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Chapter 968

Yu Zhu was watching the drill of the artillerymen when he heard that Lao Qi had come to Dagukou in person.

Lao Qi came without saying hello, obviously, he wanted to see the reality of Dagukou.

Since Yuzhu dared to do it, he must not be afraid of Lao Qi to come and see him.

Therefore, Lao Qi was invited into the camp of the new army.

"Good brother, what do you want to do?"

Ming people don't speak dark words in front of them, and Lao Qi searched all over the capital, but he didn't see Yu Zhu's figure.

Yuzhu smiled lightly and said, "Brother Seven, I just want to save my life."

"Hey, why did you say that?" Lao Qi asked Yuzhu puzzled.

Yuzhu smiled slightly, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said softly, "Seventh Brother, you purposely didn't bring back Old Fourteen and Nian Gengyao, why did you come here?"

"This..." Lao Qi was speechless for a moment.

The time of Emperor Daxing's death is not too short.

If the fifth and seventh had deliberately wanted to bring back the fourteenth and Nian Gengyao, Nian Gengyao would have returned to Beijing long ago, and the fourteenth was already on his way back to Beijing.

However, Lao Shisi and Nian Gengyao have not heard from each other so far.

Obviously, someone needs them to raise troops outside to deter Tong Jia Aman who is entrenched in Tianjin.

"Good brother, the capital still needs you to go back and take charge of the overall situation!" Lao Qi deliberately avoided sensitive topics and wanted to invite Yuzhu back to the capital.

Yuzhu took another sip of tea and said with a smile, "I am a self-aware person, and I am not born with the ability to preside over the overall situation. I will be a trumpeter for you, Fifth Brother and Seventh Brother!"

Hehe, this is very false!
However, the false is true.

The overall situation in the capital has always been presided over by Lao Wu and Lao Qi, and Yu Zhu hardly speaks.

Even if Yu Zhu went back, he was really just a spectator.

Unless, fifth and seventh, put Yuzhu on the hat of regent.

However, if Yuzhu became the regent, what would happen?

Lao Qi also said a lot of personal words, trying to move him with emotion.

As for Yuzhu, he insisted that Qingshan would not relax, and it would be useless for him to go back. It would be better to stay in Tianjin and be happier.

In the end, Lao Qi had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "The savings in the household department are running out, can I borrow a little or two from Dagukou?"

Hmm, that's right!

There are a lot of soldiers in the northwest, and the money is flowing out like running water.

The land tax and business tax of the imperial court are limited, and it is impossible to double them out of thin air.

In the past, when the old emperor was still alive, all the huge amounts of silver he earned from Dagukou went into the emperor's internal treasury.

However, just after the old emperor passed away, all the silver at Dagukou was intercepted by Yuzhu.

"Brother Seven, the savings in the household department were originally enough. However, someone secretly sent three months' salary to the northwest. Sigh, how can it be possible?" Yuzhu was in Tianjin, But he knows everything about the capital.

Lao Qi was not too surprised, after all, the infantry government was in the hands of Sun Chengyun and Wu Sidao, how could Yu Zhu not know about such a large amount of money being transported out of the capital?

However, what is really strange about Lao Qi is that Yuzhu clearly knows that they have transported military pay to the Northwest, so why didn't they try to stop it?

Yu Zhu saw Lao Qi's thoughts, but he just pretended not to see it.

Whether it is entrenched in Tianjin or expanding the new army, Yuzhu didn't spend a tael of silver from the court.

Naturally, the imperial court did not know at all how far Yuzhu had expanded his army.
Yuzhu is not an ordinary person, he is one of the eight important ministers of Tuogu.

With Yuzhu's temple status, as long as he didn't openly raise the flag to rebel, if the imperial court really wanted to punish him, he must have a solid reason.

Of course, the fundamental problem is that the military power in the capital is in Yuzhu's hands.

Even if you want to catch him, you have to look at the soldiers of the new army, will you agree?

"Hehe, since it's Brother Seven who opened his mouth, I have to give you face." Yu Zhu raised his chin and ordered loudly, "Come here, take 100 million taels of silver and bring it back to Brother Seven for urgent use."

Seventh, how are you doing?Interesting enough?

I clearly know that you guys are making tricks in the dark, trying to restrain me, you are really short of money, so you have to borrow money from me, right?
Lao Qi never expected that Yuzhu gave him 100 million taels of silver as soon as he opened his mouth.

How much money can Dagukou Wharf make in one year?

This was the question that Lao Qi thought of the first time.

Seeing that Lao Qi was stunned, Yu Zhu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, you guys are still very young when it comes to playing with money!
In fact, Dagukou's annual net profit is only a few million taels, not a lot.

The real cornucopia of Yuzhu is actually the universe bank account.

Not to mention anything else, in Suzhou alone, the annual net profit of Universal Bank Bank exceeds 150 million taels of silver.

What about Hangzhou, what about Jiangning, what about Guangzhou, what about the whole of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Huguang?

In addition, Yuzhu took advantage of the poor information to ask Mrs. Zhen to issue five-year public bonds in various places in advance with the equity of Universal Bank as security, raising more than 3000 million taels of silver in one go.

In addition, 800 million taels of silver donated by the twenty bigwigs in the south of the Yangtze River.

When the old emperor was alive, the highest total financial revenue in that year was only 4000 million taels of silver.

To be honest, the money that Yuzhu has in hand has already exceeded the total fiscal revenue of the imperial court for a year.

The fiscal revenue of the imperial court also needs to support the officials, Eight Banners soldiers and Green Battalion soldiers all over the world.

The money in Yuzhu's hand is only needed to support the new army.

Feeding 400 new troops, at best, is [-] million taels of silver a year.

Among them, military pay accounted for the bulk, about less than 80 taels of silver per month, and 960 million taels a year.

The import of weapons and equipment has been basically completed.The consumption of gunpowder will not cost much money.Anyway, the gunpowder, artillery and flintlock guns supplemented from the British side are being continuously transported from the sea.

Britain in this era is eager to carry out more in-depth and extensive free trade with the Qing Dynasty.

Yuzhu was the biggest real power faction in the Qing Dynasty. He not only favored business, but also had a good reputation for cooperation, and there was never a precedent for breach of contract.

Therefore, in addition to the blueprints and craftsmen for building super battleships, all kinds of standard British weapons and equipment are completely open and unrestricted.

The British asked for Yuzhu, and Yuzhu took out silk, tea and porcelain in exchange for British guns.

To be honest, today's silk, tea and porcelain are super hard currencies in the UK and even in the whole of Europe.

As long as the British merchants transported these three treasures back, there were not many capsizes at sea, and the profit would be ten times, or even dozens of times, if they changed hands.

Great mutual benefit, hey, this kind of cooperation is unbreakable!

Chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, as well as fresh vegetables, meat, flour, etc., actually do not account for a high proportion. It is 20 taels a month, right?
Yuzhu did not fight unprepared battles, borrowed enough money in advance, hired hundreds of merchant ships from foreigners, and went all over the world to purchase daily military supplies.

To put it bluntly, Yuzhu has plenty of time, and he can spend it slowly with the Manchurian nobles in a calm and relaxed manner.

It took half a year to form a new army of [-].It took a year, and one hundred thousand new troops were formed!

Hey, what is the concept of a new army of one hundred thousand armed to the teeth?

Sweeping the entire Asian continent invincibly!
Therefore, Yuzhu clearly knew that the fifth and seventh child secretly gave blood transfusions to the fourteenth and Nian Gengyao, but he just pretended not to see it.

Anyway, the longer the delay, the better for Yu Zhu.

Yu Zhu casually threw out a million taels of silver, knocking Lao Qi unconscious on the spot, unable to speak anymore, and asked Yu Zhu to return to Beijing.

After dismissing Lao Qi, Jiang Sheng came in, bowed his waist and said, "My lord, there are more than a dozen foreign ships at the pier. Mrs. Alice sent someone to invite you over."

Yuzhu noticed that Jiang Sheng's title had undergone an astonishing change, from Zhongtang to "Master."

Uh huh, there are so many twists and turns in the belly of a cultural person, how can the problem of title be a trivial matter?

It's clear, Jiang Sheng recognizes Yu Zhu as the master!

Surrounded by the guards, Yu Zhu and Jiang Sheng rushed to the dock area in the same car.

Alice handed Yuzhu a list. When Yuzhu was concentrating on studying the list, Jiang Sheng looked at it and was dumbfounded. It was all in earthworm-like foreign language, which he couldn't understand at all.

Jiang Sheng took a peek at Yuzhu, feeling very strange in his heart, when did the master learn foreign language?
Yuzhu was very pleased to see that there were quite a few bayonets with sleeves, as many as [-].

According to Alice's introduction, these socket-type bayonets were originally ordered by the Prussian Army.However, when the delivery was approaching, the Prussian Army actually didn't want it.

British munitions manufacturers didn't want to lose money in vain, so they simply shipped them to Qing Dynasty to see if they wanted Yuzhu.

Because the bayonets imported by Yuzhu before were all tube-style bayonets.Marching and fighting, it is inevitable that there will be some wear and tear.

In addition to the socket-type bayonet, the Belgian arms foreign merchants also brought [-] flintlock lances, the latest Belgian invention.

This kind of lance has a length between a rifle and a pistol, about 50 centimeters, and an effective range of 30 meters.

In this day and age, the effective range of a flintlock smoothbore pistol is too short, and it is impossible to shoot a target ten meters away, which is really useless for ordinary soldiers.

However, the rifle is too long, and it is not convenient to shoot when riding on a horse.

Yuzhu picked up a sample gun casually, um, the cavalry gun in his hand looked like a rifle with a truncated barrel, but in other respects it was similar to a rifle, and even had a rifle-like stock, but the length was shorter than that of a rifle. The rifle is much shorter.

According to Yuzhu's knowledge, this kind of lance looks a lot like a carbine.

The standard equipment of Yuzhu's guards is that each person has a rifle, a pistol, and a long knife.

If the pistol with a negligible range was replaced with this kind of lance, Yuzhu's safety would be even more secure.

"Tell them, I want both the lance and the bayonet. But, if you want them, you'll get a [-]% discount." Yuzhu knew in his heart that the foreign arms dealer simply brought these weapons and ran to the far east to touch them. Just luck.

After intense bargaining, the deal was finally made with a [-]% discount.

Several foreign businessmen kept crying about being poor, shouting that they had lost a lot.

Yu Zhu acted as if he hadn't heard, Nima, ammunition is the most lucrative commodity, okay?

(End of this chapter)