Li Guo glanced at Liu Zongmin, who used to be the number one general of the Dashun Army, but now looked like a naive, fat old man.
Maybe because he doesn't know how to maintain good health, Liu Zongmin looks seven or eight years older than his actual age, and his actual age is less than fifty. However, he looks like an "old man" who is running for six years. His beard and hair are gray, and he is fat. It weighs more than two hundred kilograms, and it doesn't look like it can ride a horse to kill.
In fact, Liu Zongmin has indeed not been on the battlefield for many years, and has not even left Chongqing Prefecture for three years. In the past three years, Liu Zongmin spent most of his time in the royal palace in the city and the manor outside the city. He also raised hundreds of Kabuki and dancers to accompany him for entertainment. He was no longer the one who came and went on the battlefield. The tiger general has become a rich man whose fighting spirit has been dampened by wealth.
However, in order to show his status in the Dashun court, this rich man would go to the court from time to time and tell some shocking nonsense.
But Li Guo had to give some face to the Han king who co-ruled the Han Dynasty. Who made the politics of the Dashun Dynasty "eight fathers co-ruling"? No matter how decadent they are, they still rule the Han Dynasty together, so they are not allowed to talk anymore?
Besides, as one of the "Eight Dads", the more decadent Liu Zongmin is, the more Li Guo will like him! If every "father" were as capable as Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, wouldn't Li Guo, the "Shun Taizong", be invisible?
"King of Han," Li Guo smiled, "where do you think we should send our troops? Shaanxi or Huguang?"
"How can we attack Shaanxi and Huguang?" Liu Zongmin shook his head repeatedly. "To attack Shaanxi, we need cavalry. It has been almost ten years since we entered Sichuan. How many of the good horses we brought there are left? Do we have to rely on Yunnan horses and Sichuan horses to fight the Ming army? Hedging with cavalry? And our infantry don’t have long spears, they are all swords, spears, darts, and firecrackers... This method works well in the mountains and forests. But when we go to the plains of Guanzhong and let people blast the cavalry with cannons, the cavalry will die in one attack. !
As for attacking Huguang, we need navy troops! We don’t have a navy, and even if we did, we couldn’t defeat the Yangtze River Navy of the Ming Dynasty, so we’re still out of luck. "
In fact, the Yangtze River Navy of the Ming Dynasty does not have many ships now. The navy of the Ming Army is now called the Navy. The main area of activity is of course the sea, but there are still more than a dozen "turtle ships" in the Yangtze River.
This kind of turtle ship was produced by Shanghai Shipwreck. It was based on the turtle-shaped warship with a bullet-proof (lead bullet) hull designed by the famous North Korean navy general Yi Sun-sin, and was improved. The impractical fire-breathing hydrant was cancelled, and a 6-pounder gun was installed on the bow instead. At the same time, an underwater ram was installed on the bow.
In addition, in order to be more effective in bulletproofing, the side baffles of this Yangtze River turtle ship are also covered with a layer of iron sheet, which is very strong and cannot be resisted by warships casually modified from civilian ships.
Therefore, once the Dashun Army leaves Huguang in the east, it will inevitably be controlled by the Yangtze River and Han River.
Li Guo nodded lightly and put away his contempt for Liu Zongmin.
"King of Han," Li Guo paused, "where do you think we should send troops?"
"Of course it's Guizhou or Guangxi." Liu Zongmin said, "Guizhou and Guangxi are densely covered with mountains and forests, which is conducive to our swordsmen. Moreover, Guizhou and Guangxi are far away from Nanjing. It is not easy for the Zhu family to mobilize troops and even more difficult to transport... ..We don’t need to go deep in a big way, just make some noise on the border, attract the Zhu family’s army to go on an expedition, and use up their financial resources.”
It sounds interesting!
Li Guo looked at Sun Kewang.
Now Li Laiheng, the prince of the Fu army, and Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, are both fighting in Burma, so Li Guo can only ask Sun Kewang for advice.
Although Qin Wang Sun Kewang was born as a martial artist, he was naturally good at management and had a lot of experience in financial matters, so he had questions about the severity of the Ming Dynasty's financial crisis.
"Your Majesty, I don't agree with sending troops to start a provocation." Sun Kewang said, "The Ming Dynasty may be short of money, but we are not rich either. If we start a war in Guangxi and Guizhou, we will have to invest at least tens of thousands of troops... .The luggage and food alone are a huge expense. If the troops are sent to no avail, we will be wasting our financial resources."
The thieves who used to run around and plunder have now become the bandits who collect rent to support their families. Although the combat effectiveness has been enhanced, the cost of sending troops has also been greatly increased, and the destructiveness has also been reduced.
"Are we going to let Ming Dynasty go like this?" Li Guo was unwilling to give in!
If we don’t take advantage of the financial crisis in the Ming Dynasty now, when Emperor Zhu has saved enough money, it will be time to recover Sichuan...
Sun Kewang twirled his beard and rolled his eyes, already thinking about it.
"Your Majesty, we can send troops to Siam!"
"What? Send troops to Siam?"
"Yes," Sun Kewang said, "Anyway, the prince's and King Jin's armies are in Myanmar, and they are idle. Why not let them send troops to attack Siam. Siam is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. If we attack it, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed." According to the treaty, troops must be sent... A ten thousand-mile expedition will definitely cost tens of thousands! If Emperor Zhu does not send troops, then with the bravery of the crown prince and the king of Jin, Siam will definitely be able to force Siam to abandon the Ming Dynasty and surrender!"
"Okay!" Li Guo clapped his hands, and finally a smile appeared on his face.
The method of King Sun Qin is better - a good peasant uprising war turned into an imperialist struggle for hegemony. It couldn't be better!
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Daming, Jiangnan Province, Shanghai Prefecture.
Songjiang Prefecture was renamed Shanghai Prefecture in the seventh year of Hongxing, but the prefect still did not change. He was still the "star prefect" Luo Grand Duke of the Ming Dynasty.
The prefect of Luo Dynasty also heard that Ming Dynasty was experiencing a financial crisis!
I just heard about it from the great Korean scholar Song Siyeol.
Song Siyeol came from Jeju Island. It turned out that the former king of North Korea, Li Hao, did not go into exile in the Ming Dynasty after surrendering the country. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity to go to sea by boat and fled to Jeju Island.
It turns out that Jeju Island was not captured by Jin Duoduo's army. Although Jin Duoduo's navy also has certain strength, the location of Jeju Island is a bit sensitive. It is located between China, Japan and North Korea, and is also stuck in the Korean Strait. If Jin Duoduo sends his navy to Jeju Island, I'm afraid the "Ukita Show Family" master will come to visit again...
Of course, Li Hao, who retreated to Jeju Island, was not willing to accept the subjugation of the Li Dynasty for more than two hundred years, so he was still struggling. While sending people to Japan to ask for help from the Tokugawa Shogunate, they also tried to contact the Ming Dynasty. They also sent people to lurk in Hanyang, Inchon, Busan and other places to collect intelligence and wait for opportunities.
As a result, before receiving a reply from the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty, they heard that the Ming Dynasty was in financial crisis, so they sent Song Shilie to Shanghai to investigate.
But Song Shiyeol went to Shanghai and saw that it was so prosperous! There are busy construction sites everywhere, all industries are booming in the market, and the factories along the Wusong River are busy expanding production and recruiting people. Moreover, the salary was set so high that half of the entourage brought by Song Siyeol ran away...
Song Daru, who was confused about the situation, ran to find his old acquaintance, Grand Duke Luo. Grand Duke Luo was also looking for him - the King of Korea had agreed to come to Ming Dynasty to retire, and Emperor Zhu even asked Grand Duke Luo to entertain him. Grand Duke Luo was also looking for him. A house has been prepared for Li Hao on the newly opened Madang Street. Why is there no one there?
You won't drown, right?
Just when Grand Duke Luo wanted to organize funeral arrangements for Li Hao, Song Shilie came, and of course Grand Duke Luo had to entertain him.
After the two sides exchanged a few words, Song Shilie first asked about the Ming Dynasty's financial crisis!
"Who has no money? Mr. Song, who do you think has no money?"
"The Ming Dynasty! The Ming Dynasty has no money..." Song Shilie said sadly, "It has spread all over Incheon and Busan that the Ming Dynasty spent too much money in the Northern Expedition and wasted national power. We can no longer support it, so we have to withdraw our troops with hatred!"
"Too much money? How much did you spend?" Grand Duke Luo asked.
"One hundred million!" Song Shilie stretched out a finger and gritted his teeth, "One hundred million taels of silver!"
Grand Duke Luo blinked: "One hundred million taels...is that too much?"
"Ah? One hundred million taels is not much?" Song Shilie couldn't believe his ears.
Who are the people employed by the Ming Dynasty now? One hundred million taels! He didn't say much... How much money does Daming have now?
