Li Guobin knew in his heart that these big businessmen all had hundreds of thousands of share capital, and they were all fat in the eyes of people, and when Jinyi Wei was in power a few decades ago, the merchants in the capital were often arrested for the crime of being a thief or bandit, lighting a lamp and boiling oil, and they could not get rid of their wealth without spitting it out.

Today's businessmen are different from the past, the wind of doing business in the south of the Yangtze River is flourishing, and the wealth of the merchants in Beijing is also increasing day by day, and it is natural to find a backer when there is more money, either a prince or a pro-domain, or a eunuch, and there are also those who have a close past with civil officials. Among the businessmen in front of him, there are many who can talk to the backbone of the various parties in the DPRK and China, but at most they buy goods from He Yusheng and say a few words of goodwill, hoping that they will really help Zhang Hanping with their hearts, it is also impossible.

"That's right," Li Guobin said to everyone: "There are still some hard goods here, let's see how much they may get out?" ”

He signaled, and the companion outside brought in a few packages.

The curiosity of the merchants was aroused, and everyone couldn't sit still, so they stood up one by one to watch.

"Knives?"

"Bird?"

"Sword?"

It is indeed a "hard product" in front of me, a fully molded Qi knife, a lancet, an eyebrow tattoo knife, and several swords of different shapes, as well as a bird gun with extremely good workmanship, which makes people feel unbearable when held in the hand.

"These goods, knives and swords are easy to handle, and you can eat a lot of them below. The imperial court also forbade the sale of swords, but there were not many people using them, and I am afraid that they were not as good as shovels and other items, and they were worse. The fat businessman's name is Qin Zihua, and he is also a figure with hands and eyes, and he said while groaning: "The quality is too good, I don't know how many times stronger than that produced by the Ministry of Industry." I can't put it down when I see it, not to mention the generation of martial artists, even if it is a vassal and elegant Xiucai scribe, I'm afraid it is also knowledgeable, this sword, if you add some effort to the scabbard, it is not impossible for a sword to sell for dozens of gold. In short, this sword and the like, I will order a thousand first, and the price is of course set by He Yusheng, I believe in He Yusheng. ”

Qin Zihua is such a bachelor, of course Li Guobin is also very polite, and said: "The proprietor Qin ordered first, and the price will naturally be more favorable." ”

This shows that Qin Zihua is cheaper than other businesses, Qin Zihua doesn't care about this little money, but he feels very face-saving, and he smiled slightly at the moment, showing joy.

"The Ministry of Industry will definitely not buy it." Another businessman named Jiang Xingming said: "The Ministry of Industry has a lot of tricks in making weapons, and the oil and water are very high, so there is no problem in buying raw materials. ”

The Ministry of Industry produces a large number of firearms in a year, a large number of firearms do not know how much to make, just Liaozhen put in Liaoyang City of the Franc machine and a variety of cannons such as the big gun there are more than 1,000 guns, the number of the nine sides added up is very amazing, plus the bird gun and all kinds of firearms, swords and spears, and the highlight is the armor, the armor is not very good "water injection", no matter how bad the quality is to inlay the iron sheet, not like the provision of forty pounds of bird guns, less than half of the material is cast, a cannon is reported to two thousand pounds of iron, and its practical material is only about forty percent, A large amount of iron and wages were embezzled, and none of the officials of the Ministry of Industry were hanged.

"If the proprietor Zhang has a nine-sided relationship, it is most cost-effective to sell it to the generals of various military towns." Someone came up with an idea: "The weapons used by the battalions in each military town are all made by the Ministry of Industry, or shoddy things collected by the military town's self-defense, but their families must use good goods, and in addition to making some by themselves, most of them can only rely on buying." ”

"There will be corresponding shops everywhere." Another said: "Some family members will order their own weapons, but only a few, and most of them still count on the generals to issue them." In addition, the military town will also have funds to buy ordnance silver, and the generals will also buy some symbolically. I know that Yusheng's shipments are very large, and if you go through these doors, the goods will naturally go out. ”

Li Guobin is really not very expert in these things, at this time he vaguely knows that it is a good way to find a military town to sell weapons, Zhang Han's weapons are intended to be sold by everyone, only the highest and most sophisticated new flintlock pistols will definitely not be sold, the Napoleonic cannons that will be cast in the future will definitely not be sold, and the armor will not dare to be sold.

In addition to the waist knives and shields of the combat squad, the cold weapons equipped by Zhang Han's troops are mainly spears that the military town looks down on the most, as for knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, anyway, as long as there are orders, there are as many as they want.

Li Guobin raised his glass, he already knew who was the most appropriate person to do this.

……

Time is fleeting, half a month has passed, and in a blink of an eye, it is already the middle of April of the first year of the Apocalypse.

The weather has officially warmed, the Qingming Festival has passed, the willow trees are already green, and the Xinping Fort is gradually recovering its vitality, and the monthly market in April has not opened, because the battle situation is too tense.

There has been a new change in the Liao affair, not for the better, of course, but for the worse.

Zhang Han received the latest Jingshitang newspaper at the end of March, and sure enough, the trend of history has not changed in the slightest, and everything is going according to the established track.

In later generations, Zhang Han also sighed when he made up for his knowledge...... The Ming Dynasty was a hundred times larger than the Later Jin, and the population was even larger, so I don't know how to calculate it...... Conservatively calculate that the population of the Ming Dynasty was 150 million, according to the high calculation of 300 million people, the population of the Later Jin Dynasty is more than 200,000 people, and the number of men, that is, all the men from fifteen to sixty is only about 60,000!

The gap is so big, why is it Houjin who wins in the end?

This problem used to be unsolvable for Zhang Han, but now he gradually understands.

One is internal friction, inefficiency, rampant corruption, low control of the imperial court, coupled with natural disasters are not chaotic, man-made disasters continue to be in the place, there is no ability to put the advantages of population and wealth on the military, not to mention the infighting between the DPRK and China, at the critical moment the most lost chain is always their own people, so also fight the ghost, Houjin is equivalent to a helper, always at the most critical time to pull the hands of the giant of the Ming Dynasty, and then call Houjin to keep shabu shabu to fight the treasure chest, keep strengthening their own strength.

In the last years of Chongzhen, the strategic position of the two sides has been unequal, the Ming Dynasty has a million troops, less than 100,000 soldiers who can fight, and the border is only a corner of Liaoxi, and then Jin covers almost all of Liao and the hometown of the old slave Gandu, almost all of Mongolia, is already a big country with hundreds of thousands, 100,000 elite soldiers, and a territory of 100,000 miles of nomadism and fishing, hunting and farming.

The real change began in the battle that took place in March of the first year of the Apocalypse!

The real reason for the incident is that Wanli died, Taichang died immediately after, and then the change of seizing the palace, the concubines headed by Li Xuanshi, plus Li Jinzhong, that is, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch led by Wei Zhongxian, was defeated in the hands of the eunuch Wang An and Donglin Party and other civil officials, Tianqi ascended the throne, and the Donglin Party almost had the merit of supporting it, and then Fang Congzhe, the first assistant, the Donglin Party won the position of the first assistant and the key point in the court, followed by Liu Guojin and Yao Zongwen, Feng Sanyuan and other Donglin Party members attacked Xiong Tingbi, Xiong Tingbi knew that the party aid was exhausted, and it was useless to force him to stay, so he resigned angrily, Although Tianqi feels that Xiong Tingbi is a capable person, he is a young son of heaven, and he can't manipulate government affairs at will...... Apocalypse is actually educated, not illiterate in later generations, but he has not received a systematic imperial education, everything can only be groped by himself slowly, speaking of which, in fact, he is much stronger than his younger brother Chongzhen, who writes good words, can compose poems, and is also diligent in politics, but he is only a teenager less than twenty years old in the first year of Taichang and the first year of Apocalypse.

Xiong Tingbi resigned, the ambitious Donglin Party member Yuan Yingtai took office, he recruited a large number of Liaodong as soldiers, and accommodated a lot of exiled Mongolian surrenderers, for which the chief soldier You Shigong and others had been persuaded hard, Yuan Yingtai did not listen.

In March of the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhaci who had conquered Yehe was a large number of soldiers, more than 60,000 people attacked Shenyang first, the general soldier He Shixian led the family Ding and the elite battalion soldiers to fight, He Shixian himself was unstoppable, rushed left and right in the Houjin soldier array, but in the face of the superior Jurchen cavalry, He Shixian's troops were too few in number, outnumbered, and defeated on the battlefield, and there were many generals stationed in the city, Shenyang City was high and steep, heavily garrisoned, and the number of nearly 60,000 defenders was also equivalent to the Houjin soldiers, if the city was fortified and defended, the Houjin soldiers had little chance to attack the city, After the defeat of the general army and the elite, there were Mongols in the city and Hou Jin Li should join forces, open the city gate and surrender at the critical moment, and the Hou Jin soldiers took advantage of the weakness to enter and conquer Shenyang.

Then there is the famous bloody battle of the Hunhe River, Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers cooperated, the white pole soldiers held the battle, Houjin paid thousands of casualties here, many years later they were still amazed by the tenacity of the Sichuan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers, but when the Sichuan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers fought with the enemy, the northern army of 30,000 people was separated by less than ten miles, and as a result, when the southern army fought to the annihilation of the whole army, the northern army hid not far away to watch the excitement, until the Sichuan army and the Zhejiang army were eliminated, and the northern army that sold teammates professionally did not appear.

Then down Nuerhachi took advantage of the situation to attack Liaoyang, Yuan Qingtai took his own soldiers and the general soldiers of the northern army to fight, the battle was defeated, and then the city was defended, the result was still that the Mongolian spies in the city opened the city and the Houjin soldiers should be combined with the outside, there were also fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses, facing a larger and more majestic Liaoyang City, which was still drummed down by the Houjin soldiers.

When Zhang Han received the detailed report, he didn't feel emotional, Liaoyang and Shenyang have no reason to lose from the perspective of military science, there are more than 100 generals, more than 10,000 soldiers and family members on behalf of the family, there are enough countermeasures to the elite of the Houjin soldiers who dare to fight, there are strong soldiers like Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers who can fight in groups, and there are 100,000 soldiers in the northern army camp who can be used to garrison the city. Even Zhang Han felt that God was helping the Jurchens cheat before this, but now he realized that the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was an inevitability, an inevitability under internal friction.

In the two wars, in addition to the loss of 100,000 northern troops, the elite Zhejiang soldiers in the southern army, that is, the embers under Qi Jiguang's subordinates completely disappeared in the long river of history, and then the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan soldiers suffered heavy losses, and later the Sichuan soldiers transferred 7,000 pikemen, and the military department regarded them as treasures, and they have been guarding Shanhaiguan, and even Ningyuan and Jinzhou did not dare to be afraid of the past.

In addition to the loss of Shenyang and Liaoyang, the center of Liaodong, the four guards in southern Liaoning must also be finished, the four guards have a false name, no troops at all, this is equivalent to even Fushun, Kaiyuan, Tieling, Liaoyang, Shenyang, Nansi Wei in the south of most of the Liaodong capital has lost the land, the loss of millions of people, there are also a large number of arsenals and arsenals in the hands of the enemy, the loss is not heavy can be described, directly cut off an arm!