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Li Wenji’s North Korean state treasury and royal treasury contained at least one or two million taels of silver, and copper coins worth hundreds of thousands of silver dollars. North Korea had no silver mines and nothing to export, so it had no conditions to use silver as a commodity. The currency in circulation, the copper coin is the currency recognized by everyone in North Korea...

Although North Korea has been crushed by Kangxi in the past two years, for a country with a population of 900 million and an annual grain output of more than 2000 million shi, there should be more than 100 million silver and money in deposits.

But under the leadership of Zhu Heqi in Ming Dynasty...there was no such thing as national treasury silver.

Because the national treasury of Ming Dynasty is a virtual concept, the Ministry of Households does not even have a silver treasury, not to mention depositing silver.

And on the account statement provided by Daming Dongchang official bank to Daming Account Department, the account department's deposit and loan balance has been negative since two years ago!

In other words, it doesn't matter that the Ming treasury is empty, and it still owes a large sum.

If this Chongzhen saw the account statement from the Dongchang official bank account to the Daming household department, he would probably be so sad that he would cry.

As for the statement of domestic funds, of course it is also negative!

Zhu Hechi is "really poor"!

But poor is poor, but Zhu Heqi is so poor that he has ambition... Even if he borrowed a whole lot of debt, he had to go north to the Central Plains to recover the lost land.

But ambition cannot be used as military expenses after all, so during this period of time, Zhu Heqi recruited the governors or governors of the six provinces below, as well as Mr. Pang from the Dongyin Money Factory, and held meetings every day to discuss borrowing money.

This time, Zhu Heqi is planning to mobilize an army of 50 to fight two wars of annihilation, which will take at least five years...maybe ten years!

So this military expenditure must be very scary!

However, the court of Zhu Heqi has always been unable to make ends meet, and has to eat more than enough food.In order to complete the land equalization before, he had to make some concessions and give some financial compensation to those landlords who had not served as lackeys of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The specific supplementary plan is also related to the position and performance of these landlords themselves or their elders in the last Ming-Qing war.

After being loyal, you will pay more, if you are an ordinary landlord, you will pay less, if you have been a lackey... then I am sorry, just stay where you are cool!

This compensation method was originally aimed at the four provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang.

However, many landlords or clans in Guangdong and Fujian provinces felt that they had suffered a loss from the equalization of land, and they also proposed to make compensation in this way.

Of course Zhu Hechi was unwilling to offend these staunchest supporters, so he agreed to their request.

And this let go, the compensation cost has exceeded the limit!

In addition, the courts of Zhu and Qi could not produce enough silver coins at that time, so they thought of issuing public bonds.

It's not too much, it's just a small goal... more than [-] million!

This over [-] million "equal land debt" has just been borrowed not long ago, and he wants to borrow another [-] million war debt... No matter how you look at it, it's a bit too much!

I'm afraid this debt is not easy to sell!

That's why this loan meeting went on for several days without any result.

But today, good news came from North Korea. It seems that the matter of borrowing money must have a result.

"Taking Seoul? Su Zhanshan and Emperor Hu De are really good!" Zhu Heqi had already boasted, "Who knows about North Korea's state affairs now? Is it Song Shiye or Yin Kai?"

It turned out that in Zhu Heqi's plan, there was no Li Wenji at all.Before, he planned to let one of Song Shiyeol and Yin Kai give a prophetic glimpse of the state affairs of North Korea... This is a transition.

When the Korean War ended with Daming's victory, then the Zhi Guoshi appointed by Zhu Heqi would also defeat the King of the Li Dynasty on Kangxi's side.

Of course, the defeated Li Dynasty lost the legal authority of Korea, and it was impossible for Song Shiyeol and Yin Kai to become kings, because they did not have an army themselves, and they relied on "Ming Dae" to fight.

If you know a little bit of practice, you will take the initiative to welcome Zhu Heqi's heir as king.

However, Yan Yuan's answer surprised Zhu Heqi, and he said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Su Zhanshan and Emperor Hu De's inscriptions said that it was Li Xuan's younger sister who was elected to know the state affairs. Li Wenji, the 13-year-old lord of Ming An."

"Who?" Zhu Heqi was taken aback.

"It's Li Xuan's younger sister, Li Wenji..." Yan Yuan said, "Emperor Hu De and Su Zhanshan said that the Lord Ming'an was young and beautiful, but he was soft and strong, and he was brave enough to take responsibility. He was indeed a heroine husband. When discussing the election of Quan Zhi to know state affairs, she stepped forward and volunteered, so Emperor Hu De and Su Zhanshan were inconvenient to object."

"This is God Blessing Daming!" Zhu Heqi suddenly laughed, "No matter what happens, this Li Wenji is easier to control than the two old foxes Song Shilie and Yin Kai." His eyes swept around the auditorium again, "Li's female family also knows loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, we can't be compared to her! The issue of an additional [-] million public debt, let's settle it today! Nine thousand years old, you are the God of Wealth of my Daming, just say something Well... can the official bank handle the underwriting business?"

Eunuch Pang looked embarrassed, "Your Majesty, to tell you the truth, less than half of the Juntian debt issued last time has returned to the official bank, taking up a full 5000 million silver dollars! And this debt is still in trouble (me) hand flow.

If this is the case with the war debts this time... the official bank account may be in trouble! "

In fact, it was expected by Zhu Hechi that a large number of average land bonds would return to government banks, because the interest rate of rural loans is much higher than the coupon rate of average land bonds.

In this case, the landowner or clan who received the bond would of course want to sell the bond.Moreover, the financial industry in the rural areas of Daming is underdeveloped, and there are few places where bills are used, and many places where silver coins are used.

Therefore, in the past one or two years, the official bank has been under pressure to take over the Juntian debt.

Although the official bank's takeover of the average land debt will definitely make a profit on the books, and the flow of silver dollars to the countryside is also beneficial to the economic development of Daming-this shows that after the completion of the average land, farmers are more active in production than before, so it is necessary to more funds.

However, the large outflow of cash has also caused insufficient liquidity of the official bank account. If there is a run on it, it will be troublesome!

"What about the Penglai Bank? There is money everywhere in Dengzhou!" Zhu Heqi turned around and asked about his father Zhu Tianwang.

This Penglai Bank was jointly opened by sister and brother Zhu Tianwang and Princess Kunxing, and the main business was taken care of by Princess Kunxing.

When Zhu Tianwang heard this question, he immediately frowned and said: "There is indeed a lot of money in Dengzhou now, and the interest rate is not as high as in the south.

But to issue war bonds in Dengzhou to fight Kangxi... Azi, do you think it is appropriate? "

Everyone knows where Dengzhou's money comes from!

Hearing this question, Zhu Heqi nodded with a smile and said, "Is this inappropriate? This is called borrowing money from thieves to beg thieves... Let me give them a little more guarantee!"

The bond issued this time is guaranteed by the land in Liaodong, which is called Pingliao land bond!

And it is not registered, and the debt must be paid. When Liaodong is pacified, anyone who holds this bond can choose to exchange it for land... These exchanged land will not be equalized in the future! "

Zhu Tianwang seemed to be convinced, and nodded slightly, "Then I'll give it a try...but I won't be able to give all 4000 million, and Penglai Yinhao can guarantee [-] to [-] million at most."

He turned his head and said to Pang Yongzhong: "Master, if you have this sweetness, can you sell me 3000 million yuan?"

"Give it a try!" Eunuch Pang thought for a while, and then said, "There are always people who want to buy good fields..."

Finally, Zhu Heqi looked at several governors and governors, "The rest... I will leave it to the officials of the frontier!"

Chapter 529 Famous general cram school - the principal is going to be a hero to save the beauty!

The Military Academy of the Ming Dynasty was moved from Huangpu Island in Guangzhou to Xiaolingwei in the outer city of Nanjing in the first year of Dingwang Jianguo, so it is also called Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall.

When it was originally on Huangpu Island in Guangzhou, the Army Officer Academy was considered to be in its infancy stage, and it was not very formal.After all, the Xinming Army was still a grassroots team back then, and it just happened to encounter a military revolution. Even the senior officials of the Xinming Army did not know what a war in the new era should look like... so they could only use the old-fashioned tactical formation as the main body , stuff new things into it little by little, and finally come up with a set of half-new and half-old mixed together, and there are so many unfamiliar, even a little sloppy things that come out.

At that time, the tactics of the Ming army had four characteristics. First, the offensive relied on a small number of elite soldiers; second, Zhu Heqi always took risks; third, the defense relied on digging trenches;

The main reason for the formation of such a set of tactics is that Zhu Heqi's army was originally composed of a small number of elites plus a large number of conscripts and unmatched sugar firepower.

And those elites were developed from the young soldiers of Dananshan, so they can be said to be Zhu Heqi's partners.Although the number is small, they are proficient in various sugar medicine weapons and have rich battlefield experience. Under the leadership of the big brother Zhu Heqi, they are extremely brave and proactive.It's really not very useful to replace them with others.

Therefore, Zhu Heqi, who are adventurous by nature, always led this group of elites to fight and rush on the battlefield... In fact, as the founding king, this kind of adventurous gameplay is quite normal.Not to mention the adventure kings of the old Liu family and Li Shimin and Li Cunxu of the big and small Tang families, even in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the two reckless emperors Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were also so reckless, or else they would have been reckless. It won't be so dramatic.

But after Da Boling was shot in the chest, Zhu Heqi realized that it would be impossible to always charge like this... Now the musket is very powerful!Not just muskets, but deadlier rifled guns too!

So during the Battle of Nanjing, Zhu and Qi refrained from going to the front line.

However, during the summary of the battlefield after the end of the Nanjing and Anqing battles, Zhu Heqi, Zhuge Sanhe and others discovered that their Ming army was actually not that strong... Especially when Zhu Heqi was not on the battlefield, the following The people who are here are a little bit less interesting.

They are weak when attacking, passively shrink back when defending, and the various units are often out of touch. It is very difficult for the commander-in-chief on the battlefield to dispatch troops.In many cases, the troops will be in chaos as they walk.On the Anqing battlefield, the Qing army also used the chaos of the Ming army's dispatch to fight many beautiful counterattacks!

If it weren't for the fact that the sugar rockets were so fierce, Anqing City might not even be able to be defeated!

After further in-depth research, Zhu Heqi and Zhuge Sanhe quickly found the reason... The reason is not complicated, that is, the army created by Zhu Heqi is actually not good at fighting!

The organization, training, and command of the troops are not good, even worse than the elite Qing army, and even worse than the Wu Zhou army with Wu Sangui.

The reason why they can always win battles is because the morale of the troops is high, the logistics are sufficient, and the firepower has an overwhelming advantage.

In the terminology of later generations, they are local tyrants with krypton gold!

However, this advantage is becoming weaker and weaker with the continuous expansion of the scale of the war and the continuous northward movement of the front, as well as the opponent's mastery of sugar medicine and the improvement of gunpowder weapons!

Because after the scale of the war expanded, there were more troops on the battlefield, and Zhu and Qi could no longer rely on the fierce fighting and charging of a few old brothers to secure the victory.

Therefore, Zhu Heqi must help his old brothers grow from excellent soldiers to qualified officers as soon as possible!

At the same time, he must work with his staff to come up with a new set of tactics by summarizing the experience gained in actual combat and exercises.

And Xiaolingwei's Army Officer Academy does just that!

In order to take good care of his old brothers, Zhu Hechi even served as the principal of the military academy...became Principal Zhu!

Then I personally did it, and in line with the "generalism" of pulling generals out of dwarfs, I first selected a group of "tactical experts" from the army as teachers, and divided them into infantry, artillery, engineers, and cavalry. , Supplies, managers, military orders and other seven majors.They also found some tactical regulations and operational codes from Western countries for reference—in fact, they couldn’t find much, and the military education in Western countries is not formal these days.Then Zhu and Qi led the "short generals" to sort out and explore.

After working hard for a year, I finally came up with seven professional drills, a set of rules common to all arms.It also summed up the arrangement and organization methods of various formations such as battlefield line, battlefield column, marching column, hollow square, car fort square, cavalry shock team, cavalry guerrilla, skirmisher... It's not perfect, but it's the best thing that can be done so far.

So Zhu Heqi issued these drills, regulations, and formation legends to the troops, and at the same time summoned [-] "young old brothers" to "make up lessons" in the Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall in Nanjing. This is the so-called filial piety. The first phase of Lingwei!

And in order for these first-stage disciples to learn real skills, Zhu Heqi also set up a "teaching town" full of people in Nanjing to let these old Xiaolingwei first-stage brothers practice their skills.

At the same time, in order to allow them to study and work with peace of mind, they also built a house for them in Nanjing City, and took their family members from Guangdong, and even tried to find a way to match them for those who did not have a family... It can be described as meticulous!

Although these old brothers from the first phase of Xiaolingwei entered the school together, they graduated and returned to the team at different times.In order not to delay the training and combat readiness of the troops, Zhu Heqi divided them into "long-term squads" and "short-term squads". They will serve as the leader (company commander) and deputy leader (platoon leader) in infantry, cavalry, military and other arms. All of my older brothers entered the short class, and after the one-year course ended, they all returned to the army to lead the army.So in September last year, thousands of people left, and the rest were students in the long-term class... According to their principal Zhu, these people are the seeds of famous generals, and now they should study hard and learn more Ability, you can become a famous general in the future!

Although Principal Zhu's words are correct, but these young officers who have achieved great ambitions in the army have served as generals, commanders, or staff officers. Seeing that their subordinates are all happily leading the troops, they have to be honest. To be a real student, to complete more and more difficult studies, if you fail the exam, you have to be lectured by Principal Zhu, Zhuge Dean of Education, Su, Ling, and Zhao. The guest Hanlin or the professors of Jinling University commented that I really missed the life of leading soldiers in the army.

But when will the big guys be able to lead troops and go to the battlefield to make contributions?

When this boring life of studying, taking exams, and being scolded seemed to last forever, the good news finally came.

North Korea raised the flag of righteousness against the Qing Dynasty, and there was also a leader named Ming An, who admired them, Principal Zhu, who was elected by the righteous men of North Korea to be a power to know the state affairs... It seems that the Northern Expedition must be fought up.

These old brothers still know the noble character of Principal Zhu very well. How could this saintly principal put a beautiful and lord who stood up bravely for him and resisted the tyranny of Kang Mazi into danger?

At this moment, Principal Zhu must have been impatient to go to the North Korean hero to save the United States.

They are good students of the principal, of course they have to follow suit!

So when the news reached Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall, the old brothers here seemed to be on fire.In the morning with the villain Ling Lingzong's army, I could not hold back the noise. After returning to the lecture hall, I didn't have the mind to go to class anymore... Especially the math class with the professor Mei Dingwen of Jinling University, It turned into a duck pond at all, with non-stop quacking and quacking, which made Professor Mei Da dumbfounded.

Seeing that Professor Mei Da is stupid, the students below are talking louder.

"I heard that Lord Ming'an is a famous beauty in North Korea...and she has a deep love for our saint!"

"Nonsense... The saint has never been to North Korea, and Lord Ming'an has never been to Daming, and neither side has seen each other. How can there be such a deep love?"

"Images of saints are everywhere! We have them in our classrooms, and they are also hung in those Confucian schools or schools run by the public. Lord Ming An must have seen them. Our saint is such a majestic man, can she not Are you deeply in love?"

"It's true... once the saint sends troops, our chance to make contributions will come!"

"Of course! Maybe we can kill Kang Mazi again in North Korea!"

Just when a group of students were not in the mood for class and were talking nonsense, there was a loud shout from outside the door: "His Royal Highness Jian Guo Ming, His Royal Highness Taishang Tianwang...here!"

Chapter 530 Zhu and Qi are also copycats, which one is the real one?

"Stand... at attention, salute!"

With a cry, more than 50 non-commissioned officers who were taking math class all stood up with a snap, and then bowed their hands together to Zhu Heqi and Zhu Cijiong who entered the auditorium.

After these non-commissioned officers completed the first period of their studies, they were no longer formed according to their majors, but formed according to the number of the township department to which they would be assigned in the future.Fifty students in a class will all belong to the same town in the future, and the name of the class is also called "The Candidate Officer Team of So-and-so Town"...

And these fifty non-commissioned officers are not so big, the smallest among them is the rank of general commander, and the largest is the rank of lieutenant general.

In the official position system of the new Ming Dynasty today, the official and the position have also begun to be separated, but the complicated Wu San rank has not been restored. Basically, a title is directly added after the "position" to represent the rank and seniority of the official.

Among them, the highest-ranking military officer was awarded the title of Zuo Dudu, which was an exception, because the Ming army did not have the position of Dudu.Generally, only the left and right military divisions, the left and right military ministers, and the governor of a province will be awarded the official title of Zuo Dudu.

Below the rank of Zuo Dudu is the rank of admiral, which is generally awarded to the commander of the army of the front or the highest military officer of a province.

Below the rank of admiral is the rank of commander-in-chief, which is generally awarded to the commander-in-chief of field operations or garrison towns.

Below the rank of chief soldier is the rank of deputy general, and the rank of deputy general or a brigade association, as well as the chief staff of the governor, admiral, and chief of staff, will all be awarded the rank of deputy general.

Under the rank of lieutenant general, there is also the rank of general, which is generally awarded to the deputy commander of a brigade or the commander of a battalion.

Directly below the rank of general is the chief of staff, generally awarded to the deputy of the first battalion or the chief staff officer of the brigade, or the second staff officer, senior staff officer, arms staff officer, etc. of higher-level troops.

And under the rank of thousand generals, the general rank is generally awarded to a leader (company commander) or battalion staff, middle and low-level staff.

Under the general rank, there are first-class captaincy and second-class captaincy, which are two entry-level official titles, awarded to deputy leaders, senior veterans or cavalry.

From the Zuo Dudu to the second-class lieutenant, there are nine levels in total, corresponding to the first-rank to the ninth-rank civil servants. At present, there is no subordinate rank for military officers.

In addition, under the second-class captain, there are three "military ranks" of first-class soldier, second-class soldier, and third-class soldier, all of which are awarded to soldiers.

That is.Now the Ming army has twelve ranks in total, from the Zuodudu down to the third-class soldier... Theoretically, they can be promoted by killing the enemy, but if they are not particularly good at killing, it is best to be admitted to the military academy, and then step by step. climb up.

In order to speed up the training of officers, Zhu Heqi of course also used some methods to encourage them, such as stuffing officers of all levels from lieutenant general to general manager Qian in a town into one squad.The age, knowledge, and ability of these people are actually similar, but some people are lucky and join the team early, so they get mixed up with the lieutenants and generals.Some people come late, so they can only be the chief executive.

Now Zhu and Qi have arranged them into a squad according to the number of lieutenant generals, generals, and general officers in a town, so that they can learn "senior command" while starting to run in and enhance mutual understanding. understanding.It is also possible for them to temporarily take over the teaching town when they are in the army. A class of [-] non-commissioned officers can take over from the brigade level to the battalion level, and all the officers within this range are replaced by classmates.

Sometimes, Zhu Heqi would draw a group of generals, lieutenants, first-class soldiers, and recruits from Jiangnan Province and Jiangbei Province from the teaching town to form a recruiting town, and let them train for ten days and a half months. Then go to the exercise.

And this kind of internship and exercise will not only allow the non-commissioned officers to grow rapidly, but also allow Principal Zhu to find out a way to lead troops to fight!