March 14, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.
Beijing, Xiyuan, Wansheng Palace.
The night was already very dark, and the entire Wansheng Palace was quiet. Only the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian and Queen Zhou were still awake on the big bed in the Dongnuan Pavilion dormitory with their eyes open.
Of course the two couples couldn't sleep not because of holding hands...but because of Zhu Cihong!
Zhu Cixiang, the great nephew of the Ming Dynasty who has never been sick since he was a child, has been suffering from a strange illness since last night... a rare form of narcolepsy. Awake. Empress Zhou was so anxious that she urgently ordered Dr. Zeng from Tai Hospital, Gao Qiqian from Tmall Division, and Zhang Xianyong, the 51st Zhang Tianshi who was in charge of Dongyue Temple during this period, to go with them. Duan Bengong consultation.
The result of the expert consultation was very disappointing to Queen Zhou - Dr. Zeng said that the great-nephew's pulse was calm, his breathing was even, and he did not seem to be suffering from any serious illness, but he did not know when his great-nephew would wake up.
Gao Qiqian said that the great nephew had not been infected with any known plague... but he still suggested that the eunuchs of Tmall Division should be responsible for taking care of the great nephew's daily life. to prevent possible infection.
After careful observation, Zhang Xianyong, the 51st Zhang Tianshi, believed that the emperor's nephew had no signs of being invaded by evil spirits, but his soul was a little unstable. What exactly happened would be asked after the emperor's nephew woke up. . As for when the great nephew will wake up, Tianshi Zhang will go to Fuqi to ask for divination, and the results will be available tomorrow.
Of course, Queen Zhou was extremely dissatisfied with the answers given by Zeng Shenyi, Gao Qiqian, and Zhang Tianshi, so she had no choice but to find a solution to Emperor Chongzhen.
Zhu Youjian's reaction was a bit weird. He first stopped the Umrah meeting and didn't read any memorials for the whole day...but he didn't go to Duanben Palace to take a look at the sleeping Zhu Cihong. I spent a whole day reading the account books in the Dongnuang Pavilion of Wansheng Palace.
The account books in Dongnuan Pavilion were obtained by Zhu Youjian from the Ministry of Revenue, the Royal Horse Supervisor and Zhaobao's wife Xu Ruolan the day before Zhu Cixiang fell into a coma. They are all a bunch of things that make you upset... The reason why Chongzhen is upset is because he has no money again!
As an emperor, he is probably short of money. In his previous life, he always had no money when he lost a battle... In this life, he is invincible, but he still has no money!
Moreover... his lack of money not only did not ease at all, but actually deepened.
In his previous life, Mr. Zhu Youjian thought that one day there would suddenly be an extra 10 million taels of silver in the shipping warehouse, and then the Ming Dynasty would be saved!
And in this life... 10 million taels of silver is no longer a thing. Zhu Youjian already knows where to scrape 10 million.
But his ability to spend money is even greater, so the gap in money is even bigger!
Especially since the start of the Ping Liao Slavery Campaign in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty's finances have deteriorated sharply.
That’s right, it’s getting worse!
It stands to reason that after the Ping Liao eradication of slaves, Ming's financial situation should improve, but this is not the case. The Ming Dynasty's finances did not improve as a result, but quickly fell into a quagmire of consecutive deficits.
The reason for the financial deficit was not entirely due to Ping Liao's military expenditure... In fact, Ping Liao's slave extermination campaign went fairly smoothly.
Because the slave thieves adopted a wrong strategy and fought a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty in Gaizhou, they suffered a quick defeat. In just a few months, the core territory of the slave thieves was the original Gaizhou Guard, Haizhou Guard, Dingliao Front and Back Left and Right Central Guards (Liaoyang), Shenyang Central and Left Wings Guards, Tieling Guards, Liaohai Guards, Thirty Thousand People Wei and other places were all occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
But the military occupation of these territories is only the beginning of effective control... Because these territories have become sparsely populated and barren due to long-term wars and the "Qing Seven-Point Policy", and have long lost their former glory. The prosperity and wealth of Xiongzhen in Liaodong.
Without the millions of Liao civilians to provide logistical supplies for the army, the troops stationed on the ground in the newly restored Liaodong had to rely on supplies from the interior, which was very expensive.
Moreover, if the Han people do not occupy this area of Liaodong, other people will migrate in sooner or later and take it as their own, and then a second slave thief will appear!
Therefore, after Zhu Youjian recovered the Thirteen Guards of Liaodong that had been occupied by slave thieves for a long time, he resolutely launched the plan to move military households in Zhongzhou and Heshuo to Liaoning regardless of financial difficulties.
According to Zhu Youjian's plan, 130,000 military households in Zhongzhou and Heshuo will be moved to the territory of the Thirteenth Guards within two years.
On average, there are 10,000 armed immigrant households per guard!
The important town of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty will also be restored, and will be jointly governed by the Governor of Liaodong and the four generals of Liaodong, Western Liaoning, Northern Liaoning, and Southern Liaoning. The number of troops stationed in the important town in Liaodong will be as high as 120,000!
In addition, the Ming Dynasty's war in Liaodong and Korea did not end with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. This thing seems incredible at first glance. The Qing Dynasty is gone, so why is the war not over yet?
But this is the reality!
Although the "seven-point rule" of the Qing Dynasty weakened the centralization of power in the Qing Dynasty and made it unable to fight the "violent Ming" ruled by Zhu Youjian, it also allowed the local areas of the Qing Dynasty to continue to maintain their power even when the central government collapsed. .
For example, North Korea's "Two White Flags" were maintained despite the collapse of the Qing Dynasty... Although the Ming army took advantage of the Li Dynasty's reputation and sea control, the Ming army regained a lot of North Korea's land.
However, the three brothers Dorgon, Duduo, and Azig were also very resilient. They resisted the Ming Dynasty for more than two years and occupied many territories in the northeast.
The Ming army's operation to regain the Japanese-controlled areas of Korea was much more difficult than originally imagined. Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Yasukina Masayuki are also very tenacious. Even if their shipping is often cut off by the Ming Navy's Beiyang Fleet, they still use their territory in North Korea to persevere...
In the Songhua River and Heilongjiang basins in the northeast of Liaoning, fighting has been going on in the past two years. Amin, who was supported by the Ming army (Amin killed Hauge and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty), and the father and son Daishan and Yue Tuo were constantly fighting. The Mongolian legion controlled by Zhu Youjian would also intervene from time to time.
Due to this series of immigration, garrison, and war actions, Ming Dynasty's expenditure on the territories of Liaodong, North Korea, and Nurgandusi not only became astronomical figures, but also became a bottomless pit that could never be filled!
Ten to twenty million dollars simply cannot fill such a big hole!
Therefore, Mr. Zhu Youjian thought that if he could scrape money like the traitor and have 100 million on hand at any time, then he could pay off what he owed to big businessmen such as Zheng Zhilong, Shen Tingyang, Li Guozhu, and Liu Xiang, as well as the Huaiyang salt merchants and Shanxi salt merchants. The accounts of the Shanxi merchants and the Dutch East India Company have all been paid, and then half of the bottomless hole in the Northeast has been filled... The other half can be filled slowly, and it will take a lifetime to fill it!
But the question is where is the 100 million silver?
