174 Conversation with the Imperial Conqueror
After seeing Chen Xinjia remain silent for a moment, he frowned and sighed: "The emperor can actually collect all the horses from the capital. It seems that the capital is not peaceful now!"
"Now the victory of the royal army is a great victory. I am afraid that it will offset the guilt of losing the vassal before. At least it will not be as expected." Chen Xinjia said this, looking at Fan Yongdou and others and said, "I tell you that our emperors are more impulsive. Now that there is such a big victory, it is very likely that they will do something when it gets lively. Usually, they may listen to people's advice, but it is very likely that this period will not be possible. It is also possible that if someone in the court is bewitched, they may do whatever they want."
Listening to this, Fan Yongdou and others didn't understand what he wanted to say for a moment, so they had to wait quietly for what he said.
"We can't rush to the forefront of Fanji Money House." Chen Xinjia continued to say to them, "I remember, in name, there is only your Fan family in Fanji Money House? Are there any divisions with your brother?"
"No!" Fan Yongdou said the truth after hearing this.
When Chen Xinjia heard this, he hurriedly said to him: "You should split up your family immediately, at least on the surface. If the factory guards come to check, I will say that if I come to check, I will say that the family has been separated, and the corresponding books, land and acres, etc. will be made to make a backup. Once the capital starts to run the silver notes, you cannot make any money. And you'd better compare and don't let someone find it. If the main master is not here, there is no way to do it even if you have any doubts. I will say something for you, so I won't force it."
Speaking of this, he looked at the others and said, "Only we know about the other people's stocks, only we know. For the outside world, we say that it is the money we have in the money house. Let's wait for others to run first, and then we will go. As for the silver notes, I believe you can print them out, right? It doesn't matter if you print more, but if you look back, you will say that the bank's accounts are unclear."
Hearing that he said this, the eight Shanxi merchants all understood and nodded quickly. Among them, Fan Yongdou replied: "Then I will go back to my hometown first and hide for a while before talking about it. But what should I do about the matter in Liaodong?"
He has always been leading the business with Liaodong, so he has this question.
"You don't have to worry about this for now." Chen Xinjia immediately said to him: "The Qing army will definitely be busy with a while when they leave the customs and return to Liaodong. After all, they have suffered a great defeat. It is not too late to go to Liaodong to trade after the Qing emperor has sorted out his country."
They heard this, and he meant that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty would hold the matters within the pass and involved the power struggle in the Qing Dynasty. Such things are indeed difficult to participate in. It would be wise to wait until they finish their work before going.
Seeing them nodding, Chen Xinjia still had a serious face and said to them: "You can't let the emperor be too smooth. You still have to spend the money you should spend. All the bad things will be revealed. After being robbed by the Qing army, you will also be clamored. The court and the people should have it to create momentum. In this way, the emperor has too many brain-wrenching things and is overwhelmed, so he will have no time to worry about Fan Ji Money House."
After he said so much, the Shanxi merchants also reacted and nodded and agreed. They couldn't bear to let their children get trapped, so they just thought it was the cost of doing business, and they still had to spend the money they should spend.
"Now that the royal army is in power, there must be some people in the court who are dissatisfied." Chen Xinjia had many ideas, and thought for a while and said, "We can join forces with those people to find some mistakes to impeach Lu Xiangsheng and others. The emperor found that his trust was disappointed, and he might not be angry at them. Anyway, no matter what, it must be chaotic. Only when the court is in chaos and the emperor is stunned can we get enough benefits!"
In response, these Shanxi merchants naturally agreed, and then immediately began to act according to Chen Xinjia's suggestion. They should hide, and they should make fakes. They should go to the capital to go to the capital...
Naturally, they didn't know that all the things they were told were truthfully fed back to Emperor Chongzhen who was far away in the capital by the eavesdropping seeds on Chen Xinjia.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen happened to return to the palace to rest for a while. After all, the cold wind was howling outside, it was indeed a little cold. At this moment, he looked at the eavesdropping seeds and saw their discussion content as soon as possible.
After reading it, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and suddenly a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Sometimes, it is also great not to catch them immediately and let these pig-like opponents promote the innovation they want.
For example, Chen Xinjia and the Shanxi merchants were discussing that they would cause trouble for the customers of Fanji Money House and ask people with Fanji Money House to plead for mercy. But when they turned around, they separated their relationship, and Fan Yongdou would still hide it and declared that they would split up.
These things seem to cause trouble for themselves on the surface. After all, no matter who saves money or has silver bills, they are all rich and powerful, or people with certain power and financial resources. As for ordinary people, they probably won’t see a silver bill in their lifetime. These people make trouble through various means, which will definitely cause headaches for the original Emperor Chongzhen. So many people fool you, and maybe they will be fooled.
However, for me, isn’t this the best opportunity to take all the power to print silver notes in private money houses to the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, and at least they must let them deposit a certain amount of reserves to the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, and at the same time they must accept supervision from the court.
After all, private money houses have risks like Fanji Money House, and they will collapse. Unless the dynasty changes, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty cannot collapse.
When we look back, we ask the factory guards to check it out. There must be some private money bank runs or absconding with money, so we will take the opportunity to promote it together. In this way, it was not easy to handle the banknotes in the past, but this time, it should be possible to complete it.
As for Chen Xinjia's idea of making a big announcement on the tragic situation since the Qing army entered the pass, and attempting to attack the responsibility of Lu Xiangsheng and others in this way, it would be an assist for him. When this public opinion reaches its peak, he will announce it again that the biggest culprit is actually the Shanxi merchants who treasoned the country.
Haha, by then, all the families will be confiscated and the clan will be exterminated, and no one will say that they are cruel! It is more likely that they are applauding!
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen decided to let the group of clowns jump and jubilant first, and then he would firmly grasp the military power first.
Just as Cao Cao was thinking about Cao Cao, Cao Cao came. The eunuch came to report that the commander of the royal army, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were waiting for the audience.
So Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned them alone in Wenhua Hall.
After the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen first asked about the situation of the royal army with concern.
"Don't worry, your Majesty, all the soldiers are happy!" Lu Xiangsheng replied with a smile.
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said to the three ministers straight to the point: "I want to rebuild the army under the Imperial Horse Supervision. In addition to the unchanging Yongwei Battalion, three more battalions will be reorganized. Each battalion will have two generals and more than 10,000 people as Yongwei Battalion. The main combat target is the Jianlu of Liaodong, at least this is the case now. I wonder what the ministers think?"
Lu Xiangsheng and the other two looked at each other, obviously they were prepared for the issue of Emperor Chongzhen. After all, the emperor had mentioned this matter twice.
According to the practice in the officialdom, Lu Xiangsheng, who had the greatest official position, finally replied: "Your Majesty, I have discussed many discussions about the Jianlu in Liaodong, especially the battle for more than three months. In addition, I captured some Jianlu this time and learned a lot of things. Therefore, I think that if Your Majesty reorganized the Imperial Horse Supervisor to deal with Jianlu, you might as well understand the Jianlu army first."
Emperor Chongzhen originally thought that he would do it according to Qi Jiguang's military book, but after listening to Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion, he nodded and said, "Know yourself and your enemy, I know this, Lu Qing tells me."
"I obey the order!" Lu Xiangsheng looked serious and then began to introduce to Emperor Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty, now our Liaodong enemy in the Ming Dynasty is actually the Jianzhou Jurchens. In the past, the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens was only because of their heavy infantry. Compared with these single troops, it is actually not worth worrying. It is just that my Ming Dynasty has not taken it seriously and has grown stronger by it."
"Before the Jianzhou Jurchen Jurchens, the slave chief Nurhaci first annexed the Yehe Jurchen tribe, and the Yehe Jurchen tribe was famous for its heavy cavalry. Therefore, the Jianlu army added the heavy cavalry. Then, the Jianlu won over and annexed the grassland tribe, obtained the Mongolian light cavalry, and attacked North Korea, forcing about 20,000 musketeers. In addition, the rebel generals of Dongjiang surrendered to the enemy, and brought heavy artillery and naval fleets to Jianlu. As a result, all the troops in the Jianlu army were complete, and they were actually a strong enemy of our Ming Dynasty!"
Lu Xiangsheng said that the strong enemy was actually to take care of the emperor's face. To put it bluntly, the complete preparation of the troops in the Jianlu Army was actually from the Burning Army.
When Lu Xiangsheng said this, he did not finish everything alone, but looked at Hong Chengchou.
Hong Chengchou understood and then introduced to Emperor Chongzhen: "In addition to Lu Benbing's statement, Jianlu also took a lot of thought to be so well-equipped. His elite white-armored soldiers wore three layers of armor every time they fought, with extremely strong protective power, swords and arrows, which were difficult to penetrate."
"In addition, like Jianlu's muskets, there are very few things to blow up the chamber, and the workmanship is very good. The ordinary spear used by Jianlu is several feet longer than our army. Before our soldiers stabbed the enemy, Jianlu's spear had already stabbed our soldiers. To put it bluntly, the military equipment of Jianlu was not only excellent, but also specially improved it for our soldiers. Every time on the battlefield, our army suffered a lot of losses in equipment and weapons."
Emperor Chongzhen knew about Hong Chengchou's words, and some of them were surprised when he heard them for the first time. From this we can see that Jianlu was indeed attentive to rise.
Thinking of this, he turned to look at Sun Chuanting, thinking that he should have something to say.
Sure enough, when he saw the emperor looking at him, Sun Chuanting also reverently said: "Not only that, Jianlu not only treated the soldiers who fought very well, but also had clear rewards and punishments, and had strict military discipline. Even the worst-known Korean musketeer became brave after he arrived in Jianlu's army and dared to shoot against our soldiers head-on without retreating."
Speaking of this, he gave the emperor an example: "When the slave chief Huang Taiji formed an artillery battalion with the Han people as soldiers, the first-class gunners rewarded 80 taels of silver and fifty taels of silver. But the elite soldiers of our army did not collect the night of our army, and only two taels of silver a month. Of course, this is the limit. Although it does not represent the whole, it can show the courage of the slave chief. The soldiers of our Ming Dynasty were originally defeated when they surrendered to the enemy and attacked the Ming Dynasty, they became brave and good at fighting. The slave chiefs would also share a portion of the money they plundered. These methods are incredible. How could this be thought of by the barbarians on the border!"
Hearing these words of praise for the slave chief, Emperor Chongzhen was not angry, but became serious.
There was a view in later generations that the Qing Dynasty eventually seized the world, which was really too many chances. It was because of how many lucky he had won such a big prize. But once he was in the scene and analyzed so carefully, Emperor Chongzhen believed that the Qing Dynasty could seize the world the most was not all luck.
To say that the Qing Dynasty was bad, but the Ming and Mongolia were even worse, this statement is actually not appropriate!
The Qing Dynasty rose among the white mountains and black waters, and was just a group of barbarians, so they looked down on them. This is obviously not the correct view. The Mongol Empire that used to sweep the world was just a small tribe in the north of the desert at first! In the later generations, England, which was known as the empire of the sun never set, wasn’t it just a small island country!
Listening to the analysis of the three ministers, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of the Jianlu in Liaodong.
After seeing Sun Chuanting talk, Lu Xiangsheng took over the topic and said: "This time, my achievements are not because our army is stronger than Jianlu, but because His Majesty's ability to plan and plan, far exceeds Jianlu's usual impression of our army. This is why he has this opportunity to attack him unexpectedly and achieve such a victory. If he is really stronger than Jianlu, I will save the remaining people long ago and eliminate the remaining Jianlu in the pass."
He said this with sincerity and did not have the intention to flatter Emperor Chongzhen. If it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen, then the Ming army would still be the original Ming army. Even if some of them were brave and good at fighting, they would still be destroyed by Jianlu.
For example, the former Qi family army, Bai Gan army, etc., were all strong troops in the Ming Dynasty, but in the end they were beaten and wiped out by Jianlu. No matter how many enemies they killed or injured, Jianlu won in the end.
Seeing Emperor Chongzhen thinking, Lu Xiangsheng and the others suggested to Emperor Chongzhen in unison: "Your Majesty wants to build a strong army against the enemy, you must prescribe the right medicine. You don't make a big decision and have great energy. It's probably not enough to just draw the war-hard soldiers who are willing to fight this time!"
Chapter completed!