"Ah......h I hadn't slept for a few days, and Li Xiao's mouth was open like a hippopotamus.

The news of Luo Yangxing, several governors in the south of the Yangtze River, headed by Ding Yuan, the governor of Jiangsu. Li Xiao knew this person, in the famous "Donglin Point General Record", the arrow tiger in the Earth Speed Star was talking about this governor.

Although he knew that he was a hardcore Donglin Party, Sun Chengzong had to use him. Because this guy is entrenched in Jiangsu, those salt merchants all listen to him. Every year, the imperial court was able to scrape a large sum of money from the salt merchants.

In the past few years, Li Xiao has expanded the army and engaged in infrastructure construction, and it is absolutely impossible to do it without money. The governors of the world can move, but only this governor of Jiangsu can't move. There are countless truths in the world, but what Li Xiao believes most now is that it is difficult to move an inch without money.

Not to mention other places, Changxing Island is a huge gold-swallowing beast. Every day, the mountain-like raw materials are unloaded at the pier of Changxing Island, and then boxes of weapons and ammunition are loaded from Changxing Island to the sea. The shipyard in Lushun and the machinery factory in Jinzhou were all filled in with a large sum of silver.

The Ming Empire is like a huge machine, and money is the lubricant of this machine. Without money, the machine of the Ming Empire will quickly rub and heat, and finally be destroyed.

Li Xiao didn't move Ding Yuan's recommendation, but it may not be that Ding Yuan's recommendation would not have a different mind.

With Liu Liangzuo threading the needle, and Li Xiao's efforts in Jiangnan over the years to integrate the official gentry and pay the grain and work as an errand boy, not only offended all the gentry in Jiangnan, but also offended those salt merchants and chaebols in Jiangnan.

Many people are regretting that they didn't support Nanming at the beginning, and now that they have such an opportunity, where can they hold back. In a word, support Ding Yuanjian to kill Li Xiao. Restore the privileges of the gentry of the past!

The four words of the imperial grain and national tax are simply not the same as the chaebols. Whoever wants to collect Lao Tzu's tax, Lao Tzu will cut off his head.

With the support of the chaebols, Ding Yuanjian recruited more than 3,000 salt dings. The external rhetoric is the need to protect the salt pans, crack down on illegal salt trafficking, and so on. But in fact, Ding Yuanjian secretly hired many officers of the former Nanjing Forbidden Army. These people have been trained by the Liao army, and the salt Ding trained by them can be called elite.

Yanding is not a regular army, and the weapons are naturally in tatters. The flintlock pistols eliminated by the Liao army were sold to them at a high price. Anyway, Jiangsu has money, and if you don't slaughter it, you won't slaughter it. What Li Xiao never expected was that the salt merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had their hands and eyes. They actually got a batch of rifles that fired customized ammunition through overseas channels. There are even more than two dozen mortars, which are similar to those of the Liao army.

Each officer was also armed with a revolver and a hand-armed handnail, which was smuggled into the treasury in large quantities.

Although the shells and bullets are imported, the Jiangnan chaebol has a lot of money. Yanding practiced all day long, and his military level and quality were very good. At least, it's much stronger than those Jiangnan garrisons.

When Cao Wenzhao's fourth division was stationed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Ding Yuanzhuan did not dare to be blatant, and he was also afraid to do things. Cao Wenzhao was transferred to the northwest, and Ding Yuan became arrogant as soon as he recommended it. Yang Sichang is almost unable to move an inch in Jiangnan, just because Ding Yuanjian is secretly making trouble.

If you have soldiers in your hands, you will naturally have high prestige. The governor of other places recommended Ding Yuan to be in charge, and Ding Yuan recommended to take care of the matter. Because Liu Liangzuo has agreed, after the matter is completed, he will be the new scholar of Jianji Palace, the first assistant of the imperial court.

With Sun Chengzong as an example in front, Ding Yuanjian very much wants to catch up with this old-timer. Sun Chengzong is already old, and he Ding Yuanjian is only forty-eight years old this year.

Of course, it is also polite for the local governor to enter Beijing.

The imperial court stipulated that when the local governor entered Beijing, he could bring 30 servants and 30 people, and 50 personal soldiers. In other words, including the governor, eighty-one people is the limit of this team.

If the team exceeds this size, the government along the way is obliged to intercept it. If the governor did not listen to the advice and insisted on going his own way, the imperial court would send troops to exterminate those who intended to rebel halfway.

Ding Yuanjian is not stupid! He knew that after crossing the river, it was Li Xiao's deep-rooted territory from Henan, and Hebei was even more powerful than Henan. If you really go all the way with 3,000 salt dings, you will be stopped by the Liao army when you reach Hebei.

Although they were very confident in their subordinates, they had never seen a battle formation after all. The Liao army is an army that really fought in blood and fire. The officers of the former Nanjing Forbidden Army said that the Liao army was all big and coarse, but they were very afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Liao army.

Three thousand salt dings, which were dismantled by Ding Yuan's recommendation. They disguised themselves as peddlers and pawns, and marched towards the capital like 3,000 ants. Guns and ammunition were all disguised as cargo and hidden in carts. As long as they gather on the outskirts of Beijing, they can immediately gather into a fully armed army.

The abacus played well, but Ding Yuanjian ignored one thing. Three thousand people are three thousand mouths, and it is simply impossible to keep it secret along the way. The soldiers like to drink two sips, and when the wine is hot, they naturally speak loudly, and there is no door to the mouth. Leakage is inevitable, secrecy is accidental.

Jin Yiwei finally played some role, after all, there are more than two hundred years of heritage. If you can't even get the news, Luo Yangxing can go to feed the pigs.

Li Xiao knew the meeting point of the salt Ding under Ding Yuan's recommendation, Pangezhuang in Daxing County, Gyeonggi.

A small Zhuangzi naturally can't accommodate more than 3,000 soldiers. But this Pangezhuang has an advantage, that is, it is two or three miles away from the official road. Moreover, Zhuangzi is very small, and there are not many customers who come here on weekdays.

More importantly, the principal of Pang Gezhuang is the relatives of Liu Liangzuo's family. The people in the Zhuangzi are also relatives, and the salters are only stationed for a day or two, so they don't have to worry about leaking the news.

Ding Yuanjian had never led soldiers to fight, and he took it for granted that his military affairs had been done to the point of moisturizing things silently. People who are almost fifty years old read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long. I haven't even watched the Thirty-Six Strategies and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Militarily, it's a complete idiot.

According to his idea, tomorrow he will take these soldiers and enter the city through the Zhengyang Gate, which has been bought a long time ago. Rush all the way to the Forbidden City with the soldiers, as long as Li Xiao is killed and the emperor Zhu Yihai is successfully taken out, the big thing can be decided.

For a whole night, Ding Yuanjian was looking forward to a bright future. The first assistant of the cabinet of scholars of the Jian Ji Temple, one person is above ten thousand people. Since the day the Ding family had a family tree, there has never been such a powerful character.

can leave a glorious mark on the genealogy, Ding Yuanjian thinks that his own is comparable to the heavy ears of Jinzhi, Zhang Cambodia of the Tang Dynasty.

The news of the closure of the nine gates of the capital was not a surprise to him. When the emperor died, martial law was the least thing to do. After experiencing the Wanli Emperor, the Taichang Emperor, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Ding Yuanxuan can be described as experienced.

Liu Liangzuo had already bought off the guards of Zhengyangmen, and rushing into Zhengyangmen during martial law could also have a surprising effect.

The salters arrived early yesterday, and the later ones arrived in the evening. Except for a few people, more than ninety and a half percent of the three thousand salt dices have come. The Yanding can be seen in the whole Pangezhuang, and they change into a black Yanding costume in Pangezhuang. The clothes and pants are black, and the hat is also black. A strip of white cloth is tied around the shoulder for identification.

The moon of fifteen is sixteen round, and the moon today is really big and round. The silver-white moonlight sprinkled on the earth, as if a bright blanket had been spread. Although it was a little hazy, I could still see the figure clearly within a hundred and ten steps. Especially the salt dings are dressed in black, which is even more obvious.

There were not enough houses, and the weather was a little hot, so the salters simply gathered around the yard to sleep. A pile of wormwood was smoked, and the mosquitoes did not dare to come forward.

Ding Yuanjian was very excited, and he barely closed his eyes after staying overnight. As Daystar rose, he saw a rapidly rising ball of light.

"Bang!" The ball of light exploded in the sky above Pangezhuang, and a dazzling firework appeared overhead.

Ding Yuanjian looked at the exploded fireworks, so beautiful!