Chapter 60: Loopholes in the Situation in Liaodong

Wang Ao said: "The minister is very old and can't live for a few years. Some words are not afraid to be said directly, and the old minister does not want His Majesty to repeat the mistakes of Emperor Taizong. ”

"But now, it's already going to happen. His Majesty's plan is perfect, but the old minister thinks that there is one of the most important flaws. The strategy of Haixi should be both civil and military, and now Haixi is still a military town, and Xu Youzhen was still in charge before, and this person is lacking. It is good to gather this person, but it is not possible for him to block hundreds of thousands of people. ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment, and suddenly found that what Wang Ao said was good.

After all, Wang Ao is the governor of Liaodong, and many things cannot be bypassed him. Therefore, Wang Ao still understands Zhu Qizhen's strategy in general.

As Wang Ao said, many grand strategic layouts, at a very high level, are not divided between civil and military.

Placing hundreds of thousands of people in Haixi, although Shi Ju is good at tuntian, but is it really okay to let him do this thing?

After all, the so-called military generals are good at tuntian and good at governance, and most of them are compared with themselves among military generals, but compared with the first-rate civil servants in the world, they owe too much.

If you let Shi Ju do this one thing.

There is actually something bottomless in his heart.

But there is a very complex balance of power here.

Zhu Qizhen has always been balancing the civil and military, but the reality is that the civilian officials are overpowering the military generals little by little, even if he reorganizes the nobles and rebuilds the Beijing camp, it is just to delay the occurrence of such a thing.

If a civilian official is assigned to lead the affairs of Haixi Tuntian, then who will lead whom in the war?

Yu Qian is already the governor of the three sides, in charge of the military and political power in the northwest, and then Zhu Qizhen will set up a minister in Liaodong?

What's next?

A lot of things, it's hard to go back in the first place.

In fact, this matter has not been mentioned in the cabinet, among which Wang Ji is the most enthusiastic, but he has always advocated the establishment of a northeast governor, in charge of Liaodong, Haixi, and Korea, overseeing the military and politics, and presiding over the war against the tile.

This is not allowed by Zhu Qizhen.

On the one hand, Zhu Qizhen felt that he could oversee the overall situation in Beijing and did not need to set up a minister with such great power, and second, the governor of Northeast China with such great power, Zhu Qizhen was worried about affecting Beijing's strategic security.

So even if he was sent temporarily, this person was both civil and military, and he was deeply trusted by Zhu Qizhen.

But Meng Ying packed the ticket, thinking that Shi Ju could accomplish all this. If Zhu Qizhen is worried, Meng Ying can serve as the governor of the Northeast.

But it was completely opposed by the Ministry of War.

Wang Ao saw Zhu Qizhen's speech, and seemed to think of Zhu Qizhen's hesitation, and said: "The old minister has been in Liaodong for a long time, and he is familiar with the twist up and down, between civil and military, but."

In order to make a slight conciliation, His Majesty will not summon ministers, and the ministers will go to Haixi in March this year to preside over Haixi affairs. ”

Only then did Zhu Qizhen understand why Wang Ao had to stay in Liaodong.

Wang Ao was long enough in Liaodong. He knew enough about the situation in Liaodong. Moreover, the qualifications are enough to overpower these generals, and the experience is experienced enough to organize the logistics of the Battle of Songpan for more than thirty years.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Then Mr. Hard." ”

Wang Ao said: "The minister can serve the court at this time, it is a lifelong blessing, but the old minister is old, I don't know when he went, the minister recommended a person, it is Li Bing, the political envoy of Liaodong, this person is the first year of orthodoxy Jinshi." For a long time in the Northeast, people and land are familiar, once the minister is not there, this person can replace the minister, with him, there should be no problem in the matter of Haixi. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, the minister of the Zhenzhu Kingdom. ”

Zhu Qizhen's original solution was to transfer a minister from the central government to Haixi to be in charge of Tuntian affairs, but now it seems that it is not as good as Wang Ao's solution.

In many cases, when doing things, sometimes it is a way to make drastic changes and disrupt and reorganize the power structure below, and sometimes it is also a way to try to match the power structure below and let them be used by you.

Sending people directly from above can reassure Zhu Qizhen, but in fact, will the situation really be good?

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen also kept the name Li Bing in his heart. He took the time to check Li Bing's resume, the first year of orthodoxy, the first year of orthodoxy, served as the official of Yanping, the head of the household department, the Xuanda patrol, etc., because in the fourteen-year war of orthodoxy, the Xuanfu was meritorious, although it was not a great achievement, but it was enough for him to be promoted to Liaodong.

was favored by Wang Ao in Liaodong.

Whether or not he participated in the Orthodox Fourteen Years War seems to have become a resume criterion.

Anyone who has been in the fourteen years of orthodoxy in the war, sticking a little bit and having a little merit, can be promoted.

This was not Zhu Qizhen's intention. But Zhu Qizhen's important place, the bureaucrats below will naturally gather here.

Zhu Qizhen stayed in Beijing for a few days, and during this time, Zhu Qizhen frequently took Wang Ao to meet with the minister. He also gave Wang Ao a lot of royal items.

Show the extreme of grace.

Wang Ao was also added as a loose rank official, although this is similar to a fictitious honor, but it also represents Zhu Qizhen's importance to Wang Ao.

In ancient times, the holy thing itself was something that could surpass the official position itself.

Immediately sent Wang Ao back to Liaodong, because the ice and snow in Liaodong had begun to melt, and the people who migrated from Korea were ready to set off and transfer from North Korea to Haixi by sea.

All this requires a lot of civil and official workload, and these things are handed over to Wang Ao and Li Bing, who was recommended by Wang Ao to stay in Liaodong.

And at this time, Yu Qian about Songpan

The song has also arrived.

He explained three things in the song, the first of which was that in terms of smuggling routes, although Songpan was the largest, it was not the only one.

Therefore, he was ready to block the smuggling channels in other places first, and set up a patrol inspection department to strictly investigate.

Secondly, for dealing with the problem of Songpan, he was beyond his reach, because Yu Qian had no time to manage Songpan, and the territory managed by Yu Qian's trilateral governor was now Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia.

It's vast.

But Songpan belongs to Sichuan.

This is a fishing out of bounds.

Therefore, Yu Qian asked the imperial court to issue an order to let Sichuan and Shaanxi jointly deal with this matter.

In the end, Yu Qian believed that the people of Songpan were in difficulty, although they had repeatedly pacified the chaos and had a deep grudge with the Han people, so they should pacify Songpan and open up trade routes.

As long as the imperial court decrees, this problem will be solved within a year.

Zhu Qizhen had some doubts about how Qian could solve this problem. It's just that he remembered Wang Ao's words, if you believe it and don't use it, it's better not to believe it, and if you don't believe it, it's better not to use it.

So, he just got it.

It's just that I'm a little worried about whether the tea tax rectification this year can be completed.

Although the tea rectification in the southeast has begun, starting from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, the number of tea trees in each county has been counted and the number of tea trees has been determined.

Moreover, in He Wenyuan's recital, he has good expectations for the number of tea trees.

After all, after the founding of the country, there were more than two million tea trees in Sichuan. You must know that the war between the Song and Yuan dynasties was the most tragic in Sichuan, and even so, there were already more than two million plants in Sichuan.

Coupled with the peaceful days of recent decades, there has been a lot of development.

It is estimated that there will be at least tens of millions of plants in a year, but tea is not worth much in China, even if it is one-tenth of the tax amount, it will not cost much.

Only in the west, or in the north, can it be sold at a high price.

Therefore, most of the tea tax to support one million taels is collected from the mutual market in Xining.

However, Cao Nai's arrival has already arrived, and he has begun to rectify the canal banknotes, and he thinks that there will be an extra tax in the future. In addition, there are as many as 10 million taels scraped out from the front and back.

There is no problem with the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

The tea tax can be put on hold.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen also understands that no matter how he beautifies it, the more he collects from the people, the greater the pressure on the people. Not to mention that the cost of taxes should also be factored in.

Why didn't Zhu Qizhen dare to think of a way from Tian Fu no matter what he thought of? It is simply because the impact of the field tax is the widest, and the tax cost of the field tax is the highest.

The three salaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty are a cruel proof of this.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen also understands that this is the vitality accumulated by the imperial court for decades.