Chapter 64: Ping Yue Ce

However, compared with the Taizu period, Zhu Qizhen collected a lot of taxes from other aspects.

For example, customs duties, salt taxes, tea taxes, banknote duties, and so on.

These taxes are about fifteen million taels.

That is to say, in Zhu Qizhen's estimate, in the twenty-seventh and eighth year of orthodoxy, that is, at the end of the national Qingzhang, the Ming Dynasty's taxes would climb to fifteen million taels of silver per year, and there would be more than 40 million stone of grain.

And that's just the state tax.

Please don't forget the Shaofu cultivated by Zhu Qizhen.

Shaofu had been subsidizing a large amount of supplies for the army before. Seriously suppressed the profitability of Shaofu.

In other words, Shaofu rarely has the meaning of profit.

However, with the end of the war with the Watts, the large-scale redressing of the Ming border army ended, although the redressing of some secondary armies in the south has not yet ended. But it's no longer in the way.

Not to mention other departments in Shaofu, Zunhua Iron Works alone can provide dividends of as much as one or two million taels to the palace every year, plus gold and silver mines in various places, especially Zuodu silver mines.

Yes, although Zhu Qizhen is not very clear, why is the Sado gold mine so good, and the one he mined is the Sado silver mine?

But all in all, even if you don't use the outer court, the annual income in the palace is about 10 million taels.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen threw 500,000 taels and 500,000 taels of money outside.

It's because Zhu Qizhen is rich.

In this way, the tax revenue of the inner treasury and the outer court is around 25,000,000,000 or 40,000,000 stone a year.

Of course, most of this money is now occupied by the track project in Mobei, and it is also occupied by the construction of water conservancy for disaster relief, and the military expenses of the last Battle of Annam.

There are also some to fill the deficit of the previous tile spurs, which makes the court a little nervous.

It's just that if there are two or three good years, the court will recover.

Although there were many natural disasters in ancient times, the general disasters of this year are not long-lasting.

With this confidence, Zhu Qizhen thought about Guo Deng and said, what do you want, give the master a price. 、

It's just that at this price, it's not too easy to open.

Guo Deng said: "Your Majesty, the minister has been in the northwest for a long time, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of Annan, so he doesn't dare to say anything, but the minister thinks that it is inevitable to destroy Annan and mobilize 400,000 to 600,000 troops in three to five years. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and nodded silently.

The so-called heroes see the same thing.

Many people's judgments are generally unanimous.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is inevitably a little anxious in his heart.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen doesn't know that if he doesn't want to hurry, he can't reach it, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't know, some things are too urgent, but there will be chaos. It's that a person's life is too short and there are too many things to do.

Everyone wants to borrow another 500 years from heaven.

But is it possible?

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen is no longer young.

The sons are about to get married.

Zhu Qizhen is a native of Xuande in the second year, and now it is the end of the twenty-fifth year of orthodoxy. He was thirty-four years old.

Even if he can live a long life, he may not be able to take on heavy government affairs when he is sixty or seventy years old. That is, the time left for him is only about thirty years.

Thirty years seems like a lot.

But is it really a lot?

Internally, it took several years to clear the land, and after that, various reforms were carried out to formulate a code that suited China's national conditions, promoted the development of productive forces, and liberated the freedom of life.

Or it can simply be understood as the Chinese version of "Napoleon".

What's even more sad is that what Napoleon did was to have ideological enlightenment first, and what Zhu Qizhen wanted to do was to do everything by himself.

Coupled with the fact that there are some repetitions, thirty years may not be enough.

As for the outside world, although Zhu Qizhen does not have much desire to expand, he has decided to include Southeast Asia in the natural territory of Daming and use Southeast Asian grain to supply more and more Chinese.

If it takes three or five years to destroy an Annan, the Ming Dynasty will return to Nanyang.

If things are slow, they will be rounded, and many problems can always be done well by accumulating events.

But how much time does Zhu Qizhen have.

He secretly pressed down this hint of impatience and said: "Let's not mention this matter for the time being, these are all for you, how are you going to use the army." ”

Guo Deng pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty can use the map?" ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and the people below immediately presented the map.

Guo Deng said: "The number of victories and defeats in the battle of Fengguo Gong to destroy Korea was not in the Yalu River, but in the naval battle of Ganghwa Island, so the minister thought that the key to attacking Annam was not Langshan, Gaoping, Lao Cai and other places, but on the sea. ”

Zhu Qizhen only felt refreshed and said, "Keep talking." ”

Guo Deng said: "The place where Annan and the Ming Dynasty meet, all the mountains are also, General Mao Sheng's attack on Langshan, not the incompetence of the generals, the cowardice of the soldiers, it is really Annan is small and strong, good use of firearms, although the attack is unfavorable, but on the defense, it is really a difficult bone to gnaw." ”

"What's more, it is rainy in Annam, and the northern soldiers cannot hold on for a long time, once they fall into the muddy swamp, I am afraid that the ministers will not dare to say anything."

Zhu Qizhen also understands that Guo Deng's worries are also what Zhu Qizhen has been worried about.

In fact, Southeast Asian countries were saved from being conquered by China, is it because their countries have high combat effectiveness?

No, even now, when Annan Xiaoqiang was the most powerful in ancient times, what worried many generals in the center was not that the Annan people were able to fight.

It's Annan's climate problem.

Miasma, the plague, has always been better than the sword.

The northern soldiers can't hold on for a long time?

It's not that the northerners can't fight when they get to the south, but they get the plague.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What are you going to do? ”

Guo Deng said: "First of all, in the use of soldiers, less use of northern soldiers, more use of southern soldiers, Liangguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Annam, the climate is similar, the minister wants to recruit more troops here, it is precisely because of this that the minister set aside time, which is used for training." ”

"Secondly, I ask Your Majesty to send the Imperial Hospital south and stationed in the army. Prepare for the plague. ”

"It takes one to two years of preparation, and when the time comes, the army will go south, attack Langshan, Gaoping, not to be able to capture, only to let the Annamite people pay attention to the border, Yunnan along the Red River south, the minister ordered the sailors to enter the city, lead the army of the city, march north, and send an order to Laos, mourning and consolation Division to attack it."

"Divide their ears in this way."

"In this way, even if Annam has a million soldiers, it is difficult to take care of all sides, and the minister will raise 100,000 elites to land on the coast of Annam, and Annam can only attack, so that a decisive battle with it can be swept away."

"The people of Annam are fierce, the people are not convinced, and the ministers are afraid that defeat is easy and difficult to serve."

"The courtiers divide the south of Annan into the city of Zhancheng, and divide the west of Annan into mourning Laos, the imperial court only needs to occupy it, and the heavy troops up and down the Red River can be safe."

Zhu Qizhen carefully read his plan, which was almost the same as Cao Yi's general plan to destroy Korea.

Won the method of suppressing small countries by big countries, opened more fronts, and deployed all the troops, so that Annan and Daming could fight for national strength. This one looks very clumsy.

But it is deeply important in the art of war.

No matter what kind of art of war, it is not to ask you to win more with less, but to fight more and fight less, and to outnumber the outnumbered, even if it is a war in which you win more with less, it is also required to form a situation in which you fight more and fight less locally.

It's essentially a war of attrition.

It's just that Annan's internal is still relatively united, so Guo Deng can't be sure where Annan's internal collapse will be under the pressure of the Ming limit.

Therefore, Guo Deng gave an ambiguous timetable.

Three to five years.

Of course, this is also a master plan, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't know what Guo Deng will do when the time comes. He was used to it, and the records of these generals before they went to the battlefield were never the same as the ones they fought on the battlefield.

Very few people can do it, how to report to Zhu Qizhen, how to fight.

However, in terms of the overall framework, there is nothing to be afraid of. At least Zhu Qizhen doesn't have to worry, just fight, and give him a battle similar to the defeat of Maoerzhuang.

This incident is the shadow of most of his life.

In this way, Zhu Qizhen is already very satisfied. said: "Yes, Annan's affairs are entrusted to you, I am very relieved." ”

In fact, now Guo Deng's plan is a little worse, Zhu Qizhen will agree, without him, there are only a few generals who can command hundreds of thousands of troops in the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the plan written on paper and said in his mouth, Zhu Qizhen believed more in what the generals had done before.

It's like employers like to use people with work experience.