On the Anqing River, a huge Ming navy fleet was sailing towards Jiangxi. On Li Guodong's flagship, Duoduo, wearing a white helmet and white armor, stood behind him. Although Duoduo was his prisoner, during this attack on Ganzhou, Li Guodong still gave Duoduo and his Eight Banners soldiers a chance to make meritorious service and atone for their sins, allowing them to participate in this battle to cleanse their crimes. After the Battle of Ganzhou, the captives of the Eight Banners soldiers will be used to quell the civil strife. When the Ming Dynasty began to colonize the outside world, these people will be sent out.

Regarding Duoduo in this time and space, Li Guodong felt that there was no need to kill him. First, he used Duoduo to restrain Dorgon, and second, in this time and space, Duoduo did not commit any crimes without Yangzhou ten days, and he would still leave his life. He could not only restrain Dorgon, but also use his troops as cannon fodder to expand territory.

This time the Navy expedition to the west was to pacify Gaojinku, Ganzhou.

The navy transport fleet was loaded with light infantry, firearms and heavy armored infantry. Ganzhou's terrain was complex and there was no need to dispatch cavalry. As long as the navy, infantry and firearms cooperated, it was enough.

"Master General, walk another thirty miles and you will reach Hukou." Shi Lang, the general general of the Huai Army Navy, came to report.

Li Guodong nodded: "When you arrive at Hukou, you have to turn left and enter Poyang Lake, then go upstream along the Ganjiang River and go straight to Ganzhou. Hukou to Ganzhou for about a thousand miles of water. Our navy can travel more than 500 miles in one day and night, and you can arrive in two days?"

Shi Lang replied: "Master General, it will not arrive in two days. Our navy is not familiar with the hydrological conditions of the Ganjiang River. He can only sail during the day and cannot sail at night. It will take four days to arrive in Ganzhou."

"Station on the shore at night must prevent high-counter fire attacks and sneak attacks." Li Guodong said.

"Please rest assured, the general is proficient in water wars and naturally knows how to station the navy at night." Shi Lang bowed slightly and bowed.

After listening to the conversation between Li Guodong and Shi Lang, Duoduo stepped forward and bowed: "The navy march was so fast, it took more than a thousand miles to reach it in just four days. Even the Mongolian cavalry were willing to take a disadvantage. Fighting in the south, it was impossible to move without the navy. The general was to suffer the loss of the prince of the navy."

"General Duoduo, when you arrive in Ganzhou, you and your Eight Banners soldiers perform well and make great contributions, so they don't have to go to Qiongzhou to mine." Li Guodong said with a smile.

"The general of the Crime will definitely fight to kill the enemy for Duke of Chu! The boys don't want to go to mining in a depressing way." Duoduo bowed slightly.

Li Guodong thought to himself: I don’t know what would happen if Dorgon knew that his brother became my gold medal thug. However, Dorgon hadn’t had a few years to live anyway. Then Shunzhi dug Dorgon’s tomb, whip the corpse, crush the bones and ashes, and Duoduo didn’t know what would happen.

It can be said that the original time and space, the Qing Dynasty was too lucky. The Qing Dynasty could be a widowed mother to win the world. In addition to the factors such as the civil strife of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen's incompetence, and the civil strife of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Duoduo died early, Shunzhi died early, and Kang Mazi was extremely lucky. These factors were indispensable. If Duoduo died behind Dorgon, he would not have been boasted by the mites as the Emperor of the Eternal Emperor. Maybe the barbarians had no fortune for a hundred years. Duoduo was not Dorgon and could not be under Shunzhi. If Shunzhi died a few years later, Wu Sangui would rebel and would have pushed the incompetent Shunzhi. Kang Mazi was just lucky, not the Emperor of the Eternal Emperor of the Eternal Boast. After Kang Mazi died, Yongzheng's officials and gentry were working together to pay food and work together, which extended the lifespan of the Qing Dynasty for nearly two hundred years.

When the Huai Army Navy fleet arrived at Hukou, it was already dark.

The fleet was moored by the river, and the troops of the land division carried on the ship got off the ship, camped on the shore, buried stoves and cooked meals.

A bunch of bonfires were boiled, pork, sweet potato vermicelli, cabbage and tofu were boiled in the pot, and the meat was smelled from afar; white flour buns, bacon and dried fish were steamed in the steaming steamer, and rice with mixed grains was added to the rice pot.

"The soldiers' food is not bad on the march." A former Eight Banner soldier swallowed his saliva enviously.

"Of course," said the auxiliary soldier Liu Laogen, "When you eat well, the brothers will work harder when they fight."

After about an hour, the Lu Shi camp on the shore had been set up and the food was cooked. The soldiers happily surrounded the stone slab and started to enjoy dinner.

Although the Eight Banners prisoners under Duoduo were all prisoners of war, they had already joined the Huai Army, so they enjoyed the same treatment as the Huai Army soldiers. After all, if they wanted to be cannon fodder, they could not even give them enough food.

The Eight Banners prisoners who were preparing to participate in the Ganzhou Battle picked up their jobs and ate in big mouthfuls. The food here was much better than when they were in the Qing Dynasty. These soldiers were under the age of 20, and they were all soldiers who had not experienced the robbery of the Ming Dynasty. They followed the Qing army into the pass and entered the Ming Dynasty for the first time. When they were in the pass, their food level was also very average. After entering the capital, the Eight Banners soldiers had iron-core crops, and they could only receive 600 copper coins and 80 kilograms of grain per month, but they had to maintain the expenses of the family and buy cigarettes. This little money and grain was not enough.

According to the original living standards of the Eight Banners soldiers in time and space, they were three to four taels of silver and one hundred and twenty kilograms of rice per month. However, in this time and space, because the northerners fled south in large numbers and the land was deserted, the Eight Banners soldiers could not recruit enough coated slaves to farm. In addition, Huguang and Jiangnan were controlled by the Huai Army, and the Qing Dynasty without Jiangnan could not give the Eight Banners soldiers too good treatment. Therefore, the Eight Banners soldiers in this time and space lived a hard life after entering the capital.

Let’s talk about cigarettes, Dadewang brand cigarettes, that’s a good thing. When the Qing Dynasty was still outside the pass, this kind of cigarette was already a hot-selling product.

Currently in Beijing, a pack of ordinary Dadewang brand cigarettes costs twenty to thirty copper plates per pack. A slightly better pack costs fifty to eighty copper plates per pack; a pack of good Dadewang brand cigarettes can even be sold for five cents of silver!

The Eight Banners soldiers do not smoke ordinary Dadewang brand cigarettes. They believe that those low-end goods smoked by Green Camp soldiers and coated clothes must be better. A better pack costs fifty yuan for copper coins. The Eight Banners soldiers who are more addicted to cigarettes need to smoke two packs a day. After a month, they have to smoke six pieces, each one costs about four cents of silver, and a month-long cigarette costs more than two taels of silver! But it is not okay not to smoke. The Eight Banners soldiers who are addicted to smoking do not smoke for a day and are useless to do anything.

They are unwilling to smoke low-cost low-end cigarettes, dry tobacco, hookahs, etc.

Dadewang brand cigarettes have a much better taste than dry tobacco and water hookahs. Some high-end cigarettes have filters. Both sides of the filter are cotton and activated charcoal in the middle. Cigarettes with filters have better taste and are said to filter out harmful substances in tobacco. Therefore, Dadewang brand cigarettes with filters are very expensive.

The market is full of fake Dadewang brand cigarettes, but those fake cigarettes are all low-end products and have a much worse taste than real cigarettes. People who are used to smoking authentic Dadewang will throw away the cigarette if they smoke a fake cigarette.

However, the Eight Banners soldiers in this time and space only have a salary of less than one tael of silver per month, and the cost of smoking is so high. What should we do?

Some nimble bannermen opened shops, teahouses, restaurants, and earned some money to subsidize their families. However, business was not easy to do after the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing. During the Ming Dynasty, the capital was very prosperous. However, as soon as Dorgon entered Beijing, he drove all the Han people out of the capital. Only Han people who were officials in Beijing could live in the capital.

The capital city that entered the capital was in a bleak state, and there were no Han people in the inner city. The Han people who could see were all officials and were robbers. In this case, all kinds of businesses were difficult to do. So some bannermen found ways to smuggle to make money to subsidize their families.
Chapter completed!