"Your Highness, Xiong Tingbi is so brave! Yes, Yunnan is a bit far away, and sometimes local officials have to be given certain authority. But like Xiong Manzi, when a mere Xuanwei Division asked for help, they directly sent more than 20,000 reinforcements

! And there is Kunming Town among them! Although I am not familiar with military affairs, I also know that the predecessor of Kunming Town was the Kuandian Guards founded by His Highness himself. Together with the Henghai Guards, they are the two most powerful troops in the Ming Dynasty! So...

The elites were sent out like this, huh, if Xiong Manzi didn't accept the huge bribe from Burma, I wouldn't believe it."

After the State Council resumed, Zhu Youdong first handed Xiong Tingbi's letter to the participating ministers for time travel. Unexpectedly, Fang Congzhe, who was the first to read the letter, jumped up immediately.

The chief minister after Li Sancai, to be honest, his ability and skill in doing things are quite average. However, the current leader of the Zhejiang Party has two good points. One is that he is soft and does not like to support Zhu Youdong.

Secondly, the Zhejiang Party's consistent tradition is to be willing to think about the country. Therefore, in Zhu Youdong's household registration and reconstruction of the yellow register, the chief minister strongly supported and worked hard for this purpose and did a lot of work.

I didn't expect that such a good-tempered person would jump in anger after reading Xiong Tingbi's letter.

I can't help but not jumping.

After so many years of Taisun supervising the country, the overall situation of the country is getting better day by day: Externally, in these years, the Jurchens were beaten into six pieces and moved to the cold places of the Songnen Plain, and Mongolia in the north was also

It was severely damaged. It can be said that although the border troubles still exist, the urgent military situation that can make the chief minister frown is almost invisible.

The external world has become clean, and internal problems have been solved one by one. Wasn't the biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty before the Ming Dynasty a lack of money? But what about now? In addition to the 100 million silver dollars from selling salt mines, after salt tax, currency reform and the establishment of a bank.

The annual income of the Beijing Household Department of the Ming Dynasty is now stable at about 23 million yuan, and with the completion of household registration and the reconstruction of the yellow register, it is conceivable that the national agricultural tax can be much higher. If the in-kind tax can be completely abolished in the future,

Instead, we levy monetary taxes. It’s hard to say, but from the agricultural tax alone, the country can get more than 12 million yuan every year.

Therefore, when the Ministry of Revenue has money, it can increase the salaries of officials. It does not need to default on the military salaries of military soldiers. Even the great locust plague that swept across northern China this year, the country was barely able to survive.

How many years has it been? Since Jiajing, the country's problems have emerged one after another, and various shortcomings have become more and more obvious. Although it was rectified by Zhang Juzheng in the middle, the three major campaigns of Wanli emptied the national treasury again. The embarrassing days continued until Taisun

Before he was imprisoned, Fang Shoufu had not received his salary for many years!

In short, in Fang Shoufu's view, this is the best time for the country in the past century. Moreover, Taisun is still young. It is foreseeable that within a few decades, many problems of the Ming Dynasty will be solved one by one, and the rule of Renxuan and even Yongle

The reappearance of the prosperous times is not far away.

Therefore, Fang Shoufu's philosophy in recent years has been one: concentrate on getting domestic affairs done first! For example, after official salaries have increased, we will begin to vigorously fight against corruption - this is another tough battle, and we must concentrate on it.

No.

What are you thinking about, you damn Xiong Tingbi? It’s none of our business to beat Burmese and Siamese pig brains into dog brains? That’s because you are Teacher Taisun, otherwise, this cabinet will impeach you personally!

With the chief minister's attitude, most of the other ministers were also dissatisfied with Xiong Tingbi's handling. Xu Honggang, who was in charge of money, was so angry that his beard was flying.

Hey, I can’t admit that I feel so uncomfortable. I don’t know how the King of Siam persuaded his ministers to take advantage of Ming Dynasty.

With a sigh, Zhu Youdong took out Xu Xianchun's letter and circulated it to the ministers.

"Ridiculous! Have all these officials in Yunnan become stupid there? What is this Siam? What a small country! Xu Xianchun actually said that their king was attacking Burma in vain, but was actually trying to attack my Ming Dynasty?

Commander Tian, ​​do all the thousands of households in your Jinyi Guard do things this way?"

"Xu Qianhu became an official grandson together with Xiaguan. You don't have to worry about his ability to do things. As for the content of this letter, Xianguan doesn't know the situation in Yunnan, so I can't say anything more for the time being."

Hey, even Tian Ergen didn't dare to take the blame for Xu Xianchun, which shows how little these courtiers of the Ming Dynasty took Siam seriously and how much they didn't want to accept Burma's request for help.

Fortunately, after all these years, I have gained the power to dominate.

After deciding, Zhu Youdong signaled, and Fang Zhenghua behind him banged the table hammer, and the venue quickly fell silent.

"My lords, Siam's invasion of Burma, as far as this matter is concerned, does not have much hindrance to our Ming Dynasty. However, Xu Qianhu's analysis, Gu feels, must be believed."

"Your Highness!"

"Hey, everyone, please listen to what I have to say."

"Yes, I'm sorry. Your Highness, please continue."

"I, Ming Dynasty, am the sect master of East Asia after all. Such things happen to the vassals below, and we cannot ignore them, otherwise we will lose the dignity of the heaven. Therefore, Da Zongzheng, the Ministry of Rites, must send envoys to Siam as soon as possible to tell them and let them

Immediately stop the invasion of our Ming Dynasty Burma Xuanwei Division.

In addition, the Ministry of Rites will send envoys to Annan to warn them. Tell their two powerful ministers that no matter how the Ming Dynasty fights internally, if Siam attacks, they must join forces to defend against the enemy. Otherwise, our Ming Dynasty will

It will happen again like during the reign of Emperor Chengzu, when hundreds of thousands of heavenly troops will march into Annan."

"Yes, I accept your order."

"Here at the Ministry of War, Grand Sima, please give an order to the commander-in-chief of Zhaoqing Town, asking them to send warships and related surveying and mapping personnel to go south to Khmer to inspect the hydrology and geography of the Mekong Delta, especially the time of ebb and flow of tides, reefs,

The distribution of harbors, etc.”

"Your Highness, do you really want to do it? Logically speaking, I don't care about the money and I will definitely support the use of troops. But from the perspective of the country, we still have so many victims to rescue at this time. Your Highness, this is really not the case at this time

It’s a good time to mobilize troops!”

"The Great Sima is worried about the country and the people, and I am very relieved. However, the matter in Siam is really not that simple. Moreover, there is news from the Great Sima, Gu, saying that Siam and Japan have formed an alliance."

"Ah?! Is there such a thing? Commander Tian?"

"Da Sima, the Jin Yiwei of the lower official is only a news channel for His Highness, not the whole channel."

"Your Highness? Is this true?"

"True, absolutely true."

How could it not be true? Then the King of Siam personally went to Japan twice. Why not form an alliance? Are they really going to eat sushi?

"Well...if these two small countries really have wild ambitions, I should think about it carefully."

"Yes." Nodding, Zhu Youdong said: "My lords, there is no need to talk about the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Japan. The orphan of the Toyotomi family is still living on our Taihu Lake. If it is true that Siam and Japan form an alliance,

At the same time, they are attacking my Ming Dynasty. I can’t say it, but it’s really annoying.”

"Hehehe, His Highness is right. But it's just a little annoying."

"So, although we have a lot of things going on in the country now, we still need to make corresponding preparations. Da Sima, please give another order to Ma Chengzhao of Sichuan, asking him to lead 10,000 Sichuan soldiers to go south to Yunnan.
Chapter completed!