After the three-month training period ended, 30,000 "brown bes" flintlock pistols and a large number of military supplies were also transported from Nanjing to Beijing, and the recruits had officially begun firearms shooting and higher-level combat training, and it was believed that this newly built army would be able to become an army in half a year.

Zhu Youxiao was also very concerned about this newly built armed force, and he often announced that Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei, the three admirals who had mastered the real power of the Beijing camp, had entered the palace, and constantly asked them about the training of the new army in the Beijing camp.

One afternoon, Yang Feng was summoning Geng Bingyi, who had come to the capital with sports materials in Jiangningbo's mansion. Because of Yang Feng's promotion, Geng Bingyi has been promoted to the commander of the Jiangning Wei Thousand Households, and the official position of Zheng Sanpin is an unexpected joy for Geng Bingyi, whose original ideal is only to be able to be a thousand households.

Looking at Geng Bingyi sitting in front of him, Yang Feng smiled and said, "Old Geng, I haven't congratulated you on becoming a commander and a fellow commander!" ”

Geng Bingyi said respectfully: "Uncle, where is this, the lowly function of being the commander and the same knowledge are all thanks to the uncle's blessings, if there is no uncle's cultivation, the lowly position can be regarded as a thousand households in this life, even if it is the top of the sky, how can it be like the current official residence of the three grades." ”

Yang Feng glanced at Geng Bingyi deeply and nodded with a smile, he had been an official for so long, coupled with so many years of experience, he could naturally see that Geng Bingyi said this from the bottom of his heart.

After Geng Bingyi finished speaking, he looked at Yang Feng, who was silent with a smile, and said: "Uncle, in recent months, you have always stayed in the capital, and you have not returned to Nanjing. ”

"Benbo also wants to go back to Nanjing, but he has been busy training in Beijing recently, and he can't find time." Speaking of Nanjing, Yang Feng's face also showed a look of memory.

Seeing that Yang Feng didn't seem to understand what he meant, Geng Bingyi gritted his teeth and dared to get up and bow down: "The humble post naturally knows that the uncle was appointed by His Majesty as the governor of Beijing, but please forgive the humble position, Jiang Ningwei is your root, and your mind should be more on Jiang Ningwei's side." ”

"Hmmm......"

When Yang Feng heard this, his eyes immediately showed a shocking coldness, Geng Bingyi's words can be said to be very straightforward and bold. If the imperial historian or the official heard that Geng Bingyi, the commander of the same knowledge, would definitely be impeached, but he dared to say this in front of Yang Feng, which was enough to prove his loyalty to Yang Feng.

And what he meant, Yang Feng also understood. The governor of Jingying is just a stream official, at best, he can only work for a few years, the emperor will replace you at any time, and the commander is different, this official is a world official, he can do it for a lifetime, Geng Bingyi said this to remind Yang Feng not to put the cart before the horse.

Looking at Geng Bingyi, who didn't dare to look at himself after finishing speaking, Yang Feng sighed lightly and helped him up, and said softly: "Old Geng, your mind Ben Bo understands. But you must know that now Ben Bo is not only the commander of Jiang Ningwei, I am also the general army of Nanjing, but also the Jiang Ningbo of the Ming Dynasty, since Your Majesty entrusted me with the important task of rebuilding the Beijing camp, how can I not do my best. Besides, Jiang Ningwei's affairs are already on the right track, with you, Li Ge, Chen Tian, Gou Xingma, Yan Di and others here, Ben Bo still has nothing to worry about Jiang Ningwei. ”

"Uncle......" Hearing that Yang Feng could be said to be digging out his heart and lungs, Geng Bingyi's eyes turned red, and he choked up: "Uncle is as kind to his humble position as a mountain, and he doesn't dare to forget it, since his uncle can't return to Jiang Ningwei for the time being, then the lowly people will take care of Jiang Ningwei for their uncle, and they must not let people rob him!" ”

Looking at Geng Bingyi, who was revealing his true feelings, Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Geng, it's good that you have this heart." But listen to the meaning of your words, Ben Bo is not here during this time, is there someone on Jiang Ningwei's side who wants to stir up trouble? ”

"Yes!" Geng Bingyi said with some indignation: "Since the yield of our potatoes per mu reached thousands of catties, from time to time there have been grain merchants who have gone to Jiangningwei and contacted the officers of our guard everywhere, wanting to invite the lowly to join the firm. Bah...... The conscience of these grain merchants has been eaten by dogs, and now that the world is so difficult, they still want to make this kind of black money, they really deserve to be killed! ”

"You can do that." Yang Feng said appreciatively: "My Daming Jiangnan area should have been the land of fish and rice, but because of the businessmen's pursuit of profit, seeing that raising mulberry and planting fruit trees to make money, they ran to plant fruit trees and mulberry trees, resulting in a good land of fish and rice is not even enough to eat, and has to transport grain from Hubei and other places, but I don't know if you can't even fill your stomach, even if you weave more silk and raise more silkworms, what's the use?"

It is hateful that some profiteers not only did not see this, but took advantage of the lack of grain in the south of the Yangtze River to hoard Juqi and wantonly accumulate wealth, so that those people who have no food to eat will inevitably rise up one day, and the world will be in chaos at that time. ”

"Unraveling?" Geng Bingyi was also taken aback when he heard this, and the words in his heart couldn't help blurting out: "Uncle, it's not like that." ”

"Isn't it?" Yang Feng snorted lightly, Geng Bingyi didn't know, but he, a later person, knew very well, "In a few years, the climate of the Xiaoice River will cause the weather to become colder and colder, and the water shortage in the northern region will become more and more serious, coupled with the exploitation of the government, the intensification of land annexation and the heavy pressure of Liao, at that time, under the instigation and leadership of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the wave of uprisings and riots will sweep the entire Daming, and finally completely bury this empire that has lasted for more than two hundred years!" ”

But now it doesn't make sense to talk about these things, Yang Feng pondered for a while and then said: "Old Geng, you go back and prepare, in addition to stepping up production, Benbo has already sent someone to tell Li Ge and Chen Tian that the salt we have hoarded there can start to sell, but Benbo is worried that someone will make trouble at that time, so you must arrest it in terms of safety." ”

"Are we going to sell salt too?"

Hearing this, Geng Bingyi's heart began to beat violently, although he was not in charge of business in Jiang Ningwei, but even if he was stupid, he knew what a lucrative business selling salt was, if the Daming Royal Commercial House really put his hand into this business, it would not take a year or two for them to make a lot of money, but after the excitement, he also began to worry.

"My lord, if we also meddle in the salt and iron business, I'm afraid it will attract the attention of those Jiangnan salt merchants!"

"Attention...... What can they do about paying attention? Yang Feng sneered: "It's hard that their saliva can still kill people, don't forget that they have a pen, but we have a gun!" If you really want to come to provoke without a long eye, we don't mind showing the guys, Benber wants to see if their heads are hard or our knives are hard! ”

Seeing Yang Feng's clear attitude, Geng Bingyi also said murderously: "Uncle, don't worry, the batch of 12,000 recruits trained last year has already been trained, plus our original veterans, now we have 20,000 troops in our hands, if we add the 8,000 cavalry that we just started training, our men and horses will be almost 30,000, do you still need to be afraid of people?" ”

"If only you could have this confidence!" Yang Feng smiled with satisfaction: "You have to remember, our Daming Royal Commercial Bank has half of His Majesty's shares in it, who dares to deal with the Daming Royal Commercial Bank is not getting along with His Majesty's money bag, and it is only natural for us to clean them up." ”

"That's right!" Geng Bingyi patted his head with a sudden realization: "How can I forget this layer of lowly duties, you can rest assured." Whoever dares to make trouble with us, the lowly will immediately pick off his head! ”

"Hahaha......" Yang Feng's laughter echoed in the living room......

The 5,000 tons of salt that Yang Feng got back from the modern society have been transported to Beijing, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Songjiang and other places in the Ming Dynasty, waiting to open at the same time. However, although he had long been prepared for the reaction of the salt merchants entrenched in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, Yang Feng still underestimated the reaction of these monopoly groups.

On May 26, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming royal trading houses sold salt at the same time in the shops of the Ming Dynasty, and they sold salt, and they sold the best snowflake salt, and the most terrible thing was that the price of this snowflake salt was only three dollars of silver per catty, which was the same as the coarse salt sold by those salt merchants.

This immediately touched the most sensitive nerves of the salt merchants, and the Ming Royal Merchant House is digging their roots! The salt merchants from all over the country all jumped up, and the Donglin Party, who was the spokesperson of the gentry and wealthy merchants in Jiangnan, was more like an enraged mad dog, they rushed to the gate of the palace under the leadership of Gao Panlong, the left capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace, who had just recovered his body, and wanted to play a dead sentence, but it was a pity that Zhu Youxiao, who had long expected this situation, immediately ordered the palace door to be closed, and ordered the palace guards to keep these people who came to find trouble outside.

Looking at the pressing palace gate and the guards at the door, Yu Shi said sadly and angrily: "The traitor misled the country, broke the ancestral system without authorization, sold salt and fought with the people for profit, but His Majesty connived at such traitorous ministers to cause trouble to the court, my lords, what should we do?" ”

Immediately, someone suggested: "Either we go and block the door of that traitor's house, or rush in and drag that traitor out, and we will work together to eliminate the harm for the country!" ”

It's just that this person's words came out of his mouth with countless white eyes, and you don't know the methods of that traitor, that person is really ruthless, I didn't see him dare to beat someone in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military without saying a word, if you go to block the door of his house this time, do you dare to hack you to death at the door on the spot.

Gao Panlong's face was pale, and he looked at the closed palace gate for a long time before he snorted coldly: "Your Majesty thinks that hiding in the palace and not seeing me will wait for the matter to pass, he is too naïve." You must know that public opinion cannot be violated, and when public opinion boils, it is the time for him to regret it, everyone...... Let's go back first! ”

Zhu Youxiao, who was in the palace, was listening to Wei Zhongxian's report, and when he heard that all the people outside had left, he couldn't help but say happily: "I thought that these people were going to have some kind of moths, but I didn't expect them to be anticlimactic." ”

Wei Zhongxian said respectfully on the side: "Your Majesty's eyes are like torches, and those people naturally dare not disobey Your Majesty's will. ”

"Hmm...... I love to hear what Wei Zhongxian said. Zhu Youxiao laughed, he looked at Wei Zhongxian, who was standing respectfully beside him, and said, "Is there anything going on with the celebrant recently?" ”

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly smiled and said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is nothing important in the imperial court these days, if the only thing worth mentioning is that the appearance of potatoes has filled more and more people's stomachs, and the people outside are singing the praises of Your Majesty's benevolence!" ”

"Huh...... What does this have to do with me? Zhu Youxiao still has this self-knowledge, he waved his hand: "This potato was presented by Jiang Ningbo, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

"Your Majesty says something different." Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said: "If it weren't for His Majesty's insight and decree to promote, Tudou Yan would have been able to spread in such a quick time, if you want to say that there is no credit from Your Majesty here, the slave and maid will not agree to be the first one!" ”

"Hahaha...... Wei Zhongxian, you're getting better at talking. Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao was happy, Wei Zhongxian also laughed on the side. During this time, he obviously felt that Zhu Youxiao was estranged from him a lot, especially after Yang Feng became more and more popular in the imperial court, the sense of crisis in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he ran to Zhu Youxiao whenever he had the opportunity these days, chatting with Zhu Youxiao and even doing things, in order to save his image and favor in Zhu Youxiao's heart.

The two talked for a while, and then Zhu Youxiao said lightly: "Wei Zhongxian, Jiang Ningbo's sale of salt in various places this time is bound to touch the interests of salt merchants in various places. Jiang Ningbo said, for the sake of silver, these people can do anything, as the commander of Dongchang, the burden on your shoulders is very heavy, if there is any situation, you must report it to me in time, understand? ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao's face was solemn. Since Yang Feng promised to give him half of the net profits of the Ming Royal Commercial Bank, this commercial house has become his most important source of wealth.

"Whew...... Slave maid understands! Wei Zhongxian hurriedly agreed, "Your Majesty, rest assured, the slave and maid promise that they will not let those profiteers ruin Your Majesty's hard work." ”

When he said this, Wei Zhongxian's mood was complicated, both envious and jealous, he had long been blushing at the Daming Royal Commercial Bank, which was a thing that made money every day, but this business house had become the lifeblood of the old Zhu family, and he didn't dare to touch it if he was given three dares.

Zhu Youxiao went to do things after saying this, in his opinion, this matter is not a big deal, but he underestimated the madness of some people, and half a month later, shocking news came from Jiangnan......