These days, Wang Jiayin and Zhang Chu have cooperated very happily, and Wei Xue has been running back and forth between the two places, sending silver to Zhang Chu, and constantly bringing the weapons provided by Zhang Chu back to Wang Jiayin's team. Wang Jiayin's strength continued to increase, and he won successive victories in battles with Shanxi's official army and landlord forces. Wang Jiayin tasted the sweetness of well-armed, and used the purchased weapons to equip the elite personal soldiers, and had an absolute strength advantage in the face of other rebels, and other rebels took refuge in Wang Jiayin. With the increase in strength, Wang Jiayin's appetite is also increased, he is no longer satisfied with only attacking some landlords' forts, and wants to break some county seats. Now the soldiers are in a panic, the rich people are hiding in the city, there is a lot of food and property in the city, that is the best robbery object, it seems that the best way to break the city is to use artillery to bombard, the cannon is only available to the security army in addition to the court, fortunately, the security army has been doing business with the rebels. In order to obtain artillery, although Wang Jiayin had always disliked Zhang Chu, he still sent Wei Xue to discuss the purchase of artillery with Zhang Chu. What Zhang Chu said last time had room for maneuver, so when Zhang Chu returned to Fugu to see Wei Xue, Wei Xue felt that there was more hope for success this time, and soon rushed over to see Zhang Chu. "Congratulations on your victory." After entering the door, Wei Xue first congratulated Zhang Chu, he already knew about Zhang Chu's defeat of Houjin in Naturalization City, and coaxed Zhang Chu to be happy, maybe the next business would be easy to discuss. "Thank you, it's all the result of the soldiers' heroic fighting. Now, isn't King Wang Jiayin also powerful and has captured a lot of places. Zhang Chu thought in his heart, the more money he will grab when he lays down the place, so he has the money to buy things this time. Yes, the king's army was invincible everywhere, the corrupt officials were frightened, and the officers and soldiers also fled. "Wei Xue has his proud capital, and hundreds of thousands of troops are not blown out." You need artillery more now to crack open the tortoise shells in the county seat, right? Zhang Chu led the conversation to the point and began to sell. That is natural, the corrupt officials who oppressed the people and the landlords who were unkind to the rich are now hiding in the county seats, and they can only be punished by breaking the county seats. "Wei Xue tried his best to make the purpose of the righteous army's siege a little more noble." That's, that's. I said that I would sell you artillery, and my words will definitely count, but this artillery is a weapon of the country, and it is not easy to build, I still have a large number of workers waiting to eat, and the newly built Naturalization City will also need artillery to defend. "Zhang Chucai doesn't care why Wei Xue and they went to attack the county seat, he only cares about the price of artillery, so he wants to sit on the ground and increase the price." The price is easy to discuss, and I only hope that the marshal will deliver the artillery to us as soon as possible. "Wei Xue didn't wait for Zhang Chu to say more, and directly picked out the words, and if he wanted to ask for more money, he just said it, what are you doing in such a roundabout way." Good! Good! As soon as you have the money, I will deliver the artillery immediately. "Zhang Chu was told that his mind was broken, but he didn't feel embarrassed at all." I'll ship the money right away, and you'll deliver it then. "Wei Xue has long been accustomed to Zhang Chu's price increase, and he doesn't care about him, there is a way that when a cannon sounds, it is ten thousand taels of gold, as long as the county seat is opened, there is no shortage of money to buy cannons. Wei Xue also heard that Zhang Chu went to battle this time, and directly used artillery to defeat Houjin's troops, and then used artillery to bombard Guihua City, which was equivalent to a live advertisement for artillery. Why can't the righteous army that Zhang Chu can do it, with the cannon, the old and weak in the righteous army may be able to survive and no longer be cannon fodder during the siege. "I said that you really don't need to transport the silver around, you have money to find a nearby Zhongyang Bank, and exchange the gold and silver for the silver bills or silver dollars of the Zhongyang Bank, which is much more convenient than using silver, or you collect the silver tickets when we buy your things, and it is more convenient to take the silver tickets when you come to make transactions." Zhang Chu did not forget to advertise for the bank. "Okay, I'll think about it." Wei Xue thought to himself, although the silver ticket was convenient to use, there was always no silver to put around.

The two happily finalized the price and quantity of the transaction, and the subsequent cooperation went more smoothly, Zhang Chu had money, and Wang Jiayin had artillery. Wang Jiayin was like a tiger with wings, and the rebel army conquered several county towns one after another, obtained more goods and food, and attracted more hungry people to join the uprising.

The tight reports of Shanxi Prefecture and County continued to reach the Beijing Division and put it on the desk of Emperor Chongzhen.

On this day, Emperor Chongzhen invited cabinet ministers to discuss the matter, and this is not the first time that such a discussion has occurred, Chongzhen is an indecisive and very fickle leader. It is not easy to work under him, since he ascended the throne, in just three years, there have been six or seven changes in the cabinet alone, and all the officials in the DPRK and China are in danger and only think about how to protect themselves.

The current first assistant is Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru was born as a champion and has talents, but his main energy is spent on party struggle, and he has to think about how to do things and speak in order to conform to the emperor's wishes, and he does not dare to put forward the real way of governing the country at all.

The temperature in Beijing in April is not high, but Chongzhen feels extremely hot in his heart, and the current Ming can be said to be a mess. Houjin, who entered the Kou Jing Division, finally withdrew, and the news of the thieves' growing strength came again. There are so many ministers under him, and when he has nothing to do, he speaks and quotes scriptures, as if he is very knowledgeable. When it comes to the real thing, there is no one who can come up with a good solution. "Tell me, what should we do with these thieves?" Although he was very dissatisfied with the ministers, Chongzhen still hoped that someone would stand up and say something useful, on the other hand, he also lost confidence in the appeasement policy advocated by Yang He in the previous stage, and he himself could not make up his mind.

"The thief is just a disease of scabies, Your Majesty is wise and powerful, and it all depends on Your Majesty's victory." One by one, the ministers still refused to say what they wanted, and they understood that whoever came forward to make a plan, and if something didn't work out, it was the one who made the idea. The emperor will not say that he has made a wrong decision.

"Now that the thieves are getting more and more powerful, I adopted Yang He's appeasement strategy in a benevolent heart, and now it seems that the thieves have no gratitude at all, and they are re-sentenced, capricious, and they can't be encircled and suppressed without using the army." When Emperor Chongzhen said this, his heart was full of deep hatred for Yang He, and he said it wildly, a large amount of money and grain was spent, and the thieves did not decrease but increased.

"We must send troops to encircle and suppress it, otherwise these thieves will not feel the power of heaven." Since the emperor said that if he wanted to suppress it, the minister understood what the emperor wanted to do.

"Then what do you think is the best one to cut down first?" Chongzhen is determined to settle this matter today and stop arguing with the ministers.

"According to the report of the largest number of thieves in Shanxi, Wang Jiayin, many thieves have gone to take refuge in him, and there is Zhang Chu in Shaanxi, the people led by this thief are known as the Ming security, and they have seized Fugu Yanchang County and other places, unlike other thieves, Zhang Chu rarely wanders after occupying a place." Zhou Yanru took the lead in analyzing the current situation.

"Kill Wang Jiayin first, so that the thieves are leaderless, since that Zhang Chu is known as the security guard of the Ming Dynasty, it means that he still has a little heart for the court. Moreover, he has fought against Houjin many times, and he can be regarded as serving the country. "Emperor Chongzhen was very diligent, and spent most of his time reviewing the recitals every day, and he was very impressed by Zhang Chu. Recently, there was a report that Zhang Chu attacked the Guihua City occupied by the Houjin on the grassland, killing and wounding thousands of Houjin cavalry, but unfortunately the generals who could fight turned out to be anti-thieves. It is best to let him and Huang Taiji defeat more battles, so that both sides will be defeated, so Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind to destroy Wang Jiayin first. (To be continued.) )