Chapter 283 Target! Firearms! million silver!

缅甸
Capital Mandalay

Myanmar was called Hongsawadi in ancient times. It was renamed Pyu during the Later Tang Dynasty, Pagan during the Song Dynasty, and Burma during the Yuan Dynasty.

It was not until the establishment of the Daqian Dynasty that the official name was changed to Myanmar.

After the Pagan Dynasty, this was the time of the Toungoo Dynasty.

In this inconspicuous house in Mandalay City, two groups of people gathered.

“Everyone, I think everyone has seen it.”

“The Marquis of the Far Eastern Empire would rather consume a large amount of supplies to gather the army together!”

“The kingdom behind us will only support us in deploying 100,000 soldiers in Burma and Siam at most!”

“I mean, what effect can our 100,000 soldiers have in front of 400,000 Far Eastern Empire troops?”

Antonio, Spain’s chief court magician, looked around.

On one side is the legendary master coalition led by Antonio, which is reorganized by the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

There are five people in total!

The dozen or so people on the other side were wearing Confucian robes.

The leader was none other than Kong Zongren of the Kong family!
On its left and right sides, there are three semi-saints of the Kong family!

Even Kong family’s current Duke Yansheng, Kong Yanjin, is behind these three, which is enough to show their seniority in the Kong family.

“The New World has tied up too much of our power.”

“The kingdom can’t possibly give us more support. Even if we include the garrison in India, we only have 200,000 soldiers.”

“And a Combined Fleet that has shrunk by half its size.”

Antonio said, turning his gaze to Kong Zongren.

“Honorable warriors of the Far East, your ancestor, that great sage, I have heard of his name even though he is far away in the West.”

“An old family that has been passed down in this land of the Far East for who knows how many years.”

“It’s just that now we have to make a decision.”

“I think you should understand…”

“If we don’t try to separate the Far Eastern Marquis from his army, we will never be able to kill him.”

In the East, there is a theory of cause and effect and karma. If a master who has embarked on the path of cultivation kills ordinary people on a large scale, he will be entangled by karma and develop mental demons.

In the end, he went astray and all his years of hard work were lost in one day.

The West calls this phenomenon the temptation of the devil.

Although the terms are different, the essence is the same.

If there were tens of thousands of people, it would be fine. Although so many experts sharing the burden would have some impact, it would not affect the foundation.

But what if we massacre 400,000 troops at once?

The karma generated is so strong that even the fifth realm cannot bear it.

Kong Zongren’s face changed when he heard this.

Antonio said the decision was no different than before, if it was really done.

Then the Kong family would really have no way out or room for maneuver.

But on second thought, how much retreat and leeway does the Kong family have now?
After the news that Mohist School was rejected by Jia Cong when going to Shengnan City spread throughout Daqian.

The Kong family’s already precarious reputation plummeted again.

It’s not that everyone is calling for the death of the Holy Family, but it is true that the status of the Holy Family has plummeted in the hearts of scholars all over the world.

Especially Jia Cong’s “Exhortation to Punish Confucius”, which cleverly separated Confucius from the Kong family.

The Most Holy Teacher is the Most Holy Teacher!
The Kong family is the Kong family!
If the descendants of Confucius violate benevolence, righteousness, and morality, they will only bring shame to the great sage.

As long as Jia Cong is alive, the Kong family will never have peace.

I don’t know what other tricks are waiting for me later.

“Okay, let’s do as Mr. Antonio said!”

“The Kong family is willing to cooperate!”

“Very good, it seems our allies have made the wisest decision!”

“Believe me, this will definitely be the beginning of a strong friendship between your family and our four kingdoms!”

After struggling for a moment, Kong Zongren made a decision.

The Confucian and Taoist master, who was half a step away from the fifth realm and could exert the power of the fifth realm thanks to his father’s legacy, looked pale.

My back was inevitably wet with sweat.

But he no longer had the heart to listen to Antonio’s polite words.

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暹罗
Dachengfu

[Life and death, disaster and fortune, cause and effect will be rewarded, I order the Jiangnan Dao Ancha Lingjian Envoy to serve as the Ghost Soldier Marshal! ]

[Life and death, disaster and fortune, cause and effect will be rewarded, I order the Jiangnan Dao Ancha Lingjian Envoy to serve as the Ghost Soldier Marshal! ]

[Life and death, disaster and fortune, cause and effect will be rewarded, I order the Jiangnan Dao Ancha Lingjian Envoy to serve as the Ghost Soldier Marshal! ]

After three majestic voices appeared in his mind, three more ghost generals appeared in front of Jia Cong.

“Meet the Lord God!”

Gui Shuai appeared, immediately knelt on one knee and swore allegiance to Jia Cong!
Two of them were conferred and transformed by the spirits of the kingdom of Siam and the Nanchang Dynasty of Laos respectively.

Their strengths are respectively in the late fourth realm and the middle fourth realm!

It is said that “the most important affairs of a state are sacrifices and wars”!
Ancestor worship is a very important event.

In ancient times, even dynasties changed.

The newly established dynasty would also show sufficient courtesy to the king of the fallen country and divide a small piece of territory for him to be enfeoffed.

Within the territory, the emperor’s ceremonial guards were maintained and ancestral temples were established.

This allows them to continue worshipping their ancestors, although it is impossible for the ancestors to remain as powerful as before when they ruled the world.

It will also prevent it from perishing.

But later on, there was no such courtesy. After conquering a country, the first thing to do was to destroy its ancestral temple.

Destroy the spirit of their country and cut off their possibility of making a comeback.

After the Nanzhan Dynasty surrendered, the spirit of the country, which was supposed to be destroyed according to convention, was suppressed by Jia Cong.

Another one was the Yin spirit of a fourth-level monk who practiced the evil magic native to Siam during the attack on Dacheng Prefecture.

The strength is in the middle stage of the fourth realm!

“Get up!”

“From today on, the three of you will be named Xuanyou, Xuanming, and Xuanjue!”

“Each of you is responsible for establishing a ghost army!”

Jia Cong pondered for a moment and decided on the names of the three ghost generals.

The expedition started on February 16 and has lasted until now, sweeping across the two countries in nearly three months.

The number of enemy troops destroyed is incalculable.

Especially in Siam, which is known as the Buddhist country in Southeast Asia.

There are numerous temples and monks in the country.

In order to facilitate the promotion of Shintoism in the future, Jia Cong sent people to seal off temples every time he conquered a city.

The monks were ordered to return to secular life, which was very similar to the “Three Martial Arts to Destroy Buddhism” in the past.

Although they encountered a lot of resistance, they were swept away by the army.

The counterattack of the Siamese Buddhists was nothing but a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Instead, it brought a large number of ghost soldiers to Jia Cong.

With the establishment of the Pingyi Ghost Army and the Eliminate Bandits Ghost Army!

The five ghost armies under the First Ghost Army Corps.

Punish the evil, eliminate the demons, suppress the barbarians, pacify the barbarians, and eliminate the bandits!
The entire organization is complete, with a total of more than 54,000 ghost soldiers.

In the second army of ghost soldiers, the structure of the Xuanyin Ghost Army was also half complete.

The results are impressive.

After giving a few words of advice and encouragement, he asked the three ghost generals to retreat first.

Daiyu came in with the booklet.

“Brother Cong has ordered Ma Ruyue to secretly interrogate those members of the Siamese royal family.”

“It seems that they really don’t know where the Westerners are going.”

“Sure enough!”

Jia Cong nodded slightly, not feeling at all surprised by this result.

It is not difficult to see from the fact that no fifth-level enemies appeared when attacking the Siamese capital Dacheng that Siam has become a discarded pawn of the Westerners.

The previous cooperation was just to ambush the southern expeditionary army led by Zhongshun before Daqian.

“By the way, we also found these weapons left by Westerners in the warehouse in Siam…”

Daiyu said this and stretched out her hand.

The Shinto seal belonging to Daiyu flew out, and a ball of light fell from it.

Muskets were piled up like a small hill at the entrance, at least a thousand of them.

But most of them are in ruins.

Otherwise it would not have been abandoned by Westerners.

“Musket?”

“Yes, we seized some of them during the previous naval battle, but the soldiers were not interested in them.”

“But this time it looks more advanced than before, and its power should exceed that of the Ministry of Industry’s musket.”

“It should be able to pose a threat to soldiers at the first or second level of the Body Forging Realm.”

“I was thinking about asking the people at Gongshujia to study it.”

Jia Cong looked at him and fell into deep thought.

Daqian also had firearms, manufactured by craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, but they were never deployed on a large scale.

It is only equipped in small quantities and is considered a rare auxiliary force. The Shenji Battalion in the Beijing Camp is equipped with a small amount of it.

After all, this world is different from Jia Cong’s previous life. In the final analysis, the supernatural power system is the mainstream.

The more advanced muskets mentioned by Daiyu were still extremely backward in Jia Cong’s eyes.

It’s not even a matchlock gun, it can only be called a matchlock gun.

The gun has a long barrel and a firing port at the back for igniting the gunpowder.

The accuracy is insufficient and the steps to use are complicated.

Even now in the West there are no troops fully equipped with muskets and artillery like those of later generations.

Instead, they were treated as auxiliary troops like Daqian’s archers.

Some Western alchemists also specialize in making some high-powered firearms that have the power to threaten the second or even third realm.

However, that kind of thing can no longer be considered a firearm, but an alchemical tool. It is expensive and cannot be widely popularized.

But Jia Cong still has memories of his past life.

From the matchlock gun to the arquebus and then to the flintlock machine gun…

If a complete technological line could really develop to the technological level of Jia Cong’s previous life, even the fourth realm might not be able to withstand the attack of modern weapons.

“Give these firearms to Gongshu Yu, and let the Gongshu clan members study them to see if they can be modified and installed on the Divine Fire Flying Kite and the Mechanical Puppet.”

“As for the military…don’t equip them on a large scale!”

If Jia Cong was in a world without supernatural powers or was not a congenital god.

At this moment, a lot of manpower and resources will certainly be invested to climb the technology tree.

However, the development of firearms may not be a good thing for Shintoism.

If ordinary people could use powerful firearms to threaten incoming warriors.

Who would still practice martial arts diligently in the future?

Shinto gods and ghosts are also conferred after a person dies, so Jia Cong naturally hopes that there are as many practitioners as possible in Daqian.

As for firearms, some people from Gongshujia were selected to start researching them, just as a way to reserve technology.

In the future, the main force on the battlefield under Jia Cong’s command will be destined to be the ghost army whose lowest cultivation level starts from the seventh level of body forging.

The transformation between reality and illusion is far beyond the threat of guns and gunpowder.

This world has extraordinary power and different rules, so Jia Cong will not take action.

In order to maintain their own status, the top Western powers will not allow this kind of weapon to truly develop to its peak level.

This is the human heart!
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“Sister Lin, have you counted the gains during this period?”

When Jia Cong saw Daiyu appear in front of him with the booklet, he knew that Baochai thought the same as he did.

She also hopes that Daiyu can grow up through training as soon as possible and be able to stand on her own and take charge of a place like her and Miaoyu.

At this stage of the development of Shintoism, there are only three people who can take charge of the situation, including Jia Cong, which is seriously insufficient.

“I’ve counted them all, Brother Cong!”

When talking about the harvest, Daiyu’s eyes showed joy.

“There are 140 million taels of silver, 9 million taels of gold, and 350,000 acres of land!”

“Various jewelry and antiques, equivalent to about 80 million taels of silver.”

“Four hundred and five hundred-year-old spiritual medicines and seven thousand-year-old spiritual medicines.”

“Three seven-refined magic weapons, eleven six-refined magic weapons, and more than two hundred below six-refined magic weapons!”

“And there are fifteen statues of gods that contain incense!”

“…

“so much?”

Upon hearing this, Jia Cong glanced sideways slightly.

This harvest is almost twice that of Annan!

The silver and gold alone amounted to more than 200 million taels of silver.

Not to mention elixirs, magic weapons and most importantly, statues of gods containing incense.

In Sui Maoxiang’s previous expedition to Zhenla, he only gained 70 million taels of silver.

“Most of them were looted from the temples in Siam!”

“Those magic weapons are also Buddhist instruments.”

“It’s just that we seized a large amount of jewelry and antiques during this southern expedition. I’m afraid we won’t be able to cash in a large amount in a short period of time.”

After listening to Daiyu, Jia Cong also reacted.

Siam is known as the Buddhist country, but its main wealth is not in the hands of the royal family or the powerful.

Instead, it is concentrated in Siamese temples that have developed over countless years.

In Jia Cong’s previous life, there was a saying that “Buddha saved people”.

What’s more, at this time monks did not need to produce or pay taxes.

The amount of money collected from incense donations every year alone is a huge amount, not to mention the large amount of temple property.

“Brother Cong, the harvest from this southern expedition should allow Dongli Academy to develop in various parts of Daqian.”

“Do you want to arrange for someone to go back and preside over this matter?”

Daiyu asked softly.

“No hurry, let me think about it…”

Jia Cong rubbed his forehead.

In fact, Daiyu only reported a few major gains.

It is not so easy to plunder a country.

Now, there are several countries in Nanyang that have been conquered by Jia Cong.

All domestic craftsmen from Siam, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia have moved to Jiangnan.

There are also dozens or hundreds of scattered categories such as books, miscellaneous items, food, etc., all within the search range.

These cannot be measured in money.

Taking into account the gains from Sui Maoxiang’s conquest of Zhenla, 300 million taels of silver were enough to establish Dongli Academies in various places in Daqian and pay monthly allowances to students, which was enough to cover the initial expenses needed for the expansion of the academies.

But the problem is that many things are not simply about how much money there is.

Even if Jia Cong was not a finance major in his previous life, he would know this.

The essence of silver is a general equivalent.

The influx of a large amount of silver into Daqian in a short period of time will inevitably lead to soaring prices, and the people will not have enough silver to support their lives.

If one doesn’t play it well, it will be a disaster.

The most important thing is productivity!

In other words, wait until the Nanyang countries stabilize and are able to supply large quantities of food and various materials to Daqian every year.

This money can be spent in large amounts.

But before that…

An idea suddenly popped into Jia Cong’s mind.

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The author doesn’t know if this paragraph is written correctly. Originally, I just wanted to write about directly arranging to spend the money, but suddenly I thought of issues such as currency and productivity. I’m afraid that if I write according to the previous ideas, I will be criticized by the masters, because I don’t know much about finance. I only learned some political science in high school, which is a bit superficial. I checked some information, but didn’t understand it very well. I just found that the appearance of a large amount of currency in a short period of time will cause prices to soar… I dare not get too involved… If there is anything wrong, the masters can help correct it and the author will revise it again!
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