readx; Compared with the public disposal of Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, Zhu Youzhen's military deployment of the war in the southwest is much more secretive. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo's flying pigeon biography has two systems, one is aimed at the imperial court, mainly to report the results of the war; The other set uses a completely different password, and the red lady will directly send it to Zhu Youjian after receiving it.

Like this Chengdu victory, Li Dingguo and Qin Liangyu rushed to Chongqing together, and on the way, they asked Zhu Youzhen for instructions on the next battle plan.

According to common sense, the Qin soldiers traveled thousands of miles, won two great battles in a row, and regained the hands of Chengdu and Chongqing, the two most important cities in Sichuan, and basically stabilized the situation in the southwest. Because the rebels of Xuan Chongming were greatly injured, it was impossible to organize a decent attack, and then as long as they took every step of the way, they drove them back to Yongning's lair, prevented him from wandering around, and finally surrounded Yongning and annihilated them, which is a normal way of thinking.

Therefore, Qin Liangyu proposed that the officers and soldiers should rest for a while near Chengdu, after all, the Qin soldiers and the white pole soldiers were too tired. As for Extravagant Chongming, although he led the remnants of his army to flee into Xishan, it was not his territory, but the sphere of influence of the "Jiarong Eighteen Tusi".

The so-called "Jiarong Eighteen Toasts" is actually the collective name of the toasts in western Sichuan. It is called Eighteen Toast, in fact, there are more than 100 large and small, of which there are four of the largest, namely Mingzheng, Litang, Batang and Dege, each of which is comparable to the strength of Yongning Toast.

Although they are all toasts, all the toasts in western Sichuan are Tibetans, but Yu Chongming is the Yi people, and the relationship in the past was not very harmonious. When Hao Chongming besieged Chengdu, he also wrote a letter asking the Tusi in western Sichuan to send troops to help, but none of the Tusi complied. Now that Yu Chongming has become a lost dog, the toasts in western Sichuan will definitely not be polite to him, and they will definitely drive him out. Therefore, the officers and soldiers do not need to catch up, they can only wait for work near Chengdu.

But Li Dingguo doesn't see it that way. He believed that the emperor had one of the most basic requirements for the First World War in the Southwest, that is, to fight a quick victory. Although Qin Liangyu's strategy is safe, it will definitely drag on for time, and I am afraid that it may not be able to completely pacify Yongning Toast in a few years, not to mention that there is an unscathed Shuixi Toast.

Therefore, Li Dingguo thought that he should take advantage of the fact that Luxury Chongming had not escaped from Xishan, and first besieged Yongning with Li Laiheng, and took Luxury Chongming's lair. As for Chengdu, there is no need to defend it anymore, because the 30,000 troops of Yu Chongming can't defeat Chengdu, and now there are only thousands of remnants left, let alone attack, he may not even dare to pass from the vicinity.

After taking Yongning, the total strength of the Qin soldiers and the white pole soldiers was about 15,000 people, and they could storm Shuixi Tusi. After pacifying Shuixi Tusi, Qin Bing had to hurry back, because Li Dingguo always felt that the thieves entrenched in the mountains of Hubei were a huge threat.

After Zhu Youzhen comprehensively compared the two plans, he still chose Li Dingguo's plan. In fact, he didn't dare to tell Li Dingguo that the reason why he asked the southwest to fight a quick battle was because he knew very well that according to the course of history, the Houjin army might soon cross the Great Wall and march to Beijing! If Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng were trapped in the southwest for a long time, the situation in Jingshi would be even more dangerous.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen also adopted part of Qin Liangyu's opinions, and asked her to send letters to the leaders of the Tusi in western Sichuan one by one as Shi Yan Tusi, asking them to strictly guard the border and not accept the rebels. Zhu Youzhen didn't expect these toasts to help the officers and soldiers exterminate Yu Chongming, his real purpose was to stabilize the toasts, at least let them stop fighting the idea of Chengdu. Otherwise, the front door drove the tiger and the back door entered the wolf, just beat away luxury Chongming, and attracted other toasts, and the court really didn't have the strength to deal with it.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen was busier than Li Dingguo during this time. He is now planning a more important thing, which is to start a business.

In fact, this matter was also forced by the situation. It is also very simple to say, Zhu Youzhen's recent series of large-scale expenditures are all like flowing money, and the treasury of the household department has always been empty, and all funds can only be allocated from internal funds.

After overthrowing Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youzhen originally ate all the fat men in one bite, and even traced and confiscated them, and accumulated 50 million taels of silver in the inner treasury. However, through the normal field endowment, the household department can only collect more than 3 million taels of silver a year, and even if the "three salaries" are added, it will not reach 10 million taels. According to this calculation, the inner treasury is enough to meet the expenses of the Ming Empire for five years.

But this surplus did not last long, because there were so many places to spend money. Shanhaiguan needed a total of about 3 million taels of silver to build a heavy city, expand the seaport, and resettle the border people who moved from the interior; The expansion of Jingshi and the dredging of the Tonghui River are even larger, and Zhu Youzhen estimates that it will cost at least seven or eight million taels.

The import of firearms and warships from the Portuguese, as well as the construction of a shipyard in Tianjin and the construction of the North Sea Fleet, were also extremely important, and Zhu Youzhen set aside 10 million taels of silver. Deduct these three items, and half of the internal silver has been basically consumed. There are still a lot of places that need to use silver in the future, and Tian Fu can't count on it at all, so in the long run, won't it be unsustainable to sit and eat?

To solve the financial problem, it is nothing more than two directions: "open source" and "throttling". Nowadays, it is impossible to "throttle", and there will only be more money to spend later, so the focus can only be on "open source", that is, increasing income.

In the past, if the imperial court wanted to increase revenue, there was basically only one trick: plus endowment, more precisely, plus Tian Fu, which was the case with the addition of three salaries. If we continue to increase the level of land endowment in accordance with this line of thinking, first, the common people will not be able to bear it at all, and second, we will not be able to increase the tax much in a short period of time.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can only set his sights on business. In this era, the GDP of the Ming Empire accounted for one-third of the entire world, and the commerce was extremely developed, and it was a surplus year after year, resulting in a large influx of silver from all over the world into the Ming Dynasty, so the people had wealth, but it was not in the hands of the imperial court. What Zhu Youzhen wants to do now is very simple to say, that is, to do business by himself, rob the business of existing merchants, and put a large amount of wealth of the people into the hands of the imperial court!

However, the Ming Dynasty also had an important national policy of "hiding wealth from the people". The "Emperor's Ancestral Teachings" clearly stated that the imperial court and officials could not compete with the people for profit, so they strictly restricted government-run industry and commerce, and prohibited officials from doing business. If Zhu Youzhen wants to run a "state-owned enterprise" in the Ming Dynasty, first of all, the ministers will have a hard time. When they are convinced, the daylilies are really cold.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen also has a killer feature, that is, the Yellow Sea Business Gang. Since its establishment two years ago, the Huanghai Merchant Gang has flourished under the management of Li Zhenyan and Zhu Cunqi, not only earning a lot of money, but more importantly, cultivating a large number of talents who are proficient in business.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided not to engage in government-run enterprises first, but to use the name of the Huanghai Merchant Gang to lay out business in a private way. Under the repeated planning and discussion of him and Zhu Cunqi, a super-large business predator is about to be born!