The development of the coastal areas of Zhejiang is not Yu Youming's idea alone, and many other banks also plan to participate in it, because the development of Jiaodong makes them feel greedy, so they turn their minds to Zhejiang. When applying to Deng Ming, Bao Guogong asked them to pay attention to the risk -- the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very closed off from the country, and it was unlikely that the land development along the coast of Zhejiang would lose money, and the so-called risk meant that Zhao Guozuo would not admit it in the future.

"If Zhao Guozuo wants to eat black, the Baoguo Guild will take the emperor's ** team to seek justice for us, right?" As soon as they heard that Deng Ming actually thought that there was a risk, the bankers asked eagerly.

"As long as the Imperial Diet agrees to send troops, I will not object."

Deng Ming's answer immediately made all the bankers put their hearts back in their stomachs. It was not difficult to convince the Reichstag that it would be easy to get the parliamentarians to agree to send troops to protect the bankers, as long as a portion of the profits were paid to the Reich government as taxes.

Moreover, everyone also discussed that they would pay to help Zhao Guozuo arm the green battalion and help him gain the strength to fight against the Manchu court. As long as Zhao Guozuo knows each other, these financial tycoons plan to support him to continue to sit on the throne of the governor of Zhejiang, and are even willing to match up with him to help Zhao Guozuo recruit Zhuang Yuncheng. Of course, these help are not free, for the time being, the bank group is willing to take out only birds, and other services can be considered slowly in the future to see what kind of price is suitable for selling Zhao Guozuo.

Of course, the Sichuan consul stationed in Hangzhou has to serve his own people, and he uses everyone's taxes as his salary, so he has to work for everyone. However, although Yu Youming's wishful thinking was good, and Zhang Tao also enthusiastically served the taxpayers, Zhao Guozuo did not go to the road, and hesitated to refuse to agree to hand over the coastal areas to the Sichuan people. In other words, Zhao Guozuo also understood that such a large piece of land could bring high profits to the people of Sichuan, and he refused to sell it cheaply, but wanted to bargain for more silver.

After receiving Zhang Tao's letter and learning that Zhao Guozuo was still resisting, Yu Youming and others were furious. Although Zhao Guozuo hinted that as long as the Sichuan people gave him more benefits, he was not unable to consider it, but the bankers agreed that Zhao Guozuo did not deserve more.

"The family is in chaos like this, and he still wants to bargain?" Yu Youming said angrily. Everyone immediately wrote a letter to An Lesi, and Boss An not only counted on the bank's loan, but also knew that in the future, these bankers would pay for his military version of the model, so he also happily agreed to help.

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Two days ago, Zhao Guozuo hinted to Zhang Tao that if the Ming army wanted to monopolize the forbidden sea area and a qiē maritime business in the whole of Zhejiang, then he would have to give him at least one million taels of silver a year. However, he was willing to use half of them to buy arms or other military services for the Ming army. Zhao Guozuo felt that the asking price was not very high, and if he was not forced to hurry, he would never risk making the imperial court angry and sell these rights and interests to the Ming army. Zhao Guozuo is sure that even if the Ming army pays this money, there is still a lot of profit margin.

In the past two days, Governor Zhao patiently waited in the yamen for Zhang Tao to visit again, and reported to the governor that the black-hearted merchants in western Sichuan had accepted the generous construction of the governor's yamen. However, Zhao Guozuo did not wait for Zhang Tao, but waited for the bad news that Gui'an County was captured by the Jingnan army.

Speaking of Zhuang and Zhu's official reorganization of their chaotic party into the Jingnan Army, Zhao Guozuo was angry when he thought about it: "You are just two Zhuang owners, why should you be Jingnan?" What is so difficult? You are not even Manchurians, let alone Aixin Jueluo, and you are really embarrassed to say that you are Jingnan. ”

But it's useless to be angry, Zhuang Yuncheng, Zhu Youming and their Jing Nan accomplices are still alive. Soldiers who escaped from Gui'an County reported that the Jingnan army actually used heavy siege artillery this time. These days, Gui'an County has summoned a group of road tyrants to defend the county seat, and the people in the county are already panicking, as soon as the cannons of the Jingnan Army rang out, the heroes in charge of defending the two city gates immediately surrendered to the Jingnan Army with their disciples.

Two days later, Huzhou also fell. This time, Zhao Guozuo got a more detailed report, and Tan Ximin did not die in the city, but chose to flee back to Hangzhou - Tan Governor said that his death was not a pity, but if he could not personally send the details of the enemy to the governor, then he would die without turning a blind eye.

"The thieves used at least thirty red-coated cannons." Tan Ximin wailed to Zhao Guozuo and Song Kui: "I personally led all the officials to stick to the city tower, but there are too many red-clothed cannons of the thieves, and there are countless small cannons. ”

"The Red Cannon!" Song Kui shouted: "Why does Zhuang Yuncheng even have a red-clothed cannon!" Was he really forced to rebel? Why do I think this has been planned for a long time? ”

Whether it is Zhao Guozuo or Song Kui, they don't believe that Zhuang Yuncheng can have thirty red-clothed cannons, he is simply more than Kong Youde, Prince Kong's cannons back then. Even if you fold the numbers Tan Ximin said in half, it's still amazingly much. However, this is only a matter of quantity, not whether there is a problem. Governor Zhao believes that Zhuang Yuncheng does have a cannon, this news is indeed important, if it is confirmed, Tan Ximin used this as an excuse to flee back to report the news, and it is not completely impossible to get away with the crime.

Now, whether Zhuang Yuncheng was forced to rebel or not, Zhao Guozuo felt that he was no longer very sure. If it weren't for the dragon chair to take down the Forbidden City, why did King Zhuang prepare the red-coated cannon? The governor of Zhejiang, Yamen, rushed this shocking news to the imperial court, and at the same time, the situation in northern Zhejiang continued to deteriorate rapidly.

After the Jingnan army swept all the counties in Huzhou, it entered Jiaxing Mansion non-stop.

Like Huzhou, Jiaxing's prefectures and counties are also surrounded by a large number of road blockers. Before the Jingnan army arrived, these roadblockers did not think that they had the ability to capture the county seat, and their main purpose in besieging the city was to collect tolls from passers-by and merchants, so they would not cut off internal and external traffic. If no one enters or leaves the city, then the heroes who surround the city will have no money to collect to buy roads.

When the Jingnan army drove over, there was no shortage of materials in the various counties, and under normal circumstances, the city should be able to hold out for a long time. However, this time it was not the exiles or the conquerors of the provinces who came to besiege the city, but the local gentry. Moreover, some time ago, due to the encirclement of bandits and road tyrants, prices in the county soared, and the people complained. Those heroes and gentry who were urgently recruited by the government to assist in defending the city also belonged to the targets of extortion by the government not long ago, and two months ago they were framed for participating in the Zhuang Ming history case, and they were ruthlessly released by the government with a bucket of blood, and this hatred and hatred are still vivid.

Before the Jingnan army reached the city, their relatives and friends who were in charge of defending the city in the city sent their henchmen in an endless stream to discuss the plan and study how to deal with the prefect and county commanders. Especially after hearing that the entire territory of Huzhou Mansion was swept away by the Jingnan Army in a few days, the gentry of Jiaxing Mansion have developed from contempt to contempt for the Green Camp. As a result, the Jingnan army was overwhelmed, and the city gate was broken as soon as the cannon sounded. In the battle to break through the three county seats, only three county commanders and a few long-term followers who came with the county magistrate lost their lives. The local gentlemen, heroes, green battalion officers, and officials were all unharmed, and they all joined the Jingnan Army.

After learning that Jiaxing Mansion was also in danger, Zhao Guozuo finally couldn't sit still. Because Jiaxing gathered troops in the city early, there were still some troops loyal to the government, and there was no need to rely on the strength of local heroes and gentry as thoroughly as those counties that had been evacuated. Therefore, Zhao Guozuo felt that Jiaxing Mansion should be able to hold out for a period of time, and it would not be taken by the Jingnan Army immediately.

But there is still a great risk of sending troops from the provincial capital to reinforce Jiaxing, and now the whole Zhejiang is disturbed, and the city of Hangzhou is full of rumors that the Ming army from Zhoushan is coming to attack the provincial capital, so that Zhao Guozuo does not dare to come out. Songkui meant that Jiaxing could not be saved, but it was best to ask Deng Ming's consul to give a guarantee, promising that the Ming army would not take advantage of the emptiness of Hangzhou to sneak attack, so that they could concentrate on dealing with the Jingnan army.

However, Zhang Tao refused to give such assurances. The sudden offensive of the Jingnan army was the result of An Lesi's lobbying, and he told the gentleman, who had paid a large sum of money to buy the Hongyi cannon, that since he had spent so much money, he would have to open a few county towns to return to his capital. After trying it, Jin Shen found that it was so easy, so he fought more and more easily, and went to Jiaxing after beating Huzhou City.

Zhang Taotui said that he was sick and refused to come to the governor's yamen, and after thinking about it, Zhao Guozuo and Song Kuisi still did not dare to take out the troops in the provincial capital and make a desperate bet - after defeating the Jingnan army, they did not have time to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and they had to withdraw immediately to defend Hangzhou. As soon as the officers and soldiers leave, the Jingnan army may have to surround Jiaxing again; And if it is defeated by the Jingnan Army, then the chaotic parties in Ningbo and Shaoxing who are eager to try will immediately jump to the forefront, and Zhejiang should change the sky.

"It was good to set up a governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, but the imperial court had to split it into two governors, which is good, and there are no troops from neighboring provinces to adjust if there is something in Zhejiang. Last time, a few Fujian green camps died, and Li Shutai actually asked me for money! Zhao Guozuo, who complained about the sky, finally scolded the Beijing court. Now if you look for Li Shutai to ask for reinforcements, the other party will most likely ask Zhao Guozuo to pay off the arrears first, and where will Zhao Guozuo have the money to pay back? Not to mention that Zhejiang is still responsible for part of the military salaries of Fujian and Geng Jimao, and Zhao Guozuo has been in arrears for a long time.

"I can't ignore Jiaxing." Zhao Guozuo had no choice but to repair a letter to Nanjing, and asked Jiang Guozhu to send troops to assist him in suppressing the Jingnan army. Jiang Guozhu had never lent Zhao Guozuo soldiers and horses, so Zhao Guozuo did not owe him silver, and maybe lent him the army first. As for the money to get together, you can slowly find a way, but if you can't do it, you can buy a little more of Zhejiang's rights and interests to those black-hearted Sichuan bankers.

"Seeing that this year's Cao Yun is about to start again," Zhao Guozuo felt that his little hair and beard were rapidly turning white: "I haven't paid the Cao grain yet, and we haven't paid the usual salary of the Fujian Army, and our treasury is already empty enough to run horses...... The Jingnan army is on the side of the Qing monarch, and there is still a large amount of debt......"

Suddenly, Zhao Guozuo remembered what Ao Bai said about going to Ningguta in northern Xinjiang to gnaw old corn, and it seemed that the future was not too terrible.