RNP Chapter 293
Chapter 293
Yamada looked at Kuroda and Tokugawa Takeichi and felt as if they had never seen the world.
"Really, the Daming Empire is very cheap!"
"If I hadn't sinned, I wouldn't have fled back."
"I stayed in Daming for a year, and after being a Daming pariah for a year, I bought a house with two thousand yuan in Daming coins and a carriage drawn by a single horse for five hundred yuan."
"Every day when I go to build roads, I drive my own carriage and eat three meals a day."
"Being a pariah in the Daming Empire was the happiest year of my life. I already knew that I shouldn't quarrel with the citizens of Daming, let alone hurt people! "
Yamada shook his head with regret, and Kuroda and Tokugawa Gangichi heard from Yamada's words that the prices of the Daming Empire were low, and the people could live well even if they were untouchables.
"In this way, our war with the Daming Eight Banners Assistance Army may last for a long time, and the Daming Imperial Court is so rich, I am afraid that it does not care about spending it all the time." , Kuroda worried.
Tokugawa on the side was blinded, he was regarded as a relative of the Tokugawa shogunate, so consumed, not only the other daimyo of the Wakoku could not get benefits, but the Tokugawa shogunate was afraid that it would go bankrupt.
"General Kuroda, in the past half a year's effort, I heard that the treasury has consumed almost four million taels of silver."
340 "If we continue to consume it like this, I am afraid that our Tokugawa shogun will go bankrupt." "
"Tokugawa Gangichi, you're absolutely right! If it continues to be consumed like this, I am afraid that the treasury of the Great Wa Empire will be exhausted! "
"How much money do we have in the treasury?" , Kuroda asked curiously.
Tokugawa Gangichi, thought about it, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are six million taels, and it has cost four million taels in half a year, and I am afraid that I will run out of money to build a fleet." "
Kuroda frowned, his territory was also occupied, there was no place to collect taxes, and the five thousand soldiers of his domain were still waiting for him to pay his military salary.
"What a grievance, too much of a grievance! After half a year's hard work, the treasury of our Yin Kingdom is about to run out of money! General Kuroda sighed helplessly.
He suddenly turned his head and looked at Yamada on the side.
"Master Yamada, tell me how long this treasury of the Ming Empire can withstand the torment of the Ming Army."
Yamada frowned: "General Kuroda, the Daming Treasury, I have never heard of how much money there is?" "
"However, according to the various expenses of the Daming Empire, at least tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Daming coins are spent a year, I really don't know what income their imperial court can rely on to maintain such a large expenditure."
Yamada's words made (CEEI) Kuroda and Tokugawa break the defense again and again.
"What? Hundreds of billions of dollars? "
"Didn't they abolish the agricultural tax? How did they manage to sustain such huge expenses without agricultural taxes? "
Yamada scratched his head: "Daming Royal Grain Shop, I heard that the income is considerable. "
"Isn't the price of items in the Daming Royal Grain Shop very low? Where is the profit? General Kuroda asked angrily.
Yamada shook his head blankly: "I don't know!" However, the Daming Empire can still spend money so lavishly, which shows that they are not short of money at all. "
"I heard that the Ming army transported 300,000 Jurchens for two years, and all of them were hoarded in Fukuoka City."
The intelligence brought by Yamada completely made Kuroda and Tokugawa Gangichi despair.
The number of soldiers and horses surrounding Fukuoka reached 200,000 troops, and the prepared grain and grass needed to be transported from the rear of the people of the Wakoku.
The people lost one-third of the food and grass they consumed on the way.
The grain that arrived at the hands of the Yan soldiers was only two-thirds of what it was before departure.
The most important thing is that the people of the Yan Kingdom were forcibly requisitioned, transported by flat dan and wheelbarrows.
Carriages were almost only available to nobles in the Yin Kingdom, and as for horses, they were even shorter, more than a head shorter than the war horses of the Ming army.
This is also why the soldiers of the Yin Kingdom saw the tall war horses of the Eight Flags Assistance Army, and thought that the heavenly gods had come to the land of the Yin Kingdom.
The people of the Yan Kingdom requisitioned nearly 300,000 to transport grain and grass.
There were also tired people on the way, of course, most of the people of the Yan Kingdom would find an opportunity to escape directly from the convoy transporting grain and grass.
"Yamada, the Daming Empire has a lot of wealth, and it is indeed not comparable to our small country."
"It's just that at present, this is the Daming Empire arranging the Eight Flags to assist the army to attack us, and we must fight with them to the end to defend every inch of the land of the Daming Empire."
Before the words fell, a herald soldier of the Yin Kingdom carrying two signal flags galloped over on horseback.
"Report, Tokugawa shogun strictly ordered us to end the battle within three months."
The herald handed the edict of the Tokugawa shogun to Kuroda, Tokugawa Takeichi. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
Kuroda looked at it, and the whole person frowned.
"The Tokugawa shogun said that the treasury currently has two million taels of silver left, and it is necessary to build warships, and the treasury is expected to bottom out within three months."
Kuroda and Tokugawa were extremely desperate as soon as they heard the order conveyed by the herald and heard the inside story of the herald.
"Isn't it? That's how much money the treasury has? "
The herald nodded: "Yes, that's it." "
"The Tokugawa shogun has consulted with the ministers and is borrowing money from the people of the Wakoku."
"What? The shogun wanted to borrow money from the people? "
"Yes, in order to let the people borrow money, the shogun proposed an annual interest rate of five percent!"
"After hearing that after the announcement was issued, not many people wanted to."
"The shogun had to raise the interest rate to 10 percent, and now he is borrowing money from the people in the Edo area."
"I've been borrowing money for five days, and I've raised three million taels of silver."
"Officials everywhere who borrow money from the people are still busy, and it is estimated that it will take two months for the end of the loan."
The news of the herald soldier is like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
"Hell, I didn't expect that our shogun would fight a war, and he would reach the point of borrowing money from the people!" , Tokugawa Gangyi scratched his head, and the whole person was very disappointed in his heart.
Kuroda was also disappointed, and after eating a few rice balls, he once again came to the front with a telescope.
Worried, he did not dare to imagine at this time, if there was no money, the Great Wao Empire could not continue to carry out the defense war, would this Great Wao people be hacked to death by the Jurchens?
"Soldiers of the Fukuoka Domain, Fukuoka Castle was captured by the Ming army, for the sake of the people of the Great Wa, for the sake of our homeland, attack!"
One group after another, Yin soldiers carried improvised ladders and rushed towards the fortified city wall of the Eight Banners Assisting Army.
"Lord Overseer, look at these Yin soldiers, they are not afraid of death, they are just their tools for attacking the city, which is really bad!"
Huang Taiji smiled unusually brightly and pointed to the Yin soldiers carrying simple ladders in the distance.
"Lord Overseer, their ladder is simply not long enough! We raised the county wall by three meters, they are blind and can't see? "
Meng Zhaoxiang's heart blossomed.
"They are afraid that they are not here to attack the city, but to attack the watchtower we built outside the city." , Meng Zhaoxiang continued to ask
"Don't worry, inside each watchtower, there is a small flag of the Eight Flags Assistance Army, and they are all within the range of our strong bows, just waiting for them to attack the watchtower!" , Ao Bai explained on the side.