Outside the Qi Palace, Cao Zhengyang was a little stunning when he looked at the three gold-burned characters on the plaque.

Now that Yue Yun and others have returned to Qingzhou, they have fulfilled the promise of the Cao family. This time he came to Qingzhou again, naturally, to open the Cao family's money house in the fiefdom of King Qi.

At the same time, he brought two million stones of grain sold to the King of Qi by the King of Chu.

It can be said that these tangible profits are the sincerity of the Cao family this time.

After waiting outside the door for a while, a servant of the royal palace led him into the Qi royal palace. Along the way, he looked at the place and was surprised to find that the Qi royal palace must be too simple.

When he arrived at the main hall, he saw the King of Qi who was already waiting there. He walked a few steps quickly and bowed and said, "Your Highness."

"Last time you said that you would report to your father about the northern barbarians, and I don't know what was going on?" Xiao Wen held the book in his hand, looking a little lazy.

"Go back to Your Highness, this time Your Highness is invading the barbarians, our Cao family is willing to pay 500,000 taels of silver. I hope Your Highness can win the championship." Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

"Five hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming immediately smiled. The Cao family was really generous. The 500 thousand taels were enough for one-quarter of the military expenditure of the barbarians in the Northern Expedition.

Cao Zhengyang nodded, "Your Highness, are you still satisfied with this number?"

"Satisfied, of course I am satisfied." In fact, when Xiao Ming launched the Northern Expedition fundraising plan at the Chamber of Commerce, few foreign merchants except Qingzhou responded to this matter.

After all, many people don’t believe that Xiao Ming can win this battle against the barbarians.

Cao Zhengyang agreed and laughed twice, and proposed the real purpose of this time, "Your Highness, what's going on with the Cao family's money house?"

"Since I have agreed to you, I will keep my promise. Your Cao family can open a money house in my fiefdom."

Qingzhou Bank has not been established yet and the government office lacks money. Although the entry of this Cao Family Money Bank will have some impact on Qingzhou Bank in the early stage, in the long run, Cao Family Money Bank will not be able to compete with Qingzhou Bank in the later stage.

After all, Xiao Ming’s ultimate goal was to establish a currency system with a gold standard, and the Cao Family Money Bank was just an original money bank based on silver. It would only take a minute to kill the Cao Family Money Bank when he issued his own currency.

The Cao family is still far from playing finance with him.

It is precisely for this reason that he allowed the Cao family to enter Qingzhou to open a money house, because the current Cao family money house can promote the development of Qingzhou and provide financial support to the fiefdom people and merchants.

And his positioning of the Cao family is only here. If the Cao family wants to hold him up like Western capitalists, then the Cao family will think too much.

"Thank you, your highness. In addition, we will provide you with two million stones of grain to you during this period. Together with the Cao family's grain, a total of two million stones of grain is given to you. I hope you can solve your highness's urgent needs."

This grain was also the condition that the Cao family agreed to him at the beginning, and the purpose was to establish a money house.

This shows that the Cao family is very interested in the banking industry. In this era, such ideas have surpassed many businessmen in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Xiao Ming nodded and smiled slightly to show that he was very satisfied.

Now that the Cao family's tentacles have stretched to Qingzhou, he wants to make good use of the richest man in the Great Chongqing country.

After making up this matter, Cao Zhengyang left with great gratitude. According to his plan, he was planning to buy real estate in Qingzhou to build a money house.

Watching Cao Zhengyang leave, Xiao Ming smiled. He didn't know if it was a good or a bad thing when he came to his door.

After seeing Cao Zhengyang off, Xiao Ming went to Qingzhou camp without any trouble. Now the Qingzhou army has equipped 3,000 flintlock rifles, and more flintlock rifles will be installed in the next few months.

It is also based on this that he is confident that he can launch an offensive against the barbarians in autumn.

"Your Highness, we can practice well."

Lu Fei walked over with a waist knife. After loading the flintlock rifle, Lu Fei and other generals still carried the sword.

In this era of mixed cold and hot weapons, sometimes cold weapons will play a stable role in hand-to-hand combat.

Looking at Xiao Ming, a soldier who was practicing the hollow square formation, nodded.

"The formation changes a bit, but the speed of the soldiers loading bullets needs to be strengthened, it's too slow." Xiao Ming said to the soldier who was simulating the bullet loading.

At this speed, it would be good if the Qingzhou soldiers could fire two bullets in one minute, and his requirement was to have a minimum of three rounds.

Lu Fei scratched his head, "The formations we have mainly practiced these days are less filling, so we will focus on strengthening them."

Xiao Ming continued to look at the other lieutenants, some of whom were practicing bayonets with their soldiers.

Scarecrows had already been rigged up on the school ground, and the soldiers were practicing bayonets with bayonets.

Another lieutenant distributed wooden sticks to the soldiers with cloth on their heads. The soldiers were competing with wooden sticks, and the wooden sticks represented bayonets.

"Yes, it seems that everything you have learned in school has been put into practice." Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei laughed and said, "Your Highness is better to teach you."

"Don't be humble in this, you still need to come in the actual operation. By the way, where are the chariots of the chariots? I will go and see how the chariots built by the military workshop?"

"Your Highness, this chariot is really good. Today, the military workshop just sent three vehicles, saying that we should familiarize ourselves with the structure in advance." Lu Fei said.

The two of them talked all the way to the east of the schoolyard, where Niu Ben was also here at this time.

Speaking of the chariot soldier, Niu Ben proposed it. He just made it clear at the meeting. After all, it is quite good to deal with the cavalry Niu Ben, so he just designed a chariot.

"Your Highness." Niu Ben was explaining the chariot formation to the soldiers.

Xiao Ming looked at the chariot at this time. This chariot was not created by him, but the Hus chariot in history. It was this chariot that once severely damaged the German cavalry.

This kind of Hus chariot relies on the terrain during wartime and arranges the chariots into square or circular formations.

Moreover, at this time, the chariots are linked from wheels to wheels with iron chains, so these cars will be placed inclined so that they can quickly put on the horse.

In addition, there is a thick layer of iron plate armor on the wall of the Hus chariot, and holes are reserved in the armor for shooting.

Overall, this Hus chariot looks like a box, like a moving fortress, with sharp offense and defense,

When attacking, Hus chariots can be placed close to the enemy and anger the enemy with artillery fire to launch an attack.

At this time, the musketeers hiding behind the car will attack with firearms, further weakening the enemy.

Once the enemy is in a state of collapse, the cavalry and musketeers in the middle of the chariot will flock to harvest the enemy's lives.
Chapter completed!