For the ministers, it is embarrassing that the emperor knows nothing and is easy to fool. What is even more embarrassing is that his own fooling is exposed on the spot by the emperor.

Indeed, when did the military headquarters worry about money in the past two years? During the war, His Majesty will approve it as long as the reason for money is reasonable. If there is no money, it will be printed directly.

Last year, the Mughal War and the Yarkand War were both preparation stages, and the military expenditure finally soared to 600 million yuan. This year, the Mughal war first and then the Yarkand war directly soared to 900 million yuan.

As a result, I will tell you next year that the military expenditure is only 350 million yuan. Is this a little bit? That is a billion-dollar gap!

Zhu Cixuan spoke directly: "The cabinet solved 60 million yuan, and the remaining 290 million yuan is all my inner treasury. How much do you think my inner treasury can earn in a year?

The annual revenue of the internal treasury this year is only 380 million taels. In order to prepare military expenses for you, not only did the income from foreign trade licenses be misappropriated, but the banknotes were issued for more than 300 million taels to make up.

Do you don’t have to pay back the debt?

The income will indeed increase next year, but the increase is limited, and the income next year will only be less than 500 million.

But do you have to spend money and no one else needs it? Do the Jinyiwei want money? Does the Huangming Department need to pay for it? Not to mention the laying of telegraph lines and the construction of train lanes, do you want money?

Should Huangming Business Enterprise invest in the development?

You are not satisfied with the money I earn in a year?

What you really think is that it is so beautiful. You dare to spend as much as I earn!

Is the construction of telegram related to you? Is the construction of railway related to you? If the infrastructure of the Ming Dynasty is not improved, no matter how good the weapons and equipment are, how can you fight?

I still say the same thing: within ten years, the Ming Dynasty will focus on building infrastructure and make up for the shortcomings in logistics, so that it can no longer blindly lead the war. The Ming Dynasty will carry out the steam engine revolution. In ten years, the Ming Dynasty will be equipped with at least one million steam engines!

As long as this goal is achieved, the labor efficiency generated by an increase of 100 million people than the Ming Dynasty will be higher.

As long as you complete the steam engine revolution, you will enter the path of leapfrog development after the Ming Dynasty.

By then, even if the remaining countries on the earth are tied together, they will not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty!”

Li Tong hooked his head and didn't answer. We understand what you said, but I really can't wait for ten years. Li Tong can now see his life after retirement.

In order to stagger the cabinet and prevent civil strife caused by changes in senior management, the military's election was half a year later than the cabinet.

So in the middle of the year after, Li Tong will retire. Just like Yang Sichang's current position, he will hold honorary titles for some royal military advisors, give lectures in various schools, or go to the feudal state to give lectures and attend some exchange meetings.

As for coming to the front line again to command the battle? Li Tong's experience is really not as good as those of Zhou Yuji and Cao Wenzhao, who have truly commanded the battle to destroy the country.

New geniuses in the military are constantly emerging and new technologies are constantly being updated. Perhaps Li Tong himself does not recognize the weapons and equipment in ten years, so what else can he talk about?

The new generation is different. They are the heroes of the times. It’s not that they are much better than others, but that they are lucky and become the first people to follow the emperor.

But these new generations are different. They really relied on their talents and military achievements to improve little by little. They are real geniuses.

Ten years later, these real geniuses will be in charge. These elderly people may only be the reporters from newspapers who occasionally think of him interviewing and writing to discuss their views on war.

Although what Your Majesty said makes sense, he is really unwilling to end it like this.

Zhu Cixuan looked at Li Tong without saying anything, and felt helpless. The Ming Dynasty could not keep fighting. Although the military logistics industry also made money, the military industry could not account for too much of the industry.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty's inclination towards military industry and heavy industry has become very obvious, and Zhu Cixuan does not want to take the path of red-haired failure.

Light industries related to people's livelihood need to be built, and the people's desire to improve their quality of life must be satisfied. If the economy cannot grow year by year, the people are still hovering around the food and clothing line.

There is only so much money, and tilting in one direction and the other will naturally reduce.

Moreover, as the Ming Dynasty began to accelerate urbanization, the contradictions in infrastructure have begun to become sharp. Not only in the capital, but many cities in the Ming Dynasty are moving towards two million.

And those cities with a population of more than 500,000 are also running towards millions.

The phenomenon of urban agglomerations has also begun to appear, including the Beijing-Tianjin-Yong urban agglomeration composed of three points, Beijing, Tianjin and Yongping. The Yangtze River Delta is even clustered with Songjiang, Suzhou, Jinling and a number of medium-sized cities.

Hangzhou Bay Hangzhou City is also taking off with a number of small and medium-sized cities.

It sounds beautiful, but for the court, this is a new challenge. The interconnection of urban agglomerations, overlapping urban functions, overlapping industrial competition and other problems have never been encountered before.

For Zhu Ciying, it will be a problem in the future. Judging from the situation in later generations, urban diseases will also plague these megacities after the intensification of urbanization.

So does the Ming Dynasty want to limit this trend before urban diseases occur?

Some people think that in the past dynasties forced the people to move out in order to limit the population of the capital. This is a kind of ignorance. The world's number one in the megacity sounds so high-end.

But in fact, if you don’t face the problem in person, you won’t know how troublesome it is.

Why should railways be given priority to the construction of highways from the Beijing to Tianjin? It is because this is the busiest section of highway in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty capital had a population of two million, and it would take at least 20,000 shi of food every day. A four-wheeled carriage weighed between ten and twenty stones, which means that the carriage from Tianjin to the capital a day would cost 1,000 to 2,000.

It takes five to six days to complete this journey. In other words, before this round trip, the grain trucks will be transported back and forth continuously.

It takes at least four to five ships to transport so much grain. It takes more than half a month to transport grain from Jiangnan, and it takes one to two months to transport grain from Southeast Asia or New Guinea Island.

Suppose that four ships of grain are needed in a day, and the average transportation time is forty days. One round trip requires 320 large ships to transport back and forth to meet the normal supply of grain in the capital.

This does not include the population and food issues near the capital and Yongping, Tianjin.

This is just food. Can the people in the capital of the Ming Dynasty do nothing but eat food?

If you look at the future generations, those megacities still need to try to divert the population.

Besides, the cities in later generations were three-dimensional urban high-rise buildings, and residential buildings were dozens of stories high.

The cities of the Ming Dynasty are now flat, with fewer two-story houses. Later generations included cars, buses and subways, and the commuting pressure was much smaller than that of the current Ming Dynasty.

The current size of the Ming capital is more than 30 miles from north to south and more than 40 miles from east to west. The average walking speed of people is about ten miles per hour.

If the population continues to expand, this commuting distance will be a disaster.
Chapter completed!