Chapter 261： Unsolvable game

Xuzhou, the new army camp of the Qing army.

After the loss of the two main forces in Nanjing and Jiangxi, the Qing government also rushed to form a new army, and Xuzhou was one of them.

50,000 troops were newly recruited here, and they were practicing in imitation of Wu Jun's training methods.

Although Wu Jun has taken some security measures for the training methods, it is very difficult to keep this kind of frequently practiced things secret.

Now, the spies of the Qing army have figured out some of Wu Jun's training methods.

For example, go to the right pace to train the formation, trust training, courage training, formation coordination. Even in terms of ideological education, the Qing army compiled a set of content suitable for the Qing army in accordance with Wu Jun's policy.

During this period, the Qing Dynasty was not as pedantic as the late Qing Dynasty. It was still very humble, pursued upward progress, and liked to learn actively.

In the past, the firearms of the Qing army were inferior to that of the Ming army. After the loss, it was the development of artillery by smashing the pot and selling iron. In the end, it even overpowered the Ming army in firearms.

Today, they continue this tradition.

Seeing that Wu Jun's weapons were more advanced, they copied them. Seeing that the soldiers trained by Wu Jun were more aggressive and fearless to death, they began to imitate Wu Jun's training methods.

The reason why the Qing army made such a positive change was mainly because it had to change. The current situation they are facing is more severe than that of the late Qing Dynasty.

When the late Qing Dynasty was invaded, foreign powers only asked for some unequal treaties, but no country thought about occupying the Qing Dynasty completely.

Therefore, even if they defeat the battle, it doesn't matter. They can't shake the foundation. The most is to lose some money and lose some face. The status of the ruler is still relatively stable.

But now, Wu Changqing is going to fight them to the death, contend for the entire Central Plains, and completely overthrow them. Therefore, they have to use all their strength to deal with it, and they have no retreat.

However, this is the thinking of the upper echelons of the Qing court.

Some middle-level and low-level officials may not think so far-reaching in their hearts.

At this time, several officials and generals in the new army camp were **** and knelt in front of Kong Youde.

Kong Youde's lungs were about to explode at this time, and the funds were allocated to form a new army, and the officer in charge of procurement actually purchased weapons from Wu Jun.

This kind of operation is extremely funny.

"My lord has been wronged, and the subordinates are forced to do so."

The procurement officer cried out: "The above only allocated one hundred thousand taels of weapons, but we are required to complete fifty thousand weapons and equipment, which is impossible to accomplish in the north.

Only by purchasing the second-hand weapons they eliminated from Wu Jun can the equipment of 50,000 people be completed. "

It turned out that the Qing court was now shy in the bag. When the new army was formed, it was also withheld and withheld, only a portion of the money was given, and the local generals had to find a solution for the rest.

Before the change, their only way was to increase the curbing of the people.

But now, they have one more choice, and that is to buy weapons that Wu Jun has eliminated.

Now Wu Jun is undergoing a large-scale change of outfits, and those cold weapons are being eliminated on a large scale.

Originally, those weapons were intended to be exported overseas, but as a result, northern merchants came to buy them, and Wu Jun was lazy to take care of so many and sold them directly.

Anyway, with such backward weapons, Wu Jun didn't worry about what would happen if it fell into the hands of the Qing army.

These weapons are much cheaper than rebuilding a new set of equipment. In order to save money, the Qing army had to choose to buy them.

"Dare you say that you are not corrupt in this?"

Kong Youde also knew that one hundred thousand taels was too little, but he couldn't blame the court like his men.

If you have nowhere to sprinkle, you can only use the purchasing officer to vent your anger.

And the purchasing officer is indeed not clean. To complete the task, everything is rhetoric, and the ultimate goal is to embezzle from it.

In this purchase, he alone embezzled 5,000 taels, and the other people involved in the purchase totaled nearly 10,000 taels.

Five thousand liang is the purchase officer's military salary for fifty years, and it is no wonder that he is tempted. It is difficult for anyone to resist this temptation.

"The general spares his life, the general spares his life."

The purchasing officer and others could only kowtow to beg for mercy, but Kong Youde did not relent, so he directly ordered the beheading of several serious offenders, and some other accomplices were fined and played a board.

He must stop this kind of adversary behavior, otherwise Wu Jun will become stronger and stronger in the future.

After dealing with this corruption incident, Kong Youde returned home exhausted physically and mentally.

He felt tired, and a sense of powerlessness.

It is easy to solve corruption, but how to solve military expenditure is a big problem.

Kong Youde knew the most correct way to prepare for battle, but he knew it and couldn't do it.

The most correct way to prepare for battle at present is undoubtedly to equip soldiers with flintlocks, and then train them in the same way as Wu Jun. Soldiers made in this way, even if they don't have the combat power of Wu Jun's ten percent, at least eighty to ninety percent.

He knew the method, and many people in the Qing court knew it.

But it's useless, the production capacity is so big, they don't have the ability to increase the manufacturing speed. At the same time, they couldn't raise so much money to raise the army.

This is similar to the later Qing Dynasty. They also knew that to defeat the foreigners, they had to have boats and cannons, but they just couldn't make them.

In addition to the military aspect, in the economic aspect, the senior officials of the Qing court also knew that they could no longer allow Nanjing's goods to be dumped.

However, it is difficult for them to resist. Wu Jun's products are too cheap.

Just like they want to equip a 50,000 army now, they only need 80,000 taels to buy Wu's equipment, but 200,000 taels for their own production. How can this be resisted?

Not to mention that the people below choose to buy directly, even some senior officials at the upper level also want to buy directly.

The reason is also very simple, save money. Now they have to expand the new army and build guns and artillery, and the pressure on military expenditure is very heavy.

In addition, the North has been scoured by Li Zicheng for several years. It is very difficult for the people to feed themselves, and they cannot squeeze much oil and water.

At night, Kong Youde wrote a diary to record the corruption incident, and at the same time recorded some of his own feelings and experiences.

From this simple incident of corruption, he came to the conclusion that the Qing court would be defeated.

Because the strength of the Wu Jun was not only in the army, but crushing the Qing court in all directions.

The strength of the Qing court is just a manifestation of a lot of territory. In fact, it has no possibility of comeback, unless Wu Changqing gives them five or six years to develop.

Otherwise, with their current strength, they would not be able to compete with Wu Jun at all.

Kong Youde is not very clear about the reason for this, he just feels this way.

And this is actually the crushing of the strength of industrial countries over agricultural countries, and the gap between industrial countries and agricultural countries is very large.

In the battle between industrial countries and agricultural countries, territorial area and population are of little significance.

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