Chapter 1304: The Marriage of Wu and Jin?
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Ten days ago, when Wu Zheng insisted on nailing Huai'an City, the Hangzhou Mansion had already declared a state of war.
King Wu was in distress, and the second guard was trapped, which was a disaster for the entire Great General's Mansion.
All disputes become no longer important at this time, besides, under the rule of Wu Zheng, there are no great internal disputes, the reason is very simple, Wu Zheng never chooses people who disagree, simply put, not the same way, please go home and relax.
The first reaction of such a political force when it encounters the king's distress is the general mobilization of the whole people.
Difficulties, all divisions, and in this atmosphere of general mobilization, become no longer important, so difficulties are not difficulties.
Financial distress? No problem, don't be obsessed with flicking your sleeves, and requisition all the manpower and material resources that can be used by the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce to enter the war material reserve.
Does anyone dare to object?
No! Not to mention resisted.
Even if he is an iron rooster and regards money as his life, he will not dare to resist the war mobilization of the government at such a time, because it is looking for death!
Insufficient troops?
Zhang Guowei and Xiong Rulin, in the name of the General's Mansion, quickly began the second wave of temporary conscription (the first wave was the royal order of Wu Zheng before the war), the land of the Twelve Prefectures (excluding Taizhou, Taixing, and Tongzhou that are on the battlefield), but all men who have reached the age of fifteen and are not over forty years old are among the conscriptions, and this post is large, and now the population of the Twelve Prefectures is in the tens of millions, even if there are ten people and one ding, there are nearly one million, although it will not really recruit millions of people, and the General's Mansion cannot be equipped with such a huge army, But the impact of this conscription order on the later period was enormous.
With the promulgation of this conscription order, no one under his jurisdiction mentioned such laws as "only son is not levied", "father is not levied by son", and "brother is not levied by brother", because this is called urgent obedience.
Songjiang Military Workshop, the gunpowder workshop destroyed by artillery fire has already been repaired and put into normal production, but this is not important, because in just half a month, Mo Zhizhi used 30,000 manpower to expand the gunpowder workshop and firearms workshop at the same time, that is to say, the military workshop now has six gunpowder workshops and six firearms workshops.
There is a good saying, in the face of life and death, as long as there is no shortage of manpower and material resources, there is nothing that cannot be done.
The General's Mansion, Wu Bochang and Qian Jinxuan, as the father and princess of King Wu, temporarily supervised the government.
Today's topic is whether it should be forcibly expropriated in Hangzhou, Songjiang and Wusong ports (Wu Song is not subordinate to Songjiang Prefecture, it is subordinate to Suzhou Prefecture, and Baoshan Institute is also subordinate to Suzhou Prefecture, and the reason why it is also under Wu Zheng's jurisdiction is indeed because of Wu Zheng's domineering, which originated from the exchange of interests between the two when Wang Zhiren formed the new naval division four years ago).
Today's two major ports, the average daily throughput has reached tens of thousands of stones, especially Wusong Port, which even exceeded 100,000 stones at the peak.
Due to Wu Zheng's "connivance", the reserves of the port have reached an astonishing level.
At this time, the sea transportation was slow, whether it was a merchant or a Ming merchant, they basically hoarded goods in the port, and after reaching a certain level of quantity, a huge caravan was formed to go to sea, which was both convenient and cost-saving.
Therefore, needless to say, Mo is obsessed with being a businessman, even upright gentlemen like Zhang Guowei and Xiong Rulin have long set their sights on the materials hoarded in the two ports.
But this matter is too involved, and today's merchants are not the merchants of the early Ming Dynasty or Yongle and Xuande.
Not to mention that the countries far away in Europe have powerful naval fleets, and in the South China Sea, the Dutch Red Hair still occupies Dongfan, and its total number of warships is not less than 1,000.
A little further afield, the infamous British East India Company, granted a royal warrant by Emperor Elizabeth I, had entered the Strait of Malacca, and they began to challenge the Dutch red-haired monopoly of the spice trade, and its warships also reached a peak of more than 1,200 ships.
Therefore, at this time, it is very risky to forcibly requisition the materials of the people in the two major ports.
This is the scene today, where the four giants of the General's Mansion are sitting together to discuss countermeasures, plus Wu Bochang and Qian Jinxuan, a total of six people.
Zhang Guowei and the four of them discussed for a long time, but could not reach a consensus.
This is really difficult to do, once the forced conscription triggers a backlash from the nations, it is likely to be another war, and the General's Mansion cannot withstand the test of another war.
But if it is not forcibly conscripted, then the Great General's Mansion will not be able to continue the current war.
Relying only on the donations of the people and the expropriation of the property of the wealthy merchants and wealthy families in the eleven prefectures was not enough to support the needs of fighting a war in Jiangbei with nearly 200,000 people participating in the war, besides, the newly recruited 60,000 recruits still had to be equipped, and it was even more difficult for the military workshop at this time to have money and materials to buy raw materials for production, which greatly limited the output of the military workshop.
Just when everyone was undecided, Qian Jinxuan, who had been listening silently, said something like this, "Father-in-law, father-in-law, if something happens to the husband, can the General's Mansion survive?" Now that things have reached the worst level, dare to ask the princes, how bad can it be? ”
This sentence made Wu Bochang take the lead in agreeing, and he also said, "If you choose between the world and my son, the old man chooses his son!" ”
With the endorsement of these two people, who else can raise objections? Who would dare to object?
Once Wu Zheng really has an accident, it will be the murder of the master!
As a result, the Northern Expeditionary Army quickly dispatched overnight, forcibly blockaded the two major ports, and announced that all supplies were temporarily requisitioned by the General's Mansion until the end of the war.
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Compared with the forced expropriation of business materials, Wu Bochang and Qian Jinxuan are more worried about another thing.
It's big, big!
Say small, it's small.
Huang Yingyun, a poor and stupid scholar who had gobbled up in front of Wu Zheng, was once again ordered by Li Dingguo to send an envoy to Hangzhou.
But this time, he is obviously different, he is not only the envoy of King Jin, but also the envoy of Yongli Qin.
The number of envoys who came with him was not large, and there were too many people to recruit Tartars to intercept them.
There were only five people in the mission, and in addition to Huang Yingyun, the most conspicuous ones were a fifteen-year-old boy and a thirteen-year-old girl.
After changing into brocade clothes, Huang Yingyun made his intentions clear and married!
Who marries with whom?
Emperor Yongli ordered the marriage of King Jin and King Wu.
What is the chaos of this world?
The key to the marriage between the prince and the prince is that although they are not in the same dynasty, they are both in the Yongli Dynasty and the Yixing Dynasty under the Ming Dynasty.
More crucially, both kings were princes.
The most important thing is that the woman who wants to marry is the thirteen-year-old girl, Li Dingguo's eldest daughter, Li Haiyue.
The most important thing is that if the main owner is not there, who will decide whether to accept the marriage or not?
Zhang Guowei, Xiong Rulin, Zhang Huangyan, and Mo Zhinian, at this "critical" time, all chose to avoid it, and it was called a busy war.