Shen Youlong and Chen Zizhuang were relieved after Zhao Wenhe was relieved, even if they were deceived by Li Zhaoji, they would lose nothing, after all, the original customs in Guangdong Province did not have much money, but they would train a strong army from this, and the only conflict was the training plan of the Guangdong army.

Shen Youlong and Chen Zizhuang discussed that it would take one and a half to two years to first prepare the battalion troops in Guangdong Province, and after the thieves in Guangdong Province were eliminated, they would gather funds to train the new training army.

Therefore, everything has to be accelerated.

Of course, it also solved some troubles, such as Chen Ping's constant request that the Guangdong army should increase cavalry and firepower as much as possible, which is very consuming of military resources.

But Chen Ping's request was reasonable, and now it is not a problem, because the plan for the Northern Aid Country has been changed because of the information provided by Li Zhaoji.

At the beginning, Shen Youlong's plan to rescue the country in the north was divided into two, one was to aid the army and the other was to aid food. Because of the food aid, he supported the training of the water division at the beginning.

According to his plan at that time, after the sailors had trained and eliminated the four surnames, they would leave a fleet full of relatively cheap grain from Guangdong, which could be transported to Denglai and Liaoxi to support the front line. Of course, with the struggle of Chen Zizhuang and others and the involvement of Li Zhaoji, this plan has been aborted.

Because Chen Zizhuang and other gentry wanted to train a land combat force, Chen Zizhuang thought that the sailors and the land divisions could not have both, and the tariffs were only how much, and they would not be able to support the two armies.

And the gentry thought more simply, after exterminating the four surnames, the hegemony of Guangdong belongs to their ally Li Zhaoji, what else do you want the sailor to do? It's better to get another Lu Division, hold the handle of the knife, and the right to speak and influence will be enhanced.

If the fleet is gone, only reinforcements are left, because there is no fleet, so Shen Youlong's plan to send reinforcements north is completely different from Li Zhaoji.

In order to know about the national disaster of Jiashen, Li Zhaoji's original intention was to transport the army to Liaoxi by ship and join forces with Wu Sangui's Guanning army. The soldiers and horses of the imperial court were originally weaker than the Shun army and the Qing army next year, and if they were separated, wouldn't it be even weaker?

And Shen Youlong's plan is to send troops from Guangdong Province, advance to Huguang, and then go north according to the situation, if there is a shortage of food, then go down to the south of the Yangtze River, go north along the canal, if there is an opportunity, then enter the Nanyang Basin from Huguang, this is China's revolving door, from here, you can enter the Central Plains and Shaanxi Guanzhong, you can avoid the main force of the thieves, and first restore the country.

The most important thing about this route of march was that the whole process was fought on land, and he controlled all the army supplies and rations, and Li Zhaoji's army could only obey his orders. If you take the sea route, it may be impossible to say who will take the initiative.

But now, all this has been resolved, and the matter is urgent, and the northward support must be carried out by sea in order to directly rescue Gyeonggi.

Because of the sea route, the configuration of soldiers and horses will also change, Chen Ping can not insist on as many cavalry, the reason is very simple, the transportation capacity is insufficient, the space to transport one war horse, can transport five soldiers, and most importantly, the war horse is a very delicate animal, so far, no one can be sure that the war horse can be transported to Gyeonggi by warship, still alive, and still in battle.

If you die, then everything will be in vain.

Therefore, the cavalry did not need to think about it, they could train, but they could not go north, and according to Li Zhaoji's method, they only transported cavalry and equipment to the north, and then bought horses and put them into battle after they arrived at the locality. Not only that, but the two sides also agreed that after arriving in the north, the horses and mules they bought would be given priority to ensure the needs of artillery.

But this is only one of the details, the truth is that Li Zhaoji spent the most difficult five days of his life.

The establishment of the bank, the interest on the loan, the establishment of the Guangdong army, the itinerary, he quarreled with Shen Youlong, Chen Zizhuang and others for five whole days, and these two even directly entered the Hongbin Building with their henchmen, account rooms, and books, and the reason why they did not choose Nanyuan or Shen Youlong's mansion was because they would not be disturbed by other factors by others.

Shen Youlong and Chen Zizhuang are no longer young, but for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, the two of them showed enough spirit and spirit, and sometimes, when they remembered something in the middle of the night, they would call Li Zhaoji up to discuss.

It was five days of quarrelling, and it was five days of fighting, but after five days, everything came to fruition.

First of all, the bank was the first to be established, called the Guangdong Commercial Bank, which was different from the customs model led by the imperial court officials, dominated by the regimental defense bureau, and supervised by the Oriental Trading Company, the Guangdong Commercial Bank was not an official institution, but a purely private capital composition, so the power of the government could not be placed in it at all.

A total of twenty-three gentry from Canton Province took a stake in the bank, and Li Zhaoji himself took a stake in the name of the Oriental Trading Company, because the first and second loans of the Cantonese Tong were loans for the training of the imperial court and the Oriental Trading Company, and the amount was huge, so the shareholders had to come up with sufficient principal to meet this first round of expenses.

After the final discussion, the principal of Yuehai Bank was 1 million taels of silver, and although Li Zhaoji was a shareholder, he was also a borrower, so he could not take out the silver to buy shares, so he chose another way - to buy shares with grain.

Li Zhaoji agreed with the shareholders that before the 17th year of Chongzhen, 50,000 stone of Luzon rice would be transported to Hong Kong, and on 5 May, 150,000 stone of rice would be exported to Hong Kong.

And these are the principal of Oriental Trading Company's shares.

These will be used as the materials needed for the silk household loan, after all, after the loan to the imperial court and the Oriental trading company, the bank also has to run its own loan business, and the silk household loan is one of them.

The headquarters of Guangdong Pass was selected in Hong Kong, alongside the customs yamen, and branches were set up in Guangzhou, Huizhou, Dongguan and other places, and overseas Tamsui will also have branches.

In order to show his sincerity, on the day of the establishment of Yuetong, Li Zhaoji and his wife Bai Mo of the Western Courtyard came in person, and deposited his personal property, totaling 4,200 taels, into Yuetong.

Other high-level executives of trading companies also have their own storage, but they don't store as much as Li Zhaoji, which is meaningful.

To everyone's surprise, the Portuguese merchants of Macau were very interested in the establishment of the bank, but no one wanted to give them the status of shareholders, but this did not prevent them from depositing their funds in the bank, and as for the issuance of shares and the trading of shares, it was impossible for a short time.

Therefore, the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Oriental Trading Company each received loans, Li Zhaoji borrowed 200,000 taels, and the Guangdong Provincial Government borrowed 400,000 taels, all of which were collateralized by customs taxes.

The loan of the Oriental Trading Company was repaid in 10 years, while the loan of Guangdong Province was 15 years, and because everyone had money to do their own business, both sides made concessions in the distribution of customs revenues, and Li Zhaoji finally received 60 percent of the annual tariff surplus.

In fact, almost all of the 40 percent belonging to the imperial court was used to pay off debts, but the Oriental Trading Company had a surplus every year.

The interest set by the bank is 6 percent per annum, and the 400,000 taels of the Guangdong Provincial Government will be repaid, and the total principal and interest will be a little more than 600,000 taels, or a little more than 40,000 taels per year.

This shows the shrewdness of the shareholders, who estimate the annual income of the customs of Guangdong Province at 100,000 taels, and 40 percent of the revenue of Guangdong Province, which is naturally 40,000 taels.

With money, it is necessary to train the troops, because they need to come to the north by sea, so the cavalry does not have to think about it, but it solves a big problem, but Chen Ping finds it difficult to accept the configuration of the Eastern Brigade.

The infantry of the Eastern Brigade was all riflemen, the difference was only that they were tall and doubled as grenadiers, and two companies were planned to be armed with rifled guns as chasers.

Although each infantry was equipped with a bayonet, the officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty still doubted that such an army could withstand the massive onslaught of cavalry.

There are a number of reasons why Lee Chiu-ji is so organized, one of which is that when he was conducting joint training in Hong Kong, when faced with the infantry with bayonets, as long as the infantry was strong and fearless enough, the cavalry would not be able to disperse.

The second reason is simpler, Li Zhaoji plans to reequip all the Eastern Brigade with flintlock pistols in the future.

However, because the time was so tight, the trading company arsenal could not solve the problem of mass production of flintlock parts, so the Eastern Brigade could only be equipped with arquebuses.

This is mainly due to the fact that the steel used in the reed cannot be produced by itself, and the quality of the steel purchased from Jiangnan and other places is unstable. There is also flint, because there was no large-scale flintlock pistol force before, so the Oriental Trading Company could not find a high-quality supply of flint for a while, and he would not equip his soldiers with pyrite like the later Prussian kings, so the firing rate would be too low.

Regarding the issue of the arms of the Eastern Brigade, Li Zhaoji was also muttering in his heart, although the Tamsui battalion conducted joint training with the cavalry in Hong Kong, it was not a real battle.

Later experience proved that flintlock units equipped with bayonets could face the cavalry in large formations.

And the difference between a flintlock pistol and an arquebus is the rate of fire, an arquebus with only half the rate of fire of a flintlock pistol, plugged into a bayonet, can it be resisted?

With Chen Ping's insistence, Li Zhaoji also began to retreat, and in the end, conservatism triumphed over radicalism, and rationality triumphed over enthusiasm.

Considering that the Dongfang Brigade would inevitably be composed mainly of new recruits who had only undergone two or three months of training, Li Zhaoji had no choice but to choose to be conservative, but he was not prepared to change the configuration of the Dongfang Brigade, but to allocate another batch of armored spearmen to the Dongfang Brigade, and to incorporate the existing armored spearmen into the vanguard camp to form an armored unit of 500 people.

Chen Ping still could not accept Li Zhaoji's choice, and he also had to consider the quality and cost of the new army's training.

Therefore, the new training army and the new army still use the model of the Tamsui battalion, and the armored spearmen and arquebusiers are half and half, in addition to considering the cavalry, cost is also an important consideration.

The cold weapons needed by the new Guangdong army, whether it is armor or all kinds of knives and spears, can be drawn from the old troops, and there is almost no cost, but the musketeers are different, Chen Ping investigated the bird guns of the battalions of the town standard and the supervision standard, and there are not many common ones, if it is a full musketeer, it can not be so much.

Even so, the New Cantonese Army purchased 500 arquebuses from the Oriental Trading Company.

But even if this is done, the expenses of the new Cantonese army are still very large, mainly because of military salaries.

Because of the urgency of time, it was too late to recruit villagers and train them into an army, both the new training army and the Eastern Brigade were recruiting experienced troops, and Li Zhaoji's Eastern Brigade pulled in all the people who could use muskets among the four pirates, while the baggage and sappers were mainly mountain barbarians who had restored their civilian status.

But the Ming army is different, the new training and the new formation of the Ming army are all looking for elite soldiers in the old battalions and guards. The newly formed army was mainly composed of the town standard and Shen Youlong's supervision standard, which originally belonged to Lin Cha, and also drew people from several Shuizhai generals.

The new training camp is based on the regimental training of the original water division, and people are drawn from various David institutes and inspection divisions.

These soldiers all have one thing in common - they have been in arrears for a long time.

If there is no money, people will definitely not want to enter the new Guangdong army, and if they want to move them, the promise of sufficient food and pay is not enough, and the salary must be repaid.

At the time of recruitment, the Cantonese army first paid three months' salary to obtain sufficient manpower, and also promised that when they left the province to fight, everyone would be given an additional three months' salary as a miscellaneous expense such as opening and settling down.

These two items alone are half a year's military salary.

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