Yinuoya!

"The Cao Transportation Force is no longer able to compete with our Fengchi Group on the river. This is because of the greed and endless enslavement of those Cao Transportation officials, which has made them lose their hearts. But now they have changed from land to fight against the Fengchi Group, and the Fengchi Group's power is far less powerful than being able to control such a vast area. We need the support of the court."

Aunt Xu said to Zhang Cheng who had just arrived with a serious expression.

Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "Our family understands this, but you also have to consider Your Majesty's difficulties. Now the nine border towns are undergoing military reforms one after another, which has caused dissatisfaction among many people. If Your Majesty is in the south where the troops are sent, it may cause unpredictable consequences. You must understand that the south is my Ming Dynasty's granary, and Your Majesty is not willing to take this risk for the time being."

Aunt Xu immediately said: "But if Your Majesty does nothing, it will instead prompt them to unite to deal with us."

"You are right. Your Majesty has also considered this, but...!"

Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "But it will take time for them to unite. There are conflicts between them. You Yinuoyaxing can use their conflicts to stop them from uniting. The Jinyiwei will provide you with some help."

Aunt Xu nodded and said, "I understand."

Zhang Cheng said again: "There is another thing, that is, this year, the taxes on Kaifeng, Wei Hui, Huaiqing and Guide are not required to be paid to the Ministry of Revenue. His Majesty plans to directly allocate the money to Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Jizhou as military pay."

Aunt Xu looked at Kou Weisha.

Kou Weisha hurriedly said, "No problem."

"Okay, let's say goodbye first."

As soon as Zhang Cheng left, Kou Weisha said excitedly: "Big sister, we are unable to guard against the people for trouble. This requires the government to maintain order."

Before, Fengchi Group and Caoyun had always been competing around rivers, and it was unpopular that Caoyun was obviously not a rival to Fengchi Group, but now they have changed their strategies and attacked Fengchi Group's warehouse points.

With so many warehouses and so many docks, the Fengchi Group's few people are enough to see and cannot defend at all.

Aunt Xu sighed quietly: "But this is precisely what Your Majesty's concern is. If you rely on the government or the Southern Military Town to protect the Fengchi Group, then Your Majesty will also make compromises to them, and the entire plan may fail. From a general perspective, military system reform is better than everything."

The northern border town is reorganized, and the southern military town must also be reorganized. The honorary group will definitely not be willing to hand over their interests. Then at this critical moment, if Wanli asks them for protection, they will inevitably ask Wanli for the price, and Wanli does not want to give them this opportunity.

Military system reform is imperative.

"What should I do?"

Kou Weisha seemed very confused and anxious, and she had never had any idea about such things.

"We can only rely on ourselves." Aunt Xu frowned.

"But we can't compete with them." Kou Weisha said: "Or better write to your husband and ask him what he thinks."

When Aunt Xu heard this, she couldn't help but lit up and said with a smile: "His method is probably to treat the person with the same method. This is not a business, but at present, we can only do this. We must not be able to defend ourselves. We can only attack instead of defending."

"Break off instead of defense?"

Kou Weisha was slightly stunned.

Aunt Xu said: "They attacked the Fengchi Group and hindered our trade, but they also needed trade. The one-acre and three-part land in the Jingwang Mansion could not grow everything that the Jingwang Mansion needed, and those salt merchants needed trade even more.

We can also attack their caravans, create chaos in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places, and use this to warn the forces in Nanjing and other places that if they want to create chaos, the price will be that they cannot afford it."

.........

Dong Pavilion.

"It seems that His Majesty has made great determination this time, and it is no longer redeemable."

Shen Shixing handed the emperor's decree to Wang Jiaping.

Wang Jiaping took it and saw that the edict stated that the taxes in the four governments were counted as military pay for the three border towns. There was no need to allocate money from the court, so of course there was no need to pass the court's discussion. He frowned slightly and said, "This little money is probably not enough."

"It should be enough."

Chen***: "According to the information we have learned at present, Liaodong Town is shrinking its troops on a large scale. I heard that the annual budget is one million taels."

Xu Guodao: "Guo Dan implemented the recruit system in Ningxia, and his military pay was reduced by hundreds of thousands of taels, which was almost the same."

Wang Jiaping said: "But Liaodong is much heavier in its defense mission than Ningxia. Can such a small force be lower than that of the invading enemy?"

Shen Shixingdao: "It is said that the new firearms in the Grand Canyon can quickly arm the army, so His Majesty adopted a military system that integrates recruitment and recruitment. In normal times, it can reduce the treasury's expenditure on the army and quickly arm a powerful army during wartime. But I don't know exactly what happened. Although there have been several wars in Ningxia, our army has gone to war, and no one has ever had a soldier."

Wang Jiaping wondered: "This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. I also agree with the abolition of military households and craftsmen. Why doesn't Your Majesty discuss with us?"

Shen Shixing, Xu Guo and Chen Yiguan looked at Wang Jiaping at the same time.

Wang Jiaping said: "Am I wrong?"

But as soon as he said that, he woke up and couldn't help but sigh.

Discussing with them is useless, which will only cause the cabinet to fall into a verbal battle with the court officials, and then...and then it will end in vain.

Wanli simply didn't say it, and did it alone.

Shen Shixing and the others pretended to be confused. When the court officials asked, they were all unaware of it and were perfunctory when they asked.

In the past, you court officials opposed our cabinet everywhere, thinking that our power was too great and threatened you. Now, as you wish, our cabinet has now become auspicious cabinet, purely for decoration.

Wanli likes their auspiciousness. If they don’t make a sound and are careless, it means forming a buffer zone between the courtiers and the emperor to avoid direct conflict.

There was no chaos in the court because the cabinet played a lubricating role in the middle.

......

Liaodong Town.

Boom boom boom boom!

A loud thunderous sound all stimulated the senses of generals such as Li Rumei.

So exciting!

"Wow!"

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and generals such as Li Rumei, Li Dingxing, Sun Shoulian hurriedly walked forward, looking at the ten large cannons, they couldn't help but exclaim.

They looked at the smoke in the distance again, and didn't see clearly, so they asked the man who commanded the cannon next to them, "How far can this cannon be fired?"

The man replied: "If you want to go back to the general, this is the heaviest artillery produced in our Grand Canyon, which is specially used for siege and fixed-point defense. The effective range is about two miles, and the longest range can reach three miles."

Li Dingxing, Sun Shoulian and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

If this is a cannon, what did we use it before?

At this time, Guo Dan and Fang Fengshi came over.

Fang Fengshi's eyes were instantly attracted by the bird gun beside him.

Guo Dan asked Li Rumei and the others with a smile: "Dear generals, are you satisfied?"

Li Rumei said: "I heard that in the Southwest Battle, the artillery used by our army was not so large and not so powerful."

He also knew Li Rusong's battle report well!

Guo Tan smiled and said, "The artillery they used is similar to the artillery you used before, but they should be more sophisticated in the construction and will not kill their soldiers. However, they are already eliminated products from our Grand Canyon and will not be produced in the future. If you are interested in this aspect, you can buy one to collect and keep it as a souvenir."

“…!”

The Southwest Campaign ended last year and was eliminated this year.

The generals were speechless.

Guo Dan continued: "We have developed a lighter and more powerful field gun for mobile operations, but it is currently used for defense, so we have not purchased that kind of field gun. All the ones we purchased are the latest heavy artillery developed in our Grand Canyon, and their power and range are far better than those of field guns."

It was so exciting to pull a circle of artillery to fight. Li Dingxing said, "I think there is something wrong with the court's procurement, and we often have to go out to fight."

Guo Tan said: "We are now building trade relations with the surrounding areas, not fighting with them, although I want to do so."

Li Dingxing smiled awkwardly, if you mix it, then forget it.

Sun Shoulian suddenly said, "Didn't you say ten thousand doors? Why are there only ten doors?"

Ten thousand doors are used to hit you, not for you. Guo Tan smiled and said, "Our Grand Canyon is a private workshop. If you want ten thousand doors, there is no problem, but the court has to allocate funds first. However, Your Majesty has allocated 500,000 taels to each side town to equip firearms. The next time, he will send 1,000 bird guns and thirty heavy artillery."

Just then, I suddenly heard Fang Fengshi beside me say, "Why is this bird gun different from the previous bird gun?"

Guo Dan turned his head and saw Fang Fengshi playing with a bird gun, and walked over and said, "The bird gun that was the previous one has been eliminated by my Grand Canyon. In the future, it will be full of this new type of bird gun. This kind of bird gun does not need to be ignited again, and can be directly loaded with ammunition to shoot."

As he said that, he said to the person next to him: "You demonstrate it to all the generals."

"yes."

The man picked up a bird gun, broke open an ammunition and poured the gunpowder into the ignition pool, loaded the ammunition, and aimed in front.

There was a bang.

Fang Fengshi, Li Rumei and the others were stunned.

They have seen the first time that bird guns can be fired without ignition of leads.

After a long time, Fang Fengshi came to his senses and couldn't help but feel happy: "Okay, okay! I have this magical weapon in the Ming Dynasty, who dares to offend it?"

Guo Tan smiled and said: "This design is just to prevent rainy combat and field battles. These are all in the Southwest Battle. The generals reported that the bird guns we produced were difficult to fight on rainy days and were easily discovered during field battles. Therefore, we have made improvements to this. However, this is not the most powerful place for bird guns. The most powerful bird gun is..."

Li Rumei subconsciously said: "It's fast equipment."

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Bird gun is the core of the recruit system. According to the Firearms Research and Development Institute, a sound person can use it very skillfully through one month of training. You have seen it just now, and it is actually very simple to use it."

Li Dingxing and the others suddenly realized.

They finally understood why Guo Dan emphasized that the standing army must be skilled in bows and horses, because bows and horses must undergo long-term training, and firearm soldiers can be quickly equipped. In military service and training every month, it is enough to be skilled in use.

"One month?" Sun Shoulian suddenly said, "But it's not easy to hit the target."
To be continued...