The governor of Lian did not immediately arrange a blind date, but after discussing with the Pi army, he sent 10,000 female soldiers to the camp of the local garrison for half a month of internship in a company.

Half a month later, the female soldier came back to report. It was not until after the female soldiers regrouped that Admiral Lian informed the female soldiers of their true intentions for recruiting them. But after the female soldiers went down, they already knew the true intention of recruiting female soldiers this time.

"Presumably, after the company was delegated this time, you already know the true intention of recruiting female soldiers this time." Even the governor did not shy away from saying.

Hearing Lian Dudu's words, there was a lot of discussion below, and Lian Dudu's words have confirmed everything.

"Before I came, the queen gave me a decree that if there is anyone who is unwilling to stay, you can return at any time, but if you are willing to stay, even if you are not willing to marry, the salary will be paid as usual, and everything will be as usual. But if there are people who are willing to marry, they can immediately get land and houses in Lengzhou......" Lian Du Governor Zhang Yan told the female soldiers exactly what he meant.

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After the general meeting, the governor of the company summoned all the officials above the captain level to meet again. After the governor and the others left, the female soldiers began to talk.

"Xianglan, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to stay first, anyway, I don't have to get married if I stay, if I go back now, I have to be beaten to death by my father, Xiaoyu, what about you?"

"There are four brothers and sisters in my family, I am the eldest, I came out to serve as a soldier, and the monthly salary is enough to support my family, and I will not go back."

"Alright, let's stay together." Xianglan said happily.

"Hmm." Xiao Yu also nodded happily.

While the female soldiers were talking, even the governor was mobilizing the female officers again, and the content of the mobilization was to ask the officers to set an example and encourage the female soldiers to marry the local garrison. And after this time, the ideological work for female soldiers became the most important job. In this era of simplicity and the supremacy of imperial power, some issues are easier to deal with than imagined, and none of the 10,000 female soldiers has expressed their intention to leave for the time being.

Zhu Youxiao's measures played a very good role in stabilizing the frontiers of the empire. Zhu Youxiao has seen many splits in later generations, most of which are caused by national beliefs, which is why Zhu Youxiao has always been vigorously immigrating, and it is also the reason why he did not hesitate to spend nearly seven million taels of silver to deal with this matter.

"This time to recruit female soldiers, Tobe told me that it is estimated that a total of 7 million taels of silver will be needed in the next five years. Why do you think I'm doing this at the cost of seven million? You must know that seven million taels of silver dollars are enough for the empire to launch a war to destroy the country. Zhu Youxiao asked the three princes.

"Those who are not of my race will have different hearts." Zhu Cijiong replied first.

Yes, it is precisely this truth that the situation in Jiaozhi proves that this sentence is true. In the past thousand years, Cochin has been capricious, and it is because the Han people have always occupied only a very small part that Cochin has separated from the Central Plains several times. Zhu Youxiao replied.

"Seven million taels of silver is enough to launch a war against the Mughal kingdom to destroy the country, but after the destruction of the country, how to maintain long-term peace and stability is the biggest problem? If this problem is not solved, the final result will only be the same as the previous dynasty, but it will be torn apart in a few decades. Zhu Ciyan said.

"Yes, that's why I never crossed Tibet into the Mughal kingdom. Lengzhou, Xipor, Alaska and other places are sparsely populated, and what we have to do is only to immigrate, without considering the problem of the proportion of Han Chinese, but the problem of immigration in Indochina and other places is more complicated, which is the reason why I have always acquiesced to the killing of the army. ”

"In addition, for the Mughal Dynasty, I may not have the opportunity to use troops against it, as for what to do with it in the future, you have to wait until you decide. However, after the war with the Russians, we will disarm, and the military expenditure is too large, which has always been a burden on the empire, and I will implement the policy of elite soldiers, control the standing army of the empire to less than one million, and save the military expenses for immigration. ”

"Father, the minister thinks that the military expenditure of 60 million taels is not too much, and the father once said that the military expenditure is within a reasonable range of 10% of the treasury revenue, if the father wants to disarm, the minister thinks that it is better to let the army that is ready to be dismantled go to the frontier tuntian." Zhu Cijun suggested.

Up to now, the empire's annual military expenditure is between 60 million taels and 80 million taels, which is not high for the empire's annual fiscal revenue of nearly 1 billion taels, but the empire needs too many places to use money, so that military spending has been criticized.

"Tzu Yan's suggestion is very good, I can consider this matter. Speaking of the treasury revenue, I have to ask, the empire's annual fiscal revenue of nearly one billion taels is dozens of times higher than before, and the empire's land endowment is the lowest level in history, why is this happening? ”

"The empire's current tax revenue comes from commercial tax and industrial tax, while in the past, the empire's tax revenue came from land endowment, and such an embarrassment will occur when agriculture is heavy and commerce is suppressed." Zhu Cijiong said.

"I heard from the merchants that the price of the silk produced by the empire was doubled when it was shipped to Batavia, and if it was transported to the West, the price was already more than five times, and there was a huge profit from the merchants, and the people received less than one-ten-thousandth of the annual income from farming." Zhu Cixuan was finally able to say a word.

"I heard that Dongying, which is a strip of water, has a treasury income of 10 million taels a year, and compared with the empire, Dongying is inferior to the empire in terms of area, population, industry and commerce, and if it is converted, the empire's annual treasury income should reach 1.5 billion to 2 billion taels of silver dollars is a reasonable range. In the past, it was said that agriculture was heavy and business was suppressed, but in fact, the profits of commerce were taken away by the bureaucrats and businessmen, and the imperial court did not even get one thousandth, and when the empire was in trouble, they only cared about themselves, and did not care about the life or death of the imperial court at all, so industry and commerce should develop, but the taxes that should be collected must not be less, and before I abdicated, I would raise taxes again, and increase the taxes to one ten. ”

"My father assumed in his book "Economics" that there were ten kinds of taxes, so why not try it?" Zhu Ciyan asked curiously.

"You also know that it is a hypothesis, which means that it is not suitable for enforcement now, there are too many things involved, but one day it will be the right time for enforcement, and you must not be too hasty in the matter of taxation, otherwise, it will be tantamount to killing the chicken and taking the eggs." Zhu Youxiao emphasized.

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In February, Kyushu launched its final battle against the shogunate. In this battle, Kyushu mobilized an army of 100,000, with Zheng Chenggong as the commander, and Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao as the deputy commanders. On the shogunate side, Masayuki Hoshina was the commander, and Tadashi Sakai was the deputy marshal and led 70,000 troops.

(End of chapter)