King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Finally, Lu Wangwei slowly stood up in the middle of the martial arts field.

Excellent armor, neat face.

Awesome murderous intent.

moment.

An awe-inspiring momentum came down overwhelmingly.

This kind of momentum is different from the pressure brought by any army in the past.

All of a sudden, the Lan Yu bodyguard, who had always been arrogant and boasted that I was the best in the world, was a little unable to resist!
Everyone couldn't help but talk about it in order to release the pressure Lu Wangwei put on them.

"I can't believe that these big soldiers are standing together like crops!"

"Haha, I guess they will be harvested by us as easily as crops if we fight them in a while."

"What's the use of just standing together? They're all stupid, clumsy!
It seems that they are quite tall and equipped with good armor. His Royal Highness, Prince Lu, has really done a good job in saving face! "

"What's the use of just having face! Haha. In the end, my face will be destroyed by our men!"

"Are you afraid? Anyway, I'm not afraid."

"Then why are your legs shaking?"

"I am cold!"

Lan Yu looked at Lu Wangwei who was standing firmly in front of him, and suddenly felt a little unsure.

It's not that I think I will lose, I just think, what if the win is not beautiful?
These guys do have some good physical fitness.

He looks much taller than his own bodyguard!
Damn, this Shandong native is really tall!
I will also go to Shandong to recruit troops in the future!
Lan Yu couldn't help but said in her heart.

But in Lan Yu's eyes, losing is impossible.

This Lu Wangwei is a bunch of landlubbers, but he has been on the boat for so long.

Lan Yu herself has been on a boat, not to mention more than a month, but even after two days, she will be exhausted, as if she had been seriously ill.

It was a group of people in this state who had just gotten off the boat and came here after a long journey from Haijin Mansion without any time to rest.

Looking at the guys on their backs, Lan Yu recognized them at a glance. Wasn't that a musket?

The day before yesterday, I also tried the weight and feel of the gun at King Lu's place. It weighed dozens of kilograms!
These people were carrying muskets and wearing armor. Looking behind them, they seemed to be pulling artillery!

Carrying so much equipment and running more than 20 miles in more than 300 hours, I am probably exhausted by now!

How to fight with your own soldiers?

If he could still win, Lan Yu would rather believe that he could twist his own head off!
Wait for Lu Wangwei's phalanx to stand up.

Only then did everyone see clearly.

Standing at the front was Wu Dinghou Guo Ying, who was dressed in red robes.

In fact, Lu Wangwei still had two thousand war horses.

Logically speaking, there should be two thousand people on horseback.

However, looking now, there is no one riding a horse.

Those horses only carried some food and baggage.

Even Wuding Hou Guo Ying didn't ride a horse just now.

Everyone could even see that Guo Ying was covered in a lot of dust, his hair was messy, and he was sweating profusely.

It was obvious that he had taken a short distance.

More likely, he started running from Haijin Mansion like an ordinary sergeant!

Seeing such a scene, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled to his left and right and said: "Wu Dinghou's troops are as reassuring as ever!
Only a few people can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers!

It is Lao Shi's good fortune to have such a talented person help Lao Shi's Lu Wangwei and lead his troops! "

After a while, Wuding Hou Guo Ying rushed to Zhu Yuanzhang and knelt down to see him.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Guo Ying and was in a good mood.

He smiled and said: "No courtesy! Guo Aiqing did a good job! He was able to march 300 miles with soldiers in more than hours to get here, and still keep the army in good order!

At first, we felt that the order given by King Lu was not complete at all, and was even nonsense.

Who would have thought that Guo Aiqing could do such an outstanding job!
If the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can be trained to this point, then why do we have millions of soldiers? 10 people are enough to sweep the world!
Let's see, I will leave all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to you for training!

It just so happens that the Commander-in-Chief Zuo of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion is now vacant, so I will ask you to preside over the drills in the Beijing camp! hehe"

Hearing this, Guo Ying smiled and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty! However, I must make it clear that this military training is not my credit!

These soldiers' current achievements are inseparable from the system originally established by King Lu Wei!

I just strictly enforce it!
Most of the makers of those systems are His Highness King Lu, and he is the founder of King Lu Wei."

talking.

Guo Ying couldn't help but remind him: "Your Majesty, I still have something to report! This Lu Wangwei may not be easy to copy now! I have been in Lu Wangwei for a while, and I know how expensive the recruitment system is. ! The consumption of these five thousand Lu Wang guards is no less than that of an army of fifty thousand!"

Zhu Yuanzhang heard this.

Looking at Zhu Tan, his eyes were full of surprise.

When did this guy pass military service again?
Wu Dinghou Guo Ying was a sincere and honest person, and he was not a frivolous person like Meng Lang.

Especially when he is extremely loyal to himself, he will definitely not talk nonsense.

Since he said what Zhu Tan did and what he himself did, it is definitely not nonsense.

but
If Lu Wangwei's soldiers are trained like this, most of them are due to Zhu Tan.

That made Zhu Yuanzhang a little puzzled again.

Zhu Tan was just a bookworm in Yingtian before, how could he know these things?
He did a good job in internal affairs, invented so many things, and made so much money. Now, he is also so good at military training.

If you can still use your troops like a god on the battlefield,
Zhu Yuanzhang had only one person in his mind who could compare with him.

That is.
Prime Minister Zhuge!

Then, he shook his head again.

Forget it.

This kid, Lao Shi.
There is no trace of the stability and loyalty of Prime Minister Zhuge!

In the span of more than a year, the vassal has been running like wildfire. If I had not firmly supported him, I am afraid that he, the vassal king, would have been captured long ago.

As for loyalty
Not to mention it!

snort!
Brat!
You built such a large firearms workshop without telling us, and now even the Jin Yiwei can't go in to find out the truth!

If you must find out, there is only one way, which is to break up with Lao Shi and force your way in.

That would be inappropriate.

Moreover, Lao Shi himself had hidden so much money!
Every time Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he had almost squeezed Lao Shi. Who knew that in the blink of an eye, when he opened his mouth, another million taels of silver appeared!
Now half of the Ming Dynasty's finances are provided by King Lu!
What's the point?
So much so that I even had to talk to him personally about dividing the money.
Ugh!
If Lao Shi is a loyal and good boy, he should obediently give us all his money.
It's so secretive, although it's a lot, it's very unpleasant.

While Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about it, he also thought about what Guo Ying had just said, and shook his head angrily.

If the cost of these 5,000 King Lu Guards is so terrifying, then it’s really impossible to learn!

Daming has no money.
When 50,000 soldiers went on an expedition, the food, grass, and expenses were all provided by the court. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the expenses were really terrifying!
That’s thousands of taels a day!

Daming has a lot to spend money on, so we can’t waste it like this!

Although the money Zhu Tan now pays to the Ming Dynasty's household department has at least doubled the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue.

Every year, tens of millions of taels of silver are available!
But there are many projects to come!

For such a talented and strategic monarch as Zhu Yuanzhang, even if the financial revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty was given to him, it would not be enough for him to spend!
No amount of money can be spent to create a fiscal deficit!

For example, water conservancy projects need to be built across the country, and city walls need to be built for border defense. If possible,
Zhu Yuanzhang still wanted to move the capital. Even if he no longer built the unlucky central capital of Fengyang, he still had to consider moving to a new home.
Zhu Yuanzhang still disliked Yingtian.

If it weren't for poverty, I would have moved long ago.

At the same time, we should also encourage the reclamation of wasteland across the country.

Originally, due to the use of troops from the north and the south, Zhu Yuanzhang still placed a heavy burden on the people.

But now, since Zhu Tan has tens of millions of taels of silver income.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also generous. With a wave of his hand, he exempted and exempted a large number of local land taxes for one year.

In some places, because the disasters were severe and the population was declining, they might as well be spared for three years!
Newly reclaimed land will be directly exempted from taxes for five years!
In this way, the people can thrive and the Ming Dynasty's national strength can further improve in the future!
As a result, Zhu Tan sent tens of millions of taels of silver, and the court was quickly stretched.

Even at the beginning, many officials were looking forward to a salary increase!

After all, the national fiscal revenue has doubled. Is it not too much for everyone to increase their salaries?
If there is no salary increase, can we cancel the treasure notes distributed to everyone, whether it is food, money, or even spices and silk?
After all, treasure banknotes are so deceptive. Now one tael of silver can be exchanged for four guan of treasure banknotes. When the salary was paid, the 100 taels of silver that should have been received turned into 100 guan of treasure banknotes. It was a huge loss.

however.

The household department is still the same as before.

What should be issued was issued, and all the officials' plans came to nothing.

Today's Minister of Household Affairs, Li Yuanming, was surrounded by enemies on all sides because he had cleared all the land in the country and forced all gentry to cancel corvee reductions and exemptions. When he was walking on the road, he was worried that someone would hit him on the way.

Now because of the salary issue, he has become even more targeted.

Even when Li Yuanming went to court, he was worried that a colleague would suddenly jump out and beat him half to death.
The fact that Lao Zhu spent a lot of money was actually within Zhu Tan's expectation.

Ten million taels of silver may seem like a lot, but in reality, where is it?

One tael of silver is only equivalent to two stones of rice. How many people are there in the Ming Dynasty now?
More than 6000 million!

With so many people, who can’t eat two kilo of rice a year?

This cost alone is 60 million taels of silver!
And that's just eating.

Build post roads, rivers, build cities, military, civil administration, tax reduction, religion, diplomacy, etc.

There are many places where a country needs to spend money!
If you use them all properly, no amount of money will be enough!

Therefore, among the emperors of the past dynasties, as long as they had great talents and strategies, which one did not spend money like water?

They can even spend more money than Hunjun!
For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wiped out all the wealth that the Han Dynasty had accumulated over decades, and even overdrafted a lot.

Future generations will have to repay his debt.

The later Emperor Yongle tired Prince Zhu Gaochi to the point of vomiting blood, but still could not afford his various major projects.

If the old man hadn't repeatedly set off to Mobei and could safely engage in production and construction at home, I'm afraid Zhu Gaochi would have collapsed even more.

Another example is Lao Zhu in front of him. Although he kept talking about resting with the people, he almost killed all the rich households in the southeast and turned a large amount of land into official land, but he was still short of money.

In comparison, what do those foolish kings who play with women and build a few palaces mean?
The biggest harm they caused to the dynasty was not essentially how much money they spent, but that they lost control of the country, either causing peasant uprisings or causing civilian officials to take power, and ultimately lost their country.

Compared with these magnificent emperors, the money spent really pales into insignificance.

This is the same as the second generation of ordinary wealthy families.

Let them enjoy life desperately, eat the best, wear the best, use the best, and play the best, and the money in their hands will not be spent in a few lifetimes.

You can easily save your property by just treating yourself like rubbish.

But if they want to start a business, their huge family property may be completely destroyed soon.

After Guo Ying paid a visit to Zhu Yuanzhang.

He came to Zhu Tan again and smiled sheepishly.

"I'm sorry, His Royal Highness King Lu, it was my mistake in decision-making this time that caused the army to move slowly!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Is this still slow?

Three hundred miles of urgent march! Although according to the normal marching speed, it takes more than 300 hours to cover miles, which is not a problem for the average army.

But the question is, which army can endure a continuous march of 300 miles?

They must rest and eat after all, otherwise, there may be problems with physical strength, willpower and even military morale.

In history, too many troops collapsed due to forced marches.

According to the strength of the inland guards like Lu Wangwei, they should have collapsed long ago.

However, they came here as a team.

In the eyes of many people, this is already considered the elite in the world.

As a result, Wu Dinghou actually said that he was walking slowly!
Zhu Tan nodded and said with a smile: "This time I also made a sudden decision, which caught everyone off guard! Some problems will inevitably occur, it's okay, just find out the problems and continue to make progress."

Guo Ying nodded.

This is also the fine tradition of Lu Wangwei.

Whenever a problem occurs, we must find out the problem and solve it, so that we can continue to make progress.

It is estimated that this urgent march is over, and by tomorrow, Lu Wangwei will hold various internal meetings to discuss the success or failure of this time.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but shook their heads.

Zhu Di even twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Old Shi, stop pretending! The fact that this army arrived on time has surprised everyone. Now you are getting a bargain, right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting not far away, couldn't help but snorted.

"We think it's great that the soldiers you raised with ten times the money have such abilities! Don't show off here!"

Zhu Tan ignored everyone, but looked at Guo Ying and asked: "Why are our soldiers equipped with new muskets? And those artillery, aren't they all new? What's going on? Who gave it to you? Sent?"

Guo Ying smiled bitterly and said: "This is the reason why the army has been delayed!

I was just too greedy and thought there would be no problem, so I took a risk!
Although fortunately he did not disgrace his life, he still almost caused Lu Wangwei to make a fool of himself! "(End of chapter)