Chapter 8 Spark Fund (I)

"I report to the emperor that the tax revenue this year is only about 12 million taels. Apart from the salaries of officials and the necessary expenses of yamen at all levels, and the income of the Fu King was searched, the silver available for use was less than 10 million. Although several provinces in Jiangnan were still in consideration, the imperial court had some surplus last year, and the emperor and the people were resting and not paying land taxes for three years. The old minister believed that if the situation continued like this, without the support of several major tax provinces in Jiangnan, it would probably only last for another year. If war was to be fought, the time would be shorter!" Sun Shenxing had only been the Minister of Revenue for a year, and it was more difficult than feeding horses at the border. He was good at calculating and said that he was not an exaggeration.

"Then how profits will be made in the transaction between Chahar and the Later Jin?" Zhu Yinglong also had a headache about this problem. The country is so big that it costs money everywhere. It is easy to be a boss and difficult to be a housekeeper. He knows this.

"Report to the emperor, although we have made a lot of profits in this transaction, the emperor has already included it as the military expenses for the southern expedition next spring, and the old ministers did not count it!" Sun Shenxing replied.

“How many are there?”

"About 500,000 taels."

"How many days can it take for a hundred thousand troops to use?"

"In the absence of battle, the marching alone will be consumed for fifty days. If you fight with the enemy, you will be sold out in ten days." Sun Shenxing obviously had done the calculations long ago.

Zhu Yinglong suddenly became worried. Wars in the hot weapon mode were just burning money. This was still the starting price. If all the troops were established, how much would it cost to fight jointly with land, sea and air?

"Your Majesty, you can actually reduce the cost by half." Sun Chengzong suddenly stood up and kowtowed.

"How to reduce it?" Zhu Yinglong asked happily.

"In fact, all the equipment of the new army in the imperial court is new firearms, which cannot be achieved by either the pseudo-Ming or the Later Jin in the north, so our consumption is completely reduced by half and we can defeat our opponents." Sun Chengzong said.

"Yes!" Zhu Yinglong slapped his thigh and said, "It was a qualitative leap against cold weapons. The 50,000 Mongolian cavalry of the 38-Nation Alliance fought against Senggelinqin, 50,000 Mongolian cavalry, threw away their armor. There was no need to pull all the new army of the Beijing camp out. Half of it was enough to go south. In this way, 500,000 taels of silver can be used at least one and a half months to two months. If you can raise 500,000 taels, there would be absolutely no problem in three months.

Of course, this is just a superficial number. It cannot be used to fight and maintain war on the land of one's own country. The consumption outside of military expenditure is also a huge number. Where does such a large amount of money come from is another big question.

After the court resignation, Zhu Yinglong kept thinking about money. Sichuan needs money to suppress the rebellion, and post-war reconstruction also needs money. To pacify Guizhou and Yunnan also need money. Huguang has stabilized, whether to go south or east, and wait for Xiong Tingbi to return to Beijing to ask his opinions.

The news that Qin Liangyu's army fought against the rebels of Shu King finally made him breathe a sigh of relief. Now he was worried about money. He could slowly think about this problem. He was not afraid of the situation where the vassal kings in various places were ready to move. The shadows that gathered Jinyiwei and Dongchang as the East Factory would never let the second Shu King appear. If Sichuan had not formed a series of its own, the shadows penetrated too slowly. If it were delayed for another year or two, the Shu King would not have the chance to rebel. Now there is a Li Yongzhen. Zhu Yinglong has always had a headache. Why are so many eunuchs left by the previous dynasty? Most of them cast their way out from childhood and released the palace. They lacked basic living skills. It would be the most suitable to be a hawk. In the future, they would also learn to learn the eunuchs, go to the West and be spies. After the Yure is finished, it is good to come back to take care of their elderly care homes.

There is another worrying question, which is how to deal with Hong Chenggong. Hong Chenggong pretended to be poisoned and even deceived him. He knew in his heart that he did this to deceive the Miao people. Zheng Nansheng's memorial should have been secret, but no matter how confidential it is, there will always be a day when several ministers who were disliked Hong Chenggong learned about this matter and jointly submitted a letter to punish Hong Chenggong for deceiving the emperor, and at least he would have to take his position as a minister to quell the rebellion.

It is a taboo for military strategists to slow down the battle, but these people really have their own reasons. The strategy of Ping Miao has been initially completed. Hong Chengchi, as the Minister of Coast Defense, should no longer serve as the Minister of Ping Miao. Zhu Yinglong thought about it and it would be better to completely separate the military and political affairs. If this continues, if the ignorant corrupt scholars continue, the country will sooner or later be ruined in the hands of these people. They can kowtow to whoever they can be emperors and be slaves, but the entire Han nation cannot.

Therefore, it is impossible to replace Hong Chenggong, but we cannot ask nothing. So an imperial edict issued with a demerit and demerit was issued. At the same time, Qin Liangyu was added to the title of Prince's Grand Tutor, the governor of Sichuan, and the general of the general to pacify Shu.

A woman is a rank of a magistrate in history. When the imperial edict was issued, the world was in an uproar. Qin Liangyu was originally a second-rank general and belonged to the military officer system. Half of the governors were both civil servants. Although Xiong Tingbi was a military officer, he was indeed a Jinshi and an authentic civil servant, but he was just a civil servant. As a woman, Qin Liangyu was a woman. Because her husband died and her son was young, she stood up to display her talents and had her current status. Strictly speaking, she was not only a military officer, but also a Han official. Qin Liangyu

It was originally Miao girl. Although the husband was from the Han Dynasty, he actually returned to the Tujia family. The imperial court appointed a foreign land official as the governor of Sichuan, which was a precedent, especially the other party was still a woman. The court was destined to be a turbulent change. What he had to do next would be shocking. It would be better to get a vaccination first. Qin Liangyu's affairs were easy to solve. As long as it was temporarily expedient, it would be replaced after pacifying Shu. I think those corrupt scholars who were not as good as they could have nothing to say. As long as they turned it into facts, they would achieve their own goals.

He opened a memorial at will, which was written by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Penglai. He wrote a letter saying that he had designed and built the first treasure ship of 2,000 materials based on historical materials ("Material" is a volume unit. Referring to the scale of the 400 and 500 materials warships in Ningbo Prefecture recorded in historical records in the Ming Dynasty, the "Two thousand materials sea ship" should be 61.2 meters long, 13.8 meters wide, and has a displacement of more than 1,000 tons.) and used side-side cannons, asking the emperor to ship the eighty-eight cannons on the ship onto the ship, and asked the emperor to name it.

In the past, the eunuchs of the Three Treasures voyages to the West seven times relied on treasure ships. This ship, which represented China's highest shipbuilding technology at that time, was in the world's leading position. Unfortunately, as the court banned maritime trade gradually disappeared, it was recorded in the palace archives. Zhu Yinglong was determined to use his own shipbuilding technology to build ships, and ordered the whole country to collect shipbuilding information on treasure ships. It took half a piece of it and finally gained something. He also borrowed a lot of Western technologies, such as horizontal sails, vertical sails, side guns, etc., with Sun Yuanhua in charge of the work, and it took nearly half a year to finally build a ship that combines Chinese and Western countries. When the treasure ship was first built, it was a hybrid of military and civilians. Sun Yuanhua

The new treasure ships built also retain this feature. Due to limited financial resources, they can only build about ten new treasure ships. Now they have been reborn and have been called warships. Various auxiliary ships, such as Dafu ship, Haicang, Grass-skipping ship, Kailang, Shiqiao, Cangshan, Sand ship, Guangbo (also divided into Wucao and Hengjiang), Eight-pad ships, net shuttle ships, fishing boats, eagle ships, bird ships, centipede ships, horn-bluff ships, two-headed ships, mandarin duck paddle ships, red dragon boats, fire dragon ships and broken ships rafts. The total material level is more than 40,000 materials, and there are about 2,000 artillery doors of large and small artillery, which is expected to take three years, costing more than ten million silver, and it is another monster that swallows money.

With the increase in the production speed of the imperial artillery, from four or five in the first month to now, it will produce 40 to fifty cannons every month. After accumulating, plus the new rifled cannons that are already in use, Sun Yuanhua will have to go to 88 at once. To be honest, Zhu Yinglong is really reluctant to let go of it. That is nearly one-third of the cannons that are not available for the time being. It is not only a third of them that are temporarily placed on the ship, but it is not useful unless he finds something for him to do it and practice in practice.
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