As the person in charge of the Ming Dynasty's finances, Liu Huaiwen was most worried about the sudden occurrence of uncontrollable situations, such as sudden disasters or sudden wars, because once these two situations occurred, it would mean that those who were not originally wealthy would

The treasury has to continue to draw money out of the country.

However, in the 4484th year of the Yellow Emperor's era, the third year after Zhu Jinsong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and the fifty-third year of Qian De's reign, in February of spring, Zhu Jinsong was still trying his best to get some money from Liu Huaiwen, the man in charge of the treasury.

, Zhu Zhongqu, who occupied the entire Zhejiang Province, united with the rebels of all sizes from the two provinces, Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and launched a banner of revolt on behalf of heaven, preparing to attack Zhu Jinsong together.

Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, was simply confused.

Because starting from the second year after Zhu Jinsong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Zhu Jinsong's version of the Ming Dynasty court has been busy rectifying many things within the Ming Dynasty. In addition to building bridges and roads, building social studies, there are also trade matters with many barbarians.

, there is no time to pay attention to those big and small rebels.

In other words, Zhu Jinsong did a good job not to provoke anyone, but the rebels like Zhu Zhongqu wanted to form a group to fight against Zhu Jinsong.

The two provinces of Hunan and Guangxi plus Anhui, Gan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan are nine provinces. If we add in the small groups of rebels who have occupied several state capitals, the coalition forces that came to attack the Ming Dynasty this time are even larger than those of the Eighteenth Eighteenth Century.

The scale of the Lu princes' challenge to Dong was even larger.

It wouldn't matter if these messy rebels just formed a coalition. The key is that the timing of these rebels was really screwed up.

In February of spring, it was the time of spring plowing. These rebels chose this time to launch an attack. It would not only affect the people on Zhu Jinsong's side, but also the farming of the people under their rule.

The problem is that Zhu Jinsong's rule is better. Relying on the advantages of maritime trade and the grain reserves over the years, it doesn't matter if the spring plowing is affected. The worst is to give up this year's harvest.

But what about the people under the rule of rebels?

Except that Zhu Zhongqu who occupied Zhejiang and Mei Chunyao who occupied Guangdong may have a certain amount of grain in their hands, the remaining rebels also had as much as Zhu Jinsong, enough to feed the people under their rule for more than two years.

Not to mention that Zhu Jinsong didn't believe this kind of thing, even the money-deaf old dog probably wouldn't believe it either.

This is no longer about hurting the enemy by one thousand and hurting yourself by eight hundred, but hurting the enemy by one thousand and hurting yourself by three thousand. It is completely based on the mentality of failure or failure.

These rebels were trying their best to kill Zhu Jinsong first even though their vitality was seriously injured.

Therefore, after receiving the information sent by the Jin Yiwei and the Tiandihui, Zhu Jinsong, the Ming Emperor, was so angry that he became confused.

Damn it, I didn’t see you being so active during the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. I didn’t see you attacking Qian Deaf Laogou in Zhili, but now you are aiming your troops at me?

This is simply too much bullying!

After summoning his subordinates, big and small, and showing everyone the information about the Jinyiwei and the Tiandihui, Zhu Jinsong said with a gloomy face: "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms actually contains the story of the eighteen princes challenging Dong.

, I didn’t expect that now there are more than twenty princes coming to attack our Ming Dynasty.”

Zhu Jinsong's version of the big bosses in the Ming court also didn't look good.

For example, Zhu Erdan, who was in charge of the former military governor's office, even shouted directly: "Since they dare to come, then just fight them back. Not only must they be beaten, but they must be beaten painfully to completely break their courage!"

Liu Heming, who is in charge of the Right Army Governor's Office, also expressed his position: "Brother Erdan is right, we have to fight back. In this battle, our Central Army Governor's Office is willing to take the main attack!"

Zhu Erdan glared at Liu Heming and said, "What a fart! Our former military governor's office should be the one to launch the main attack! Your Chinese army's governor's office is stationed in Shandong, and the one who attacked us this time was Zhu Zhongqu from Zhejiang, so it should be

Let our former military governor's office take the main attack!"

Seeing Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming quarreling over who would be the main attacker, Liu Erniu, who was in charge of the Left Army Governor's Palace, Geng Rui, who was in charge of the Right Army Governor's Palace, and Zhu Sanshun, who was in charge of the Rear Army Governor's Palace, looked at each other in tacit understanding.

No one spoke.

Zhu Jinsong's version of the Five Army Governor's Mansion is not the same concept as the original Five Army Governor's Mansion in the Ming Dynasty. Instead, it is more like the division of war zones. Although the scale of these war zones is a bit smaller, after all, the rebels in Zhejiang Zhu Zhongqu came from the south.

Therefore, only the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion can compete with the former Army Governor's Mansion for the main attack, and no one else can compete with the rest.

Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming kept arguing, but Zhu Jinsong patted the table in front of him and shouted: "Shut up, everyone! There is no main or secondary attack this time! Whoever quarrels again will stay and take care of logistics!"

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After scolding Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming, Zhu Jinsong turned his attention to Liu Huaiwen: "Uncle Huaiwen, we won't fight with you for those vain things. The current situation is obvious and we need money from your treasury."

As Zhu Jinsong finished speaking, all the big and small leaders in the Ming Dynasty hall turned their attention to Liu Huaiwen.

Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was right. The current war was started by the rebels, large and small, and it was not the Ming Dynasty that took the initiative to attack them, so this war must be fought.

Money is indispensable in fighting a war.

Although the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion did have military expenditures that had just been allocated, Zhu Jinsong's original plan was to wait for the Ming Dynasty to be more stable before deploying troops on a large scale. Naturally, the military expenditures allocated to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion were not enough to cope with the situation.

There are rebels from more than twenty princes in all nine provinces in the world.

Therefore, the problem once again returns to the treasury - if the treasury can come up with enough money, then everything will be easy. If the treasury cannot come up with enough money, then this battle will be difficult to fight. At least

These artillery shells, grenades and the like have to be used by picking at them.

Seeing Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the leaders of the military system all turning their attention to him, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help but angrily clicked the dry smoke pot and said, "Why are you all looking at me?"

"Just like what the emperor said, since they have already attacked, our Ming Dynasty must fight back. Otherwise, we will not let them think that our Ming Dynasty is easy to bully?"

"I'm here to express my opinion on behalf of the national treasury - whether it's too much or not, 8 million taels of silver is no problem anyway."

After thinking about it, Liu Huaiwen snorted again and said: "Since we want to fight, let's just go big. The national treasury will spend 15 million taels of silver to fight this war!"

After hearing what Liu Huaiwen said, except for Zhu Jinsong, the Ming Emperor, the rest of the big and small leaders were all confused.

Isn’t the national treasury already empty and running around with rats?

Didn't the treasury originally only have more than two million taels of silver, and adding the money stolen from the barbarians was only more than five million taels of silver? Why did fifteen million taels of silver suddenly appear?

You know, five million taels suddenly became fifteen million taels. This was a sudden increase of ten million taels of silver, not as simple as an extra thousand taels.

But Liu Huaiwen glared at the big boss for a while and shouted: "What do you think I am doing? This is today...this is the autumn tax that was just paid last year. It is not like there is so much money in the national treasury."

"Let me tell you, after this war is over, the treasury will be really empty, and your budget for this year will have to be tighter!"

However, other big guys did not believe what Liu Huaiwen said.

What time is it now? It's spring and February now. Last year's autumn taxes have just been paid into the national treasury, so the money can only be from the original treasury.

Of course, it doesn't matter to Liu Huaiwen whether the other big guys believe it or not. Anyway, there is only so much money in the treasury, and you prodigals will blow it up and it will be gone.

Unless these fifteen million taels are not enough to defeat those coalition forces.

But is this possible? It's obviously impossible. Fifteen million taels of silver are enough for the killers in the Houjun Governor's Mansion to wipe out the Taqing hunkered down in Zhili for three to five times, and deal with a mere gang.

Fifteen million taels are enough for the anti-thief coalition, no matter what.

However, Zhu Jinsong snorted and said, "Uncle Huaiwen, don't fool us with your nonsense about running away from the treasury."

"Let me tell you, we are really in trouble this time."

"Fifteen million taels of silver is certainly enough to deal with the Tatars, and it is more than enough to deal with trash like Zhu Zhongzhi, Zhu Zhongji, and Zhu Zhongfeng."

"But I'm afraid it's not enough to deal with Zhu Zhongqu in Zhejiang."

Having said this, Zhu Jinsong looked at Ke Zhiming and said, "Tell the guys about the situation in Yangzhou."

Ke Zhiming first stood up and agreed, then looked at the big bosses and said: "Those rebels in Zhejiang are very different from those we have come into contact with before."

"When we captured Jiangsu before, the Huang family of Yangzhou Prefecture did not stay in Yangzhou, but went directly south to join the Ruan family of Zhejiang Province."
Chapter completed!