"The logistics of the Anglo-French army is good, the shadow of the people, in addition to looking at the weaknesses of others, but also look at the strengths of others, such a means of logistics and supply, is trained by the war, and it is also experience for us.

How's the logistics on our side? Look at this posture, the British and French forces are about to march into the Bohai Sea in the next few days, so that the Shandong side must guard the coastline! ”

War is a combination of science and technology, the more time is pushed back, the more obvious this situation is, now the Qing Dynasty is in the exchange period of cold weapons and hot weapons, there is no constraint not to say, and this change is helmed by Yang Meng, gathering the strengths of hundreds of schools, inclusive, it should be the way of development.

Many things are new, first, and first, and the less shackles there are, the wider the path of development, and learning is the theme for a long time.

"Seven things to get up early and open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, the left side of the Beijing Division, a day's food costs 14,500 taels of silver, the ammunition used in training, 45,000 taels of silver, and the military salary is 100,000 taels of silver a day, plus all kinds of expenses, it is about 150,000 taels of silver a day, these things crush people to death!

If there is a war, the pension is a huge expenditure, and the 20,000 cash of the household department looks like a lot, and the third master, so much silver is not enough for three or two years!

After the beginning of spring, if you make another five major gardens, at most three years, this bit of silver will be exhausted! ”

Xu Ziwei is in charge of the staff group and the signing room, and his concerns are different from Yang Meng's, and he fights with silver. Xu Ziwei is clear. The cost of 150,000 a day. What an unbearable weight!

If it is the front line, a large number of dead people will be counted as two hundred taels per person, ten thousand people will be two million, six hundred thousand people, and half of the dead will be sixty million taels of silver!

20,000,000 cash in the ears of the people. That's a sky-high price, but on the battlefield, 20,000 is just that!

"Chief, don't forget that our family still has income! These things are sold to the imperial court at market prices, not to mention three years, even after a year and a half, the bottom can also be greatly increased, and there are still seventy or eighty million taels of silver a year!

If we are ruthless, 150 million a year. There shouldn't be much of a problem, it's okay for the people to stick to it for four or five years! There's our family's grange here. Hungry people don't die!

If you march into the north in the future, you will have to add a plunder income, such a war, in general, it is still profitable, and this loss of money is only a few years old! ”

If it is a war of aggression, it will be much easier to fight, and if it is not a robbery, how can it be saved if it is not a robbery, and now whether it is for the Qing Dynasty or Britain and France, such a war is a great war of attrition.

If Britain and France do not win this war, the domestic government may face a financial crisis, the Qing Dynasty is already much better than Britain and France because of corruption, otherwise without this batch of silver, Yang Meng will have to pay out of his own pocket, now not only do not have to pay out of his own pocket, but also about thirty percent of the income, such a good thing, where to find?

"That's what I said, but the third master had better end this war within two years, otherwise, the consequences will be unpredictable!"

If the 20,000 silver is spent, the war will be stretched, two years, Xu Ziwei has said a long time, he thinks it is best to end the war within half a year.

"It shouldn't take that long, this time it's not the Crimean War, hundreds of thousands of horses on both sides, all gathered in the area of Beijing and Tianjin, at least half a year, many and a half years, this war should be rested, but ending the war, it's not so easy, this war starts, not ten or eight years, no one wants to take a truce lightly!

Commander, don't forget, we send down the military salary, the people have money in their hands, they have to spend it, inform Taichen, some commodities in Yunnan and Guangzhou, can also be sold on a large scale, with these tens of millions of military salaries, our profits are not small. ”

Sometimes it's not all bad things when there is a war, at least the military salary can also expand the market demand, right?

"Alas...... The third master is the third master in the end, and he thinks far-reaching! Do you want to enforce this gold law? ”

The Li Jin Law is a new source of wealth opened by the imperial court a few years ago, and the strength of collecting money is not small, but for the Yang family, it is not very good, the scale of the Yang family's business is too large, the business in the south, the Yang family accounts for at least six or seven percent, and now the business in the north is also doubling every year.

"Let's take a look at this matter, the gold can be reduced by a certain rate, but it can't be stopped, although this tax is shameless, but it is also a good tool to collect money, how much time the war is fought, no one counts, and it is not easy to stop and collect it, so maintain it first!

Our family's business name does not pay taxes, and now it is a national war, since the gold law is a national policy, the Yang family also has to contribute to the national war, but the use of the Yang family's gold should be divided, and it will be used to build ironclad ships! ”

When it comes to the Yang family, Yang Meng doesn't have any thoughts about protecting the calf, in fact, on top of the war, the Yang family has a lot of expenses, but the Yang family is the largest among the merchants in the Qing Dynasty, and there are some things that still have to be a leader.

The Yang family also has to pay the money, so are there any reasons why other merchants don't pay?

"Third master, the cost of building an ironclad ship is not small, and the Yang family's gold alone is not enough!"

"It's almost done, how can there be anything in this world that only takes advantage and doesn't suffer? We pay for the rest out of our own pockets! In the future, these ironclad ships will also be considered our family, and the navy will not be able to use them, so they may not be able to do shipping! ”

The war is imminent, some accounts are not clear at all, Yang Meng doesn't want to be cost-effective now, in a few days, I am afraid that Hong Kong Island will have to act.

Preparing for war day and night, but how the war finally started, Yang Meng didn't know, as if overnight, Jiaozhou Bay, Yanwei, Denglai, and Lushunkou in Liaodong were all caught in the smoke of war.

was raided, and was raided by the Anglo-French forces at his own doorstep, and there was no intelligence on the shadow side, and there was information about attacks in various places. It was sent almost at the same time. Telegram convenience is good. But the real-time telegram at this time is a little annoying!

"Bastard! It's all a bunch of fucking shit, why did they get knocked on the door? ”

Yang Meng did not pay attention to the gains and losses in the coastal areas of the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, even if the British and French troops invested more troops in these places, it would be in vain, their goal was Beijing and Tianjin, and it was not their fault that they could conquer these places in a war. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time.

The Liaodong Peninsula is the most difficult to fight, and the Devil Six has already organized an army of more than 300,000 over there, and Yang Meng's 500,000 breech guns have also been sent to the three eastern provinces, and the difficulty of fighting Liaodong is no less difficult than that of fighting Beijing and Tianjin.

On the Shandong Peninsula, although Yang Meng did not arrange too many new troops, the militia in Shandong was not vegetarian, and they had food and a large number of rudimentary muskets. The Shandong militia may not be able to defeat the British and French forces that landed. But it was still easy to harass them, and without a force of 350,000 men, it would be very difficult for the British and French forces to gain a foothold on the Shandong Peninsula.

With the convenience of the Grand Canal, Yang Meng was able to transfer the Jiangsu and Zhejiang militia to Shandong within three days, even if the British and French forces established a supply base in Shandong, it was also a trade in delivering vegetables.

Yang Meng is not angry about anything else, he is angry that the entire northern coastal area was raided, and the shadow did not have a trace of intelligence coming, and several places were attacked together, if this is really a large-scale war, then he Yang Meng is still playing a fart!

"The third master is angry! Because the Anglo-French troops landed at night, we don't know how many they were, maybe it was just a small force? ”

Xu Ziwei, who submitted war reports one by one, was also full of lawsuits, and it was expected that the British and French forces would arrive in six or seven days? Who would have thought that as soon as it was nightfall, telegrams of attack came from the coasts everywhere.

It's no wonder that the third master is angry about this, how many days have passed, the main concern of the Yang family is to prepare for war, and war reports have been reported in five or six places that have been silent, and the intelligence of this shadow has indeed made a big loophole!

"Shit! How does Lao Tzu calm his anger? Five or six places along the northern coast were attacked, and the shadow was as ignorant as a dead thing, if the British and French forces were going to raid Lao Tzu's house, would they send the information to the prisoner camp of the British and French forces after Lao Tzu was captured?

Examine! Check with Lao Tzu overnight, where did these men and horses who attacked the northern coast come from? If they can't find out, let them go to the front line and ask those British and French troops, where are you from?

The bastards of the dog day, they have fed them in vain, sue sù Qin Ziqi, this matter is not over! Those who slack off on military intelligence will kill Lao Tzu first!

Sue the new army on the other side of Shandong, no matter how many people they die, the beachhead of the British and French forces must be destroyed, and if they can't be defeated, they will take guns and go to the warships of the British and French forces, so that the incompetent soldiers will die cleanly! ”

Although Yang Meng was angry, he was very calm in his heart, Yang Meng could already figure out the tactics of the British and French forces, occupy the beachhead along the way, and consolidate one land supply station after another, with the land supply station, from Hong Kong Island to Beijing and Tianjin, they can be connected in a line.

The location of the Shandong Peninsula is important, with Millican's grain in the east and Hong Kong Island and Zhoushan in the south.

I want to fight a big battle of military training, and the British and French forces want to fight a war to destroy the country! With Shandong as a springboard, the upper invasion of the center of the Beijing division, the lower cut off the southern waterway, this battle started from Shandong, which was beneficial to the British and French forces, and occupied Shandong, and these foreign devils were invincible.

"Third master, how did you give the order from Shandong?"

In Yang Meng's words, let the Shandong people and horses take muskets to do the warship, Xu Ziwei only regarded it as an angry talk, and after saying the angry words, it was time to give a formal military order.

"Isn't it already down? If Shandong loses, let Shandong's men and horses take muskets to do warships! ”

"Third master, this ......"

"What is this, the center of gravity of the Anglo-French alliance is still in the area of Beijing and Tianjin, as long as the Shandong soldiers and horses show the heart of swearing to fight to the death, the Anglo-French alliance will naturally retreat, turn to attack Beijing and Tianjin, and land near Jinkou!

If Shandong fights softly, the Anglo-French coalition will gain an inch, telling the people on the other side of Shandong that this battle will not be defeated, if Shandong is lost, from the new army to the militia, no one will want to live! There is not a penny of money for the pension!

Send electricity to Shen Baozhen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if Shandong's Lian Yong loses Shandong, the foreign devil will be second, and Shandong's Lian Yong will be killed first! Not a single one to stay!

This military order was also issued to Shandong, and at this time, it will not be forced to ship! ”

The situation is such a situation, the Anglo-French coalition can raid Shandong and Liaodong, the number of people must not be large, this is the only reason that can explain the lack of news on the shadow side, if the Anglo-French coalition is a big attack, the shadow has no intelligence, then this mistake is too big!

"Third master, how can such a military order be issued? Hurt the hearts of the military! ”

This military order is not false, but since it was issued by the Yang family's system, it will inevitably lose people's hearts!

"Bastard, are you stupid too? This Feng Guifen and Shandong Lian Yong are nominally people of the imperial court, and they come with the meaning of the imperial court, so they say that it is the emperor's dictation!

At the time of the war, don't mess up your position, if the people and horses of Shandong really leave the coastal position and run, tell Feng Guifen, you don't have to be polite, kill them all! Such an instigator is a waste of food in the army, and if it is sent to the people, it is a traitor, but it can be killed but not kept!

If these people dare to fall into the grass with Lao Tzu's guns, kill their whole family! ”

The war came, Yang Meng restored the appearance of the butcher again, after these few orders were given, Xu Ziwei also added caution, whenever the third master had a strict expression, that is, when he said one or the other, it was irrefutable! (To be continued......)