"This glutinous column!"

The restaurant window next to the Imperial Street in front of the palace gate said angrily.

At this moment, he, Huang Shijun and others were watching Mu Changzuo riding out of the palace surrounded by guards...

King Qianning is indeed here to serve the king.

But his 100,000 army needs to eat 300,000 taels of Guangdong gentry every month!

Well, this number is simply unbearable.

In the eyes of Guangdong gentry, they should bring their own dry food to work hard, but they even have to pay for the Guangdong gentry to support them?

It's simply a slack!

But it is definitely not enough to bring your own dry food. Mu Changzuo hurriedly ended the incident in Guizhou, threw Yunnan to his wife to preside over it, and he brought elite troops to serve the king for three thousand miles, and his subordinates also supported him. To put it bluntly, although he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, his main purpose was still money.

Bring your own dry food?

What did he do?

And not only that, Mu Changzuo and his Yunnan-Guizhou generals and Guangxi chieftains also quickly launched large-scale smuggling. To put it simply, various materials mainly based on salt were transported directly through their army to the inland. Guangdong is the main production area of ​​salt in Lingnan. To the north of modern Humen, the sandbank beaches along the intersection of Dongjiang and Pearl Rivers are all salt fields. These salt industries were controlled by the gentry of Guangdong and Guangxi, including the Jingjiang Palace, but now the Jingjiang Palace cannot do this business.

This is also the reason why the rapid rise of small salt merchants such as Yuandudu family. As a rare talent like Tengxian who only produced a Jinshi in half a century, their family developed rapidly with the help of Xijiang Shipping.

For the sake of the salt industry, he had even gone to Dongguan to settle down and quickly integrated into the Dongguan gentry circle.

But after Mu Changzuo Group arrived, he quickly robbed his family's business.

After all, people use military transportation.

In addition, the Yunnan Army also quickly controlled the land checkpoints in Shaoguan and Meiling under the banner of guarding, and then collected taxes there.

You should know that there were 40,000 taels in the past year.

This was when the imperial court collected taxes.

With the current actual trade volume, it is easy to collect 100,000 taels on this road.

Moreover, this route is done with Jiangxi, and some things are suspected of being in conflict with each other, so it is definitely not as simple as paying taxes.

In short, the Guangdong gentry no longer had the original surprise. Now all that is left is shock. These bastards don’t seem to be here to protect them, but rather they are coming to steal silver...

This is the real purpose.

After all, they also knew that Mu Changzuo and the Yunnan-Guizhou generals were not the kind of people who were for the country and the people.

There are also those chieftains in Guangxi, and these bastards are not good things. Now they are simply a traitor, and they are like a feather-in-law, reappearing like the powerful generals of the Five Dynasties.

In other words, Chen Lin and the Guangdong New Army were deterred, otherwise it would be time to rob the treasury at this time.

However, this deterrence is also weakening, and the main generals and other generals of Chen Lin are also in their hearts. Since Mu Changzuo can do this, of course they may do this.

Who doesn't like silver?

"This guy is afraid he has the intention of being unjust. He is not here to serve the king and save the emperor, but wants to imitate Yang Zhe and take His Majesty to Yunnan hostage, and then he will take the emperor to command the princes in Yunnan."

The new imperial examination candidate Li Weiwen said angrily.

He is from Foshan.

Mu Changzuo took his Yunnan army with him on the grounds of insufficient equipment and just ransacked Foshan...

Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, but he did use Foshan’s private casting of cannons as an excuse to lead the Yunnan army to forcibly confiscate dozens of various cannons just cast in Foshan.

In theory it is OK.

Because the laws of the Ming Dynasty certainly did not allow private cannon castings, but in the past, local cannon castings were garrisons, and the Ming Dynasty guards had special arms manufacturing, so they could definitely cast cannons. Even in the past, Foshan cannon castings were not actually in Foshan, but were jointly operated with the Portuguese factory in Macau. The Portuguese even hired Foshan craftsmen to go to Goa to help them cast cannons. But after the world was in chaos, the gentry of Foshan naturally abandoned the Portuguese and directly carried out military production in Foshan.

So much so that Foshan has now become the largest arms base in the Ming Dynasty.

The scale is larger than the Ming state-owned artillery factory in Yingtian.

The quality is not bad at all.

After all, Yang Fengzhen does not have the high-quality iron ore in Guangdong, and the iron ore here is not comparable to that of Ma'anshan iron ore.

In this era, no matter how technological progress is, it is better to change to a high-quality iron ore.

If you get 50% grade iron ore, no matter how you reform the smelting methods, it is better to directly replace 70% grade iron ore.

However, Mu Changzuo and his Yunnan-Guizhou Group robbed Foshan like a group of hungry wolves.

The cast cannons were stolen by them, and the tens of thousands of muskets were stolen by them. Although the court urgently repaired the gap and officially released the civilian arms manufacturing, the problem was that the losses would definitely not be recovered.

Foshan gentry cursed.

As the largest capitalist in Foshan, the Li Daiwen family suffered the most losses in this looting, so naturally they felt itchy when they looked at Mu Changzuo.

However, Juren Li's words were not considered false accusations. Mu Changzuo was indeed persuading the emperor to go to Yunnan.

But it is not Yunnan, but to go to Sichuan all the time, where is the real suitable for separatist protection. With his Yunnan-Guizhou General Group as a guarantee of force, there is a grain supply from the Sichuan Tianfu Kingdom, and there is Jiangge and Kuimen Natural Warehouse, nothing is more suitable than there.

Guangzhou would be fine if it were placed in the past.

But now we are all on the voyage, so there is no guarantee of safety here at all.

This is something that Guangdong gentry cannot tolerate. After all, they worked hard to snatch Wanli from the sake of being a rare item. At the same time, they also used the banner of Wanli to attract people. Once Wanli was taken away by Mu Changzuo, the Guangdong gentry would have to die. Although they could surrender to Yang Feng, the problem was that they didn't want to! It was not that there was no choice, who would surrender to him.

In fact, there is one more thing.

It is the old problem of the Ming Dynasty, the struggle for power between civil officials and military generals.

Relying on the new army controlled by the gentry, civil officials have now obtained their own military power, and they can be said to have taken over the power.

But Mu Changzuo's arrival put them seriously at risk.

Mu Changzuo represented the old group of honors, and he was the only one who survived the old group of honors. His military foundation was the hereditary generals of Yunnan and Guizhou, which represented the old group of military generals. The result of the power struggle was that he forced Guangdong gentry to give 300,000 military expenses per month, snatched land checkpoint taxes, snatched arms from Foshan, and even got involved in the commercial control of the original gentry's pocket.

Yang Feng's threat is still far away, but the threat from the military general group led by Mu Changzuo has begun.

In addition, his reputation is very bad...
Chapter completed!