Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 131 I'm in trouble
As the person in charge of Daming's finances, Liu Huaiwen is most worried about sudden uncontrollable situations, such as sudden disasters or sudden wars, because once these two situations occur, it means The treasury has to continue to take out money.

However, in 4484 of the Yellow Emperor era, the third year of Zhu Jinsong's enthronement and proclaiming himself emperor, Qian Deaf's 53rd year, in the second month of spring, when Zhu Jinsong was still trying to get some money from Liu Huaiwen, the treasury leader, occupying Zhu Zhongqu, who has taken over the whole of Zhejiang, has united with rebels from Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, etc., and prepared to attack Zhu Jinsong together under the banner of rebellion on behalf of the sky.

Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was simply stupefied.

Because from the second year of Zhu Jinsong's accession to the throne, the Ming court in Zhu Jinsong's version has been busy rectifying many things within the Ming Dynasty. In addition to building bridges and paving roads and building social studies, there are also trade matters with many barbarians , There is no time to pay attention to those big and small rebels.

In other words, Zhu Jinsong did not provoke anyone, but the rebels like Zhu Zhongqu wanted to form a group to attack Zhu Jinsong.

With the addition of Anhui, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, there are nine provinces. If you add those small groups of rebels who occupy several state capitals, the coalition forces that came to attack Daming this time are even more powerful than those eighteen The scale of the Lu princes' challenge to Dong was even larger.

It would be fine if these messy rebels just formed a coalition army, the key is that the timing of these rebels is really too fucked up.

In spring and February, it was the time of spring plowing. These rebels chose this time to launch an attack, which would not only affect the people on Zhu Jinsong's side, but even the farming of the people under their rule would be affected.

The problem is that Zhu Jinsong's rule is better. Relying on the advantages of maritime trade and the grain stored over the years, even if the spring plowing is affected, it's okay. The big deal is to give up this year's harvest.

But what about the people under the rule of the rebels?
Except that Zhu Zhongqu who occupied Zhejiang and Mei Chunyao who occupied Guangdong may have a certain amount of food in their hands, the remaining rebels also have as much food as Zhu Jinsong, enough to rule the people for more than two years Don't say that Zhu Jinsong doesn't believe in this kind of thing, maybe even the old dog who is deaf and deaf doesn't believe it.

This is no longer about hurting the enemy one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred, but injuring the enemy one thousand and self-defeating three thousand.

These rebels are desperately trying to get rid of Zhu Jinsong first.

Therefore, after receiving the information sent by Jin Yiwei and Tiandihui successively, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, was so angry that he was overwhelmed.

Nima, I didn't see you being so active during the anti-Qing period, and I didn't see you attacking Qian Deaf old dog in Zhili, but now you are targeting me instead?

Simply deceiving too much!
After calling together all the leaders, big and small, and showing the information of Jinyiwei and Tiandihui to everyone, Zhu Jinsong said with a gloomy face, "There is a story about eighteen princes begging for Dong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Unexpectedly, there are more than [-] princes who are coming to attack our Daming."

Zhu Jinsong's version of the bigwigs in the Ming court also didn't look very good.

Zhu Erdan, who seemed to be in charge of the former military governor's mansion, even shouted directly: "Since they dare to come, they should fight back directly. Not only do they have to fight, but they must also hurt them, completely breaking their guts!"

Liu Heming, who is in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, also expressed his opinion: "Brother Erdan is right, we have to fight back. In this battle, our Chinese Military Commander's Mansion is willing to fight the main attack!"

Zhu Erdan glared at Liu Heming, and said, "Fart! The main attack should be our former military governor's mansion! Your Chinese military commander's mansion is stationed in Shandong. This time the attack on us was provoked by Zhu Zhongqu from Zhejiang. It should be Let our former military governor's mansion take the main attack!"

Seeing that Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming were arguing over who should be the main attacker, Liu Erniu who was in charge of the governor's mansion of the left army, Geng Rui who was in charge of the governor's mansion of the right army, and Zhu Sanshun who was in charge of the governor's mansion of the rear army looked at each other tacitly. No one spoke.

Zhu Jinsong’s Mansion of the Five Armies is not the same concept as the original Mansion of the Five Armies of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, it is more like the division of war zones. Come, so only the Chinese military governor's mansion can compete with the former military governor's mansion for the main attack, and no one else can compete.

Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming quarreled non-stop, but Zhu Jinsong patted the table in front of him directly, and shouted: "Shut up! There is no main attack this time! Whoever quarrels, stay and take care of the logistics!"

After reprimanding Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming, Zhu Jinsong turned his attention to Liu Huaiwen again: "Uncle Huaiwen, we don't want to deal with you with those vain people. The current situation is obvious, and you need money from the treasury."

As Zhu Jinsong's words fell, all the leaders in the Ming Dynasty Hall, big and small, all turned their attention to Liu Huaiwen.

Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of Ming, was right. The current battle was waged by those rebels, big and small. It was not Daming who took the initiative to attack them, so this battle had to be fought.

Money is inseparable from war.

Although the Military Expenditure allocated to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion did have the military expenses just allocated, Zhu Jinsong's original plan was to wait for Ming Dynasty to stabilize before deploying troops on a large scale. Naturally, the military expenditure allocated to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion was not enough to deal with it. The rebel army of more than [-] princes in the nine provinces of the whole world.

Therefore, the problem once again returns to the national treasury—if the national treasury can produce enough silver, then everything is easy to say, if the national treasury cannot produce enough silver, then this battle will be a bit difficult to fight, at least The shells and grenades have to be picked and used.

Seeing that Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, and all the leaders of the military system were all looking at him, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help but groaned angrily and tapped the pot of dry smoke, and said, "Why are you all looking at me?"

"It's like what the emperor said, since they've already called us, Daming must call back, or we won't let them think that we are easy to bully?"

"I'm here to express my opinion on behalf of the national treasury—is there too much? Anyway, 800 million taels of silver is no problem."

After thinking about it, Liu Huaiwen snorted again, and said, "Since we want to fight, we should just go big. The treasury will spend 500 million taels of silver to fight this battle!"

Hearing what Liu Huaiwen said, except for Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, the rest of the leaders, big and small, were all dumbfounded.

Isn't the treasury already empty and running away from mice?

Isn't the national treasury originally only more than 200 million taels of silver, plus the money that was stolen from the barbarians is only more than 500 million taels of silver?Why did fifteen million taels of silver suddenly appear?
You know, 500 million taels suddenly became 500 million taels. This is suddenly an extra 1000 million taels of silver, not as simple as an extra 1000 taels.

But Liu Huaiwen glared at the boss for a while, and shouted: "What do you look at me for? This is today... This is the autumn tax that was just lifted last year. It's not that there is so much money in the treasury."

"I'm telling you, after this battle is over, the treasury will really be free to run mice. You have to tighten up your budget this year!"

However, other bigwigs did not believe what Liu Huaiwen said.

What time is it now?It's spring and February, and last year's autumn tax has just been paid into the national treasury at most, so the money can only be in the original treasury.

Of course, it doesn't matter to Liu Huaiwen whether other bigwigs believe it or not. Anyway, there is only so much money in the treasury, and you prodigal sons will blow it up and it will be gone.

Unless the 500 million taels is not enough to defeat those coalition forces.

But is it possible?Obviously impossible, 500 million taels of silver are enough for those killers in the military governor's mansion to wipe out the Tartars who were hiding in Zhili for three or five times. Five million taels is enough.

However, Zhu Jinsong snorted and said, "Uncle Huaiwen, don't fool us with the nonsense about running a mouse when the treasury is empty."

"Tell you, this time we really encountered a hard stubble."

"Five million taels of silver is definitely enough to deal with the Qing Dynasty, and it is more than enough to deal with waste like Zhu Zhongzhi, Zhu Zhongji, and Zhu Zhongfeng."

"But it's probably not enough to deal with Zhu Zhongqu in Zhejiang."

Speaking of this, Zhu Jinsong looked at Ke Zhiming again and said: "Tell the big guys about the situation in Yangzhou."

Ke Zhiming got up to answer first, and then looked at the big bosses and said: "The rebels in Zhejiang are very different from the ones we have come into contact with before."

"When we took Jiangsu earlier, the Huang family from Yangzhou Prefecture did not stay in Yangzhou, but went directly south to Zhu Zhongqu in Zhejiang."

"Our Daming has the book "Illustration of Strange Weapons", and the Huang family of Yangzhou also has the book "Illustration of Wonderful Weapons"."

"The Huang family in Yangzhou, and the Ruan, Mei, Dai, and Xu families in Zhejiang have inherited many books similar to "Illustrations of Strange Weapons". The firearms in these people's hands, whether they are flintlock guns or artillery How far is our Daming?"

"To put it bluntly, we can cut off the supply of firearms in the hands of the rebel bandits in Anhui, and we can also cut off the supply of firearms in the hands of the rebel bandits in Hubei, Guangdong, and Guangxi, but as long as there are Huang from Yangzhou and Ruan, Mei, Dai, and Xu from Zhejiang Once the family exists, cutting off their firearms is not enough to pose a fatal threat to them."

"In addition, unlike the previous Zhu Zhongzhi, Zhu Zhongji, Zhu Zhongfeng and others, Zhu Zhongqu, a rebel, has a good reputation in Zhejiang. Although the fact that he exploited the people is indispensable, there are precedents such as Zhu Zhongzhi, and Zhu Zhongqu has Ruan , Huang, Mei, Dai, Xu, etc., so the exploitation of the people is not very serious."

"In addition, the military discipline of Zhu Zhongqu's army can be regarded as strict, so the people of Zhejiang are also very supportive of Zhu Zhongqu."

"If we had to say something about a breakthrough, it would probably be that apart from Zhu Zhongqu, the rest of the rebels in Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Guangxi still treated the people in the same old way as the Qing Dynasty. The army under their hands, Except for the quantity, the rest are not enough to pose a threat to our Ming army."

I heard what Ke Zhiming said.Except for Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor who was able to remain calm, the rest of the bigwigs had some headaches.

Following Zhu Jinsong's rebellion for such a long time, and having been in court for so long, these bigwigs now view things from a different angle than before.

These bigwigs all know in their hearts that they are not afraid of the large number of troops on the opposite side. After all, the outcome of a war cannot be determined simply by relying on numbers. The officers and soldiers were wiped out.

I'm afraid that this kind of equipment is similar to my own, and the military discipline is also similar to my army.

(End of this chapter)