Ni Yuanlu was dizzy, and he sat in the duty room for a long time, but he stared at an official document for a long time, but he didn't turn a page. Finally, with a long sigh, he took off his reading glasses from the bridge of his nose and set them aside.

At this time, he really didn't have much heart to deal with official business.

Zhao Guoliang died, and committed suicide by drinking gold dust wine in Jinyiwei's edict.

This result was unexpected by everyone, and it also made the officials of the Three Law Divisions who presided over the case a little heavy. The verdict had already been announced, and it was set that the gate would be beheaded at noon three days later, which was a typical example, but in a blink of an eye, the person was taken away by the Jinyi guard, and then committed suicide directly in the edict.

What does that mean?

Youdu Yushi was Ni Yuanlu's deputy, he sat on the side and sighed, "Ni Gong, what do you mean by Your Majesty in this matter?" Yubi Zhu criticized it strictly, let us try it in the three divisions, and then behead it at noon, and it was His Majesty who watched the punishment of the hundred officials, but in the blink of an eye, he let the Jinyi guard take people away, and he committed suicide in prison, this"

Youdu Yushi said worriedly, "Is Your Majesty dissatisfied with us?" ”

Ni Yuanlu was also a little helpless, and even regretted it a little in his heart, this matter should not be stabbed out rashly. When he first found out about this case, he was very excited and felt that he should treat this case as a typical example. For this reason, he did not report to the emperor first, but revealed the matter to the newspapers and spread it to the public.

He did this at that time because he was afraid that the emperor would protect his shortcomings and not be able to deal with the case privately. He thought that when public opinion rose, the emperor would definitely not be able to protect Zhao Guoliang, and he would have to be tried publicly.

He did not do this to oppose the emperor, but felt that it was his duty. Even if the offender is a protégé of the emperor, Yuan Zuo Xunchen, it cannot be an exception.

But now as a result, Zhao Guoliang is dead. But it's such a way to die.

Hey, did you really do something wrong?

After thinking about it, he felt that he had been cheated by the emperor. It's not yourself who is at fault, it's the emperor.

But when you think about it, the emperor is not wrong. Zhang Guoliang violated the law of the country, and the emperor ordered the three divisions to be tried, which is just. But after the trial, the emperor gave him to commit suicide, which was the emperor's affection.

The emperor paid for the deficit of one million silver dollars out of his own pocket, and did not pursue Zhao Guoliang's family. This is a clear distinction between public and private, affectionate and righteous.

But why does he think that in this way, the emperor is affectionate and righteous, but he has become a person inside and out?

But the emperor was always like this, often unexpectedly.

Just like the emperor's imperial patrol outside the pass, everyone thought that this expedition was the emperor's great joy, and the people and money were lost. The land outside the gates. If you can't farm, what's the use of the imperial court?

But now, it seems that this is not the case.

Outside the Emperor's Imperial Patrol. Showing off his might, he demonstrated the great strength of the Han Dynasty, and the Mongol princes submitted.

The imperial court divides the princes, and there is no need for a single soldier. It was subjugated by the Mongol tribes, and not only divided the territory, but also the territory of Zhili. It is true that the grasslands do not produce food. But he had seen the trade agreements between the imperial court and the Mongol princes. The two sides will open up trade, and in the future, all parts of Mongolia will be the export and sales places of the Han merchants, and at the same time, all kinds of livestock, fur, meat products, dairy products, minerals, and herbs in Mongolia will also flow into the Central Plains at extremely low prices.

Dahan goods have one more place to sell, and Dahan also has many more sources of livestock and other important materials and commodities, not to mention, the imperial court can also get a large amount of commercial taxes and customs duties in this in-and-out transaction.

Now Ni Yuanlu also understands the importance of commercial taxes to the imperial court.

Not to mention that the emperor also drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, used the Mongolian princes to destroy the four tribes of Horqin, and went east to conquer the Jurchens, the court was outside the pass, and he did not hurt a soldier at all, and without a knife or a shot, he reduced the Mongolian 500,000 ding, and now he will recover Liaodong.

Back then, when the Ming Dynasty was in the Ming Dynasty, there was no day of peace in the north. Although he succeeded in negotiating peace with Tumut, the left-wing Chahar continued to harass him, not to mention the rising Jurchens in Liaodong.

If it weren't for the Jurchens, the Ming would not have perished.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty spent countless money and food every year, exhausted the country's strength, and couldn't solve the chaos outside the border. But now the emperor has done it easily.

The most important thing is not that the emperor got the Guanwai, but that in the process of the emperor getting the Guanwai Mongolia and the Jurchens, not only did not lose the strength of the Central Plains, but improved a lot of strength.

The imperial court opened up the frontier, recovered Liaoxi, and controlled the Mongolian steppe, and the newly added provinces of Yanbei, Monan, Suiyuan, Ningxia, Lingbei, and Liaobei were all controlled by the Mongols before, not to mention that Liaoxi was fully recovered, and Liaodong could be recovered soon.

The imperial court opened up thousands of miles of territory to the north.

In this process, the imperial court did not increase taxes and taxes, and the people did not add any burden. The soldiers of the empire also suffered minimal damage, and they only showed their military might in front of the Mongols.

The imperial court consumed some grain, but obtained a large number of grassland livestock, furs, milk, meat, minerals, etc.

The merchants made money, the imperial court increased taxes, the soldiers were rewarded, the orders of the military workshops increased, the craftsmen increased their income, and the prices of grain and grass increased, and the income of the common people increased.

No matter how you look at it, the series of territorial expansion of the Han outside the customs did not harm the interests of the common people or the strength of the imperial court, on the contrary, all strata seem to have gained a lot of benefits from this.

Not to mention, the imperial court will move many poor and landless people in the Central Plains to Guanwai and distribute a large number of fields to them. If many poor people in the Central Plains move to Guanwai, the land pressure in various parts of the Central Plains will also be greatly reduced, and the lives of the people who remain will be better.

Immigrated to the real border, and the imperial court stabilized the frontier, increased the output of land and increased taxes.

No matter where you look at it, it's a win-win situation.

This situation is difficult for him to figure out. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty invaded the Xiongnu in the north, fought for decades, and moved the Xiongnu westward, but the population of the Han was halved. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Liaodong three times, sending millions of soldiers, although he crippled Goguryeo, but the heavy military service and husband service also overwhelmed the people of the world, and finally forced to rebel, and the second Sui died.

Even later, Tang Taizong Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, and later Tang Gaozong finally united with Silla to destroy Baekje and Goguryeo, but in fact, it also caused a great burden to the people, and the people did not get any practical benefits from these conquests of the imperial court. Although in the long run, these wars are actually of extremely important strategic significance, and they have a bearing on the safety of the Central Plains.

But for the people at that time, they did not get any benefit.

The soldiers died on the battlefield, died in other places, and suffered a large number of casualties. The burden on the common people continued to increase, military service and husband service were overwhelming, and the increasing war expenditures of the imperial court dragged the country to the brink of danger.

During the Ming Dynasty, the war outside the customs directly dragged the Ming Dynasty into collapse.

But Dahan's strategy outside the border is completely different.

From the court to the common people, from the soldiers to the merchants, everyone only got benefits.

It's just incredible.

Just as unbelievable is the return of the southwest to the top.

Ni Yuanlu was also opposed to changing the land and returning to the stream, believing that it would inevitably force the Tusi of the southwest tribe to rebel, triggering a protracted rebellion, which would drag down the empire and even make the imperial court lose the southwest.

But the result was not at all what they expected.

Ni Yuanlu sometimes calmed down and thought about it, why is everything so incomprehensible.

The ministers were opposed to the use of troops to fight, and in their view, war should be avoided as much as possible unless absolutely necessary. Once a war is fought, the expenses are extremely high, and all kinds of problems will follow.

But now, since the founding of the country, the Han Dynasty has never stopped using troops. Even when troops are used everywhere, the size of the army has expanded again and again, and the budget for military spending has also continued to rise, but there has not been any situation in which public resentment is boiling and the situation is in dire straits.

On the contrary, the military has become the most desirable profession for young people, and it is also a profession with a very stable and lucrative income. And the huge size of the army also made the Han have a larger military industry, and those military orders feed countless workers.

In the Ming Dynasty, fighting a war meant a bad situation, a vicious circle.

But in Dahan, it seems to be completely reversed, the more wars, the better the domestic situation seems to be, especially the industrial and commercial manufacturing industry and so on are more and more prosperous.

After two dynasties, he couldn't understand many things.

For example, the tax grain of the Ming Dynasty is only more than 20 million stone a year, and the tax silver is only 2 or 3 million taels.

The imperial court has millions of guards and soldiers, but it occupies hundreds of millions of acres of military land, and it has no effect.

But in the Han Dynasty, the imperial court raised more than 1 million standing troops, and troops were constantly used in various places, but the situation was still better and better. The fields cleared by the Han Dynasty are not much more than those cleared by Wanli Shi, but the country's tax revenue is a hundred times and a thousand times that of the Ming Dynasty in the past.

The country's tax revenue has increased a thousandfold, but the burden on the people has decreased.

Is this the real art of governance?

Ni Yuanlu really admired the young founding emperor, this kind of governing method is simply incredible, but it is indeed effective.

Ni Yuanlu shook his head and sighed lightly.

Maybe these people can't keep up with the situation anymore, and their past concepts of governing the country are not suitable at all.

The new dynasty is indeed different, from the lords and generals to the merchants and common people, everyone is no longer so opposed to war and disgusted with war. Because the Han Dynasty's war of foreign expansion did not affect their lives and did not threaten their security.

On the contrary, the war brought with it many new things, new opportunities.

As soon as the royal driver crossed the Shanhaiguan, Liu Jun received a letter from the Beijing Division.

Ni Yuan resigned on the road to the left capital.

Liu Jun was a little surprised, although Ni Yuanlu was born in Donglin in the past, and later conspired with Wu Fu and other joint officials to deal with him, but after all, it was a matter of the previous dynasty.

In fact, he succeeded Liu Zongzhou in the position of the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was still very competent.

In the case of Zhao Guoliang this time, although Liu Jun was also a little dissatisfied with Ni Yuanlu's failure to report it as soon as possible, his dedication to duty still made him appreciate it very much.

This kind of yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate needs such people.

Of course, Liu Jun could not agree to Ni Yuanlu's resignation, he left, where could such a person go. If he were a different official, when facing Zhao Guoliang's case, he would definitely not be as iron-faced and selfless as him.

After thinking about it, Liu Jun picked up the imperial pen and wrote an edict directly in the carriage.

"Jin Feng Zuodu Yushi Ni Yuan Road Lin'an County Founding Uncle, give 10,000 silver dollars!" (To be continued.) )

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