Jiangnan Shang Expedition in the Late Ming Dynasty

In the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, singing and dancing flourished in Suzhou, Jiangnan. Bandits are everywhere in the Central Plains, and the border troops in the north have been defeated in succession. However, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are still intoxicated, thinking that troubled times will never come. Su Zhe, the young master of the Su family, is a wealthy silk transport businessman. Others regard him as a businessman who is only interested in profit, but he has long smelled the aura of earth-shattering. No one knew that in the peaceful years, in the name of protecting business and preventing theft, he donated money to buy batches, manage officialdom, and quietly started a private team training. Are the military attachés at the guard station blackmailing and making things difficult? The money is enough to feed the donkey, and the donkey can be borrowed from the slope. The civil servants and gentry ridiculed and scorned? Train your troops in silence and establish your authority in one battle. Water bandits are rampant and the officers and soldiers are incompetent? Soldiers trained by merchants can still break into bandits' strongholds at night and protect one party. There is no system, no prediction, no magical skills, only the dimension reduction of military discipline, logistics, and organization. When the world collapsed and the Qing army was approaching, the first to raise the banner of resistance against the Qing were not the loyal scholar-bureaucrats or the self-respecting military generals, but the Jiangnan merchants who had been despised by the world for thousands of years. Wu Xia's private group began from then on.