Wang Rong has been tossing the forbidden army for a long time, and the military system has also changed. The purpose is like the name of Zhang Songqi's grandson, Rope Wu! If Wu Ruo is not roped, the rivers and mountains after the end of the Qin Dynasty are living examples.

Can the current military system be used?

Wang Rong wants to start another war, so let's verify it first. However, the wealth accumulated by the treasury was quickly depleted in the previous wars, and the Jing Navy was not yet formed, so it could not go to sea to rob it; In order to maintain the current normal household income and expenditure, the scale of the war must not be too large, otherwise the finances will collapse and we will face an urgent need.

Lang Zeqing's joke was not refuted by the saint.

The ministers seemed to smell a certain breath, Chu Kun played, if you want to raise an army, you should deal with the Western Regions first, he thinks that the Western Regions Pusha State is the biggest hidden danger outside the Qianghu Khanate.

The six princes all seconded the proposal, they didn't care where the court fought, just fight if there is a war!

The Liangyi Hall was once again full of maps, and Wang Rong sat in front of a pile of maps as soon as he had free time. This time, the drawing in the middle is not Yuzhou, but the land in the Western Regions.

There is more than one piece of land, and this kind of thing involves the whole body, and the Western Regions Pusha Kingdom is attacked, I am afraid that it will immediately tie the knot with the Western Horned Khanate and the Plateau Pure Kingdom! Wang Rong looked at the side of the Gaya Kingdom again, and the Gaya Kingdom had sent an envoy last time to jointly take the old land of the Wofu Kingdom. And the sea route between Gaya and the Uno is the closest, and the Uno can grab money on the side of the Uzun.

Wang Rong did not dare to act rashly, so he did a small thing first, and sent someone to send an edict to Dai Qiuqiu, and the Department of Detective Affairs sent a detailed dispatch to the East China Sea, and promoted the branch of the Japanese slave country to one of the important divisions of the Department of Investigation.

As the Tang Kingdom became more and more peaceful, Wang Wei changed the rules, and only once every three days would he meet with the ministers of the Chinese military of the dynasty in the Liangyi Hall every three days, and the place where he met the ministers was named the Parliamentary Pavilion.

Summer is bright early, and when people come to the council early in the morning, it is already dark.

Today, Wang Rong came in a little differently, he also brought a four-year-old child. The last time the ministers talked about the establishment of the crown prince, Wang Rong paid attention to a problem, if the heir in the future doesn't understand anything, then won't his country be wasted in decades?

Wang Rong was ready to teach by himself, but he found that he didn't know how to teach children, so he pondered to find him a teacher first.

When more than 20 ministers saw the emperor's eldest son, Wang Han, they all watched curiously.

Wang Rong took Xiao Qi'er by the hand, walked up to the upper position, sat down on the chair, and let Wang Han sit next to him. The chair was a bit high, but Wang Han was clever and active, and he jumped up, and sat there still moving from side to side.

"The ministers pay homage to the Holy One, His Royal Highness the Emperor's eldest son." The crowd bowed.

"Flat." Wang Rong said.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Wang Han said in a manner, "You are all elders, sit down."

Suddenly, the people below laughed: "Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Emperor's eldest son."

Wang Rong turned his head and said, "Little Qi'er, sit down and don't say anything, just watch and listen."

Wang Han said with an innocent face, "The queen mother taught me."

After that, he squeezed his eyebrows at Wang Rong again, this kid is too lively and active, and he is not at all like Wang Rong when he was a child.

At this time, Yu Kezhi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Yesterday, the envoy of the Eastern Badge Khanate entered Beijing, and the minister met first. The Bearded Men have come for the sake of the captured Bearded Soldiers, intending to ransom the captives."

Chu Kun immediately said, "This matter is promising. According to the information reported by the Baihu Branch of the Department of Investigations, the situation of the Khan of the Eastern Qianghu Khanate was very bad, and throughout last year, the war with the Western Qianghu Khanate was more defeated than victorious. Now that the Eastern Qianghu Khanate and the Tang Kingdom are enemies of each other, it must be extremely difficult for him to send an envoy to discuss, so that he can convince his domestic subjects."

Huangfu Jian said: "The Pusha Kingdom of the Western Regions did not listen to the orders of the imperial court, and threatened to defect to the Eastern Qianghu Khanate. Since the Eastern Hated Khanate intends to exchange, it is better to refuse the Pusha State in the Western Regions as a condition."

Wang Rong was noncommittal, and said, "You can discuss with the Qiangqi people and allow them to set up a Qiangqi National Post House in Chang'an City, so that this matter can be discussed in the future."

Yu Kezhi bowed and said, "The ministers obey the order."

At this time, Wang Rong looked sideways at Wang Xu. The latter then sent the two copies to the ministers for inspection, and the officials of the government hall had seen them

The chapters are played, but the generals generally can't see the chapters, and they can only see them now.

Wang Rong said: "These two books, one is the "Theory of Money Shortage" played by Zhen Bao, the head of the household department, and the other is the "Theory of Abstaining from Luxury" played by the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. Today, all of you can comment on one or two."

Some of the ministers below had already seen it, but no one was in a hurry to speak. If it is said to be a comment, it can be regarded as an advocacy in the Cabinet, and people are more cautious.

The remarks of the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy are: first, to persuade agriculture to ignore business, to pay light on meager endowments, and to advocate a frugal style; Second, it is necessary to streamline the administration of the army, especially to reduce the number of the army, and to reduce the salaries and rewards of the forbidden army, because the current army consumes a lot of finance. The purpose of these propositions is to recuperate with the people.

He believes that money and treasures cannot be full when the people are hungry and cannot keep warm when they are cold, which will only bring the wind of luxury, aggravate exploitation and arrogance. And only by cultivating and weaving and enriching the warehouses is the royal road to the strength of the country and the prosperity of the people.

At first glance, this statement sounds plausible and in line with conventional wisdom. Wang Rong also felt that gold, silver and copper coins really could not be eaten as food.

However, Zhen Bao, who actually presided over the household department and the transportation of military quartermasters, advocated the completely opposite remarks. Zhen Bao tried his best to write to increase the minting of copper coins, not for the sake of treasury revenue, because minting money is a loss-making business, his reason is that from the imperial court to the localities, there is a shortage of money everywhere, which has greatly affected the normal income and expenditure and transactions.

Money shortage has not been uncommon since the end of the Qin Dynasty, and it is a problem faced by all countries. At that time, Yongguo really didn't have the money to reward the forbidden army, so he had already used iron to cast iron money.

Zhen Bao's remarks start from his experience in organizing several major wars of military quartermasters, except for military rations, other military supplies need cash to spend, otherwise it is very difficult to requisition and transfer on the spot, or let merchants transport, during the Yongguo period, there was a method of using salt merchants to transport military rations, which had been corrupted at this time; Unless the means of forced expropriation are used, but this method is also inconvenient, one is easy to cause resistance, the other is to waste most of the property, and the people will also hide the materials urgently needed by the officials and soldiers.

The two taxes of the imperial court, the field tax and the commercial tax in summer and autumn, were mainly in kind, because the farmers and merchants were short of cash; Because these physical objects are relatively bulky, they are generally stored in the local treasury. In addition to meeting the needs of the local government, the expenditure is to transfer and transfer through the nearest household department.

The imperial court collected a lot of taxes, but it could not be mobilized from all over the country and sent to the front for expenses, and there were too many things and too much. If you have cash, it will be different, and you can buy materials from the nearest people.

The most expensive thing to spend is the army's salary and reward, and you can't take a pile of firewood from a timber merchant and reward a soldier with a room full of wood.

Finally, someone took the lead in making a claim!

The first to stand up were all the generals of the forbidden army, and they unanimously opposed the "stupid words" of the scholars of the Hanlin Academy. It's very simple, and you actually want to cut military spending?!

Even Uluo couldn't help but shout, "The brothers have just come down from the battle formation, and the civil officials are behind us to calculate us!"

A civilian official said: "The purpose of raising troops is to protect the land and the people, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty do not cultivate the land, and most of the treasury is consumed in the army, and they are overwhelmed, how can they live with the people's livelihood?"

Lang Zeqing did not deviate from the position of the generals, stroked his beard and said, "The soldiers are not tenants, if they are long in farming, how can they be long in the battle formation? A Tang sergeant can't dress in tatters like a beggar and eat chaff."

"The founding father's words are said in a clear conscience, a battalion general's salary and reward is more than a taishou, if the soldiers are called to eat chaff vegetables, won't we have to beg for food!"

Wang Rong didn't say anything, just sat there and let the ministers argue, and he had to wait until the last to see the situation before he made a statement, because his words were holy decrees. Wang Han turned his head from time to time and looked at his father with curious eyes. Wang Rong didn't teach them, he felt that these styles were taught by words and deeds, and how to do it himself, children could learn it over time.

Liu Jun stood up and bowed, "The minister supports Zhen Shangshu's proposition. Money is scarce, and it is not good for the country and the people. those who have bread, or lack clothing; He who has bread and clothing, if he has nothing to desire, may not exchange his clothes for him, but he may sell the surplus for money. If there is a lack of money in the world, nothing can be attained, and those who have a solid warehouse will not cultivate, like a blockage of the meridians."

At this moment, Wang Rong spoke, "Deflation."

Everyone was puzzled, but they could vaguely guess what the word was

What does it mean, because it can be contextualized in the speech.

Wang Rong doesn't know much about economics, but his knowledge is definitely different from that of the ancients, and he knows some common sense anyway. Deflation is certainly not good for economic development, no matter what the society.

A very simple idea, as Liu said, in a state of self-sufficiency, there is little demand, and after satisfying it, it loses the motivation to continue production.

It is also a fact that most of the people have nothing to do except serve in the slack time, or do some trivial tasks with very low efficiency; Even the seven aunts and eight mothers-in-law will kill time if they have nothing to do.

It's a waste of labor and productivity.

If the reward for work is money, and the world produces enough material temptations, it will increase the motivation to work, and in order to obtain money and to be able to exchange it easily, people will also produce and obtain what the world needs. For example, food in times of famine.

Ancient China, on the other hand, was in a state of deflation for a long time, and there was a shortage of currency in every dynasty. One is because of the scarcity of heavy metals, and the other is that the minting of copper coins is a loss-making business, which is completely a kind of good governance of the imperial court in order to govern the world, and the same work as building water conservancy.

Wang Rong immediately expressed his position and said, "I am allowed to play by Zhen Shangshu, and the household department can agree on the matter of minting money."

At this moment, Lang Zeqing muttered, "If the saint can obtain the silver mountain, open the mine and take the silver to mint silver, it will be a road to ten thousand profits."

Everyone fell silent, and everyone suddenly discovered that Lang Zeqing's previous "famine theory" proposition was now connected again. He didn't seem to be talking nonsense at the time, but now for the sake of Yinshan, he brought up the topic of opening up the territory. Sure enough, all the big people don't talk nonsense, and it's not as absurd as it sounded at first glance.

Wang Rong was noncommittal, because this matter involved a wider range of issues. He also doesn't comment on who is poorer between civil officials and military generals, there is no truth in this matter at all, and each family is just for the benefit of each family.

Wang Rong pondered for a moment and said, "When the eldest son of the emperor reaches the age of Mengxue, I want to choose a teacher for him."

This topic has once again attracted everyone's attention. Now Wang Rong's heir is only the eldest son of the emperor, and the age has reached the age of four, even if Wang Rong has a prince later, he will be much younger than Wang Han, and the eldest son of the emperor is now the king of Qin, he is most likely the crown prince, and it is not so simple to be the prince's teacher.

Wang Rong looked at Liu Shu and said, "Liu Shilang taught my son to read and write."

Liu Yan hurriedly said: "The Holy Trust is very important, and the ministers are willing to do their best."

The palace was a little cold, because Liu Jun was not a great Confucian, and if he didn't have an official position, he would be a person with no status at all in Shilin. Ye Luzi was born and had no fame, first as a petty official who couldn't get into the stream, and then as a staff member. What knowledge do these people have to come to the Pope?

However, Liu Tuan is Wang Lu's confidant, and everyone guesses that this is just a grace to Liu Tuan.

Wang Wei said again: "Chu Luxu, your Pope's eldest son will ride a bow and horse, and let Meng Sheng assist him."

Chu Luxu got up and bowed, "The minister obeys the order."

This Chu Luxu is a military general who is a serious soldier, and all kinds of martial arts and military etiquette are well-behaved and very upright, Wang Rong believes in him very much; Meng Sheng was born in a family of military generals.

As for Liu Rong, Wang Rong felt that he had taught Mengxue enough, and the article was stronger than Wang Rong anyway. Moreover, Wang Rong felt that if he studied too deeply the sage thoughts, if he regarded them as beliefs, he would be harmful to the job of being an emperor; Liu Tuo's half-is just right, and the important thing is that Liu Tuo's proposition is not pedantic.