"Back to Your Highness," Qin Zuoming hurriedly said, "Now that the big and small battles in northern Sichuan are decided, General Yang Jing Yang led Liu Wenxiu to descend his troops, and cooperated with the King of Jinzhou to garrison the front and rear attacks, annihilating the remnants of Gebuku's troops and capturing nearly 10,000 people."

And the elder brother of the last general in the north led his troops to besiege Ningqiang and attacked day and night. Luo Luohun sent Li Guoying to lead more than 10,000 thieves to rescue him, Li Dingguo set up an ambush in Caishengou, waited for the army to enter the ditch and half, attacked it from both sides, and the enemy was defeated. Later, Li Zongbing set fire to the ditch again, Li Guoying's troops suffered heavy casualties, and less than 3,000 people retreated to Hanzhong, after which Luo Luohun did not dare to aid Ningqiang.

"When the last general leaves Shu, my brother has already transported the cannon to the city of Ningqiang, and it will be recovered in a few days."

When he said this, he couldn't help but smile, "As for the matter of the silver boat on the Minjiang River, as His Highness expected, the last general will search for it along the river, and in only half a day, he will find a large number of boats and boats hidden in the middle of the river near Weimen!" ”

Zhu Linmi's eyes were also bright when he heard this, although he had heard from the news of later generations that Zhang Xianzhong's silver relics were found in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, but the archaeological salvage had not yet begun at that time, so he did not know the specific location and the shape of the silver ship.

He only had the idea of trying it before, so he asked Qin Liangyu to send people along the river to explore the "Offering Kou Tibetan Silver Boat", but he didn't expect to find it!

Historically, Zhang Xianzhong loaded a large amount of Sichuan taxes on the ship, in case of unfavorable war, he could go south along the Minjiang River and enter the Yangtze River, and use these wealth to develop in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhang Xianzhong was accidentally shot to death by Haoge, and his silver ship was discovered by the Jianchang Guard, and the Great Western Army defending the ship saw that it could not resist, so it scuttled all the silver ships, and a large amount of gold and silver were submerged at the bottom of the river.

Therefore, Zhu Linmiao specially told Qin Liangyu this time that he must act in secret, and not let Xiankou have the opportunity to destroy the ship, but he didn't know how Qin Zuoming carried it out. He hurriedly asked, "Can you capture the boat?" ”

Qin Zuoming arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Highness, the last general led his troops to quietly approach the Xiankou anchorage by fishing boat late at night, and then boarded the ship at the same time. Kou didn't have time to react, and only resisted a little.

"Of all the sixty-seven boats, sixty-one were captured. Only six sentinel boats took advantage of the chaos to escape, and then they were blocked by our outer guards, and they broke through the bottom of the ship and sank.

"Then the last man will take out the ship's goods, and he will get a total of 1,500,000 taels of silver." In addition, there are 31 boxes of various types of jewelry, jade and goldware, which are estimated to be discounted by about 600,000 taels. ”

"Good!" Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but caress the case and said, "Daming is exactly when he needs money, and these more than two million taels are too timely!" ”

Qin Zuoming was also full of smiles, "The last general saw that there was no need to use my department in Sichuan for the time being, and he thought that he should give the good news to His Highness as soon as possible, so he hid his identity and took a merchant ship down the Yangtze River, and arrived in only four or five days."

"It's just that this way will pass through Huguang, and the last general is worried that if he uses a boat to transport silver to Nanjing, He Tengjiao's sailor may be in trouble halfway, so he still sends someone to untie the silver car to detour Guangxi, and it will take about three or four months to arrive."

"You've done a good job with this silver boat, I'll have to reward you when I go back!"

"Your Royal Highness Thank you for your love, and the last general will not dare to take credit......"

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Linmiao opened the concert just sent by the cabinet, intending to plan how to use the "windfall" of more than 2 million taels after the approval, but unexpectedly just opened the first piece of music on the top, and couldn't help frowning.

This is the governor of Sichuan, Wang Yingxiong, said that after the death of Zhang Xianzhong, a large-scale famine broke out in the state capital occupied by Daxi in the former northern Sichuan, and asked the imperial court to allocate silver for disaster relief.

After Zhu Linmiao finished reading the recital, he realized that Zhang Xianzhong had been reckless, imposing extremely heavy taxes on the areas under his control, and most of the people had no overnight food. By the collapse of the Daxi regime, the small amount of porridge and rice originally allocated by the Daxi government was gone, and hundreds of thousands of hungry people had no choice but to flock to Chengdu. However, Sichuan has been ravaged by the invaders and sacrifices, and the plague has broken out, so the fields are mostly barren, and there is no grain at all.

Chengdu is even more due to the recent use of troops by the imperial court to cause the granary to bottom out, so it can only temporarily block the victims outside the city, a little rice soup, and if this continues, a large number of hungry people will starve to death......

Zhu Linmiao rubbed his forehead vigorously, he knew that the situation was not good not only in northern Sichuan, but also in the whole of Sichuan.

In history, there was an incident of "filling Sichuan in Guangzhou", because there were only 90,000 households left in Sichuan during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing court had to move millions of people from Huguang, Guangxi and other places to settle in Sichuan, so that the population problem of Sichuan was solved.

Of course, at that time, the sharp decline in Sichuan's population was mainly caused by the massacre after Haoge entered Shu, and now Sichuan is under the control of the Ming Dynasty, but it will not be such a tragic situation of 90,000 households in the whole territory. However, even if there is no factor of confinement, Sichuan has been repeatedly plagued by military disasters and plagues have broken out several times, and the people's lives are still extremely difficult, and if the imperial court leaves it alone, there is still a possibility that a large number of people will starve to death.

Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, I'm afraid that a lot of the more than two million taels will be used to stabilize Sichuan, especially northern Sichuan. He also asked Yang Tinglin and other household officials to be recruited, and according to Wang Yingxiong's report, he estimated overnight that at least one million taels would be needed for disaster relief in Sichuan.

Zhu Linmiao immediately ordered Qin Zuoming to leave most of Zhang Xianzhong's Shen silver to Wang Yingxiong for disaster relief, and only transported one million taels to Nanjing.

Later, according to the usual practice, he instructed Jinyi Weinan Town to send people to secretly supervise the use of disaster relief silver, no way, the corruption of Ming officials has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, although Wang Yingxiong is a rare loyalty, but still can not be taken lightly.

When Zheng Guangying left, Zhu Linmiao returned to the case again, carefully sorted out all aspects of the development of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining million taels in his hand were soon gone.

It wasn't until dawn that he stood up tiredly and stretched his waist as he looked at the new capital increase budget. In his budget, 400,000 taels were allocated for road traffic construction and the construction of a wooden track from Ningbo to Shaoxing, so that goods from the mainland could enter and leave the port more quickly and maritime trade could be enhanced.

Thousands of taels of the transportation budget were also given to Gezhi University, which began to research the technology for mass production of asphalt. Daming is rich in coal resources, the price of burning coal tar will not be too expensive, if there is asphalt, the transportation can go to a higher level.

The second largest part of the budget is the construction of ships, second only to transportation. 100,000 taels were allocated to the Longjiang Shipyard to improve the slipway and build an additional 800-ton Galen warship. However, Zhu Linmiao estimated that with the current level of craftsmen at the Longjiang Shipyard, the warship would not be able to enter the water until a long time later. But things have to have a beginning, if you want Longjiang Shipyard to have the strength to look at the old European shipyards, the initial investment must be indispensable.

In addition, 80,000 taels were invested in the ocean-going caravans, which were counted as shares of the imperial court, and were mainly used to build merchant ships for trade. When mentioning merchant ships, Zhu Linmiao remembered the "big killer" of maritime trade - flying clippers, according to the current technical capabilities of Yongbeili, it should have been possible to try to build.

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