But after only laughing for a while, Qian Qiaogong's laughter stopped suddenly, and he frowned: "I just can't understand how the yellow camel is willing to follow Shen Zhiyuan...... Qingyin I am really not familiar with it, maybe I was rescued by Shen Zhiyuan, I have a grateful heart, and it may be that men and women love to have a personal relationship with Shen Zhiyuan, but the yellow camel shouldn't be, as early as a year ago, but everything that involves loyalty and bottom line, the yellow camel will echo my ....... ”

Wu Zheng heard this, slowly sank his face, and waved his hand vigorously, as if he didn't want to continue to discuss this topic, "Everyone has their own ambitions, why force it...... Get back! ”

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Maybe it's the brief silence before the storm.

For five days in a row, the Qing army north of Guting did not show the slightest sign of attack.

It's unusual, it's unusual.

You must know that the strength of the Qing army in Yanzhou has reached nearly 50,000 at this time, and from the direction of Beizhili, the garrisons of various prefectures and counties controlled by the Qing court have also moved closer to Yanzhou.

This is a harbinger of a great war, a decisive battle.

Would the Qing court really plan to fight a life-and-death battle with Wu in Xuzhou?

Of course, Wu Zheng was not idle, the first batch of reinforcements of the First Army, led by Zhang Guowei, 10,000 people have arrived in Xuzhou, ready to reinforce Peixian, and the other 10,000 people have also been stationed in Huai'an City.

At the same time, 20,000 people of the First Army, reinforced from the second time, have landed in Yangzhou and taken over the defense of Yangzhou.

The newly recruited more than 40,000 new troops have been training for more than a month, and if the war is urgent, they can quickly move north.

Under the control of Chen Zilong, the Hanming Half Moon Talks began to be published intensively, increasing the original semi-monthly issue to a five-day issue, reporting on the continuous victories of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the latest decrees of the General's Palace.

All prefectures and counties were quickly mobilized, and the Ding Zhuang of every household had been registered, and could be called up at any time with a single order.

I have to say that under the rule of the Great General's Mansion at this time, it has entered the mobilization of the whole people, and everyone already knows that this is a national war, a national war of life and death.

What is strange is that in such an embarrassing financial situation, when the General's Mansion has even defaulted on the "settlement fee" for recruiting new soldiers, the people have not heard the slightest opposition, and the people have silently sent their husbands and sons to the recruitment points in various prefectures and counties, and even took the initiative to donate money and materials.

This atmosphere of unity infects others, and then infects oneself from others.

It is precisely because of this unity of mind that the General's Mansion was able to support the war for nearly 50 days when the treasury was empty, and did not stop the production of the military workshop for a day, but on the contrary, took advantage of this to rapidly expand production capacity and provide a steady supply of ammunition for the northern battlefield.

Wu Zheng was no longer panicked at this time.

Countless worries, doubts, and confusions are gone.

In fact, no matter how difficult tomorrow is, when the sun rises and becomes today, you will find that it is not so difficult.

What Wu Zheng is really worried about now is no longer the upcoming offensive and defensive battle in Xuzhou, but the fleets of various countries that have been assembled at sea.

There was an urgent report from Hangzhou, and the outsiders who had been "ransacked" by the General's Mansion for the two major ports finally couldn't hold back the anger and greed in their hearts.

Take advantage of his illness and ask for his life. This truth is well known both at home and abroad.

The "combined fleet" headed by the two fleets of England and Portugal has taken shape, and they have given an ultimatum to the general's palace with the mouth of Wei Kuangguo, and must compensate for the "looted" materials with double the payment, and compensate the merchants of various countries for more than a month's losses, and at the same time, allow merchants from various countries to take a stake in the weaving department, and exempt the two major ports from customs duties for three years...... Otherwise, go to war!

Of course, Wu Zheng is not afraid, the naval artillery of this era is far from being able to shoot twenty miles away, and the Fanren just want to take advantage of their own war to rip off the bamboo, they definitely dare not land, dare to take a step on the mainland, and the Northern Expeditionary Army can teach them how to behave in minutes.

Wu Zheng was worried that the formation of the Fanren fleet would eventually endanger foreign trade, which had become the first of the four pillars of the General's Mansion.

Nowadays, the largest source of revenue supporting the General's Mansion is the collection of import and export tariffs, and the agricultural tax, which was originally the pillar of the dynasty, has fallen to third place due to Wu's stubborn reduction and reduction.

The second is Hamming Bank, a large bank that integrates three major banks, involving more than 5 million depositors, and it is now operating with interest rate spreads that are enough to spread out the costs and have a large surplus.

The silver coins that Mo obsessively promoted are accepted by the world, especially by merchants everywhere, which is not that merchants do not trust bank bills, but because of human nature, only real money and silver in their pockets can feel extra reassured.

The real "profit" of Hamming Bank still comes from the hoarding of wealth by countless depositors, and businessmen from all over the world, and even merchants from all over the world, for the convenience of delivery, will basically leave the circulating funds in Hamming Bank, which has caused a huge liquidity surplus.

This is also one of the important reasons why Mo Zhizhi can use his own strength to fight hard for this day and not collapse to this day.

The fourth pillar of the General's Mansion is the handicraft industry, and the weaving department controlled by Wu Xiaomei and other three daughters, after more than three years of development, has become the fourth pillar of the General's Mansion.

At this time, the weaving division has formed a huge industrial group, and countless mulberry households, weavers, brokers, and middlemen in the south of the Yangtze River have taken the initiative to join the weaving division, so as to seek greater benefits.

This is the reason why Wu Zheng forcibly imposed import and export taxes, because the industrial revolution has not yet arrived, the production capacity is low, at this time the output of silk fabrics is more demand than supply, that is to say, all the merchants who buy silk fabrics from the two major ports are desperate, they often need to stay in Jiangnan for two or three months, in order to raise the required amount of goods.

Wu Zheng's forced tax hike further promoted the rise in the price of silk fabrics, and the things that need to be fought for are often the best, which is equivalent to "hunger marketing" in later generations, which is almost the same truth.

But this also made the weaving division earn the largest amount of money, because the production capacity of the weaving division accounts for almost half of the entire Jiangnan silk fabrics, which makes the weaving department virtually have the bargaining power over silk fabrics, increase prices, and decide in a word.

Therefore, all over the mulberry households, weavers and brokers, middlemen, in order to seek greater profits, they took the initiative to join the weaving division, which formed the weaving division of the voice is getting bigger and bigger, simply put, the merchants want to buy the required amount of goods as soon as possible, they can not bypass the weaving division.

In fact, this is precisely the reason why Fanshang's combined fleet deliberately proposed to invest in the Weaving Division, because although the Weaving Division is not an official government on the surface, in fact, the identity of the three women who preside over the Weaving Division is special, which is something that everyone knows.