Xi'an Fucheng, Pingxi Army Jiedushi Division.

Wu Sangui, who had just celebrated the New Year, was settling accounts in the back house of the Jiedushi Envoy. He was worried that his Jiedushi Envoy had suffered a loss again!

This vassal can't be withdrawn either.

This account cannot be settled no matter how you calculate it.

Last year, Wu Sangui took the lead in practicing strict economy, reducing the expenses of the Jiedushi Yamen. He also worked hard to run industry and commerce, and sold more than 2,000 Hequ horses to Huguang, but in the end he still suffered a loss!

There is no way, no matter how hard Wu Sangui tries, he can't stand up to the 330 "little bottomless pits" below!

Although Wu Sangui implemented the thousand-household system in Pingxi Fan to consolidate his power, it was definitely a black hole financially. There were at least 330,000 households and more than 2 million people under the 330 thousand-household system, and the actual cultivated land per capita was between 8 and 8

Between ten acres, nearly 2,000 acres belong to these 330 thousand households. There is not much land and household registration left for Wu Sangui, the military envoy.

And after occupying so much land and population, none of the 330 thousand households reported a profit last year. They all suffered losses, and they all asked Wu Sangui for subsidies!

What’s even more despicable is that there are frictions among these 330 thousand households all year round!

These thousands of households are now divided into two factions, one is the Ganshan faction, and the other is the Guanning faction. They are constantly fighting overtly and covertly for land, population, and trade routes. The fight is endless. But Wu Sangui did not dare to offend the crowd.

The Gansu and Shaanxi sects could not treat their own Guanning sect badly, so they became like rats in the bellows and had no choice but to spend money to avoid disasters.

But how much money does he have in his pocket? How can he spend it enough? The money raised from the issuance of feudal bonds last time was used by him to supplement daily expenses and pay interest. Now he has spent most of it, and the withdrawal of the feudal clan is far away.

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What depressed him the most was that Zhu Cixi also wanted the Pingxi Fan to send troops to attack the Yerqiang Khanate and bring the land of Anxi, which had belonged to China since ancient times, back into the indirect jurisdiction of the central court.

Although the Junggar tribe will cooperate with Pingxi Fan's actions and may also assume the main task of sending troops. Wu Sangui cannot show weakness in front of Batur Hutaiji. He must fully demonstrate the power of Pingxi Fan, which means a huge expense.

And the Yeerqiang Khanate doesn't have much oil and water, because this Khanate has a rather speechless tradition of looting its own cities!

Although the Yeerqiang Khanate uses Tianfang religion as its state religion, its core is still Mongolian. The ruling methods are very rough, and the system implemented is not much different from the Genghis Khan era. The pillars of the Khanate are still Mongolian nomadic tribes.

It does not directly rule the city, but leaves it to the surrendered local nobles to manage it. The Khanate only collects money. If the money received is not enough to pay for the Khanate's civil war expenses, then it will rob and rob its own city and rob others.

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In addition, the Khanate's ruling group did not establish centralization of power within the ruling group. Instead, it followed the Mongolian style. The Kuritai Congress was not well-chosen, but often started fighting whenever it was chosen.

Of course, war costs money, and the Mongolian tribes don’t have money, so they just loot

In addition to the internal fighting among the Mongolian tribes, the sectarian struggle between the White Mountain and Black Mountain factions later appeared, which was also mixed with the internal fighting in Mongolia.

And weak countries have strong neighbors. Junggar to the north, Heshuote to the south, and Kazakhstan to the west. None of them are good, and they are all stronger than the Yerqiang Khanate! Therefore, they invade whenever they have the opportunity, and they are all steppe-style.

Yes, they will burn, kill, and loot when they come in!

So the people of Yeerqiang Kingdom really have nothing to say. The Mongolian master above wants to rob and kill him, and the Mongolian and Kazakh neighbors next door also want to rob and kill him!

If you just rob and kill like this, of course the people will be destitute and have a very small population, which makes you a weak country.

Wu Sangui's Pingxi Army is about to enter, and the middle and lower classes of the Yeerqiang Khanate are welcoming them with singing and dancing!

But what about Wu Sangui's own finances? What else would Zhu Cixi want to trade Anxi for Xi'an? This was another loss-making deal!

How can Anxi compare with Xi'an? Although the territory is large, transportation is inconvenient, the land is barren, and the cost of development and farming is extremely high. Therefore, it costs money to attack the Yerqiang Khanate, and it will cost money to build farming in Anxi after it is conquered!

And the returns on these investments are very low!

What a loss!

When Wu Sangui was worried, the voices of Wu Sanfeng and Liu Sheng came from outside the door.

"Is the eldest uncle here?"

"Commander, an imperial edict has arrived."

Imperial decree?

Wu Sangui said in her heart: Are we going to withdraw the vassal state? Or are we going to issue subsidies?

Years ago, he submitted a memorial requesting for the withdrawal of the vassal state or the payment of subsidies.

Wu Sangui shouted: "Come in quickly!"

This imperial edict was not sent by people from the General Affairs Department, let alone read by eunuchs, but by people from the Pingxi Army Jinxi Academy, so Wu Sangui did not have to go to receive the edict.

Wu Sanfeng and Liu Sheng heard the call and entered the house together.

"What's going on?" Wu Sangui asked.

It was Liu Sheng who answered: "Commander, the emperor has asked you to go to Nanjing for a while, and you must stay in Nanjing for at least three months."

"3 months?" Wu Sangui was stunned, "What are you going to do?"

"Go make up lessons!"

"What is a make-up lesson?" Wu Sangui was confused.

He has never taken extra classes since he was a child!

Wu Sanfeng was holding Wu Xiang's letter in his hand, which was also sent from Pingxi Jinzou Academy. It arrived with the imperial edict. Wu Sanfeng, who had already read the letter written by his father, knew what make-up lessons were.

"Uncle," Wu Sanfeng said, "Your Majesty's letter says that the Emperor invited a Western military strategist named Kong from Western France to teach you how to fight!"

"Ah?" Wu Sangui was simply stunned. He was a veteran of war, so why did he need to take up combat lessons?

Wu Sanfeng half-smiled, "My lord also said that if you take up lessons from Teacher Kong, your fighting skills will improve, and maybe you will be able to defeat Azig and Duduo in the future. So you must go not only

You have to make up for this lesson, and the adults and the third child also have to make up for it."

Well, the father and son went to make up lessons together!

I don’t know how to calculate the tuition fees? Are there any discounts?

"Announcement of the King of Confucius's visit to Louis Bourbon of France!"

As the guards chanted, Prince Louis II de Bourbon of Condé, the special envoy of the Kingdom of France, led by Grand Duke Luo and Li Shaoyou, walked into the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

The Ming court returned to Nanjing just the day before yesterday, and then took a day off. Early this morning, Emperor Zhu met with the special envoy of the Kingdom of France, Prince Condé, and the special envoy of the Ottoman Empire, Seimezi, in the Fengtian Palace.

The first person to enter the palace was Prince Kong Dai. He was a prince and had a relatively high status. Of course, he should be ranked in front of the Ottoman Empire's special envoy.

Today is the second day of March in the fifth year of Hongxing. Prince Kong Dai has stayed in Nanjing for more than twenty days. During this period, accompanied by Shi Ruien, he visited the Lecture Hall and the Xiaoling Guards Camp, and also listened to a few words in the Lecture Hall.

A foreign instructor described the situation on the Chinese battlefield and the status of several important battles.

Regarding the situation of the new army of the Ming Empire, I have a very good understanding of it. This is an army that is very powerful on paper! It is almost as powerful as the army of the Ottoman Empire!

However, there are several obvious weaknesses that limit its performance. If they can be overcome, defeating the barbarians in the north will not be a problem.

Prince Kong Dai, who was planning to show off his talents in the east of the world, walked into the hall with his head held high, and then he felt full of hostility!

This is a quite spacious hall, the light is a bit dim, and it is full of bearded men wearing crimson silk robes. Everyone looks very angry and looks at Prince Kong Dai with cold eyes.

The prince was immediately a little confused. What is going on? Why do these people have such expressions? I have not offended them, have I? Do the ministers all look like this when a state meeting is held here in China?

Teacher Kong Daikong didn’t know at this time that these bearded Chinese men were his future students, and they would all attend his military cram school and listen to his explanation of combat examples from the Thirty Years’ War.
Chapter completed!