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Chapter 12 Long Yang

In Chen Hua's plan, his "first battle in life" is definitely going to be vigorous. This can greatly increase his reputation as a high-end within the Zheng group.

Therefore, you can't beat soy sauce, and you can't beat soy sauce in your life.

This idea immediately came into effect, and Chen Hua's emotions were much calmer. Since it was difficult for Zheng to achieve success in the Songjin Battle, he himself did not have the confidence to convince Hong Chengchou.

——Hong Hengjiu, a man from the orthodox family, was ranked 14th in the second place in the palace examination, suppressed the bandits, killed Li Zicheng and only left eighteen cavalry to escape into Shangluo Mountain, directly pushing the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty that had been in full swing for more than ten years to the lowest point. He made outstanding contributions and was transferred to the Governor of Ji Liao in the 12th year of Chongzhen, which was already the peak of the local officials of the Ming Dynasty. Going further, he entered the cabinet.

How could Chen Hua convince such a person? And what could Chen Hua say about the Songjin battle?

Is it that Hong Chengchou was so strong that he could resist Emperor Chongzhen's imperial order. The Ministry of Revenue really had no money and food, so Hong Chengchou was also sitting on wax. Or should he not let his troops enter Songshan?

That's even more a joke.

The Songshan Ancient City is more than ten miles south of Jinzhou City. If you want to break the siege of Jinzhou, this is the place after all. In Chen Hua's eyes, the Songshan Ancient City, which is only ten miles away from Jinzhou, is a very obvious strategic support point.

Can he still tell lies with all things he can see?

Just forgiving him for his ignorance, Chen Hua really couldn't remember the entire process of the Songjin Battle, and he didn't even know that Songshan City was actually the strategic focus of the main force of the Ming army after the collapse.

Zheng Hongkui saw Chen Hua's face showing a hesitation and hurriedly said, "It's late July now, and the court has really followed what Jiang Dejing said, and it will take mid-August to come. At that time, the place outside the pass might have been a scene of ice and snow. In winter, the sea is frozen, and our ships are not only unable to dock, but also keep an eye on the court, but also have to be on guard against the continuous floating ice day and night..."

Chen Hua sighed, Zheng Hongkui's words were reasonable. The Zheng group, which had a one-legged lame, now really has no capital to get involved in the Ming and Qing wars.

People who know that they cannot do it are either real warriors or stupid brainstorms.

Chen Hua is not the real warrior who ruined his family and helped him out, so he has decided not to insist on intervening.

From this point of view, he was still very convinced. He had too few "knowledge points" and "rules of the game" he mastered, and because he was unstable in grasping the overall situation, he was easily persuaded now.

Of course, he himself doesn't think so. He also thinks he is quite smart.

"Jiang Zhongbao is the prime minister of the current dynasty and is capable of the world. Can the emperor... not listen to his words?"

Chen Hua never heard of Jiang Dejing in later generations. But now he knows that this fellow Quanzhou villager was an extraordinary capable minister. He was first rejected because he was not despised by Wei Zhongxian until he was dismissed from office. Later, he was revived, but he was still upright and dared to advise. He always felt that the government was getting worse and corrected the current ills. The letters he submitted were all famous sayings and made famous sayings. In the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, he proposed many good strategies.

Especially in June of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Jiang Dejing, who had just been elected as the Minister of Rites by the court, witnessed the abolition of border defense and the weak soldiers and all the borders were vacant to pay, so he submitted a memorial to express his shortcomings. He used facts as a basis and pointed out that the Ji Du changed five people for half a year, and the matter would be even worse. He believed that if he wanted to strengthen border defense, border ministers must be appointed for a long time.

Emperor Chongzhen disagreed and said: It is not worthy of being updated.

Jiang Dejing defended without hesitation: Instead of going backwards, be careful at the beginning.

In other words, instead of later changes, it is better to be cautious and meticulous when choosing a person at the beginning.

I believe that this side should not only be careful when choosing carefully. After a certain amount, we should also trust it fully and let it consider it comprehensively and plan for a long time so that we can turn passive into active and defeat the enemy.

He also took out the ancestral system of the old Zhu family, three coordinations, one supervision, one comfort, and one general. Today, two supervision, three comfort, and six generals were added, and dozens of deputy generals were set up. The power was not unified, so how could it be won? Emperor Chongzhen, who loved face and suffered from suffering, had to admit his mistakes. However, the Ming Dynasty was already rotten and the reform was ineffective.

It has been three years since Jiang Dejing is still doing well in the center and even has entered the cabinet. Such a person is something that Zheng Zhilong has to pay attention to, and Chen Hua has to pay great attention to.

Only talking about political weight, Jiang Dejing is better than Hong Chengchou. Although Hong Chengchou passed the juren in the 43rd year of Wanli, went to Beijing for the 44th year of the juren, and even passed the imperial examination, six years earlier than Jiang Dejing, who was in high school in the second year of Tianqi. However, one of them was from Shujishi, and the other became a turbid official. Hong Chengchou was proud of the imperial examination at the age of 24 and was too young, so Shujishi was not selected. However, Jiang Dejing, who ranked 20 or 30 behind Hong Chengchou, passed the exam.

Then twenty years later, one has entered the cabinet, and the other is also a famous minister in the world, but Hong Chengchou's path is much more difficult than Jiang Dejing.

"This matter is simple. Since Chen Xinjia and others opposed it, it can be seen that the court was difficult to make a conclusion for a while. My eldest brother asked someone to take a fastboat to go to the capital to handle the orders. He only needed to bring more gold and silver, which was not difficult."

They have done this before but once or twice. Zheng Hongkui said it very lightly.

Chen Hua immediately thought of some stories. With Zheng Zhilong's voice, he did a lot of bribery. No matter how many times he was promoted, he would have to get a bribe. The bigger the official position, the higher the level of bribery.

"It's just some gold and silver, it's really simple." I am a rich man and I have money.

"Just..." Chen Hua said carefully: "Jiang Dejing is a famous official in Fujian Province. He and Hong Chengchou have been famous in the village for twenty years. He was a temporary liang. Although he had never heard of any friendship between them, Hong Chengchou's children have married famous families in Jinjiang. How could the rest of Jiang Dejing really have nothing to do with? It's not a pity. Why would Fusong [Zheng Sen] buy some money and food and send it to Hong Hengjiu, which would be considered as Jiang Zhongbao's face. What do you think of the fourth brother?"

Chen Hua didn't know how Zheng Zhilong did it in history, but sending Hong Chengchou some money and food was considered his political correctness.

Zheng Hongkui naturally said yes, "Brother is saying it."

Chen Hua was not in a hurry to say anything else, and he made a decision by himself. There was nothing wrong with this.

He called his clan brother Zheng Zhipeng. When the latter heard the incident, he patted his chest and promised Chen Hua: "Brother, don't worry. I will definitely do such a small matter." What's wrong with giving money?

Zheng Zhipeng carried the gold and silver and a bunch of jewelry treasures that Chen Hua had allocated. The gold and silver alone would be 100,000 taels, and some sea beads, corals, ivory, rhinoceros horns and other things. If the latter was transported to the capital, even if it was shipped to Jiangnan for sale, their value would not be less than 100,000 taels.

Compared with Emperor Chongzhen's annual tax and silver taxes, Chen Hua's efforts are not bad. But in the eyes of Zheng Hongkui and other Zheng Group leaders, this is normal operation. Compared with the Zheng Group, which earns a huge annual income of tens of millions, what is the only 100,000 or 200,000 yuan?

One hundred thousand taels of silver are all new silver-made. This is also one of the parts Chen Hua asked people to integrate. Cashing silver-made silver-made is a great benefit.

A piece of silver is one tael, silver is eight, copper is two. The value of silver is one tael.

The traditional Chinese casting method is used. First make a coin mold, melt the silver and copper, then pour it inside. After cooling, break it down and polish it slightly, it will be a good silver.

In essence, it is no different from making private money. It also consumes fire, but the amount is very small. Chen Hua believes that a silver 80% silver can be filled with one or two taels of silver. Is it consumed?

The reason for this is that the coin press is not something you can make if you want to. He has already asked people to buy it from Nanyang.

It's too troublesome to create it yourself, and there are patterns and handwriting on the silver dollar.

The front is a huge "1", and the number is completely introduced by him. The back is the Bitao Xuanlong Banner!
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