This phenomenon seems extremely unreasonable at first glance. After all, in order to solve the problem of lack of materials, Altan should frequently lead his troops to plunder the south.

However, all actions are often related to the economy. When repeated mobilizations turn into a loss-making transaction, they even have to bear the risk of being stolen from old-fashioned materials, so they naturally dare not act rashly.

Especially Altan is just a Mongolian Khan. When those tribal leaders follow him and can't eat meat, they will inevitably become disinterested and even leave Altan's camp directly.

What's more, Altan's pseudo-Jin regime had to face the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the thorns in the northwest, so he had to be more careful of his base camp being attacked.

This is true. Although the Ming Dynasty did not send troops or soldiers, Altan's pseudo-Jin regime faced serious material scarcity and even had the risk of falling apart.

In view of this, especially this economic blockade policy that "small efforts to achieve a huge impact" has led the Mongolians to no longer call Lin Qingran a "jade-faced fox", but to become "jade-faced fox".

In this winter, Mongolia in the north has already felt the biting cold winter, and as long as Altan Khan exists for one day, their hard days seem to continue.

However, if China wants to reach the top of the world's nation, it still has a long way to go.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been too many problems. We have to face the threat of foreign enemies, but also slowly solve our own shortcomings.

The Yang family of Bozhou was indeed very arrogant. When they learned that the court had not dealt with Lin Weiran and persuaded them to change their minds, they immediately sent troops to invade Sichuan with 50,000.

It is obvious that Yang Lie's strategic intention to invade Sichuan was very clear, but he wanted to occupy the natural danger in Shu. He first established himself as the King of Shu, and then competed for the world with the Ming Dynasty.

Given that the garrisons in the inland Ming Dynasty had long been corrupt, the Sichuan Army had almost no combat power, and it was indeed impossible to match the Yang army, which was more like the regular army.

Sichuan Governor Chen Xu received an order from the Ministry of War, but he was responsible for dispatching troops to defend.

This order is undoubtedly wise. Since the Sichuan army does not need to conquer the Bozhou Long army, they can choose to seize the danger and defend, waiting for the ten Ming army to conquer the army southward.

Even if it is a corrupt army, when life is threatened, it is undoubtedly a simple task to win or lose.

Yang Lie led his troops out of Loushan Pass and was indeed going to invade Sichuan. But seeing the Sichuan Fortress as if it was strictly guarded, after some tests, he immediately chose to withdraw his troops and retreat back to Bozhou.

But it was not that they gave up on Sichuan, but that there were still certain differences within them. In addition, the Spring Festival is approaching, and they are already planning to conquer Sichuan again after the Spring Festival.

However, this move has hurt the Ming army. The surrounding troops in Sichuan, Guizhou and other areas dare not relax, and the conquest army led by Lin Pingchang had to continue to go day and night.

The Ministry of Revenue was extremely hard-working about this conquest. After raising enough war funds, it quickly turned into materials to provide sufficient logistical support for the troops heading to fight.

It is worth mentioning that the United Money Bank also played an important role in this battle and was always able to cooperate with the Ministry of Revenue to complete the supply work for the army along the way.

In the blink of an eye, time quietly came to the end of the year.

No matter how the court fights or the war in Guizhou, the people in the capital welcome the Spring Festival with a happy mood, and the whole family happily spend a rare reunion festival.

As the new cabinet issued many people-friendly policies and the court supported industry and commerce, the people in the capital were obviously more abundant than in previous years.

Especially the headlight festival in Drum Tower is really more lively every year.

As fireworks swelled up into the dark night sky, golden flames immediately bloomed, but they echoed the lively streets below.

Since the Ming Dynasty is closer to the ocean, the goods here are no longer limited to the products produced by the Ming Dynasty, including pearls produced in the South Ocean, dried fish produced in Japan, and ivory carvings produced in India. The goods here are all available.

According to statistics, the sales of headlight festival products this year hit a new high, which highlights the prosperity of the capital and also silently writes this new era.

Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the Spring Festival of the third year of Longqing is quietly approaching.

Longqing adhered to the tradition and not only gave banquets from officials and officials, but also ordered his subjects to set up the "Long Live the Aoshan Lamp" outside the Meridian Gate, and watched the Long Live the Aoshan Lamp for three days to enjoy the people.

Different from the Aoshan Lantern in Xiyuan, the Aoshan Long Live Light is already a luxury version. It stacks thousands of colorful lanterns into a mountain shape, more than ten layers high, and looks like Aoshan, with red, yellow, blue, white, green,

Purple, green and other colors are tied into lamps, colorful.

In addition to the Aoshan Long Live Lantern, music, singing and dancing are also arranged in front of the Meridian Gate.

On New Year's Day, hundreds of actors played music and performed by hundreds of artists. The atmosphere was warm and noisy.

Longqing took a sedan chair from Qianqing Palace and went to Guanaoshan Wansui Lantern in the Wumen Gate. Empress Chen and Concubine Li and other palace concubines, eunuchs and ministers accompanied him.

Given that this event lasts for three days and allows ordinary people to come to watch lanterns and watch singing and dancing programs, the level of liveliness in front of the Meridian Gate this year can be imagined.

It is just that the grand event held in this way is indeed a glorious one, but it is already a considerable expense.

The officials who came to attend the New Year's Day banquet saw all this, but no one could say much, so they could only shake their heads silently and sigh.

After all, all this money is spent by the internal treasury, but the emperor has never asked for it from Taicang. The money for preparing for the "Long Live the Aoshan Lantern" comes from national debts.

It is no longer realistic to expect Longqing to "return to the loss". After tasting the sweetness of issuing bonds, Longqing is happy about it.

As long as the silver in the inner treasury is not enough, as long as he feels it is worth spending, he will issue bonds to the capital through the joint bank. Recently, in order to issue bonds smoothly, he even raised interest rates.

As for how much debt he owes now and how to repay the debt, he never seemed to have considered this issue.

It’s not that he wants to pay back the debt, but that he has never been a person who likes to plan for the future. His personality is the type of "the boat will naturally be straight when it reaches the bridge, and he will be drunk today."

There was a bit of luck in his heart. When the families of several corrupt officials were searched, the inner treasury would be a huge amount of money, and any debt would be filled by then.

Although eunuchs such as Li Fang, Teng Xiang and Meng Chong saw the disadvantages of borrowing, they were one of the biggest interests in Longqing's issuance of debts, and it was impossible to stop them.
Chapter completed!