What convinced Liu Mingqi the most about the imperial court?

Isn't it just prophecy?

After saying that those countries will definitely invade, they will invade.

They said they would not let Qiyan go. Did Qiyan almost die this year?

Now he said that Jin Chenbai would become the most terrifying opponent, and Jing Hedi believed it all at once.

But the courtiers present could not believe it.

The reason is very simple.

They couldn't see any possibility of Jin Chenbai turning the tables.

Even Ma Haoqiu, who most thought he shouldn't rescue Qi Yan and Jin Chenbai, just felt that after saving him, he would disgust Dakang again.

As for whether Jin Chenbai can break through the northern defense line, this is something that doesn’t need to be thought about. He couldn’t break before, but now we have wooden grenades and hell cocktails. At any important level, 200,000 to 300,000 people will only die!

So then Ge Songdao shook his head: "Your Highness is too arrogant! The Qiyan tribe has completely declined now. No matter how hard Jin Chenbai tried, it would only make the Qiyan tribe survive! Besides, if he had a tendency to become stronger, could Shi Wei and Xi Qiang let him go? What did he use to fight Shi Wei and Xi Qiang to fight?"

"We still hope that they will fight again! We hope that Jin Chenbai will be stronger so that he will not be easily defeated." Feng Yuqiang said this, "So I still agree to help them."

"Sir Feng, you said it's easy." Nangong Ji here said: "We don't have enough food in Dakang, so where can we give him extra money and food?"

"Hey, didn't you say a few days ago that this year is a great harvest?" Feng Yuqiang said: "The harvest in the two lakes area, the harvest in Sichuan, the harvest in the Jingxi area, and the harvest in the Jiangnan area... This is something that has not been seen in the past seven years!"

"You also know that it has not been so good for seven years." Nangong Ji shook his head and said, "Because of years of disaster relief and war, our granary has already dried up! Not only the official warehouse, but also the accumulation of the people, it has almost been consumed!

Just as I had to pay the salaries of civil and military officials at the beginning of this year, I originally needed to pay money and food, but it turned out to be converted into silver. I lost all the officials. Such an embarrassing thing can be done. Can you not know how embarrassed the court is?"

Nangong Ji is still the same Nangong Ji.

Although he is no longer the deputy prime minister, because the Ministry of Revenue has been very complicated and difficult in recent years, he has served as a part-time member since the beginning and has been still serving as a part-time member until now, and has no intention of retreating at all.

Whether it is the emperor or the court, they still trust the professional level of this greedy old minister.

What he said is absolutely true.

Last year, the imperial court relied on various sales of titles and the emperor subsidized private money to survive.

The salary that should have been given at the beginning of this year should be half of the money and half of the money and half of the food. As a result, Sima Bei had already obtained money in the newly established Pengzhou Prefecture, but because of the shortage of food, Nangong Ji gave the emperor an idea to let the emperor directly convert it into money and grain, and ask the ministers, the children of the royal family and the nobles to buy food themselves.

This strategy is ridiculous.

According to the salary given by the court, if you buy the same amount of food with the current money, you can only buy at most two-thirds, and maybe even less.

To put it bluntly, this is the court that reduced the losses to the ministers, the children of the royal family and the nobles, taking advantage of them.

Look, how disgusting and embarrassing this is.

But Jing and Emperor had no choice.

If the court is allowed to bear the losses, then at least more than 8 million taels of silver will be increased.

It took a year to fight last year, and several provinces were destroyed, and one-third of the Jiangnan was destroyed. Do you think the imperial court still has so much money?

In the end, it was Prime Minister Cao Yi who could bear the bad reputation.

Well, nonsense.

This must not be borne by the emperor, but by your subordinates, you, will make up your own decisions and cause these trash things.

The officials of the court were a little better. They knew that the court was in great difficulty now, and most of them chose to understand, while a small number of them did not understand could only hold on.

But the children of the royal family are different from the nobles. Many of them wait for the money and food all year round.

Now that I don’t give food, I have to buy it at a high price. It’s a lot of shrinkage, so I’m definitely not happy!

In the end, the Empress Dowager came forward and told everyone that the loss was doubled this year during the Spring Festival, so I continued to hold on.

Many ministers were ashamed of this matter, thinking that they were not capable enough, which caused both the emperor and the empress dowager to suffer humiliation.

So Feng Yuqiang heard that Nangong Ji revealed this and shut up.

This year's harvest is a bumper harvest, but I still owe so much money!

And aren't you preparing for next year?

What if I give it to the beggar, and there will be another disaster in my great health next year?

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When Emperor Jinghe was also a little unhappy when he heard Nangong Ji talk about this.

But there is no way.

The ugly thing has already appeared, what else can you do?

However, he still explained to Liu Mingqi: "Actually, I thought I should give them support, but after weighing the pros and cons, I still couldn't decide."

“This is simple.”

Liu Mingqi said: "Actually, Mr. Feng was right just now. What we, Dakang, feared the most is that we spent a lot of money and supported a coward. But I can tell you with certainty that Jin Chenbai is definitely not coward! If he grows up, he can draw with Shi Wei and Xi Qiang within ten years, or even surpass them."

"So powerful?" Liao Shicong frowned.

He had fought side by side with Liu Mingqi, and knew that Liu Mingqi had a deep understanding of these foreigners and would definitely not talk nonsense.

"What we care about is not whether Jin Chenbai is powerful or not, but whether we are strong enough." Liu Mingqi continued: "If Dakang is not strong enough, even if they are as bad as shit, Dakang will be destroyed by them."

Well, it is obvious here that I am talking about the Qing Dynasty.

But they don't know this, sorry

"Da Kang will definitely be strong!" Zhong Chang said naturally: "We have renovated the Yellow River channel and have a bumper grain harvest guaranteed. In addition, your highness, you have also found the treasure of Sweet Potato, and you will never be hungry in the future! Then let's talk about the weapons that can be used for war...

As long as we are given time, we can create these terrifying weapons as much as possible, when every Dakang sergeant can be equipped with one hundred wooden grenades and ten hell cocktails to go out to fight, who else can beat us?"

"So, that's the reason."

Liu Mingqi smiled and said, "If it were twenty years ago, even if we had to bear the strong pressure of Xi Qiang and Shi Wei, we would not allow Jin Chenbai to grow up! Because after so many years of pampering, Xi Qiang and Shi Wei have gradually stopped being wild, but Jin Chenbai has, he has the ambition to lead the Qiyan tribe to unify the entire grassland and go south to destroy Dakang!

But now it’s different! Our people’s livelihood is constantly consolidating, and various combat weapons and combat concepts are constantly improving and improving. No matter how powerful a hero like Jin Chenbai is, he will definitely be crushed by us when he works with the development and fighting ideas of the older generation!”

Speaking of this, Liu Mingqi said word by word: "Everyone should know that our various progress is epoch-making, and they have no chance to beat us again!"

When Emperor Jing He felt a sense of happiness when he listened to his nephew's speech.

That's it!

It is because I should have such confidence that I am the prince of Dakang!

Besides, the child Mingqi did not lie.

Just look at the wooden grenade, hot air balloon, hell cocktail and other things, ten years ago, who would believe that fighting can actually be fought like this?

The prime ministers and ministers were also savoring Liu Mingqi's words carefully.

Ge Songdao had a question: "Your Highness, it is normal for us to continue to be stronger... But if all our secrets are known to the grassland people, they can also imitate these things. Isn't it a huge disaster for us?"

"This is the reason why I mentioned the epoch-making crushing." Liu Mingqi said: "Ge Xiang, let's take the steel knife as an example! Do you think the craftsmen have more functions in it, or are the dozens of large and small machines that I have erected, and the stove is more important?"

“It’s equally important.”

This matter was answered by Wu Yu, the father-in-law of Liu Mingqi: "Without good blacksmiths, steel will not be so easy to make. Without elite craftsmen, steel will not be so fast to make steel knives. Without those machinery and equipment, it is impossible to be refined and there will not be such a large output."

Wu Yu's words are actually a bit contradictory.

But I can still understand the general meaning, both people and equipment must not be missing.

Liu Mingqi said: "So, even if they learned the method, can they still steal machinery from us? Can they steal those crucible furnaces worth thousands of kilograms? Can they steal those refining furnaces worth thousands of kilograms? The mechanisms and various running-in in them can be made by one or two blacksmiths?

Look at our steel factory! There are now thousands of blacksmiths and apprentices working together in it. Their skills can ensure the continuous improvement of the level of steel, while the continuous improvement and efficiency of various equipment can also increase the number of steel.

In the future, even if they can catch these craftsmen, or even craftsmen who are willing to defect to help them, but if they lose this teamwork and these sophisticated machines, how can they refine fine steel on a large scale?

If they build one hundred or one thousand steel knives a year, will they pose any threat to our Dakang? Can their elite soldiers reach the point of fighting ten? No!"

After a pause, the young man said, "Maybe Your Majesty and the ministers don't know what a refined assembly line is! As long as we can train these blacksmiths and craftsmen, and rely on our complete and strict rules, process standards and systems, the steel knives we produce will be exactly the same excellent.

But the grassland people are different. They do not have the conditions and cannot guarantee that every craftsman will work together to fight together. Therefore, the quality of the steel knives they created is uneven. This is actually a great waste and has no essential improvement for them!"

This is actually the same as the weapons and ammunition we made when we fought against Japanese pirates.

You know that technology and that equipment, but you just can't make good weapons.

So Liu Mingqi clearly affirmed that the craftsmen trained in accordance with advanced technology and training, as well as the constantly improving craftsmanship and machinery and equipment, can produce crushing effects.

As mentioned earlier, Dakang is now a crush on the agricultural and animal husbandry era in the industrial era.

Specifically speaking from the perspective of stainless steel refining, this is the huge crushing of the overall industrial system on the backward productivity of the workshop.

Say something inappropriate.

The great fear of a beautiful country that exploded an aircraft carrier by 100 million should be made available to these grassland people!

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Chapter completed!