At first, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou were embarrassed by Liu Bowen's calculation of the final fate of the various generals in the Immortal World. One had led some of them, and the other had single-handedly trained some of them.
I originally thought that even if they fled in a cowardly manner, they would not surrender to the enemy and betray their country, and shamelessly beg for surrender from the Qing army. Unexpectedly, some of them turned out to be servile, to the point of considering thieves as their fathers, which made both handsome men look down on them.
Secondly, the prince was only ten years old and could only care about state affairs. He even had to pay close attention to the household affairs of his ministers and other matters. There were also chamberlains and maids watching, which made the educated adults a little shy and looked very unnatural.
But a thousand taels of silver is still not a small amount. You can live a little leisurely time in the capital. You can seriously find a charming and beautiful young lady to fight fiercely for several days and nights. If you spend it all at once, ride a high-quality Yangzhou thin horse. All with ease.
When the two of them didn't know how to respond to such an embarrassing reward, the chamberlain who came back from Datong came to their rescue with an even more embarrassing news. Commander-in-Chief Wang Pu openly defied the order and became the second Chai Shihua.
From the beginning to the end, a certain prince and the two handsome men were in a refreshing and refined awkward conversation, and it was not the most embarrassing, only more embarrassing.
The "right-hand man" was also a little stunned when he saw the appearance of the "Longqing" mortar. It was obvious that he was completely unaware of the power of this "awkward gun".
In the afternoon or tomorrow, all the people in the outer city will be cut and chopped by the Yongwei camp. A certain prince will find a place for them to test fire, which can be regarded as a celebration of successfully regaining the capital.
Wang Pu has resisted the decree. Once confirmed, his next step will be to openly launch a rebellion. Although the troops used by Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding who was responsible for encircling and suppressing him, did not affect the two commanders, Yaoji still believed that it was necessary to readjust his previous strategy. strategic deployment.
Take this opportunity to clean out the rubbish generals who may not listen to orders, openly disobey orders, or even collude with rogues to rebel against the imperial court: "Wang Shaoyu, the commander-in-chief who guarded Luoyang, was selfish and greedy, and later surrendered to the rogues. According to legend, The imperial edict of this palace is to show his head to the public as a warning. Sun Aiqing will return to Shaanxi and pass through Luoyang to act. I will send a special envoy from Dongchang to supervise. Luoyang is an important town in the Central Plains. I will transfer Kaifeng's deputy general Chen Yongfu's troops to guard it. , Wang Shaoyu’s men will all be under the command of Sun Aiqing and sent to the front line to participate in the suppression of bandits. Anyone who refuses to comply will be shot without mercy."
The penniless Fu Wang Zhu Changxun, the uncle of a certain prince, was already a scam, but the guard Wang Shaoyu was even more scammed.
When the rogues were approaching the city, King Fu, who was extremely stingy, saw that the situation was not good and knew that it was unlikely to succeed if he continued to hold on to his wealth, so he took out three thousand taels of silver to reward the army.
This guy actually kept all this money, and it was only natural that Luoyang would fall later. Courier Brother Li used the money in King Fu's pocket to feed an army of more than 100,000 people.
A certain prince asked Sun Chuanting to kill Wang Shaoyu. Prince Fu was not qualified to do it. He also asked Lu Jiude, the supervisor of the Yongwei Camp, to lead his troops and invite the emperor's uncle to the capital to settle down.
After all, the Central Plains was too dangerous and no longer suitable for the vassal king to live in. With an imperial edict, he had to come over whether he wanted to or not, and his whole family had to be relocated.
Luoyang is an important town in the west of Henan, and there is absolutely no room for failure. Chen Yongfu, who had rejected Li Zicheng three times, was sent to guard Luoyang. With sufficient wages, money, and food, it was considered foolproof.
If Xinye is the first line of defense from Nanyang, and Nanzhao is the second line of defense from Ruzhou, then Luoyang is the third line of defense against rogue bandits in the Central Plains. It is almost impossible for Zhang Xianzhong or the Gezuo Fifth Battalion to attack here.
The original intention of a certain prince was to drive the bandits southward into Hunan, Jiangxi, and even Guangdong and Guangxi, so that they, the northern idiots, could live happily in the subtropical tropics...
Yaoji didn't believe in the character of the generals of the Qin army. He asked them to guard the wealthy Luoyang. If they couldn't keep it, they would guard and steal. When the rogue army came, they abandoned the city and fled, hiding again in Shaanxi to sit on the mountains and watch the tigers. fight.
In addition to guarding Shaanxi, the generals of the Qin army will launch a siege against the fifth battalion of Gezuo and Luo Rucai. If they can defeat them, they will fight. If they cannot defeat them, they will cling to them. They cannot let them escape easily. If they want to catch them, It's even more difficult.
A certain prince had long been concerned about the imperial uncle's family property. The reason why Sun Chuanting's troops from the capital only carried provisions for half the journey was because Prince Fu was the largest sponsor of this event!
Yaoji believed that Prince Fu's mansion, together with the silver and grain stored in Luoyang's local treasury, would be enough to support an army of 100,000 for half a year's operations.
Leaving aside food and grass for now, the silver alone should be more than one million taels. There is no problem in giving Lao Suntou's troops three months' salary.
Kaifeng, east of Luoyang where King Fu Zhu Changxun lived, was the fiefdom of Zhou King Zhu Gongxun. Like King Fu, he was a first-class pure local tycoon in the empire and the most powerful among the vassal kings.
But this guy is much smarter and more enlightened than King Fu. When Li Zicheng's army besieged Kaifeng, he rewarded the army with 500,000 taels of silver at a time. The defenders used their lives to defeat the courier troops who came to attack the city.
Several major sponsors of this event have basically been confirmed, including Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu who lives in Luoyang, Zhu Gongxun, the King of Zhou who lives in Kaifeng, Youfan, the King of Chong who lives in Runing, Zhu Changrun, the King of Hui who lives in Jingzhou, Zhu Yiming, the King of Xiang who lives in Xiangyang, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu who lived in Wuchang,
Henan and Huguang each have three vassal kings. It is fair and reasonable. It should not be difficult to support the two major commanders in suppressing bandits for a year. If there is any difficulty, it can be overcome by working hard to tighten the belt!
In this military operation, the vassal kings must be wiped out together. The vassal king must be wiped out before the bandits. All six vassal kings are invited to the capital. A certain prince wants to discuss cooperation with them on a large project worth over 100 million yuan...
If six vassal princes were allowed to clear hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in Henan and Huguang, they should be able to appease a hundred thousand people, not counting the affected areas.
The feudal lord and his family will never return to the fiefdom in their lifetime, and the fields and houses will no longer be used. Fortunately, they will be auctioned or directly leased to farmers for farming. If the rented fields are damaged by disaster, taxes will be exempted.
Allowing these six vassal kings to move to the capital is only the first step in reducing the vassal vassal. In the future, all vassal kings from all over the country will have to do the same.
It is not a reduction of the vassal in the actual sense. The vassal title and treatment are still there. They will also be able to obtain more generous land in the future, but it will not be within the empire.
As long as all these lazy "domestic pigs" are cleared away, the total number is about twenty-eight, it will reduce the huge expenditure burden on the court.
Each family would harvest 200,000 taels, and the total would reach 5.6 million taels. If the jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even the mansions and courtyards were all auctioned off, it would not be difficult to double the income.
This is the second money in a certain prince's plan. Since it is the property of the feudal lord, it will all fall into his own pocket and has nothing to do with the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The Ministry of Revenue wants to significantly increase Taicang's revenue, so let's wait until the three taxes, sea tax, commercial tax, and mining tax, are levied. I believe that the majority of merchants will "actively and enthusiastically" come to pay the taxes...
The feudal prince who is still gasping for breath in various places is the ATM machine of a certain prince. It is also the kind passed down from ancestors that can withdraw huge sums of money at once. Starting from Grandpa Wanli to the era of the blame father, the reason why they have been so fat is probably because of waiting. You can withdraw money from them yourself!
Yaoji calls the vassal kings, Shanqian grain sellers, and Jiangnan merchants from all over the country the "three major cash machines in other places". He must find ways to withdraw 2,000 to 30 million taels of silver from these three machines, so that he can ensure that today and tomorrow years of military spending.
Compared with the two "machines", the feudal king has the lowest IQ and the most family members. He lives in the fiefdom and is watched by the local Jin Yiwei. He cannot escape at all, so he is the easiest person to withdraw money from.
Now the war is about to start, and Taicang is already exhausted, so the time has come for the vassal king who is deeply loved by the Holy Family to contribute to the country. As long as you donate your family wealth, you can exchange for a ticket to an overseas fiefdom. The more you donate, the more discounts you will receive. This is a rare opportunity, not to be missed...
Merchants and feudal lords are the two monsters that hinder the increase of the empire's fiscal revenue. The former does not even want to pay thirty taxes per cent, while the latter not only does not pay taxes, but while constantly encroaching on farmers' farmland, they also ask the court for money every year. Living expenses of millions of taels.
It is not excessive for a certain prince to do this. He wants to let these feudal kings know that from now on, not only will their living expenses be gone, but a certain prince will also ask them for money!
Who can't do this?
I’ll come as soon as I open my mouth!
I!
Prince!
Make money quickly!
Indifferent and disobedient?
Then I’m sorry to all you royal uncles and uncles!
I am a kind-hearted person, this is a fact without a doubt!
But there is no guarantee that the gun in your hand will not suddenly go off!
One of your princes will have his own funeral soon...
The scapegoat can treat the vassal king as an ancestor. In the view of a certain prince, the so-called "ancestors" are all super fat pigs with a lot of money. If they are not slaughtered now, when will they wait?
If you wait for the rogue bandits to come and kill you, wouldn't you be endorsing your enemy? With the lessons learned from King De who was captured by the pigtails, now that the country is facing a crisis, I believe that everyone, as a royal family, will donate generously.
Pretending to have no money?
hehe……
If this is the case, then the property that Dongchang took out from your residence does not belong to the rightful owner, and can be safely stored in the box in Donggong.
One by one, the feudal princes would count them. After paying huge tolls, a certain prince would ask the Imperial Navy to send them to overseas fiefdoms.
Those who come first can naturally choose a place to stay first, and those who don't want to settle abroad will not be kicked out. They can just stay in the capital for the rest of their lives.
The area of the first overseas fiefdom was not small, and it was very close to the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and it was extremely easy to capture.
Of course it is not Treasure Island. The island is still in the hands of the Dutch. In order to more effectively control the island and surrounding trade routes, the Dutch also built the Castle of Geranje in Baonan.
Although this castle is not a bastion in the traditional sense, the structure is still very rigorous and reasonable, solid and thick, and has multiple staggered layers, which can achieve cross-fire. In the era of lack of armor-piercing bullets, it was a nightmare for siege troops.
The current strength of the Ming Navy can be used to protect the safety of fishing boats. If they want to rely on their own strength to confront the Dutch, they will have to wait twenty years, which is still at least.
Although Zheng Laofi has joined the army and now holds the title of deputy commander-in-chief, in the final analysis, his fleet is just the "Zheng Family Fleet" and not the Ming Navy at all.
Using Dutch estimates, as early as ten years ago, Zheng Laofi's fleet had more than 500 Junk ships and about 60,000 soldiers.
Originally, the Dutch did not know Zheng Laofi's true strength until 1623, when the Dutch were dissatisfied with Zheng Laofi's monopoly on the local foreign trade business of the Ming Empire, and the Ming-Dutch War broke out.
Seeing the Zheng family's fleet spread across the sea, the Dutch, who had only deployed dozens of warships in the Far East, were dumbfounded. The strength gap between the two sides was so huge that there was no chance of a comeback.
The result of this battle was that the Netherlands completely lost the Penghu Islands it originally controlled and retreated directly to the southern part of the treasure island, using it as a bridgehead to expand trade with the Japanese country.
Therefore, a certain prince simply did not expect the Ming Dynasty Navy, except for the Zheng family fleet, to make a difference. All the warships combined were not as much as half of others. It would be a shame if Old Fart Zheng did not take the initiative to stir up trouble.
Zheng Laofi has the strength to regain the treasure island, but he will have to pay a huge price for a head-on merger with the Dutch. If the imperial court does not fully contribute to make up for his battle losses, there is no reason for him to do so. .
Yaoji currently does not have the budget, and does not even want to build large warships for its navy. Most of the money will be spent on the army, desperately expanding the size of the ground forces, and installing new weapons.
If Old Fart Zheng wants to occupy the treasure island, that would be the best. He has to pay for all the investment and can enjoy the profits exclusively. The important thing is to drive the Dutch into the sea to feed the fish.
A certain prince carefully selected a geomantic treasure land for the vassals, which was not far from the mainland and had no enemies. The area was not too small, so that these pure local tycoons could come and take care of themselves.
Most people would never imagine this place. The area is much larger than Treasure Island. It can accommodate six feudal lords at one time. The stolen property is considered as the cost of buying the land.
That is their permanent fiefdom, which can be inherited by future generations. A certain prince does not like that place, and there is no need to worry about it being taken back by the court after a few years.
After a few days, he will find Zheng Laofi to discuss trade with the Japanese country. Yaoji believes that he also has the strength to intervene and can achieve mutual benefit and win-win cooperation with Zheng Laofi.
The Japanese country is a giant overseas ATM. As long as it can withdraw money, it can withdraw millions of taels of silver every year. However, the specific operation is more troublesome, and Yao Ji needs to think carefully and plan carefully.
"I obey the decree!"
Chai Shihua was far away in Ginsu, and he was really out of reach for a while, so it was understandable that the prince was angry at Wang Shaoyu. Perhaps Wang Shaoyu should be beheaded first. According to the prince's words, in the future Luoyang would be captured by bandits because of Wang Shaoyu, and this guy should be punished. Ten thousand deaths.
On the way, Hong Chengchou wanted to kill Liu Zeqing, and Sun Chuanting wanted to kill Wang Shaoyu. Before officially starting to encircle and suppress the bandits, every commander-in-chief used a general soldier to sacrifice the flag. If the "general soldier's dog-blood" is really effective, the officers and soldiers will naturally win the victory, and success will be imminent...
There would be no need for them to worry about the vassal king moving. Once it is in the hands of outsiders, they will definitely lose tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
A certain prince cannot afford to hire security personnel of this level, so all you have to do is to encircle and suppress the bandits.
