The matter of the Ministry of Revenue was resolved, and the matter of the Lifanyuan came again. Looking at Hou Fangyu who was angry in front of him, Zhu Cilang finally understood what was going on. It turned out that these small foreign countries wanted to repeat the same mistakes.

"Your Highness, look at how loyal these guys are to our Ming Dynasty, but are they loyal? All the things they sent are all good and not worth a few dollars. Just like before, I thought of coming to us to cheat the rewards."

Zhu Cilang looked at the top gift list. It was from Annan Kingdom in the south. Annan Kingdom was located in the southern part of Guangxi and was considered a relatively large vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

There are indeed many things on the gift list, but most of them are local specialties and there are not many valuable things.

If these things are converted, it is a bit unreasonable to say that the amount of silver is about 4,000 taels of silver as a country's offering.

"It seems like I have to find a way to kill the chicken to warn the monkey. Is this the same thing for other tribes of all sizes?"

Zhu Cilang was too lazy to look at the tributes behind him. Like Hou Fangyu, he became more angry the more he looked at them. Since he had known what the result was, he had to find a way out in this regard.

You always say that the Ming Dynasty was the sect leader country, that is, your father, but are you just using such broken things to fool your father?

"It's basically the same. Weichen checked the tribute records of Chongzhen for eight years and was similar to those at that time. At that time, the imperial court collected a total of 240,000 silver vehicles, but spent 1.9 million taels of silver, which was a total loss of ten times."

Hou Fangyu and foreign devils have been doing business for a long time, and ordinary little money can't be seen, but these people do things like this clearly treat us as fools.

I came here to give gifts with such a small amount of things. When I left, I wanted to exchange for something ten times more for the food I asked for. Is there such a good thing in the world? If we are your vassal state, can you be willing to do this?

"Didn't the Qian Kingdom Duke Mu Tianbo report a few days ago that their troops had a conflict with Annan in the border area?"

Zhu Cixuan did not continue to talk about this matter, but instead looked at Shi Kefa next to him. There were too many military memorials sent these days.

Zhu Cilang did not take the matter with the Duke of Qian seriously. After all, the most important battlefields are now in the north and the south, especially in the south. Even in the southwest, even if there are various conflicts in the border areas, the scale is not very large.

"When the prince said, our border patrol soldiers had a conflict with an opponent's caravan that day. Later, when our personnel arrested the opponent, they all ran into the military camp of Annan. Because there were fewer soldiers in our army in the local area, the Duke of Qian had normal negotiations with Annan, but Annan repeatedly refused..."

To put it bluntly, the other party killed our soldiers. However, when we used to ask for people, these people pushed them to 625. The Duke of Qian also wanted to kill them directly at that time, but it was difficult to walk on the mountain road, so he endured this matter first.

What's more, the court could not support the war. At that time, it was during the war in Shandong and did not have so much energy to support the Duke of Qian.

"How are the soldiers under the Duke of Qian?"

When Zhu Cixuan asked this, some of the people below began to feel anxious. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince never endured it.

If another battlefield was opened in the southwest region, the current imperial court would really not be able to support it, but if the Duke of Qian himself could support it, then they would have nothing to worry about. The question is, can the three southwest provinces afford it?

"Originally, the Duke of Qian had 120,000 soldiers, but after screening, only 80,000 soldiers were left. Now 80,000 soldiers are stationed in the two southwestern provinces, of which 15,000 soldiers are stationed on the border line. The number of people they need to defend hundreds of miles of border line is too small, and it is difficult to support it in normal times. If it is a cross-border battle..."

Shi Kefa told the truth that the Duke of Qian did not pay much attention to the entire Ming Dynasty, and of course not only the emperors of all dynasties now do not pay much attention to the other.

The main reason is that there are not many tax payments, and the court still needs to allocate funds to them every year. To put it bluntly, it is a backward area. The court always focuses on Jiangnan. How could it be in charge of those places?

Therefore, the local military armament became weaker and weaker. If it weren't for the reputation of the Ming Dynasty, the small countries around would have been impatient.

"How about military weapons?"

Zhu Cixuan remembered that he had distributed several batches of weapons to the Duke of Qian. If they were properly trained, their combat effectiveness should be much stronger than that of the surrounding countries. Even if the court did not give them any support, they could still develop an advantage to the local area.

"After the first generation of muskets in my dynasty have been replaced, some of the muskets in my dynasty have been sent over. At present, most of the soldiers have been replaced, and only a small number of soldiers in the mountains cannot change their clothes."

After hearing this report, Zhu Cilang was relieved and scared, and he was still using swords, guns and sticks.

"Transfer the order of this palace to let Mu Xianliang lead the army of two regiments back to Yunnan and temporarily station in Kunming. This order will be issued to the world."

Zhu Cixuan also knew that the army heading to Yunnan would not arrive so quickly, so he first produced some public opinion news.

At that time, the personnel of various countries in the capital would be very clear that the Ming Dynasty had very strong combat power, and the two regiments of the army could defeat tens of thousands of Eight Banners cavalry, including a large number of Han soldiers around.

What is the situation of the Annan army? I'm afraid no one knows better than themselves. Faced with the old-fashioned army of the Duke of Qian, they could not gain a 100% advantage and dared to provoke in the surrounding areas.

If we talk about large-scale combat, we wouldn't dare to kill them. Now that there are more soldiers from these two regiments, plus tens of thousands of soldiers equipped with muskets, the people from Annan should know what they should do.

"Your Highness, are you trying to make Annan's special envoy ugly, or do you really want it?"

Zuo Mengjun, the new Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, has reached his position, and is also very bold when speaking. He has already figured out the temper of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

His Highness the Crown Prince likes practical people and never likes those illusory dreamers, so he has to figure out this problem first before he can allocate a series of supplies from the Ministry of Revenue...
Chapter completed!