Li Guo glanced at Liu Zongmin, who used to be the number one tiger general of the Dashun Army, but now looked like a naive and fat old man.

Perhaps because he doesn't know how to maintain good health, Liu Zongmin looks seven or eight years older than his actual age, and his actual age is less than fifty. However, he looks like an "old man" who is running for the sixth grade. His beard and hair are gray, and he is obese.

It weighs more than two hundred kilograms, and it doesn't look like it can ride a horse to kill.

In fact, Liu Zongmin has not been on the battlefield for many years, and has not even left Chongqing for three years. In the past three years, Liu Zongmin spent most of his time in the palace in the city and the manor outside the city, and also raised hundreds of animals.

The kabuki and dancers accompanied him for entertainment, and he was no longer the tiger general who went back and forth on the battlefield, but became a rich man whose fighting spirit was weakened by wealth.

However, in order to show his status in the Dashun court, this rich man would go to the court from time to time and tell some shocking nonsense.

But Li Guo had to give some face to the co-ruler of the Han Dynasty. Who made the politics of the Dashun Dynasty mean "eight fathers co-ruler"? No matter how decadent he is, he still co-ruls the Han king, and he is still not allowed to speak?

Besides, as one of the "eight fathers", the more decadent Liu Zongmin is, the more Li Guo likes him! If every "father" were as capable as Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Li Guo, the "Shun Taizong", would no longer be invisible

?

"King of Han," Li Guo smiled, "where do you think we should send our troops? Shaanxi or Huguang?"

"How can we attack Shaanxi and Huguang?" Liu Zongmin shook his head repeatedly, "To attack Shaanxi, we need cavalry. It has been almost ten years since we entered Sichuan. How many good horses are left with the horses we brought back then? Do we have to rely on Yunnan horses and Sichuan horses to fight the Ming army?

Hedging with cavalry? And our infantry don’t have long guns. They only use swords, spears, darts, and firecrackers. This set works well in the mountains and forests. But when we go to the plains of Guanzhong and let others blast it with cannons, the cavalry will die in one attack!

As for attacking Huguang, we need a navy! We don’t have a navy, and even if we did, we wouldn’t be able to defeat the Yangtze River Navy of the Ming Dynasty, so there’s no chance.”

In fact, there are not many ships in the Yangtze River Navy of the Ming Dynasty. The navy of the Ming Dynasty is now called the Navy. The main area of ​​activity is of course the sea, but there are still more than a dozen "turtle ships" in the Yangtze River.

This kind of turtle ship was produced by Shanghai Shipwreck. It was based on the turtle-shaped warship with a bullet-proof (lead bullet) hull designed by the famous North Korean navy general Yi Sun-shin, and was improved. The impractical fire-breathing faucet was eliminated.

, a 6-pound gun was installed on the bow of the ship instead, and a ramming horn was also installed on the bow of the ship underwater.

In addition, in order to be more effective in bulletproofing, the surface of the side baffles of this Yangtze River turtle ship is covered with a layer of iron sheet, which is very strong and cannot be resisted by warships casually modified from civilian ships.

Therefore, once the Dashun Army leaves Huguang in the east, it will inevitably be controlled by the Yangtze River and Han River.

Li Guo nodded lightly and put away his contempt for Liu Zongmin.

"King of Han," Li Guo paused, "where do you think we should send troops?"

"Of course it's Guizhou or Guangxi." Liu Zongmin said, "Guizhou and Guangxi are densely covered with mountains and forests, which are conducive to our sword soldiers. Moreover, Guizhou and Guangxi are far away from Nanjing. It is not easy for the Zhu family to mobilize troops, and transportation is even harder. We don't need to make a big effort.

Go deep, make some noise on the border, attract the Zhu family's army to go on an expedition, and use up their financial resources."

It sounds interesting!

Li Guo looked at Sun Kewang.

Now Li Laiheng, the prince of the Fu army, and Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, are both fighting in Burma, so Li Guo can only ask Sun Kewang for advice.

Although Qin Wang Sun Kewang was born as a martial artist, he was naturally good at management and had a lot of experience in financial matters, so he had questions about the severity of the Ming Dynasty's financial crisis.

"Your Majesty, I don't agree with sending troops to start a provocation." Sun Kewang said, "The Ming Dynasty may be short of money, but we are not rich either. If a war starts in Guangxi or Guizhou, at least tens of thousands of troops will have to be invested.

Food is a huge expense. If the troops are sent to no avail, we will be wasting our financial resources."

The former bandits who roamed around and robbed have now turned into bandits who collected rent to support their families. Although the combat effectiveness has been enhanced, the cost of sending troops has also been greatly increased, and the destructiveness has also been reduced.

"Are we going to let Ming Dynasty go like this?" Li Guo was unwilling to accept it!

If we don't take advantage of the financial crisis in the Ming Dynasty now, we should wait until Emperor Zhu saves enough money to regain Sichuan.

Sun Kewang twirled his beard and rolled his eyes, already thinking about it.

"Your Majesty, we can send troops to Siam!"

"What? Send troops to Siam?"

"Yes," Sun Kewang said, "Anyway, the prince's and King Jin's armies are in Burma, and they are idle. Why not let them send troops to attack Siam. Siam is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. If we attack it, the Ming Dynasty will

According to the treaty, it is necessary to send troops for thousands of miles and the expedition will definitely cost tens of thousands! If Emperor Zhu does not send troops, then with the bravery of the crown prince and the king of Jin, Siam will definitely be able to force Siam to abandon the Ming Dynasty and surrender!"

"Okay!" Li Guo clapped his hands, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

King Sun Qin’s method was better. It was a good peasant uprising war, but suddenly it turned into an imperialist struggle for hegemony. It couldn’t be better!

Daming, Jiangnan Province, Shanghai Prefecture.

Songjiang Prefecture was renamed Shanghai Prefecture in the seventh year of Hongxing, but the prefect still did not change. He was still the "star prefect" Luo Grand Duke of the Ming Dynasty.

The prefect of Luo Dynasty also heard that Ming Dynasty was facing a financial crisis!

I just heard about it from the great Korean scholar Song Siyeol.

Song Siyeol came from Jeju Island. It turned out that the former king of Korea, Li Hao, did not go into exile in the Ming Dynasty after surrendering the country. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity to go to sea by boat and fled to Jeju Island.

It turns out that Jeju Island was not captured by Jin Duoduo's army. Although Jin Duoduo's navy also has certain strength, the location of Jeju Island is a bit sensitive. It is located between China, Japan and North Korea, and is also stuck in the Korean Strait. If Jin Duoduo takes his

If the Navy is sent to Jeju Island, I'm afraid the "Ukita Hide family" will come to visit us again.

Li Hao, who retreated to Jeju Island, was of course unwilling to accept the subjugation of the Li Dynasty for more than two hundred years, so he was still struggling. While sending people to Japan to ask for help from the Tokugawa shogunate, he also tried to contact the Ming Dynasty, and also sent people to lurk in Hanyang and Incheon.

, Busan and other places, collecting intelligence and waiting for opportunities.

As a result, before receiving a reply from the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty, they heard that the Ming Dynasty was experiencing a financial crisis, so they sent Song Shilie to Shanghai to investigate.

But when Song Shilie ran to Shanghai, he saw that the prosperity was soaring! There were bustling construction sites everywhere, all the industries in the market were booming, and the factories along the Wusong River were busy expanding production and recruiting people. And the wages were very high.

, causing half of the entourage brought by Song Shiyeol to run away.

Song Daru, who was confused about the situation, ran to find his old acquaintance Luo Grand Duke. Luo Grand Duke was also looking for him. The King of Korea had agreed to come to Ming Dynasty to retire. Emperor Zhu even asked Luo Grand Duke to entertain him. Luo Grand Duke was in Xin.

A house has been prepared for Li Hao on Madang Street, but why are there no people there?

He won't drown, right?

Just when Grand Duke Luo wanted to arrange a funeral for Li Hao, Song Shilie came, and of course Grand Duke Luo had to entertain him.

After the two sides exchanged a few pleasantries, Song Shilie first asked about the Ming Dynasty's financial crisis!

"Who has no money? Mr. Song, who do you think has no money?"

"The Ming Dynasty! The Ming Dynasty has no money," Song Shilie said sadly. "It was spread all over Incheon and Busan that the Ming Dynasty spent too much money on the Northern Expedition and wasted its national power. It could no longer support it, so we had to

Withdraw your troops with hatred!"

"Too much money was spent? How much did it cost?" Grand Duke Luo asked.

"One hundred million!" Song Shilie stretched out a finger and gritted his teeth, "One hundred million taels of silver!"

Grand Duke Luo blinked: "Is one hundred million taels too much?"

"Ah? One hundred million taels is not much?" Song Shilie couldn't believe his ears.
Chapter completed!