After urinating, you still need to shake three times. On the second day, the emperor had a big parade after the war and did the last step in the execution of Qi Dance.

As soon as the auspicious time came, the guards brought the royal horse, and the head of the imperial horse was equipped with a decorative "dragon horn", and the person ridden by the Son of Heaven, the dragon, was not afraid of a stumbling and being inserted into the dragon's horn by blood.

"Command the three armies, read it!"

The drums beat and the cannons cheered.

Luan Yi, who opened the road in front, held a golden lamp or something like that, the eunuch followed behind with an umbrella, and the Han general of the children's army held a three-cornered dragon flag and a festival.

The personal guard followed with the emperor's imperial sword, and the honor guard of Luan Yiwei held the bending knife in array for protection.

Shun inherited the Ming system, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Leng Fengyang, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, was not tortured because of his good reputation, and after surrendering, he managed Luan for Li Zicheng.

Some styles have also been inherited, but after all, Leng Fengyang is only a hundred households, and many details are still different from the Ming Dynasty.

Officers and veterans from various departments came forward one after another to maintain the ranks and prepare for the emperor's review.

This has been set a long time ago, although there has been no on-site drill, but the flag of the markers is fluttering in advance, and all departments only need to stand step by step under the command of the generals.

At this moment, Liu Yu is a supporting role that is too small to be small, and because he went directly to the border after being promoted to a medal guard, he couldn't even do well in the honor guard.

can only shrink in the middle of a group of guards, indiscriminately filled, carrying a long-handled ceremonial guard bending knife, wearing a placket armor, and an embroidered spring knife with a tassel pendant hanging from his waist.

Mixed in the middle of the line, he walked around in a daze. Once again, the Khalkha people were shocked, and then the emperor was promoted, established, and awarded.

Veterans are not counted, emperors are not counted, and Liu Yu has the highest military achievements among the remaining people so far.

Si Xunlang checked the heads and counted the prisoners. The court officials are not complete, and the emperor can only confer honors in this kind of place, not be an official.

"Xun Wei Liu Yu, a battle of a thousand people, is a base. The first level is five hundred, with less and more hits, for the battle, three turns; captured more than 300 enemies and one ship, and made three turns for the catch; Break the fort one, can be seven turns; Capture the enemy general, can be eight turns. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant of the light car, and was given a flying fish suit and a silver-handled spring wheel. ”

After reading the reward, it is said that the emperor should come forward to encourage a few words at this time.

But Li Gan thought about it, he didn't know what Liu Yu was going to do, and he didn't know where this self-propelled chess piece wanted to go, and if he made any strange remarks in public, he didn't ask much.

Although the 12 turns of the Tang Dynasty were restored, don't think about the military merits, and the court doesn't have so much land in its hands. There is wasteland in the northeast, but no one wants it.

However, the silver is still relatively generous, Dashun learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and knew that he could not owe the wages of the soldiers.

Liu Yu's family already belongs to the upper echelons of the ruling class, and they don't need to be awarded medals, do not need to serve conscription, tax exemptions and other benefits, and they also have a thousand taels of silver every year.

This is all secondary, the key is the seventeen or eighteen-year-old captain of the light car, or the Xunwei background, the future can be described as bright.

The rest of the people who followed Liu Yu out, or the people that Liu Yu was familiar with to take care of, also benefited.

Jiao Lao Butu has also become a lieutenant in the light car, and the officer can also be promoted by one promotion, but now is not the time.

In yesterday's war, the flag was waved first, and it also entered the eyes of the emperor, so he gave one more word of encouragement.

Jiao Lao Butu was already extremely trusting of Liu Yu at this time, thinking of what Liu Yu had whispered to him before, when Xie En should express his words of loyalty, he said loudly: "Weichen sees that the north is restless and the Rakshasa is arrogant, and he is willing to fight for the country." Please allow your majesty to be a border general and patrol the border! ”

When Li Gan heard this, he was slightly surprised. Although it is best to have the opportunity to be released, the general release is to break the head in the south, and no one in the north asks, and there is one who takes the initiative to ask for the border general to rectify the border defense.

"Great! True loyalty! Wine! ”

Arrogant Butu raised his wine glass, full of thoughts.

In his heart, he was satisfied with the emperor's encouragement of the sentence "magnificent", and drank in front of the army, and was extremely satisfied spiritually; But I also pondered in my heart, Brother Liu Yu, Brother Liu Yu, don't cheat me, if you don't open border trade in the future, Lao Tzu will be killed by you.

But the words have already been spoken, and it is too late to regret at this time. Besides, in front of more than 10,000 soldiers, he should be as heroic as he should be, so he picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Du Feng's achievements on the Eastern Front were after Jiao Lao Butu, plus his ability to capture artillery, and he became a six-turn cavalry captain. His father's rank has earned him an easier opportunity to enter the Wude Palace, and he, the captain of the cavalry, can be regarded as an easier opportunity for the next generation to enter the Wude Palace, and he can directly bypass the camp level in various places.

The emperor also considered that he was going to participate in the selection examination of Wude Palace, so he exempted him from the obligation to continue to fight with the army, and told him to follow the team to take the examination in Shenyang.

After the encouragement, Du Feng saw that what Liu Yu said was exactly what Liu Yu secretly said to them that day, and thought to himself that if His Majesty did not have the heart to open the South China Sea in the future, he would not lose anything; If there is, wouldn't it be just as Lord Liu said, and find another way?

"Back to Your Majesty. In recent years, the country has been healthy, the people are happy, and the population has grown. The population breeds and the land does not increase, and the north is cold and miserable, and it is difficult to become a granary. Wechen heard that there is still a continent in the South China Sea, the land is thousands of miles wide, the water and grass are fertile, and the four seasons are distinct. If it is controlled in the hands of the dynasty, it can give birth to tens of millions of people. Weichen is willing to learn the art of sailing and sailing, and open up the sea frontier for the dynasty in the future, thinking that it will be future generations. ”

"Hmm. Reluctantly! ”

The emperor praised it, and felt a slight sense in his heart that something was wrong.

It is normal that the arrogant Laborbutu before was loyal and strong, and his ambition was to the north.

But this Du Feng grew up in the bitter cold land and ravines, and he actually had the insight of "population breeding without increasing the land", and said that he would open up the South Seas...... Nanyang, I'm afraid you haven't been to the Liaohe River, right?

It's hard to say that it hasn't been influenced by Liu Yu.

Li Gan is not afraid that Liu Yu has any personal favors in the army, he is just a guest general, and the Zhichong Mansion only has the right to train troops and patrol the borders, and the war still needs to be commanded by the central government, so he is still at ease with these soldiers and the imperial court.

It's just that Liu Yu has been in contact with them for less than a year, and he can secretly exert influence on these people, and he really has some means.

He installed someone among the people Liu Yu brought, and that person also replied to the secret report, at the beginning saying that Liu Yu followed the example of the ancient general, shared the joys and hardships with the soldiers, and spent money to improve the clothing and warmth of the soldiers, these Li Gan felt that it was normal, and he could even think that Liu Yu was a usable person.

After that, Liu Yu didn't do anything out of the ordinary. is to talk about meat jokes every night, and sometimes talk about Western studies and how big the outside world is.

Now listening to Du Feng's remarks that "the population breeds but the land does not increase", Li Gan felt a little unexpected and reasonable.

I thought: The ancients were like jade, and the gentleman was like jade, moisturizing things silently, probably such a person, right?

With this thought, to the surprise of the attendants next to him, Li Gan asked some more honored soldiers who were not qualified to be encouraged at all. Most of them followed Liu Yu all the way.

The answers I got were also varied and magical.

Except for Liu Yu's companion who had "lowly ambitions", saying that he joined the army in order to get rid of his servants and marry a wife from a good family, which caused a burst of laughter or laughter, the rest of the people's answers were really eye-opening to Li Gan.

Some people say that they will go to sea in the future to find a fertile soil that is not as bitter as the Songhua River, and the water and grass are fertile and can be cultivated; Some said that they would make meritorious contributions to Petersburg in the future; Some say that they want to look for strange beasts and strange species in the Book of Mountains and Seas; There are also those who say they want to see the hibiscus tree in America.

There are many words that even the veterans who follow Li Gan have never heard.

I just think that these people know every word they say, but they don't understand what it is.

It is not wrong to be fierce and fierce, but this fierce ambition is like the grandeur of the Han Dynasty when the Western Regions had just been explored, and it is all about some strange stories thousands of miles away, just like grapes, alfalfa, pomegranates, and carrots at that time.

Although most of it is a scene......

But this kind of government soldier in the ravine can say the grandeur of thousands of miles away, which is already shocking.

Listening to this group of rural soldiers who may not have even been to Jilin before and have never eaten peaches, there is always an indescribable magic when talking about the mountains and seas 100,000 miles away.

After all the questions were asked, Li Gan smiled and encouraged a lot of words, feeling that he was afraid that he had already spied on some of Liu Yu's thoughts and figured out a lot of things.

Many of Liu Yu's previous secret pokes and seemingly unintentional statements gradually became clear.

On the same day, Jin Shuiqiao asked correctly, Liu Yu did not mention Nanyang in a word, but opened his mouth to the new army and closed his mouth to learn from the West, which sounded quite like a boast.

Let's take a look at Liu Yu's performance this year, what he did along the way, and take money to let the soldiers fight hard and make profits tempting.

Obviously, Liu Yu is not the kind of nerd who only knows how to talk about righteousness.

At that time, I thought that the new army that Liu Yu mentioned was for the war in Junggar and northern Xinjiang.

Thinking about it now, I'm afraid that this Liu Yu didn't take the war in Northern Xinjiang seriously at all. Even in his eyes, Dzungar was not qualified to let him talk about it at all.

Nanyang ......

If it's for the South Seas, if it's for the Westerners, it all makes sense.

Anyone who learns from the West knows the words of Xu Guangqi of the previous dynasty: The northern frontier is just a disease of scabies, and the great trouble of the national dynasty is in the South Seas.

It's just that with the spread of Catholicism in China, these words were used by the West French Party to distort their meaning, and became a reason for refusing trade in Protestant countries such as the Netherlands and England, and even because of the factor of religious feelings, these words have rarely been mentioned.

"Nanyang...... Nanyang ...... No wonder. ”

With a move in his heart, Liu Yu, who previously felt that he couldn't see through the antelope's horns, now finally has traces to follow.

Li Gan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

He thinks that Liu Yu is talented, but he always feels that Liu Yu's thoughts are too hidden, and he can't see through it.

As an emperor, I don't like a courtier who can't see through it at all.

Even if this courtier is really talented, if he can't see through it, he can only use it again and again. Especially now, it seems that the designation is also a strong seed of "from the Tao but not from the week".

On the same day, Jin Shuiqiao asked correctly, and Liu Yu's every sentence was the righteousness of "loyalty to the monarch and the country". But like every young man, in addition to talking, he avoids, or does not care at all, the most vulgar, the most basic, and the most despicable thing of a gentleman - money.

Reform of the military system, the formation and training of new troops, the opening of military schools, the replacement of flintlock pistols and bayonets, everything sounds good, but everything requires a lot of money.

If you finish fighting Dzungaria, pacify the northern Xinjiang, and close the door to the upper kingdom on the same day, do you need to spend so much money on reform?

Is it possible to use flintlock pistols and bayonets to fight North Korea? Or can the new army be used to fight the toast and suppress the civil rebellion? Although the Rakshasa country is stronger, it can be separated from the desolate and cold land, and at most it can gather a field mobile corps of three or five thousand people, and the pile of people is also piled up.

Isn't it good to have this money for disaster relief and free food?

Li Gan thought at first that Liu Yu was young and might not be able to think so much, and he might not be able to think about money like every young person, and young people thought that they were not interested in money.

Now, I'm afraid not.

I'm afraid that Liu Yu knows too well how important money is.

I heard from the secret agent that he Liu Yu sprinkled money all the way, from Shenyang all the way to Nuer Gandusi, and from Nuer Gandusi to Muluhan Shanwei. His own money was not enough, so he scattered the money for the goods of the caravan disguised by the imperial court; The payment was not enough, the spoils of the castle of the Saloshasas.

It's a kind of loyalty and patriotism, so I didn't hear much about it. Mobilization before the start of the war has always been "money", "booty", "silver", "furs......

Such a person can not know how important money is? Can you not know that money is the basis of all problems?

Where does the money come from? Liu Yu didn't say a word, but now from the perspective of the "ambition of thousands of miles" of these honored soldiers, it couldn't be clearer.

Co-authored the military system reform conceived by Liu Yu, the imaginary enemy is a Westerner?

If you want to pass through the South Seas, you must have a new army that can compete with the Westerners.

If you want to open up the South Seas, you must have a navy that can compete with Westerners.

If you want to pass through the South Seas, you have to be rich; If you want to be rich, you have to go through the South Seas.

Li Gan heard Liu Yu say that Westerners are very rich, and I heard that the English country now has an annual income of more than 20 million taels, and an island the size of Henan Province has collected three-quarters of the annual income of Dashun, and there is no civil change...... Li Gan believes that Western countries are really terrible.

If you can collect money, you can fight, simple truth.

The imperial court is now short of money.

To the north is the money-losing goods.

Now that Mongolia has been recovered, not to mention that you can't get half a penny a year, the annual rewards to the nobles, the cost of immigration, the construction of post stations, etc., will be compensated at 3 million taels a year for the time being. But it's not okay not to pay compensation, otherwise it will cost more to warn, mobilize, and repair forts every year.

The south is rich, and it is not easy to get out the money.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to gain a firm foothold in Fengtian, after the battle of Jingzhou, he absorbed the mistake of Taizu entering Beijing, "the head did not keep up with the ass, did not corrupt and degenerate, but still sat on the side of the toiling masses, I don't know what the people are who win the hearts of the people, so as to be defeated", and the gentry have been appropriately compromised, the preferential treatment is still there, and the money is not easy to collect.

Although there are Wude Palace and Xungui as the basic plate, you can try to slowly cancel the preferential exemption, but you also have to do a good job of the consciousness of half of the turmoil, and if you are a little careless in the whole Jiangnan boycott, go to the book, form a rebellion, and restore the Ming Dynasty, it will be lively.

The southwest is still changing its land and returning to the stream, and it is also a bottomless pit that loses money; The northwest has another battle, and after the war, you have to throw money into it. The battle is not over yet, and the money in the hands of military meritorious dignitaries cannot be picked now.

It seems that if you want to make money, you can only get it in Nanyang. It's just that Li Gan knows very little about the trade in the South Seas, and he also thinks that he can be like England, and he can collect 10 million taels in a province, but he doesn't understand it at all.

Thinking about Liu Yu's previous positioning, he was a person who "opened the situation with strange chess monsters", and he was inevitably cautious before he couldn't guess what he wanted to do, but now that he seems to have guessed through, he can try to use it.

If you use it well, you may really open up the situation.

If you don't use it well, you can borrow his head and use it, anyway, he has no foundation:

There are typos and remnants in writing a recital, and the group of literati in Jiangnan can't urinate in the same pot; Although he knew Western studies, he supported the prohibition of religion, and the baptized Western French party regarded it as a heresy; Xun Gui's son was born, but he was not the elder; can fight, but his ambition is not to be in charge of the army but to train the army; I know the benefits of spending money, but I don't have the money.

Thinking that this was probably to understand Liu Yu's true thoughts, Li Gan summoned Liu Yu again that night.

After some encouragement in private, Li Gan suddenly asked: "You are also considered a good student in the Wude Palace, and you will definitely be able to enter the upper house and choose the dragon ban in the future." Where do you want to go in the future? ”

Liu Yu thought that there was a standard answer to this question, so he preached according to the script: "Thunder, rain and dew are all holy graces, where Your Majesty wants the ministers to go, the ministers will go, where do you dare to have extravagant hopes?" ”

This is a very standard answer, but in exchange for Li Gan's smile, it is not a smile.

"You have great ambitions, but as you say, my Dashun is like a broken ship, leaking everywhere? So much so that it makes no difference where you go? Need patching everywhere? ”