Well? ”

Zhang Cheng, who was in a state of rage, couldn't help but close his mouth when he heard Guo Dan's words, and looked at Guo Dan suspiciously.

Obviously, Guo Dan has something to say.

Guo Dan's expression narrowed, and he asked in a low voice: "Dare to ask the Prime Minister, if I am an official of the DPRK and China, can the matter of the last painting exhibition really be so easy?" ”

Zhang Cheng's eyes widened, and he lowered his eyebrows and groaned.

The answer is definitely not.

The reason why Guo Dan succeeded so easily in the last incident was not that Guo Dan's strategy was so subtle, in fact, even if the small squares were removed, would the emperor really ask them for their guilt? It's impossible, it's actually an open secret, and it will make it difficult for the emperor to do it.

The most important reason is because Guo Dan is just a small tooth merchant, and the other party is some dukes, earls, and scholars, they are porcelain, Guo Dan is tile, it was easy to solve Guo Dan, but because Guo Dan has the support of the emperor, this is the cooperation between the top and the end, sandwiching them in the middle, so that they are a little constrained, taking care of one and the other.

They are obviously unwilling to fight Guo Dan hard-to-head, fight to the death with a small tooth businessman, what's the point, what if they win, and it will be embarrassing if they lose, this completely asymmetrical confrontation leads to only calming things down.

And their ultimate goal is to concentrate on dealing with Guo Dan with the emperor, which is undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The reason for this incident is because Guo Dan is just a small tooth businessman, but the success or failure of this matter is also because Guo Dan is just a small tooth businessman.

If Guo Dan is an official of the DPRK and China, it will definitely be a different result.

Guo Dan continued: "It's not that I don't want to be an official in the court, but I have already offended a lot of people, if I become an official in the court, they will target me everywhere, in the officialdom, I am not their opponent, they can even use me to involve His Majesty and the Prime Minister." ”

Guo Dan is very self-aware, this officialdom and the shopping mall are two different things, as far as his virtue enters the officialdom, it will definitely be eaten without even bones, it is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Yinglan They can bury him if they dig a pit casually, maybe they don't need Jiang Yinglan to make a move, after all, they are all professional bureaucrats, and they have been mixed in it for more than ten years, and to find out the way of this officialdom, it will not be a few decades, don't even think about it.

Therefore, this official Guo Dan will never be a plan, he has never thought about it, his plan all along, is also to try to swallow Wanli's hundreds of thousands of taels, so as to tie himself to Wanli's fat legs.

Zhang Cheng was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, our family won't talk about you." ”

He also reacted now, if Guo Dan enters the officialdom, he will be a live target, then he can't do anything else, just take care of protecting Guo Dan.

"Thank you for your understanding." Guo Dan arched his hand.

Zhang Cheng sighed: "It's really ashamed to say that our family didn't even think about this matter in detail." ”

Guo Dan's expression changed, and he said: "That's because I'm timid and afraid of death, and I think about everything carefully, and the internal minister has experienced countless winds and waves in the court, for the internal minister, in fact, I am nothing about it, and naturally I won't think about it so carefully, but I don't dare to make trouble for the internal minister." ”

"You boy! Hehe. ”

Zhang Cheng pointed at Guo Dan.

He sent Guo Dan to the front of the palace gate, and instructed two little eunuchs to send Guo Dan out of the palace.

But the two little eunuchs did not take Guo Dan out of the palace, but took Guo Dan around the imperial city, Guo Dan didn't ask much this time, and followed them around without saying a word.

After walking around for half an hour, they took Guo Dan to a study.

I saw that Li Gui walked out, "Guo Dan, Your Majesty wants to see you, go in." ”

"Yes."

Guo Dan had already predicted, his face was not wavering, and he followed Li Gui in.

"See ...... grass people."

"Excuse me."

Without waiting for Guo Dan to salute, Wanli raised his hand and said: "Guo Dan, since you don't want to enter the court as an official, then I won't force you, but do you remember what you promised me last time?" ”

Guo Dan hurriedly bowed and said: "I promised Your Majesty something, of course the grass people remember, Your Majesty said that it was about financial management?" ”

Wanli nodded and said, "You said that you wanted to help me think of a perfect plan, I wonder if you thought of it?" ”

Guo Dan groaned for a while, and suddenly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the grass people have a book to play." ”

Wanli looked at his serious appearance, couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "Although you don't want to be an official, but when you say this, it's a bit of an official." ”

Actually, I'm an actor. Guo Dan said: "The grass people have always wanted to share their worries for the monarch and serve the country, and in their spare time, they often fantasize that they will one day become an official. ”

"Really?"

Wanli said twice, obviously not believing it, but he didn't dwell on it, and said: "I believe in you, but I don't know what you want to play?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Back to Your Majesty, the grass people feel that our dynasty is now weak in horse politics, and the horses obtained every year are very few, unable to supply the army, and uneven, most of them are inferior horses, which is not conducive to the construction of national border defense, but there is no war in the border at present, and its disadvantages have not been revealed for the time being, but it is really a big hidden danger, and it should be improved in time." ”

Wanli was immediately confused, you are a small tooth businessman, is it appropriate to talk about this kind of thing?

This horse politics is really a national event.

There is a saying: for the major affairs of the country, don't rush to the army; The great importance of the soldier is not to precede the horse.

It can be seen that the importance of Ma Zheng.

But what Guo Dan said is also true.

At the beginning, Taizu Shengshang, attached great importance to horse politics, and made a lot of policies to raise horses, which can be described as a national horse breeding, but the results were unsatisfactory, in fact, many policies of Ming Taizu are still a good intention, but he forgot that people are selfish, if they are not implemented properly, all good policies are bullshit.

What is a good policy? In fact, the people have said it, but they can't implement it, and it's a fart, so a really good policy is a policy that takes human nature into account, and it can be implemented.

At the beginning, there was no good start, to the middle and late period of land annexation was serious, many vassal kings directly embezzled the pastures of the imperial court, resulting in the gradual decline of the official pasture, and the people and herdsmen were completely dead, before they were all handed over to the horses, and now they are all paid, which is equivalent to collecting taxes in disguise, which is also an important reason for the rise of the Taifu Temple.

Now the imperial court is forced to go to Mongolia to buy horses, which is actually very funny, fighting with Mongolia every day, and as a result, you have to go to Mongolia to buy horses, this is undoubtedly a capital enemy, and the capital enemy is just that, the problem is that those frontier generals are even more outrageous, they feel that there is no need to cheap Mongolians, this money is not as good as earning it themselves, they are taking the state money and land to raise horses, and then selling the horses to the court, some people also hook up with the Mongolians a pit, after all, they still have to sell in the name of the Mongolians.

But this matter must not be hidden, but the interests involved are too wide, and the court can only be with the mud, it can be seen that the court is about to give up Ma Zheng, and the attitude is how to love, just collect the money, after all, this involves either the vassal king, or the frontier general, and this cake can't be moved at all.

Some people even say that Bi Ma Wen in Journey to the West is an allusion to the horse politics of the Ming Dynasty, and the implication is that if you let me raise horses again, I will make a big fuss in the sky, which shows how deep the people's resentment against horse raising is.

Guo Dan just inquired casually and knew it clearly.

Although Guo Dan said it very directly, Wanli naturally couldn't deny this well-known thing, and asked very curiously: "Do you have a solution?" ”

He knows this very well in his heart, Zhang Juzheng didn't reverse this situation when he changed the law, can you be a small tooth merchant who can reverse it?

Guo smiled and nodded, his expression was quite relaxed, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

Wanli suddenly said excitedly: "Come on." ”

Now he still has a trace of hard work in his heart, but it has almost been consumed, when he liquidated Zhang Juzheng, he thought that he could be stronger than Zhang Juzheng in power, but it turned out that he was far inferior to Zhang Juzheng, which caused him to be very discouraged and eventually degenerate.

Guo Dan said with a smile: "Actually, it's very simple, Your Majesty can contract Ma Zheng to our Yaxing, and the grass people promise that within five years, I will definitely be able to improve Ma Zheng." ”

Wanli was surprised: "Ma Zheng can also contract?" ”

"Why not?"

Guo Dan said: "As for those officials, Ma Zheng is a miasma, and the people are not happy, knowing that it is a loss-making business, they still have to continue to do it, then... Anyway, the grass people can't understand it, the grass people are businessmen, pay attention to profits and losses, if they lose money in this transaction, they will naturally think of selling to others, or contracting to others, Ma Zheng naturally can't sell, only contract to others. ”

Makes sense!

But... It doesn't make sense.

Wanli is a little unable to turn around, if Ma Zheng can also contract, then wouldn't it be that the government can also contract to you, this is not like words, said: "Having said that, but this is Ma Zheng, a major event of the country, how can it be contracted out, even if I am willing, there is no way to get this thing!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the way is to get it."

Guo Dan said: "The meaning of grass people is not all-inclusive, but half-package." ”

Half a pack again?

The familiar routine is here again.

Wanli already knew the concept of half-pack and all-pack, and said: "How is this half-pack?" ”

Guo Dan said: "It's very simple, the grass people only need the Taifu Temple to contract the improvement of the horse breed to the grass people, according to the grass people's knowledge, most of the war horses in my dynasty are uneven, many horses are inferior horses, there is no fighting power at all, if you want to improve the horse policy, you must first improve the horse breed, have a good horse breed, and then large-scale shepherding." However, Taifu Temple can't do this at all, so why not contract it to the grass people to try. ”

Wanli nodded slightly, and said, "It's not impossible to just contract you to improve the horse breed, but I want to know, what can you do to improve the horse breed?" ”

Guo smiled lightly: "The main reason for the weakness of my horse politics can be summarized in one sentence, the people have the pain of raising horses, and the officials have no benefits from raising horses." But whether it is suffering or profit, in the final analysis, it is still the benefit. As long as this is reversed, Ma Zheng will naturally improve. ”

Wanli said again: "How can this be reversed? ”

"The way is to contract, as long as it is contracted to the grass people, then the burden of the court will be reduced, and the burden of the people will naturally be reduced."

"And what about your burden?" Wanli asked.

Guo Dan grinned and said: "Your Majesty, the grass people are businessmen, since they have proposed to contract, there is naturally a way to make a profit from it, and the grass people only need a horse race to turn losses into profits." ”

PS: Contracting, Contracting.