Zhang Houchun looked at Wang Cui, the secretary of the military department, Wang Cui nodded slightly, so Zhang Houchun also stood up,

As for the so-called mobilization, it is conscription, training, reserve officials, and increase the production of weapons and ships, in fact, the time for the real war between the two countries is set after November of the following year; And after November, the north is cold, so the time to really start the war may have to be Shunhe and the beginning of spring in the fourteenth year......"

For a moment, everyone in the Baohe Hall was stunned, Emperor Shunhe stared at Zhang Houchun earnestly, and then stared earnestly at Wang Cui, the secretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs, "The news is exact?" ”

"It should be exact!" , Wang Cui smiled bitterly; "At present, it is certain that the East China Sea Kingdom will not go to war before November of the thirteenth year of Shunhe, and as for what will happen after that, we can only guess; The winter in the north is cold, and the war is not so easy, so the minister thinks that the time of the war should be the spring of the fourteenth year of Shunhe, but there is news that the time of the war set by the East China Sea State is the end of the thirteenth year of Shunhe, so the minister is also puzzled; Maybe they were preparing to start a war from the south of the Yangtze River, but that would not coincide with their battle for the country, which made people puzzled. ”

Zhang Tinghe squinted at Wang Cui, "Where did the Ministry of Military Affairs get the news?" ”

Wang Cui smiled bitterly again, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Emperor Shunhe to ask for guilt, "Zhang Yuewang, a small official of the Ministry of Military Affairs, although his position is small, he often comes into contact with secrets, and he was seized when he copied secrets last night, and he was just interrogated from his mouth, and the minister has sent someone to lock up his family and chase down his comrades; According to his confession, he was a clerk in Yanshantang, the intelligence department of the East China Sea State, and was mainly responsible for ideological work. ”

Zhang Tinghe continued to squint, "What else did you confess?" ”

"It's gone, it's dead!"

"What? He's dead? What do you guys think of the bet?! ”

Wang Cui smiled bitterly again, "Zhang Yuewang was quite obedient when he was taken, saying that he was careless, and then confessed to these, the minister didn't think much about it when he saw his cooperation, who knew that he had the heart of death, and when the minister was careless, he suddenly touched the wall and died, and he couldn't be saved." ”

Emperor Shunhe took a sip of the teacup, and suddenly threw the teacup to the ground.

"It's Yanshan Hall dead again! How many dead did they bury?! ”

Emperor Shunhe coughed angrily, and the important ministers of the Baohe Palace had already knelt on the ground.

After a long time, Emperor Shunhe stopped coughing, raised his hand, and Zhang Tinghe immediately said to the ministers: "It's all up,—— Prince Beijing, what news do you have over there?" ”

Wang Shuirong of Beijing County hesitated for a moment and then stood up, "After receiving the news, the minister summoned the embassy personnel of the East China Sea Kingdom, and Hong Chengzhi, the ambassador of the East China Sea Kingdom to Beijing, said almost the same thing; They divided the matter into four phases, namely, the preparatory mobilization period, the mobilization period, the wartime period, and the post-war period, for a total of four years, and according to him, they separated military and political affairs, that is, whether the war was fought or not, everything else remained the same, except for military affairs; -- Trade, study abroad, mediation of maritime conflicts, migrants, salted fish, and food aid remain unchanged, even in wartime; Hearing what they meant by the war and the two ends, distinguishing between different lines, the minister couldn't understand what the situation of the East China Sea Country was arranged, and he was puzzled. ”

"Are you saying that they will also send salted fish and grain, and they will not stop sending them after the war?"; Wang Qingzhong, the head of the household, hurriedly asked.

"That's what it means, but from next year they will increase the amount of salted fish and grain; Next year, Donghai will deliver 300,000 tons of corn and 500,000 tons of salted fish to Tanggu Port, 30 tons of rice and 200,000 tons of salted fish to Yangzhou and Songjiang ports, and 300,000 tons of corn to Yinshan. ”

"Still don't want money?"

"I still don't want money, but Hong Chengzhi said that he hopes that the imperial court will increase the sales of cotton and linen, silkworm cocoons, tung oil, raw lacquer, pig bristles, tungsten ore and other materials in the East China Sea."

"What if they don't increase it, they won't send it?"

"No, they still send it, but it may be a little later to send food and salted fish."

Hubu Shangshu Wang Qingzhong was stunned, "What the hell is the idea of Donghai Kingdom?" I have never seen such a war since ancient times! Don't they still want to poison the food? ”

"Yes, they have nothing to do, they are either traitors or thieves, and they will send food over during the war, and they will definitely do something with the food!"

An unknown person picked up the words, and immediately there was a chorus of approval, and the Baohe Hall finally became lively, and the unanimous speculation was to insult the evil intentions of the East China Sea Kingdom.

Shui Rong frowned when he heard this, and coughed fiercely, but it wasn't until Emperor Shunhe patted the imperial case that everyone quieted down;

Shui soluble words are finally willing to listen to it, "As soon as the war starts, it will definitely be a beacon fire of thousands of miles at that time, Yanbei must be the top priority, in the opinion of the minister, a little more food and a little less will not affect anything, we are not short of military food, but more food can prevent disasters and prevent floods and droughts in various provinces, and the prime minister of the East China Sea must also understand this, and should not do anything with food and salted fish, so the minister pondered that they wanted to have a big war between soldiers and generals, and did not want to involve the people too much; ”

"The elite soldiers of the northern battalions have been trained for many years, and there are even many veterans who have experienced the first battle of the Junggar Hejing in the past few years, so for the imperial court, in fact, what we lack now is not the elite soldiers, but the lack of advanced weapons. Guan Ning's general Shen Shixi often hugged his head and cried when he talked with his ministers, lamenting that countless soldiers often fell under the bullets without even seeing the face of the enemy, and died extremely unjustly; So the minister still said that food is not important, what matters is weapons, a large number of weapons, advanced weapons! ”

"That's it!" , Shen Shixi also stood up, "Recently, the East China Sea soldiers have used a large number of new cannons, and the shells do not sound after they land, but they emit green smoke, and they are either dead or injured when they hear it, which is extremely vicious; In the past, the soldiers relied on the tunnel earthen fort to fight against the East China Sea soldiers, but who knows that it has been more difficult to fight recently; The minister hopes that the Iron Department will copy some of their shells and rifles as soon as possible, but the Iron Department always gives us torch guns, so what's the matter? ”

Liu Biao, the secretary of the Ministry of Iron, hurriedly stood up, "The Ministry of Iron's newly made rifle eight CDs have been given to the armies of Gyeonggi, how do you want the Ministry of Iron?" For this reason, all the battalions of the Luying and Daxi Battalion have impeached the old man for favoring the Guan Ning Army, and they are about to tear the old man to his bones, Shen Shixi, you have to be a conscience, don't be gnawed by dogs! ”

"Speaking of conscience, last year, the Guan Ning Army asked the Iron Ministry for 100,000 rifles, but the Iron Ministry has only given 30,000 rifles so far, what is the matter if you give me 200,000 torch guns? Not a single shot has been fired yet, and the East China Sea soldiers have fired a hundred shots, how do you want the Guan Ning army to fight, take the bones to fill in? ”

"The barrel is not enough, what can the old man do? The rifle barrel is difficult to make, the rifling has to be pulled, the Ministry of Industry has few gun-making masters, and the Ministry of Iron can only make more torch guns, and nearly two million guns have been produced in recent years, supplying various armies, Zhennan Jiedu Feng Yunshan, Weinan Jiedu Qiansen, all know that the imperial court is not easy, try their best to understand, why do you have more stories here? ”

"If you want me to say that the rifle should not be rifled, it is serious to give more medicine!" , Wei Xi Jiedu Supervisor Bao Yan stood up, "Qingyang Hou has already said, rifling is not good, don't make it, it's serious to make more rifles, the torch gun only fights fifty or sixty steps, the rifle is more than a hundred steps, and there is no rifling is the accuracy is worse, but you have to give more, right?" ”

"You are the ones who want rifling, and you are the ones who don't want rifling, what do you want about the iron department? The Ministry of Industry gave so many masters who made gun barrels, how many rifles could they make? Besides, the torch guns, medicines, medicine packets, hand fire mines, small artillery, fire cannons, mortar cannons, and even the red-clothed general's cannon iron department are all desperately built, why are you staring at the rifle? Is there an end? ”

Liguo Gong Liu Biao was angry, and someone from the Ministry of Industry also stood up, "You all know that the barrel is difficult to make, it is not easy to train a master, the Ministry of Industry has given all the masters who can be given to the Ministry of Iron, Taiyuan is still expanding the number of professors of masters, and Hanyang has set up a new Ministry of Engineering School to teach gun-making technology, but talents are rare, the Ministry of Rites and Officials can not provide any talents, the Ministry of Industry can only find its own way, it is already the best to do its best, but it is not to blame the Ministry of Industry!" ”

With such a mixture of the Ministry of Industry, all the ministries began to mix together in an instant to accuse and abuse each other, and the Baohe Palace once again became a "vegetable market".

Now the loss of honor in front of the emperor is no longer a serious political event, because many times it is impossible to judge who is right and who is wrong, and it is often impossible to judge who is in front of the emperor, and this time it is the same, Emperor Shunhe has long been unclear, what Zhang Tinghe can do is to calm down the ministers and continue to discuss, in order to find some solutions.

The Baohe Palace, which had been suppressed by Zhang Tinghe, finally quieted down, Emperor Shunhe thought for a long time, and suddenly said a sentence, "The great change that has not been seen in three thousand years, who can tell me where the thread of this great change is, and how to solve it?" ”

Wang Cui, the secretary of the military department, took a step forward and was about to open his mouth,

"Don't tell me about the East China Sea Kingdom, you understand that the thread I asked is not the East China Sea Kingdom!" , Emperor Shunhe blocked Wang Cui with a sentence in advance, so Wang Cui had no choice but to retreat.

Li Lingyu, the Grand Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department of the Cabinet, hesitated for a long time and finally stood up, "The minister has figured out some truths, maybe it is the thread of this three-thousand-year-old change, but the minister does not dare to say anything." ”

"I forgive you for your innocence, speak!"

Li Lingyu kowtowed to Emperor Shunhe but didn't stand up, "The minister has often read the books of the East China Sea Kingdom recently, and some things are more and more reasonable, but he has no understanding of my dynasty, and the minister is more and more confused, and he is in great pain!" ”

"In Yichen's view, the source of the great changes that have not been seen in 3,000 years is actually two things, one is the land, and the other is the study of things."

"Since ancient times, the royal family and scholars have ruled the world together, the world is the emperor's, and all the scholars and doctors, the people obey the scholars, loyal to the scholars, and the scholars serve the emperor, so they rule by hanging the arch, and the world shares peace, since ancient times; But now the East China Sea Kingdom has divided all the land, and the people have all become scholars, and this change has doubled the national strength of the East China Sea State; ”

"The ministers have always talked about serving the country, being loyal to the king and loving the people, but the soldiers can't beat the East China Sea country, and their minds are evil, and they have listened to the heresy that the East China Sea country divides the fields and land, and would rather go home and divide a few acres of land, and live a stable life with a wife and children, rather than fight on the battlefield, so they will have no fighting spirit, no morale, and no war will be cowardly by three points. In the first Guanning war, the 120,000 Guanning army still fought bloody after 40,000 were killed, and now, a battalion with thousands of people went out to fight, and two or three people died and then retreated, shouting that the enemy was strong and unwilling to fight, so how to fight in the future? ”

"Xiao Shi sent a letter to his ministers from Jiangnan, mentioning that he hated the spies of the East China Sea Kingdom very much, and they widely spread the heresy of dividing the land and dividing the land, so that the peasants in the south of the Yangtze River discovered that the East China Sea spies ignored them and let them spread, making it more and more difficult for the court to suppress and kill; Wei Kan wrote to his ministers from Zhejiang that he had captured a spy from the East China Sea, and before his death, he shouted, 'If the court does not divide the fields, the court will die, and if the court divides the fields, the country will die', Wei Kan was shocked and fell ill, and is still lying in bed;

"Regardless of the field, the landless peasants are the potential enemies of our dynasty, how can they kill the light? How to stabilize the country? If the fields are divided, then the doctors of the whole country will immediately become the enemy of our court, how can the country be safe? ”

"Another thing is Gewuxue, since ancient times, Confucianism has ruled the world, read the four books and five classics, and practiced the three outlines and five constants, talking about loyalty to the monarch and love the people, but the East China Sea Kingdom just got a new study of Gewu, shouting that it was to defeat Kong Laoer, and the line was to fly away, which made people not understand, but they were very strong; The imperial court issued two academic policies, advocating the new study of things, but why has it not been able to raise any talents so far, the emperor is puzzled, you are also puzzled, and the ministers are also puzzled, but now the ministers have figured it out, and they have all learned the new study of things, so where can the ministers and other people who have read the four books and five classics all their lives go? If we really implement the new study of things, we will actually lose the hearts of thousands of scholars and scholars in the world, how can this be done? ”

"It is said that in recent years it has been a great change that has not been seen in three thousand years, where the great change comes from, each has its own saying, the minister is ignorant, thinking that the source is because of these two things, and if you solve these two things, then everything in the world can be solved, but how to solve these two things, the minister is stupid, and he can't think of a proper solution, but I am thousands of scholars, gather the wisdom of the world, and maybe be able to solve this difficulty."

After Li Lingyu finished speaking, he kowtowed again, and the blood on his forehead flowed all over the ground, and the Baohe Hall was quiet again.

Emperor Shunhe sighed deeply, "You get up, I also know about this, but it's not as deep as you think, now it seems that the source is really these two things, but this is also an unsolvable problem, no wonder you, hey......"

Shui Rong hesitated for a while, and then slowly stood up, "Actually, it's not unsolvable......"

Emperor Shunhe suddenly came to the spirit, "There is a solution? Kuanzhi, hurry up and talk about it! ”

Shui Rong slowly knelt on the ground, and Zhang Tinghe was stunned, "Could it be that there is something unspeakable about the prince of Beijing?" ”

Shui Rong said, "Actually, the solution was not thought up by the minister, it was said in a letter from the Seventh Master a few days ago,"

"Seventh Master?" Zhang Tinghe was stunned,

"Seventh Master? Are you saying that the seventh is writing again? Emperor Shunhe almost stood up, and then Emperor Shunhe felt that he seemed to be too impatient, so he sat up straight, "Kuanzhi, get up, the previous things are over, I have never complained about Lao Qi, can you tell me what Lao Qi said?" ”

"The letter is from the seventh master, but I don't know if the method is thought out by the seventh master, if it is said that a few years ago, the method on the letter is really a good way, but now the time is not right, the East China Sea is about to go to war, now the state is difficult, the country is seeking stability, it is not easy to make big changes, otherwise the method on the letter may as well give it a try."

Kuanzhi is a water-soluble word, but few people have shouted it except for Emperor Shunhe.

Shui Rong knelt on the ground and did not get up, but continued, "In the name of the imperial court, the land was redeemed from the landlords and gentry, and then sold to the peasants, and the annual harvest of the land was used to offset the principal and interest of the peasants to redeem the land, so that in one or two decades, the land was distributed to the peasants in large quantities, and the landlords and gentry recovered their wealth to facilitate the transformation into industrial and commercial trade; In fact, the greatest wealth of the country is not in the hands of merchants, but in the hands of landlords and gentry, and it has become dead money, which is the fundamental reason why the imperial court has rewarded industry and commerce for many years, but has been ineffective; If the annual profit of farmland is calculated, then the profit of industry and commerce can be ten, and the profit of foreign plunder by the military state can be hundreds of thousands, this is the experience of the rise of the East China Sea in recent years, what the imperial court should do, in fact, should be to guide the landlords and gentry to gather wealth, and gradually turn to industry and commerce, so that after one or two decades, the landlords and gentry will gradually transform into capitalists, and the peasants will gradually turn into hired workers and small businessmen, and then the national strength of the imperial court will be doubled. ”

"As for the new study of things, it is also solvable; The imperial court can increase the number of scientific examinations, a major examination every year, and increase the proportion of new learning year by year, until the new learning and old learning account for half; The imperial court encouraged new learning, and under the same conditions, after giving priority to the admission of the noble gentry every year, this not only appeased the nobles and scholars, but also increased the enterprising spirit of the people, and maintained the stability of the dynasty; In this way, if the rule of the imperial dynasty and the scholars and doctors is shared in the world becomes a new situation in which the dynasty and the capitalists share the world, the dynasty will become stronger and more stable. ”

"It's just that these methods would be good if they were ten years in the morning, but now the timing is not right, and the minister can't weigh them!"

"The timing is wrong? Why is the timing wrong? Emperor Shunhe hurriedly asked.

"War in the East China Sea is imminent, and it is not appropriate for the dynasty to change greatly, and it is appropriate to maintain stability at present!" , replied with water soluble.

Emperor Shunhe breathed a sigh of relief and leaned on the dragon bed fiercely, "Old Seven! This is well-intentioned......! ”

All the ministers in the Baohe Palace, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why, and there is silence again.

Zhang Tinghe looked at Shui Rong suspiciously, and pointed to the sky with his hand, "...... is the seventh master that the prince said?" ”

Shui Rong nodded silently, "So this king doesn't think that the method is like what the seventh master thought of, it may be that someone else said it to the seventh master, and now the big change is imminent, the seventh master suddenly came to such a letter, the lonely king feels that this idea is more like a pit, making people hesitate, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, but he dare not abandon it!" ”

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