Three days later, in front of the Qi Mansion.

Liu Mingzhi held the little padded jacket and rode on the horse, and nodded to Qi Run and his wife!

"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, take care!"

The second elder nodded reluctantly: "Be careful on the road!" ”

The Qi Ya sisters in the carriage also said goodbye to their father and mother through the curtain, although they really wanted to live at home permanently, but the husband and his younger brother were busy with business and couldn't delay it for too long!

The three girls sat in the carriage, Liu Dashao, Qi Liang, and Liu Chengzhi rode on their horses, waved their whips, and said goodbye to Qi Run and his wife, and rushed towards the capital.

Everyone has no opinion on Liu Chengzhi, a little kid riding a horse, and even Qi Yun agrees with her husband's decision.

Spoiling children excessively is not necessarily a bad thing, and trying to ride a horse at this age is one of the necessary homework for every family child.

Lile riding and archery is the six arts of a gentleman, and in Dalong's view, a few years old children who can't ride a horse are the most failed education.

The young Liu Chengzhi began to slowly adapt to the bumps on the horse, and gradually mastered the rhythm and galloped with a horsewhip.

The little padded jacket and willow were wrapped in a thick little fox fur, snuggled in his father's arms, and clapped his hands excitedly: "Daddy, chase, chase!" ”

In the carriage, the Qi Ya sisters were also chatting with Wenren Yunshu, they knew that Wenren Yunshu was a little sad because of the old man's affairs, and tried every means to make him happy!

The group completely eradicated the speed at which Liu Chengzhi rode slowly towards the capital!

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Li Zheng slapped the fold in his hand on the dragon case, and his eyes scanned the civil and military officials below majestically.

"The Huyan tribe has established a royal court and respects Huyan Yunyao as a khan! The grassland is now about to melt the ice and snow, as long as it takes a month to become strong and strong, according to the report of the spies, now the Huyan royal court has a plan to move troops against the Sbith royal court, the unification of the grassland is what I don't want to see, what good way do you Aiqing have? ”

The civil and military officials glanced at each other, and none of them stood up to speak, because they couldn't guess the emperor's intentions for the time being.

The emperor's intention was to recover the Hetao Heshuo region before the unification of the grasslands, or to secretly prevent the unification of the grasslands, they are still unclear!

For a while, the civil and military officials couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic for the-stirring stick Liu Dashao.

You don't care about Liu Dashao's character, people are really favored, as long as they don't rebel against the emperor and bully the emperor, they won't mind!

"Bingbu!"

The emperor directly named Song Yu, and it was not good to stand still, and walked out holding the Chao Wat: "The minister is here!" ”

"Has the excerpt of the military department's plan to recover the Hetao Heshuo land ever come out?"

Song Yu took out a book from his arms and held it up: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has been prepared, please take a look!" ”

The chief steward hurriedly presented the recital to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng frowned and finished reading the fold in his hand: "The expedition in April is too slow, and it is necessary to recover the two places of Heshuo before the unification of the grassland, and now the alliance signed between me and the Huyan tribe has not yet expired, and it is clear that it will lose face to prevent the Huyan tribe, and the two places of Fuheshuo will be collected on March 15!" ”

Song Yu's face was embarrassed: "Your Majesty, if you set out on March 15, it will be extremely unfavorable for the transportation of grain and grass, and the opening of the army, the snow last winter was too big, and the ice and snow in many places in the north have not yet melted, and the consumption on the road may have to be doubled!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!"

Jiang Yuanming, the head of the household, walked out holding Chao Wat.

"Your Majesty, what Lord Song said cannot be ignored, the two places of Heshuo Hetao occupied by the royal court of Spis are also garrisoned by 200,000 iron cavalry, and the rest of the tribes can support at any time, if you want to recover Hetao and Heshuo, you need to mobilize 300,000 troops, no less than a northward trip, the supply of grain and grass is the biggest problem!"

Li Zheng frowned and looked at Song Yu and Jiang Yuanming: "Is there too little treasury silver?" ”

"More than 9,300,000 taels!"

"How can it be so little? Last year's tariffs were 12 million taels, plus taxes such as salt and iron were 36 million taels, and now there are 9 million taels left. ”

"Your Majesty, although the tax is a lot more, but the expenditure is even greater, the expenditure of the Western treasury under the General Army of An is a big hole, the big hole during Lord Liu's westward expedition has just made up for the snow disaster caused by a rare heavy snow in the past ten years, and it has spent more than seven million taels, and the six guards in northern Xinjiang are now not 300,000 defenders, but 730,000 guards, plus the soldiers and silver of the state capitals in various places are tens of millions of taels of expenditure!"

"The construction of the imperial tomb cost two hundred and twenty thousand one hundred and thirty-seven thousand four hundred taels of silver, stones, silver, food, clothing, housing and transportation, which do not need silver!"

"The war horses brought back by Lord Liu's western expedition are 300,000 horses, to build horseshoes, and the consumption of grain and grass for training war horses is a bottomless pit, and the consumption of 300,000 war horses is higher than the consumption of raising 900,000 troops.

"The remaining nine million taels of silver is still the family money saved by the old minister's repeated savings in various departments, if Your Majesty thinks that the old minister's housekeeper is inappropriate, Your Majesty will find another master!"

Li Zheng looked at Jiang Yuanming with a sneer: "Jiang Aiqing, can't I blame you for my mistake?" Don't be angry, don't be angry! ”

"Your Majesty can understand the difficulties of the old ministers, the old ministers are content, Lord Liu has formulated a lot of national policies before, and they have accumulated money for the treasury, but compared to before, the expenses are also larger, and the money is used everywhere, and His Majesty plans to recruit another 300,000 new soldiers, and the old ministers still don't know where to instigate it!"

"Now it's still a trivial matter to mobilize grain and grass, after all, the grain harvest across the country has changed for two seasons, and there are a large amount of grain in stock, but the soldiers always have to pay silver, and others who sell grain have stored grain and can't sell it, and this year's tax revenue can only be collected in June, and the old minister is also embarrassed!"

Li Zheng fiddled with the wrench on his thumb with an embarrassed face.

"It is impossible to disarm in order to go north in two years! After all, the unified grassland is by no means comparable to the fragmented grassland, and not having enough troops is very disadvantageous to Dalong! The most important thing at the moment is to recover the Heshuo Hetao area! ”

Jiang Yuanming pondered for a while and nodded: "Your Majesty, if you can quickly recover the two places of Hetao and Heshuo, the training ground of 300,000 war horses can be transferred, so that you don't need to spend grain and grass on the treasury, which is enough to save more than half of the expenses!" It's just that the troops must be mobilized in April at the latest, and it is really inappropriate to move troops on March 15! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is okay to move troops on March 15!"

Li Zheng's eyes lit up and looked at Wei Yong, who was out of the ranks: "What is Wei Aiqing's good plan?" ”

"Your Majesty, Lord Song and Lord Jiang are worried that it is only the expenditure of the treasury to support the army in the future, and the grain and grass do not necessarily have to be supplied by the imperial court, and the merchants who come and go in the northern Xinjiang market may not be able to take advantage of it!"

"Go on!"

"Your Majesty can issue a holy decree to let the merchants come and go instead of transporting grain, which can not only hide people's eyes and ears, but also reduce the difficulties of the imperial court!"

"Wei Xiang wouldn't plan to let these merchants deliver grain and grass for the imperial court for free, right? It's not realistic to think of those businessmen! ”

Tong Sansi stood up and looked at Wei Yong, the left prime minister, inquiringly!

"Do you think this is inappropriate?"

"No!"

"Tong Xiang, without His Majesty's decree that the border gates and mutual markets are open to them to provide a place for trading, they will face the risk of being robbed by the Turks if they want to do business! With the convenience of the border and mutual markets, none of these merchants can make a lot of money, so it is not difficult for them to contribute to the imperial court! ”

"Don't talk about it far away, just talk about the situation of Hou Zhu Houye in Guannei, who in the whole capital doesn't know that the impoverished Zhu Houye is now rich and rivals the country, and he can earn this silver without His Majesty?"

Tong Sansi looked at Zuo Xiang Wei Yong indifferently.

"Since Wei Xiang hopes that these merchants will use horses to transport grain and grass to the army for free, will the Gu family, the Feng family, the Zhao family, the Liu family, the Zeng family, and the Chen family also participate?"

Wei Yong's face changed, these merchants are inextricably linked to him, Tong Sansi's words are to the end of his general!

Tong Sansi looked at the emperor respectfully: "Your Majesty, how much silver to earn is someone else's ability, the court requisitioned them and naturally gave them corresponding compensation, even if they can't pay it now, they will slowly pay it back, the merchants have earned money and paid taxes, wishful thinking, using morality to restrain them to contribute to the court for free, it is inevitable that some morality has kidnapped some!" And it will chill the merchants, the expedition is not a matter of ten days and a half months! ”

Li Zheng originally had a somewhat moved look, but after listening to Tong Sansi's analysis, he slowly suppressed it.

Relying on ethics to restrain merchants from transporting grain and grass for free is indeed not a good policy!

Ten days and half a month is still excusable, and the businessmen must have complained a lot after too long.

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