Yang Xin estimated that he had 1,500 taels of silver today, plus the remaining few hundred taels after buying the goods yesterday, he was already worth about 2,000 taels.

Now there are four major grain merchants in the capital who are out of grain, and there are Manchu Qing and Wu Sangui eyeing each other, as far as Li Yan's rabble is concerned, even if Liu Zongmin's more than 20,000 main forces of the Shun army are added, it is not enough for the Manchu Qing to plug the teeth, the capital has become a dead place, can not stay for a long time, even if the four major grain merchants continue to eat, the capital Cao Yun is cut off, and the food shortage is a matter of time, now what he needs most is force, without force, it is impossible to escape from the capital.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel big, and this problem has almost become an unsolvable problem, so I held a meeting in the evening and transferred ten soldiers to join the pro-guard military training, and now I have a little money, and I have to find a way to get weapons.

"It's time to find a way to get out of the capital!"

In the room, the princess was still doing her bedtime routine, that is, counting the silver, Yang Xin sat on the side in a daze, and sighed.

The princess was overjoyed when she heard this, and she was so happy that she didn't even count the silver, and said, "Brother Yang, have you thought of a way?" ”

Yang Xin shook his head in distress.

Then it became the two of them sighing together, holding their chins and being relatively speechless.

It's not that Yang Xin didn't want to travel thousands of miles to the south with the silver with the silver, but he wasn't sure if he had an immortal golden finger, and if he took the princess on the road along the way, he was really uncertain whether he would be able to get to Nanjing alive if he took the princess on the road together, so for the sake of insurance, he decided that he had at least an elite army of more than 100 people around him to protect his peers and be able to deal with ordinary homeless bandits, so that he would have a sense of security.

Perhaps, he just didn't want to be too depressed to arrive in Nanjing with the princess, and after arriving in Nanjing, the princess became a real princess, and he was just a homeless person.

But who knows, that's what he thinks now.

"Brother Yang, don't worry, let's make this batch of silver first, do you know how much silver we have just counted?"

On the contrary, the princess saw his distressed appearance and couldn't help but comfort him.

Yang Xin smiled bitterly: "How many?" ”

"Oh my God, we've got 1,962 taels! What do you think? Happy this time, right? ”

The princess cheered.

Yang Xin nodded.

"If you sell the rest of the grain at your price today, then we are afraid that there will be as many as eight thousand taels by then, so is it enough for you to wake up with a smile from your sleep tonight?"

The princess continued to amuse him.

"Hehe, go to bed early, prepare a thousand taels of silver for me, I will go out tomorrow, I may need it."

Yang Xin said mysteriously.

The princess suddenly had a bitter face, "It's going to cost money again, hey...... This money is slow to earn, but it can be spent quickly. ”

……

The next day, Yang Xin ordered Daniel Zhang to continue to lead the guards in military training, and he himself took five guards and went out with 1,000 taels of silver, without telling anyone where to go.

The six members of the group all carried their own weapons, Yang Xin's moldy spear, and the long sticks of the five guards.

After about ten days of military training, the marching posture of the guards has been greatly improved, six people lined up, Yang Xin took the lead, walked on the street with his head held high, his movements were neat a lot, although his strength did not improve much, but he looked good.

Yang Xin didn't say anything, and the others didn't ask, just silently walking on the streets of the capital.

All the way to the north, the pedestrians on the street are sparsely scattered, most of the shops are open, the biggest attraction is that the doors of the grain stores are closed everywhere, and there are many people around the door, pointing at them worriedly, obviously, the food shortage is spreading, which has caused some panic, and the naked eye can see that there are fewer displaced people on the street, because they are not easy to beg for food, some have chosen to leave, and the corpses of the displaced people can even be seen from time to time in remote corners.

Yang Xin looked at all this coldly, and he was powerless to change it.

The six of them walked for nearly an hour, and finally arrived near the palace.

The further you go to the palace, the fewer pedestrians there are on the road, and when you reach the street near the palace, there are almost no pedestrians.

Yang Xin also walked slower and slower, and looked around vigilantly.

A group of people on the street in front of him attracted Yang Xin's attention, and he saw a general leading a team of twenty or thirty people, sparsely walking on the street.

"It's really strange today, there are people on this street!"

The generals led by Yang Xin looked at Yang Xin and everyone laughed.

"Let's go, brothers, go over and see who it is?"

Under the leadership of the general, the soldiers walked towards Yang Xin and the others, and after a while, they surrounded Yang Xin and the others.

Yang Xin was a little scared in his heart, but he was forced to calm down, and all the guards were about the same, but the military training these days was still somewhat effective, and they still stood straight one by one, without showing a very obscene posture.

"Who?"

When the general saw their equipment, he probably had the bottom in his heart, and at first glance it was the recruits of the Beida Battalion, spears and wooden sticks, but it was a little strange, there were also recruits from the Beida Battalion stationed near the palace, but when he saw them, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, running fast, but this team of people did not leave, and stood honestly and motionless.

Yang Xin hurriedly clenched his fists and bowed down and said: "Back to the general's words, the small one is Yang Xin, the one hundred households of the first battalion of the first battalion of the Beida camp, the third small banner, and he has seen the general." ”

"The first battalion? Isn't there a fourth battalion stationed around here? What are you doing here with a small flag of the first battalion? ”

The general became more and more confused, he originally planned to rob a place far away from the palace today, because the people in the nearby places had run out, but this time he was naturally acting privately, just idle and bored to go out to fight the autumn breeze, grab a point if he can, if he can't grab it, he should come out to relax, so he doesn't want to easily offend Beidaying, unless someone takes the initiative to find a draw, but the hundred households in front of him are very respectful, and they don't take the initiative to find a draw.

"The general is right, our first battalion is stationed at the east gate, and the villain came from the east gate on purpose."

Yang Xin is neither arrogant nor humble.

This aroused the curiosity of the general, "Oh, and this matter, tell me, what are you doing here in the palace?" ”

Yang Xin said calmly: "The little one came here in the hope of finding General Liu Zongmin's subordinates and doing some business with you." ”

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers around were in an uproar, they had never seen anyone who took the initiative to do business with him, but he was a person who had no business capital.

But in the same way, these words aroused everyone's curiosity.

"General, you also know that the recruits in the Beida Battalion are very poorly equipped, and these wooden sticks are only enough to deal with the bare-handed homeless, and the small ones don't want to die on the battlefield, so they are willing to use all their family wealth to buy a batch of weapons from the general!"

Yang Xin got straight to the point.

When everyone heard the equipment of the North Battalion, they immediately laughed. But many people have the illusion that you are slashing at someone with a knife and he says, "Wait, brother, you have a good knife, can you sell it to me?" ”

Oh, and to put it simply, it's a game of skin.