Guo Dan is not a military strategist, nor is he a strategist, what he can do is to provide the army with the best weapons and sufficient food and grass.

As for whether it can be won.

That's what the generals did.

Guo Dan did not think about the war at all, and he focused more on the post-war economy.

Chongqing Prefecture.

Recently, Chongqing Mansion is really lively, only to see strong men coming and going, carrying logs, pushing carts of stones, and building houses everywhere.

It stands to reason that once the war with Banzhou began, then Chongqing would become the front line, and it would be understandable to build a large number of construction and fortifications here.

However, this is not the construction of fortifications, but ... It's about building workshops.

"Governor Ye, are you here to exterminate the bandits, or are you here to do business, now the bandits are in chaos everywhere, and your army has not moved at all, but there are many people who build workshops here, and say that this is military affairs, what kind of military affairs is this?"

Sichuan Governor Li Hualong roared at Ye Mengxiong, who had just arrived in Chongqing.

He is really not picking on thorns, the fact is that before the soldiers and horses arrived, the businessmen went first, and Yinuoya suddenly settled in Chongqing, and invested on a large scale in Chongqing, recruited people on a large scale, what pharmaceutical workshops, silk factories, and so on.

This is not a bad thing for the local economy, but the prefect of Chongqing is very unhappy, and you businessmen are building workshops on my territory, and you don't notify me, so he complained to Li Hualong.

"Governor Li, don't be impatient."

Ye Mengxiong, who had just arrived in Chongqing, smiled, looked around again, and asked, "Who are you in charge here?" ”

I saw a middle-aged man with a big belly trotting over, "What do you command?" ”

Ye Mengxiong asked, "Who are you?" ”

The middle-aged man said: "The villain's name is Xie Sheng, and he is the director of the Chongqing Mansion Yinuoya Store. ”

Ye Mengxiong hurriedly said: "Governor Li is here to ask, why are you counting this as military affairs?" ”

Li Hualong looked confused, you don't know anything about feelings!

Xie Sheng hurriedly said: "If you want to go back to your lordship, this is the pharmacy contracted by Yinuo School of Medicine, and Your Majesty has contracted the medical team of Yinuo School of Medicine to this expedition, so this is considered a military matter." ”

Ye Mengxiong immediately said to Li Hualong: "Governor Li, you heard it. ”

Li Hualong said: "What is the tea workshop built over there, do you still have to ask for tea to fight?" ”

Xie Sheng immediately said: "If you go back to your lordship, the tea shop over there is really a food shop, and since the food for this expedition has been contracted to the merchants, the merchants want to establish a food shop to provide meals for the soldiers." ”

Ye Mengxiong said seriously: "Governor Li, this meal is very important, of course it is a military affair. ”

Li Hualong said angrily and funny: "Your battle is really interesting, except for the army, the rest has to be contracted to merchants." ”

Ye Mengxiong smiled and said: "Governor Li is angry, this is all ordered by His Majesty, take care of it." If nothing else, I'll go to the barracks first. ”

Li Hualong snorted, threw down a "farewell", and left angrily.

What he was even more angry about was that this base camp was located in Chongqing, and he was turned away, which meant that his governor was hollowed out.

"It's a bit incredible!"

Ye Mengxiong looked at this large and small workshop, and couldn't help but shake his head, thinking, is this the result of cooperation with businessmen?

He really didn't know, because as far as he knew, he was only responsible for the war, and he didn't have to take care of the rest, and when he came, he was still counting, and there was nothing left in this military affairs.

Then he went to Li Rusong's big tent.

Before coming to the barracks, Ye Mengxiong couldn't help but gasp and muttered to himself: "When did I have such an elite division in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

In fact, the elite is not elite, I don't know yet, but it is definitely very handsome, don't think about it, this is the most handsome army he has ever seen, there is no one, he has also seen the Jinyi Guard in the capital, and this is really incomparable.

Regardless of the soldiers guarding the door or driving the car, they are all black military uniforms, with red embroidery on the right arm and waist, like flames, with iron buckles and belts around their waists, and high leather boots, and all of them are more than 1.7 meters tall.

Not only that, but the weapons and equipment on them are all brand new and shiny.

This made Ye Mengxiong feel like "one day in the hole, a thousand years in the world".

"Haha! Governor Ye, don't come unharmed! ”

With a burst of hearty laughter, I saw Li Rusong and Wu Weizhong walking out of the barracks.

"Two generals."

Ye Mengxiong bowed, and couldn't wait to ask, "Where did you find the army?" Dressed so beautifully, are you here to fight? ”

He is a dignified governor, and when he comes here, he has also become dirty, but the question is whether it is suitable to dress so well for war?

Wu Weizhong and Li Rusong glanced at each other, and immediately burst out laughing.

Ye Mengxiong said curiously: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Wu Weizhong said: "Let's go in and talk." ”

After entering the account, Wu Weizhong said: "Governor Ye, this battle is not a battle to attack the fortification, but a battle to attack the heart. ”

"Heart-to-heart battle?"

Ye Mengxiong was surprised.

Wu Weizhong nodded and said, "Governor Ye should know better than us that the turmoil in the southwest is not Yang Yinglong's fault alone, or because the people here are fierce, and there are still some differences with my Central Plains culture." Therefore, Your Majesty wants to use the royal way in the southwest, not overbearing, not only to take the southwest, but also to make the people here happy and submitted, and yearn for our Central Plains culture. ”

"Your Majesty."

Ye Mengxiong listened to it with enthusiasm, why didn't he find out that the Son of Heaven was so wise before, but then asked, "What does this have to do with military uniforms?" ”

Wu Weizhong said: "Your Majesty's purpose in doing this is to make the people here have a good impression of my Ming army. This time, our army went on an expedition, and military discipline was also ranked first, and we must freeze to death without demolishing houses, and starve to death without looting. ”

"I see." Ye Mengxiong couldn't help but say with admiration on his face: "Your Majesty's move is really high, just when this army goes out, can the people not have a good feeling?" ”

Li Rusong grinned.

Ye Mengxiong said: "Why is the general laughing? ”

"Nothing! It's nothing! ”

Li Rusong shook his head.

He knew that this was not what Wanli meant, how could Wanli have the heart to do this, Wanli's request was very simple, that is, to kill him, this was all requested by Guo Dan, because he would contract here in the future, of course, it was to attack the heart, and it was useless to kill Yang Yinglong alone.

This is why the army is still in the future, and the businessmen arrive first, Guo Dan wants to take advantage of the power of the army to do the business first, so as to win the hearts of the people.

Ye Mengxiong didn't care about Li Rusong, and said: "The two generals, now that Banzhou has sent troops everywhere and has captured several passes in Huguang and Chongqing, why are the two generals indifferent to this?" ”

In fact, the battle has begun.

It's just that based on the infighting of the imperial court, this battle has become very weird.

Obviously, he expects to strike first and seize the granary of Chongqing, although he also seized several fortresses in Huguang, but he believes that Huguang is a transportation hub, and it is difficult to occupy it completely, and it is mainly defensive in Huguang, and heavy troops are concentrated in Chongqing.

It stands to reason that this is already a rebellion, but on the surface, everyone says that this is a rebellion by bandits.

Yang Yinglong also pretended to send them a letter, as long as the imperial court gave an order, Banzhou was willing to provide all help.

Ye Mengxiong was also funny, and replied to him with a letter, this chicken killing is a knife, the general is Optimus Prime in the southwest, and this little thief will be handed over to me to deal with.

The two humored each other, but on the battlefield both sides were killing each other.

Li Rusong said: "This is what we did on purpose, we already knew that he was going to seize those fortresses." ”

Ye Mengxiong wondered, "Why is this?" ”

Li Rusong said: "Because we want to fight a tough battle with Yang Yinglong, only in this way can we play the prestige of our army without killing." ”

Ye Mengxiong still didn't quite understand.

Wu Weizhong said: "They will definitely rely on the dangerous terrain of the fortress to block our army's attack." ”

Ye Mengxiong hurriedly said: "The terrain in this area is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

"That was before."

Li Rusong said with a smile: "We just hope that they will gather their troops in the fortress, because what awaits them will be our artillery array, and we will bombard the fortress day and night with a thousand guns until they retreat by themselves." ”

Ye Mengxiong was surprised: "Do we have so much ammunition?" ”

Li Rusong said with a smile: "If Governor Ye went to Weihui Mansion to take a look, he wouldn't ask this question. Ha ha.......! ”

Wu Weizhong said: "But we must hold the river, because our ammunition needs to rely on the river to transport, so the Qijiang River will be the first line of our defense." At that time, General Li and I marched from Chongqing and Huguang to Banzhou in two routes. But whether we can take Banzhou without bloodshed depends on Governor Ye. ”

Ye Mengxiong said: "Isn't the general referring to the rebellion against Banzhou Tusi?" ”

Wu Weizhong nodded and said: "We heard that Yang Yinglong was brutal and unkind in Banzhou, and many local Tusi have already been dissatisfied with him, if we can cause their internal instability, coupled with our artillery array, I think it is not completely impossible for the soldiers to be bloodless." ”

Ye Mengxiong said: "We have to cooperate with each other in this matter, you have to fight my Ming army first, and then I can go against them." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed again and said: "You don't know, this Sichuan army is really too poor, the Banzhou army is really like going back to his own home, come if you want to, you want to leave, as long as someone in the court impeaches Yang Yinglong, Yang Yinglong will take this Sichuan land to vent his anger." ”

"Governor Ye doesn't know, this artillery can't actually kill a few people, but if you want to say might, it must be very powerful." Li Rusong said triumphantly.

Wu Weizhong said: "And the Sichuan soldiers are not without combat effectiveness, only because of the local military and political corruption, resulting in a sharp reduction in the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan soldiers, and the salaries of the troops this time are all paid with the month, and they will never be in arrears. ”

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A no-tooth line.

"General manager, according to the accounts from the money banks in various places, in the past half month, the amount of exchange in our money banks has decreased by about 50%."

Zhu Yaoyuan took an account and reported: "And the deposit of our bank has also decreased by seventy percent, and the only one that has not been reduced is currently only the money bank of Weihui Mansion." ”

Aunt Xu said: "It seems that their rumors still worked. ”

It turned out that the other party released news everywhere, saying that Guo Dan didn't have so much money at all, and he used the silver to lend to the imperial court to fight, and because the merchants had already deposited the silver in Yinuo Qian Zhuang to facilitate the exchange, this directly caused the merchants to worry that they would not be able to withdraw the silver, so they ran to the money bank to take out the silver.

Kou Zhuansha said: "In the past, we dared to mobilize the silver in the money bank for emergency, but now we can't, if we really can't get the silver, the reputation we have accumulated over the years will be ruined." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "Let them go, as long as they are happy." ”

Aunt Xu said: "But if it goes on like this, it's obviously not a way, it's just what we know, and I believe they are trying to do everything they can to make trouble for you." ”

"But they chose the wrong path."

Guo Dan said: "Trouble me in trading, that's really self-defeating, this snake hit seven inches, the only thing that can hurt them is the price of grain, it's time to tell everyone that the money borrowed from His Majesty has long been lent out, and it has become the granary of Huguang and Sichuan." ”

Kou Zhuisa said happily: "How much did we earn?" ”

Guo smiled lightly: "The situation is better than expected, a total of 200,000 taels have been earned, and we have earned 130,000 taels in Yinuoyaxing." ”

At the same time, Wanli is also being surrounded and suppressed by them.

Tian Yi, who had just returned to Beijing to take charge of the East Factory, ran into trouble.

"Your Majesty, the household department and the local governments are trying their best to delay the income of the government treasury, and the palace expenditure is very large, and the imperial tomb will be built over there, if it continues like this, the government treasury may not be able to afford the palace expenditure."

Guo Dan said it well, this snake hit seven inches, they hit Wanli, and they hit his treasury.

They want to force Wanli to open his mouth.

Because now the ministers can't see the emperor, they want to force the emperor out.

Wanli sneered: "Carving insect skills, just want to force me to submit? I have already thought of a trick and waited here, you go to Yinuo Yaxing, and let Guo Dan lend me the tax income of Weihui Mansion this year. ”

In fact, he is not short of money, Tianjin Wei and Yinuo Yaxing two big coffers are on the side, but he just wants to borrow, anyway, the tax income of the four governments is under his control, and the sum of that side is more than two million taels, you can drag it as much as you like, I can not only advance in advance, but also be able to advance for several years.