Qian Lide saw that the emperor was not going to pursue it, so he looked at Tong Yangjia, and had no choice but to retreat. Fastest updates

Zhu Hongsan looked at these cabinet elders and said: "What Mr. Qu said is very right, I and King Gui are just brothers, and it is really not suitable for large-scale rewards, but after all, the southwest has won the war, and it can be regarded as solving my confidant's big trouble, if there is no appropriate reward, I am afraid that the soldiers will be dissatisfied, so be it!" Official positions above the regimental level will not be rewarded, and all the merits will be recorded in the merit book, and the next meritorious service will be rewarded together! Officials below the regimental level and ordinary soldiers are still rewarded according to their military positions, and the cabinet will reward them according to the rules! ”

The military achievements of the new dynasty are extremely heavy, and this time the reward of 80,000 troops will cost millions of silver dollars, and at the same time, some soldiers who have made great contributions will be given land. The land is good, there are large areas in the north and Liaodong, but this silver dollar is really insufficient.

Ma Mingyuan stood up with a sad face and said, "Your Majesty, if 80,000 people are rewarded according to the previous rules, they will use up five million silver dollars, and this is not counting the land given. Now that the year is over, there really is not so much money in the treasury! ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, it will take more than four months to collect next year's spring levy, and the treasury is really out of money.

"In this way, the reward of silver dollars will be halved and made up with land, is this feasible?" Fortunately, there is a lot of ownerless land in Henan and Shandong, and the Chinese believe that land is fundamental, so the generals and soldiers still like to reward land.

Ma Mingyuan couldn't help it when he heard the emperor say this, but fortunately, there were still a few million taels left in the treasury, and it should be almost enough with the addition of land. Ma Mingyuan originally thought that the emperor was gone, but he didn't expect the emperor's next words to surprise him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today I would like to bring you one of the topics of the war in the southwest, and the other is the issue of Burma. The dispute between me and King Gui is an internal contradiction, but the king of Burma, Mang Bai, does not take my heavenly kingdom seriously, King Gui is bullied by Mang Bai in Myanmar, and his minister Ma Jixiang and others were also killed by Mang Bai, and what is even more hateful is that Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, was also killed! The Mu family is the town of Yunnan for my Ming dynasty, and now they are dying in the hands of these barbarians in Burma, I really can't swallow this breath, so I decided to raise a large army to destroy Burma and avenge the unjust death of my ministers in the Ming Dynasty! ”

Ma Mingyuan had already returned to the class, but now when he heard that the emperor was still going to fight, he immediately stood up and objected: "Your Majesty, you must not raise sword soldiers again!" Now the treasury is stretched thin, and there is really no money for the war! What's more, it was only used in the past, but now it is to destroy the country, although Myanmar is small, but it is a country after all! "Ma Mingyuan's opposition is very reasonable, Myanmar is also a country in a small country, not to mention that Myanmar is good at fighting, and it is easy to fall into the quagmire of war if it is not good.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he heard that the emperor was going to launch a war to destroy the country, he was in charge of the military, and fighting a war meant that the power in his hands increased, and it had nothing to do with him whether the treasury had money or not.

Tong Yangjia stood up and said: "Your Majesty, what Lord Qu said just now is very right, Your Majesty and King Gui are close relatives, and now that the King of Burma treats King Gui like this, how can I not send troops to conscript?" The minister agreed that His Majesty would send troops! ”

Tong Yangjia seems to have forgotten that he was going to kill Qu Shiyun just now, and now he is a master of Qu, as if the two of them are so good.

Qu Shiyun regretted this in his heart when he heard that the emperor still had to fight, Qu Shiyun was a bureaucrat with administrative experience, and he had served as a central official as well as a local official, so he naturally knew that the country had just gone through more than 20 years of turmoil, and the population of the whole country had been reduced by half, so it was really not suitable to raise troops to fight. But just now Qu Shiyun has raised the royal family affection to the national level in order to save King Gui, and now the emperor wants to raise troops to avenge his uncle King Gui, and he really can't say anything about his opposition.

Qu Shiyun had no choice but to signal Li Zhi with his eyes, hoping that his ally, an ally, would come out and speak.

How do you know that Li Zhi didn't look at Qu Shiyun at all, but looked at the sky with both eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. In fact, Li Zhi also knew that he couldn't fight, and the country really had no money, but Li Zhi's Guangdong Party was the weakest, and he was afraid that he would stand up against it and become Tong Yangjia's opponent. Anyway, if there is another fight in the southwest, Guangdong, which is the rear of the country, will definitely become a logistics base, and then its own Cantonese party will be able to reap some benefits.

In fact, it's not just Qu Shiyun who is in a hurry, there are people in the cabinet who are even more anxious than Qu Shiyun, this is Shoufu Ma Mingyuan. Now that the new dynasty has just been established, and the northern provinces are still in ruins, how can they raise troops to fight at a time when money is needed everywhere?

Ma Mingyuan gave Wang Yunchang behind him a look, Wang Yunchang is the cabinet elder in charge of finance and taxation, and it is appropriate for him to come out to oppose it.

Wang Yunchang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now the treasury only has 3.6 million silver dollars, in addition to ensuring the fortune of the former officials of the Spring Fu, it is also necessary to reward the meritorious soldiers in the southwest war, and the minister estimates that there are less than 100,000 silver dollars left. If Your Majesty wants to raise a war to destroy the country again, it will be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the minister will resign! ”

Before the emperor could speak, Tong Yangjia jumped out, pointed at Wang Yunchang and said, "Wang Yunchang, what are you doing?" Threatening Your Majesty with resignation? Don't think that the Ministry of Finance can't be transferred without you, Wang Yunchang! ”

Ma Mingyuan said lightly on the side: "Okay! How about the old man of Wang Ge who resigned from the government and the old man recommended the second assistant to manage the finances? ”

Tong Yangjia shrank his head when he heard Ma Mingyuan say this, not to mention whether he understood financial taxation or not, even if he was called by several other cabinet elders every day, he couldn't stand it.

Zhu Hongsan saw Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia arguing, and he was upset, he didn't know that the treasury had no money, but time waited for no one, and in a few years, the emerging Britain would occupy the whole of India, and it would be difficult to reach out into the South Asian subcontinent at that time. However, these ministers of the DPRK and China still have the idea of being conservative, what can they do?

Zhu Hongsan looked at the old guys in the cabinet, Ma Mingyuan, Wang Yunchang and his gang, and Tong Yangjia were in a mess. Qu Shiyun was in a hurry on the side and couldn't speak, Li Zhi looked at the sky with both eyes and had nothing to do with himself, only Feng Ziyong and Fu Wenlong stood aside and didn't speak.

Zhu Hongsan remembered that Feng Ziyong had been the governor of Liangguang, and Fu Wenlong had been the governor of Nanyang, so they should know the important role of Nanyang to the empire, so it was better to ask their opinions.

"Second cousin, Mr. Fu, what is your opinion?"

Feng Ziyong heard the emperor ask about himself, and quickly stood up and bowed down and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask Your Majesty why he wants to destroy Burma?" Is it really angry for King Gui or does he want to copy the back path of the Dutch? Feng Ziyong had been the governor of Liangguang for several years, and knew that the Nanyang side had confronted the Dutch for many years, during which he fought several naval battles, and they all won and lost each other.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it when he heard Feng Ziyong's question: "Revenge for King Gui is the auxiliary, and the destruction of the Dutch is the main thing!" ”

Feng Ziyong knew in his heart when he heard the emperor say this, he had long known that according to Zhu Hongsan's character, he would never do useless work for a king of Gui, it must be some important resources on the Burmese side, and after thinking about it, only the Dutch in Batavia in the South Seas could make the emperor do this.

"Your Majesty, if you just want to destroy the Dutch, it's simple, and the minister has a plan for Your Majesty!"

"Oh? Second cousin, please speak! ”

"Your Majesty, if you really avenge King Gui, then there is no choice but to raise the whole country's army to attack Burma. Before that year, Zhu Di of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty ordered Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, to be the general of Zhengyi, and Zhang Fu was the right deputy general, and he led 800,000 troops to conquer Annan without conquering Annan. If His Majesty wants to conquer Burma, the minister estimates that at least 200,000 horses! But just if you want to defeat Burma, it's simple, Your Majesty can let Zhou Yu learn from the Tang Dynasty general Xue Wanche, and use tens of thousands of soldiers to send troops to harass every time they are farming, and they can occupy Burma in a few years. ”

Feng Zi used this poison strategy to learn the Tang Dynasty Xue Wanche's battle to destroy Goguryeo, when Tang Taizong used troops three times in the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first years of Zhenguan, and hundreds of thousands of people died without destroying Goguryeo. Finally, in the 22nd year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong sent Xue Wanche, the general of the Right Military Guard, to lead an army of 30,000 to attack and harass, which made the Goguryeo people tired and delayed the agricultural time, and Goguryeo collapsed due to food shortage a few years later. This is the sorrow of a small country and a widow, a large country has a large population, and it is possible to fail once and fail twice, but your small country can only win all the time, and one failure is the destruction of the country.

Zhu Hongsanyi heard that Feng Ziyi's strategy was not bad, although it took a long time, but it was not bad for the past three or five years, and he just took advantage of this gap to clean up the Northwest Mongolian forces and Zheng Chenggong in Fujian.

"Okay, the second cousin is really powerful, but how many troops should I use?"

Feng Ziyong bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Xue Wanche used 30,000 soldiers back then, and the minister estimated that we only needed 50,000, so the treasury should be able to afford it!" ”

Ma Mingyuan looked at the emperor and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you say 50,000 people, the annual consumption will be about three million silver dollars, and the treasury can afford it!" Ma Mingyuan was afraid that the emperor who was so happy would come to Burma for another 800,000 expedition, so he heard that Feng Ziyong paid such a attention and hurriedly ensured that there was no problem with the treasury.

When the matter was satisfactorily resolved, Zhu Hongsan was very happy and said to Ma Mingyuan: "Okay, your cabinet plans to give the Burmese king Mangbai, let him surrender quickly, or the army will go to destroy him!" There is also a will to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Lu Daqi, so that he can take good care of my uncle Zhu Youlang, prepare comfortable horses and boats, and send Uncle Wang to Beijing to recuperate! ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he said to Yao Qisheng, the chief military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department: "In the name of the Military Aircraft Department, I will give Zhou Yu an order, let him transfer a division to Nanyang and hand it over to Wang Jinbao for control, and at the same time start to deal with Myanmar according to Mr. Feng's intentions, and we must ensure that Myanmar cannot collect a grain of grain in the whole country!" ”

Zhu Hongsan's holy decree can be regarded as a bad luck in the whole of Myanmar, which was still in a slave society at this time, with a low level of productivity and a very low yield per mu of grain. At the same time, Myanmar has a mountainous terrain, and the main grain-producing areas are concentrated in the central triangle, which is less than 100 miles away from the Yunnan border. Zhou Yu led his army to harass him everywhere, not for the purpose of killing, but only to burn farmland, destroy tools, and slaughter cattle. After Zhou Yu's scourge, the whole of Myanmar starved to death by one million people that year, and basically one-third of the country's population starved to death, and these accounts had to be counted on Zhu Hongsan's head.

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