The regent opened his mouth to inquire, as if he was dissatisfied.

It may be a bad thing to change people, but for a skilled official like Yao Qisheng, this is a rare opportunity.

What does it mean to listen to the heavens? Smart people never let opportunities slip through their hands, and Yao Qisheng learned to ride horses specifically so that one day he would have the opportunity to speak a few more words by the side of the regent.

"Prince" Yao Qisheng did not rush to answer Zhai Zhe's question, but first used a huge background to lead his own topic, "Exiles have always been the most difficult of the Ming Dynasty, Sizong reigned for seventeen years, diligent in political affairs, and finally caused the fall of the river, not at the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but to the growing exiles. ”

Zhai Zhe said: "Not bad"

Yao Qisheng said: "The fleeing of Jiangbei refugees to the south is a bad thing for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it is not necessarily a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. The prince regained Yangzhou last year, Zong Shangshu and Xia Guan were in charge of the Nanzhi Li, and raised 30,000 soldiers in Yangzhou, and General Li stationed a large army in Yangzhou Mansion, but there were still bandits, and the local people suffered greatly, and some people even complained that it was better to return to the Manchu rule. ”

Zhai Zhe's face changed slightly, and this was a big rebellion. However, he is not stubborn, and he will not be surprised by someone who says something bad, and the emperor will inevitably be scolded, not to mention that he is only a regent.

Yao Qisheng was not afraid of Zhai Zhe's anger, and continued: "The ban on the imperial court transporting grain across the river has not been lifted, and the price of grain in Yangzhou is now three taels of silver and one stone, and Zhenjiang, which is across the river, is two taels of silver and one stone, and the continuous smuggling is also the reason for the large number of bandits. ”

Restricting the movement of grain across the river was intended to weaken the Manchu Qing dynasty. The people of Jiangbei suffered because of this, and there was nothing they could do. Although there is smuggling, the difference between a ban and a ban is not the slightest.

The superior is not here to listen to your complaints, if you don't do well, some people are willing to sit in this position, Yao Qisheng is well versed in the way of being an official.

He continued: "Do not gather the displaced people in one place, otherwise there will be chaos without heavy ammunition." Jinzong Shangshu ordered people to survey mines in Huguang and Zhejiang, and there was no shortage of mines and silver, but there was a shortage of manpower. Several shipyards and weapons workshops in Jiangnan mostly employ locals and pay quite well. Smugglers along the river transport grain to the north of the Yangtze River and traffickers to the south of the Yangtze River, and as long as it is profitable, the ban will give rise to huge profits. ”

"Relying only on porridge shacks for relief, the displaced people have nothing to do all day long, which breeds trouble. In the past, the resettlement of displaced people required fields and grain, but today, workshops have risen in various places, and there is another place to accommodate displaced people. ”

In the past, when the Ming Dynasty resettled the displaced people, it was often led by the imperial court to save the emergency, and the famine passed, and the displaced people returned to their original places. Yao Qisheng's idea is to go one step further on the original idea of resettlement of displaced people in the Ming Dynasty, and completely transform the displaced people into handicraftsmen.

Zhai Zhe pondered for a moment and asked, "At the beginning of the year, Zong Mao went to the Lianghuai Salt Farm, have you seen him?" ”

Yao Qisheng's face changed greatly, and he knelt down on the placket and said: "Zong Shangshu once talked to the minister about the homeless people, but the minister is only dedicated to state affairs. ”

Zhai Zhe said: "This king has imposed a heavy tax on raw silk, and there are many mulberry people in the Suhu area who have returned to the field in recent years, and the Ming Dynasty has enough food." After the sea ban was lifted, only raw silk was in short supply, and due to frequent wars, pig iron was in short supply, so the king granted permission to open a mine. The rest, such as cotton spinning and porcelain, have limited access to places. Now half of the sea trade control zhì in the hands of the Zheng family, the Zheng family is strong, and in Fujian and Guangdong, the sea can compete with the West, but the Zheng family also strips most of the benefits of the sea trade, and a flower blooming alone is not spring. This is premature. There are many workshops, and if the goods can't be taken off smoothly, Jiangnan will be chaotic. ”

Yao Qisheng thought about it and felt that there were many incomprehensible points in it, so he didn't dare to say more.

Zhai Zhe said: "Your idea is very good, but the sailors of the Ming Dynasty can open up a sales place for the goods of the Ming Dynasty." The iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty can ensure the passage of the goods of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions. In the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were the Western Regions Protectorate and the Anxi Protectorate, and the Ming Dynasty was still weak and couldn't support the situation you wanted. ”

An official like Yao Qisheng, who is diligent in thinking about change, is his favorite person. Zong Mao was already able to keep up with his train of thought, and Yao Qisheng should be the second. Now it seems that Zong Mao is like a fish in water after taking charge of the household department, and he and Yao Qisheng have come together.

As the old saying goes: a gentleman is not a party. But whether it is the DPRK or the military, it would be strange if there was no faction.

Zhai Zhe thought that it was the rebellion of the displaced people in the northwest that led to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, and the Han and Tang dynasties were actually destroyed by the disaster of the displaced people. ”

Yao Qisheng thought so.

The Ming army launched an offensive along the canal and allocated supplies from the canal, without having to recruit too many people. It happened that a large number of displaced people gathered in Yangzhou Prefecture, and the people of Jiangnan were exempted from the suffering of labor.

After Zhai Zhe arrived in Yangzhou, he reported the military situation every day.

Under the city of Huai'an, a total of 60,000 troops were gathered by Feng Qin, Li Zhi'an, Fang Yuanke and Yuan Qizhou, plus more than 100,000 government soldiers, Yan Yingyuan stayed in the Gaoyou Prefecture camp.

The Qing soldiers took advantage of the cavalry and harassed them day and night, but Zilharang did not dare to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. Feng Qin was arranging siege matters, mobilizing siege artillery from the waterway.

The superiority of the Ming army on the battlefield was already obvious.

This advantage did not come from the soldiers' good fighting, but from the strong economic strength of the Ming court.

The Ming Dynasty military system was laid by Zong Mao, Yao Qisheng and Zhang Huangyan, three capable ministers, and the soldiers could conduct several months of queue and bird gun training every year during the agricultural slack, and the light consumption of bird guns and gunpowder also made the Manchu Qing unable to afford it.

The armies of Zheng Zunqian and Sun Zhijing lost 3,000 soldiers under Xuyi City, which could soon be replenished from the government soldiers. After half a year of training, the combat power can be restored.

Jiangnan has never been short of money, but in the past, those riches were all encroached upon by the Donglin gentry.

Therefore, sometimes Zhai Zhe thought that he might be grateful to the Manchus. If it weren't for the Manchu Qing sweeping Jiangnan, giving him the opportunity to clear some of the rudder gentry, and allowing him to establish incomparable prestige, he would not have been able to implement reforms in Jiangnan Shunlì.

A few years earlier, he had taken advantage of the existential crisis of the Nanjing court to divide the Donglin Party and force Chen Zilong to cooperate with him. Now that he has shown himself in poverty, the Donglin Party will only become a stumbling block for him in the court.

He also remembered the recent controversy in Suzhou Academy, Huang Zongxi's tongue battle against the scholars of the Restoration Society.

first threw out the theory of "eight misguided scholars", and then "agriculture and commerce are all fundamentals", and the somewhat pedantic Confucian was full of combat effectiveness. Under the intention of the imperial court, not only Jiangnan, but also the entire Ming Dynasty is now involved in this controversy.

Chen Zilong shrank his head and didn't come out, or someone like Huang Zongxi who didn't understand the dirtiness of the court was more cute.

Fang Yizhi could not get his own ideas, and only used the form of Di Bao to post the remarks of both sides of the debate in Suzhou Academy, and compiled them into a book to spread to all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

I heard that Wang Fuzhi of Yuelu Academy couldn't sit still and just came to Suzhou by boat.

Several scholars in the cabinet expressed their worries about this matter, intentionally or unintentionally, and Zhai Zhe laughed it off.

"The more you argue, the clearer it gets, doesn't it?"

Think about it from another angle, the gentry of Donglin are actually very cute, they made profits for themselves back then, this is not wrong, what is wrong is that the person who controlled the power of the world back then was deceived by them.

With great power comes great responsibility.

He remembered what Tang Taizong said: "All the heroes of the world are in my place." ”

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