We can finally send out troops!

Xu Zhengzheng breathed a sigh of relief, 70,000 pauper warriors! They were all crowded on the small island of Kyushu. Not to mention that the royal court in Tokyo was afraid, even Xu Zhengzhi and Xu Zhengjing were afraid! Who knows when someone will come to defeat them? Both of them were defeated.

However, after he was relieved, Xu Zhengjing frowned again: "Your Majesty, if the 70,000-strong army is going to leave from Kyushu, it will also require a large amount of settlement expenses... because many samurai are dragging their families with them. In order to allow them to go to war with peace of mind, they must be given at least one year's salary as settlement allowance. Even if they are paid at the rate of 26 taels of silver, a one-time expenditure of 1.82 million taels will be required.

In addition, soldiers who go on an expedition also need to purchase a batch of equipment, flags and robes. This is another huge expense, and it costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver..."

This is because the three armies have not moved yet, so the bills come first.

And the account reported by Xu Zhengjing is only part of it!

Seventy thousand people had to cross the ocean and be stationed somewhere in the New World or on the Southeast Asian front, which required a huge amount of expenditure.

Let’s talk about freight first. Because the Ming Dynasty’s navy has limited transportation capacity and their own transportation tasks are still very heavy, they have no spare capacity to transport these Japanese samurai. Therefore, they must hire a large number of civilian ships. The "ship ticket" of a samurai is at least 20 taels, seven The "ship ticket" for 10,000 people is at least 1.5 million taels!

Next is settling in. The Gulf of America side is easy to say - it is a good place to feed people, the climate is comfortable, there are no diseases, there is plenty of food and drink, and the wood for building houses is available everywhere. But when it comes to the Western Festival The 60,000 people on the Dushisi's territory must be properly resettled, otherwise half of them will die of illness... So this is another huge expense!

In addition to these Japanese samurai troops, Emperor Zhu also had to dispatch other troops to Nanyang and the New World - that is, the work in Nanyang cannot be done by the Japanese devils, otherwise, after they are done, the islands and peninsulas in Nanyang will all be destroyed. It became a Japanese colony.

Therefore, while Zhu Cihong mobilized the Japanese samurai army, he also issued troop dispatch orders to the Annan Kingdom, the Western Army, the Jinou Army and the Dongning Army.

Among them, the Annan Kingdom will send 6,000 troops, including 2,000 from South Ruan and Bei Zheng each, and 1,000 from the Mo family and Wu family. The Western Army will send 5,000 troops, the Jinou Army will send 3,000 troops, and the Dongning Army will provide the navy.

Among the vassal states and vassal towns that received orders to send troops, only the Dongning Army was so rich under Zheng Sen's management that it did not need military subsidies from the Ming court. The remaining Annan, Xiyang, and Jinou all needed money from the Ming court.

In addition, there is another Ryukyu Kingdom that needs to be relocated. The Ryukyu Kingdom is actually a city-state based on trade. It only came into being because the Ming Dynasty and Japan were insular.

Now that Japan and Ming Dynasty have both opened up, the Ryukyu Kingdom has no "money opportunities". Moreover, the territory of the Ryukyu Islands is very important for the coastal defense in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty. It is inappropriate to place the Ryukyu Kingdom there.

Therefore, Zhu Cixiang thought over and over again and decided to move the country to Krabi and Phuket, and establish a new Ryukyu Kingdom there, still following the route of a trading city-state.

Although Ryukyu is small, relocating the entire country is also a huge project. The cost will definitely be indispensable. Ming Dynasty will definitely invest in it... Of course, this investment will definitely be recovered and profitable in the future. It’s profitable, but the initial investment is still huge!

In addition to the above expenditures, Ming Dynasty has recently had to "increase positions" in the Gulf of America. The embassy in Europe has sent more accurate news. Bankers in Amsterdam have provided at least 35 million Dutch to the Kingdom of New Spain.

A huge loan of guilders (equivalent to 10 million taels of silver) was used to support the war preparations of the Kingdom of New Spain.

The Kingdom of New Spain, which received a huge loan, began to recruit mercenaries in Germany, and also began to train new armies in the Kingdom of New Spain.

Even the Spanish gangsters have borrowed money to spend it in America. Can Emperor Zhu Da follow up?

Nowadays, in the Americas, it is all about burning money to grab the market. It depends on who has the ability to find money and the ability to burn money!

...

Zhu Cihuan, the prince of Chongqing, has become more and more proud recently. Among the older sons of Emperor Chongzhen, he has always been the most aggrieved one.

His eldest brother is the Holy Emperor of the Zhongxing Ming Dynasty. His third brother is a famous king of his generation, the leader of the Nine Borders. Although his fourth brother has the same title as a county king, he is the dominant hegemon in the south, and he is the only one in his own Western military territory.

He is his master, and he also has plenty of money! These three are doing better than him, and he recognizes them... He is his elder brother, and his current success is all earned through hard work.

But what made him a little unbearable was that his sixth brother Zhu Cibing was actually more beautiful than him, and not even a little bit more beautiful!

First of all, he is the king of the county, and the younger brother Zhu Cibing is actually the prince!

Zhu Cibing was adopted to Prince Fu Zhu Yousong. After Zhu Yousong died, he should have been demoted one level to become the county king. However, Queen Wu Sanmei spoke for him and gave him a promotion in recognition of his passing the imperial examination.

level, continue to be a prince...

Secondly, Prince Zhu Cibing still has money!

Because King Fu Zhu Yousong was a prince who could save money, and he had been the chief minister for a long time, managing the clan affairs for Zhu Cixiang, so he was taken care of by Zhu Cixiang. First, he got a big house in the inner city of Nanjing, a prime location! Zhu Yousong himself didn't

I was willing to live in it, so I demolished it and rebuilt the building and opened many shops, all of which were rented out.

Later, a street was built in Shanghai, all of which were built with high-rise buildings. Half of them were sold, and the remaining properties were gradually collected for rent!

Later, he bought a lot of land certificates at a low price. He originally wanted to exchange them for land in Luoyang, Henan (that was King Fu's hometown), but he died before he could exchange them. The land certificates were all left to Zhu Cibing. Zhu Cibing was still young at that time, so

After knowing how to deal with it, Zhu Cihong took the initiative to sell it, and then used the money to build two streets and a wharf in Tianjin Prefecture.

So what Zhu Cibing inherited was not only a prince, but also dozens of buildings and a dock... worth more than two million taels at least! And the value increased every day, and the rent was collected every year! Just go to bed and sleep

That’s an increase of one or two thousand taels!

Zhu Cihuan, the Fifth Prince, was in a tough situation. He only had 5,000 acres of Susukinoan and a house in the east city of Nanjing. The 5,000 acres of land were not paddy fields, and the annual rent he could collect was only 2,000 shi of flour... because he was not a Gram.

It is difficult to claim credit, so tax refunds are not allowed, so what is actually obtained is only a thousand and a few hundred stones of flour - Zhu Cihong's "pay first and then get back" policy is really deceptive, there is really no room for maneuver!

All land, including the land owned by Zhu Cixiang himself, must pay taxes, and those that meet the tax refund standards can apply to the Ministry of Household Affairs...

Therefore, the prince Zhu Cihuan could only live on one thousand and a few hundred shi of flour. This income was actually quite large, and when converted into silver, it amounted to one thousand or several hundred taels. It was enough to save a little money.

But Zhu Cihuan still has a small hobby, which is female sex! His princess was found by Emperor Chongzhen. She is the daughter of a noble family (not a noble family of Kenan). Her beauty can only be said to be mediocre, not at all

It couldn't be compared with the beauty in the Queen's Palace. So he got a two-room concubine through the Kou family on Chaoku Street... This cost a lot!

Later, he and his wives and concubines gave birth to a lot of children, and the household expenses suddenly increased. If Emperor Chongzhen didn't see him as pitiful and rewarded him every now and then, he, the prince, would have been completely in debt.

But Zhu Cihuan was unwilling to give in!

He is quite a senior prince, why can't he do something great?

The current princes of the Ming Dynasty are not raising pigs. Princes with some brains and some capital are all showing off their talents. Zhu Cihuan feels that he is no worse than anyone else, but he has no opportunity, no capital, and does not like to study...

..

Fortunately, there is no end to the road, let alone the road of a prince of Ming Dynasty. Just when Zhu Cihuan was a little desperate, the subscription of United States stock made Zhu Cihuan see a bright road to realize the value of his life.

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Just after congratulating Emperor Chongzhen on his birthday, Zhu Cihuan, who was in a state of excitement, immediately asked Zhu Cizhao for the address of the stock dealer Yao Daqiao in Shanghai. After the New Year, he immediately went to Shanghai, the central city of Ming capitalism, to find him.
Chapter completed!