Li Guo glanced at Liu Zongmin, the former No. 1 tiger general of the Dashun Army, and now he looks like a cute fat old man.

Maybe it's because he doesn't know how to maintain health, Liu Zongmin looks seven or eight years older than his actual age, and his actual age is less than fifty years old, but he looks like an "old man" who runs six, his beard and hair are gray, and he is fat, with more than 200 pounds, no matter how he looks at it, he doesn't look like he can ride a horse to kill.

In fact, Liu Zongmin has indeed not been on the battlefield for many years, and he has not even left Chongqing Mansion for three years. In the past three years, Liu Zongmin has spent most of his time in the palace in the city and the manor outside the city, and has also raised hundreds of kaki and dance girls to accompany him for entertainment.

However, in order to show his status in the Dashun court, this rich man will go to the court from time to time and say a little blockbuster nonsense.

But Li Guo can't help but give this co-ruling Han king a little face, who made the politics of the Dashun Dynasty "eight fathers co-rule"? No matter how decadent people are, they are still co-ruling the king of Han, and they are not allowed to speak?

Besides, as one of the "Eight Fathers", the more decadent Liu Zongmin is, the more Li Guo should like it! If every "father" is as capable as Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Li Guo, the "Shun Taizong", will not be invisible?

"King Han," Li Guo smiled, "where do you think we should send troops?" Is it to fight Shaanxi or Huguang? ”

"How can you fight Shaanxi and Huguang?" Liu Zongmin shook his head again and again, "There must be cavalry to fight Shaanxi, we have been in Sichuan for almost ten years, how many good horses are left?" Do you have to rely on the Dian horse and the Sichuan horse to hedge against the Ming army's iron cavalry? And our infantry doesn't have any spears, they are all swords, brands, shuttles, darts, and firearms...... This set is easy to use in the mountains and forests, and when I went to the flat land in Guanzhong, I let the artillery bombard, and the cavalry died once!

As for hitting Huguang, there must be a water master! We don't have a water division, and even if we do, we can't beat the Yangtze River water division of the Ming Dynasty, so it's no fun. ”

In fact, the Yangtze River naval division of the Ming Dynasty did not have many ships now, and the naval division of the Ming army was now called the navy, and the main area of activity was of course the sea, but there were still more than a dozen "turtle boats" in the Yangtze River.

This turtle boat was produced by Shanghai Shenchuan, and was based on the warship designed by the famous Korean naval commander Yi Sun-sin, which was shaped like a turtle and had a bulletproof (buckshot) hull, and improved it. The impractical flame-breathing faucet was eliminated in favor of a 6-pounder gun in the bow, as well as ramming angles under the bow.

In addition, in order to be more effective bulletproof, the surface of the side baffle of this Yangtze River turtle ship is also covered with a layer of iron sheet, which is very strong, and it is not at all able to fight against warships that are casually modified by civilian ships.

Therefore, once the Dashun army leaves Huguang in the east, it will inevitably be subject to the Yangtze River and the Han River.

Li Guo nodded lightly and put away his contempt for Liu Zongmin.

"King Han," Li Guo paused, "where do you think we should send troops?" ”

"Naturally, it's Guizhou or Guangxi." Liu Zongmin said, "Guizhou and Guangxi are densely forested, which is conducive to our sword soldiers. Moreover, Guizhou and Guangxi are far away from Nanjing, and it is not easy for the Zhu family to transfer troops, and it is even more difficult to transport them...... We don't have to go deep in a big way, make some movement on the border, attract the Zhu family's army and laborers to go on an expedition, and just spend their financial resources. ”

Sounds interesting!

Li Guo looked at Sun Kewang.

Now Li Laiheng, the prince of Fujun, and Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, are both fighting in Burma, so Li Guo can only ask Sun Kewang for advice.

Although Sun Kewang, the king of Qin, was born as a martial artist, he was born good at management and governance, and he also had a lot of experience in financial matters, so he put a question mark on the severity of the financial crisis in the Ming Dynasty.

"Emperor, I don't approve of sending troops to provoke." Sun Kewang said, "The Ming Dynasty was short of money, but they were not rich. If the war starts in Guangxi and Guizhou, at least tens of thousands of troops must be invested...... Just packing and traveling food is a lot of expenses. If the army is unsuccessful, we will have to waste our financial resources. ”

In the past, the thieves who roamed around and robbed have now become the scumbers who collect rents to support their families. Although the combat effectiveness has been enhanced, the cost of sending troops has also increased dramatically, and at the same time, the destructiveness has also decreased.

"Did you just let the Ming Dynasty go?" Li Guo is unwilling!

Now don't take advantage of the financial crisis in the Ming Dynasty to do it, and when Emperor Zhu has saved enough money, it is time to recover Sichuan......

Sun Kewang stroked his beard, his eyes rolled, and he had already calculated it.

"Emperor, we can send troops to Siam!"

"What? Sending troops to Siam? ”

"Yes," Sun Kewang said, "Anyway, the army of the crown prince and the king of Jin is in Burma, and it is idle to be idle, so it is better to let them send troops to fight Siam." Siam is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is attacked by us, the Ming Dynasty must send troops in accordance with the treaty...... The 10,000-mile expedition will inevitably cost a huge amount of money! If Emperor Zhu does not send troops, then with the courage of the crown prince and the king of Jin, he will definitely be able to force Siam to abandon the Ming and return to obedience! ”

"Good!" Li Guo slapped his face, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

It's still a good method of King Sun Qin - it's a good peasant uprising war, but it has turned into an imperialist struggle for hegemony, it's really no better!

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Daming, Jiangnan Province, Shanghai Prefecture.

Songjiang Mansion was renamed Shanghai Mansion in the seventh year of Hongxing, but the prefect still did not change, and it was still the "star prefect" of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Dagong.

This Luo Da Governor also heard that Da Ming was experiencing a financial crisis!

I just heard about it from Song Shiyeol, a great Confucian in North Korea.

Song Shiyeol came from Jeju Island, and it turned out that the former king of Joseon, Li Hao, did not go to Daming to live in exile after giving up the country, but took the opportunity to go to sea by boat and slipped to Jeju Island.

It turned out that Jeju Island was not captured by Kim Duoduo's army. Although Kim Duoduo's sailors also have a certain strength, the location of Jeju Island is really a bit sensitive, located between China, Japan and North Korea, and it is stuck in the Korean Strait. If Kim Duoduo sends his sailor to Jeju Island, I'm afraid that the master of the "Ukita Xiujia" will come to the door again......

Of course, Li Hao, who retreated to Jeju Island, was unwilling to let the Li Dynasty die for more than 200 years, so he was still tossing. While sending people to Japan to ask for help from the Tokugawa shogunate, he tried to contact the Ming Dynasty, and also sent people to lurk in Hanyang, Incheon, Pusan, and other places to collect information and wait for opportunities.

As a result, he didn't wait for the reply of the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty, but he heard that the Ming Dynasty was in a financial crisis, so he sent Song Shilie to Shanghai to investigate.

But Song Shilie ran to Shanghai to take a look, good guy, prosperity is about to fly! There are hot construction sites everywhere, all industries are thriving in the market, and the factories along the Wusong River are busy expanding production and recruiting people. And the salary was very high, so that half of the entourage brought by Song Shilie ran away......

Song Daru, who didn't know the situation, ran to find Luo Dagong, an old acquaintance, and Luo Dagong was also looking for him - the king of North Korea said that he would come to Daming to retire, and Emperor Zhu let Luo Dagong entertain him, and Luo Dagong prepared housing for Li Hao on the newly opened Madang Street, why is there no one?

It's not going to drown, is it?

Just when Dagong Luo wanted to send a funeral to Li Hao, Song Shilie came, and of course Dagong Luo had to entertain him.

The two sides exchanged a few words, and Song Shilie first inquired about the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty!

"Who has no money? Mr. Song, who do you say has no money? ”

"The Ming Dynasty! The Ming court has no money......" Song Shilie said bitterly, "It has been spread all over Incheon and Busan, and it is because the Ming Dynasty spent too much money in the Northern Expedition, wasting national strength, and was about to lose its support, so it had to withdraw its troops with hatred!" ”

"Spending too much money? How much did it cost? Grand Duke Luo asked.

"100 million!" Song Shilie stretched out a finger and gritted his teeth, "One hundred million taels of silver!" ”

Grand Duke Luo blinked his eyes: "One hundred million taels...... Is it too much? ”

"Huh? 100 million taels is not much? Song Shilie couldn't believe his ears.

What kind of people are the Ming Dynasty using now! One hundred million taels! I can't say much....... How much money does Daming have now?