Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 134

on the canal.

The two fleets came towards each other and then stopped.

"Have you brought everything?"

"Well, prepared according to the list."

Under the shade of the trees on the shore, Chen Qianfu dressed as a businessman and Yan Wogong, who was also dressed as a businessman, were meeting in secret. Yan Wogong watched his subordinates remove batches of armor from the ship, and said helplessly to Chen Qianfu, "Jianguo!" Your Highness really has grasped Li Yuchun's fate."

Chen Qianfu laughed loudly, "Jian Guo said earlier that Li Yuchun is greedy for life and afraid of death, and loves money, so dealing with him is very simple, just give him money."

"The matter of privately selling weapons is still relatively serious after all. If Li Yuchun hadn't been pinched to death by the prison state now, no matter how easy it is to earn money, he would not want to earn it."

"Is there anything he doesn't want to earn? It's a business with no capital. Let's talk about the two thousand and five hundred sets of purple cloth face armor and helmet you sent this time. I know the cost of it very well. It costs less than 5000 taels, a little more silver for work and food, 6000 taels is enough, and the total is only about 1000 taels. A set of cloth face armor and a helmet are only four taels of silver, and more sophisticated ones The cotton armor of the Tartars, together with the iron mask and iron arms, cost only eight taels of silver."

"Now our prison country gives Li Yuchun ten taels of silver for a pair of purple cloth face armor and a helmet, and 20 taels of silver for a pair of tartar cotton armor, which has doubled his income. Besides, he doesn't have to spend real money to buy it. If you want to ask for damaged or lost titles, or to replenish recruits, even if you buy them, the price is not high."

"He can make a lot of money casually, isn't he happy?"

"Li Yuchun also took a big risk. This time, he managed to get a total of [-] sets of armor, [-] sets of cloth face armor, and [-] pairs of tartar cotton armor. He almost got all the armor in his hand. Now his own soldiers, except for five hundred soldiers, have no armor."

Mr. Yan also admired Jian Guo, but he was short of armor and weapons, so he thought of buying it from Li Yuchun.

When Li Yuchun heard this request, he was also very confused, but it was Yan Wogong, the boss who came to spread the word. They knew in their hearts that they were both grasshoppers on the same rope.

Li Yuchun couldn't change anything except jumping his feet angrily, swearing, and even slashing the table with his knife.

He knew very well that if any private transactions between him and the false admiral Zhu Wu were exposed, he would die.

Yan Wogong analyzed it carefully with him, and finally said that there is no turning back anyway, just keep going, just be careful, after all, there is money to be made.

Just like what Chen Qianfu said, Li Yuchun had many channels to obtain armor and equipment. He could get it from the Tartars, buy it from the Tartars, seize it from the battlefield, or get it from the Jiakuli of the Ming Dynasty government. , You can even recruit craftsmen to buy iron to build it yourself.

Anyway, the current situation is chaotic, and Li Yuchun, who has territory and soldiers, can do these things more conveniently.

The price offered by Zhu Yihai is quite attractive. Although a set of cloth face armor and a helmet is only given ten taels of silver, this is not because of court corruption. Thinking that the cost of a set of armor in Ming Dynasty was only more than four taels, dare to directly quote 12 taels .

There is no middleman to make the difference, and if Zhu Yihai gives ten taels of silver, Li Yuchun can earn more than half of it.

Zhu Yihai gave Li Yuchun 5000 taels of silver for 1 sets of cloth face armor and iron helmets, and [-] taels of silver for the [-] sets of gold cotton armor and iron pairing iron mask and iron arms.

A total of 5000 taels of silver.

"Li Yuchun is also short of war horses. After the Zhujiazhuang battle last time, he left with only 500 people almost naked. Now he is also very short of horses."

"What does he need a horse to do when he is stationed in Jiaxing? Wouldn't it be nice to stay in the city?" Chen Qianfu laughed.

Mr. Yan said helplessly, "After all, horses can escape and save their lives. This time Li Yuchun brought [-] war horses, another [-] riding horses, [-] draft horses, and [-] draft horses. He has almost died. After all the plundering, there is indeed no surplus.”

"How much did he keep for himself?"

"Two hundred war horses, he has a hundred horsemen under his command."

"Li Yuchun said that war horses are hard to come by. The price he gave before was too low. At least 50 taels of silver for a war horse, 20 taels of silver for a riding horse, 15 taels of silver for a draft horse, and [-] taels of silver for a draft horse."

Chen Qianfu also knew that since Chongzhen, although the way to import horses from Mongolia has been opened up, with the conquest of Mongolia by the Later Jin Dynasty and the continuous wars, war horses have become more and more scarce. In the early Ming Dynasty, a horse was only a few taels of silver. A horse cost four or five taels of silver, and it was only six or seven taels in the Jingtai period, but in the Wanli period, a horse in Beijing was at least 20 taels. Now, it is difficult to buy war horses with silver.

Horses are scarce, so the classification of horses is more detailed. The top horses are war horses that can go directly to the battlefield. These horses are the best, even trained, and they are not afraid of noise.

Riding horses can actually be used as war horses, but they are slightly worse.

As for the draft horses and pack horses, they were used to pull chariots, artillery, and carry food and supplies respectively.

"There are only two hundred war horses, which is too little. Our cavalry in Jinwu Town doesn't even have a complete set of horses."

My father Yan handed Chen Qianfu another list.

"Before I was ordered by the State Supervisor, I falsely recruited Wu Kai and other uncles, generals who hanged seals, generals who were in charge of the army, etc. Recently, I recruited many bandits, horse thieves, gentry and landlords, and obtained a lot of establishments from Hangzhou. For the amount of troops, I also invited a batch of food, wages and equipment, although most of them were eliminated from Hangzhou, or second-hand goods from overstock, but after all, they are also weapons and equipment, and I also bought some horses and iron materials, etc., "

Mr. Yan bought more than 500 war horses, and more than 3000 other horses. To get so many horses in the Jiangnan water town, Mr. Yan really took a lot of trouble during this period. In addition, various weapons and armor, etc. I also got a lot of them, whether he is good or bad, it is better than nothing.

"Duke Yan is really loyal to the country, you have worked hard." Looking at the list, Chen Qianfu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"It's all planned by His Highness before. I'm afraid the Tartars would never have imagined that I reported so many recruits. The food and salaries they gave and the weapons they drew were all sent to the Northern Expedition Camp of Jian Kingdom."

"Hahaha, who made Tartar so arrogant."

"Dr. Yan, now Jiaxing Huzhou, except for the prefecture, the rest of the counties are already under your control. The money and food of these two prefectures must be paid close attention."

"Don't worry about it."

Mr. Yan is very famous in the west of Zhejiang Province now, and he recruited a bunch of bright generals and officials, as well as heroes from the green forest. In the counties, towns and towns, in fact, these so-called recruited people are basically the village brave groups formed by Zhu Yihai and the others in Jiaxing and other places.

Flying the banner of the green battalion, carrying the name of a certain general in guerrilla warfare and defense, they are all Ming soldiers.

Yan Wogong has not yet infiltrated into Hangzhou, and he has a strong control over the two prefectures of Hujia and Jia. He is flying the banner of the Green Camp, and in the name of the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty, he sent those fake Green Camps to deal with the traitorous officials and gentry who led the way to meet the captives. They persuaded them to donate money, distributed money and food to each family, and forced them to donate money and food. They turned around and used the money to purchase ironware, horses, grain, grass, cloth and other military supplies. Then secretly send it to Zhu Yihai.

Then the other side borrowed the control of the soldiers and horses under their command to fully implement the lijin system in the two prefectures of Hujia.

The real taxes collected by the Qing Dynasty were those of the original Ming Dynasty, but these taxes were basically not collected in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, Yan Wogong would not collect them seriously, and sent some fake officials and traitors to make them They find a way to collect it themselves, and it is their responsibility if they fail to collect it.

Hangzhou also knows that it is difficult to collect taxes now, so they can't blame Yan Wogong. Instead, because he keeps recruiting and surrendering, he feels that he has put his focus here and has worked hard.

"How is Li Yuchun recently?"

"It's pretty good. Although I complained a lot, I felt that Jian Guo was unreasonable, but I lived a comfortable life. In such a short time, I took seven new concubines. Since his mother, wife and children were asked to be sent to Hangzhou, Now he is busy giving birth to a son all day long, afraid that one day something will happen, his mother, wife and children will be killed, and his family will have no descendants."

"This kid, when his concubine gives birth to a son, can he send him to Shaoxing? We will protect him. No matter what, we have to leave him a son." Chen Qianfu laughed.

"If Li Yuchun wants to hear it, he will probably vomit blood."

"This is not a joke. It is a method that can be used in the future. It can also be regarded as adding a bargaining chip to control Li Yuchun. For this kind of person, we have to keep a close eye on it. By the way, there is another important thing. The supervisor wants to send some more to Li Yuchun." Credit."

"Give some more credit?"

"It's like this, Jian Guo is about to go north to Suzhou, and wants Duke Yan to go to Songjiang..."

After the secret transaction was completed, Chen Qianfu returned by land and water with more than 4000 horses of various colors, more than 3000 mules and donkeys, and more than 5000 sets of various armors, as well as many knives, guns, bows and arrows, and a large amount of iron, cloth, and grain.

Yan Wogong rushed back to Jiaxing Fucheng with a lot of silver by boat.

"To Songjiang?" Li Yuchun was surprised.

"Well, Su Song rioted recently, rebellion is everywhere, and the hypocrites are even going to besiege Suzhou. General, you are the most capable general in the vicinity."

Li Yuchun was a little hesitant. He knew his own affairs, and the so-called astounding achievements were actually exaggerated. The battle of Zhujiazhuang was still a lingering shadow. Afterwards, Haiyan surrendered, or the tens of thousands of rebels in Jiaxing were defeated. Not really fighting.

He himself is now desperately expanding his troops, and has already expanded 2000 people, but in fact, there are not many who can really fight. Only the five hundred soldiers brought back from Zhujiazhuang can be used, and he has compiled them all as servants. , give double pay, [-] cavalry, [-] infantry, horse armor, etc. are all given priority to them.

(End of this chapter)