"You're still robbing women?"

Lao Wang said with a smile.

"This is pure rumor-mongering, I just bought a courtesan, how can I rob a woman?"

Yang Qingyi said rhetorically.

"Qin Huai Bayan is loyal and brave, this is also the envy of others!"

Gu Yanwu said with a smile.

"Don't talk nonsense, I am commensurate with Brother Yuanyuan, we are a pure relationship between men and women, Brother Gu should not be innocent, in case Queen Yi'an knows, brother, I will be punished."

Yang Qing continued to speak righteously.

"Haha, that's a gaffe!"

Gu Yanwu said.

"Brother Gu, I have to explain the matter, brother, if Zhang Xianzhong can't stop Li Zicheng, the latter's army enters Sichuan and gets Zhang Xianzhong's people, Ma Gan will definitely be powerless to resist it, at most, he will surrender to Chongqing, then Li Zicheng is like Hu Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty back then, and he will become a roundabout outflanking trend, even if he can't open Chongqing, he can still go south to Yunnan and then go straight to Huguang. At that time, along the Huai Line, the Han River Line, the Three Gorges, and the Xiangjiang River, the four strategic directions were encircled, then my Ming Dynasty could only be the next Southern Song Dynasty, and Jiangnan would inevitably be poisoned by the war, and no matter what Li Zicheng was, but his troops were all northerners, and the wealth of Jiangnan was bound to be slaughtered, so it can be said that the slaughter of the city was essential.

But now the imperial court is powerless to look westward.

Then I can only find a way to use Zhang Xianzhong, as long as he is willing to take the initiative to surrender, then Wang Dugong and I can protect him as a king of Shu.

It's good for him.

It is impossible for him to coexist with Li Zicheng.

Even if he surrendered Li Zicheng in Sichuan, the result would only be like Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng would find an opportunity to get rid of him, but his surrender to the imperial court would not have this problem, and the imperial court needed him to block it.

I think about this, Brother Gu doesn't need to say more! ”

Yang Qing said.

Gu Yanwu nodded.

"That brother is waiting for Brother Gu's good news!"

Yang Qing said.

In this way, Gu Yanwu officially embarked on the journey to envoy Zhang Xianzhong, but his time was a little tight, after all, it can be said that the journey from here to Chengdu is at least two months, and Li Zicheng's army is estimated to have entered Hanzhong, in short, the next step is to resign himself to fate, and he can only hope that Zhang Xianzhong will resist at Jianmen Pass for as long as possible.

If he doesn't resist ......

That's going to be a real problem.

If Zhang Xianzhong can't withstand it, the vast majority of his generals and soldiers will definitely end the resistance by surrendering Li Zicheng, and then these two rebel forces that have been rampant in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years will complete the convergence, and the Ming army's defense line in southern Sichuan will collapse in an instant in front of their powerful force, followed by a new version of Diaoyu City. At that time, Daming was really in danger, even if Lord Yang personally conquered, it was useless, he won at most one front, and even if he could defend Nanjing City for Chongzhen, he couldn't stop Li Zicheng from sweeping Jiangnan with a million troops, in the end, he was such a person, no matter how much he could fight, he couldn't protect the entire Daming country!

Or he went to risk his life to assassinate Li Zicheng.

But his loyalty to Chongzhen doesn't seem to have reached this point, if Li Zicheng really wants to destroy Chongzhen one day, he will go directly to the palace and carry the princess away, which is more cost-effective than fighting for the Ming Dynasty.

"Alas, leave it to fate!"

Lord Yang said with a rare sigh.

"Let's go see our new army!"

Then he said to Wang Chengen.

Their new army......

Well, in fact, the official name is the Daming Jinyi Guard Tax Police Corps.

The name was given by Yang Qing.

The tax police means tax guard, the headquarters is because this new army is a team as a unit, in fact, it is a battalion, each team of 500 people, all use the arquebus made by Jinyiwei Ordnance, there is absolutely no problem with the quality, but there is no bayonet, don't think that the bayonet is a simple equipment, in fact, the technical requirements of that thing are not low. A qualified bayonet, the technical level is even more than an arquebus, because the bayonet in this era needs to face the battlefield even more than World War I and World War II, the bayonet in World War I and World War II does not need to face armor, if the quality of the bayonet is not enough, it is easy to bend into waste.

So let's take a machete per person!

Moreover, the mission of the Tax Police Corps is not a real field battle, but its task is to protect the Border Crossing Team and suppress it in the event of armed resistance to taxes, or armed obstruction of the Border Frontier.

So it won't face the cavalry.

If there is a confrontation with cavalry, then it is time to call the Beijing army to dispatch, the tax police corps is simply to deal with the domestic slaves of the gentry, the land pi hooligans they hire, or the bandits they bribed, in short, the duty of this tax police corps is to fight law and order, to put it bluntly, it is the internal guard. Therefore, a simple musket and a machete are enough, at most prepare some spears with them as spare auxiliaries, and then the mountain splitting cannon is increased to lift the rod, the former is equivalent to a three-pound cannon, the latter is loaded with a half-pound projectile, and the indispensable thing is a grenade. The gunpowder used in these firearms is also specially manufactured by the Jinyiwei Ordnance Institute, not only the nitrate has been strictly purified, but the ratio has been optimized by the test to the greatest extent, especially the granulation, in short, it can be said that Yang Qing can do everything.

And the soldiers went directly to the mountains to recruit those mountain people.

There are many such people in the mountainous areas near Nanjing, charcoal burners, coal miners, and even simple tax escapees, and they can definitely poison the gentry.

"If all the armies of the imperial court are like this, why can't I be worried about Zhongxing!"

Wang Chengen said.

In front of him, the first tax police team that had been formed was conducting a shooting drill, and the soldiers in red cotton armor were shooting in three rows in an orderly manner, and among them were large poles spraying flames, increasing the density of fire with scattered bullets, and their main task in the actual battle was to attack shield carts and the like, and on the two wings of this horizontal team, three bronze mountain splitting cannons each let out a roar from time to time.

"If that's the case, our imperial court won't even be able to supply ammunition at the age of six million a year!"

Yang Qing said.

"According to the plan, we need to set up such 20 tax police teams, that is, a total of 10,000 people, the investment in arming these soldiers, the cost of training in strict accordance with the standards, and the supplement of their attrition, and then their daily expenses and military expenses, these 10,000 people will have to consume at least 60 to 700,000 taels. The Ming Dynasty does not count Zuo Liangyu's subordinates and the guards of other provinces, only used along the Huai and Yangtze River, and the strength of the three defense lines in Beijing is 400,000, so it will be more than 20 million taels per year. Even if such an army has strong combat effectiveness, we can streamline and eliminate it, and keep 200,000 to calculate the bottom line, which still costs 13 million taels of silver, not counting that if that is the case, the output of gunpowder may not be able to supply.

Duke, let's be realistic!

Now those who are soldiers are poor in combat, but at least they have stuttering is enough, if it is really according to the standards of the tax police team, to be honest, Governor, we don't even have start-up capital! ”

He then said with a sincere face.

His expenses are similar to those of the Spaniards, a Spanish phalanx is 250,000 ducats, which is almost 300,000 taels, and the salary of the tax police team is definitely low, but most of the Spanish phalanx are mercenaries who buy their own equipment, so the military salary is high. The equipment of the tax police team is a unified supply, especially for daily training consumption, that bullet is not cheap, these weapons will be scrapped if they are too much, and the depreciation and loss must also be calculated, in other words, the proportion of his firearms far exceeds that of the Spanish phalanx, which is equivalent to 10,000 people in two phalanxes every year, 670,000 taels, and the price of conscience.

"Alas!"

Lao Wang sighed.

Obviously, this is not realistic.

Even if the economic boundary is completed, and the tax collection of the gentry is completed, it is expected that the income of the Ming Dynasty can be doubled at most, and this has to be the case that Zuo Liangyu's side does not have a problem, and Huguang, Sichuan and other places can also receive taxes, but in fact, this is probably very difficult, and the most serious resistance to the new policy must be the gentry in these grain-producing areas of Huguang and Jiangxi. Because the gentry in Huainan had the pressure of Li Zicheng on their heads, they knew that the imperial court did not have enough money to hold the Huai River, and they were the first to be unlucky, while the gentry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong had income from maritime trade, they did not rely entirely on land, they had money to pay, and there was a bottom line for opposition, but the gentry in Jiangxi and Huguang were different, and their wealth came entirely from land.

Especially the Huguang gentry.

They have just experienced the losses of the war, and they generally don't have much money in their hands, and they can't wait to gather together after the war! Suddenly, the imperial court wants to find them to collect taxes, so it's no wonder that these guys don't have any anger! Especially since they also have the special weapon of Zuo Liangyu.

In short, this tax is not so easy to collect.

But even if the tax is collected, the income of the Ming Dynasty has doubled all of a sudden, and in fact, it is still useless, because the six million income is actually all the money from the local government to the household department, which not only has to supply the army, but also to support the royal family and all the officials and nobles in Beijing. At present, it is actually beyond its means, and at most it will become a balance after collecting taxes, and it will be able to have a little surplus, but if you want to realize the transformation of the military tax police, it is simply impossible, even if the Beijing camp is not enough, according to Yang Qing's standard, the 120,000 Beijing camp is also tens of millions of taels per year!

"Money, how can I get more money!"

Lao Wang lamented.

"Duke, I still have a solution once and for all, that is, I don't know if the emperor dares or not!"

Yang Qing whispered like a traitor.

"What do you want to do?"

Lao Wang said vigilantly.

He knows Yang Qing's style, the suggestions made by this guy are indeed effective, and they are all very effective, but they are also very heartbreaking! That's a heart-pounding heartbeat! It's like taking chestnuts from the fire, dancing at the tip of a knife.

"I'm just making a reference.

Yang Qing said.

"Tell me about it."

Lao Wang finally couldn't hold back and said in a low voice.

"It's very simple, learn from Jia Rudao in the late Southern Song Dynasty and directly engage in the Gongtian Law, the whole world is not the king's land, since it is all the emperor, then forcibly take it back......"

Before Yang Qing finished speaking, his mouth was suddenly covered by Lao Wang.

"My little ancestor, don't say this kind of thing, you're forcing them to rebel! Let's just find a way to collect some taxes, don't even think about this kind of thing, the Ming Dynasty can't stand your toss, let's collect taxes honestly, and find a way to take the Treasure Island you said in the future, don't have some troubles! ”

Lao Wang said in horror.

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