Two months later, the training of 4,000 infantry took shape. These soldiers had already undergone bloody battles with the Qing army and after two months of discipline training, they were already an elite unit. While training, the trade with Li Zicheng was also underway.

"Wow, we made so much money in two months! More than four million taels, the father and emperor don't have that much money in a year! Zhao Lang, you are so awesome!" Princess Kunxing flipped through the account book and screamed in surprise.

"Your husband is so powerful, what reward should I give me?" Zhao Peng smiled happily and kissed Princess Kunxing's face.

Princess Kunxing screamed, ran away with a flushed face, and ran to the door and said, "Hate, there is someone next to you."

During these two months, Zhao Peng took the opportunity to create 6,000 thunders and sent 4,000 of them to Xi'an to Li Zicheng. Each thunder was sold at a high price of ten taels of silver. At the same time, Zhao Peng also provided Shunjun with more than one million stone of grain, making more than three.5 million taels of silver! In addition to the profits of selling sweet potato seedlings, thunder, iron tools, salt, cloth and other goods, in the past two months, Zhao Peng's gross profit has reached 7 million taels. After deducting costs and transportation costs, he can still make more than four million taels of profit.

"Emperor sister? What's wrong with you?" Zhu Cixuan, who happened to come in from outside, saw this scene and asked knowingly.

"Emperor brother, Zhao Lang, Zhao Lang bullys your girl, you don't care." Princess Kunxing ran out with a blushing face.

"The silver is so fast when you come from business!" Zhu Cilang was so shocked that his chin almost dropped after learning that Zhao Peng had made more than 4 million taels of silver in just two months.

Zhu Ciyang walked in with a smile. When he took the account book handed over by Zhao Peng, he was shocked and dropped his chin on the spot: "So much money!"

"No wonder the late Emperor Wanli wanted to set up a mining supervision and tax supervision. The Ming Dynasty's commercial tax was too low! It was already so low. Those civil officials still shouted all day long that they didn't compete with the people for profit and wanted to reduce commercial taxes. Where is their conscience?" Gao Wencai said angrily.

Zhu Cilang gritted his teeth and said, "If the change in the palace's door grabbing can be successful, we must increase the commercial tax, at least five taxes and one!"

"Your Highness, no!" Zhao Peng expressed different opinions, "Everything must not be done in one size fits all, and commercial taxes are the same. Taxes should be collected in a classified manner. Taxes should be collected according to the profits of different industries. At present, the court only salt and iron are used to collect taxes separately, and the rest are all in one size fits all. But even with salt and iron, the prodigal businessmen are in love with the court officials. The salt merchants make a fortune and the officials are full of money, but the court is like a monkey and is tricked by officials and businessmen. First, we need to reform the six ministries, separate the tax departments from the household part, then evaluate various industries, and then formulate tax amounts."

The establishment of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the establishment of the Taxation Bureau are all future matters. Now the training of troops has been completed, and the most urgent task is to go south as soon as possible. It is July of the 17th year of Chongzhen, and King Fu Zhu Yousong has been sitting in Nanjing for two months. Zhao Peng felt that he could not let Zhu Yousong sit down again.

Zhao Peng, who had poor historical knowledge, knew that Emperor Hongguang had been on the dragon throne for a very short time. Not long after he became emperor, the Qing army went south to conquer Nanjing. But he didn't know how long Emperor Hongguang had been emperor, but he had a little impression, it seemed that less than a year had passed. Two months had passed, so he had to act as soon as possible.

However, Zhao Peng did not know that the butterfly effect he brought made it impossible for the Qing army to defeat Li Zicheng so quickly. In addition, the early appearance of the Yuyuan army, even if the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng now, it would not be easy to fight to Jiangnan.

In Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, the scattered castle groups lined up along the Fenhe Valley north of Pingyang Prefecture City, and the Qing army was launching a fierce attack on the Pingyang Prefecture Castle Group.

The powerful general of the Shun Army was Liu Zongmin, who was stationed in Pingyang Prefecture. At this time, Liu Zongmin had a young follower, Zhu Cijiong, the third son of Chongzhen. When Li Zicheng retreated west, Zhu Cijiong, the Ding King, and Zhu Cijiong, the King of Huai, were both found by Li Zicheng, so Li Zicheng took these two princes and took them hostages to threaten the crown prince Zhu Cihuai.

The Qing army first bombarded fiercely with the Red Barbarian cannons, but the Red Barbarian cannons had little effect on the low bastion. The direct shells pulled the low and straight curves and landed on the wide and thick low bastion. The shells either flew high or flew toward them. Even if they were in the middle of the city wall, they would have no effect due to the angle.

The outer periphery of the platform at the bottom of the basin is a slope with a large inclination. Direct shells hit it easily form a jumper, so the shells attack the platform almost ineffectively. On the upper city wall, the mountain of sandbags reduced the damage of the shells to the city wall, so the Qing army's artillery bombardment failed to play a role.

The Qing army, which had no success in the artillery bombardment, had to order the Green Camp infantry to launch an attack. With Ajige's order, a large number of Green Camp soldiers pushed the shield chariots and slowly advanced towards the bastion group.

The Shun Army's thousand-pound general artillery and the five hundred-pound general artillery opened fire one after another, destroying many of the Qing army's shield vehicles that were advancing. Many Qing soldiers retreated in fear and were ordered by Ajige to cut them all.

The bloody heads shocked the Green Camp soldiers. The next round of attack began. The Green Camp soldiers braved the fierce artillery fire of the Shun Army and pushed the shield forward desperately. When the shield cars advanced to the trench, the Qing army's nightmare had just begun. At this time, the attacking Qing army had to face firefights from three sides, with bullets and arrows shot from the Shun Army on both sides. The shield cars could only defend themselves from the front. The Shun Army fired from the flanks with bird guns and bows, and the Qing soldiers were knocked down in a pool of blood.

The Qing soldiers attacked by firepower from three sides were unable to fill the outer trenches smoothly. The Green Camp lost more than 1,500 bodies, but they had not yet filled the bastion trenches that were only garrisoned by the Shun Army.

The Qing army attacked at all costs, leaving more than 3,000 corpses, and finally filled a section of the outer trench. However, when the Qing army rushed up with shouts, they were shot by various firearms on the top of the city. When the Qing army set up a simple ladder and climbed to the top of the city, the turbulent oil tanks, lime bottles, yaksha slaughter, wolf teeth slap, gold juice, ten thousand enemies and other defending weapons were attacked, and the Qing army that siege the city suffered heavy casualties.

After nightfall, the Qing army suspended its attack. The Shun Army used hanging baskets to send a group of auxiliary soldiers down the city to repair the trenches and repair the city walls damaged by artillery fire, which made the Qing army's attack last night was wasted.

The Qing army attacked for five consecutive days, and finally someone climbed up to the top of the city. They sadly discovered that there was a city wall behind the city wall! The city wall behind was about one meter taller than the front. The Qing army, who climbed up the first city wall, stood at the top of the city wall and became the living targets of Shunjun shooting on the second city wall, and were all shot and killed on the first city wall.

Before the Shun Army could use the precious thunder, the Qing army could no longer attack.

At this time, Zhao Peng, the culprit who designed a vicious fortification like a castle and killed countless Qing warriors, was preparing to cross the Yellow River south with his two little beauties, Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e.

"Prepare the banner of His Highness the Princess and the Prince Consort, and prepare to cross the river!" Zhao Peng ordered.

Zhao Peng was not worried about the ships crossing the river. His trade with the Shun Army was well aware of many merchants in the Huai River. The price of grain in Jiangnan and the price of grain in the Shun Army controlled area was several times different. Although the court had already decided on the plan to pacify the enemy by robbing the enemy, this did not affect the merchants' delivery of grain to the Shun Army for profit.

The north bank of the Yellow River was already full of merchant ships. Zhao Peng took Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e to the riverside. A middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a square scarf, wearing a blue shirt, shaking a folding fan in his hand. He greeted him and knelt in front of Zhao Peng and Princess Kunxing: "Caomin Jiang Guomao bowed to the princess, and bowed to the princess!"
Chapter completed!