Xi'an Mansion City, Pingxi Military Festival Envoy.

Wu Sangui, who had just finished the New Year, was settling accounts in the back house of the festival envoy, and he was sad - his festival envoy was at a loss again!

As for this domain, it can't be removed.

As for this account, it can't be settled.

Last year, Wu Sangui took the lead in practicing strict economy, suppressed the expenses of the Jiedu Envoy Si Yamen, and worked hard to run industry and commerce, and also sold more than 2,000 Hequ good horses to Huguang, but in the end it was still a loss!

There's no way, no matter how hard Wu Sangui tries, he can't stand the 330 "little bottomless pits" below!

Although Wu Sangui's thousand-household system in the Pingxi Domain consolidated his power, it was definitely a black hole financially. There are at least 330,000 households and more than 2 million people under the 330 thousand households, and the actual cultivated land occupied per capita is between 8 and 10 mu, which means that nearly 2,000 mu belongs to these 330 thousand households. There is not much land and household registration left for Wu Sangui, the envoy of the festival.

And after occupying so much land and population, none of these 330 thousand households reported profits last year, all of them were losses, and they all reached out to Wu Sangui for subsidies!

What's even more hateful is that there is friction between these 330 thousand households all year round!

These thousand households are now divided into two factions, one is the Ganshan faction and the other is the Guanning faction, and they are constantly fighting openly and secretly - for land, population, and trade routes, and the fight is endless...... And Wu Sangui didn't dare to provoke the Ganshan faction, which had a large number of people, nor could he treat his Guanning faction badly, so he became a rat in the bellows, so he had to spend money to avoid disasters.

But how much money does he have in his pocket? How to spend enough? In this way, he used the money raised from the issuance of feudal bonds to subsidize daily life and pay interest, and now most of it has been spent, but the withdrawal of the feudal domain is far away.

What frustrated him the most was that Zhu Cihong also wanted the Pingxi Domain to send troops to attack the Yeerqiang Khanate—to bring the land of Anxi, which had belonged to China since ancient times, back under the indirect jurisdiction of the central court.

Although the Dzungar Ministry will cooperate with the actions of the Pingxi Domain, it may also take on the main task of sending troops. However, Wu Sangui could not show weakness in front of Batur Huntaiji, and he must fully demonstrate the strength of the Pingxi Domain...... This represents a huge expense.

And the Yarkand Khanate didn't have much oil and water, because this khanate had a rather speechless tradition - it likes to loot its own country's cities!

Although the Yarkand Khanate adopted Tianfangjiao as its state religion, its core was still Mongolian. The methods of rule were very brutal, and the system was not much different from that of Genghis Khan's time. The pillars of the khanate were still Mongol-style nomadic tribes, and they did not directly rule the cities, but handed them over to the subservient local nobles to manage, and the khanate only collected money. If the money received was not enough to cover the expenses of the Khan's civil war, then robbery was carried out...... Grab your own city, and grab someone else's!

In addition, the ruling group of the Khanate did not establish a centralized power, but followed the Mongol-style Kuritai Assembly - it was not easy to choose, but often chose and chosen.

Of course, it costs money to fight, and the Mongol tribes have no money, so they go and loot......

In addition to the infighting of the Mongolian tribes, there was later a sectarian struggle between the two factions of Baishan and Montenegro, which was also mixed with the Mongolian infighting.

And weak countries have strong neighbors, Dzungaria in the north, Heshute in the south, and Kazakhstan in the west, none of them are good stubble, and they are all stronger than the Yarkand Khanate! Therefore, they invade at the first opportunity, and they are all steppe-style, and they will burn and loot when they come in!

So the people of Yeerqiang really have nothing to say, the Mongolian lord above wants to rob and kill, and the Mongolian and Kazakh neighbors next door also want to rob and kill!

Just robbing and killing, of course, the wealth is exhausted, the people are poor, and the population is very sparse, and it is a weak country.

Wu Sangui's Pingxi Army is going to enter, and the middle and lower classes of the Yeerqiang Khanate are welcome to keep singing and dancing!

But what about Wu Sangui's own finances? What else does Zhu Cihong want to use Anxi for Xi'an - this is another loss-making business!

How can Anthy compare with Xi'an? Although the land is large, the transportation is inconvenient, the land is barren, and the cost of development and tuntian is extremely high...... Therefore, it costs money to attack the Yeerqiang Khanate, and it costs money to build in Anxi Tuntian after it is laid!

And the returns on these investments are low!

It's a loss!

When Wu Sangui was worried, the voices of Wu Sanfeng and Liu Sheng came from outside the door.

"Is the eldest uncle here?"

"Great handsome, there is a holy decree."

Divine decree?

Wu Sangui said: Are you going to withdraw the feudal domain? Or is it a subsidy?

A year ago, he went to the recital to ask for the removal of the feudal domain or the payment of subsidies......

Wu Sangui shouted, "Come in!" ”

This holy decree was not sent by someone from the General Administration Department, let alone a eunuch to read it, but from someone from the Pingxi Military Academy, so Wu Sangui didn't have to go to receive the decree.

Wu Sanfeng and Liu Sheng heard the call and entered the house together.

"What's the matter?" Wu Sangui asked.

The answer was Liu Sheng: "Dashuai, the emperor has recruited you to Nanjing...... If you want to go for a while, you will have to stay in Nanjing for at least 3 months. ”

"3 months?" Wu Sangui was stunned, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Go...... Lessons! ”

"What is a make-up class?" Wu Sangui was inexplicable.

He hasn't made up classes since he was a child!

Wu Sanfeng was holding Wu Xiang's letter in his hand - the letter was also sent by the Pingxi Jinju Academy, and it arrived with the Holy Decree. Wu Sanfeng, who has already read the letter written by his father, knows what a make-up class is.

"Uncle Chang," Wu Sanfeng said, "Your Excellency's letter says that the emperor invited a Western soldier surnamed Kong from Western France to teach you how to fight!" ”

"Huh?" Wu Sangui was simply stunned, he was an old fighter, how could he still need to make up for the war class?

Wu Sanfeng seemed to smile, "The adult also said that if you make up for Teacher Kong's class, your ability to fight will increase, and maybe you will be able to defeat Azig and Duoduo in the future." So you have to go...... Not only do you have to make up for this class, but also the adults and the third child have to make up for the class. ”

Okay, the father and son went to make up the class together!

I don't know how to calculate the cost of make-up classes? Are there any discounts?

......

"Declare the French kingdom Condé King Bourbon Louis to meet you!"

As the roll call of the guards sounded, the envoy of the Kingdom of France, Prince Louis II of Condé. Morality. Bourbon, under the guidance of Luo Dagong and Li Shaoyou, walked into the Fengtian Temple of the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

The Ming court returned to Nanjing only the day before yesterday, and then took a day off, and early this morning, Emperor Zhu received the Prince of Condé, the envoy of the Kingdom of France, and Semiz, the envoy of the Ottoman Empire, in the Fengtian Palace.

The first to enter the palace was the Prince of Condor, he was the prince and had a relatively high status, so of course he should be ranked in front of the Ottoman envoys.

Today is the second day of the third month of the fifth year of Hongxing, and Prince Kong has been staying in Nanjing for more than 20 days, during which he has visited the Jiangwutang and the Xiaolingwei military camp accompanied by Shi Ruien, and has also listened to several foreign instructors in the Jiangwutang talk about the situation on the battlefield in China and the situation of several important battles.

I know very well about the situation of the new army of the Ming Empire - this is a very powerful army on paper! Almost as powerful as the Ottoman Army!

But there are several obvious weaknesses that limit its playfulness, and if they can be overcome, defeating the barbarians of the north will not be a problem.

Prince Condé, who was about to show his skills in the east of the world, walked into the hall with his head held high, and then he felt full of hostility!

It was a fairly spacious hall, a little dimly lit, and it was filled with bearded men in crimson silk robes, and everyone looked angry and looked at Prince Condé with cold eyes.

The prince was suddenly a little blind, what was going on? Why do these people have such expressions? I didn't offend them, did I? Could it be that when the State Council is held here in China, the ministers are all so respectful?

Teacher Kong Daikong did not know at this time that these bearded Chinese men were all his future students, and they all had to attend his military cram school and listen to him explain the combat examples of the Thirty Years' War.

But everyone is now disappointed that the legendary French art of war is actually a roe deer, short in stature, and does not look like a famous general's "little foreign devil......