Zhang Shouchu still hesitated.

After all, this is not three acres of land, nor thirty acres, nor three hundred acres, but thirty thousand hectares.

Thirty thousand acres...

At first, Zhang Shouchu still wanted to scold Zhang Haogu for being a bastard, but now that he saw greater benefits, he began to hesitate.

Not bad, my son has found a new way to make a fortune.

Thirty thousand hectares of land...

Zhang Shouchu still felt a little distressed.

However, Zhang Haogu was not in a hurry and let his father think slowly. Whether he could figure it out or not, he would definitely divide this land.

As Zhang Haogu said, this is the general trend and no one can violate it.

There is also the Kong family. Once my father figures it out, it will be almost time to take action against the Kong family.

My father was still hesitating, and a heavyweight visitor came to the Zhang family.

Yuan Keli, governor of Denglai.

Now that Yuan Keli has not been criticized by the censors, he is still honestly continuing to implement Sun Chengzong's strategic policy of Guan Ning's counterattack.

For an ordinary person, Yuan Keli might still be a real loser.

However, the opponent was Zhang Haogu, who was also the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, a pioneer of the New Deal, and a cabinet bachelor and junior master.

The main reason is to get Zhang Haogu's powerful and invincible general cannon, as well as flintlock muskets. Best of all, it can also integrate the Yamen soldiers into a regular combat system.

Yuan Keli also knew that Zhang Haogu was capable of tormenting, and he was also tormented by him. Although he did not share the tax, the officials below him did, forcing Yuan Keli to refund the tax honestly.

In other respects, Zhang Haogu has not been in arrears with the pay of the Nine Sides Army at all, and Zhang Haogu has not been idle at all when Denglai asked for money.

All the money that should be given was given.

"Li Qing, please sit down!" Zhang Haogu made an invitation gesture.

After chatting, Yuan Keli started talking about the situation in Liaodong.

Speaking of which, Yuan Keli was the only Denglai governor who effectively supported Mao Wenlong for a long time, and he was the one who supported Mao Wenlong the most among the successive Denglai governors. Even during the earthquake, he asked the imperial court to prepare for the relief of Marshal Mao.

In the past two years, Mao Wenlong did achieve some results.

However, Mao Wenlong's character has undergone great changes.

Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army is different from other places. It is the type that loses its troops the more it fights. Once other border towns suffer losses, they can be constantly supplemented by soldiers from the mainland, while the Dongjiang Army's soldiers can only be supplemented by Liao refugees.

In other words, if the Dongjiang Army wants to replenish its troops, it can only go to the Houjin territory to rescue Han slaves. Now Liaodong has also reacted. Nurhaci has moved all the Liao people north, which makes it increasingly difficult to replenish Dongjiang Town's troops.

After the war, we could only rely on the Liao people who escaped from Houjin sporadically to make up for the losses.

Nurhachi's approach of moving the people of southern Liaoning north to Liaoshen was simple and crude but very right. This approach forced the Dongjiang Army to give up water warfare, which it was good at, and landed deep into the inland areas to fight with Hou Jin, who was good at land warfare.

Hand-to-hand combat.

Once the Dongjiang Army cannot resolve the battle quickly on land, the Houjin cavalry will quickly arrive to support them, and then chase the retreating Dongjiang Army all the way. Going deep into the interior means fighting on Houjin's home turf, and that is asking for death.

The guerrilla warfare that Zhang Haogu proposed during the palace examination was actually more suitable for the Jurchens. The essence of guerrilla warfare lies in the relationship between the military and the people. Obviously, the local military-civilian relationship between the Jiannu slaves was better than that of the Ming Dynasty.

The human heart is available.

Now Mao Wenlong has fought less battles and made false claims of military exploits more often. Mao Wenlong is reluctant to reduce his troops and horses, and the Ming army has only himself as a single seedling in Liaodong. Therefore, Mao Wenlong has developed a desire to support his troops and respect himself.

Mao Wenlong became more and more exaggerated when reporting the results of his battles to the superiors in order to obtain more silver rewards, while the actual frequency of the Dongjiang Army's actual penetration into Houjin's hinterland became less and less frequent.

Preserve strength.

Mao Wenlong may not have the idea of ​​joining the slave establishment, but if his power is strong enough, both sides will come to win him over.

Yuan Keli wanted to praise Mao Wenlong in front of Zhang Haogu, so that Zhang Haogu could spend more money and bring out more weapons.

Zhang Haogu just smiled contemptuously and said slowly: "In the second and third years of Apocalypse, Mao Wen's Longtang newspaper claimed that more than 30,000 Jin soldiers were captured and killed. How many soldiers were there in total to build slaves in Liaodong?"

Yuan Keli was speechless. He felt that Zhang Haogu was not that easy to fool.

"Withholding food and salary, killing good people for taking merit, and lying about military merit!" Zhang Haogu looked at Yuan Keli and said slowly: "Li Qing, do you think I am a fool?"

Yuan Keli smiled bitterly: "I can't hide anything from Prime Minister Zhang!"

Although Zhang Haogu also felt that Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong was an extremely stupid act, but this did not mean that Mao Wenlong was really that holy and innocent.

Withholding military pay, killing good soldiers for deducting merit, lying about military achievements, and supporting soldiers with self-respect. Basically, Mao Wenlong had all the shortcomings of these Qiu Ba in Liaodong.

There is no problem in killing Mao Wenlong. The problem is that you must be able to stand up and stabilize the Dongjiang Army, and make the Dongjiang Army a sharp knife in Liaodong.

If you can't do that, then you have to stabilize Mao Wenlong. Even if he doesn't work hard, he can still contain the energy of Jiannu.

Yuan Chonghuan's behavior is extremely stupid.

"You can give flintlock muskets, and you can also give cannons to the mighty and invincible generals. However, the quantity cannot be large. They must first meet the needs of the court. Secondly, the government soldiers are not good. The government soldiers mainly target the interior, mainly for taxation.

You can’t be easily transferred into the border army!”

Zhang Haogu's meaning is also very obvious. I can give you things and weapons. They are powerful enough and it would be good to kill a few more slaves. However, I am too embarrassed to give them to you.

How did these unscrupulous people in Liaodong harm the Qi family army?

The new army that I finally trained with great difficulty is not sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder for you Qiu Ba people.

If the internal conflicts had not been resolved, Zhang Haogu would have wanted to take action against the Qiu Ba group in Liaodong. Now the top priority is to resolve the internal conflicts.

The gentry worked together to pay the grain and work as errands.

Since we want a new policy, we must implement it to the end.

After sending Yuan Keli away, Yuan Keli was still satisfied. Although Zhang Haogu did not integrate the new soldiers into the border army, he still agreed to give him flintlock muskets and the mighty and invincible general cannon.

And Zhang Shouchu finally made a decision.

Divide! Divide! Divide!

This is related to the future of my precious son. Secondly, since the MSG business is so profitable, the profits should be higher than the land income.

Zhang Shouchu was determined to transform from a big feudal landowner to a big capitalist.
Chapter completed!