Chapter 372 Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants!
After hearing Zhu Cixiang's words, Taoyao nodded thoughtfully.
"Okay! Let's continue with the calculation!"
When Zhu Cixiang continued to deal with government affairs.
At this time, on the other side.
Under Jinzhou City.
The armies of both sides continued to strangle.
Speaking of which, the number of deaths in Hauge's army was still slightly less, while the death rate in Hong Chengchou's army was very high, because no matter what, they were siege warfare.
Occasionally, we have to face attacks from the Haug army.
But under such a war of attrition, Haug's army had already lost seven to eight thousand people after more than a month of high-intensity offensive and defensive battles!
"This can't go on like this!"
Duduo looked at Hong Chengchou who was standing aside with a somewhat ugly look on his face.
"In the past month or so, we have lost nearly 30,000 troops here! We originally had 80,000 troops, but now we have 20,000 reinforcements. Even so, now we only have 70,000 troops left!
If we continue fighting like this, we will be exhausted before the enemy is exhausted!"
Duduo looked at Hong Chengchou aside with a stern look in his eyes.
Hong Chengchou looked at Duduo in front of him with a wry smile, and hesitated for a moment. At this time, Hong Chengchou sighed slightly, looked at Duduo in front of him and said: "Your Majesty, no matter what, we are currently engaged in engineering operations.
Moreover, our gunpowder was almost exhausted in the battle of Shanhaiguan, and the enemy still had more than ten cannons on the top of Jinzhou City.
Our cannons don’t work because there is no gunpowder, so now is really not a good time to attack the city!”
After hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Duduo showed hesitation in his eyes.
"Then what should we do? By the way, we used the tactics we used in Shanhaiguan last time to blow up the city wall. Can we continue to do it?"
Duduo's heart moved slightly, he looked at Hong Chengchou in front of him and asked.
"If you have enough gunpowder, yes!"
Hong Chengchou said seriously to Duduo in front of him.
A clever woman cannot make a meal without rice.
Without gunpowder, cannons are useless, many tactics cannot be implemented, and sieges can only be filled with human lives, and the efficiency is still very low.
"Okay! Then I'll get you gunpowder! However, after I get the gunpowder for you, it will take at most half a month to capture Jinzhou City and capture Hauge alive!"
Duduo's eyes showed a cold light and he said to Hong Chengchou in front of him.
With a wry smile on his face, Hong Chengchou looked at Duduo in front of him and said, "Your Highness, I can only promise to do my best! After all..."
"Okay! Got it!"
Duduo did not embarrass Hong Chengchou too much.
At this time, he felt a little anxious in his heart, because in the other direction, Zhu Ming and the intruder were silent, and Duduo didn't know what was going on at Zhu Ming's side.
Because the Qing Dynasty's intelligence system has not yet been able to penetrate into Zhu Ming's system, but the intruders can still do it.
Duduo heard from his royal brother Dorgon that the intruders are now training their own elites, and it seems to have achieved some results now!
And it has also begun to harass the border!
I guess the situation over at Zhu Ming is similar.
Both parties are constantly growing, but the Qing Dynasty continues to consume power under Jinzhou City!
When the time comes, it is very likely that Zhu Ming and the intruder will attack at the same time. If that happens, then the Qing Dynasty will really be in trouble!
It is very likely that the Qing Dynasty will be captured by the bandits and Zhu Ming by then!
Thinking of this, a hint of sigh flashed in Doduo's eyes.
All these letters were sent to the process.
A few days later.
Beijing.
"oh???"
Song Yi's eyes showed a glimmer of light as he looked at the letter in front of him.
This sealed letter was sent by Dodo and was sealed with fire paint.
But Song Yi used a method to bypass the fire paint and opened the letter. There was actually nothing special about the content of the letter.
"Let the Eight Families purchase a large amount of gunpowder for the Qing Dynasty! Transport it to the front line??"
Looking at the contents of the letter in front of him, Song Yi looked at Zhihong with a sneer.
"As expected! Shanxi merchants had a lot of involvement with the Manchus! Judging from Duduo's tone, Fan Yongdou and the others had done this kind of thing a lot in the past! Even many maps were captured by Fan Yongdou and the others!
What a bunch of scum! It’s really not a pity to die for these scum!”
As he spoke, Song Yi's eyes showed a strong cold light.
But soon, Song Yi's expression returned to normal. After a slight hesitation, he copied the letter in front of him, and then carefully finished the original letter according to the previous method.
After ensuring that everything was perfect, Song Yi quickly sent the letter to the palace.
Dorgon frowned and looked at the letter in front of him.
"Song Yi, take a look at this letter!"
Dorgon said to Song Yi in front of him.
Song Yi was stunned for a moment, with a hesitant look in his eyes, and said cautiously to Dorgon in front of him: "Master, this letter is encrypted and sent to you by King Duduo. I don't think it's right...
All right……"
"If I let you see it, just see it! Where's all the nonsense!"
Dorgon glanced coldly at Song Yi in front of him and threw the letter in his hand. Song Yi quickly picked up the letter from the ground.
Start viewing quickly.
After watching for a while, Dorgon slowly said to Song Yi in front of him: "I let you see it because these things must be known to you sooner or later! And this time, you really need to go
connect!"
Soon, Song Yi pretended to have just read the letter, hesitated for a moment, and curiously asked Dorgon in front of him: "Master, I have heard of the Eight Great Merchants of Shanxi.
But no matter what they are, they are just some businessmen. Do they really have so much energy? Can they get large quantities of gunpowder? Isn’t it easy? "
Song Yi asked Dorgon in front of him with curiosity in his eyes.
"You underestimate these people!"
With a smile on his face, Dorgon slowly spoke to Song Yi in front of him: "These people are known as the Gods of Wealth. Basically, there is nothing that cannot be done with money. If so, it means there is not enough money!
In the past, many things in our Qing Dynasty, including weapons and armor, where do you think they got them from? There were also many battlefields. Do you really think that our Qing Dynasty's ability to enter the customs had a lot to do with these people!
It’s just some gunpowder! They can handle it!”
Dorgon smiled and said to Song Yi in front of him.
Hearing Dorgon's words, Song Yi had a thoughtful look on his face, but he was shocked in his heart.
Anger burned in my heart.
These traitors!
Song Yi's heart was burning with anger.
"Okay! You go down! I will tell you how to contact Fan Yongdou, and you are responsible for contacting him!"