Li Jicheng gained a lot in Tianzhu!
After deducting the share to the Dutch India Trading Company, the rewards to the soldiers who participated in the expedition, and other costs, his Tianzhu expedition still had a net profit of nearly 8 million taels of silver (not all of it was silver, there was also a lot of gold)!
Li Jichen planned to get some money from India to replace the Dashun Army with flintlock muskets, but the price quoted for a flintlock musket in Guangdong was only 8 taels and 3 taels. 8 million taels was enough to buy 1 million flintlock muskets!
However, the arms trade of the Ming Dynasty did not relax to this extent. It only exported 30,000 to 40,000 flintlocks and matchlocks a year. A million of them is unthinkable, and it is impossible to have such a large output - -After all, this is not the era of industrialization. Based on the scale of the Ming Dynasty's military industry, the annual output of various firearms was only 150,000-180,000, of which only 30,000 to 40,000 were available for export.
The Dutch could only get a few thousand Ming-made flintlock muskets for Dashun. If they wanted more flintlock muskets, they would have to import them from Europe.
However, due to the rise of France, all European countries had to buy flintlock guns during this period, and there was no excess product to sell to Dashun.
Therefore, the gold and silver stolen from India cannot be spent at all...and we cannot spend all of it!
Because Li Jicheng’s father Li Laiheng has sent people to ask for money, horses, and Hu Ji!
It was not that Li Laiheng was corrupt, but that Li died too quickly.
Dashun is a situation where the eight kings co-govern, and there is very strong external pressure, which makes the nine forces of the eight kings and one emperor dare not fight internally.
In the event of internal strife, everyone would have to be captured by Zhu Cihong and beheaded, and maybe even Ling Chi!
But the lack of internal strife does not mean that everyone is not jealous!
Originally, everyone was "poor" together. Even if they were ranked among the Eight Kings, they only had tens of thousands of acres of farmland. They only had enough meat buns, mutton in a basin, and a handful of elbows. If they wanted to be rich, they would be gone.
Moreover, the emperor Li Guo and the prince Li Laiheng are not very wealthy. They don’t have much gold or silver, and they don’t have any famous horses. It doesn’t make much sense to usurp their thrones. Let’s just make do with it. !
But it is wrong for Li Jicheng to make such a fuss in India! How rich is India! Li Jicheng not only grabbed a handful of Orissa, but also obtained donations from two sultanates. That was really very developed!
Not to mention 8 million in gold and silver (equivalent to silver), there are also countless miscellaneous properties... Even more enviable are the Indian folded horses and the singing and dancing Orchid. !
Li Jicheng and those who followed him to India were all well-off, and if they had some official positions, they would hug each other, take Mei Ji's slaves, ride fold-eared horses, and go to their homes in Sichuan and Yunnan in piles. There are good things in there.
Can those who work in the Eight Kings System not be jealous when they see this?
Why are Taisun's people so angry? They are all paupers?
Emperor Li Guo fell ill again at this time, and various dissatisfied voices came out. Li Laiheng also had to take care of the overall situation and appease people's hearts. There was no other way but to bribe him with money.
So these days, they kept sending people to India to recruit Li Jicheng back to Kunming, and asked Li Jicheng to bring more gold and silver treasures and the famous horse Hu Ji back... Give some to various princes and their men, so that Li Laiheng can successfully ascend the throne. ah!
And Li Jicheng himself wanted to go back, he had to become the prince!
His grandfather, Li Guan, couldn't bear it anymore. His father, Li Laiheng, would be the new emperor of Dashun by then, and he, Li Jicheng, should be the crown prince. It cannot be said that his grandson's promotion to the crown prince was without risk, so he also Don't be too sure, you have to bring some good things back to win people's hearts...
The good things from India began to be shipped northward in the spring of the 17th year of the rule, and by the autumn of the 17th year, the shipment was almost completed. Li Jicheng stayed in Orissa Province until the eighth lunar month, and after arranging preparations for Paradpu, he took the galley "Yingchuang King" to Shalian in Myanmar.
The newly appointed Shalian Jiedushi Andinghou Mabao had already prepared horse teams and elephant teams for Li Jicheng, and helped him transport all the property and concubines obtained from India to Kunming, the southern capital of the Dashun Dynasty.
In November of the 17th year of the reign, Li Jicheng, the grandson of the Dashun Emperor, finally arrived in the wealthy and gentle city of Kunming after having been away from Kunming for several years.
I don’t know since when, this city of Kunming, far away from the front line of Shaanxi, replaced Chongqing and became the first capital of the Dashun Dynasty. Not only the emperor Li Guo and the prince Li Laiheng were permanently stationed here, but most of the eight political kings also retired in Kunming. Only the king of Jin Li Dingguo spent a long time traveling between Dingjunshan Camp and Qiuchishan Camp.
Compared with Chongqing Mansion, Kunming not only has a comfortable climate, but also has a more prosperous atmosphere - Chongqing Mansion was transformed into a military fortress by the Dashun court. It looks good, but it is too inconvenient to stay there for a long time.
Moreover, Chongqing was too close to the front line, and the atmosphere was always tense, which made the Dashun princes who had spent most of their lives in the military feel very uncomfortable.
Kunming, the southern capital of Dashun, was built late and was far away from the front line, so comfort and convenience were taken into consideration when building it.
In addition, the land in Sichuan has always been relatively tight, and Li Guo loved the people, so he was very careful not to let the princes, generals and ministers occupy more land in Sichuan. But he couldn't completely satisfy everyone's demand for land, so he let them occupy a lot of land in Yunnan.
And the powerful people in Dashun are also happy to enclose land in Yunnan - it is far away from the front line, so they can live in peace of mind!
Therefore, outside Kunming, there are many farms owned by Dashun's powerful people. Among them was Zhuangzi who belonged to Li Jicheng... When he left here, he was wearing blue cloth and iron clothes, thirty or fifty soldiers, each carrying a bag of luggage.
But when I came back, it was really a homecoming in fine clothes! The elephant team and horse team transporting property alone were lined up for no less than 10 miles. It was so majestic that it almost caught up with the emperor's journey.
Li Jicheng's father-in-law was the old prime minister Niu Jinxing, and his village was right next to his son-in-law Li Jicheng's village, both in the south of Erhai Lake. These days, he was also sick and recovering at home. When he learned that his son-in-law was returning to court in a grand way, he quickly went to Taisun Village to pay his respects.
The two men, Weng and son-in-law, were of the same party, so after meeting, they had no choice but to drink and talk in an attic in Li Jicheng's house next to Erhai Lake.
"Old Taishan, are you feeling better?" Li Jicheng looked at the old man's groggy appearance and asked with concern.
"It's not good!" Niu Jinxing sighed, "Every year is getting worse... Most of the military households are poor, and the farmers are even poorer. When the emperor is in good health, he can still take care of it. I can’t control it now, I can only watch as the soldiers eat up the farmers and wipe them clean!”
Obviously, Niu Jinxing misunderstood his son-in-law and brought the topic to government affairs. Of course, the government of Dashun cannot be improved. With so much land, 600,000 military households need to be supported, and there is a long-term tug of war with the Ming Dynasty. How can it be improved?
"Don't be afraid," Li Jicheng shook his head, "Now that we have money... we brought back seven to eight million taels of silver this time, which is enough for everyone to feel relaxed."
"Alas..." Niu Jinxing sighed, "We looted 30 million in Beijing back then! What was the result? Wasn't it a huge defeat?"
"That's different," Li Jicheng shook his hand, "That was torture, and now it's... robbing money from foreign countries. It's always good to have money coming in! The court now has no land to distribute to the soldiers. Moreover, the military service of Fu Binghu is too heavy and I can’t bear it, so I have to use money.”
Niu Jinxing shook his head, "How did the money get into the hands of the soldiers and princes below? Don't want to divide it among the princes and generals below? It's just 8 million taels. Ten thousand taels per family means 800 families... Just the emperor and the How many sons does the Crown Prince have? There are also children of eight princes..."
"How can we divide it like this?" Li Jicheng said with a smile, "We have to give more to those fighting on the front line... As for your family, just go south with me and send troops to Tianzhu next year. You can rob him in one year." Several million taels, are you afraid you don’t have enough money?”
"How many millions a year?" Niu Jinxing thought for a while, "If there are really that many, it would be enough, but I'm afraid I won't be able to grab them..."
"You can grab it!" Li Jicheng laughed, "With the Dutch helping us, there will be no problem!"
