Outside the Qi Palace, Cao Zhengyang looked at the three gilded characters on the plaque and was a little distracted. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

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

At the same time, he also brought two million stone of grain that the king of Chu sold to the king of Qi.

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

After waiting outside the door for a while, a royal mansion led him into the Qi Palace, and he looked at this place along the way, and was a little surprised to find that the Qi Palace, presumably the Chu Palace, was too simple.

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

"Last time you said that you returned to your father about this northern barbarian, I don't know how the discussion went?" Xiao Wen held the scroll in his hand, looking a little lazy.

"Back to Your Highness, this time Your Highness is in the Northern Expedition to the Barbarians, our Cao family is willing to give 500,000 taels of silver in materials, hoping that Your Highness can win the battle." Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

"Five hundred thousand taels?" Xiao Ming suddenly smiled, this Cao family is really generous, these 500,000 taels are enough for a quarter of the military expenses of the barbarians in this Northern Expedition.

Cao Zhengyang nodded, "Your Highness, are you satisfied with this amount?" ”

"Satisfied, of course satisfied." In fact, when Xiao Ming put out the fundraising plan for the Northern Expedition at the Chamber of Commerce, except for local businessmen in Qingzhou, few businessmen from other places responded to this matter.

After all, many people didn't believe that Xiao Ming would be able to win the battle against the barbarians.

Cao Zhengyang echoed and laughed twice, and put forward the real purpose of this time, "Your Highness, what about this Cao family's money bank?" ”

"Since I promised you, this king will keep his promise, and your Cao family can open a money bank in this king's fief."

Now that Qingzhou Bank has not yet been established, and the government lacks silver, although the entry of this Cao family money village will have some impact on the Qingzhou Bank in the early stage, but in the long run, the Cao family money bank will not be able to compete with the Qingzhou Bank in the later stage.

After all, Xiao Ming's ultimate goal was to establish a gold standard monetary system, and the Cao family money bank was just a primitive money bank with silver as the standard, and it was only a matter of minutes to kill the Cao family money when he issued the currency.

Playing finance with him, the Cao family is still too far away.

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

And his positioning of the Cao family is only here, if the Cao family wants to strangle him like Western capitalists, then the Cao family thinks too much.

"Thank you, Your Highness, in addition, we will provide His Highness with two million stone grains during this time, plus the Cao family's grain, a total of two and a half million stone grains to His Highness, hoping to solve His Highness's urgent needs."

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

It can be seen that the Cao family is very interested in this banking industry, and in this era, such thinking is also beyond many merchants of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Xiao Ming nodded, smiling slightly to show that he was satisfied.

Now that the Cao family's tentacles have extended to Qingzhou, he wants to make good use of the richest man in Dayu.

After deciding on this matter, Cao Zhengyang left with great gratitude, and according to his plan, he was ready to buy real estate in Qingzhou to establish a money village.

Seeing Cao Zhengyang leave, Xiao Ming smiled, and he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing for a rich man to send it to the door.

Sending Cao Zhengyang away, Xiao Ming went to the Qingzhou camp with nothing to do, and now the flintlock pistols of the Qingzhou army have reached 3,000, and there will be more flintlock pistols in the next few months.

It is also based on this that he is confident that he will be able to launch an offensive against the barbarians in the autumn.

"Your Highness, let's practice okay."

Lu Fei walked over with a waist knife, and after loading the flintlock pistol, Lu Fei and other generals still carried a saber.

In this era of mixed hot and cold weapons, sometimes cold weapons will also play their stable role in white-knuckle combat.

Looking at the soldiers who were practicing the hollow phalanx, Xiao Ming nodded.

"The change in this formation is a bit of a change, but the speed at which the soldiers reload their bullets needs to be strengthened, which is too slow." Xiao Ming looked at the soldier who was simulating loading bullets and said.

At this rate, it would be good for a Qingzhou soldier to be able to fire two bullets a minute, and his requirement was a minimum of three.

Lu Fei scratched his head, "The formation that I have mainly practiced these days, this filling is a little less, and I will focus on strengthening it below." ”

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

Scarecrows had been erected on the school grounds, and soldiers were practicing bayonets with bayonets.

Another lieutenant handed out wooden sticks with cloth on their heads, and the soldiers were competing with wooden sticks, which represented bayonets.

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

Lu Fei laughed and said, "It's better to be taught by His Highness." ”

"You don't have to be modest about this, the actual operation still needs you to come, by the way, where is the chariot of the chariot soldiers, how about this king go to see the chariot made by the military workshop?"

"Your Highness, this chariot is really good, the military workshop just sent three today, saying that it is for us to familiarize ourselves with the structure in advance." Lu Fei said.

The two talked all the way to the east side of the school field, where Niu Ben was also at this time.

Speaking of this chariot soldier, Niu Ben brought it up, he just made it clear at the meeting, after all, Niu Ben is more good at dealing with cavalry, he just designed a chariot.

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

Xiao Ming looked at the chariot at this time, this chariot was not created by him, but the Hussite chariot in history, and it was this chariot that had inflicted heavy losses on the Germanic cavalry.

This Hussite chariot relied on the terrain in wartime to arrange the chariots in a phalanx or circle.

Moreover, at this time, the chariots were chained from wheel to wheel, so they were placed at an angle so that they could be quickly attached to the horses.

In addition, the Hussite chariot had a thick layer of iron plate armor on the walls, and holes were reserved between the armor for firing.

Overall, this Hussite chariot looks like a crate, like a mobile fortress, with both offensive and defensive sharpness.

When attacking, Hussite chariots can be placed close to enemy forces and provoke the enemy to attack with artillery fire.

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

And once the enemy is in a rout, the cavalry and musketeers in the middle of the chariot formation will swarm out and reap the enemy's life.

(To be continued.) )