"Good question! Let me ask you first how will the court deal with us?" Hunchun asked.
"Are they going to directly send a large army to attack us? Are you kidding me? Now the Chinese government is using troops in Xinjiang, and the Han governors are in the south of the Yangtze River. The new army in Beijing has not yet been successfully trained, so they will use force?"
"Besides, the imperial court still needs to save face. It is absolutely impossible for them to use troops unless they have the courage to depose His Majesty! That is obviously impossible..."
"If you can't use force, you can only submit a letter. It's definitely impossible to move the tiger out of the mountain openly and secretly. Then the only thing left is to deprive us of money and food..."
"Perhaps after this matter reaches the capital, we Jilin and Heilongjiang will not get a grain of rice or a copper plate from the imperial court within three years..."
"Ah! How can this be done? The total number of soldiers and defense troops from the two provinces exceeds 600,000. They have to starve to death without money and food!" Everyone suddenly started to make a noise.
"Shut up! Your Majesty will not care about you!" Sister Wu shouted angrily. Now that time is running out, these bastards know how to waste time on trivial matters.
Sister Wu took over the conversation and said, "Your Majesty and the Prime Minister have already thought about it for you. The taxes collected from Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces can basically meet half of the army's food and salary consumption, and the other half can be used for trade." Ways to raise..."
"Vladivostok has been captured by the volunteers at this moment, and the rest of the war is just about consolidation. As long as we can hold on to these Cossack cavalry, Vladivostok can be put into use as a normal port..."
"There are a lot of good treasures outside the customs. Even transporting the giant trees in the old forest costs money! With the huge Chinese caravan, you still worry about having no food to eat? Ginseng, medicinal materials, animal skins, wood, gold, mineral deposits... what do you think? What do you want?"
Someone in the crowd muttered, "No, this calculation is definitely wrong! Even if Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces intercept all taxes, they will only be able to solve the money and food gap by 30% at most. How can it solve half of it?"
The crowd suddenly became restless. "Yes, we have been here for most of our lives. We have the same idea as Ming Jing about how much tax we can collect. Half of it will never be solved! Are you forcing us to scrape the land? To rob the people?"
Hunchun was also a little confused. He knew the plan but had never actually calculated the proportions, and he didn't have enough time. He looked at the Kirigakure kid and cast a puzzled look.
"Master Kirigakure, it's bitterly cold outside the pass! It really can't be solved that much..."
Drink... Sister Wu almost exploded with anger, thinking to herself, are you still an official? Every person who spends his money is quite suitable to be a cashier.
"Baga! You guys just made me collapse..." Sister Wu scratched her head several times angrily. Chatting with these ignorant guys was simply an insult to her own IQ.
"Which of you has been abroad?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Which of you has done trade with maritime merchants?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Do you know what Nanyang is like?" Everyone still shook their heads.
"Then you have always been to Guangdong and Guangxi? Guangdong and Guangxi?" Unfortunately, these people shook their heads.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu bit I’ve been there too!”
Sister Wu patted her chest, "That's good, then you will understand what I say more easily! Don't use the prices of food and materials outside the customs to measure the South!"
"You don't even know that rice in Nanyang is harvested three times a year, and it rains every day without irrigation! The price of food there is so cheap that you can't imagine... Now the Chinese have countless large-scale reclamation areas in Nanyang, and the annual supply of food The production is enough to feed millions of people!”
"As long as Vladivostok is in our hands, you can eat rice from Southeast Asia, wheat from the United States, rum from Ryukyu, and various canned foods produced by the Chinese!"
"Not only are there many varieties, but the quantity is large and the price is low. Do you know that European cargo ships can now haul hundreds of tons of goods at a time? Five or six ships of rice from Nanyang are enough for the two of you to eat for several days. !”
"Please don't ask such idiotic questions in the future! How long has it been? If you don't believe in us Chinese, don't you still believe in His Majesty?"
Sister Wu made all these short-sighted men blush with what she said, and what she said next made them even more moved.
"My lords! I can tell you what kind of person Emperor Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty was like!"
"In the Ryukyu Recruitment Camp, His Majesty ate, lived, and trained with the big soldiers. They crawled and rolled in mud and water for half a year! No one gave him any privileges. He could crawl in the rain for an hour while lying down and shoot, and he could fight with his bare hands. Even after being knocked down more than ten times, I still kept training!”
"The sun was like scorching hot, and the temperature was as high as 40 degrees. Your Majesty could stand in a military posture for two hours, and by the end, your skin was broken by the sun! I just want to ask you, have you ever experienced such hardship in military training?"
"To tell you the truth, this is the last holy king given to the Qing Dynasty by God! If you don't even follow such a monarch, what else can you do? What hope do you have for the future?"
"Don't expect the Queen Mother of the Forbidden City and the Princes of the Forty-Nine Cities. They will always be aloof. They will never come to you to listen to your thoughts!"
"You are still asking these stupid questions, and you are still afraid of losing even a little bit of your own interests. I am ashamed of you! His Majesty has already thought of all these worries of yours! Where do you want to find such a benevolent gentleman!"
"What? What you said is true..." Hunchun was so excited that he grabbed Sister Wu's wrist and all the generals present shed tears.
People in ancient times were sincere. If you treat me as a scholar of the country, I will repay you as a scholar of the country! If the emperor can do this, he can really be regarded as a sage.
Sister Wu sighed and said, "His Majesty is in Vladivostok. Why don't you win this battle and go to see His Majesty in person? Go and take a look and see how heroic His Majesty is in his new military uniform... Do you still have it?" Who do you want to follow?”
"Hahaha... that's all! Don't say that we are bloodless. If we can meet such a wise king in this life, what if we risk our lives? Brothers, kowtow to the east. From now on, we will defend the land for His Majesty!"
Everyone fell to the ground suddenly, and their foreheads hit the floor with a loud bang!
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Imperial Party!"
Before dawn, Hunchun and Sister Wu finally gathered the hearts of the generals. At the most critical moment, the Heilongjiang garrison collectively pledged allegiance to the imperial party. It was finally time for the mutiny to come to an end.
