Since ancient times, only war can test a country's true national strength.

To fight a war, you have to fight logistics, you have to fight supplies, and you have to fight money.

Those who have made meritorious contributions should be rewarded, those who have been killed or injured must be compensated, and nothing can be done without money.

However, at this time, the conquest of Nan Tianzhu led by Daming did not involve these at all.

Logistics supplies were temporarily provided by Siam, and due to the nature of the war, the reward also became a "friendly patronage" of Jampul.

The dividends obtained through the war, long before it was launched, Zhu Yunwen had already made it clear that the imperial court did not want anything, he only wanted people!

This battle has become simpler because of this.

In addition to the coalition forces of the six countries, the Ming border army of Yunnan Dusi was also increasing its troops one after another, until the Ma army moved south from the camp of Zhangpur, and the number of Ming troops in the coalition army had increased to 60,000.

The purpose of the increase in troops is not to enhance the control of the coalition army, but purely because: it can't be grabbed!

The flight of the Sultan of Zhangpur to the south has meant that the entire kingdom of Zhangpur has completely lost resistance, although this country is only half the size of Yunnan, its population and wealth are much more than Yunnan.

You can't let the six countries rob it all.

"The troops of the North Delhi Sultanate have not yet arrived?"

On the front line, Ma Dajun has been waiting in the tent for more than half a month, but he still has not waited for the army in North Delhi.

On the Gangetic plain, the two armies together numbered more than 300,000, and the tents of the barracks looked down from the sky, and there was no end in sight as far as the eye could see.

"What are they waiting for?"

For this battle, Ma Dajun sent at least 500 scouts for half a month to reconnoiter the movements of the North Delhi army.

But the military reports obtained, without exception, were calm, and the army in North Delhi was restrained?

"They're afraid, too!"

Chen Chunsheng said with a straight face: "Our army has won seven battles and seven victories, and the destruction of Zhangpur so quickly has frightened the North Delhi Sultanate, after all, there are still indigenous states such as Bahmani waiting for an opportunity to drive out this group of aliens." ”

rashly started a war with the Ming Dynasty, this group of military nobles of the Green Sect is also afraid!

Battles are not fought hastily, especially a big battle that often involves hundreds of thousands of people.

A battle of this magnitude is tantamount to a big gamble, and if you win, it's fine, but if you lose, it's all over.

"They don't move, what are we anxious about."

Ma Dajun smiled and disagreed: "I still wish I could confront them here for a few months, and when our rear has plundered the Zhangpur Kingdom, we will return to the division and retreat." ”

As soon as he said this, the whole tent burst into laughter.

Isn't it, the Seven-Nation Alliance hasn't digested the entire Zhangpur yet, this battle can't be fought, and the happiest thing is the Seven-Nation Alliance.

Consume it, consume until the whole country of Zhangpur is swept away, and they will go back to the division directly, and this time there is no North Delhi Sultanate in the strategic goal at all.

"When the road to Punggara is completed, then it will be the best time for us to destroy the Sultanate of North Delhi."

Ma Dajun slapped his big hand on the map and smiled cruelly: "At that time, the Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions will be able to land and unload the cannons at Jiaozhi, and let them taste what a real war is." ”

"Hahahaha."

Times have changed, there is no need to use firearms, and it is purely human life to pile up, which is not what Ma Dajun is willing to do.

When he first joined the army, he learned how to exchange the least price for the greatest result.

"The Sultan of North Delhi is not a big deal."

Ma Dajun mocked with disdain, only caring about the gains and losses of a battle and commanding the victory or defeat of a battle, he was only worthy of being called a commander, but not a monarch.

He is timid and does not dare to start a war rashly, which is tantamount to committing suicide in a slow manner, once the road is opened, the Ming Dynasty can show off his national strength in the land of Nantianzhu unimpeded.

If you want to break the situation, you must defeat the coalition forces and drive all the way to defeat Banggara and force the collapse of the Seven Kingdoms system, because the Ming army does not yet have the level to invest in the southwest battlefield in large quantities.

Six to 100,000 people is already the limit of the Ming Dynasty.

Hundreds of thousands of troops went thousands of miles to kill Nantianzhu?

Logistics alone can directly drag down Daming!

That's right, Ma Dajun's army is very leisurely, and he can open up his posture every day to confront the North Delhi army on the opposite side.

If there is no war on the front line, the rear does not mean that you can rest, and the more than 50,000 troops of the Seven Nations Alliance can be called ploughing inch by inch on the land of the Jampil Kingdom.

Wealth, food, population, as long as it is valuable, even if it is just a painting, it is all in the pocket of the coalition forces, and then, a fire falls.

What can't be caught, what can't be grabbed, and if it's destroyed, it can't be left to the Green Sect or the original owner of this land.

Kill, burn, rob.

Subject to the backward transportation of this era, Nantianzhu, which is tens of thousands of miles away from the center of the Ming Dynasty, will definitely not be the land that Zhu Yunwen wants to occupy, he just wants to plunder the Dingkou of Nantianzhu, and then use their corpses to fill the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!

For this matter, Yang Shiqi and Zhu Di also expressed doubts at the beginning, that is, why did they share all the plundered wealth to the six southwestern countries, but the Ming Dynasty, who occupied the leadership and command position, did not even want a son.

"You have to take a long-term view."

Zhu Yunwen has never cared about the gains and losses of a war or a major battle, even if it is to destroy Zhangpur and North Delhi, and embrace the fertile Ganges Plain, he has never valued it.

"The enemy of the Ming Dynasty is not in the southwest, but in the west of the Western Regions."

Nantianzhu, a country where serfs are the main body of society, and the seriously rigid social class is even worse than the late Qing Dynasty, what kind of threat can this kind of country have to the Ming Dynasty.

Even if the Mughal Empire was established by the native natives of Nantianzhu a few decades later after they were determined to drive out the military aristocracy of the Green Sect, it would be nothing more than a joke.

The ship's cannons opened the way, and the cannonballs fell down all over the world, and everywhere I looked, there were only kneeling slaves.

"The reopening of the Silk Road is the real big thing for me right now."

Zhu Yunwen's outline on the map pointed out the direction for the future road of the Ming Dynasty.

"And if you want to reopen the Silk Road, you must first destroy the Timurid Khanate, this country's combat power is much stronger than the group of military nobles who have been corrupted and degenerated in Southern Tianzhu, and the pressure of my Ming expedition to the west is even worse than that of Genghis Khan back then, and I am afraid that 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of lives will not be enough, so I need the support of the six southwestern countries."

Conquering the Timurid Khanate, reopening the Silk Road, breaking through the shackles of exchanges between the East and the West, parallel by land and water, bringing useful and useless from Europe back to the Ming Dynasty, and destroying the seeds of the European White Pig Renaissance, this is the ultimate goal of Zhu Yunwen to come to this time and space!

The world is so small, so small that only one country can survive.

In a hundred years, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to have the ability to colonize, but as long as the seeds of the European Renaissance are destroyed, then sooner or later, when the Ming Dynasty is still marching forward, the group of white-skinned pigs can only stand still.

can see that a hundred years later, he is known as the first emperor of the ages, and Zhu Yunwen's eyes have been looking at three hundred years or five hundred years.

"In the early stage, you might as well give the Six Nations some sweetness to taste, and after they go up, they will take their lives to fill the battlefield in the Western Regions."

Zhu Yunwen has already arranged the ending for these countries: "When they suffer heavy losses, it will be the day when my Ming Xuanhe King will annex the Six Kingdoms." ”

What bullshit allies, when the use value is squeezed dry, the only result of welcoming the Six Nations is only to be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called "Kunming Seven-Power Agreement", the so-called covenant, for powerful countries, wiping their butts is too hard!

"There are only interests between countries, only iron and blood, and no morality and benevolence."

At a cabinet meeting, Zhu Yunwen held a theme meeting for five cabinet scholars under the name of the word "gold and iron" to expound his thoughts and propositions.

"Gold is wealth, iron is weapons."

Zhu Yunwen is saying, the five of them are immersed in hard work, this is a habit developed in the past few years, the power in small things, the emperor has never cared, the right to speak is almost in the hands of the cabinet, even if it is as big as the appointment of a book, as long as there is the signature of the cabinet, the ministry, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the emperor did not even hesitate at all, and directly approved it.

When it comes to the line and ideological orientation of major national events, Zhu Yunwen can't hear the slightest noise, and the only thing the five cabinet members can do is to take notes and then implement the work according to his Zhu Yunwen's thoughts.

Talking nonsense, taking a hat is a trifle.

"Without money, the country will not be able to develop more powerful weapons, without weapons, how can I plow land for my Ming Dynasty?"

Wolf nature is the mainstream ideology that Zhu Yunwen instilled the most in the cabinet.

"The core of Jin Tieism lies in how to achieve the capture of wealth economically, and how to achieve comprehensive control or suppression militarily, the grassland has been pacified, the next thing to do is to fully implement the nationalism formulated by me, strive to send all foreign races to the battlefield within three generations, let all women become the daughters-in-law of our Han people, and realize the purification of the second and third generations of bloodline internally.

Externally, the six southwestern countries are like a gambler, and I am the banker.

To let them taste the sweetness of following in the footsteps of my Daming, and then work diligently and diligently, this stage is the stage of gold.

interests, can solve more than eighty percent of the world's problems, and the remaining two percent, to iron. ”

When Zhu Yunwen said this, he deliberately looked at Zhu Di and told the latter: "If money can't settle things, kill them!" Even if you kill until there is a river of blood, and if you kill those countries and destroy the species, you must continue to kill.

Gold and iron, both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard.

Sooner or later, my country will be saturated, so we must expand, and on the road of expansion, any mercy and forgiveness will make all of you here today, including the sinners of the nation and the country through the ages. ”

After the Jintie Conference was convened, the cabinet began to implement the ideas of Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, and publicized the main spirit of it in the Hanlin Academy, with Xu Buji and Hu Gen, two sycophants as propagandists, leading a wave of academic discussion of 'survival through expansion'.

The traditional doctrine of repaying grievances with virtue began to weaken, especially after more than 300,000 laborers entered the various 'jobs' of the Ming Dynasty.

What the inner king and the outer saint get are just face, and the inner saint and the outer tyrant exchange it is a real benefit.

If you want to say that Daming is the busiest at the moment, it may be Wei Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

There are hundreds of thousands of free ones, and they can be called at will, without worrying about the slaves who live or die, which has improved the work efficiency of the Ministry of Industry by more than two grades.

And in addition to efficiency, the empty budget has also reached a staggering figure: four million taels!

With one year's labor slaves and one year's recruitment of laborers in the country, a whole few million taels of ICBC and pension silver were missing.

That's just a few hundred thousand, but what if it's millions?

How much silver do you want to save in a year!

"If the number of labor slaves can reach 1 million, the Ministry of Industry is confident that it will fully complete the five-year plan within three years, and with the budget expenditure saved, the Ministry of Industry is fully capable of building a Beijing road from Nanjing to Guangzhou."

After tasting the sweetness of Laonu, Wei Jun reported to the cabinet as soon as possible.

"The Ministry of Industry is fully capable of cooperating with the work of other ministries, including the construction of no less than 400 transport ships and two cloth and silk workshops with an annual output of more than 100,000 horses."

How great the stakes are here, the cabinet can figure out the answer by calculating in their hearts.

Giving the Ministry of Industry a provincial budget means that it can increase the budget for other ministries, so that the success rate of the five-year plan is guaranteed.

That's the point.

"The Cabinet should support the General Staff."

Yang Shiqi looked at Yu Xin and asked: "The strength of the Yunnan Provincial Envoy cannot support the rapid expansion of the southwest battlefield, so it is necessary to speed up the road construction project from Jiaozhi to Banggara, and let the transport ships of the Navy Division Yamen send the artillery over to speed up the advance of the coalition army. ”

In terms of finance, Yu Xin communicated with Xia Yuanji, and both of them were very excited.

Now is indeed not the time to save money, if the Ming wants to develop rapidly, it must use a large amount of budget expenditure, and the Ministry of Industry has taken up the lion's share, so how to release the budget of the Ministry of Industry needs to be labored.

To obtain labor slaves, you have to rely on robbery, and you have to rely on the General Staff Office.

"The household department can come up with 10 million taels."

Calculate the return of benefits, Xia Yuanji can't care about being diligent and thrifty, and he made a statement as soon as possible.

"Fully support the war of the General Staff Department, ensure the logistics supply of the Yunnan Metropolitan Division, and major national events, and the household department will never be stingy."

When he said this, there was laughter in the Wenhua Palace.

Who doesn't know how stingy your household department is, or how stingy you are in this household department, you can't wait to break a tael of silver into half on weekdays to spend, and the central departments are in office, where is there no Du Zhilang of your household department to supervise at all times?

You will never be stingy, you just see a greater return for the good.

And the cabinet is willing to fully support the war, which is exactly what Zhu Yunwen wants to see the most.

The Cabinet supported the General Staff of the General Staff, and the General Staff went all out to launch foreign wars, and the plundered slaves released the pressure on the Cabinet to employ personnel at home.

Flattered!