When did Yang Xin suffer such a flirtatious scene, he couldn't bear it, he was a little helpless at this time, push her down, it seems too rude, hug her down, and feel too ambiguous, hesitate for a moment, and can only let it go.

After a pause, he asked: "Shopkeeper, I heard that your Lichun Courtyard is the best green building in Jinan, and there should be a lot of dignitaries and nobles coming over at ordinary times, right?" ”

The old bustard said proudly: "That's natural, even the officials up and down the Shandong Buzheng Department and the governor's yamen are all frequent visitors to my place." ”

It's not a good thing for officials to go to the Qinglou, if it's an ordinary year, this old bustard naturally doesn't dare to brag about it, and now in troubled times, no one cares about these anymore.

Yang Xin was secretly happy, it seemed that he had found the right place, and hurriedly asked, "Oh?" When I first entered Jinan, I don't know if the shopkeeper can tell me about the officials in Jinan, and the provincial one accidentally offended the nobles. ”

Saying that, giving the sunspot on the side a look, the sunspot took out a silver ingot of ten taels, and the old bustard hurriedly put it in his pocket, and said with a smile: "Childe's words can be asked to the right person, now in this Jinan city, the governor and the political envoy are vacant, and the biggest official position is the envoy Wang and the commander Zhang, these two princes must not be offended." ”

Yang Xin was confused about the official system of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know what this envoy and the commander were doing, his subordinates were all homeless, so naturally he didn't understand it even more, and the only one who knew a little bit about Jiao Cripple didn't take it with him, and he couldn't help but regret it secretly.

So he asked, "Oh? Thank you to the shopkeeper, I heard that the Manchu army is about to go south to Shandong, is there any movement in Jinan City at present? ”

The old bustard was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "What else can there be, you should eat, drink, sing, dance, anyway, no matter who comes, you have to go to the Qinglou?" ”

Yang Xin was a little stunned when he heard it, no wonder he said that the merchant girl didn't know that he hated the country and sang across the river! Tinghua, this old bustard doesn't care about the Manchu army at all, and what she means, there is no movement in Jinan City, it is the rhythm of preparing to lie down.

"Has the shopkeeper heard anything big about it lately?"

Yang Xin then asked.

The old bustard smiled and said, "The prince wants to ask Jinan if Cheng'an is safe, right?" Rest assured, there is Lord Zhang leading troops to sit in Jinan, and the thief army will not dare to enter Jinan City, as for the Manchu army, it will not be treated like the Dashun army at that time, just change the flag. ”

Yang Xin was actually a little surprised that an old bustard in a green building had such insight, and asked according to her words: "Who is the thief army that the shopkeeper is talking about?" ”

The old bustard whispered: "I heard that Liaocheng has gathered Pei Shouzheng and other thieves, all of whom are chaotic people, and the king of Jining has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and I don't know if it's true." ”

"What?"

Yang Xin was dumbfounded, he couldn't understand what the old bustard said, and he hadn't heard the name of the king in later generations, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were a bit exaggerated, it seemed that this Shandong was already rampant with thieves, and Yang Xin was a little at a loss for a while.

The old bustard smiled and said: "Childe don't be nervous, those thieves are still far away from Jinan, and our Jinan City is safe." ”

Yang Xin calmed down, the original plan was to find a place in Shandong to gain a firm foothold, and then find a way to go to sea to do maritime trade, but now the silver is stretched, this thief everywhere, he needs a stronger military force to protect himself, and naturally he has to invest more money to develop the army, so he is naturally a little flustered, not afraid of thieves.

As a result, Yang Xin's plan to go to sea to trade will be postponed again, and now the capital is insufficient, and the military strength must be enriched, so we must quickly find a way to make money, otherwise once the capital chain is broken, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Yang Xin nodded and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to get acquainted with the two adults Wang Zhang you mentioned, I don't know if you can introduce me to it?" ”

As he spoke, he gave Kuroko another look, and this time Kuroko took out ten taels of gold.

When the old bustard saw the gold, his eyes were already shining, and he couldn't take his eyes off and said: "Son, now in Jinan City, there are many businessmen and wealthy families who want to get to know the two adults, I don't know where the prince came from?" ”

Yang Xin is overjoyed, it seems that this bustard is here to study herself, and she wants to hear if she has the qualifications to get acquainted with the two, then she must have the ability to take a line.

"Don't hide the shopkeeper, surnamed Yang Mingxin, came from the capital, was a new army recruited by the Dashun army, and then escaped with some brothers, fled all the way south, and his subordinates also gathered thousands of troops, and now they are stationed outside Jinan."

He is bragging about not making drafts, and there are only more than 700 old and weak women and children, and he casually has thousands of troops.

The old bustard was so frightened that he stood up from Yang Xin's body, his face was pale, and he said, "Isn't the prince joking, even if there are thousands of troops, why do you only bring a few people into the city?" ”

Yang Xin was afraid of attracting attention, so he hurriedly pulled her to sit down, and said with a smile: "Don't panic the shopkeeper, there is no malice in the bottom, and when you come to Jinan, you are just passing by, in order to avoid the tension of the military and civilians in the city, you naturally dare not bring the army into the city." ”

As soon as the old bustard heard that it was reasonable, if the other party really had any plans for Jinan, it would be impossible for him to enter the city alone, so he patted the frightened little heart, and said: "The son is scared to death by the slave family, so I will accept this gold, and ask the son to stay here until a little later, and the prince will come over, and the slave family will introduce the son to the son at that time." ”

Yang Xin nodded, the old bustard just said goodbye and left, and Lin Fatzi and a few other subordinates had already unceremoniously drunk and flirted with the girl next to him.

Yang Xin naturally didn't care about the girl next to him, just listened intently to the conversation of a few people at the table next to him.

But it was a few scholars, talking about the situation, and one of them said: "Hey, how difficult the people's livelihood is, now that the thief has just left, and the Manchu Tartar army is approaching, how about asking us to wait for the scholars?" ”

Another person said: "There is wine today and drunk today, tomorrow is sorrowful and tomorrow will be, why should Brother Wenhua think too much, don't let down the wine and beauty." ”

Another person said: "Brother Wenhua, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has only gone to the capital, it is still far from Shandong, and the vitality of the war will be injured, and it is not so fast to get to Jinan, what we have to worry about more now is the civil unrest in Shandong, which has a tendency to become more and more intense, and these thieves are the big trouble." ”

Another nodded in agreement, and said: "Yes, these thieves are too hateful, just like thieves, like locusts crossing the border, they will burn and plunder everywhere they go, I think the government of Shandong will soon be unable to suppress it!" ”

Another person chimed in: "You are right, I heard that the Qing army was only invited by Wu Sangui to avenge the monarch's father, their goal is to break into thieves, not to wait, if the Qing army can go to Jinan as soon as possible and help General Zhang destroy the king of heaven, it will not lose a good thing." ”

Yang Xin was shocked when he heard this, these scholars actually believed Wu Sangui's ridiculous words about asking the Qing army to help him.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a person refute: "Brother Fang's words are wrong, the Manchu Tartars are foreign barbarians, how can we learn from Wu Sangui and the tiger to seek skin?" In my opinion, to deal with these rebellious people, it is the best policy to ask Nanjing to send a capable minister to patrol Shandong and lead a large army to suppress the thieves. ”