The confrontation that took place at Shanhaiguan did not affect Li Zicheng's route to Beijing, on the contrary, after receiving the news, Li Zicheng also celebrated greatly, and the Guanning army could not be transferred back from the border pass with the containment of Houjin. As long as Guan Ningjun doesn't return, he will take me all the way to the capital.

Although this idea is a bit bad, in such a big event as competing for the world, Li Zicheng can still distinguish what he should do and what he should not do.

As Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army broke the enemy all the way, Zhang Xianzhong, who had been staying in the south and had only made small-scale movements, also began to act, and for this game of fighting for the world, both warlords and rebel leaders were working hard to obtain the greatest benefits for themselves.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops, who retreated from Shaoguan, retreated all the way to Hunan, where they stopped and attacked the city while recruiting soldiers.

When he heard that Li Zicheng had entered Beijing and that the Guanning army could not be transferred internally, he decisively issued an order to march to the north, preparing to drive the troops to Hebei to join forces with Li Zicheng's army, and prepare for entering the capital.

Judging from the current situation, Li Zicheng's strength is the strongest, and Zhang Xianzhong went with this idea, and he also had his own purpose.

In the face of the increasingly severe form, Shen Youlong felt more and more the sense of crisis that Great Xia was about to tilt, and the Australians once made a suggestion to him, if Daming had a fully armed Australian army, the wheel of history would be greatly rewritten.

The strength of the Australian army is what everyone has seen, and it is also the only force that defeated Zhang Xianzhong, and that battle almost made Zhang Xianzhong dare not see how much shadow the Australian army left in his heart when he marched into Liangguang.

At this time, Liangguang has been operating for many years, the people live a healthy and happy life, even the refugees on the street can receive a different amount of relief food, it can be said that Liangguang is the only happy land in the Ming Dynasty, it is no wonder that everyone likes to run here.

It can be said that there is a foundation for the establishment of a new army in Liangguang, and the 200-man guard corps that the Australians helped to form has already gone through many actual battles and has a certain amount of experience.

Not long ago, the Australians suggested that Shen Youlong should form an army of nearly 1,000 people. In this way, the safety of the two provinces can be guaranteed, and the most important thing is that the world is in chaos at present, and the imperial court has no intention of caring about these things.

Although this is a bit of a prelude, but it is indeed a good thing for Daming, Shen Youlong wants to establish a new army, but if a team of nearly 1,000 people wants Australia to come up with such a large amount of financial support, I am afraid it will be very difficult, even if he opens his mouth, he is not willing to open it, and the Australian government will definitely not agree to such a large amount of financial support.

So I can only think of it from other places and find a way to solve it. But after thinking about it, I can't think of any good way to solve the current problem, for now, the huge flow of refugees has made Shen Youlong unable to eat, and it can even be said that it is difficult for him to survive this harsh winter.

It may not be easy to come up with money to form a new army, and the rich merchant gentry will not take it out at this time.

Australians can borrow money, but the high interest rate is scary, and I don't know how many years it will take to repay it.

As the worse news came, Shen Yulong could not think much about it, and he decided to borrow money from the Australians to form a new army.

But how did he know. Australians actually don't have much money to borrow, not long ago Hu Xijing was still worried about the domestic development funds, where to borrow money from him at this time.

Shen Youlong met with Zhang Tianwen, who was on a business trip in Guangzhou, and asked him to think of ways to help Liangguang build up the new army. Any conditions can be agreed, as long as Australia borrows money.

This condition is already very relaxed, and it can even be said that it is a bit of a loss of power and humiliation of the country, but this word is not popular at this time. And the main thing is that Australia has no money now, and there is no borrowing if it wants to.

Zhang Tianwen did not tell Shen Yulong why he did not borrow, but only said that such a large amount of money needed the consent of the Congress before a decision could be made. The bottom line is that Congress will most likely not agree.

This answer made Shen Youlong a little disappointed, why did the Australian parliament agree that he could offer any conditions in exchange.

However, in Zhang Tianwen's view, the current stage of financial support for Daming may not necessarily bring any benefits, so he did not decide to support them.

It can be said that the government has no money to come to Daming for assistance, and only by expanding production and sales and increasing tax revenue can fiscal revenue be guaranteed.

Therefore, the radicals will inevitably come to power, and if they do not come to power, it will be difficult for Australia to get out of this economic downturn.

Of course, in order to solve Shen Youlong's problem, Zhao Shijie and others also discussed, that is, Shen Youlong implemented a special tax system as soon as possible and charged a certain percentage of consumption tax on high-priced luxury goods.

The special tax has been gradually implemented, as for the consumption tax has not yet begun to increase the income, Zhang Tianwen's explanation is that it will be implemented immediately, especially those items with high consumer goods, which need to be charged, and the rich and gentry are all wealthy classes, and they will not care about those things if they can afford luxury goods.

Shen Youlong felt right when he heard it, rich people really don't care about these things, and they should implement this tax immediately, but Zhang Tianwen gave him an idea, let him set the price of each commodity, and calculate it according to the fees that need to be paid, which at least can make the rich and gentry less disgusted with this tax.

Don't think it's just a small suggestion, if it is implemented, the taxes collected are very substantial, and if nothing else, there is no problem at all in forming a new army.

Of course, it is better to be able to contribute your own money to form a new army than to borrow money from Australia, so Shen Youlong did not mention the matter of borrowing money after listening to the method, but asked Zhang Tianwen to help get a charter for turning to consumption tax, so that at least he could quickly raise money to form a new army.

Shen Youlong is already a little impatient to form a new army, the formation of a new army is a very important thing for him, and it is related to the future safety of Liangguang, Zhang Xianzhong's department is currently mobilizing the army, saying that it is to go north, but who knows if there are other actions.

Therefore, the formation of a new army, having an important armed force is their trump card, Lao Shen's analysis of the current situation can not be cleared, at least he thinks that Li Zicheng should not be able to break the capital, after all, there is still such an army in the north, if the Guanning army is dispatched, Li Zicheng is not a threat at all, but at present, the power of Houjin has restrained it, so that Wu Sangui cannot reinforce the capital to help the war.

From the current point of view, it is also the most suitable to form a new army, because the imperial court can't take into account what happened in Liangguang at all, so Shen Youlong can't wait to form a new army. (To be continued.) )