After the Molishan meeting, Zhao Ming's affairs increased.On the one hand, it is necessary to deal with Su Songchang's military and political affairs, and on the other hand, it is necessary to deal with party affairs.This made him overwhelmed by various things while holding power, and he urgently needed to expand his team to help deal with affairs.At this time, the will of the imperial court had not yet come down, and Su Songchang's military and political affairs could not be straightened out in a short time, so Zhao Ming first devoted himself to the construction of party affairs.After returning to Suzhou, Zhao Ming first donated 300,000 taels of silver, and Qian Qianyi and other Jiangnan gentry and businessmen also donated money, totaling 600,000 taels of silver as the funds of the National Socialist Party.Zhao Ming, as the largest shareholder of Huaxing Company, has long been his money in Donghai Town.Recently, Zhao Ming decided to end this state and separate the public treasury from the private treasury, only to know that he had a lot of money.Therefore, he took out 300,000 taels at once as the funds of the Socialist Party, and many Jiangnan gentry and businessmen also actively contributed.In the late Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan gentry were notoriously greedy for money and stingy, and this time they were so generous, one is to thank Fu Shangrui for his foil, and the other is Zhao Ming's strategy to revitalize Su Song.The Ming Dynasty began to implement the national policy of suppressing commerce from the Taizu period, and the people also paid taxes in kind during the Jiajing period, until a whip law was implemented, which gradually activated the economy of Jiangnan, so that the industry and commerce in Jiangnan developed rapidly in the late Ming Dynasty.However, at the same time as the development of commerce, the imperial court forbade the sea, restricted commerce, and the attitude of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce did not change, or the imperial court did not do anything for the industry and commerce in Jiangnan.The development of commerce in Jiangnan was not involved in the imperial court, and the gentry and merchants could only earn money by taking risks to smuggle, and smuggling was illegal, so it could only be colluded between officials and businessmen.This made the southeastern gentry and businessmen not have much affection for the imperial court, and did not hope that the imperial court would protect their interests, but only hoped that the imperial court would not come to share their cake, and went to the road of collusion between officials and businessmen and relying on southeastern officials to safeguard their interests.Zhao Ming's strategy of revitalizing Susong, promoting the opening of Shanghai's port, and encouraging the development of industry and commerce was directly involving the government and spending money, and the southeastern gentry naturally wanted to support Zhao Ming and his Kuomintang.Although Zhao Ming's slogan is "forming an association for the country and forming a party for the public", the real situation is obviously not like this.It is impossible to be completely selfless, and if it is too idealistic, it will be difficult for the Kuomintang to succeed.Generally speaking, the slogan of justice is only to attract some young people and show the people of the world, but behind the scenes, it may not be the same thing, and the National Socialist Party must represent the interests of certain people and gain the support of a certain class in order to develop and seize power.Now that the Socialist Party has accepted donations from the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan, it must speak for them and properly safeguard their interests.After the Socialist Party obtained a large amount of money, Zhao Ming did not rapidly expand the Kuomintang Socialist Party, but did two things, one was to spend silver money to build a academy on the shore of Taihu Lake to spread the ideas of the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and secondly, to buy the Commercial Press from Huaxing Company at a lower price, and appointed Chen Zilong as the director of the propaganda department of the headquarters.Zhao Ming meant that the Commercial Press was reorganized into the Guoshe Newspaper Library, on the one hand, the original translation of Xiyi books continued to be done, and on the other hand, the Guoshe Newspaper was issued, mainly to comment on current affairs, introduce the Great Voyage and Xiyi colonization, and publicize the ideas of the National Socialist Party.The matter of running the Lakeside Academy, Zhao Ming handed over to Qian Qianyi, the Donglin Party started with the academy association, and had rich experience in this, and after he first put up the shelf, Zhao Ming came to reform and turn the Lakeside Academy into a modern party school.In recent years, he has written a lot of articles on Taiwan and navigation, and the southeast has had a great influence, and he also has experience in this area.At this time, there were less than 100 members of the National Socialist Party, and after these two things were done, there was nothing to do.Zhao Ming then shifted his energy to military and political affairs.At this time, after the first half of the fighting, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties have exhausted their strength, and the world is generally peaceful.However, the collapse of the peace talks between the Manchus and Longwu indicates that in the near future, there will inevitably be a big war between the Ming and Qing dynasties, so both sides began to frantically expand their armaments.In the Battle of Changzhou, Donghai Town repelled the Qing army, but the losses were not small.After the end of the autumn harvest, Ma Shiao began to select the tun army and incorporated it into the Shence army, restoring the number of soldiers to 80,000.However, this time, Shandong Wei and Liaodongwei lost more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of tun troops, while the Taiwan Island tun army had previously selected a group to join the Shence army, and this time more than 15,000 people were selected, and Taiwan's tun army was reduced by more than half, which has already affected Taiwan's production.In addition, the reduction of the garrison on the island of Taiwan also made Donghai Town a little uncomfortable when facing the Dutch and the Spaniards in Luzon.At the beginning of December, in the large camp outside Suzhou, the newly recruited Ming soldiers, carrying muskets, marched in line at the whistle of the officers, changing various queues, and the Ming soldiers were in full swing training.Zhao Ming, surrounded by a group of subordinates, shuttled around the camp to inspect the situation of the new army.At this time, Zhao Ming said casually: "How are the soldiers trained, but I heard that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has recruited a lot of green battalion soldiers in Henan, Shanxi, and Gansu, with more than 100,000 people, who are training in the Yangzhou camp!"
”"Back to the marshal, the soldiers are all trained according to the drill code, and the martial arts students of the third phase of the martial arts hall graduated early and joined the army to make up for the lack of officers, so the marshal doesn't have to worry about the training!"
Ruan Mei smiled.Chen Yujie on the side also said: "Although the Qing army recruited green battalions to expand the army to prepare for war, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the imperial court are also expanding the army.Recently, His Royal Highness and the imperial court have added thousands of flintlock muskets, as well as tens of thousands of orders for mandarin duck battle jackets, presumably there are not a few people who have expanded!
”Zhao Ming listened to Chen Yujie's words, and couldn't help laughing: "In this way, Huaxing Company's dividends at the end of the year should be very generous!"
”When everyone heard this, their faces also showed happy expressions, but at this time, Zhao Ming suddenly thought that in addition to Huaxing Company's ability to obtain a large number of orders, Hongmaoyi and Spaniards were making a fortune in a muffled voice.Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "How are the naval fleets intercepting at sea, and the affairs of the Hongmaoyi and the Spaniards trading with the Manchus?"
”Chen Yujie's face sank when he heard this, "It's not ideal to return to the handsome."
Xiyi is a fast ship, which is faster than our Fu ship, and the sailor currently has only seven gunboats, and it is difficult to blockade the entire East China Sea.Now it is not only the Dutch and Spaniards who are selling firearms to the Manchus, but also the Portuguese in Macao who are also a little ready to move.In order to obtain firearms, the Manchus bid very high, and these Xiyi did not do serious business, and they were about to switch to selling firearms. ”Zhao Ming groaned when he heard this, and continued to let the Manchu Qing and Xiyi trade continue, if he wanted to defeat the Manchu Qing and drive them out of the Han land, I am afraid it would be difficult.What worries Zhao Ming even more is that if the strength of the Manchu Qing increases and the difficulty of recovering the north increases, if the Longwu court chooses to negotiate peace and rule the river with the Manchus, then Donghai Town may not be able to continue to attack the Manchus.Just as Zhao Ming was pondering, Ding Weiyue came in a hurry and saluted: "Dashuai, the imperial envoy has arrived, let Dashuai return to the city to receive the order!"
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