Facts have proved that this world is the same without anyone, and the war on the Western Front has experienced a short defeat without Liu Ziguang's participation, and finally developed in the direction of favoring the Ming army.

The good news is frequent, and there can be twelve telegrams a day, judging from the front line of Tongguan, the court officials are ecstatic, the Henan Ming army went west out of Tongguan, and the Western Xia army was defeated, and the Xixia army was victorious, and in just ten days, hundreds of battles were carried out, and the few were cut dozens of levels, and the most were cut thousands, and the Western Xia army drove more than 100 miles to the west.

Yuan Chonghuan is a famous general, the monarch and the ministers praised each other, and all the requests for more troops and food and salaries on the Western Front agreed to 500,000 taels of silver, and immediately loaded the car to Tongguan to reward the three armies, and another 100,000 loads of military rations, a large number of gunpowder, iron cannons, and armor were loaded and loaded to the front line, almost emptying the warehouses of the capital household and military headquarters, and even Liu Ziguang did not spend so many materials in the war.

But no one in the court raised the question of Yuan Chonghuan's waste, and fighting a war is an economy, as long as you can win the war, it is not a big deal to spend more silver. Anyway, in the past two years, Daming's economic situation has been much better, and it should all be spent to buy peace.

In fact, there is a deeper problem, that is, Yuan Chonghuan's victory can offset Liu Ziguang's prestige in the hearts of the people, when Liu Ziguang went into the wilderness, there were some discordant voices in the civil and military circles, saying that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to win the battle without Zhenwuhou, and Yuan Chonghuan's victory was equivalent to a resounding slap in the face of these people.

In the past few days, Zhu Youxiao has been very happy, and from time to time he muttered proudly in front of Wei Zhongxian: "Liu Aiqing thought that if I picked a child, I would be blind, and I had to obediently hand over the military power to him, hehe, I thought it was wrong, I didn't have Liu Ziguang and Yuan Chonghuan." ”

When Liu Ziguang handed over the military power of Shandong, together with his own position as the Minister of the Guards and the Governor of Nanchang, he also resigned, Zhu Youxiao was happy and a little unhappy, because he felt that this was Liu Ziguang demonstrating to himself, and wanted to wait to see his jokes, when Yuan Chonghuan was defeated in Shaanxi first, Zhu Youxiao once wanted to ask Liu Ziguang to go out of the mountain to preside over the military affairs of Shaanxi, but in the end he held back, because Huang Zongxi told him that if an emperor only has one general to rely on, then the emperor will not be long in coming. Now that Yuan Chonghuan is so competitive, he turned defeat into victory, and the Western Xia army was defeated, which not only recovered the face of the Ming Dynasty, but also saved Zhu Youxiao's face, how not to make him happy.

Wei Zhongxian was also very happy, whenever Zhu Youxiao was repeating in front of him, he always flattered and said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

The military communications of the Ming army mainly relied on long-wave radio stations and expedited fast horse radio firing towers, and the construction investment was very large, and the core technology was in the hands of the Song Dynasty, and so far only a number of people have been built in the coastal areas for the communication of sailors, while the army on the 6th floor can only use portable radio stations, and the transmission distance is relatively close, because the cost is expensive, and professional and technical personnel are needed to operate, so in addition to the Red Shirt Army, which is equipped with more equipment, the ordinary Ming army is not qualified to equip even the generals at the level of the general army, and the entire Western Front battlefield is just a radio station.

Now Yuan Chonghuan has moved west to Tongguan, because the signal in the mountainous area is not good, so the radio station is still in Luoyang, and the war report must be sent to Luoyang through 600 miles of expedited delivery, and then the Luoyang radio station will be sent to the relay station of Xuzhou Prefecture, and the Xuzhou radio station will be sent to the capital after the telegram is translated, and it will be directly sent to Zhu Youxiao's desk without going through any department.

In the afternoon of this day, the telegram from Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of the Western Route Army, came again, Zhu Youxiao brought it, and Long Mu couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Inspector Yuan is really a famous general in the world, and promised me to recover Shaanxi within three months, but this is too much. He had just been given 500,000 taels, which was not enough, and he needed two million taels of silver and a large number of firearms. ”

Wei Zhongxian held the dust and accompanied the attendant on the side, and when he heard the words, he said: "As a slave, it costs a lot to see Inspector Yuan fighting, but it is only two million taels of silver, and it is not a loss to be able to exchange Shaanxi back." ”

Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "Yes, two million taels for a province, of course, it is cost-effective, and the shares I invested in China Merchants will have a dividend of two million a year, and now we have silver in the Ming Dynasty, even if we use silver to smash it, we can also smash those Western Xia troops to death." Xiao Weizi showed the telegram to the cabinet and said, I think it's okay, let the household department prepare to pay the money. ”

The exclusive text version of this work may not be reproduced without permission, and excerpts for more of the latest and fastest chapters can be found here.! There is no impermeable wall in the world, the news that the Western Route Army is about to recover Shaanxi was immediately revealed, the first thing that was affected was the stock market, the original slump of the western ticket was frantically pulled up, from the position of falling below the market price skyrocketed several times, and the northern ticket, which has reached a high level, has fallen because of the stability of the war and there is no expected good.

In the Zhenwu Marquis Mansion, Liu Ziguang took the same telegram as Zhu Youxiao's hand, and asked Peng Jingrong suspiciously: "The western tickets on the market were actually copied and bought out more than ten days in advance, so that now they have a price, no market, and no amount of empty rise, what kind of person did this?" Don't you know that you guys open an exchange? ”

Peng Jingrong said: "War stocks are freely bought and sold, bearer stocks are exempt from trading commissions, so they don't have to be traded on the exchange, only if you have silver in your hand, you can buy Western tickets in any big teahouse in Shanghai or Beijing, our exchange can't monitor all trading activities, as for someone to get the news a few days in advance, it must be that there is news leaked out in advance from the West Route Army." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "This is strange, last month, the Western Route Army lost 50,000 people in Shaanxi, Tongguan was in a hurry, and it hasn't been a few days since it turned defeat into victory, could it be that the Jade Emperor sent heavenly soldiers and generals to help Yuan Dashuai fight?" Besides, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, how can he be sure that with the silver, he can recover Shaanxi in three months? And he swore that otherwise, no one would have rushed to buy the West ticket in advance. ”

"In short, the abnormality is a demon, whether it is the war situation or the stock market, no one can say what the situation is now, but it is always a good thing to win the battle, and it is not a violation of the trading rules, we can only take one step at a time." Peng Jingrong said.

This is very helpless, because the exchange has been established for a short time, the rules are not perfect, everything is moving forward in exploration, and people can only stare at it if they find loopholes and exploit them.

Liu Ziguang silently said that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated, the stock exchange was operated in just a few months, and some people learned to use inside information to build a rat warehouse to make huge profits.

Wireless telegraphy technology is the product of military cooperation between the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, all the coastal towers are jointly managed by the two countries, and the various shooting stations and relay stations in the interior are in the hands of the South Factory, and each radio operator is trained by the South Factory, so as long as the official documents and war reports transmitted by telegraph cannot escape Liu Ziguang's eyes, when Zhu Youxiao gets the telegram, Liu Ziguang will also get him, he is not as good as Zhu Youxiao, he is dazed when he sees the good news, and the great changes in the Shaanxi war situation make him very suspicious, but he can't say why, plus this rat warehouse incident, the war situation in Shaanxi is even more confusing。

"Let Nanchang send some capable fans to Shaanxi to see the situation." Liu Ziguang's order to Sun Gang is written like this, although he is no longer the governor of Nanchang, but this spy organization he established is still under his control, and his admiral's main hall and all the furnishings are kept for him.

In addition to investigating the Shanxi military intelligence, the South Factory also allocated some manpower to monitor the stock trading, and the establishment of the securities trading market was to promote the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, not for the selfish interests of some people.

Liu Ziguang bought the most large blue-chip stocks of China Merchants, and now this stock has paid dividends and shares many times, and the stock price is still high among dozens of stocks and bonds on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and there is no market, and you can't buy it with silver.

It's no wonder that China Merchants is too profitable, even the highly profitable North Ticket is not as good as the stock of China Merchants, and the mercenaries of China Merchants have occupied large tracts of land overseas, opened countless plantations, pastures, and mines, and used cheap Nanyang natives to work at very low costs; Every day, thousands of cargo ships are busy on various routes, transporting all kinds of minerals, grains, rough processing of industrial semi-finished products from overseas back to the Ming Dynasty, loading local high-quality and low-cost Songjiang cotton cloth, Hangzhou silk, various porcelain, industrial products, and even weapons on sea ships to sell overseas at high prices, in exchange for countless gold and silver currencies, the Ming Dynasty is absorbing the milk from all over the world, and slowly becoming more and more powerful.

I heard that China Merchants opened up the Tianzhu route, occupied a port city called Mumbai in the east of Tianzhu country, and even rented and robbed tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, where the labor is cheap to death, the grain crops are ripe three times a year, and the price is cheaper than Siamese rice, and the whole ship of rice is transported to the country, and the granaries of the imperial court are full of old rice in previous years are fed to the military horses, and the Ming Dynasty no longer worries about famine because of bad years.