Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

Chapter 272 Disguised protection money
"War horses? It's not that they can't be sold!" Zhu Houzhao played with the Fire Lin Sword in his hand and chuckled: "However, my Ming Dynasty doesn't have many spare war horses recently. After all, many have been sold to the Northern Song Dynasty before.

"We know this, but we just asked Emperor Ming to sell us another [-] war horses." Cai Jing said quickly.

If Zhu Houzhao hadn't sold them 20 war horses before, they wouldn't have been able to hold on when facing enemies from all directions this time, but now 20 war horses are still not enough.

They want more war horses, and if possible, they can even buy 20 horses.

Even now, the court of the Northern Song Dynasty still has a lot of money.

Of course, this premise is that the war horse price increase is not very strong!
"A hundred thousand war horses?" Zhu Houzhao glanced at Zhang Juwang not far away and motioned to Zhang Juzheng to come.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Juzheng stood up with understanding and reported to Zhu Hou: "Your Majesty, last year our Ming Dynasty defeated Wasi and the Qing Dynasty and obtained a large number of war horses.

However, many of the war horses were sold to the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, a large number of war horses were consumed on the Great Yuan battlefield.

Now my Ming Dynasty does not have many war horses. If we want to sell [-] war horses to the Northern Song Dynasty, there may be problems in replenishing the war horses on the Great Yuan battlefield. "

Not enough war horses?That is impossible!
You know, Wac has also been attacked by the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Houzhao can still get [-] horses.

Even if necessary, Ming Dynasty can also retrieve the border and buy war horses.

It is not a problem for Zhu Houzhao to want war horses, but with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, it is easy to start the war as it is and supplement the war horses. It is also easy to produce tens of thousands more war horses every year. This is based on Zhu Houzhao's large number of pastures. On the basis of raising cattle and sheep.

"The Northern Song Dynasty is my friend of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Northern Song Dynasty is in trouble, how can we be stingy!?" Seeing Zhang Juzheng's appearance, Zhu Houzhao frowned and said: "No matter how hard it is for the Ming Dynasty, even if the army of the Ming Dynasty is... Without the war horses, we have to squeeze out the war horses."

Zhang Juzheng:......

Cai Jing:.
Ming Dynasty courtiers:
There is no doubt that Zhu Houzhao's words left them speechless. This dog emperor really has had enough! !
If you want to make money from the Northern Song Dynasty, just say so.

Most of the courtiers in the Ming Dynasty actually don't know how many war horses they have, but there is definitely no shortage of these war horses.

"Emperor Ming, considering the difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, I, the Song Dynasty, are willing to increase the price to purchase Ming Dynasty's war horses." Cai Jing said quickly and weakly.

"How is this possible? Although our Ming Dynasty has difficulties, we can't cheat the Northern Song Dynasty, a friendly country!" Zhu Houzhao shook his head repeatedly and said: "As we all know, our Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and every emperor of our Ming Dynasty is a friendly person.

It is absolutely impossible to trick our allies, no matter how hard it is for us, we will go to negotiate peace with Dayuan at worst! "

"No, no, no, His Majesty Emperor Ming, please don't negotiate peace with Dayuan!" Cai Jing couldn't help but be alert when he heard Zhu Houzhao's words.

If the Ming Dynasty really negotiates peace with the Yuan Dynasty, then the Northern Song Dynasty will definitely invade them!

Think about the hundreds of thousands of cavalry, they can't stop them at all!
"This" Zhu Houzhao looked at Cai Jing with some embarrassment: "Prime Minister Cai, how do you say this?"

"Emperor Ming, if the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty ends, they are likely to invade the Song Dynasty. By then, the Song Dynasty may not be able to resist." Cai Jing said quickly.

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao showed a troubled look: "But after a year of fighting in the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers are also feeling tired, and they are a little overwhelmed with money!" Good guy, really a good guy!

At this time, everyone, including Cai Jing, knew Zhu Houzhao's true intentions. I have never seen such a shameless emperor!

Is this directly asking for military expenses from the Northern Song Dynasty?
Is Zhu Houzhao short of money?There is definitely no shortage of money. All the ministers have a consensus on this.

Although the imperial court continued to fight wars last year and the beginning of this year, spent a lot of money on military expenditures, and even had to rebuild some areas, Zhu Houzhao had a lot of money.

Zhu Wuli’s raids on homes in the Jiangnan and northern regions were not in vain!
Moreover, Zhu Houzhao also ransacked homes in the previous Qing area.

Anyone who has doubts about Zhu Houzhao's financial resources is distrusting the ability of their wealthy Ming family to make money.

"Your Majesty, our Song Dynasty is also in great difficulty!" Cai Jing said with a sad face.Although he has decided to raise the price to buy war horses, I believe Zhao Ji will not refuse.

They in the Northern Song Dynasty had money but could not buy anything. Even in order for the Northern Song Dynasty to win, many scholar-bureaucrats were willing to spend money to support Zhao Gu.

"Oh, everyone is in trouble!" Zhu Houzhao also sighed when he saw Cai Jing, the Xiangzi.

He knew that Cai Jing had understood his hint, and he would increase the price when selling war horses!
He is not worried about not being able to sell the war horse at a good price. This time, I will sell the war horse for 500 taels!
One hundred thousand war horses is 5000 million taels, trying to squeeze out the Northern Song Dynasty at once.

You know, the previous year's tax revenue for Ming Dynasty was only 6000 million taels of silver.

And this time, Zhu Houzhao will earn so much silver!
Then, Zhu Houzhao thought that in the original history, the tax revenue collected by the court in the first year of Chongzhen was only more than 360 million taels of silver, and this number was not enough for military pay.

Now that the Ming Dynasty was at war with the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao also wanted to earn back this military expenditure in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After all, now that the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty are at war, they are also protecting the Northern Song Dynasty in disguise!
Cai Jing also made a decision in his heart. It was impossible to directly give money to Daming, and it was impossible to pay protection fees!
But the money for war horses can be increased.

This can be regarded as protection money in disguise.

Zhu Houzhao is not responsible for the specific price and quantity. Naturally, someone will negotiate with Cai Jing. If Zhu Houzhao is responsible for even this small matter, then there will be no one in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao just wanted to earn some military expenses. What bad intentions could he have?

A mere tens of millions of taels of silver is nothing at all!
As long as the privileged class also starts paying taxes, then Ming Dynasty will definitely have enough money!

Zhu Houzhao admitted that Zhu Yuanzhang could be regarded as an emperor through the ages. After all, what he did was indeed right.

Both Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang are among the top ten emperors in Chinese history.

It's just that there are no small problems with Zhu Yuanzhang's political wisdom, such as the preferential treatment of literati and the royal family's policies.

(End of this chapter)