"Hahaha, to fight the city of Yaksa, which has only a few hundred Rakshasa people, we need to send tens of thousands of troops, and they also ask me for five million in military expenses... Bahai, Tuhai, Changning, Yintu and the others You really dare the lion to open your mouth!"
Zhu Heji read the large number of memorials brought to Beijing by Mingzhu himself one by one, and then he was not angry at all. He even asked the people around him with a smile, "Tell me, should we give you this money?"
"Of course I can't give it, it's too much!" Zhuge Sanhe immediately raised objections, "Your Majesty, the imperial court's finances are not generous. They have been fighting non-stop for the past two years. These Ming Eight Banners soldiers, armored soldiers, It’s almost 700,000! The military expenditure is huge. Although the gains are not small, those cities and land are not so easy to turn into silver coins... If the Ming Eight Banners are given several million more, the court will We are really going to be in debt!”
Zhuge Sanhe is of course crying for poverty!
The Ming court was actually rich, because the Ming Dynasty issued silver coins and opened four major silver accounts: Dongchang Official Bank, Yanye Bank, Penglai Tianwang Bank, and Nanyang Bank. It also had control over these large banks and banks. The Dongyin Coin Factory, a small bank, has also established five major exchanges in Dengliao, Nanjing, Shanghai, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou... thus firmly holding the lifeblood of finance in its own hands.
So money, for Ming Dynasty, is sometimes just a number.
And because the Ming Dynasty implemented a strict land equalization system, most of the land was directly withdrawn from the circulation channels and became "not for sale". Therefore, the scarcity of land (mainly fertile land) was artificially caused!
The combination of scarce land and developed finance naturally gives private land that can be legally transferred a certain financial attribute.
In this Northern Expedition, the most valuable trophy obtained by the Ming army was land - the entire city of Beijing was emptied, and the surrounding areas of Beijing were filled with farms that originally belonged to the children of the New Eight Banners!
Although these farms are difficult to realize quickly, they can be used as collateral to help the Ming court quickly raise funds from the four major banks and the following small and medium-sized banks - because the amount of land reaches tens of millions of acres, and most of them They are all sold out and can be settled easily, so the mortgage value is not a problem if it is hundreds of millions of silver dollars.
However, wealth should not be shown in vain, and official status should not be distinguished. Even if the Ming court was rich, they couldn't show off their wealth in front of the Pearl!
So Zhu Tianwang, who was experienced in the world of martial arts, also shouted, with a look of pain on his face: "This is treating us like fools! Our money didn't come from the strong wind!"
Like Kangxi, he, the Supreme Emperor, retreated but did not hide, and continued to exert his "remaining heat". However, his authority is incomparable to that of Kangxi. He is only one of the eleven great bachelors in the Academy of Great Scholars. He also owns the two free cities of Dengzhou Tianwang City and Jinzhou Tianwang City - the free city is run by him. It has become a chain store.
However, the area of these two "chain-operated" free cities is much smaller than that of the original "King of Heaven", with only the inner city area remaining and no suburbs or villages.
Although the size of the area has been reduced, the reputation has been established. Therefore, during this period of time, ghosts, ghosts and snake spirits from all over Zhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Huaibei and Henan sneaked into these two cities with their ill-gotten wealth. However, the "military controllers" sent out by the Ming Dynasty were "slow to respond" and were slowly preparing for the imperial examinations in the five provinces. They planned to use this imperial examination to select a number of "Northern Scholars" who could be used, and then organize the provinces, prefectures, and counties. The civil affairs yamen were established, followed by land inspection, household clearing, and land equalization. Before that, the grassroots level in the northern provinces was still in the hands of a group of rural sages. If these rural sages are smart enough to earn some money and go to live as apartments in the two Heavenly Kings' cities, of course no one will stop them.
If Zhu Heji really gave Bahai, Tuhai, Chang Ning, and Yin Tu millions of dollars with a stroke of his pen, it is estimated that more than half of them would flow directly into the two Celestial Kings!
So this money... can still be earned for them, but it cannot be earned so easily. You have to be a hawk for the Ming Dynasty!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji smiled and said: "If there are really tens of thousands of Rakshasa musketeers, then a few million more will be given, but there are only a few hundred people... Let the Sauron soldiers and the Baerhu soldiers pull them Wouldn’t it be enough to just mount a few rocket launchers and go around for a while? You can do this job with fifty thousand."
Only fifty thousand?
Mingzhu had a grimace on her face, was this too little?
Zhu Heji looked at him, smiled and said, "You want to make money, right?"
"No, I don't want to..." Mingzhu is still a bit thin-skinned - he has not yet adapted to his new identity.
Although he has an official status in the Ming Dynasty, he is actually the manager of a "mercenary group"... The so-called Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty are actually the mercenary group raised by Zhu He!
The current military system of the Ming Dynasty is a conscription system based on the equalization of land. The advantage is that the source of soldiers is very wide, and a large number of soldiers can be recruited in wartime. The disadvantage is that most of these soldiers are not professional soldiers, so they cannot serve for a long time.
Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty unified the world, it was indispensable to send out mercenaries to the surrounding areas and even overseas.
The Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols under the command of Jinlun Dharma King Burni, and the Japanese soldiers who are about to be conquered by the Ming Dynasty are all excellent mercenaries!
Zhu Heji looked at Mingzhu, who was still a bit thin-skinned, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with wanting to make money? It's not shabby to make money... but there is no way to make money like you! Go back and tell Bahai and Tuhai , Chang Ning, Yin Tu and others, I will let them earn these millions of silver dollars. But I can’t give that much to a Yaksa city!"
"There's more than one Yaksa," Mingzhu said, "There's also Yakutsk and Chita... there are even more Rakshasa ghosts there!"
Zhu Heji waved his hand, "There is no need to fight them for the time being. This time we will just fight Yaksa."
For the Ming Dynasty, it is not a top priority to move north to restore Nurgan Dusi or simply fight all the way to the Arctic Ocean... Moreover, there is little oil and water, and the cost is also high.
Therefore, Zhu Heji now only wants to control the Heilongjiang Basin first.
He continued: "Then build a garrison city each in the middle reaches, lower reaches, and estuary of the Yaksa and Heilongjiang rivers, and build a small Heilongjiang navy. I will give you fifty thousand for each Yaksa, and four garrison cities. I will give you a maintenance fee of 50,000 yuan a year for a navy.
In addition, set up another Heilongjiang admiral to take charge of the four garrison towns, the Heilongjiang Navy, and the fortresses along the Heilongjiang River... This admiral should be given to Anzhu Lake. "
Fifty thousand a year...this is a steady flow!
Mingzhu thought it was good and nodded repeatedly.
Before Zhu Heji finished speaking, he smiled and said: "I still have a really big deal for you!"
"What kind of big deal?" Mingzhu is still not used to it... He is an official, why is he talking about business now but not talking about business?
"Send troops to Japan!" Zhu Heji said, "Japan has been a foreigner for a long time and has always been dissatisfied with the imperial dynasty. It thought that because it was far away from the ocean, it never conquered it. But now that I have captured North Korea, the small Korean Strait cannot stop me at all. Navy. So I have decided... next year at the latest, I will launch a massive force of heavenly troops and cross the sea to conquer Japan! Are you willing to follow the Eight Banners and send troops?"
"willing!"
Mingzhu knew it was a big deal as soon as she heard it! So he immediately replied loudly: "There are tens of thousands of tigers under the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty. They are willing to be the king's vanguard and conquer the sun across the sea!"
Chapter 666 Want to make money? Then you have to be a good eagle dog! (Please vote for me, please subscribe)
