Liu Jun is wearing a blue four-regiment dragon with a collar today, a thirteen-section gold buckle and jade belt around his waist, and a black gauze cicada wing crown on his head, which is a more formal outfit.

Seeing the emperor wearing this costume and entering the palace, all the prime ministers and politicians bowed down to greet him.

The Prime Minister's Office does not need to bow down, but can bow.

The right privy envoy, the crown prince Shaobao, and the marquis of Changsha Liu Yunsheng came to the imperial case.

All the ministers looked at him with envy, and in the eyes of everyone, the expedition to Japan was a big bargain for merit. Although Japan fought a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty in Korea a few decades ago, it was not weak, but it was in the former dynasty. A few decades later, the Han Dynasty, which replaced the Ming Dynasty, was thriving, with the largest and most powerful standing army in the world, as well as one of the largest naval fleets of the era.

And Japan, although after Toyosei Hideyoshi, controlled the whole of Japan and established the Edo shogunate, but after these decades, they are still in the same place and have not changed much. Their troops, equipment, and tactics are still the same as they were during the Korean War.

When the emperor first built the navy, he was able to show off his military in Tokyo Bay, and now the Ming Dynasty has an unprecedentedly powerful standing navy, a fleet that can fight across the ocean, and can not beat a few Japanese dwarfs?

It is certainly easier to fight Japan than to fight the Moxi Weirat coalition army, and even easier to fight the Burmese. Whether it is in the northwest or southwest, the plateaus and mountains in those places are all obstacles to the Han army. However, in the East Sea of Japan, the country of archipelagos, it was the easiest target for the Han to attack.

Pick any general, with the giant ships and cannons of the Han Navy, you can defeat Japan.

Going to Japan is completely a selection of military merits.

However, when the emperor appointed Liu Yun to be promoted to marshal, no one spoke out against it. In any way, there is no one more suitable to sit in this position than Liu Yunsheng. Liu Yunsheng is not only the Zong family, but also the Dragon Father, and has held many important positions after the founding of the country. Not to mention the important positions of the chief soldier of the Beiyang Naval Division, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, the commander of the Nine Gates, and the governor of Zhili, he was the right privy envoy he had served before, and he was also the second person in the military.

Liu Yunsheng was only slightly older than the emperor, and he was as tall as his father, Liu Qiao. Liu Qiaozu is more than 1.9 meters tall, and he is not weak at all. Heroic and tall, with a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, and a royal unicorn robe, the more he looks extraordinary.

Liu Jun walked down the imperial steps and came to him.

Each of the six attendants followed with a gold-painted vermilion tray, and a few things were placed in the tray.

A yellow silk edict. It was Liu Jun who worshiped Liu Yun and promoted him to the rank of general of Pingwa. A golden seal of the general of Pingwa, as well as a tiger talisman of the army, plus a Shang Fang sword, nine gold and silver arrows and twelve pairs of royal flags.

Six trays, each with the same in it.

Edicts, gold seals, tiger talismans, Shang Fang swords, gold and silver arrows, and royal flags.

With this set of things, Liu Yunsheng really became the commander of the Pingwu Dangkou, and had the power to make decisions on the fly and act cheaply, and was able to command and mobilize the Pingwu army. Regardless of the Chinese military officers of the Ping Wei Army, they were all subject to their controlled transfers.

"Feng will go all out and never live up to His Majesty's trust!"

"We must have a clear goal when we go to Japan. Do what needs to be done, and do what you plan to do. Liu Jun helped Liu Yunsheng up.

Fu Shan sat on one side, looking at the objects in the tray, his eyes were a little envious. He can also be regarded as from Long Yuanzuo. But he has always served as Liu Jun's deputy, and there is no chance to really lead the party alone. In the court, he is now the left privy envoy. He has long been named a marquis, and he is the first person in the military.

is also the emperor's sister-in-law, Shoufu's protégé, but the more this is the case, the more he hopes to have the opportunity to defend one side and go down for a few years of real training.

This time to go east to Japan, he was going to invite Ying to fight, but in the end the emperor ordered Liu Yunsheng's general.

Liu Yunsheng went out, and the Privy Council could not even go out with the left privy envoy.

Liu Jun also had a lot of thought about the choice of the commander of the Eastern Expedition.

In fact, it is not a difficult task to fight Japan, and any chief military officer can be qualified for this post, but after all, the conquest of Japanese soldiers is a big war next year, and it is not big, but it involves many aspects. In particular, this will be a naval expedition, the main force is the navy, and it is impossible to transfer army generals as commanders.

In terms of the navy, of course, the most senior is Zheng Zhilong, and then those admirals from the Zheng group, and others, such as European naval officers, are mostly in the middle level, and it is difficult to hold the position of commander.

Liu Jun did not intend to let Zheng Zhilong be the commander of the navy, although in terms of performance, he seemed to be the most suitable candidate.

Purely from a military point of view, Zheng Zhilong is the most suitable, and the other generals of the Zheng family are also good candidates. But from a political point of view, Liu Jun must not use Zheng Zhilong to command the Eastern Crusade, or even any Zheng general.

After thinking about it, in the end, Liu Jun decided to use Liu Yunsheng's trump card, and used Liu Yunsheng to lead the Eastern Crusade, which was a knife for killing chickens.

If it's just a pure grab, you can still find a candidate by choosing a random general. But when he was about to prepare to take the whole of Ryukyu and Kyushu, the biggest requirement of this commander was not to win this battle, but how to control the situation and guide the whole situation in the direction that the imperial court wanted.

"To deal with the Japanese people, there is no need to use you as a privy envoy, but what the imperial court wants is not only to defeat the Japanese people, but also to take Kyushu, and in the future, Ryukyu will be incorporated into Taiwan Province as a county, and Kyushu Island will be set up as a separate Han Kyushu Province. It will be very challenging to quickly defeat the Japanese and conquer the Ryukyus and Kyushu without turning Japan into a quagmire of war. ”

Liu Yunsheng has already carefully considered this issue.

If the war were to become a long-term war, and if it provoked resistance from the Japanese people, it would greatly increase the expenses of the imperial court, and even inevitably affect trade with Japan.

If the Japanese then take ships as pirates, plunder merchant ships at sea, and harass the coastal areas of the Han Dynasty, it will be even more troublesome. Although this is very unlikely, even if it affects trade with Japan, it will be a very bad outcome.

The purpose of the imperial court was very clear, not only to subdue Japan, to liberalize trade, to loosen restrictions on the export of silver and copper, but also to seize the Ryukyus, and even the entire island of Kyushu.

This will be a very difficult task, and it will not be easy to get the Japanese to obediently admit defeat. But he figured it out, too. If it is really so easy, the court can just send a general soldier, why do you need to send him out.

"Your Majesty, in the war against Japan, I thought that we should use the two methods of righteousness and oddity, cut off the communication between Kyushu and the rest of Japan with the navy in the front, first attack the coast, and then advance step by step, building fortresses and military headquarters while marching, step by step. Another navy is sent as a surprise soldier. Attacking the coastal ports and cities of Japan from the sea, causing Japan to suffer huge losses in a short period of time, quickly destroying its living forces, and completely hurting them, forcing them to surrender, ceding Kyushu, opening up trade, etc. ”

Liu Jun nodded, this idea is still good.

After all, Japan now has a population of more than 20 million, just in terms of population. It will reach one-eighth of the Great Han. The Han Dynasty was so wasteful in dealing with the Mongols and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had a population of only 2 or 3 million, that it was absolutely unrealistic to directly destroy a Japan with a population of more than 20 million across the ocean.

We want to destroy Japan. It can only be divided into multiple stages, and it must be swallowed, not swallowed. Swallow one piece first, and when digestion is complete. Devour one more piece until you finally destroy them.

Liu Jun wanted to send troops to attack Japan at this time, not only because the Japanese forcibly occupied Ryukyu. It's not because they want to ban the export of silver and copper, although Liu Jun is unhappy, but it can't reach the point where he will send troops to fight a decisive battle.

The most critical reason for this war is that the financial revenue of the Han court will drop sharply next year, while the expenditure is still rising. In the first year of the Long Han Dynasty, the imperial court made a lot of money by collecting the imperial property and official property of the Ming Dynasty, and then made a lot of money by recovering the tax arrears of the landlords and paying taxes on the re-measurement of the deed of the Tianxia Mansion.

Coupled with the military field and the hidden field that was cleared, the Han Dynasty did increase a lot of taxes at once.

But many of these are one-stick deals, and there will be no second one after one is collected.

These revenues accounted for more than two-thirds of the fiscal revenues of the first year of the Longhan Dynasty. After removing these, according to the budgets of various departments for fiscal and tax auditing, the normal tax revenue for next year will be greatly reduced.

Next year's main income will still be the field endowment, about 1.2 billion acres of land out of the country, all the field endowment, together, there are about 500 million silver dollars. This is still an ideal situation, and we have to take into account all kinds of floods, droughts, locust plagues, and so on.

However, fortunately, it was built at the beginning of the new dynasty and had a large number of official fields, which collected land rent in addition to land endowments.

Originally, by receiving the land of the former dynasty officials, confiscated royal families, honorable relatives, and prisoners, as well as the military tun fields, the amount was huge, and the rent collection alone could ideally collect 700 million yuan a year.

However, from the second half of the year, Liu Jun gave land to many Han officers and soldiers, officials and relatives, and distributed a large amount of official land to officials and soldiers, civil and military people, etc.

This move is also to reward the heroes, and also to let the Han Dynasty get more support and support.

In addition, Liu Jun also exempted or exempted the fields in many frontier areas and many traditional poor places.

Originally, the imperial court's one-year land tax and land rent were added together, and all the levies could be about 1.2 billion.

However, after a large number of land divisions and reductions, the number of official fields has now been greatly reduced, and the loss of the large amount of income from official land rent, coupled with the huge amount of land exempted from land grants, will result in the nation's land rent next year will be about 700 million yuan.

If we include the part of the land tax that the imperial court must reduce or reduce after the flood and drought disaster, the imperial court's land income next year will be about 600 million yuan.

600 million silver dollars is also a big number, but compared with last year, the imperial court has opened up a lot of territory, but in just one year, the income from land has dropped by half.

However, some things must be done, such as rewarding the more than one million officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty with fields, which are the foundation of protecting the Han Dynasty.

They can be regarded as being born and dying for the sake of the Han Dynasty, and they deserve it.

Next year's customs, customs and other tariffs will add up to about 80 million, which is a lot more than this year.

Another important monopoly tax on salt, tea, tobacco and alcohol adds up to about 100 million. These are directly operated by the royal family, so there will be no tax evasion in the slightest.

The rest of the industrial and commercial tax revenue is expected to be only about 100 million.

Tariffs, salt tea and other monopoly taxes plus industrial and commercial taxes are all added together, and the revenue is expected to be more than 300 million points next year.

In addition to the land endowment of about 600 million yuan, the estimated fiscal revenue for next year will be less than 1 billion yuan.

On the contrary, it is the imperial inner government, because the emperor directly operates banking, maritime trade, minerals, iron smelting and steelmaking, firearms and military manufacturing, salt, tea, tobacco and liquor monopoly, roads, canals, maritime transportation, postal services, infrastructure and other extremely important business projects, and the profits are extremely high.

Most of these projects operated by Liu Jun Royal are large-scale and high-profit projects.

These operations involve finance, infrastructure, mineral resources, iron and steel industry, military manufacturing and other industries that are most important to the country.

It is precisely because these industries are so special. And many of them are industries with great investment, extremely high requirements for technology, high trust in policies, and key protection, so Liu Jun has not let go, and all of them are operated by him and listed as the emperor's private property.

Each of these industries is extremely important to the state, and Liu Jun is very worried that after the change to state-run, it will be mistaken by those bureaucrats.

These industries have a lot of investment. But the output is also large, and now it can provide hundreds of millions of financial support every year, although these money are the emperor's private property, but Liu Jun is not a stingy ghost, and he will also invest this money in the imperial court. And since these money are considered the emperor's private money, the use of funds does not need to be too troublesome to include in the budget, and the use does not need to be approved at all levels.

These money have become the most active batch of money in Liu Jun's hands, which is specially used for adjustment.

However, next year's expenditure will not be lower than this year's, and there will be several more military deployments next year. Japan in the East China Sea, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Northeast, Mongolia in the Northwest and Moxi, Burma and Vietnam in the Central and Southern Seas, and even European colonists in the South Seas.

Every war. It's all about money.

What's more, the Han itself has a standing army of more than one million, and the cost of maintaining such a professional standing army is extremely staggering.

Next year, immigration and education will be fully launched, and these are also major items that will cost money. Or a new bureaucratic system, with a greatly increased salary of officials, and a lot of new bureaucratic establishments. As a result, the number of officials increased exponentially, and the expenses of the court also increased greatly.

This year, the imperial court has collected more than two billion silver dollars, but less than 500 million silver dollars remain in the treasury account of the empire.

Liu Jun must find a way to get money, there are no local tyrants to fight this year, there is no deed tax to collect, and there are not so many property of vassal kings, Tusi, etc. to confiscate.

And Liu Jun has also planned to build several national transportation arteries.

These transportation arteries take the five capitals of Dahan as the center, and they will connect the 39 provinces of the country together. In Liu Jun's plan, these main roads are the blood vessels of the empire, and where the roads can be built, the actual air supremacy of the Han Empire can reach.

Especially in those newly laid frontiers, especially in the southwest and other places, there are no roads, and those places can be truly controlled.

Now the Department of Transportation has submitted a road from Kunming to Ava, Myanmar, which is listed by the Department of Transportation as the first road in the second year of Longhan, and the first stage is to be repaired from Kunming to Mubang, more than 1,500 miles away.

The second stage is from Mubang to Awa, and the third stage is from Yangon to Haikou.

In this first stage alone, they plan to mobilize 500,000 people in the prefectures and counties near 1,500 miles of the road next year to repair the entire line for one year, and complete the opening of the entire line to traffic by the end of the year.

Not to mention the 1,500 miles to be traversed through the mountains and mountains of Yunnan, the labor costs and food consumption required to mobilize 500,000 people alone are incomparable. Not to mention, a lot of supplies and livestock are needed.

However, if a major road from Yunnan to Burma is not opened, it will be difficult for the imperial court to stabilize Liuwei, and it will be even more difficult to further destroy the Donghu Kingdom and open up the southwest Haikou.

In any case, the road must be built, and the money must be spent.

In fact, in addition to such an important national highway project as Yunnan to Myanmar, even in Yanbei and other places outside the Great Wall of Beijing, it is also necessary to build a national highway, which also requires a lot of money.

There is only so much income in the imperial court, but there are countless places where the money is used.

Liu Jun can't levy taxes on the people, and he breaks the rules. He can no longer forcibly conscript the people to serve for free to build roads, and he can't open this mouth.

Liu Jun's last sight was on Japan.

This time I sent troops to Japan, not to teach Japan a lesson, not to **** prestige. It's for the benefit of real fighting.

Japan is easy to fight now, Japan is quite rich, and Japan has a large population.

Liu Jun is ready to send troops to Japan to grab gold, silver and bronze, and use Japan's rich gold, silver and copper resources to alleviate the shortage of precious metals in the Han Dynasty. At the same time, they also have to rob their population, Liu Jun can't recruit his own people to build roads and mine for free, and the manpower gap is so big.

Then simply rob the Japanese to come back to build roads and mine.

Japan has a population of more than 20 million, and it happens to be an island country on the sea, and the Han Navy is strong, so it is just right to grab it. After robbing it, it was loaded back to Dahan directly by boat, and then rushed to various places to repair roads.

If Kyushu is conquered, the imperial court can also move many poor people from the mountainous areas from the Central Plains, which can not only solve their poverty, solve the problem of food and clothing, but also allow them to be self-reliant in Kyushu, and even provide tax food for the imperial court.

It's going to be a pretty brutal war, but the reality is just that ugly.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi also fantasized about destroying Korea, and then invade China and occupy China. It's just that he invaded the whole of Japan back then, but he also failed to defeat the Ming army that entered Korea to resist the Japanese.

Since Liu Jun has strength, he will naturally not be polite to Japan.

After granting Liu Yunsheng the seal of the letter tiger talisman, the eunuch Xuan Zheng Zhilong entered the palace.

"I have appointed you as the governor of the Central and Southern Military Region, and you have been appointed as the general of Jingnan, and you will be in charge of the three central and southern provinces and be responsible for the war against Burma." Liu Jun also gave Zheng Zhilong six kinds of seals, letters, tiger mansions, and arrows.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong is more suitable to serve as the marshal of the Eastern Expedition, fighting at sea, he is the first person in the imperial court. And Liu Yunsheng's father and brother successively served as the governor of the southwest region, and now the garrisons and generals in the southwest and central and southern provinces are mostly the old departments of the Liu family.

But the emperor finally made Zheng Zhilong the governor of Central South and the general of Jingnan. With Liu Yunsheng as the general of the conquest, he commanded the army to the east. The intention in this is to make the important ministers think deeply. (To be continued.) )