Chapter 162: Act Ahead
Regarding Huang Taiji's plan to withdraw his troops, Sun Chengzong also truthfully reported back.
However, for this speculation, Zhong Rao's thoughts are naturally different, and he is naturally ecstatic about the cabinet members headed by Han Yi and the six Shangshu. After all, as long as Huang Taiji does not retreat, it is equivalent to a sword hanging over his head, which may fall at any time, but it is a bad result for Zhu Youxiao.
According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, a siege battle would have to last for at least three or two months, and now Huang Taiji had the idea of retreating from the army after less than half a month of besieging the city, which suddenly made Zhu Youxiao look down on Huang Taiji.
"Isn't it just that you lost thousands of people, why don't you spend more time around."
Although Zhu Youxiao's idea is somewhat suspicious of foreign enemies, you must know that if Jiannu exists, then the people in the economic area will suffer, but this involves a big conspiracy of Zhu Youxiao.
That is to use the siege of Huang Taiji to greatly weaken the power of the nobles, and even use Jiannu to confuse the entire North China and attack the commercial and trade activities of the entire North China, so that the Four Seas Commercial Houses can spread throughout the entire North China. Let the Four Seas Commercial House grow to the point where it can compete with the commercial activities of the southern scholars and occupy half of the entire Ming Dynasty. The Four Seas Commercial Bank is an important chess piece for Zhu Youxiao to save the Ming Dynasty, that is, to reform the entire financial system of the Ming Dynasty based on the Four Seas Commercial Bank.
"It seems that the plan must be advanced, if there is no external force of Huang Taiji, the consequences will be unimaginable."
Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the Nuanchun Pavilion, touched his chin and thought secretly.
As the saying goes, sooner rather than later, since it has been decided that he has already started to do this, Zhu Youxiao will directly go to school
"Omatomo, about the issue of the army's food and grass, has the emperor mentioned it recently"?
Turning his head to look at Wei Zhongxian, who had been well-behaved recently, he asked.
Because of the lesson last time, he didn't dare to speculate about Zhu Youxiao's mind at this time. Now Wei Zhongxian has become a person who will do what you arrange for me. Hearing Zhu Youxiao's inquiry, there was also a direct one-to-one.
"Emperor, for the problem of grain sound, Sun Da Skirt didn't get up too much, but the Hubu Shangshu Guo Da Skirt was mentioned a lot in front of the old slave."
Seeing that Wei Zhongxian seemed to be a little speechless and stopped, but he didn't dare to think about it, he glanced up at Wei Zhongxian.
"Whatever you have, here you are my slave, I am your master".
Wei Zhongxian Wenyan suddenly chuckled in his heart, calmed down, and then continued to receive.
"The old slave listened to the meaning of Guo Darao's words, and seemed to want to find out if the emperor wanted to open the inner palace again."
This is a bit heart-wrenching, after all, the grain is a major national event, and the internal money belongs to Zhu Youxiao's private property, although the general is not the king's land, and the handsome guest is not the king's minister, as the emperor, there is no clear boundary between public and private. But it's not good to speak outright, and take money directly from the emperor's money bag.
"The court meeting will be held tomorrow, you send someone to find Guo Yunhou and ask him to mention it at the court meeting."
Zhu Youxiao said lightly, Wei Zhongxian responded, and just planned to arrange for someone to go to Guo Yunhou, but before he could walk away, he was stopped by Zhu Youxiao again.
"By the way, now in the court, everyone thinks that the Four Seas Commercial Bank is your Wei Zhongxian's industry. In the Ming Dynasty, in the name of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, you donated a batch of grain to the imperial court, and sold a batch of grain to the imperial court at the current price. As for the reason, I will support the soldiers to fight against the Jiannu army."
Wei Zhongxian couldn't feel Zhu Youxiao's vein, and left with all kinds of doubts in his heart. When Wei Zhongxian returned to the Nuanchun Pavilion again, he found that Xu Xianchun, who had been one of the ten tigers under him, was also in the Nuanchun Pavilion, and seemed to be talking about something with Zhu Youxiao.
For these Wei Zhongxian, he didn't dare to easily inquire about any news, in fact, since Zhu Youxiao paid great attention to Xu Xianchun, Wei Zhongxian had no communication with Xu Xianchun at all, which can be regarded as a way of onlookers in the court.
After seeing Wei Zhongxian come back, the two stopped talking, which also seemed to indicate that there were some things that you Wei Zhongxian didn't need to know.
As the saying goes, don't look at what you shouldn't see, but Wei Zhongxian, who has long eyes, still inadvertently saw a thick recital on Zhu Youxiao's desk. In the end, it was obvious that he remembered the author on the desk of the school, but he handled it himself, and he didn't have this at all. If you are willing to think about it, you will know that this must have been handed over by Xu Xianchun.
Everyone is curious, and Wei Zhongxian, the author of this book, will naturally be full of curiosity. Of course, Wei Zhongxian didn't have the heart to check the content inside.
Fengdian is the place where the Ming monarchs and ministers hold court meetings, but since the emperor Taiji surrounded the capital, there has never been a court meeting here.
To this day, when the court will open again, the demeanor of the people is also in a variety of ways. Of course, compared to the anxiety of the mentality when the siege was just now, Zhong Rao's mentality seems to be much more relaxed now, and he seems to know that Huang Taiji is likely to withdraw from the army.
For Zhongrao's thoughts, Zhu Youxiao has also obtained it from Jinyiwei. This also made Zhu Youxiao secretly feel at ease, wanting to do a good job of the Ming Dynasty's secrecy system, such a major military secret, the cabinet and the six ministries know it, even the insignificant officials seem to know. In case one of them is a spy of Jiannu, once the news is spread, Huang Taiji will use this to lure the enemy, wouldn't it make the entire Ming Dynasty suffer heavy losses.
Due to Wei Zhongxian's notification in advance, Guo Yunhou was naturally the first to stand up and speak.
In fact, even if Wei Zhongxian didn't inform him in advance, Guo Yunhou had already planned to do so. After all, he had already cheekily asked Wei Zhongxian openly and secretly whether Zhu Youxiao had any plans to open the internal fund, naturally because the grain and grass in the army really couldn't support it for a few days.
"Your Majesty, now that the capital has gathered more than 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty, people eat horses and chew huge daily consumption, and I implore Your Majesty to open the internal treasury again."
Looking at Guo Yunhou's very serious expression, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh a little in his heart, if this guy is placed in the next generation, he will definitely be an actor. If you don't know, this is arranged by yourself, and you will definitely give him a gold man.
But what made Zhu Youxiao misunderstand, Guo Yunhou really didn't know that the mention of grain and grass was arranged by Zhu Youxiao himself.
It turned out that after Wei Zhongxian got Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, he did not have a clear understanding with Guo Yun. Instead, he told Guo Yunhou in his private capacity that he could mention the matter at tomorrow's court meeting.
Guo Yunhou didn't have too many doubts about this matter, after all, he had secretly inquired before, presumably Wei Zhongxian naturally knew what he meant in his heart.
Although Zhu Youxiao wanted to laugh in his heart, the expression on his face still had to be pretentious, and he couldn't let others see it. Suddenly, there was a frost on his face, and he seemed to be very dissatisfied.
"I remember that half a month ago, didn't I just allocate 500,000 taels? Why did it run out so quickly in just ten days"?
"Your Majesty's 500,000 taels, although it seems like a lot, but it is really divided, and there is not much at all. The military salary alone has removed 350,000 taels at once, and you must know that many of them have not been paid for the army for several months, is it possible that His Majesty still intends to let them go hungry to fight for the country."
Zhu Youxiao has been speechless by Guo Yunhou, and he opened his mouth several times but stopped talking. couldn't help but glance at Wei Zhongxian who was standing beside him with hatred.
"Lao Tzu didn't let you arrange it, why Guo Yunhou is like taking gunpowder, is this acting, or does he really want to take himself seriously."