Chapter 547: The Temple of the Prairie Jackal: The Defeat of Guangning (10)
After reading the urgent report, Zhang Ping'an thought about countermeasures. Huang Taiji's move was indeed powerful, and it hit Zhang Ping'an's speculative waist. If this matter is not handled carefully, the good relationship between the Pou Nu Army and the Ming Dynasty is about to collapse. Once the Ming Dynasty cut off the supply of the Pou Nu Army's materials, Zhang Ping'an will have variables when fighting against Lin Danhan. No matter what, Zhang Ping'an must first save the Ming army in Yizhou from being annihilated by the Jurchens. Thinking of this, Zhang Ping'an put down the tea bowl and shouted to the outside world: "Come on! Call Gu Xin for me! Get Zhang Guangning's map, hurry up!"
The skill was not great, and Gu Xinjun, the chief of staff of the Po Slave Army, rushed in with a map. Before he could ask questions, Zhang Ping'an opened his mouth and ordered: "Send an order to Wang Hua, Zhenhu Fort Zhenhu Fort, and ask him to take five thousand troops to the Yizhou exit of Qingsongling Mountain Road in Yizhou, and strictly order Wang Hua to guard the Qingsongling Mountain Road. Then send Liu Qingshan to send his mountain troops to set off immediately, search for the Qingsongling Mountain Fort, and capture the Jurchen Tatars. He sent an order to Du Liang, the personal military camp, who had all entered Zhenhu Fort today. He ordered the artillery team, Yang Meimei, to lead the artillery team to station the back of Zhenhu Fort, ready to support Wang Hua at any time. He ordered the Du Yehe tribe of the personal military camp to camp on the north side of Zhenhu Fort."
After signing the order, Zhang Ping'an focused his attention on the map. Lu Xiang, who had not spoken, rose up and advised Zhang Ping'an: "Master, how about letting his post go to the front line of Yizhou?"
"Don't be anxious about Jiandou, I'll give you an important job. Look..."
Speaking of this, Zhang Ping'an paused for a moment, pointed his finger at the location of the Duoyan division of the map and said, "After I'm done, you go back and prepare today, take Tianxiong Camp and Gaosheng Division of the Personal Military Camp to the Duoyan division to perform martial arts. If the Jurchen Tartars appear in Duoyan, you have to destroy them without missing a single thing. The last time the enemy escaped and fled, you can't be reproached. As long as you were discovered by the Jurchen Tartars in Duoyan, will Huang Taiji still have the courage to continue attacking?"
"Yes, Grand Marshal!" Lu Xiangsheng saluted Zhang Ping'an, while admiring Zhang's unique vision. Lu Xiangsheng certainly understood the intention of Zhang's arrangement. The Ponu Army sent troops to Yizhou. As long as Wang Hua's unit was behind Yizhou and defended the road from Yizhou to Ponu City, the Jurchen army would not dare to attack Yizhou easily. Zhang Dashi sent him to Duoyan, which threatened the strategic flank of the Jurchen army and forced the Jurchen army to attack Jinning's defense line. As a member of the Ponu Army, Lu Xiangsheng knew very well the current dilemma of the Ponu Army. After two major battles with the Jurchen people, the Ponu Army's inventory had bottomed out.
In particular, Marshal Zhang began to tilt the focus of the next war to the north. The Ponu Army where Ponu City is located has an ammunition stock that is less than 10% of the wartime. Based on the material conditions of Ponu City and the characteristics of Zhang Ping'an's tactics, Lu Xiangsheng speculated that the purpose of Zhang Danu's dispatch of troops this time was greater than that of actual combat. The Ponu Army paid attention to confidentiality in military affairs. Lu Xiangsheng would not talk nonsense in front of outsiders, even if Yang Lian was a senior civil servant in Ponu City, Lu Xiangsheng would not disclose any of them.
After the entire military deployment was completed, Zhang Ping'an bowed to Yang Lian and said, "Yang Zhizheng looked worried, don't you know that Ping'an might help?"
"No more! No more! I heard that the Ming Dynasty's official army was surrounded by anxiety. I didn't think that Ponuhou had millions of soldiers in his chest. I didn't understand military affairs and could see that the strategy given by Ponuhou was indeed unique. I admired it very much. I still have something to do in the yamen. I will take a step first, hahaha!"
After Zhang Ping'an sent away the happy Yang Lian, he said to Lu Xiangsheng again: "Jiandou, you have to write a letter to Mangui, Yizhou City, telling him that my Ponu Army would not sit idly by the Ming border army. Oh, why did I let Yang Zhizheng go? Jiandou, please give me a message to Mr. Wenru and ask him to write a letter to Mangui. I want to send someone to find out how could the Ming border army throw away Shaling Post so quickly? If Yizhou is not easy to stick to, my Ponu Army will send food and grass to General Mangui to take his men to rest. After the Ming court issued a document, they will send their gifts to the Ming territory."
Lu Xiangsheng, who has always regarded Zhang Ping'an as scheming, was also truly moved. He gave a deep respect to Zhang Dashan's generousness. Zhang Ping'an was humble while holding Lu Xiangsheng's arm and reminded him to pay attention to the march on the road. After sending Lu Xiangsheng away, Zhang Ping'an's humble face immediately became rude. Zhang Ping'an never gave him a good face to Long Tao, his family. Zhang Ping'an said to Gu Xin: "You go and tell Guozheng. Once you get the letter from Mr. Wenru and Jiandou, he will go to Yizhou with Zhang Wuji to find something useful to us."
After sending Gu Xin away, Zhang Ping'an turned his face and sneered at Long Tao, saying, "Why are you here alone? If you don't have money, run to me. When will your civil yamen not ask me for money?"
"Who said I asked you for money? I can't celebrate if you marry a widow. Just now, my feet were floating when you saw you walking, and your face looked like you had taken pills. With years of experience in your post, the commander's eyes were filled with affection. He must have just experienced the joy of fish and water."
"Get out! Get out! Get out! You old slut, you look for tiger whips to supplement every day, and you come to me to talk to you. Don't talk nonsense, how much do you plan to cost? If you don't say it, I will go back and continue the joy of the fish and water!"
"Is there no sooner spring plowing, and military merits and money will be paid again, and the walls of Ping'an City need to be expanded and reinforced..."
Listening to Long Tao being talked about, Zhang Ping'an, who was anxious to go back to discuss physiological structure with Liu Zhenzhu, was very anxious. He interrupted Long Tao and said, "Speak human words!"
"Three million taels of silver, your boss will give you gold!"
When he heard the amount of silver reported by Long Tao, Zhang Ping'an's heart was frightened to impotence on the spot. Long Tao was so cruel. He finally got three million taels of silver from the silver building opened in the Ming Dynasty. Long Tao thought of it and took it away. As the best performing emperor in Ponu City, Zhang Ping'an's face turned pale in an instant, and sad tears gushed out from his eyes. "Brother Long! No, Mr. Long, I keep these silvers for life-saving money to fight Lin Danhan to defend his home! What should you do if you take away the soldiers of the Ponu Army who have no money in the war?"
"Don't call me, it's useless! Don't call me poor, your boss, you'll send more than twenty mirrors today. Oh, your boss has money to show off in front of women, and when you get serious, you'll have no money? It's okay not to give money. Your boss handed over the mirror workshop to the civil yamen, and we won't bother you again."
Long Tao's suggestion almost made Zhang Ping'an die of vomiting blood. Now the Crystal Mirror Workshop of Ponucheng is Zhang Ping'an's most profitable deal. Long Tao wanted to take away the goose that Zhang Ping'an lays a golden egg, but Zhang Ping'an would never agree. In fact, Zhang Ping'an also knew that the civil yamen was short of money. In fact, the main thing in the war was to fight who had more money and who had a rich family. After a big battle between the Ponu Army, it was not piled up by millions of silver. "Yin Guangju" Yin Building collected miscellaneous silver and fire consumption through foreign exchange, which could bring millions of silver to Ponucheng every year.
Nowadays, the grain and copper and iron materials in the thousands of miles of areas controlled by the Po Nu Army can be self-sufficient, but other combat preparation materials such as silk, medicinal materials, sulfur, and cotton need to be purchased from the Ming Dynasty. The cattle, sheep, horses, and fur that were once in short supply in the Ming Dynasty also became less valuable due to the large shipment of the Po Nu City. In particular, the sulfur stored by the Po Nu Army not only needs to create the urgently needed * of the Po Nu Army, but also needs to extract sulfuric acid as basic raw materials. The Po Nu Army without a sea outlet can only be purchased from the Ming Dynasty, which requires a lot of money to support.
Although the civil yamen occupied 30% of the silver building "Yin Guangju" and 20% of the Crystal Mirror Workshop's income, and with the taxes of the civil yamen, it only barely maintained the financial balance of the territorial territory of the Po Slave Army for thousands of miles. Therefore, after every battle of the Po Slave Army, there was almost no silver available in the civil yamen. Zhang Ping'an also knew that if he gave the money he had just obtained, the civil yamen would be able to spend the money in a few months. Everyone knew that the period of time when the spring was in trouble was the most difficult day, and the finances of the Po Slave City would be much better when the autumn harvest was harvested.
Zhang Dashuai, who was forced by the civil yamen, could only hand over the silver that had not yet been warmed up to Long Tao. After Long Tao left, Zhang Ping'an fell into deep thought. In his opinion, the way to make money as soon as possible was to rob. But who should he rob? The Jurchens should not think about it. After two wars with the Possess Army, the Jurchens were already poor as pants. Lin Danhan was the target that he would only rob next year. Zhang Ping'an knew very well that the more investment he invested in the early stage, the more money he would rob later.
The wealthy Yangzhou salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty had already snatched it once, and it would inevitably affect the transactions of the Xuanwei envoy in the Ming Dynasty. Thinking of the salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Ping'an suddenly flashed his mind, why did he forget the fat Shanxi merchants in Shanxi? For this plan that was set up very early, Zhang Ping'an also had a premonition that the time for harvest had come. What's more, Zhao Hucheng, the Thousand General of the Intelligence Department of the Pound Army, was in Fenzhou, Shanxi for so long, just to crack down on the eight major Shanxi merchants. However, the most important thing for Zhang Ping'an now is to deal with the Ming army retreating to Yizhou at his doorstep.
Now Zhang Ping'an has a headache. He has a trap for the Ming Dynasty and Jurchen Tartars. Not only did he not get a wolf, but he might have trapped himself. Huang Taiji's lofty strategic vision made Zhang Ping'an extremely sad. Without the latest view of the Ming Dynasty court on this matter, Zhang Ping'an dared not take any moves casually. For this reason, Zhang Ping'an issued an urgent order, ordering Xu Yian, the commander-in-chief of the detective office in the capital, to get the Ming Dynasty's view on the Liaodong war as soon as possible, and the court's response.
Chapter completed!