Dominate the Country

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When Chen Ming entered Beijing, the Fu Han Army had already begun sweeping Jizhou, Zunhua and other places.

After the Qing army stationed in Jizhou received the news that the Qing army in Tongzhou had fled north, they immediately ran to Zunhua. The Fu Han Army took Jizhou without bloodshed, but if they did not kill all the Qing troops that harmed the people, not only would Chen Ming be very dissatisfied, but even the cavalry troops and the 1st Garrison Division, the 1st Guangdong Army Division, and the 1st Shandong Army Division would not be satisfied.

The majority of the half of the guard troops that Yong Sheng had previously divided were deployed in Zunhua, that is, Zunhua City and the three passes of Niuyukou, Da'ankou and Luowenyu to its north. When the cavalry troops of the Fu Han Army rushed to Zunhua City, the Qing army in Zunhua had not yet completely evacuated. The small million Han people gathered by the Qing army, and more than 200,000 people were still inside and outside Zunhua City.

The cavalry troops bypassed Zunhua City and rushed directly to the three northern passes, taking Da'ankou in the middle. Then the entire Battle of Zunhua was the hunting ground for the Fu Han Army to chase the enemy.

Yue Song lay on the horse's back, whipping the mount desperately. Both of his legs were rubbed so hard that they were burning, but neither he nor his horsemen dared to stop and rest for a moment. Because there was a Fu Han Army behind them.

The happiness of Jizhou City seemed to be just yesterday, but now he was being chased like a rabbit. From Jizhou to Zunhua, from Zunhua to Sanguan, from Sanguan to Banbi Mountain outside the Great Wall, and now Baimachuan is almost here, and the Fu Han Army behind him is still chasing him.

Yue Song and his men had 700 to 800 people at the beginning, but the Qing army that came out of Sanguan was all frightened birds. They were scattered by a Fu Han Army cavalry of only 200 cavalrymen. When Yue Song fled with about 100 of the cavalrymen, he could only hear screams from the back, which made him tremble with fear. The Fu Han army was actually divided into two, with hundreds of cavalrymen continuing to pursue Yue Song and his men.

Yue Song cursed the Fu Han army's cavalry for being so bold and daring to chase them with such a small number of people, but none of him and the horsemen around him dared to turn back and fight. Even though the flag of this cavalry was the Shandong Cavalry Regiment, not the cavalry brigade in the main force of the Fu Han army.

The two sides were running and chasing, and it was fifty or sixty miles from Sanguanwai to Baimachuan. Even if the horses slowed down and stopped several times in the middle to rest, the continuous running horsepower could not bear it. At this time, Yue Song really realized that a fight was inevitable.

If he didn't defeat the pursuers behind him, he would not be able to escape the pursuit of the pursuers! Yue Song had no confidence at all whether he could escape to Chengde before being caught up. Because he didn't have any food in his hand now.

The little food and supplies they brought with them when they came out of the three passes were all lost in the attack of the Fu Han Army. After half a day of running, the little bean feed they carried with them was also consumed, and there was not much water left. There is still a hundred miles to Chengde. Without fine feed, can the mounts just eat grass? And don't think that it is easy for people to ride horses continuously!

Yue Song looked at the earth slope opposite. A Fu Han Army cavalryman raised the military flag high and stabbed it into the ground fiercely-the first battalion of the Shandong Cavalry Regiment. When the cavalryman let go, the red flag had been deeply rooted in the ground. A gust of wind blew, and the red flag fluttered.

"Brothers, if we don't kill these traitors, we will have no way to survive. Kill them all with me..." Yue Song shouted. Which of these people around him didn't come from Jizhou? The Fu Han Army would never spare them. If you want to live, you have to chop the enemy.

The troops on both sides were few. To be exact, the Fu Han Army had 30 to 40 fewer troops than Yue Song and his men, which meant that they lost one-third of their troops. The Manchu and Mongolian cavalry could not defeat the main cavalry of the Fu Han Army. Yue Song admitted that the cavalry brigade of the Fu Han Army was very powerful. Could it be that now that their number exceeded one-third of the opposite side, they still could not defeat the Shandong cavalry, which was not the main force of the Fu Han Army?

The Qing Army had no flags here for a long time, but there were few people. Yue Song shouted loudly, and his voice reached everyone's ears. More than a hundred Zhenglan Banner horsemen knew that what Yue Song said was true. They had no food at all. If they did not take advantage of their strength to deal with the Fu Han Army cavalry behind them, they would soon be dealt with by the Fu Han Army in reverse. More than a hundred Qing cavalry urged their mounts to run to the south.

Only a moment later, the cavalry of the Fu Han Army also drove their war horses from the earth slope and rushed down from both sides of the military flag. Both sides were very traditional cavalry. The cavalry at the front started shooting at each other with lances or bows and arrows. People in the front charging teams on both sides were shot and fell off their horses. But the cavalry behind showed no signs of stopping at all. The sound of falling off horses and screaming was instantly drowned in the rumble of more than 200 war horses and thousands of horse hooves hitting the ground.

Yang Lei roared loudly and held the white spear in his hand. The military flags behind him rang fiercely in the wind, and the long spears and sabers were all pointed directly at the enemy.

The two torrents collided in an instant.

The leader of the Qing cavalry was the one who rushed to the front, and the lightning rod shone brightly in the sun. He stretched his arm back and then swept forward with force. The trajectory of the blade went straight to the enemy's left chest. As long as he chopped it, the sharp blade would cut an absolutely fatal gap in the enemy's chest.

The cavalry of the Fu Han Army on the opposite side was almost in the same posture. This was the standard tactic of cavalry combat. Everyone lived on the edge of a knife, and their eyes were sharp. The captain was surprised to see that his blade had hit the opponent's chest first, but the blade did not cut in at all, as there was a layer of extremely hard material blocking the blade.

Just a moment later, the captain felt that his sight began to rise and turn strangely. In the dizzy world, the captain saw a familiar headless body sitting on the horse and galloping away. Then, his eyes closed and the world turned black. One fell to the ground and was hit by a horse hoof the next moment.

The two cavalry charged and the Qing army, which had more troops, was defeated. They were at most a tide, while the charge of the Fu Han army was as unstoppable as a mountain torrent rushing out of the river and out of the canyon.

When Yue Song's head was cut off, Yang Lei laughed happily. "Brothers, cut off all the heads of the Tartars and take them back to make a Jingguan to commemorate the dead people in Jizhou!"

Yang Lei didn't know what Zunhua City looked like at the moment, but even if he thought with his toes, he would feel that the people in the capital area would be endlessly grateful to the Fu Han army. The Manchu Qing's crazy behavior made them lose the hearts of the people in the capital area.

Chen Ming had ordered them to build a "Jingguan" outside Jizhou City as revenge for the Qing Dynasty's Jizhou incident. How tall this Jingguan, which was built to commemorate the dead people in Jizhou, would be, depends entirely on how much they can achieve in this battle.

With such "inspiration", the infantry and cavalry of the Fu Han Army attacking Zunhua were simply going crazy when they fought. This is the first "Jingguan" since the Fu Han Army was established, and it is likely to be the last one.

In this era, Jingguan has been considered "unkind" by many people. The most important thing is that the common people are influenced by this idea and feel that Jingguan is no longer a mighty and majestic martial style, but a precise embodiment of "brutal and inhumane".

But in the army, if one's own achievements can be established as a "Jingguan", it is simply a display of military merit for all ages!

...

The atmosphere in Nanjing City should not be too happy recently. The news of victory came again and again, with gongs and drums, red and colorful clothes, and a lot of people. It was even more joyful than the Chinese New Year!

The common people talked about the "wind sweeping away the remnants of the Han army" in the Northern Expedition, and repeatedly compared the Han army with the Ming Dynasty. The wealthy businessmen talked about the stability of Chen Han's country, and on the other hand, they talked about the land bonds that the bank would officially issue next month.

This bearer bond is basically the land outside the Northeast Pass. The face value is divided into six types: 10 yuan, 50 yuan, 100 yuan, 500 yuan, 1,000 yuan, and 5,000 yuan for gold yuan coupons; there are five types of silver yuan coupons, 100, 100, 100, and 100 million yuan! Land bonds are issued at the full face value of the bonds.

The interest rate is very low, with an annual interest rate of only a very small one cent, that is, one percent. And its main function is to use this bond to obtain corresponding land from the Northeast in the future. The price of land in the Northeast is only three silver dollars per mu. In the past two years, the "Zhongyuan Daily" has reported the large-scale reclamation of the Qing Dynasty in the Northeast. In order to boost the confidence of its own people, the Qing Dynasty also promoted the effect of reclamation in the official newspaper. It is obvious that the Northeast, which used to be a desolate and cold land in the eyes of the Han people, is a good piece of land. Even if only one crop can be grown each year, its value cannot be bought with three silver dollars.

The land bonds issued by the bank are fully issued, and the court makes concessions in this regard. If you don't want the land in the Northeast in the future, you can still withdraw your capital in full from the bank five years later.

The land bonds issued by the Fu Han Army this time show their determination to unify the world. Chen Han is not Zhao Song!

After two years of recovery and development, the economy of Jiangnan has prospered significantly. New wealthy businessmen and wealthy people, a new industrial and commercial class, have just accumulated a little strength and are about to stretch out their claws and teeth to prey. The appearance of land bonds instantly attracted their attention.

For the Chinese, land is an unavoidable complex. Moreover, no matter how exaggerated the court's issuance of land bonds is, it cannot cover up the fact that the court is short of money.

This is actually the court using future things as collateral to "borrow money" from all the people in the world!

Ordinary people don't need much, but for the emerging industrial and commercial class, as well as traditional business groups, this is a platform for them to show their loyalty to Chen Han. You bought 100,000 silver yuan coupons, and I bought 50,000 gold yuan coupons. The court will definitely see it.

And no matter what, you won't suffer any loss. This kind of bond has no expiration date, and there is an interest of 1% per year. After all, people have taken out the land in the Northeast, which is much better than the "donation" during the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to the issue of land bonds that shocked the entire South, the court also released two private bank quotas for the first time. Once this news broke out, it was more shocking than the land bonds to the business community in the South.

Everyone can see the current development trend of several national banks. Although micro loans made Chen Han breathless at the beginning, they finally supported it. When more and more people deposit money in national banks to earn interest, this has formed a relatively good virtuous circle. The usury industry in various places has suffered a major blow. As checks became more and more popular in China's business community, banks and money houses were also greatly impacted. More and more businessmen deposited their money in banks and took out checks, which were becoming more and more commonly used in large transactions in China.

Especially the "Financial Daily" started by the banking department, after more and more introductions and analysis of the development history of Western banks, the role of banks has become increasingly clear to everyone. Although Chinese businessmen never dared to hope to obtain the right to issue currency, especially the right to issue paper money, after setting up a bank, the importance of a bank to a regional business group is also obvious.

There are still five business groups in Chen Han's current control area: Huizhou merchants, Su merchants, Zhejiang merchants, Guangdong merchants, and Beijing merchants.

There is no Dongting Mountain Gang now. After suffering a severe blow and destruction, the Dongting Mountain Gang has been completely integrated into the Suzhou Merchants, while the Huizhou merchants are still strong. Even if the Fu Han Army destroyed the salt merchants in Yangzhou, the Huizhou merchants still have a lot of capital invested in the wave of industry and commerce; and the Zhejiang merchants are the original Ningbo Merchants as the main body, the Guangdong merchants are centered on the Guangzhou Merchants, and the last Beijing merchants are the most complicated group of people. These people mainly come from southwestern Henan, and they are supported by the big men in Chen Han's military and political circles, especially the Chen family, whose background is so deep that they can sweep away all opponents.

However, because of the many backers behind them, the Chen family only maintains a general stability. The Jingshang is the one that involves the most and widest industries among all the business groups. It is almost 360 industries, and there are not a few industries.

And they also have the natural ally of the military cooperative as a support.

"The court said that it issued two bank licenses, but in fact there is only one." This is already recognized by people.

Compared with ordinary people who are worried about whether Chen Han will move the capital to Beijing for the second time while they are happy, the businessmen and wealthy people in various places are now staring at the two bank licenses. Although the threshold of the latter is a full 10 million reserve funds, which is an astronomical figure for individuals, whoever can get a bank license and sit at home behind closed doors can get money from the sky!

Chen Hui's tricks are very white, but also very effective. While throwing out the bank license, the land bonds are next. Any group that plots for a bank license will certainly try to please the court with land bonds, at least not to make itself weaker than its competitors. Moreover, most of these amounts will be concentrated on a few individuals, and those few people are the front-line figures pushed out by business groups from all over the country. Chen Han can just check these people in advance and have a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of them.

After Chen Ming finished the battle of Duji on the 12th, he immediately used a carrier pigeon to report the victory to Nanjing, and at the same time sent a fast horse to Nanjing to convey the information to the west, and spread it along the way.

When Chen Ming entered Beijing, Chen Hui had already received the exact victory report from the fast horse, and Chen Ming's calculations for the next few months.

The base of the Qing Dynasty is a bit too high, and he is ready to continue to suppress the Qing Dynasty.

And Chen Ming is confident that Yongsheng dare not not return the treasures, antiques, etc. Although Yongsheng will not return all of them, he should return most of them, at least half. It is better to transport all these treasures and paintings back to Nanjing. Neither the father and son of the Chen family intend to move the capital to Beijing!

Chen Ming knew the hidden dangers of Beijing in the future. Let alone the sandstorm, Mongolia in the future would not have such a large area of ​​desert. Just like the future Shanxi and Shaanxi, closing mountains to cultivate forests, relocating people, maintaining water and soil, etc., all of these are recorded in Chen Ming's notebook.

However, Beijing has difficulty in using water, excessive groundwater extraction, and subsidence on the surface, which is really confusing.

Chen Ming thinks Nanjing is good. Can Beijing become a secondary capital in the future? Just like in the Ming Dynasty, the north is the main capital and the south is the deputy capital, now it can be the south and the north. After all, in the future world, China cannot only focus on the north, but also look at the ocean and the world.

According to Chen Ming's ultimate ideal, from the Arctic Ocean to Oceania, from North America to Central Asia, Nanjing is exactly the midpoint!

But there is no need to leak this news now, just like Chen Han has already defined Qianlong's "raising the flag" move, and the new bannermen are not considered bannermen. But Chen Han just won't announce it because they have the upper hand.

Chen Ming, who is confident that he can conquer China with guns and cannons, is more willing to see those Han people make the most painful choice between life and death. If they choose the right path, even if they are people like Feng Lian, as long as they have made great contributions, Chen Ming can let them go. But for people like Liu Tongxun who are stubborn and unrepentant, even if Qianlong does not raise the Liu family into the Manchu army flag, Chen Ming will kill them without leaving a single piece of armor!

The Fu Han Army has an absolute advantage, and the Qing Dynasty is like a fish swimming under the cauldron. When countless Han people who were forced to move north closed their eyes and waited for death in front of the bloody machetes of the army-just like now. Who still thinks that the Qing Dynasty can make a comeback? They are just like Yongrong in the northwest, the difference is that they died early or late. When the Battle of Chengde is over, if the Qing Dynasty keeps running away, the Fu Han Army will continue to work hard and chase Yongcheng to sweep the entire Rehe and the entire Chahar, which is not difficult.

Next month, Chen Hui will officially announce his "magnanimity" towards the new bannermen. Yongcheng and other high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty will probably look very upset.

As for the large number of precious antiques and paintings that will soon be shipped back to Nanjing, Chen Ming proposed to Chen Hui to set up an auction house to cash in some of the things and subsidize the national expenditure. And the museum can also be built now!

Taking advantage of the drizzle, Huang Dingyou walked back home leisurely holding an oil-paper umbrella. He now works at Nanjing Daily. He has worked hard for several months and only received a reply from the logistics department in the first month. Some comments in newspapers usually arouse public opinion, especially with the unusual status of "Nanjing Daily". There is a section specially left to publish some comments and related replies to the letters. And more of the replies are from workers like Huang Dingyou!

Huang Dingyou has been transferred to the review team since the first month. Although it is only a preliminary review team, it is also a great improvement. The newspaper has developed rapidly in the past two years, and it is quite respectable to have a full-time job in the newspaper office.

After dinner, Huang Dingyou returned to the house and bent over his desk to write a letter to Shen Yuan, who was studying at the Wuhan branch. The latter was still training and his three-month study period was almost over.

"...the Northern Expeditionary Army has been victorious, but the actual reports in newspapers often have to go through long delays, and some reports are distorted, which has caused great dissatisfaction among readers. Last month, "Zhongyuan Daily" and "Military Army" published "Newspaper" began to suggest that newspapers could set up a dispatched reporter station to follow the military operations...

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Governor's Office gave a definite answer, agreeing that reporters from newspapers would accompany the army, but they must abide by some military disciplines. I have already signed up..."