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

Chapter 249 Sophistry
The scale of the Royal Sea View Tower is indeed huge, showing the unique momentum of the royal family.

Although the ancillary facilities have not yet been completed, the main ten-bay, five-by-three-story building is already open for business. Walking into this empty hall, you can still smell the smell of wood.

Today is Lu Mou's private dining room. There are fifty-one huge tables on the first floor, enough to accommodate five hundred soldiers for dinner.

The table at the top is occupied by Lu Mou and his brother Yong Wang. On the left is Zhang Shenyan, on the right is Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong want to accompany them.

After the soldiers sat down according to their rank and military merit, and the food and drinks were served, Lu Mou picked up the wine glass and said to all the soldiers: "Today, I will prepare some drinks of my own to welcome the return of overseas loyal loyalists. I respect you first."

Then he drank the water and wine in one gulp, and all the generals were moved to drink together.

Lu Mou announced: "The original empire was very slow to treat the hard-working and meritorious soldiers. I have applied to the Supervisory State for a decision. Although the treasury is still in difficulty, Dongchang and Jinyiwei still have to provide full reissue to the soldiers." One year’s military pay.”

The announcement of this news immediately brought tears of gratitude from all the generals. I also saw the difference between this Ming Dynasty and the previous Ming Dynasty. Now the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty no longer have to worry about military pay. There will no longer be tragedies where you are on the front lines killing the enemy in blood, while your parents, wives and children are begging and wandering in the rear, bleeding and crying.

"According to my military merit reward system, if you sank 5 Manchu warships in this battle, I will calculate based on the number of soldiers on each warship, which is equivalent to you annihilating enemies. I will reward you Your silver dollars will be divided equally among the entire army."

The soldiers immediately clapped their hands and stamped their feet, shouting thanks.

"You brought me 10 captured enemy warships. According to my military merit reward system, I will price each of these 10 warships at 1 silver dollars. You will receive a 3% bonus, which is silver dollars. You will still It’s an equal share.”

Everyone was completely shocked this time. The new Ming Dynasty army now has such a military merit reward system. Although lives may be lost in emotional war, it can also bring rewards and dividends to the family members.

Then next time I fight, I will never hold back my brothers, and I will definitely make everyone rich.

"In order to strengthen the strength of the Northern Navy, I will eliminate all old ships and replace them with new ocean-going warships within three years; eliminate all heavy and outdated artillery pieces and replace them with ones produced by our Ministry of Industry, which are lighter and have a faster rate of fire. With farther and more accurate rear-mounted rapid-fire cannons, I will build the Ming Northern Navy into an invincible fleet that spans the sea."

Five hundred soldiers cheered heartily together.

As a navy man, I am obsessed with battleships. Having a state-of-the-art fleet is their dream.

Such investment in the prospect made Zheng Hongkui jealous, thinking that the regent favored one over the other.

"Don't cheer yet, but I have a condition."

Everyone immediately became silent. Isn't it your court's duty to build a powerful navy? Why are you still imposing conditions on us?
Yu Minzhong asked with excitement and trembling: "What are the regent's conditions? We will resolutely comply with them."

"That is, you have to snatch back the funds to build such a fleet."

Everyone was stunned together. Shouldn’t the army be funded by the state? Why do we still need to rob it ourselves to support ourselves?
Why, you brought us back not to protect our country, but to be bandits. Do you really want the officials and bandits to be one family?

Faced with everyone's surprise, Lu Mou spoke without shame and talked about his glorious family history: "Some people say that when the country was about to be defeated, I did not hesitate to use despicable methods of driving nails into the butts of officials. Only by robbing officials did he find the first pot of gold and save his family from ruin. "

There was a gentle chuckle from below.

"You have misunderstood. What I did was not plundering officials. What I did was collect debts. I urged those officials to default on their debts to the country. This saved our Ming Dynasty from being destroyed by rogue bandits and from being taken advantage of by slaves to seize this beautiful country. ”

Everyone nodded silently, having to admit this. It is only natural for others to resort to some means if they refuse to pay back the debt. "I used silver to make silver coins, but people said I was robbing the people."

You are indeed too sinister. You took the debt money you just collected from the officials and mixed it with lead and tin. Your method is too bad.

"No, what I'm doing is not robbing the people. What I'm doing is called currency system reform. I'm turning the chaotic silver ingots, the silver ingots that are missing a few pounds, and the silver nuggets that are inconvenient to change into silver coins that are more convenient for the people to use and circulate. I'm thinking about the convenience of the people."

Can you even make this excuse?
But since using silver coins, it has become much more convenient and I will no longer be deceived by profiteers.

"Then I attacked Li Yan and Li Guo. Everyone said that I snatched the second pot of gold. No, what I did was to attack the rogue bandits and defend the capital. What I did was captured from the war."

This seems to make sense.

"When I went to the grassland, people said that I robbed the two flags of the Manchu and Qing grasslands for gold and silver. No, I was not robbing the Manchu and Qing grasslands for gold and silver, but I was carrying out my national policy of weakening the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Only I took back their gold and silver so that the Qing Dynasty had nothing to spend."

This seems to make sense.

"Then I regained the northwest. People said that I targeted the fat and wealthy salt merchants, and I did not hesitate to cruelly destroy their clan. No, how could I be interested in their little gold and silver? My true purpose is To allow the people to eat low-priced salt.”

Everyone feels that their prince is quite considerate of the people.

"It is because of my captures one after another that I have established a powerful and invincible army. I can make my brothers in the army well-equipped, so that they have enough soldiers and food, so that they no longer have to worry about military pay; Only then can they get a share of the profits captured in every battle, and only then can they be rewarded with one dollar for killing one person. If you look at the lives of those brothers in the army, they are very happy. "

Zheng Hongkui's eyes widened in surprise. Shouldn't he be talking about the feelings of family and country to inspire the soldiers to fight? However, you and these soldiers keep talking about making money. You, the prince, love money too much.

If you don't talk about your feelings with your subordinates, how can you be a good leader? This is a lack of humanity and a loss of morality on your part.

But looking at the group of soldiers who had been rewarded by Lu Mou and made fortunes silently, Zheng Hongkui had to nod his head: "I have to admit that it is indeed more practical if you don't talk about feelings and interests."

Lu Mou pressed his hands to calm down the excited soldiers who were jumping and clapping their hands: "So, what I just said is to build a strong naval force. The future navy requires you to go out and grab it. Slip of the tongue, serious. A slip of the tongue is to launch a war against an enemy country, to wipe out their population, to snatch back their gold and silver property, and to weaken the enemy's economic strength.

For example, Niuzhuang in the Qing Dynasty was an important salt production base in the Qing Dynasty, where a large amount of salt was stored. If you destroy their salt fields, the Manchu and Mongolian people will have no salt to eat, their horses will lose fat, their soldiers will become weak, and their cattle and sheep will die in large numbers. It will seriously weaken their national strength and combat effectiveness, and it will make it easier for us to regain Liaodong.

And if you rob them of their salt payment, it will put the Qing Dynasty in financial distress, make their officials unable to pay salaries, and make them unable to buy weapons and food to support their army.

Doesn't this further reduce their combat effectiveness?
According to the king's military regulations and reward regulations, what you capture will go to the public, but I will give you 30% of the war bonus. After the imperial court obtains your capture, it will be able to purchase cannons and ships for you. And you have received war dividends, so why are you worried that your mortgage company will not be able to repay the loan? "

This complete set of interlocking theories simply made the generals go crazy with excitement.

Zheng Hongkui, who has always been upright and fair, couldn't help but ask: "Does the capture by Wei Chen's attack on Li Zicheng count?"

"Forget it, of course. Although your situation is special and you cannot escort the seized money and materials to the court at any time, you can transport the money over and buy my weapons and equipment. This is not a happy outcome for both parties. ?"

Zheng Hongkui yelled: "Li Zicheng, you are in trouble, you are in trouble."

(End of this chapter)