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The blazing sunshine, the stuffy and humid air, the endless cicadas, and the buzzing mosquitoes and flies all make people feel extremely tired and irritable.

In this hot summer environment that is not very suitable for work, Mitsui Ryuki, who had been hosting an emergency meeting, just moved back to her office and collapsed on the cushion with a tired face, his expression full of unspeakable deep worries.

The maid Xiang Cheng, who had been following behind, saw this, quickly carried an exquisite wooden plate and walked in quietly, put a cup of tea on the tables in front of her, and then took a steaming wet towel from the wooden plate, and served and gently massaged Mitsui Ryuki's forehead.

After a long time, when Mitsui Ryuki finally took a deep breath, her complexion on her face recovered a little, and she could see a little bit of a thrill. Xiangcheng then bowed respectfully, stacked all the documents she brought onto several tables, and then quietly retreated to a corner of the room.

Looking at the accumulated Wendu, Mitsui Ryuki's mood suddenly became much darker.

I picked up a document casually and glanced at it a few times. It was actually a huge amount of application. I curled my lips and threw it next to me and looked at the next document, but it was another one with a larger amount of application. The next third document was still an application, and one was more alarmist than the other, as if I would have to make up my efforts to collapse.

The problem is, the shogunate is really not much money now and still owes a lot of debts.”

Mitsui Ryuki couldn't help but close her eyelids again, reached out and rubbed the temples where the blue veins twitched on both sides of her forehead, and then turned around and asked Xiangcheng, who was also a female official with a nose-to-nosed official.

"I said Xiangcheng, how did the recent emergency financial meeting of the Dachai Business Group be held? Do the directors agree to the temporary military expenditure that will increase vigorously? Have the specific appropriation plan been made? How much should our Mitsui family pay?"

This, "I'm afraid it will take some time to argue, because the days of all the chaebols are very sad.

Xiangcheng took a few steps forward and slighted his body. His face was particularly ugly. In this chaos in Kinki region, countless prosperous towns and workshops were turned into ruins. The losses of each member of the merchant group were not the same. The chain turmoil in various vassal states followed, which led to the blockade of most trade routes and the backlog of a large number of goods. There were even many estates, factories, mines and other industries, which were beaten by some vassal states as "enemy's property, confiscated, or robbed by mob bandits, and then put a fire on it."

I heard that the shogunate would pay another military expenditure of ten thousand yuan. The directors of the merchant group immediately expressed strong protests. Most of the directors believed that they had been harmed by the war and could not continue to throw money into this bottomless pit. I hope that the shogunate could end this civil war with losses but not profitable as soon as possible. Even if some concessions must be made to the court and local vassal states, it would be a bit ugly. We should also try to stop the current chaotic anarchy and restore domestic peace and order."

"End the civil war? Restore peace and order? These people are simply standing and talking without any pain! The court won the first battle, and suddenly became crazy. He was ready to fight and continued to attack. My father was still on the front line of the brigade to defeat the troops, conquering the young and strong, and used the private savings of our Mitsui family to organize the battle in the cage. The next round of duel with the court is imminent. All the vassals in the world are watching this victory and defeat. Alas, when you are so damn it, what else can you do to give in to the court? In addition to surrendering unconditionally, what else can you do to get?!"

Mitsui Ryuki snorted coldly, and a few traces of depressed anger flashed across his face, but in a flash, it turned into a helpless sigh.

The current cringe attitude of the directors of the business group did not surprise her.

Since the devastating defeat outside Kyoto, as the actual helm of the time-honored ship of the Edo Shogunate, the domestic situation facing Miss Ryuhime Mitsui has been very sad and very sad, and it is so sad that it cannot be more sad.

This is how the so-called collapse of the current situation is. Once the process from quantitative change to qualitative change is completed, the changes will surely be a thousand miles a day.

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Before the Kyoto defeat, although the Edo Shogunate was already shaky and full of dangers, most of the powerful vassals in all directions were ready to move and refused to accept the dispatch. However, at least in name, it could maintain a basic situation of stability and unity.

Although the inverted shogun organizations in various places have become a certain climate and have received some support from the court, temple and vassal states, they can only carry out some underground sabotage activities in secret, without a solid base, and are in a completely passive situation. They are often surrounded and suppressed by the shogunate's siege troops and hiding from Tibet.

However, after the Shogunate's conquest against Changzhou this year, it suffered a devastating blow in the Kyoto Incident. After all the new naval and army that had been carefully trained was destroyed, the whole situation was completely turned over in the Qingjian. Many small and medium-sized vassal states in the area near Kyoto did not need to revolt in the uprising of the Shogunate armed forces, but they made no blood. They voluntarily surrendered to the imperial camp; even some important strongholds for the shogunate garrison were usually fleeing in the face of the tentative attacks of a few ronin armed forces, and almost never made a truly effective resistance, acting as if they were peacefully accepted; while those remote vassal states in the Western Kingdom, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokuriku and other regions had not yet changed their flags to surrender to the imperial court, at least they announced that "the bureau basically gave up allegiance to the shogunate in the civil war against the Shogunate.

In this way, the shogunate became a legitimate national central government and instantly fell into a separatist regime that was cramped in a corner of the Kanto Plain. In addition, a shaky and lonely city of a large apart. The court, which was completely torn apart, was labeled as a "rebel" and lost its authority and ruled the world. It was immediately like a swaying candle in the strong wind, which could be extinguished at any time.

On the contrary, the Kyoto court, which originally had only one hundred thousand stones of earth, was completely empty. However, with the limelight of this victory, the momentum rose sharply. In addition, it was consolidated in the fact that the local military power and financial power were still under control of the regime, and the court could not immediately catch it, and it was difficult to say whether the flag of the inverted curtain could be successfully conquered. However, at least in terms of form, the court had already received the oath of allegiance from a small Japanese island country and successfully set off a national inverted curtain wave.

The thief became officials and officials became thieves. The shogunate official army was beaten into anti-government armed forces, while the genuine anti-government armed forces turned into official army. The offensive and defensive forces of the shogunate and the anti-government armed forces completely changed their positions.

No matter what the future momentum is, for the court that has lost power for a long time, this is simply a thousand-year-old road that has become a river, and a daughter-in-law who has been in power for many years has become a mother-in-law.

It seemed as if the time to turn the world was about to come. The Emperor Renko in Kyoto was full of passion. He did not delay for a minute after the war. While reiterating his basic position of overthrowing the curtain and expelling the barbarians again, he also played three cards in succession, which immediately attracted huge waves:

The first card declared the Edo Shogunate to be a "traitor of the country." The brigade of merchants was a "traitor of the country." All the princes who still supported the two confiscated all territory and industries. All the "righteous soldiers" who were loyal to the court, regardless of their origin, were first come, first served. In short, they declared that the rebellion was justified, and that the lower one was not guilty of the superior, and encouraged the warriors and people from all over the country to divide the land, wealth and women of their lord under the banner of "loyalty to the imperial court.

The second card is aimed at the settlement of Jinlelai's "Immortality and Inhumanity" who had been able to become the best man because of his resignation to Western ghosts and animals. He had accumulated a lot of wealth. In other words, the court blatantly issued the most cruel massacre order, calling on "righteous men" from all over the country to raise troops as soon as possible to siege and suppress these unscrupulous people who were unscrupulous and hard-working, regardless of good or bad fortune, and kill them, regardless of good or bad fortune. The property and fields obtained were used as rewards. The court also awarded official titles as rewards. "To break the ears, eyes and arms of Western ghosts and animals."

The third card, in order to win over the hearts of the whole country and win over the lower-class farmers, the court announced that it would exempt all land taxes and annual tributes this year to reduce the burden on farmers. It also appointed a farmer named Xiangle Zongsan. It organized an advance team, a working team and propaganda team, and drove from Kyoto to the east to promote the great virtues of the court.

As soon as these three trump card-shattering trump cards were beaten out, the various conflicts that had accumulated for a long time in the entire Japanese island country exploded instantly, which was really much more terrifying than Mount Fuji. Under the guidance of the court's "rebellion is justified," the functions of local government agencies were completely paralyzed, and the feudal ruling order was completely disintegrated. Peasants killed samurai, city officials killed samurai, samurai killed tyrants, and tyrants killed vassal lords all became "just acts."

As a result, a small riot spread on the island for a while. The killings made people roll. I don’t know how many E Castle was engulfed by raging fires, how many prosperous merchants were destroyed and destroyed into ruins, and how many famous families were killed by mobs.”

There was no decent coordination and contact between these "righteous men" who were promptly raised in various places. They only knew to rob, kill, burn, and stab each other without any politeness. As a result, they initially raised troops to fight for fame, wealth, money and land, but later they became a battle to save their lives and fight with each other. It was really a dark and bloody scene in the end.

To this day, in addition to Kyoto, Dacai, Edo and other places where the two camps are crowded with heavy troops, as well as some vassal states with strong military strength and stable regimes, as well as some desolate and remote areas far away from the heart of the country, they can barely suppress the situation in this frenzy. Even if the rest of the places have not been tortured, the blood flows into a river, at least they are already panic and the atmosphere is tight.

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In order to deal with this sudden outbreak of national turmoil, the insuffering shogunate authorities were forced to redeem all the vassal lords stranded on Edo as hostages, allowing them to return their own countryside to organize troops and suppress civil riots. However, under the instigation of the court, many samurai in the village no longer recognized their status as vassal lords, and even bandits and bandits seized their own territory to dominate. As a result, the rebels and "returning groups" from all over the country quickly launched an extremely cruel battle with each other. About two-thirds of the vassal states were trapped in a terrible whirlpool of civil war.

Under such circumstances, the entire country's commerce, mining and agriculture were severely damaged. Even transportation was basically in pain. If the shogunate could still collect taxes, it would be a damn thing. As for the little reserves that had been saved, it was gone at the beginning of the war, and only a bunch of inexplicable IOUs were left, and they were all the kind that the creditors could not collect their accounts.

The fiscal and tax revenue is basically gone, but various huge expenses are still coming in. The soldiers who died in battle need pensions, and the recruits need pay. The urgently hired Naseril Empire Giant Bear Legion needs to be charged commissions. Shogunate officials of all sizes cannot cut off wages and benefits. There are more than 80,000 hereditary flag books like rice insects that must be paid on time, as well as the arms procurement for life."

So, not long after, the shogunate's deposits on the books were infinitely close to zero than Mitsui Ryuki's chest. Not to mention daily turnover, even the most important restructuring and armament work was paralyzed due to lack of funds.

Faced with such a desperate situation, the only countermeasure that Mitsui Ryuki could come up with was to pay levy and borrow money. But the directors in the business group who were ignorant of life and death were at such a critical moment, and they were still so stingy!

"Since they have reached this point, they are still holding the money in their hands, so I don't want to care about this mess anymore! Everyone is going to hang themselves together and commit suicide together. The court has clearly issued the whole world, and we are "traitors who sell the country and are just killed and will not forgive me!"

After reading this "righteous and strict" protest levy document, Mitsui Ryuki's blood vessels on his forehead were about to rush and rush. The court was about to fight eastward. He was about to be confiscated and exterminated his clan. He refused to throw the last little money into the military. What a crazy stingy miser!”

They might want to save the last little money so that they can redeem their lives from the court officers and soldiers. But they might not do it. At this moment, they were already sending envoys to contact Xiangcheng. They took the conversation slightly sarcastically, but unfortunately they didn't think about it. Now this seemingly majestic court is really capable of restraining the so-called "official army" who is more brutal than bandits?"

", I'm afraid they are a bunch of bandits and bandits of Kang Fatian. Qiu's insects are greedy to rake the ancient temples. Anywhere they pass, they will become the most bleak ruins and wilderness."

Mitsui Ryuki nodded with a sigh, but because of this, the court almost spent no money. He only issued a short order to immediately pull up these tens of thousands of powerful madmen! As rulers, we cannot do this, otherwise it would be like suicide."

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No matter in which era or country, the cost of establishing and maintaining an army is quite huge.

First, this requires summoning a large number of young men and paying each recruit a settlement fee.

Secondly, the people who have just been recruited cannot be called real soldiers. They must conduct military training. For this reason, they must hire coaches, establish training grounds, provide food, accommodation and equipment, and spend a lot of money to support these "guaranteed soldiers" in practice.

Again, after the scraping and training was completed, these soldiers still needed military pay and equipment, and various benefits such as clothing and quilts, residences, etc., which are recurring expenses that are indispensable in peacetime.

Then, when it was really time for war, all expenses were pouring in like a tide. Although ammunition, arrows, etc. were absolutely massive consumables; the service life of firearms and swords was actually quite limited, and they had to be replaced after only two or three battles. In addition, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, they also had to purchase materials to build and silence, hire merchant ships and convoys to transport them to the maintenance, prepare medicines and doctors to treat the wounded. "No matter any of them, it is a terrible huge sum of astronomical figures.

Finally, the casualties will be paid with pensions and burning expenses, while the elderly will be given a pension.

To sum up, when a certain government mobilizes a large scale and the number of professional troops reaches a certain level, these consumptions will quickly become terrorist expenditures that will drag down the fiscal situation. No matter how rich the treasury is, it will be completely emptied in a very short time. For traditional agricultural countries with relatively poor actual monetary income, this contradiction is particularly prominent.

Therefore, the so-called victory is more important than long-term. It is by no means as simple as a general statement. The corruption in the army will further aggravate this consumption. Therefore, the Edo Shogunate, whose population is close to 30 million and whose direct-level population is about 6 million, will feel stretched and under heavy pressure even if it supports or even 10,000 modern navy and army.

Of course, there are small ways to save money by taking shortcuts.

First, if the professional soldier system is not implemented, but the conscript system is adopted, allowing people to "voluntarily" join the army, then the first cost can be basically saved.

Secondly, if soldiers are asked to purchase weapons and ammunition by themselves, be responsible for training, and be subdued by themselves. They spend money to treat injuries and diseases by themselves, and even let soldiers bring a certain amount of food in short-term combat, then the second and fourth items of expenses will be successfully resolved.

Finally, the remaining military pay, pension and pension will be easier to solve. As long as you first make a small amount of excise fee, and then let them "break the city and let them plunder." You basically don't have to eat wherever you go. As for pensions, burning burial expenses and pensions, you can use the occupied land to pay the bill. If you are not afraid of soldiers' rebellion, you can even pay the bill at all. Just declare that "it is your obligation to join the army and fight"!

Now the Kyoto court, which has no food and salary, has only one name for nothing, uses this method to pull up tens of thousands of teams at once.

Compared with the Edo Shogunate, which spent a lot of money on each cost according to the former method, the cost of establishing an army in the imperial court was extremely cheap, and there was even a way to make some profits in reverse. By selling the title of officer, we can make money from all walks of life by selling the title of officer!

It is precisely because of this completely different way of building an army that the court only spent a little insignificant money and quickly formed a huge armed force several times the shogunate army in a very short period of time.

But the question is, "Can an army like this be built with cutting corners really fight?

If you don’t even give a penny of settlement, you will have to work hard for you, which may make them unwilling and depressed.

The practice of letting soldiers bring their own weapons, ammunition and even food is even more miserable. Those rich and wealthy people are most likely not willing to fight for their lives. Even if the poor people are willing to gamble, they still cannot afford to buy a handy home, so they can only make do with some wooden sticks and kitchen knives. In addition, the weapons they bring are obviously difficult to unify the specifications. The variety of ammunition calibers are likely to cause the logistics officer to collapse immediately.

As for training, it is also a big problem. Those soldiers who have never practiced must be a group of unorganized and undisciplined mobs, and it is probably difficult to arrange the formation. Even if the government orders itself to organize the training, the problem is that this absurd order cannot be implemented at all. Who should take the lead in organizing it, who will bear the food and accommodation, who will find the venue, and who will act as a coach?

Based on the above inference, this army that is built without money is bound to have no morale and equipment without other factors. It requires discipline and practice, and cohesion and cohesion. Even if it is ten times the number of the other party, it will definitely be the same as a pile of waste. It is not easy to even successfully go to the thief field. What is the significance of this quantity advantage?

Therefore, if the Edo Shogunate, who is the actual ruler, was crazy and wanted to use this method of cutting corners to build an army in order to save money, then the result would be either collapse before the war or rebellion. It was a suicide foolish act.

However, as a de facto rebel, the Kyoto court had a way to overcome the above disadvantages under the gorgeous banner of "Rongzheng Retro" and could not change its barbaric and cruel nature.

In the simplest form, this method is just one word, grab!
Chapter completed!