One Emperor through the Ages: Starting from Infinite Copying

Chapter 295

Tokugawa couldn't believe his ears.

"You say it again!"

"The Tokugawa shogun decided to cut the salaries of the major names and all the officials of the Wakoku Kingdom to maintain the war!"

Tokugawa Gangichi patted his chair angrily: "Fool around, Yulu cut, how can I, a daimyo, afford to raise so many soldiers and horses?" "

"Our soldiers and horses are all the money in our own servants and the taxes of the territory, and the soldiers and horses we come to raise!"

"Yulu occupies seventy percent, and the territorial tax revenue only occupies thirty percent."

"Aren't we going to increase taxes and cut soldiers' salaries with this cut?"

The herald frowned and thought for a moment.

"Tokugawa Gangichi, this is the order of the Tokugawa shogun, you just need to carry it out!"

"In addition, all of Li Lu will be cut in half, and when the Ming army is defeated, Li Lu will return to the original level!"

After the herald conveyed the news, he rode away from "950" and drove here.

He didn't want to be beaten up by Tokugawa, who heard the bad news.

Tokugawa was depressed to the extreme, and after fighting with the Daimyo Assistance Army for several months, the daimyo's Yuroku was actually cut in half.

The regular army of the Daming Empire did not appear, if the regular army of the Daming Empire came, wouldn't the Yin Kingdom be hanged?

The more he thought about it, the more afraid Tokugawa became in his heart.

Save strength, right, save strength.

Tokugawa thought as soon as he thought and withdrew with eight thousand soldiers.

"Since the shogun and his wife want to cut Lao Tzu's servants, then I can only work and not contribute!"

Tokugawa Shogun was in the Tokugawa Shogun's Mansion in Edo, the capital of Wakoku.

He looked at the ledger and his scalp tingled.

"The treasury is out of money, and the money that the General's Mansion has accumulated for ten years is almost spent!"

"Dear courtiers, the three million taels of silver borrowed from the people have not been lying in my treasury for half a month, and all of them have been used to buy grain, weapons and ammunition!"

"In this way, our Great Wao Empire, whether it is nobles or ordinary people, I am afraid that all of them will become extremely poor, right?"

The retainers of the Tokugawa shogun all bowed their heads, and they did not expect that the war that lasted for several months would empty the national treasury.

"Shogun, this battle is too expensive!"

"We are running out of ammunition and have to buy it while producing it ourselves!"

"The gunpowder they sold by the Portuguese merchants was extremely expensive, but in order to continue fighting, we had to buy some gunpowder and produce some of it ourselves!"

"The treasury is gone, and we have to buy grain from the farmers!"

When the Tokugawa shogun heard what the retainers said, his whole body sat on the chair and felt numb.

"Aren't Portugal and the Dutch Republic who regularly do business with us?"

"Borrowing money from merchants in both countries and promising them a good return should raise some of the money."

"In addition, our silver ore saw that the silver mine increased its mining efforts, and used the mined silver to buy weapons from the Kingdom of Portugal and the Dutch Republic, and continued to fight the Ming army to the end."

"Shogun, what we are facing is not the Daming regular army, but the Eight Banners Assistance Army composed of the Daming Jurchen untouchables, their weapons, equipment and armor are very different compared to the Daming National Salvation Army." , the courtier on the side hurriedly reminded.

The Tokugawa shogunate frowned, and the whole person was stunned.

"Baga, after fighting for so long, even the auxiliary army of the Daming Empire can't beat it, you are really idiots, stupid pigs!"

The courtiers all lowered their heads, not daring to reply.

The Tokugawa shogun's own uncle on the side said with a smile: "Shogun, we should speed up the construction of warships, and we should also buy more heavy artillery from the Portuguese to attack the prefecture occupied by the Eight Flags Assistance Army!" "

"They fortified the county town, and at the same time, they wiped out all the people in the occupied areas, and this unpopular action made us big Wako, and the resistance became more and more fierce."

"Whether it is the right time and place, they are all on our side!"

Hearing what his own uncle said, the Tokugawa shogun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Uncle is right, heaven and earth are on our side." (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

"It's just that these are there, the key is that the money of the treasury and the shogun's treasury is all finished."

"It is difficult to continue the war without money!"

The Tokugawa shogun had a embarrassed expression, and the surrounding retainers understood what the Tokugawa shogun meant.

"General, are you planning to make peace with Daming?"

The Tokugawa shogun nodded: "I have this plan, but the messenger sent can't go to sea at all!" "

"The messenger to Fukuoka is the same, and before he entered, he was driven back by the Eight Flags Assistance Army, how is this good?"

"We can't negotiate peace, only by defeating the enemy can we usher in more time for development!"

"At the same time, it can also weaken the strength of the major celebrities and create conditions for us to cut the clan!" , the own uncle of the Tokugawa shogun said with a smile ...

In a word, it woke up the Tokugawa shogunate.

"That's right, with the help of the Eight Flags to assist the army in cutting the clan!"

"But after cutting the domain, we won't be able to take back the territory occupied by the Eight Flags Auxiliary Army!"

"Shogun, we only need to borrow money from merchants from the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Portugal, are we worried that they will not help us?"

The Tokugawa shogun thought for a moment and nodded.

"Yes, didn't Edo have merchants from the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Portugal? Immediately invite them to my house to discuss the matter! "

In less than a quarter of an hour, representatives of two merchants arrived at the General's Mansion.

"Shogun, you looking for us?"

"Guys, do you know about our war with the Daming Empire?"

"We are righteous and defend our country, and we hope to borrow money from you to maintain the expenses of the war!"

"You also know, we have Iwami Silver Mine, and we can mine a lot of silver every year!"

"If we borrow your money, we can completely repay the money with interest!"

The merchants of the Portuguese Kingdom did not dare to offend the Daming Empire and shook their heads repeatedly.

Dutch merchants are different, the Dutch Republic is still at war with the Daming Empire, and helping the Kingdom is helping the Dutch Republic.

"We are willing to help you! We can lend you five million taels of silver, which is the money we earned in the past two years of trading in Asia 5.6 continents! "

Five million taels?

Earned in two years?

These Dutch people earn a lot.

"You Dutchmen are worthy of being great Caucasians, and we are deeply admired! You can earn five million taels of silver in two years, which is simply an example for our people! "

The businessman of the Dutch Republic sighed: "The business has become more and more difficult to do in the past half a year!" The Daming Empire opened a global trading company, and I heard that we also opened the Daming Royal Bank and the Daming Royal Grain Store in Europe. "

"The whole of Europe and Asia is basically all commodities of the Daming Empire at the moment!"

"As merchants of the East India Company, we are selling goods today, and there is no commodity comparable to the goods of the Ming Empire."

"The Daming Empire is so hateful, they sell everything, even artillery, arquebuses, fire bolts and whatnot, they all sell it!"