Seven days later!

"From Beijing?"

Ferdinand was doing his research in the backyard of Prince Zheng's mansion when a strong Mongolian man ran in and reported to him that a young official was coming to see him, and that he was from Beijing!

"Yes, master!"

Agudamu replied loudly! He was originally a slave of the Horqin tribe in Mongolia, but he was lost to Yu Zhong by Zhuo Suotu! He was honest, at that time he happened to marry a wife named Gao Yunqige (delicate flowers), as a result, forced to separate husband and wife, after arriving in Fengtian, he was in a bad mood, and later, his affairs were known to the old man Fei, as a result, the old man Fei actually asked Mo Jing for a mare and gave it to Zhuo Suotu, and changed his family and wife! Since then, he has been very grateful to Old Man Fei, especially after he knew the value of that mare to the Horqin tribe, he was even more grateful to Old Man Fei! So many Mongol khans got only stallions, and only Korqin had a mare! What a great kindness is this? Therefore, from then on, he swore that as long as it was the order of Old Man Fei, he would do it even if he died! …… When Prince Jian came to look for trouble, if it weren't for Old Man Fei holding back his anger and stopping him, I'm afraid he would have smashed that guy into a meat pie, he is a famous wrestling master of the Horqin tribe!

"Did the officer say what his name was?"

"I don't remember, I just said that it seems to be surnamed Zhang ......" Agudamu touched his head and said, he has been coming to Mukden for more than a year, and he knows that his master does not know Mongolian, so he has been learning Chinese, but there are not many words that can be remembered!

"Surname Zhang? …… Who could it be? …… Forget it, tell him to wait in the living room, I'll go right away! ……”

"Yes, master!" Agudamu bowed and walked out!

……

Outside the gate of the palace, Zhang Tingyu was covered in dust!

From Beijing to Mukden, but it is not less than a thousand miles, and he is a civil official, and he arrived here in seven days, which can be regarded as very fast! …… After all, he is not good at horseback riding!

"Guest, host, please come in! ……”

Agudamu walked out of the palace and bowed slightly to Zhang Tingyu and said! …… This is not taught by Old Man Fei, in Mongolia, a slave like Agudammu has to make a big salute when he sees a nobleman, and he also knows that the officials in Beijing should be not small, so he will have this move!

"Hmmm! Lead the way! ......" Zhang Tingyu also made a gesture of please, and followed Agudamu towards the palace!

Compared to those palaces in Beijing, Prince Zheng's Mansion in Mukden is not very large, and it can even be said to be very small! However, Zhang Tingyu didn't feel this "small" word all the way, he only felt that there was only one word to describe this palace, and that was ...... Old! There is still grass growing on the bluestone slab, and the vines over there have grown into the corridor...... No matter how you look at it, this shouldn't be the scene that should appear in the mansion of a first-class viscount or a second-class master! However, Zhang Tingyu was calm after all and did not ask questions.

Soon, Zhang Tingyu met Old Man Fei!

The first thing the two of them did was to look at each other first!

Zhang Tingyu was still very young at this time, only in his twenties, he didn't even have a beard, he was wearing a court dress embroidered with a heron complement, and he was wearing a flower feather on his head.

But Zhang Tingyu didn't feel good when he looked at Old Man Fei!

This old gentleman has obviously not shaved his head for a long time, there is a messy tuft of hair on his forehead in front, mixed with one or two silver threads, and the official uniform on his body is not very neat, especially the hem, which is very wrinkled, which shows that the other party does not attach much importance to this official symbol! …… However, these are nothing, what makes Zhang Tingyu frown the most is that the complement embroidered on the official uniform worn by Old Man Fei is a bear, which represents a five-grade martial arts, Old Man Fei is obviously a second-grade master, and his patch should be embroidered with a lion!

……

"Lord Zhang?" Old man Fei first tried to scream.

"Don't dare! Zhang Tingyu, the lower official, has seen Fei Dutong! ”

Zhang Tingyu didn't take any shelf, he was very humble and polite.

"Zhang Tingyu? I seem to have heard of this name......" Old Man Fei said in his heart, but he still naturally let Zhang Tingyu go to the chair next to him.

"The lower official is here on the orders of the emperor to ask Fei Dutong a few questions! ……”

"Please!" Old man Fei said.

“……”

Zhang Tingyu was speechless to the old man in front of him! The official uniform is not worn correctly, and this is one of them; Hearing that he said that he was here on the emperor's orders, he dared to sit there and say "please speak" in a grand manner, this is the second, he should immediately kneel on the ground after hearing this sentence and greet the emperor's will! …… Doesn't he understand these rules?

"I don't think I understand!"

If other officials were ordered to interrogate and see Old Man Fei's virtue, I am afraid that he would have to order someone to take down this "disrespectful" guy on the spot, but fortunately, Zhang Tingyu did not have this habit, he had inquired about some things about Old Man Fei before he came, and then saw that the other party's expression did not seem to be pretending, so he would not mention this stubble.

"The emperor asked the officials, why is Lord Tutong planting rice in Mukden?" Zhang Tingyu asked officially.

"To eat, of course!" Old man Fei replied.

“……！？ I heard that adults are researching a kind of improved rice, but I wonder if it has ever succeeded? After a pause, Zhang Tingyu asked again.

"No! That's too difficult, so I'm going to use some ordinary rice first, how can I say that this rice is also more productive than wheat? Old man Fei replied.

"I wonder when it will work?" Zhang Tingyu asked again.

"Hard to say! It is difficult to achieve any results in the study of a thing, especially if we are now without any foundation, without a few years, and even if there are results, it may not be applicable, so ah, this matter cannot be rushed! ……”

"One kind of adult is 1,500 acres of rice, aren't you afraid that the harvest will be bad and be criticized by some people?" Zhang Tingyu asked.

"What's the matter with anyone else? I bought all these lands myself, what to plant and how much to harvest, even if the emperor came in person, he couldn't care about it, right? Old man Fei said dissatisfied.

"This ...... Lord Totong, you can't talk nonsense! Zhang Tingyu was secretly amused in his heart, this time Prince Jian was going to be unlucky again, in the twists and turns, this guy didn't say that the land planted by Ferdinand was his own, only that planting rice in Manchuria was a bad intention, and now it seems that this is just a deliberate revenge! However, how to deal with Prince Jian is not his business, so Zhang Tingyu still kindly reminded Old Man Fei, "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; Especially in Manchuria, things are complicated, so the Lord of the Metropolitan Assembly is still careful in everything! ”

"Under the whole world, is it not the king's land? This kind of stupid words, does the emperor also believe it? Ferdinand's answer greatly surprised Zhang Tingyu, and made him almost jump up, who had always been calm.

"These are the words of a saint, how can they be said to be 'stupid'? Don't talk nonsense! Zhang Tingyu was a little anxious, this is him, if other Confucian disciples had to pinch Old Man Fei on the spot, he dared to doubt the words of the sage, and he didn't want to live? Kangxi personally went to Qufu to bow down to Confucius!

"How is it not stupid? The world is so big...... Alas, forget it, Master Zhang, later, I will send you a map to show you what the world is really like, and lest you be harmed by those outdated books! …… However, you must remember that I got the map from Nebuchu, and it is very precious, so don't break it! Maybe I'll borrow it again when I can borrow it! No matter how Zhang Tingyu shirked, Old Man Fei just wanted to send it, and as a result, Zhang Tingyu finally had to agree to accept the map.

"The emperor heard that the adults are planting rice in Manchuria, and he intends to issue an order to promote it, but unfortunately, there are few people in Manchuria, and I am afraid that the effect is not great!" Zhang Tingyu said again.

"What's so hard about this, immigrants!"

"My lord has returned from the West, I am afraid I don't know, the imperial court has a decree to ban Manchuria, and non-banner people are not allowed to trespass!" Zhang Tingyu smiled bitterly.

"Then the flag bearer will come......"

"I'm afraid it's going to be hard!"

"Why?"

"The Guannai is prosperous, and all the banner people, since the day of birth, have been given by the imperial court to spend the month, so few banner people are willing to suffer in Kanto!" Zhang Tingyu said.

"That's it! To solve this problem...... Actually, it's not that hard! ”

"What?" Zhang Tingyu was stunned, isn't it difficult? Even the emperor found things difficult to do, and he, a second-grade official with little power, dared to say "not difficult"?

Without asking, stunned for a while, Zhang Tingyu took a sip of the tea that had already been placed on the table, and then looked at Ferdinand and said, "My lord said that it is not difficult, do you want the emperor to forcibly recruit the flag people out of the customs?" ”

"Forced conscription? What's the way to do this...... I also know that twisted melons are not sweet! Besides, doing so is also easy to cause a backlash from the flag people, Lord Zhang, don't you say? Old man Fei smiled incomprehensibly.

"Then what can the Lord of the Metropolitan Tong do to make the flag people willing to go out of the customs and farm the land?" Zhang Tingyu's mind has been completely attracted by Old Man Fei, if this problem is solved, Old Man Fei will make great contributions, he will also have merit, this is only secondary, as a responsible and knowledgeable official, of course he is more aware of the huge benefits that Manchuria can bring by becoming a granary!

"What can be done? It's nothing more than one word: citation! ”

"Citation?"

"That's right!" Old man Fei also took a sip of tea.

"Please make it clear to Lord Totsu!" Zhang Tingyu asked.

"People, there are ***! ......" Old man Fei put down the teacup, "If you want those flag people to come out of the customs willingly, you have to provoke the *** in their hearts!" And this kind of *** is nothing more than three things: money, power, and women! ”

"My lord's words are not understood, although the Manchurian officials are very high-ranked, but the number is not much, how can the word 'power' satisfy many bannermen? Moreover, this place is desolate and sparsely populated, not to mention money and women! Zhang Tingyu blushed slightly, as a son of a saint, talking about these things with others is a bit of a loss of purity!

"Hey...... You can't do everything in one step! …… This matter, you have to take your time, this, to put it clearly, is to let 'some people get rich first'......! ”

“…… The first rich drive the latter to get rich!? ”

"Lord Zhang's mind is really fast enough, that's right, let the first rich lead the later rich! ......" Old Man Fei said with a smile.

"I'm afraid not!" Zhang Tingyu was first happy, and then sighed and inhaled.

"What's wrong?" Old man Fei was also stunned.

"The reason why the imperial court wants to ban Manchuria is to let the banner people outside the customs maintain the fierce style of the past, not to mention anything else, if the outside of the customs is also prosperous, wouldn't it make the imperial court's plan frustrated? I'm afraid it's hard to get the court's consent! ......," Zhang Tingyu said.

"Humph! If you are supported by poverty, then this kind of poverty is better not to, I heard that today's banner people have long lost the courage of the past, rather than let them get drunk and dream in the pass, it is better to let some aspiring people go out of the customs to start a business, whether they are in the army or not, at least they can exercise, it is better than nothing! Hehe, keep the fierceness of the flag people outside the gate? What's the use of keeping it up? When I can use these flag people outside the gate, I am afraid that my Qing Dynasty has already reached the moment of life and death, at that time, what can such a little bit of people deal with? ......" Old man Fei said disdainfully.

“…… Lord Toto, please be careful! Banning Manchuria is the will of Emperor Taizu! ……”

"Caution? …… You came up to ask me on behalf of the emperor, didn't you? ”

“…… Be! ”

"Then what do you mean by letting me be cautious? Are you trying to make me tell a lie? ”

"That's not what Xia Guan meant!"

"It's not good, Master Zhang, I think you are quite a real person, unlike some officials, all of them are arrogant but have no skills, so I'll tell you something real! …… This, I heard that every time the imperial court fights a war, it costs a lot of money, often millions of taels of silver, what does that mean? It shows that the war is about money and food, and instead of letting Kanto be so poor, it is better to let him build the north Jiangnan! That can also add some more income to the court, don't you say? ”

"Rich and strong, rich and strong, how can you be strong if you are not rich? The reason why my Qing Dynasty was able to attack Shanhaiguan that day was not to take advantage of the civil strife in the former Ming Dynasty? If the treasury of the former Ming Dynasty was abundant, how could there be riots everywhere? And how could I let the Qing Dynasty rise in Manchuria? I have recently read history, and when the Central Plains was prosperous in the past dynasties, I had never heard of any foreign race being able to invade, no matter how fierce the foreign race was...... This war is all about money! So, for the country, being rich is not necessarily strong, but strong, the premise must be rich! Otherwise, you have to tighten your belt in a battle, and even if you win, I'm afraid it's almost over! …… Do you say, Lord Zhang? ”

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