March class teacher, go south to make money!

This is not something Zhu Cihong said casually, but is looking for an excuse for the permanent southward relocation of the Ming capital.

Beijing has been the imperial capital for more than 200 years! Moreover, it is in the so-called northern country, and the capital is here, which on the surface seems to be conducive to mastering the strong army of the world. And with a strong army, the imperial power can be permanent!

Therefore, as early as when Emperor Zhu launched this Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, there was a call for Song Kai to return to the capital in the Ming Dynasty, and this call was still very loud!

Not only did many of the northern nobles and warriors who followed Emperor Zhu south, want to return to the familiar city of Beijing after the war. Even many officials from the wealthy towns of the southeast advocated the return of the capital. Only Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen, Zheng Jiangong, and Shen Tingyang represented the officials of the North and South Oceanic systems, and a few southern officials such as Huang Zongxi and Luo Dagong advocated taking Nanjing and Wuhan as the permanent eastern and western capitals of the Ming Dynasty.

And Zhu Cihong was also a little shaken on the issue of whether to return the capital, so that he did not change Beijing to Beiping, and still maintained Beijing's status as the capital.

However, the sky-high bills handed over to Emperor Zhu in the spring of the ninth year of Hongxing made him realize that the foundation of the Ming Empire was no longer in Beijing, but in Nanjing!

Regardless of the outcome of the dynasty that set the capital of Nanjing in history, Emperor Zhu had no way to move the ruling center of the Ming Dynasty back to Beijing.

Even if the dark clouds of "King Jinling's gloomy harvest" hovered over the head of the Celestial Empire, there was no way for him not to return to Nanjing.

Because his Celestial Empire is turning into a gold-swallowing beast, there will be more places to spend money like water in the future!

"Huang'er, do you really want to go back to Nanjing in March?"

In Shuntian Mansion and Changping Prefecture, Emperor Chongzhen, who had entered the Tianshou Mountain Mausoleum Area surrounded by thousands of forbidden troops and officials, finally couldn't hold back, and also talked to Zhu Cihong about the return of the class teacher to Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong's brows were locked, as if he was preoccupied. He was mentally calculating the cost of repairing the Twelve Tombs of Tianshou Mountain and the cost of maintaining it in the future - another astronomical amount!

The Twelve Tombs of Tianshou Mountain have been pinched in the hands of Dolgon, the "Faqiu Emperor Ama", for so many years, and Li Zicheng was set on fire before, so you can imagine what it will look like. The only thing that is gratifying is that Faqiu Emperor Ama still left a line, and did not let the emperors of the Ming Dynasty expose the corpses in the wilderness - after digging the grave and stealing the treasure, he also put the corpse back in the coffin and left it in the underground palace, and also sent the army to guard the mausoleum area to prevent people from taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Therefore, although the emperor's mausoleum in Tianshou Mountain has been badly destroyed, it is still there after all!

However, Zhu Cihong will not thank Dolgon for this, because the mausoleum is still there, the bones of the first emperors are still there, and Zhu Cihong, the "twenty-five filial piety" emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has to pay to rebuild the imperial mausoleum.

Back then, he only promised Zhu Yuanzhang to rebuild the imperial tomb, but now why are there twelve more imperial tombs of the first emperors to be repaired?

Even if one emperor only spends 500,000, twelve emperors are six million! And after the repair, you have to spend money to maintain, and every year you sacrifice and sweep, which is a large fixed expenditure!

I vomit blood just thinking about it!

When he was depressed, he heard the profligate Emperor Chongzhen mention the return of the class teacher. At this time, he must be in a bad mood, but he can't show Chongzhen's face, there are a lot of loyal ministers behind him, everyone knows that Zhu Cihong is filial, and this character can't collapse......

"Yes, father, we've been away from Nanjing for so long, it's time to go back and have a look." Zhu Cihong smiled, "And we overspent the Northern Expedition this time!" I spent too much money, and I couldn't afford it financially, so I had to go back to Nanjing to find money. ”

Change?

Emperor Chongzhen trembled when he heard these two words-there is not much savings in the emperor's private pocket!

Zhu Cihong didn't think about emptying Chongzhen's pockets, he was twenty-five filial piety, so he was embarrassed to do this? But he still has to talk to Chongzhen about how much the Ming court spent in the Northern Expedition!

It is not only for Chongzhen, but also for a group of loyal ministers who followed Emperor Zhu to Tianshou Mountain to kowtow to the emperors.

"The cost of moving towns and sending troops to Mobei and Horqin from Anbei, Beiping, and Daning is 1,706,000 taels. This does not include the cost of moving the Huaibei Domain to Daning, if you count this amount, it will be more than 20 million taels! After completing the relocation of towns and the use of troops, the imperial court had to contribute 5 million per year to maintain the operation of the three feudatories. In addition, the Chahar and Tumut departments had already received a reward of more than 800,000 taels before, and after they took Mobei, they could still get 740,000 per year.

This is the cost of the northeast, the one-time expenditure is about 21 million, and the maintenance cost in the future will be at least 5.7 million a year!

It's even more powerful in the northwest! Liangguo fair Anxi pulled a deficit, and the imperial court had to make up for him more than 3 million taels, and it cost 10 million taels to move 120 thousand households to Anxi. The towns of Anxi and Hexi also have to subsidize 2.5 million yuan every year.

He paid for the silver that the Tang King moved to Shuofang, but in the future, the imperial court had to subsidize Shuofang with 300,000 taels every year.

Beiting also spent more than 500,000 yuan in the Western Regions, and the imperial court also had to supplement them, and in the future, it would give 450,000 yuan to the Jungar Ministry every year. In addition, the imperial court also needed to build new Broken Leaf City, Yining City, Tingzhou and other cities on the territory of Beiting Town, which also cost a lot of money.

The two generals Shang and Kong and the king of Chongqing had to spend money on the plateau, boiling tea, inviting the Dharma king, and repairing temples cost at least one million, and sending 15,000 troops to show sincerity had to spend another 500,000, if he talked to Gu Shihan well, he had to reward him with 200,000, and if he didn't speak well, then he had to spend millions......

Together, these are the one-time expenses of 17 or 8 million, and 3 or 4 million must be made up every year. And that's not even counting the cost of building a castle and garrisoning troops in the North Garden! ”

Emperor Chongzhen heard that his heart and liver were cramping, "Why are there so many?" The one-time expenditure is nearly 40 million, and another 9 million to 10 million will be spent every year! This, this, this...... Does the imperial court really have so much money? ”

"Where is this?" Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly, "Father thinks we don't spend money to recover the Central Plains?" The battle of the Northern Expedition began in the sixth year of Hongxing, and it has been nine years since Hongxing! Hundreds of thousands of troops have been sent out for more than two years and six months, and as much as 40 or 50 million dollars of silver have been spent! The recovered land in Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei (North Zhili), and Shuntianfu (Zhifu) will not be expropriated for three years, so the imperial court will have to give another subsidy to maintain the government of the restored land...... The subsidy fee alone is four or five million dollars a year! ”

"That's hundreds of millions of taels to spend? And spend 145 million more every year! Emperor Chongzhen gasped, "Where did the imperial court get so much money?" ”

"That's not all!" Zhu Cihong shook his head, "Now Liaodong has not been recovered, and the Andong Protectorate is still a big deal." In fact, the battle of the Northern Expedition was only half fought, and after the remaining half was played, it was still possible to spend 200 million! ”

Zhu Cihong deliberately raised his voice: "If the imperial court moves back to Beijing, it will definitely not have so much money!" Only when you go to Nanjing, can you have so much money, because the southeast business is prosperous, the hundred industries are prosperous, the sea ships can travel to and from the world, and half of the world's wealth is gathered in Si.

And most of this money is just a walk on the books, and what is really transported to the northern frontier is things, grain, armor, weapons, cloth and silk, and all kinds of utensils. Eighty-nine out of ten of these things come from the four rivers and two lakes in Fujian and Guangdong, and most of the vehicles and ships transporting them also come from the southeast.

So the country is already in the southeast and not in Yanyun! No matter how brave Yanyun is, without muskets, artillery, plate armor, grain, silk cloth, gold and silver in the southeast, he will not be able to become an invincible hero. And in today's world, we can no longer just look at the bitter cold land outside the border and Saipan and ignore the vast blue waves of the vast ocean!

Gold, silver, guns, rice, grain, and horses can come from the sea, and they can go by the sea. The gain or loss of sea power is the key to the rise and fall of a country!

If I want to build the Celestial Empire for the good fortune of future generations, how can I sit in the cold and arid land of Yanyun and ignore the prosperous and rich land of the southeast?

The discussion of Beijing can be suspended! ”