Chapter 363: Know the advantages and disadvantages of things

The reason why Li Chuang was in chaos was said to be related to the same policy as the Ming Dynasty. The Chongzhen Dynasty always thought about increasing revenue and reducing expenditures, abolition of unnecessary fiscal expenses, and increasing fiscal revenue.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that the post station was too expensive, so he sacked the post station. As a result, Li Zicheng was a postman and had nowhere to go, so he had to rebel with the crowd. It is said that for the sake of face, he saved more than 100,000 taels of silver a year, but he spent more than one million yuan a year to break into the king's disaster and suppress the thieves and quell the rebellion.

In order to quell the rebellion and charge various taxes, the people were overwhelmed and rose up again. In order to quell these new disasters, I don’t know how much it has been spent.

In this era, with such a vast territory as the Ming Empire, without the means of information communication, it will definitely cause chaos and various inconveniences.

For example, the time and speed of the publication of the government information that is equivalent to the political information being distributed to various places is completely uncertain. Anyone who needs this information will establish their own transmission system through trade routes or other channels.

On the third day after Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, was arrested and imprisoned, the news conveyed by the fast horse arrived in Jinan City. At present, the entire Jiaozhou camp system was tilting towards the south. The allocation of military funds and the preparations for a larger-scale army to move south have made Zhou Yang and Ning Qiangui busy.

Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's troops were stationed thirty miles away from Kaifeng City. Zhangjiang's Yanzhou army and several battalions in Guide Prefecture have always been nervous and ready to move at any time.

Nanzhili has already started fighting. In this world, the only troops that can fight more and more are the refugees. The old Huihui and the reincarnated king of the Fifth Battalion of the Left left Yingzhou, only had a total of more than 100,000 people. When they arrived in Yingshang, they had already expanded to 140,000, and 200,000 people inside and outside.

The 15,000-strong Huai Yang Army blocked the internal and external interceptions, which was really a bit cramped. However, after receiving the letter from Li Meng, the eunuch Lu Jiude of Nanjing did not hesitate for too long, and directly led his troops to fight.

More than 60,000 troops from the southern Zhili area were also a real deterrent to the two battalions of the Fifth Battalion of the Gzuo Battalion. Both sides regarded this battle as a decisive battle, approached carefully, and tempted each other by small groups of troops.

The Qingzhou army stationed in the Huaihe River and the Huai Yang army, who were left behind, began to mobilize on a small scale, because it was the peak season for salt production, and most of the ship transport capacity was in the salt transport and could not be mobilized in a hurry.

Originally, the Dengzhou army was preparing to withdraw from the garrison area, but as soon as they made a move, Li Meng rejected it. Seeing that there were more and more places to use troops, there was no need to run back and forth like this.

In a province of Shandong, there are 100,000 soldiers, General Li Meng has to pay attention to the battle in three directions. This is really shocking. With such a large amount of money, the land of Shandong can be fully supplied, and it is even better than the supply of troops in the whole world. This is really shocking.

With so much attention, the fact that Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, was imprisoned, is not so worth paying attention to. When the news was sent to Li Meng by his personal soldiers, Li Meng handed it to Sun Chuanting. When Sun Chuanting saw this newspaper, he suddenly realized that everything Li Meng had to do some time ago can be linked together.

Sun Chuanting thought about the past and afterwards and couldn't help laughing, but then shook his head and sighed. Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, said that he was his benefactor. The reason why he was able to govern Shaanxi and become famous step by step in fighting against the bandits was entirely because of Chen Xinjia's promotion and appreciation.

Who would have thought that today, he was buried in the Shandong Shogunate. Chen Xinjia was sent to jail because he took the blame for the emperor's peace talks. I'm afraid his life is hard to save, and this world has really changed.

At this time, Huang Ping's time with Li Meng had exceeded Wang Hai. Wang Hai trained his own military camp and arranged defense every day, and was very busy.

Li Meng inspects all parts of the old camp every morning. After watching the exercises and exercises, he returns to this water pavilion directly. At present, the proportion of intelligence work in the Jiaozhou camp system is very large. To put it bluntly, he is doing private matters everywhere. All the leaders under Huang Ping are busy everywhere, and the people who are summarizing and deploying must always be by the supreme commander.

After reading the news that Chen Xinjia was imprisoned, Li Meng thought for a while and asked:

"Have you arranged the person in Shangshu Mansion?"

Huang Ping was confident in these things and quickly stepped forward and replied:

"The leader Cheng Hai, who was in charge of the capital, has brought the person out. The man's family has been placed in Jining Prefecture. It is estimated that they will be reunited in half a month."

Li Meng nodded and said loudly:

"This kind of arrangement must be done well, and it is for everyone in the world to see. I work in Jiaozhou Camp and never break bridges across rivers. This will make people feel at ease and make others willing to do things for us."

What this said was reasonable. Huang Ping quickly bowed and promised to do so in the future. Li Meng directly put the matter aside and expanded another document to look at the marked date. The date on the above was half a month ago. When he opened the content, Li Meng was suddenly a little angry and threw it on the table and said coldly:

"Mr. Ning's account is being paid by you, the cost of your Salt Gang outside the pass has always been high. How can you find out that this is the news? Even if you don't need you, I will wait here and find out in half a month."

The things mentioned in this volume are all heard of things, such as Huang Taiji's serious illness, Bele Abatai will be reused recently, etc. Li Meng heard the same news a few days ago, because there is also a Shandong Salt Gang setting in the Lingshan Private Port, and all the conversations of sailors and crew members and their inner-comer experiences are sent together.

Before we knew it, the transaction of foreign merchant ships from Lingshan private ports to Jinzhou in the original Liao Town became a semi-public thing. Originally, the people on the ships running towards the north were strictly required and they could not talk about this matter in the private port. I don’t know when the ban was gradually ignored.

There are always people talking about their experiences in the north at restaurants and tea shops. Similarly, what they say is gathered by "people with heart" and presented to Li Meng's desk.

Hearing Li Meng's tone unhappy, Huang Ping hurriedly stepped forward to explain. He was also quite helpless:

"The Grand Marshal, now except for the Han people under their own jurisdiction, it is almost impossible for outside merchants to enter. Moreover, in the towns where the Tatars allowed business, there are often evil things that Tartar military officers and nobles plunder foreign Han people as slaves. Everyone is restricted, and it is really difficult to do things."

"Then use the money to bribe the Tartars. Do you think those shaved Tartars have all righteous characters? Go and try bribeing."

The importance of the intelligence workplace is extremely important to Jiaozhou Camp, especially for the intelligence in the north, but Li Meng is not in a hurry to see that he has no instability here.

Huang Ping hurriedly apologized and agreed. At this time, Ning Gangui came to ask for a meeting. Huang Ping took advantage of this excuse and said goodbye to leave first. He would make corresponding changes to Li Meng's arrangements.

Unlike Huang Ping, Ning Gangui had a high status in Jiaozhou Camp. He was already the first two figures in the civil service system and a great steward in terms of money and economy. He has always treated Governor Yan Jizu Pingli in Shandong. After coming in, Li Meng also treated him with a smile.

The Ming Dynasty was separated by the upper and lower parts, and sat in the same hall. Generally, the main seats were in the center, and the guests and the people with the identity were sitting on the left and right sides. However, on the Jiaozhou Camp, Li Meng sat on the side of the book case. Anyone who was qualified to sit down sat on the opposite side. Not one person had advised Li Meng to say that it was so inappropriate. However, they were rejected by Li Meng. This was a habit developed in his previous life, and he had no blessings to enjoy. Li Meng was always standing opposite the table in modern times.

Ning Gangui also knew his duty, and when he came in, he still had the same kind of servant attitude as before, with a smile and a very polite attitude. Li Meng naturally knew that they were already extremely authoritative figures outside. But he didn't care. He asked Master Ning to go to the opposite side and poured a cup of tea according to his old habits.

There were some new guards who were busy with documents beside him. Seeing this scene, he was shocked and moved. Our Li Dashuai actually poured tea for people. Master Ning's status is indeed extraordinary.

Sun Chuanting shook his head and smiled. There were some quirks that others could not understand. For example, this pouring tea is one of them, which seemed very humane. Li Meng's prestige became increasingly high in Jiaozhouying and Shandong. Others always looked up to him. Such small actions can always win people's hearts.

Ning Gangui took a sip of tea, and he could feel the surprise and surprise of the people around him. Although this tea is not a good tea, his eyes made him feel extremely comfortable.

"Mr. Ning, what's the conversation with the Zheng family?"

"When I go back to the Great Marshal's dialect, the Zheng family said nothing. They said that if there was a ship back this time, they would let the four gunboats come back with them, and the warships were not a problem."

Since the Zheng family went to Liao Town to do business, Li Meng has already ordered the several gunboats entrusted to the Zheng family to train. In recent years, the Zheng family promised to sell the ships to Shandong, and they were all settled together.

In the past, when both sides were in the honeymoon period, it would be fine if these ships were handed over to the Zheng family to operate, and they could also train sailors for Shandong. However, now, with such a big safety hazard, it would be better to transfer them back for safety reasons.

The relationship between Shandong and the Zheng family is strictly business transactions. The person in charge of communication is naturally Ning Gangui, the supervisor in this regard. The people in the Zheng family are not fools. When they hear that Jiaozhou Camp wants to transfer warships and gunboats, they can guess what Shandong wants to do.

Thousands of Shandong children work in the Zheng family's fleet, and those warships also have the meaning of commissioning training, but there are also the meaning of hostages.

This is also a guarantee of the happy cooperation between the two sides. Jiaozhou Camp suddenly wanted to withdraw these people, which really made people wonder what happened. The leaders of the Zheng family and the Bamin Business Bank in Shandong have asked to see Li Meng many times. The reason Li Meng gave is also very real. Shandong is too close to Liaodong, and he is worried that the other party will take advantage of the situation and need naval troops to defend.

This is OK to others, but to the experienced old sailors of the Zheng family, this is a frightening statement. According to the words of a Zheng family shopkeeper, the defense of Jiaozhou Camp in several ports in Shandong is stronger than that of Fangui in several ports in Nanyang, and no one has ever been willing to spend money on the fort.

With the ships of the Tartars outside the pass, they had no other end except being sunk. For various reasons, the act of transferring the ship back to the ship in Shandong was even more incomprehensible. Moreover, the Zheng family was in Zhili, southeast Shandong and the landlords could not understand how their family did not offend Shandong. Why did this happen suddenly? It was really confusing.

But after several inquiries, Jiaozhou Camp had the same reason, and also gave a guarantee that the act of returning to the ship would not affect the future business transactions between the two parties.

The Zheng family, who received this promise, had no choice but to promise to send the ship and people back. After all, the Zheng family currently develops Taiwan and operates attachments, which requires a large amount of salt cargo to support it. Moreover, most valuable seaports south of the Yangtze River estuary are under the rule of Shandong, and the Zheng family's ships also need these docking points.

The Zheng family cannot leave Shandong, but it doesn’t matter whether there is a Zheng family in Shandong. Besides, the ship was originally from Shandong, so he had no choice but to let it go.

But Li Meng asked for time too tight. Ning Qiangui was inevitably making some concessions when he went to negotiate, and the price of salt goods transactions was a bit higher than that.

"When the general said, it is not difficult to talk about this matter. The Zheng family is worried, but they can't come up with any reason to worry. The Zheng family's shopkeeper in Jiaozhou said a few words. He said that the Zheng family had only two gunboats, but he built four for Jiaozhou. Shandong is good at operating and has money..."

Speaking of Shandong being good at managing, this is actually a different way to praise himself. After all, he is the one who runs the economy by himself. Who would have thought that after saying this, Li Meng was a little stunned. He turned his head and shouted loudly:

"Go and call Huang Ping back!!"

Ning Qiangui made a surprise attack, but he didn't know what was going on. Soon, Huang Ping trotted in and Li Meng asked:

"How many multi-layer gunships are there in the Zheng family?"

This question was asked very suddenly. Huang Ping was stunned at first. He was confused and said that this number was never the focus. He thought about it for a while. He was scolded just now, but now he couldn't remember it. Huang Ping's cold sweat came down, thinking that this was a self-inflicted misfortune, what happened today.

However, Huang Ping did not answer, but Li Meng was not in a hurry, just urged:

"Go and find out quickly and tell me, I'll be waiting here."

The forces related to the Jiaozhou Camp, whether they are enemies or friends, are concerned about them. Of course, due to human resources and scale, the attention is rough and detailed.

The Zheng family has always been the focus of attention. Lingshan Trading Company, Shandong Salt Gang and Jiaozhou local yamen have always been closely watching the people of the Zheng family, and various news searches are quite timely.

Soon Huang Ping ran back and replied respectfully:

"The two ships, at the beginning of this year, were quite surplus in shipbuilding money, so they built a slightly smaller gunship. According to the bows of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong once said that the Zheng family was rampant on the sea, and making more merchant ships was the main business, and it was time for warships to be rebuilt."

Hearing this, Li Meng laughed out loud. There was nothing wrong with Zheng Zhilong. In the current situation, even the Spaniards and the Dutch had to avoid three points on the entire eastern sea. No matter how invincible the others were, they would be better to build more merchant ships and make money without threats.

This kind of gunboat is purely for combat purposes and cannot be transformed into a merchant ship. It is indeed of little use at present. Moreover, after the Zheng family used the seized and purchased Western merchant ships to be transformed into a gunboat, they had no chance to use the land. In fact, the entire Zheng family fleet had no chance to fight in recent years.

This situation made the Zheng family unable to realize that this kind of warship land was powerful, so they did not value it so much. This is the advantage that Li Meng can show as a time traveler.

Li Meng asked the Zheng family to build more gunboats for themselves. The Zheng family thought Li Meng was stupid, but no one knew that this kind of gunboat was the main shape of a warship in the future hundreds of years, and the Zheng family still stayed with firearms as the auxiliary and approached the combat mode of jumping and fighting as the main force.

I don’t know if Taiwan still has this gunboat, nor do I know if the Zheng family turns against Shandong, if the warships from the Netherlands and other Western countries can participate in the war. But at this moment, when these gunboats come back, plus the power of the port and Xinyang Water Camp, self-protection can be said to be more than enough.

By the way, this so-called gunboat is just a maximum of forty guns, and a two-layer small gunboat is still far from the large ships of Europe in the same era.

After saying this, Li Meng's mentality became much happier. He smiled and said to Sun Chuanting and Ning Qiangui in the room:

"The people on Master Federer's side have been there for some days and have not had time to see them. Zhang Lipu was sent to Lingshan Trading Company to work hard. Hou Shan said he was doing well, and I don't know what other people will have."

Ning Qiangui said with a smile:

"Master, when it comes to Master Federer, I think of Su Anqi's child. He has become more and more prosperous recently. In another two years, it seems that the villain can do a supervisor in the inspection office. In the future, even if he takes over the position of villain, he will be successful."

Zhou Yang, a co-master of Jinan Prefecture, said similar things. Su Anqi is equal to the students of the two of them. Zhou Yang's child is still young. Ning Qiangui's two sons are both shopkeepers in Lingshan Trading. They both have great expectations for Su Anqi. You must know that Su Anqi has worked as a book boy and a student for Liu Fulai and Sun Chuanting. The teaching of several people, and the child is originally smart, so we can't underestimate it.

Sun Chuanting nodded on the side and said:

"It's rare for so many years that such a smart and studious child is a handsome man, such a talented and beautiful girl, so he can't deal with Master Fei and others. Although Master Fei is a loyal person, there are always some inappropriate things in China and the world."

Seeing Li Meng's passion for those foreigners, Sun Chuanting was not very interested. There were really many people who were called foreigners with his status and status.

There are indeed many scholars and officials who are quite enthusiastic about Western studies, such as the respected Grand Secretary Xu Guangqi and the Governor Sun Yuanhua.

I learned a lot of valuable knowledge in the West, such as casting artillery, and some knowledge such as G-Zhi, mathematics, astronomy, and it is indeed very practical and rarely involved in the Ming Empire. However, Sun Chuanting always felt that the purpose of these foreigners was not to spread this knowledge, but to preach. (This is true in history. Western missionaries came to China and used some knowledge of mathematics, astronomy and machinery to attract scholars and officials to the church, but that's all. In addition, they deliberately concealed some advanced knowledge)

"Although the great general is a strange thing about the ghost, the great general should still regard the Chinese as his sect in China..."

Ning Gangui next to him smiled and interrupted:

"When the villain was in Lingshan Port, Jiaozhou, he also saw several ghosts. They smelled so big, as if they had never seen the wild beasts on the market. I really couldn't see any extraordinary places. I just heard that their ships came from thousands of miles away, and I didn't know whether it was true or not."

The gap in this era has not yet begun. Hundreds of years later, the ghosts and wild beasts in the eyes of Ning Gangui and Sun Chuanting have become symbols of civilization. However, the land of China, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is considered a country of barbarians. Perhaps the foreigners have all had some strange tricks and tricks.
Chapter completed!