Zhang Zhiji was stunned because Zhang Zhiji didn't know such a big drama as the burning of the Old Summer Palace, and he didn't know how much the Jiannu who entered the Central Plains lost his chain after the death of the Ming Dynasty!

But for Emperor Chongzhen, burning the Old Summer Palace is definitely a shame and hatred that cannot be forgotten!

The Old Summer Palace, which is called the garden of ten thousand gardens, is called the summer palace because the puppet emperor of Jiannu came here to escape the summer every midsummer.

Many people know about the burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860, but what many people don't know is that the Old Summer Palace is actually composed of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden and the Qichun Garden, as well as many small gardens, distributed in the east, west and south, surrounded by stars and moons.

Therefore, the so-called burning of the Old Summer Palace is not just the burning of the Old Summer Palace, but includes Xiangshan, Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Jingyi Garden, Qingyi Garden (Summer Palace), Jingming Garden, Changchun Garden and Old Summer Palace, which is the so-called Three Mountains and Five Gardens.

For Emperor Chongzhen, let alone burning these gardens, it is already an unforgivable sin to let these so-called coalition forces step onto his own land!

Even if most of these gardens were built after Jiannu entered the Central Plains, but for Emperor Chongzhen, since the British and French forces had done this, it had an inexplicable relationship with him.

Jiannu can drop the chain, but he must not drop the chain, he must burn it back - didn't the British and French troops burn the Old Summer Palace, then they will burn their London and Paris, and see what British style and fashion capital they will talk about in the future!

Besides, hasn't there been a fire in London in history? Seems to be the case?

For Zhang Zhiji, it doesn't matter whether he knows the reason why Emperor Chongzhen wants to burn London, the important thing is that he just needs to carry out this order.

Anyway, the killing talents of the Ming Dynasty have not done it once or twice, and the Jingguan is about to be made into an artistic thing by them, who cares about burning a city?

Moreover, Mao Wenlong and Liu Xingzuo, two old things, also have the experience of burning Liaoyang City, even if they are sent to Europe, there is no problem in letting them burn London!

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Zhiji spoke: "Your Majesty, this expedition to England must cost a lot of money. ”

In Zhang Zhiji's view, the cross-sea expedition, and the mobilized troops are not one person or two, don't look at Lu Xiangsheng now swears that there is no problem with the treasury, but when it is really time to let the treasury pay, Wu Lao has to cry and cry out for poverty, I don't know if there will be a drama of hanging in front of the king!

This matter has nothing to do with whether the treasury has money or not, it is completely due to Wu Lao's temperament - almost the same as the previous head of the household department, Guo Laojiao......

Because no matter how rich the treasury is, it can't withstand the calamity of Emperor Chongzhen!

The cross-sea expedition is not a joke, how many catties of food have to be eaten on the way to the front line for a pound of grain? Even if you use railways and ships to transport, you can greatly reduce the consumption on the road, but it is impossible to ignore this consumption, and it can only be said that it is much lower than before.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "What about Aiqing's opinion? Knock down France again? ”

Zhang Zhiji nodded and said: "Your Majesty, what Weichen means is to clean up the barbarians in France, anyway, they trespassed on Penglai Island before and hurt the remnants of Yin Shang, which is no different from the barbarians in England, so it is better to clean it up at the same time." ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said: "No, only England, not France, unless the French barbarians take the initiative to jump out against my Daming, otherwise, don't pay attention to them for the time being." ”

Regarding the problem that Zhang Zhiji said, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen also knew it in his heart.

Hans Meow is awesome, isn't it? Was the supply system during World War II more advanced than that of the Ming Dynasty under the reign of Emperor Chongzhen? The result? Isn't it the same that it costs fifteen catties to transport a pound of grain, and in the end it sings cool?

The only difference is probably that Emperor Chongzhen is more ruthless than the head of state.

In this era, no one talked about human rights, and Emperor Chongzhen could be more capricious than the Führer, occupying a place and directly arresting the barbarians back as coolies, and then moving the people over, and the so-called front line was no longer the front line.

As long as Emperor Chongzhen is patient, he can take down England first, and then emigrate, and when the second or third year comes, the food grown by the people is estimated to be enough for the front line.

How far is England to France? From France to the whole of Europe, where is not their own territory? As long as the muzzle of the cannon points to, it is the land of the Ming Dynasty!

Now in order to save some costs as much as possible, France is killed, in fact, for Da Ming, there is a feeling that the gains outweigh the losses.

First of all, there is the question of the attitude of the European countries.

The death of the rabbit and the fox is a sentence summed up in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the meaning of this sentence is similar to that of the lips and teeth, although the barbarians in Europe did not summarize such incisive words, but the similar meaning is known.

The Ming Dynasty can use force against England because of a few people, after all, it is England's fault first, but the Ming Dynasty took this opportunity to kill France, and the image of the Ming Empire in Europe is stinky.

If there is no arms trade and Fushou paste trade, the image will stink, even if it is more stinky than stinky tofu and canned herring, Emperor Chongzhen will not care.

But when it comes to the arms trade and the trade in longevity ointment, that's a different story.

Because the arms trade and the Fushou paste trade brought not only a large amount of gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty, but also a large number of coolies - this is the key to the problem!

Zhang Yingxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Communications, Chang Kaisheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Railways, and Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the Ministry of Railways, which time did these three bad old men not ask for silver and labor?

The day when Daming's project has never stopped!

In this case, unless Emperor Chongzhen intends to completely kill the whole of Europe at once, and then all Europeans are captured as coolies, he cannot unite the European countries.

Once the European countries are united by a truce, it doesn't matter if the gold and silver are gone, the key is where to let Emperor Chongzhen go to get laborers?

So the best option in the current situation is to kill England alone, and then continue to provoke Europe to continue infighting.

As for whether the European vassal states would continue to fight, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care too much.

Because in later generations, these scum never stopped, and the two excellent-stirring sticks of Gallic chicken and John Bull perfectly stirred up the in this vat of Europe......

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Zhiji had no choice but to respond.

Lu Xiangsheng said coldly: "British duke, do you have to tell the soldiers that labor is rare, let them pay attention when they start?" Don't just think about fighting and killing?

Killing all the barbarians can solve the problems of Europe, but it can't solve the problem of my Daming, if this time it is the same result as Penglaizhou, I am afraid that the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of Communications should be dissatisfied! ”

Zhang Zhiji, who was in a bad mood because he couldn't kill England and France at once, was even more unhappy at this time, and squeezed out a cold snort from his nostrils before he spoke: "Elder Lu Ge, don't worry, the soldiers also know in their hearts." ”

There is your uncle's number!

Lu Xiangsheng, who has always been hot-tempered, almost scolded directly!

Saying that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty know it in their hearts, it is simply a big joke!

It's not that he hasn't led soldiers, what kind of birds do those killers look like, can I still not know? Cutting off people's heads to build a capital view is what they like to do the most, even if they lose the income from selling coolies because of this, most of them will not care too much!

After snorting coldly, Lu Xiangsheng spoke: "I don't care about other things, the old man doesn't care, but if the number of barbarians is less than 500,000 this time, the old man will ask the household department to think about next year's military spending!" ”

After hearing the number of 500,000, Zhang Zhiji jumped up directly from the stool: "500,000? Are there half a million barbarians in the whole of England combined?

Your old man is now 500,000 laborers, and if you don't have enough, you can find a way to make up for it yourself or let me get it for you? ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Naturally, your military government will figure it out by itself!" Either get back 500,000 laborers, or the household department will cut next year's military spending, you think for yourself! ”

Zhang Zhiji looked pitiful, and turned his gaze to Emperor Chongzhen with a plea for help - the bad head of Zhujingguan was opened by your old man, and you can't leave it alone now......

Emperor Chongzhen, who was unhappy with Zhang Shize, had long hated Zhang Zhiji, and now when he saw Zhang Zhiji's eyes asking for help, he immediately picked up the teacup with a smile on his face, and motioned for Zhang Zhiji and Lu Xiangsheng to get out of here.

This kind of headache, you have a headache yourself, slowly tear the skin, slowly tear up, I just need to mediate in the middle at the end, so I don't care how you have a headache now!

Just after leaving the palace, Zhang Zhiji said with a gloomy face: "Two hundred thousand, the barbarians of this expedition to England, the military government only guarantees the number of 200,000 laborers, and there is no way to do more."

In addition to whether there are so many laborers in England, there is also a problem that there are 500,000 laborers, and there is no way to transport them back to Daming at the moment. ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "The old man naturally knows, the combined capacity of the three fleets, and then counting the ocean-going transport fleet of the household department, 500,000 barbarians have to be transported dozens of times." ”

Zhang Zhiji's face is even more ugly - you old man still know the difficulties here? Then you still bring it up, don't you deliberately embarrass me Zhang Zhiji?

Seeing Zhang Zhiji's ugly face, Lu Xiangsheng stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the guide, and said, "Xinming Island, which of the vassal kings above doesn't have a small fleet in their hands?" In addition, they still have more big ships for transporting goods like Fu boats, and hundreds of thousands of barbarians, is it still a thing? ”

Zhang Zhiji said: "Why is it not a problem?" Even if the problem of transportation is solved, what about the number of barbarians in England? Is there a half a million as much? Anyway, at most 200,000, or how many count, specify 500,000, don't even think about it! ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly sighed: "It's not easy for the old man." Look at it, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and even the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War, which of these ministries does not need labor?

The soldiers below always want to kill all the barbarians and save their worries, and the old man also knows that the barbarians have killed all the barbarians, but in fact? Kill all the barbarians, who do you let do the dangerous work of digging mountains and wells? The people of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Curling his finger and gesturing towards the imperial city behind him, Lu Xiangsheng continued: "How many barbarians die, that lord won't care, but if the people of the Ming Dynasty suffer a lot of casualties, can that lord not care?"

When the time comes, other people's hearts will be uncomfortable, and the two of us will still be able to please them? Think about that kid in Broad & Bright, he had already annoyed His Majesty because of the eldest princess, and now if there are no more enough laborers to apologize, do you think this matter can be passed? ”

Hearing Lu Xiangsheng's words, Zhang Zhiji suddenly felt even more painful.

Zhang Shize, that little bastard, in a place as big as the capital, can't you harm whose girl is it? Why did you climb the eldest princess all of a sudden?

This!

After scolding in his heart, Zhang Zhiji spoke: "Then how many are counted, don't tell me anything about 500,000 400,000, I won't tell you 200,000 300,000, how many can we catch?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "That's also done, if there are 100,000, catch 100,000, and if there are 1 million, catch 1 million." However, you have to tell the soldiers below, don't just think about fighting and killing, but also change your brain! ”

After Zhang Zhiji, who was in an unhappy mood, returned to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, he naturally sprayed other big and small leaders wildly - he was angry with Emperor Chongzhen, and he was squeezed by the surname Lu, and these people under him still think about it?

But Emperor Chongzhen in the palace looked at the map for a long time, and suddenly said again: "Where are those two little bastards?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen's words were a bit clueless, but Wang Chengen, who had been following Emperor Chongzhen, knew what Emperor Chongzhen wanted to ask, so he immediately bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor, the two princes just passed Nanjing three days ago, and they are still heading south. ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said with some curiosity: "After Nanjing, you have to go south?" Did these two little things go to worship the ancestral tomb? What do they want to do when they go south? ”

Wang Chengen bowed down and said: "Emperor Qi, the two princes have already worshiped the ancestral tomb and the filial piety tomb. As for going south, the direction is Myanmar. ”

Myanmar?

Emperor Chongzhen was a little confused.

Myanmar has been completely incorporated into the Ming Dynasty since Talung was attached, and became one of the political envoys of the Ming Dynasty, but Emperor Chongzhen was too lazy to rename it, so it has always been called the Burmese political envoys, and it is also the province of Myanmar.

What do these two bastards want to do in Myanmar? Digging for jadeite?

PS: Today's sacrifice to "Great Power Project"

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