Taking down Wendeng, Chengshan, and Jinghai took one day, and beating back the Dengzhou Prefecture Army, forcing the Dengzhou Prefecture Army to stop fighting, and ignoring the development of Weihai Guards, took nearly a month.
This month, a large amount of manpower, resources, and other resources had been expended. Among them, there were more than 3,000 casualties in the entire army. Fortunately, Lin Feng was willing to treat his soldiers with medicine. As soon as the war ended, 2,000 wounded soldiers were treated and cured.
More than 500 wounded soldiers were seriously injured and had become disabled. Lin Feng was prepared to take care of them and retire them to arrange for them to join the newly established police force.
As the territory expanded and the population increased, the police force began to be established as governance became more difficult.
An army should behave like an army. Lin Feng couldn't possibly use the elite field army as a public security police. That would be a huge waste.
It just so happened that there were many heavily injured and disabled soldiers in this battle. With these veterans as the backbone and some farmers as support, it would be best to form a police force.
In this battle, a total of four to five hundred soldiers had died.
Compared to paying the price of over 3,000 casualties to occupy Wendeng, Chengshan, and Jinghai, defeating the Dengzhou Prefecture's 50,000 strong army, killing nearly 20,000 people, capturing 25,000 prisoners, and making the Dengzhou Prefecture unable to attack anymore, this was a brilliant result.
This price was worth it.
He had perfectly achieved Lin Feng's strategic goal.
After the battle was over and the territory was occupied, it was time to digest the results of the battle.
Twenty-five thousand captives. There was nothing to say. Those who were sent to mine and those who were sent to build roads were sent to build roads. It was really good to build a convenient and perfect transportation network in the three newly conquered areas. With an additional twenty-five thousand captives, how many resources could be saved!
As the territory grew bigger and the population increased, Lin Feng also felt the pressure of not having enough resources.
Although the production speed and scale of various resources were increasing, the consumption was also increasing!
An army armed to the teeth with three guards, a hundred warships, and a naval fleet of thousands. Just these people alone had consumed a lot of his resources, and they were being consumed in real time.
After all, he needed to feed these people and keep them warm. He also needed to train them constantly to maintain their combat strength. In addition, although these people were produced by the system, they were still humans. They also needed to get married and have children. They also had the obligation to support their families. Therefore, he had to pay him his monthly salary.
If they were injured, they would receive compensation. If they died in battle, they would receive compensation.
These people were all his loyal confidants and existences that he could trust 100%. They fought hard for him and worked hard. How could Lin Feng mistreat them?
Whether it was salary or compensation, they were all of the highest standards.
Even for the farmers who worked under him, Lin Feng set their salary standards among the group of people with the highest salary.
He had more than 100,000 farmers and nearly 20,000 soldiers.
It could be said that these people were the richest in the territory.
The territory's consumer market was nurtured by them.
Otherwise, why would there be so many businessmen coming to Weihaiwei?!
Wasn't it because they could make a fortune by seeing the huge consumer market here?!
This was a very realistic problem. There was no love for no reason. Everything was for profit.
If they won the war, they would get a bonus, right?
Although the ones fighting were all his own people, he still needed to attract more troops in the future. He couldn't let everyone in the territory feel that the safety of the territory had nothing to do with them.
This required the establishment of a system!
Lin Feng waved his hand and gave out a year's salary as a bonus.
Even an ordinary soldier's monthly salary was as high as five silver dollars.
Almost every soldier was given five silver coins. Lin Feng had given out more than a hundred thousand silver coins to nearly twenty thousand soldiers.
Fortunately, they had confiscated a lot of money from the rich merchants. In addition to salted fish, salt, cloth, ships, and other goods, they were selling like hotcakes. In addition to the rent of thousands of shops, the money earned from the bank, and the business tax. Lin Feng had saved up two to three million silver dollars and was not short of money.
Only then could he take out more than 100,000 silver dollars as a bonus!
Weihai Wei's current financial income was increasing, but it was also spending more and more money.
In the newly occupied Wendeng, Chengshan, and Jinghai, nearly a million people were under the control of the Weihai Guards. Although the battle with the Dengzhou Prefecture did not delay the digestion of these three guards, there was no output. It was all an investment.
It took money to build roads, and it was a lot of money. It was all cement roads that were more than ten meters wide. The cost was extremely high, and the money spent was a lot.
Renovating the Urban area and building all kinds of buildings and shops required money!
There was also the need to invest in more farmers, expand farms, open mines, and build various factories. All of these required money.
Furthermore, the initial payment was calculated in units of millions of silver dollars, and the subsequent investment would have to be increased!
However, this investment was worth it for Lin Feng.
Because the greater the investment, the greater the benefits.
As for losing money?
It was impossible to lose money!
Whoever dared to make him lose money, he would take their lives!
In fact, he even had the intention to learn from the western bandits and open up a market with a warship in order to expand the market.
However, after thinking about it, attacking the south would really be stirring up a hornet's nest!
The north was not within the Dong Lin Party's sphere of influence, and it had already been destroyed. They did not care about the north. However, if they touched their nest, they would really risk their lives.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Manchu Tartars entered the pass, they were unstoppable. The South had all kinds of retarded operations and surrendered countless times. They felt that they were powerless.
On the contrary, they were very powerful. They could be said to be the most powerful force in the world.
However, the Manchu Dynasty was smart enough to cooperate with them and protect their privileges.
The squires were still the squires, and the merchants were still the merchants!
As for the fallout after that, it was also because of the policy of the Manchurian Emperor Yongzheng that all the squires received grain. It caused chaos in the entire Qing Dynasty, and all kinds of rebellions appeared.
However, the Manchu Empire had occupied China for a long time and had accumulated a deep foundation. They had not been overthrown and could not be overthrown.
The final result would be known just by looking at Emperor Yongzheng's early death.
No one could say clearly which side had won.
It was still mutual compromise!
The privileges of the rich merchants were preserved. Later on, the Taiping Country swept across the south of China, almost across the Yangtze River.
These rich merchants and squires had contributed their manpower and money to protect the Qing Dynasty.
They would annihilate Taiping Country, who had a great advantage!
Thus, one could imagine who these people were.
It was fine if they didn't violate their interests, but once they violated their interests, it would be like the Storm Gang's suppression.
Lin Feng's system and policies in Weihai Wei were destined to be passive against them.
Once he touched their nest, Lin Feng had no doubt that Li Zicheng's refugee army, all the troops of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Manchu Tartars would attack him from three sides.
It couldn't be helped. Li Zicheng's current army was actually funded by the rich merchants.
However, after they occupied the capital and forced Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself, Li Zicheng turned hostile and attacked them.
After that, Wu Sangui joined the Manchu Qing and allowed them to enter the pass.
As for the claim that Li Zicheng had touched Wu Sangui's woman, Chen Yuanyuan, and that was why he let Manqing enter the pass in a fit of anger for a beauty, this was just an excuse. Even if he didn't have this excuse, he could find other excuses.
Who asked Li Zicheng to not recognize him and actually dare to use a knife on them?!
It was worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver!
His heart was bleeding!
Lin Feng knew his own limits. At the moment, he really could not afford to offend these wealthy merchants in the south. Therefore, he could not consider sending warships to open up the southern market.
However, it was still possible to send warships out to fight pirates, sweep the sea routes, go to Liaodong and North Korea, and become pirates at the same time to rob the Manchu Dynasty!
Manchu warhorses, people, furs, and even ginseng were all money!
It was impossible to trade. Only by robbing the Manchu Tartars could he earn more money and maintain the operation of his territory.
Therefore, Lin Feng decided to develop the navy and attack the Manchu Tartars.
Although the Manchu Tartar Navy was weak, easy to bully, and rich, what about it?!
If he didn't rob him, who else could he rob?
Zheng Zilong, who was further south, as well as the ships and cannons from the Netherlands and Spain, were tough opponents. With his current strength, it was not easy to rob them.
As for the Japanese islands in the east, apart from silver, there was nothing good.
Silver mines still needed to be dug, how could it be faster than robbery?!
After looking around, Lin Feng felt that robbing the Manchu Tartars had a better future.
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