Chuzhou, Wang Puxingyuan.

Wang Puzheng set up a banquet to entertain his elder brother Wang Ju. After three rounds of wine, Wang Pu asked with concern: "Brother, Chuzhou has experienced wars, the fields are deserted, hundreds of thousands of people are displaced, and there is no food or clothing. The refugees are waiting for your elder brother to put your rice into the pot. I wonder if my elder brother has prepared enough food?"

"Don't worry, third brother." Wang Ju said, "How dare you not take what you told me? The 100,000 stones of grain have been prepared, and the Cao Gang people have already hired them to ship them in half a month and ship them in two months. With this batch of grain, it will be enough for hundreds of thousands of refugees in Chuzhou to eat for half a year."

Wang Pu nodded and said, "That's good."

Wang Ju said: "Third brother, is there any clue about Zhuangtian?"

"Of course there is." Wang Pu said, "The new governor Chen Lan has brought people to Qingzhang. Although it has not yet come out, I guess I should have 500,000 mu of unowned farmland! If all the 500,000 mu of mulberry seedlings are planted, the cocoons produced next year will be enough to weave 200,000 pieces of silk, and sell them to domestic silk merchants at market prices, and it will also make a profit of 1.8 million taels. If it is sold to the West, it will be a full three million taels! In three years, the mulberry seedlings will become a forest, and the cocoons produced can weave at least 400,000 pieces of silk, which is 6 million taels of silver!"

"Haha, the account is not like your algorithm. If you have more silk, you may not be able to sell it at a good price." Wang Ju smiled, "But third brother, 500,000 mu of land is not a small amount. Will the court interfere?"

"The court?" Wang Pu said coldly, "Brother, don't worry. My godfather and Long Live Emperor have an appointment first. As long as the tax paid by the court is doubled in two years, it is our business if we do whatever we do in Zhejiang and Zhi provinces!"

"Lao San, how do you distribute the profits from selling silk?"

After all, Wang Ju is a businessman, and although he is a brother with Wang Pu, there is a saying in the shopping mall that brothers settle accounts clearly. Although Wang Pu is from the Wang family, his current identity is a member of the official family after all.

Wang Pu said: "Small share the 46% share, 60% belong to my own official warehouse, and 40% of it will be kept for you to make capital, so as to acquire more land farms and expand the scale of the workshop!"

Wang Ju thought about it and nodded. He had already learned in advance that the profit distribution ratio of silk, textile, iron, salt and other official workshops across the south of the Yangtze River were generally 80% or even 90%, and the least one was 70%! Wang Pu was very polite if he only had 60%.

What's more, the remaining 60% of the profits were just entered by Wang Pu's official warehouse, which was not the national treasury. In fact, there was not much difference between Wang Pu's official warehouse and Wang's family's silver treasury. If Wang Pu was anxious to use silver, Wang Ju had to raise enough money even if he sold all the land. After all, he was a family. Isn't it?

Wang Ju said again: "Later, the batch of ginseng you left in Songjiang, Dongzhu and gold have been sold almost. After deducting two million yuan of funds from our Wang family, there are still more than 3.7 million taels of silver left. It is not a solution to keep it in the bank deposit like this. You see when will the troops be sent to take it back."

"That's good." Wang Pu said, "Now Yanziji camp has recruited 50,000 new troops. In the first half of the year, we have to recruit another 50,000 new troops. We have to reach out to my younger brother for food, clothing, and use. We also have to give them equipment and military pay. The monthly expenses are not small. With this money, we can afford it for a while."

Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "Why don't your brother give you a million taels from the Wang family's family?"

"No need." Wang Pu said, "You should keep the one million taels and make the capital big and strong. The most urgent task is to attract talents who know how to manage. For those who are truly capable, you can make a lot of profits, such as spending thousands or even tens of thousands of taels a year to pay him a salary of!"

Wang Ju nodded and said, "This brother knows that the business in Shanxi is not easy to do now, and many shopkeepers and apprentices can't afford to eat. The brother has recruited many talents from his hometown in Shanxi, several of whom are capable of being alone and kind. He is not the kind of villain who forgets his righteousness when he sees profit."

"Well. You can just consider the employment of your own brother." Wang Pu said, "Anyway, you have to find a way to expand the business of my Wang family in the shortest time. In the future, our Wang family's business will never be limited to textiles and silk. We will also be involved in the tea, porcelain and salt and iron industries!"

"Porcelain, salt and iron?" Wang Ju said, "Third brother, that's a monopoly of the official business. Even if our Wang family has a huge capital, we can't interfere with it."

"Official business?" Wang Pu sneered, "Brother, please wait. It won't take long before all the official business workshops in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces, and even the whole country will be converted into private workshops."

"The official workshop is converted to private?" Wang Ju said, "San, are you talking about the real thing?"

"Of course it's true." Wang Pu said, "but the time is not yet ripe."

"Haha." Wang Ju laughed, "If the official workshop can really be converted into private one day, it will be a blessing for businessmen all over the world."

As a businessman, even a businessman living in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Ju can keenly feel the drawbacks of official workshops and the benefits of private workshops. Compared with private workshops, official workshops are too restricted and lack flexibility. Another biggest disadvantage is that they are prone to collusion between officials and businessmen and lead to corruption, and ultimately lose the country's tax revenue.

For example, the emperor directly sent mining supervision, salt supervision and weaving eunuchs in various places, which were like blood-sucking mosquitoes on the official workshops. The end result was that a large amount of tax silver fell into the private pockets of eunuchs at all levels. The emperor wanted to bypass the Ministry of Accounts and directly collect the silver into the treasury, but the result was a large loss of national tax sources.

However, Wang Pu also knew that it was not easy to switch from the official to the private sector. It can be imagined that this move would be blocked by all efforts by vested interest groups, especially the eunuch group! Until Wang Pu had enough strength to deal with the eunuch group, he would never act rashly.

In a blink of an eye, February came to the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643).

After more than half a month of fierce fighting, Tongguan was finally defeated by bandits. The general was as fierce as a tiger and died. The 20,000 officials stationed in Tongguan were completely destroyed. Tongguan was about to come down, and the land of Guanzhong was like a young woman stripped naked, completely opening her mind. Li Zicheng's 500,000 bandits can finally drive in!

Liu Zongmin, who was entrenched in Yan'an Prefecture, heard that Li Zicheng's army had captured Tongguan, and was shocked.

Liu Zongmin knew that his wish to stay in Guanzhong could no longer be realized, so he had to lead more than 100,000 cavalry and infantry troops to travel south along the Luoshui day and night, and rushed to Huayin to join Li Zicheng's army.

Li Zicheng knew that Liu Zongmin had the idea of ​​being independent, but pretended not to know anything. After encouraging Liu Zongmin, he still regarded him as his confidant. Then the two of them joined forces to join Xi'an to fight! Chen Xinjia and He Renlong, who were trapped in Xi'an, rushed to the capital after hearing the news, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

Li Zicheng called the wind and rain in Guanzhong. However, Zhang Xianzhong left Maicheng in Huguang.

In the battle of Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong was killed by Zuo Liangyu. Zhang Xianzhong, who suffered heavy damage, did not dare to go to Henan, Guanzhong and Li Zicheng to compete for territory, and did not dare to turn back to fight Zuo Liangyu, so he had to deal with the defeated generals and turn to Sichuan.

Outside the pass, after knowing that Emperor Chongzhen had destroyed his ten clans, Hong Chengchou finally gave up the idea of ​​returning to the Ming Dynasty and began to work hard for Jiannu. Dorgon knew people and was good at responsibilities, and Hong Chengchou did his best. Under the careful management of this hard-core traitor, North Korea quickly resumed agricultural production and became the largest granary in Jiannu.

With the strong support of Ajige and Dodo, Dorgon finally defeated Jirgalang and became the chief regent.

The ambitious Dorgon re-established the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and also recruited 20,000 Koreans to form the Eight Banners of the Koreans. In addition, 60,000 Jurchen Eight Banners and 80,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, the total strength of Jiannu returned to 180,000 at its peak! After seeing the power of Wang Pu's musket team, Dorgon also tried to establish fifteen Niulu musket teams in the Eight Banners Army, and used ginseng and Dongzhu to exchange 5,000 muskets from the Japanese.

Jiannu, who had recovered, marched back into western Liaoning and surrounded Jinzhou and Songshan. Jinzhou General Zu Dashou hurriedly asked the capital for help for 800 miles.

Beijing, Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City.

Seeing that he had submitted two rush reports to the imperial case almost at the same time, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and screamed and vomited blood and fainted on the ground.

The eunuchs on both sides rushed forward and helped Emperor Chongzhen up. They were Guan Shen Tang again. The imperial physician was finally awakened. Emperor Chongzhen, who woke up, didn't even have time to rest. He summoned Zhou Yanru, He Fengsheng, Xie Sheng, Zhang Sizhi, Chen Yan, Wei Zhaocheng, Li Banghua and other ministers into the palace overnight.

But these "Kancheng of the Kingdom" have discussed and discussed it, but they have not proposed any good solutions. The proposal is to mobilize Datong General Jiang Xiang to Guanzhong to eliminate the bandits, or to transfer the new army of Nanjing Admiral Wang Pu to resist Jiannu outside the pass. However, Jiang Xiang and Wang Pu had already spoken out that they would never send troops without food and pay.

However, Zhang Sizhi proposed to move the capital to Nanjing and rule the Yangtze River with the bandits to avoid the unfavorable dilemma of fighting on both sides. However, this proposal was immediately fiercely condemned by Zhou Yanru, Li Banghua and others, and finally even rose to the level of selling the country and seeking honor. Zhang Sizhi was compared with Qin Hui, and Zhang Sizhi was eventually dismissed from his position as a palace and was punished with the Ministry of Justice.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned these "country city" to discuss strategies to save the country, but this court discussion eventually became a conference on criticism and struggle of Zhang Sizhidi. The Ming Dynasty was already in danger. These "country city" could not think of any strategies to save the country, but they were still so active when excluding and suppressing their colleagues and would never miss any opportunity.

Emperor Chongzhen was anxious and angry, vomiting blood and fainting again!

Nanjing, the head of the Zhejiang Governor General.

Two Tang newspapers were already on the desk, and Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu and his son sat opposite each other with a serious expression.

By the way, Wang Pu really wanted to send troops outside the pass to resist Jiannu. If Jiannu really got into the pass, the people who suffered would be the Ming people in the northern five provinces. They would not be for Emperor Chongzhen or the Ming Dynasty, but Wang Pu should also send troops to rescue them, but it is indeed not yet time, because the new army has not been trained yet!

If we were to send troops to rescue us now, once we were defeated, we would not only suffer in the end. We were afraid that the entire Ming people in the Ming Dynasty might become slaves from the Jiannu area. As the saying goes, there are priorities. In order to continuate the Ming Dynasty's reign and to continuate the imperial Han civilization, Wang Pu could only hold his troops unchanged.

"Oh." Sun Chuanting sighed and said sadly, "Son, can't you really send troops?"

"Dad." Wang Pu smiled bitterly, "Do you think we can send troops now?"

Sun Chuanting stopped talking, Wang Pu was right. It is indeed impossible to send troops now, because the new army has not yet been trained and the equipment is extremely scarce. If such an army that lacks training and equipment is drawn outside the pass to fight against Jiannu, which has been through a long battle formation, the result can be imagined.

"Oh." Sun Chuanting sighed again and said sadly, "You can imagine that Master Long Sui must be very angry now. In his heart, you and my father have become traitors! You and Master Long Sui are not afraid of being wronged by Master Long Sui, but I feel really uncomfortable watching the land of the Ming Dynasty being eaten up little by little by little by little."

"This is only temporary." Wang Pu advised, "One day we will take back the lost territory."

"Okay, I don't want to think about this anymore. Anyway, it's useless to think about it." Sun Chuanting waved his hand vigorously, as if he wanted to use this wave to swing the news of Jiannu knocking away from his mind, and turned around and said to Wang Pu. "Let's talk about the new army. What's the military reform you just mentioned?"

Wang Pu said: "There are mainly two aspects. First, the new army needs to change into a new military uniform. The previous armor, helmet and combat robe are expensive, not to mention wearing them, they are also locked. They can no longer adapt to the needs of future wars. My son has asked someone to design the style of a new military uniform. You can take a look first."

As he said that, Wang Pu handed a picture to Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting glanced and frowned and said, "How can this man with a cloth-clothed hat resist Jiannu's sword and arrow?"

"Dad, you're overconfident." Wang Pu smiled, "After several improvements, the range of our army's muskets has far exceeded that of Jiannu's bow and arrow. Moreover, our army is equipped with artillery with a longer range and greater lethality. If we really want to fight with Jiannu in the future, before Jiannu rushed to the front and fired arrows, they were all piled up. Therefore, there is no need to equip the soldiers with the heavy helmets and armor as heavy as before. This alone can save a lot of expenses."

Sun Chuanting said: "What if Jiannu rushed in?"

"That's not afraid." Wang Pu said, "My son has tried it. As long as the soldiers in the long spear camp raise a spear formation and then let the soldiers in the front row raise a shield, they can block most of the arrows."

"Oh?" Sun Chuanting said happily, "Then there is no problem."

Wang Pu continued: "Secondly, the current battalion system is not flexible enough and the command is inconvenient. The new army's organization needs to be reformed."

Sun Chuanting said: "How to change it?"

Wang Pu said: "In this way, the number of people in the infantry battalion and cavalry battalion is still 5,000. There are five generals under the jurisdiction of the 1,000 generals; each post has five brigades under the jurisdiction of the brigade leader; each brigade has five squadrons under the jurisdiction of the brigade leader; each brigade has five squadrons under the jurisdiction of the brigade leader, and there are soldiers under the jurisdiction of the brigade."

Sun Chuanting said: "Where is the cannon camp and the baggage camp?"

Wang Pu said: "Each artillery battalion is equipped with twenty red cannons, forty Franc cannons, one hundred and twenty carts, two hundred mules and horses, and five hundred artillery soldiers; each baggage battalion is equipped with two thousand five hundred carts, three thousand mules and horses, and five thousand baggage soldiers, and they are all swords and shield soldiers in wartime."

"Okay." Sun Chuanting nodded, "I am not as good as you in military terms, you have the final say."

Wang Pu said: "The problem now is that the production capacity of the weapon workshop is too low. It can only produce one thousand new muskets per month. At this speed, it will take five years to produce 60,000 muskets to equip twelve musket battalions, but we can't wait for so long no matter what."

Sun Chuanting said: "What are you going to do?"

"This problem depends on capable people to solve." Wang Pu said, "You immediately invite Song Yingxing, the teacher of Jiangxi Fenyi County in the name of Zhejiang Zhi Governor, to come to Nanjing as your aide. If you want to improve the production capacity of the weapon workshop, you must do this person!"

"Song Yingxing?" Sun Chuanting said, "How do you know that the teacher in Fenyi, Jiangxi is called Song Yingxing?"

"Don't worry about this." Wang Pu said, "If you believe me, call him to Nanjing immediately."

"Okay." Sun Chuanting said, "I will write a book and send someone to Jiangxi tomorrow."

"And," Wang Pu said again, "Can you write to the court and transfer the Hanlin Academy's reviewer Fang Yizhi to Nanjing to be my army."

"Fang Yizhi?" Sun Chuanting frowned, "Fang Yizhi is a member of Fushe. You have never been a person who hates Fushe. Why did you suddenly remember to transfer Fang Yizhi as your military officer today?"

Wang Pu said: "I hate the people who are in the Fushe community because they only talk about the country in vain, but Fang Yizhi is not like this."
Chapter completed!