"Wu Lao, the Goryeo Kingdom and the Jurchens have been at war for eight years, and they have been defeated and defeated, and their national strength has long been exhausted. Last year, they suffered a disastrous defeat at the front line of the Great Wall of China, Xuande Pass, Dingzhou and other places in the northeast of the Great Wall, and the gateway to Pyongyang in Xijing was opened. And the Liao people used the strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and used the land of the Goryeo people to tempt the birth of Jurchen. And the determination of the Jurchen Tribal Alliance will seize the land of the eastern and western realms of Goryeo in order to facilitate direct contact with us. So we have to follow up and do it on the Goryeo Peninsula. However, the king also knew that the kingdom of Goryeo was small and poor, and there was no oil and water. So I'm going to talk to you about it......"

Wu Haogu, who was still a little seasick, sat in the cabin with a pale face, discussing with Wu Yanen very seriously how to squeeze oil and water from the small and poor Goryeo Kingdom.

It's really embarrassing to say, but the Youzhou republican regime that Wu Haogu had worked so hard to build could not get rid of the bourgeoisie's nature of chasing profits. The republican regime in Youzhou will not fight that kind of war of aggression regardless of the cost, and it really cannot afford to fight.

Although the army of the Youzhou regime is basically a land feudal army, the cost of maintenance is not high. However, it would cost a lot to send an expeditionary force to the land of Goryeo. According to the military service system in Youzhou, whenever they go out to fight, feudal soldiers must receive full military salaries, and the treatment is the same as that of mercenaries of the same level.

It's one thing to stay in the realm to protect your family and defend the country, you have to fight if you don't have money, and you can't do it if you defeat the landlord and bully. However, if you don't give benefits to fighting abroad, you are playing hooligan. Either give money, or divide the land, or give official positions.

You can't get any land to conquer Goryeo across the sea, and Wu Haogu won't be the king of Goryeo, so naturally he doesn't have an official position, so can he give less money?

In addition, the navy of Youzhou is all hired, and it is necessary to build expensive gunboats and warships for them! Even in peacetime, training, patrolling, preparing for war, overseas visits, suppressing bandits, escorting and other tasks are also full, and each task costs a lot, and it is a gold-swallowing beast to escape!

It is precisely because of the excessive amount of money spent that Wu Haogu sold the original more than 100 galleys one after another (not sold out yet), and half of the navy personnel were also given to Ji Yi, and now there are only more than 10,000 people left. Next, he plans to transfer the assets of the Penghu Inspection Division to Su Zhe, Su Shi and his son to reduce expenses.

In addition to the navy and army, the Youzhou republican government has now established a bureaucratic corps with Yuntai Academy graduates as the core. It is responsible for the administration of the republican government and the three prefectures directly under it (Tianjin, Yanshan, and Dalian). It is also necessary to send officials to the Nanyang Metropolitan Government and the four overseas commercial markets through the municipal superintendent to issue subsidies (overseas commercial markets are not necessarily profitable). At the end of the year, it also costs a lot.

In addition, the republican government of Youzhou has to allocate a large amount of education funds every year...... Because Youzhou implements a free compulsory education system for citizens!

Sounds lofty, right? However, only the children of citizen households can enjoy it. Including the children of knights, soldiers, and private households who have reached a certain level of taxation, as well as the children of Yuntai intellectuals, can enter the public Mongolian schools and primary schools in the Republic for free and receive a nine-year education. If they can be admitted to a public school or college, they can also receive free education.

And because Youzhou and the imperial court turned their faces, the "diploma" of the Yuntai Academy was not popular, and many graduates of the Yuntai Department lost their jobs. Therefore, there is no "rich man" who is willing to spend huge sums of money to study on his own. At the same time, in order to retain talents, Yuntai Academy also has to pay professors and lecturers high salaries, and also give them political treatment. Therefore, education expenses have now become a burden on the republican government of Youzhou.

Finally, the infrastructure expenditure of the Youzhou Republican government is also quite large. Wujiakou City, Dalian Guancheng (the Great Wall of Zhendong Guan), Dalian Fucheng (located at the foot of the Great Black Mountain outside Dalian Guancheng), Guancheng of Bauhinia Pass, Guancheng of Yuguan, the road network between the state capitals of Youzhou, the embankment of the Jiehe River and the Yellow River (the Youzhou army occupied the narrow strip east of the Yellow River in Qingzhou) and other projects were not small.

Even if you save money on the four major expenditures of military spending, government affairs, education, and infrastructure, you will have to spend millions of dollars a year. If you are extravagant, you can spend tens of millions.

It's really a lot of money! Looking at the account book sent by Mi Youren and Zhang Xizai, Wu Haogu felt distressed!

Therefore, Wu Haogu, who is the master of the house in Youzhou, has to be careful and live a tight life. Even if you start an evil war of aggression, you have to settle the accounts first. You can't learn from Emperor Yang of Sui, and you can't get along with Goguryeo regardless of the cost.

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"King, Goryeo is really poor! A country with millions of people does not have to be richer than Tianjin City and Jingdong City, even compared with the private pockets of the two of us, it is not as old as the young. I don't know if there is an income of one million in a year? And for us, the real value is wood, fur, and medicinal herbs. However, the furs and medicinal herbs mainly come from the eastern and western realms of Goryeo, and once they fall into the hands of the Jurchens, we will deal with the Wanyan family. Build a commercial market on a small island in the Datong River near Xijing, and you have everything.

In addition, we also have a stronghold in Liaodong. With Dalian City in hand, you can directly buy furs, wood, and crude drugs from the Ma family and the Jurchens of the Hosu Pavilion. Even if there is no Saikyo Commercial Market, it doesn't matter......"

On the Truth, Wu Yanen was talking to Wu Haogu about the oil and water of Goryeo.

"If the shores of Xijing and the Taedong River are returned to the Jurchens, then what is left of the Goryeo Kingdom is the Silla maid, the timber and a little yellow rice, and at most a little seafood, and a few good ports that can lead to Japan and the Whale Sea. Not the rest. ”

At this time, the northwest wind was blowing, and the speed of the Truth with its hard sails was not slow, and the wind and waves at sea were not small, and the ship was undulating and turbulent. However, Wu Haogu's mind was all about the word "money", so he was distracted and not very uncomfortable.

"This battle mainly depends on the Jurchens, let's dispatch the navy," Wu Haogu pondered, "The navy has been operating for many years, and they are all mercenaries, so there is no need to add additional money." As long as there is no loss, nothing is spent. As for the land, about one general would have to be transferred, and perhaps another battalion of knights. Counting the engineers, artillerymen, and baggage soldiers, there were always eight or nine thousand men, and at least ten thousand horses needed to be requisitioned. It is expected that he will have to stay in Goryeo for a year, and the grain and grass can be raised locally, and 2 million yuan must be prepared for military salaries, travel expenses, rewards, pensions, wear and tear of utensils, and horses.

How much is a Goryeo Haeju worth? Although Goryeo is mountainous, Haizhou is a good place, with good ports and fertile fields, no less than Haizhou in our Great Song Dynasty! There are always hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in a state, right? If you plant rice and wheat, there will always be hundreds of thousands of stone a year, right? Isn't it worth 2 million? ”

"Of course 2 million is worth it, but this land is not something that the Wu family can eat!" Wu Yanen said lightly, "If the king wants the Wu family to come forward to clean up the mess in Goryeo, the Wu family has to raise eagles and dogs." All aspects must be settled, and all kinds of expenses will be gone. It's not enough to post the income of Haizhou! ”

Wu Haogu invited Wu Yanen to come and see the cannon just an excuse, and the real purpose was to get the Wu family to pay.

In the future, South Goryeo will be the world of the Wu family's shogunate, and if you spend 2 million yuan to buy a shogunate, how can you not lose money, right?

But Wu Yanen's account is not calculated like this, he calculates it as "cash flow", not book assets. Goryeo is a "company" with a lot of assets, but the cash flow is too low. Moreover, the Wu family can't stabilize the situation just by relying on Wu Haogu's support. You have to throw money into it!

Wu Yanen said slowly: "The Wu family is an outsider in Goryeo, not a first-class gatekeeper, and it is not very capable of convincing the princes if they want to blackmail the Son of Heaven, and there are also patriots in Goryeo. If our Wu family becomes an internal agent, in the eyes of the Koreans, it is undoubtedly a national thief and a traitor...... How much do you have to spend to buy people's hearts? ”

"I have a way to do the matter of righteousness, I can't let Wu Yanpet be a traitor, right?" Wu Haogu said, "Goryeo's Xijing is in the north, Nanjing is in the south, and the real Wangjing Kaijing is in the middle." The Jurchens took Xijing, and the soldiers and horses of Youzhou took Nanjing...... Then the two sides closed the siege and opened Beijing and forced Wang Shimin to surrender! ”

"Shimin" is a fan of Goryeo Ruizong Wang Mata, needless to say, he is also a fan of Li Shimin, but he does not have Li Shimin's ability, and he is losing battles all day long.

"The king wants to destroy Goryeo?"

"Indestructible!" Wu Haogu waved his hand, "It's just that Goryeo is in danger of destroying the country, so that this Wu Yanpet can come forward and lead the strong men of the other martial arts class to sweep away the traitors and revive the dynasty!" ”

Wu Haogu thought very thoughtfully.

"It's ...... like this" Wu Yanen thought for a while, his face ached, "The Wu family will pay 500,000 yuan." ”

This old profiteer is so picky!

Wu Hao slandered for a while, but his face still looked like he was kind and wealthy.

He really has nothing to do with the Wu family in Haizhou, and they have situations in Jingdong Commercial City, Shanghai Commercial Market, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Nanxin Island. Ken's move of the "headquarters" to Tianjin is a great support for Wuhao Gu. Moreover, the Wu family has hundreds of sea vessels, which can be used to supplement the lack of naval strength in Youzhou.

As long as Wu Haogu intends to establish hegemony on the sea, he has to talk to the Wu family well.

"500,000 is too little," Wu Haogu shook his head, "at least 1 million...... Elder Wu, the current situation in Goryeo is not up to us. Wanyan Wu Yashu's army may have already killed Xijing. If we hadn't sent troops, maybe they would have been destroyed! The situation of your Wu family in Goryeo is gone. ”

"That's right," Wu Yanen sighed, "800,000 at most...... Dawang, there are still many rich temples around Nanjing and Kaijing in Goryeo, and if the army sweeps it, there may be 2 million. ”

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