In the past three years, all forces have learned to look for Yu Guozhen's views from the "Minsheng Express" or "Xinxiang Daily", because the political and strategic decisions of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee can basically be seen from these two newspapers The basis and reasons for its decision-making can be seen. In other words, these two newspapers are actually the vane of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee.

Under the cooperation of the two newspapers in the north and the south, the question of the scope of China was discussed. After countless times "since ancient times", the core scope of China has been roughly confirmed, that is, including the Central Plains, Jiangnan, Lingnan, Liaodong, Sichuan-Yunnan, Ganlong, and Yunnan. In addition to the core area, there are also the "inherent territories" of China, which include the former Han Dynasty Suwu Shepherd Hometown (present-day Hubei Baikal Hubei) to the north, the hometown of Nuergandusi to the northeast, the Lingling and the Broken Leaf City where Li Bai was born in the northwest, the Wusi Tibetan Dusi, the Duogandusi and the Tufan vassal states to the southwest, Annam and Luzon to the south, and Korea, the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyus to the east. The core scope and inherent territory should be effectively governed by officials appointed by the central power of China, and the policy of complete sinicization should be implemented, so that all ethnic groups can retain their own customs and culture, but they must use Mandarin as the unified lingua franca and Chinese characters as the only official language.

Outside of these two places, there is still a sphere of strategic interest for China, that is, it includes the surrounding areas, as far north as the vast tundra and forests of the Arctic Ocean, as far east as the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the Americas, as far south as a large piece of land called "Toad Island" by the Xinxiang newspapers, and to the west to include the whole of Persia. The Chinese people naturally enjoy the best treatment, that is, all the courtesies that the laws of the country can give.

This is a very bold plan, in this plan, Liaodong is the core area of China, so now the Jianyu who lives in Liaodong has only two choices, either obey the dispatch of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee headed by Yu Guozhen, or get out.

"Be quiet. Because of one thing, the messenger sent by Jianyu has been expelled. Yu Guozhen stretched out his hand and pressed down, and everyone suddenly fell silent.

"Expulsion?"

This word is on everyone's mind. Even if he is prejudiced against Yu Guozhen, such as Shi Kefa, he admits that Yu Guozhen has a domineering and heroic spirit that is rarely seen by ordinary people, and in the past three years of negotiations. Although the forces of all parties were honestly present, they were engaged in nonsense during the specific negotiations, and they had to make every inch, but Yu Guozhen was extremely tolerant, so that this quarrel continued, and there was never a precedent for driving out the envoys of either side.

Now they have driven away the messengers of the captives!

"Yu Jimin, can you tell me why you drove away the Jianyu Envoy?" Shi Kefa asked.

"The messenger sent by Jianlu was Sun Zhiqi, who shaved his hair and braided it, and served Jianlu's supplementary clothes, and it is said that his people also wrote a letter to Dorgon to shave his hair. Our consultations, while inclusive and open to people of all views, do not include livestock. Yu Guozhen said calmly: "Moreover, Jianyu sent such a person, which is obviously humiliating to me." So I'll fight back appropriately. ”

What Yu Guozhen's "appropriate counterattack" means, everyone knows clearly.

Li Zicheng, who was properly countered in the last place, did not spread the news after his death, but it shook the whole country with the newspapers.

Shi Kefa originally wanted to delay the process of the meeting by criticizing Yu Guozhen for driving away the envoys, which was a common trick of the small court in Jinling in the past three years, but it was Sun Zhiqi who was driven away. He knew that something was wrong, and when he learned the reason for the expulsion, he was even more speechless.

Sun Zhiqi once went to Yu Guozhen's side to sell arguments and seek officials, but because he was unwilling to start from the grassroots level, he was snubbed by Yu Guozhen. He threw himself into Jianyu in a fit of rage, and sure enough, he was very valued by Jianyu Dolgon, and was even appointed as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites. In response to Yu Guozhen's forcible promotion of Chinese characters, he wrote to Dolgon, demanding that all officials under the puppet Qing Dynasty, regardless of Han and Manchu, wear Manchu clothes and shave their hair in braids.

Dolgon felt that since Yu Guozhen advocated the promotion of short hair cutting and wearing short clothes, then they did not shave their braids and wear full clothes. However, Yu Guozhen only preached, but not compulsory, so except for the forced shaving of short hair for the sake of hygiene and cleanliness in the army, other people decided for themselves according to their own preferences, and no one was allowed to force it.

Naturally, if the adult people want to shave their hair, the old people are not allowed to interfere.

But Jianyu is different, they are arrogant and arrogant, and a group of traitors such as Sun Zhiqi who are eager to take shortcuts have gathered below, so there is a threat of "keeping your head without hair, leaving your hair without leaving your head". Of course, with Yu Guozhen here, they only dared to threaten, and they had not yet done a real large-scale massacre, but this made Yu Guozhen realize that the opportunity to clean up the prisoners had come.

"Let's not take care of Jianyu first, and then let's discuss the Yangtze River shipping route and the dredging of the Yellow River. The decision of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee to dredge the floods of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River is to solve the flood problem for a relatively long period of time and to extend the transportation distance of these two waterways. ”

No one would deny this, especially the small court of Jinling. A wry smile appeared on Shi Kefa's face, if he denied this, he would be immediately deposed after he returned, and someone else would negotiate with Yu Guozhen. The reason is very simple, the biggest source of income for the small court in Jinling was the agricultural field tax and salt tax, but under the impact of Xinxiang commodities and the strong resistance of the gentry, only the salt tax was still a ride, but with the opening of the Yingge Salt Farm in Hainan and the Budai Salt Farm in Dayuan, the cheap and high-quality Xinxiang Salt has been hit and there is no market for Huai Salt. So now it is the tariffs from the Xinxiang cargo ships that occupy the bulk of the income of the small imperial court in Jinling.

It can be said that without this tariff, half of the forces present here would not even be able to pay their salaries, let alone buy new weapons to train elite soldiers.

"Our initial plan is to spend 10 to 15 years. The completion of the dredging and dam reinforcement works of these two rivers will result in a total investment of 1.77 million gold dollars, with the first two years of surveying and mapping and preparation ......"

When Yu Guozhen spit out the unit of 1.77 million gold yuan, the whole room was in an uproar.

According to the exchange ratio of Xinxiang, one gold dollar can be exchanged for one hundred silver dollars, and one silver dollar is equivalent to one or two hundred pieces of pure silver, 1.77 million gold dollars. This means that 177 million taels of silver, the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty, was only about 36 million stone of grain, calculated at the price of one tael of silver and two stones of rice during the Wanli period. The annual income of the Ming Dynasty was 18 million taels of silver, that is, 180,000 gold yuan. Even if it is calculated at the peak of the Ming Dynasty with an annual income of 30 million taels, it is only 300,000 gold yuan.

This calculation is inaccurate. It can be generally seen that the courage of this project proposed by Yu Guozhen is equivalent to the first five to ten years of finance of the Ming Dynasty, all of which was spent on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

"Military Strategy Committee...... Can you get that much money? Someone asked worriedly.

It was Li Yan who asked, and the first thing others pondered was how much they could profit from this huge income, and Li Yan considered whether this huge project would drag down Xinxiang's finances. If it will be dragged down, then it means that the five-year contract he agreed with Yu Guozhen can be postponed again.

"Don't worry about money." Yu Guozhen smiled slightly: "Our consultation meeting is the first time to open in Xinxiang. Therefore, everyone is new to this place, and when they see the situation in Xinxiang, they don't have to worry that the committee can't come up with so much money. Continuing with my proposal, I will send a total of 135 survey teams in two years. To measure the hydrological conditions of the main arteries of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and some of its tributaries, all parties must facilitate them, including the protection of personnel safety and the cooperation of local officials, and the committee will give a corresponding reward according to the number and time of reception of personnel by all parties - can there be any objection? ”

According to the usual practice, when Yu Guozhen asked if he could have any objections. This means that any dissenting opinions or supplementary opinions can be raised at this time.

"I disagree." Shi Kefa stood up, he was not used to being like Xinxiang, everyone sat around the long table, so he had to get up every time he spoke: "All places along the river must be surveyed and mapped, but what about the sailor camp?" ”

Yu Guozhen laughed slowly: "Naturally, I also have to survey, Mr. Daolin won't think that I am taking the opportunity to spy on the situation in the naval camp, you should know that this is meaningless to the Military Strategy Committee." ”

Shi Kefa's face turned red, but he had nothing to say, so he could only sit down.

Indeed, what is the situation in the naval camp of the small imperial court, it is meaningless to Yu Guozhen, if the equipment of the two armies is still in the same era, then the equipment of the navy is not the same era at all.

"In that case, the proposal was passed." Yu Guozhen saw that no one had any objections, so he made a final decision: "Next is the second thing, about the revision of the Three Emperors' Ceremony, you should have also seen it from the newspaper. Huaxia Taoism, since the beginning of the Three Emperors, and as for the present, the sages of the past dynasties, the text is circulating, although the Ming Dynasty compiled the Yongle Canon, but only three parts, the chapters are also inexhaustible, so in order to inherit and carry forward the Chinese Taoism, Xinxiang has been preparing to compile the Three Emperors Canon. Now that the preparatory work has been halfway through, but a large number of well-educated people are still needed, therefore, please recommend people from all parties to come here, and they must be really well-educated, the kind of pedants who can only do eight shares, there is no need. ”

The second thing was passed without surprise, and then the third thing was the promotion of food crops such as potatoes and corn. Shi Kefa saw that Yu Guozhen was concerned about such things, but he felt uneasy in his heart, because he always felt that what Yu Guozhen did seemed to benefit the country and the people, but in fact it contained evil intentions.

After Yu Guozhen proposed five things in a row, Li Yan proposed two things, and the envoy sent by Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing proposed another thing, Shi Kefa also proposed two things. First, Jinling should open a scientific examination, and all localities should be given convenience to scholars participating in the imperial examination, and second, all parties should take care of the people's livelihood, cultivate literature and literature, and reduce the number of troops.

The former is okay, the latter is clearly a temptation of Xinxiang, and everyone's eyes are focused on Yu Guozhen's face, wanting to see how he reacts.

After three years of recuperation, does this tiger still want to continue to hibernate?

(To be continued)