"No." The ministers replied respectfully.

"In addition, next year I will decide to use troops against Donghu again." Zhu Youxiao's tone does not need to be questioned.

"Your Majesty, the Sui Dynasty exhausted its people's strength to build the Grand Canal, and successively used troops against Goguryeo and other places, resulting in the people's misery, the country's hardship, and the whole world turned against it. Now there is a danger of building captives outside the empire, natural disasters and plagues continue within the empire, and now His Majesty wants to use troops against Donghu, which is definitely not done by Ming Jun, and I am afraid that the empire will re-embark on the road of Sui death. Qiao Yunsheng said bluntly.

"During the Yongle period, the edict of Ping-Burma, Mubang, Mengyang, Burma, 800, Cheli, Laos, Dagura, Demasa, Qingding Ten Propaganda Division, after Yongle, the disputes between the Propaganda Divisions continued, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, only Mengyang, Cheli, Mubang, Laos, Burma, 800 Dadian Six Xuanwei Division, passed to my hands, but how many are left?" Zhu Youxiao asked sternly.

"A hundred years later, how will I go to see my ancestors and ancestors? It is true that the empire is vast and rich, but there is never an inch of land that is superfluous. One or two hundred years from now, our children and grandchildren will ask who threw this land away? What do you think they will say? Zhu Youxiao asked one after another.

"Hegao, do you say that today's living note will say that in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the emperor decided to use troops against the southwest, and Qiao Yunsheng blocked it, so that the thousands of miles of land lost in the southwest can no longer be recovered?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Minister...... Your Majesty, this is not what the minister meant, but now is not the time to use troops. Qiao Yunsheng's face flushed and said. Qiao Yunsheng didn't expect Zhu Youxiao to be on the line in this matter, people like him pay the most attention to reputation, even if it is a reputation after a hundred years, if he dies and is scolded as a traitor, he is afraid that he will not die peacefully.

"You don't want to be scolded as a traitor in a hundred years, and I don't want to be poked in the backbone after a hundred years, so the use of troops in the southwest will never change, and the territory lost in the hands of my Ming Dynasty must be taken back in my hands. The cost of this dispatch will also be allocated from Nenu. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Six comforts span thousands of miles, it takes a few years to use troops to end, and it is even more difficult to calculate the consumption of money, so the minister thinks that he can wait for the construction of the army to be pacified, and then use troops in the southwest." Han Yi stood up at this time and said.

"I decided to use troops against Meng Mi and Meng Yang first, and sent 50,000 beggars to recover the two places, after the recovery, Meng Mi, Meng Yang, and Mu Bang merged to form a new Burmese and Lao Cheng Xuan Political Envoy Division, Yuan Huazhong served as the governor of the Burmese and Laos Domain, and at the same time immigrated from Sichuan and Yunnan to Burma and Laos, taking advantage of the prosperity of the army, to implement the reform of the land and return to the river in Burma and Laos, to ensure that the Burmese and Laos Domain will always belong to the empire." Zhu Youxiao emphasized.

"The minister thinks that Donghu will not be destroyed, and when the army withdraws, Donghu will definitely violate the border again, and it will be difficult for the Burmese and Laotian feudal divisions to protect themselves." Han Yi said.

"I will temporarily leave 50,000 beggar troops in Myanmar to guard Myanmar and ensure that Myanmar and Laos complete the transformation and return to the river." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The minister still has something to play Your Majesty." Han Yi said.

"What?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Regarding the competition between Shanxi and Hebei and Shaanxi, the minister hopes to postpone the competition for another year until the end of next year." Han Yi pleaded.

"Accurate!" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

The purpose of Zhu Youxiao's competition is indeed to cancel Donglin Academy on the surface, and another purpose is to force the civil officials to clean up the scum in the team by themselves, if they are not willing to do it themselves, then he doesn't mind doing it himself.

The results of Shanxi's competition with Hebei and Shaanxi can be imagined, Shanxi is stronger than Hebei and Shaanxi in all aspects, especially in terms of taxation more than Hebei and Shanxi combined.

Although Shanxi abolished the salt monopoly, this part of the tax was enough to wipe out the newly increased land tax, and after the implementation of the 15th Five-Year Tax on merchants, Shanxi's commercial tax in just a few months was more than the tax collected in the previous year. Taxes have increased, and the popularization of three-year compulsory education in Shanxi is also very fast.

Zhu Youxiao believes that if Hebei and Shaanxi do not change next year, they will only lose even worse next year, and Shanxi is only just exerting its strength at this time.

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Now Huang Zunsu, Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian are all aware of this problem. Now Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian are discussing this matter in Xi'an Mansion.

"Floating hills, now is the time when we have to change, and if we don't change, we will lose even more badly next year." Yang Lian persuaded.

"Da Hong, where do you think to start?" Zuo Guangdou asked.

"First, rectify the rule of officials and promote officials; second, survey the field and spread it into acres; Third, the collection of commercial tax and the collection of mining tax. As for the establishment of township schools, it can be put to the back, without the support of the imperial court, it cannot be implemented in Shaanxi alone. Yang Lian suggested.

"It's okay to rectify the rule of officials and promote Xu officials, but as for the other two, I know how to start?" Zuo Guangdou said.

"We Donglin people take the world as their own responsibility, are not afraid of power, dare to discuss the government and are admired by the people of the world, how can we retreat because of the end of the matter today." Yang Lian said generously. Yang Lian knew what Zuo Guangdou was worried about.

"Shaanxi is different from Shanxi, when His Majesty was in Datong that day, he defeated the power of Lin Dan Khan, forcing the King of Jin to agree to cut the domain, and the King of Dai and King Shen were in Datong at this time, and the King of Jin agreed, and the two princes had to take the initiative to ask His Majesty to cut the domain, otherwise it would be absolutely difficult for them to leave Datong. And in Shaanxi, there are five princes such as King Qin, King Su, King Qing, King Han, and King Duan, especially King Duan is still His Majesty's uncle, and nearly half of the land of Shaanxi Domain Division is in the hands of the five princes and their families. Zuo Guangdou complained.

"Fuqiu, we can't move the five princes and their families, but we can still move the land of other people, so that we can at least shorten the distance with Shanxi." Yang Lian suggested.

"The collection of commercial tax can be levied at the rate of thirty taxes, but the mining tax was abolished with great effort by us, and it is inappropriate to restart it today?" Zuo Guangdou said.

"Ye Ge Lao once said that the East is difficult, the territory is suddenly broken, the wealth of the country can not be continued to Liao, and I have to ask for internal money from time to time, Ge Lao only understood the emperor's foresight, I also think that there is nothing wrong with the collection of mining tax, but it is not in the proper use of people, and now His Majesty has been transferred back to the garrison eunuchs of the three provinces, and the collection of Shanxi mining tax is responsible for the local yamen, and the previous drawbacks have been eliminated, it can be seen that the collection of mining tax is in the people, and not in this policy." Yang Lian retorted.