Steel Dynasty - Chapter 327

[Chapter 327 Hussite Chariot]

Outside Prince Qi’s Mansion, Cao Zhengyang looked at the three gilded characters on the plaque with some trance.

Now that Yue Yun and others have returned to Qingzhou, they have fulfilled the promise of the Cao family. Naturally, this time he came to Qingzhou again to open the Cao family bank in the fiefdom of King Qi.

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

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 royal servant led him into Prince Qi’s Mansion. He looked at the place along the way and was a little surprised to find that Prince Qi’s Mansion must be too simple than Prince Chu’s Mansion.

When he arrived at the main hall, he saw King Qi already waiting there. He walked a few steps quickly and bowed: “Your Highness.”

“Last time you said you reported back to your father about the northern barbarians. I wonder how the discussion went? “Xiao Wen held the scroll in his hand and looked a little lazy.

“Back to Your Highness, our Cao family is willing to provide 500,000 taels of supplies for Your Highness’s Northern Expedition against the Barbarians. We hope that Your Highness can win the battle.” Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

“Five hundred thousand taels?” Xiao Ming suddenly smiled. The Cao family was really generous. These five hundred thousand taels were enough for a quarter of the military expenses of the barbarians in the Northern Expedition.

Cao Zhengyang nodded, “Your Highness, are you satisfied with this number?”

“Satisfied, of course.” In fact, when Xiao Ming announced the Northern Expedition fundraising plan at the Chamber of Commerce, except for local businessmen in Qingzhou, few businessmen from other places responded. thing.

After all, many people simply did not believe that Xiao Ming could win the battle against the barbarians.

Cao Zhengyang laughed twice in agreement and put forward the real purpose of this time, “Your Highness, what about the Cao family’s bank?”

“Since I promised you, I will keep my promise, and your Cao family can open a bank in my fiefdom. “

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

After all, Xiao Ming’s ultimate goal is to establish a gold-standard currency system, and Cao’s Bank is just a primitive bank based on silver. It will only take a matter of minutes to kill Cao’s Bank when he issues currency.

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

It was for this reason that he allowed the Cao family to enter Qingzhou and open a bank, because the current Cao family bank could promote the development of Qingzhou and provide financial support to the people and businessmen in 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 has too much on their minds.

“Thank you, Your Highness. In addition, during this period, we will provide His Highness with two million shi of food. Including the Cao family’s food, a total of 2.5 million shi of food will be provided to His Highness. We hope that it can solve His Highness’s urgent needs. “

This food is also the condition that the Cao family promised him in the first place, and the purpose is also to establish a bank.

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

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

Now that the Cao family’s tentacles have extended to Qingzhou, he would like to make good use of the richest man in the Chongqing Kingdom.

After settling the matter, Cao Zhengyang left with great gratitude. According to his plan, he was going to buy real estate and establish a bank in Qingzhou.

Watching Cao Zhengyang leave, Xiao Ming smiled. He didn’t know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that a rich man came to his door.

After seeing off Cao Zhengyang, Xiao Ming went to the Qingzhou camp with nothing to do. The number of flintlock muskets currently installed by the Qingzhou Army has reached 3,000, and more flintlock muskets will be installed in the next few months.

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

“Your Highness, our training is not bad.”

Lu Fei came over with a waist knife. After equipping the flintlock muskets, Lu Fei and other generals still carried sabers.

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

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

“The transformation of this formation is starting to look good, but the speed of soldiers loading bullets needs to be improved. It’s too slow.” Xiao Ming said while looking at the soldiers who were simulating loading bullets.

At this speed, it would be good for a Qingzhou Army soldier to fire two bullets a minute, but his requirement was a minimum of three bullets.

Lu Fei scratched his head, “The formation I mainly practice these days, this filling is a bit lacking, and I will focus on strengthening it later.”

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

Scarecrows have been set up on the school grounds, and the soldiers are practicing bayoneting on the scarecrows with bayonets.

Another captain distributed wooden sticks with cloth on the head to the soldiers. The soldiers were competing with the wooden sticks. The wooden sticks represented bayonets.

“Yes, it seems that everything you learned in the school has been put into practice.” Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei laughed and said, “Your Highness’s teachings are better.”

“Don’t be modest about this. You still need to do the actual operation. By the way, where are the chariots of the chariot soldiers? I will go and see what is made in the military workshop.” “How is the tank?”

“Your Highness, this tank is really good. The military workshop just sent three of them today. They said they would let us familiarize ourselves with the structure in advance,” Lu Fei said.

The two of them talked all the way to the east side of the school ground, where Niu Ben was also here.

Speaking of the cavalry, it was Niu Ben who proposed it. He just made it clear at the meeting. After all, Niu Ben was better at dealing with cavalry. He just designed the chariot.

“Your Highness.” Niu Ben was explaining the vehicle formation to the soldiers.

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

This kind of Hussite chariot relies on the terrain during war to arrange the chariots into a square or circular formation.

Moreover, at this time, chariots were linked with chains from wheel to wheel, so the vehicles would be placed at an angle so that draft horses could be quickly hitched.

In addition, the wall of the Hussite chariot has a thick layer of iron plate armor, and holes are reserved between the armor for shooting.

Overall, this Hussite chariot looks like a box, like a mobile fortress. The offense and defense are equally sharp.

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

At this time, the musketeers hiding behind the vehicle will attack with firearms to further weaken the enemy.

Once the enemy appears to be dispersing, the cavalry and musketeers in the middle of the vehicle formation will swarm out to harvest the enemy’s lives.

(End of chapter)