Will the Qin army, which possesses Tiangong's treasure and has occupied Jizhou and Qingbei, be short of money?
In fact, it is still lacking.
Although there is a lot of wealth in Tiangong's treasure, it cannot withstand the rapid development of the Qin army. Where money needs to be spent, it is shown off in every way. Now it has been consumed to a great extent.
After capturing Jizhou and Qingbei, the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Liang were destroyed, and many Hebei families were wiped out. Naturally, the Qin army also seized a large amount of money.
However, although the Qin army captured a lot of money, the losses in the Hebei War were also huge.
In this battle, the Qin army lost a total of 150,000 troops, and all of this required pensions.
The Qin army's pension was already high, but the pension for the 150,000-strong army was even more astronomical.
No matter how much money the Qin army seized in Jiqing, it was barely enough to pay the pension. But apart from the pension, the thirteen counties in Qingbei, Jizhou, had no place to spend money.
Nowadays, the finances of Hebei and Qingdao are already in a state of being unable to make ends meet. It can be seen that before Hebei and Qingdao develop, they will have to rely on blood transfusions from their respective departments.
Selling some useless ordnance to Wang Mang at this time will undoubtedly ease the financial pressure on the Hebei and Qingzhou states.
Qin Hao had tried his best to overestimate Wang Mang's financial resources, but he still underestimated it. He thought that Wu Yong would purchase at most 20,000 troops to go back, but he did not expect that Wu Yong directly purchased 30,000, and threatened that this was only the first time.
A batch of military purchases will be carried out with the Qin army for the second and third time in the future.
The ordnance captured by the Qin Army in Hebei was enough to equip an army of 400,000 people. So much Zhao and Han standard equipment was of no use to the Qin Army, because the Qin Army's standard equipment was much better and more sophisticated.
With such a huge amount of ordnance, even if Qin Hao was willing to sell it all to Wang Mang, Wang Mang's family alone would not be able to swallow it, so Qin Hao came up with the idea of selling ordnance to the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu.
Although the ordnance of Han and Zhao are not as good as those of the Qin army, they are still top-notch equipment in the world. It would be a pity to recast them. Selling them in exchange for money for development is the best solution.
The war between the Central Plains and Jiangdong is intensifying. The equipment forging of the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu has been unable to keep up with the consumption of the war. The newly recruited troops are short of a large amount of equipment. If you buy equipment for them at this time, they will definitely sell it.
Of course, the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu were all allies of the Qin army. Selling weapons to their allies would naturally not be as expensive as selling them to Wang Mang.
Qin Hao left it to his future father-in-law Zhen Yi to handle the military purchases of the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu.
The Zhen family comes from a family of merchants, and Zhen Yi is a leader among merchants. Qin Hao believes that Zhen Yi will strive for the greatest benefits for the Qin army while considering the relationship between the two countries.
Zhen Yi, who had only been the county magistrate for a month, was suddenly dismissed from office. At first, she was a little uneasy, thinking that her lord was dissatisfied with her, and was afraid that this would affect the marriage between Qin and Zhen's family. However, she did not expect that her lord had handed over the military purchase of 400,000 troops.
To save yourself, this is obviously to reuse your own rhythm.
After realizing this, Zhen Yi suddenly felt confident and prepared to work hard in her new position to repay the kindness of her lord and son-in-law.
Although Wu Yong's mission was not satisfactory, he managed to complete the mission and brought back a large amount of ordnance to Wang Mang.
On Qin Hao's side, after Wu Yong left, he immediately summoned the four military advisors Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bowen, as well as Bai Qi, Li Jing, Han Xin, Zhang Liao, etc. to hold a meeting to begin discussing their next strategy for Youzhou.
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Zhang Liang analyzed a lot of important information from the fact that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were preparing to mobilize troops on the front line of the Three Koreas.
"Currently there are 180,000 Northern Han troops and 200,000 Manchu Eight Banners troops in Youzhou. In addition to Wu Sangui and Chen Baxian's 70,000 surrendered Han troops, the total strength of the three parties has reached an astonishing 450,000.
If the Northern Han Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can really put aside their past grievances and cooperate sincerely, relying on these 450,000 troops and Youzhou's favorable geographical location, our army will definitely have to fight a tough battle if it wants to occupy Youzhou.
But even with these 450,000 troops, the Manchu and Qing dynasties still want to mobilize troops from the three Korean fronts. Do the Manchu and Qing dynasties really want to fight to the death with our army? Of course it is impossible, and Nurhachi will not be so disrespectful.
wisdom."
Zhang Liang's eyes were full of wisdom and he said confidently: "There is only one possibility for Nurhaci to still mobilize troops from the rear to Youzhou under such circumstances. That is that the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty have not reached an alliance. Nurhaci is doing this.
Preparations to fight against our army alone after the defeat of the Northern Han Dynasty."
"How can this be?"
Zhang Liao looked in disbelief and retorted: "With the current military strength of the Northern Han Dynasty, fighting against the Qin Dynasty alone will only lead to death. How could Liu Che refuse the Manchu Qing's help under such circumstances?"
"If it were anyone else, it would be hard to say, but if it were Liu Che, it would be possible to refuse the Manchus' help."
Qin Hao's eyes flashed with admiration for a moment, he looked at Han Xin and asked: "Han Xin, you have the most contact with Liu Che, please tell me."
"promise."
Han Xin stood up and said in a deep voice: "Although Liu Che is Liu Yu's younger brother, he is a concubine and was born from a concubine. His status in the Liu family is not high. And his biological mother died at the hands of Wuhuan? This makes Liu
Xie hated the Youzhou aliens so much that he once threatened to kill all the Wuhuan aliens.
Wuhuan was the predecessor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so for Liu Che, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a grudge against him for killing his mother. Perhaps it was because of this that Liu Che would rather subjugate his country than ally with the Manchu Qing Dynasty."
After hearing Han Xin's words, all the generals looked at each other, obviously not expecting that the Northern Han Emperor Liu Che had such a past.
Guo Jia stood up and said: "My lord, it is best if Liu Che refuses to join forces with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Our army will have no effort to deal with the Northern Han Dynasty.
Even if Liu Che and Nurhaci form an alliance, with the current strength of our army, the chances of winning one against two are still very high.
It is now approaching September, and if we delay it any further, the weather will become increasingly colder, making it unsuitable for large armies to fight, so our army must completely wipe out the Northern Han Dynasty before winter comes."
"Fengxiao's words are reasonable. Now that our army has been repaired, it is time to send troops to Youzhou."
Qin Hao nodded and ordered: "Send the order, the whole army..."
Before he finished speaking, a spy suddenly came to report: "Report... to inform my lord, Hangu Pass has fallen, and 140,000 Tang troops are approaching the royal city."
"What?"
The generals all exclaimed, Hangu Pass is the top pass, and with Li Cunxiao in charge, how could it fall so quickly?
Qin Hao obviously didn't expect this. With a thought, he turned on the system prompt that had been closed for three days.
[Ding dong, Li Shimin...]
[Ding dong, Li Cunxiao...]
[Ding dong, Li Yuanba...]
…
Thousands of system prompts all appeared in Qin Hao's mind at once. There were all kinds of them, and they were so dazzling that even Qin Hao couldn't see them at all.