Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

By the end of October, the emperor's body had recovered, but it might have been because Lu Mou had treated Cheap Daddy so hard. The needle as thick as a nail had pierced the sciatic nerve. This time it was really bad. According to the feedback from the Imperial Shanfang, since then, there have been no incidents of thieves in the Imperial Shanfang at night.

I can only move back to Xihaizi and pretend to be sick.

However, the prince regained his vitality and once again devoted himself to the government and supervision of the country. But it also left some sequelae, that is, I am afraid of penis, and whenever I see penis, I tremble all over.

Therefore, the Imperial Palace and the Prince's Mansion are all mortise-and-tenon structures, which can be regarded as playing a role in preserving China's ancient and distinctive architecture.

After the tax burden was paid and the treasury was full, Lu Mou began to plan the construction of the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army.

Now, in Jiying Hall, the Supervisor and the Regent held a special military expansion meeting.

The meeting was attended by the entire cabinet, six ministers, as well as the British minister Wu Sangui, Zhang Huangyan and Xu Jie who were urgently transferred back.

and Zhang Songshan of the Reserve Group Army.

There is also He Fugui, the logistics manager of the entire army.

Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang, who were in charge of Mongolia's expansion of territory, and Shanxi Chief Envoy Wang Weiwei, were also recalled to report on their duties. Hong Xueqin, the fourth-placed player in Enke’s first-class competition, is also on the list.

And there is another special person, that is, the Minister of War, Shi Kefa, who stayed behind in Nanjing.

The reason why there are these people is because the upcoming military expansion is closely related to them.

According to the rules, the supervisor sat on the left side of Long Ben, and the regent Lu Mou sat on the right. Chongzhen's seat was originally empty.

But today, it was rare that Chongzhen was brought to attend the meeting in person.

Because after the last penicillin treatment, there were hormone residues in Chongzhen and Jianguo's bodies, so Chongzhen's originally thin cheeks actually gained flesh, and his complexion became much rosier.

Seeing Chongzhen's good health and his sudden attendance at the meeting, all the ministers expressed concern in their hearts. Again, if you want to be well, what's the point?
The prince's body has also become much stronger, and his only cough from time to time makes the ministers really worried.

This is a disease that is not cured at all.

Originally, Lu Mou was planning to give his brother a few more injections after penicillin was already in mass production. But it didn't work, because my brother suffered from penis phobia and he fainted from the injection. As soon as you take out the needle, he will be knocked unconscious.

Now, no one dares to use needles on him. How do you know which time he actually takes the needle and never wakes up again?
This is not a joke.

That's all the emperor does, but the prince oversees the country and can't make any mistakes.

As if he understood his position among the ministers, Chongzhen spoke first: "My dear friends, I am inconvenienced. Military and state affairs are still decided by the Supervisor and the Regent. I just came here to listen and have fun."

Such a positioning made the ministers secretly relieved in their hearts. As the saying goes, the emperor who doesn't care about things is the best emperor.

The meeting began with a speech by Lu Mou, the chief official in charge of the household department. "Now, all the autumn taxes have been completed and put into the treasury. According to the statistical report of Master Huang from the Ministry of Household Affairs, now in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, the area directly under our jurisdiction has a population of 15 million, and the contracted land has reached 40 million acres. Not counting. With the dedicated commission money, our treasury revenue this year has reached 8 million taels, which is the peak in the history of the Ming Dynasty. We have reason to believe that it will continue to grow in the future.

At the same time, our national commercial tax revenue has also exceeded four million taels. The salt from Shouguang and Yanchi salt fields has a total revenue of 3 million, not counting the local government's interception here. This also makes the place more comfortable and comfortable.

As for the 10 million yuan seized from the salt merchants in Yancheng, I have escorted it to Beijing and minted it into silver coins, achieving an income of more than 13 million yuan.

In this way, after deducting the six million taels turned over to the royal family, next year, our household department will have disposable money, reaching the most in the history of the Ming Dynasty, 21 million taels. The disposable service money used for infrastructure construction in various places is 7 million taels.

The central bank's interest income has also reached an unprecedented five hundred thousand taels. "

All the ministers couldn't help but cheer excitedly. Ming Dynasty finally no longer worried about money.

Chongzhen smiled and nodded to Jian Guo.

Zhu Cixi understood, and smiled and said to the ministers: "To reward all of you for your hard work, my father has decided to double this year's annual rewards."

Now the royal family is not short of money. The income from the cigarette factory is already very considerable, and the income from Yizhiling is even more generous. Chongzhen was able to get this reward and buy a group of ministers to thank him for his son.

Lu Mou announced again: "According to the current policy, I am confident that we will regain Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan, and the imperial court will have the ability to increase your salary again."

Once the Huabing decision came out, although there was still a gap between the salary standards of the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it was already close to the salary standards of the Tang Dynasty. When officials can live a prosperous life without corruption, everyone's face is full of glory. The imperial court was even more anxious to regain Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong as soon as possible.

"Now, our first priority is to expand the army. Li Bingbu, how are you and the staff planning the army expansion plan?"

Li Yan stood up, hung a huge map in front of the emperor and his ministers, and replied: "After discussions between our colleagues and everyone on the staff, in order to regain Shaanxi and other places, and in order to continue to guard against the Manchus, we need to expand the army by three more armies. , a total of ninety thousand.”

Lu Mou did not expect that Li Yan and his men were really aggressive and wanted to expand three armies at once. This was one more army than he expected.

Lu Mou immediately put an end to this fever: "Now, we have the first to fifth armies of the Army, 150,000. Guan Ning's army is 80,000, the cavalry is 20,000, plus Yang Songshan's reserve army is 20,000. The total strength is It has reached 270,000. The military expenditure for the entire army has reached 5 million. Although the finances are now abundant, we cannot expand the army that much, so I decided to only expand the army by two."

This decision disappointed the military generals and pleased the civil servants, who were not prepared to oppose the regent's militarism.

Li Yan could only adjust his army expansion plan and adjust the small flags that were posted on the map one by one to represent the numbers of each army: "If you calculate it this way, in the future, you will only be able to leave one army to guard Shaanxi after the liberation. Guard Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng in Sichuan; Shanxi can only keep Yang Songshan's reserve army.

In order to defend against the Manchus, Shanhaiguan had to keep one army with 20,000 troops in Guan Ning; one army was left to defend Henan and Shandong, and the capital was left with only three troops with 90,000 troops to defend against the Manchus. The cavalry troops led by Wu Sangui and Qi Fei were mobile in defense of the entire northern Great Wall defense line, and were severely undermanned. For this reason, we can only give up regaining Henan and Shandong in a short time again. "

To put it this way, it actually shows that the top priority is still not to regain the above two provinces and continue to use these two provinces to isolate the Jiangnan and Northern courts.

Upon hearing this arrangement, Shi Kefa stood up, slowly knelt down in front of Chongzhen, and said sadly: "Long live, please send troops to save Jiangnan." (End of this chapter)