In order to raise more funds and material reserves to ensure the smooth progress of the Northern Expedition.

On the day of the Chinese New Year Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Ming court issued an edict to the whole country to issue two-year and three-year court bonds to the people of all prefectures and states of the Ming Dynasty, with an interest rate of up to one cent.

In order to ensure that the government does not lose its trust to the people, the imperial court has prepared two ways to repay debts: one is the normal repayment with principal and interest at maturity; The other is to repay with land, and the land to be repaid is the land that is still in the obstruction.

This is a way to raise money to satisfy hunger, and it is completely dependent on the credit endorsement of the imperial court.

However, the Ming army's experience of winning battles over the years has provided the strongest guarantee for this bond issuance.

Any Ming people have no doubt that the Ming army can calm down and block Bu in one battle.

As a result, at least more than 60 percent of the people chose to repay their debts by land, because the land prices announced by the imperial court were too attractive, only one-tenth of the existing land prices.

In the Ming Kingdom, the people's lives have been stable in recent years, especially the land price in the south of the Yangtze River has risen to a peak, an acre of barren dry land has required more than 20 taels of silver, but the transaction price of an acre of fertile land has been as high as 50 taels.

The high price of land has made it more and more expensive for wealthy landlords to enclose land, so that in the end it is difficult to buy land.

As a result, the money of the rich cannot be purchased into fixed assets, and a large amount of money is hoarded and cannot be effectively circulated. The interest rate on private loans has been as low as 4%.

The issuance of bonds by the Ming court effectively mobilized this huge amount of hoarding funds, coupled with the extremely low announced land prices. The interest on the loan has more than doubled, and both the wealthy and the common people are enthusiastically buying bonds.

In some prefectures and states, there has even been a rush of people to buy. Although everyone knows that the war has not yet begun. The land is still in the hands of the diviners, but this can not stop the people's desire for land at all, no one doubts the defeat of the war, everyone thinks that as long as the Ming army is dispatched, it will be a success.

The first day of February.

Baili Wuji issued an order to send troops, and according to the prior deployment, the new armies of Baili Yi, Yunyang, and Ding Sijin attacked the territory of Zhubu from three directions.

And at this time. In just half a month, the Ming court has issued bonds of 380,000,000 taels of silver, and the crowd of subscriptions is still endless.

Although the territory of the obstruction is vast. But according to this trend and the price of land, I am afraid that in half a month, the land will be carved up, and the funds raised will be enough to sustain the war. As a result, the Ming court wanted to suspend the issuance. But was stopped by Baili Wuji.

Baili Wuji believes that the place of obstruction is in the north, and there are few people, and only by mobilizing a large number of southerners to go north can this contradiction be resolved. After a few years, the Han Chinese would thrive on that land. That's how you can really control that land.

For this reason, Baili Wuji also mentioned that the people of the Ming Kingdom were willing to take the initiative to move north, and each person per capita would be given five acres of land for free for planting rations, and the five acres of land would be exempted from taxes for three years.

But this mention was quickly stillborn, because Xu Shiming and others tried their best to oppose it, and they were reluctant to sell the land at a low price in the form of bonds, so they thought of suspending the issuance of bonds.

Xu Shiming and the three of them questioned what the court could get in this battle, they really couldn't figure it out, spending such manpower and material resources, hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of people, marching thousands of miles, a war, the biggest benefit was the wealthy families and people among the Ming people, which was just an empty joy for the imperial court.

The money raised was spent in the war, the casualties needed to be compensated, the meritorious ones needed to be rewarded, and perhaps the Ming State had to pay for the surplus money of the Ming State's already stretched treasury.

This war was different from the battle against Liao, which was to recover the lost territory and solve the threat of the Hu people in the northern part of the Central Plains, even so, the Ming State did not really launch a war of destruction against Liao, but after the decisive battle was won, it was left to its own devices.

Although Zhu Bu colluded with the Liao State in the previous two years and participated in the war against the Ming State, compared with the Liao State, there is a natural barrier in Hexi, and it is undoubtedly unimaginable to really occupy the Central Plains. Therefore, many officials in the imperial court couldn't figure out why Baili Wuji wanted to perish and block divination.

This war was characterized from the beginning as a war for the annihilation of a nation and a state, and now it is not enough to see enough benefits when it comes to dividing up the fruits of victory in advance.

When Baili Wuji faced the questions of Xu Shiming and others, he only smiled, and he pointed to a certain place on the map on the dragon case and said, "The benefits of the imperial court are here." ”

Xu Shiming and the others stepped forward to take a look, and suddenly realized that the place that Baili Wuji was pointing to was the cities of Tuboluo.

Although these two lands are not as fertile as the land of the Ming Kingdom, and even a large part of them are desert Gobi, there are countless fertile fields in the oases. There is no more suitable place for free-range animal husbandry.

In order to conquer Tibet, in terms of the route of the new army's march, it was necessary to pass through the Uighurs in Xizhou, so that from north to south, the entire west would be included in the territory of the Ming state.

Xu Shiming and the others looked at each other and laughed, they cupped for a long time, it turned out that what the emperor planned was far from what he could have expected.

As a result, Xu Shiming and others, who received satisfactory answers, began to devote themselves to the grand project of issuing bonds with confidence.

The final result of this bond issuance lasted until the end of the war, and the amount of funds raised was close to an astronomical amount, and there is only one point to explain the problem, that is, all the land of the Ming people had been snapped up, so that the imperial court, for the sake of credibility, could only sell half of the land of the Uighurs in Western Prefecture to deal with the private funds that came to loot.

On the third day of the third month of March, the news of the attack on the Zhabhu from Lake Baikal by the combined forces of the Cannes army first came.

On the ninth day of the third month, the news came that Yelu Shuogu led 80,000 tribal troops to the west to attack the flank.

The two new armies of Yunyang and Ding Sijin set out from Fengzhou and advanced north at intervals of 100 miles on the left and right. Since the strict order of 100 li must be fought steadily, a small fort was built for every 100 li to the north to prevent the rangers from disturbing the flanks, and the journey of the two armies was slowed down as a result. (To be continued......)