"Your Majesty?!"

Zhu Cihong's eyes lit up and praised: "This is indeed a way to have the best of both worlds." ”

"That's right, the brain is spinning pretty fast." Chongzhen smiled and said, "But the sacrifice that my father wants is different from the previous sacrifice, and it is not limited to His Majesty. ”

As a traverser, Chongzhen deeply understands how important propaganda work is.

This time, more than 1,000 Jiannu were finally captured, especially Zu Zerun and Gao Di, these two traitors are a huge propaganda resource, how can they not squeeze the three of them dry?

How can such two trump cards be killed in one go?

Can we divide the relationship between Jiannu and Han generals?

It all fell on Zu Zerun's rebels.

and the finances of the Ming Dynasty, which also depend on them.

Let's not solve all of them, at least some of them.

After all, making a big cake is not something that can be achieved in three or five years.

While the father and son were talking, they had already changed into crown clothes, and Chongzhen's crown clothes were brought by Wang Chengen before the collapse.

I saw that Chongzhen's crown dress had several patches on it, and Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's crown clothes were new, and the pulp was washed very cleanly, but it didn't look very good.

Because this is last year's crown dress, the little brothers have grown a lot in height in a year, and they don't fit.

Seeing this, Wang Chengen, who served Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's changing clothes, couldn't help wiping away tears.

"Companion, why are you crying?" Zhu Cijiong said, "The Celebration of Victory is about to begin, you should be happy." ”

"Yes, Yes, Your Highness is right, you should be happy." Wang Chengen hurriedly wiped away his tears, and stepped forward to smooth out several obvious wrinkles on Chongzhen's crown dress.

Chongzhen's focus is not on these at all.

Chongzhen said: "How did the things I explained go?" ”

"I've already asked the little ones to do it, and it should be done soon."

"Very good, I'm going to participate in the Zhujie Ceremony soon, this is the first time I have participated in the Zhujie Ceremony since I ascended the throne, and I can't be embarrassed in public, so I must be well prepared."

"Long live the rest assured, it will be done according to your requirements."

While speaking, Sun Xiangxian ran into the line with a fart.

"Hooray." Sun Xiangxian knelt on the ground and said, "It's done." ”

"Give it to me." Wang Chengen took the two lists from Sun Xiangxian's hand, and then turned around and handed them to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen took the list, only to see that there was only a small amount of text on it, and then there was a long string of numbers, of course, they were all numbers written in words, not Arabic numerals.

Arabic numerals were introduced into China during the Song Dynasty, but until the end of the Ming Dynasty, simple and easy-to-use Arabic numerals were not implemented on a large scale.

When he first crossed over, Chongzhen was also a little unaccustomed.

Especially when he looked at the ledger, the string of numbers written in Chinese characters often made him feel out of place in this era, but he slowly got used to it over time.

Chongzhen's gaze fell on the first list.

The statistics of the results of the battle and the description of the exploits of the war is a very complicated and boring work, and Sun Xiangxian also took dozens of little eunuchs to work for two days before finally the statistics were calculated.

As a human being in two lives, Chongzhen does not intend to learn from the original Chongzhen, and he has to ask about everything in person.

As an emperor, what he has to do is to take charge of the overall situation, and the specific affairs can be handed over to others to do, as for who to do, it is up to you to choose.

There are many corrupt officials in the world.

There are many bastards in the world.

But there are also many capable officials in the world.

You can't beat the world's officials to death because of a small number of corrupt officials, and you can't think that all the officials in the world are the same because of a small number of capable officials.

As an emperor, you must know people.

How to know people, it depends on the emperor himself.

Getting back to business, Chongzhen's eyes fell on the first page of the list.

I saw that it read: more than 9,000 pieces of armor of all kinds, more than 1,200 knives of various kinds, more than 3,000 large bows, more than 1,000 bird guns and Lu Mi guns, 30 No. 1 Buddha cannons, 90 sub-cannons, 450 25 catties of 25 catties of combined ammunition, 20,000 catties of one or two heavy leads, and 9,000 catties of gunpowder.

There are 98 cars, 86 side cars, and more than 20,000 stones of grain.

Among these captures, Franc cannons, bird guns and gunpowder are good things, all of which are urgently needed by the Ming army.

However, such as the big bow, all kinds of knives and armor are a bit redundant, especially the more than 3,000 big bows are of little use to the Ming army.

Because you can't find that many archers.

Raising an archer is much harder than training a musketeer.

When I returned to Xuzhou, I asked Jin Xuan if he wanted these more than 3,000 big bows.

Therefore, Jiannu should feel very painful this time, because he lost more than 3,000 elite Eight Banner soldiers at once, which is definitely a catastrophic loss for Jiannu.

In addition to equipment, there are also belongings.

Chongzhen will not be forced to hand over the personal property found on Jiannu's body.

However, the property found from the Jiannucao ship must be handed over, and it is strictly forbidden to hide it privately.

Because of this incident, the sailors and soldiers who participated in the war were very dissatisfied and complained a lot.

I don't care if there are small words, because this is really a huge amount of money, there are more than 400,000 taels of silver and more than 100,000 taels of jewelry and calligraphy and paintings.

If these more than 500,000 taels were privately swallowed by the officers and soldiers of the 500 Water Division, what would they do?

This page is income, and Chongzhen turned the list to the next page, which is the expense.

Seeing the expenses, Chongzhen felt that his brain was buzzing, and this wave was about to hemorrhage.

There are more than 3,000 real slaves killed alone, and the reward is 50 taels, which is 150,000 taels.

In addition, there are nearly 3,000 Eight Banners Han Army, and more than 5,000 soldiers and coats, and these more than 8,000 people, whether they are beheaded or captured, are all rewarded with a 5 taels.

This item adds up to more than 40,000 taels of silver.

In addition, more than 2,000 Ming troops were killed in this battle, including more than 200 Yiding, although the results of the pursuit of Jiannu were large enough, the cost was not small.

This pension is more than 110,000 taels.

That's all, it's early July.

It's July, and it's time for the mid-month payoff again.

And there was a battle in July, and this time I had to pay three times the salary!

Only now did Chongzhen finally understand that the soldiers were really expensive and really couldn't afford to raise them!

Not counting the 1,000 Yiding and the 500 sailors who came to Xia Town, only counting the nearly 50,000 border troops in the ten towns under Huang Degong's command, they had to pay 300,000 taels of silver at one time.

The sum of several items is already 600,000 taels of silver.

Thanks to Jiannu, more than 500,000 taels were sent south this way.

Otherwise, this wave of rewards and military salaries can directly bankrupt Chongzhen.

But even so, Chongzhen's small treasury may not last for a few months.

Closing the list, Chongzhen turned his head and asked Wang Chengen, "Wang Daban, how much silver is left in my inner money?" ”

Wang Chengen replied without hesitation: "The balance of fines and confiscations from Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo is more than 20 thousand taels, and the balance of the grain from Xuzhou is more than 60 taels. ”

Chongzhen frowned and said, "In other words, there are 800,000 taels left?" ”

Wang Chengen said: "There are also 500,000 taels contributed by Jiannu, a total of 1.3 million taels. ”

"I'm afraid that 1.3 million taels of silver won't last long." Chongzhen sighed when he heard this, "It seems that I have to go back to Nanjing." ”

1.3 million taels of silver sounds like a huge number, but in fact it is indeed a huge number, but it really doesn't need to be spent, just Huang Degong's ten town soldiers, this month will cost 600,000 taels!

There are also the ten town soldiers in Xuzhou and the eight town soldiers in Pizhou, these 90,000 people are recruits.

There are also displaced people in Tuntian, Xuzhou, although they do not need to be paid, but they also have to give them food.

As soon as he thought of this, Chongzhen suddenly felt that one head and two big, both said that as soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold, he didn't believe it before, but now he believes it, this war is really burning money.

This is just a partial division of Jiannu!

Wait until the next time the main force of Jiannu comes, there are more than 100,000 troops, how to get it?

If you win, you can go bankrupt if you win the reward, and if you lose, you can also pay a pension to Chongzhen go bankrupt.

It seems that recruiting troops can indeed only be used as an expedient measure, and after winning the battle of Xia Zhen, Chongzhen suddenly felt that recruiting soldiers seemed to be worth rescuing, and maybe it could also come in handy.

But now, Chongzhen directly dispelled this idea.

Recruitment in the Twenty-Eight Towns can only be used as a stopgap measure.

Because the financial can't afford it, the gold and silver mountains can't stand it.

But fortunately, the first wave of Jiannu's attack has been disintegrated.

And the result was much better than Chongzhen expected, the Ming army not only held the Xiazhen defense line, but even won an unprecedented victory.

As for the second wave of Jiannu's attack, it will definitely not come so quickly.

If Dolgon wants to twist the Eight Banners Manchuria into a rope, it is not so easy, at least he has to first take Shunzhi, who stayed in Shengjing, and hundreds of thousands of Jiannu family members and clothed minions to the Guannei.

It's already the beginning of July, and we're about to harvest the autumn grain.

Therefore, the Jiannu outside the customs will definitely wait until the autumn harvest to enter the customs.

That is to say, Jiannu will not be able to use troops on a large scale until October at the earliest, and this point in time is basically no different from history.

So he still has three months to go.

Three months is not long, but it is not short.

Enough for him to do something, at least to ease the financial crisis first.

Zhu Cijiong asked: "Is my father's trip back to Nanjing to raise money?" ”

"Yes, fundraising." Chongzhen said a little helplessly, "You have also seen it, the reward plus military salary, just the border army of the ten towns in Xia Town will cost 600,000 taels!" ”

Sun Xiangxian plucked up his courage and said, "Long live Lord, can the old slave say more?" ”

"You?" Chongzhen looked at Sun Xiangxian with a smile, "What do you want to say?" ”

Sun Xiangxian regretted it a little, but the words had already been spoken, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "As the old saying goes, Shengmi is good and fights against rice, and it may not be a good thing for the Lord to reward the border army too much." ”

"Grandpa Sun, are you teaching me how to do things? Huh? ”

Chongzhen's smile became more and more kind, but his tone became cold.

"Hooray." Sun Xiangxian was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a pop.

"Drag it out." Chongzhen snorted coldly and said, "Eighty rods!" ”