"General Li, I've been waiting for you! Have you heard? King Ming of the Ming Dynasty went to Korea and fought with Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty in Seoul. He even killed the king of Korea without paying attention. So the two sides combined their efforts to evacuate Korea together! It looks like King Ming and Kangxi will be in Korea for a long time. Is the cross-sea conquest of Liao a thing of the past? Are the Liaodong land bonds we bought? Smashed it in your hand?"
"Isn't that right? Pingliao debt has been falling continuously in the past two days! The coupon rate of this debt is extremely low, with an annual interest rate of only 2%, and the term is long. It can only be redeemed after five years. It only redeems 20%, and it will take five consecutive years to complete it... Everyone who buys it is just coveting the land in Liaodong! If the Pingliao thing goes south, we will have to put in at least three shares a year. If you calculate the interest rate based on seven and a half years, how much will you lose?"
"Now I'm afraid that the imperial court won't be able to bring peace to Liaodong, and it won't have the money to repay its debts... This will be miserable!"
"General Li, you are experienced and well-informed, so you have to tell us everything!"
"General Li, please tell me... I bought the Pingliao debt for my master. If I lose money, I will have to jump to the Bohai Sea!"
Li Sixing felt helpless after hearing the questions from this group of people, because he had also bought a lot of Pingliao debt, and his brother-in-law Zhu Shangxian asked him to buy it.
Because he believed his brother-in-law's words, he invested all his savings when the Pingliao bonds were issued. . . In fact, he didn't buy much, just two thousand silver dollars...but this was all his savings.
And now the price of Pingliao debt has dropped by 25%. If he cuts the meat and sells it now, he will lose 500 silver yuan... That is his salary for working diligently for a whole year!
Although he suffered a terrible loss, he couldn't complain about it together... He had "inside information". If he complained about it, Pingliao Debt might fall even worse.
Therefore, although Li Sixing had not seen his brother-in-law Zhu Shangxian for several days, he still looked confident, "How could the Battle of Pingliao be ruined? The Battle of Korea did not hinder the conquest of Liaodong... What a long time, You have to have capital to last! Although Kangxi conquered the North and South Korea, the richest people in North Korea were the South and the Fifth. King Ming ate all this meat, so what could Kangxi do to last?
And everyone still doesn’t know how much money Kangxi had? If 100,000 troops were sent to Korea, how many would be left in the country? If King Ming can still send out an army of soldiers and horses to cross the sea from Dengzhou to the north, Liaodong may be defeated with one blow! If Liaodong is lost, Kangxi may be buried in North Korea! "
What he said was an extremely optimistic estimate. Maybe someone in Nanjing would believe it. But here in Dengzhou, everyone is a "Zhiqing faction" and they still know the situation in Liaodong.
If the Ming Dynasty wanted to use Dengzhou as its base to land in Lushun, the possibility of success was still high, but it would not be easy to swallow up the entire Liaodong.
It's not that the Qing Dynasty made Liaodong so impregnable, but that the Qing Dynasty's attack on Liaodong caused so much harm. The homes where millions of people once lived and worked in peace and contentment are now in ruins. Even though Kangxi worked very hard to develop Liaodong, there was still a little life in Liaoyang and Shenyang.
Moreover, in order to prevent the Ming army from landing in Liaodong in the past two years, Kangxi also carried out a large-scale clearing of the Liaodong Peninsula. Zhuangzi, which belonged to the Eight Banner nobles, and the villages where ordinary banner people and Han people lived in the Liaodong Peninsula were all moved to the territory of Fengtian Prefecture and Liaoyang Prefecture. .
As a result, if the Ming army wanted to seize Fengtian and Liaoyang, they would have to pass through an inaccessible area of five to six hundred miles after landing... This is not easy to do!
Just when everyone was doubtful, the door of Sihai Tea House was suddenly knocked open. Everyone turned around and saw a tall, somewhat ferocious old monk standing at the door with a short disciple who was also elderly.
"Isn't this Monk Yishi? What a rare visitor!"
Someone recognizes the old monk, oh, not really... Here in Dengzhou, few people really know another person. However, everyone knows that the old monk's current Buddhist name is Yishi, and they also know that he built a small temple at the foot of Sanxian Mountain in the west of Dengzhou outer city, called Shitou Temple.
There is not much incense in this stone temple, but this stone monk seems to never be short of money. There are dozens of monks and nuns in the temple, and they live a happy life!
This monk also bought Ping Liao debt a while ago, and bought a lot of it. He also told people that when Ping Liao succeeds in the Ming Dynasty, he will go to Shanhaiguan to get a piece of land to build a large one-stone temple, and then pass away there... ...I guess he has lost a lot now!
Monk Yishi looked at the people in the tea house, and then shouted: "The army led by Prince Ming has entered the city, and the army will soon attack the commercial port!"
"real?"
Others don't believe it.
But before the one-stone monk could answer, everyone heard the singing getting louder and louder. "My head is full of anger, and the rain breaks when I lean on the railing. I look up, look up to the sky and roar, my heart is strong. Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. Don't wait for the young man's head to turn white, and feel empty and sad... "
This is "Man Jiang Hong" by my father-in-law, and it is also the military song of the Ming Dynasty Army - "Love to fight will win" can only be sung by Ming officers and soldiers from Guangdong and Fujian, while "Man Jiang Hong" can be sung by all Ming armies. .
So now "Love to Fight Will Win" has become the exclusive military song of the elite "Old Brothers Town" of the Ming Army, and ordinary troops sing "Man Jiang Hong" when they appear.
Moreover, singing and advancing is also a major feature of the Ming army today. It is said that this can improve morale!
People in the teahouse listened attentively, and the singing became louder and louder. It sounded like tens of thousands of people were singing!
Now no one in the teahouse could sit still, they all stood up and rushed outside the teahouse.
Everyone in the teahouse did not step forward after leaving the teahouse, but walked straight along the alley. Soon they arrived at Tiandi Street, the main road of Dengzhou Commercial Port. This is a street that leads straight to the pier of Dengzhou Commercial Port. .
It has just snowed here in Dengzhou, and the roofs of the houses on both sides of Tiandi Street are covered with white snow. The street was originally covered with snow, but it had all been swept to the side of the street and piled up into two white "snow banks."
Although the temperature is very low now, there are still passers-by standing on both sides of the snowbank. They are all "New Dengzhou people" and they come in all kinds of clothes. Some people were wearing Qing Dynasty clothes, Ming Dynasty hats, and Ming Dynasty buns, some were wearing braids and Ming Dynasty-style Taoist attire, and others were wearing weird Western clothes.
Everyone stared with wide eyes at the heavily armed Ming army infantrymen, wearing flying saucer helmets, carrying flintlock rifles, and wearing blue military uniforms, who were forming columns and passing through the street!
I don't know where these infantrymen came from. There were a lot of them. I could only see their vast team coming from the official road outside the commercial port in a steady stream, as if there was no end.
Listening to the accents of these soldiers singing, it seems that they are from Shandong, and they are generally tall. At a glance, you can tell that they are not troops transferred from the south!
Could it be that this army was recruited and trained locally in Shandong? Could it be that the so-called Third Prince City in Dengzhou was just a bluff from the beginning, and its real purpose was a stronghold for the Northern Expedition?
Just when the people coming out of the teahouse were surprised by the sudden appearance of the army, an even more surprising scene appeared.
A big red flag of "Supervise the King of the Country" suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, followed closely by the cavalry of the brigade!
Walking at the front of the cavalry team was a female knight wearing a veil. The female knight also wore a blue narrow-sleeved trousers and a purple hood. But this thick military uniform cannot hide the bulging chest of this female knight... There is no doubt that this female knight is the famous concubine Ye Yuling of the Weaver Girl Palace!
King Ming, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, really came to Dengzhou! The cross-sea expedition is about to begin!
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