Chapter 446 Soldiers, Wealth, and Mouth

In the past few days, Yang Reform has been summoning ministers to make the final sprint.

Liu Yanyuan, the secretary of the military department, has been living a good life recently, in his tenure as the secretary of the military department, outside the gate, Liaodong won the battle, and surrendered the big pirate leader who attacked the city and plundered the land in the southeast, and the northwest was such a heavy natural disaster and there was no large-scale peasant rebellion, these achievements, but they were all achieved in his office, although it had little to do with him, but, as a participant, as the secretary of the military department, how could not bypass him, so he followed the emperor with peace of mind, Enjoy these honors and achievements with peace of mind, in his opinion, if there are some merits, such as completely eliminating the Eastern Prisoners or something, then, with this merit, he will not know whether he will enter the cabinet, which he did not dare to think of before.

Today, he received a summons from the emperor and came to see the emperor happily.

"Bow to your majesty!" In the Dongnuan Pavilion, Liu Yanyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, came in and saluted.

"Excuse me, sit down." Yang reformed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" Liu Yanyuan, the secretary of the military department, sat on the round stool with his heart in his heart, leaned forward slightly, and made a listening gesture.

"Liu Bingbu! This year's war is almost over, in general, it was my Daming who won, you did a good job, you didn't disappoint me, you have a great achievement! ......" Yang said.

"Your Majesty Quannai Shengming, the minister is just assisting His Majesty, and he doesn't dare to take credit!" Liu Yanyuan immediately replied, to be honest, he is not a person who is a secretary of the Ministry of War, and he doesn't know anything about military affairs at all, but the previous secretary of the Ministry of War was unlucky to step down, and he picked up a bargain, but he thinks he is lucky, it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, someone understands, the emperor understands, Sun Chengzong understands, that's enough, as long as he does what the emperor says, and does it according to the emperor's strategy, he will know everything about the war in the world, he can win, and he will have merit, which is enough. He thought that he was just a scholar before, and he didn't know anything about war, but he had a lot of fights with the emperor and Sun Chengzong, and he also had some understanding of military affairs, and now, he can be regarded as a person who knows military affairs.

"Your merits, I keep in mind, the cabinet is discussing the merits of this year's northern war these days, you try your best to assist, in order to settle the merits as soon as possible, I think, the soldiers must be looking forward to getting the reward they deserve as soon as possible, so I have to work hard for you, in addition, I promised to make up for the lack of performance in the first half of the year, I made up half of the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year, I am also ready, and it will be sent to the soldiers at the latest at the beginning of the month, so that the soldiers of the world will be happy and happy, and have a good year, I will breathe to you first, so that you can have a letter and be ready. Yang said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the soldiers will be overjoyed when they hear it!" Liu Yanyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately turned red, looking like he was drunk, this kind of thing to sell good to the soldiers of the world, it was his turn again, last time, the good thing of sending 800,000 sets of cotton clothes to the Beijing camp of the border army was presided over by him, and it was reported in the palace, and it was blown badly, as if the cotton clothes were sent by him, which really made Liu Yanyuan have a much-anticipated addiction, and now his Liu Yanyuan's name is also well-known in the world, and his popularity among the soldiers is also quite high, and in the minds of the soldiers, it also has weight and status, this secretary of the military department should be happy, far more happy and moisturized than his previous military department secretaries.

"Can Liu Bingbu think about next year's war? This year, it is my Ming Xiǎo who has won, Donglu has not hurt his muscles and bones, Donglu must be unwilling, and he will definitely come again, what countermeasures does the military department have? Yang Reform asked with a smile, this military department does not understand soldiers, this point, Yang Reform is very clear, however, one thing is good, he is on his side, this is enough, it is really inconvenient for him to mobilize people and soldiers without his help.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Ministry of War also learned from Your Majesty, made a sand table, and made a deduction, and the minister felt that it was still the same as this year, and the simultaneous action on the front of thousands ......of miles made it difficult for the East to take care of it, so that as long as His Majesty's entanglement strategy was continued, it was enough to consume the East Captives" Although Liu Yanyuan did not understand military affairs, he had also seen a lot of the emperor and Sun Chengzong deducing the war on the platform, and he also knew the emperor's countermeasures, and he also had some spectrum in his heart.

"Not bad! It seems that Liu Bingbu has still worked hard, yes, as long as my Ming Dynasty continues to be in this entangled state, so that Dongyu cannot produce, or it won't be long before Dongyu will be exhausted, and it will collapse without a fight. Yang Gengai said with a smile. Yang Reform really wants to train an army to kill Dongyu in one go, and win the victory after a bloody battle with the wild boar skin, but all kinds of comprehensive situations show that this is not realistic, and he can't afford to make such a big bet, and he has more important things to do, to borrow military prestige, to establish military prestige to do other things, so he must be cautious, and maintaining a Xiǎo victory is the wisest for himself. When the domestic batch of people who pull the back tuǐ is solved, it is not too late to solve the wild boar skin. ,

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment!" Liu Yanyuan said in his heart: This is a strategy set by Your Majesty, as an imperial party, the minister naturally follows Your Majesty, whatever Your Majesty says, the minister will do anything, this ass does not dare to sit crookedly, and he wants to come up with something to deal with Dongyu, is it realistic?

"There are also interests on the side of the Eastern Captives, and the captive chief Huang Taiji fought with me this year, and he must have understood my intentions, so he will definitely destroy my strategy by any means, so he must not do it." Yang reformed.

"Your Majesty is saying that the East Captives will secretly destroy?" Liu Yanyuan asked in surprise.

"Yes, the captive chief Huang Taiji is not a good person, he will definitely not be captured, and he will definitely destroy my strategy by unscrupulous means, this point, the military department can pay more attention to this, don't spoil my plan for the Eastern Captive, in that case, it will be difficult to clean up the Eastern Captive, and it is impossible to say that the situation will take a sharp turn." Yang reformed.

"This ......, the minister obeys the order, but this, the minister is stupid and ......, and he really doesn't know how to prevent the tricks of the Dongyu......" Liu Yanyuan really couldn't figure out what else the Donglu could do, and he was afraid, if the war outside the customs was repeated, or it was an unfavorable situation, he would be the secretary of the military department to the end.

"How many means, I am not a captive chieftain, and I don't know, but there are some that can be guessed, for example, the above table is peaceful, showing weakness and attaching these tricks, it is not difficult to guess......" Yang Gai said with a smile.

"The minister understands, this Dongyu has indeed done this several times before, and now the minister listens to His Majesty, and only then does he understand that this is just a trick of Dongyu to delay time, and he is here to deceive my Ming, in fact, Dongyu has no intention of suing for peace at all......" Liu Yanyuan explained to the emperor, and immediately realized.

"Yes, I am in the court, some ministers don't understand the problem, thinking that if the Donglu sues for peace, show weakness, everything will be fine, you can enter the warehouse, and the horse will be released in Nanshan, and the result is the trick of the Dongyu...... this is just one of them, and how many means there are, and the Dongyu will come out to know, so how to prevent the tricks of the Dongyu, Liu Bingbu must be ideologically prepared, anything related to the Dongyu, Liu Bingbu, must always be vigilant!" Yang Gai said.

"The minister obeys the order, the minister understands, he must be vigilant, do not let the Jiān plan of the Dongyu succeed, and swear not to give up if he does not destroy the Dongyu." Liu Yanyuan immediately said.

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I talked about it to this soldier who doesn't know how to soldier. Next, it's time to go to the household book.

Bi Ziyan stood in this Dongnuan Pavilion, very uncomfortable.

"Sit down!" Yang Gai was dealing with the recital, and when he saw that Bi Ziyan was saluting, he asked Bi Ziyan to sit down.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" Bi Ziyan sat down on the round bench.

"Can the household department pay back this year?" Yang Gengai asked first.

"Back to Your Majesty, thanks to Your Majesty's open source, you can afford to spend it, and there is a slight surplus!" Bi Ziyan said here, not proud, but blushing, if it is in the face of any previous emperor, can settle the accounts of the old year, this is definitely a great achievement, his ability is definitely worthy of praise, but now he has such an emperor who knows nòng money, his own credit in front of the emperor is not enough, in comparison, it is too inferior, every time Bi Ziyan faces the emperor, he is very uncomfortable, the emperor has the grace of knowing himself, but he can't share the emperor's worries.

"What's the surplus?" Yang Gai said while dealing with the sparseness.

"Back to Your Majesty, I can have about fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver surplus." After Bi Ziyan finished speaking, he buried his head.

"Fifty or sixty thousand? Well, that's a little less! Jing Zeng didn't think that with such a big empire as my Ming Dynasty, the treasury could only have a surplus of tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, was this abnormal? Once something happens, what can these tens of thousands of taels of silver do? "Yang Reform asked the core question, the Ming Dynasty is a unified empire, but the taxes are frighteningly low, and the surplus of the treasury is also frightening.

"In this ......, the minister is ashamed of His Majesty, and he failed to manage the household department for His Majesty, please punish Your Majesty!" Bi Ziyan said.

“…… It's not your problem, it's great to be able to balance this year's deficit,...... Ay...... Jing Zeng can think about it, is there any way to change it? I'm always like this, and I only have tens of thousands of taels of silver left in the treasury, which will be very dangerous. Yang Gengai wanted to make a comparison of how much money he had earned this year, but seeing that Bi Ziyan, the head of the household, was his own person, it was not good to slap his own face too hard, and he didn't say those ugly words.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is necessary to add salt, cut redundant soldiers, clear the hidden fields in the world, revitalize the tuntian, and locally, take the development of people's livelihood as the element of official assessment, and promote a group of officials who can develop people's livelihood......" Bi Ziyan began to express his own set of opinions. ,

Yang Gengai listened carefully, he is indeed a scholar of the household department, he is indeed talented, he can do it, and what he says is also well-founded, he is a person who can think independently and solve problems, and he is a rare talent, which is very different from many mediocre officials.

"Yes, I read that right, Jing Zeng is talented in this regard!" Yang Reform said approvingly, today is just to blow the wind on his own household book, but he didn't expect it, but he pulled out such a big pile of construction xìng answers.

"The minister failed to share his worries for His Majesty, and he was really ashamed in his heart, and His Majesty praised him, and the minister did not dare to accept it." Bi Ziyan said guiltily.

"Jing Zeng is thinking about how to change this situation, it is already very rare, I am very satisfied, what Jing Zeng said, can be compiled into a booklet, I have time, then look at it carefully, if it is feasible, then promulgate and implement!" Yang reformed. Listening to what Bi Ziyan said, many of these things are still useful, although they are not as much as they think, earning as much as twenty or thirty million taels of silver a year, but, according to what Bi Ziyan said, there is still an increase in income of one hundred thousand yuan a year, if you don't compare with yourself, this is already very remarkable in ancient times.

"Thank Your Majesty for your approval, and the minister will compile the book immediately when he goes back!" When Bi Ziyan heard the emperor tell him to compile these into a xiǎo booklet and promulgate it, he felt that he had finally come in handy, and his self-confidence immediately raised several notches, and his voice was much louder.

"I actually have some means, which are ready to increase income, hehe, the purpose is the same as Jing Zeng, my Ming Empire can only save tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, I don't want him to happen again, Jing Zeng can wait and see, look at my means, see who is powerful, hehehe......" For Bi Ziyan, Yang Reform is still very relieved, in history, but he has done a lot of practical things for Chongzhen, has made a lot of efforts, emotionally, has a natural closeness, and his speech is not so majestic.

"Your Majesty is the holy hand of making money, and the ministers are ashamed of themselves, and they dare not compare with Your Majesty......" Bi Ziyan heard that the emperor wanted nòng silver, and he had to compare with himself, so he immediately became humble, the emperor's means of silver, he could never compare, and he was also curious, what means the emperor would use.

"Hehehe, Jing Zeng should not be too humble, I believe in Jing Zeng's ability, I am optimistic about Jing Zeng!" Yang reformed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compliment." Bi Ziyan said that the emperor seemed to have some kind of natural closeness to himself, which made Bi Ziyan feel very surprised and cherish this relationship even more.

"That's right, the tens of thousands of taels of treasury silver, put there is not good-looking, think I am a dignified Ming Dynasty, the treasury is only tens of thousands of taels of silver, this is really embarrassing, this, it is almost closed in recent years, I add a little more, the fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver into one hundred thousand taels, to the hundred officials in Beijing to do the New Year's seniority, some officials in Beijing also rely on the capital to live, it is a little bit of my mind, in addition, this time, the seniority, the ministers above the third grade should not participate in the ......" Yang reformed said.

"Command!" Bi Ziyan did not hesitate and immediately received the order.

……

After seeing Bi Ziyan, Yang Gai felt that his neck was sore, stretched out his arm, played tuǐ, and rested for a while, Wang Chengen reported that Fan Weicheng had arrived.

"Wechen Fan Weicheng knocks on my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Fan Weicheng came in to make a big salute.

"Get up!" Yang reformed. Fan Weicheng got up at this time.

Yang Gengai thought about it for a while, and then said, "Sit down." "This Fan Weicheng is very important, although the official is a little lower, let's sit down.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" It is difficult for Fan Weicheng to get the emperor here once, his level is too low, and it is too difficult to see the emperor.

"The task I gave to the Qing family, the Qing family has done a good job!" Yang praised the reform at the beginning.

"Your Majesty praises it, and Weichen is terrified." Fan Weicheng immediately got up again, bowed and stood, to be honest, the machine of the Yin Di newspaper was given by the emperor, and the silver of the Yin Di newspaper was also given by the emperor, of course, now relying on the subscription of the entire Ming Dynasty, he can not rely on the emperor's silver, but, without the emperor's tricks for him, without the emperor opening the way for him to open the Di Bao, he no matter what, it is impossible for him to run the Di Bao to the entire Ming Dynasty.

"It's okay, the Qing family deserves my praise, the Qing family manages the newspaper for me, manages the mouthpiece, the credit of the Qing family, I see it in my eyes, I remember that the Qing family used to be seven products, right? I have already asked Yousi to give the Qing family a first-order official product, and the Qing family has made the Di Bao the entire Ming Dynasty, and I will not forget this credit. "Yang Reform will give him official qualities when he comes up, some people need to persuade him with reason, some people need to be moved with affection, some people can share weal and benement, some people you want to let him see hope, and some people need to use power to tie him up, Fan Weicheng is undoubtedly a person who needs to be tied with power now. ,

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The scope of the minister immediately knelt down and kowtowed, he was not easy, he had been an official for more than ten years, and he was only a seven-grade, I think he was born as a jinshi! It's been so many years, and I've finally passed the hurdle of seven grades.

"Get up." Yang Gengai looked at it with a smile, and sure enough, the effect was good.

Fan Weicheng got up and was still standing.

"The Qing family has been very successful, but there are still shortcomings." Yang reformed.

"Your Majesty, please." Fan Weicheng immediately bowed down and said, he, a seven-rank official, is really too xiǎo, and in front of the emperor, it is really not enough to see.

"It's good for the Qing family to run the Di Bao all over the world, but I hope that more people can read the Di Bao, hear the Di Bao, and learn about my Daming's movements and understand my movements through the Di Bao." Yang reformed.

"Your Majesty, what should the minister do in this ......?" Fan Weicheng asked immediately, in his opinion, it must be the emperor who has a new idea, so he will say that he has shortcomings and needs to be improved.

"How much is a newspaper today?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, five cents." Fan Wei Cheng Road.

"In this way, you will reduce the price of the newspaper by half again, and reduce it to two or three cents." Yang reformed.

"Two texts? Your Majesty, I'm afraid I'll lose money at this price! Fan Weicheng was taken aback, Di Bao is already a small profit, all relying on the huge quantity, can it continue to operate, can give those "writers" the opening fee, if it is lowered again, then it will have to lose money, Di Bao will not be able to continue.

"It's okay, you do it, I just ask more people to see and understand the Di Bao, as for the problem of loss, I will ask some businesses such as Liulizhai to publish more advertisements in your Di Bao to make up for your shortfall, and after calculation, there should be a surplus." Yang reformed.

"Obey." Fan Weicheng promised, this newspaper belongs to the emperor, the emperor can do whatever he wants, then Liulizhai is the emperor's, but he just handed the silver from his left hand to his right hand.

"Hehe, you are my mouthpiece, this point, remember, the mouthpiece is the voice of me, this point, the Qing family must keep in mind! I am quite satisfied with the voice of Di Bao all along, and I hope that the Qing family understands the burden on their bodies, hehe, work hard, and defend one side for me in the future. Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"Obey the order!" Fan Weicheng immediately kowtowed.