Daming Yinghua

Observing the appellation can help you figure out the relationship between the other party.

Zheng Haizhu left Liaoyang for a month, and came back to find that Mao Wenlong, a guerrilla who is currently not a high-ranking military officer, has always called himself "Mao" instead of "last general" to a red-robed civil official like Zhang Quan.

Sure enough, after listening to Mao Wenlong's resolute words of appeal to the war, Zhang Quan asked directly without using official accents: "How many people can you pull out to beat? I don't want to listen to those vain figures. Just say Numbers, before I came to Liaoyang, I knew that if your Liao army had a guerrilla battalion of 3000 people, the real number would be six, and the rest would be paid for by you army leaders.”

Zhang Quan's words did not mean to blame, he just said the status quo.

To be precise, not only Liaodong, but all the important towns on the nine borders are like this.

The military generals did not feel that they were ashamed of the court.

After all, after they ate their empty wages, they would use it to support their servants, and the servants they raised could at least serve as elites, unlike many gentry, rich men or members of the clan, who were pure moths of the country.

Mao Wenlong then said frankly: "Hui Shilang, Liaoyang's battalion soldiers are being organized and drilled. There are 2000 people, [-] infantry, and [-] cavalry. They all fought against the Mongolians in the north. There are also some veterans in it. Japanese people have died. These soldiers are definitely not useless farmers and soldiers in the fortress of the guard. They will go out of the city to fight the Jianzhou Tartars in the field. They will definitely not be afraid. Mao, there are three hundred other family members."

Without waiting for Zhang Quan to respond, Zheng Haizhu said: "The Mongolian Tartars use riding bows and light arrows. The Jianzhou Tartars, I have seen a lot this time. They use step bows and heavy arrows. To deal with the Jianzhou Tartars You need firearms. Uncle Mao, I’ll get you two hundred machine guns, the servants are so elite that they deserve to be used.”

"Huh?" Mao Wenlong looked at Zheng Haizhu in disbelief.

Zheng Haizhu didn't feel that he had any stage fright in front of the two civil servants and generals.

She has been planning for a long time, isn't it just to make contributions and negotiate conditions before an opportunity like today's?
Of course, she wanted to make her own products, whether it was dark armor or firearms, stand out.

Besides, Zheng Haizhu not only has the strength of arms, but also ventured into Nurhachi's lair, and went to Fushun to see it. Why is she not qualified to be a consultant?
She turned to Zhang Quan and said, "Mr. Zhang, when I set off from Dengzhou last year, I sent a letter to Songjiang through the post office of the imperial court, telling Songjiang Firearms Workshop to quickly recruit more people and sharpen the barrels. Combining machine guns is not a big or small cannon. Do it well." It’s not that difficult. Two craftsmen make one in ten days. When I left Songjiang, I had saved [-] in the workshop and sent them to Zhenjiang for trial by General Qi. In those days, at least fifty or sixty more were saved. Liaohai will freeze in February, and I will go back to transport them. As long as the imperial court gives me the survey and cooperation of the sea route, Liaohai will go south to Songjiang very quickly. Even if my cowhide is blown out now, the Songjiang side The manager didn’t pay attention to it for a while, and when I went back and stared at the rush work, I could drive out a hundred.”

Hearing this, Zhang Quan once again looked at the little woman in front of him who was the same age as his daughter.

Not to mention among merchants and civilians, even if it is placed in the court hall or in the army, this is a talent for overall planning and scheduling.

"Girl, have you planned to supply firearms to Liaodong? Why do you have such thoughts?"

Zheng Haizhu said earnestly: "Since I established my own country, when did border troubles stop? Wars must be commonplace. It just so happens that the seniors and peers I know all admire firearms, and even Western artillery. I thought, I must do this. Selling silk, cloth, rice, and tea, if you save a few taels of silver, you have to make firearms."

Mao Wenlong had come to his senses at this time, and said, "How much will it cost you for two hundred guns?"

Zheng Haizhu said: "Uncle knows, we don't make junk stuff. The cotton-grass blended dark armor made for General Qin and General Ma will not use a piece of rusted iron inside, and the cotton cloth will not be less starched for a day. It is six taels." One piece of silver. The barrel of our machine gun has been lengthened, it is well forged and does not explode, and the fire door is tightly covered, so the cost is only fourteen or fifty taels of silver."

When she said this, she sighed softly, with a hint of a smile, and still looked back at Zhang Quan and said, "Actually, it's only 3000 taels of silver. It's not enough for the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River to build a small garden or pile up a few Taihu Lake stones, but we can give it to Jianzhou." The Tartars took a look at it, after all, they are not yet familiar with firearms, from men to horses, and when they encounter them suddenly during a battle, I don't believe that their tactics and morale will not be disturbed."

Mao Wenlong stroked his stubble-covered chin, grinned and said, "Back then, our Liaodong Army and the Qi Family Army's guest army went to North Korea to fight the Japanese together. The old chief of Nurhachi hypocritically asked my Ming Dynasty for orders to bring [-] Tartars with us. Helping the battle. Fortunately, Chief Li knew what the old chief was thinking, but he just stopped by Li Chao to grab things and people, so he didn't agree. The old chief didn't go that time, and he didn't see the firearms on both sides of the Japanese and our Ming army. Miss Zheng is right, this time I have to firearm the Jianzhou Tartars and suppress their bows."

Mao Wenlong's eyes were full of enthusiasm for hunting, as if he was already imagining the moving scene of the Tartars being bombarded with blood.

Because of Zhang Quan's identity and personality, his face was expressionless, but the flames inevitably rose in his chest.

It stands to reason that the inspector censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate had been to Liaodong last year, and his Minister of War would not have left Beijing at the same time.

But Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant, was frightened by the infighting in the court, and he was afraid that his political opponents would make use of it again, so he let Zhang Quan, who was on his side, go to Liaoyang again.

Zhang Quan did not expect that he encountered the biggest opportunity in his political career.

Ding You, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhang Quan is the actual "soldier" and "lord".

Fang Congzhe is the only chancellor, and as the elder of Fang Ge, he can dispatch troops temporarily and secretly, which can be done.

When you have power, you must use it to the right person.

Up to now, Zhang Quan has established a positive enough evaluation of Zheng Haizhu, even more than his trust in the officials of the same dynasty in the Jingshi Bingzhang Bureau and Taipu Temple.

The people of Daming who are so innocent and useless cannot suffer.

"Girl, the old man will ask for payment, the imperial court is not good at using your opportunistic blunderbuss for nothing. By the way, is there time to build the cannon?"

Zheng Haizhu replied honestly: "I also wrote to them to make the tiger crouching cannon and Frankie cannon. I don't know how it is going. But the Hongyi cannon is definitely too late. Even if the craftsman is invited from Guangdong to Songjiang at the beginning of the new year, It takes four to five months to make a red cannon. However, you can try to buy it from the Frankies in Haojing as soon as possible, and hire the gunner together."

Mao Wenlong nodded and said: "Tiger crouching cannons are useful in field battles, but the Tartars are attacking the city this time. It would be better if they could have cannons on the top of Fushun City."

Zhang Quan pondered: "Then continue talking about military strength. General Mao, I can find a way to release Li Yongfang's military power and give you the 4000 troops in Fushun City. But even so, your more than 2 people, plus Firearms are still not enough. According to the report of the Yehe tribe, the Eight Banners of Jianzhou have a total of about [-] troops. Now there are more than [-] defenders of the Yehe tribe in the north and Qinghebao in the south. The old man estimates that Nurhachi has to leave half of them to watch Backyard, that is, bring [-] people out to fight Fushun."

Zheng Haizhu couldn't help secretly praising that Ma Xianglin, the father-in-law, really knows the soldiers. In history, Nurhachi fought Fushun and indeed brought 2 horses.

"Mr. Zhang," Zheng Haizhu said, "this time I was in Hetuala and saw a large number of coats and cut trees. I speculate that even if Nurhachi and Li Yongfang secretly communicated with each other, they may not have bribed other guards in Fushun and the surrounding fortresses." Yes, otherwise why build so many climbing equipment. Mr. Wu and I walked around Fushun and felt that they might divide their troops. One of them will focus on Fushun City, and the other will attack the two fortresses of Dongzhou and Magendan. The Ming army in the three defenses should support each other. Therefore, Dongzhou and Ma Gendan must send more troops. There are also several other places that must also send people."

She paused, seeing that both Zhang Quan and Mao Wenlong had expressions of "you continue to talk", she simply walked to the sand table and confessed her thoughts.

Zhang Quan nodded while listening, while Mao Wenlong was even more admirable.

This girl has a lot of thoughts, whoever is in Fushun to face the enemy head-on, who is defending the fortresses, who is going to the north to block the Mongolian tribes, who is making dumplings from the south to build the state, and who is in charge of Shenyang, she can tell. Way to go.

It's fine if you don't make a joke in the military. What's rare is that Zheng Haizhu, on the premise of ensuring Mao Wenlong's meritorious service, took into account the interests of Zhang Chengyin, Qinghe Zou Chuxian, and the Li family, an old warlord in Liaodong. Jin also came to share a piece of the pie, after all, people are good at playing with firearms.

After all, businessmen still know how to settle accounts, and they understand the principle of sharing benefits. Everyone shares military merits, just like everyone has money, and everyone is happy.

Of course, this girl's most convincing trick was to say to Zhang Quan sincerely: "Mr. Zhang, only the two thousand chariots of Mr. Qi are not enough. Outside Fushun City, we should also ambush a guest army, and it is a cavalry army." , none other than your son-in-law, General Ma’s elite white rod.”