"Governor Ma," Zhu Cixiang considered his words, "this battle in Sichuan...do you want to fight it? Can it be won?"
When Ma Shiying heard this question, he was deeply moved - he had met Renjun! If you put it aside, why should you stay in the Jinyiwei Prison for such a serious crime? Where can you answer such a question?
"Your Majesty," Ma Shiying paused, "I believe that the Battle of Sichuan will still have to be fought, but it will be difficult to win unless the imperial court is determined to solve Sichuan first and then proceed to the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains."
Ma Shiying was not stupid. He certainly saw that Zhu Cixiang wanted to "first go to the Central Plains and then Sichuan."
In fact, it has to be like this!
Because the rogue bandits entering Sichuan are easy to block, the Ming army is currently making good progress in the east of Sichuan. It has already captured the city of Guizhou, completely blocking the passage of the Dashun army in central Sichuan along the river.
In Shaanxi, Wu Sangui controlled Dashanguan and Qishan. It is not easy for the Dashun Army to fight back to Shaanxi. Historically, Zhuge Liang has not succeeded, let alone Li Guo and Sun Kewang.
Besides, Sichuan is such a peaceful and comfortable place, who would go to Shaanxi from there to fight? Those bandits like Shaanxi so much. What do they want after spending so many years beating them to death? Honestly, wouldn’t it be enough to starve to death in Shaanxi?
Therefore, the roads from Sichuan to the east and north are tightly blocked. The only route that cannot be blocked is the route from Sichuan to Yunnan and Guizhou.
However, even if the Yunnan-Guizhou area was taken away by Dashun, it would be nothing. It would not shake Zhu Cihong's Nanming regime at all.
As long as Zhu Cixiang's Northern Expedition succeeds, what will happen to Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou? No matter how hard you plan to teach Tian, can you still withstand the attack of all China?
Moreover, if Zhu Cixiang makes an expedition to the Central Plains now, he doesn't have to worry that Li Guo and his "eighth father" who are living a good life in Sichuan will leave Chuanjiang and Qishan to cause trouble - they can't get out, and they don't have the motivation to do so. . Sichuan is so good, just stay inside and exploit it, why don't you come out to fight?
But Zhu Cixiang wanted to attack Sichuan with all his strength. Even if Dorgon was too sick to get up, he still had to crawl over to attack Shandong, Huaibei, and Huainan - even if he was afraid of not being able to defeat them, it would be good to snatch them back!
In addition, Zhu Cixiang is now ready to spend a lot of money to renovate the Huaihe River and the Yellow River (the lower reaches). Can he not be careful about such a large project? If Dorgon were to destroy it, how much money would we lose?
If the Yellow River and Huaihe River flood again, the good situation will be ruined...
For this reason, Sichuan will not become the focus of Ming Dynasty's military deployment for a long time in the future.
"It is indeed difficult to fight in Sichuan..." Zhu Cixiang nodded lightly, "But we have to fight! We can't make the rogue bandits too comfortable, and Yunnan is not stable either. If we don't start fighting in Sichuan, we are afraid that the rogue bandits will break out. Take action to harm Yunnan!"
What Zhu Cixiang said was high-sounding, but actually it was for the vassal debt... Without attacking Sichuan, how could the second phase of debt be issued?
And...how could Zhu Cixi, a great emperor, use a fake project to steal money from investors?
Even if there is no China Securities Regulatory Commission to supervise him now, he can't do this!
"Governor Ma," Zhu Cixiang said again, "I plan to follow the example of Pingxi and Shuofang and establish the Western Sichuan Jiedushi Department and the Eastern Sichuan Jiedushi Department. The former will govern Sichuan Xingdu Department, Mahu Prefecture, Wumeng Prefecture, Zhenxiong Prefecture, Dongchuan Prefecture and Wusa Prefecture; the latter governs Zunyi Prefecture, Chongqing Wei (that is, Shizhu, Youyang, Pingcha and other chieftains) and Sinan Prefecture and Shiqian Prefecture in Guizhou.
Let Qin Yiming serve as the military governor of eastern Sichuan. As for the military governor of western Sichuan... is it appropriate for Zeng Ying to serve as the military governor? "
"Although Zeng Ying is young, he is handsome and can indeed hold a big position." Ma Shiying frowned and said, "However, the mountains in the two towns of Western Sichuan and Eastern Sichuan are overlapping and the flat land is narrow. They are not enough to support tens of thousands of loyal and brave soldiers and continue to support the imperial court with military pay and equipment. .....”
"The imperial court will give the two towns 50,000 taels of silver each month." Zhu Cihong did not refuse Ma Shiying's request. "As for the equipment... let's send it directly to the Yamen of the Governor of Sichuan and Guizhou! Governor Ma, you are still the governor, but He is no longer the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, but the governor of Sichuan and Guizhou, responsible for attacking the rogue bandits in Sichuan from the south. The towns in western Sichuan and eastern Sichuan are under your control. In addition, you will also serve as the governor of Guizhou. For Guizhou, you will also be given 5 per month. With a salary of ten thousand taels, the governor's office is also allowed to levy taxes on commercial goods to raise military expenses."
Zhu Cixiang did not ask Western Sichuan, Eastern Sichuan, and Guizhou to issue bonds for financing this time. Instead, he directly asked the court to issue subsidies. The two towns and one province combined gave 150,000 taels of silver every month, which is 1.8 million taels a year. No more. Even if I give it, I can’t afford it!
Now Emperor Zhu's court will give Wu Sangui and Zhu Cijiong a total of 500,000 taels of financial subsidies a year. The big holes in Shandong and Liaodong will have to be filled with several million taels. Now it will give 1.8 million taels to western Sichuan, eastern Sichuan, and Guizhou... ...Just adding these together is almost 10 million taels!
To say it’s a waste of money is an understatement!
Because the burning was so severe, even Chen Rui, the Minister of Household Affairs, was sent to Zhejiang.
Su Guansheng is currently taking over the big hole in the household department, but he is not the ideal candidate in Zhu Cihong's mind to fill the big hole in the household department.
Looking at the Ming Dynasty, there are only two people who can fill the hole in the household department, and that is Shen Tingyang and Zheng Zhilong!
However, both of them are born in the year of the fox, and they will not jump into the pit easily. Now let’s see who will be trapped by the trap of feudal debt, right?
If you are trapped, you have to come and make money for Emperor Zhu to atone...
...
Someone is trapped!
Just after the issuance of the second tranche of vassal bonds with a total capital of 5 million taels was completed, and the Ming Dynasty announced the establishment of the Sichuan-Guizhou Governor's Office and the Jiedushi of Western Sichuan and the Jiedushi of Eastern Sichuan, the price of vassal bonds, which was originally high, began to rise. It started to go downhill...
"It fell, it fell, why did it fall again..."
"It's fallen, it's fallen to 60 taels... What, what should I do?"
"It doesn't matter, it will rise, it will definitely rise...The imperial court is about to send troops to attack Sichuan! If Sichuan is defeated, the vassal can be withdrawn!"
"But the imperial court never said that after conquering Sichuan, the vassal state would be withdrawn!"
"Besides, Sichuan is not easy to fight, right? The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to reach the blue sky!"
"It's not good, it's not good...it has fallen below 60 taels!"
"It's over, it's over..."
"Someone jumped off the building!"
It’s still the Mishi Street Tea House, and it’s still related to feudal debts, but it’s just changed from a comedy to a tragedy!
The feudal debt fell miserably. In less than half a month, it fell from around 80 taels to less than 60 taels. It fell by a quarter... It doesn't seem like much, but someone couldn't help it and added leverage!
Because the face value of the bond was 100 taels, this threshold was enough to keep out ordinary people, so those who participated were businessmen and down-and-out gentry from the Huguang area.
The so-called down-and-out gentry are those unlucky ones who lost their land in Hubei and were forced to redeem their fields for rice. Wuhan has developed rapidly in the past two years and has become a rice and grain trading center. Therefore, these down-and-out gentry who took the rice to redeem their fields also invested heavily in business activities. He doesn't do much business and mostly makes money from loan sharking and speculating on rice. Some who did well even opened banks, imitating the two major banks, and started a business of absorbing savings and lending money.
Many of these people who were playing with money were tricked into getting involved when they saw the hot market for feudal debts... and then they were trapped!
It's okay to take over the deal with his own capital at a high position - Zhu Cixiang is quite conscientious and has no intention of letting the two vassals default, so the debt of the two vassals must be worth 40 or 50 taels. If you buy more than eighty taels, you will lose half of it...
But if you add leverage, you will really lose everything!
Yao Daqiao has added leverage! He took in 74.5 taels of debt from the two feudal lords with a face value of 510,000 taels. Now he has lost 77,000 taels... he can still afford it.
However, he lost his mind when the debt of the two feudal lords fell below 70 taels. He actually used the "three-month negotiable feudal debt deposit certificate" on hand to mortgage 290,000 taels to Maritime Bank and then added 400,000 taels to the position. The two-face-value two-domain bond notes (also futures)... This one has lost just over 40,000 taels so far. Adding the two transactions together, the loss is almost 120,000 taels.
He is not willing to give in! After thinking about it, I feel that the feudal debt has fallen to the end, so I have to continue to increase my position...
