The minister was talking about it, and the question of today's court discussion was too final, so the princes also listened carefully, but Ye Chunqiu suddenly laughed, and this smile attracted everyone's attention.
Liu Jian glanced at Ye Chunqiu, and couldn't help but say, "Doesn't Zhenguo Gong have something to say?"
Ye Chunqiu put away his smile, went out of class, first saluted, and then said: "This lord said inland defense, how to defend Quanzhou or not, how many soldiers and horses are ready to be deployed to defend Ningbo, how many soldiers and horses are to be prepared, Songjiang, Guangzhou, Dengzhou, Weihai and Jinzhou Weidaming's coast, how many states and counties, dozens of hundreds, to defend inland, then how many military horses should be prepared Quanzhou tens of thousands of military horses, it is impossible to withstand the attack of the Francophone people, if so, then please recruit millions of elite soldiers, strict drills, Distribute these thousands of miles of coastline, build fortifications, set up sentry posts, and operate this coast as nine sides, so ask the imperial court to send governors to take charge of the military affairs of the provinces, and repair more forts, and repair thousands of them, and the money and food are insufficient, and taxes can be increased, but the people are poor, where does this tax come from?"
Ye Chunqiu also spoke eloquently, even with a bit of aggressiveness.
Zhu Houzhao listened, and couldn't help but say, he just didn't like to be a shrinking turtle.
The minister's face suddenly became gloomy, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
Speaking of which, his proposal is really ridiculously naïve, in order to guard against the Japanese Invaders, the imperial court has added dozens of guards for the Japanese, and it is already a mess, but now it is good, now it is not a small fight of the Japanese Kou, but a real Franc Navy, and how many Franc guards are needed At this time, Ye Chunqiu said again: "The court of Nuoda, just because of the Francophile people, but they avoid war everywhere, they come to attack, they know that they have to guard, in the long run, not to mention the waste, the country of Middle Earth, do you have to go to this situation, the people along the coast are you and my food and clothing, Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment, this is the words of Emperor Taizu Gao, and now the people along the coast are suspicious, and they are still thinking about how to prevent it, how to defend it, and when to guard it."
Ye Chunqiu's words felt a little ridiculous, and everyone couldn't help but be embarrassed, but Liu Jian came to play the round: "What Zhen Guogong said is also reasonable, the cost of inland defense is indeed too great. ” The root of the problem is still money, if you want to defend, you have to build a guard, because of the preparation of the Japanese, and how many guards have been built to make the annual money and food, but now what you want to prepare is not as simple as a group of thieves, but has the strength to attack Daming Harbor, and even can be completely equal to the officers and soldiers of a province Navy, this is not the case at all.
If you really want to defend, there is no million troops, then don't even think about it, such a long coastline of the Ming Dynasty, you can't attack anywhere, you just dispatch troops, and when you pounce and transfer the troops, people have already done a big job, and then ride the wind and waves.
Liu Jian looked at Zhu Houzhao, and then said, "I implore Your Majesty to decide." ” Zhu Hou looked at his head and said: "In order to prevent it from happening and protect the territory and the people, and now the establishment of the water division is urgent, but I think that the treasury is short of money and food, and this water division costs a lot. " The two of them sang and harmonized: "Your Majesty, the minister asked the Francophiles, and they said that even if you maintain a fleet of thirty ships, the expenses of personnel, ammunition, shipbuilding, supplies, and so on, are about 150,000 taels a year. ” 150,000 taels of silver, this amount is actually barely acceptable.
Ye Chunqiu said: "But if you keep improving, such a fleet, the Portuguese have always maintained 9 fleets, including 4 merchant fleets, 2 garrison fleets, 3 foreign fleets, of which the garrison fleet is the strongest, the foreign fleet is second, the strength of this merchant fleet is slightly weaker, Zhu Gong Mo thinks that this merchant fleet claims to be a business, that is, a civilian ship, in fact, it is still a warship, a merchant fleet is equipped with 20 to 30 ships, thousands of sailors, can also be used as soldiers, in addition, it is also equipped with 300 artillery, 1,000 sailors, This time, the defeat was the merchant fleet, their foreign fleet, mainly used to defend against the Ottoman state, the strongest, and the garrison fleet was used to defend the mainland, and now that our Ming Dynasty has defeated their fleet, they are bound to retaliate.
Since the Ming Dynasty wants to build a naval division, will it only maintain the size of a Portuguese merchant fleet?"
When Ye Chunqiu said this, he paused, glanced at everyone with complicated expressions, and then said, "Although Portugal is a big country in the navigation of the Franc aircraft, but in addition, there are also the Spaniards who have the strongest maritime strength, and the strength of Venice and the Ottoman Kingdom is not far behind, since the Ming Dynasty can guard against Portugal, what if the Portuguese meet with Spain to unite?"
Ye Chunqiu glanced at the others again, and then said: "If the sea is flat, in the opinion of the minister, the sailors of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably maintain the strength of the Portuguese sailors in the future, and there must be 300 ships and more than 20,000 personnel, not only can the scale not be underestimated by the small Portuguese country, but the newly built ships should be more equipped than the Portuguese country, so calculated, I am afraid that the cost of a year should be between two million and five million silver, which is the cost price." ” At this, everyone gasped.
What is this, this is the advantage of information, for the sailor, for the ocean, for the franc machine, and in the court, they are all black-eyed, and it is not what Ye Chunqiu wants to say.
But what Ye Chunqiu said is very reasonable, a small Portuguese country, it is so powerful, if you want to build a sailor, take precautions, thirty boats are not enough, towering China, is it possible to build a sailor, the scale is not as good as Portugal Not to mention that since Portugal is only a small country in Europa's view, others such as Ottomans, Spain, and even Venice seem to be not to be underestimated.
But the root of the problem is that the money is at least two million silver, which is the cost price, and the real expense, to say the least, is five million taels of silver.
Even if we sell everyone now, I guess we won't be able to raise this money.
The wealth of the Ming Dynasty, if you really want to talk about it, can actually completely crush Portugal, which is not wrong, but the problem is that the tax system of the Ming Dynasty is a mess, this is a systemic problem, if you use the tax system of Portugal, I am afraid that the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty can reach 30 million to 80 million taels of silver a year, the problem is, can you change the tax system aa2705221: