Almighty Nongmen Phoenix

King Jin also agrees with these three points proposed by the founder of the country.

Just how much compensation should be charged to the other party?

In the end, the two discussed it, and finally settled on a million taels of silver.

Before the appearance of Lu Yaoyao, Dongzhou's commerce was not well developed, so the tax revenue in a year was only more than 200 million taels, and it could barely reach 300 million in good times.

The situation in Northern Chu is similar to that of their country, and with the frequent use of swords and weapons by Northern Chu in the past two years, the situation may be even more difficult than theirs in Dongzhou.

It is also a science to compensate for this thing. If the lion asks for a lot of money, it will definitely not work.

After all, even if people want to pay compensation, they can't afford it, right?

Furthermore, there are people in such a country who need to be supported. If they open their mouths and ask for other people's taxes for one or two years, people may not be willing to give them even if they fight to the death.

After all, the National Super League is unstable, and the turmoil in the hearts of the people will cause huge troubles.

Therefore, the price should make the other party's flesh hurt, but it will not tear the face.

If Dongzhou still has follow-up support, King Jin and Founding Marquis will be happy to directly destroy Beichu, but the current situation is that if Dongzhou wants to continue to attack, then Dongzhou's national power will be greatly pulled down.

Even if you win in the end, I'm afraid it's not worth the loss.

Some people may think that as long as they can defeat the opponent and gain the opponent's territory, isn't it a big profit?

That's wrong, first of all, [-] to [-]% of your national power has been consumed, even if you defeat the opponent, you can make up a lot.

However, the territory of the country has almost doubled, and the population has also increased. It can't just be wiped out by the other party's people in the whole country, right?

Besides, Dongzhou's own population is still far from enough, so we can't knock down Beichu and leave it empty, right?
Don't you need to spend money to rebuild after the war, and you have to arrange people and materials to take over the management?

Moreover, there is no guarantee that there will be no rebels in the opponent's territory. The cost will be very high, and it can even be said that it will directly reduce the overall national strength of Dongzhou.

What's more, in their current situation, even if they try their best, they may not be able to completely defeat Beichu. Naturally, there is no need to go all out. They still need a sum of compensation to consume the opponent's national power again and strengthen themselves. When their own development is stable.

Also as a demon, he is ready to fight a war of destroying the country, and it is not too late to start.

Anyway, the opponent's development speed is not as fast as theirs, and they have an absolute advantage, so it doesn't matter if it is a little later.

The 100 million taels can be used for the post-war reconstruction of the Northland, as well as the construction and protection of these three cities, etc.

The two sorted out their thoughts in detail, and each wrote an urgent memorial to the capital.

Such an important decision still needs the approval of Emperor Hongwen.

A few days later, Emperor Hongwen received the papers from the two, and immediately became anxious that the six ministers had already discussed with the two prime ministers.

"I agree with the proposal of His Royal Highness King Jin and the Founding Marquis. This time we have already taken advantage of it. This battle of the Northern Chu Jing was also a serious injury. If it happens again, they will not be able to fully recover within at least ten years."

"Besides, the King of Northern Chu is very old, and the princes under his knees are probably all staring at that seat now, let them go to internal friction first, let's use the money to develop, and then fight a real battle to destroy the country."

After Wen Songtao finished speaking, the ministers beside him nodded repeatedly.

Especially Hubu Shangshu, he most agrees.

"Your Majesty, over the past year or so, the lives of the people of Dongzhou have just improved. It is really not suitable for us to continue fighting. Instead, we can take advantage of the consumption of Southern Border and Northern Chu to develop and strengthen ourselves."

As for why there is no Xirong, the current Xirong is simply the younger brother among younger brothers, and he is completely unqualified to be on an equal footing with the three kingdoms.

"Since this is the case, then I will decree to hand over this matter to the king of Jin and the founding marquis."

"You should also prepare and draw up the charter, the post-war reconstruction of the Northland, and the management of the three cities that were captured."

Several people quickly bowed to answer.

"Let's go back and discuss."

"Hurry up and take out the charter."

After several people left, Emperor Hongwen turned to look at Wang De and asked, "What are King Ning and the others doing recently?"

"It's nothing special."

"It's time to start the arrangement. You ask Huo Di to release all the things you prepared earlier, and some people have to be disposed of."

While speaking, he looked outside through the screen.

There is still a queen in the harem that has not been cleaned up.

Now that the Duke of Zhen is gone, there is no need for the queen to continue to stay. He does not want to be buried with such a woman after death.

He even felt that such a woman was not even qualified to enter the imperial mausoleum.

Wang De stepped back in response.

The next day, news spread in the capital, saying that the chaos in the Northland ahead was caused by people from the Duke Zhen's mansion contacting Duke Zhen's former subordinates in the Northland.

Even the empress participated in it, intending to rebel and support King Ning to take the throne.

It was rumored that King Ning was also involved and so on.

Of course, the last of these was arranged by King Zhao. When the news came out, he immediately found an opportunity. This was a good opportunity to suppress King Ning.

Immediately afterwards, it was said that there were still secret letters sent to Dali Temple.

Emperor Hongwen was furious when he learned about it, and King Xuanning went into the palace to reprimand him severely, and also issued an order to abolish the throne of Queen Wang and put him in the cold palace.

Although King Ning was very dissatisfied with his mother being abolished and thrown into the cold palace, he didn't say a word.

It seems that he has already given up on himself as the queen in his heart.

In fact, ever since he regained some authority, he kept telling himself in his heart that the present things were hard-won, and he must not have anything to do with the Zhen Guogong faction.

So since then, he has almost never entered the palace to visit the queen.

Leng Gong.

Wang stared coldly at the man in front of him, and said with a sneer, "Your identity will be your biggest stain, so what if you abolish my position? Just wait, my elder brother will definitely come back, and I will let you You would rather die than live."

Ever since she was imprisoned, Queen Wang seldom had any contact with the outside world.

The contact once or twice was deliberately released with the permission of Emperor Hongwen, so she still doesn't know what happened outside.

However, she knew that Lord Zhen was still alive. If Lord Zhen died, Emperor Hongwen would definitely tell her. If he hadn't told her, it meant that Lord Zhen was still alive.

As long as the brother is still alive, with his ability and strength, there will definitely be a chance to make a comeback.

"He's not coming back."

Emperor Hongwen's voice was very indifferent, and at the end he spoke in a steady tone about how Lord Zhen Guo was arrested and returned to the capital, and then colluded with Prince Li to escape from the cholera north of the capital.

"A few days ago, Duke Zhen died, and all the rebels behind him were arrested."