Chapter 379: The Stronger the Wind and Waves, the More Expensive the Fish
At this time, the battle of Cangbomen was basically over......
Those lustful warriors, after all, are not really able to ignore death.
The massive use of Molotov cocktails has even created a sea of fire under the city walls, and the rising flames make the defenders on the city walls dare not show their heads, because they are afraid of being led to burn themselves, and even the oil drums of those kerosene lampposts are opened, after all, it is easy to ignite the lampposts in this high temperature, and they are not needed to illuminate them now anyway, and both sides of the moat are illuminated red.
It's not just the oil that's burning below, it's the Lust Warriors who have been set on fire.
They are more resistant to burning.
After all, they belong to solid fuels.
And the subsequent warriors looked at this wall of fire, and the only thing they could do was to retreat in terror.
Fortunately, because of the flames, the defenders could not go out of the city to pursue, and could only watch the remnants of the defeated soldiers disappear into the dark mountain forest.
In the end, it can be said that they have been planning for a long time, and even relying on internal and external cooperation, coupled with the capture of the national abbot, the leading party to complete the raid, or ended in failure, and it is estimated that there will be no next time, after all, there are not many warriors who dare to rush to the sea of fire against bullets and shotguns, so far, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of warriors who have died on the battlefields everywhere, if it weren't for the loyalty of those gentry, in the current situation, the Beijing counterattack can be.
Of course, a counterattack must not be counterattacked, and it is better to defend the city wall and shoot targets.
However, the follow-up reinforcements of the Jianwen Dynasty are still coming, and Governor Hu only brings the imperial camp, but the Jianwen Dynasty not only has the imperial camp, but also the guards in various places are still maintained.
It's just that loyalty is limited.
What's more, as the war continued, especially the news of the siege of the capital, the gentry from all over the country, especially the gentry in the areas originally controlled by the imperial court, joined the ranks of following the royal division like a carnival.
There were even some gentry who rushed from Changsha to Nanchang with their loyalists and joined the ranks of the downstream.
However, Wang Bi is still attacking Wuchang, although the Wuchang gentry welcomed Wang Shi in large numbers, but his son-in-law still refused to surrender to him, in short, he was still blocked in Wuchang, but he and his son-in-law did not really fight, mainly because he should want to see Jianwen's imperial camp wiped out in the capital. The latter went north alone, wasn't he afraid that he would go to the capital first to attack the capital first, since this was the case, there was no need to worry, Wang Bi knew very well what the result of Governor Hu's attack on the capital was, so he just waited for the news of his annihilation in Wuchang.
As for whether the capital can be opened, it doesn't matter to Wang Bi, what he wants is secession, and the biggest enemy of his secession is not the capital.
Rather, it was the Canton court.
His secession of Guangxi and Annam is the last place for the imperial court in the capital, even if it is to be destroyed, he is already in his seventies.
How many years will you live?
But those civil officials in the Guangzhou court have been secretly poking and poking to take away his power.
As for the national abbot, under the full rescue of the imperial doctors......
Or the rescue failed.
In the end, the abbot was also loyal to the country.
However, since his daughter is the queen mother of the country, it is natural for him to be loyal to the country.
"So it's really self-inflicted, but if he does a better job of guarding and patrolling, he won't end up putting himself in it."
Ambassador Yang was just as schadenfreude over the tragedy of the country.
Of course, the poor Guozhang didn't know that everything was in Yang Feng's design, he and the little princess deliberately ignored the Guozhang, and even added fuel to the fire, such as the profiteer who sold the armor to the guards, that is, a certain Shanxi businessman, and he also told the uncle that there was no need for carburizing at all, anyway, it would be meaningless when the guards were really needed to go to the battlefield. Sell the best quality armor to the guards, but actually provide the worst wrought iron armor, and then the difference is three or seven kai, twenty-eight kai, eighty percent to the uncle, take it to the generals of the clan in-laws, and even the uncle of the country opened a factory to make his own flintlock pistol at his suggestion.
And then of course he provided the springs and other parts.
Of course, it must be inferior goods.
But Uncle Guo also knows.
But the inferior spring plate can also shoot bullets after all, but it doesn't take a few hits, and if you really have to purchase normal parts, how can he make money.
The Ministry of Industry, Little Princess's factory, and even Sugang's private factory can now all provide high-quality spring plates.
There are also smuggled goods from Foshan that go to Fujian merchants to buy.
Even smuggled goods are cheaper, after all, the cost of factory workers in Foshan is much lower than that in Beijing, in fact, in addition to the fact that the quality of goods in Beijing is indeed higher, others have long been unable to compete outside, after all, the cost of factory workers in the little princess is too high, even in Suzhou, and even in the private factories in the capital, the cost of workers is much lower than that of the little princess's factory.
Of course, the little princess doesn't care about the cost or not, the money is printed by her, what is the cost and not the cost.
Even the technology was diffused by her.
All large customers with large bank deposits can receive some aspects of technical support.
Everything depends on your deposit in the bank, as long as you deposit enough, clocks, weapons, machinery, etc., all kinds of technology can be bought from her, that is, some obvious profits, such as mirrors, etc., this will definitely not be passed on, so the source of Jianwen Dynasty's military technology is actually from her. This is also the main reason why Daming's current science and technology can be called explosive growth, otherwise in any case, just a few years is not enough to make Daming's science and technology progress so rapidly.
But the little princess's move seems silly, in fact, she has already passed the initial stage of making money, because banks have always had a financial monopoly, especially the right to issue money, and the result of the explosive growth of the entire country's economy is that the amount of money in circulation is becoming more and more insufficient, and then she prints money casually.
You can't print it.
Not printing is deflation.
Although even Cantonese businessmen have access to technology, this seems to be a brain pump.
But what is the result?
It was the Guangdong businessman himself who invited the bank over again.
Liangguang Annan, which also originally banned treasure banknotes, began to circulate treasure money again.
As for Uncle Guo, no matter where he purchased, it was more than three times that provided by the Shanxi merchant.
This thing needs the best quality iron ore, and then the best is selected from the smelted steel, and then further refined, and then it requires a cumbersome heat treatment process, which step is indispensable, and even the workers have to be the best, and the cost cannot be greatly reduced. For Uncle Guo, the difference between the regular products is not worth mentioning at all, not so cheap that the price is very different, how can he make money, purchase this kind of cheap goods with a price of less than one-third of the regular products, and then deceive his father and his sister with the price of regular products.
Isn't there such a huge profit?
As for the consequences......
What consequences can it be!
Aren't the guards just putting on a show?
It's all the guards who are guarding the imperial city, and such a country should die quickly!
However, in the end, he was cheated by his father.
Of course, it's not a bad thing for himself......
After all, his father still has the title of duke, and of course his father's death will be his.
"The Queen Mother is going crazy, and now she is searching for Yu Dang in the city, although she suspects Xie Jin, but I don't know why after being summoned, she no longer suspects it, but the spy Jin Youzi sent by Guangzhou has been arrested, I don't know if he will confess Xie Jin."
Haruhime said.
It is normal for Xie Jin to coax the Queen Mother.
The latter is not very smart, just the IQ of an ordinary person, and rarely goes out of the palace, everything outside is left to her father, and her father has always regarded Xie Jin as a cronie, although her father should not really believe in Xie Jin, but she does not have much doubt about the latter. After all, this kind of woman is a traditional ideological education, and the scholar Xie is rich and talented, at least she is indispensable for loyalty, and in the eyes of the Queen Mother, this is naturally a loyal minister.
Of course, this is no longer important, after this battle, the combatable forces hidden in the capital of the Jianwen Dynasty should be basically cleaned up.
Even if there is, they can only get some information, and they don't have the ability to open the city gates.
"Since that's the case, let's continue to fight, tell Tang Sheng a few, as long as you don't let the enemy enter the outer wall, and they will take care of the rest."
Yang Feng said.
At this time, it was all heavy artillery bombardment of the city wall, especially the 10,000-pound cannon, regardless of the destructive power of the city wall, purely in terms of range, it was no problem for a cannon shell of this level to fly four or five kilometers, and it was still easy to cause damage when it fell in the city. The 10,000-jin cannon cast by the Jianwen Dynasty is the Suojiang cannon in the capital, but because the casting technology and bronze refining technology are poor, and the city wall of the capital must be blasted as much as possible, so it is slightly lengthened, and it can only be thickened in order to ensure safety.
In the end, it reached a weight of more than 8,000 catties, and shouted a 10,000-pound cannon in order to be imposing.
The shells weighed thirty pounds, or about forty pounds, but the fact that they were able to forge a cannon of this caliber was enough to prove that they had made significant progress.
Of course......
It was also forced.
In order to cast these cannons, the gentry of Ji'an and other prefectures donated all the bronze bells of the temple, the bronze utensils of the people, and even the ancestral copper coins buried in the vats at many people's homes.
If these giant cannons break through the outer wall and basically set up at the riverside wharf outside Qingliangmen, they can hit the cannonballs on Yangfeng's Wutai Mountain.
So try to avoid it.
In short, now the first wave of danger in the capital has passed, although it is still under siege, to be precise, it is an attack, after all, there is no enemy downstream, and after a series of defeats, Hu Zizhao's army has had to stop, temporarily turn to the defense at the two defensive points of Moling Pass and Dasheng Pass, and wait for subsequent reinforcements to arrive. At least until they get enough reinforcements, they won't be able to continue the attack, and as for their reinforcements, it depends on how many fish they can catch this time.
"The bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish!"
Yang Feng, who was standing on the shore of the Caspian Sea, said to the vast surface of the Caspian Sea.
At this time, the Western Regions had been basically pacified......
In fact, there wasn't much fighting.
This rebellion was originally forced by Timur by Zhu Di, after he came back from a series of defeats, those emirs everywhere were not interested in continuing to mix with him, and it happened that Shaharu welcomed the king, then everyone followed to welcome the king, and after Timur's death, the vast majority of them welcomed the king. In the end, it was only the group of Pyrma Hema who refused to welcome the king, but he refused because Shaharu was already the king of Samarkand, and of course he could not surrender to his fourth uncle.
Therefore, he is now left in the entire Western Regions, and they are also in the group of Deyi Erchak, and they do not continue to stay in the Hindara, after all, they know their strength very well.
The group eventually withdrew to the Nogai steppe and, before Tokhtamysh had returned, crossed the Ural River back to the Kipchak steppe.
In total, they had less than 30,000 cavalry.
Although this strength is not worth mentioning against the Ming Dynasty, it is still a powerful force in Eastern Europe.
The rest is nothing more than nomadism, looting, they originally lived like this, and they are still like this, how to deal with them is a matter of Tokhtamysh, the Golden Horde or the king of Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty, after following Zhu Di to sweep West Asia, finally went north with a full harvest, and returned to the Kipchak steppe that belonged to him through the earband, and also attracted a bunch of minions such as Chechens and Dagestanis. As for the Ming army, including the coalition army of Guilichi, all withdrew to the east of the Ural River, the Ming did not lie to him, saying that he would give him the seal of Ezir, in short, he needed to solve the Pyrma Hema group in the east, the Shadibe group in the west, Vytautas in the northwest, and Vasily, the Grand Duke of Moscow in the north.
How it turned out to be up to him.
Of course, if he wants, he can also ask Daming to send troops again.
Would he like to?
Of course not.
He understands the truth that it is easy for God to send God.
He himself is quite capable of solving this, after all, if he had not lost to Timur, he would have been the hegemon of the steppes of Eastern Europe.
Now that Timur is gone, he has no worries, he doesn't have to worry about his south, just let go and deal with those forces in Eastern Europe, whoever dares to resist will kill him, last time he captured Moscow, it's a big deal to capture it again, in short, he will continue his dream of being the hegemon of Eastern Europe in the future, and he is now backed by the trade of the Ming Dynasty, and his strength has also increased significantly.
As for Zhu Di already returning, it is said that he is almost in Herat, and then he also took a bunch of tribute envoys who had just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, to the south to the Lianghe Plain, and to the west to the Bosphorus, all of whom were theoretically already vassals of the Ming Dynasty. After learning of Timur's death, all the powerful people in Persia did not hesitate to choose to continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and as the commander of the Persian capital, they were controlled by Shahru, so in fact, nothing changed. The Ming will not send officials to their territory, nor will they collect taxes from them, they are all commanding envoys, of course, they do not have to pay taxes, but the annual tribute is definitely there, in fact, it will not be too much, and the Ming requirements for them are to submit.
And then there's everything in the realm of surrender.
All.
When the Ming needed them to send troops, they had to send troops to fight for the Ming, when the Ming needed them to increase the amount of tribute, they had to increase the amount of tribute, and when the Ming needed to send officials to them, they also had to accept these officials.
Since they still surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they have to do whatever the Ming Dynasty wants them to do.
Nothing now is just a matter of now, from the moment they choose to be loyal to the Ming Emperor, it is their obligation to obey the will of the Ming Emperor.
No matter what the will.