Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 299 Three birds with one stone

For Daming, it's not a big deal to make peace with the two little hot dogs of the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, even if they directly send an army there, it's not a big deal.

However, it is impossible for Zhu Jinsong to accept that they pretend to be the Ming army to recruit laborers.

This has nothing to do with how this event will be recorded in the history books, but has something to do with the reputation of the Ming army.

In fact, the reputation of the Ming army has always been ambivalent.

In the local or overseas territories of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of the common people of the Ming Dynasty, the army of the Ming Dynasty is of course the best army in the world, the most trustworthy and reliable army.

There is a saying among the people of Ming Dynasty that even if the soldiers of Ming Dynasty point their guns at the people of Ming Dynasty, they must be pointing at the enemy behind them.

In the eyes of the natives in places such as Jiugang Chief Envoy and Lanfang Chief Envoy, the Ming army is basically like a demon, even more terrifying than the legendary invincible demon.

As for Emperor Zhu Jinsong, the reputation of the Ming army, good or bad, was the business of the Ming army itself. How could it be possible for the barbarians of the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company to use it fraudulently?

After tapping on the table with his fingers, Zhu Jinsong said: "It is absolutely impossible to impersonate the Daming banner, but, after all, Daming still needs labor from Tianzhu, so we still have to find a way to solve this matter. "

After being told by Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were a little confused.

The English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, the two little spicy chickens, will definitely not be able to count on it, and maybe England, the Netherlands, and France will not be able to count on it—even if you don’t consider the relationship between Britain, the Netherlands, France, and Tianzhu. England itself has to recruit laborers to open mines in Sri Lanka, the Netherlands is busy re-establishing the country, and France is busy opening a film with the Habsburg family, which means that Britain, the Netherlands, and France are not redundant. The troops can be drawn.

And to solve the problem in Tianzhu without relying on these three companies...

In fact, there is a high probability that it means dispatching Ming's own army.

So here comes the question - if Ming's army is dispatched to solve the problem in Tianzhu, then what about the agreement that Zhu Quansong, the Ming emperor, made with George III and Louis XVI before that?
This made Zeng Cheng, Zhu Erdan and other bigwigs a little unacceptable.

Especially for Liu Huaiwen, the head of the household department, it is even more unacceptable-because of the promises of George III and Louis XVI, the Ming treasury has already allocated the military expenditures that were originally allocated to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion to the Ministry of Industry. Now suddenly they have to be transferred back to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, so what about the projects of the Ministry of Industry?
More importantly, wouldn't Da Ming have no way to take advantage of such a toss?If you can't take advantage of it, it's a loss!
Thinking of this, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think that since George III and Louis XVI have promised them to arrest the laborers, then this matter should be resolved by them, let's..."

But Zhu Erdan's eyes lit up, and he said: "Brother Mingjian, if our five-army commander's mansion sends troops to Tianzhu, I dare to guarantee that the whole territory of Tianzhu will be pacified within half a year!"

Hearing this, Liu Huaiwen glared at Zhu Erdan viciously, and snorted coldly: "You said that your five-army governor's mansion can pacify Tianzhu within half a year, I don't doubt it at all, but I want to ask you, How much military spending will be required for the past six months? How many workers will be left in the end?"

Zhu Erdan was choked immediately.

Zhu Erdan can probably estimate how much military expenditure will be needed to fight the war for half a year, but when it comes to how many laborers will be left in the end... Zhu Erdan doesn't have the confidence to estimate.

It mainly depends on those embryo killers.

If it is the same as the previous attack on the Portuguese barbarians entrenched in Macau, then there may not be many workers left in Tianzhu.

Seeing that Zhu Erdan stopped talking, Liu Huaiwen snorted again and said: "Your Majesty, I think that it is really inappropriate for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to send troops to fight again, unless they have enough military expenses this year and don't need the treasury. Appropriate money."

Zhu Erdan said anxiously: "No funding? Are you going to let the soldiers go to war hungry?"

Liu Huaiwen sneered and asked back: "The old man asks you, where is the money? At the beginning of this year, the treasury allocated 1000 million military expenses to your Five Armies Governor's Mansion, which was converted into [-] million taels of silver. Have you already spent all the money now?" ?”

Zhu Erdan said: "Of course it hasn't been spent yet, but isn't the money all used to replace equipment and attack Ottoman? Where does your old man want me to squeeze some money for Tianzhu?"

Liu Huaiwen sneered, and said, "I don't care where you go to squeeze, old man? The money in your five-army governor's mansion has been planned for use. Isn't the other money in the treasury not planned for use?"

"Come on, come on, I'll do the math for you first—last year's income was [-] million yuan, of which [-] million was allocated to your Five Armies Governor's Mansion, [-] million was allocated to the Ministry of Industry, [-] million was allocated to the Ministry of Rites, and two [-] million was allocated to the Ministry of Households, and another [-] million was allocated to the Royal Academy, do the math, is there any extra money?"

Zhu Erdan snapped his fingers and began to retort: ​​"This is [-] million, and there is [-] million left?"

Liu Huaiwen snorted and said: "There is still [-] million, don't you need it for emergency? Except for the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Governor's Mansion of your five armies, the other ministries, monasteries and supervisors don't need to spend money, do they? "

Seeing that Zhu Erdan was choked speechless, Zhu Jinsong simply smiled and waved his hands, and said, "Although I said that I want to solve the problem in Tianzhu, I never said that I want to transfer the troops of Ming Dynasty?"

After being told by Zhu Jinsong, Liu Huaiwen, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were even more confused.

Instead of mobilizing Ming's army, is it necessary to sell firearms and muskets to the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company?

For Liu Huaiwen and other bigwigs, it is of course no problem to sell some ordnance. The problem is where does Daming still have so many ordnance reserves?
France bought a large number of artillery and muskets, and England also bought a large number of artillery and muskets. The Netherlands did not buy much artillery and muskets, but there are so many small countries in the small broken pot. Batch cheap, solid and powerful ordnance back?
This also led to the relatively short supply of weapons in Ming Dynasty.

It’s not that Ming’s ordnance is not enough, but that the ordnance that can be sold by Da Ming has been snapped up. Both Northern Industries and Southern Weapons under the Ministry of War have begun to have a headache about insufficient production capacity. How can there be any surplus? Can China's ordnance be sold to the British and Dutch East India Companies?
Recruit more manpower, build more ordnance?
It's not impossible in theory, but the construction of the workshop needs to be rushed, right?The training of workers also takes a certain amount of time, right?The purchase and transportation of raw materials also takes time, right?

Wait until the backlog of orders that have started to be settled now, and then transport the extra ordnance to Tianzhu... Maybe Ming has already finished dealing with Ottoman.

If at that time, Daming still needs the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company to recruit labor?
Those Ming troops who went to the Ottomans can easily defeat Tianzhu by themselves!
Allocate part of the existing orders, and give priority to shipping them to Tianzhu and sell them to the British and Dutch East India Companies so that they can settle things?

This is also unrealistic.

Not to mention that the orders of Northern Industries and Southern Weapons are all contracts between countries. Even if there is no such thing as a contract, Zhongyuan Tangkou has always paid attention to one bite and one nail, and it will be delivered when it is said. .

As for Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs in the Ming Dynasty digging pits and burying people for Europa...Obviously, digging pits and burying people has nothing to do with honesty. Too stupid to say that the Ming court was dishonest.

It was precisely because of this that Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs really couldn't think of any way to break the situation.

At this moment, Zhu Sanshun suddenly smiled and said: "Brother Huang, I know your method."

Zhu Jinsong looked at Zhu Sanshun with a smile and said, "Tell me?"

Zhu Sanshun clapped his hands and said, "My brother thinks that the emperor's idea should be to continue recruiting some Japanese slaves, and let those dwarfs go to Tianzhu to recruit labor in the name of the British and Dutch East India Company."

"In this way, the matter of the British and Dutch East India Companies is resolved, and the dwarfs are also resolved along the way. Our Daming's need for Tianzhu labor is also resolved. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone."

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said, "That's right, that's what I planned."

"Those armed men of the British and Dutch East India Companies are greedy for life and afraid of death, but those dwarfs are not afraid."

(End of this chapter)