Chapter 410: Good News Arrived

Compared with the so-called you are also iron-blooded in the area of Jinan Mansion, I am also iron-blooded, in Qingzhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion, except for the gold mine in Zhaoyuan, the rest are quite peaceful.

Because most of the local gentry are people who have made a bargain on this private salt and trade route, Li Meng's wealth and cheapness among these people are there, if Li Meng is not there, their income will disappear. The young sons of the Gaomen clans of these three prefectures served as officers and non-commissioned officers in the Jiaozhou Battalion Army, and there were many people who worked in Lingshan Commercial Bank, Tuntian Grange, and even Shandong Salt Gang and private ports.

These local wealthy families have been related to the interests of the Jiaozhou battalion system, belonging to the relationship of both prosperity and loss.

In the yamen of various prefectures, prefectures, and counties, there are children of these big families watching there, and if there is any abnormality, they will immediately notify the local armed salt ding, and the whole ground is like an iron bucket.

As for the location of the gold mines, it is the exception of the exceptions, and it is impossible to do it at all, and everyone is jealous of the gold and silver treasures.

The Qingzhou Army and the Dengzhou Army were all stationed in the Lingshan Private Port, and the armed Yanding of Laizhou Mansion also gathered near Jiaozhou.

If compared with usual, the strength stationed at the Lingshan Private Port is even much more than usual, stationed in the Xinyang Water Camp on the Dengzhou side, the ships go back and forth between Lingshanwei and Dengzhou Port, and there are also fast horses on the land route, communicating with each other, if there is a slight mistake, the Xinyang Water Camp will go south to support.

This kind of strict defense made the merchants who came and went to these ports, especially the merchants of the Zheng family, very incomprehensible. I thought that your port was already a fortress, and that there were so many swarthy cannons facing the sea, and so many people were stationed there, who were you trying to guard against?

Of course, it is the Zheng family that has colluded with the Tartars, and even the foreign clansmen who are attached to the Zheng family, and even some of the Zheng family's merchant ships do not understand, because they do not know who the Jiaozhou battalion's defenses are directed to.

However, when a few merchant ships of the Zheng family were walking in the open sea of Lingshanwei Port, they once had their own ships to Korea and Liaodong. Let them bring a few people, these people are all very close to the Zheng family and the dragon head, and they are considered the backbone of the clan, and they don't know what they are doing this for.

These people came to Lingshan Private Port according to the normal procedure, played in Fengmeng Town for a day like ordinary merchants, and walked around, and then took the boat they were leaving at night, and returned to the open sea to take those big boats. Silently left south.

Except for these ships and these people, no one knew that the ships were full of armed pirates, and they were the direct force of the Zheng family, but after these leaders went ashore to observe, they did not see the slightest possibility that they could rush in. Most of the ships in the harbor would have been sunk if the fortified artillery in the harbor roared, and the Zheng family's armed pirate naval warfare gang was okay.

The combat effectiveness of the land battlefield has always been poor, and there is a big gap between it and the armed salt ratio of the Jiaozhou battalion. Not to mention that there are still regular troops from the Jiaozhou battalion stationed here.

Zheng Zhilong is also a rare hero in the last days, except for the brain in the confusion of the general trend of the world, Zheng Zhilong is dominant in Fujian, runs Taiwan, and also has the strongest fleet in the East Asian Sea, he sees himself as a force, although he does not have the ability to chase the deer, but he also has the qualification to bet.

All over the world. Zheng Zhilong felt that the Manchu Qing was the most qualified force to have the last laugh, and he decided to bet more on this, since the Tatar army was going south, the news from Liaozhen was that the Manchu soldiers and horses would march to the south as much as possible, and Shandong was in danger.

Since Shandong will become a chaotic situation, then this private port might as well be occupied and controlled by the Zheng family, which is a goose that lays golden eggs. Take control of this private port. The Zheng family's situation and wealth are bound to expand further.

Seeing that the Jiaozhou battalion was heavily guarded in the Lingshan private port, several leaders of the armed pirates led by the Zheng family would not be stupidly bumped into it. Since someone used the trade route of the Ba Fujian Commercial Bank to spread the news to Jining Prefecture and Nanzhili, the landlord there was not in a hurry after receiving the news, thinking that the Tartar army would go south, and all the Ming soldiers and horses in front of him would be crushed, and sooner or later all this seemingly orderly situation in Shandong would be chaotic.

When that time comes, our Zheng family will take advantage of the chaos to make real profits, it's not too late, wait and see!

Jiaozhou City, Fengmeng Town, Lingshan Private Port, these three places are almost the commercial and salt industry center of Shandong, Jinan City out of the horseback armed Yanding, there is a team is specially towards the Lingshan Private Port, and even the order of Laizhou City and Dengzhou City are behind these three places.

The news arrived, Jiaozhou Zhizhou cried with joy in the hall, carnival all over the city, this naturally does not need to be mentioned, there are also maritime merchants from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, as well as businessmen from other places who came to buy goods, are ecstatic celebrations, the news is delivered on the tenth day of the lunar month, at this time, most of the businessmen from other places have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, restaurants and other places, the business is quite light, but on this day, the sales of wine and meat have surged sharply.

I have heard all day that I have been defeated by the Tartars, and what has been defeated by the Tartars, and today I finally have such a hearty and joyful victory, regardless of whether I have any vital interests with myself or whether I have any actual relationship, I have to drink and celebrate.

As for Jiaozhou City and Fengmeng Town, everyone has a happy and proud look on their faces, and they are all extremely proud, and they feel that the victory of the handsome is also their own glory.

The big boss Zhang of the Fengmeng Town Casino even set up a flowing water banquet in the big restaurant of Fengmeng Town, feasted the guests, and celebrated the achievements of the handsome, which was very lively.

However, some people reacted differently, after the news of the victory of the Jiaozhou battalion reached the Lingshan private port, several ships that were scheduled to leave after five days set sail on the same day and left the Lingshan private port in a hurry.

There is such a big victory, if Zheng Zhilong still wants to think about the idea of hitting Lingshan Private Port, it is a brain burned, and he was already the shopkeeper of the Shandong branch of the Ba Min Commercial Bank who left Jinan and came to Jiaozhou, and he entered Shandong with a Tartar, so I got on the boat and fled, as for what the dragon head was going to do. It has nothing to do with me.

When the news of the victory of the Jiaozhou camp came, he didn't care about going home for the New Year, so he chose some precious gifts in the warehouse of the Ba Fujian Commercial Bank, and hurried to Jinan to congratulate the victory.

Before the news arrived, there was indeed an undercurrent on the side of Lingshan Private Port, and after the news arrived, everything was completely stable and calm.

Relative to the center of Shandong, Jinan Mansion, Dahou Deng, Lai, and Qing Prefecture. Dongchang Mansion, which is regarded as a marginal area, is the largest Yanzhou Mansion, and the situation is much more complicated.

What makes people laugh and cry is that as soon as the news of the arrival of the Tatars from the south spread, the first reaction of the wealthy families in Yanzhou was not to panic, nor to support the army, but to start smuggling smuggled salt. There is no need to even make an urgent plan.

Anyone who participates in the sale of illicit salt, as long as he is caught, he does not need to ask what his name is, he just falls to the ground and beheads him. Crisp and neat.

After killing a batch like this, the trend of selling illicit salt can be regarded as settling down, and then there is an even more lively thing, the armed salt here caught the trafficking of illicit salt and beheaded it. Someone over there actually complained to the yamen of the Yanzhou prefect, and even the yamen of the Shandong Salt Administration Department stationed in Jining also received the complaint, saying that Yanding was rampant and killed the good and innocent in the local area, and asked the old men to punish him.

The prefect and the salt envoy who received this situation all smiled bitterly, thinking that there are still tens of thousands of Jiaozhou battalions in Nanzhili, and there are more than 9,000 soldiers in Yanzhou Mansion, so how can they be punished. Isn't this looking for death?

But if there was no such thing as the Tartars attacking the place, not to mention that this paper would not be handed over, even if it was delivered to the prefect and the salt envoy, they would have returned it directly or torn it up in person, so as not to have anything to do with it.

I don't know what the Yanzhou prefect thinks, he pondered it here, and actually sent someone to ask the person in charge of the armed salt in Yanzhou Mansion, saying that he would ask what this matter was.

I saw that he had sent the earthlings. The captain of the Yanding Brigade stationed in Rongyang City of the Jiaozhou Battalion also sneered. However, he didn't tear his face in person, but sent someone to send a letter to Zhang Jiang, a guerrilla of the Yanzhou Army who was stationed in Cao County, Caozhou. Zhang Jiang reacted quickly, and the 2,000 soldiers and horses of the Yanzhou army marched into Jining Prefecture and Yanzhou's capital city of Rongyang in the name of maintaining law and order.

Seeing this murderous army coming, all the Jining giants who were still jumping were silent, and no one dared to talk nonsense anymore.

The horseback riding salt sent by the Jinan Mansion brought the news of the victory to Yanzhou Mansion on the eleventh day of the lunar month, and the reaction of Yanzhou Mansion was also different from that of several other prefectures, as if there was some kind of magic spell, and each city and manor were quiet when they heard the news.

The people who trafficked in the smuggled salt and wrote the pleadings to the people in front of them all coincidentally tied up a certain child of the family and sent it to the Jiaozhou camp, saying that these children were blinded by the small head of the smuggling salt, and they were mad and confronted the army and brought about their own destruction.

This method of losing the car and protecting the commander was pure wishful thinking, and many of the armed saltmen were from the bandits and the local servants in the yamen, and these people were particularly proficient in torture and interrogation.

It didn't take a day of hard work to find out who the main messenger behind it was, in the realm of Yanzhou Mansion, there are two wealthy families who can have such influence, one is the Confucian family in Qufu, and the other is the Lu Wangfu in Rongyang City.

These two families have been operating in the territory of Yanzhou for hundreds of years, and there are many dependent and foreign wealthy families, and it is difficult for them to avoid making waves with the high price of salt and strict defense alone.

Zhang Jiang of the Yanzhou Army dealt with this matter very simply, on the one hand, he wrote an official document to the commander who returned to the division after victory, so that he could make a decision, as for the current way of dealing with it, it is to deal with it with higher salt prices and harsher defenses, such as those wealthy families who came out to make trouble, many of them have been regarded as attached and have eaten cheap private salt.

After this incident, the price of salt rose sharply to a price higher than the highest point, and the armed salt Ding stared them to death, which is like cutting meat with a blunt knife, and it hurts slowly!

For the Confucian Mansion and the Lu Wangfu, these two families are still unable to move, so let them not move, the two battalions of the Yanzhou Army and the local armed Yanding have completely blocked these two families in the name of protection, and no one is allowed to enter and leave at will, and all food and supplies need to be imported in strict accordance with the quota.

And he didn't care about the face of a saint or the royal system. Armed Yanding carried out a dragnet search in the courtyard of the two of them, and did not allow any swords, guns, bows and arrows to exist, this kind of behavior is already equivalent to raiding the house, Yan Shenggong is gentle, let the people below cooperate politely and gently, and there can be no resistance, and he is locked in the house to drink tea and read books. A posture of being beaten up.

But Zhu Yipai, the king of Nalu, was young and vigorous, and he could withstand such a formation, holding a sword in his hand that he didn't know whether to open or not, and was held by his younger brother Zhu Yihai and the housekeeper of the palace, and in front of them, there were more than a dozen big men with wooden sticks, looking at them with solemn faces.

If this Lu Wang Zhu Yipai really rushed forward and worked hard, it is estimated that he will be beaten hard by these big sticks. It is estimated that you will not dare to be killed, but it is very likely that you will not be alive or dead.

Henan got the news relatively late, but the changes over there were much bigger than those in Shandong, and there were four battalions of the Guide Army assigned to the Yanzhou Army. There are also two battalions of armed training of local tyrants and landlords, as well as a battalion of Yuan Shizhong who gathered the remnants of his own soldiers and horses.

The forces were mixed, and the four battalions returned to the German army were all within the system of the Jiaozhou battalion, and they were paid ten percent of the military salary. The remaining three battalions, except for one battalion in Yuan Shizhongdi, which was supplied by the Guide Tun Tianzhuang, the remaining two were self-raised.

From the difference in military salaries, it can also be seen that the various forces are different from Shandong, plus the territory of Henan, where the Guide Mansion is located, except for the small mansions in Kaifeng and the north of the Yellow River, there are no Ming officials in the rest of the places, and they are completely the forces of the army of displaced people and local tyrants.

These forces are intertwined with each other. The army of displaced people occupies an absolute advantage here, but the situation is chaotic, even in the Guide Mansion, relying on the efforts of the local forces in the mountains of the Thousand Commanders of the German Army, as well as the regular army of the Tuntian Grange and the Jiaozhou Battalion, it has stabilized. There are also many forces in the Defu that are indifferent between the Ming Dynasty and the King of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty. I don't know which side to throw towards.

When the Jiaozhou camp was strong. Naturally, they will not be reactionary, but the boundary of Defu and Beizhili are also adjacent. The Tartar army entered the Kou, and they even knew in advance than many people in Yanzhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion.

It was not a monolith, the husband and wife were originally birds of the same forest, and they flew separately when the disaster came, this is the most appropriate place to put here, among the people who eat with knives and guns in the Defu Mansion, many of them are border soldiers from all over the country, and there are many people who eat food as soldiers in Beizhili, but they know the benefits and disadvantages of the Tartar soldiers and horses.

With such a strong soldier and horse coming to Shandong, everything will be wiped out, so let's divide the luggage and run away as soon as possible!

First of all, the various forces argued with each other, and Yuan Shizhong of the small Yuan camp didn't know how to express his position, but Jia Dashan was completely integrated into the system at this time, and he was with several descendants of the camp Qian, and he did not allow the Guide Mansion to be infiltrated by other forces, nor did he allow the army in the establishment of the Guide Army to leave.

At first, it was just an argument, and everyone still wanted to see the style, but when Li Meng led the army to march north from Nanzhili, this kind of controversy suddenly became fierce.

In the eyes of everyone, Li Meng's practice of marching in a hurry to attack the Tartar soldiers and horses who were waiting for work was no different from sending them to death, and the Ming army and the Manchu army fought because of this kind of light division and were calmly broken by the brave Tartar soldiers and horses, and it seems that the situation in Shandong is also fun.

Guide Mansion is so rich now, everyone has to divide something and then leave, Guide Military Camp Thousand Zong Jia Dashan is the local wealthy family of Guide Mansion, his family and family business have gained greater benefits after the Jiaozhou camp is stationed, and Guide Mansion is so peaceful, so that Jia Dashan, who has always guarded his hometown, is also quite rewarded, whether it is for private or public, he insists on standing on the side of Jiaozhou.

But the other two battalions composed of local tyrants and villagers didn't think so, they were originally guest troops, and they thought that it would be best to get a vote in this place and leave, if possible, it was best to go to Shandong to loot, and the cheaper ones over there were greater.

The problem now is that Yuan Shizhong's statement is very important to guide the German garrison, if he stands on the side of the miscellaneous battalion, the miscellaneous battalion plus Yuan Shizhong's battalion plus some foreign troops, at least in terms of numbers, can compete with the regular army, if Yuan Shizhong insists on his own position, then the regular army of the Jiaozhou battalion is an absolute advantage.

Yuan Shizhong, the leader of the small Yuan battalion who was scolded by the army of displaced people, made up his mind unexpectedly quickly, he wanted to fulfill the responsibility of the Jiaozhou battalion to be garrisoned by the German army, and he would resolutely not leave.

In the history without Li Meng. The army led by Abatai really crisscrossed thousands of miles in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers reached as far as the Haizhou area of Nanzhili, and the Ming army broke out one after another, and finally gathered people and horses to block the Tartar soldiers and horses, it was this Yuan Shizhong, he gathered a group of peasant troops to fight, which was what made the Tartars' soldiers stop at Nanzhili, and did not continue to move forward.

This Yuan Shizhong is a rare place with a nation in his heart. There is the head of the exile army with the overall situation of the country, Li Meng led the troops to march to the north to meet the enemy, this move is not wise in his eyes, but it is a move for the country regardless of personal gains and losses, then Li Meng is a careerist, Yuan Shizhong also knows it, but the best way to avoid the war is to avoid the war when the Tartar army goes south. It's the right thing to do to preserve your strength and then take advantage of the situation to take over a larger territory.

But Li Meng chose the most stupid way to meet the enemy, which shows that Li Mengdi is a kind person, others have a province, and an army of 100,000 can still do this. The strength in his own hands is meager, why can't it!

After Yuan Shizhong determined his position, the situation in Henan Guide Mansion stabilized, but King Chuang and Cao Cao both sent people here to collect the two miscellaneous battalions.

This ragtag battalion was said to be the weakest among the German troops. But if you join the Chuang Battalion and Cao Cao's army, it can really be regarded as a force that can fight, and it can bring a lot of unique training systems and methods of the Jiaozhou battalion, which has many benefits, so both sides have promised quite generous conditions to recruit.

The two battalions, who thought that the general trend of Shandong had gone, also kept dissuading them, and decided to leave Guide Mansion and go to the southwest of Kaifeng Prefecture, where there were also soldiers and horses who broke into the camp to respond, and the future there was even greater.

Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan both agreed on their opinions. The Jiaozhou battalion is a regular army here, how can it be said that it will come and go, and resolutely refrain from letting it go, this kind of dispute will definitely not have any results, and in the end it will definitely be a battle against each other.

The two miscellaneous battalion leaders in the middle of the German army knew their strength and knew that if they fought in the field, they were afraid that they would be defeated in a battle, so they ran to the junction of Guide and Kaifeng first. They knew they had to flee. will definitely be caught up by the soldiers and horses behind him, so he simply uses the time to escape first. Large-scale fortifications were built at the border, and preparations were made to rely on the fortifications to defend it.

The other side has already contacted the army of exiles who broke into the king, and as long as it is supported here at the border for a period of time, the army will be sent to meet it.

Unlike the rest of the Jiaozhou battalion, the German army was extremely lacking in heavy firearms and siege equipment, which was why the two miscellaneous battalions chose to hold on.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, there are still fifteen days before the Chinese New Year's Eve festival, originally Guide Fu rarely had a good year in these two years, everyone thought that the wife was peaceful, happy to celebrate the New Year, who thought that it would still be a fight, then again, Henan territory, I don't know how many people have not had a good year.

But the solution of this matter was also unexpected, and when the two sides were about to start a war at the border, the messenger from Jining Prefecture came to the middle of the battlefield on a fast horse.

Originally, the document was sent to Guide Mansion City first, but I heard the news there, Guide Mansion City, Lingshan Business Firm in the Fucheng branch of the shopkeeper boldly came up with an idea, saying that since the good news was heard everywhere was awe-inspiring and quiet, it was better to bring this news directly to the battlefield, maybe there would be a good effect.

The document of this victory was an internal information transmission of the Jiaozhou battalion, and it had nothing to do with the magistrate, and according to the rules, it should have been transmitted to Yuan Shizhong, the nominal military governor of Guide Mansion.

Several horseback riders who reported the victory did not say a word, and directly changed horses and came to the battlefield......

The news of the victory was known by Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan, and it was quiet at first, then cheers, and then the cheers and shouts of all the troops in front of the battle.

The two ragtag battalions on the other side were silent......

After almost a stick of incense, the fortifications of these two miscellaneous battalions became extremely noisy, and Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan thought that they couldn't help but fight, and gave orders to prepare for battle.

Then, the soldiers of the miscellaneous battalion made a noise, tied up a dozen leaders of the battalion, threw them in the formation, and then knelt down to admit their mistakes and surrender......

From this point of view, the top and bottom of Guide Mansion should be able to have a good fat year. Of course, when the victory was announced on the battlefield, the cities of Guide and those areas on the north bank of the Yellow River had already begun to celebrate.

Compared with the territory of Shandong, which Li Meng can completely control, and the relatively weak Guide Mansion in Henan, there is a lot of noise everywhere in Nanzhili, but this trouble has no waves at the military level. The Huaiyang Army led by Chen Liu, the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo Army of the Displaced People, the officers and soldiers of Nanzhili led by Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing, and the Qingzhou Army led by Ma Gang were intertwined and threatened each other.

This relatively balanced balance of forces makes it difficult for the situation here to change, and under the backward conditions of this era, some news is still spreading very quickly, such as the Tartar army has arrived in Beizhili, for example, Li Meng led the army to march north to meet the attack.

All this is bad news for Shandong's soldiers and horses. After these two news spread, the movements and movements of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Zuo were obviously changed, and they were originally going to attack the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili, but after Li Meng retreated, they maintained the principle of not being able to afford a big war. Small-scale harassment must be carried out.

But no matter how one side urged, the 5th Battalion of the Left Revolution did not move at all, as if it was a turtle with a shrunken head, and all its troops were retracted into the camp.

But he sent an envoy to the camp of the Huaiyang army in Jiaozhou to beg. said that he could not fight because of the epidemic in the army, and asked for a few days of grace to make plans after Deng recovered, but then Chen Liu learned from the secret agents of the Shandong Salt Gang that the old Hui Ma Shouying of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution sent his cronies to ask for a meeting with Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing, to discuss what was self-explanatory.

The marshal led the army to the north to meet the Tatars, and the cronies such as Ma Gang and Chen Liu were not too worried. But this is a variable after all, and it is still necessary to stand by according to the plan.

Despite the small movements of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution, the Huaiyang Army and the Qingzhou Army still maintained a relatively quiet situation.

The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses led by the eunuchs of Nanjing finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing Town, and Huang Degong, the deputy general, jumped to their feet and scolded in Shouzhou City.

The imperial court did not pay the slightest military salary to the Shandong soldiers and horses. But why is there no shortage of grain and grass for this Shandong soldier and horse. How did these things come here, and how did those wealthy businessmen of Lianghuai not care about the overall situation at all. What the hell is going on with this Huaishui and the large number of cargo ships on the canal.

The Nanzhili army is facing the enemy army, and behind it is a friendly army that is more like the enemy army, and it is extremely difficult to send troops to block the transport ships on the canal, and I am afraid that this kind of action will destroy the hard-won quiet situation.

The soldiers and horses of Nanzhili are comparable to all the soldiers and horses in this area in the south of Fengyang Mansion and need to recuperate.

In fact, the Huaiyang Army and the Qingzhou Army in the south of Fengyang Prefecture, their current supply is no longer the joint support of the two Huai salt merchants, but only the Fang family in Yangzhou.

For Li Meng's rapid march north to fight against the Tartars, the two Huai salt merchants thought that they were used to seeing the wind and waves, and thought they had seen the end.

Originally, the second son of the Fang family had already obtained the status of the heir in the family, but the boss of Fang, who was sent back to guard the ancestral tomb, was mentioned in the clan, and the eldest lord also had other advantages and strengths, so it was a little unfair to be sent away. At this time, Mrs. Fang embodied the wisdom he had cultivated over the years of leading the Lianghuai salt industry through ups and downs.

When everyone was waiting for him to come up with an idea, his old man was "sick", on the other hand, he said that the second son of the Fang family, who was currently in charge, had too many things, and he was inevitably a little too busy, so he specially arranged for the third son of the Fang family to help, and his personal old housekeeper also wanted to participate.

It can independently support the military needs of tens of thousands of troops, firstly, the supply and operation of the Tuntian Grange in Lianghuai and Yanzhou and those warehouses and military stations, and it is indeed necessary to supplement the Fang family, which is rich and invincible, it turns out that when Li Meng led the army in Nanzhili, the Fang family thought that they might be able to be called the second-class Lu Buwei, and they were willing to spend money.

Now seeing that the cause of this Shandong soldier and horse is like a flash in the pan, the momentum of spending money is immediately weakened, even if the second young man of the Fang family is ready to gamble once, the third child of the Fang family and others are not willing to spend money to give it out, and they will be deducted from the review of various expenses.

The person in charge of the Lingshan Commercial Bank in Lianghuai was already in a hurry, and the army was on the front line. If the logistics supply can't keep up with the slightest disaster, it will be a big disaster, and when the matter comes, everything is mainly to ensure military needs, and the shopkeeper of this branch took out the title deeds of Tuntian Grange and several salt farms, and handed them over to the Fang family as a mortgage.

These granges and salt farms are almost two gold mines on the ground, and they do have enough value, and with this sufficient guarantee, the Fang family can finally continue to transfuse blood for the army.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the news arrived in Yangzhou. On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the news arrived in the Shouzhou area of Fengyang Prefecture, of course, it was only the relevant aspects of the Jiaozhou battalion that were reported, but Lu Jiude, the eunuch guarding Nanjing City and Nanjing Town, did not know that on the 20th day of the lunar month, the small-scale attack and harassment of the officers and soldiers of Nanzhili who had been silent for almost a month began again.

Old man Fang, the leader of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, was approaching the New Year. He was finally cured of his illness, and he came out to re-director, and severely reprimanded his third son and the housekeeper for their "misconduct" in the house some time ago, and made a certain punishment.

Old Man Fang personally went to the Lingshan business to apologize to a small semicolon shopkeeper, and also returned all the land deeds and vouchers placed in the Fang family. Those in the Fang family who spoke for Boss Fang were all sent back to their hometown Zhuangzi to guard the ancestral grave there.

The two wealthy businessmen who had just cooled down posted it with a smile on their faces. Every wealthy businessman promised a large number of free materials, saying that it was the previous period of time, because the New Year Festival is approaching, the material turnover is not effective, and there are no such difficulties now, but it also delays the use of the army, and these batches of land materials will be regarded as compensation.

A month ago, when Li Meng led a large army to Nanzhili. These merchants who cooperated with Jiaozhou to deliver supplies had already won Li Meng's smile, even though their landlord was now a salt factory, and there was some degree of competition with the Shandong salt industry in Jiaozhou.

But their income actually rose slightly during this period, because the Jiaozhou battalion has completely driven out the small private salt in addition to Lu salt and Huai salt through its own battles, since the chaos in the Chongzhen period, many places because of chaos, salt roads cut off, resulting in the gradual shrinking of the Huai salt market in the marketing world. The total income of the salt merchants has actually been decreasing.

At present, these salt merchants do not feel this way. It's just that they have been swallowing up the weak ones all these years, relying on grabbing other people's market share to supplement what they have reduced for various reasons. Under such a cannibalistic slaughter, the surviving salt merchants still feel that their share and income are constantly rising.

Now, the Jiaozhou battalion has almost achieved stability in most areas of Nanzhili, Shandong and Beizhili, and has used strong force to ensure that the caravans and various businesses under the protection of the Jiaozhou battalion can be carried out smoothly.

According to this trend, after one or two years, the two Huai salt merchants will not have to worry about the competition from Shandong's private salt, because the cake of the salt industry is big enough for these businessmen at present, and the Jiaozhou camp can also make him bigger and bigger, and everyone will get rich.

This is just the salt industry, these businessmen who have won Li Meng's smile have capital and business experience, and they also belong to the class that has benefited the most in the future business ideas of Jiaozhou Ying.

But in the attitude of the Tartars invading and Li Meng going north, everyone avoids it, and all the dividends now and in the future will be far away from them.

A lot of opportunities are missed, and they are missed.

Li Meng led the army into Nanzhili, received an urgent report and turned back urgently, and the non-combat officers who accompanied the army, especially those who were not from the Jiaozhou battalion system, were all left in Shanyang City, that is, the capital city of Huai'an Prefecture.

Although Huai'an Mansion is a place in the north of the Yangtze River, it is also a place in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the influence of the Jiangnan scholars and Donglin literati.

People say that they love the house and Wu, and everyone dislikes Li Meng, and even the governor of Shandong, who is a famous man in Donglin but has no backbone, is disgusted, Yan Jizu is one of the people who were left in Shanyang City, and for a time became the target of the Huai'an literati.

On the morning of the first day of the lunar month, the subordinates of Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, found a wooden sign on the wall at the entrance of the house, which read: "On behalf of the Shandong general soldier Li Mou patrols Shandong and the deputy capital of the Southern Zhili Local Inspectorate, there is no problem with the second half of the book, but the previous generation, if it is mentioned, is "Daitian", that is, the meaning of replacing the governor of the Son of Heaven.

And the person who put the sign is written as "Dai Li Meng", which is clearly a satire that Yan Jizu is a civil official and a famous man, but he is willing to be a slave of the martial artist Li Meng, and he has no face at all.

When he saw this sign, Governor Yan Jizu's face was pale, and he closed his door......