Bai Duolu, who is familiar with the history of South Vietnam and the Ming Dynasty, knows very well, not to mention that in the Central Plains, dozens of forces claiming to be orthodox to the Ming Dynasty are fighting for life and death. Even if the Ming Dynasty has been unified again, they want to ask the Ming Dynasty to solve the problem of South Vietnam. It also belongs to the kind where it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away.

This is not because Bai Duolu is suspicious, but has historical tradition.

I think back then, when South Vietnam was still called Annan, there was also a civil strife. At that time, Annan's foreign relative Hu Jiyou rebelled and killed all the Chen family members in Annan at that time, intending to make his son the emperor.

As a result, a prince named Tran Tin Binh fled alone and went into exile in Laos - is it particularly similar to Nguyen Phuc Anh's current situation? The only difference is that Tran Tin Binh went into exile in Laos, while Nguyen Phuc Anh went into exile in Siam.

Later, Chen Tianping fled all the way to the Ming Dynasty. As soon as the father of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Laosi heard about the chaos in Annan, he immediately ordered people to escort Chen Tianping back to his country based on the principle of making decisions for Chen Tianping, the son of the feudal state.

As a result, just as he entered Annan, not far from the north bank of the Fuliang River, Chen Tianping was killed by an ambush arranged by Hu Jishen.

He was chopped into pieces under the heavy protection of five thousand Ming troops, and even several Ming officials were killed.

Then, Zhang Fu led his troops to Annan, and bound Hu Jiya and his son back to the capital of the Ming Dynasty and chopped them into pieces.

Therefore, Bai Duolu was particularly worried. He was worried that Ruan Fuying would be chopped into pieces like Chen Tianping, and he was also worried that the new Ming Dynasty would be like the previous Ming Dynasty, using the name of the orthodox Ruan family that had been slaughtered to live for a long time. Don't leave.

Anyway, Ruan Phuc King who is following him is only a seven-year-old child. Who knows when he will die? Once he dies, the entire South Vietnam will be completely extinct, and it will be a legitimate thing to merge with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Louis XVI completely ignored South Vietnam and instead asked South Vietnam to seek help from the "Ming Empire". Wasn't this treating Nguyen Phuc Anh as a fool?

Bai Duolu grabbed Pierre's sleeve and begged: "Mr. Pierre, the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed long ago, and the Qing Dynasty has fallen into warlord separatism. Even if Ruan Fuying wants to seek help from the so-called Ming Dynasty, who should Who to go to?"

"Without the help of France, Nguyen Phuc Anh will definitely fail or even be killed. Not only will the missionary cause be affected, but France will also lose the opportunity to march into the Far East."

"Therefore, M. Pierre, for the sake of God, please persuade His Majesty the King no matter what."

However, Pierre very ruthlessly opened Baiduolu's fingers that were holding his sleeves one by one.

At the beginning, France wanted Tuohuang Port and Conlun Island in South Vietnam, so South Vietnam was Xiao Tiantian.

Now France no longer needs South Vietnam's Tuohuang Port and Conlun Island, so...

Pierre sneered and said: "I think His Majesty the King's attitude is already clear. Europe belongs to France and the Far East belongs to Ming Dynasty. France will never interfere in matters within the sphere of influence of its allies."

"As for who Nguyen Phuc Anh should ask for help...that is Nguyen Phuc Anh's problem. What does it have to do with France?"

"However, for the sake of God, I can tell you a clear way - let Ruan Fuying send people to Shandong in the Ming Dynasty and ask the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to help him."

At this point, Pierre sneered again and said: "Of course, if Ruan Fuying sends people to the Qing Dynasty to ask Emperor Qian Deaf for help, then South Vietnam is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most loyal ally of the Ming Dynasty in Europe. , enemy of France.”

Bai Duolu was completely desperate.

Seeing that Louis XVI was like a bastard eating a weight, he was determined not to care about the life and death of South Vietnam. Bai Duolu could only take the seven-year-old Nguyen Phuc King and prepare to return to Siam to tell the desperate news.

Nguyen Phuc Anh, let Ruan Phuc Anh make the final decision.

After Ploteau left, the Count of Artois followed the orders of Louis XVI and published a new article in the latest issue of "La Presse Française", stating that France had no intention of intervening in the affairs of its allies in the Far East and hoped that the Far East

Allies can get rid of the money-deaf old dog early.

Then, Pierre took the "French Newspaper" translated into Chinese characters, plus two hundred French students and more than two hundred French nobles, and boarded the sailboat headed for the Ming Dynasty——

After solving the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie who wanted to seize power and stabilizing the situation in France as a whole, the French nobles began to yearn for the Ming Dynasty again.

Especially the Ming Emperor, whom Louis XVI and Pierre praised each other and even wrote several articles praising him, made these French nobles curious and admired.

Therefore, there was another wave of people traveling to the Ming Dynasty in France.

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At this time, Zhu Jinsong did not know that a large number of French (fat) Guang (sheep) viewing groups were coming to Daming to visit and study, nor did he know that Ruan Fuying from South Vietnam would soon come to him for help.

In fact, even if Zhu Jinsong received Nguyen Phuc Anh's request for help now, he would probably only have someone publish an article in the "Da Ming Newspaper" expressing his close concern and deep regret over the events in Vietnam.

Send troops to help Nguyen Phuc Anh recover his country? Don't be stupid. Send troops to fight for others. How can there be any hope of regaining the homeland? Even if Zhu Jinsong regrets, he will only regret that the Ruan family has not died yet - as long as the Ruan family is defeated, Zhu Jinsong will

You can send troops under the banner of regaining the ancient past, continuing the rise and fall, and taunting the people to commit crimes.

Besides, compared with South Vietnam, which is now in a mess, Zhu Jinsong is more concerned about the fact that the Ming Dynasty's treasury finally has money, and has even reached an unprecedented level of more than five million taels of silver.

Of these more than five million taels of silver, two million taels were already in the Ming Dynasty's treasury, and the remaining three million taels were earned by Zhu Jinsong from many barbarians in Europe based on his conscience.

Of course, five million taels of silver sounds like a lot, but when viewed from the perspective of a country's financial needs, five million taels of silver is almost nothing.

For example, when Zhu Jinsong first ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the entire Ming Dynasty owned a total of six provinces of Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Fujian, and Ryukyu, plus part of Shaanxi and Zhili, so

, even on the premise that Zhu Jinsong was exempted from agricultural taxes and agricultural taxes, Zhu Jinsong's tax revenue in the first year reached a huge amount of 30 million taels.

This is the benefit brought by the abolition of exorbitant taxes and the vigorous development of industry.

The benefits of vigorously developing industry for business are naturally self-evident. If we abolish the messy excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Qing Dynasty, coupled with the mutual supervision of various institutions such as the Yushitai, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Jinyiwei, the benefits will be one

Good business environment.

The existence of trade unions, farmers' associations and chambers of commerce can ensure the interests and income of farmers and workers. When the interests of farmers and workers are high, it can also increase consumption levels, allowing businessmen to make more money.

The better the environment, the more opportunities to make money, and the more businessmen willing to come to Ming Dynasty, which means the more business taxes Zhu Jinsong can receive.

The reason why Zhu Jinsong dared to promote industrialization before unifying the world was actually thanks to the nearly 10 million Zhili people sent by Qian Deafangou.

First of all, in a sense, these people who fled from Zhili are similar to landless refugees. The difference is that landless refugees may cause trouble, but Zhu Jinsong can arrange these people to work

workshops and construction sites, thereby promoting the process of industrialization.

The sum of these reasons creates a very virtuous cycle. Even if the Ming Dynasty under Zhu Jinsong still maintained an extremely low tax rate of 10% in terms of taxation, it would still be the same when Zhu Jinsong just ascended the throne.

That year, the tax revenue reached 30 million taels of silver.

What makes Zhu Jinsong more troubled is that these 30 million taels of silver seem to be a lot. However, looking at the demand of the entire Ming Dynasty, these 30 million taels of silver are still better than nothing——

If any country wants to operate normally, it will inevitably involve defense expenditures, administrative expenditures, infrastructure, public security, education, medical care, social welfare and many other aspects.

Taking the army under Zhu Jinsong as an example, does it cost money to equip the army with weapons and equipment? Does it cost money to research, develop and produce equipment? Does it cost money to feed, clothe, house, transport and daily train the soldiers? Does it cost money to provide pensions to the families of soldiers who died in battle?

Money, right?

This year's military budget seems to have reached 17% of the entire Ming Dynasty's finance, but in fact it is only about 5 million taels. Compared with the very expensive ordnance research and development expenses, the military budget of 5 million taels

It really doesn’t even count, let alone used to pay for other messy military expenses.

Therefore, facing places where money is needed everywhere, let alone 30 million taels of silver, even 30 million taels of silver will probably be spent without a penny left.

For example, the original two million taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty's treasury are actually not owned by the Ming dynasty's treasury in name.

That is used to deal with sudden disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, etc. Unless it is not used by next year, it will be used as the surplus from the previous year and injected into the national treasury as a reserve for the next year.

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Therefore, under such circumstances, he suddenly made more than three million taels of silver from the barbarians of Europe. How could the emperor Zhu Jinsong be unhappy?

It's just that Zhu Jinsong is happy, but Liu Huaiwen, the leader of the Ming Dynasty's financial system, is not happy at all——

After learning that there were more than three million taels of silver in the treasury, Zhu Erdan, who represented the military system, came to the door together with Liu Heming, Liu Erniu and others, saying that he wanted to use these three million taels of silver to conquer the world, and then

The civil service system represented by Zeng Cheng also came to the door and expressed that they needed to use the three million taels to build schools or build bridges and pave roads.

In short, every penny was clearly arranged. Liu Huaiwen, the financial department of the Ming Dynasty, was so angry that he even wanted to hack to death those bastards who came to ask for money——

Of the 30 million taels collected last year, these bastards took away more than 28 million taels before they were even warmed up. The remaining two million taels were for emergency purposes. Now these bastards are eyeing the newcomers again.

Three million taels to the national treasury?

What makes Liu Huaiwen even more desperate is that those in the civil service system like Zeng Cheng and others are better off, but those in the military system like Zhu Erdan and Liu Heming are obviously ordered by the emperor Zhu Jinsong to come here to ask for money.

of.

It’s his mother’s fault!

If all these three million taels are spent, if something happens again, the treasury will be completely empty, you bastard!

After kicking and cursing Zhu Erdan, Liu Heming, Liu Ergou and others away, Liu Huaiwen, while banging the dry tobacco pot, cursed and ordered his subordinates: "If you see them coming to ask for money in the future, just close the door and let them go."

Dogs, if you bite them to death, they will count as one!"

"Damn it, don't you know they still have money? This is not the end of the year. Of the five million taels allocated to them, at least two million taels have not been spent!"

"The emperor wants to fight, so let him use the money from the internal funds to fight. Anyway, the three million taels of silver in the treasury must be kept for emergencies."
Chapter completed!