Chapter 1244: Da Shun's thirst quenching disease
Li Jicheng has gained a lot in Tianzhu!
After deducting the share given to the Dutch Indian Trading Company and the rewards given to the soldiers who participated in the expedition, as well as some other expenses, his Tianzhu expedition also had a net profit of nearly 8 million taels of silver (not all silver, but also a lot of gold)!
Li Jiwei planned to get some silver from India to reequip the Dashun army with flintlock pistols, but the price of a flintlock pistol in Guangdong was only eight taels or three yuan, and 8 million taels was enough to buy 1 million flintlock pistols!
However, the Ming Dynasty's arms trade did not slack to this extent, and only exported 30,000 or 40,000 flintlock pistols and arquebuses a year, and millions of them were not even thought of, and it was impossible to have such a large output - now is not the era of industrialization after all. With the scale of the Ming Dynasty's military industry, the annual output of various guns is only 150,000-180,000, of which only 30,000 or 40,000 can be exported.
And the Dutch could only kill the Ming flintlock pistols that Dashun could get, and if they wanted more flintlock pistols, they had to import them from Europe.
However, because of the rise of France, during this period of time, European countries had to buy flintlock pistols, and there was no surplus product to sell to Dashun.
So the gold and silver stolen from India could not be spent at all...... And you can't spend it all!
Because Li Jicheng and his father Li Laiheng have already sent people to ask for money, horses, and orchids!
It's not that Li Laiheng is corrupt, it's that Li is too fast.
Dashun is a situation where eight kings are ruled together, and there is very great external pressure, so that the nine forces of eight kings and one emperor dare not fight internally.
As soon as there is infighting, everyone has to let Zhu Cihong catch and cut off the braincase, maybe Ling Chi!
But not infighting doesn't mean that everyone is not blushing!
Originally, everyone was "poor" together, even if they were ranked among the eight kings, that is, tens of thousands of acres of granges, meat sandwich buns, mutton in water basins, and elbows were enough, and then they would be rich and expensive.
And Li Guo, the emperor, and Li Laiheng, the crown prince, are not rich, there are no gold and silver mountains, and there are no orchids and famous horses, and it is not too interesting to usurp their throne, so let's make do with it!
But Li Jicheng is making such a fuss in India, it's not right! How rich India is! Li Jicheng not only grabbed a handful in Orissa, but also got two sultanates, which is really developed!
Not to mention 8,000,000 yuan (equivalent to silver) for gold and silver, there are countless miscellaneous possessions...... What's even more eye-catching are India's Folded Ear Horse and the Orchid who can sing and dance!
Li Jicheng and the people who followed him to India were all handed, and if they had some official positions, they hugged left and right, took Meiji slaves, rode horses with folded ears, and went to their homes in Sichuan and Yunnan in piles to carry good things.
Can those people in the Eight Kings System not blush when they see it?
Why are the grandson's people so famous, they are all poor eggs?
The emperor Li Guo fell ill again at this time, and all kinds of dissatisfied voices came out, Li Laiheng also had to take care of the overall situation, and he also had to appease people's hearts, there was no other way but to throw money and buy it.
So these days, he kept sending people to India to recruit Li Jicheng back to Kunming, and asked Li Jicheng to bring more gold and silver treasures and famous horses and orchids back together...... Give a little bit to the princes and their subordinates, so that Li Laiheng can successfully ascend the throne!
And Li Jicheng himself wants to go back, he has to be the prince!
His grandfather Li Guo can't see it anymore, he Ada Li Laiheng will be the new emperor of Dashun by then, and he Li Jicheng should be the crown prince - the matter of the crown prince can't be said to be risky, so he can't be too sure, and he has to bring some good things back to buy people's hearts......
The good things obtained from India began to be shipped north in the spring of the seventeenth year of the reign of the Communist Party, and by the autumn of the seventeenth year, they were almost finished. Li Jicheng stayed in Orissa Province until the eighth lunar month, and after arranging the precautions of Paladep, he took the "Yingchuang Wang" galleys to Salian, Burma.
The newly appointed Shalian Jiedu envoy Anding Hou Ma Bao had already prepared a horse team and an elephant team for Li Jicheng, and helped him transport all the goods and concubines obtained from India to Kunming, the southern capital of the Dashun Dynasty.
In November of the 17th year of the reign of the Emperor, Li Jicheng, the grandson of Emperor Dashun, who had been away from Kunming for several years, finally arrived in the rich and gentle city of Kunming.
I don't know when the city of Kunming, which is far away from the front line in Shaanxi, replaced Chongqing and became the first capital of the Dashun Dynasty. Not only the emperor Li Guo and the crown prince Li Laiheng are resident here, but even most of the eight kings of Yizheng are retired in Kunming, and only Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, has been working between the Dingjun Mountain camp and the Qiuchi Mountain camp for a long time.
Compared with Chongqing Mansion, Kunming not only has a comfortable climate, but also has a more prosperous atmosphere - Chongqing Mansion was transformed into a military fortress by the Dashun Imperial Court, which looks very good, but it is too inconvenient to live for a long time.
Moreover, Chongqing is too close to the front line, and the atmosphere has always been tense, which makes those Dashun princes who have been fighting horses for most of their lives feel very uncomfortable.
Kunming, the southern capital of Dashun, was built late and far away from the front line, so more comfort and convenience were taken into account when it was built.
In addition, the land in Sichuan has always been relatively tight, and Li Guo loves the people more, so he does not let those princes and generals occupy more land in Sichuan. But he couldn't completely satisfy everyone's demand for land, so he let them occupy a lot of land in Yunnan.
And the magnates of Dashun are also willing to enclose land in Yunnan - it is far away from the front line, so they can live with peace of mind!
Therefore, outside the city of Kunming, there are many granges of Dashun magnates. Among them is Zhuangzi, which belongs to Li Jicheng...... When he left here, he was in a blue cloth and iron coat, thirty or fifty personal soldiers, one carrying a bag of luggage and leaving.
But when I came back, it was really home! The elephant team and horse team that transported the property alone were discharged for no less than 10 miles, and the vastness was almost in time for the Son of Heaven to travel.
Li Jicheng's father-in-law is the old prime minister Niu Jinxing, and his Zhuangzi is next to his son-in-law Li Jicheng's Zhuangzi, both on the south side of Erhai Lake. These days, he was also sick and raised at home, and when he learned that his son-in-law had returned to the dynasty in a mighty way, he hurriedly went to Taisun Village to meet him.
Weng and his son-in-law are a party, and after they met, they had to drink and talk while drinking in Li Jicheng's house against an attic in Erhai.
"Old Tarzan, are you better?" Li Jicheng looked at the old man's groggy appearance, and asked with concern.
"Oh no!" Niu Jinxing sighed, "A year is not as good as a year...... Most of the government soldiers are poor, and the farmers are even poorer, and the emperor can still manage it when he is in good health, but now he can't manage it, so he can only watch the government soldiers eat and wipe the farmers clean! ”
Obviously, Niu Jinxing misunderstood the meaning of his son-in-law and brought the topic to the government. Of course, the government of Dashun can't be good, just so much land, to raise 600,000 soldiers, and to have a long-term tug of war with the Ming Dynasty, how can it be good?
"Don't be afraid," Li Jicheng shook his head, "Now you have money...... This time, I brought back seven or eight million taels of silver, which is enough for everyone to be relieved. ”
"Alas......" Niu Jinxing sighed, "We tortured 30 million in Beijing back then!" The result? Isn't it a catastrophe? ”
"That's different," Li Jicheng shook his hand, "That's torture, now it's ...... It's to grab money from foreign countries, and it's always good for money to come in! The imperial court now has no land to distribute to the government soldiers, and the military service of the government soldiers is too heavy, and it is a little unbearable, so they have to use silver. ”
Niu Jinxing shook his head, "How did the silver get into the hands of the soldiers below?" The following princes will not be divided? It's just 8 million taels, and 10,000 for a family is 800...... How many sons of the emperor and crown prince are there? There are also eight sons of the prince......"
"Where can you divide it like that?" Li Jicheng said with a smile, "I have to give more points to the people who are fighting on the front line...... As for your family, if you go south with me, you will send troops to Tianzhu next year, and rob him of a few million taels a year, and you are afraid that you will not have enough money? ”
"A few million a year?" Niu Jinxing thought for a while, "If there are really so many, it's enough, I'm afraid I won't be able to grab ......."
"Grab it!" Li Jicheng laughed, "There are Dutch people to help you, no problem!" ”