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seventy-seven, no gun

.7, no guns or cannons, the enemy gives us Hao! 3 Although there was no dispatch of a large number of troops to participate directly in the war, the Dragon Witch Envoy Mr. Akelinn, the special envoy of the Dragon Witch Cult, was absolutely a big support for the Japanese court from any angle.

Regardless of the social expenses and military assistance in the previous stage of winning over allies, the credit for commanding the Tukan cavalry to break through the enemy's formation in Kyoto Zhuo Bian was not mentioned. In this short period after the Kyoto Incident, Ecklinn did his best to raise 300,000 taels of silver and allocated it to Emperor Inko as war expenses.

In addition, in order to support the war more effectively, the Dragon Witch Cult also tried its best to gather standard weapons that were enough to arm 10,000 new army members, spent a lot of money to hire a large number of smuggling ships, secretly broke through the blockade line arranged by the Far East Fleet of the Naserel Empire, and transported it to the Tornaga Port north of Kinki.

Afterwards, the fleet commander informed the Special Envoy of Aiklinn in Kyoto, and asked him to organize vehicles and porters to go north to unload goods. Given the wars in this area and the poor security environment of bandits, Aiklinn sent out the only team of Tukan cavalry around him to carry it in an armed manner, killing more than ten bandits and defeated soldiers along the way, and then transporting the goods into Kyoto City smoothly. For this reason, the price paid for money and materials is not the same as hundreds of lives lost, which is really hard to come by.

Unfortunately, the helper obviously did not think so. Emperor Renxiao just took over the silver and weapons with a smile on his face. He turned around and quickly deducted 200,000 taels of them, and put them in his own small royal treasury, which was reserved for construction and renovation of his new palace. The remaining 50,000 taels were distributed to his trusted court officials, so that these hungry nobles and nobles could improve their lives.

As for the last 50,000 taels of silver, it is the grand reward His Majesty prepared to use to deal with various warriors in the anti-strait army. Unfortunately, even one-sixth of the aid military expenditure was not put into the hands of the people who needed it the most.

The reason is also very simple. Although this "Zhongxing King" Emperor Renxiao, who likes elegance, tried his best to incite this war to restore power, he was not willing to contact the rude and arrogant warriors more. So he handed this fat man over to the Wu family to report the official position of the court, that is, the liaison officer between the ministers and the warriors. The corresponding official position on the warriors is the Shogunate Takaya family.

After the bold martial arts family reported that they had received 50,000 taels of silver, they immediately deducted 30,000 taels of subsidy for their family income. They planned to renovate their old house and hold a few luxurious and elegant singing and tea parties. Fortunately, they showed off in front of their colleagues and wrote a few harmonious songs and short poems to wish the court a success in their journey to the court. Then they ordered a few lower-level officials to send the remaining silver to heroes from all walks of life.

As a result, these poorer lower-level ministers became ill of red-eye when they saw the money and could not control anything. They immediately deducted most of the money and recorded it layer by layer. In the end, there was not much left in the hands of several senior generals of the anti-strait army. Even His Highness Shimazu Noshi, the lord of the Satsuma vassal state who had the strongest troops and had an army of 20,000, had only received only eighty taels of silver.

However, as compensation for the lack of military expenditure, Shimazu Anzhi was granted a lot of inexplicable official positions: "Now, Satsuma Daimei Shimazu led his army to the Luo River to serve the king, unparalleled loyalty and righteousness, and can be called the court pillar, the pillar of the country, and the united hearts of Shiyue, so he was pardoned as a minister of Taizheng. He inherited the descendants of Echizen and Yuezhong, and was able to become the prefect of the Three Kingdoms, the governor of Hokkido, and also served as the general of the Fukuo Prefecture, and also in charge of the barbarians of the various tribes of the Hokkien land.

Although it sounds very impressive, unfortunately, it is basically either a false post or a territory is still in the enemy-occupied area. For the time being, there is nothing but an empty name. Moreover, the silver rewarded by the court is only 80 taels, and the red envelopes given to the imperial envoy of Xuanzhi must be prepared according to the market conditions."

This blank check that was so empty that it could not be more empty made His Highness Shimazu Nushi, who had been suffering from raising military supplies recently, was very injured for a while, and even complained in pain: "This time I am really losing a lot. When I enter Hokuriku Road in the future, I have to scrape it three feet high!" The actual use of 300,000 taels of silver aid military expenses was already so unbearable. As for the final outcome of the batch of fine weapons, Mr. Akelinn felt even more heartbroken.

Under the shogunate system, the entire court had only a territory of 100,000 stones, and His Majesty's private fiefdom was only 30,000 stones. It was the bottom among the vassal princes. With such a lack of income, it was already very difficult to support such a large group of female officials, eunuchs and princes, and they had no spare financial resources to form their own private army.

Although the court has divided the spoils of various "rebel troops" from various "rebel troops" and their financial situation is very good, after all, the time is still short, and there are no nobles in the court who are familiar with military affairs. Even if they want to immediately recruit men to train the royal guards, they are working on the talent reserves of "Ganamu officers! In the past, it is impossible to truly form an army, so without any direct troops, the new armies assisted by the Dragon Witch Cult can only be used by the court to arm the reinforcements gathered in Kyoto, or the reinforcements sent to Beijing by foreign vassals such as Satsuma and Changzhou, etc., to the court, they are not their own people to the ministers, and they may even turn against each other after the successful rebellion. No matter who they give, they are not very relieved.

Since this is the case, His Majesty Renxiao, who despised the "Bong'an Way" from the bottom of his heart according to the ancient tradition, was naturally not interested in the distribution of weapons such as troublesome and murderous matters, so he entrusted this matter to the Ministry of War and several trusted ministers of the Ministry of Revenue.

The problem is that this commission caused a big trouble under the shogunate system, 70,000 stones of land were to be supported by thousands of nobles and nobles, and the descendants were reproductive and the population was growing. No family would have a good life. For the previous Wu family who had made a lot of money during the military spending process and recruited geisha banquets every day, the other court officials were already jealous. Since there were such a group of good things to do, if they didn't think of a way to deduct a huge fortune, they would be so sorry for themselves!

In the chaotic times, loyal ministers and righteous men are absolutely rare animals, while honest officials are rare animals among rare animals. For all the ministers who are so heartless, no matter where these weapons and materials come from, they will be their own. And if they are not close to the soldiers, they will give them free of charge without taking any benefits?

However, the weapons and ammunition were not cash after all, and they could not immediately squander after being embezzled and deducted. Several responsible ministers had a clue and secretly held an underground auction to inform the generals gathered in Kyoto to come and participate.

Then, at this auction, they completely ignored the angry eyes of Daming who were almost fire-blowing, and shamelessly bid for the rifles, field artillery and other military supplies that the Dragon Witch Cult freely helped one by one. Everyone secretly offered the price, and the higher the price was awarded.

Poor His Highness, the vassal lords who went to Luo to mobilize the army and sent them weapons, food and fodder to Kyoto to participate in the war, had almost exhausted their poor family assets. They were simply using the fate of the clan to gain a wealth and future. Recently, they have been in Kyoto for nothing. They were also expecting the court to provide more support! Where can they squeeze out how much money to buy arms?!

Seeing that these shameless imperial court officials and ministers had embezzled these things that should belong to them openly and had to spend a lot of money to buy them back. All the vassal lords and princes were filled with anger.

Unfortunately, the situation is stronger than others, and it seems that they can't even break up with the court at the moment, so they can only grit their teeth and endure it. Those who still have some extra money try to get some new weapons and buy some new weapons to equip the troops. The guy who really has no money simply stuffs his ears and closes his eyes, just pretending that he has never had any aid supplies in the Dragon Witch Cult before, so as not to get angry with high blood pressure and heart disease.

However, the well-informed Dachai merchant group got the news. Mitsui Ginji, the shogunate who was guarding the lonely city, immediately made the decision and sent a senior official from a decayed nobleman to act as a second-hand dealer, bribed several ronin group leaders who were young in Kyoto as a cover and ears, and then spent a lot of money to shoot most of the weapons and ammunition.

Given that the brigade city had been besieged by the company camps built by the anti-shog army at this time, although these troops were generally disbanded and blocked, it was still difficult to transport the bulk of arms. Mitsui Ginji simply found a secluded fishing port that had set up a smuggling stronghold in previous years, and arranged a decent line to load these precious weapons and materials directly into the ship and go to sea. He sailed and carried them all the way to Edo Castle and handed them over to his daughter in charge in the rear. As a result, Mitsui Ryuhime changed his hand again, and paid the bill as a hard work for sending the giant bear army to suppress the riots. "?Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade??Blade?

No guns, no cannons, the enemy will make it for us!

In an instant, such a very powerful and heroic declaration suddenly rang in Feili's mind.

But this is the real event that has occurred in this country at present!

In fact, after hearing such a powerful and mentally impactful source of arms, even Major General Fili 7 Taylor's long-tested psychological endurance, he couldn't help but be stunned for almost a minute, until he pinched Mitsui Ryuki several times before he came to his senses embarrassedly.
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