Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain
Chapter 186 How to spend money?
Chapter 186 How to spend money?
Zhu Cijiong's face collapsed, his father bullied others.
Chongzhen turned his head and asked Kang Xi again: "Crown Princess, has the Royal Bank been run over?"
"Yes." Kang Xi nodded and said, "In less than half a month, more than [-] million taels have been cashed out, and now only the [-] million taels from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and my father's [-] million taels are left on the bank counter. million."
It has to be said that Kang Wanwan, the uncle of the country, is still very interesting. On the first day of the establishment of the Daming Royal Bank, he took the lead in depositing one million taels of colored silver into the cabinet.
Fang Wenzhen and the others each saved hundreds of thousands of taels.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs will soon pay [-] million yuan," Chongzhen said.
"Ah?" Kang Xi said sadly, "In this case, there may only be less than [-] million taels of silver left on the cabinet of the Royal Bank, and the three semicolons are counted."
In less than half a month, the deposits on the bank cabinet dropped sharply from [-] million to [-] million. This gap was too great. Even Kang Xi, who was born in a rich family and was used to large sums of money, couldn't accept it for a while.
"There's nothing to be sad about." Zhu Cilang persuaded, "Those silver coins were not originally from the bank, and it would be troublesome to put them on the bank's cabinet. Now I don't have to worry about it."
Zhu Cihong never thought of taking the bank's deposits as his own.
It has to be said that the character of the prince of Ming Dynasty is still very reliable.
However, limited by the times and vision, Zhu Cihong felt that so much money was a burden.
"Lang'er, this is a sign of lack of ambition." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Of course, the more money the better, and only a fool like you would worry about having too much money."
Zhu Cihong was still a little unconvinced: "The more money the better, of course I know this, but the problem is that the silver on the bank cabinet does not belong to our family, and it will be taken back by other families at any time."
"Why don't you just keep it for yourself?" Zhu Cijiong suddenly suggested.
"Nonsense!" Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong reprimanded almost at the same time.
"Ahem, that's what I said." Zhu Cijiong hurriedly scratched his head.
However, Chongzhen said with a serious face: "Jiao'er, have you forgotten what my father said to you before? The more you are in a high position, the more you hold the power of life and death, the more you must have a sense of awe in your heart. The more you have to abide by the rules, you must not rely on the power and force in your hands to do whatever you want, otherwise it will inevitably lead to power backlash."
Zhu Cihong went on to say: "Most of the people who deposit money in the Royal Bank are powerful, powerful and prestigious merchants and merchants from eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River. If we really keep the money for ourselves, the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River will be wiped out overnight. If it is lost, then when the slaves go south, the gentry and the common people in the south of the Yangtze River should eat a pot of milk to welcome the master."
"Father, brother, I know I was wrong." Zhu Cijiong's small face collapsed again.
"It's good to know your mistakes." Chongzhen touched Zhu Cijiong's little head affectionately, and then said, "It's definitely not okay to take the silver from the Royal Bank as your own, but it's okay to use the silver to do things for the Ming court. , and this is the real purpose of the father to establish the Royal Bank."
"Father, do you mean embezzlement?" Zhu Cihong asked.
"Borrow." Chongzhen said, "Lang'er, you used the wrong word."
Kang Xi also said: "That's right, it's indeed a loan, and the bank paid the interest."
Zhu Cihong said: "Of course there is no problem in borrowing money, but what if you encounter a run like this after lending out a large amount of money? What should you do if you don't get the money?"
"Don't worry, the run is only temporary." Chongzhen said.
"When these depositors run a few times and find that the Royal Bank can always return their money, they will gradually stop the run and get used to depositing money into the bank. Besides, the run can also be avoided. .”
"Huh? Can the run be stopped?" Zhu Cihong and Kang Xi were taken aback at the same time after hearing this.
"Of course." Chongzhen said with a smile, "You can set a period for depositors, such as one year, three years or five years. The longer the deposit period, the higher the interest. If you deposit and withdraw as you like, there will be no interest."
Kang Xi's beautiful eyes lit up, the method Father Huang said was really a good one.
"Well, even if there is no problem of a bank run, there are other problems." Zhu Cihong said again, "Then the question for my son now is, where will the money be borrowed for? To pay the army?"
Kang Xi's pretty face turned pale when she heard the words, this was what she was most worried about.
Kang Xi was afraid that Chongzhen would use the Royal Silver Number as internal money, saying that it was borrowing but actually taking it.
When the hole cannot be filled in the future, the Kang family or the salt merchant will be asked to pay to fill the hole.
"Crown princess, don't worry, the father will not take the money from the bank indiscriminately." Chongzhen and the two generations, how could they not see Kang Xi's careful thinking, and said with a smile, "Not now, not in the future, I The reason why you were asked to create a silver account is, one is for the Ming court, and the other is to save a family business for the descendants of the royal family."
Kang Xi said with some embarrassment: "My daughter-in-law has absolutely no such intention."
Zhu Cihong said: "Father still didn't say where the money will be used for?"
"Silver is of course used to support industries!" Chongzhen straightened his face and said solemnly, "Since ancient times, no agriculture has been unstable, and no business has not been rich. If a country wants to be rich and strong, it must have prosperous commerce. To prosper in commerce, there must first be a strong industry that can produce enough commodities."
"Like cotton cloth, you have to produce enough cotton cloth before everyone has clothes to wear."
"Another example is food. You have to grow enough food before everyone can have food."
"Another example is houses. You have to build enough houses before everyone can have a house."
Speaking of this, Chongzhen said again: "However, the reality is that there are neither so many cotton cloths to make clothes, nor so many grains to eat, nor so many houses for everyone to live in."
"Then a new question arises again, is it because we have too few fields to grow so much cotton?"
"Is it because we have too little land to grow so much food? Is it because we can't build so many houses? Neither."
"Let's not talk about food and houses today, let's talk about cotton cloth. You should have seen the memorials of Songjiang Mansion, Honger and Jionger, but do you remember how many acres of cotton fields there are in Songjiang Mansion?"
"This?" Neither Zhu Cihong nor Zhu Cijiong could answer.
In the end, Kang Xi replied: "Songjiang Prefecture and nearby counties have a total of about 160 million mu of cotton fields, which can produce 96 dans of seed cotton and 32 tans of clean cotton, and can produce about 2800 million pieces of various cotton cloths annually."
[Note: Dan is the unit of weight, 1 Dan = 100 catties]
"Okay." Chongzhen nodded happily, and asked again, "Then how many acres of cultivated land does Songjiang Mansion have?"
"This minister knows." Zhu Cihong hurriedly said, "Since Zhang Juzheng cleared his land, the area of cultivated land in Songjiang Mansion has been maintained at about 470 million mu."
"Then here comes the problem." Chongzhen asked again, "Songjiang Prefecture has enough arable land, why can't it grow [-] million acres of cotton, and then produce [-] million more cotton cloth?"
"This?" Zhu Cihong was stopped by Chongzhen again.
Because this question is beyond the scope of his knowledge.
But Kang Xi was worthy of being born in a family of merchants, and said: "Because the eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River can only sell about [-] million cotton cloths, and if another [-] million cotton cloths are produced, they will be backlogged or sold at a loss. Cotton farmers, weavers, and merchants who sell cotton cloth will lose money."
"How come?" Zhu Cijiong said, "The eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River can't use so much cloth. There are also Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Liangguang. Go to another province?"
Kang Xi sighed: "Because transporting cotton cloth to other provinces requires vehicles, horses and boats, the price will skyrocket. A piece of the most common Songjiang cotton cloth is only sold for 1 yuan to 1 yuan and 3 cents in the south of the Yangtze River, but it needs to be sold for 1 cents in Huguang. If it is sold to Yunnan and Guizhou, it needs to be sold for more than [-] tael, otherwise it will lose money."
"But not to mention 1 tael, the price of 3 yuan is beyond the reach of ordinary people."
"So the common people there would rather wear the local linen or Gebu, because the price of the local linen or Gebu is cheap, although the workmanship is very poor, and it doesn't keep warm."
"That's not right." Zhu Cihong said, "Why don't cloth merchants directly find farmers in Huguang or Yunnan to grow cotton, and then find local weavers to weave cotton cloth? Wouldn't the price of the main cotton cloth come down?"
"The matter is not so simple." Kang Xi smiled wryly, "Because there are not enough looms in the local area, and building a loom requires a lot of expenses."
"And the local people have no precedent for profiting from growing cotton, so they usually need to pay a deposit before they are willing to grow cotton, which further pushes up the cost of cloth merchants to produce cotton cloth locally."
"And this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that it takes several years for a weaver to become a skilled weaver. Before that, the weaving products are either defective or defective, and they cannot be sold at a good price. That is to say For several years, cloth merchants will need to operate at a loss, so no cloth merchant can afford it.”
Speaking of this, Kang Xi's expression suddenly changed, could it be?
Chongzhen laughed and said, "Crown Princess, do you know how to spend money now?"
"Daughter-in-law knows." Kang Xi has fully reacted at this time, her big eyes are shining, "It is to lend loans to cloth merchants who want to produce Songjiang cotton cloth in Huguang and Yunnan Guizhou but suffer from no capital! Help them survive the most difficult period , When they start to make a profit, they will repay the bank’s money with interest.”
"It's not just cotton cloth." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "There are also various industries such as silk, porcelain, pottery, glass and glaze, not only to support off-site production, but also to support the improvement of production technology to make production costs lower. The geographical restrictions on products will be smaller, and the circulation of goods will become more prosperous."
Well, to put it bluntly, this is the Ming Dynasty version of industrial replication and industrial cultivation.
The cultivation and replication of industries has always been a huge and arduous project.
If the government does not provide targeted financial support and give enough preferential policies, industrial replication and cultivation are purely wishful thinking.
In fact, the most effective government investment is in infrastructure.
It's a pity that now, not to mention cars, even trains have not appeared, so even if Chongzhen wanted to build infrastructure in the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't find a way to do it. He couldn't build another Grand Canal, right?
Therefore, we can only start with industrial replication and cultivation.
Let the small commodity economic circles in each province flourish first.
The prosperity of the eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River is not enough.
Then after the steam engine appears in the future, we will repair the railway and build infrastructure.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty will enter the fast lane of development, the commodity economy will usher in unprecedented prosperity, and the overall national strength will also increase exponentially.
Then you can form a crushing advantage over the entire world.
Of course, this is only a long-term plan in Chongzhen's mind.
To make this plan a reality, let's say at least fifty years!
As for now, let's thwart Jiannu's second trip to the south before talking about anything else.
Sighing lightly, Chongzhen said again: "However, there must be a prerequisite for all of this, that is, Daming must survive the current test!"
The expressions of Zhu Cihong's two brothers and Kang Xi also became serious.
Because Jiannu's trip to the south this time is really a big deal.
……
Let's talk about building slaves.
In the past two months, Jian Nu has not been idle.
Let's talk about Azige first. Before receiving Dorgon's order, Azige's West Road Army was confronting the Dashun Army led by Gao Yigong and Li Yan in Yulin.
Because the more than [-] Hongyi cannons carried by the Azige tribe were blocked by the Great Wall and could not reach northern Shaanxi, they failed to open up the situation for a long time. In the middle, they sent all the way to make a detour, but in the end they won the big battle. The Shun army ambushed, causing thousands of casualties in the Outer Domain and Mongolia, and suffered a great loss.
After that, Azig learned from Huang Taiji to dig trenches around Yulin.
This method is stupid, but it really works. Although Gao Yigong and Li Yan counterattacked many times, they all failed, because the Jiannu field battle was indeed better than the Dashun army.
So there was a confrontation in both Yulin and Luoyang.
Then at this time, Dorgon's will spread to the army of Azig and Dodo almost at the same time. Although Azige and Dodo were very reluctant in their hearts, they could only choose to withdraw their troops.
Duoduo withdrew his army to Weihui Mansion in Hebei for a temporary rest.
Azige was directly recalled to Beijing by Dorgon on the charge of "waiting out of Mongolia", and the hundreds of thousands of troops were handed over to Luke Dehui and several Baylors, and went south to Weihui Mansion to join Duoduo.
By the end of February, the West Road army had successfully arrived at Weihui Mansion.
The grain, grass and supplies that Dorgon dispatched from Beijing arrived almost at the same time.
So at this time, Duoduo already had [-] Manchurian soldiers from the Eight Banners, more than [-] Mongolian soldiers from the Eight Banners, more than [-] Han troops from the Eight Banners, more than [-] horsemen from the Outer Domain Mongolia, and more than [-] Ming soldiers from Wu Sangui, Jiang Yu, Tang Tong and others. In addition to the surrendering army, there are more than [-] coated slaves accompanying the army, with a total strength of [-]!
In order to boost the morale of the army, Duoduo arrested several local bandit leaders, pretended to be the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, and beheaded them in public to sacrifice the flag.
After sacrificing the flag, Duoduo ordered an army of [-] horses, and marched southward with more than [-] horses, more than [-] sidecars and more than [-] red cannons.
Because the previous one hundred red cannons have been lost,
So Dorgon specially added more than a hundred doors from Beijing.
At the same time when Duoduo led an army of more than [-] troops to Xuzhou, the Qing court mission with Zuo Maotai, the Minister of the Ministry of War, also arrived in Xi'an to meet Li Zicheng and seek an alliance with the Dashun Army.
(End of this chapter)
Zhu Cijiong's face collapsed, his father bullied others.
Chongzhen turned his head and asked Kang Xi again: "Crown Princess, has the Royal Bank been run over?"
"Yes." Kang Xi nodded and said, "In less than half a month, more than [-] million taels have been cashed out, and now only the [-] million taels from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and my father's [-] million taels are left on the bank counter. million."
It has to be said that Kang Wanwan, the uncle of the country, is still very interesting. On the first day of the establishment of the Daming Royal Bank, he took the lead in depositing one million taels of colored silver into the cabinet.
Fang Wenzhen and the others each saved hundreds of thousands of taels.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs will soon pay [-] million yuan," Chongzhen said.
"Ah?" Kang Xi said sadly, "In this case, there may only be less than [-] million taels of silver left on the cabinet of the Royal Bank, and the three semicolons are counted."
In less than half a month, the deposits on the bank cabinet dropped sharply from [-] million to [-] million. This gap was too great. Even Kang Xi, who was born in a rich family and was used to large sums of money, couldn't accept it for a while.
"There's nothing to be sad about." Zhu Cilang persuaded, "Those silver coins were not originally from the bank, and it would be troublesome to put them on the bank's cabinet. Now I don't have to worry about it."
Zhu Cihong never thought of taking the bank's deposits as his own.
It has to be said that the character of the prince of Ming Dynasty is still very reliable.
However, limited by the times and vision, Zhu Cihong felt that so much money was a burden.
"Lang'er, this is a sign of lack of ambition." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Of course, the more money the better, and only a fool like you would worry about having too much money."
Zhu Cihong was still a little unconvinced: "The more money the better, of course I know this, but the problem is that the silver on the bank cabinet does not belong to our family, and it will be taken back by other families at any time."
"Why don't you just keep it for yourself?" Zhu Cijiong suddenly suggested.
"Nonsense!" Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong reprimanded almost at the same time.
"Ahem, that's what I said." Zhu Cijiong hurriedly scratched his head.
However, Chongzhen said with a serious face: "Jiao'er, have you forgotten what my father said to you before? The more you are in a high position, the more you hold the power of life and death, the more you must have a sense of awe in your heart. The more you have to abide by the rules, you must not rely on the power and force in your hands to do whatever you want, otherwise it will inevitably lead to power backlash."
Zhu Cihong went on to say: "Most of the people who deposit money in the Royal Bank are powerful, powerful and prestigious merchants and merchants from eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River. If we really keep the money for ourselves, the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River will be wiped out overnight. If it is lost, then when the slaves go south, the gentry and the common people in the south of the Yangtze River should eat a pot of milk to welcome the master."
"Father, brother, I know I was wrong." Zhu Cijiong's small face collapsed again.
"It's good to know your mistakes." Chongzhen touched Zhu Cijiong's little head affectionately, and then said, "It's definitely not okay to take the silver from the Royal Bank as your own, but it's okay to use the silver to do things for the Ming court. , and this is the real purpose of the father to establish the Royal Bank."
"Father, do you mean embezzlement?" Zhu Cihong asked.
"Borrow." Chongzhen said, "Lang'er, you used the wrong word."
Kang Xi also said: "That's right, it's indeed a loan, and the bank paid the interest."
Zhu Cihong said: "Of course there is no problem in borrowing money, but what if you encounter a run like this after lending out a large amount of money? What should you do if you don't get the money?"
"Don't worry, the run is only temporary." Chongzhen said.
"When these depositors run a few times and find that the Royal Bank can always return their money, they will gradually stop the run and get used to depositing money into the bank. Besides, the run can also be avoided. .”
"Huh? Can the run be stopped?" Zhu Cihong and Kang Xi were taken aback at the same time after hearing this.
"Of course." Chongzhen said with a smile, "You can set a period for depositors, such as one year, three years or five years. The longer the deposit period, the higher the interest. If you deposit and withdraw as you like, there will be no interest."
Kang Xi's beautiful eyes lit up, the method Father Huang said was really a good one.
"Well, even if there is no problem of a bank run, there are other problems." Zhu Cihong said again, "Then the question for my son now is, where will the money be borrowed for? To pay the army?"
Kang Xi's pretty face turned pale when she heard the words, this was what she was most worried about.
Kang Xi was afraid that Chongzhen would use the Royal Silver Number as internal money, saying that it was borrowing but actually taking it.
When the hole cannot be filled in the future, the Kang family or the salt merchant will be asked to pay to fill the hole.
"Crown princess, don't worry, the father will not take the money from the bank indiscriminately." Chongzhen and the two generations, how could they not see Kang Xi's careful thinking, and said with a smile, "Not now, not in the future, I The reason why you were asked to create a silver account is, one is for the Ming court, and the other is to save a family business for the descendants of the royal family."
Kang Xi said with some embarrassment: "My daughter-in-law has absolutely no such intention."
Zhu Cihong said: "Father still didn't say where the money will be used for?"
"Silver is of course used to support industries!" Chongzhen straightened his face and said solemnly, "Since ancient times, no agriculture has been unstable, and no business has not been rich. If a country wants to be rich and strong, it must have prosperous commerce. To prosper in commerce, there must first be a strong industry that can produce enough commodities."
"Like cotton cloth, you have to produce enough cotton cloth before everyone has clothes to wear."
"Another example is food. You have to grow enough food before everyone can have food."
"Another example is houses. You have to build enough houses before everyone can have a house."
Speaking of this, Chongzhen said again: "However, the reality is that there are neither so many cotton cloths to make clothes, nor so many grains to eat, nor so many houses for everyone to live in."
"Then a new question arises again, is it because we have too few fields to grow so much cotton?"
"Is it because we have too little land to grow so much food? Is it because we can't build so many houses? Neither."
"Let's not talk about food and houses today, let's talk about cotton cloth. You should have seen the memorials of Songjiang Mansion, Honger and Jionger, but do you remember how many acres of cotton fields there are in Songjiang Mansion?"
"This?" Neither Zhu Cihong nor Zhu Cijiong could answer.
In the end, Kang Xi replied: "Songjiang Prefecture and nearby counties have a total of about 160 million mu of cotton fields, which can produce 96 dans of seed cotton and 32 tans of clean cotton, and can produce about 2800 million pieces of various cotton cloths annually."
[Note: Dan is the unit of weight, 1 Dan = 100 catties]
"Okay." Chongzhen nodded happily, and asked again, "Then how many acres of cultivated land does Songjiang Mansion have?"
"This minister knows." Zhu Cihong hurriedly said, "Since Zhang Juzheng cleared his land, the area of cultivated land in Songjiang Mansion has been maintained at about 470 million mu."
"Then here comes the problem." Chongzhen asked again, "Songjiang Prefecture has enough arable land, why can't it grow [-] million acres of cotton, and then produce [-] million more cotton cloth?"
"This?" Zhu Cihong was stopped by Chongzhen again.
Because this question is beyond the scope of his knowledge.
But Kang Xi was worthy of being born in a family of merchants, and said: "Because the eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River can only sell about [-] million cotton cloths, and if another [-] million cotton cloths are produced, they will be backlogged or sold at a loss. Cotton farmers, weavers, and merchants who sell cotton cloth will lose money."
"How come?" Zhu Cijiong said, "The eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River can't use so much cloth. There are also Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Liangguang. Go to another province?"
Kang Xi sighed: "Because transporting cotton cloth to other provinces requires vehicles, horses and boats, the price will skyrocket. A piece of the most common Songjiang cotton cloth is only sold for 1 yuan to 1 yuan and 3 cents in the south of the Yangtze River, but it needs to be sold for 1 cents in Huguang. If it is sold to Yunnan and Guizhou, it needs to be sold for more than [-] tael, otherwise it will lose money."
"But not to mention 1 tael, the price of 3 yuan is beyond the reach of ordinary people."
"So the common people there would rather wear the local linen or Gebu, because the price of the local linen or Gebu is cheap, although the workmanship is very poor, and it doesn't keep warm."
"That's not right." Zhu Cihong said, "Why don't cloth merchants directly find farmers in Huguang or Yunnan to grow cotton, and then find local weavers to weave cotton cloth? Wouldn't the price of the main cotton cloth come down?"
"The matter is not so simple." Kang Xi smiled wryly, "Because there are not enough looms in the local area, and building a loom requires a lot of expenses."
"And the local people have no precedent for profiting from growing cotton, so they usually need to pay a deposit before they are willing to grow cotton, which further pushes up the cost of cloth merchants to produce cotton cloth locally."
"And this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that it takes several years for a weaver to become a skilled weaver. Before that, the weaving products are either defective or defective, and they cannot be sold at a good price. That is to say For several years, cloth merchants will need to operate at a loss, so no cloth merchant can afford it.”
Speaking of this, Kang Xi's expression suddenly changed, could it be?
Chongzhen laughed and said, "Crown Princess, do you know how to spend money now?"
"Daughter-in-law knows." Kang Xi has fully reacted at this time, her big eyes are shining, "It is to lend loans to cloth merchants who want to produce Songjiang cotton cloth in Huguang and Yunnan Guizhou but suffer from no capital! Help them survive the most difficult period , When they start to make a profit, they will repay the bank’s money with interest.”
"It's not just cotton cloth." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "There are also various industries such as silk, porcelain, pottery, glass and glaze, not only to support off-site production, but also to support the improvement of production technology to make production costs lower. The geographical restrictions on products will be smaller, and the circulation of goods will become more prosperous."
Well, to put it bluntly, this is the Ming Dynasty version of industrial replication and industrial cultivation.
The cultivation and replication of industries has always been a huge and arduous project.
If the government does not provide targeted financial support and give enough preferential policies, industrial replication and cultivation are purely wishful thinking.
In fact, the most effective government investment is in infrastructure.
It's a pity that now, not to mention cars, even trains have not appeared, so even if Chongzhen wanted to build infrastructure in the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't find a way to do it. He couldn't build another Grand Canal, right?
Therefore, we can only start with industrial replication and cultivation.
Let the small commodity economic circles in each province flourish first.
The prosperity of the eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River is not enough.
Then after the steam engine appears in the future, we will repair the railway and build infrastructure.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty will enter the fast lane of development, the commodity economy will usher in unprecedented prosperity, and the overall national strength will also increase exponentially.
Then you can form a crushing advantage over the entire world.
Of course, this is only a long-term plan in Chongzhen's mind.
To make this plan a reality, let's say at least fifty years!
As for now, let's thwart Jiannu's second trip to the south before talking about anything else.
Sighing lightly, Chongzhen said again: "However, there must be a prerequisite for all of this, that is, Daming must survive the current test!"
The expressions of Zhu Cihong's two brothers and Kang Xi also became serious.
Because Jiannu's trip to the south this time is really a big deal.
……
Let's talk about building slaves.
In the past two months, Jian Nu has not been idle.
Let's talk about Azige first. Before receiving Dorgon's order, Azige's West Road Army was confronting the Dashun Army led by Gao Yigong and Li Yan in Yulin.
Because the more than [-] Hongyi cannons carried by the Azige tribe were blocked by the Great Wall and could not reach northern Shaanxi, they failed to open up the situation for a long time. In the middle, they sent all the way to make a detour, but in the end they won the big battle. The Shun army ambushed, causing thousands of casualties in the Outer Domain and Mongolia, and suffered a great loss.
After that, Azig learned from Huang Taiji to dig trenches around Yulin.
This method is stupid, but it really works. Although Gao Yigong and Li Yan counterattacked many times, they all failed, because the Jiannu field battle was indeed better than the Dashun army.
So there was a confrontation in both Yulin and Luoyang.
Then at this time, Dorgon's will spread to the army of Azig and Dodo almost at the same time. Although Azige and Dodo were very reluctant in their hearts, they could only choose to withdraw their troops.
Duoduo withdrew his army to Weihui Mansion in Hebei for a temporary rest.
Azige was directly recalled to Beijing by Dorgon on the charge of "waiting out of Mongolia", and the hundreds of thousands of troops were handed over to Luke Dehui and several Baylors, and went south to Weihui Mansion to join Duoduo.
By the end of February, the West Road army had successfully arrived at Weihui Mansion.
The grain, grass and supplies that Dorgon dispatched from Beijing arrived almost at the same time.
So at this time, Duoduo already had [-] Manchurian soldiers from the Eight Banners, more than [-] Mongolian soldiers from the Eight Banners, more than [-] Han troops from the Eight Banners, more than [-] horsemen from the Outer Domain Mongolia, and more than [-] Ming soldiers from Wu Sangui, Jiang Yu, Tang Tong and others. In addition to the surrendering army, there are more than [-] coated slaves accompanying the army, with a total strength of [-]!
In order to boost the morale of the army, Duoduo arrested several local bandit leaders, pretended to be the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, and beheaded them in public to sacrifice the flag.
After sacrificing the flag, Duoduo ordered an army of [-] horses, and marched southward with more than [-] horses, more than [-] sidecars and more than [-] red cannons.
Because the previous one hundred red cannons have been lost,
So Dorgon specially added more than a hundred doors from Beijing.
At the same time when Duoduo led an army of more than [-] troops to Xuzhou, the Qing court mission with Zuo Maotai, the Minister of the Ministry of War, also arrived in Xi'an to meet Li Zicheng and seek an alliance with the Dashun Army.
(End of this chapter)
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This pirate is actually a sixth-rate
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