But so what if we capture Nanjing, what if we capture 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of troops? It's like a castle built on the beach. It looks very majestic, but is smashed to pieces by a huge wave.

Just like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which focused almost all its troops on defending Nanjing, sooner or later it would be exhausted by the enemies surrounding it.

"Your Highness, all the IOUs have been prepared." Wang Jialu's reminder interrupted Huang Li's thoughts.

He smiled self-deprecatingly and wrote down the number of the last IOU until it reached one hundred, not even one hundred and one.

Now that I have the idea of ​​​​going to Nanchang for a half-month trip, it is not too much to lend him another one million. I still want to live for another five hundred years, so I can't spend it without money.

"Look, this is conscience. Although there is not much, you still know how to write IOUs. How valuable and benevolent. Robbing is too low-level and too embarrassing."

For the sake of money, Huang Li decided to be shameless again. He originally wanted to carve a carrot seal and use the name of the Prime Minister's Office, but in the end he decided against it.

Wanting and thinking at the same time is hypocritical!

Satisfied, Wang Jialu put away the IOU and resigned. He only waited for Duke Jing and his troops to arrive, so that he could borrow money confidently again.

Wang Jialu already has a lot of experience in how to borrow money quickly and well. After three consecutive critical hits, anyone will have to bow down and take the money.

He also ranked the rich merchants, with salt merchants being the richest, with eight thousand silver, which is a small thing; banks, pawn shops, silk shops, rice shops, etc., followed. There is Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, and the porcelain shop should be able to borrow a lot of money.

Huang Li didn't care about the specific matters of raising funds and buying shares, and let Wang Jialu do it. He even felt that this guy was a bit underserved in the Military Intelligence Department.

The IOU matter gave him inspiration, and he was expected to solve the historical problem of the Ming army not paying wages.

Giving land is indeed good, but giving money is a real benefit. If the money is not enough, then print money.

As long as there is no excessive issuance, as long as there is a deposit, the military and civilians can use banknotes to buy the goods they need, and it seems to be completely feasible to form an internal circulation economic operation.

"The most basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation are the first two. The most critical ones are to have clothes to wear but not to expose the flesh, and to have food to eat but not to eat. Having snatched so much food and supplies can be used as a deposit to make up for the lack of money."<

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Huang Li picked up a pen and paper, scribbled a few dots, and wrote a letter to the officials of the Prime Minister's Yamen, telling them his more and more perfect ideas, and they would discuss specific implementation methods.

"Government-run supply and marketing stations were established in counties and towns to sell looted materials as commodities; banknotes were used for loans, and the types of commodities should be increased to ensure that people can buy what they need; banknotes can be exchanged for silver in full, but

There is a deadline, one year or two years..."

Huang Li stopped writing, thinking that if he wanted to exchange for silver, he could make another fortune by casting it into silver coins.

Silver is seven cents and two cents. If you add some copper or something, you can treat it as one tael of silver. This is not a small profit. Even if it is increased to seven cents and five cents, and the processing fee is taken into account, it is still a huge profit!

This seems to be called seigniorage? Whatever, if you can make money, you are a good guy.

"There is actually not much demand for gold and silver coins for ordinary people, but copper coins are more suitable for daily consumption. In this case..."

Huang Li stopped writing and thought deeply for a long time.

………………

Anqing.

When the Ming navy broke into Jiujiang, a Qing sentry ship rushed downstream to call the police.

Jiangning General Zu Yonglie had just arrived in Anqing. Hearing the news, he was so frightened that he almost dropped his job.

"What are you doing? I just plan to walk slowly and see you off. But the Ming army seems to have misunderstood and actually came to fight."

Zu Yonglie felt aggrieved. The Ming army was really puzzled. He really didn’t want to fight, he just wanted to follow the Ming army and take credit for regaining the lost ground.

Not even bothering to finish the meal, he hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, if you have a fighting spirit, the normal reaction is to immediately send troops to either relieve the danger in Jiujiang, or to attack the enemy from inside or outside with the Jiujiang defenders.

This is no wonder Zu Yonglie, from the comparison of strength, his caution is right.

Mainly the Liangjiang Navy, or the Yangtze River Navy and the Jiangnan Navy, have declined greatly and lost the strong combat effectiveness in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, it was not only necessary to guard against attacks from the sea, but also to take the initiative to eliminate the anti-Qing forces based on coastal islands.

As the Hongguang, Longwu and other regimes fell one after another, a large number of surrendered troops provided the Qing Dynasty with naval personnel and warship weapons, which enabled the Qing court to begin to recognize the ocean, understand coastal defense, and then build a navy.

For example, in the occupation of Chongming Island, the attack on Zhoushan, etc., the Yangtze River Navy was still a very effective force.

In the seventh year of Shunzhi, the Ministry of War and the governor of Jiangnan began to argue repeatedly about the distribution of warships, naval establishment, and food and salary expenditures. It was not until February of the following year that a compromise was reached.

Although the Ministry of War agreed to expand the navy camp to meet the needs of driving ships, the total military strength and food and salary in the Jiangnan region must not be increased, and more land forces must be abolished in equal measure.

As a result, the soldiers who were abolished from the land camp were transferred to the water camp, but because they were not accustomed to water warfare, the combat effectiveness of the Yangtze River Navy was affected.

In the 11th year of Shunzhi, the problem of "defence must be repaired, money and food cannot be used to improve the defense", that is, lack of money, once again became an important factor restricting the construction of the navy.

Based on the consideration of the national war, the Qing government was unwilling to allocate funds for the expansion of the navy. Shipbuilding, ship repair, troop expansion, and increase in food and pay were all considered to be heavy burdens.

Therefore, in the middle period of Shunzhi, naval construction in Jiangnan was suspended, and the focus of coastal defense gradually shifted to coastal defense.

In the late Shunzhi period, in the naval and land battles with Zheng Chenggong, the Qing army was at a clear disadvantage in the naval battle, but had an advantage in the land battle.

This further strengthened the Qing government's decision to focus on coastal defense. The navy's status was marginalized and shipbuilding almost stagnated.

Just look at the current Yangtze River Navy, which is divided into outer water navy and inland river navy:

The offshore navy includes Wusong Camp, Chuansha Camp, Langshan Town Biaoyou Camp, Susong Town Biaoying, etc., a total of nine battalions;

The inland water division has two battalions under the jurisdiction of the Jingkou Marine Division, two battalions from the Taihu Marine Corps, Jiangnan Dubiao Youying, Yancheng, Miaowan, Liuhe, Fushan, etc., totaling thirteen battalions.

If added together, the Qing navy has 22 battalions, more than 15,000 officers and soldiers, and 300 to 400 warships of various sizes. On the surface, the strength is still very impressive.

But Zu Yonglie knew that, with the exception of the Waihai Navy, the main tasks of other naval forces had become material transportation and escort, rather than combat.

Among the three to four hundred warships, as well as the more than a hundred drafted canal boats, the rush boats, sand ships, and bluff ships are already considered the main force of the battle, and there are less than 200 ships. The rest are just patrol ships, sand ships, and bluff ships.

Bar boats, and various small boats.
Chapter completed!