This is not a question that can be explained in a single word. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao didn't mean to delve into it, and said after a moment of silence: "Mr. is saying that you will transfer people to the Western Regions and let them farm?" ”

Zhu Houzhao is a king, and his perspective on the problem is not exactly the same as Xie Shen. The first thing he considered was whether there would be a secession rebellion in such a large number of immigrants.

When Emperor Taizu created this set of military household system, he referred to the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, Emperor Taizu was worried that the Ming Dynasty would repeat the tragedy of the division of feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, so he castrated the 'government soldier system' and abolished many of the core powers of the government soldiers. This also led to the military generals of the Ariake generation being suppressed by civilian officials and had no power to fight back.

Zhu Houzhao was not as vigilant as Emperor Taizu about military generals, but his instinct still told him that military generals were a dangerous group, and if they were not used well, there would be a big mess.

Of course, it is good for immigrants to go to Kansai to reclaim the Western Regions, but the first batch to go must be military households, and if they divide Guanxi, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to reach it.

"Sir, don't you think there won't be a rebellion?"

Zhu Houzhao held back for a long time, but still said it.

Xie Shen said in his heart, it turned out that His Majesty the Emperor's heart knot was here.

It's no wonder that people in high positions are somewhat suspicious of the people around them, let alone those generals who hold military power.

"Your Majesty don't have to worry. As long as there is land to plant, those military households who are reclaimed will definitely be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Reclamation, reclamation. The most important thing of nature is the earth.

As long as there is land, everything is easy to say.

The most important thing is that this land is not Zhu Houzhao's, as long as you draw a big pie and let the military households reclaim it themselves.

If he didn't make such a sure-fire deal, Xie Shen would really have to doubt the IQ of His Majesty the Emperor.

In fact, the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties was a very reasonable system, and as long as it could ensure the adequate distribution of land, the dynasty could continue to prosper.

This is why the Tang Dynasty has been constantly expanding its territory, especially to the Western Regions.

The territory of the Central Plains is so large, and after more than 100 years, the land has already been almost divided. And the government soldiers can't get land, so naturally they have no motivation to serve, and the system is going to die.

If the Tang Dynasty had not encountered the heyday of the Great Food Empire at that time, perhaps all the way to the west, the entire Chinese history would have gone in a different direction.

The Ming Dynasty now faces almost the same problem as the Tang Dynasty.

More than 100 years after the establishment of the dynasty, land annexation was serious, and military households fled......

If the Hexi Corridor can be opened, the Western Regions can be reclaimed, and the land contradictions in the Central Plains can be transferred, perhaps the Ming Dynasty's national glory will last for hundreds of years.

Of course, it was the Son of Heaven who made the final decision. If Zhu Houzhao disagrees, Xie Shen will not be able to break his mouth.

Zhu Houzhao paced up with his hands behind his back, nodded for a long time and said, "What Mr. said is reasonable." It's just that Daming has always pursued the policy of guarding Jiayuguan. Just going out of the customs like this, I'm afraid it will cause the government and the opposition to boil. ”

Zhu Houzhao's worries are not unreasonable, and this is exactly what Xie Shen is worried about.

If there is anyone in the Ming Dynasty who is the most successful and more than defeated, it must be a civil official.

It doesn't matter what is right or wrong, it becomes wrong when it comes to them.

"Your Majesty don't need to worry about this. If they oppose it, let them oppose it, and the ministers have their own way of dealing with it. ”

Xie Shen is completely fed up with these civil officials. The death of the Ming Dynasty was at their hands.

"Yes, I listen to you."

With the flintlock pistol, Zhu Houzhao also has confidence in his heart, and if he is scolded by the civilian officials when he implements the so-called Western Regions Economic Strategy, he can at least return the mouth.

"Actually, it's very simple to shut up these civil officials."

Xie Shen thought about it, but decided to sacrifice this special skill in advance.

"Sir, let's take a look."

Zhu Houzhao naturally suffered from civil officials, and he heard that there was a way to shut up this group of old horsemen, not to mention how happy he was.

"Run a newspaper."

Xie Shen smiled slightly.

"Do... Report? ”

Zhu Houzhao pondered these two words repeatedly, but still didn't understand what they meant.

Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor looked at him suspiciously, Xie Shen explained: "It is the imperial court that runs some newspapers similar to Di Bao and publishes some articles. It's just that most of the newspapers are government decrees, and these newspapers should have more lace articles. ”

"It's... What is a lace article? ”

Xie Shen took the trouble to explain to His Majesty the Emperor, and Zhu Houzhao's cheeks flushed.

Xie Shen pretended not to see it, and continued to talk eloquently: "What the people want to see most, let's write in the newspaper." What Li Shangshu broke his sleeves, Zhang Shilang picked up the ashes, and wrote whatever was hot. ”

Zhu Houzhao looked at Xie Shen dumbfounded, and he couldn't tell in his heart that Mr. Xie was so sullen......

Being taken care of by Zhu Hou was a little hairy, Xie Shen couldn't help coughing.

"Ahem, of course, the newspaper is just a trump card, it plays a deterrent role. If these civil officials are obedient and obedient, they will naturally be able to say anything. If they are unhappy and oppose the implementation of the New Deal, the newspaper run by His Majesty can naturally copy some lace articles. ”

What are the officials of the Ming Dynasty most afraid of? Nature is a rumor.

The reason is very simple, almost all officials have something unsightly to see at some point.

embezzlement, bribery, and even the seizure of people's daughters, broken sleeves......

For the Ming officials, who cherished their feathers more than their lives, publishing them in the newspaper was tantamount to killing them.

When the Donglin party struggle was at its worst, weren't those tricks used by officials? If you want to take out a political opponent, you need to destroy him in a moral image.

Because once the moral image is ruined, the person is also ruined.

Of course, Xie Shen didn't want to rely on this to cut off dissidents, as he said, the newspaper was just a trump card. Civil officials are obedient, naturally hello, hello, hello, everyone. What Xie Shen hates the most is that you work your side, and a group of colleagues with pink eye are stumbling behind your back.

It was impossible to expect the civil servants to overcome their bad habits on their own, so Xie Shen put a spell on them to help them correct their bad habits.

The reason why I chose a government-run newspaper is also a helpless thing.

In a feudal dynasty like the Ming Dynasty, where imperial power is supreme, isn't the newspaper not official tantamount to rebellion?

Maybe the imperial court couldn't react at first, but when it did, the person who ran the newspaper would definitely die.

Rather than waiting until the newspaper was banned and the newspaper office was seized, it was better to limit the power to run the newspaper from the beginning and let the imperial court run it!

Anyway, the imperial court already has a mansion newspaper, and there is no shortage of experience.

This thing is used to make an example of chickens and monkeys.

Now there are too many monkeys in the court who don't know the height of the sky, and if you don't give them some color to look at, these clowns will definitely turn the government upside down.

For them, they can't do things themselves, and they can't see others do things, and the only way to do it is to treat others in their own way.

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Of course, it is a bit difficult to get His Majesty the Emperor to make a decision right away.

Xie Shen didn't use force, leaving enough time for the Son of Heaven to think about it.

After leaving the leopard room, Xie Shen came to the cabinet to discuss the dredging of the canal with Gu Dingchen.

The fugitive hermits unearthed by the landlord and gentry were enough to desilt the canal in the Zhili section, but the Shandong section was still in a state of chaos.

"Jiuhe, Your Majesty has issued a holy decree ordering those fugitive hermits to go to the river to clear the dredging, and the work of the Zhili section should not be worried. What I'm most worried about right now is that the river will be opened. ”

The so-called Huitong River refers to the section of the canal from Linqing to Dongping in Shandong.

The geographical location of Linqing is very special, just on the edge of the Yellow River, where the Yellow River and the Grand Canal meet. (The Yellow River has been diverted many times, and the current Linqing is not on the edge of the Yellow River, but it was on the edge of the Yellow River during the Ming Dynasty.) Therefore, the imperial court took Linqing as the boundary, divided the north-south canal, and set up a banknote customs here to collect taxes on ships.

For a while, Linqing became an incomparably prosperous town.

But prosperity also has its troubles, because the proximity to the Yellow River and the large number of ships passing through the river have deposited more and more silt, raising the riverbed, and now large merchant ships are no longer navigable. It can be said that the Huitong River from Linqing to Dongping needs to be dredged more than the canal in the Zhili section.

But perhaps because the emperor is far away, the prefect of Linqing does not pay much attention to this matter, and there is still no movement.

Xie Shen saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

"Yes, the second assistant's worry is also Gu's worry."

Gu Dingchen also frowned and said: "The local government doesn't take the imperial decree seriously, and the atmosphere of yang and yin has to be changed." Gu was ready to invite His Majesty to Linqing to supervise the dredging of the canal. ”

"Good, great good!"

Xie Shen was overjoyed when he heard this. Gu Dingchen showed a very high ability when he renovated the Zhili section of the canal. If he goes to Linqing, he will be able to sweep away the drunken atmosphere and rectify a new atmosphere.

"Jiuhe will definitely succeed in this way, and I will wait in Beijing to celebrate your success!"

"With the help of auspicious words, Gu will definitely do his best."

Gu Dingchen said in a harmonious voice.

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Linqing Mansion, Shandong.

In the palace, the prefect Zhao Mengqing was playing with a teapot.

Behind him stood two beautiful maids, one squeezing his shoulders and the other beating his back.

From time to time, Zhao Mengqing stuck to the beautiful maid and took a deep breath, letting the aroma pour into his mouth and nose.

Although Zhao Mengqing is only the prefect of the fourth grade, he is the emperor of the soil in the realm of Linqing.

That feeling of power in your hands is intoxicating and forgetful.

If there can be a county in the world and Suzhou that are richer, it must be Linqing.

As the dividing point between the north and south of the Grand Canal, the confluence of the Yellow River and the Grand Canal, it is a transit hub of course.

In addition, the imperial court set up a banknote customs here, and ships had to pay taxes, and silver naturally poured into the treasury.

Although all this money must be finally sent to Jingshi, according to the "rules", the "fire consumption" must be eliminated.

The so-called fire consumption is the loss in the process of transporting money, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is the part of the local officials who are greedy for ink.

The imperial court naturally knew about this, but it also turned a blind eye. Because the magistrate will not swallow the fire alone, but will send charcoal and ice to the Beijing official every year.

It's a good word to respect. People respect my conduct, and you can't call bribes when you give things out, right?

Hello, I'm hello, everyone, in this way, the Beijing officials and the local officials are in collusion, and half of the tax money is filled with private pockets.

Among them, the biggest loss is naturally the imperial court.

But the court was helpless. Ten officials and nine greedy, take a batch of new people or take it right, tossing and tossing is useless. In the end, the imperial court also figured it out.

As long as the local government escorts the tax money into Beijing as scheduled, the dirty things done by the local officials will pretend not to see it.

Zhao Mengqing came to Linqing for only two years, and he embezzled a full 300,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to one-seventh of the annual income of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, such a huge amount of money came not only from the tax silver, but also from the silver taels for the construction of the river embankment.

For this reason, Zhao Mengqing also ordered someone to build a special silver cellar and hide all the silver from the greedy ink in it.

Seeing that his three-year term was approaching, Zhao Mengqing couldn't sit still.

It was too conspicuous to carry so much silver twice at a time, so he ordered people to transport the silver to his hometown of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province in batches.

Now that most of the silver in the vault has been removed, it should be shipped in the remaining three months.

Zhao Mengqing was more than fifty years old before he became the prefect of the fourth grade, and there is basically no possibility of climbing up, and the only pursuit is to make money.

He thought that if he released another official, he would go to the book and beg for bones, and an official of his level would not be retained. After making so much money, Zhao Mengqing just wants to enjoy life and go to his mother's career, what's the use of power? In the end, it is not replaced.

Only money is the most useful, with these hundreds of thousands of taels, Zhao Mengqing can enjoy the rest of his life luxuriously.

"Proprietor, it's not good, it's not good."

Master Wu Lian walked into the house with a sad face, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed when he saw the scene of the beautiful maid waiting.

Zhao Mengqing coughed and said, "You two go down first." ”

The two beautiful maids gave Zhao Mengqing a blessing and respectfully retreated.

After the two went out, Zhao Mengqing said in a deep voice: "Say, what happened?" ”

Wu Lian sighed and said, "Master, Lord Qincha is coming to Qing!" ”

"What!"

Zhao Mengqing's body shook and almost fell off the official hat chair.

"You said that the Qin mission is coming to Qing? Is this true? ”

"Proprietor, what have I lied to you. Lord Qincha has now set off from Jingshi, and will arrive in Linqing in a few days. ”

"It's... Who is Chincha-sama? ”

All the local officials were disgusted with the Qincha, but if the Qincha had to come to stop him, he couldn't stop it.

It is the most correct thing to inquire about the preferences of the chincha in advance and give them what they like.

"When the third scholar of the dynasty, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Gu Dingchen, Lord Gu."

Bachelor's degree?

Oh my boy, that's so rare.

Generally, the Qin mission is selected from the six ministries, and it is rare to choose people from the cabinet.

This can only prove one thing, His Majesty attaches great importance to the matter of river dredging.

"What does Lord Gu like?"

Wu Lian is naturally very clear about his old man's temperament. He must have wanted to get away with offering a gift to the Chincha.

"This Lord Gu doesn't seem to have anything good."

"How is that possible!"

Zhao Mengqing flicked his sleeves and said: "Everyone will be good, or greedy for money or lustful, or both." He Gu Dingchen eats whole grains, how can he not eat the fireworks in the world? ”

"Proprietor, I'm afraid this Lord Gu is really a weirdo who doesn't eat fireworks in the world. This person is not only greedy for money and not lustful, but also upright and upright, and it is impossible for him to show favoritism! ”

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