"Isn't it a little unauthentic for the emperor to do this, Jincheng is not worth more than 10 million taels of silver here."

Jay Chou found Sun Chuanzong and them, and immediately conveyed Zhao Hongyu's explanation to them. And after receiving the order of Zhao Hongyu, the 'top boss', Sun Chuanzong, Yang Fengyi and Wu Sangui immediately devoted themselves to investigating the number of people in the rear of the army.

When going to the people in the rear, Yang Fengyi couldn't help but ask.

Yes, there are only more than 300 households here in Jincheng, and the land is also barren and overgrown with weeds due to the war.

But in this way, spring ploughing will be delayed.

From Sun Chuanting, Yang Fengyi knew that Jincheng was used by the emperor as a mortgage. Because the current Son of Heaven Zhu Shangwu borrowed a large sum of money from the crown prince from the Americas.

That's fifteen or six million taels.

That's a lot of money.

You must know that the imperial court's annual tax collection is only more than 3 million taels. And because of some shortfalls in the early years, these silver are simply a drop in the bucket and do not play a big role at all.

With so much silver, how can the emperor and the court pay it back.

When Yang Fengyi thought of this, she felt a little headache.

But fortunately, the biggest headache is not him, it should be Zhu Shangwu.

Yang Fengyi, who figured this out, never thought about it anymore.

If you are not in your position, you can't seek your own politics.

With so much silver, it is not unreasonable for the imperial court to take out a piece of land as collateral.

After all, that's a lot of money.

If the imperial court wants to pay it back, it will take five or six years to 'eat or drink'.

And there is no interest calculated in this.

Sun Chuanting didn't know that Zhao Hongyu lent money to Zhu Shangwu, and the interest was not so high, so it was even more impossible for Yang Fengyi to understand this.

So, based on the experience of private lending, I will measure and judge. The imperial court borrowed such a large sum of silver, and the interest that it wanted to pay was definitely not a fraction.

At this time, private lending was basically a way of rolling on a donkey, which could be regarded as the predecessor of usury.

The profit of two or three points is not high, and there are even five points of high profit.

And Jincheng is so tattered, even if the crown prince of the Americas wants to collect taxes from it as interest, it is obviously impossible to do it.

Who made Jincheng too dilapidated here?

After some contact, the crown prince of the Americas is obviously not the kind of person who has no brains.

Then, when he saw such a dilapidated Jincheng, no one could say what he would think in his heart.

The imperial court did so. In Yang Fengyi's opinion, it is obviously not very authentic.

If it really provokes a backlash from the crown prince of the Americas, then the court will be in trouble.

Could it be that the imperial court can still play scoundrels and not pay back?

It's absolutely impossible.

If it is the people of the people, they can still do this, but as the court and emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they must not do this kind of thing.

If the emperor does such a thing, then how will the surrounding countries view the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Therefore, Yang Fengyi did not consider the fact that the court would not repay the money.

Because the truth is there, and those who have brains know it.

Since the arrears must be repaid. Then the emperor will be uncomfortable in the future.

But looking back, there is no way around it.

Who let the court have no money?

Today's court uses silver everywhere.

military pay, disaster relief, and conscription to deal with the riots in Shaanxi. All of this requires silver.

With such more than 10 million taels of silver, it can solve a big problem.

First of all, the issue of military salaries in Liaodong can be solved, and there will be no problem for at least two years.

And there was silver. The riots in Shaanxi can also be quelled.

After Shaanxi is stabilized, the imperial court can deal with Houjin with all its might.

It will take three or four years to complete these things.

When the time comes. The imperial court can think about repaying the money slowly.

But there is one thing that is at least, the imperial court should do a good job of appeasing the big creditor from the Americas in the past few years.

At least, you have to make people feel that Daming's money can definitely be repaid.

But now what.

Jincheng is a bit worrying about this.

If this provokes the big creditor who is not happy, and they ask you to repay the money immediately, then the court will not be finished.

After all, the court and the emperor don't dare to play tricks and not pay it back.

Yang Fengyi's mind was very chaotic, and all kinds of thoughts kept flashing through his mind.

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting glanced back at the imperial army that was busy, then turned back to look at Yang Fengyi and said, "Jincheng is indeed not doing very well in this matter, but since this is the emperor's arrangement, then we as courtiers will do it according to the arrangement." But at least for now, the crown prince of the Americas has no problem with this. ”

In fact, this matter is not just Yang Fengyi's personal worry, Sun Chuanting also thought like this early on, so he always tested Zhao Hongyu from time to time along the way.

He wondered if the crown prince from the Americas would be disappointed.

After all, Sun Chuanting still knows a little about some of the situations in Jincheng.

It's just that what Sun Chuanting didn't expect was that after arriving in Jincheng, he found that the situation here was several times worse than what he knew.

But fortunately, after some contact, Sun Chuanting did not notice the reaction that the crown prince from the Americas was worried about.

Even, after arriving in Jincheng, the crown prince did not say anything.

It seems that the general Zhou next to the crown prince said that they don't really value the city and population here in Jincheng.

What they value is some of the mineral resources here in Jincheng.

What's here in Jincheng?

It doesn't seem like there's any valuable mine.

Iron ore, copper ore, gold ore or silver ore?

If there are these mines here in Jincheng, then will the imperial court still not know the way.

And this place is so close to Houjin, it must have been occupied by Houjin a long time ago.

It is precisely because there is nothing here in Jincheng that it does not attract much attention from Houjin. And it has become a temporary three-regardless zone.

I really can't figure out what this crown prince of the Americas is trying to do.

If the imperial court continues to fall behind in the confrontation with the Houjin, then Jincheng is destined to become the bag of the Houjin.

In another time and space, Jincheng did become the territory of Houjin in the later period.

"As long as the crown prince has no opinion, but don't they know that if they choose Jincheng, they will inevitably be attacked from Houjin?" , Yang Fengyi nodded, and then frowned and said to Sun Chuanting.

Speaking of this, even Wu Sangui, who was riding a horse on the side. They all chimed in and made their comments.

"Two adults, Jincheng is only eight hundred miles away from Shengjing, the capital of Houjin, if Houjin dispatches elite cavalry, it only takes two or three days to reach here, and there will always be Houjin's scouts near Jincheng, and Houjin will definitely not let go of the existence of such an army, because this is a great threat to Houjin."

Wu Sangui said this, how could Yang Fengyi and Sun Chuanting not know the way.

It's all obvious.

Unless you're a fool, you can't see that.

So, is this crown prince from the Americas an idiot or a fool.

Apparently neither.

So. Why did this crown prince choose Jincheng?

When the emperor came up with a few choices for Zhao Hongyu to choose, it was Zhao Hongyu who chose such a dilapidated place by himself.

Of course, the few choices Zhu Shangwu came up with were not good places.

"The Song army is very strong. Maybe it's because he has faith in this that he is fearless. ”

After all, he had seen the imperial soldiers shoot twice, so it was easy for Sun Chuanting to think of this.

In fact, Sun Chuanting's guess was not wrong.

Zhao Hongyu is indeed because of this dependence. That's why I chose Jincheng.

The Ming army was afraid of Houjin like a tiger, but Zhao Hongyu was not afraid.

In particular, Jay Chou fought against the Houjin army with an inferior force of 25,000 troops outside the capital city. And when he defeated and defeated it, Zhao Hongyu's confidence was even stronger.

At the same time, Zhao Hongyu has a lot more information than the Ming people of this era that they don't know.

In particular, the grasp of the post-gold situation is unparalleled in this era.

In Zhao Hongyu's eyes, the invincible Houjin actually has a lot of weaknesses.

First of all, one of the biggest weaknesses is that their population is too small, which is absolutely fatal.

It is impossible for Houjin to die too many people because they can't afford to die.

At this time, the population of the Houjin was full of people, and all of them were added up, and they were only about 2 million people.

Among them, excluding the old, weak, sick, disabled and young, how many people can go to the battlefield with knives?

Even if it's one-fifth of the population, that's only 400,000.

That's a lot of money.

In the first battle of the Beijing Division, at least more than 20,000 people were killed by the elite of the Houjin Eight Banners.

It is equivalent to saying that Houjin lost one-twentieth of its vitality at once.

This number is not disastrous.

In a battle like this, if Houjin fights twenty times, then they can only let the old, weak, sick and disabled go into battle in the future, and even women and children will fight.

Therefore, Zhao Hongyu believes that even if Houjin comes to find trouble, he does not have to be afraid. As long as he hurts them and lets them know that he is not easy to provoke, then in the future, even if Hou Jin knows that he is a threat, he will not come to him easily.

Come to think of it, after the battle of Jingshi, Huang Taiji should know this.

More importantly, in the Battle of Jingshi, the Imperial Army killed several banner owners of the Eight Banners, as well as many Houjin Eight Banner nobles.

The death of these people suddenly created a vacuum in the power of the Houjin country.

It is impossible for Huang Taiji not to see this.

Then, after the collapse retreated to Shengjing, for the control of these powers.

Come to think of it, these braids will definitely have a man's 'palace fight'.

Doesn't this give Zhao Hongyu a time and opportunity to build and develop the process?

Zhao Hongyu thought about it very clearly.

For these, Sun Chuanting, who is still relatively young, as well as Yang Fengyi and Wu Sangui, who have asymmetric information, how can they be clear.

Eight hundred miles away, Huang Taiji returned to Shengjing with the remnants of the defeated army.

At this time, Huang Taiji's face no longer has the invincible and arrogant he once had.

For the army that suddenly appeared outside the city of Ming Jingshi, Huang Taiji wanted to know where they came from.

But for now, this matter needs to be put aside.

Four of the Eight Banners died, and several powerful figures such as Gushan Ezhen and Dutong also died.

The eldest brother Daishan also disappeared.

Around the power vacuum left by these people, on the way back from the rout, the battle has already begun.

So, in front of the eyes, let's solve this problem.

Huang Taiji grabbed the reins at the gate of Shengjing City and stopped the war horse.

He turned sideways and looked south, and silently shouted in his heart: Daming, I will go again! (To be continued......)