Nassau had no reason to refuse such an offer, he agreed the next day, and talked to Yang Chao about his treatment, Yang Chao thought that this guy was not short of money, but he actually said that Yang Chao asked for an annual salary of 100,000 taels, which was really dark enough.

Of course, Nassau himself explained that such a salary was worthy of his status, and he didn't care about money.

Soon the two signed an agreement, and then Yang Chao found someone to help him recruit a suitable accounting office, staff and office location.

Although he wants to use Nassau's knowledge and experience, but this is a Dutchman, Yang Chao can't be completely at ease with him, so he finds someone to help him, in fact, he is also spying on him, although he doesn't think that this guy will use his power to embezzle and accept bribes, but in case he uses the economic power in his hands to benefit the Dutch, Yang Chao still has to interfere, anyway, he doesn't plan to use him for long, and he will kick it away in a few years.

However, Nassau's level is still very good, and the most important thing is that he is very diligent in his work attitude, and he is a typical Puritans.

He quickly decided on the location of the exchange, but there was some conflict with Yang Chao, who thought that Nanjing was the best location, but Nassau chose Songjiang Mansion, which was located at Wusongkou, the mouth of the Huangpu River.

Nassau believes that the geographical location is more suitable than Nanjing, Songjiang Province is also a rich area, the most important thing is the development potential, Nassau believes that the development potential there is much greater than Nanjing, once the sea trade is launched, where is the trade center after all, not only the local production of cotton and cotton cloth, the waterway is also connected with Suzhou, can be convenient for the trade of silk fabrics, the future will be more developed than Nanjing.

Yang Chao admired this guy's vision a little, you must know that the place belongs to Shanghai in the future, Shanghai is naturally more developed than Nanjing, because the geographical location is really good, controlling the Yangtze River estuary, it is the leader of the Yangtze River, and it will be hellish if it is not developed.

Of course, it can't be compared with Nanjing now. However, Nanjing, as the provincial capital of later generations, was not as good as the ordinary city of Suzhou, and it really had no advantage except relying on the Yangtze River. There was neither the production of commodities such as raw silk, nor the abundance of mineral deposits, so there really was nothing to say about the economy of later generations.

But now as a capital, it's very good. You must know that in China, where power is concentrated, wealth will be concentrated, but Yang Chao is also very vacillating, in the end, it was built in Nanjing, the center of political power. It is still built in Wusongkou, which has great potential.

After asking the reason for Nassau in detail, I learned that this guy was not so terrifying, but borrowed the experience of the Netherlands, and he thought that Wusong's geographical location was the closest to the Netherlands, and there were three major European rivers in the Netherlands, the Rhine, the Maas, and the Scheldt, which were the estuaries of these rivers, and the whole Netherlands was actually formed on the delta impacted by these rivers.

Through these rivers, the Dutch could reach France by water, Germany and even across Central Europe to Italy. Therefore, the Netherlands can be called the outlet to the sea in Europe, and the geographical location is really similar to Shanghai, no wonder the Dutch trade is developed.

After repeated weighing, Yang Chao felt that he still had to take a long-term view, so he followed Nassau's opinion and settled on Wusongkou.

On the issue of banks, Nassau insisted that banks must operate soundly, and that profit is not the goal at all, but to promote trade.

He hoped that Yang Chao would give up the model of lending money to the people at low interest rates, and the two finally negotiated after some repeated negotiations. Yang Chao finally relented, and he planned to re-establish a private bank, while Jiangnan Bank would become a central bank and not lend to individuals. In this way, if there is a problem with the bank in the future, Jiangnan Bank can also serve as the last embankment of the economy, which can prevent the total collapse of the economy.

The economy is improving here, and there is good news about the war there.

Lü Mo was the first to send a battle report and successfully captured Nanchang City.

According to Lu Mo's battle report, Nanchang was a drum. Annihilated a thousand Qing defenders.

"A thousand!"

Nanchang turned out to be only a thousand Qing troops.

"It's not good, Xie Fei is in trouble."

Yang Chao immediately guessed that Nanchang was given up by Hong Chengchou, so Jiujiang must be heavily guarded.

Jiujiang.

Xie Fei has been fighting for three days, but he still hasn't taken Jiujiang, in fact, he has been in Nanchang about the same time as Lu Mo, but Lu Mo has already captured Nanchang, but he hasn't even touched the edge of Jiujiang City.

Jiujiang was called Xunyang in ancient times, and now literati also like to call Jiujiang City Xunyang City, and call the Yangtze River near Jiujiang as Xunyang River.

This ancient city has a long history, and it still stands here for thousands of years, because its geographical location is so important, and the border between Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui provinces means that it is a must to pass through from Huguang to Jiangnan.

And the reason why the city is built in this section is because of the dangerous terrain in this section, the back is Lushan and faces the Yangtze River, the city is high and the wall is thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The most important thing is that this city is too close to the Yangtze River, so that Xie Fei can't land safely.

He had two options:

The first is a frontal assault, blasting open the city wall and rushing directly into it, but the Qing army set up dozens of wooden villages along the riverbank, with these wooden villages, it is impossible to land safely, and when it is not clear, Xie Fei did not dare to go ashore rashly, so he could only bombard the wooden villages with cannons, and found that most of them were empty. But regardless of these wooden villages, there are still elite soldiers in ambush in some wooden villages. Therefore, we can only continue to bombard, and before these wooden villages are destroyed, the landing is too much of a loss.

The second is to land nearby, he tried, but the opposing cavalry would rush over at any time, and the impact at any cost made him unsuccessful in both landings.

Behind Jiujiang is Lushan, if you can turn over Lushan, you can attack Jiujiang from behind, after three days of attack without results, Xie Fei did not attack, sent troops back to ask for instructions, as a front-line officer, he completely has the right to decide, but he did not make his own opinion, but reported to Yang Chao, expressing his hope that Lu Mo would cross Lushan from Nanchang Wangbei to attack Jiujiang, and attack him back and forth.

Xie Fei is the general soldier who is backward, he doesn't have any burden on face, if Wang Pu is here, he will definitely not be able to pull his face, and he will definitely choose to attack, but Xie Fei doesn't.

This made Yang Chao quite satisfied, and immediately went to deliver the order, ordering him to leave other directions alone, let him be responsible for nailing Jiujiang, and not let a single Qing army let them escape.

"Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, is this a lot of small actions?"

Yang Chao received Xie Fei's military intelligence and quickly judged that this was Hong Chengchou's conspiracy.

It seems that Hong Chengchou didn't want Xie Fei to land on the shore at all, and he didn't dare to let him attack the city at all, but Yang Chao knew that the power in Hong Chengchou's hands was far superior to Xie Fei, and he was luring the enemy, but unfortunately, Xie Fei was very cautious and did not choose to attack.

If Xie Fei attacked, Yang Chao bet that Hong Chengchou would definitely pretend to be invincible and shrink his forces into the city, and Xie Fei would easily attack the city and then fall into Hong Chengchou's encirclement. The previous riverside villages and the blocking landings were all confusing enemies, and I hope Xie Fei believes that the Qing army is not strong enough.

As for Xie Fei's plan to attack from behind Lushan, what he could think of, Hong Chengchou had already thought of it, maybe he was hoping that Lu Mo would attack from behind, and it would not be too easy to ambush the troops in Lushan.

"It's dangerous! Hong Chengchou, an old horseman, is very good at grand strategy, but he can also engage in some small conspiracies. ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but rejoice, he was glad that Xie Fei was stable enough, otherwise his 30,000 army would probably be disabled even if it was not completely wiped out.

Yang Chao not only ordered Xie Fei to only keep an eye on Jiujiang, but also told him that the Qing army in Nanchang was not in Nanchang.

Xie Fei can easily see from this information that the Qing army is not in Nanchang, it must be in Jiujiang, Xie Fei immediately thought that this is Hong Chengchou's bureau, if he did not ask for instructions, but continued to insist on attacking, I am afraid that now he has already landed.

"Whoever fights with the enemy, if we are strong, let me pretend to be cowardly to lure him, and the enemy will come and fight with me, and I will strike him with a sharp soldier, and his army will be defeated. Yes but can't. The thief's plan to lure the enemy, I haven't seen through it! ”

Xie Fei couldn't help but say that it was dangerous, if it was just a tactic of engaging in battle before the battle, and then pretending to be invincible and escaping, he could see through it at a glance, but Hong Chengchou was like this, obviously with strong troops, he was not afraid of you attacking the city at all, but instead made a posture of desperately preventing you from attacking the city, this kind of virtual and real change made Xie Fei unable to see through.

Then Xie Fei immediately issued an order, not to land, turned his head and camped on the north bank of the Yangtze River, facing Jiujiang City across the river.

"Go to the army and strategize!"

Nanjing, Yang Chao already has an idea.

"Therefore, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city."

Sun Tzu's Art of War is still very reasonable, but to be able to fight and strategize, you must have the ability to attack troops and siege cities.

Just like when Hong Chengchou attacked Nanjing, he was skillful in strategy, because he had tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands at that time, and now he is short of troops, so he can only play tricks.

However, Yang Chao planned to give Hong Chengchou a plan to attack the army, Jiujiang kind of important land, if it is really attacked, the loss will be too great, and Yang Chao generally does not advocate attacking the city until the last resort.

"Give Zhao Kang an order, let him make a little noise, let the children of the Eight Banners be nervous, and it is best to make them think that the Ming army is going to go on a northern expedition again."

"Go to Tianjin and let Diao Erdou create a little rumor, just say that Hong Chengchou has shrunk the strength of the entire Jiangxi and surrendered Jiangxi to the governor. It is said that Hong Chengchou sat on the Jiujiang River and watched the tiger fight, but the governor did not attack Hong Chengchou but boldly went on a northern expedition. ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty boasted that it would use the room, and Huang Taiji said that Yuan Chonghuan was killed by Chongzhen because of his plan to divide the world, and now Yang Chao wants to use the room for the Manchu Dynasty!

Let's see if the children of the Eight Banners will think that Hong Chengchou has a grudge with him, and then force Hong Chengchou to attack Jiangnan.

"Let Jiang Fan send someone to knock down the lake."

Hukou County is located at the mouth of Panyang Lake, which is the only place to enter and exit Jiangxi, and the west is Jiujiang.

"Let many men prepare, divide the troops into Jiangxi, and take the states and counties."

Many men were in southern Zhejiang at this time, and the troops were not very sufficient, only 30,000 people, but Jin Shenghuan of Fujian could not beat him, and many men could completely divide 10,000 people to recover Jiangxi. If the whole of Jiangxi is occupied by Yang Chao, only Hong Chengchou occupies Jiujiang, and at this time, Yang Chao does not go to Jiujiang, but goes to the Northern Expedition, see how Hong Chengchou explains to the Qing court.

Linqing, Shandong.

"Why don't you watch the Art of War?"

Zhao Kang asked Li Yuanyin with a dissatisfied face.

Li Yuanyin explained: "Sun Tzu's Art of War is for literati, and it is useless to use real swords and real guns. It is enough for the junior general to read the new book of discipline and the training documentary, and the senior general will take a look at this "Hundred Battles and Qi Law", which is quite helpful. (To be continued.) )