Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 466
Nassau had no reason to reject such a proposal. He agreed the next day, and talked to Yang Chao about his treatment. Yang Chao thought that this guy was not short of money, but he asked Yang Chao for 10. The annual salary of two is really black.

Of course, Nassau himself explained that this kind of salary is worthy of his status, and what he cares about is not money.

Soon the two signed an agreement, and then Yang Chao asked someone to help him recruit suitable accountants, employees, and office locations.

Although he wants to use Nassau's knowledge and experience, but this is a Dutchman, Yang Chao can't be completely assured of him, so finding someone to help him is actually monitoring him. If he uses the economic power in his hands to benefit the Dutch, Yang Chao will still interfere. Anyway, he doesn't plan to use him for long, and he will kick him away after a few years.

However, the level of Nassau is still very good. The most important thing is that the work attitude is very hardworking, which is a typical Puritan.

He quickly determined the location of the exchange, but he had some conflicts with Yang Chao. Yang Chao thought that Nanjing was the best location, but Nassau chose Songjiang Mansion, and the specific location was at Wusongkou, which is the entrance of the Huangpu River.

Nassau believes that the geographical location is more suitable than Nanjing. Songjiang Prefecture is also a rich area, and the most important thing is the development potential. Nassau believes that the development potential there is much greater than that of Nanjing. Cotton and cotton cloth are produced locally, and the waterway is also connected to Suzhou, which can facilitate the trade of silk products. It will definitely be more developed than Nanjing in the future.

Yang Chao admires this guy's vision a little bit. You must know that the future generations of that place belong to Shanghai. Shanghai is naturally more developed than Nanjing because the geographical location is really good. It controls the mouth of the Yangtze River and is the leader of the Yangtze River. If it is not developed, it will be hell .

Of course, there is no way to compare with Nanjing now.However, as the provincial capital of later generations, Nanjing is actually inferior to the ordinary city of Suzhou. Apart from relying on the Yangtze River, it really has no advantage. nothing to say.

But now as a capital city, it is very good. You must know that in China, where power is concentrated, wealth will be concentrated, but Yang Chao is also very vacillating. Should it be built in Nanjing, the center of political power, or Wusongkou, which has great potential? .

After inquiring about the reasons for Nassau in detail, I realized that this guy didn’t have such a terrifying vision, but borrowed the experience of the Netherlands. He believed that Wusong’s geographical location is the closest to the Netherlands. There are Rhine River, Maas River, St. Three major European rivers flow through the Gelde River, and they are the mouths of these rivers. The entire Netherlands is actually formed on the delta impacted by these rivers.

Through these rivers, the Dutch can travel to France, Germany, and even cross Central Europe to Italy. Therefore, the Netherlands can be called the outlet of Europe, and its geographical location is really similar to that of Shanghai. No wonder the Dutch have developed trade.

After repeated weighing, Yang Chao felt that he had to take a long-term view, so he decided on Wusongkou according to Nassau's opinion.

On the issue of banks, Nassau insists that banks must operate in a stable manner. Profit is not the goal at all, but trade promotion is.

He hoped that Yang Chao would give up the model of lending money to ordinary people with low interest rates. After repeated negotiations between the two, Yang Chao finally compromised. He planned to re-establish a private bank, and Jiangnan Bank would become the central bank instead of lending to individuals. If there is a problem with the bank, Jiangnan Bank can also be used as the last dam of the economy to prevent a total economic collapse.

Economic improvement is going on here, and good news has also come from the war situation there.

Lu Mo was the first to send the battle report and successfully captured Nanchang City.

According to Lu Mo's battle report, Nanchang went down in one go, annihilating a thousand defenders of the Qing army.

"one thousand!"

There were only one thousand Qing troops in Nanchang.

"No, Xie Fei is in trouble."

Yang Chao immediately guessed that Nanchang was abandoned by Hong Chengchou, so Jiujiang must be heavily guarded.

Jiujiang.

Xie Fei has been fighting for three days, but he still hasn't captured Jiujiang. In fact, he arrived in Nanchang at about the same time as Lu Mo, but Lu Mo had already captured Nanchang, but he didn't even reach the edge of Jiujiang City.

Jiujiang was called Xunyang in ancient times, even now literati like to call Jiujiang City Xunyang City, and call the Yangtze River near Jiujiang Xunyang River.

This ancient city has a long history, and it is still standing here for thousands of years, because its geographical location is too important. The three provinces of Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui border here, which means that it is the only place to go from Huguang to Jiangnan.

The reason why the city was built in this section is because of the dangerous terrain in this section, with its back against Lushan Mountain and facing the Yangtze River. The city has high walls and thick walls, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The most important thing is that this city is too close to the Yangtze River, so close that Xie Fei couldn't land safely.

He has two options:

The first is a frontal attack, smashing the city wall and rushing in directly. However, the Qing army has set up dozens of wooden villages along the river bank. With these wooden villages, it is impossible to land safely. Xie Fei dare not When they went ashore rashly, they had to bombard the wooden villages one by one with cannons, only to find that most of them were empty.But regardless of these wooden villages, there are still elite soldiers ambushing in some wooden villages.So we can only continue to bombard them. Before all these wooden villages are cleared, the landing is too bad.

The second is to land nearby. He tried, but the opponent's cavalry would rush over at any time, and the impact at any cost made him fail to land twice.

Behind Jiujiang is Lushan Mountain. If you can cross Lushan Mountain, you can attack Jiujiang from behind. After three days of attacking without success, Xie Fei will not attack by force. He will send troops back to ask for instructions. As a frontline officer, he has the right to make decisions, but he Instead of making his own claims, he reported to Yang Chao that he hoped that Lu Mo would cross Lushan Mountain from Nanchang Wangbei to attack Jiujiang, and flank him back and forth.

Xie Fei is a backward general soldier, and he doesn't have any burden of face. If Wang Pu was here, he would definitely not be embarrassed and would definitely choose to attack by force, but Xie Fei didn't.

This made Yang Chao very satisfied, and he immediately delivered the order, ordering him not to care about other directions, and let him be responsible for crucifying Jiujiang, not even a single Qing army would let them escape.

"Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, isn't there a lot of tricks?"

Yang Chao received Xie Fei's military information and quickly judged that it was Hong Chengchou's conspiracy.

It seemed that Hong Chengchou didn't want Xie Fei to go ashore at all, and he didn't dare to let him attack the city at all, but Yang Chao knew that Hong Chengchou's power was far superior to Xie Fei's, and he was trying to lure the enemy. Cautious, did not choose to attack.

If Xie Fei attacked by force, Yang Chao would bet that Hong Chengchou would pretend to be invincible and shrink his troops to enter the city. Xie Fei would easily attack the city and fall into Hong Chengchou's siege.The previous riverside fortifications and blocking landings were all delusion. I hope Xie Fei believes that the Qing army is not strong enough.

As for Xie Fei's plan to attack from behind Mount Lu, what he could think of, Hong Chengchou had already thought of. Perhaps he was hoping that Lu Mo would attack from behind. It should not be too easy to ambush the troops in Mount Lu.

"It's dangerous! Hong Chengchou, an old man, is good at grand strategies, but he can also do little tricks."

Yang Chao couldn't help being thankful, thankful that Xie Fei was steady enough, otherwise, even if his [-] army was not completely wiped out, he would probably have been maimed.

Yang Chao not only ordered Xie Fei to just keep an eye on Jiujiang, but also told him that the Qing army in Nanchang was not in Nanchang.

Xie Fei could easily see the tricks from this information. The Qing army was not in Nanchang, so it must be in Jiujiang. Xie Fei immediately thought that this was Hong Chengchou's plan. If he didn't ask for instructions, but continued to attack, he might It's now that I've figured it out.

"In any battle with the enemy, if we are all strong, we can pretend to be cowardly and weak to lure them, and the enemy will come to fight me lightly. I will attack them with sharp soldiers, and their army will be defeated. If you can, you can show that you can't. The Hong Bandit lures the enemy. Trick, I have never seen it through!"

Xie Fei couldn't help saying that it was dangerous. If it was just a tactic of fighting in front of the formation and then pretending to be invincible and fleeing, he would be able to see through it at a glance. Putting on a posture of desperately preventing you from attacking the city, Xie Fei couldn't see through this kind of virtual reality change.

Then Xie Fei immediately issued an order not to go ashore, but turned around and set up camp on the north bank of the Yangtze River, facing Jiujiang City across the river.

"Let's attack the soldiers!"

In Nanjing, Yang Chao already has an idea.

"Therefore, the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the soldiers, and the second is to attack the city."

Sun Tzu's Art of War is still very reasonable, but in order to achieve the strategy of attacking soldiers, you must have the ability to attack soldiers and attack cities.

Just like when Hong Chengchou attacked Nanjing, he was proficient in his strategy. It was because he had tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands at that time, but now he is short of troops, so he can only play tricks.

However, Yang Chao planned to give Hong Chengchou a plan to attack. If an important area like Jiujiang were to be attacked by force, the loss would be too great. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Yang Chao generally does not advocate forcibly attacking a fortified city.

"Send an order to Zhao Kang, let him make a little noise, let the disciples of the Eight Banners get nervous, it is best to let them think that the Ming army is about to go to the north again."

"Go to Tianjin and ask Diao Erdou to create a little rumor, saying that Hong Chengchou has shrunk the entire Jiangxi army and handed over Jiangxi to Bendu. It is said that Hong Chengchou sits guarding Jiujiang and watches the tigers fight from the mountain, but Bendu is bold instead of attacking Hong Chengchou. Northern Expedition."

Man Qing claimed to know how to use time, Huang Taiji said that Yuan Chonghuan was killed by Chongzhen because of his plan to divorce, but now Yang Chao wants to use time for Man Qing!
Let's see if the disciples of the Eight Banners think that Hong Chengchou has something tricky with him, and then force Hong Chengchou to attack Jiangnan.

"Let Jiang Fan send someone to knock down the lake mouth."

Hukou County is located at the estuary of Panyang Lake. It is the only place to go in and out of Jiangxi. To the west is Jiujiang. If you take this place, you will nail Jiujiang to death.

"Let many men prepare to divide their troops into Jiangxi and take down the counties."

Many men are in southern Zhejiang at this time, and there are not enough troops, only 3, but Jin Shenghuan from Fujian can't beat him, and many men can allocate 1 to recover Jiangxi.If the whole of Jiangxi was occupied by Yang Chao, only Hong Chengchou occupied Jiujiang. At this time, Yang Chao did not go to fight Jiujiang, but went to the Northern Expedition. Let's see how Hong Chengchou explained to the Qing court.

Linqing, Shandong.

"Why don't you read Sun Tzu's Art of War?"

Zhao Kang asked Li Yuanyin with dissatisfaction.

Li Yuanyin explained: "Sun Tzu's Art of War is for literati to read, and it is not very useful for real swords and guns. It is enough for young generals to read Ji Xiao's new book and the documentary of military training, and it is quite helpful for generals to read this "Hundred Battles Qifa" .”

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