Like the last time the army was restored to Taiwan, the crusade against the Japanese army officially began in the farewell of the people of Nanjing......

The real battle is still a few months away.

According to the plan, they had to set sail from Busan, so they had to make some preparations next, and then wait until after the beginning of spring to start and directly attack Xiaguan on an expedition across the sea. However, they did not enter the Kanmon Strait, and they did not attack the feudal domains of Kyushu Island, but on the contrary, they wanted to win over the feudal domains of Kyushu Island. If the war broke out, the Tokugawa clan would definitely ban Nagasaki's trade, so they encouraged people like the Satsuma clan to engage in smuggling, and the Daema merchant ships that had originally sailed to Nagasaki could go directly to Kagoshima.

Zheng Chenggong will handle this.

The Zheng family and the feudal clans of Kyushu Island basically hooked up more or less.

And the fleet went directly north.

Along the west coast of Honshu Island all the way north, land and attack Iwami in depth, be sure to kill people everywhere, set fire to and rob things, preferably to threaten the silver mines. At this time, Iwami was directly subordinate to the Tokugawa family, which is the so-called Heavenly Domain, mainly to control Iwami Ginzan, in short, to learn from the Japanese Kou back then.

But only to attack the Tokugawa family.

That is, the Tokugawa clan daimyo and the pedigree daimyo daimyo domains, the former being the Tokugawa clan and the latter being the fiefdom of the old turtle's cronies, and they and their direct tenryo formed the basis of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule. However, there was no need to attack the outward daimyo who were purely dependent on them, and the Tokugawa family would only be happy if they were unlucky, and eventually fought all the way to Niigata. Then directly occupy Sado Island, use Sado Island as a base, and attack Niigata and other places, which is actually the core control area of the Tokugawa family. Most of the Tokugawa shogunate's relatives and daimyo were concentrated in the middle of Honshu Island from the Noto Peninsula to the east of Niigata, and the purge attacks on this area were equivalent to hollowing out the foundation of the Tokugawa family's rule.

When the Tokugawa family succumbed, the Ming army stopped attacking.

Otherwise, they will not stop attacking.

Anyway, the Wa did not have a navy that could fight with the Beiyang Naval Division, and for the Beiyang Naval Division, the biggest constraint in this way was logistics, but fortunately, the transport ships that set sail from Pusan were pushed by the warm current, and the Tsushima warm current, which separated from the Kuroshio, clinged to the west coast of the Wakuni Province all the way to Hokkaido and even to the Tatar Strait.

Whaling ships all follow this route.

They would then cut through the Tatar Strait to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and then continue south and back on the monsoon and coastal currents.

In this way, the transportation of materials is very easy.

At least one brigade of marines and a detachment were enough to be stationed on Sado Island, while the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division continued to operate on the route between Pusan and Sado Island, in order to force the Tokugawa shogunate to pay indemnities or even cede land to open ports or build concessions. Yang Qing did plan to rob Sado Island to develop gold mines and even engage in a stock offering, but the vast majority of these shares became North and South Two Ocean Company. Now he is a little less interested in this rudimentary means of aggression, after all, taking the gold mine will bring a series of follow-up development problems.

What if the Tokugawa shogunate was allowed to pan for gold?

They mined out the gold, and the Ming fleet found fault with it and beat them to force them to pay compensation, and then the gold went to the Ming Dynasty.

And occupying Sado Island first and then returning it to the Tokugawa shogunate can still give the Tokugawa family hope, and then because of the previous losses, they will continue to desperately pan for gold to make up for the loss of compensation, and when they are almost done, the Ming army will come to harvest again. At the same time, he supported the powerful feudal clans of the Wa Kingdom, but did not allow them to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, but on the contrary helped the Tokugawa Shogunate to maintain their rule. Just as the great powers in history still supported the rule of the Tatar Qing even after the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was easier to exploit the Wa Kingdom with the Tokugawa shogunate as a dog. This land is not very valuable as a colony, but it is still very useful as a semi-colonial and semi-feudal puppet, for example, to engage in the Japanese slave trade or something.

By the way, you can also train the navy, and also train the black-hearted businessmen of the Ming Dynasty.

But the emperor must not be allowed to turn over.

It is necessary to ensure the system of the Wa Shogunate, and it is best to let them return to the Sengoku Ranks......

Although their group of males is one meter four.

In short, in this way, the people of the Japanese Kingdom began to enter the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era in ignorance, and the fleet that set sail from Nanjing, with a soul full of malice from three hundred and eighty years later, went to sow nightmares on this ancient archipelago.

Half a month later, the decree arrived in Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong gave in.

"Xingong, what should I do next?"

Zhang Guowei said with a smile.

He means it's time for you to keep your promise.

"King Qin's westward levy of special treasury bonds, ten-year, annual interest rate of half a cent, ten years later, the principal and interest will be paid off together, a total of 10 million yuan will be issued."

Yang Qing said very simply.

"Ten million isn't enough, right?"

Zhang Guowei said.

Li Zicheng originally asked for 15 million stone of grain, but at present, the price of grain has always been maintained at one tael of silver or one new dollar per stone, and it has not dropped after the autumn harvest. The main reason is that there are more hoarders waiting for the price to rise this year, and secondly, the disaster situation in Shandong has not been alleviated, and it is still necessary to continue to purchase grain from the imperial court for disaster relief in various places. In the past, who cared if the soldiers were full, but now the soldiers have to eat, and those who have earned money by working have to be full, even if ordinary people have a good life, they have to eat.

And then the food is not very abundant.

After all, people in poverty don't eat as much as they eat in a normal state.

This is also due to Yang Qing's prohibition of alcohol.

Otherwise, the rich people in Jiangnan alone would have to drink millions of stone rice every year.

Now they are forced to drink sweet potatoes and burn them.

Even if Yang Qing made sure to suppress the price of grain, Li Zicheng would only accept a discount of one stone and one tael, so he would still have fifteen million, which was the minimum that Li Zicheng could accept. What he wants here is to exchange fifteen million stone of grain in the past, and now he will buy it in batches after exchanging it at a discount, and as a result, he will bear the transportation costs, even if the price of grain falls in a few years, it will make up for this at most.

So no matter how low Li Zicheng is, he will not accept it.

In other words, there is a shortfall of 5 million in addition to the national debt, and the donation campaign called for so far has received barely 1 million.

That's a four-million shortfall.

"Dongyang Gong, you first ask God to bless the sale of this 10 million treasury bonds!"

Yang Qing said.

Zhang Guowei smiled awkwardly.

Indeed, it is still unknown whether this 10 million can be sold! First of all, the Daming treasury bond system is actually Yang Qing's personal credit guarantee, although he doesn't want to admit it, he also knows that this is a fact, but this fact is a bit embarrassing. So far, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty has authorized the Imperial Bank to issue a total of 5 million treasury bonds, and the reason why it has been sold smoothly is largely because everyone knows that Yang Qing is a master of playing economics. He brought economic prosperity to the Ming Dynasty, and economic prosperity means that the imperial court's finances are guaranteed, and there is no need to worry about the money not being paid, and Yang Qing's personal reputation is also a golden signboard.

But what if after the return of the Son of Heaven Longxing, he fell in the infighting and recovered?

What about the restoration of the Ming Dynasty and the income of five hundred?

As far as the terrible rotten virtue of the household tax at the time of Chongzhen, it would be hellish if this national debt could be recovered!

It's a risky investment!

Even if the Son of Longxing comes back, which day will he really not be able to pay it back, it is also possible to simply not admit it, if he really wants to take Yang Qing, he will simply put the responsibility on Yang Qing, this is Yang Rebellion when he was in charge of the government to deceive you to fill your pockets, the emperor doesn't know anything, you look for him to go! Why did Yang Qing ask me to repay the money he borrowed? Whoever borrows it, you ask for it, the household department, the household department Shangshu Gao Hongtu is against the party, come to someone, and take this anti-party house together.

"Dongyang Gong, 10 million taels is the limit I can get, no matter how much I can't do!"

Yang Qing said very sincerely.

"Xingong, but this has to be solved after all!"

Zhang Guowei also said sincerely.

"It's not without a way, one is to wait for the end of the crusade against the Japanese state, and then ask the Japanese people for five million taels of indemnity to make up for it."

Yang Qing said.

"What years and months will it be!"

Zhang Guowei said dissatisfied.

What's more, it's hard to say whether such a huge sum of money can be knocked out! The Wa country was not a soft persimmon, but it took seven years of fighting to completely drive them out of Korea.

"Then you can only raid the house!"

Yang Qing said very simply.

"Where is there anything to copy, and who hasn't copied it?"

Zhang Guowei said angrily.

"Well, think of a way, there will always be, anyway, I have nothing to do, the limit of the treasury bonds that can be sold is 10 million, no matter how much you don't even have to think about it, even 10 million can't be guaranteed. Others who can get the silver quickly will either raid the house or go out to rob it, just these two methods, the rest I can think of is to gather the Nanyang Navy Division to raid Guangzhou to copy Gui Yi and the Guangzhou gentry, and it is estimated that five million can be copied! ”

Yang Qing said.

"That's too risky!"

Zhang Guowei said without hesitation.

"Why don't we copy the temple property? Hasn't your Jinyi Guardian Sectarian Department completed the supervision of temples in various places? Although their fields have been cleared, there is still some silver in the cellars of those temples, right? Why don't we copy it? ”

He also showed a dark side.

"This requires the cooperation of local officials and local gentry!"

Yang Qing said.

"Please rest assured, welcome is the most important thing, both the government and the opposition of the Ming Dynasty and the government and the people should work together, the monks are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they should also have the money to contribute power, the local officials and gentry are well aware of the righteousness, and they must fully cooperate with the Department of Education and Management."

Zhang Guowei said righteously.

Anyway, there must be someone who makes a sacrifice, since the gentry can't make this sacrifice, then they can only grieve the masters, there are so many temples in the Ming Dynasty, who doesn't hide tens of thousands of taels of silver underground. Before, the Jinyi Wei was alone, and at most they checked the land, but most of these things they couldn't get out, but it was different with the cooperation of local officials and gentry. The local gentry who are familiar with their details should lead the party, the local officials lead the officials, the Jinyi Weijian Temple leads the militia, and the rest is to dig three feet into the ground one by one!

If you can't dig it out, you have to use some means!