Wanli 1592

Chapter 123 The Profit-Driven Beast

"Are all the winter clothes you send out like this?"

The two guards looked at each other and nodded.

"It's basically like this. Brothers think it's a bit thin, but they also feel that the northerners wear it that thin. We are embarrassed to ask for thicker ones, so as not to make those northerners look down."

The big soldier spoke neither lightly nor seriously, and didn't notice that Xiao Ruxun was also a "Northern" in their mouths, but Xiao Ruxun didn't care, just nodded, and let the two leave. Then Xiao Ruxun brought a few guards to the military supply warehouse, hoarding In the past few days, supplies from Pyongyang have arrived in Kaesong in an endless stream, and the military supplies of the Ming army have almost arrived, and they are on the verge of war.

The quartermaster saw Xiao Ruxun approaching with a dark face. He didn't know what happened, so he rushed to meet him. Just as he was about to greet him, Xiao Ruxun pushed him away. Xiao Ruxun went straight to the place where the winter clothes were stored, and picked up a set of winter clothes , the face was even darker, and when it was torn apart forcefully, a thin layer of cotton and some fillings of reed wadding were scattered.

"Is this the only amount of cotton filling for winter clothes in the military?"

Xiao Ruxun pointed to the small amount of cotton scattered on the ground and looked coldly at the quartermaster, who immediately knelt down and said, "Damn the villain! Damn the villain! But admiral, winter clothes have been like this for years! Although the court has a ration , but the amount of winter clothes issued has never been enough, [-]% is not bad! The villain...the villain is also helpless!"

Xiao Ruxun looked at the broken winter clothes, as if he could see the Ming Dynasty that was about to be hollowed out through the winter clothes.

Strong on the outside but strong on the inside, is it enough to describe the Ming Dynasty at this time?
Who emptied the Ming Dynasty?Who made the Ming Dynasty have no money?Who made the farmers of the Ming Dynasty not have enough to eat?Who prevented the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty from wearing thick cotton clothes?Who prevented the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty from using excellent bird guns?
"Get up, I won't kill you, do what you have to do, and in addition, send another set of winter clothes to the Nanbing Barracks, right now!"

Xiao Ruxun turned around and left, leaving behind the quartermaster who was kneeling on the ground in fear and was about to die with a dazed expression on his face.

The war is about to start. This kind of system problem cannot be solved by a military general outside the system, at least not now, but one day, when I hold the power of life and death, I will let each of you All pay the price.

Xiao Ruxun gritted his teeth and looked to the west, then cast his cold eyes on the Japanese pirates on the east bank of the Linjin River.

On the evening of November 27th, Xiao Ruxun received an urgent secret report from Jinyiwei. A Jinyiwei Xiaoqi sent it in the dark and told Xiao Ruxun that it was written by His Majesty.

Xiao Ruxun quickly took it and opened it, only to see a small piece of paper, which said Qing's loyalty, I also know it, but the resistance in the court is too great, the navy will cost more to fight, and the national treasury can't afford it, I don't know if there are other things Strategy and so on.

After reading it, Xiao Ruxun knew that the civil servant group was threatening the emperor to use the money from the internal treasury to supplement the state. Feeling helpless, she decided to resort to her own killer moves—Sado Island and Iwami Ginzan.

These two places are basically world-famous. Sado is famous for gold, and Shimane Prefecture, where Iwami Ginzan is located, is naturally the most famous for silver. Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s military expenditures for attacking North Korea came from Iwami Ginzan, because This silver mountain, which can almost reach an annual output of one million taels of silver, gave Toyotomi Hideyoshi the confidence to declare war on North Korea.

And Sado Gold Mine was not well-known at this time, and it would be nearly ten years before anyone discovered a large-scale gold mine, and now there are only a few silver mines, but the annual output of [-] kilograms of gold is not a small amount. The number, let alone the mining time is so long, and it took hundreds of years to dry up. Isn't this a fatal temptation for the Wanli Emperor who was crazy about money?

Defeat Japan and force them to cede the two regions of Sado Island and Shimane as the colonies of Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, they garrison troops to deter Japan, and on the other hand, they mine gold and silver mines. They use external incentives to ensure the ability of Ming to sail at sea and to ensure the prosperity of Ming. The sea transportation capacity lays the foundation for reaching out to farther places in the future.

Don't civil servants like to say that it is of no benefit to attack these small countries?I will show you the benefits now. As long as there are enough benefits, what reason do these bastards use to stop the navy from sending troops?Does the naval military need 100 million taels of silver and 8000 taels of gold a year?Not to mention the manpower and material resources mobilized by Ming Dynasty, maybe even more can be mined, which can bulge the emperor's pocket in an instant.

The emperor gave money to support the naval attack, and the ones that were shot down naturally belonged to the emperor. Do the gentlemen who occupy the peak of morality have the nerve to compete with the emperor for food?Believe it or not, Zhu Yijun came down to greet you after a big meal?
Xiao Ruxun asked the Jinyiwei Xiaoqi to wait for a while, and then wrote down the gold and silver production and mineral deposits of Sado Gold Mountain and Iwami Silver Mountain. Xiao Ruxun believed that the emperor could not be tempted by this.

"Please hand it over to His Majesty as quickly as possible. His Majesty must personally open and read it, and the rest are not allowed to read it. This is a top secret."

Xiao Ruxun gave this information to Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi very seriously, and this Xiaoqi nodded and quickly disappeared into the night.

Not long after Xiaoqi left, Xiao Ruxun received a report from the guards, saying that the Linjin River had started to freeze, the water had stopped flowing, and a thin layer of ice had formed. Xiao Ruxun was overjoyed, and immediately rushed to the Linjin River , Stretched out his hand to explore the ice layer on the surface of the river, felt the temperature and thickness of the ice layer, and then issued an order to immediately dispatch gunners to establish artillery positions here while it was dark.

That night, the artillery battalion mobilized [-] cannons to build an artillery position here, and then adjusted [-] knives and shields, and [-] gunmen and gunmen to prepare for battle.

I can find that the river here is frozen, and so can the Japanese pirates. In order to prevent the Japanese pirates from shooting at the ice and making it impossible for me to pass through the river, Xiao Ruxun plans to preemptively attack the Japanese pirates on the opposite bank with artillery, and then lead the army across the river safely.

The person in charge of guarding the defense line of the Linjin River is Yoshihiro Shimadzu. He didn’t know how powerful the Ming army’s artillery was, and everyone who knew it was dead. Although some people fled back to show that the army’s artillery was powerful, it was not enough to arouse the anger of the high-level Japanese army. Pay attention, Li Rusong relied on cavalry and bravery to defeat them, they were naturally afraid of Li Rusong's cavalry, but for the rest, they had their own guards on the river, the Ming army did not have a ferry, so they couldn't get across.

Xiao Ruxun was also depressed. Liu Chenglong spent all his life collecting ferries and only found more than 20 small sampans. The other ships were either destroyed in previous battles or burned down by Japanese pirates this time. Let the soldiers pass by these more than 20 small sampans?How long will it take to transport the [-] troops there?
The only way is to wait for the river to freeze solid, and then we all go together.

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