Qiming 1158

Chapter 1272 "Good Official"

Salt is of little value to a knowledgeable official.

They know that salt is a very good thing, and they will not worry about running out when the supply is opened. It can be said that it is endless, and everyone will not have much problem with eating salt as food.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, a pound of salt was only a few copper coins.

It's expensive, mainly because of taxes.

The superior people know that this thing is necessary for human beings, so they artificially monopolize the salt resources, limit the supply, and artificially create scarcity, so as to raise the price, facilitate the exploitation of the common people, and obtain more money for their own enjoyment.

They can sell things for a few cents for a hundred cents or even two hundred cents in one go, which is a super huge profit.

Therefore, in the private sector, because of the tax markup of more than 90.00%, table salt is an absolute hard currency.

The use of salt, a man-made luxury, to compensate for the loss of large landlords and officials is also a coup that benefits without cost.

The government will not pay any cost for this, and the knowledgeable landlords and tyrants will not use all of them to eat for themselves. The main thing is to sell them through various channels to earn money from the poor to make up for their losses.

So from this point of view, the Chengdu court has not reached the point of exhaustion, and the big killer of Yanzheng has not been used.

As long as they are willing to exchange salt for Jiaozi, it is a big deal to raise some salt prices. As long as they are willing to open this exchange channel, they can still restore the value of Jiaozi.

It is a pity that at the same time, Ma Yongkang made the same proposal to Zhao Buxi, but was rejected by the vengeful Zhao Buxi.

He didn't want those bastards who ruined his own affairs to benefit, he wanted to make them suffer.

However, Fang Qianxin used his connections to do this, thus winning over the hearts of Chongqing Prefecture.

He is not a good person, but he is keenly aware that the Chengdu court is gradually losing people's hearts, and the order of Sichuan and Sichuan is collapsing. Under such circumstances, if he does not want to die without a place to be buried, he must win people's hearts.

At least, to win people's hearts within the scope of Chongqing government.

So he didn't get the permission of the imperial court to use the salt reserve to do this without permission. This is a risk, and people who bear the favor know it.

But it turns out that the benefits of taking this risk are far beyond Fang Qianxin's imagination.

At least when he faced the threat of the revolutionary army, he raised his arms, regardless of whether he received his favor or not, the local landlords and tyrants sent their own regimental armed forces to help him defend the city.

He is a "good official" who is willing to benefit the local people. This is a fact widely recognized by the landlords and tycoons in Chongqing. The revolutionary army and the Ming Dynasty are inextricably linked. If they can carry out land reform and liquidation, then these landlords will all die.

Under the blessing of two factors, when Xu Tong led his army up the river along the waterway on the [-]th day of October, Fang Qianxin had gathered more than [-] armed men to guard Baxian County, guard the waterway, and build warships and construction. The mighty Chongqing navy.

Landlords and tyrants gave money and materials, and did their best to defend the Chongqing government for Fang Qianxin, and obeyed his orders. This made Fang Qianxin very happy and confident, and felt that he would definitely win here.

But it turns out he was wrong.

Although the revolutionary army was not built for a long time, and the training time was not long, it did not take long for the landlord group to train its armed forces.

Not to mention that the revolutionary army after emancipation and reorganization has a clear configuration of the Ming army, but the training level is not enough to reach the level of the Ming army, and Fang Qianxin's defending army looks like a whole, but in fact it is a mess of sand.

Although the landlords have common enemies, there are also many internal conflicts. This landlord tyrant and that landlord tyrant have conflicts over land and water resources. After the two armed forces meet, there will inevitably be some quarrels.

As time goes by, small frictions appear, and even a fight is not impossible.

More than 1 aggressive and undisciplined men were gathered together. It seemed that there were a lot of people, but in fact the internal problems were greater than the external difficulties.

Fang Qianxin really had a headache to manage them. After the initial happiness, he quickly fell into management hell.

If someone quarrels, he needs to deal with it. If someone fights, he needs to deal with it. If someone fights, he needs to deal with it. Bloodshed and casualties are even more serious.

In terms of command, the landlord group only recognized Fang Qianxin as one person in the armed training, and the others were not convinced.

These problems were barely resolved, and the revolutionary army came.

Fang Qianxin confidently arranged more than 100 warships and more than 2000 sailors to stop the attack of the Revolutionary Army fleet. The army was wiped out.

The revolutionary artillery roared, and the Chongqing navy, which had never seen such a formation, was defeated and lost under the bombardment of the Ming artillery, and the entire army was wiped out.

The revolutionary army navy took advantage of the situation to control the waterway, cut off the external waterway traffic of Ba County, and cut off domestic and foreign aid. The army followed by encircling Ba County by land and carried out the same tactics as when dealing with Fuling County.

Xu Tong has never been afraid to use the same tactics, and the tactics that can win are good tactics.

Copa County is miserable.

The entire navy army was wiped out. One commander and seven or eight false commanders died in the water battle. The first battle was lost, and morale plummeted. The remaining people were all blocked in the county town, relying on city defense and food reserves It's too dangerous to live.

A group of people gathered around Fang Qianxin, hoping that he could come up with ideas and find a way, but Fang Qianxin is not good at military, how do they know what to do?
The only good thing is that Fang Qianxin told the Chengdu court the news before the war began. He now hopes that the Chengdu court will send some troops to relieve the siege after learning that the Chongqing government is in danger.

Well, this very prescient decision made Fang Qianxin very fortunate. He felt that the Chengdu court should have sent reinforcements by now.

At the same time, he also regretted his underestimation.

Because he heard that the Eastern Sichuan Theater was breached by the Ming army, and thought that the intruding army was the Ming army, but the sentry told him that the intruding army was not the Ming army. Uniform uniforms are not the Ming army.

Then combined with the other news before, that Zhongzhou was occupied by a rebel army, after a little thought, I probably understood that this attacking army was probably the thief army in Zhongzhou, and that thief army must have taken refuge in the Ming army. .

Then they became the vanguards sent by the Ming army. The Ming army wanted them to test the waters. It would be better if they defeated and died. It would be better for the Ming army to test the defense strength of Chongqing Prefecture.

After making such a judgment, he sent the navy to attack directly, wanting to teach this bandit army a lesson, shock the Ming army, and delay the time.

As a result, I never thought that this bandit army was particularly capable of fighting.

Thinking about it now, the so-called [Revolutionary Army] is probably dressed up by the Ming army, just to reduce the vigilance of the Chongqing defenders, but Fang Qianxin was tricked and gave away the sailors for nothing, the waterway was controlled, and they all became The turtle in the urn has no way to escape.

After the revolutionary army encircled Ba County, they were not in a hurry to attack the city. They just made preparations for attacking the city. They also sent people to investigate the relevant information of Chongqing Prefecture.

Through the account of the prisoners captured in the water war, Xu Tong learned that the main body of resistance in Chongqing was the coalition of landlords and tyrants. Before the war, the prefect of Chongqing summoned a large number of landlords and tyrants with their own regiments to help defend the city, which made him very happy.

These guys took the initiative to gather together and gave him a good opportunity to catch everything in one go. This opportunity must not be missed.

However, Xu Tong still did not launch an active attack, but continued to block the water and land passages inside and outside Ba County, cut off foreign aid, and then took this opportunity to send troops to sweep the surrounding areas of Ba County.

Although the county seat of Ba County is only a county seat, although the sparrow is small and complete, it has a pretty good city defense system, and the terrain is very dangerous. Forcibly attacking, I am afraid it will cause extremely heavy casualties. This is not what Xu Tong wants to see.

The newly established revolutionary army did not yet have a strong ability to attack fortifications, so after thinking about it, Xu Tong came up with a good solution.

Isn't it the powerful coalition in the surrounding area?

Okay, then I'll take advantage of your illness and kill you, and use your hometown to perform surgery. I don't think you're in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)