The iron business will slowly maintain the existing scale in the next year, after all, iron products are not consumables, and Yusheng has occupied most of the share in the northern market, and the rest is to penetrate into the south, this is not a day's work, the iron in the north has a time to eliminate and update, of course, the iron shortage in the Ming Dynasty is too serious, it is estimated that the iron business will still make a lot of money in the next many years, including the iron exported to Japan and the South Seas is also very profitable, but after all, the profit will be stagnant in a reasonable range, want to make a lot of money, A million profits, that's unlikely. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Smuggling trade, iron tools, account bureaus, mules and horse dealers, these businesses supported He Yusheng's monthly income of 300,000 a month, close to 4 million taels a year, which was already the same as the annual income of the Ming Dynasty.

If you count the windfall profits from the copper mines in the past few months, as well as the profits from the future minting of silver, and the seizures of the war, and Yusheng's income has left the Ming Dynasty behind.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty still has a grain income of 26 million stone a year, as well as a large amount of income from various products, etc., and the imperial potential of a population of hundreds of millions is by no means comparable to a commercial house, even if it is a big commercial house like Yusheng.

At the current price range, take out tens of thousands of taels to communicate with Taiwan and Datong's Tangbao line, this price Zhang Han and the military secretary are still willing, no matter how high it is, no matter how important the news from Taiwan is, no matter how smooth the communication between the two sides is, Zhang Han will not be able to come up with this silver for the time being.

"Hurry up." Li Shenming urged: "The mission has returned from Russia and has entered the Mobei territory, and if we delay here for a day, the danger to the mission will be greater." What's more, there are also a group of experts in shipbuilding and navigation like Dezhnev, and there are no more talents in this area of us and Yusheng except for the Zheng brothers and He Bin, and they are also two knives, they are all hairy children who have just come out to see the world, and they know about maritime trade, but shipbuilding is also a black eye......"

Sun Jingting said: "I also know that it is extremely important, but it is also very important for Taiwan to establish smooth channels." ”

Li Shenming didn't say it, Sun Jingting was also very aware of the importance of Dezhnev.

The Russians were traded, and the Russians behind them were too far away to exert influence, unlike the Nanyang Territory, even if some Portuguese or British were hired to build ships or serve as sailors or even officers of warships, but the various forces in the Nanyang Territory were complicated, and these mercenaries had no way to use them with confidence, and the Russians were different, they were equivalent to Yusheng's own people, and they were much more relieved to use than the Europeans who hired the Nanyang.

Shipbuilding is Yusheng's biggest shortcoming, and this piece can be regarded as making up for it, so even if it is for Dezhnev's group to start a battle, it is very worthwhile.

Sun Jingting continued: "Li Pingzhi's suggestion is that we buy some post messages between military towns along the way, and when we send Tang Bao or Di Copy for the imperial court, we also send it for He Yusheng. If it is done well, it will cost a few dozen taels of silver a year, and the post soldiers will be very willing to do this......"

Zhang Han's eyes lit up, and he high-fived and said, "Good way!" ”

Li Shenming jumped up violently and said loudly: "This dog named Li Pingzhi is raised by his mother, it is rare for his brain to turn to this piece." ”

Li Shenming said again: "I know very well about the post soldiers, they are very bitter, and they are more fucking bitter than the border soldiers." Yicheng is also the most miscellaneous among the officials, the oil and water are not high, and they are usually hard, which is indeed the smallest price and can do the most things. ”

Zhang Han smiled and said silently, of course I know what is going on with the post soldiers!

A few years later, a post soldier from northern Shaanxi was cut off because the imperial court was overwhelmed and the post station was abolished, and he himself said many times that the post soldiers were the most miserable, sleeping in the open air, often beaten and insulted by the officials, not having enough food and clothing, and riding horses to run back and forth in the most difficult environment, even then there was only a subsistence income. Later, he couldn't even make ends meet, so he simply embarked on the road of rebellion, and finally with the physique and strong will he had exercised when he was a post station, and this reduced post soldier single-handedly buried a huge dynasty that had lasted nearly three hundred years.

In the future, as long as you have read the book for a few days, I am afraid that no one will not know about it!

"Tell someone to handle this matter immediately." Zhang Han said to Li Shenming: "Arrange for people from the Military Intelligence Department to go and set up an intelligence station in the south, especially in Fujian." ”

"Okay, I'll send someone to Yang Qiu to handle this matter in a while, and ask him to start doing it immediately."

"Things seem to be going for the better." Zhang Han said softly.

He finally stood up, he stood out the window, a team of heavily armed soldiers marched outside, through the window and the open courtyard door can be seen clearly, at this time, the whole grassland knows that He Yusheng is finally going to stop the previous tentative rhythm, in this hot summer time to start fighting, the sky outside the window is very blue, white clouds are floating in the sky, outside the city is an endless grassland, wild beasts begin to grow fat, wild grass begins to grow taller, flowers have been blooming for a long time, began to fall, And the people on the steppe will usher in an unprecedented battle, and after this war, the pattern of the entire right-wing Mongolia will be fundamentally changed!

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Sun Yao pointed to the map, pointed to those red dots, and said to everyone: "Now Yang Sisun's fifth regiment is in place, plus Wang Yikui's first regiment, Li Laibin's second regiment, and Li Zhiye's third regiment, we have gathered four infantry regiments of soldiers and soldiers, with more than 15,000 people. AuxiliariesWe have gathered 17 brigades, nearly 18,000 people, and in front of Qingcheng, our infantry is more than 33,000 people. ”

Everyone followed Sun Yao's hand, and the map on the wall had three obvious red arrows, which represented the location of each department in the south and east and west of Qingcheng.

Wang Yikui and Li Laibin are located in the west, Yang Sisun Tuan is in the east, and Li Zhiye is in the middle of Xiaohebao to Qingcheng.

"And artillery." Sun Yao looked at his old acquaintance Tang Wangzong, Tang Wangzong didn't have a beard, he still looked like a young man in his twenties, in fact, he was not very old, just over thirty in a few years.

Seeing Sun Yao's gaze, Tang Wangzong smiled and nodded, stood up and said: "The artillery is here, the first artillery regiment has eight companies, each company has eight artillery, and the second regiment has three companies, one hundred and eight artillery, including ninety-six six-pounder guns and twelve nine-pounder guns, all of which are carried and pulled by riding and pulling artillery, and the movement speed is comparable to that of the infantry, with a base of forty miles per day, sixty miles of high-speed marching, and eighty miles of rapid marching. ”

The original four-pounder guns of the artillery had all been issued to the infantry regiments for their own use, and the number was not large, and each infantry regiment was allocated an artillery company with eight four-pounder guns.

There were also some four-pounder guns and test-cast twelve-pounder guns that were distributed in some very important military forts, such as Fort Naturalization and Fort Xinghe, as well as the military forts facing the three divisions and the set of troops in Mobei.

The four-pounder gun is light and easy to carry, but the method of transporting ammunition with Yusheng's vehicle and directly pulling the gun with a horse is very mature, compared with the less powerful four-pounder gun, the six-pounder gun is only less than a hundred catties, and there is almost no difference in mobility, and the nine-pounder gun is heavier, reaching more than a thousand catties, but it is still within the range of bearing.

As for the twelve-pounder gun, that is, Napoleon's favorite "pretty girl" has not yet been pushed to the battlefield, one is that the casting technology is not yet proficient, the casting of the cannon is not as good as the construction of guns, although the process is not as complex as the construction of smoothbore guns, but it requires more materials and takes longer, and the other is that the weight of the twelve-pounder cannon is a little heavy, Zhang Han feels that it is good to train artillery on the grassland, but there is no need to use this kind of big killing weapon.

As far as infantry artillery is concerned, the twelve-pounder cannon is considered to be the top, and Zhang Han hopes that in the war against Houjin in a few years, the twelve-pounder cannon can play its due role.

Famous generals in history such as Napoleon and Wellington have tried to classify artillery companies into regimental or even smaller command units, but later they still found that the concentrated use of artillery has greater power, so in Europe more than a hundred years later, the use of infantry artillery and artillery is the mainstream.

Zhang Han felt that the situation on the grassland was completely different from that in Europe, and it was more advantageous for the artillery to be properly dispersed, and he felt that the guy who must be used intensively, it was best to ask him to come to the grassland to see it in person, here, the garrison points of a regiment may be dozens of miles apart, which is quite compact, and Yusheng's current 100,000 troops are really scattered on the grassland, that is, the feeling of a handful of pepper noodles sprinkled in the pond, which is too inconspicuous.

He Yusheng can grasp the initiative, the key is still the most correct decision made in the early construction of the fort and pier, regardless of the cost, and then the strong cavalry force, these two are really indispensable.

As soon as they heard that there were more than 100 cannons, the officers counted the four-pounder guns they had at hand, the big franc machine, the small franc machine, and the tiger squat cannon, and a smile appeared on their faces.

Liang Xing said sincerely: "I heard that the firearms battalion of the Sun Pavilion Department in Liao Town also has thousands of firearms, so I asked me to say that it was a child's New Year's Eve explosion." Those thousands of pieces are not worth our hundreds of artillery, this is the real thing. ”

The artillery officers showed a mixture of pride and reserve on their faces, the artillery is a well-deserved pride in Heyusheng, unlike Liaozhen and other border military towns that only attach importance to the cavalry composed of family members, although they attach importance to the firearms unit, but they are still regarded as miscellaneous soldiers in their hearts, and they are consumables on the battlefield like pikemen, but the way of consumption is different.

The salary of artillery is equivalent to that of cavalry, and the salary of artillery officers is higher than that of cavalry officers, after all, the cultural course requirements of artillery officers are a bit perverted, not to mention that for more than a year, artillery officers including Tang Wangzong have to study for six to eight hours a day, which is still the time for remedial courses in addition to the daily training and management time of the barracks, that is to say, in addition to eating and sleeping, these artillery officers have to go to the school opened by John Tang and the Taixi people to make up for classes, from various mathematical principles to geometric theorems, and then relevant to the actual operation and training...... It can be said that it is not a difficult course that ordinary people can survive, and many officers with Yusheng's old qualifications would rather go to the battlefield and risk their lives to fight, rather than be willing to survive the course like Tang Wangzong and others.

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Today's chapter first ran to the Internet café and found that I forgot to bring my mobile phone, and I couldn't get on the vertical, and when I got home, I remembered to use my mobile phone as a hot spot on the Internet, which is really not easy.