Chapter 73： Hong Chengchou with a headache

The straight-line distance between Changzhou and Nanjing is only 100 kilometers, and the messenger can arrive in half a day regardless of the horses.

Liu Liangzuo was defeated and Changzhou was besieged. This was almost an urgent military situation of 800 miles.

Therefore, the messenger ran all the way along the station. After changing horses twice, they finally rushed to Nanjing and presented the report to Hong Chengchou.

Seeing the battle report, Hong Chengchou almost couldn't hold back his temper and yelled at him once again.

More than 10,000 people were lost, and the city of Changzhou was in danger. Liu Liangzuo's performance left him speechless.

If Changzhou is lost, Nanjing will also become unsafe. At least the army needs to be stationed at any time. Otherwise, the Ming army can launch a surprise attack within three or four days of the journey of two hundred miles.

Changzhou and Zhenjiang are both gateways to Nanjing.

However, at the moment he can't pull out his troops to rescue. He Tengjiao is also making trouble over Jiangxi. The main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty returned to the north to rest, and the southern forces were empty.

In desperation, he could only write a memorial to the court, requesting the Eight Banners army to go south again. If the Eight Banners soldiers could not come, the situation in the south was almost out of control.

At the same time, he also deployed some of the surrounding defenders to garrison in Nanjing, prepared.

As for Changzhou, he can only let it fend for itself, unable to rescue.

Hong Chengchou didn't really want to save Liu Liangzuo's waste. Looking at Liu Liangzuo's resume, you will find that this person is really not capable.

In the early days, he made some contributions by suppressing the peasant uprisings. After holding a heavy army, he never fought a good fight.

In the face of the Qing army surrendering without a fight, and besieging a small Jiangyin city for two months, the 40,000 troops were defeated under the city of Suzhou, and now they have lost more than 10,000 troops.

Looking at these few battles alone, Liu Liangzuo was really wasteful to the point that he couldn't be wasteful anymore. Every time he had an advantage in strength, every time he was defeated.

Hong Chengchou was completely disappointed with this guy. Keeping such a person would only waste his military salary. It would be better to die earlier.

After despising Liu Liangzuo, Hong Chengchou checked the battle report in detail again.

In the battle report, Liu Liangzuo deliberately emphasized the power of Ming arms in order to cover up his incompetence and cover up the fact that he was in the game. Said that he did not lose in tactics, but in weapons.

This is not completely nonsense. After all, when they confronted the Ming army head-on, the strength of the troops was actually about the same. Under other circumstances, they could fight a battle.

However, facing the firearms of the Ming army, choosing to fight head-on in the wild is undoubtedly tantamount to looking for death.

"It's this kind of firearm again."

Hong Chengchou gritted his teeth and said, he has seen the admiration of this firearm by different generals many times, and he has paid more and more attention to it in his heart.

However, this firearm was guarded extremely tightly by the Ming army, and Hong Chengchou hasn't obtained one yet, and it's no use trying to find someone to copy it. Relying on the rivers, lakes and green forests to steal such secrets, there is not much hope, and we can only count on the Eight Banners army to go south and directly capture Suzhou.

In fact, Hong Chengchou has already found some craftsmen who make firecrackers and asked them to make firecrackers that can be fired quickly without a matchlock.

However, this kind of request is too difficult for the craftsmen.

So far, the artisans in Nanjing have no idea. They still have a little idea to increase the rate of fire, but they really have no idea how to ignite without a matchstick.

The springs to be used here are real high-tech in China at present.

In addition to the military, Hong Chengchou has recently suffered a lot in internal affairs.

Several large cloth merchants reported that a cheap cloth appeared in Nanjing, which was not only of good quality, but also extremely low in price. Each cloth was 50 cents lower than the cloth of other merchants.

This is simply to kill other cloth merchants, leaving no room for it.

Local cloth merchants all united spontaneously to deal with it, and jointly bought this batch of low-priced cloths, wanting to take all the sources of supply, and then control the price.

However, there are too many cheap cloths, which seem to be shipped from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River endlessly, and the big cloth merchants are a little overwhelmed.

They have accumulated too much cloth to sell, and their capital chain is about to go wrong.

In this case, those cloth merchants can only turn to the government and ask them to intervene, such as imposing taxes on those cloths or direct investigations.

Their reason is also very convincing, because the cloths are all from Suzhou, and if they are not suppressed, a large amount of silver will flow to Suzhou and to the Ming army.

This makes Hong Chengchou a headache. He himself wants to compete. This is a good thing for the cloth market. It can lower prices and allow more people to buy cloth.

But the problem is that these cheap cloths are from Suzhou, so he has to consider some military consequences.

At the same time, he became more and more curious about Suzhou.

He knows that Suzhou is a very developed and prosperous city. There is a proverb that says "Su Lake is familiar with the world." It is an important grain-producing area, textile industry area, and trading area.

However, there were not so many weird things in Suzhou before. Until that Wu Changqing appeared, these strange things also emerged.

Soap, soap, glass, tooth powder, cloth, advanced firearms.

These things are extremely popular on the market, especially the soap glass, which is unique to Suzhou, is basically in a state of pricelessness in Nanjing and the surrounding areas.

As soon as the goods from Suzhou arrive, they will be sold out immediately. Later, those Suzhou merchants would purchase a large amount of grain, saltpeter, ironware and other war materials to return to Suzhou.

Hong Chengchou felt that this would not work. He immediately summoned the Chief Secretary of Zhili and asked him to increase taxes on soaps and other commodities in order to reduce the profits of those commodities and increase income at the same time.

During the war, everyone was short of money.

The Nanming court was short of money, and the Manchu court was actually quite short of money.

The only possibility that there is no shortage of money is Suzhou. Wu Changqing's servant is still engaged in free education, which made Hong Chengchou almost depressed when he knew it.

This has to be how rich it is to run education during the war.

Hong Chengchou's idea was good, but after the policy came down, only the prostitutes on the banks of the Qinhuai River were suffering.

After all, if they increase taxes, Suzhou merchants will increase prices. Anyway, because of the popularity of soap and other commodities in Nanjing, there is no need to worry about selling them at a price increase.

In the end, the Manchu Qing court increased taxes, and Suzhou merchants still made a lot of money, and only those consumers who needed these goods finally paid the bill.

Because of this, there were a lot of curses on the Qinhuai River, and some people even hoped that the Ming army in Suzhou would call in quickly and drive the Manchu Tatar back.

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