Ningbo is a commercial city, the cultural atmosphere is different from that of other big cities, and on the whole, the people here are more open and tolerant than those of Nanjing. Although they also respect scholars and worship scholars, in the final analysis, they still worship power and money more. Here, a big businessman will get the same respect as a big talent, even if the businessman is a woman, as long as he is very good at doing business, very rich, or has a very powerful backer behind him, everyone will still admire it.

Xue Niangzi was originally well-known in the Ningbo business community, and in the past, she only had to consider Ryan's feelings and avoid suspicion, and she did not take the initiative to participate in the operation of the Chamber of Commerce. The Xue family has always been a very important member of the Chamber of Commerce, and this time she has Yang Chengzu as her backer, and she has accepted the people of the Chamber of Commerce, and she has not wasted any energy.

She knew in her heart that after all, she was two years older than Yang Qin, and the Yang family was as beautiful as a cloud, if she only wanted to consolidate her relationship with this man by her appearance, she was afraid that she would be thrown behind if she couldn't maintain it for a few years. If you want to maintain a long-term relationship, you have to show enough excellence, let the man appreciate his ability, and let him know that in addition to warming the bed, he will also do other things in order to be favored for a long time.

The matter of the new army was the first job given to her by Yang Chengzu, and she naturally did not dare to slack off. From Ningbo's point of view, the businessmen finally agreed to spend money to strengthen their armaments, and the work was relatively easy to promote. This catastrophe made the Ningbo merchants realize that the existing armed forces could not guarantee their own safety in the face of real threats, and in comparison, it was safer to spend money on the new army.

Just like the Ming Dynasty in another time and space, the salt merchants in Yangzhou were almost washed by the Japanese invaders, so they paid to repair the outer walls of Yangzhou and set up three battalions of Zaoyong. The Ningbo merchants in this time and space were finally willing to invest in the army because they were really looted by the Japanese invaders.

Although their financial resources cannot be compared with those of Yangzhou salt merchants, they cannot afford to support the three battalions of recruits, but it is not a problem to pay for a standing army of about 1,000 people. Even the guards and dart masters they had raised before had already exceeded this number combined. Now it's just a massive layoff of those people, and then use this part of the money to spend on the army, and it doesn't increase much in terms of expenditure.

In the sailors, the merchants of Ningbo were finally willing to pay their money, and everyone scraped together a sum of money, saying that they wanted to build two warships, plus a number of subordinate ships, so that the officers and soldiers would not be allowed to go to war on fishing boats.

They paid the money and put forward their own requirements, the garrison could not use the original Ningbo Wei soldiers, and must use those workers of Yang Ji who could kill the Japanese invaders.

Because of the erosion of the military guards, the Ming Dynasty had begun to recruit battalion soldiers at this time, and this way of recruiting people was not unusual. As far as the government is concerned, having such a new army that can kill the Japanese can indeed protect local security, and now Fang Wenmian and Hu Bingzhang are almost the characters in Yang Chengzu's pocket. With them pulling the strings, coupled with the support of the Chamber of Commerce, a group of workers of Yang Ji officially became the official army of the imperial court, known as the Pingwei Battalion, and began to practice openly and honestly.

This team of 1,000 troops included more than 400 workers recruited by Yang Ji from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the other 600 people included loyal sons selected from the children of the Ningbo military guards, as well as local citizens of Ningbo. On the same day, Yang Chengzu cut off the head and built a Beijing Temple outside Ningbo City for the people to visit to vent their anger, which gathered popularity for Yang Ji. So much so that the young children in Ningbo are proud to be able to serve in Yangji.

Although the children of this kind of commercial city are not necessarily suitable for the requirements of the new army, considering that this army is a façade and its salary source mainly comes from the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce, there must always be a group of Ningbo talents who are good at talking, so they can only be admitted exceptionally. In addition, if there is friction between the new army and the guards, then the work will not be able to continue. The current ratio not only ensures that the children of the military guards live in harmony with the new army, but also that the combat strength of the new army will not be affected too much.

On the Nanjing side, about 2,000 recruits have been transported along with several ships of medicine and supplies, and Yang Chengzu's strength has greatly increased. The interrogation of those captives has also made great progress, Wang Tietou and others took turns to fight, and all kinds of means were used, even the iron man had to speak, and soon, these confessions and evidence were summarized on Yang Chengzu's desk.

"Xie Zun!" Leng Feishuang hatefully threw the confession in his hand into the air, and the sword in Bai Hong's flash was like the wind, and the confession turned into countless fragments. Yang Chengzu smiled

"What, this sword is still good, right? You haven't known how good our Yang Ji's reputation is now, compared to me when I was in Huaxian, it's only strong and not weak. As soon as he heard that I was looking for a sharp weapon, a merchant immediately sent this Longquan sword, which was said to be a family heirloom worth thousands of taels of silver, but he gave it to me like this, and he didn't even ask for a penny. The only thing he wants is to use this sword to kill a few more people and avenge his dead son. ”

Leng Feishuang's face is much better than that day, and her face is also bloody, her martial arts cultivation is high, and now she thinks that Li Dazhi is not dead, her heart is gone, and her body is healing at an astonishing speed. She nodded, "That's right, I will definitely avenge the father of Ningbo and seek justice for the owner of this sword." When I get better, I'll go to Nanjing. ”

"And then was beaten to death by the Xie family's family? Don't be stupid, no matter how high your martial arts are, you are invincible to four hands with two fists. The Xie family has many guards, so if you kill it like this, it will be sent to death. ”

"I understand what you're saying, but I'm just not convinced. Your evidence can't convict him at all, and you won't let me kill him, and I am a little unhappy to watch him go free like this. Leng Feishuang looked at the stack of confessions in front of him hatefully, although these captured thieves did not have a few big leaders, but among the gangs, the sense of secrecy was mediocre, and some news even minions might have a half-clawed understanding.

For example, this ransack of Ningbo, there is a big man like Xie Zun standing behind it, and his gang leader Xie Ao has always been a distant brother of the Xie family, these things are easy to torture. However, if you want to use this kind of evidence to convict Xie Zun, the weight is not enough. He was a great Confucian in the world and had many friends, and this confession could be said to be the result of being imprisoned at any time, and it was not enough to really convict him.

What's more, he still has the identity of the imperial prince, including the fact that he used his best to make Xie Zhaoyun into a concubine, and now that he thinks about it, most of it is to ask for this talisman. Leng Feishuang's wisdom is outstanding, and he naturally knows that relying on these things will not be harmful to Xie Zunxing. But when she thought of the tragic situation in Ningbo, as well as the corpses of Shrimp Boy and others, she always felt that she couldn't spit out in her chest. Things shouldn't be like this, such wicked people shouldn't go unpunished.

"Holy Maiden, it is not that we have to worry about it now. Xie Zun's family has a big business, and he can't escape if he can't leave, and when God can't bear him, he will naturally have to take him in. What I'm really worried about now is actually Kyosato's reaction, which will not only determine the outcome of this battle, but also the future of the entire southeast for decades. ”

Leng Feishuang also knew that the decision of the Jingshi was the winner of this game, and the White Lotus Sect cooperated with Xie Zun to carry out this bloodbath in Ningbo, for the purpose of this. The two stood side by side, silently praying for the tens of millions of people in the southeast, hoping that they would be spared the disaster of this continuous war.

What they didn't know was that just before the Ningbo Rebellion, the governor of Xingwang's Mansion and the new cabinet minister Yuan Zonggao died of illness, and the entire cabinet once again returned to the situation of Yang Tinghe and his family.