A few days ahead of the troops, Wei Ze rushed back to Anqing with the guard troops first. It was not uncommon for thousands of troops to march in the mountains, and having them march in such armed marches would go a long way in promoting the fighting capabilities of the Taiping army. And Wei Ze has too much work to do, if it weren't for that, he would have stayed in the army, in the area from Lu'an to Anqing.

Compared to when Wei Ze left Anqing a month ago, Anqing City didn't see any special changes. Perhaps the biggest change is the presence of newsboys on the streets, and the addition of more signs on the streets. Weser paused in front of the sign, and then he was happy. The sign is about the size of a streetside advertising space that is common in the 21st century. In other words, the place where the notice is posted is more than two meters long and more than one meter high. There are a lot of notices posted on it.

"Our army captures Shucheng!"

"Our army conquers Luzhou!"

"Prime Minister Wei took Ning Yuan lightly!"

"Prime Minister Wei Cheng flew to capture Shouzhou!"

"The moat becomes a thoroughfare! Prime Minister Wei Cheng assumed a pontoon bridge on the Huai River, and the 6th Army ran across the Huai River to conquer Shangcai! ”

"The defenders of Lu'an fled without a fight, and Prime Minister Wei Cheng did not liberate Lu'an with a single shot!"

"Prime Minister Wei is about to return to Anqing with the division of a hundred battles!"

This last one isn't good! Weser thought to himself. This is clearly the kind of propaganda before the imperial army returns to the division, and now Wei Ze and they are enemies on all sides, and it is obviously not suitable to do so.

However, seeing the publicity of such a big billboard, Wei Ze was in a good mood. Where did he have so many thoughts during the march and battle, and in hindsight, Wei Ze did not do much along the way.

As soon as he returned to the yamen, Wei Changrong, who was left behind, rushed up and grabbed Wei Ze, "Fourth uncle, you're back!" ”

"Changrong, you are well guarded in this city! But why do you look thin? Weser laughed.

Wei Changrong replied: "Can you not be thin?" Now there are more than 6,100 soldiers and horses in the city, and I am in charge of their training, which is really day and night! There are also more than 2,000 people who are really unfit to join the army, and they refuse to leave the city. They wanted us to take them anyway, at least give them something to eat. I'm still waiting for the fourth uncle to come back and solve this matter! ”

"I see!" Wei Ze knew that he had something to do, "Changrong, you can give me news now, whoever can grow cigarettes, just find me this kind of person!" ”

"Fourth uncle, what are you going to do?" Wei Changrong was stunned.

"We have seized so much land, I want to grow tobacco and make foreign tobacco." Weeser replied.

As early as the Jintian Uprising, the top brass of the Taiping Army basically had a hobby of smoking foreign cigarettes. Of course, cigars and the like are the most common types of foreign cigarettes sold to China. And this time Wei Ze went to Anhui to take a turn, and now there are more wastelands in Anhui than he thought. And even land near the water may not be suitable for growing crops and other things.

For the youth of the 21st century, it is absolutely impossible to hang from a tree. If you can't make food crops, you might as well grow cash crops. And cigarettes have a market in any era. When Wei Ze hit Shouzhou, there were even people in such a 6 inner city, and there were people making foreign smoke. It's just that the price is relatively expensive and there are few people who ask for it.

This made Wei Ze think, silk tea must be the bulk of China's exports in the future, but that is all something to be said later. Although the manufacture of cigarettes is a notorious industry, it is as profitable as modern blended wine.

What Wei Ze needs at the moment is to be able to solve the problem of the production team of this industry as soon as possible, and after meeting the foreign cigarette dealers in Shouzhou City, Wei Ze has determined that he wants to join the new cigarette manufacturing plant in the military industry.

Wei Changrong was not a person who was particularly curious about other professions, especially after becoming the head of the combat training department, he didn't have the time to get involved in so many new fields. However, he was also a little overwhelmed by this group of homeless people, "Fourth uncle, how many people can know how to grow tobacco?" Can they all have something to do? ”

"That's definitely not going to work, but at this time, I'm slowly looking for something to do for them." Weser laughed.

As soon as he mentioned this to find something to do, Wei Changrong suddenly remembered something, "Fourth uncle, the foreign devil who sold muskets to you in Tianjing came to you again." Anyway, I don't understand the grunter of the speech. He said that you have broken the contract you set in Tianjing City, and he said that if you still need what you want, then you have to add money! ”

Weeser then remembered the arms dealer Smith, "Did he say when he would come again?" ”

Wei Changrong replied: "Just these few days, I see that he has the road guide he got in Tianjing City, and it seems that Tianjing didn't do anything to him." Fourth uncle, what did you ask him to buy this time? ”

"I bought some leaf spring bayonets and other things to match those broken guns, and with these accessories, I can continue to use them after the broken guns are repaired." Weese replied.

Wei Changrong listened to Wei Ze's words, and immediately said: "Fourth uncle, let's not use flint guns, I think we should all use fire cap guns!" With arquebuses, the recruits practiced for a month before they became proficient in putting their guns. Recruits who train to use fire cap guns can be trained in half a month. The spearmen of the musket could be used as pikemen with bayonets, but they were much stronger than arquebuses. The guns of these foreign devils are sturdy, after I tried it, I think that compared with the masters who use guns, this kind of guns can barely resist it, if it is compared with the scum of the Qing demon, as long as we practice well, we will not suffer a loss when fighting bayonets......"

Wei Ze stopped Wei Changrong's gushing plans, and now Wei Ze's generals have basically reached a consensus on the idea of building a new army, new muskets, new training methods, and new army formation models including the General Staff, these are all uncontroversial things in the army, so Wei Ze told his henchman Wei Changrong the truth, "Changrong, if I don't know this, why should I do it all the time?" But this requires money, and we can't make muskets at the moment, and we have to buy the sulfur and saltpeter in the gunpowder. The bigger the battle, the more it will be fought, the more it will be consumed, and it will not work without money. By the way, in order to be able to train a force that can fight and win, how much money did we spend on this training alone? I am afraid that more money is spent on these than it is spent on wars! ”

After listening to Wei Ze's complaint, Wei Changrong smiled and said: "Fourth uncle, you refuse to search in the city, you say that you are short of money, isn't this an obvious thing!" ”

Wei Ze also smiled bitterly, the Taiping army attacked the landlords along the way, eating big households, and the means were quite violent. Not to mention the landlords in the countryside, even if it is a rich family in the city, the Taiping army will not let it go. Plundering the floating wealth of the rich under the leadership of the poor is just a drizzle. Everywhere the Taiping army went, they were not tolerant of the rich. Even if there is no killing, they will come to the door to "borrow money". That is to say, give a white note to the rich households, which reads, "Borrow gold and silver xxxx from the xxx family today, and wait until the Qing demon is eliminated and the small heavenly kingdom is established, and the amount will be repaid." ”

It is said that in Wuchang, the Taiping army "borrowed" 12o taels of Tibetan silver from a wealthy family named Li Xiangxing. Anqing is also a big city, if Wei Ze also does this, he will be able to get a lot of floating wealth. But Weeser didn't want to do that. There are countless ways to get others to automatically send their wealth, or obediently send it to the door to be exploited, if you use the unskilled method of open robbery, this kind of justifiable robbery violates Wei Ze's worldview and aesthetics.

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