It turns out that the influence of the Zodiac Zhou in Yangzhou is not covered. He just gathered the salt merchants together and repeated what Ma Shiying had told him. Many salt merchants donated generously!

These businessmen have their own channels, what Li Xiao did in Hebei, Shandong a few days ago. They all inquired from their own channels!

They are all rich families, and they are all rich for generations. All the salt merchants were afraid that the Liao soldiers would really fight, and many people were already afraid and began to collect fine soft, ready to flee to Jiangning or Zhoushan Island at any time.

But later I heard that the warships of the Liao soldiers had appeared at the mouth of the Yangtze River. They had to dispel such a thought, since there was nowhere to run. can only take out the money to make a desperate bet, as long as you can keep Yangzhou, you are to keep your net worth.

Under the huge pressure of survival, the salt merchants of the two Huai broke out with great enthusiasm for donations. You have 10,000 taels, and I have 20,000 taels. Those who go out more will receive reverent glances, and those who go out less will be despised.

In just seven days, Huang Daozhou actually raised 200,000 taels of silver from the two Huai salt merchants. If you add the people of Yangzhou, a copper plate and a copper plate raise 30,000 taels of silver. Huang Daozhou actually had a huge sum of 230,000 taels of silver in his hand!

Ma Shiying's eyes were about to fall to the ground, he thought that the two Huai salt merchants were rich, but he didn't think that the two Huai salt merchants were so rich. Originally, I thought it would be good to raise more than 100,000 taels, but I didn't expect to raise 230,000 taels in just three days.

It's really stupid and has a lot of money, good leeks!

Now the question is, how to slip the money into your own pocket. Anyone who understands now knows that with the current strength of the Liao army, Jiangbei cannot hold it. Jiangnan doesn't seem to be reliable, Ma Shiying's bottom line is Yungui. Because the mountains and forests there are dense and easy to defend and difficult to attack, Li Xiao, who is busy occupying the whole country, should not be able to go on an expedition to attack Yungui.

As for where Yungui will go after that, isn't there still Myanmar? As long as you have money, you can't live happily.

Thinking about the past two days, I often went to Zodiac Zhou to sit and sit, and wanted to get money to make a connection. Unexpectedly, Huang Daozhou came to visit Ma Shiying first. But this is also reasonable, after all, Ma Shiying is the leader. No matter how old the zodiac is, it is just a local platform.

"Huang Lao! Huang Lao, please sit inside. Ma Shiying saw Huang Daozhou as if he was seeing a relative, and hurriedly went to the hall.

"This is this year's new pre-rain Shifeng Longjing, you can taste it." Ma Shiying personally brought fragrant tea and put it on the table. As a dignified military secretary, this is already enough to meet the standard of Corporal Lixian.

"There's the Rauma Army!" Huang Daozhou was not flattered and sat upright.

"I don't know ...... you came here today, Old Huang!"

"Now the defense of Yangzhou is all in charge of 20,000 guards, and the soldiers and horses of this guard must also know. If you want to fight viciously with Li Xiao's troops, this Yangzhou city must be lost. The day before yesterday, the Lord of the War Department promised to send two divisions of the Nanjing Forbidden Army to garrison. I don't know if this can be done accurately! ”

"Of course! The defense of Yangzhou is now the focus of our defense in the north of the Yangtze River, and as long as Yangzhou is held, it can prevent the Liao army from further attacking Jinling. "Ma Shiying is so smart, he understands the old guy's intention with a slight turn of his brain. In and out of the words, he only said that Yangzhou was important, but he never said when the reinforcements would arrive.

Zodiac Zhou is seventy-three years old this year, and his brain is certainly not as flexible as Ma Shiying, who is in the prime of life. He can still be in the position of Yangzhou Mansion Yin because of his high prestige in the Donglin Party.

"The old man heard that many places in Shanxi, Henan Province have recently surrendered the Liao army. Now that the Liao army is strong, if they attack Yangzhou at this time...... There are no soldiers to defend! Since Huang Daozhou listened to Ma Shiying's words, he specially sent someone to Xuzhou to inquire secretly.

As a result, Xuzhou is dividing the fields of large households. Many unwilling Xuzhou bigwigs will be beaten to death by those mobs if they resist a little. There is even news that the whole family has been wiped out, and some of the big families who fled from Xuzhou have fled to Yangzhou. When he cried to Huang Daozhou, he was crying and howling.

After listening to the words of those big Xuzhou families and the return of the spies. Huang Daozhou completely believed Ma Shiying's words, and at the same time was thinking about what would happen to Yangzhou if it fell into the hands of the Liao army.

Therefore, today he specially came to invite Ma Shiying. Two divisions of the Nanjing Forbidden Army were dispatched to Yangzhou to help Yangzhou defend the city.

"Hey......! There's no way around it, as I told you a few days ago. Ma wanted to send two divisions of the Nanjing forbidden army to Yangzhou to garrison, but the army did not move the grain and grass first. Now the imperial court is in short supply of food, and the Nanjing Forbidden Army is now short of food and ammunition. Ma is also more than enough, but his strength is insufficient! Ma Shiying's face was full of sorrow.

"If there is a shortage of grain, then the old man can solve it here." Huang Daozhou nodded. Let people send troops to help defend Yangzhou, and it is normal for them to have some silver here.

"Resolved...... One or two? Ma Shiying looked at Huang Daozhou carefully.

"Old man...... The old man can allocate 30,000 taels of silver to the court in advance. When the army arrives in Yangzhou, the old man can pay another 30,000 taels. Zodiac Zhou immediately gave his own price. As long as the Nanjing Forbidden Army was willing to help defend Yangzhou, 60,000 taels of silver Huang Daozhou thought it was worth it.

"Old man! Old gentleman! You really don't know the current market!

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about this grain bomb.

Never mind! Let's not talk about food, let's talk about bullets. For every shot fired by the new gun, the cost of gunpowder and projectiles costs five sons. A division has 7,500 combatants, and a salvo is 37 taels of silver. After a big battle, the bullets hit all day and night, how much silver ammunition do you have to prepare?

This is still the cheapest bullet, and according to the standards of the Liao army, a mortar shell is a hundred taels of silver. Larger field artillery shells, three hundred taels of silver each. You listen to the sound of "bang", and a few hundred taels of silver shoot out. ”

"Three hundred taels of silver, just listen to a sound?" Zodiac Zhou's forehead began to sweat, according to this one. It seems that more than 200,000 taels of silver can't last long!

"Isn't it just a sound? There is also a special word for the Liao army, and the cannon is ten thousand taels of gold. This war is no longer the era of swords-gun competition in the past. Ma Shiying shook his head helplessly, the advantage of knowledge made him qualified to despise Huang Daozhou.

"As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold!" Huang Daozhou stroked his beard in a daze, what Ma Shiying said just now really shocked him.

"Hey......! So, the money is not enough. There's no way to pull out the army! Ma Shiying's helpless hands.

"The two Huai salt merchants and the people of Yangzhou raised a total of 230,000 and 8,453,26 yuan. The old man was willing to give out 200,000 taels of silver, hoping that the Nanjing Forbidden Army could immediately support Yangzhou. Huang Daozhou gritted his teeth and reluctantly offered the maximum price he could afford.

"Two hundred thousand taels!" Ma Shiying's heart blossomed, this is a huge amount of money. With this money, not only do I have no worries about money in my life. Even sons and grandchildren can't spend it all.

"Horse Department, this is already the limit of what this official can do. If there is any deficiency, I hope that the horse army department will contact the imperial court to help solve it. After hearing the words of the cannon sounding and the golden ten thousand taels, Huang Daozhou was not sure whether he could hold Yangzhou by relying on the two Huai salt merchants.

This war is a bottomless pit that burns money!

"Yangzhou is in difficulty, and the imperial court naturally has to go all out. This official will do his best to help Yangzhou defend the city, but it's just ......! ”

"Just what?"

"Mr. Huang, you also know that you always have to take care of things in this court. This is the rule, even if Ma is a soldier's book, it is no exception. Ma Shiying's face was full of embarrassment.

"The old man has a bill of lading of 60,000 taels of silver here, and when he sees the bill, he will withdraw the silver. The cavalry department can be taken to Jinling to fight as long as the two divisions of the Nanjing Forbidden Army are stationed in Yangzhou. The remaining 140,000 taels were immediately delivered to the Horse Division. ”

"Good! A gentleman's word! ”

"It's hard to chase a horse!"