Iron Dynasty

Outside the palace of King Qi, Cao Zhengyang looked at the three gilded characters on the plaque a little fascinated.

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 to open the Cao family's bank in the fief of King Qi.

At the same time, he also brought the two million stone grains 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 palace servant led him into the Qi Wangfu. Along the way, he looked at the place and was a little surprised to find that the Qi Wangfu must be too simple.

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

Last time you told your father about the matter of the northern barbarians, I don't know how the discussion went? Xiao Wen held the scroll in his hand and looked a little lazy.

Go back to His Highness, this time His Highness is going to expedition the barbarians, our Cao family is willing to donate 500,000 taels of supplies, hoping that His Highness will be able to win. Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

500,000 taels? Xiao Ming suddenly smiled. This Cao family really made a lot of money. These 500,000 taels were 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 number?

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

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

Cao Zhengyang laughed in agreement and put forward the real purpose of this time, His Royal Highness, what about this Cao family bank?

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

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

After all, Xiao Ming's ultimate goal is to establish a gold-based currency system, while Cao's bank is just a primitive bank based on silver. It will only take a few minutes to kill Cao's bank when he issues currency.

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

It is for this reason that he allows the Cao family to enter Qingzhou to open a bank, because the current Cao family bank can promote the development of Qingzhou and provide financial support for fiefdoms and businessmen.

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

Thank you, Your Highness, in addition to this, we will provide His Highness with two million stone grains during this period, plus the Cao family's grain, a total of 2.5 million stone grains will be given to His Highness, hoping to solve His Highness's urgent needs.

This food is also the condition that the Cao family promised him at the beginning, and the purpose is also to establish a bank as a condition.

It can be seen that the Cao family is very interested in this banking industry, and this kind of thinking in this era surpasses many businessmen from the Great Yu Kingdom.

Xiao Ming nodded and smiled slightly to show his satisfaction.

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

After this matter was settled, Cao Zhengyang left with great gratitude and gratitude. According to his plan, he was ready to buy real estate and build a bank in Qingzhou.

Watching Cao Zhengyang leave, Xiao Ming smiled, a local rich man didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

After sending Cao Zhengyang away, Xiao Ming went to the Qingzhou camp without incident. Now the number of flintlock guns in the Qingzhou army has reached 3,000, and there will be more flintlock guns 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 the autumn.

Your Highness, let's practice okay.

Lu Fei came over with a waist knife. After the flintlock gun was installed, Lu Fei and other generals still carried a saber.

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

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

This formation has changed a bit, but the speed of the soldiers loading bullets needs to be improved. This is too slow. Xiao Ming said, looking at the soldiers who were simulating the loading of bullets.

At this speed, it is not bad that the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army can fire two bullets in one minute, and his requirement is a minimum of three.

Lu Fei scratched his head, The formations that are mainly practiced these days, this filling is a little less, and we will focus on strengthening them below.

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

Scarecrows have been tied up on the school field, and the soldiers are practicing bayonets against the scarecrows with bayonets.

Another colonel distributed a wooden stick with a cloth on the head to the soldiers, and the soldiers were fighting with a wooden stick, which represented a bayonet.

Yes, it seems that you have applied everything you learned in the school. Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei laughed and said, It's better that His Highness taught me.

You don't need to be humble about this. You still need to come to the actual operation. By the way, where is the chariot of the chariot soldiers? How about the chariot made by the military workshop?

His Royal Highness, this chariot is really good. Today, the military workshop just sent three vehicles. It is said that let us familiarize ourselves with the structure in advance. Lu Fei said.

The two went all the way to the east of the school grounds, and Niu Ben was also here at this time.

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

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

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

This Hussite chariot relies on the terrain in wartime and arranges the chariots in a square or circular array.

Also, the chariots were chained from wheel to wheel at this time, so the chariots would be placed at an angle so that they could be quickly put on the haul horse.

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

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

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

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

And once the enemy has a tendency to collapse, the cavalry and musketeers in the middle of the chariot will swarm out to harvest the enemy's life.