Chapter 61 4 The new Second Chancellor of the Exchequer

When did Tulayan rise to the Yaki court again? Libera was amazed by this, what had happened during her patrols?

It was only after his investigation that he found out about it. Tulayan's resurgence has his inevitability.

After Tulayan made an agreement with his father, Usubu, who used his extensive influence in Yaki's court, quickly found a position for Tulayan as a minor coordinator under Yaki's financial department.

It was a strange thing in itself that he should succumb to a small civil official as General Tulayanyaki, and it could be said that it was a great shame that no nobleman's son could accept, but Tulayan accepted it. Then he endured the strange and contemptuous gazes of his colleagues and silently began his work. Regarding this, it also made his father Usubu have a change of opinion about this son, originally he did this with the intention of teasing his son, as a senior politician, he still has doubts about his son's sudden repentance. If his son makes a big fuss and reveals his true form, he can use this to make some fuss. However, Tulayan is willing to live this life of being pointed at and poked, and the work at hand has not been left behind.

Usubu and Tulayan's colleagues soon discovered that perhaps they had all been wrong, that Tulayan was not even a second-rate general as a general, but that he had shown great talent as a civilian. Originally, what he was good at in combat was to make plans and arrange a lot of meticulous work, but in terms of actual combat command and response to the enemy, he was cold. But his meticulous thoughts on paperwork seemed to be like a fish in water, and the files that passed through his hands were always clear and unmistakable, and he himself swept away the style of his previous gentlemen. He became very industrious, his work efficiency was much higher than that of others, and he even proposed a number of ways to improve the bureaucracy in the organization, which made Usubu wonder if he had wrongly arranged for his son to become a general in the first place, and if he had been a civil official, he might have been in the Yaki court. Become your right-hand man.

With his father's change in his opinion, Tulayan's career began to go smoothly, and Usubu spoke with his son's achievements, and soon Tulayan was promoted. However, this was not the main reason why Tulayan entered the Yaki court, and on the eve of this expedition to defend against the attack of the Dilc bandits, the heavens gave Tulayan a chance to get in touch with the supply of Yaki's army.

This is a familiar thing for Tulayan, who was originally General Yaki, and what the troops needed. The quantity and the materials consumed are well known, but in the past, others showed him what they had done, but now he did it himself. Therefore, even civil officials with similar experience cannot be compared with him. Although this battle was a big defeat and loss, the logistics and supplies were very perfect, especially the besieged city of Effortans, even when the thief army finally surrendered, the food and weapons in the city were quite sufficient. This is not unrelated to Tulayan's work. As a result, although the battle failed, the officials in charge of the supply had to report Tulayan's merits to King Qadir.

To the credit of Tulayan. Kadir was somewhat surprised, but the more important point in his vision was other considerations, that is, since he had put Usub in the air, the power of the Usub party had indeed suffered a great blow, and at the same time, the power of the military minister Andrasius had risen rapidly. Originally, Kadir had set up Viscount Libera to fight against him, but Libera was not interested in political battles at all. Despite his high prestige in the army, he was of little help to Kadir in court struggles; At the same time, Kadir also hopes to take the opportunity of promoting Vulture to win over the High Priest Figor to check and balance, but Figor is certainly interested in intervening in politics, but he is dissatisfied with Kadir taking Vultures into his hands, and the Chief High Priest Barnadus is too sick to serve. His conflict with the other high priest, Ankadirmo, completely broke out, and he was completely incapable of doing so. In addition, Andrasius is not an idle person, and his keen political nerves allow him to clearly see the vacuum left by Kadir, and he spares no effort to spread his minions. For this reason, Kadir urgently needed a means to contain him, so that power would not be transferred from the Usub faction to the Andrasius faction. Tulayan's presence gave him this opportunity, and as the son of Usub, his proper elevation would obviously give a signal to Usubu's faction that the king was not abandoning them, thus rekindling their hopes of fighting Andrasius. Therefore, instead of remembering Tulayan, Kadir promoted him to the position of second chancellor of the exchequer, and could speak to him at any time.

These were all things that Libera learned afterwards, and he was somewhat unrelieved after listening to Kadir's introduction at that time. Kadir didn't notice Libera's distraction, and nodded to Tulayan: "Regarding the strategic issues after this defeat, Tulayan also has his own opinions, which are generally very close to what you said, so let him state his opinion, and then we will consider how to correct it." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tulayan bowed deeply, but with his left hand instead of his right.

Tulayan's opinion was very close to Libera's, except that the crusade against pirates was not yet included in the basis of his arguments. The difference was that Tulayan believed that the trade routes on the Eastern Front, while providing a lot of money, were not as important as trade with the West, especially the Franks, the kingdom of the gods. There are two reasons for this: first, the trade routes with the East are too long. Due to the long war with Arubania, this trade route was often blocked by Arubania, but fortunately, Arubania's navy was not very strong so that it was not constantly interrupted. However, the trade with Paz and Sindra was very long, and the large ships had to rely on the monsoons to make the round-trip, which meant that a trade took a year, and in order to obtain greater profits, merchants generally chose luxury goods to ensure that they made ends meet. This raises two questions, the first is that due to the volume of transportation, these things will also not sell very much, and they are not necessary commodities for the subunit; Secondly, once such materials are lost, the consequences are relatively serious, which means that it will take a year to replenish them again, and the current need for funds to restore the national strength of Yaji is very urgent, which is obviously an act of being difficult to save from the near fire. On the other hand, the distance between Frank and Yaqui is relatively close, and although it is separated by the Diqil Sea, Diqil has been calm and seaworthy for navigation for many years. The number of trips in a year is much greater than that of the eastern route, and the security is much higher. Therefore, trade with the Franks should be expanded first to alleviate the financial problem.

Second, regarding the trade with the Frank State, Yaki can not only benefit from the import and export of goods, but more importantly, the distance between the two countries is relatively short, and he can directly merry troops in the Frank State, and then supplement them to the combat sequence of the Yaki army, these armies can be directly put into the battlefield without the effort of training, and will not affect the labor force in Dao Yaki's own country, avoiding the shortage of labor caused by the large number of recruited soldiers, thereby increasing the deterioration of the economic situation. The only thing that needs to be laid down is the dignity of the Yaki country itself.

Listening to Tulayan's gushing words, Libera completely came to his senses, and he had to admit that Tulayan's insight had changed substantially like a caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly. After Tulayan finished speaking, he spoke: "There are only two questions. First, the Franks do not have much friendly relations with us, so how can we guarantee that they will accept our requests for goods and mercenary soldiers? Second, how to solve the financial problem of supporting such mercenaries? ”

Tulayan thought for a moment and said, "The first issue should be a trade between countries, and it is the responsibility of the foreign minister to conclude it. The second question is, why don't you use mercenaries to open up the trade routes in the East first, and use the rare goods of the East as commissions, and those soldiers will gladly accept these goods that have multiplied after returning home, right? ”

Libera was unable to make a counter-argument for a while. Tulayan's vision is indeed very good, but will it really go so smoothly? (To be continued......)