"Grandpa Guo, you, are you joking with the little one?"

Jabs looked at Wu Sangui in surprise.

Wu Sangui sighed: "It's not a secret, I, the king of Pingxi, deserve a loss...... The old bottom is folded in, and I still owe a butt of loan sharks! What else does it mean? What do you think I'm trying to do? My sister-in-law is the queen, my brother and father are both national princes, and I myself am also national princes. And there is also the credit of defeating the rogue and offering Ganshaan, after handing over the military power and entering the court, I am afraid that there will be no glory and wealth? Why bother to fill this bottomless pit in Ganshaan? ”

He really wanted to run away and go to Nanjing...... There are too many debts to pay off! And the three hundred and thirty thousand households below are too difficult to serve, and all of them are like ancestors. When he turned back to Daming before, Wu Sangui had already pulled a butt of loan sharks to make up for the deficit to the thousands of households below.

But this year is another drought, and many thousands of households have reported no harvest! He had to find a way to relieve him, a great warlord...... And what can Wu Sangui do? Aren't you going to continue to borrow from usury?

Seeing that he was carrying more and more debts, Wu Sangui was really a little exhausted, and even thought of running away to Nanjing.

Oh, and it doesn't count as a runaway. By returning the copyright, he handed over the territory and population in his hand to the imperial court!

In this way, the loan shark he was carrying on his back could also be transferred out together. His usury was not owed for personal profligacy or gambling, it was all owed for the sake of being the damned king of the Northwest, and it was a "feudal debt", not a personal debt.

He thought that as long as he handed over the feudal domain, the feudal debt would naturally be handed over.

Even if he is "out of the house", he is afraid that he will not have glory and wealth after going to Nanjing? He is a hero of the Ming Dynasty! Without him opening the mountain customs to lead the Qing soldiers in, Zhu Cihong has three heads and six arms is also a dead end - without the Qing soldiers to kill in, Li Zicheng will sit firmly in Beijing's Dragon Court!

At that time, some people wanted to cut off Zhu Cihong's head and go to Li Zicheng to ask for merit......

And now he has returned to Daming with the Ganshan territory!

The two great achievements are combined, and you are afraid that there will be no glory and wealth?

His requirements are not high, as long as Zhu Cihong can reward him with a big mansion, give him tens of thousands of acres of land, and give him 100,200,000 taels of silver, and then give him a big official who takes money for nothing and doesn't work, he will be satisfied!

When the time comes, eat, drink and have fun with Chen Yuanyuan, and then do some business, isn't it good to be comfortable?

Jabbs listened to Wu Sangui's words, looked at Wu Sangui's expression again, and felt that this grandfather really had the intention of retreating - this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! As long as the emperor resolutely does not carry usury for him, he can force Wu Sangui to become a rich and noble prince. Most of the Shaanxi and Gansu territories will be returned to the hands of the imperial court......

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The news of Wu Sangui's attempt to evade his debts and throw the financial black hole of Ganshan to the Ming court was quickly sent to Zhu Cihong, who was about to leave Nanjing and go west to Wuhan, through Jinyiwei's network.

"Your Majesty, good news! Jin Guogong is willing to return the copyright! ”

This news was brought by the jubilant Zhu Chunjie personally to the East Warm Pavilion of the Fengtian Palace, and when he arrived at the East Warm Pavilion, Zhu Cihong was discussing the matter of the Huanghuai Great Work with the important ministers of the two prefectures.

The Huanghuai Dagong was put forward by Fang Gongyue, the governor of the river, and the specific idea was to "abolish Cao, control the Yellow River, and protect the Huai" -- the Huang, Huai, and Yun three rivers control project was actually one, and after the Yellow River south flowed south to seize the Huai, the Ming and Qing dynasties were faced with the dilemma of "protecting Cao" and "protecting Huai".

In order to protect the water, it is not possible to manually excavate the Yellow River into the sea north of the Huai River, or even to excavate the flood discharge channel on the east (north) bank of the Yellow River, so as to prevent the Yellow River from washing away the canal. Under the idea of "protecting the Yellow River first", the Huai River will inevitably become a victim - the Yellow River water, which carries a lot of sediment, can only rush into the Huai River! Moreover, when the flood peak of the Yellow River and the flood peak of the Huai River came at the same time, they could only force the water into the Huai River and do everything to protect the water transportation. After the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing, because it was necessary to protect the Cao Yun, the number of flooding of the Huai River increased significantly, almost once in two or three years!

In other words, although the rice transported to Beijing every year is only more than 4 million stones, the average amount of rice lost due to the flooding of the Huai River is at least 4 million stones......

Now Beijing is not in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Cihong no longer regards Beijing as the capital, so naturally there is no need to implement the water control strategy of protecting Cao and abandoning Huai, and there is no way to abandon Huai anymore - because now the Ming Dynasty has a large number of people and land is tight, and the food supply is unprecedentedly tight, once there is a large flood of the scale of Wanli 21 years in the Huai River, causing Huai'an and Yangzhou to lose their harvest, the trouble will be big, at least tens of millions of stone white rice will be lost......

At that time, the throne under Emperor Zhu's ass will have to be shaken!

Therefore, the policy of abandoning Cao was certain, and a plan to dig a 180-mile-long channel of the Yellow River into the sea in Suqian and Shuyang counties was proposed.

This is not a canal, but a large river that allows the water of the Yellow River to rush into the sea, and it will take hundreds of thousands of people and years to complete.

Now that Zhu Cihong has abolished the forced labor, and instead cashed it into the field endowment, hundreds of thousands of laborers who dig rivers and build dams can only be recruited through hired labor. Although according to Fang Gongyue's plan, he was prepared to adopt idle labor and hired labor from the three nearby prefectures of Huai'an, Haizhou, and Yangzhou, which had suffered greatly from the flooding of the Huai River, the cost of the entire project would still be as high as millions of stones (rice).

The finance of the first year of Hongxing is not enough to support this kind of big work, but when the second year of Hongxing, the five-year exemption of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other four provinces ends, and more than 100 million acres of private land began to pay the "two buckets of rice field tax" (according to the Ming court prepared to implement the field tax in the second year of Hongxing, "two buckets of rice" will be the highest standard, applicable to the high-grade paddy fields, and it is paid by farmers, without any miscellaneous fees), the Ming court can begin to comprehensively govern the Huang and Huai rivers.

In addition to the excavation of the new channel of the Yellow River into the sea, there are also the expansion and construction of embankments in the flood storage area of Hongze Lake, the relocation of ancestral tombs, the construction of embankments on the Huaihe River, the construction of embankments in the Xuzhou section of the Yellow River, and the construction of new channels into the sea of the Huaihe River.

If all the projects are completed, it will not only ensure the safety of the Huai River for decades or even hundreds of years in the future, but also ensure that the Huai River will not flood seriously under the condition that the Yellow River is artificially excavated by the Northern Qing Dynasty (the expansion of the Hongze Lake flood storage area is a precautionary measure).

It is no exaggeration to say that this series of governance projects is directly related to the survival and safety of the Ming Dynasty and is the most important national policy!

Before the completion of the Huaihe River project, Emperor Zhu did not have the spare financial resources to fill the bottomless pit in Shaanxi and Gansu!

Now that Zhu Cihong has listened to Zhu Chunjie's report, he just smiled faintly: "Wu Sangui still wants to escape debts...... No way! The hole in Shaanxi and Gansu has to be plugged with the acting king! ”

This is not a multi-million usury...... The hole in Ganshan is huge! Wu Sangui and Dai Fan have so many troops and so many heroes, they all have to be carried by Zhu Cihong, how much do they get? Moreover, there is no tax collection in Ganshan, and even the official fields and military fields cannot be recovered, isn't it a big black hole that is not satisfied?

If you really memorize it, how can you do it without tens of millions a year?

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Jin is willing to return the edition!" Shoufu Wei Zaode thought that Zhu Cihong didn't understand Zhu Chunjie's words, so he hurriedly reminded him.

Wu Jian, the secretary of the military department, was also stunned, and finally reacted, before stammering: "Your Majesty, dog, dog is not trying to escape debts...... The dog is loyal to Daming and His Majesty! ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Old Taishan, I know that the eldest uncle is a loyal minister...... But loyal ministers can't run away in debt! ”

"Your Majesty, Sangui is in debt for the country...... Moreover, he really can't do it yet! ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "It's okay, I have already sent Huang Jiang (soy sauce yellow), the chief manager of Haishang Bank, and Su Sheng (Su Laomi), the general manager of Yanshang Bank, to Wuhan, and they will help Changbo solve the debt problem."

As for the towns of the Ganshan Domain...... The feudal town does not have to be a separating power, but it can also be loyal to the imperial court! I trusted the eldest uncle and the acting king, so I would set up a feudal town in Ganshan to guard the place. ”