After sending Gao Hongtu away, Zhu Cilang decided to summon Jiang Yueguang and Lu Zhenfei.

Although Gao Hongtu was a little stubborn, what he said made sense.

To re-establish the Denglai Governor, the re-establishment of the Denglai Naval Division is not a department of the Ministry of Works. Zhu Cilang must coordinate with many parties.

Originally, Zhu Cixuan wanted to bring the Ministry of Personnel in to discuss the matter.

But considering that Zhang Shenyan, the Minister of Personnel, has been recuperating at home now, it is not appropriate for Zhu Cixuan to call a minister, so he simply summoned Jiang Yueguang and Lu Zhenfei.

Anyway, after the agreement, the Ministry of Personnel will just inform you.

As long as Jiang Yueguang is in charge of money and Lu Zhenfei is in charge of military affairs, then this matter will be done.

While waiting, Zhu Cilan simply analyzed the war in Henan on the map.

Now Gao Jie's Northern Expedition has captured Kaifeng. If you continue to go north, you can attack Huaiqing. The two Weihui prefectures directly threaten Beizhili.

He can also concentrate his troops to capture Luoyang.

Luoyang is a majestic city like Kaifeng, and its importance is even higher than Kaifeng.

It can be said that Gao Jie is very good no matter where he chooses to play.

Zhu Cixuan himself tends to take Luoyang. However, he does not intend to limit the conditions for Gao Jie.

In wartime, any small change on the battlefield will lead to changes in decision-making.

Zhu Cilang needs to do now to make use of the gaps during the Qing Dynasty's Western Expedition as much as possible.

When Zhu Cilang was concentrating and pondering, the eunuch reported that Lu Zhenfei was reported, and Jiang Yueguang had already arrived outside the hall to wait.

Zhu Cixuan sat down after shaking his robe and said loudly: "Xuan!"

A king must sit upright and be arrogant without anger, and must never do anything that damages his image.

Zhu Cixuan felt that he was doing well in this regard.

Jiang Yueguang, Lu Zhenfei knelt down and saluted after entering the hall in turn. Zhu Cilang gave them flat body and each gave them a Jindun to rest.

"I summoned the two Qing families to discuss an important matter. I am planning to re-establish the governor of Denglai and rebuild the Denglai Naval Division. What do you think of the two Qing families?"

Lu Zhenfei was excited when he heard this.

He firmly supported the Northern Expedition and opposed all forms of peace talks.

In his opinion, only if they are stronger and more afraid of defeating the Donglu, they will obediently withdraw from the gates. Once they show weakness, the Donglu will pounce on them like a hungry wolf without mercy.

"Your Majesty is wise! Denglai is in a very good position. Setting up a navy here can not only threaten Tianjin or go to Lushun to use troops, but it can kill two birds with one stone."

Since Lu Zhenfei became the Minister of War, he has always wanted to rebuild the navy in Denglai. However, at that time, there were less than five sea boats in the hands of the imperial court, so naturally he could not do this.

Fortunately, the Holy Emperor was wise and reformed the Longjiang Shipyard, used rewards to inspire craftsmen to build ships, and built dozens of blessed ships and sea ships in just a few months.

Although this number is incomparable to the number of sea boats at the heyday of the Denglai Navy, it is already a very good start.

Lu Zhenfei believed that as many as one year or as few as half a year, the Denglai Navy could recover to its former scale.

Guarding the river? Guarding the Huai River?

Don't want it all!

If it really comes to the time to defend the river and the Huai River, the Ming Dynasty would be almost destroyed.

Even if we have to defend, the people guarding Shandong and Henan are still guarding these two places. The Eastern Barbarians will not be able to threaten Nanjing at all.

The best strategy is to defend enemies outside the country.

"Well, then Lu Aiqing will estimate how many soldiers there are in Denglai Town, and take out a charter and report it to me."

"I obey the order!"

Lu Zhenfei happily accepted the order.

"Jiang Aiqing, are there any problems with the Ministry of Revenue?"

Zhu Cilang turned to Jiang Yueguang again.

"Your Majesty, it is a good thing to set up Denglai Town again. However, money and food matters may be a bit difficult. The old minister doesn't know how much the Denglai Town is preparing to set the troops, but this year the silver will be at least one million taels together? The Ministry of Revenue can't afford so much money."

This old fox cried poorly as soon as he got up!

Zhu Ciyang secretly whispered, but smiled slightly: "Oh? Can't even get a million taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue?"

Jiang Yueguang waited for this sentence from Zhu Cilang, and hurriedly bowed: "Your Majesty, Huguang will consume half of its annual income every year, and the daily expenses of more than 100,000 troops in Nanzhili are just enough. If Your Majesty asks the old minister to squeeze out more than 100,000 taels, it may be possible, but if you ask me to take out one million taels at once, I really can't do it."

What Jiang Yueguang said is true and false.

It is really a big deal for the Southern Ming court to raise an army. Just say that Zuo Liangyu's "800,000" army had to be supported by the court.

If Zhu Cilang cut off Zuo Liangyu's military pay, Zuo Liangyu would definitely be able to swear, and he would pull the flag and rebel.

Therefore, the military pay for Huguang cannot be cut off for the time being.

Then there is the military pay of the warlords of the Southern Zhili.

Needless to say, Gao Jie and Huang Degong were the only one tael of silver for Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing before they launched a rebellion.

The consumption of this part is really huge.

Fortunately, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's troops are all killed and saved a lot of money. As long as Zuo Liangyu dies, Zhu Cilang can use Jin Shenghuan, Ma Jinzhong and others to control Huguang. After controlling the situation in Huguang, it is certain that some of the troops will be laid off. The 800,000 people are too watery, and the real ones can be fought are probably not even 200,000.

Zhu Cilang doesn't plan to raise so many idle people, and he can save another money after losing weight.

Even though Jiang Yueguang didn't know that Zhu Cixuan was planning to attack Zuo Zhen, he should have known that Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's rebellion had been put to rest?

Why is it impossible to transfer the military pay that originally belonged to Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo to the soon-to-reconstructed Denglai Town?

Even if there is a little gap, it will not be a million taels, at most hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Jiang Yueguang insisted that he had no money. Isn’t this obvious intention to let Zhu Cilang pay out of his own pocket and pay the military pay from the treasury?

Zhu Cilang is not stupid either, and will not take the initiative to admit this black account.

He decided to reason with Jiang Yueguang.

"I don't think so? Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing have been killed, and the rebels have almost been killed. Why don't Jiang Aiqing allocate this part of the money to Denglai Town?"

Jiang Yueguang seemed to have been prepared and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know that the navy consumes much more than the infantry. Although the number of rebels in the second Liu is 50,000 or 60,000, the military pay consumed in a year is only 50,000 or 600,000 taels. But if the same person is replaced by a navy, even if the maintenance costs of various ships and boats are not counted, the military pay of the soldiers alone will have to be doubled."

Jiang Yueguang did not lie. Raising cavalry costs more than raising infantry, and raising naval divisions costs more than raising cavalry. In this way, if the rating of Denglai soldiers is 50,000 or 60,000, it would indeed cost millions of taels that year.

It’s not that Zhu Cilang doesn’t understand this, but he just doesn’t feel satisfied with Jiang Yueguang’s attitude of only asking for money.

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Chapter completed!