Chapter 115: Preparing for a decisive battle

Who is orthodox between Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Xiongying?

Each has its own version of the story. Zhu Yunwen's orthodoxy is inherently flawed.

This reason can still motivate people to go to war at first, but after a long time, it will not work.

Without him, the Ming court was not as entrenched as imagined. After all, for the people in many places, the Ming Dynasty has only been more than 20 years, and many old people still remember what the previous dynasty was like.

The internal problems of the Ming royal family, the brothers compete for the throne, let them fight to the death. Who wants to?

Don't forget that the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty has only been more than 20 years. What kind of people the war was, many still remember. In the end, the Ming Dynasty was still in the rising period of the country, and most of the people had their own way out. The more you live, the better.

In this case, it can be summarized as the people's mind. Of course I don't want to fight.

And Qi De's loyalty to the Ming court in his heart is even above his loyalty to Zhu Yunwen. He knew that if the confrontation between the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty was formed, it would not be a one-year or two-year war, but a war that lasted for decades or even generations.

This is a disaster for the people of the world.

Of course, the world must be one. It is absolutely impossible for him to surrender to Beijing. After all, this is contrary to his beliefs in being a human being. But if the stalemate continues, it will also be defeated, and if you fight, you may be able to win.

Defeat is not an early perish.

In Zid's heart, it may not be impossible.

Not to mention, the fall of Fang Xiaoru has made Nanjing and Beijing have a strong convergence in policy. Many people who insisted on opposing the change of the law also changed their minds.

Except for the emperor, the two sides are developing in almost the same direction in other aspects.

In this case, there is no point in continuing to fight.

In the battle between the North and the South, there were two major contradictions. The first is the struggle for the throne, and the second is the dispute over the change of law. Now the controversy over changing the law is actually gone. The battle for the throne is also meaningless for more people.

Ding Xian saw that Qi De was like this, and the first thought in his heart was that he didn't seem to say yes to him. Just perfunctory, "Okay."

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The Mansion of the Duke of Cao.

Yao Guangxiao said to Li Jinglong, "I'm leaving."

Li Jinglong didn't know what Yao Guangxiao meant by seeing him this time. Hearing Yao Guangxiao suddenly say that he was leaving, he frowned slightly and said, "There was an agreement before. You can't leave the Cao Guo Mansion."

He remembered the help Yao Guangxiao had given him during this period of time.

Yao Guangxiao served as Li Jinglong's think tank during this period, guiding Li Jinglong to make a lot of money in the issuance of new banknotes, earning nearly 10 million yuan. That's not a small amount.

Before that, all the family properties under the Cao Guo Mansion were probably this number.

Li Jinglong is very grateful to Yao Guangxiao.

Li Jinglong said, "If Mr. Yao feels bored in the house, he can go to my other courtyard to relax. However, it cannot appear elsewhere in Nanjing. After all, Jinyi Guards are not all incompetent."

Yao Guangxiao said, "I know. I'm not here to relax, though. It's about going back to Beijing."

"Back to Beijing?" Li Jinglong was taken aback and said, "What are you going back to Beijing for? He Shoufu is not Mr. Pai, you are in charge of the overall situation in Nanjing? Why are you going to leave all of a sudden? Is there any order from He Shoufu?"

"It's not." Yao Guangxiao said, "I don't need me here. I have bigger things to prepare for."

Li Jinglong said, "Something bigger? What's the matter?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "The decisive battle, the world has been falling apart for several years, it has been long enough, and it is going to be one."

As soon as Yao Guangxiao's words came out, Li Jinglong was taken aback. In an instant, his train of thought shifted from the business arena to the battlefield. During this period of time, Li Jinglong did not pay much attention to the battlefield.

Without him, the thing of making money is too addictive. Not to mention, his relationship with Yao Guangxiao, even if Beijing conquers Nanjing, he has nothing to do. It is still glorious and rich.

In that case, why care?

It's just that the decisive battle still shocked Li Jinglong. After all, he was born in Jiangmen. I am very interested in war, not to mention that this decisive battle between the north and the south is a big whirlpool that no one can escape.

Li Jinglong also can't get rid of it.

Li Jinglong said, "Decisive battle, at this time? Is it appropriate?"

Yao Guangxiao said, "It's almost time. My family is a cautious person. Especially in the war, since the battle of the river, there have been many attacks, but in fact, they are all situational attacks, leaving a sense of proportion, and there has never been a time when there is an idea of finishing the battle. This was also in line with the situation at the time. After the Battle of Hejian, although our army won a great victory, the situation of being strong in the south and weak in the north has not changed."

"But that's no longer the case. The battle in the northwest has two major benefits for our army. The first benefit is the cavalry, and the cavalry in Nanjing can come to an end. Because they have no horses. All the land is in my hands."

Li Jinglong was stunned when he heard this, and secretly said in his heart, "Isn't it?"

The cavalry in Beijing was superior to that of Nanjing in terms of quantity, but in terms of quality, there was not much difference between the two sides. In the Battle of Yulin, the cavalry of the Southern Army was also suppressed with human lives.

Beijing's horse breeding land is in the northwest, not to mention the horse farm in Gansu Shandanwei and the horse farm in Xining, that is, many places in Longxi are good horse farms.

For a while, it may not have much impact. But war horses are consumables, after a big battle, the most loss is the war horse, as long as there are a few battles, the cavalry of the southern army will have no war horses.

Although the age of firearms arrived, it had a great impact on the cavalry. But the speed advantage of the cavalry, in this era has a new development. For a long time, anti-cavalry combat was still a necessary subject for infantry. Until the machine gun matures, such a thing will not change.

One side has cavalry, one side has no cavalry, and the side without cavalry will have a huge strategic passivity.

A lot of people don't think about that.

"The second benefit," Yao continued, "the Southern Army has dried up. Our side is attacking, and the southern army is defending, and with such a long defensive line, soldiers are needed everywhere, and we don't know everything at all."

Li Jinglong said, "Not bad. Is this the truth, but these two sides are sure to have a decisive battle? Isn't it too hasty?"

Yao Guangxiao said: "This is only a problem on the battlefield, I will talk about the battlefield. First, the Nanjing Treasury will not last long."

Li Jinglong said, "I think the imperial court is very generous now."

Yao Guangxiao said, "That's a return to the light. In fact, there is skill in issuing banknotes, even if you don't know how to do it, look at how the Southern Song Dynasty did it in the history books. The Southern Song Dynasty maintained at least a dozen Jiaozi. If Ding Xianneng is selfless and selfless, it is not impossible to maintain the new banknotes for many more years. However, the new banknotes are congenitally insufficient, and Ding Xian's mind is not right. There are so many problems here. If it can last for two or three years, it will be an eye-opener. And God doesn't look at it, my arrangement for so many years, if I can't make him collapse. It's me, Yao Guangxiao, who is incompetent."

For this, Li Jinglong believes it. Without him, Ding Xian used many methods in order to let the new banknotes be implemented, one of which was to let the Ming magnates participate in it, which invisibly weakened the imperial court's right to speak on this matter.

Although Yao Guangxiao did not come forward in person, he participated in the whole process behind the scenes. It can even be said that Ding Xian issued new banknotes so smoothly, and he wanted to thank the hero for being none other than Yao Guangxiao.

Of course, it is not Yao Guangxiao's credit alone. Yao Guangxiao found a lot of people from Beijing to be think tanks. It was the Beijing banking industry that has cultivated elite talents for more than ten years and gave Ding Xian advice.

If Ding Xian doesn't do it well, then it's a problem.

But He Xi made such a big effort, and Yao Guangxiao took so much effort. I'm not here to be Lei Feng. Li Jinglong didn't know how many traps and secret hands Yao Guangxiao had planted in the matter of issuing new banknotes.

If Ding Xian is selfless, Ding Xian will deal with some problems. But Ding Xian is not, Ding Xian also wants to bury some means that he can use in this system.

As a result, Nanjing's issuance of new banknotes was not much better than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, this if it is with Zhu Yuan

Compared with Zhang's treasure banknotes, it is estimated that it is not a derogatory term. After all, there is no top-level design at all, and there is no way to compare with this.