Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 375 The treasury is empty again!

Jiang Xinlong continued to educate Adolf: "His Majesty also said that we must unite forces that can be united, make more friends and make fewer enemies."

And Adolf was a little dazed.

What Jiang Xinlong said, Adolf could understand every word, even every single sentence, but after connecting all of them together, Adolf found that his brain was not enough.

After racking his brains for a long time, he couldn't come up with a reason. Adolf simply asked tentatively: "The teacher means that I should make friends with the common people in Austria, because they have the largest number. become my friend?"

Jiang Xinlong glanced at Adolf and asked, "Who are you targeting?"

Adolf replied without hesitation: "Of course it's those gentlemen who have a good job!"

Jiang Xinlong snorted and said, "So, are the Austrian nobles and Yici Leye the same thing? If so, then they are your targets. Can you be friends with your targets? If not, It means that the Austrian nobles are different from the Yici Leye masters, so of course you can unite with the Austrian nobles first."

"There is an old saying in our Central Plains hall: settle accounts after autumn."

"You have to distinguish what is called priority."

With the gradual deepening of the course, Adolf gradually came into contact with a completely unfamiliar but familiar new world.

The reason why they are unfamiliar is because they have never been in contact with these theories, and the reason why they are familiar is because these theories can completely find shadows in Daming.

And this strange yet familiar feeling happened to be Jiang Xinlong's most brilliant point.

Ninety-nine percent of the truth is mixed with a trace of falsehood - ten percent of the fakes are the easiest to see through, but ninety-nine percent of the theoretical knowledge taught to Adolf by Jiang Xinlong is correct, and only certain inspections have been carried out in the most critical places. misleading.

For example, the most reliable way to improve a country's national strength is to rejuvenate the country through industry, and capital games like Yici Leye's people will not work.

Now Daming is on the road of rejuvenating the country through industry, as evidenced by the crazy infrastructure construction everywhere and the development of various industries.

But Jiang Xinlong told Adolf: "The so-called industry is an industry that can facilitate people's livelihood, such as housing - our ancestors in Tangkou of the Central Plains often said that clothing, food, housing, and transportation are four things. Clothes are easy to solve, and food is not difficult. , only living and traveling are the most difficult."

"Look at Louis XVI of France and George III of England. They are trying to solve the problem of "living" and "travel" now."

"Of course it's the same for your Austrian side."

Is there anything wrong with this theory?
completely fine!
It can even be combined with the concept of "If you want to get rich, build roads first".

But being fooled by Jiang Xinlong, the so-called rejuvenating the country through industry basically turned into rejuvenating the country through real estate.

As for building roads...

Where are the necessary points for building roads in Austria?

Things like England and France are somewhat better. After all, they are one of the five benevolent people of Xiaopoguo, and each of them has sucked blood in Europa, and there is already a need for road construction in terms of economy.

But Austria is different.

First of all, Austria has just finished fighting France for a few days, and now it is fighting Sand Goose again, and it is foreseeable in the future that it will definitely be beaten.

Secondly, it is because Austria does not have such a large economic demand now.

So, the purpose of repairing the road is just to facilitate the sand goose army to come and beat Austria?
It's a pity that Adolf only saw Jiang Xinlong's description of rejuvenating the country through industry, but he didn't understand the twists and turns in the process.

Adolf was even very grateful to Jiang Xinlong: "Thank you, thank you so much, dear teacher, thank you for pointing out the future path for Austria!"

……

Zhu Jinsong was stunned—although he knew that Jiang Xinlong was not a good guy, and that Jiang Xinlong was very good at fooling, but Zhu Jinsong never imagined that Jiang Xinlong could fool Adolf into limping!
"Next, it's time to watch the performance of the Habsburg family and Sand Goose."

Zhu Jinsong was very relieved and said to Zeng Cheng and other big bosses: "Northern Industry and Southern Weapons have to catch up with the production progress. After all, they are orders from two big customers, so don't dare to neglect them."

Shen Yongfu, the leader of the Ministry of War, immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will let them catch up with the progress while ensuring the quality."

Zhu Jinsong nodded with a smile, and said, "You really can't be sloppy in terms of quality—if you can send the barbarians of Europa to the west with one shot, don't waste two bullets."

"Also, with the full-scale development of the Habsburg family and Sand Goose, it is estimated that a large number of laborers will be sent by the two families soon, which can relieve the shortage of labor to some extent."

Having said that, Zhu Jinsong suddenly changed the subject: "Improving the treatment of the laborers sent by the Habsburg family and Sand Goose, we cannot allow them to enjoy the same treatment as the previous laborers."

Hearing what Zhu Jinsong said, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were a little confused—the four words of improving treatment are easy to understand, and it means to make the treatment better, but they cannot enjoy the enjoyment of the same treatment. It seems that the treatment of these workers is lower than before?
When Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were pondering whether to raise or lower the treatment of these workers, Zhu Jinsong sneered again and said: "Don't think that these barbarians in Europa have no real skills, but when it comes to nepotism Relationships and the ability to show off, these barbarians can almost be compared with the masters of the Eight Banners."

"After the Habsburg family and the Sand Goose have a full-fledged film, they will inevitably have generals and officers captured by the other side. Regardless of the Habsburg family or the Sand Goose, the generals and officers in their army are basically It's all done by their nobles."

Hearing this, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs probably understood what Zhu Jinsong meant.

Just like two identical products, a product labeled Made in Ming Dynasty will always be more expensive than a product labeled made in another country!

In the same way, the sand geese are the same as these noble officers of the Habsburg family-ordinary generals or soldiers naturally have no special value, but it is different when they are replaced by noble officers.

Not to mention letting Sand Goose and the Habsburg family redeem them at high prices, just brainwashing these people and making them die-hard fans of Daming is enough to bring countless benefits to Daming!

After thinking about it, Zeng Cheng simply bowed and said, "Since there are a lot of Europa nobles here, then I have an idea."

Zhu Jinsong snorted and asked with a smile, "Tell me about it?"

Zeng Cheng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "In my opinion, why not let them maintain the original establishment, the officers are still officers, the soldiers are still soldiers, and let them join the construction site as an organization?"

Liu Huaiwen's eyes lit up immediately, and he echoed repeatedly: "This idea is good, this idea is good, as long as you control the noble officers of the Habsburg family and Sand Goose, you will not be afraid that the soldiers below them will not work hard, but they can Save a lot of overseer's wages, knowing that the treasury is empty..."

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs didn't want to talk to Liu Huaiwen.

As we all know, the last governor of Ming Dynasty in Kyushu was Jiang Xinlong—this guy could fool Adolf into an idiot, and the Tokugawa family of the mere Japanese country was even played by Jiang Xinlong. Qi was sent to Daming as a supervisor at the price of half selling and half giving away.

Let's put it this way, if an ordinary citizen of Ming Dynasty goes to work on a construction site, he can get a salary of one dragon yuan a day, which is equivalent to one hundred Wen, while the supervisors of the Japanese country can only get two cents, that is, Twenty texts.

Although Daming gave the Japanese slave supervisors free food and accommodation, the difference between this dragon yuan and twenty cents...

It's actually a little big.

Calculated according to the current prices of Ming Dynasty, an ordinary citizen of Ming Dynasty can buy at least five fat chickens with their daily income, but those Japanese slave supervisors can only buy one fat chicken with their daily income.

More importantly, these Japanese slave supervisors are not able to receive their own wages in real terms like the common people of Ming Dynasty-the wages of these supervisors are settled by the Ministry of Households to the Governor's Mansion of Kyushu Island, and then the Governor's Mansion of Kyushu Island and the people of the Japanese Kingdom Shogunate settlement.

In this chain, of course, Ming Dynasty will not carry out drifting, but the Japanese shogunate will drift away part of it, and when it is settled in the Japanese treasury, it will drift away again. When it is finally settled in the hands of these rogue warriors, the daily wages There may be only a few pennies left.

This is already a high income that those ronin warriors can't even imagine!

Some ronin warriors even agree with Tokugawa Iezari's theory very much: "Don't look at the Daming people who earn a lot of Daming Longyuan, but they also spend Daming Longyuan. You are different. You earn Daming Longyuan. Return to Japan What was spent was the money of our Japanese country, and you earned more inside and outside here!"

Yes, it's such a bullshit theory.

Zhu Jinsong couldn’t even believe that such a nonsense theory could fool those ronin warriors—it’s true that the people of Ming Dynasty earn dragon yuan and spend dragon yuan, and it’s also true that ronin warriors earn dragon yuan and spend Japanese money. Ronin Samurai is more cost-effective in terms of income and expenditure, but is there any comparison between the two?

Absolutely not!

Because the goods themselves have value, or in other words, Daming has already set the value of a piece of goods in advance.

For example, a teacup can be sold for a penny in the Ming Dynasty, but would it be sold for a penny in the Japanese country?
It is impossible to think about it!

Of course, how Tokugawa Ieqi fooled those ronin warriors was the business of Tokugawa Ieqi, neither Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor nor Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs in the court didn't care too much.

What really upset Zeng Cheng and others was that Liu Huaiwen, the majestic minister of the household department of the Ming Dynasty, was able to drag the wages of a few Japanese slave supervisors to the emptiness of the national treasury...

Zeng Cheng couldn't help but said angrily: "If you can talk about it, it really depends on you, Liu Butang—this old man is just thinking about how to play with those savages, and you can actually talk about the emptiness of the national treasury!"

Liu Huaiwen snorted and said, "Old Master Zeng Ge is not in charge of the family and doesn't know that Chai Migui is expensive!"

"Last year alone, our Daming's expenditure on sociology and county education reached one billion yuan, which is equivalent to ten million taels of silver."

"Last year's expenditure on railways and roads also reached 50 billion yuan, which is equivalent to [-] million taels of silver."

"If you add other messy expenses, our Daming's income last year was a hundred million taels of silver—well, one annual income and Zhongtang's entire property is more than enough!"

"Don't worry, you used to take money from the national treasury?"

Hearing what Liu Huaiwen said, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs had nothing to say. Even Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, felt dizzy.

One hundred thousand taels of silver, if converted into Daming Dragon Yuan, would be worth tens of billions.

Although it is a bit shabby compared with the scale of hundreds of billions and trillions in later generations, the purchasing power of Daming Longyuan is there. The expenditure of tens of billions may not be able to have such a scale even if all other countries in the small broken ball are counted. !

More importantly, every time Liu Huaiwen mentioned the words "empty treasury", he always wanted to borrow some money from Zhu Jinsong's internal funds, so that Zhu Jinsong almost formed a conditioned reflex. With these four words, I started to be nervous about my internal money—I always saw Liu Huaiwen, an old brave, borrow money from Zhu Jinsong’s internal money, but never saw him pay back the money!
Thinking of his own small internal money, Zhu Jinsong said quickly: "I remember that last year, the Royal Academy also had a lot of output, and it also earned some money?"

The expression on Liu Huaiwen's face froze, and then he changed the topic abruptly: "Don't care about these details, after all they spend a lot..."

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said: "Uncle Huaiwen said that the national treasury is empty, and he really reminded me that our Ming Dynasty's third five-year plan is coming to an end, and it is time to discuss the next one. Five-year plan."

Shen Hongbo, the leader of the newly established Ministry of Communications, even bowed and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think that in the next five-year plan, the proportion of literacy programs can be slightly reduced, but the proportion of railways and electricity should be increased."

Meng Fanzhi, the head of the Ministry of Rites, was immediately unhappy: "It's okay to reduce the proportion of the literacy plan slightly, but why should the part subtracted from the literacy plan be added to the railway and electricity? As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow trees, and a hundred years to cultivate people. The weight lost in the literacy plan should be added to the social studies and county studies!"

Song Yucheng, the leader of the Ministry of Industry, laughed and asked, "Shouldn't it be added to the river and ditches? It's not like you don't know how much the floods in the past few years have caused-the community you built No matter how much you learn, no matter how good the railway is built, it will be nothing if the flood rushes over!"

Liu Huaiwen stared vigilantly at Shen Hongbo, Meng Fanzhi, Song Yucheng and other big bosses, and kept muttering: "The national treasury is empty, how much? Not much..."

(End of this chapter)