The seventh day of the ninth month in the autumn of the second year of Yanhe.

In Jianzhang Palace, it has just rained, and the palace is a little slippery.

Zhang Yue walked in it, watching and listening to all directions, and always remained silent.

Two days ago, his eldest son, Zhang Ge, held a grand bow-holding ceremony at the old Jianwenjun Mansion.

There were hundreds of guests who watched the ceremony, and even the Son of Heaven, the queen, and the crown prince sent envoys to watch the ceremony and gave heavy rewards.

And after this ceremony, Zhang Yue will go on the expedition again.

Yesterday, the Son of Heaven had officially issued an edict ordering Zhang Yue to use General Yingyang to carry out the history of Liangzhou's assassination.

It seems that it is just a title of a mere assassin, but in fact, it gives Zhang Yue the privilege of operating and fighting in the Liangzhou region, controlling the Liangzhou county, and governing internal and external affairs.

Of course, for now, it is only with this official title, and the essence has not changed, the Western Regions and the Xiongnu are still Li Guangli's meal.

Zhang Yue only gained the power to operate in Hexi, and had the power to mobilize, control, and dispose of the military and political resources of the four counties of Hexi, as well as the entire Liangzhou.

However, it was still Li Guangli's duty to wage war with foreign countries and fight against the Xiongnu.

Of course, if Li Guangli can't hold it, then it's another matter.

"General ......" At the gate of the greenhouse hall, Guo Sui greeted him and said with a smile: "You are here, Your Majesty is waiting in the side hall......"

Zhang Yue looked left and right and asked in a low voice, "Why is the atmosphere in the palace so silent today?" ”

Guo Sui's face was a little stiff when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he seemed to feel that he definitely couldn't hide it from Zhang Yue, or maybe he felt that if he didn't say it, others would say it, so he said: "Earlier, there were a few little eunuchs in the palace, and they did some taboo things in private, and they were all killed by the rod for Your Majesty to detect, and Your Majesty ordered the slaves and maids to strictly investigate, and these days, many similar things have been found......"

"Your Majesty is furious because of this, and has ordered the Duke of Jinwu Han to enter the palace to supervise ......"

Zhang Yue listened and became curious, the affairs in the palace have always been handled by the palace itself, and it is rare to transfer Jinwu or Weiwei or Taichang people into the palace, so he asked, "What have these people done?" ”

"The matter...... It's hard to say......" Guo Sui lowered his head, a little embarrassed: "The general should know that the eunuchs in the palace are all ...... with the punishment of the silkworm room."

"However, when the palace is lonely, some old eunuchs will oppress the new eunuchs, humiliate and oppress them, and let them wait for the women in clothes to do the good of Longyang, and even ......" Guo Sui lowered his head: "Three wives and four concubines like a folk ......"

When Zhang Yue heard this, he laughed, and sighed in his heart, sure enough, the city will play!

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not surprising that such a thing appears in this palace.

Especially in today's era, the vast majority of eunuchs, because of the shortcomings of rotten punishment surgery, actually cut off not small hooks, but small eggs.

In other words, they still have a big eagle......

Naturally, it is taboo to do this kind of thing in the palace, and if you find out, you will definitely have all the participants dead.

Moreover, it will definitely be very big.

After all, if someone is playing Longyang now, will they reach out to the palace maid or even the concubine in the future?

And, as an edict, Guo Sui has a great responsibility in this matter.

Now, as things ferment further, the pressure on him is also increasing.

For fear of involving oneself and causing death, I am also very careful.

Zhang Yue, who asked a few more words and knew something inside.

The cause of this incident was a small yellow door surnamed Dai, who privately regarded a new eunuch surnamed Wang as his own ban.

As a result, the little eunuch surnamed Wang was looked at by another veteran eunuch because he was handsome and white-skinned.

The two competed, detonated the matter, and alarmed the above.

It is said that these people play very wildly.

Long Yangjun's things back then, but Ji Cao.

Many operations that later generations were familiar with, and the eunuchs before the Western Yuan also played thieves.

What ice and fire, Dulong, dazzling, difficult to look at.

After Zhang Yue knew, he could only say that your circle was really chaotic, and the base was invincible.

However, this matter has nothing to do with Zhang Yue, but it may affect the entire palace inside and outside, maybe the next time he comes back, the system of the Han family court will change greatly.

followed Guo Sui all the way into the greenhouse hall, and the Son of Heaven was already waiting for him.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Yue stepped forward and saluted.

"The general is here, sit!" The Son of Heaven waved his hand and asked Zhang Yue to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Qing knows, right?" The matter of the good news ......"

"Hmm!" Zhang Yue nodded, Lingju's good news was delivered to Chang'an by the messenger in the early hours of this morning.

As soon as this news appeared, it immediately detonated the whole city!

Although, the people of Chang'an City actually looked down on the Qiang people, and they never regarded them as a threat.

But in the current situation, the end of the Lingju war can be regarded as a great news for the monarchs and ministers of Chang'an and the people.

The end of the Lingju War was equivalent to relieving the Han army of the embarrassment of fighting on two fronts.

Countless resources, manpower and material resources can be transferred from the direction of Lingju to Li Guangli's army.

The Son of Heaven smiled, handed a copy of the note to Zhang Yue, and said, "Let's take a look at ......."

He said: "It's still Aiqing's strategy that works, it doesn't take much effort, and it causes more than 100,000 people in Qianghu to kill each other, and the money spent by the state is just money, and the cost is at most only the cost of the eleventh war!" ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the future wars could be like this?" ”

Yes, how nice would it be if the Hun problem could be solved with money?

It's a pity......

Zhang Yue took the note, looked down at it, and wrote down the general situation of Ling Ju.

This note was reported by Pham Minh Huu, and the things mentioned in it are the details and current situation since the start of the war in Lingju.

Judging from Fan Minh You's description, although the Han army won the offensive and defensive battle of Lingju, it did not win easily.

The periphery of the beacon was completely destroyed, and in the offensive and defensive battle that lasted for more than 20 days, the Han army suffered more than 10,000 casualties.

Captain Huqiang, more than 3,000 soldiers before the war, has lost 30% of the battle until now.

The reinforcements of Beidi and Longyou also lost thousands of people.

A large amount of grain and grass, countless materials, ordnance, innumerable.

Shaofu and Dasi Nong alone, the value of the money and silk transferred and leveled exceeded tens of thousands.

In addition, tens of thousands of people and young people were mobilized to escort the war in Lingju.

These are just expenses, not the cost of ordnance and manpower.

And the Han army's captures and gains were few.

Except for getting twenty or thirty thousand heads and tens of thousands of prisoners, surrendered Qiang people, and Yueshi people, there was nothing.

You also have to spend money on food to feed these people.

It's really a big loss!

At least in Zhang Yue's opinion.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but have some opinions about Li Guangli.

The general of the second division, in the final analysis, is still too selfish and too vanine.

If he hadn't wanted to compare, and had used Zhang Yue's strategy at the beginning, Ling Ju wouldn't have had to spend so many materials and resources at all.

Luntai City may not have to fall, and maybe even the Han army has already celebrated the victory under Luntai at this moment.

In the final analysis, historical limitations kill people, and selfishness kills people.

Before the national war, he was still thinking about the gains and losses of personal interests, which was stupid and bad!

The Son of Heaven looked at Zhang Yue and asked tentatively: "Qing thinks, how to ...... the matter of Lingju now" He thought about it, and finally came up with a statement: "So that the treasury can recover some losses?" ”

This majesty has reached the level of hysteria when it comes to the madness of money.

There is no way, in the past few years, the country's fiscal deficit has been big and hole-in-the-box.

Especially this year, Hexi has been fighting on two fronts, and construction is being carried out in China.

The treasury has been wiped out.

Originally, Zhang Yuemo's victory in the north made the country's finances much more comfortable, but with the war in Hexi, all the income from Mobei was filled in.

Shaofu and Dasi Nong took out the minting profits of Shanglin Yuan, the income from salt and iron, the income of Haiguan fish and salt, the field tax, and the money, but it was still not enough.

In the end, I had no choice but to move out the funds that were originally intended to be used to repair the Mao Mausoleum, the palace and the relatives of the reward sect, so that I could barely maintain my income and expenditure.

However, at this point, the treasury and the inner treasury are already poor enough to run mice.

In the second half of the year, Shaofu and Dasi Nong didn't know who to go to for the expenses of the project to introduce Huai into Bian.

The pensions, expenses and rewards of the Luntai War, I don't know where to find the money?

If it weren't for Zhang Yue's hope, the Son of Heaven would have even planned to levy more levies or find businessmen to fight the autumn breeze.

It's a big deal, let's say goodbye again and increase the mouth.

Zhang Yue listened, thought about it carefully, and then said: "Your Majesty, the minister may try to turn the battle of Lingju into a profit......

"Turning a profit?" The Son of Heaven had never heard of this word, but when he heard it inexplicably, he became moved and excited, and he immediately asked, "Will the general plan be released?" ”

Zhang Yue then sat upright and said: "The ministers heard that in the middle of the river, the water and soil are fertile, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles, and now there are tens of thousands of prisoners in Lingju, and countless people have surrendered to Chengqianghu, if Your Majesty uses it as a force, and opens the land of the river......"

"If you manage it properly, you can get millions of acres of arable land, harvest millions of stones of corn every year, and pay tens of millions of taxes!"

"In addition, the minister has heard that the Qiang people are good at shepherding mountain sheep, and their cashmere and wool can be used for wool spinning......"

"In the West Sea, how many Qianghu are millions?"

"If you drive the Qiang people and arrest them, they will be the slaves of the river, and the land of the river will be opened to future generations!"

Well......

The current Hehuang area is not the Qinghai and Gansu provinces that had serious soil erosion and overdevelopment in later generations.

It is a place of beautiful natural scenery and lush vegetation.

Although the Yellow River washes over the soil along both banks of the river day after day, soil erosion continues to increase.

But overall, the situation is manageable!

Besides, Zhang Yue still has space, and a poplar tree found from Mobei has already been cultivated in the space.

After cultivation, this poplar tree has become a plant that specializes in strengthening water and soil and has a well-developed root system.

In addition, Zhang Yue can also select several suitable plants in the local area for directional cultivation, so that they can effectively stabilize the water and soil.

If it does, then, if successful, the threat of flooding in the Yellow River may be reduced by more than half!

As long as the sediment in the upstream is reduced, then the sediment content in the middle and lower reaches will definitely be greatly reduced.

Without sediment, the risk of bank failure caused by siltation of the Yellow River is reduced by N times.

When the Son of Heaven listened, he was also moved.

Because this plan is really good and realistic, but the problem is ......

What about money?

Whether it is organizing the development of Qiang captives, or various infrastructure construction, it needs money!

Therefore, the Son of Heaven asked softly: "Does the general know that the treasury is now afraid that there is no money to come up with......

Zhang Yue listened, laughed, and bowed: "Your Majesty, why do you need the treasury to pay for this matter?" ”

"Your Majesty only needs to approve the ministers of the three, then the ministers are willing to make a military order, which can make the country not spend a penny, and sit on the benefits of the river, and even benefit countless profits!"

When the Son of Heaven heard this, there was such a good thing? Immediately, he said: "If the general can do so, Hugh will say three, thirty, I am willing to give!" ”

As long as he can make money, this majesty doesn't care about what the grass is and what the world thinks?

Just like he said back then: If you have extraordinary work, you must use extraordinary people! Translated: black cats and white cats, those who can catch rats are good cats!

As for the rest?

Whatever!

It's not like he hasn't done things under the pressure and discussion of the world!

In the past, there was the New Deal of the Yuan Dynasty, and then there was the Yuanguang War and the exclusive respect for Confucianism, and then there was the Yuan Ding Calculation, and the Incident of Discretionary Money.

Except for the failure of the Jianyuan New Deal, every other time the vested interests of the aristocratic landlords and landlords all over the world were pressed and rubbed on the ground?

The wailing of the defeated dog or something, he didn't bother to listen!

Zhang Yue bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Xu Hehuang's policy of unlimited fields, nobles, officials, businessmen, and people can all go to reclaim it, and the land it reclaims is like the story of Shangjun's 'reclamation order'......"

The Son of Heaven listened, thought for a while, and said, "I promised! ”

Isn't it just unlimited mergers?

There was no Han government on the Hehuang side, and it was essentially a vassal territory.

In the past, the Yueshi people were there, didn't they love how to play and how to play?

Nowadays, there is no problem in the system and law with the policy of allowing the nobles and merchants of the Han family to go to the local area to cultivate land, encouraging them to do so, and allowing them to demarcate the land to be reclaimed in accordance with the Shang monarch's reclamation order.

In essence, that side does not belong to the Han land, and the Han family has not really traveled to the local jurisdiction.

"Second, please ask Your Majesty to allow the people of Hehuang to have no limit on Yi Di Nu and Maiden, and allow him to be exempted from Yi Di Nu and Maiden for ten years!" Zhang Yue said goodbye.

The Son of Heaven also agreed without much thought, and said, "I will allow it!" ”

"Please Your Majesty, make the edict to the world, proclaim these two systems in the bamboo silk, and make clear their fifty years of unchanged law!" Zhang Yue bowed deeply: "If this can be done, the minister is willing to make a military order, and collect tens of thousands of fees without spending a penny on the country!" ”

If there is such a policy, it is not enough to encourage the nobles and merchants of the world to go to Hehuang to hoard land and open estates.

That Zhang Yue felt that the businessmen and nobles in this world were simply too kind.

What a good person!

Because, the chemical reaction produced by the combination of his two proposals and the last fifty years of unchanging law is tantamount to telling everyone clearly - do you want to be a big landlord who occupies an area of 10,000 hectares and has tens of thousands of slaves?

Do you want to be the Earth Emperor of the Lord of tens of thousands?

Come on, all dreams are in Hehuang.

Not to mention, Zhang Yue himself still has the aura of a golden signboard.

As long as it is clear, the development of Hehuang will be led by him, even if he is a fool, I am afraid that he will immediately sell his property and go to Hehuang to pan for gold when he sees these conditions.