Chapter 1393 The Battle of the Books!
Zhu Di put the battle report at dusk on the imperial desk and asked the six ministers of the governors of the Five Army Governors' Office in Kyoto, "Look at the family, this is the situation in the Golden Horde, what should be done next."
Zhao Yu, the Minister of War, took a step forward, "I think that since many thousands of households in the Khan country are willing to submit, and although Wuluhei Masimai proclaims himself Khan, there are signs of surrender. Then Your Majesty should give him a decree to grant him the Khan. In this way, the Khanate of the Golden Horde will become a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty."
The most powerful of the Central Plains dynasties in all dynasties was to be kings of foreign tribes.
Now even their Khan is going to be sealed...
This is already a martial art that shocks the past and present.
Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, chuckled in his heart and took a step forward, "I don't agree with this statement by Shangshu Zhao. My great Ming army worked hard and marched thousands of miles away. There were countless children sleeping in foreign countries and foreign lands. As a result, they just made the Golden Horde compliment. With their tributes, what can we make a profit? Is it a big loss?"
As the Minister of Revenue, Xia Yuanji can wake up in his dreams when he sees the money in the treasury in the past few years. The key is that the Ming Dynasty was also a pervert. After several battles, the money in the treasury not only did not have less, but more and more.
However, the overall increase this year is not much.
Mainly, a lot of investments have been made this year, such as machine guns and Taishan production lines, and several Zhenghe shipyards, which have started shipbuilding and siege almost at the same time.
These are huge amounts of funds.
If the government had not taken so much money in the past, it would have saved a lot of money by sympathizing with the people and corvee labor. But now His Majesty's view is that since the country has money, there is no need to add burden to the people.
The construction of machine guns and Taishan production lines in the shipyard and military weapons institute did not use corvee service or forced warnings to the civilians, but instead used money to recruit workers.
The treatment is not low.
So although the country is a bit militaristic and has not stopped for a year when the war has expanded abroad, the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful, and the people are singing and dancing, and they are even in the mood to eat the melon of the war that expands abroad.
It is already a complete form of an empire.
Zhu Di said, "Indeed, the investment in the Golden Horde is quite large. According to the prince's return, the Twilight took away a large amount of treasure money from Beigu City. Once the Golden Horde surrenders, these treasure money will be exchanged for various items from the country through formal channels to the Golden Horde. In addition, the soldiers who sacrificed there and the food and grass that had been consumed. In general, we will suffer a lot of losses if we accept the surrender of the Golden Horde Uluhei Masimai."
If it were the past, Zhu Di would have accepted it.
But now it's different.
Because war is different - now all over the Ming Dynasty think that war is not a loss of money, but should be a profit, so accepting the surrender of the Golden Horde would be contrary to its original intention.
What is the meaning of an external war that is not profitable?
Must make money.
Zhao Yan argued with reason, "But Wulu Hei Ma Si still has more than 100,000 elite soldiers. If we do not accept his surrender, he will have to burn his boats. At that time, our Ming Erlang will have many other places. If we suffer some losses in the war, don't even get one of the vassal states at that time, instead of taking risks, it's better to see it."
He looked at Xia Yuanji again and said, "Shangshu Xia is a scholar. He probably doesn't know what the concept of a 100,000 elite army is. Let's put it this way, the total force we have transferred to the Oirat these days is only 50,000 or 60,000. Do you think if we don't accept the surrender, will we be sure to win?"
Xia Yuanji laughed, "I am a scholar, and I probably only know how to talk about war on paper. Well, I have been burying my head in the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue over the years, and I may not even talk about war on paper. But I am only sure of one thing. Now I accept the sanctions. We are losing money. The Ministry of Revenue wants to use money from the treasury to fill this hole. In addition, I would like to ask Secretary Zhao, what is the use of a distant vassal state like the Golden Horde, and it is also a vassal state. Why do we need to fight it? Secretary Zhao, in fact, you probably don't understand that we are not trying to fight the Khanate of the Gold Horde for the relationship between the vassal state and the sect leader. What we want is the gold, silver, copper and iron ore in that territory, and the tens of millions of labor force on that land. The reason why the larger the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is, the richer it is precisely because of this."
This argument is already very straightforward.
Zhao Yi's thoughts were teleported, "Okay, since Xia Shangshu said that, I dare to ask, it's good to fight, but if it can't be defeated, then His Royal Highness the Grand Prince of the Grand His Majesty made some mistakes in the Golden Horde, who can bear the heavy responsibility of this country's foundation? To annihilate more than 100,000 elite troops from Uluhei Mama, how much manpower and financial resources should we invest, how much pension should we spend, what is the situation in the Jurchens now? If the Jin Horde steals chickens and loses rice, what strength will there be to fight the Jurchens? When the Jurchens are relieved for a few years, we will fight against the Jurchens again. Will there be many casualties?"
Fighting the Jurchens is all the consensus in the court.
After all, the Jurchens did have a threat to Daming. Since they had attacked Mobei and kept the Jurchens and refused to fight, it was unreasonable, so they simply fought together to solve the problems.
Xia Yuanji wanted to say something, but found that this was difficult to argue.
Because Zhao Yan pulled the grandson out.
This responsibility is really unbearable. Making money has nothing to do with losing money. Taisun’s safety is more important than everything.
Zhao Yan was unreasonable, "What's more, now Wuluhei Masima is a Khan. If the ten thousand households of the Golden Horde reacted and were attracted by Wuluhei Masima and gathered together again, the logistics and food that the Prince Prince sent to the Golden Horde in Beigu City will be completely cut off, and the risk is extremely great. By then, more than 20,000 cavalry were wiped out. Who can bear this responsibility? Shangshu Xia, war is not a business, and it is good to make money, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't make money. The most important thing is to consolidate the century-old foundation of our Ming Dynasty. If we make the Golden Horde a vassal state, we can manipulate his Khan's inheritance. In this way, we will ensure that the Golden Horde has been unable to invade the Oirat region for decades, and we can operate the northern desert for a long time. When the country becomes more prosperous and strong in the future, it will not be too late to completely fight the Golden Horde."
Except for Xia Yuanji, several other ministers nodded slightly when they heard this.
Although Zhao Yi was a little conservative.
But his statement does make sense.
Only Xia Yuanji sighed secretly.
How many years will you wait?
Your Majesty is almost sixty. When His Majesty is old and the prince ascended the throne, with his character, even if the Golden Horde does not surrender, he will probably not send troops to fight.
Chapter completed!