A general strategy of sending 150,000 troops and pacifying the whole Liao in three years is now placed in front of the important ministers of the two prefectures.

It's just a general strategy, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like copying the five-way march plan deployed by the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu. Otherwise, the Cabinet Office's votes for the book and the waiters would have to be fryers.

What is to be discussed at today's meeting between the two governments is not a specific battle strategy, but how much military spending does the Cabinet Office need to spend on this war that is expected to last three years to pacify the whole of Liao. And how to distribute the fertile land seized through the Battle of Pingliao?

"Your Majesty," Lu Zhenfei, the first assistant of the old Dragon Bell, finished reading the Pingliao Sketch that only had one page written, then took off his glasses, frowned and said, "The 150,000 army has been fighting for three years, and the additional personnel costs alone will probably cost 25 million taels, right?" If you add in the expenses of hiring people, purchasing mules and horses, buying grain, renting ships, and building castles and roads, I am afraid that 10,000,000 taels can be spent......

Nowadays, the four provinces of Shandong (west), Henan, Hebei and Shanxi in the north are still recuperating and recuperating. Feudal towns such as Anbei, Daning, Beiping, Shuofang, Hexi, and Anxi also relied on subsidies from the imperial court.

To the southwest, we also spent a lot of money on the battle with the Liukou in Siam, and now the number of troops has exceeded 30,000. The monthly expenses are also more than 500,000 taels, which is really a lot of money!

At sea, the battle between us and the Spaniards continued, and there were still Spanish warships in the waters around Japan, and there were still large garrisons in Goto, Tanegashima, Nagasaki, Ryukyu Province, and Chenggong Bay on Luzon Island. The various additional expenses per month are also between seven or eight hundred thousand taels!

The military expenses on Siam and the sea alone are not less than fifteen million taels a year!

If you add the six major feudal towns in the north, the Sichuan army in the southwest, the Sichuan border army stationed in Qinghai (Shang Kexi, Kong Tingxun Department), and the cost of the three feudal domains of Zhungar (Beiting Domain), Tumut, and Chahar...... Thirty million taels of silver can be spent a year!

Fortunately, the cost of developing the Gulf of the Americas does not have to be borne by the imperial court, otherwise the old minister really doesn't know how to be this family......"

Listening to the old confused Lu Zhenfei complaining, Zhu Cihong only felt funny in his heart: The home of the Ming Dynasty was originally the three of me, Zheng Zhilong, and Shen Tingyang! You always pretend to look at the budgets and accounts...... But it's definitely incomprehensible!

Otherwise, you won't feel that the court has no money!

Lu Zhenfei's brows furrowed more and more, "Now it is the cost of 10,000,000 taels in Pingliao for three years, and it is more than 33 million taels per year...... The additional military expenditure alone is more than 60 million! Your Majesty, now the various revenues of the imperial court are added together, and when converted into silver, it is only 110 million or 20 million! ”

His words suddenly stopped at this point, and then he looked at Zhu Cihong with old eyes - this is thinking about Zhu Cihong's silver from the Royal Chamber of Commerce!

Of course, Zhu Cihong understood the old man's thoughts, and the old man had mentioned the matter of regulating the Royal Chamber of Commerce more than once when he was alone, but Zhu Cihong pretended to be confused and ignored it.

Today, this old man is playing the attention of the Royal Chamber of Commerce again! Zhu Cihong thought to himself: It's better to be Wei Zaode! Although he is a little greedy, he knows that he thinks about the emperor...... Let's let him come back quickly and be the prime minister again!

"Quanguo Gong!" Zhu Cihong interrupted Lu Zhenfei's words and named Zheng Zhilong.

"The minister is here!" Zheng Zhilong immediately got up.

"Tell Lu Shoufu, where will the cost of Pingliao come from for three years!"

"The minister's order," Zheng Zhilong nodded slightly at the old man on the road, "Shoufu, the expenses of Pingliao for three years have come from the fields of Liaodong and Liaoxi!" ”

"What?" Lu Zhenfei was stunned, "How did you get out?" Those fields are still in the hands of the Dongyu! ”

"You can issue land vouchers first!" Zheng Zhilong said, "The land in eastern and western Liaoning can be counted as 50 million mu. One land coupon is issued for one acre of land, and one land coupon is worth three taels of silver, which is 150 million taels. It's enough to cope with the cost of Pingliao! ”

That's it?

150 million taels is there?

"No way, right?" Lu Zhenfei shook his head, "Can a soldier still recognize land vouchers?" Don't provoke a mutiny! ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Shoufu, this is not the first time we have issued land vouchers!" Some of the land coupons issued in the last batch have not been exchanged for land and are listed and traded on the exchanges in Nanjing, Shanghai and Hankou! The value of one acre of land in Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi on the three major exchanges is more than four taels. The land in eastern and western Liaoning is much better than the land in Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi. It's so cheap to fold three taels per acre...... Don't be a soldier, it's not difficult to change hands and get out! ”

Zhu Cihong said: "When the time comes, the Royal Chamber of Commerce will buy it at a guaranteed price!" ”

Zheng Zhilong shook his head: "I can't receive it...... Although Liaodong and Liaoxi are cold, the land is fertile, and they are all familiar land, and they are close to the Liao River and the Bohai Sea, so the water transportation is convenient. There will also be a tax holiday of three to five years...... How can it be sold for three taels of silver? If there is such a good thing, the old man will receive as much as he wants! ”

Well, the meeting between the two governments has become a land investment conference in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning.

Doni of Jianzhou City wants to know, so he has to cry angrily!

If you don't take such a bully, the land has not been beaten down yet, and you have already used it to bind the underlying assets to issue land vouchers...... One shot of 150 million taels!

Do you know how much 150 million taels are?

If you give this number to Emperor Chongzhen back then, you can see that the matter of Pingliao in five years can be successful!

Doni doesn't cry, there are not many people on Emperor Zhu's side who care, they just feel that their eyes are bright!

Now not only has Pingliao's military expenditure of more than 100 million taels already been settled, but everyone has also discovered an excellent investment opportunity.

The land vouchers that the richest and richest people in the Ming Dynasty want to buy must be good things, and they are a good deal that makes sure you don't lose money...... Be sure to buy more!

Zhu Cihong thought for a while, and then said: "The standing soldiers in the various armies of the Liao Dynasty will give the regular salaries to the silver taels, and the additional salaries and bounties will be given to the land coupons. The regularity, addition, and reward issued by the volunteers and volunteers are all given land vouchers. Procurement of munitions can also be paid to land bills, as long as the supplier is willing to accept it. ”

After listening to Zhu Cihong's words, Shoufu Lu Zhenfei was still a little suspicious, and the land vouchers were just used as a salary and bounty for the standing soldiers, but it didn't seem appropriate to let the recruited volunteers take the land vouchers, right? Is anyone still willing to enlist in the army? That's a loss, isn't it?

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It's a war! It's time to recruit troops! I'm going to get rich!

As soon as the news that the Ming Dynasty was about to conquer the Anton rebels and openly recruit brave (mainly as baggage soldiers and supplementary soldiers), volunteers (mainly veterans with outstanding marksmanship), knights, and sailors to join the army, the entire Pukou and the eastern city outside Nanjing City were boiling.

On the 10th day of the fifth month of the 11th year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, outside the Xiaolingwei camp in the east city of Nanjing, which was shrouded by the scorching heat of summer, the place that should have been deserted was suddenly crowded with veterans, veterans' children and young men among the northern immigrants who had settled here.

Everyone was crowding towards the row of bulletin boards outside the gate of the mausoleum, all wanting to see the list of recruits with their own eyes.

This is the eastern city of Nanjing, where the families of the Northern Army and immigrants from the north gather! Like Pukou and Laoshan on the other side of the Yangtze River, the streets are full of men who dream of fighting on the battlefield, and their desire for military merit even exceeds that of the second generation, N generation and military cadets in Pukou and Laoshan.

Because the people here don't have much ancestral wealth, and there are no scholars who have been admitted to military academies and universities, except for a few children of silk reeling merchant families, others who want to change their fate can only go to the army to become soldiers.

It's a pity that there aren't many opportunities to join the army! The new army of the Ming Dynasty is now less than 500,000 people, and it also implements a long-term military service system, which requires less than 30,000 personnel to be replenished every year in peacetime, and the quota occupied by newly graduated non-commissioned officers and cadets must be deducted. More than 20,000 soldiers, but for the whole country, although the army is heavy on the north (the navy is heavy on the south), but the amount that can be distributed to the northerners and righteous people in the east of Nanjing is only two or three thousand per year...... It's not enough points!

Now it's a good thing, finally a chance!