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Chongzhen's holy decree has nothing new, but let Qin Mu quickly lead his troops north to suppress the thieves, recover Henan, and attack Shaanxi.

Qin Mu is funny, Chongzhen really looks up to us, should I also think that I have three heads and six arms, and I can scatter beans into soldiers.

Qin Mu even suspected that Chongzhen would also come with twelve gold medals, urging them one after another.

The current situation is that Jin Shenghuan suffered a heavy defeat under the city of Yuezhou, and Ma Yongzhen and Su Jinzheng took advantage of the victory to force into Wuchang, and if nothing else, it would not be a problem to capture Wuchang.

Meng Changgeng, who had just seized Jingzhou, learned that Xiangyang was besieged by Zuo Liangyu's army, and the situation was precarious, so he had to abandon Jingzhou to return to Xiangyang.

Several shili in the entire Jinghu region were intricately intertwined and fought with each other, but on the whole, the situation was very favorable to the Qin army. However, if Qin Mu really went north with all his might, with Zuo Liangyu and Zheng Siwei here, it would be a question whether he could capture Xiangyang.

Recovering Henan and attacking Shaanxi, this is a very slim thing, others are not all fools, it is impossible for you to be shaken, and others will fall to the wind.

Qin Mu is self-aware, his 100,000 army is untrained, and the more territory he has conquered, the faster he will definitely die if he has no time to train his soldiers and consolidate his base areas. Now for him, it would be good for him to be lucky enough to take Wuchang and Jingzhou, and barely close the gateway to the north of Huguang.

We must no longer be greedy, we must immediately stop expanding and hurry up training our soldiers. At the same time, it developed to the people's livelihood in Huguang and Jiangxi, and made every effort to prepare for war to deal with the fierce Manchu iron cavalry.

Therefore, no matter how many holy decrees Chongzhen wants to urge, it is impossible for him to shake the established strategic policy.

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A painting boat drove into the city of Nanjing leisurely from Xishuiguan, winter is coming, the sky is a little gloomy, both sides of the Qinhuai River, the smoke and willows in the past, at this time only the bald branches of the bleak are left in the cold wind, so that this winter looks a little sloppy.

Bian Saisai sat alone in front of the window of the painting boat. There was a touch of sorrow between her eyebrows, which made her noble and melancholy temperament more and more intense.

Since sending Li Xiangjun away, she went to Suzhou, lived in Tiger Hill for half a year, this time back to Jinling, and found that although the banks of the Qinhuai River are still so prosperous, it is not difficult to see from the people's expressions that a depressing atmosphere is shrouded in the city.

People hoped that the biggest Sun Inspector would die in Tongguan, and Daming Zuihou also lost all his stalls. Even in Jinling City, where people were drunk and dreamed of death, people began to feel a chill blowing from the northwest.

The painting boat goes against the current. The speed is very slow, and on the flower boats on the river, you can always see those talented people in the south of the Yangtze River under the service of beauties, while drinking, talking about the situation in the world, or criticizing the mistakes of the ministers, or scolding the rebels for being unreasonable, or lamenting that they have not met, or writing poems.

If you've heard these impassioned words before. Bian Saisai also sincerely appreciated it, but he didn't know Weishenme, and now he didn't bother to listen to it, and even felt a little disgusted.

Right now, even she can see that she is a dusty woman. I'm afraid that the stormy Ming Dynasty won't be able to support it for long, and these people have been talking about the Qinhuai River for decades, what have they come up with? What did you do again?

Daming is going to die, and these people still only know how to speak in Fireworks Alley. Why don't you see a few characters like Ban Dingyuan?

At this moment, Cassaisai's heart was really filled with such thoughts, and even she felt surprised. How could I suddenly have such an opinion?

"Sister Bian."

When the painting boat docked on the pier of the ferry, a familiar voice came, Bian Saisai looked up, but saw that on the pier, a petite and delicate person stood with a smile, wearing an embroidered orchid moon dress gently fluttering in the wind, making her light figure look almost like flying away from the wind, and there was a smile in her eyebrow and starry eyes.

"Sister Xiangjun?" Bian Saisai could hardly believe his eyes.

"Sister Bian, I heard that you are going back to Jinling, but my sister has been waiting for a long time." The smile on the bright and moving Li Xiangjun's face was even greater, like a delicate flower blooming in winter.

Bian Saisai looked surprised, hurriedly got off the boat, took Li Xiangjun's hand and asked, "Isn't Sister Xiangjun in Gannan, why did you come back to Jinling again?" Speaking of this, the surprise on Bian Saisai's face disappeared, and he turned to ask worriedly, "Could it be that your Qin Lang is actually a lucky person, and he put his sister?"

"What did Sister Bian say, Qin Lang is not that kind of person, he treats my sister very well, it's just that he is handsome all day long, it is rare to have a moment of leisure, my sister stays alone in Huichang, and I can't help him anything, it just so happens that Xu Dongjia, who is a Rentong firm, wants to open a bank in the southeast, and invites my sister to come to Jinling to help dredge and dredge, my sister is worried about Sister Bian in her heart, and after getting Qin Lang's approval, she will go back to Jinling."

Li Xiangjun smiled and smiled, her face was full of happiness, standing with Bian Saisai, a petite and exquisite, bright and poetic; A slender and gentle, melancholy and noble temperament; Under the interplay of the two, a moving scenery is formed, and people who walk near the pier frequently look back.

Li Xiangjun's words made Bian Sai even more strange, generally speaking, Qinglou women like them, once they became good, lived in seclusion, and they were more self-disciplined than ordinary women in terms of behavior, so as not to bring up the old things again and say that they were not thrifty. There is basically no person like Li Xiangjun who ran back to a place like Qinhuai to show his face.

"Sister, although your Rentong business name is kind to you, but if you run back like this to help him dredge his joints, it will inevitably cause gossip, in case your Qin Lang is not happy"

"Sister, don't think too much, Qin Lang is a person with clear grievances, he wrote to say that since Xu Dongjia has a life-saving grace for me, I can't help but report it, it was Qin Lang who asked me to come, otherwise how dare my sister mess around."

Bian Saisai still felt strange, with Qin Mu's current ability, he could use other methods to repay Rentong Firm, but he just asked Li Xiangjun to go back to Jinling to help in person, which was only afraid that it was not that simple, but she saw that Li Xiangjun's happy expression did not seem to be fake, so she didn't ask more.

"My sister came back just in time, the bank will be opened tomorrow, Xu Dongjia invited celebrities in the city to a banquet in Meixianglou, there were many people who went to the banquet, and I also asked my sister to help with the entertainment, sister, don't shirk it, my sister will have a good reward in the future."

"What kind of reward do you say, since it's my sister's business, can my sister still say that she can't go?"

Bian Saisai and they originally did this, in the banquet of dignitaries, in addition to singing and dancing performances, the main thing is to answer correctly with clever words, lubricate interpersonal relationships, and help all parties pave the way, so that all parties can shorten the distance in a good atmosphere, reach a consensus, and complete the exchange of interests, which is somewhat similar to the matchmaker helping both men and women.

Meixianglou was completely contracted by Xu Yingjie, which is probably an unprecedented thing in Jinling City, not that the large-scale purchase of Meixianglou is unprecedented, but Xu Yingjie, a little-known lowly businessman, was able to invite more than 20 dignitaries in Jinling City to the banquet at one time, including Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of Nanjing.

All of a sudden, Meixiang downstairs was full of canopies, and celebrities and dignitaries came one after another. Li Xiangjun and Bian Saisai both arrived, which added a lot of color to this banquet.

Li Xiangjun has already been good, and it is a little inappropriate to perform singing and dancing again, but he still came forward to toast and answer correctly. The magnates who arrived didn't dare to treat her as an ordinary fireworks woman anymore, and they gave enough respect in their attitude.

It was precisely because of Li Xiangjun who came forward to Zhang Luo that Han Zanzhou guessed that the bank established by Xu Yingjie must have Qin Mu's shadow behind it, so he took the initiative to come to the banquet, otherwise it would be impossible for Xu Yingjie to introduce a businessman and want to invite him as a great god.

And more than 20 magnates came to the banquet, I am afraid that the thoughts are similar to Han Zanzhou, Sun Chuanting died in battle, and Shaanxi Zuihou was wiped out with a little capable army, which made these magnates more eager to find a new way out.

At this bone junk, Xu Yingjie set up a bank, and Li Xiangjun came to help with the situation, in their opinion, this is undoubtedly Qin Mulai looking for a partner.

Xu Yingjie made a gesture, thanked all the dignitaries for their faces, and then carefully introduced the business of Huitong Bank, and then said: "The contemptible people have just received the news that the governor of southern Jiangxi, Qin Mu Qin, has successfully recovered Wuchang and Jingzhou, and the Jiangxi general Meng Ke has also led 20,000 elites to enter Jiujiang, so that the commercial and trade exchanges between Jiangxi, Huguang and Jiangnan will definitely increase dramatically;

Based on good faith, in order to facilitate everyone's money exchanges, Huitong Bank has set up exchange business in Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Huguang cities. If the nobles who came to the banquet today are in need, they also hope to take care of the trumpet, and the trumpet will provide you with the most perfect, safest, best quality and fastest service."

Although Xu Yingjie's tone is respectful, it is by no means as humble as an ordinary businessman;

His words are also very intriguing, first informed the Qin army of the latest news of the recovery of Wuchang and Jingzhou, the magnates sitting here are all people with hands and eyes, but they have not learned such news before coming, but Xu Yingjie, a businessman, first learned about it, isn't it intriguing enough?

And he deliberately mentioned the latest news about Qin Mu, but never mentioned what Qin Mu had to do with Huitong Bank, and the scale of this was also just right.

After Xu Yingjie finished speaking, Li Xiangjun and Bian Saisai immediately persuaded the powerful people present to drink, and made witty remarks, first turning the topic to poetry and songs, wind and snow, and waiting for the atmosphere to be mobilized, and then in the midst of talking and laughing, they cleverly explained the benefits of depositing money in the bank from the side.

Han Zanzhou praised from time to time, and first stated that he would deposit his savings for many years in HSBC.

Han Zan said on Monday, and the powerful people present also expressed their support, at least in their attitude, as for how much silver they will deposit in Huitong Bank, this is another matter.

Of course, Xu Yingjie doesn't expect them to deposit all their belongings in the bank at once, this is impossible, what he wants is a gesture from these powerful people present, no matter how much they save, as long as they can make a gesture, for Xu Yingjie, the goal will be achieved.

(To be continued......)