The showdown in Hunan touched too many people's hearts, some were panicked, some were excited, some were restless, and there were all kinds of scattered thoughts.

"What are you talking about overtime pay at this time!? Are you embarrassed to talk!? If you sharpen the butt of a gun, you can make one more musket, and if you have one more musket, you can kill a few more Tartar soldiers, and your rice bowl will be served tighter! Don't be verbose, your wages are indispensable! ”

"Your woman can twist the rope too!? Well, let your woman take over your day shift, and you and other brothers will work the night shift, and we will have to work at night! Why? For the king, for our country! By the way, it's for our workshop business......"

"Turn it twice, twist it, and don't ask why, that's what the Quartermaster Agency wants. We only do a small business of a few hundred catties in the iron wire line, and now it is tens of thousands of catties, and if you don't teach this little baby, you can't cope with it. When this business is over, your baby's engagement money will also be available. ”

In Guangdong, countless workshops are running at full speed, making all kinds of arms accessories. The Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is even more non-stop all night, urgently rushing to work on guns and ammunition. Tian Dayou personally sat in Foshan, and Guan Fengsheng and Mi Dezheng, the deputy general office, all went down to the factory to supervise the scene.

Since the Yongli musket was finalized, the output of the musket of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau has risen rapidly, and if the horsepower is at full power, the raw materials of the accessories are continuous, and there is no problem in making 10,000 rods in a month. Now there are enough muskets, but in order to prepare sufficient stocks, supply possible emergency large-scale expansion of the army, and also for the sake of export in the future, they are still working overtime to catch up.

The artillery has already been built sufficiently, and no more gunners will use it if they make it hard, and Guan Tian and others are more worried about the problem of guns and shells, especially gunpowder. Since the Nanyang Company opened up the Quang Nam and Siam routes, there have been more sources of saltpeter and sulfur, but after all, there are still some shortcomings, especially the mass production of flowering bombs, which has suddenly increased the consumption of gunpowder by an order of magnitude. After Guangxi and Guizhou took half of the territory of Yunnan, the self-produced sulfur saltpeter in the territory also increased, but the industry and commerce did not have time to increase investment in development, and saltpeter sulfur became a new shortage of materials in Yinghua after coal.

It is said that the stock of millions of catties of gunpowder is already very terrifying, but now a large flowering shell needs to be loaded with six catties of ammunition, and a 12-catty shell also needs four catties of ammunition, and the British and Chinese troops will concentrate hundreds of artillery pieces in Hunan, and the consumption of gunpowder is equally terrifying.

What's more critical is that Guan Tian and others don't know how long this battle will last. If we think about it, it is not a question of whether there is enough gunpowder, but a worrying question about the future of this war.

"Climb over this threshold, and there will be light ahead."

Tian Dayou comforted Guan Fengsheng, this heavenly king's father-in-law was a little nervous, he regarded the workshop as his battlefield, and he didn't get out of the firing line for several days, he was nothing, and the craftsmen he was staring at were about to collapse.

"It's all kings, why do you have to go to the battlefield......"

Guan Fengsheng kept nagging.

"Emperor Kangxi is here in person, that's the real emperor, and the person who sits on the dragon chair is much older than us. Although he is a Tartar, he is still an emperor after all. ”

When Tian Dayou said this year name, Guan Fengsheng's eyes began to roll.

"Your Majesty...... Alas, that's right, there is no fourth brother in front of him, let alone fighting, maybe how many people will kneel when they see it. ”

Guan Fengsheng was relieved, but he was even more nervous, Tian Dayou was right, this is a threshold, but what if he didn't turn it over?

Seeing that this old guy's brain was too tight, Tian Dayou had no choice but to find Lin Dashu, He Gui, Wu Yaluo and others, pull Guan Fengsheng to pour wine together, and finally put him down.

"I'm really going to pass this threshold, fourth brother...... Are you going to be an emperor too? ”

When he was cleaning up his husband, Sekida asked his brother.

"That's not clear, but at that time, he could do it if he wanted to, it was just a matter of words."

Tian Dayou said casually, how can he think about becoming the emperor now.

"At that time...... We close the house, it's really the country's family, hehe......"

There were stars in Guan Tian's eyes, and Tian Dayu shook his head helplessly.

"Yun Niang...... At that time, let the fourth brother give you a decree, so that you can live more comfortably below. ”

Guan Tian was in the corner of the house, looking at a spirit card, muttering in a low voice.

"The second girl's belly is not angry, I heard that An Niangniang has it, she hasn't moved yet, and it's really ......"

Then the number fell to Guan Xuan, and he was about to spit out the word "freak", only to realize that he was also a "mother" after all, but he was no longer a daughter who could be scolded casually, so he quickly shut up.

The few battles after the founding of Yinghua were just backwater, and even the Yizhang War was cleansed by people's hearts, not real life. This time it seems to be different, at least in Guangdong Province, most people are feeling the effects of the Battle of Hunan.

The main book of the townships and districts under the county is of course busy, carefully checking the data of the acres of land and people under their jurisdiction. The originally idle post was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, delivering all kinds of official documents. The inspection pulled up the people in the district, and organized the patrol with wide eyes. In the area of Shaozhou and Huizhou, the inspection also scattered a large number of shotguns that should have been captured from the Qing soldiers in the past to teach the people to use them. Fa Zheng, Xuezheng and Yi Zheng took advantage of the opportunity of the people's strong organization to preach the "Anglo-Chinese Criminal Law", teach them basic hygiene, and teach them to read and write simple words and numbers.

This is the primary mobilization of the Yinghua government under the rule, and the people only felt that there were more things at the beginning, but with the continuous coming and going of the farmers and businessmen, their lives have changed significantly. Merchants went around buying chickens, livestock, cattle and sheep, spinning yarn, hemp rope and other various materials. In the towns and villages with dense workshops, orders are sprinkled from door to door, and knitted wood and iron are all patronized, from poncho tents to blankets, brushes, and buckets, and even the land is bought up. And the strings of eternal treasures, and even real money, made the people smile, and took the initiative to contact the businessmen to see what else they could do to sell.

The industrial and commercial engine, which had been roughly pushed by Li Xian, roared because of the great showdown that Hunan was about to face, and began to work jerkily for the war, and Guangdong also experienced the prosperity brought by the war economy for the first time.

From people's hearts to livelihoods, the war affected more than that, and skilled craftsmen also began to emerge in this shallow fashion.

In Jiulong Township, Xin'an County, Huang Fei, the proprietor of the Shunfeng Rush Trip, is loudly mobilizing his subordinates.

"Lose it, pay it for your family! If we can't pass this hurdle, we won't have a future if we send it with the wind! If the king wins, we will win. Greet all the dings, the guys, and check the carriages and horses. It is difficult to keep the Tartar soldiers showing up on the line from Yizhang to Hengzhou, and we can't all point to the officers and soldiers. Huang Zhuo! What about Huang Zhuo, where did he die again!? ”

Just as he was looking for someone, a strange car appeared from the hillside not far away, and with a scream, he rushed down with a man and plunged into the pond below.

"How do you stop......"

When Huang Zhuo, who was soaking wet, was pulled up, he was still muttering in his mouth.

"What's going on again!? Now is not the time to dream about going to heaven and earth, there is still big business to be done! The Heavenly King's Mansion has given us a big order, and we want to take on the land transfer of an army of guns and powder, and your brother and I are worried that there are not enough mules and horses! ”

Huang Fei screamed with smoke on the top of his head.

"Don't worry, brother, the car I'm getting can walk by myself without relying on mules and horses, but the road can't be too steep and too bad, ouch...... My ass ......"

Huang Zhuo stroked his buttocks and groaned.

"Go on your own!? How to go!? ”

Huang Fei's eyes were round, looking at the strange car stuck upside down in the pond, the tail of the car was raised high, and the two wheels were still whirring.

"This is inspired from the pedal of the fast boat, and with the waterwheel transmission mechanism of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, one person pedals and walks, and on the flat road, you can top a mule and horse!"

The workers fished out the car, and it turned out to be a three-wheeled cart, with the front wheels swinging from side to side to grasp the direction.

"Gee, where is the time to build this now...... What is this car called? How much does it cost? ”

Huang Fei was about to reprimand, but another spirit, if he used this cart on flat land and concentrated the mules and horses on a difficult section, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. It's nothing if it's too late, and there is still a lot of time to fight in this battle.

Huang Zhuo didn't care about the cost, so he thought about naming it: "It's called ...... Self-propelled ...... No, no, bikes! ”

In Yinghua, bicycles first appeared in the form of tricycles.

These details were all under Li Shi's order, and the money bags were opened everywhere under the rule of Yinghua, and he naturally couldn't see it, but he could only see that all the industrial and commercial departments of a country were mobilized, not only for the Tianwangfu Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Military Command Department to sprinkle a lot of orders, but also the grim situation also made them muster up their strength. Grain, grass, materials, guns and ammunition, carriages, horses and livestock continue to flow up from the Beijiang River, enter Hunan, and then turn into the Xiangjiang River, and converge until they converge to the camp of the British and Chinese Army at the foot of the North Zhao Mountain in Xiangtan.

"Kang Mazi wants to drown us with numbers, so let's drown him with silver!"

This is Li Shi's strategy against Kangxi, Kangxi personally conquest, whether it is the army or himself, how can it take a month or two to get to Hunan, during this time, he is busy hoarding supplies and dispatching troops.

There was not much to adjust the troops, so the Yingyang army was pulled back, and Xiao Sheng in Fujian pushed another chess game to contain Shi Shibiu. Coupled with the newly organized Guangxi Internal Guard, Hunan Internal Guard, and the Guerrilla Army, the frontal strength is 30,000. The Yulin Army is another chess piece, and at that time, it can be regarded as the strength of the entire Hunan war situation, which is 40,000 people.

It is estimated that the Qing army will have 80,000 flag battalions and 50,000 green battalions, a total of 130,000 people, and then counting the Jiangxi green battalion, the total strength of the Qing army in the entire Hunan battlefield will not exceed 160,000, four times its own. Although this ratio is far weaker than in previous wars, on Li Xi's side, the field army has only been expanded in place, and there are nearly 10,000 internal guards who are not of great use. The Qing army had at least 30,000 or 40,000 newly organized musketeers, and there were many more artillery. What is even more troublesome is that the east of the Xiangjiang River and the west of Gongshan are plains, which are scheduled to be the main battlefield, which is conducive to the maneuver of the 20,000 horse teams of the Beijing camp and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu green battalion.

To sum up, the situation is even more severe than the battle of Yizhang...... Li Xi could only try his best to convert the silver into combat power, and did everything possible to improve his strength from every detail, of course, one of the troubles caused by this was that his money bag was empty again.

"This year's 1 million taels of special expenses have all been smashed in, and the 500,000 taels of additional service and private donations from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are being spent, and it is expected that there will be a vacancy of 1 million taels."

Peng Xianzhong also came to the Zhaoshan camp and made a special trip to report the military expenditure to Li Xi, and even more so to ask for money.

One million taels is not too much, and there are too many ways to solve it, such as imposing new taxes, imposing tariffs in advance, or withdrawing Nanyang's profits in advance, or even hollowing out their own industrial capital, but these are not good ways. The former is to dig the foundation of a country's credit, and the latter hurts the pockets of one's own family too much. For many years in a row, most of the dividends of their own industries have been filled into the treasury, and this year it is time for everyone to share in the profits.

"Okay, taking advantage of this war, let's start working on national debt......"

Li Xian had already had a countermeasure, or had been premeditated for a long time, and borrowed money. It just so happened that the three-year debt of Sanjiang Investment expired, and the settlement of this debt established the credibility of Sanjiang Bank, and even the principal of the Tartar princes and ministers was repaid without pulling one or two. Doing business is a letter of letters, to this extent, throughout the ages, no business can match. If you want to borrow money again, even if the interest rate is lower, everyone will admit it.

But this is a national debt, and the name comes from the Anglo-Chinese Bank, but everyone knows that the Anglo-Chinese Bank, Sanjiang Bills and even Sanjiang Investment are all the same, and the Anglo-Chinese Bank is a country's general bill, and will not treat credibility as a child's play.

Although the future of this war is uncertain, Li Shi's demand for money, IOUs, and interest payments is softer and fairer than the introduction of new taxes and early taxation.

As far as Li Shi's administration is concerned, the treasury bonds will also have to be opened sooner or later, not only for the purpose of enriching the finances, but also for the necessary means of political adjustment and financial adjustment. As for how fierce the treasury bond will become in the future, it depends on whether the industrial and commercial industry can always take the lead.

"Let Gu Xiyi implement the T-shaped plan, open a treasury bond of 3 million taels, a three-year term, and an annual interest rate of 10% ......"

The national debt plan has been drawn up a long time ago, and there is more than one set, and Li Xi has chosen the most secure one. Compared with the interest rate of private lending at this time, the interest rate is frighteningly low, but private lending will inevitably suffer losses from debts, and debt collectors must be supported, and the cost is also high. Lend money to Li Shi, and give it to this country, the risk and cost are much smaller. Those who now hold the silver and want to make profits, but do not want to take risks, let alone invest in industrial and commercial industries that they are not familiar with, should treat this national debt as a basket and throw their eggs into it.

What's more convenient is that at this moment, Yinghua has opened up private ticket houses, and it is extremely convenient to press this treasury bond to private bill banks for underwriting. Although there is a suspicion of bullying business with power. But this degree is much more gentle than the civilized encounter of merchants under the Manchu Dynasty.

"In addition to military spending, the rest of the money will be handed over to the Medical and Health Department, the Culture and Education Department, and the Guozijian and the General for a three-year plan."

With this amount of money, Li Shi was not only able to win this battle, but also finally had spare money to comprehensively promote the construction of Yinghua in the three fields of medical care, education and science and technology.

His thoughts were drifting to a few years later, and Peng Xianzhong coughed and shattered Li Xian's dream.

"Uh...... The Heavenly King still postponed those affairs, and the news came from the Jiangnan Ticket Company......"

Peng Xianzhong listened attentively, Li Xian nodded while listening, and in the end, his face had become extremely exciting.

"Kang Mazi...... You actually came to me to borrow money? ”

He smiled, his eyes rolling.

(To be continued)