March 14, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Beijing, Xiyuan, Wansheng Palace.

The night was already very dark, and the entire Wansheng Palace was quiet. Only Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty and Queen Zhou were still awake on the big bed in the Dongnuan Pavilion dormitory with their eyes open.

Of course the two couples couldn't sleep not because of holding hands... but because of Zhu Cihong!

Zhu Cixiang, the great nephew of the Ming Dynasty who has never been sick since he was a child, has been suffering from a strange illness since last night... a rare form of narcolepsy.

Wake up. The Empress Zhou is very anxious now. Doctor Zeng from the Tai Ling Tai Hospital, Mr. Gao Qiqian from the Tmall Department, and Zhang Xianyong, the 51st Zhang Tianshi who is in charge of Dongyue Temple during this time,

Let’s go to Duanben Palace for consultation together.

The result of the expert consultation was very disappointing to Queen Zhou - Dr. Zeng said that the great-nephew's pulse was calm, his breathing was even, and he did not seem to be suffering from any serious illness, but he did not know when the great-nephew would wake up.

Gao Qiqian said that the great nephew had not been infected with any known plague... but he still suggested that the eunuchs of Tmall Division be responsible for taking care of the great nephew's daily life to prevent possible infection.

After careful observation, Zhang Xianyong, the 51st Zhang Tianshi, believed that the emperor's nephew had no signs of being invaded by evil spirits, but his soul was a little unstable. The specific situation would be asked after the emperor's nephew woke up.

.As for when my nephew will wake up, Tianshi Zhang will go to Fuji to ask for divination, and the results will be available tomorrow.

Of course, Empress Zhou was extremely dissatisfied with the answers given by Dr. Zeng, Gao Qiqian, and Zhang Tianshi, so she had no choice but to find a solution to Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhu Youjian's reaction was a bit strange. He first stopped the Umrah meeting and didn't read any memorials for the whole day...but he didn't go to Duanben Palace to take a look at the sleeping Zhu Cihong.

I spent a whole day reading the account books in the Dongnuang Pavilion of Wansheng Palace.

The account books in Dongnuan Pavilion were obtained by Zhu Youjian from the Ministry of Revenue, the Royal Horse Supervisor and Mrs. Zhaobao Xu Ruolan the day before Zhu Cixiang fell into a coma. They are all a bunch of things that make you upset...

.What makes Chongzhen upset is that he has no money again!

As an emperor, he is probably short of money. In his previous life, he always had no money when he lost a battle... In this life, he is invincible, but he still has no money!

Moreover... his lack of money not only did not ease at all, but actually deepened.

In his previous life, Mr. Zhu Youjian thought that one day there would suddenly be an extra 10 million taels of silver in the shipping warehouse, and then the Ming Dynasty would be saved!

But in this life... 10 million taels of silver is no longer a problem. Zhu Youjian already knows where to scrape 10 million.

But his ability to spend money is even greater, so the gap in money is even bigger!

Especially since the start of the Ping Liao Slavery Campaign in the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Ming Dynasty's finances have deteriorated sharply.

That’s right, it’s getting worse!

It stands to reason that after the Ping Liao eradication of slaves, the Ming Dynasty's financial situation should have improved, but this was not the case. The Ming Dynasty's finances did not improve as a result, but quickly fell into a quagmire of deficits for consecutive years.

The reason for the financial deficit was not entirely due to Ping Liao's military expenditure... In fact, Ping Liao's slave extermination campaign went fairly smoothly.

Because the slave thieves adopted a wrong strategy and fought a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty in Gaizhou, they suffered a quick defeat. In just a few months, the core territory of the slave thieves, which was the original Gaizhou Wei and Haizhou Wei, Dingliao's front and rear left and right central defenders (Liaoyang), Shenyang's central and left central defenders, Tieling defenders, Liaohai defenders, and 30,000 defenders were all occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

But the military occupation of these territories is only the beginning of effective control... Because these territories have become sparsely populated and desolate due to long-term wars and the "Qing Seven-Point Policy", and have long lost their former glory. The prosperity and wealth of Xiongzhen in Liaodong.

Without the millions of Liao civilians to provide logistical supplies for the army, the troops stationed on the ground in the newly restored Liaodong had to rely on supplies from the interior, which was very expensive.

Moreover, if the Han people do not occupy this area of ​​Liaodong, other people will migrate in sooner or later and take it as their own, and then a second slave thief will appear!

Therefore, after Zhu Youjian recovered the Thirteen Guards of Liaodong that had been occupied by slave thieves for a long time, he resolutely launched the plan to move military households from Zhongzhou and Heshuo to Liaoning regardless of financial difficulties.

According to Zhu Youjian's plan, 130,000 Zhongzhou and Heshuo military households will be moved to the territory of the Thirteenth Guards within two years.

On average, there are 10,000 armed immigrant households per guard!

The important town of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty will also be restored, and will be jointly governed by the Governor of Liaodong and the four general armies of Liaodong, Western Liaoning, Northern Liaoning, and Southern Liaoning. The garrison of the important town of Liaodong will be as high as 120,000!

In addition, the war between the Ming Dynasty and Korea in Liaodong did not end with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. This seems incredible at first glance. The Qing Dynasty is gone, so why is the war not over yet?

But this is the reality!

Although the "seven-point rule" of the Qing Dynasty weakened the centralization of power in the Qing Dynasty and made it unable to fight the "violent Ming" ruled by Zhu Youjian, it also allowed the local areas of the Qing Dynasty to continue to maintain their power even when the central government collapsed. .

For example, North Korea's "Two White Flags" were maintained despite the collapse of the Qing Dynasty... Although the Ming army took advantage of the Li Dynasty's reputation and sea control, the Ming army regained a lot of North Korea's land.

However, the three brothers Dorgon, Duduo and Azig were also very resilient. They resisted the Ming Dynasty for more than two years and occupied many territories in the northeast.

The Ming army's operation to regain the Japanese-controlled areas of Korea was much more difficult than originally imagined. Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Yasukina Masayuki were also very tenacious. Even if their shipping was often cut off by the Ming Navy's Beiyang Fleet, they took advantage of their territorial hardship in Korea. Persistence...

In the Songhua River and Heilongjiang basins in the northeast of Liaoning, fighting has been going on in the past two years. Amin, who was supported by the Ming army (Amin killed Hauge and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty) and Daishan and Yue Tuo, father and son, were constantly fighting. The Mongolian legion controlled by Zhu Youjian would also intervene from time to time.

Due to this series of immigration, garrison, and war actions, the Ming Dynasty's expenditure on the territories of Liaodong, North Korea, and Nuergandusi not only became astronomical, but also became a bottomless pit that could never be filled!

Ten to twenty million dollars simply cannot fill such a big hole!

Therefore, Mr. Zhu Youjian thought that if he could scrape as much money as the traitor and have 100 million on hand at any time, then he could pay off what he owed to Zheng Zhilong, Shen Tingyang, Li Guozhu, Liu Xiang and other large merchants, as well as the Huaiyang salt merchants. , Shanxi Shanxi merchants, and the Dutch East India Company's accounts have all been paid, and then half of the bottomless hole in the Northeast will be filled... The remaining half can be filled slowly, and it will take a lifetime to fill it!
Chapter completed!