During this time, Cao Yue felt that everything was going smoothly, and there were too many unexpected surprises.

The Battle of Liaocheng, the Battle of Dezhou, and the Battle of Tianjin Wei all achieved overwhelming victories, and Jiannu was hit hard one after another, and there was no way to break the Ming firearms, which directly led to the recovery of Beijing by the Ming army. Originally, Cao Yue thought that it would be an accident and a surprise to recover Beijing in two years, but he didn't expect this huge victory to come inadvertently.

Cao Yue also knew that these victories he personally led, coupled with the recovery of Beijing, had raised his prestige to the extreme, and no one dared to disrespect him, at least so well. No one in the court dared to openly oppose him anymore, and the same was true of those members of the royal family, whose power became stronger and stronger.

The two women, the Red Lady and Bumu Butai, finally joined him and became his women, which was of course an unexpected surprise.

As a man with a very strong possessive desire and a little more yearning for beautiful women than ordinary people, it is of course a great achievement for Cao Yue to get these two strange women who are famous in history.

In particular, Bumu Butai, who was originally a woman who was still an enemy of the other party, was a legend in the original history, closely related to the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. To be able to make such a woman surrender to him, both physically and mentally, the pride is of course very strong.

The acceptance of the Red Lady and Bumu Butai not only takes possession of their beautiful bodies, but also allows them to get a lot of things by the way.

There are tens of thousands of horses under the Red Lady, and she herself is also a general who can fight well, and she can stand alone, and she was originally a member of the peasant army generals, she surrendered and was reused, and the generals under Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong also have an exemplary role, maybe someone will come to vote because of the Red Lady in the future.

Bumu Butai played a greater role than the Red Lady, and she and her son Fulin were symbols of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and both mother and son were willing to surrender. And on behalf of the entire Manchurian tribe, except for the domestic annexation, the impact on the situation is so great that words cannot be simply described. It can be said that the surrender of their mother and son has already indicated that the Manchu Qing has perished, and the threat of Jiannu has been eliminated. Although Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig and others still had hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands, it was still unknown whether they would be able to stabilize the situation of the Manchus and disrupt all their forces into a monolith.

At least Cao Yue thinks that Bumu Butai and Fulin's attachment. It can make many Manchus lose their fighting spirit, especially those nobles who have become accustomed to a luxurious life. If they knew that they could continue to enjoy the glory and wealth after joining the Ming Dynasty, and if they opposed the Ming Dynasty, they might be crushed, and they would definitely weigh it carefully.

Also, with the attachment of Mongolian women such as Bumu Butai, Zhezhe, and Namu Zhong, it was only a matter of time before the Mongols rebelled from Jiannuna.

In addition to these unexpected surprises, Cao Yue also got another unexpected gain after stabilizing the situation in Beijing. This is an unexpected bonus. It almost made him jump for joy.

70 million taels of silver, gold worth at least 50 million silver and other valuables, which were the spoils of war obtained by the Ming army after recovering Beijing.

Most of these seventy million taels of silver. The original owners were those important ministers and magnates under Emperor Chongzhen. At the time of the national crisis, these people were crying poor and unwilling to donate money and goods for military needs, but after Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing, he squeezed nearly 70 million taels of silver from them. It's just that Li Zicheng was defeated in a stone. Fleeing from Beijing in a hurry, it was too late to take this wealth with him, and finally fell into the hands of Jiannu. After Jiannu captured Beijing. Jiannu, who also did not take these riches away and prepared to use Beijing as the capital of the "Great Qing Dynasty", not only left these riches in Beijing, but also transported a large amount of property from Shengjing.

The Ming army led by Cao Ming, Cao Yue's right-hand man, broke through the city of Beijing by surprise in Jiannu, and in the end, most of these belongings fell into Cao Yue's hands.

Cao Yue, who had always been worried about the lack of wealth in his hands and the inability to support more troops, fainted happily after hearing that he had won so many trophies. The wealth equivalent to silver is estimated to be 120 million or 30 million taels of silver, which is the tax income of the Ming Dynasty for several years, and the wealth that the Cao family can earn for at least ten years according to the current operation, and suddenly fell into his hands, Cao Yue of course fainted happily.

Cao Yue knew that the current Ming ****** was close to collapse, and the treasury could not support so many troops, let alone support such a large-scale war. If it weren't for the Cao family and some other family funding, and Cao Yue instructed Gao Hongtu, the head of the household department, to play a "financial product" similar to war debts to raise money and grain from the people, the current Ming Dynasty would not even be able to take out a copper plate.

Well, now that there is so much wealth out of thin air all of a sudden, at least in a few years, Cao Yue does not have to worry about the problem of "money", and this money and silver can be supported for several years with the recovery of the treasury and others.

After ordering someone to carefully count the money and belongings, Cao Yue finally left behind 20 million taels of silver and 20 million worth of gold and other treasures, as well as those treasures in the Forbidden City that could not be estimated with gold and silver, and other tens of millions of taels of silver, gold and valuables. Cao Ming's sailors and soldiers also carried out this task even more arduous than the attack on Beijing immediately after resting, escorting hundreds of millions of gold and silver worth back to Nanjing, and carrying more firearms back to the north.

Before Cao Ming set off with the sailors' warships, Cao Yue also wrote secret letters to Sun Chuanting and Gao Hongtu respectively, informing them of the situation.

After receiving Cao Yue's secret letter, he learned that Cao Yue sent someone to escort money and goods worth more than 100 million taels of silver to Nanjing, and Sun Chuanting and Gao Hongtu, who were nervous about raising funds for the war, and were about to become madmen, and like Cao Yue, they fainted with joy.

"Hahaha, God really favored me Daming and sent us such a huge fortune!" After Sun Chuanting received the secret letter, he stayed in the study alone for a long time, and after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to immediately gather Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others to discuss the recruitment and expansion of troops, the construction of more arsenals, firearms workshops, and the manufacture of more artillery and muskets.

After Gao Hongtu received the secret letter, he also had the same mind as Sun Chuanting, he felt that he would never worry about money and food again, and this huge wealth could be said to have solved any problem.

After secretly discussing the huge amount of money and silver sent by Cao Yue and the matters he had instructed, several important ministers of the court and the central government had such feelings: "The internal strife will be calmed down, and the foreign captives will be pacified, which will be just around the corner." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, no one doubts the foresight of the Empress Dowager and His Majesty the Emperor in entrusting Cao Dadu with the authority to oversee military affairs, right?" Seeing that everyone was emotional, Sun Chuanting also boasted a few words for Cao Yue: "I have a great fortune to have a person like Cao Dadudu, in the future, we can harvest more surprises, maybe in a few months, there will be news that Li Zicheng was the head, Zhang Xianzhong was destroyed, and all the slaves were attached, and at that time, the world will be peaceful, hahaha!"

Sun Chuanting's words naturally attracted the echo of everyone, whether they sincerely agreed or expressed concern about the increasing power in Cao Yue's hands, but in public, they did not dare to say anything against it. (To be continued.) )