There is no network, no satellite, no radio, and even wired telegrams are not installed. At present, China's communications mainly rely on the N-100-mile speed of four horse legs, and using a sailboat to send messages is also a supplement. Now the Yellow River is diverted, and it is directed to Luyu.

There was a yellow area in the area, and coupled with the activities of the Taiping Army, it was not surprising that the land contact between Beijing and Shandong and Jiangnan was interrupted. But why did there be any problems with maritime communication? Could it be... Beijing has been occupied or surrounded by the Taiping Army.

Now!?

There was a silence in Zhu Jishi's Fengtian Hall. The momentum of the Taiping Army was so powerful that it was indeed beyond everyone's expectations! If Beijing had fallen into the hands of the Taiping Army now, would the entire North China be swept away by them?

Come down, will the Taiping Army lead its troops to the south to fight Zhu Ming?

A lot of question marks lingered in Zhu Jishi's mind. How could it be like a good plan?

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi looked at Zuo Zongtang with some resentment. Wasn’t he proposed the strategy of “using the courage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom”? Now people are very eager to win the world with one go.

Zuo Zongtang's face was also a little ugly: "King, Sichuan and Jiangnan must be taken into his hands. In the middle road, we must advance to the Huaihe line. Let's make plans for the Southern and Northern Dynasties first."

"Will, how many troops can the army deploy now for combat in Sichuan and Jiangnan? If we want to seize the two places by force, how much military expenditure is required?" Zhu Jishi frowned and asked the Chief of Staff Will Haiming.

"Including the Jinyi Guards, the Army can dispatch four military operations in Sichuan and Jiangnan. As for military expenditure... it is difficult to obtain accurate data before the combat plan is completed. However, the combat area is extremely vast and the special cost is probably not

Less than 30 million yuan.”

The so-called special expenses refer to the "special budget" compiled for military operations. Now Zhu Ming's financial system is imitating the West, and there is a saying of "budget". This silver is not spent casually, and needs to be budgeted and then used in the "Ta Kung Pao"

It is disclosed above that even military expenditures are no exception. This is to allow government expenditures to be supervised - Zhu Jishi knows that it is difficult to eliminate corruption by relying on the emperor alone to supervise subordinate officials and punish harsh laws.

The wise monarchs of the Qing Dynasty had no choice but to take the Interior Affairs Office as a lesson!

If the expenses and expenses of the Office of the Internal Affairs must be made public, Emperor Daoguang would not eat an egg of 60 taels of silver in any case! The Office of the Internal Affairs dares to make such accounts public, and it will not cause public outrage? As for the fake

Of course, accounts can be made, but public false accounts must be readily seen. It is not said that the emperor has to eat thousands of eggs in one meal, right? No one believes this.

So Zhu Jishi thought about it and thought that the best way to prevent and control corruption was to disclose the financial accounts - the British finances in this era were quite open, and the people knew how much annuity their Queen and Wang Fu could get every year.

The benefits of the British government's money are much higher than those of the Qing Dynasty (of course there are still corruption and bribery, but it cannot be too outrageous). Emperor Daoguang spent money on making a dragon robe, and the British Navy could build a warship!

"Zuo Prime Minister, how much does the administrative expenses of Liangjiang and Sichuan need to be laid out in the central government?" Zhu Jishi asked Zuo Zongtang again.

Liangjiang and Sichuan have a total of four provinces. Not to mention the huge fiscal expenditure after the establishment of "scholars as officials and governments go to the countryside", even if they continue to use the original administrative system of the Qing Dynasty, they may have to pay a large sum of silver. Because now, they are now using the original administrative system of the Qing Dynasty.

It was November 1848, so don’t think about the autumn taxes of these four provinces this year. Moreover, due to the war, the salt tax, customs tax, mining tax and tea tax in 1849 will be at least half.

"It is estimated that it will cost 5 million in total," Zuo Zong rubbed his hands and said, "If the king does not want to bear this cost, he can ignore it... he can even pay military salaries in the four provinces."

The Ming army did not take any measures to allocate military pay to the newly occupied territory for various reasons when occupying the two lakes, Fujian and Jiangxi and Guangdong, but it does not mean that this method will not be used to raise money in the future.

Zhu Jishi nodded, "Part a plan for raising funds of 40 million yuan!"

Liangjiang and Sichuan have always been rich. As long as there has not been ravaged by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there will be tens of millions of land after scraping it a little! Of course, Zhu Jishi would not be so stupid that he would not plunder it... Before, he did not scrape the land in Guangdong mainly to win over Guangdong.

People followed him to rebel and went to the two lakes to stop scraping because Hong Xiuquan had already scraped it. In order to show the difference between the Taiping Army, Zhu Ming's army had to pretend to be the "People's Liberation Army".

In Fujian and Jiangxi, Zhu Ming did not exempt the land tax and miscellaneous sects in 1848, and even sent Pan Shicheng as an imperial envoy to Fujian to preside over the establishment of the public bureau and the allocation of commercial taxes. 12 million yuan per year is not enough, but only 5 million yuan.

There are still many. Zhu Jishi issued a tax payment indicator for Fujian Province to be RMB 5 million in 1848 and RMB 9 million in 1849, which is really not low.

As for Liangjiang and Sichuan, of course, we have to plunder it even harder! There is no Donglin Party in Zhuming Group now. Those in power are from Hunan, Guangdong, and Fujian. In the future, the tax indicators of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan provinces cannot be lower than those of

Guangdong? As long as these three provinces are obtained, Zhu Ming’s financial pressure will be gone.

"Survey of Liangjiang by force is just a last resort. If you can attack Liangjiang without bloodshed, it is the most ideal." Zhu Jishi pondered and said, "Now the Qing Dynasty is likely to be destroyed. Is it possible to send an edict to pacify the four provinces?

A land of conservation?"

"The King, Sichuan is now controlled by Qishan. He is the governor of Sichuan and the general of Chengdu. He has completely controlled the military and political power of Sichuan and will not surrender to us. However, there are not many people garrisoning the Eight Banners in Sichuan, and the total number of soldiers and family members is only more than 10,000.

, similar to Guangdong, far less than Jingzhou. It is not difficult to obtain. The key is to prevent the Taiping Army from Xiangfan to Hanzhong and enter Shu. You must be prepared to start a war with the Taiping Army, so the scale of troops sent cannot be less than 2 armies."

Zuo Zongtang had already had a case of taking Sichuan and Liangjiang, and he said at this time: "As for Liangjiang, it is Lin Muweng. Li Wen'an, Li Hongzhang and his son had already been on two boats. If the king could use Yanping County

The treatment of Kaiping County Duke wins over the Li family’s father and son, and Anhui should go to the ground without fighting. As for Jiangsu and Zhejiang, my subordinates are willing to go to Shanghai to convince Lin Muweng to surrender.”

"Are you sure?" Zhu Jishi asked uncertainly.

"This..." Zuo Zongtang frowned. Who dares to say that he is sure about this? The old man Lin Zexu became stubborn and could no longer do anything to him.

"I have a way!" Rodriguez snatched the topic and said with a smile: "His Majesty the King, I came to Guangzhou to discuss this matter with you. I have a plan to collapse Lin Zexu's finances by suffocating Jiangnan's finances.

”

"Suffocating Jiangnan's finance? Ricardo, what do you want to do?" Zhu Jishi asked.

"Tighten the money and run the money house." Rodriguez just smiled and said eight words.

"That's all?" Zhu Jishi still didn't understand very much, let alone the others in the hall.

Rodriguez smiled and said, "Master, do you know where Governor Lin Zexu's military pay comes from?"

"How did Lin Zexu raise funds? Isn't he extortion businessman?"

Rodriguez waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, I don't mean that. No big businessman would bury mountains of gold and silver in the back garden. That's what the country rich people do. Merchants' money may be invested in.

Land, either used for business operations, or used for lending... For example, opening a money shop, pawn shop, etc., at least, it will also deposit the money in the bank money shop for interest. Especially in recent times, the situation has been unstable, so many Jiangnans

The merchants also learned from Guangdong merchants in 1847 and deposited all their working capital into your HSBC Bank. So your HSBC Bank is already the de facto dominant of Jiangnan's financial industry. And Lin Zexu's military pay, no matter how businessmen are

Donate, lend, or take it out through treasure money. In the final analysis, it is to take the money away from the Jiangnan financial plate controlled by HSBC. HSBC... can make Jiangnan's financial plate extremely tightened into a state of no money to be deducted
Chapter completed!