We can finally send out troops!
Xu Zhengjing breathed a sigh of relief. Seventy thousand pauper warriors! They were all crowded on the small island of Kyushu. Not to mention Wang Ting in Tokyo, Xu Zhengzhi and Xu Zhengjing were also scared! Who knows when someone will come up and kill both of them.
However, after he was relieved, Xu Zhengjing frowned again: "Your Majesty, if the 70,000-strong army is going to leave from Kyushu, it will also require a large amount of settlement expenses... because many samurai are dragging their families with them. For those who want to go to war with peace of mind, they must be given at least one year's salary as settlement allowance. Even if they are paid in 26 taels of silver, a one-time expenditure of 1.82 million taels will be required.
In addition, soldiers who go on an expedition also need to purchase a batch of equipment, flags and robes. This is another huge expense, it costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver..."
This is because the three armies have not moved yet, so the bills come first.
And the account reported by Xu Zhengjing is only part of it!
Seventy thousand people had to cross the ocean and be stationed somewhere in the New World or on the Southeast Asian front, which required a huge amount of expenditure.
Let’s talk about freight first. Because the Ming Navy has limited transportation capacity and their own transportation tasks are still heavy, they have no spare capacity to transport these Japanese samurai, so they must hire a large number of civilian ships. The "ship ticket" for a samurai is at least 20 taels, and the "ship ticket" for 70,000 people is at least 1.5 million taels!
Then there was the settling in, and the Gulf of America side was easy to say - it was a good place to feed people, the climate was comfortable, there were no diseases, there was plenty of food and drink, and the wood for building houses was available everywhere. But the 60,000 people who went to the Western Jiedushi territory had to be properly accommodated, otherwise half of them would die of illness... So this is another huge expense!
In addition to these Japanese samurai troops, Emperor Zhu also had to dispatch other troops to Nanyang and the New World - that is, the work in Nanyang cannot be done by the Japanese devils, otherwise, after they are done, the islands and peninsulas in Nanyang will all be destroyed. became a Japanese colony.
Therefore, while Zhu Cihong mobilized the Japanese samurai army, he also issued troop dispatch orders to the Annan Kingdom, Xiyang Army, Jinou Army and Dongning Army.
Among them, Annan Kingdom will send 6,000 troops, including 2,000 from South Ruan and Beizheng each, and 1,000 from Mo and Wu families. The Western Army sent 5,000 troops, the Jinou Army sent 3,000 troops, and the Dongning Army provided the navy.
Among the vassal states and vassal towns that received orders to send troops, only the Dongning Army was so rich under Zheng Sen's management that it did not need military subsidies from the Ming court. The remaining three parties, Annan, Xiyang, and Jinou, all needed money from the Ming court.
In addition, there is also a Ryukyu country that wants to relocate its entire country. The Ryukyu Kingdom is actually a city-state based on trade. It only came into being because the Ming Dynasty and Japan were closed to each other.
Now that both Japan and Japan have opened up, Ryukyu Kingdom has no "money options". Moreover, the territory of the Ryukyu Islands is very important for the coastal defense in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, and it would be inappropriate to place the Ryukyu Kingdom there.
Therefore, Zhu Cixiang thought over and over again and decided to move the country to Krabi and Phuket, and establish a new Ryukyu Kingdom there, still following the route of a trading city-state.
Although Ryukyu is small, relocating the entire country is also a huge project, and the expenses will definitely be indispensable. Ming Dynasty will definitely invest in it... Of course, this investment will definitely be recovered and profitable in the future. It’s profitable, but the initial investment is still huge!
In addition to the above expenditures, Daming has recently had to "increase positions" in the Gulf of America. The embassy in Europe has sent more accurate news. Bankers in Amsterdam have provided at least 35 million Dutch to the Kingdom of New Spain. A huge loan of guilders (equivalent to 10 million taels of silver) was used to support the war preparations of the New Spanish Kingdom.
The Kingdom of New Spain, which received a huge loan, began to recruit mercenaries in Germany, and also began to train new armies in the Kingdom of New Spain.
Even the Spanish boss has borrowed money to spend it in America. Can Emperor Zhu Da follow up?
Nowadays, the American market is all about burning money to grab the market. It depends on who has the ability to find money and the ability to burn money!
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Chongqing County Prince Zhu Cihuan has become more and more proud recently. Among the older sons of Emperor Chongzhen, he has always been the most aggrieved one.
His eldest brother was the Holy Emperor who resurrected the Ming Dynasty. The third brother is a famous king of his generation, the leader of the Nine Borders. Although the fourth brother has the same title as a county prince like him, he is the dominant tyrant in the south. He is the undisputed master in his own Western Army territory, and he also has a lot of money! These three were better at it than he was, and he recognized them... They were his elder brothers, and their current success was all earned through hard work.
But what made him a little unbearable was that his sixth brother Zhu Cibing was actually more beautiful than him, and not even a little bit more beautiful!
First of all, he is the king of the county, and the younger brother Zhu Cibing is actually the prince!
Zhu Cibing was adopted to Prince Fu Zhu Yousong. After Zhu Yousong died, he should be demoted one level to become the county king. But Empress Wu Sanmei spoke for him, and in recognition of his passing the imperial examination, she gave him a promotion and continued to be a prince...
Secondly, Prince Zhu Cibing still has money!
Because King Fu Zhu Yousong was a prince who could save money, and he had been the chief minister for a long time, managing the clan affairs for Zhu Cixiang, so he was taken care of by Zhu Cixiang. First, I got a big house in the inner city of Nanjing, a prime location! Zhu Yousong couldn't bear to live in it. After demolishing it, he rebuilt the building and opened many shops, all of which were rented out.
Later, a street was built in Shanghai, all of which were built with high-rise buildings. Half of them were sold, and the remaining properties were gradually collected for rent!
Later, he bought a lot of land coupons at a low price. He originally wanted to redeem them for land in Luoyang, Henan (that was King Fu's hometown), but he died before he could redeem them, and the land coupons were all left to Zhu Cibing. Zhu Cibing was still young at the time and didn't know how to deal with it, so Zhu Cihong took the initiative to sell it, and then used the money to build two streets and a pier in Tianjin Prefecture.
So Zhu Cibing inherited not only a prince, but also dozens of buildings and a dock...all worth more than two million taels at least! And the value increases every day, and the rent is collected every year! Just go to bed and sleep and you can earn one or two thousand taels!
Zhu Cihuan, the Fifth Prince, was in a miserable state. He only had 5,000 acres of Susukinoan and a house in the east city of Nanjing. The 5,000 acres of land are not paddy fields, and the annual rent he can collect is only 2,000 shi of flour... Because he is not a hero in overcoming the difficulties, he cannot get a tax refund, so what he actually gets is only 1,000 shi of flour - Zhu Cixiangzheng The "pay first, then later" approach is really deceptive. There is really no room for maneuver!
All land, including the land owned by Zhu Cixiang himself, must pay taxes, and those who meet the tax refund standards can apply to the Ministry of Household Affairs...
Therefore, Prince Zhu Cihuan could only live with one thousand or several hundred stones of flour. This income is actually quite a lot, and it can be converted into a thousand or several hundred taels of silver. It is enough to save a little money.
But Zhu Cihuan still has a little hobby, which is female sex! His princess was found by Emperor Chongzhen. She was the daughter of a noble family (not a noble family of Kenan). Her beauty could only be described as mediocre, and could not be compared with the beauty in the Queen's Palace. So he got a concubine with two rooms through the Kou family on Chaoku Street... This cost a lot!
Later, he and his wives and concubines gave birth to a lot of children, and the expenses at home suddenly increased. If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't seen him pitiful and rewarded him every now and then, he, the prince, would have been in debt long ago.
But Zhu Cihuan was unwilling to give in!
He is quite a senior prince, why can't he do something great?
The current princes of the Ming Dynasty are not just raising pigs. Princes with some brains and some capital are showing off their talents. Zhu Cihuan feels that he is no worse than anyone else, but he has no opportunity, no capital, and he doesn’t like studying...
Fortunately, there is no road that can't be cut off, let alone the road of a prince from Daming County. Just when Zhu Cihuan was a little desperate, the subscription of United States stocks made Zhu Cihuan see a bright road to realize the value of his life.
Just after congratulating Emperor Chongzhen on his birthday, Zhu Cihuan, who was in a state of excitement, immediately asked Zhu Cizhao for the address of the stock dealer Yao Daqiao in Shanghai. After the New Year, he immediately went to Shanghai, the central city of Ming capitalism, to find him. Boss Yao, who was equally high-spirited, then started his own business, became successful, and felt proud!
