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It's harvest season.

Everywhere, you can see the officers and soldiers of the rainbow who have just changed into grass green uniforms commenting on this year's harvest, before they joined the rainbow army, most of them were also good masters in the farmer's house: "Yes, yes, we can definitely harvest 600 catties this year, and we don't have to worry about the food and salary this year and next year!" ”

"Lay down Ningshao Mansion this year, take down Hangjiahu next year, and we will carry the inspection point into the Forbidden City!"

"Yes! The inspection has entered the Forbidden City, and we are also the heroes of the founding of the country! ”

Although the summer heat has not completely disappeared, and there are still Tingzhu on their faces, the officers and soldiers of the Hongjun are full of joy: "Yes, the inspection is as clever as a god, after resting for the past two months, there will definitely be a big move in the future!" ”

Oh, yes! Every regiment, every battalion, and every company received a lot of new recruits, and there were also many new equipment, such as Mini rifles, 32-pound siege artillery, and especially a few sniper scopes that were 1.5 times larger, which were originally the ballast cargo of a Shanghai weapons warehouse.

Although many people are amazed by such foreign guns, there is no concept of snipers in this era, and even Westerners do not attach importance to sniping, let alone in China, these sniper scopes have never been sold since they were shipped from the United States to China, and in the end they could only use these sniper scopes from Liu Chang to exchange for a ticket back to the United States.

But soon the sharpshooters of the dragon spear regiment had already fought for the distribution of these sniper scopes, and now the officers and soldiers are talking about the situation at that time: "Who doesn't want to get those sniper scopes, Mini rifles and sniper scopes, even half a mile away can hit a hundred shots!" ”

While they were talking, several horses galloped in

The officers and soldiers of the rainbow were still talking about the situation, but soon they saluted with their guns: "Salute! ”

They had already seen clearly that it was none other than Liu Chang, the Hongjun inspector, and in addition to a few guards on his side, there were two very moist Shi Niangniang and Yang Niangniang, and he returned the salute to these ordinary soldiers on the horse: "Salute!" Hello! ”

These ordinary soldiers also once again held their guns to salute this Liu Jian Point, although he has reached the status of a king, but he is still as approachable as ever.

Liu Chang's mood was quite happy, but Yang Changmei, who was beside him, said: "Ah Chang, if we continue to spend money like this, I'm afraid our silver won't be enough!" If nothing else, I don't know how much it costs to use this telegraph line alone! ”

She didn't believe that this telegraph line could have the ability to transmit messages for a thousand days, which was too evil, but a lot of money was spent on the erection of telegraph lines, and not only Liu Chang was obsessed, but even Feng Wenkai, who made a fortune with money, believed in such a heresy!

Liu Chang said with full confidence: "I'm not afraid that if the money is not enough, we will issue public bonds!" How is the autumn grain levy? ”

The capture of Ningbo Mansion was a bit short until now, so it was only a preliminary administrative organization, so Yang Changmei immediately said to Liu Chang: "It was originally prepared to issue public bonds, but Cixi Feng ......"

"Feng Wenmang's family?"

Feng Wenmeng is Feng Wenmeng, and the Feng family is the Feng family, and the two cannot be confused, just because of Feng Wenmang's relationship Although the Hong army has captured Cixi County, the Feng family did not flee to Shanghai, but some influential figures went to Shanghai. …,

"yes!" Yang Changmei told Liu Chang: "They think that the method of issuing public bonds to collect real money is not good, so they proposed to us that their Ningbo money industry counterparts buy our 700,000 yuan public bonds at a 5% discount, and in return, the Ningbo government will not issue public bonds this autumn!" ”

Liu Chang shook his head: "Their Feng family is fooling us, with the strength of their money industry peers, it is not a problem to take 700,000 taels of silver out at one time, and now they are only willing to take 300,000 taels to repay the service, this is just a fool, not to mention that in order to consider next year, this year's autumn grain will be collected, and public bonds must be issued!" ”

After the capture of Ningbo, the expenditure of the Hongjun suddenly became amazing, and the purchase of military uniforms, military fires and a large number of industrial products made Ningbo a paradise for Shanghai adventurers, but it also brought a new problem, that is, the hard currency of the Hongjun was a little insufficient.

In the traditional fiscal revenue structure of the country, autumn grain can be said to be the most important income, so many of Shanghai's military merchants are willing to owe a part of the money on credit due to their late entry into the Hongjun market, and Yang Changmei also mentioned this problem: "It is to issue public bonds, but I am afraid that borrowing too much grain will cause civil turmoil!" ”

Liu Chang nodded: "It would be nice if we could take down Hangjiahu, but now such a precious time to rest is also rare!" ”

This is a truth, since the establishment of the Hong Army, there has been almost no battle every day, all the time, and there are few opportunities to rest and recuperate for a long time, and now Liu Chang has given at least a month of rest and recuperation, so that all troops can relax. "Hmm!" Yang Changmei thought more far-reachingly: "It is true that we have to issue public bonds, and judging from the current expenditure, even if we can pay it on credit, the burden of collecting it will be exhausted before the summer of the next year." ”

Now the public bond exchange has been transferred from Taizhou to the neutral zone of Ningbo, and now because the Hongjun army has captured Ningbo and Shaoxing, the public bond has risen all the way, once breaking through 60% and 5, and Feng Wenmeng has become the most important figure in the exchange.

It's just that due to the recuperation, before there is no new good news, the public debt has returned to the price of fifty percent, so Liu Chang is also thinking about financial problems: "In the future, we cannot always maintain the current purchase quota, we must selectively purchase military materials and industrial products, and the crow pieces seized in Ningbo Mansion this time will be transferred to Shanghai for sale as soon as possible." ”

Liu Chang knew that the problem of the financial crisis was not to maintain the current size of the army, even if the Hongjun army was doubled, the financial strength of the six provinces in Zhejiang would be enough to support it, but that after the neutralization of Ningbo, the Hongjun army had almost unlimited foreign procurement.

Such foreign purchases soon established credibility among the Western merchants in Shanghai and Ningbo, and although the trade in crow tablets was reduced, it was joined by the more lucrative arms trade, and in a short time the trade volume of the port of Ningbo increased by as much as two.

The Hong army became very close to a Western army in a short period of time, but after having quantity, Liu Chang had to pursue a qualitative change, Shi Tinglan agreed: "Yes, it's a pity that our heavenly kingdom is lacking such a port, and a lot of silver can't buy good things!" ”

Although the Kingdom of Heaven had enough gold and silver property, the route from Shanghai to Nanjing was the focus of the Qing army's investigation, although there were still countless Western merchants smuggling on this route for huge profits, but after all, it was too risky and too small.

These small number of Western steamers often played a decisive role in the Taiping War, for example, during the defense of Anqing, the Hunan army besieged Anqing for more than a year, and saw that it was about to trap Anqing to death, a Western steamer came galloping, sold a large amount of salt and rice to the Taiping army in the city, so that the siege line of the Hunan army became an ornament, as a result, the Hunan army could only protest to the British diplomat, the British diplomat ordered the British ships not to meet the Taiping army in Anqing, and Anqing was finally broken by the Hunan army because of the exhaustion of ammunition and food. …,

Liu Chang agreed with this judgment, but he said: "Can you discuss with the East King and the Wing King, they will give us silver, and we will find a way to send them to southern Anhui!" ”

"That's a good idea!" Yang Changmei agreed with this judgment: "What our heavenly kingdom lacks the most is red powder!" ”

Although it is still in a state of recuperation for the rest of this year, with the tacit understanding between Liu Chang and He Guiqing, it should not be a problem to open up a trade route to the Heavenly Kingdom-controlled area in a short period of time, and this channel can be of greater use next year.

Just as he said this, he saw that there were already people in front of him who had stretched out their hands on the avenue and blocked the way, and several cavalrymen immediately became vigilant, holding their sabers in one hand and their revolvers in the other to prevent accidents.

It's just that soon Yang Changmei recognized the other party: "It's Zhu Jiumei, it's Jiumei!" ”

She told Liu Chang: "This is the ninth sister, who worked for the king of heaven with us in the Heavenly King's Mansion!" ”

Liu Chang took a closer look, and barely found that it was really a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl blocking the way, but this girl had a lot of mud on her face, and she couldn't see it very really.

Yang Changmei told Liu Chang that this is definitely a trustworthy person: "The ninth sister is from Hubei, and when they fought Wuchang, their sisters joined the women's pavilion, and they were most trusted by the East King, and when we were in the Tianwang Mansion, we suffered a lot together!" ”

Over there, Zhu Jiumei had already grabbed Shi Tinglan's hand and said, "Sister Tinglan, eldest sister, I came here at the behest of the East King!" This is Liu Changliu's checkpoint, right? ”

"I'm Liu Chang!" Liu Chang glanced at Zhu Jiumei: "You also have a sister?" ”

"Yes! My sister is still in the East Palace. Zhu Jiumei said: "Jiumei has seen the inspection, and when she looks at the inspection, she knows that it is extraordinary, young hero, and the only one who can be compared with the inspection is the thirty inspection points on the right side of the palace!" ”

The 30 checkpoints on the right side of the palace is Chen Yucheng, the 30 checkpoints on the right side of the palace when the two grams of Wuchang this year, led the 13th Army and the first four armies of the water camp, and its return to the horse gun in Hubei has made a great name, known as the "30 checkpoints back to the horse gun", and now he is only 18 years old, you can imagine what a young hero.

And can be compared with Chen Yucheng, Liu Chang is still in a very happy mood: "Ninth sister, I don't know if I can bring the edict of the East King here?" ”。 ）

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