"Li Dingguo got this thing ...... Give me a problem. On June 30, 1687, in Yinxian County, the capital of Ningshao, Liu Houfei, who was inspecting the construction progress of the Shangding Railway in the field, said with a wry smile to the entourage on the left and right.

To tell the truth, this time Nanming had such a thing, which was not only accidental, but also had many inevitable factors. The contradiction between Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, as long as he is not a blind person, has heard about it a few times over the years. Although Sun Kewang is a good hand at managing internal affairs, and his prestige among the old brothers in Xiying is also very high, but after all, his ambition is too great, and after so many years of taking refuge in Nanming, he sees that Nanming is becoming more and more unsuccessful, and he even has the idea of usurping the throne and standing on his own, which is the fundamental contradiction between him and Li Dingguo and others.

Li Dingguo believes that now the foundation of the Southern Ming Dynasty is unstable and the national strength is weak, if he does not want the country to be covered with dust and fall into the hands of the Hu people, he can only work together with the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Therefore, even if you can't get used to their style, you must pinch your nose and endure it, and find a way to resolve the contradiction, so that is the best choice.

It's just that this kind of argument is impossible to make the Qin Dynasty and his family approve it, don't forget that they are from the peasant army, and they have a natural hatred for the Nanming monarchs and ministers, on the contrary, the Nanming Dynasty also looks down on them, in short, now everyone is huddled together for warmth and use each other. But if the days of stability are too long, people's minds may change, and some factors such as selfish desires and ambitions are mixed in, then it is not surprising that Sun Kewang has the idea of self-reliance and usurpation. It's done, he can be the emperor, he is majestic, and the henchmen are also crowned princes one by one, glorifying their ancestors, everyone has benefits, so why not do it?

I can't help but say that Sun Kewang and others don't care about the overall situation, because in their opinion, this is the overall situation! Everything they did was for the ultimate victory of their own small collective, not for the entire court or the world. In comparison, Li Dingguo is more clever, although his cultural level is similar to that of Sun Kewang and others, and his background is similar, but the height he stands on when considering problems is undoubtedly higher, and he will consider it from the perspective of the whole world, which is the biggest difference between them.

Therefore, since many years ago, the relationship between Li and Sun has not been very good, and even the relationship between the henchmen under them has been estranged a lot. However, Li Dingguo's health has not been very good in recent years, and he has spent a lot of time recuperating in a year, so he has resigned a lot of positions in the court, which provides an opportunity for Sun Kewang's power to become bigger, otherwise things may not have come to this point.

But it has already happened, and it is not subject to anyone's objective will. Li Dingguo will race against time to clean up the mess, Dashun is mobilizing materials and troops to prepare for invasion, and the people on the east coast are implementing the embargo measures against Dashun - whether it is useful or not, the gesture of sanctions must always be put on display, otherwise in the future, will the powerful people in Chinese mainland not take the people on the east coast even more seriously? How can that be!

"Captain, it has been more than two months since Sun Kewang was killed, and the matter has been fully fermented. Now it is certain that Shunguo has sent troops, and the soldiers are divided into two routes, and the intention of swallowing Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces in one go is very obvious. There is such a big temptation of the territory of the three provinces here, Li Laiheng will not listen to us anyway, unless we can hit Changsha to shake his foundation, but this is not in our interests, of course, we are afraid that we will not have the ability to hit Changsha for the time being, hehe. The person who spoke was Tsai Sheng-kuo, general manager of the Bank of Taiwan.

He succeeded Shao Shuguang and was the second-generation head of this large colonial trade and finance enterprise, and he was definitely the first echelon of real power in the Far East. This time, Liu Houfei inspected the process of the Shangding Railway, and he was also called over in Ningbo to take a look, who let their family have a seat on the board of directors of this jumping railway? Compared with Tsai, Nan Yimin, the representative of the Far East region of the Southern Railway Company (director of the Jiaoyan Railway Management Committee, and the Shangding Railway is currently managed by him), is much more low-key, although their company is the de facto operator of the railway and has a veto power on the board of directors, but his confidence is still not comparable with Cai Shengguo, a person who is upright and controls the Bank of Taiwan.

What Nan Yimin is concerned about now is not actually the war between Shun and Ming, which is thousands of miles away, it is something that the big men think about, not a technocrat like him. What Nan Yimin is most concerned about is whether the construction funds of the Shangding Railway will be misappropriated. That is, whether Captain Liu of the Southern Pioneer Team will use this money as military expenses when the finances are not very abundant, and go to Liangguang and even Huguang to make trouble, because the Shun and Ming wars were completely unexpected for everyone, and they did not expect it at all, so there is no emergency fund to deal with this situation in the financial budget at all (even if there is, it is completely insufficient, and it is not an order of magnitude at all). In this case, the large amount of money raised because of the construction of the Shangding Railway seems to have become a fragrant bait that can be used at will, and Liu Houfei led everyone to inspect the construction progress of the Shangding Railway at this sensitive moment, and it is difficult to say what kind of statement this is, so Nan Yimin is actually quite apprehensive now, but there is no way.

"It is impossible to take Changsha to fight, Dashun has more than 200,000 troops, the penetration rate of firearms is extremely high, and the war experience is even much richer than ours, how to fight? How much does it cost? What's more, after the fight, the relationship deteriorated, how to get along in the future? Liu Houfei's words are actually very straightforward, the people on the east coast are still not big enough to restrict Dashun, and even where the bottom line is is very vague, so that the bottom line is tested step by step by the group of monarchs and ministers in Changsha, and it is also depressing enough to lead the nose - Li Laiheng's gang of people are fighting in the war, and they are dancing on the tightrope like a perfect game, and they are sure that the people on the east coast will not dare to send troops, and even the navy that helps Dashun in the Hanshui and Yangtze River will not withdraw, It really made the minds of the people on the east coast very clear.

Now Liu Houfei is facing such an embarrassing situation. He found that he could not use military means to sanction Li Shun's regime, so he could only impose some trade embargoes, and at the same time withdraw a series of technical aid and livelihood loans (mainly led by several state-owned banks, which also absorbed a large amount of private funds), so that Dashun's social and economic operation was not smooth, and the level of productivity declined, which in turn affected the national strength.

But the question is, will Shunguo buy this level of punishment? Or can they feel the pain? Everyone who knows the actual situation is probably not so optimistic -

First of all, the most harmful to Shunguo should be exchanges and assistance in the military field. For so many years, the Republic of the East Coast has been the most important supplier of heavy artillery, metal armor, engineering equipment, special medicines, artillery sighting and measuring devices, weapon maintenance tools, military bayonets and war horses (including horses) and other varieties of Dashun military systems. A large number of military supplies produced by the people on the east coast of Yangma, Jeju and Sakhalin continued to flow into the Dashun military system through Madang Fortress and Baling County, helping them to build a relatively modern armed force. And once the people on the east coast choose to run out of stock, then Dashun is actually unable to replenish - at least not on a large scale, because its degree of localization is very low, and there are defects in technology and production management - once the inventory is exhausted, the combat effectiveness of the army will decline in the short and medium term, which is undoubtedly a thing.

In addition, the people of the East Coast also regularly help Dashun to train qualified troops with a modern war vision, as well as provide some other aspects of information exchange (such as the war materials of European countries in the past 100 years, compiled and published by the War Department), if this aspect is broken, the damage to the cultivation of modern war quality of Shun officers is not small, but it may not be visible in the short term.

All in all, sanctions in the military field should be the most powerful weapon of the East Coasters. If Shunguo can withstand the pressure, Liu Houfei and even Liao Degong of Yantai really have no good way. And can Changsha's Li Laiheng withstand the pressure?

Judging from the current facts, yes, yes, Li Laiheng is determined to resist the pressure, regardless of it, and concentrate on cutting down the Ming, so as to increase the thickness of his own land and solve the worries of the past few decades. The aid of the people on the east coast and the territory of the south were placed on both sides of the scale, and now it seemed that the territory was more important, and much more important, so that the Changsha side turned a deaf ear to the urgent warnings given by the people on the east coast, and was bent on urging the troops and horses to go south.

Of course, the people of the East Coast will not get used to them, and since you have chosen to go south to attack Ming, then you will inevitably have to bear the price. At present, not only has military trade between the two countries been completely stopped, but military exchanges have also been completely suspended, and the young officers of the Shun Army, who are studying in the army camp school on the east coast, have packed their bags and embarked on the journey home. Even the army intelligence officers at the military liaison stations on the east bank in several front-line cities in Shunguo were notified to pack up all the documents and archives and return to Ningbo.

And in addition to sanctions in the military field, the East Coast people have also waved the stick of sanctions in the economic field! At the time of friendly relations, many businessmen in Ningbo made key investments in Jiangxi, mainly in the four categories of tobacco, tea, silk and porcelain. If there is a year to sell the assets at hand, sell them as soon as possible, and they cannot be sold to businessmen in Ningshao, Denglai and other places, but can only be sold to the locals.

In addition, the Southern Pioneer Team and the Bank of Taiwan have also established a number of enterprises such as roasted tea factories, rice mills, and textile factories in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces. Although they are all semi-mechanized production lines, to be honest, it is already a lot of technological progress for Shunguo, not to mention the introduction of advanced management and financial systems, which is actually not a small improvement to the overall industrial level of Shunguo.

Taking the egg powder factory in Jiangxi as an example, using the production process designed by the east coast, the production line is also completely customized in Sakhalin, the production efficiency is very high, and the monthly benefit is as much as 60,000 yuan. This factory, after removing all kinds of unreasonable taxes and apportionments, can properly collect more than 500,000 yuan in profits in a year, which is really amazing.

There are also many such businesses. They mostly use Jiangxi, Hunan and other places to be rich in agricultural products, mineral resources for deep processing, and then sold back to the east coast control area, the sales are basically guaranteed, for the local Shunguo government to contribute a large amount of taxes, but also because of the employment of workers, the procurement of raw materials relationship greatly prospered the local market, in the economy has a lot of positive significance.

This time, Liu Houfei and Liao Degong have agreed that they will withdraw if they can, and they will never expand the scale of production if they can't withdraw and will never expand their production. Let Li Laiheng in Changsha also feel what it is like to have insufficient money in his pocket. At every turn, more than 100,000 troops will be sent to attack Ming in two ways, isn't it long-lasting? Now I can teach you that 100,000 people eat horses and buy gunpowder, medicines, projectiles and other materials for outsiders, and the cost is not a small amount, see how long you can last!

Of course, the people on the east coast did not forget to take a political offensive against Shunguo. The envoys they sent had been in the palaces of King Wentailu, Zheng Jing of Fujian, and Erli of Guangdong for a long time, and even the local Nanming magistrates in Guangxi had been persuaded by the Guangdong merchants or officials invited by the east coast to persuade them to persist in the struggle and delay the actions of the Shun army as much as possible. In short, it is to do everything possible to fool and create opportunities for the operations of the army on the east coast in Lianzhou, Wuzhou, and other places.

"All in all, no matter whether Shunguo listens to us or not—well, they really won't listen—we also have to use all kinds of sanctions this time, so that Shunguo people can experience the unforgettable taste of being cut off from food. Some people, who don't feel pain, it's useless to just reason with them, only a hard slap can make them sober up. Now, we want to give Li Laiheng a slap in the face, so that he can understand who his court gave him protection. After inspecting a section of the line, everyone went to a tea shed to rest, and Liu Houfei said to everyone.

The expressions of the people who heard his words were different. Everyone is an old man, although Captain Liu said this proudly, but the real situation is probably not as he said. This Shunguo Li Laiheng was slapped in the face this time, but so what? Wait for others to take Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou provinces, and then go back to give in and admit your mistakes, do you accept it or not? You know, at that time, they were already the unshakable number one military and political group in South China, and if you didn't deal with them, who would you deal with? Therefore, the sanctions of this meeting, if they die, will make the economy difficult for a few years, and the people will be exploited more severely by the government, and they can be slowly recovered in the future. But Yunnan-Guizhou and other provinces are not the same, they missed this opportunity, and God knows when the next time will be. Li Laiheng is not stupid, of course he knows how to choose!