"Yes, we are willing to serve the imperial court!"

"Isn't it just money? If you don't bring it with you in life, you won't take it with you in death... As long as the saint who supervises the country and the court can allow us to hold a consultation meeting, why don't we worry about not being able to raise millions?"

"That's right! If there had been this council back then, we would have paid for Governor Yuan and Pingliao's money for five years in Jiangnan!"

"That's right! Qing Yao is so abominable, even if you throw money at them, they will be killed!"

"Qingyao is not dead yet! We must continue to smash money and smash them to death!"

Of course, a bunch of league leaders are willing to raise money for Zhu Heji's court... First of all, they really hate Qing Yao. Qing Yao is so abominable. They have killed so many people, and they also have to engage in literary inquisition.

Moving the border along the coast will not allow people to live a peaceful life!

Secondly, to raise money... they went to the small landowners, small businessmen, and ordinary people below to raise money. Zhu Heji took at most 50% of the money raised, and the rest was theirs!

Moreover, Zhu Heji had to give them complete legitimacy so that they could help Zhu Heji raise the money.

Thirdly, Zhu Heji is actually very efficient in spending money. He really does things with the money, and he does it beautifully.

After more than 10 million military expenditures were spent, Kang Mazi lost the three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangnan... It cost almost 3 to 4 million per province. How many provinces does Kangxi still have now? It seems to be Zhili and Henan.

, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangbei, Huaibei, a total of eight provinces, if you throw 30 million taels of silver at it, wouldn't you be able to make Kang Mazi Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty?

If you had given Emperor Chongzhen this number back then, he wouldn't have been able to kill Huang Taiji!

Wan Sida and Huang Baijia looked at each other and laughed.

Vance laughed and said: "Since everyone has this intention, the Saint who oversees the country will not refuse to convene the council."

Huang Baijia also smiled and said: "Of course, now Wu Sangui will soon send troops to the Northern Expedition... If Wu Sangui is allowed to enter Beijing first, it will be hard to say who will be the master of the world in the future! Are you willing to contribute military expenses?

Funding the Jianguo’s Northern Expedition makes the Jianguo even too late to be happy, so how could he refuse?”

...

Zhu Heji, who had been in Nanjing for almost half a month, had actually learned from his attendants that many big businessmen from Jiangnan and Zhejiang and "donated classes and group training" were called to Nanjing by Huang Zongxi... However,

He did not stop it, partly because he also wanted these Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui people to have a good talk, and they might not be able to reach an agreement!

On the other hand, the Northern Expedition was not over yet. Therefore, Zhu Heji focused most of his attention on the battlefield.

On the eastern front, Jiangbei Camp in Guazhoubu was Zhu Heji's next target. Without capturing Jiangbei Camp, the main force of the New Ming Dynasty would not be able to move north along the Grand Canal to defeat the Qing Dynasty, and it would also be difficult to open the Yangtze River waterway.

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It's like putting people's necks in trouble, and the small court in Jiangnan is worried!

On the western front, Prime Minister Zhuge has concentrated the forces of two towns to attack Anqing... The Qing army has been deployed in Anqing for a longer time, and the defense line is stronger!

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Xianghuang Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner New Army in Zhuo Butai's hands is stronger than that of Sun Sike's Zhenglan Banner and Xianglan Banner New Army.

In addition, Zhuo Butai also had more troops than Sun Sike. The former Qing army governor of Anhui, Fu Biao, and the admiral of Anhui, a total of 6,000 green battalion troops were surrounded by Zhuge Sanhe in Anqing.

Inside the city. Moreover, these six thousand Green Camp soldiers were all recruited from Huaibei. Their hometown was still under the firm control of the Qing Dynasty, so they were relatively reliable.

Therefore, Zhuo Butai's actual strength was as many as 16,000 men!

Moreover, Prime Minister Zhuge couldn't spend money on psychological warfare like Zhu Heji, so there was no way to force Zhuo Butai out, so he had to gnaw at the hard bones bit by bit.

On the third day after Zhu Heji entered Nanjing, Zhuge Sanhe had just cleared the outer strongholds of Anqing City and began to bombard the Anqing City Wall with rocket launchers and ten-pound cannons. At the same time, he also sent engineers to use hollow-charge sugar explosives to blast mines.

Anqing City Wall.

Zhuo Butai sent soldiers from the Eight Banners New Army to repair the damaged city walls like crazy.

The two sides fought hard for seven days. On September 21st, Zhuo Butai finally exhausted his strength and retreated to his last stronghold in Anqing City - the Chief Minister's Yamen. However, he still led the

There were less than a thousand elite soldiers, relying on the Chief Minister's Yamen to fight to the end... The fight lasted until September 25th, when the entire army was annihilated and defeated.

When the news reached Nanjing, it was already the evening of September 26th.

Early the next morning, Zhu Heji, who was in a good mood, called all the ministers, generals and senior military officers who were in Nanjing to the Wuying Hall, and announced to them in public that the Battle of Anqing had been a complete victory.

good news.

"The Prime Minister can indeed fight. Zhuo Butai is Obai's brother, a veteran who has been famous for decades. King Li Jin was defeated by him at Mopan Mountain. Otherwise, it is very possible to kill Wu Sangui! But that's it.

The veteran and famous general was also beheaded by the Prime Minister in Anqing City. He led an army of 20,000 and was completely wiped out. However, the actual army used by the Prime Minister to attack Anqing did not exceed 20,000... Such troops

His ability is no worse than Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right?"

Zhu Heji's battle with Zhuge Sanhe was quite interesting. Although his performance in the Battle of Anqing was not very good and could even be described as "mediocre", Zhu Heji still had a blast.

After he finished blowing, he kept winking at the people below, meaning that he wanted them to help him blow together.

"Jian Guo," the first person to rise from his chair was Taishi Huang Zongxi, "I thought that after the war in Anqing, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were in my hands, and Prime Minister Zhuge could do his best to guard against Wu Zhou, so the western front could rest easy.

Seeing that Wu Sangui will no longer have the opportunity to attack my back, he will definitely make an all-out Northern Expedition... For our country, the top priority is to launch the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, and we must seize Beijing before Wu Sangui."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Oh," Zhu Heji was no longer interested in bragging about his imitation of Zhuge Liang after Huang Zongxi said this. Instead, he frowned and said, "Now there are five people in Jiangxi.

Four of the towns are already exhausted...The second and seventh towns in Jiangdong are also a little tired. It's time for them to rest after conquering Yangzhou Prefecture. And now the weather is getting colder and colder. People coming from Guangdong and Fujian

It was difficult for the generals to adapt for a while. In addition, the military expenses were huge due to successive conquests, and it took time to raise some.

So I’m afraid we won’t be able to launch a large-scale Northern Expedition until next summer.”

In fact, Zhu Heji had arranged for a special force to go all the way to the Northern Expedition, but this special force could not be discussed with people like Huang Zongxi.

So he came up with a bunch of excuses and even said the start time of his next march north would be next summer.

However, what Huang Zongxi said next made Zhu Heji a little surprised. He said: "The supervisor just said that military expenditures are insufficient? The lack of military expenditures is easy to explain. You can convene the Jiangnan Consultative Council and apportion military expenditures to the counties in Jiangnan...

.... There is plenty of money in the south of the Yangtze River, and the gentry and businessmen in each county are willing to contribute. Once the consultation meeting is held, the military expenses of 10 to 20 million taels can be raised!"

Hold a conference to raise money?

Zhu Heji immediately became vigilant and thought: "What do you want to do? Do you want to hold a three-level meeting?"

He remained calm, shook his head and said, "Isn't that right? Back then, my grandfather forced the people to rebel because of the extra three wages, which caused a series of foreign and domestic troubles. He couldn't cope with it, and the country perished."

"Don't worry, the governor," Huang Zongxi said, "back then, the late Emperor Wei Miao didn't know who was rich in the world, so all the money fell on the poor.

Moreover, due to natural and man-made disasters in Shaanxi at that time, the people were already in dire straits, and there were rebels like Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong who caused trouble, so the world was in chaos.

But now the Ming Dynasty is in good weather, the people have enough food and clothing, and there are no rebels anymore... So as long as the consultation meeting is held, money can be raised."

There are no more rebels now? Zhu Heji felt a little wrong after hearing this! What does it mean? The rebels are now the grandsons of the prison country, so no one can rebel anymore?
Chapter completed!