Sun Yuan didn't know that because of Xiaomei's appearance, the three of them had murderous intentions.

Although Rugao is also a good place, how can it compare to a prosperous place like Fengyang, the central capital. Moreover, as a trio, when have you ever seen such a magnificent woman.

Even if she is just an ordinary maid, Xiaomei is born with bright eyes and sharp teeth, and in their eyes, she is like a fairy.

also knew that Xiaomei was the maid of Shao Yu, and Miss Shao was the wife of Yang Zefu, the eunuch of the garrison in the central capital, after these three people had already affirmed that Sun Yuan had gone through Yang Gonggong's door, and Feng Yang's mission seemed to be able to be done.

If you want to go back and give an explanation to Xiao Xianzun, you must kill Sun Yuan before the grain ship leaves Fengyang.

These days, Zhou Wu and Jiang Shisan always have murderous in their eyes when they look at Sun Yuan, and Mao Cheng is even more humble and flattering, don't think about it, these three people are thinking about how to start on the fourteenth day of the first month.

In the past few days, he went to the butler's business again to check whether the boss had prepared the cash.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly together, and the boss said that it was almost there. However, recently, the war in Henan has become bigger and bigger, and the price of gold is expensive and not easy to convert.

As soon as Sun Yuan heard this, his head buzzed.

Thousands of calculations but did not count this, prosperous antiques, troubled gold. The peasant army had already entered Henan, and the squires and landlords naturally had to flee. But the field house can't be taken away, and the silver is large and heavy, so it is not easy to carry. As a result, many wealthy families exchanged silver for gold to facilitate their escape.

As a result, the gold prices in Henan and Anhui have been running upward. In the beginning, the ratio of gold and silver was 1:9, then 1:10, and now it is 1:13.

Even so, because there are so many people exchanging it, even if you want to buy some gold, it is not easy to find a source.

Seeing that Sun Yuan's face changed greatly, the boss smiled and said, "I know that Sun Xiangcheng is leaving Fengyang on the fifteenth day of the month, how could he mistake you." Rest assured, I have already agreed with a few silver trumpets about the gold, and I will definitely be able to pay it off in full on the fourteenth night of the first lunar month, but this is the price......"

It turns out that this guy is trying to take the opportunity to cut my price?

Sun Yuan was angry, but he was in a hurry to leave Fengyang, but he had to endure the pain of being cut off again.

At the moment, the two bargained for a long time, and after being cut by the boss again, the deal was settled.

After saying all this, Sun Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly: "Boss Guan is really good at doing business, Sun admires it, and hopes that Boss Guan can keep his promise this time." ”

"Nature, nature." Boss Guan deliberately sighed loudly, touched his forehead, and said, "Sun Xianggong, in fact, I don't want to be like this, really, really...... Who knew that this gold would rise so much, and the times will be difficult! ”

"By the way, when the delivery is made on the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, it is estimated that the boss will have to prepare the people and ships by yourself." Sun Yuan knew that selling public grain was a killer business, how could he do it in front of the people. He had to think of a way to get them away first, and as for the way, he already had a plan.

"Well said, well said." The boss laughed treacherously, glanced at Sun Yuan deeply, and said in his heart: I really don't understand the origin of this batch of grain in the hands of this surnamed Sun, and I think it must be the official grain sent to Fengyang by the local government. This kid is so bold that he even dares to sell imperial grain, and looking at his speech and demeanor, he must be a character. However, who is he and what does it matter to me, after this transaction is done, it will be ten percent profitable, hehe, this business is done, and I have food and clothing for a year.

After chatting a few more words, Sun Yuan suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and asked as if nothing had happened: "Boss, why have all the porters on the dock been replaced, but I didn't see a single one of the men who fought last time." ”

Boss Guan sighed: "You're talking about that group of thieves!" Our business is about harmony and wealth, these literate men provoke people who shouldn't be provoked, if I take them in, wouldn't I mess with the eunuch Yang Gonggong. Yang Gonggong's status is so noble, naturally he won't do anything to me, a lowly person. But in this world, there are always people who want to please their bosses, and when the time comes, they will take a shortcoming of me at will, and I don't need to open this business. ”

"Understood, understood!" Sun Yuan agreed.

Fei Hong and the others are now unemployed, so it's okay, they don't have a place to go, they can't leave Fengyang if they don't want to, and when the time comes, they will inevitably have to go to Rugao to join my Sun Yuan.

After agreeing with the boss of the manager on the details of receiving the goods, Sun Yuan came out of the housekeeper's business and walked to the original teahouse.

This place is a gathering place for scholars in Fengyang, Sun Yuan has pretended to be a scholar for so long, and somehow, he has gradually become familiar with this identity.

In fact, walking outside in this capacity has a lot more convenience and less unnecessary trouble.

It's good to be a ruling class!

Today's teahouse is much more lively than that day, and there are already many people sitting in it, all discussing something fiercely.

Some people sighed repeatedly, some looked sad, and some argued with each other so much that their faces were red.

Sun Yuan ordered a pot of yellow tea at random, found a secluded corner to sit down, and listened to the excitement while leisurely sipping tea.

Most of the scholars were born in the families of the gentry, and as one of the ruling classes of the Ming Dynasty, they walked on the scene on weekdays, and they were much better informed than ordinary people. He also likes to talk about national politics and talk about people's national politics. The so-called: the sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the ear; State affairs, family affairs, world affairs, everything is concerned.

Discussing politics is a favorite hobby of scholars.

Sitting in the teahouse, Sun Yuan also heard a lot of interesting things and obtained a lot of useful information.

Nowadays, the most important national policy of the Ming Dynasty is naturally the war in Henan, and Fengyang Mansion is close to Henan, so it is impossible for scholars not to care.

When it came to the war in Henan and the defeat of the officers and troops on the battlefield, everyone sighed one after another.

"I heard it, the Shaanxi thieves have taken down Yingzhou City in my Fengyang Mansion." As he was talking, suddenly, a scholar with a beautiful appearance ran in from outside panting with a few pieces of paper in his hand, and shouted: "This is an urgent report that I just copied from the governor's yamen." ”

"What!"

"Boom!" With a bang, the scholars hurriedly got up from their seats and surrounded the scholar: "Li Xiucai, Brother Li, is this true?" ”

For a while, the teahouse was filled with the sound of scholars running, the sound of chairs and benches falling to the ground, and the sound of cups falling to the ground.

Sun Yuan's spirits perked: Sure enough, it's here!

According to the real historical records, after Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Yingxiang's Xingyang Conference, the army has an absolute advantage, and seeing that the entire Henan is about to enter its hands, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked, and urgently transferred Hong Chengchou, who rebelled in Xining, to the east of Tongguan, supervised all kinds of soldiers and horses, and entered Henan to exterminate the peasant army.

Hong Chengchou rarely won victories against Hou Jin Jiannu, but he was very handy in fighting the peasant army. Now the thirteen families and seventy-two peasant armies in Henan have all suffered at his hands.

Many people's fathers, brothers, and comrades-in-arms died under this person's sword, and it can be said that the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was talking about the change of color.

As soon as he left Henan, the officers and soldiers changed the situation of not working in the past, and immediately mobilized the army to attack the peasant army from all sides.

Among them, Zuo Liangyu, Chen Yongfu and others are even more generals, and they are all elite border troops, pressed from the east, west and north, quite like Yang He's ten-sided net posture back then.

In order to support Hong Chengchou, the imperial court made an exception to pay a large amount of food, Emperor Chongzhen paid 200,000 taels of silver out of his own pocket, 780,000 taels of household salary, and left Huguang Xin 130,000 taels and Sichuan 20,000 taels for military use.

Emperor Chongzhen can be said to have used all his strength this time, and strictly ordered Hong Chengchou to exterminate the peasant army in Henan within half a year.

Under such great pressure from the Ming army, the peasant army could only break through to the southeast. In fact, no other path has been taken.

It is definitely not possible to advance to the west, and there is Hong Chengchou, and since the battle with him, the peasant army has not won. To the southwest, it is even more not, but there is the first general Lu Xiangsheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty. And what about heading north? No, Xin'an, Mianchihe are Zuo Liangyu's soldiers. To the northeast, it was even more terrifying, over there, that the Tianjin soldiers and the Guanning cavalry drove from Gyeonggi and Shandong from this direction.

Therefore, the peasant army had to advance to the south and southeast, entering the east and southeast of Henan, as well as the areas of Fengyang, Luzhou, and Anqing in the south of Zhili. In contrast, the Ming Dynasty's defensive forces in this area were much weaker, and the peasant army had more room for maneuver.

Hong Chengchou's hand played beautifully, and indeed in a short period of time, it greatly overstocked the activity space of the peasant army in Henan and drove it away from the core of the Central Plains.

Although General Hong's character was despicable, his military and political talents were first-class in this era, and he had long seen that it was not terrible for the peasant army to move around to fight, and as long as they continued to shrink their room for maneuver and supplemented it by political means, it would not be difficult to exterminate the peasant army. However, if they are allowed to take root in one place and establish a base, things will be in trouble.

In fact, as he expected, Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang and others did go all the way east and escaped from Henan. The whole of Henan, including Shanxi and Shaanxi, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

However, the area of Fengyang and Luzhou was under great pressure, and as recorded in real history, Yingzhou, the gateway to Fengyang, fell.

The person surnamed Li, who was waving the urgent report, said loudly: "Naturally, it's true, Xiaosheng is now on an errand in the governor's yamen signing room, and this is an urgent report on the road that has just arrived at the front line." Xiao Sheng saw it and hurriedly copied it. ”

"How did Yingzhou fall."

Li Xiucai hurriedly unfolded the urgent report and said: "...... When the thieves came, there were only a few thousand defenders in the city, and there were more than 10,000 people after the thieves and the false sweeping king...... No Enemy...... Zhang Youjun, the county minister, Ni Dake, and He Bingruo, the instructor, went to the city to supervise the battle, and died unyieldingly...... The thief went to the yamen of the state capital, and Yin Mengche, the governor of the state, fought with a big knife, but he was outnumbered, so he could only fight and retreat. retreated to the rear office, there was no way out, and he threw himself into a well and died in the country...... His younger brother and nephew then killed themselves with knives and became heroic...... Zhao Shikuan also led his family to participate in the station, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and his wife and three daughters climbed the stairs ****......"

At the beginning, the scholars kept screaming, but now, they all closed their lips tightly and didn't say a word.

Li Xiucai read and read, his voice became lower and lower, and in the end, he couldn't cry.

"Here we go!" Sun Yuan muttered, looked at Li Xiucai who was in tears, and his heart suddenly became heavy.

At this moment, it is the thirteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, and there are only two days left before the peasant army enters Fengyang.