, and the merchants who gave the money did not end well, and the next day they were beheaded, and all their property was confiscated.

Those greedy tax collectors, no one begged for mercy before the beheading, they were all ashamed to lie on the ground, afraid to see people, they had experienced the battle of life and death, and were placed in a good place by the marshal. It is regarded as a reward for merit, who would have thought that he would not be angry, greedy for money, bend the law, lose his own people, lose his handsome people, and even affect his own family and lose the identity of his military family. It's not a matter of one's own life, it's a matter of several lifetimes.

The officers of all armies and battalions, even if they want to plead, they can't plead, and when they hear that their sons and daughters have broken the rules of the Jiaozhou battalion because they are greedy for small profits, it is too late to be angry, and the desire to intercede is long gone.

Looking at these bloody and cruel cases, those big businessmen who were ready to communicate with each other after Li Meng came to Jining City were afraid that it was too late, and the thoughts of collusion and curry favor were put aside for a while.

Someone is thinking. Is this the marshal going to kill the pig, Jining Prefecture and Jiaozhou City because of the rise of the Jiaozhou camp, and there are many people who have become rich. Many of the originally medium-sized merchants have swelled into large merchants, and these merchants can be regarded as loyal supporters of the Jiaozhou battalion, but the merchants are profit-seeking, and they are closer to interests than forces in their nature.

Seeing such a bloody scene. Everyone was terrified. I was wondering if the next time the knife would fall on my neck. Is this fattening us and then killing.

This place is indeed a measure for Jiaozhou to kill chickens and monkeys. After killing people and raiding their homes. The local chamber of commerce of Yiwenru Commercial Bank and Lingshan Commercial Bank sent a notice to the merchants of each shop. As long as the business is done in accordance with the rules of the Jiaozhou camp. Don't worry about that. If you don't follow the rules. That's an example in front of you.

With this notification. The merchants were a little more relieved. Most of the merchant families in Shandong had a scale after the emergence of the Jiaozhou camp. They are profit-seeking. But their roots are in Shandong. Leave here and they're nothing. The places in the world that can do business are nothing more than Liangzhili, Shandong, Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangdong. When these Shandong businessmen left Shandong, there was no way to compete with those wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan who had accumulated savings for hundreds of years.

And there is another benefit in Shandong. There are basically no taxes. The only fee they paid to the government and the Jiaozhou camp was Caoyun Lijin.

Li Meng made money in Shandong's increasingly prosperous business. It is also through business to earn land. For example, some monopolies in Lingshan Commercial Bank. This kind of semi-monopoly buying and selling is sure to guarantee windfall profits. Besides. And he didn't make any other money from the merchants.

Shandong merchants bought and sold in Shandong. Communicate with businessmen from other provinces. Let the goods in Lingshan private port be sold. Let the circulation of materials in the Shandong market become smooth. Let the people be rich. These are enough for Li Meng. He also needed to collect money from the merchants. Of course. There is no such title at the moment.

However, as soon as this Cao Yun Li Jin was implemented, it gave so many benefits and benefits to the merchants in the past, and the merchants were not necessarily grateful, but immediately began to bribe the tax collectors.

It is necessary to give a warning, let this bloody fact, let them remember.

Li Meng, who traveled all the way from Jinan City, was a little funny at this time, because it was originally a large army marching south, but it became an armed parade along the way, not to mention, he actually had to welcome guests and deal with local government affairs.

After resting in the Jining military camp for two days, Li Meng led the army to board the ship at the Jining wharf and went south to Nanzhili, which was the fourth day of November in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

At night, the accommodation and rest are all on the boat, and the uninterrupted movement can be maintained on the waterway, and the Yanzhou army guerrilla Zhang Jiang disembarked and boarded the 6th to return to his own team after asking Li Meng.

For the Yanzhou army, during the southern expedition of the army, he and the troops directly under the Jiaozhou battalion of Guide Mansion and those local tyrants pulled up the team to ensure the safety of Yanzhou Mansion, Guide Mansion and Xuzhou, if the army of displaced people entered from the south, they would have to resist for at least ten days and wait for the army to return for reinforcements.

However, Zhao Neng of the Dengzhou Army, which is currently entering Jinan Prefecture, has no corresponding instructions, and the officers and soldiers of the Beizhili Prefecture cannot pose any threat to Shandong.

Li Meng's boat is not big, it can accommodate dozens of people, this time Sun Chuanting did not follow the expedition to the south, the army and armed Yanding who stayed in Shandong, as well as the various yamen of the civil administration, were all explained, in case of major and urgent matters, in addition to quickly informing the marshal, we must ask the old lady of the inner house and the left-behind Mr. Gongsun to make a decision, these two people are big materials, enough to make an accurate judgment.

The foreigner Auman. Garris was also left in Jinan City, and the experimental battalion was still left in Jinan City, one was to give the foreigner a continuous drill demonstration, and the other was to be used as an elite force to stay behind and guard the inner house and the center.

"Marshal, Governor Yan asks to see you!"

Yan Jizu has freedom of movement, but he is on another boat, if he wants to see him, he needs to come by boat, and it is estimated that he is here to talk about the resignation.

Now that the army is about to enter the territory of Nanzhili, the overall situation has been decided, and it seems that there is no need for a pro-own military department in the Jingshi Imperial Court.

"Please come in, Lord Yan!"

Li Meng opened his mouth and agreed, but he was thinking in his heart that Yan Jizu was a lot old, and he was frightened in this Shandong post, since he couldn't use it, he should release people, or don't hold on to it, and keep it when he left, although Governor Yan's family is in Jiangnan, but Jining gave him a big Zhuangzi and a sum of gold and silver, which can be regarded as a reward.

"Walking on the river in late autumn, it was really cold, and the old man couldn't stand it, he was getting older." As soon as Yan Jizu entered the door, he first sighed with emotion, but Li Meng was a little strange, because this performance was not Yan Jizu on weekdays, whether it was public or private, Yan Jizu saw Li Meng respectfully, and the governor saw the chief soldier, and the chief soldier should be the official courtesy, but he has always been a subordinate official, and everything is humble

But today's performance is very open-minded, and the tone and expression of this conversation are obviously the attitude of treating each other as equals.

That's fine, there is no conflict of interest at the moment, and it's not bad to have multiple people who can talk, it's better than a slave who only promises, Li Meng got up from his seat and said to several generals around him:

"Patrol the camp, arrange a vigilance, the big battle is coming, everyone must cheer up, go!"

The generals who were still discussing in the cabin just now all stood up, strode away after the military salute, and when they passed by Yan Jizu's side, they didn't even say hello, if it was normal, Yan Jizu would have a smile on his face, a look of not caring, but he would be very uncomfortable.

But at this time, he completely let go, and waited for the generals to go out with a smile, and then stepped forward and said:

"Dashuai, the old man suddenly remembered an important matter before going to bed, and felt that he couldn't delay, so he came to find Dashuai and asked Dashuai to get a charter here."

Looking at Yan Jizu's abnormal performance, Li Meng was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, laughed a few times, and said loudly:

"Lord Yan is his own person, don't hesitate to say anything if you have anything."

Such people take refuge in their side, whether it is morning or evening, Li Meng is welcome.

"General, I'm a layman with troops, but the pass of this Ming Kingdom is just ahead, so why should I prepare!"

The Manchu army marching on the grassland outside the Guan, Tu Lichen from the Horqin tribe asked with some doubts, in the entire army, that is, he is qualified to ask such words.

Abatai was kind to others, but he was polite to this Turichen Beyler, who was related to the emperor, and when he heard the other party ask, he grinned and replied:

"Turichen Beyler thinks about this matter very hard, we have followed the emperor and prince into this Ming country many times, the Han people of the Ming country dare not fight at all, seeing our Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers, they either knelt down and begged for mercy, or fled early......

As he was talking, he heard someone shouting from afar:

"General, the Ming army at Jielingkou saw our forward and ran early, please give the general an order to enter the customs!" Love, I drank too much, I felt uncomfortable, I wrote less, sorry, thank you