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Lin Wan'er hasn't seen her for a year, she has already been slim, and she is already seventeen years old at this time, if she turned into the daughter of someone else's family, she would have married a long time ago.

But Lin Wan'er has not yet been allowed to marry others, on the one hand, Lin Yongnian loves this only daughter more, and she is more obedient to her wishes.

hopes that his daughter can find her intended person, in this regard, Lin Yongnian is really not a pedantic person.

At the same time, Lin Yongnian actually knew for a long time that his daughter had been in correspondence with Li Zixiao for more than a year.

Even, Lin Yongnian knew that in a teahouse not far from their mansion, there was a contact point set up by Li Zixiao in Yangzhou to send him letters with his daughter.

With the cooperation between Lin Yongnian and Li Zixiao in Yangzhou last time, he successfully gained a foothold in Yangzhou.

He had a lot of dissatisfaction with Li Zixiao at this time, but he also admired this young and promising general.

In particular, it was rumored that Li Zixiao led his troops north to fight with the Tatars, and even achieved shocking results, was personally summoned by Chongzhen, and was also crowned General Pingyuan.

This made Lin Yongnian have a better impression of Li Zixiao, in the final analysis, Lin Yongnian is also an official who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he did not prevent his daughter from communicating with Li Zixiao.

"Hmm!"

After hearing his daughter's words, Lin Yongnian nodded.

The arrogance of those salt merchants is really very arrogant on weekdays, Lin Yongnian has been in contact with them, even if it is for him, the prefect of Yangzhou, they only maintain a superficial politeness.

These businessmen evade taxes, hoard goods, and accumulate first-class means, but whenever there is a festival in the New Year, the filial piety they send to the prefect's yamen is pitiful.

Although Lin Yongnian is not a person who is greedy for money, he can't stand so many people in the yamen under him, but not everyone has a court fortune.

Lin Yongnian has to feed his subordinates with so many mouths, and he, the prefect, is honestly short of silver!

Thinking of this, Lin Yongnian snorted coldly, and threw the report in his hand on the stone table in front of him, it seemed that he didn't plan to pay attention to this matter.

He picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and then said slowly: "Wan'er, have you been in contact with that Li Zixiao recently?" ”

was asked by her father, Lin Wan'er's face was slightly red, and she answered in a low voice: "En." ”

Seeing his daughter's appearance, Lin Yongnian sighed, and thought in his heart: The woman is not staying, it seems that this child really likes Li Zixiao.

At the same time, Lin Yongnian was also a little dissatisfied with Li Zixiao, you have been hooking up with my daughter for so long, and I haven't seen you come to propose, what do you want to do.

"Where are you and him?" Lin Yongnian asked again.

He ...... He promised me that he would come and propose marriage at the end of this year. Lin Wan'er blushed on her face and said shyly.

This year's sister is not a descendant, through this year's correspondence, the two didn't even see each other a few times, and Lin Wan'er secretly promised Li Zixiao.

And Li Zixiao really plans to find a suitable time to come to Yangzhou to propose.

"Yes."

Lin Yongnian nodded after hearing this, since it was a marriage proposal, it also showed that Li Zixiao wanted Ming Media to marry Lin Wan'er, not to be a concubine.

Lin Yongnian would not wronged his daughter and be a concubine for others, and at this time, as General Li Zixiao Pingyuan, he was also worthy of his daughter.

Just when Lin Yongnian was determined to ignore the reports of those salt merchants and not interfere with the refined salt flowing into Yangzhou, at this time, in a house in Yangzhou, Li Yanzheng ordered a new batch of refined salt to be moved in.

In this month, Li Yan has been staying in Yangzhou, responsible for presiding over the sale of refined salt transported here by the White Dragon Army.

During this period of time, Li Yan sold almost nearly a catty of refined salt, and the price of each catty was only eighty or ninety wen, making a profit of nearly 1,000 taels of silver.

Compared with the price of refined salt that is as high as 150 percent at every turn, this is simply the price of conscience.

And this is just Yangzhou City, a month's sales volume, if Li Zixiao can sell refined salt in the entire Jiangbei, he can earn at least tens of thousands of taels of silver a month.

Relying on such an income alone is enough for him to feed his army, but unfortunately, it is impossible to occupy the Jiangbei market.

Then he will cut off the livelihood of those salt merchants, and when the time comes, these guys will jump over the wall in a hurry, and they may be going to make some mess!

Li Zixiao's most ideal result is that these salt merchants can't sit still in the end, and come to talk to him about cooperation, he provides refined salt, and these salt merchants sell it, mutual benefit and win-win results.

Therefore, at this time, Li Zixiao needs to wait for time, and then let Li Yan use the cheap refined salt in his hand to occupy the Jiangbei market little by little.

When the time comes, even if those salt merchants are patient, they will not be able to sit still, if someone dares to do a black hand, then Li Zixiao will let them see how sharp the knife in his hand is.

It's a pity that Li Zixiao overestimated the salt merchants in Yangzhou after all.

Those salt merchants can still find out that Li Yan's refined salt is all from Xuzhou, so they naturally know that it is from him.

This time, the salt merchants, who have always been arrogant and domineering, kept a low profile for the first time and did not immediately fight back.

Because the other party is Li Zixiao, he has the last time Li Zixiao made trouble in Yangzhou Mansion, and Li Zixiao killed thousands of Tartars before, and he made great achievements.

The vast majority of businessmen in Yangzhou are afraid of Li Zixiao, knowing that this is a lawless lord.

If they really dare to say nothing, they will move his men and salt, and it is estimated that it will not take a few days for Li Zixiao's revenge to come.

To put it bluntly, these salt merchants are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and in the face of Li Zixiao, who has a knife handle, they don't dare to act rashly.

Li Zixiao, who tasted the sweetness, continued to dump refined salt in Huai'an Mansion, and had no intention of stopping, which made the salt merchants in Huai'an and Yangzhou unbearable.

These salt merchants had no choice but to contact King De, hoping that King De could send someone to negotiate with Li Zixiao.

King De was also very curious about how Li Zixiao refined so much refined salt, and immediately sent someone to Xuzhou to meet Li Zixiao.

And just when Li Zixiao was commanding the yamen in Xuzhou, he saw the person sent by King De, who was still an old acquaintance, Chen Hu, and Li Zixiao also received a shocking news.

In May of the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again in Gucheng.

Zhang Xianzhong had a false intention before, surrendered to the imperial court, in order to give his soldiers a chance to breathe, recuperate, and wait for the time to raise the banner of rebellion again.

Before the Tatars entered the customs and plundered, they crisscrossed the entire land of Hebei, but there were not many Ming troops to fight with, which made Zhang Xianzhong see the weakness of the Ming Dynasty again and strengthened his determination to rebel again.

Zhang Xianzhong, who rebelled again, led his subordinates and quickly defeated the officers and troops who garrisoned Gucheng, killed the county commander Ruan Zhitian and the patrol press Yushi Lin Mingqiu, demolished the city walls, and robbed the treasury and imprisoned them.

When Zhang Xianzhong rose again, the other two rebels Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying also responded and went to Gucheng to meet Zhang Xianzhong.

At the same time, Li Zicheng, who was hiding in Shangluo Mountain, was overjoyed after receiving the news of Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and immediately regrouped.

Subsequently, Li Zicheng led the remnants of his troops to defeat the generals and entered the western part of Henan through the Yun and Jun regions of Hubei.

The flames of the peasant uprising once again burned brightly on the land of the Central Plains.

When Xiong Wencan learned of the resurgence of the rebels, he immediately transferred Zuo Liangyu and Luo Dai to lead the troops to pursue and suppress them.

Zhang Xianzhong led the army, ambushed in Luo Monkey Mountain west of Fang County, spread a net to set up a formation, and sent a team to feint defeat and retreat, luring the official army into the mountain, ambush and besiege.

As a result, more than 10,000 officers and troops were all scattered, Luo Dai was captured alive, Zuo Liangyu lost his armor and fled in a saddle, and even the military seal letter was lost.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious, removed Xiong Wencan's post and arrested him; Zuo Liangyu was demoted to three levels, and he made meritorious service with the army.

Then, Yang Sichang, a scholar and secretary of the military department, was reassigned to supervise the division, and the governor below listened to moderation, and once again launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the peasant army.

"Hey, Chongzhen is busy with these again."

Li Zixiao held the information sent by the Intelligence Bureau under Zhang Fugui at this time about Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion again, sighed, shook his head and said in a low voice.

At the same time, Li Zixiao knows very well that the resurgence of the rebellious army such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong this time will grow like a snowball, and finally subvert the Ming Dynasty.

For these, Li Zixiao didn't do anything, just quietly watched and watched, and at the same time accumulated strength little by little.

Chen Hu rushed to Xuzhou to meet Li Zixiao with the meaning of King De, hoping to cooperate with each other on refined salt.

Li Zixiao agreed in one bite, and said that in the future, he could provide refined salt to King De in an all-round way, and King De was responsible for selling it, and the profits were shared.

It was Li Zixiao six, Dewang four, Chen Hu refused to agree at first, but in the face of the strong Li Zixiao, Chen Hu was helpless in the end.

What's more, because Chen Hu learned from Li Zixiao's mouth that he learned a way to refine refined salt cheaply.

The cost of refining those refined salts is simply negligible, and the profits behind this are too rich to make Chen Hu think about it or not.

And King De needs to provide Li Zixiao with a sufficient amount of coarse salt, and for these cheap coarse salts, King De can still easily take it out.

Now that Li Zixiao and King De have reached a consensus, the opinions of the other salt merchants are not very important, but they have to bring these people to play together, and those people in the province are secretly mischievous.

Li Zixiao still has a lot of things to do, and he doesn't have time to always guard against these people, since he can't afford to eat such a big piece of 'cake' alone, let's share it with everyone.

At this time, in the south of Shaanxi, Huguang, west of Shaanxi, and a Sichuan, the rebel army in full swing was fighting a bloody battle with the soldiers and horses encircled and suppressed by the imperial court.

On the one hand, Li Zixiao always pays attention to the actions of these chaotic troops, and on the other hand, he continues to build his future base camp.

Li Zixiao has always attached great importance to settling displaced people, recruiting population, reclaiming wasteland, and building canals, and Li Zixiao also encouraged rural people to engage in aquaculture.

Breeding is also a key exhibition project of Li Zixiao in Xuzhou recently.

Li Zixiao knew that if he wanted the army to maintain sufficient physical strength and good nutrition, meat must keep up.

Then, it is necessary to provide the sergeants of the army with enough meat to eat.

However, according to the scale of the White Dragon Army's total establishment of 10,000 people at this time, even if it is calculated as one or two meat per person per day, then more than 30,000 catties of meat must be consumed in a month, that is, about 300 pigs.

With so much pork, it is obviously impossible to buy it only from the market, that is unrealistic.

Therefore, Li Zixiao thought of the breeding industry in later generations.

He not only vigorously developed the breeding industry himself, but also encouraged the people of the people to raise their own livestock.

In addition to raising livestock, poultry can also be raised.

Li Zixiao asked people to open up a wasteland outside Xuzhou City, specializing in planting vegetables such as rapeseed, turnips, and purple flowers, and dug hundreds of ponds next to the canal.

Thanks to the repair of the canals, these ponds were no longer in danger of running out of water, and after repairing the ponds, he built more than 100 pig houses around the ponds, as well as a large chicken and duck farms and vegetable fields.

As long as there are perfect and sufficient water conservancy resources, there will be no problems with the cultivation here, which is one of the reasons why Li Zixiao overhauled water conservancy.

Although Li Zixiao has no experience in breeding, he has never eaten pork, and he has seen pigs run.

For example, the countless piglets in the pig house are eating all kinds of pigweed, and all kinds of feed made by military households from local materials.

When the rape and vegetables such as turnip and purple flowers are grown, the piglets can eat these vegetables that are easy to grow and easy to harvest.

What should I do with the pig manure pulled down by so many pigs?

That's a good thing, not only can they be used to fertilize the fields, chickens in the chicken farm, fish in the pond, they can also eat the stuff of pig manure, and they are easy to grow.

The ducks can go to the pond and eat, or go to the river to eat fish and shrimp.

In this way, the poultry planting and breeding are concentrated together, in fact, it is the popular comprehensive management mode of agriculture and sideline industry that integrates agriculture, fishery, and fruit and vegetable industry.

This mode of operation can not only save time and effort, but also obtain rich benefits, and can also promote the virtuous cycle and balance of production ecology.

In this way, under Li Zixiao's compulsory order, a large-scale ecological breeding circle was first set up from the Xuzhou Liangwei Institute.

Li Zixiao's plan is that after this farm is on the right track, there will be more than 60,000 or 70,000 pigs and more than 100,000 chickens and ducks in it at any time, and it is expected to reach this goal in two years.

To this end, Li Zixiao did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, sent people to various places to buy thousands of pairs of pigs, chickens, ducklings and other things, and mobilized a large number of laborers to build pig houses, chicken and duck pens and dig fish ponds.

Just preparing these things cost Li Zixiao no less than 80,000 taels of silver, but now it has gradually borne fruit.

Although it is still far from the goal set by Li Zixiao, it has only been less than half a year, and the results have already begun to appear.

This farm has brought very considerable benefits to Xuzhou Liangwei.

Since the Xuzhou Liangwei Institute opened this large-scale farm, all the military households in the Xuzhou Liangwei Institute have something to do every day.

The young men cultivated the wasteland to farm, the women mostly went to the farms, and the military families escaped death this time.

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