The Jiaozhou battalion made a survey of the soldiers and horses around Shandong through the intelligence system of the Shandong Salt Gang and the Lingshan Commercial Bank, although these two systems were not very easy to use in places outside the Jingshi and Shandong Lianghuai, but the Ming Dynasty's defense was also like a sieve, so there was also a general impression. (Provide the latest chapter reading>~~.~~.)

Among them, the first place is the soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan regimental training, and Gao Di, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, although the soldiers and horses of Jiliao have suffered repeated defeats, but they have not completely consumed the old foundation, Wu Sangui and Gao Di's subordinates are all defeated soldiers, they are all experienced veterans, relatively easy to use, and the number of nearly 80,000 is aggregated, it is also a great force.

The second place is more than 60,000 soldiers under the eunuch Lu Jiude of Nanzhili, the chief soldier Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo are considered to be the military generals used for reconnaissance, the main force of these more than 60,000 soldiers has not suffered any blows, and the food and salary can be reduced to the next part, and the training is barely a little, although it is almost compared to the Liao soldiers, it can be regarded as able to fight.

As for the third place, there are more than 9,000 Yu soldiers led by Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, according to the estimates of those staff members of the Li Meng shogunate and those reserve officers in the pro-military camp, if these more than 9,000 Yu soldiers are counted as a single combat force, they are definitely stronger than the Liao soldiers and the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili.

Because these 9,000 people have basically fought with the army of displaced people many times, and they can be regarded as the elite who crawled out of the sea of blood in the knife mountain, Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, once led this army when the army of displaced people first entered Henan, running around, fighting fires everywhere, and there are more than 9,000 soldiers and horses in the early 10,000s to now, which is very telling the problem, you must know that among the Ming official army, except for Shandong, the rest of the places, and Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng have fought, basically all of them have been defeated or annihilated, and the nine thousand soldiers who can survive are still left.

Even if these 9,000 soldiers were transferred to Kaifeng City. It has not stopped, and several major sieges have been fought by these Yu soldiers there to repel the enemy's siege.

In this battle, these Yu soldiers can be regarded as experienced and gradually grow up, if this soldier becomes an elite soldier, formal training and command can be trained, if this battle is fought more. can also train elite soldiers, and the troops under Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, are now considered elite soldiers.

And unlike other places, the king of Zhou in Kaifeng City was willing to spend money to defend the city, and he never needed the magistrate to take the initiative to ask for salary, and a lot of silver on his side was sprinkled out, and a reward was offered. Do everything, Kaifeng City is known as the third male city in the world, with a large population, there are so generous relatives of the Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the rich and noble families are not stingy.

It is interesting to say, Chen Yongfu's more than 9,000 soldiers, although the military salary is also very small, can be calculated to get seven or eight months of full pay a year, which is also the first among the Ming officers and soldiers.

Again, in a tug-of-war with the army of homeless people. Captured and requisitioned, the army under Chen Yongfu can almost have more than 4,000 horses, and the power of this machine is also quite impressive.

Chen Yongfu's family is a generation of generals, and there are measured rules and regulations in training and doing things, not like Zuo Liangyu and He Yilong, who are like bandits, and they are rare low-key martial artists in Henan, and the constraints on military discipline are also very strict.

Adding up to these factors, more than 9,000 Yu soldiers were highly praised by the Jiaozhou battalion. The reason why they are not as good as the Liao soldiers and the southern soldiers is that they are less numerous, and they are trapped in Kaifeng City, Henan.

For the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the attitude of the Jiaozhou battalion was to break up and be incorporated into the Tuntian Grange, because the ordinary soldiers were not even as good as the Tuntian households in the Tuntian Grange, and those who were in charge of the soldiers were all integrated with their generals, and it was difficult for them to surrender and join.

However, the more than 9,000 Yu soldiers in Kaifeng City barely met the requirements of the Jiaozhou battalion, and such troops served as local garrison troops. or soldiers on secondary battlefields are fully usable.

After Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, was allowed to supervise the military affairs of the four provinces. According to this rule, the original soldiers and horses of the four provinces should also obey his dispatch. Or that this is also the right to annex him, but Li Meng is not willing to accept it at all. Open a single eye, close an eye and let Daming withdraw these troops from these territories.

Only the more than 9,000 soldiers of Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, were named by Li Meng to be at the disposal of Shandong, for the imperial court, Kaifeng, which has almost become an isolated city on the south bank of the Yellow River, belongs to the abandoned territory, Henan governor Li Xianfeng, Henan general soldier Chen Yongfu, if it were not for the joint performance of Henan and Shandong civil and military defense on the same day, Li Xianfeng and Chen Yongfu would have abandoned the city because of the fall of the local relatives in Henan.

Such bastard courtiers who contradicted the court and had no law in their eyes were lucky to die in the siege, since they did not die, the court did not bother to pay attention to it, but it was more than 9,000 soldiers and horses, so the Li thief in Shandong wanted it, so he gave it to him.

The more than 9,000 Yu soldiers who were valued by Li Meng and the Jiaozhou battalion were thrown away as garbage by the imperial court, which can be regarded as proof that the Ming Dynasty has no eyes.

Although the court is so disdainful and the Jiaozhou camp is so important, Chen Yongfu has always remained silent, the children of the generations of generals, that is the generation of generals of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty in his heart and want to change, but in today's situation, except for Li Meng, he Chen Yongfu can still throw there.

Could it be that if you go to Dashun, you have been fighting for life and death with the army of displaced people for nearly ten years, and you have a deep hatred of each other's blood and sea, and the only thing you can understand is that one side is completely destroyed, so what can you talk about?

In fact, in the first month, after the news of Li Meng's victory over the Tatar land began to spread in the world, there was no trace of the exile army in the circle of Zhongmu, Tongxu, and Qixian around Kaifeng City.

Moreover, on the edge of this circle, the army of the displaced people also retreated about ten miles, and almost one-third of the area on the south bank of the Yellow River in Kaifeng Province became a place without officials and thieves.

Kaifeng City in the first month, finally able to ensure that the city gate is open for a few hours a day, the reserves in the city are quite enough, but it will be cut off soon.

And although Chongzhen's fifteenth year of Chinese New Year's Eve did not dare to celebrate the New Year, there was always a good trouble in the first month, so that everyone's mental state that had been nervous for so long was relaxed.

Kaifeng City has been besieged for so long, and what is lacking in the city is not gold and silver but materials, which makes Lingshan Commercial Bank in Kaifeng City's branch a lot of money.

Originally, according to the requirements of the Shandong headquarters, the Lingshan Commercial Bank counted the general shortage of grain and other daily necessities in Kaifeng City, and then the Lingshan Commercial Bank mobilized goods in Jiangnan and Shandong, and sent them by water through Caoyun and the Yellow River. Who would have thought that looking at the peace inside and outside the city, the consumption enthusiasm of the wealthy households in Kaifeng City suddenly soared, maybe they felt that the great disaster of the city had passed, or maybe they saw through the red dust during the siege of the city, and felt that they were alive and didn't know when they would die, or take advantage of the opportunity to live a good life.

The branch of Lingshan Commercial Bank in Kaifeng City. Originally in the name of a certain firm in the south of the Yangtze River, since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in December, this semicolon simply shows the identity, the signboard of the Shandong Lingshan Commercial Bank came out, and it really had an immediate effect, and the errand who originally came to the door from time to time to extort disappeared without a trace, and Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, also specially allocated more than a dozen soldiers to come over to guard.

The shopkeeper and his men of this trading house released the news in Kaifeng City that a large number of goods would arrive in the near future. In fact, this news is to let the various commercial houses in the city and large families come to place orders and reservations, which is also the default business rules of the shopping mall, and the shopkeeper of this semicolon Ping Suli also often checks the market, knowing that the granaries of each family can support half a month, and the salt goods are ten days.

Although these days the city gate has been opened, and people have begun to transport goods to Kaifeng City, including some state capitals on the north bank, but in such a large city, these goods are just a drop in the bucket and do not work at all. It is estimated that there will be a huge demand for necessities such as food and salt.

As a result, the commercial houses and large households came to the door, and the list issued made the shopkeeper of this semicolon startled, because in addition to grain and salt goods, the rest of the goods are really varied, from the gold and silver paper used for memorial decoration, to the cattle, horses and camels on the grassland, and even those who asked to buy Qinhuai courtesans and Western table clocks.

These rich families in Kaifeng City have no money to spend. The shopkeeper of this semicolon and the guy who can calculate the accounts, calculated it overnight, and then roughly calculated that if this list can be made, the money earned is almost 30% of the profit that Lingshan Commercial Bank puts on the books every year.

According to the Lingshan commercial bank system, if you can make this profit, the year-end evaluation can reach a "good", and with this performance, you will have the opportunity to enter the general number.

Entering the general number is the luxury of these branch shopkeepers of Lingshan Commercial Bank, and there is such an opportunity. Of course, you have to catch it well. The entire Kaifeng branch was busy for two days, and finally sorted out this list. Then arrange a fast horse all the way to Shandong to report to the general number of Jining Prefecture.

Most of the headquarters of various yamen institutions in Shandong are located in Jinan. Because the Duke of Qi is also located there, the nearby command and dispatch and the center's orders are also convenient.

The only exception is the Lingshan Commercial Bank, because the economic center of Shandong is in Jining and Jiaozhou, and many foreign goods from Lingshan Private Port also have to take the waterway to Jining Prefecture to sell, and the price and share distribution of salt goods in the whole Shandong are now also negotiated in Jining.

Compared with Jiaozhou, which is relatively remote, Jining Prefecture is located in the hub of Caoyun, where merchants from the south and north are gathered, and there is an old foundation in the past, so it naturally becomes the center.

By now, Lingshan Commercial Bank is already a behemoth, and what is more interesting is that Lingshan Commercial Bank has some of the nature of a bank.

All the bills issued by the Lingshan Commercial Bank can be used as cash, and in further places, the bills are even a little higher than the value indicated on the bills, because the Lingshan Commercial Bank is the property of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, and has the strong armed forces of the Jiaozhou battalion and the huge wealth of Shandong as a guarantee, the credit of this bill is extremely high, and it is inconvenient for the merchants outside to carry a large amount of cash, so it is much easier to have this bill.

In today's troubled times, even the richest businesses may go out of business because of a trivial matter, and the bills they issue will become a piece of waste paper.

No matter how you look at it, you can't see that he is in danger of going out of business, the business scale of the daily income of 10,000 gold, and the large entry of gold mines and sea trade, open a ticket, but there is real money and silver guaranteed there, no need to worry, and this business house is the industry of the first class strong people under the sky, and there is no need to worry about who will go to trouble, as for whether it will be affected by the military disaster, that is, when the Tartars are beaten, everyone is worried, and there are people who take the ticket according to eighty percent of the face value. When the news of the big victory came back, no matter how worried people were, they were relieved.

Kaifeng City needs such a huge amount of materials, and there are all kinds of materials, but the Kaifeng branch of Lingshan Commercial Bank is full of confidence in the general number from top to bottom.

Galloping along the river, the fast horse can reach Jining Prefecture in four or five days, and Hou Shan, the big shopkeeper of Lingshan Commercial Bank, saw this list, but he was not as happy as the semicolon. Instead, he sent someone to invite Kong Sande, the host of the Lijin Bureau, to come, and the Lijin Bureau was originally subordinate to the Lingshan Commercial Bank.

However, with the expansion of the scale and the particularity of this yamen, it soon became an institution equal to the Lingshan Commercial Bank, which directly belonged to the management of Ning Qiangui.

In addition to setting up cards to collect money, because merchants from the south and north pass through the bureau once, they have a good grasp of the situation of merchants from the north and south. The gold bureau is the most comprehensive, and such a huge amount of details is difficult to complete with only one person in Shandong, and I am afraid that it will be necessary to buy and stock up in Jiangnan.

Such a huge business, although the Lingshan Commercial Bank can eat it, it will inevitably occupy most of the resources and energy, Kong Sande's Wenru Commercial Bank and the industry of the two Huai Fang families are all very good partners to work with.

The sixteenth year of Chongzhen is better again, the weather is also a little warmer, and the Yellow River is already navigable in February.

I place an order in the middle of the first month. At the beginning of February, a large number of local materials began to be sent to Kaifeng through the waterway, grain, salt, all kinds of daily necessities, and then all kinds of playthings, luxury goods, and even foreign novelties, and the courtesans and women in the south of the Yangtze River were all sent to Kaifeng City.

In the first few days, Kaifeng City was already in a revelry, even though it was already February. But it does not delay the enthusiasm of Kaifeng people for the New Year, and even at this time has developed a habit, the people of the world are in the first month of the New Year, only the Kaifeng people are in the New Year

After a long time, this even became a unique cultural landscape in Kaifeng City, but few people thought that it was just a carnival for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

After the fifth day of the second lunar month, there were more and more people watching the lively wharf outside Kaifeng, and everyone wanted to see these fleets from Shandong.

Among the dozen or so provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Henan has always been richer than Shandong. These more than ten years of hard work. How can Shandong become rich like this, and how can it mobilize a large number of materials so quickly and calmly. And so quickly mobilized ships to send them.

After the rich and ordinary people in Kaifeng City got rid of the catastrophe, they really wanted to spend money to enjoy the carnival. The shops also want to take advantage of this opportunity to make money, and these have no other purpose, but the people in Kaifeng City can see what from it.

Li Meng's request for Kaifeng City had not been officially replied to by the imperial court in February, but this rumor had already spread to Kaifeng City in December of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

The civil and military officials on the Kaifeng side, the rich and the poor, all know the prestige of the Shandong Li Dashuai, although the court did not reply, but everyone knows that the result is probably the same as the rumors.

The north bank of the Yellow River is still under the control of the imperial court, and the nobles, officials, and people in Kaifeng City still have the opportunity to stand in line and decide where they want to go.

On February 20, on the side of the Yellow River crossing, the liveliness lasted for more than ten days and there was no sign of decay, and now it is not only the scale of the fleet on the Yellow River.

There are often any Western gadgets, the specialties outside the plug and the women of Jiangnan get off the boat, these new things really make the people of Zhongzhou smile, and now the people in Kaifeng City have developed a habit, that is, they go out of the city every morning, look at the scene around the dock unloading, and go back in the evening, which is a good conversation.

There are many people who come to see the excitement, and some small vendors selling snacks and meals follow over, Kaifeng City has been besieged for such a long time, and many people in the city have lost their livelihoods.

Originally, the king of Zhou and the government spent money to raise young and strong people to defend the city and earn a few pennies, but now it has become too peaceful, and even this money can not be obtained, and a large number of goods outside the city have arrived, because the batch of various goods is very large, and the ships have to be shipped back and forth, and the labor on the ship is generally insufficient.

It is necessary to provide a large number of loading and unloading and porters for various shops in Kaifeng City, and these idle laborers in Kaifeng City naturally have gotten a place, if outsiders come to this ferry port and see this lively scene, they will definitely think that half of Kaifeng City has moved outside.

The people at the bottom are happy to have a livelihood in order to see the excitement, and the people at the top have returned to their old habits of elegance and enjoyment.

For example, leaning on the edge of the Yellow River, there is a long-abandoned restaurant. It is reopened again, this restaurant was not destroyed in the siege of the city, it is indeed a miracle, legend has it that the leader of the homeless people and Li Erlang of Shandong also want to rest in this restaurant and take a look at the scenery.

This kind of rumor is to make the reopened restaurant business prosperous, although the dish is still the Yellow River carp, but the price is actually more expensive than the best restaurant in the interior of Kaifeng City, there are rumors that this restaurant is Henan Patrol according to Gao Mingheng's brother-in-law as the owner, of course, can be safe and stable.

For the rich. It's expensive, and it's not bad for a few dollars, so the location of the elegant seat on the second floor of this restaurant has always been in short supply, and there are often cars and horses waiting downstairs.

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and there should be more rich and noble idlers going out of the city to drink and feast, but the second floor of this restaurant is empty, and only a literati in a long robe stands behind the window facing the river. With a blank face, he stared at the hustle and bustle of the ferry, as well as the torrent of supplies on the river.

On the second floor, he was alone, there was only an old man dressed as a servant at the staircase, in fact, the shopkeeper, the man, and the cook of the restaurant were all kicked out of the restaurant, and there were a few indifferent and unceremonious family members downstairs, and the rich and noble children who came to this restaurant in Kaifeng City were all blocked back mercilessly, but these people who were blocked back did not dare to say anything, and left obediently.

From morning to noon, the middle-aged man had been watching from behind the window for two hours. He stood there until he was awakened by the commotion downstairs.

"Do you know who's up there, don't be bored, get out quickly, get out quickly!!"

"Dog killing, blind your eyes, you dare to talk like this, if you don't want to be stabbed, get out of front of Lao Tzu!!"

The middle-aged man rubbed his aching eyes. Retracting his gaze from the flow of people below, he sighed in a low voice, he could hear the quarreling people below with their own family guards, and the other party, listening to the tone, was almost the same identity, but he didn't know who the other party's master was.

But near Kaifeng City, King Zhou can't go out of the city anyway, and those intrusions outside will soon be driven away, but the situation downstairs is a little unexpected for him. I heard my own family screaming in pain. It was evident that it was a loss, followed by footsteps on the stairs.

The old family member at the top of the stairs flashed to the side. The footsteps were of a person, but there was a noticeable pause in the process of going upstairs. Apparently he also saw the old butler, and then shouted:

"Stop and wait outside!"

The fight downstairs stopped immediately, and then it was quiet, and the footsteps on the stairs sounded again, and the middle-aged man upstairs smiled, straightened his robe, turned around and greeted the man who appeared at the staircase with a smile:

"What a coincidence, didn't I expect Mr. Chen to be so idle today, going out of the city to relax?"

The man who went upstairs had a dark face, a strong body, and the appearance of a martial man, but the expression on his face had that rare calmness, and he had a wry smile on his face similar to that of the middle-aged scribe, and he clasped his fists and saluted:

"It's a coincidence, but I didn't expect to meet the governor here today."

Henan Governor Li Xianfeng and Henan Governor Chen Yongfu laughed at each other, everything was tacit, a little polite, the two walked to the window again, Governor Li Xianfeng hesitated a little, and said:

"Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, sent a letter, saying that everything should be done early, and if it is late, it will not be sold at a good price."

Li Xianfeng smiled self-deprecatingly, and said again:

"Yan Chengqi is known as the first genius in Fujian and Guangdong, and he can actually speak so much."

"Master Li, yesterday Chen had already asked the dog to prepare, and let him go to Shandong to join the army.

Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, did not answer Li Xianfeng's words, but told his own arrangements, he ignored the slightly stunned expression of the governor of Henan, walked a few steps closer to the window, and said in a deep voice:

"If you can send so many supplies, you can naturally send just as many Shandong soldiers and horses, in the face of such a general trend, what else can you do except surrender!?"

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