It is said that Wang Zhi is known as the king of Hui, and the strong obedience around him is not trivial. It's just that he came to negotiate this time, and Hu Zongxian was responsible for ensuring his safety, so he didn't have many hard hands around him, and there were not many people.

This move, even Hu Zongxian is inexplicable, I don't know what kind of madness Wang Bengu is pumping. It was only after the inquiry that he learned that Wang Bengu had received a secret report that Wang Zhizhao'an was fake and that his intention to attack Hangzhou was true. This is to emulate the story of King Wuling of Zhao back then, to spy on the story of Qin, to spy on the reality of the Ming army, if he is released back to Zhoushan, he will inevitably entangle the Japanese and come to attack. At that time, Hangzhou's armament will be seen through by the other side, and the fight will be defeated and won, so how can this be done?

Besides, this Wang Zhi is the number one giant among the Japanese robbers, and he can't be caught on weekdays. Now that the other party has sent it to the door himself, if he is still let away, how is this different from a traitor?

Wang Bengu's string of hats was buttoned down, and Hu Zongxian was a little dizzy, and it is said that Hu Zongxian's power in Hangzhou is far above Wang Bengu. But the problem is that Hu Zongxian is not Yan Hong. He can't be as messy as Yan Hong saving Xu Hai, first find a way to get people out, and then reason. And Wang Bengu also put on a desperate posture, living in prison himself, as if he had become a prison officer, and no one could use any means to get into the prison to make people.

Originally, Xu Wenchang was also afraid that Wang Zhi would be inexplicably killed in prison, so he thought of sending a standard battalion to grab people to the governor's yamen first. But now that Wang Bengu is living in prison by himself, it is not very convenient to do this again. If you are careless and hurt this embroidered dress, then the matter is serious.

At this time, a scout came to report. It was discovered that a large number of Japanese fleets at sea were acting strangely. It's not just about staying in Zhoushan honestly. Instead, it marched to southern Zhejiang and Fujian, and had the tendency to invade the southeast.

Soon after, there was a direct attack on the Panshi Guard, but fortunately, the Panshi Acropolis was strong, and the commander made Ren Chengwu good at using troops to repel the enemy. Panshiwei faces the Oujiang River, which is the gateway to Wenzhou, and the Japanese invade here. It was clear that he was going to invade Zhejiang, and the credibility of Wang Bengu's news was greatly improved.

Guanhai, Changguo, Xiangshan, and Fenghua have all found traces of Japanese invaders, and the coastal areas of Fujian are also full of wolf smoke, although they have not yet landed and attacked in large numbers, but they have already frightened the officials and the people to tremble. The news of the large-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders to the south has been confirmed. This series of foreign military information made the whole Hangzhou rumored and shocked three times a day. Everyone scolded the Japanese for their cunning.

That's not all. Not long after Wang Zhi was arrested, there were several leaders of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. The leader of the local gentry came to meet Hu Zongxian.

Hu Zongxian was slightly straight, resisting the Japanese invaders, and the old soldiers of the southeast guard could not be in battle, mainly relying on the recruitment of battalion soldiers. However, the battalion soldiers demanded money, and both officers and soldiers had to pay their salaries, and this expenditure was not trivial, and it was also necessary to make firearms, renovate the city, and offer rewards for killing thieves, all of which could not be separated from silver.

The southeast was the source of the Ming Dynasty's salary, but now there is a trouble, the silver cannot be collected, the treasury is empty, and it is naturally a dream to expect the imperial court to allocate funds, and the military salary can only be raised on the spot. Speaking of which, the southeast is a wealthy place, and Hangzhou has a local Yamen of the two Zhejiang Salt Divisions, which is the richest place in the world, and can collect about 160,000 taels of salt tax every year. But where is the silver moved? Taicang's income, now half or even more than half depends on the salt tax, even the salary of the Chinese martial arts of the dynasty is waiting for the salt tax, moving this money, that is equivalent to moving the life of the imperial court, Hu Zongxian did not have a few more heads than others, naturally did not dare to die like this.

In addition to relying on local taxes, the main source of money had to be demanded from those wealthy merchants, so that everyone could find a way to lose their salaries. In this era, donating money to fight the Japanese is far from being like some people in later generations, who are enthusiastic and actively donate. In fact, everyone's attitude is: Fight the Japanese Bandits? Let's fight! Want money? Why are you asking me for money? Does the imperial court have a relationship with me to fight the Japanese and have a Jiajing Tongbao? Why should I pay?

In fact, it is very difficult to carry out this kind of thing of fundraising, and the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty are not easy to mess with. According to the era of the great grandfather, the farmers and businessmen ranked the most. But in fact, the current businessmen have become one with the scholars, and they help each other, and many officials in the DPRK and China have the financial support of big businessmen, so they naturally have to speak for the businessmen.

Therefore, Hu Zongxian could not be like the warlords of the underworld, who could not raise donations and detain the merchants, discuss with them the philosophical question of which is more important than life and money, and wait until his family paid the ransom before putting the meat ticket back; Or make an IOU to the businessman, and when anyone asks for money too quickly, he will pull the creditor out of the bank and shoot him, and it will be a hundred. Governor Hu didn't have the capital to play so much, and the social order of the Ming Dynasty did not collapse, let alone the soil for such play, so he could only beg his grandfather to tell his grandmother and beg for money from the merchants.

Of course, fortunately, these merchants are also big shots, not the kind of sling, as soon as others give themselves three points of color, they will open a dyeing workshop, after all, it is deflated. Everyone knows the necessity of maintaining a harmonious relationship with each other, so in the past few years, Hu Zongxian has been short of food, and these businessmen have all actively helped. The two sides can be regarded as tacit cooperation. After all, businessmen can be regarded as Hu Zongxian's food and clothing parents in a sense.

Now that has suddenly changed. These businessmen's parents came to the door for only one purpose: to beg Wang Zhi. These people have a good reason, we paid for it in the first place, just to fight the Japanese bandits. Over the years, we have spent countless amounts of silver, and now the leader of the Japanese invaders has delivered goods to the door, and they are going to sack the southeast, and I heard that the soldiers have invaded Wenzhou and Ningbo. You don't arrest him and kill him, but instead treat him as a guest, we can't figure this out.

If Governor Hu is willing to kill Wang Zhi, then it doesn't matter if the Japanese invaders retaliate, we all pay our salaries to work the army, aren't these battalions recruiting and training just to fight the Japanese invaders? If you come, you will fight, and we will use the money. But if Governor Hu wants to keep Wang straight, we don't know what kind of attitude you have, it is not easy for our gang to earn a fortune, it is impossible to invest in the bottomless pit, and the future issue of military salaries is a little inconvenient for each other.

Don't underestimate these businessmen, if they really grit their teeth and refuse to pay, then Hu Zongxian's troops really can't be maintained. It is not uncommon for the troops to mutiniate in demand, and if Hangzhou also makes such a fuss, it will be difficult for the entire southeast army to clean up, so he has to consider the attitude of these financiers.

This is not the end, just sent away the businessmen, and came to Hangzhou Fuxue again, outside the governor's gate, set up a "broken boots array". You must know that the literati of the Ming Dynasty were first-class and difficult, and speaking of which, one of the strange phenomena of the Ming Dynasty is that the literati prefer to rely on their fists to solve problems than martial artists. From Li Dongyang's golden palace robbing a golden gourd to chasing Zhang Heling, to the Zuoshunmen ambush incident, it all shows how enthusiastic these scholars in the Ming Dynasty are about engaging in violent activities. And the local government does not dare to do anything to them, even if you beat them, even if you insult Sven, even if you burn books and pit Confucianism, when the time comes, what kind of school boycott and examination turmoil, the court will blame, who will bear it?

Xiucai can scold people casually, without bearing legal responsibility, and can shout and beat people at every turn, and the government is mostly resigned, so the temper and courage of these scholars are getting bigger and bigger, and they are becoming more and more lawless. Especially in the southeast, the people are open, compared with the north, the students in the south are more knowledgeable and talented, and the north and south lists are made to take care of the students in the north, so the temper of the students in the south is also greater.

In the plane that Yan Donglai crossed over, an important project for Zhang Juzheng to change the law later was to rectify the world's schools and clean up these talents. But after Zhang Juzheng died, Xiucai trembled again. When he arrived in the Wanli Dynasty, the home of Dong Qichang, the secretary of the dignified Ministry of Rites, was robbed and burned by hundreds of Xiucai, and it was all wiped out, and it was also written into a book of "The Facts of Dong Eun". And the chief judge of this case actually said that all shalves were righteous for a while, and they would be relieved of the Restoration, so they would not be investigated, and they would be admonished. In other words, if they burn it in vain, they can even be exempted from the crime of arson, what are they afraid of?

The power of these Mao talents can be seen from this. And this time, the reason why they made trouble was that they heard that Hu Zongxian was shielding the Japanese chieftain Wang Zhi. This giant chieftain Wang Zhi sent him to the door, but Hu Dashuai refused to order him to be beheaded, but wanted to save his life. And we heard, why does Hu Dashuai still want to recruit security and open the sea to trade? This is simply unreasonable, do you still want the king's law, do you still want the rules?

Watching a group of Xiucai surround the governor's line, shouting and shouting to kill, throwing stones at the guards without incident, and shouting Wang Fa, this scene made Yu Dayou confused. This group of Xiucai is getting bigger and bigger, at first it was only a Xiucai from the government and county schools, and later, even the local Xiucai who did not follow the school, the scholars in the surrounding areas, and even many masters and celebrities in Jiangnan were mobilized and joined the broken boots array.

You must know that Lu Dao can participate in the big selection of officials and officials, and they join in, and this weight is suddenly several times heavier. The names of these people are becoming more and more clear, and they have progressed from asking Wang Zhi to the point of killing the unscrupulous and unscrupulous Xu Wenchang. If it weren't for the soldiers and horses of the governor's yamen waiting for him, Hu Baiqi, the third son of Hu, put on a swagger, directly grabbed a water and fire stick in his hand, and posed to beat people, these showmen might really do something to rush into the yamen to catch Xu Wenchang and fight.

Yan Hong frowned as he listened. The last time he rescued Xu Hai in Shaoxing, although Li Wenzao tried all his tricks, he only encouraged some citizens to watch, but he didn't encounter the broken boots. It seems that now the maritime merchants have also learned to be smart, and even those poor and sour people have been mobilized by them and participated in the struggle. Compared with ordinary citizens, one of these talents has a high status, the second is powerful, and the third is a lot stronger in fighting spirit, which is really difficult to deal with. (To be continued......)