Just after the Duanyang Festival, Wuchang City came to a famous Hui merchant, called Cheng Bi, he is a salt merchant, but also operating cotton, silk, grain, tea, timber and other commodities, he came to Wuchang for the purpose of doing business, this person was originally a merchant who ran the Wuchang waterway, because Wuchang was occupied by the righteous army, he did not come again, after a period of observation, that although Wuchang was occupied by the righteous army, but people still have to eat and dress, he really wanted to do the original business again, so he came to Wuchang alone.

After Gao Junshan heard about it, he invited him into the palace of the king of Chu and met with this Hui merchant Cheng Bi in the carrier hall.

"Merchant Cheng Bi visits King Qin! I don't know what happened when King Qin summoned the merchants to come? Cheng Bi asked when he saw Gao Junshan.

Gao Junshan said: "I know that Cheng Chaofeng (boss) has always had trade contacts with Wuchang, and my purpose in inviting Cheng Chaofeng is to cooperate with you, you can continue to run your business in Wuchang, but you must abide by our rules." ”

"I don't know what rules you have, King Qin?"

Gao Junshan smiled: "My trade department will explain the specific matters to you." We welcome law-abiding and trustworthy businessmen to come to us to do business, and we also protect the interests of businessmen who come to us to do business. I know that Cheng Chaofeng is a law-abiding and trustworthy businessman, and I am very willing to make friends with you, and this is the purpose of my invitation to come. ”

Cheng Bi said: "Businessman is about integrity, which is our purpose and the secret of our prosperity." King Qin wants to make friends with me, I am very happy, I see that King Qin is honest and does not deceive me. ”

Gao Junshan quipped: "Because I am also in business." ”

Cheng Bileng paused, seemed to understand what Gao Junshan meant, and said with a smile: "We are still walking together!" ”

Gao Junshan said: "If you want to govern the water and soil of one side and benefit the people of one side, just like you do business, you must have integrity to the people, and similarly, I must also have integrity to Cheng Chaofeng!" ”

Cheng Bi said: "Since the businessmen have been doing business, they have dealt with the government countless times, either openly asking for money, or secretly extorting money. It's the first time that a businessman has seen an adult who is so open and honest with businessmen like today. I, Cheng Bi, would like to make friends with such parents! ”

"Good! We're sure of it. ”

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Gao Junshan has been busy setting up factories in Wuchang, and due to his strong financial strength, the infrastructure projects of the six major factories, including large shipyards, iron works, copper factories, aluminum factories, glass factories and weaving factories, have been fully rolled out.

If you want to build a big ship, the iron factory is indispensable, the copper factory, the aluminum factory is also needed, glass is the necessary material for the telescope, so it is also necessary to get started, the technical force of the production of glass is not a problem, the key is the production process, to produce glass with good transparency, it still needs to be realized step by step, this is not urgent, the weaving factory is also prepared by the army in uniform dress.

Entering July, good news came from Changsha, Zhou Shichen after three days of fierce fighting, broke the city of Changsha, Changsha guards Yin Xianmin, He Yide surrendered, after breaking the city, Zhou Shichen collected more than 30,000 Hunan troops.

Gao Junshan judged the situation and considered that there were many lofty mountains and mountains south of Changsha, which was not conducive to marching and fighting, nor was it conducive to logistics transportation, so it was decided to wait for the Mini gun to be taken before taking the vast land south of Changsha. Therefore, he ordered Zhou Shichen to rest in Changsha and manage Changsha, and when the time was ripe, he went north to the Dongting Lake area to prepare for the next step of taking Jingzhou.

In August, 200,000 troops were raised again in the direction of Jinling to recapture Wuchang, and the commander of the troops this time was Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa was short, looked very lean, had a dark face, and his eyes were bright. He is honest and trustworthy, and can share weal and woe with his subordinates. Whenever he marched, he himself would not eat first until the soldier had eaten enough, and he would never wear the soldier's armor before he had been given it, so the soldiers were willing to contribute to him.

In the summer of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, his old father-in-law died, and he left his post for a year of filial piety. After taking off the mourning clothes, he went to serve as the right attendant of the household department and the right imperial history, and succeeded Zhu Dadian in charge of Caoyun, and patrolled Fengyang, Huai'an, and Yangzhou.

During his year as an official, he impeached and dismissed three grain governors, added one person to Caochu Road, and vigorously dredged the Nanhe River, so that Caowu was greatly rectified.

This time, he took the initiative to invite Ying, gathered 200,000 troops, and threatened to set foot in Wuchang.

Someone asked him: "Lord Fujun, you want to attack Wuchang with only 200,000 troops, I heard that Wuchang's Gaojun Mountain has a million soldiers, why don't you hit a stone with an egg?" ”

Shi Kefa replied: "Gao Junshan is just a rabble, and I will divide my troops to attack, and I will break it." ”

Again, the man said, "A rabble? I heard that Cai Zhishan, Cao Wenzhao, and He Renlong are already generalissimos, are you deceiving yourself? You haven't heard of Cai Zhishan, so you won't know Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong, right? They were once the brave generals of the Ming Court, how can they be said to be a rabble?"

Shi Kefa replied angrily: "Don't destroy your own prestige and grow the morale of others!" ”

The man shook his head and walked away.

Someone asked him again: "Lord Fujun, the thief now has a flowering bullet in his hand, the last time my 100,000 army was defeated in Yingshan, it was a loss of flowering bomb, do you have a way to deal with it?" ”

Shi Kefa said: "The last defeat was not because the thieves had flowering bullets. ”

"What's the reason for that?" The man asked, a little wickedly.

Shi Kefa replied very seriously: "First, the command is improper, and second, the army has not been trained for a long time and has no combat effectiveness. ”

The man was not convinced, and then asked: "So now the combat effectiveness of the army has increased?" ”

Shi Kefa said confidently: "I have carried out eight reforms in the army, and now the combat effectiveness of the army I lead has been greatly improved. ”

The man was not convinced, and shook his head and left.

Doubts about Shi Kefa's ability are not an isolated phenomenon, and this kind of air of doubt is also spreading in the army, especially the soldiers who returned from the last defeat, and described the flowering bomb as quite terrifying, which has a great impact on the morale of the army.

Shi Kefa really divided his troops into three routes, all the way to Taihu Lake, across the thunder water, through Huangmei, Guangji to Wuchang; All the way to Lizi Pass, through Luotian to Wuchang; The third route was personally led by him, taking the Hutou Pass, passing through Macheng, and pressing the border towards Wuchang.

Before Shi Kefa's soldiers and horses moved, Gao Junshan had already mastered his military movements, because he had Feng Shuangli and Tian Fang's detective team, and the members of the detective team were now all over every city in the country.

Gao Junshan adopted the tactic of blocking two ends and fighting one end, and sent Cao Wenzhao and Ma Wen's field artillery to the vicinity of Macheng to welcome Shi Kefa's arrival. The other two roads only sent Xingwu battalion to intercept them, as long as Shi Kefa's road was defeated, the remaining two roads would definitely retreat without a fight.

As expected, Shi Kefa's army of 80,000 people along the way, under the blow of field artillery fire, the generals ran with their heads in their arms, and then Cao Wenzhao's iron cavalry rushed to kill, and Shi Kefa himself was wounded and fled.

The other two got the news of Shi Kefa's defeat and retreated, and slipped back to Jinling with oil on the soles of their feet.

After the failure of the Ming court's military operation, no one dared to touch Wuchang again.