Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 235 Li Yu: Notify Tiancheng Yuan’s ticket number to increase the price in one go! The army is going to destroy the market!

Chongming Island,
As the recruit training gradually got on track, the officers began to consider actual combat training and dragged the recruits to Chongming County to see the blood!

From the training camp to the county town, multiple training subjects can be completed on the way.

Armed marches, camps, cooking pots, and shooting in formation~
The size of the troops dispatched each time was not large, only three to five hundred people.

The green battalion soldiers in the county even dared to go out of the city to fight. They often fought with the new soldiers, causing casualties to each other.

Li's regular army stationed in Xinhe Town did not interfere. Even if their own recruits suffered a loss and were dispersed by the Green Camp soldiers, they would never interfere.

A serious injury will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, and a minor injury will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. There are doctors in the army who, after a little treatment, can still eat sick food for half a month.

Those who die in battle are restrained, and those who die in battle can be buried alive.

At this time, Li Yu's foresight was reflected.

Seventy percent of the recruits recruited from northern Anhui were homeless. If he died in battle, he would naturally save a pension.

A strong, familiar flavor of the "Army First Strategy"!
Because we cannot win the war, developing productivity is just a wedding dress for the enemy.

After careful consideration, everyone decided to surrender.

What a painful loss of the grindstone for military training!
……

In the end, the magistrate led 1000 green battalion troops under white flags and laid down their weapons and left the city to surrender.

Jia Xiaozhen, director of the Publicity Department, came in holding a scroll.

Of course, people's hearts still need to be bought.

The generals of the Green Camp, including a member of the guerrillas, had lost the will to continue to resist. The warships of the Thieves Navy cruising on the Yangtze River were ten times more powerful than the Susong Navy Navy in its heyday.

As time went by, Chongming began to lack food.

……

Lunch in the recruit camp is the most sumptuous of the three meals a day, including white rice, stir-fried vegetables, pork stewed with radish, and fresh fish soup~
There isn't much pork, only one or two pieces per person. Any more and the logistics will be overwhelming.

The soldiers who witnessed the whole process of pensions being delivered to the families of their fallen compatriots naturally spread the news after returning to the army.

"What are you doing?"

One life, 50 taels!
The same price as the Qing Dynasty Green Camp Soldiers.

Liu Wu specially built a number of light flat-bottomed warships to patrol some rivers around Chongming County, only to blockade them and never attack.

The advantages of muskets are even greater.

This caused a group of officers to be depressed for a long time.

However, the oil and salt in the dish are quite generous.

I think he is truly chivalrous and affectionate.

Civilization is not necessarily the opponent of barbarism!
Because there is no lower limit to barbarism, but there is a lower limit to civilization. Barbarism can be desperate, but civilization cannot.

"Oh?"

Select one or two acquaintances, leave the team temporarily, and watch with your own eyes Zheng Hean deliver the pension to his family members.

"The thieves actually helped me solve the food shortage problem. Originally, the food in the city was only enough to last for 2 months, but now it is enough to last for 4 months."

This is an era with extremely backward productivity. Food and clothing are hard to come by and the cost is too high!
As a time traveler who has experienced a prosperous industrial society, Li Yu is naturally dissatisfied.

All the threatening city passes in the surrounding areas must be defeated one by one, and only after killing the elite Qing troops can they free up more energy to manage Jiangnan and increase productivity.

Therefore, if we want to protect civilization, we must retain some barbarism. Use the advanced weapons provided by civilization to crush the pure barbarians in a barbaric way.

This army had cohesion for the first time.

Anyone on the list of those killed in battle who had family members would be sent back a pension.

The magistrate lamented:

Li Yu figured it out, but he couldn't tell it.

However, there is no way at the moment. Most of the financial resources and energy of his subordinates are invested in the military, and they do not care about improving productivity.

"Lord~"

People from Jiangnan cannot be expected to serve as soldiers. Those with a little wealth don't even want to work hard!
As time went by, the 2000 green battalion soldiers in Chongming County were piecemeal and reduced to less than half.

"My subordinate took the time to draw a small painting and asked the lord to correct it."

Folks in Yingzhou Prefecture have a very good opinion of Zheng Hean.

For Marshal Li, who had only heard of his name but never seen his appearance, he also developed a little love from a distance.

In order to prevent the tiger from getting out of the cage, it is difficult to catch it.

Jia Xiaozhen unfolded it and hung it on the wall.

First, tens of thousands of people in the city were driven out of the city to reduce the burden. After that, they began to send small groups of troops out of the city to search for food. The two sides exchanged fire frequently, three times a day.

The Lord said that Huaixi soldiers are capable of fighting, and I will not deceive them if they are honest.

Facts have proved that under the harsh living environment of the Qing Dynasty, this price was very attractive.

After the men in northern Anhui got over the initial discomfort, they burst out with ferocity that shocked the officers.

Li Yu laughed dumbly. The painting seemed to be a photo of himself in military uniform.

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"Lord, the Second Army needs a clear commander! Let them know whose clothes they wear, whose food they eat, and whose guns they carry!"

Li Yu was silent and hesitant.

Jia Xiaozhen said silently:
"If we don't instill it now, it will be difficult for my lord to cultivate loyalty after they grow into the backbone of the Li family army. My lord~"

"Okay, go ahead and do it."

"Yes, the Publicity Department still needs to recruit some people. I hope the Lord will approve it."

"You apply and I'll approve it."

"As ordered."

Any increase in the regular salary of the personnel under his command, even if it is just one person, must be approved by Li Yu.

Without his signature and filing, the Accounting Office directly refused to pay the salary.

Hu Ling'er, the pregnant wife, is in charge of the accounting department. She will account for every expenditure. Of course, part of the work was assisted by her father.

Li Yu knew this but didn't intend to point it out.

Rebellion is similar to starting a business. In the early stage, you have to rely heavily on the power of your family and clan. They are true life-long bound shareholders, who enjoy both prosperity and losses.

Yang Yunjiao, the side chamber, is still in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Unlike other departments, the Ministry of the Interior takes up almost no additional staff. Because except for a very small number of key personnel, the rest were originally formal members of the Li Jiajun.

Their external identities are musketeers, sailors, craftsmen, clerks, and military family members~
Every month, submit a briefing to your upline.

After summarizing and filtering, the fragmented information can be pieced together to piece together some valuable intelligence. For example, someone paid a lot of money to make friends with craftsmen in Xujiang Park, hoping to hook up with craftsmen at Xishan Gun Factory.

……

Li Yu privately told Yang Yunjiao:
"Don't arrest people first, why not keep them under surveillance?"

"Firstly, we take the opportunity to clean up the interior. Secondly, we use it to alert the enemy. There must be some who have not been exposed yet and are frightened and lurking. It will be difficult to catch them when the time comes."

"Poaching is not the most terrifying thing. After all, the military industry is interconnected, and mastering a single process will not solve the problem. What I'm more afraid of is that one day a dog will jump over the wall and set off a fire for me."

Yang Yunjiao was convinced, so she added another rule.

Except for a few factory leaders, key processes are never allowed to move around.

Those who cast cannon embryos will always cast cannon embryos. Even if there is a shortage of manpower on the side of drilling the barrel and rifling, they are not allowed to move.

To accept apprentices, you are not allowed to choose from newly attached young men, but only from those who have joined in the 40th year of Qianlong's reign. This will block out all the incorporated "sand".

Both Bai Lian and the Qing court were trying every means to infiltrate Jiangnan and spy on arms technology.

Fortunately, Li Yu had the foresight to place all his military industries on Xishan Island, surrounded by water, to isolate them from physical contact.

In order to further enhance security, the unrelated population on the island was evacuated. Except for the guards, military industrial chain workers, family members, and logistics personnel, all the others were evacuated ashore. Place them in Xujiang Park to fill in the light industry chain that is gradually improving.

Li Yu has great ambitions. He needs to master brewing, dyeing, and weaving, even mending pots and repairing cables. For master craftsmen who are skilled in their respective fields, they should be included as permanent staff and their wages should be paid on a monthly basis, and it should not be low.

I have said respecting talents 2 times. It is better to give talents an extra taels of silver per month.

After all, empty words can only fool you for a while, not for long.

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The young clerk in charge of sending and receiving military reports from the headquarters knocked on the door and came in.

Handed over several military reports that had just arrived.

The one on top is the report from the Chongming Island recruit camp. Some of the recruits are ready to graduate.

Li Yu’s dictation and written transcript:
"Reorganize the 7500 Wannai soldiers. The first batch of 2 battalions of 1000 people will be transferred to Jiangning. After being broken up, they will be organized into the battalions of the First Army."

The second was a military report from Lin Huaisheng under Jiangning City.

He has firmly occupied the commanding heights of Purple Mountain and transported two 2-pound cannons to the top of the mountain. There is no complete building in the city.

He asked his lord again for instructions, was the plan still the same?
"The First Army must adhere to the strategy of delaying the acquisition. It will be useless to take it too early. It will be of great benefit to take it later. Encircle without breaking, and carry out limited attacks. It clearly conveys to Li Shiyao that he can negotiate. If the price is right, he can be given a way out ( Numbing fraud). Be sure to remind Lin Huaisheng that the negotiation process must be kept confidential, and he cannot negotiate with Li Shiyao on behalf of the entire Li Jiajun."

The clerk was stunned, stopped writing and looked up.

I find it a bit confusing and am afraid of recording errors.

"Let Hu Xue and Mr. Hu do it quietly in the name of deceiving the superiors and concealing the secrets, and making money privately. Define it as a lone act! I want a relatively complete Jiangning City, as well as the wealth in the city. For this reason, I can slow down the progress of destroying the city."

"The above, please use post-printing to send it out quickly."

"As ordered."

The clerk carefully put away the paper and left.

His one-person office room is next door, and it is the only one with a physical threshold in the entire command center.

In order to keep it secret, he had to do it himself even if it was cleaning. No one was allowed to enter at will, otherwise he would be punished in detail.

Even the horsemen sending and receiving information must stop outside the threshold. Across the threshold, documents are handed over.

……

Suddenly a personal guard came to report:
"My lord, shopkeeper Liu of Tiancheng Yuan bank account wants to see you."

"please come in."

Liu Jinxin, a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, entered the bank account industry as an apprentice at the age of 7. With his shrewd mind and amazing courage, he eventually became the big shopkeeper.

His employer trusted him so much that he married a niece of the family to him.

Because of this relationship, he is regarded as one of our own, not just a professional manager.

It is said that he can make half of Yuanbao's family in one day! More than 30 branches in the south are under his control.

After entering the door, he bowed his hands deeply and said, "Meet Marshal Li."

Li Yu pointed casually: "Mr. Liu, please sit down and serve tea."

Calling him sir is naturally polite.

In social situations, the gentleman is definitely more elegant than the shopkeeper, it doesn't matter how much money he has.

Liu Jinxin took off his melon skin hat and smiled without opening his mouth:

"The commander-in-chief's soldiers are about to capture Jiangning City. In just a few dozen days, they have taken control of half of the country south of the Yangtze River. The world is shocked!"

Li Yu smiled half-heartedly:

"The southern half of the Yangtze River? It's obviously Su, Song, Chang, Zhen, Jia, Hu, just six prefectures."

"I sent a letter from my subcolon in Jiangning, saying that the commander-in-chief's army is only one step away from conquering Jiangning. Therefore, it should be 7 prefectures."

……

Li Yu laughed.

Tiancheng Yuan bank account is dealing with me because they are optimistic about themselves and want to invest in themselves.

Instead, he was forced to be helpless and make mistakes.

Tian Chengyuan's Songjiang branch, Suzhou branch, Huzhou branch, plus Jiangning branch under his own military front, Tian Chengyuan has at least five million taels of cash under his military boots.

If he dared to show his loyalty to the Qing court, he would withdraw his personnel and take away the account books and openly oppose himself.

Then he would unceremoniously send troops to seize the bank vaults of each semicolon.

No matter how cleverly you hide it, you can demolish the semicolon's house and dig three feet into the ground. This money becomes military expenditure!
Liu Jinxin felt miserable and could only deal with it, not daring to break up or openly supporting himself.

After all, the Qing court's knives were quite sharp.

Li Yu took a sip of tea and said slowly:

"I won't touch Tian Chengyuan's business in Jiangnan. By the way, I copied three branches of Rishengchang. You can take over their businesses if you want."

Liu Jinxin forced a smile,
I thought that Rishengchang had just moved all his cash to the south to buy tea and raw silk. Their branches in Jiangnan had a total of two to three hundred thousand taels of silver in their treasury.

Only after he had lost so much did he dare to openly declare in Guangdong and Guangxi that he supported the imperial court and was incompatible with Li Yu.

If the imperial army invaded, Ri Shengchang could donate 20 taels of silver (the purpose behind this was to contract the army's supplies and logistics. There were precedents for Shanxi merchants to accompany the army in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qian dynasties).

And I had just convinced my boss to transfer millions of taels of cash from the main office to prepare for speculation in raw silk from Jiangsu and Zhejiang~
……

Li Yu suddenly sighed:

"Our army is advancing rapidly, but we are short of silver. If I had 5000 million taels of silver, I could hit the Forbidden City in one go. Do you believe it?"

"Believe, believe."

Seeing Liu Jinxin's insincere expression, Li Yu suddenly became serious:

"Mr. Liu, I know what you are thinking, and you also know that I know what you are thinking. I suggest you be smarter and don't annoy me. I don't want to imitate King Li Chuang, but that doesn't mean I can't imitate King Li Chuang."

With a thud, Liu Jinxin fell to his knees, his head drooping.

"Commander, you are indeed benevolent and righteous, and you have the aura of a king. But, it is really difficult for me. I offended you. You copied Jiangnan Bank, and the flow of Tiancheng Yuan dried up. You will be bankrupted by your peers before the end of the year. If I support You, Tian Chengyuan was uprooted by the imperial court's order. Please show me a way out, Commander-in-Chief."

After a long while, Li Yu spoke slowly:

"Last year, I wanted to fry raw silk, but none of you supported me. You thought I was like a snake swallowing an elephant. What now?"

"You have such a good sense. Rishengchang Bank plagiarized your ideas and purchased raw silk in Guangdong and Sichuan during this period."

"Is Mr. Liu optimistic about the prospect of raw silk?"

"Very optimistic. The shipment volume of Guangzhou Thirteenth Bank is astonishing, and the appetite of those foreign merchants is also astonishing. They will eat as much silk as they can. As a raw material for silk, the price of raw silk is rising steadily."

Li Yu seemed to be chatting and brought up another topic:
"I asked Jiangning Branch to launch the wartime hedging business of Jiangbei Bank, a depository bank in the city. Did you do it?"

"It's done."

Liu Jinxin has an amazing memory and recited the financial report of this business silently in one breath.

"Well, the officials and gentry in Jiangning City are like crucian carp crossing the river. The total wealth must be an astonishing figure. It should exceed the size of your Tiancheng Yuan's capital, right?"

Liu Jinxin smiled bitterly and nodded.

Just kidding, how can the wealth of the largest city in the southeast be compared with a mere ticket number?
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"Mr. Liu, I am a reasonable person. Let's do this. I will keep it a secret for you and will not let the Qing court know about your private dealings with me. However, I mobilized tens of thousands of troops to cooperate with your account in launching this wartime hedging business. The amount of money wasted is astronomical, what about the 3% handling fee?"

"Commander, don't refuse. All 3% of it belongs to you, and you won't dare to lose a penny."

Li Yu glanced at this sincere guy and said,

I thought why should I decline? Why do you want to lift the price?
The jealous businessmen from Shanxi are just as dishonest as the sweet-loving businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang! It's like I took advantage of it!
"Notify Jiangning Branch to raise the threshold. Small households with less than 3 taels should not save, they are shabby! Also, the handling fee has been raised to 3%."

"Do you need an explanation?"

"My cannons are all mounted on Purple Mountain. The louder the cannons are, the more expensive the handling fee is!" Li Yu thought for a while and then said, "Forget it, let's just increase the price in one go, 4%!"

(End of this chapter)