"Don't want military glory, don't want the vassal territory? Then he wants to become a shareholder?"
"Buying shares now? It's a good time! No wonder people say that Zheng Jing is the best! No one else can do this little calculation?"
"Oh, no fool can reach this position, let alone someone named Zheng?"
"That's right. He is the grandson of Zheng Yiguan, one of the richest people in the world. Moreover, the Zheng family business has been revived in his hands. How can he not be smart?"
In the General's Mansion in Nanjing, Li Zhongshan, who had just returned from a boat trip on the Yangtze River with Zheng Jing, was sitting in his capital hall, discussing with Huang Zongxi, Chen Gongyin, Yao Qisheng, and Zhou Chang how to recruit Zheng Jing. Matters concerning the purchase of shares.
If the current Gonghe Daming is regarded as a joint-stock company, then Zheng Jing should be regarded as a particularly important franchisee. Zheng Jing now owns the entire Fujian Province and also controls a quite powerful naval force. He also recognizes the Ming Republic Emperor as his monarch. But at the same time, because Fujian was a vassal territory, there were not many Fujianese in the People's Deliberative Assembly of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no local People's Deliberative System in Fujian Province.
Therefore, although Zheng Jinghe Fujian is affiliated to the Ming Dynasty, it is not part of the Ming Dynasty's republican system and cannot be counted as a shareholder. At most, it is only an indispensable franchisee.
And this franchisee has now identified the opportunity that Daming, a joint-stock company, has encountered a temporary operating crisis and is in urgent need of issuing new shares to raise funds to solve its difficulties. He wants to convert part of his property into shares, thus turning from the franchisee's boss into an important shareholder of the company in one fell swoop. , enter the board of directors, and enter the decision-making circle.
Although several franchisees of Daming Republic will either become shareholders or be eliminated sooner or later! But when to invest is still very particular. When Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua took shares, the Ming Dynasty had just opened. They were almost the founders of the Ming Republic. At this time, the risks of investing are the greatest, and the benefits are of course the greatest, so now the three of them are the most powerful in the Ming Dynasty!
Geng Jingzhong also had the opportunity to invest in shares before and become a major shareholder on the same level as Li Zhongshan. However, he was bent on becoming emperor and ended up leaving the company to work alone. Now he has become a competitor that the company must eliminate.
Zheng Jing himself did not participate in the initiative of the Ming Republic, but he asked his consultant Chen Yonghua to participate in the initiative - at least half of Chen Yonghua's capital was sponsored by Zheng Jing!
Through Chen Yonghua, Zheng Jing had a clear understanding of the rules and details of this republic.
Since he belongs to Menqing, of course he also knows that the Ming Republic has a future!
Since the Republic of Ming Dynasty has a future, then sooner or later the separate kingdoms with multiple vassal kings will be absorbed and merged by the court of the Republic of Ming Dynasty.
Since it will be absorbed and merged sooner or later, he might as well find the best time to buy shares at low prices!
The best time seems to be now! Today, the Ming Dynasty is under siege by the Zhou, Qing, and Jing kingdoms, but the Zheng family has unified Fujian because of Geng Jingzhong's shrinkage of troops.
So now is the time when the valuation of the Zheng family is the highest, and at the same time it is the relative low point of the Ming Republic. If you don’t invest in shares at this time, when will you wait to invest? If you don't buy shares now and wait until Ming Dynasty defeats Wu Sangui before buying shares, then the conditions will be different!
"General, has Prince Yi stated the conditions?" Huang Zongxi asked.
Li Zhongshan said: "It has not been stated clearly, but it has been hinted. First of all, the Fujian navy will be included in his vassal trading house. I guess he wants to imitate the East India trading house of the Dutch and set up a similar trading house.
Secondly, he also brought a large group of Fujian gentry over this time, hoping that they would join the National People's Congress. "
Yao Qisheng shook his head: "The Zheng family's land division is mediocre in strength, but its naval division is unparalleled in the world. He wants to retain the navy division now. This calculation is really good!"
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "The Land Division does not make money, and the Fujian Navy is actually an armed merchant fleet. But if it makes money, of course he will not let it go! But we can also imitate his family's ancestral business in the future. You can first let the man named Zheng go out and have a try with Westerners. If this path works, we will follow it together."
Li Zhongshan actually hoped that the old Zheng family could make a breakthrough on the road of colonialism - if the Zheng family made a fortune, others would be able to follow suit!
If the Zheng family was bullied by imperialism, then Li Datou would just invest in the Zheng family's colonial company to help him recover.
Zhou Chang frowned at this time and took over the topic: "The Fujian Army Division cannot be controlled by just sending a few people there. It is an army built by three generations of the Zheng family!
In addition, the Zheng family is a local snake in Fujian. Even if Fujian is not regarded as a vassal territory, without King Yi's nod, it may be difficult for the governor and prefect we send to control the situation. However, the Zheng family's investment in shares is still acceptable. Yes. Why not allocate millions of national debt to King Yi and Fujian Province? "
"How can a few million be enough?" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "You have to subscribe for at least ten million. Now the Zheng family has money! Pei Gong, why do you think King Yi has been obsessed with the Fujian territory in the past two years? There are eight mountains in Fujian. If you don't want to starve to death, you have to go to sea. People in Nanyang who do business and make a lot of money are either Fujianese or Cantonese. Among the Cantonese, the Chaozhou people are the most numerous. The Chaozhou people and the Minnan people are similar. So Yi Wang's attack on Fujian was to attack the hometown of those Fujian people who went to Nanyang to make a fortune and control their clans. A national debt of 10 million taels is nothing to the Zheng family."
At this point, Li Zhongshan frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about whether to ask Zheng Jing for more benefits. Suddenly there was the sound of rapid footsteps outside the door, and then the voice of brother Li Zhongzheng was heard coming in: "Second brother, second brother, it's not good! Wu Sangui's land and sea army has rushed through Xiaochikou, Wu Sangui's water army is about to... maybe It has already rushed into Poyang Lake!"
Wu Sangui finally moved!
Several people in the capital hall looked at each other, and they all looked calm and composed. Li Zhongshan looked the most determined, and he held up the tea cup with a smile, as if he was ready to "have a drink."
At this moment, Li Zhongshan's "new third brother" Li Zhongzheng rushed in from outside with a dusty appearance. This "Brother Zhongzheng" followed Li Zhongshan. He was originally a handsome man who loved to dress up and always looked neat and tidy. But today, he looked like he had traveled a long way. He was dressed in dirty clothes, covered in sweat, his face was gray, and he was a bit unshaven. He hadn't shaved his face in days.
"Third brother, you are finally back." Li Zhongshan greeted him with a smile, "I asked you to send a message to our father. You have been gone for so many days, and our father still keeps giving you credit, little half It seems like you took Jiangxi!"
It turns out that Li Zhongzheng was sent by his father to escort Cai Yurong to Guangdong these days. After leaving Nanchang, he first went east to Raozhou, then south to Fuzhou, and then west to Linjiang and Yuanzhou. Then he went south to Ji'an and finally entered Ganzhou. He sent Cai Yurong and hundreds of his soldiers who were so tired that they were so thin that they were sent to Chaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong before rushing back to Li Fuchen's Jiujiang camp. Of course, the prefectures, prefectures, and counties we passed along the way all submitted to the Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Cai Yurong, the former governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty!
However, the credit for regaining the territory is all credited to Li Zhongzheng for his great contribution in regaining six state capitals. Why should he be knighted!
At this moment, Li Zhongzheng had no intention of talking about his "heroic deeds" in Jiangxi. Instead, he shouted loudly: "Second brother, don't talk about me yet. Talk about our dad! Our dad is in danger! I was passing by Xiaochikou. At that moment, they encountered Wu Sangui's army heading east along the river! What's incredible, the river was covered with Wu Zhou's warships. Their sails and flags covered the sky and the sun, and there was no edge at a glance. There were at least thousands of them!
The pipelines on the bank of the Yangtze River are all filled with Wu Sangui's land divisions, and there are countless cavalry and infantry. Second brother, Wu Sangui has dispatched at least three or four hundred thousand troops this time! They all turned a corner and entered Poyang Lake. Our father was in danger now! "
It turned out that after Li Zhongzheng met Li Fuchen at the Ming army camp near Jiujiang Fucheng, he immediately crossed the river to Jiangbei, preparing to return to Nanjing via the official road north of Jiangjiang. Unexpectedly, as soon as they reached Xiaochikou, they encountered the Wu family's army heading south along the Yangtze River! Fortunately, the Wu Jiajun did not march from the north bank of the Yangtze River, but only took the Yangtze River waterway and the south bank of the Yangtze River. So Li Zhongzheng felt like rushing to Nanjing, and actually arrived in Nanjing half a day earlier than the 600-mile rush dispatched by the Anhui Admiral Yamen of the Ming Dynasty.
This filial piety is indeed commendable!
"Third brother, don't worry. Our father is blessed with good luck and Wu Sangui can't kill him." Li Zhongshan was quite confident in Li Fuchen and said to his brother with a smile, "Go back and rest quickly. Brother Yu will find you right away." People come to discuss sending troops!"
"Okay!" Li Zhongzheng nodded, "Brother, we have to hurry up. I'm worried that Wu Sangui's navy will enter Poyang Lake through Hanpokou, then enter Ganjiang River from Xingzikou, and head all the way to Nanchang. At the same time, Wu Sangui's land army will After the division has relieved Jieshu of Jiujiang, he will follow our father and King Li Zhong’s army all the way to Nanchang. If our father retreats more slowly, he may be attacked from both sides, and in the end he will not even be able to enter Nanchang. Got it!"
"I know, I know you should go and rest quickly! The Military Affairs Department of the General's Mansion has already prepared various countermeasures. Our father is also experienced in battles and will be fine. No matter what, we can always retreat to Nanchang first. of."
Li Zhongshan comforted him again and finally coaxed his brother away.
Of course, he couldn't tell his brothers that their father, Li Fuchen, had actually been prepared to sneak into Nanchang and defend him for a long time.
With Li Fuchen's ability to defend the city, Wu Sangui would not be able to make Li Jizhen the king so easily.
After the brothers had gone far away, Li Zhongshan ordered Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng: "Wu Sangui is coming with great force this time. It seems that he has planned to decide the outcome in the first battle, the decisive battle. You go immediately to convene a meeting with the staff and take out two Show me your marching strategy, one by water and the other by land, tomorrow morning."
After saying this, he said to Huang Zongxi and Chen Gongyin: "Mr. Lizhou, Mr. Banfeng, come with me to Prince Yi's Mansion."
Huang Zongxi hurriedly asked: "General, do you want to form an alliance with King Yi?"
Chen Gongyin asked: "General, do you plan to send troops to Jiangxi?"
Li Zhongshan said seriously: "Now is the time to make an alliance with King Yi and King Bei. As for where to send troops, I can only tell you, Mr. Banfeng, that the first battle is the decisive battle, and the decisive battle must not be lost!"
Zhejiang, Yanzhou Prefecture, Jiande County.
Geng Jingzhong's old camp is now located in this small county surrounded by mountains. The small county town is now crowded with dignitaries and family members of soldiers and generals from the Dongjing Dynasty.
So many people crammed into such a small county at once, even if all the original people moved to Hangzhou, it would be overcrowded. And being moved here from Hangzhou will be a bit unpleasant, so this small town is very noisy these days.
In order to escape the peace, Geng Jingzhong simply moved to Sandu Town outside the county seat, occupied a landlord's compound, and continued to be the emperor of his compound.
Although he is still the emperor, this "imperial palace" is the worst house he has ever lived in. The situation in the Great Jingguo is not good!
The prophecy about "the emperor's clone has ears and ears" is also a bit meaningless!
He has been the "Provincial Emperor" for quite some time now, so he has fulfilled the prophecy. But what about after becoming the emperor? I didn’t say that! Do you really want to die in this life?
When Geng Jingzhong thought of this, he suddenly panicked. Suddenly, he heard hurried footsteps outside the house, and then the voice of the state leader Yue Le: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, good news, good news, Wu Sangui has sent troops to Jiangxi, Li Fuchen is trapped in Nanchang, and Li Zhongshan has sent troops from Nanjing!"
Geng Jingzhong almost burst into tears, and then thought that "the emperor will not shed tears easily", so he quickly wiped away his tears and shouted: "Come in and announce!"
As soon as the word "Xuan" was spoken, the door of his palace was opened by a guard, and then a group of important ministers of Dajing came in who "praised and worshiped without name, entered the court without rushing, and went to the palace with swords and shoes."
Those who came were Yue Le, Yu Renying, Li Daoren, Zeng Yangxing, Bai Xianyong and others, all of whom were Geng Jingzhong's confidants. He was now crowded into a small room with a group of important ministers, and he had no interest in letting them pay homage, so he simply waved his hand and told them to talk without courtesy.
"Your Majesty, our opportunity has come!" Yue Le was the most excited among the group of people. In the current situation, how long can Emperor Geng Jingzhong last? But he can at least have a Duke of Zhou - Prince Kang Jieshu has already granted the title of Duke Kang, so Yue Le should have a Duke An, right?
Geng Jingzhong asked: "Zhang Guozhang, where should I send troops?"
"Guangzhou!" Yue Le said.
"Guangzhou?" Geng Jingzhong considered, "But Liu Jinzhong is stationed in Huzhou, and Huzhou is right next to Guangzhou."
He was still a little scared when he saw this King Liu Bei!
"Let's go around Huzhou," Yue Le said. "At the same time, we can send envoys to discuss with Liu Jinzhong and ask him not to block our way to attack Nanjing!"
"Attack Nanjing?" Geng Jingzhong was stunned again and again. "Didn't you say that you would grab a handful and then withdraw to Zhejiang? How come it turned into an attack on Nanjing?"
The attack on Nanjing was of course to cooperate with Wu Sangui - this was Yue Le's true thoughts.
Geng Jingzhong's "destiny" seems to be coming to an end!
Now that his destiny is over, of course Yue Le will help Wu Sangui!
"By attacking Nanjing, we can mobilize Ming troops from all over the south of the Yangtze River to come back for reinforcements," Yue Le said. "As soon as they come back for reinforcements, our opportunity will come. We can rob wherever we want!"
"That makes sense!" Geng Jingzhong suddenly realized something was wrong, "Then who should Liu Jinzhong send to say it?"
"Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Huzhou!" The person who volunteered to go to Huzhou was Geng Jingzhong's Dongge University scholar Yu Renying. "Your Majesty, now is a life-and-death battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty! If Liu Jinzhong does not intend to be a die-hard loyal to the Ming Dynasty, at this time But there’s no need to stop us.”
"It makes sense!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "Scholar Yu, be careful."
"Thank you, Your Majesty," Yu Renying bowed to Geng Jingzhong, "I will honor my orders!"
"Yeah, yeah, there are so many! The man named Wu really thinks highly of Li Fuchen! The navy and land divisions are advancing from the north and the south. I really want to trap him to death in Nanchang!"
On the tower of Deshengmen, the north gate of Nanchang City, the Southern King of the Ming Dynasty looked at the sails and flags covering the sky and the sun on the Ganjiang River, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
When Wu Sangui's Army Division arrived yesterday, it was already scary. There were at least 100,000 troops camped outside the city, and now there are so many more!
I don’t know how many troops Wu Sangui brought? It can’t really be a million, right?
Thinking of this amount, Li Fuchen's face became a little ugly.
A million troops may not be able to take down the Ming Dynasty, but there are only more than 20,000 of his troops and 15,000 of Li Laishun's troops in Nanchang City. Together they are only 35,000. If Wu Sangui is to surround him and fight, how can he still do it? Is it okay?
It seems that there is something wrong with the strategy that I worked out with that guy Li Zhongshan to hold Nanchang, destroy Geng Jingzhong, and then turn around to attack Wu Sangui!
"King Nan," Li Laishun, who was standing with Li Fuchen, was also a little nervous, "there are so many Zhou troops, what should we do?"
"We. Let's attack!"
Li Fuchen was actually panicking, but he still came up with a plan to attack.
He was panicking, let alone others? If we can't win a small victory to stabilize people's hearts, this battle will be difficult to fight!
"Attack?" Li Laishun was shocked, "Wu Sangui has so many people."
"It is precisely because Wu Sangui has many soldiers and everyone above and below is afraid, that we should attack for a while to strengthen the army's power and reassure the army's morale!"
"Can we win if we attack?" Li Laishun was very doubtful!
"Of course!" Li Fuchen said with a smile, "I have two thousand cavalry, all equipped with long lances and muskets. They can charge on horseback and shoot enemies with flintlock lances. I can take them out today to give Wu Sangui a show of strength. !”
Li Laishun knew that Li Fuchen's cavalry was very elite. Although the cavalry was not large in number, their horses and equipment were excellent and well-trained. They were very good at coordinating with the spear formation, fusiliers and artillery.
"King Nan, be careful, Xiao Wang will beat the drum for you to cheer you up!"
Li Fuchen laughed loudly: "Wait for a while, kill him first!"
(End of chapter)
