nanming man

Chapter 484
Gao Yihuan asked Zhang Yingxiang and the other three to write down the plea, including how Zuo Zhen stabbed him and how he harmed the people of Hanchuan.

At the same time, he also asked Chen Mingxia to write a memorial full of grief and indignation, and played it on the little emperor.

The memorial emphasizes that he was dedicated to the court and fought against the Tartars for the court, but the court stabbed him in the back, which made him very chilled and disappointed.

Throughout the memorial, Chen Mingxia emphasized that Marshal Gao was still very loyal to the emperor, and he also believed that the emperor would not harm him, but the court was clearly controlled by traitors, otherwise he would not come to harm him, the current Yue Fei.

This is because some treacherous ministers blinded the emperor's eyes and wanted the emperor to bear the reputation of cruelty and loyalty. It doesn't matter that Gao Yihuan suffers a little bit of grievance, but the court cannot be controlled by these traitors, so he is going to get rid of these traitors for the emperor.

Gao Yihuan was very satisfied after reading the memorabilia, and immediately sent someone to take a detour to Nanjing, and then prepared to use this as an excuse to take over the land.

However, Wei Wu's army was not good at water warfare, Zuo Liangyu retreated to Wuchang, and ordered people to patrol along the river. It was not an easy task for Wei Wu's army to kill across the river.

Furthermore, if after crossing the river, the sailors cut off their way back, it would be a troublesome thing.

At this time, the battle on Jiangtan had passed for several days, but the two armies were only facing each other across the river, and there was no conflict again.

This made Zuo Liangyu heave a sigh of relief, and said to the generals, "So what if Gao Jingzhong can fight? Can he still fly across the Yangtze River?"

Zuo Liangyu's humble appearance made Wei Wujun a little unhappy, but there was really nothing he could do about Zuo Liangyu for a while.

Gao Yihuan has the ambition to build a powerful navy, but the reality is relatively skinny. With Wei Wujun's current situation, it is doomed to be impossible to have a powerful navy unless he makes another windfall.

Now that the Wei Wu Army has incorporated the remnants of the Shun Army, the total strength has reached 13, and the annual military pay will cost nearly 250 million taels. If you add military rations, equipment, rewards and pensions, it will cost at least 200 million taels.

In order to maintain the army, Gao Yihuan needs to spend at least 450 million taels a year, plus other expenses, it will cost 600 million taels a year, while the territory controlled by Gao Yihuan only has a tax revenue of 300 million a year.

This is still the result of heavy taxes collected in Huguang, and the land of the vassals, as well as the fertile land of the squires, were included in the tax system.

Wei Wujun can support until now, except that Gao Yihuan paid the land as silver to the soldiers to reduce the consumption of silver.It was because he had obtained a sum of money and food from He Tengjiao, Sun Kewang, and Li Zicheng before that there was still a lot of balance in the treasury, otherwise Gao Yihuan would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Not long ago, Gao Yihuan asked Xiahu Cao and learned that there were more than four million taels of silver in the treasury.

This may seem like a lot, but in fact, it is estimated that it will be spent in a battle with the Manchus.

Fighting against the Manchus was a loss-making business and a huge waste.If you lose the battle, you will suffer heavy losses. If you win the battle, you will only get a dilapidated piece of land, and you will have to pay back money and food to appease the local area.

This phenomenon will be a long-term phenomenon. Unless it goes to Beijing and takes back all the money looted by the Manchu Qing, it will be a loss-making business in the early stage.

That is to say, Gao Yihuan needs to pay back for a long time, and needs to spend money continuously until the Man Qing is resolved.

Although there is still a lot of money in the treasury, Gao Yihuan can't squander it arbitrarily.It is very difficult to maintain 13 Wei Wujun now, and it will definitely cost money in the future. Gao Yihuan can only cancel the plan to build a huge navy.Because the navy army is even more expensive than the horse army.

In the north of Wuchang, on the edge of the Yangtze River, Gao Yihuan rode a horse and stood at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River.

Gao Yihuan raised his horsewhip and pointed to the river, "This place is good. The place where water and land meet is really ruined by Zuo Liangyu. If I am in Wuchang, I must manage it well. I just need to set up a card here and just collect the past. The taxation of merchant ships can make a lot of money every day."

"Zuozhen's military discipline is corrupt, small merchants dare not come here, and big merchants have backers. Zuo Liangyu is greedy for short-term profits, and he lets go after a small amount of money. He doesn't know how to flow. If he collects taxes, he must be more filial than merchants. There are many more, I think he is begging for food with a golden rice bowl!" Chen Mingxia fanned his fan in the cold weather, very contemptuous of Zuo Zhen.

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with his point of view.

At this time, Gao Yihuan glanced at Jiang Mian, then looked at County Magistrate Sun at the side, and ordered: "County Magistrate Sun, I have a mission for you!"

County magistrate Sun hurriedly saluted, "Commander, please give me instructions!"

Gao Yihuan pointed at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River with his whip, "I will assign you an engineering team, and you will provide them with logistics and resources. Within a month, I will build a simple fort here for me. I will block it." Jiang Nian."

Gao Yihuan's navy is not good, and the Huguang Ming army's navy is also common.

The Yangtze River is thousands of miles away, and Gao Yihuan wants to cross the river.

Gao Yihuan was not worried about the navy in Huguang and Zuozhen. What he was really worried about was that the navy guarding Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty and stationed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River would sail to Huguang.

The navy in the south of the Yangtze River is equipped with gunboats, not the small sailboats in Huguang. The small sailboards can be compared. If you really want to cross the river, Gao Yihuan will not dare to cross the river if you give Gao Yihuan a hundred courage.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan plans to build multiple forts along the river, block the river, and prevent the Jiangnan navy from sailing through Wuchang. In addition, after the forts are built, they will be able to control the waterways, so it is reasonable for Marshal Gao to levy a road tax.

In this way, Gao Yihuan does not need a strong navy, and can still dominate Huguang.

After hearing this, County Magistrate Sun hurriedly took orders, "Don't worry, Commander, I will definitely do my job well and not miss the deadline."

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, and said with satisfaction: "You do a good job, I am very optimistic about you."

After instructing the fort, Gao Yihuan asked again: "Yicheng, have you contacted Zhang Xianbi? Would you like to help me cross the river?"

Gao Yicheng said with a smile: "Commander, we got in touch. However, General Zhang said that after he was defeated last time, he was demoted to be a general by Nanjing. I hope the commander will not beat him too badly this time!"

Gao Yihuan laughed, "Tell him, give him a chance to win the battle after I cross the river."

In the city of Nanjing, in recent days, some novels and picture books about Gao Yihuan have begun to appear in the world. The content is all slandering Gao Yihuan, describing him as a warlord through and through, and Zuo Liangyu has become a positive role instead.

These novels and picture books are naturally written by Dong Lin. They didn't have a good word for Gao Yihuan. They described Gao Yihao as vicious, lewd, lustful, brutal and bloodthirsty. He didn't say a word about Gao Yihuan's fight against the Qing army, and directly applied what Zuo Liangyu did to Gao Yihuan, describing him as a bad person through and through.

These brochures are half sold and half given away, and the speed of dissemination is astonishing, and three people become tigers. After seeing these, many people will not investigate the truth or falsehood. When they see such news overwhelmingly, they think it is true.

In Ma Shiying's mansion, Ruan Dacheng is holding a pamphlet with three beautiful script "Zhu Quanzhong" on it, accompanied by a picture of a man with hairy chest and sweating profusely raping a commoner girl. The work is quite exquisite.

"Donglin's old routine, but it's really vicious!" Ruan Dacheng smiled, and handed it to Ma Shiying, who was also tricked by Donglin back then.

Ma Shiying took it over and looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's purely made out of nothing, but it's good if Donglin and his gang bite Gao Jingzhong, we just reap the benefits."

A folk pictorial was placed on He Tengjiao's desk in the mansion of the university scholar He Tengjiao, with a few striking big characters on it, "Wei Wujun attacked the official army and wanted to seize Wuchang. What is Gao Jingzhong's intention?"

He Tengjiao crumpled the pictorial into a ball angrily, blowing his beard and glaring, "This Gao Yihuan knows how to cause trouble for this old man, and sooner or later this old man will be tricked to death by him~"

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