Valley Emperor

In a series of commercial agreements reached between the Commerce Department of the Taxation Department of the Datang Dynasty and the Cen family, although military rations were the most important item, they were not the only ones.

In addition to the most important military ration supply agreement, the two sides have also reached various material supply agreements. The Cen family will use their supply channels throughout Guangdong and Guangxi to provide the Tang Dynasty with various strategic materials urgently needed, including copper, iron, saltpeter , lead, cloth, salt, etc.

Especially sulphur and iron!

Because the Cen family said that they have channels to contact a large amount of these two materials, such as sulfur, they can even purchase directly from Guangzhou and then transport them back.

Guangzhou is a coastal city, and it is also one of the few ports in the Ming Dynasty that traded with foreign countries. The main source of sulfur in East Asia is Japan.

The easiest and cheapest way to get sulfur in bulk is to import it from Japan.

As for iron, Foshan in Guangdong was an important steel town in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the output of iron was huge.

All these materials can be transported through the Xijiang River all the way into Guangxi and even reach Liuzhou.

Of course, there will definitely be Ming Dynasty checkpoints guarding along the way, but how to get past the checkpoint depends on the Cen family's ability.

In addition, the most critical point is that the above-mentioned various materials, including military rations and steel, the transaction price is only a few percent higher than the market price!

This alone can save a lot of money for the Tang Dynasty!

The supply price of the Cen's family and the supply price of the old man Sun are simply the same as the sky and the ground. The supply price of the old man Sun, regardless of the materials, is not less than twice the price, and some strategic materials are even more expensive. Double or even quadruple the price, such as sulfur, old man Sun dared to call out the price of five times the market price, but the Tang Dynasty could only buy it with its nose.

No way, who made the Tang Dynasty temporarily unable to obtain a large amount of sulfur, and these things, whether it is Old Man Sun or other businessmen, are not cheap.

Moreover, the supply capacity of others is not as strong as that of Sun Laotu. Even if the price is cheap, it is useless if the quantity is not enough.

Otherwise, the officials of the Datang Dynasty would not have shouted that the taxes of the Datang Dynasty were all earned by the black-hearted businessmen like Sun Laotu.

Many officials of the Tang Dynasty, especially the generals of the tax department and the military, have already sharpened their knives secretly. Waiting for the day when Old Man Sun is useless, he will definitely take this son of a **** surnamed Sun and exterminate his family!

However, this kind of thinking can only be an idea. Now that I think about it in my heart, it is ok, but if you really turn against old Sun, it will not be worth the loss.

It's easy to kill old man Sun and even copy his family's home, and it's easy to **** his goods and money!

But the value of old man Sun is not in his own property or anything, but in his supply and transportation channels!

Not to mention the supply channels, it is not an easy task to search for the military supplies in so many markets and strictly controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, transportation is also troublesome. Nowadays, the Ming army in the neighboring provinces of the Tang Dynasty such as Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi have basically blocked the connection with the areas controlled by the Tang Dynasty.

If you dare to swagger and take a caravan full of steel, copper and other controlled materials to the control area of ​​the pseudo-Tang thief army, do you really think that the sword of the Ming Dynasty is not good?

In the past year, there are definitely not only old man Sun who has traded with the Tang Dynasty, but a lot of them, but some businessmen often do not come back after one or two transactions?

Why?

Is it because they have made enough money that they are afraid to come? Or is it a sudden burst of patriotism, and you don’t want to betray your country anymore?

Just kidding, there are hundreds of percent of the profit, enough to keep their heads in their pants pockets and continue doing this business.

And patriotic? I'm sorry, in the mid-16th century, there was no modern concept of state and nation. Some people were just a family, with at most a distinction between Chinese and foreigners, but even this was limited, because some people thought that 'If China enters the barbarians, the barbarians will become the barbarians, and if the barbarians enter China, then the Chinese will become Hua'. Otherwise, the Mongolian Yuan invasion and the Manchu invasion would not have had so many scholars kneeling to welcome Master Wang.

Therefore, it is pure nonsense to not trade with the Tang Dynasty because of patriotism. This kind of thing is possible in modern times, but in the mid-16th century, there was no such concept at all.

Most of these businessmen who no longer come to the Datang Dynasty to trade, mostly have only one reason, that is, the affair of the fake Tang Dynasty was exposed, and then they either died or escaped!

Several prefectures and counties near Huguang, opposite Xingquan Mansion, have set up layers of barriers on the passage leading to Xingquan Mansion. Every month, many daring businessmen trying to transport supplies to Xingquan Mansion are caught.

It is not easy to transport the materials smoothly into the control area of ​​the Tang Dynasty.

Without a deep network of relationships, it is impossible to transport materials, let alone in large quantities.

But Old Man Sun was able to do it, and this was his value, and the key to making the Tang Dynasty pay several times the price to purchase the materials he supplied.

It's a pity that this old man Sun kept his channel secret very well. The Commerce Department of the Taxation Department of the Tang Dynasty has already sent a lot of spies to try to dig out his channel network, and then come to replace it, but they can't figure it out. .

Digging out Old Man Sun's transportation channels has already been taken over by the Survey and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy, which has just been established.

Not only that, Li Xuan also gave the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy a task, which is to infiltrate and win over Ming officials from surrounding provinces to establish an intelligence channel in Daming officialdom.

Although the survey and statistics department of the Hanlin Academy has just been established, its staff are all veterans drawn from other departments, and many of them are still yamen, catchers, and spies in the former Ming Dynasty. These are all old rivers and lakes. It was relatively fast, and now it has penetrated the intelligence network into several prefectures and counties in Huguang near Xingquan, and even attracted a few officials of the Ming Dynasty to secretly surrender.

However, after the intelligence work was carried out to the outside world, the nature of the tasks of the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy overlapped with that of the Intelligence Department of the Privy Council. Recently, these two intelligence agencies, both belonging to the Tang Dynasty, have been fighting a lot, and no one has been convinced. Who.

In this regard, Li Xuan also ignores it for the time being. No matter what it is, competition has to be the driving force. Letting them compete with each other can also make the intelligence system of the Tang Dynasty take shape as soon as possible.

After reaching an agreement with the Cen family, the negotiating team of the Tang Dynasty did not return to Xingquan House, but continued to stay in Huaiyuan County to be responsible for the subsequent handover.

And this is also the practice in recent times. The middle and senior officials dispatched to Guangxi often no longer return to Xingquan House, but continue to work in Huaiyuan County or Rong County.

In addition to their original tasks, their official duties have another one, which is to prepare for the relocation of the political center and industrial center of the Tang Dynasty!

At present, there are quite a few senior officials of the Tang Dynasty working in Liuzhou Mansion. There are as many as four of them at the level of Shilang. The Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Rites, and Ministry of Taxation all have Shilang-level officials staying in Guangxi.

All this means that the Tang Dynasty has made the final preparations for the official southward movement!

However, when to relocate, it depends on whether the battle of the front-line army is smooth, for example, when will Liuzhou be captured.

And Hao Bainian, as the commander-in-chief of the South Detachment, a major general of the 6th Army in the Tang Dynasty, is naturally very aware of his responsibilities!

However, he still dragged Liuzhou City without fighting, and set his sights on the Xiangzhou and Wuxuan areas in the south of Liuzhou. He wanted to annihilate the living forces of the Ming Army as much as possible here, and face off head-to-head through the field battles that the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty was best at!

At the Anjia Manor twenty miles south of Wangyunxi in Xiangzhou and the Anjia Wharf along the Liujiang River, this old farmhouse and private wharf where local landlords settled down, has now become the home of the Eight Thousand Ming Army.

The interim official office of Wei Yan, the honorable governor of Guangxi, and the command center of the 8,000-strong army are located in the Anjia Bieyuan, and the Ming army camp is surrounding the Anjia Bieyuan!

At this time, in the Ming army camp, the calmness of the previous days was gone, and it seemed a little noisy or even chaotic. The soldiers of the Ming army were urged by the officers to build a fortified camp, and more soldiers were lining up urgently. Some generals rode horses through the camp, and they went in different directions, but many of them were heading towards Anjia.

The arrow towers outside the camp and some Ming soldiers on the wooden walls looked at the north with curiosity or panic!

In the north direction of the Ming army camp, the sun is shining brightly in winter~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but there is a shadow slowly pressing down like a dark cloud!

This dark cloud is still more than four miles away from the Ming army camp, but in this open area along the river bank, you can see it if you climb a little higher!

This piece looks like the shadow of the dark cloud, it is the great army of the Great Tang King's division led by Hao Bainian himself, including the baggage troop, the total strength is nearly 10,000!

In order to defeat the 8,000 Ming army quickly and simply, Hao Bainian almost gave up the siege of Liuzhou City, leaving less than 3,000 people in Liuzhou, and all of them were still garrison troops.

The main force, the 1st Infantry Brigade, and several other subsidiary units were all brought here, and even the soldiers of the 2nd Consignment Regiment were brought to prepare for them to participate in the battle.

Hao Bainian did not underestimate the enemy because of his past victories. He thoroughly implemented the strategy of a qualified general: concentrate superior forces!

For a qualified general, the most important and most important thing is to always keep his troops superior in combat!

Even if the overall strength is at a disadvantage, it must form a strength advantage locally!

And this is also the characteristic of modern cavalry tactics. Wall-type cavalry charges are adopted in this tactic. Through a denser formation, a local military advantage is formed, and several cavalry of one's own cavalry can attack one of the enemy's cavalry together!

Nearly 10,000 troops came slowly. Just looking at their momentum is enough to make people feel powerless. The pressure on the Ming army in the Ming army camp is undoubtedly huge!

This can be seen from the chaos in the Ming army camp!

At the same time, in the Anjiabei courtyard, Wei Yan looked at a group of generals whose faces were obviously heavy and did not speak for a long time. After a long time, he said: "Now the enemy is now, do you have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?" ()

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