"Look at it!" Zheng Zhilong's hands trembled like an old man who had had suffered a stroke, and he stuffed the brown paper envelope in his hand into Li Xiao's hand.

Li Xiao didn't understand, with Zheng Zhilong's bearing, what could make him like this? After taking the envelope and opening it for a while, Li Xiao's face began to turn red. The letter in my hand trembled like a leaf in the wind!

Sun Chengzong was very strange, took the letter and read it.

"Shame! Shame! Sun Chengzong was so angry that his beard trembled and there was no wind to automatically, if it weren't for the heavy Confucian crown, his hair would stand up.

"In this Java tragedy, more than 40,000 people of our Ming Dynasty were killed. Less than 300 people escaped, and my nephew died in a bloody battle, and his body was cut into eighteen pieces by the Javanese barbarians and thrown into the sea to feed the fish. On the coast of Java, the corpses of my Ming people are hanging everywhere. The woman was humiliated, and the child was like a dog. Miserable! Miserable! Zheng Zhilong's neck was bruised, and the teeth in his mouth were about to be crushed.

"Big brother!" Li Xiu rushed into the courtyard like a leopard and roared, staring at Li Xiao. As long as Li Xiao nods, he will rush to the South China Sea with his warship to carry out the most brutal revenge.

This guy must have heard from the eldest lady of the Zheng family!

Li Xiao held the letter in his hand, and his body seemed to be in an ice cellar. One can imagine how badly the 40,000 Ming people were bullied at the hands of the Javanese barbarians. Li Xiao from later generations once saw those bloody photos!

He didn't even want Li Xiu to go to Java, he wanted to go to Java himself. Catch them one by one, throw them into the sea to feed the fish, and throw them into the fire and burn them into charcoal.

Everyone looked at Li Xiao, as long as Li Xiao nodded. The Ming Dynasty, who had just experienced a civil war, would immediately dispatch arrogant soldiers to attack Java, thousands of miles away.

"Let's have a cabinet meeting and see what everyone has to say. Sun Chuanting returned to Beijing to report on his work and asked him to come too. Sun Chengzong said slowly, pulling his shoes and slowly walking towards the moon gate.

The Ming Empire is not a family, and the parents say a word. In such a matter as declaring war on a foreign country, it is necessary to mobilize the cabinet and work together with all the ministries in order to win the war. The war of making decisions does not exist in the current Ming Dynasty.

The twelve-year-old Longwu Emperor Zhu Yihai wore a crown and sat in the middle, and Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong sat on both sides. This is the current Da Ming, if you follow the previous rules, everyone has to stand. The only one who can sit is the little boy Zhu Yihai.

"Everyone has read the letter brought by Zheng Shangshu, it is related to the national body, and you can speak freely." Shoufu Sun Chengzong spoke first.

No one spoke, and the scene was solemn.

"The slaughter of 40,000 people of the Ming Dynasty at one time is really a great shame for my Ming Dynasty. The minister thought that the elite should be appointed to fight in the South China Sea. Go deep into the barren land, and wipe out the thieves to avenge my Ming people. Seeing that no one spoke, Zheng Zhilong took the lead in speaking.

Sun Ruyou just wanted to speak, but swallowed again. looked around, but finally didn't open his mouth.

Shi Kefa kept shaking his thumbs in both hands, looking up at the pattern on the caisson, very fascinated.

Lu Xiangsheng, who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Officials, did not speak, and became an old monk.

No one in the room spoke, and the atmosphere became a little eerie.

"Why don't you speak, the people of Daming are slaughtered like dogs. In the face of tens of thousands of martyrs, you are indifferent. Zheng Zhilong roared angrily. At this time, I don't care about officialdom etiquette, as for the emperor. Everybody knows it's a tablet!

"Zheng Shangshu is a little restless! My people were slaughtered for no reason, and all the monarchs here feel the same way. But you need money to fight! Everyone knows that Guanzhong has suffered a disaster. Sichuan is still pacifying the rest of Zhang Xianzhong, and Jiangnan is engaged in land reform. In addition to Shandong, Hebei, and Liaodong, the three provinces of Daming can pay taxes, and the rest of the provinces are recovering, and nothing else is counted. The three provinces of Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu alone will not be able to recover their vitality in five years.

Not to mention the withered Guanzhong, not only the remnants of Dolgon are often harassed. Moreover, it has repeatedly suffered natural and man-made disasters, and Shaanxi and Gansu provinces may not be able to recover for ten years. It is already stretched to deal with these households, and if they want to go on an expedition again, the household department really can't come up with so much money and food.

I also support the expedition against the Javanese barbarians and avenge the people of my great people. But where does the money come from? A bullet is worth three copper plates, and an ordinary naval artillery shell is worth one hundred taels of silver. The main artillery shells are as high as 500 taels of silver per shot, and the heavy rocket artillery also costs 400 taels of silver per shot.

Mortar shells were cheap, costing only ten taels of silver. But a dozen of those things are hundreds of rounds and hundreds of rounds, not to mention the logistical supplies after the expedition, the increased food and salary of officers and soldiers during the expedition, and so on. Zheng Shangshu, this is not to exterminate pirates in Bohai Bay. Instead, they traveled thousands of miles away and attacked hundreds of thousands of local indigenous people. Ai Husheng spoke helplessly, everyone here can stay out of the matter, but he Ai Husheng can't do it.

If there is a fight, the big guys will come to him to ask for money. Even if he is made of gold, how many golden melon seeds can he extract.

"You can waste the lives of more than 40,000 Ming people without money? I, the Ming Household Department, how can I let you be controlled by a Korean. Zheng Zhilong roared angrily.

Li Xiao's eyelids jumped, Ai Husheng was appointed by him. Zheng Zhilong was angry, and Ai Husheng was also telling the truth. It is a bit too much to talk about the fact that Ai Husheng is a Korean.

"You're ......!" The identity problem is Ai Husheng's reverse scales, and he is about to go crazy when he points at Zheng Zhilong.

"Sit down, this is a cabinet meeting, don't be too angry." Li Xiao said coldly, and Ai Hu sat down hatefully.

"Mr. Ai is the head of the household, which is my Ming Dynasty's eclectic employment. Zheng Shangshu should not talk about this matter in the future! Li Xiao warned Zheng Zhilong with a cold face.

Zheng Zhilong also sat down with a gloomy face, he didn't have the strength to turn his face with Li Xiao in the capital.

After Li Xiao said this, he stopped talking, and Sun Chengzong on the side lit a cigarette and began to smoke slowly. The old fox was very excited when he read the letter, and now it seems that he has only been excited for ten minutes.

"Gentlemen! Sun listened to everyone's words just now, and it actually made sense. Lord Zheng advocated an expedition to Java to avenge the death of the Ming people. Sun felt that it should be divided, if a country was slaughtered by 40,000 people, and still did not declare war and did not act, it would be too much of a bag, and it would be a serious damage to the morale of our Ming country. When everyone was silent, Sun Chuanting stood up.

Listening to Sun Chuanting's words, Zheng Zhilong immediately cast a grateful gaze. This is the first person to stand up and stand up for him.

"Of course! The household department also has the difficulties of the household department, and I just came from Guanzhong for the locust plague. Now the locusts in the disaster area of Guanzhong are covering the sky and the sun, and the crops in many counties have been eaten up. A total of eleven counties are basically out of harvest!

These are eleven counties, and the people of each county are waiting to be fed. In order not to displace the victims, the imperial court opened warehouses every day to release grain. But I closed the granary, and there was almost no food to distribute. Now, thanks to the rice and grain supported by the household department, we can survive the famine.

Guanzhong is like this, how good can it be if you look at the whole country? It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult for Ai Shangshu, a household secretary, to be tight. ”

Li Xiao's nose was about to be crooked, and this guy was talking to two heads. Duplicity doesn't play like that, it's too untechnical.

"What is Governor Sun going to say?" Li Xiao asked dissatisfiedly.

"I don't know how much silver the household can squeeze out if it goes on an expedition?" Sun Chuanting asked Ai Husheng with a confident smile on his face.

"The household department can come up with 500,000 taels at most, and if it is more, it will have to be this time next year. Java has a total population of one million and is mostly tropical jungle. The barbarians were born and raised there, and it is simply impossible for our army to complete the task in a short time. If the strength of a division is dispatched, 500,000 taels of silver will not last for a year anyway. Again, this is not in the Bohai Bay, this is in Java, thousands of miles away. Ai Hu reminded angrily.