Han Sheng has a talent for governing the country, but it is a pity that he has been a staff member all his life and a shadow politician of the former emperor. Although his status in the DPRK is not low, middle- and lower-level officials have no way of recognizing him at all. Liu Yu also regretted that he couldn't entrust Han Sheng to reuse, otherwise there would be no dispute between the left and the right, and Han Sheng would directly lead the overall situation. Liu Yu was worried that as a military general, he would have to leave Chang'an City sooner or later, and he needed such a person who could control the overall situation to help Su Yan.

The whereabouts of Qian Hui and the King of Chu have been completely cut off, and Yang Lie has been busy for half a month, but the final result is in vain. But it's not that there is no gain at all, Yang Lie seems to be at ease in commanding the secret agents of the Royal Forest Army everywhere, but unfortunately he is still slightly inferior in front of the Huaiwang sentinel. An intelligence war, culminating in the defeat of the Imperial Guards.

"Rest for two days first, and then there will be something for you to do." Liu Yu looked at the exhausted Yang Lie and comforted.

In this matter, Liu Yu is going to officially start the matter of selling official beards with the businessmen, and all the preparatory activities of the Commerce and Trade Department are only waiting for the final decision.

Yang Lie said: "Commander Liu, my subordinates have learned from some news in the past few days that the forces of several feudal kings in the south are secretly deploying troops, and it seems that they want to support the rebellion in Guannan, and there are many unknown people in this rebellion to guide them. Do you think we should focus on it? ”

From the first day of the rebellion, Liu Yu had already known the news, and now although the imperial court has troops stationed outside the city, the baggage and supplies are insufficient, so Liu Yu only arranged for the Dongshui camp to pull out the camp as a deterrent, hoping that those displaced people can restrain themselves after seeing the official army in the capital. The current rebellion is still in its infancy, it is looting, and it has not really taken over the mountains or made some people stand out. The rebels from all walks of life were not screwed together. Differentiation and disintegration is a good choice for Liu Yu at present.

"There are some things I have my own sense of."

Liu Yu said goodbye to Yang Lie. In Yang Lie's opinion. If there is a rebellion, it should be suppressed quickly, and Liu Yu's ambiguous attitude is puzzling.

In fact, Liu Yu didn't want to mobilize a large army to put down the rebellion in one fell swoop. But now there is no supply of food and grass, fighting a battle, food and grass are insufficient, the combat effectiveness of the regular army may not be as good as those rebellious exiles, and Liu Yu does not want to empty the garrison of Chang'an City because of a rebellion, so it is likely to be taken advantage of by some forces. "It's better to calm than to care", Huairou's posture can indeed let the local displaced people see the sincerity of the imperial court to quell the rebellion. If it weren't for the drought that caused the rich to be unkind, they would not have embarked on a desperate path against the imperial court.

With family affairs restless and a fire in the backyard, Liu Yu now feels like a big parent, and he has to take care of everything, which makes him feel tired. He is now ready to make a premise for the head of the family in one fell swoop and control the family's finances.

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Ministry of Works.

The first time the merchants entered the palace, they were still trembling and fearing that the imperial court was only trying to make their fortune, but after the sale of officials began, they seemed to forget all their worries.

For an official position. It's all about to break their heads.

Although the court sold some idle officials this time, those officials were also Beijing officials after all. Being in Chang'an City, if you can get the status of an official, the businessmen are not afraid of being oppressed again.

Businessmen make profits, and they also know how to exchange interests, and they also understand that there is no free lunch in the world.

As a result, at the end of the year, an ordinary official of the criminal department offered 60,000 taels, and some officials in the household department were more than 100,000 yuan. In the end, the officials no longer seemed to be too enthusiastic about the official positions of the most critical department of commerce and trade, perhaps because they were not sure of the intention of the imperial court to open a department of commerce and trade, and they did not show too much enthusiasm in the bidding.

A deputy superintendent of the Department of Commerce and Trade is required to donate 75,000 taels of silver. There are a total of six seats.

The young eunuch of the Commerce and Trade Department was unexpectedly won by the Sui family, and Sui Yu bid 120,000 taels. This also means that the general person in charge of the Chang'an City Chamber of Commerce will be the little daughter of the Sui family, and the women will not let the eyebrows.

If the businessmen who bought the idle officials afterwards knew the authority of this young eunuch, they would definitely regret that they didn't put some more money on it today. The decision of the Department of Commerce and Trade will be used as the yardstick and principle for doing business in Chang'an City and even in the entire Dashun Dynasty, and its status in the imperial court is even higher than that of the Six Ministries.

In one day, the traitors raised a total of 2.4 million taels of silver, which was equal to the tax income of the Dashun court for three months in the harvest year. More importantly, the commercial tax determined by the Department of Commerce and Trade will continue to bring benefits to the imperial court in the future, and the total amount of this revenue will gradually converge to the agricultural tax income in the Dashun Dynasty, where handicrafts and commerce are flourishing.

Looking at the list submitted by Liu Yu, Su Yan opened his mouth wide and didn't close it for a long time, originally he thought that it would be almost the same if he could get two melons and dates for selling officials, but he didn't expect to get so much silver at one time. The difficulties of the imperial court in the past few months are equivalent to a one-time solution.

"Master...... That's a lot of silver. It's nice to have silver. Su Yan sighed, with a smile on his face, looking very happy.

"This money must establish a reasonable mechanism to use, and it cannot be directly allocated to the household, but I am afraid that good steel cannot be used on the blade. I propose to directly establish a manager of the Department of Commerce and Trade, which is not subordinate to any department and is directly responsible to you. Liu Yu said.

Su Yan didn't quite understand what Liu Yu meant, and asked, "Master, is the manager of this Commerce and Trade Division, Yamen, opened in the Commerce and Trade Division?" Which businessmen are in charge? ”

"No, the Department of Commerce and Trade is the Department of Commerce and Trade, and the Manager's Yamen is the Manager's Yamen, and the person in charge of the Manager's Yamen must be the person you trust the most, and what this Yamen gets and out of must also be approved by you. In terms of consumption, it also mainly covers unexpected expenses, such as drought and war. ”

Su Yan nodded, and seemed to understand a little, the yamen of the manager of the Commerce and Trade Department was similar to the yamen who reserved silver money. Originally, the income of the Department of Commerce and Trade was additional income, which was used for additional matters, on the one hand, it could reduce the pressure on the household, and the most important thing was to let the emperor have a sum of money to control in his own hands, so that he would not be afraid of some unexpected natural and man-made disasters, and be subject to the financial crisis of the household.

"Master, then you are still in charge of the yamen, the manager of the Commerce and Trade Division." Su Yan thought for a while and said, "Now that there are no other trustworthy people around me, and there is so much silver at once, what if those blind-eyed embezzlements are embezzled?" ”

"I have a candidate, I don't know if it will work."

Liu Yu pretended to be mysterious, wrote a person's name on the paper, and handed it to Su Yan, Su Yan looked up and said in surprise: "You mean Mr. Han?" ”

"It's him." Liu Yu said, "I think you also know that Lu Dao's status in the palace when the emperor was still alive, with his ability, he will definitely be able to manage this silver, be anxious about what the emperor can do, and think about what the emperor thinks." No one else is better suited to this errand right now. ”

Su Yan said thoughtfully: "Yes, Mr. Han is also very good. I remember one time, I went to the master to borrow money, and he gave me five taels of silver, but I haven't paid it back yet. ”

Liu Yue smiled indifferently, in fact, Han Sheng helped Su Yan back then, the emperor was afraid that Su Yan would starve to death on the street, so he asked Han Sheng to secretly help, so Su Yan could be in the market for many years. When he is hungry, the well-meaning stall owner gives him food, and when he has no money, the owner will often reduce the rent, and he often wins more than a dozen in a row in the gambling stall. If it weren't for Han Sheng, with his prodigal character, he would have starved to death on the streets, and he would not have waited for Liu Yu, the great savior, to appear.

Han Shengneng's manager Yamen, who was in charge of the Department of Commerce and Trade, was also one of Liu Yu's plans, all the rules and regulations of the imperial court came from a single word of money, and the household department was also the cornerstone of the six ministries and even the Dashun court. Now that Han Sheng is in charge of the Yamen, the manager of the Department of Commerce and Trade, it is equivalent to being a prime minister without an official position, and the emperor can only turn to him for help in big and small matters. To outsiders, everything is in accordance with the law.

With money, you have a say in the imperial court. Although the manager of the Department of Commerce and Trade is the young secretary of the Yamen, because he is only responsible for the emperor, this official position will be a very popular minister sooner or later.

This is just a method that Liu Yu temporarily came up with to balance the power of civil and official power, an expedient measure. If the threat of the vassal king is eliminated in the future, and the emperor completely controls the overall situation, then the manager of the Commerce and Trade Department must not exist. It is true that the division of power can allow the court officials to check and balance each other in an orderly competitive environment to a certain extent, but in the long run, it will form a partisan conquest, which is not conducive to the stability of the imperial court.

When Liu Yu informed Han Sheng of the result of his discussion with Su Yan, Han Sheng said with a wry smile on his face: "Little Brother Liu, you are a cow who doesn't drink water and presses your head, didn't you say it, the old man has no intention of officialdom, why bother to be embarrassed by the old man." ”

Liu Yu sighed: "Brother Han, you don't know the complexity of the court situation in the court. Now the new emperor and I don't even have a trustworthy person around us, and I am afraid that I will be eaten by those moths and useless. Brother Han might as well help the emperor last time, and also help the boy me, take care of these silver coins, and do my part for the Dashun Dynasty. ”

Han Sheng smiled bitterly and looked into the distance. It would be impossible to say that he did not have a little attachment to the court, but with his rotten body that was about to enter the ground, he had long felt like a waste, and the first emperor entrusted him with reuse, and when the new emperor ascended the throne, it was also the time for him to abdicate and make way for Xian. Now although Liu Yu arranged an errand for him without his consent, he didn't mind, and even felt that Liu Yu, this kid, was not the kind of ungrateful person who would consider him as an old man.

"How do you plan to use the money from the Yamen, the manager of the Commerce and Trade Division?" Han Sheng asked suddenly.

Liu Yu smiled on his face, Han Sheng's saying this was equivalent to responding to this errand, and in the future, he would be regarded as a minister in the same hall as Han Sheng.

"The current priority is disaster relief and rebellion, the fire in the backyard must not spread outside the backyard, the family business of the entire court of the Dashun Dynasty is based on the land of Guanzhong. Only when the family is stable can we have a mind for the outside world. ”

Han Sheng nodded, indeed, now that the forbearance of King Huai and the vassal kings has reached the limit, in this stormy and eventful autumn, if there is another fire in the backyard, it will be difficult to preserve this business. (To be continued......)