"It seems that I dreamed of my ancestors."

Zhu Cihong didn't say it to death at the beginning, although Wang Chengen is honest, he is definitely not a fool. Emperor Chongzhen will use honest people, but he will never use a fool to be the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch and the commander of Dongchang. To deal with this person, you have to coax half-truths and half-truths slowly, and it is best to let him drill into the trap himself.

"Oh." Wang Chengen responded, "What does the ancestor that the thousand-year-old master dream of look like?" Is it the same as Emperor Taizu Gao in the painting? ”

"It's different," Zhu Cihong shook his head and said vaguely, "It's much younger, and it looks fierce." ”

Wang Chengen nodded, noncommittal, "Xu is a thousand years old who is worried about state affairs, so he has a dream at night, right?" ”

He didn't believe that Zhu Yuanzhang would really give his dream to the sixteen-year-old young prince, because Daming still had a young son in the court. Even if the ancestor has any way to turn the tide, he should give his dream to the Son of Heaven.

"Maybe that's the case," Zhu Cihong looked at Wang Chengen seriously, "but this palace still saw a way to live in a dream." ”

"Survival?" Wang Chengen was a little puzzled, "Whose way of life?" ”

"Of course it's Da Ming's way of life!" Zhu Cihong's tone was firm, and he said word by word, "Doesn't Wang Banban think that I am hovering between life and death right now?" ”

Wang Chengen was silent. Who doesn't know that Daming is on the line between life and death? In fact, as early as the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's Zhuxian Town War, the supervisor Hou Sui said that he would give up the Central Plains and focus on the country.

In the spring of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen himself privately discussed moving south with Zhou Yanru, who was reinstated as the first assistant.

And in June of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, when Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly urged Sun Chuanting to go out of Tongguan to fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng, who was in the limelight, Empress Zhou also proposed to move the capital. She was "anxious" and tested Chongzhen and said: "There is still a family in Wunan. At that time, Wang Chengen was by Chongzhen's side.

Seventeen years after entering Chongzhen, more courtiers have realized that "the border is intertwined, and the Central Plains cannot be done", so the proposal to move south has been openly discussed in the imperial court.

However, Emperor Chongzhen never made up his mind and used the cadres to carry out the southward migration. Most of the courtiers were unwilling to bear the charge of abandoning the ancestral tombs, so there was always opposition when the court discussed moving south.

Wang Chengen thought to himself: The prince is also in favor of moving south, but he is afraid that he will be young and light-hearted, so he put forward the proposal of moving south under the pretext of Taizu's dream, right?

"Did the old ancestor mention the matter of moving south in a dream?" Wang Chengen asked tentatively.

Zhu Cihong didn't answer this question, but just handed the chart he had made before to Wang Chengen, "Take a look." ”

Wang Chengen respectfully took the chart, and was stunned again. This method of enumerating the main internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats that are closely related to the research object in the form of charts and matrices, enumerating them through investigation, conducting systematic analysis, and then matching various factors with each other for analysis, is obviously not something that 16-year-old Zhu Cihong can master...... And Zhu Cihong's teachers, as well as the attendants around him, don't seem to be able to do this.

Zhu Cihong looked at Wang Chengen and said eloquently: "I am in trouble with the Ming Dynasty, I obviously see that the army is defeated and will be defeated, and I want to take a closer look, in fact, it is still out of finance. If the imperial court had endless money, the rogues would have been pacified long ago, and the prisoners would have been trapped by the side walls of the fortress long ago. ”

"That's what Chitose said." Wang Chengen replied while frowning and looking at the chart given by Zhu Cihong.

This chart mainly analyzes the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty.

Daming's financial situation is generally relatively healthy!

There are two minor problems: the depletion of cash reserves and the imbalance between revenue and expenditure...... In the eyes of later generations of financial dogs, of course, it is a small problem!

Because the Ming Dynasty basically has no debt, and it also has a huge cash flow, and it also monopolizes the vast market - the tax market of Jiangnan, Jianghuai, Fujian, and Guangzhou!

This was the largest tax market in the world in the 17th century! Moreover, the growth is good, through the export of a large number of silk, porcelain and other goods, the silver of the New World is flowing into the tax market of Jiangnan, Jianghuai, Fujian, and Guangzhou. As a result, these places are able to afford higher taxes...... Of course, the premise is to let Zhu Cihong go to Jiangnan to collect money!

As long as he can go to Jiangnan to take power, he will have the means to receive money from the richest maritime merchants and the big landowners of Sanwu...... Or cheat money! That's what he did in the Hereafter!

Zhu Cihong stood up, put his hands behind his back, and paced in the main hall while talking eloquently: "In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, various taxes and additions were worth more than 10 million taels of silver. Because the Central Plains, Shaanxi, Huguang and other places fell into war, and Beizhili was plundered by the captives in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, so they were in arrears in large quantities. Of the more than 10 million received last year, most of them came from Nanzhi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and other places in the southeast.

However, the southeastern anointed land has borne so many taxes and levies, but it is stable as usual, and there is no disaster of displacement. This shows that there is money in the southeast, which is enough to bear all kinds of taxes and levies!

The southeast is stable, there are no rogues, no ugly, no vassal kings, no catastrophes, and even the Haikou have been pacified by Zheng Zhilong, which is completely a scene of peace and prosperity. Therefore, while the imperial court collects huge taxes in the southeast, it does not need to spend much, and the income is almost pure profit! ”

Zhu Cihong paused, and then asked, "Wang Banban, do you know where the money of the imperial court is mainly spent?" ”

"Alas," Wang Chengen sighed, "I spent a lot on the Liaodong War and the suppression of bandits in the Central Plains, and I also spent a lot of Lu rice on the vassal king." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, "Yes!" The imperial court collected huge taxes in the southeast and spent huge sums of money in the Central Plains, Northwest China, and Liaodong...... The income from the southeast is not enough to meet the expenses of the Central Plains, the northwest, and eastern Liaodong, and the finances are out of control. If the finances are out of control, the soldiers will be short of pay and weapons, the refugees in the Central Plains and Northwest China will not be able to provide relief, and they can only rise up, and there will be no money to strengthen the Liaodong Wall. War is naturally erosive and cannot be done! ”

Wang Chengen was silent.

Zhu Cihong then asked: "Wang Banban, how much money do you think the imperial court needs to defeat the rebels and the ugly people who have become big at the same time?" ”

"This ......" Wang Chengen still couldn't answer.

Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly, "The battle between the official army and the rogues is actually more victorious than defeated. If it weren't for natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the imperial court had no money to provide relief, the rogue would have been pacified long ago. However, the officers and troops fought with the captives, but there were few victories, and they were defeated and defeated many times! As a result, the elite officers and soldiers who could be used to suppress bandits were all thrown on the battlefield where they fought with the ugly captives.

From this, it is not difficult to conclude that the combat power of the elite of the officers and soldiers is stronger than that of the rogue, but it is much weaker than that of the prisoners. If you want to use the official army to resist the ugly, you need to have several times the enemy's elite.

According to the Tang newspaper, the governor of Jiliao, there are now 80,000 thousands of people in the so-called Manchurian Eight Banners, and there are more than 10,000 soldiers of the Sanshun puppet king. The elite of the soldiers should be around 100,000! In addition, there are tens of thousands of Mongolian tribes who are dependent on the captives. In total, hundreds of thousands of soldiers can be dispatched!

If our officers and soldiers can fight two against one, we need 300,000 elites! If you need three against one, you need 450,000 elites!

In addition, the rogues have become bigger, and they are waving tens of thousands of troops! If you want to destroy it, I am afraid that it will also need tens of thousands of elites.

Combined, the imperial court needs 600,000 elites to wipe out Liao! How much does it cost to raise 600,000 elites? Can the imperial court take it? Even if it is not peaceful and only maintains the situation, two or three hundred thousand elites still need it. If the salary is paid according to the treatment of Guan Ningjun, how much will it cost to spend two or three hundred thousand elites? Is it possible for the imperial court to bear it? ”

Wang Chengen shook his head.

Zhu Cihong stopped, looked at Wang Chengen and said: "Since we can't take it out, then we can only temporarily give up the loss-making Central Plains and Liaodong, and retreat to the southeast where we can still make a lot of money." As long as the southeast is in hand, the annual income of 20 million yuan can still be operated. With 20 million, my Daming's ZTE is still promising! ”

In fact, this is the simplest asset restructuring, giving up the unprofitable market and business, and focusing on the profitable business and market.

"But......" Wang Chengen frowned deeply, "but if you abandon Beijing, will you be able to hold the southeast?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Cihong is very sure, "The Central Plains and Liaodong conquests relied on the horse army that came and went like the wind. The southeast water network is all over the place, and there are the Yangtze River, the Huanghuai (at this time, the Yellow River seizes the Huai into the sea, and the Huanghuai River is integrated in the downstream), the canal is the main trunk, and the sea is relied on. Therefore, the southeast battle is defended, and the benefit is in the water division. However, there are no sailors in the Ming Dynasty, but I have three sailors in Fujian, Guangdong, and Tianjin to rely on, and there is a fleet under the governor of Caoyun, which can also be changed to a sailor. As long as it is used properly, it can rely on the Yangtze River, Huanghuai and the sea to protect Antai in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty. ”

The sailor is the core competitiveness of the Ming Dynasty! What are the two landlubbers of Dolgon and Li Zicheng going to fight?

Zhu Cihong continued to analyze: "In addition, once the rogues enter Beijing, then they have to face the ugliness!" There is a rebellion in the north and a fight with the ugly, can't I recuperate in the southeast? This is the situation when Emperor Taizu Gao started in the southeast and had the world!

Now there is no money in the Central Plains and Liaodong, and after so many years of fighting, all the money has become nothing. Is it in the hands of the imperial court, but there is money in the hands of the rebels? Chuang Rebellion also shouted everywhere that Juntian was exempt from taxation and that he would not be levied for three years, and when he entered the city of Beijing and faced the surging ugly captives, he should know the suffering. When the time comes, it will be too late to resist the ugliness, so how can there be any spare strength to march south?

And when the imperial court went to the southeast, there was no need to fight with the captives, and there was no need to support the feudal royal clans everywhere, and even the thieves were unable to go south. ”

The Central Plains market is not easy to do! The competition is fierce! In addition, the cash flow that can be generated is small, and the various expenses are very large, which is difficult to maintain.

Zhu Cihong's tone was excited, his eyes were far-reaching and long, he looked at the air and didn't know where to go, and slowly opened his arms, "So as long as the imperial court moves south, the captives will become the Mengyuan of the past, and the Liukou will become the Red Turban Army of the past, and my Ming Dynasty will be able to rise in the southeast like Emperor Taizu Gao!"

Wang Companion, this is the dream of this palace! It is also the way of life pointed out by Emperor Taizu Gao for my Ming Dynasty! Do you see the path pointed out by Emperor Taizu Gao, is it right or wrong? ”

Wang Chengen already has a feeling of being out of breath - this is suffocating for a dream!

The old eunuch cried with joy: "Emperor Taizu Gao really dreamed!" Da Ming is saved! The emperor saved ......"