For a while, Liu Yu was not sure what the emperor meant, and thought in his heart that if it was compensation, he would not even think about it.

Rakshasa is very poor, and has no money to pay at all.

Besides, the current ruler is still a "regent" with an unjustified name, so if he doesn't lose money, can it be that Dashun can still hit Lake Baikal?

It was five or six thousand miles from the rear, and even if Huo Qu came back from illness, he would not be able to win the battle - he had to attack the fort, he had to fight in the field, he had to guard against the Cossacks from stealing grain, he had to break away from the rear for 5,000 miles, he had to clear the field against the strong wall, and he had to capture Irkutsk before winter and completely annihilate the Russian mobile forces in Siberia...... If you don't have one, you will lose.

There are no more scattered forts than the Heilongjiang River Basin.

Besides, Liu Yu felt that if he was the emperor, not only would he not pay compensation, but he would also have to come up with another 300,000 taels.

50,000 kickbacks were given to the negotiating counts, 150,000 to the "regent" Menshikov, and the remaining 100,000 taels were given to Russia to retreat slightly on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, and Dashun was allowed to build a fortress in the valley of the Selenga River.

It's a pity that there is already a hat of "Song Liao's old things", if you give 300,000 taels of "old coins" again, then the visual sense will inevitably be too strong, and you will definitely be drowned by saliva when you come back.

But if it's trade, it's a different story.

"Your Majesty, Weichen dared to ask. This money...... Is it hiding the wealth from the people? Or is it attributed to the treasury? Or will it belong to His Majesty's internal money? ”

The emperor did not twist at all, and replied directly with two words.

"Inside"

"Insider's words...... There are three strategies. ”

However, where there are three strategies, it must be the upper policy that has benefits but the risk is also large, and the lower policy is relatively stable but the risk is minimal.

"Let's talk about the middle way first."

"In the middle of the policy, Your Majesty can sell the exclusive monopoly. Opened up a treaty port with the Rakshasa country, and allowed the merchants of Xijing and Shanxi to monopolize the trade with the Rakshasa exclusively. Pay a certain amount of silver every year. ”

"Is there a but?"

"Yes...... First, there is little money; Second, the merchants will collude with the border army; Third, merchants go to Mongolia all the year round, and it is easy for Mongolian nobles to get entangled; Fourth, businessmen are heavily profitable, and whoever gives more money will do things for whomever they want, and it is easy for the Rakshasa to hear the reality of the country; The five rules do not have any benefit to the Nuer Gandu Division, and the businessmen will inevitably go to Hebei, Shanxi, and Mongolia, rather than going to the Nuer Gandu Division. ”

"And then there'...... This is equivalent to the bloodshed of the border army, the contribution of the Beijing camp, the contribution of Jiangnan, the service of Liaodong, and the infamy of Weichen and the Duke of Qi, but all the benefits are given to those merchants. ”

Listening to Liu Yu say so much, the emperor was still a little shaken in his heart.

Because of this middle policy, in addition to removing those "buts", it is really the most worry-free and effort-saving and the simplest.

You don't have to worry about anything, as long as the Chamber of Commerce pays on time every year.

The key is that you don't need to go through it several times, you can get ten points when you collect ten points, and there is no room for drifting.

The lesson of the previous dynasty was that Huangzhuang could not occupy too much land, and the land of Zhu Ming Huangzhuang had to be used to raise a group of old five battalions of "veteran soldiers of the rank of honor" who were the basic plates; And because Taizong's testament could not reuse the eunuchs, the twenty-four yamen and the like were also abolished, and the internal money really couldn't collect too much money.

"As you say, how much money can you charge a year?"

"It's hard to say. Now the Rakshasas mainly want rhubarb and tea, but trade will definitely increase in the future. That is the first problem that Weichen said: there is little money. This year, next year, and a hundred years later, after they monopolize it, outsiders will not be able to interfere, let alone know how much the trade volume is. ”

There is a more explicit question that Liu Yu didn't mention, even if the emperor wants to raise fat pigs and wait for the New Year to kill meat, it is not so easy to kill. When the time comes, they will be hooked together, and they can really run with a little wind and grass.

Before the cannon rang out at Aurora, Shanxi merchants who traded with Russia bought an entire street in St. Petersburg. There is no master here, the master goes to invest in Rakshasa, the capital has no roots, and he can slip away at any time.

As for the trade volume, Liu Yu estimated that the trade volume with Russia must be increasing year by year.

Tea and rhubarb were now in great demand in Russia, and the government monopolized them to meet the expenses of the huge army left behind by Peter.

But in the future, in addition to these things, the Russians can buy a lot of things from Dashun.

With the arrival of gold and silver in the Americas, there was a price revolution in Europe.

Rising prices, accelerated urbanization, and the demand for grain and meat in Western Europe led to the re-serfdomization of Eastern Europe as an exporter of food and raw materials to Western Europe.

Peter I rebelled against the sky, and then there were SSR figures such as Catherine II and Stolypin, and even after the First World War, when the self-determination and independence of the nation was in full swing, it was still broken by Lenin with the universal class against the independence of the nation for 70 years, and Russia finally returned to the historical inevitability of global trade that was destined in the eighteenth century - the exporter of raw materials.

It's fate.

Even if Peter I changed his life in today's Russia, the general trend of history is still difficult to reverse.

The rising prices of grain in Western Europe, the growing demand for timber and livestock, and the eastward spread of the technology of the agricultural revolution in Western Europe made the aristocracy of the captive serfs very profitable, and agriculture showed a deformed expansion.

High grain prices, serfs are bound to produce grain, large quantities of grain are exported, grain prices are higher, industry and commerce lack manpower, and high food prices lead to an increase in urban costs, making it difficult for industry and commerce to develop.

As long as the trade is stable, cotton, wool, silk, raw silk, porcelain, rock sugar, ...... Even the military uniforms of the "gray livestock", these, can be exported in large quantities.

Under the influence of the price revolution and the re-serfdom, even if cotton cloth was transported from Hebei to Irkutsk, it was still cheaper than locally produced.

Not to mention backward Russia, at this time, India's homespun cloth was also under the same pressure as the British local cotton textile industry thousands of miles away. Asia's traditional handicrafts will not be completely defeated by Western Europe until a hundred years later, and the traditional advantages are still there, both in terms of cost and quality.

It's all money.

In fact, no matter what the emperor asks first, Liu Yu will say this.

As for whether it is above or in the middle or below, it just depends on what he says.

Liu Yu wanted to test it, he said so many "buts", which one did the emperor care about the most.

Since the emperor first asked how much money he could collect every year, if Liu Yu really wanted it, he could focus on the issue of "money".

But he still didn't say what he wanted to say the most, but went around in a circle and said: "Your Majesty, if you make a decision, it will be to go against the ancestral teachings, restore the twenty-four yamen of the former Ming Dynasty, the royal monopoly, be responsible for the internal supervision, and the eunuchs will go out of Beijing to trade with the Rakshasa and go straight to Your Majesty's internal funds." ”

Liu Yu dared to say this, but the emperor did not dare to use it.

After all, Li Laiheng is Li Guo's righteous son rather than his own son, and it is really difficult for Li Guo's testament to be like "not using eunuchs and female officials", and the rest are basically to be observed.

If the twenty-four yamen of the previous dynasty were to be restored, and the eunuchs were used to go out of Beijing to directly manage the royal trade, the civil ministers would definitely go to the Wailing Tomb.

"It's never going to work. What about the best policy? ”

"If the best strategy is to open two ports with Rakshasa in the east and west. His Majesty used the internal capital as the share capital, in the form of a Westerner-owned company, and the merchant also contributed the share capital. As for how to operate, His Majesty doesn't care, just dividends according to the share capital. ”

Liu Yu had already foreshadowed this matter in the "Brief Examination of Western Countries", and briefly talked about the problem of serfdom in Russia caused by the price revolution, proving that trade with Russia will definitely continue to grow, and not only rhubarb and tea.

This question can be explained in a simple way, and the emperor can generally understand it, and he is surprised that Liu Yu's way of analyzing the problem is extremely strange and very reasonable when he thinks about it.

At this time, I didn't have time to think about it, and I listened to Liu Yu continue to talk about the benefits.

As a result, trade increases year by year, and so does annual income. After ten years, the trade with Rakshasa alone should be profitable at about three or four hundred thousand taels. ”

"Moreover, Your Majesty rewarded the Mongol nobles with silver taels, and they had nowhere to spend them, so they must have bought goods. If the western route is opened, merchants can go north from Shanxi in Hebei Province and along Mongolia. Along the way, you can earn back the silver that the court has rewarded the Mongolian nobles. ”

"Of the three, Your Majesty can also send people to follow, go deep into Mongolia, and also keep abreast of the movements of the Mongolian nobles at any time."

"Fourth, the Mongol nobles cannot be nomadic, life is becoming more and more corrupt, there will definitely be a time when they are short of money, and when the time comes, lend to them, not only to earn interest, but also to control them, and when necessary, in the name of asking for debts, to collect the pastures of their subordinates."

"Five, the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Smuggling is hard to stop. If you are good like water, follow the trend. ”

"Sixth, in the future expedition to Dzungaria, they can also borrow the power of these merchants to let them assist in transporting grain."

"Seventh, the merchants are more profitable, Shanxi is less, and Xijing is suppressed, and most of the silver is concentrated. If the DPRK is in urgent need of money, it can also follow the example of Westerners and issue treasury bonds, which can be repaid slowly in the future with dividends from equity in case of emergency. ”

"Eight, such as tobacco and spirits, if they make everyone in the Mongol tribes drink heavily and smoke cigarettes, they can be sold for a lot of money every year, and they can weaken the people."

"The Nine...... For example, the pots and pans used by herders on a daily basis are wholesaled to Mongolian compradors, so that they can sell them in their territories for profit. In this way, the Mongolian poor people could be relieved of their resentment against the Han merchants, who only hated their leaders for oppressing and mistreating the compradors. lest its leaders in the future take advantage of the merchants' profits to stir up contradictions between the two clans, so as to seek self-reliance. ”

"In the future, we will fight by class...... Well, in the name of helping the small people, the herdsmen know that the Han officials are good and the leaders are evil, and the Han merchants are benevolent and the compradors are violent, and the system can be slowly reformed in the future. or take their fiefs to restructure the officials, and divide their pastures to dozens of small departments. ”

I was used to saying the four words that I almost blurted out, but fortunately, in order to help the small people, my heart was beating wildly and I was sweating violently.

In less than 20 years, there are footprints of Han merchants everywhere on the Mongolian plateau. Where there is a well, where there is a river, where there is grass, where there is sand, and even the personality, property, preferences, and family affairs of the chiefs of the tribes can be fully understood. ”

In addition, it is difficult for the Rakshasas to penetrate into Mongolia, the border is open and strictly controlled, and in the caravan accompanied by the secret agents of the Children's Army, even if the Rakshasas still have different intentions towards Mongolia, it is difficult to influence. Regardless of the righteousness of the Huang Sect, after all, it is still closer and more familiar with the caravan that meets day by day, and if it is in debt, it is even better to say. ”

"Control Mongolia with business, benefit the people with favor, and weaken the chief with luxury."

"Although my policy of controlling Mongolia is out of Houjin, it is very different from Houjin."

"The builders of the captives used the Manchu and Mongolian families to control the Han Dynasty, and they valued their nobles; I am the courtier, should benefit the people and make the old noble, slow to accept their hearts, the two thousand years of the Central Plains 20th class juke, broken Qianmo, abolished monks, fictitious fiefdoms, open the imperial examination, and suppress the merger of the wisdom - borrowed from the bottom and the system. ”