Yu Youming's idea was not Yu Youming alone. Many other banks also planned to participate. Because the development of Jiaodong made them jealous, they turned their minds to Zhejiang. When applying to Deng Ming, Baoguo asked them to pay attention to risks - the Qing Dynasty was trying to close the country, and land development on the coast of Zhejiang was unlikely to lose money. The so-called risk means that Zhao Guozuo refused to admit his account in the future.

"If Zhao Guozuo wants to be ill-fighting, the Baoguo Guild will lead the Imperial Army to seek justice for us?" As soon as Deng Ming thought there was a risk, the bankers asked anxiously.

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

Deng Ming's answer immediately made all bankers feel raised back. It is not difficult to convince the Imperial Parliament. As long as everyone pays part of the profits as taxes to the Imperial government, it is easy for the members of the parliament to agree to send troops to protect the rights and interests of the bankers.

And everyone also discussed that they would pay to help Zhao Guozuo arm the green camp and help him gain strength against the Qing court. As long as Zhao Guozuo knew each other, these financial giants planned to support him to continue to sit on the throne of the governor of Zhejiang, and were even willing to make a bridge from it to help Zhao Guozuo recruit Zhuang Yuncheng. Of course, these help was not free. At the moment, the bank group was willing to take out only bird guns. Other service items can be considered slowly in the future to see what price it should be for Zhao Guozuo to sell.

The Sichuan consul stationed in Hangzhou certainly had to serve his own people. He took everyone's taxes as wages, so he had to work for everyone. However, although Yu Youming and his plan were good, Zhang Tao also served the taxpayers enthusiastically, but Zhao Guozuo was not up to the point and hesitantly refused to agree to hand over the coastal areas to Sichuan people for management. In other words, Zhao Guozuo also understood that such a large area of ​​land could bring high profits to Sichuan people, so he refused to sell them at a low price, but wanted to bargain for more money.

After receiving a letter from Zhang Tao 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 could not consider it, bankers unanimously agreed that Zhao Guozuo did not deserve more.

"The family is so messy, he actually wants to bargain?" Yu Youming said angrily. Everyone immediately wrote a letter to An Lesi. Boss An not only counted on the bank's loan, but also knew that his military model would be paid by these bankers in the future, so he also agreed to help.

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Two days ago, Zhao Guozuo hinted Zhang Tao that if the Ming army wanted to monopolize the prohibited sea areas in Zhejiang and all maritime-related businesses, he would have to give him at least one million taels of silver every year. However, he was willing to use half of it to buy the Ming army's arms or other military services. Zhao Guozuo felt that the asking price was not very high. If he had not been forced to furiously, he would never have risked the risk of making the court angry and sold these rights to the Ming army. Zhao Guozuo was convinced that the Ming army would still have a lot of profit margin if it paid this money.

In the past two days, Governor Zhao patiently waited for Zhang Tao to visit again in the yamen, and reported to the Governor that the black-hearted businessman in western Sichuan had accepted the generous suggestions 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, Zhu and the others officially reorganized their rebellion into the Jingnan Army. When Zhao Guozuo thought about it, he was so angry: "You are just two owners of the farm. Why are you Jingnan? What kind of trouble? You are not even Manchus, let alone Aisin Gioro. You really have the nerve to say that you are Jingnan."

But it is useless to be angry. Zhuang Yuncheng, Zhu Youming and their Jingnan accomplices are still jumping around. The soldiers who escaped from Gui'an County reported that the Jingnan Army actually used heavy siege cannons this time. These days, Gui'an County has summoned a group of road tyrants to defend the county town. The county town was already panicked. As soon as the Jingnan Army cannons fired, the heroes responsible for defense at the two city gates immediately surrendered to the Jingnan Army with their disciples.

Two days later, Huzhou also declared its fall. This time, Zhao Guozuo received a more detailed report. Tan Ximin did not die in the city, but chose to flee back to Hangzhou. The prefect Tan said that he was not willing to die, but if he could not send the details of the enemy to the Governor himself, he would die with peace of mind.

"The thief used at least thirty red-clothed cannons." Tan Ximin wailed to Zhao Guozuo and Songkui: "I personally led all the yamen runners to guard the city tower, but there were too many red-clothed cannons of the thief, and countless small cannons. After the war started, the city tower was really bombed like rain."

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

Neither Zhao Guozuo nor Songkui believed that Zhuang Yuncheng could have thirty red cannons. He was even more cannons than the Kong Youde Kong Prince of the time. He just folded the number Tan Ximin said in half, which was still surprisingly large. But this was just a matter of quantity, not whether there was any problem. Governor Zhao believed that Zhuang Yuncheng did have cannons, and this news was indeed important. If it was confirmed, Tan Ximin used this as an excuse to escape back to report the news, and he would not be completely unable to escape.

At this point, Zhao Guozuo felt that he was not sure whether Zhuang Yuncheng was forced to rebel. If it weren't for the purpose of capturing the Forbidden City, why would the King of Zhuang prepare red cannons? The Zhejiang Governor's Office urgently reported this horrifying news to the court. At the same time, the situation in northern Zhejiang continued to deteriorate rapidly.

After the Jingnan Army swept through various counties in Huzhou, it rushed into Jiaxing Prefecture without stopping.

Like Huzhou, Jiaxing's prefectures and counties were surrounded by a large number of road tyrants. Before the Jingnan Army came, these road tyrants who blocked the road and set up checkpoints did not think they had the ability to capture the county town. Their main purpose of surrounding the city was to charge tolls from passers-by and merchants, so they would not cut off internal and external traffic. If no one entered or left the city, then the heroes surrounding the city would have no money to buy roads.

When the Jingnan Army drove over, there was no shortage of supplies in each county. Under normal circumstances, the city should be able to hold on for a long time. However, this time the people who came to besiege the city were not refugees or conquerors from other provinces, but gentry from the local town. Moreover, due to the siege of bandits and road tyrants, prices in the county were soaring, and the people complained. The heroes and gentry who were urgently summoned by the government to help defend the city were also targeted by the government. Two months ago, they were falsely accused of participating in the Ming Dynasty case of Zhuang's family and were severely released by the government. This hatred and hatred are still vivid in my mind.

Before the Jingnan Army could reach the city, their relatives and friends who were responsible for guarding the city were sent to discuss plans and study how to deal with foreign bosses such as prefects and county magistrates. Especially after hearing that the entire Huzhou Prefecture was wiped out by the Jingnan Army in a few days, the gentry of Jiaxing Prefecture's view of the Green Camp had gone from being contemptuous to being contempt. As a result, the Jingnan Army was unstoppable and the cannon was broken. In the battle to break through the three county towns, only three county magistrates and several Changsui who followed the county magistrates. The local gentry, heroes, Green Camp officers, and clerks were all unscathed and they all joined the Jingnan Army.

After learning that Jiaxing Prefecture was in danger, Zhao Guozuo finally couldn't sit still. Because Jiaxing assembled its troops early in the city, there were still some troops loyal to the government, and they did not need to rely completely on the power of local heroes and gentry like those county towns that had been evacuated. Therefore, Zhao Guozuo felt that Jiaxing Prefecture should be able to last for a while and not be immediately captured by the Jingnan Army.

However, there is still a great risk of dispatching troops from the provincial capital to reinforce Jiaxing. Now Zhejiang is disturbing and uneasy. Hangzhou city is full of rumors that the Ming army from Zhoushan is coming to attack the provincial capital, which makes Zhao Guozuo dare not come out. Songkui means that Jiaxing must be rescued, but it is best to ask Deng Ming's consul to give a guarantee that the Ming army will not attack while Hangzhou is empty, so that he can concentrate on dealing with the Jingnan army.

However, Zhang Tao refused to give such a guarantee. The sudden attack by Jingnan Army was the result of Anlesi lobbying. He told the gentry who paid a large sum of money to buy the red cannon that since they had spent so much money, they had to open several county towns to make a return. After trying it, the gentry found that it was so easy, so they became more and more convenient. After the fight, Huzhou City went to Jiaxing.

Zhang Taotui said he was sick and refused to come to the Governor's Office. After thinking about it, Zhao Guozuo and Songkui still did not dare to take out the troops in the provincial capital and make a desperate bet. After defeating the Jingnan Army, there was no time to eliminate the roots, and they had to withdraw immediately to defend Hangzhou. Once the officers and soldiers left, the Jingnan Army might have to surround Jiaxing again. If they were defeated by the Jingnan Army, those rebels who were eager to try in Ningbo and Shaoxing would immediately jump to the front desk, and Zhejiang would change the situation.

"At the time when a governor of Zhejiang and Fujian was established, the court insisted on demolishing it into two governors. Now, Zhejiang has no troops from neighboring provinces to be transferred. Last time, several Fujian green camps died, Li Lutai actually asked me for money!" Zhao Guozuo, who was complaining about the world, finally cursed the Beijing court. If Li Lutai asked for reinforcements now, the other party would probably ask Zhao Guozuo to pay off the debt first, and where did Zhao Guozuo pay the money? Not to mention that Zhejiang still shouldered the responsibility of part of the military pay for Fujian and Geng Jimao. Zhao Guozuo has also been owed for a long time.

"You can't ignore Jiaxing." Zhao Guozuo had no choice but to write a letter to Nanjing and asked Jiang Guozhu to send troops to help him suppress the Jingnan army. Jiang Guozhu had never lent Zhao Guozuo's troops, so Zhao Guozuo did not owe him money, and maybe lend him the army first. As for the money to collect the money to cooperate, he could find a way slowly. If it really didn't work, he would buy more rights and interests in Zhejiang to those unscrupulous Sichuan bankers.

"I see that the canal transportation this year is about to begin again," Zhao Guozuo felt that his hair and beard were turning white quickly: "I haven't paid the grain yet, nor have I given Fujian regular military pay. Our vassal treasury is empty enough to run away... The Jingnan Army is clearing the monarchy and has a large debt..."

Suddenly, Zhao Guozuo remembered what Obai said about going to Ningguta, northern Xinjiang to ate corn, and it seemed that the future was not too terrible.
Chapter completed!