Zheng Hongkui is not an ordinary character, he is a ruthless character who crosses the sea, last night he was just bluffed by the people above who Yang Chao suddenly carried out, and his brain was confused at that time, and finally gave up too many profits.

After waking up today, I suddenly felt that this matter was not so reliable, the emperor's smuggling was unheard of, and it was not clear that he was really deceived by Yang Chao's gang, because what Yang Chao said, only five people knew, but these five people were impossible to expose.

It is impossible for the Zheng family to verify with Shi Kefa, even if they can meet Shi Kefa and ask about this kind of thing, if it is fake, Shi Kefa will definitely be furious, ask him for slandering the emperor, and immediately take it down and send him to prison, and it is not uncommon to kill his head; If it's true, Shi Kefa will kill him directly if he can't get it, after all, this matter can't be said.

It is even more impossible for him to verify the emperor, the Zheng family is not capable of seeing the emperor, let alone the emperor, even if he sees the members of the court, he may not be able to see it.

The only thing that can be verified is that eunuch Wang Chengen, but this matter is not easy to ask directly, after thinking about it, it really came up with a good way for Zheng Hongkui......

Thinking of this, Zheng Hongkui gritted his teeth and gave a big gift again, and feasted Wang Chengen again.

After a long time of verbal temptation, and Wang Chengen was half drunk, he finally got some useful news, Wang Chengen came to Nanjing this time, and it was indeed a decree to let Yang Chao go to Jinhua Mansion to suppress bandits.

In the end, Zheng Hongkui finally made a killer move, and directly told Wang Chengen that the transaction between himself and Yang Chao said that the sea trade business was lucrative, but the relationship must be hard enough, otherwise it would not be stable for a long time, and the Zheng family could do this kind of business with Yang Chao, and they could also do this kind of business with other people.

publicly told Wang Chengen that the Zheng family was willing to do business with Wang Gonggong. also complained that Yang Chao's offer was too dark, and asked Wang Chengen what he meant.

As a result, Wang Chengen waved his hand again and again, saying that he couldn't do this business. told Zheng Hongkui to do well with Yang Chao and not to have other thoughts.

Zheng Hongkui didn't have any doubts at this time. With such a huge profit, such a greedy eunuch, but he didn't dare to do it, if he was afraid of Yang Chao, the Zheng family didn't believe it, which is enough to prove that in this business, there is a figure that Wang Chengen can't even provoke. Who else but the emperor?

So Zheng Hongkui was not suspicious, and he was even more shocked by Yang Chao in his heart, he had already investigated Yang Chao's background clearly, first helping Zhou Yanru to re-enter the phase, and then turning the clouds with one hand and covering the rain with the other, only calming the scholarly commotion that gave everyone a headache in the palm of his hand, and now he can actually do business for the emperor, this kind of person makes Zheng Hongkui amazed at the same time, but only admiration remains.

There are not many people in the world who can admire Zheng Hongkui, and since then there has been another Yang Chao.

On the same day, Zheng Hongkui handed over the silver ticket to the Jinchai Building. It was handed over to Kang Xiaobao.

Then he wrote a secret letter and reported the matter to Zheng Zhilong, explaining why he gave Yang Chao double the profit. As a result, Zheng Zhilong not only did not blame Zheng Hongkui, but wrote back that he did the right thing, praised him a lot, explained that he continued to cooperate with Yang Chao, and explained to him in detail that the Zheng family is not short of money now, what is lacking is the foundation, the Zheng family was born as a pirate, but he can't be a pirate forever.

Especially now that the family has a big business. It is not so easy to keep this foundation. It is naturally important to have your own strength, and it is also important to find a backer. Explain to Zheng Hongkui, if the one above has a big appetite, let him make a price, as long as the Zheng family can keep the capital, he can do it for nothing!

Of course, this is a later story, at this time, Yang Chao, the celebrity in the eyes of the Zheng family, has already stepped on the warship and rushed all the way to Zhenjiang.

Zhang Dawei in front has already contacted the people of the Wang family, and the shopkeeper of the Wang family in Zhenjiang can't be the master, but he also provided a group of boats to help transport materials to Hangzhou, and then soon Hangzhou came back with the news, so that all the shops along the canal can help Yang Chao with all their might, and if necessary, stop the business of the Wang family, and also free up the boat for Yang Chao.

It's not that the Wang family is righteous, but because it is an alliance, an alliance of power and interests, if it weren't for the banner of Yang Chao, the Wang family would not be able to enter the salt industry in Huai'an for eight lifetimes.

In Yang Chao's view, there is nothing shameful about this, this is the case in ancient and modern China and abroad, every country has a political and business relationship, and the development of commerce to a certain extent is originally a kind of power, and all power needs to be protected by the military. Behind a war in the West, there is not a group of capitalists who sharpen their knives.

China is quite good, but the penetration of capital into state power is not so thorough, because China's ruling culture has always been born out of the culture of the landlord class of farming, and the ideology of ruling China has always been the thinking of those gentry class who cultivate and read heirlooms, and these people have despised businessmen for thousands of years, so businessmen want to change the law to tie them down and form a unique political and business culture in China.

Yang Chao provided convenience for the Wang family to obtain commercial benefits, and the Wang family supported Yang Chao and achieved a military victory, which was an alliance, which was not written on paper but everyone tacitly agreed.

Therefore, Yang Chao accepted the services of the Wang family's cargo ship with peace of mind, not only allowing them to transport military supplies, but also people.

This is a lot of pressure, because Yang Chao brought more than 5,000 soldiers, don't think that Yang Chaoguang is in Nanjing City to accompany Wang Chengen to fight the autumn wind, Yang Chao asked Huang Fengfu to urgently recruit 20,000 people among the refugees, this is not a private expansion of the army, because these people are just people's husbands, to help Yang Chao transport supplies, the army of the Ming Dynasty went to war, how could there be no people and auxiliaries.

But who dares to say that these people were taken up by Yang Chao to Dongyang to accept the baptism of war, and then took up arms and were not a soldier?

is reasonable and legal, even Shi Kefa supports Yang Chao to take these refugees, after all, Shi Kefa can't afford to leave these people.

Yang Chao's project has now basically stopped, and there is no need for so many refugee laborers, so these people are once again unemployed.

But Yang Chao was really reluctant to drive away this group of refugees, because there were talents among the refugees.

Among the 20,000 people recruited this time, there are no less than 200 literate people, and the literacy rate of one percent does not seem to be much, and it is not much different from the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty, but it is a miracle that the scholars who are willing to follow Yang Chao to the battlefield can reach this rate, in addition to the helplessness of the refugees, but also because the literacy rate among these refugees who came to Nanjing is extremely high.

At first, Yang Chao didn't pay attention, if it weren't for the fact that there were so many literate people among the people recruited this time, Yang Chao would have ignored it.

Later an investigation. Coupled with reasonable reasoning, Yang Chao understood the reason.

Some of these refugees are from Jiujiang and some from the Huguang area. After a survey, it was found that more than eighty percent of them were not ordinary people. Most of them are small and medium-sized landlords and merchants, and it is not difficult to understand if you think about it carefully, in this era, where can ordinary people have the ability to flee thousands of miles to Nanjing?

The literacy rate of landlords and merchants was obviously much higher than that of tenants and poor peasants. Therefore, the literacy rate of this group of refugees is far above the average, and a sample survey found that the literacy rate among men is often close to 10%, which is simply incredible, so there are 200 people who are willing to go to the battlefield with Yang Chao to eat, and more scholars are actually still nesting on the dock and doing odd jobs everywhere.

In addition to the children of the landlord's family who are literate and literate, Yang Chao, the son of a merchant who can settle accounts, did not want to let go, and before leaving, he told Zhang Dawei to let go of his hands and feet to continue recruiting, and stuffed them all into the ship in the name of the account office.

In addition to landlords, merchant families. The other main body is the boatman who eats water rice and the like, and this group of people is the talent that Zhang Dawei urgently needs, and he is also vigorously recruiting.

And then there is a skilled craftsman among them. can't let it go, it's a pity that there are too few people like this, the first is that the number is small, and the second is that it's not difficult to eat in Nanjing with a skill, so it has long been out of the refugee group.

The fleet set off from Zhenjiang and went south along the canal, 5,000 soldiers were on board, and 20,000 people were driven off the boat at this time, and Yang Chao gave them enough food and drink. There is only one requirement that they must feel Dongyang within fifteen days. This is a terrifying marching speed, you must know that Zhenjiang is nearly a thousand miles away from Dongyang. Most of them are waterways, and most of them need to be stretched, which is a huge challenge for these people.

If such an arduous march can be completed, it can be regarded as a kind of military training, and the collective cooperation to complete the arduous task is the same as the training to take the right step, which is to cultivate the spirit of teamwork and obedience.

Hundreds of boats spread out on the canal, pulling out a long queue that stretched for miles.

Yang Chao stood in front of the first boat, watching the canal bank retreat north, knowing that he was heading south.

The last time he went on his expedition, it was all the way to the north, but this time it was all the way to the south, and Yang Chao still had a feeling of chasing the north in his heart.

On the first day, the ship set off from Zhenjiang, it was already dark when it arrived in Danyang, but the fleet did not stop, but changed shifts, the reason why it brought 20,000 people, it was for rotation, when starting from Zhenjiang, 10,000 people took the boat, 10,000 people pulled fiber, arrived in Danyang, rotated once, finally arrived outside Changzhou before dawn, walked more than 150 miles in one day and night, maybe it is nothing in later generations, the Red Army often appears in military history to run hundreds of miles in one night, and immediately put into battle records.

However, Yang Chao is very satisfied with the physical strength and endurance of these people, after all, he has not received formal military training, and he is only supported by breath and physical fitness, if it is not for their hard work on the dock for several months, it is impossible to persevere, Yang Chao is especially satisfied with their willpower, and they continue to pull fiber all day long, even professional slender men can't do it, which is no longer a simple physical fitness can make up for it.

Just after the rotation, the Laxian people went to bed one by one after eating a full meal, and they were really tired, not only did they not dare to stop, but they couldn't walk slowly.

On the second day, it was another day and night, walking more than 150 miles, rotating in Wuxi in the middle, and then going directly to Suzhou.

On the third day, the people can finally take a rest, from Suzhou everyone can cross the Taihu Lake to take a sailboat, and go to Huzhou to rest in the evening, this time simply rested for one night.

Not to mention that the organizational skills of the shopkeepers of the Wang family are first-class, and they have their own set of boats on the canal year after year, which kind of boat is used in that section of the river, and they arrange it in an orderly manner, not letting Yang Chao worry about it at all, nor delaying Yang Chao's march.

Ride a sailboat across Taihu Lake, arrive in Huzhou, rest for a night, continue the march on the fourth day, and must rush to Hangzhou today, anyway, this is a canal, don't worry about the wind and waves and reefs, you can pull the fiber with torches at night.

After arriving in Hangzhou, you can't take the canal, but there is still a waterway going south, this is the Fuchun River, and the downstream is called the Qiantang River.

From Hangzhou to the south, the Fuchun River is relatively wide, and you can rest a journey, all the way to Fuyang County, after Fuyang County, pull the fiber to Tonglu, the name of the same river Fuchun River has become the Tongjiang River in the area of Tonglu County, and the water surface is narrower than the Fuchun River, and most places have to pull the fiber to pass.

From Tonglu to Yanzhou Mansion into the Dongyang River.

On the sixth day, they arrived at Lanxi County at night, Lanxi County is only more than fifty miles away from Jinhua, and the Baitou Army is in Jinhua Mansion!

There is also a small river from Lanxi to Jinhua, which can be reached in one day, and Yang Chao went south, and it only took seven days! (To be continued...... ）。