203 Canal

"Mr. Chen is really extraordinary, and he has a very clear understanding of the current situation, which is very much in line with my opinion, so I decided. But there is one more thing to ask for, there are a lot of Hu people who have not had time to evacuate from Kaifeng Mansion, and it always feels wrong to kill them all, Mr. Chen is already a strategic envoy of Kaifeng Mansion, I don't know how to deal with this matter? ”

"Your Highness, I have been in Kaifeng Mansion for more than ten years, and I have had a lot of contact with the Hu people in Kaifeng Mansion, in fact, there are many kind and simple people, but in the environment of respecting the Menghu people at that time, it has become a habit to oppress the Han people, and the good people have become evil, and it is no big deal to kill them all. However, the subordinates are not in favor of this, so they can still take advantage of it. Li Chongshan retreated to Hebei, and the army gathered, Hebei could not raise so many troops, so he could only desperately squeeze the people. Hebei has fallen into the hands of the Hu people for a long time, and the Han people there are slowly getting used to it, I rarely hear how many acts of resistance, and my subordinates suggested that all the Hu people left in the Central Plains should be driven to Hebei, so that their burden will be heavier, and the people will naturally be even more unable to live, so what to do, only to rise up and resist. Your Highness, since they want to be obedient to the people, they must have the consciousness of being obedient to the people, and now is not the time for His Highness to talk about benevolence and righteousness. ”

Lin Jianyue sighed, now he can only let them suffer first.

can't keep letting Chen Qu behave, Liu Bingyun is already a little unhappy.

Lin Jianyue turned his head to Liu Bingyun and said: "Mr. Liu, after the fall of the Central Plains, except for Huaidong, the previous canal trough transportation was still going on, and the other places that passed through were decommissioned and abandoned. Now that the Central Plains has been recovered, should we make great efforts to restore it? Now that the territory is bigger, the pressure is greater, and the cost of restoring the canal is staggering, and I feel a little embarrassed. ”

Liu Bingyun immediately replied: "Your Highness, since the Sui Dynasty, the canal has been the symbol and guarantee of the prosperity of the Central Plains, and it used to go directly to Jingzhao Mansion in Guanzhong, not to mention Kaifeng, when it was the capital of the Daning Dynasty, the grain transported every year alone could reach up to five or six million stones, and it was the main channel for countless other goods to trade, because compared with the land route, the risk was much smaller, and the cost was much smaller." Another key point is that it can feed many people who have lost their land. ”

Lin Jianyue nodded and said: "It seems that it is imperative to restore the canal, but after so many years of war in the Central Plains, the people's livelihood is difficult, it seems that we have to tighten our belts, and the restoration of the canal must not be free of charge to levy civil service, so that they can't live, otherwise what is the difference between it and the corrupt court of the Daoless Hu people?" ”

"Your Highness! The people of the Central Plains will usher in the Ming Lord, which is their luck. ”

"If this is called the Ming Lord, then the Ming Lord is too easy to be, the two gentlemen don't have to compliment me, I can't afford it, it's just the beginning, we have to do a thousand things, the first thing to do is to appease the people, and it is also the most difficult thing to do well, please gentlemen"

Liu Bingyun Chen Qu bowed down and agreed, Liu Bingyun continued: "Your Highness, although Jiangnan is not in our hands, there is not much to transport north for the time being, but the canal can be used as the main channel for logistics transportation in the future, so the pressure is much less, and the subordinates have two suggestions, one is to order Qu Shangqun to transfer the Wuji Army to form a river patrol division, create warships that can be used for canal traffic, maintain the order of the canal, and ensure the logistics security of the army, so that even if there is a big war in the Central Plains in the future, it will be difficult for the cavalry of the Hu people to threaten our baggage line. The second is that Jiangnan is not yet in hand, but there are not many Jiangnan clans who support us, and it is too difficult for them to help them free of charge, but business can still be done, and the families of the Central Plains can't just lie on the merit book and sleep, and now is still the time when they want to make a big effort, they can take Princess Yan's Linqing merchant bank as the leader, organize everyone to go south to contact Jiangnan, gather Jiangnan's materials to restore the Central Plains to provide military supplies, so that you can also make full use of the convenience of the canal. ”

Lin Jianyue thought for a while and said: "That's it, but in the past few years, the Central Plains families that have supported me are about to be hollowed out, and the benefits that should be there still have to be given, years of war, many places in the Central Plains are empty, and there are many ownerless fields and houses, Mr. Liu arranged for the local economic envoys to clean up, leave enough Xuntian Xunwu, distribute the things that ordinary people deserve, and give the rest to these families, they themselves have many people, and there are many hidden ones, and now the focus is on restoration." Land annexation is a problem, but it is not a top priority, let's do it first, we must be aware of it, we can't let them expand indefinitely, I will have a way in the future. ”

If we can't talk about it anymore, it will expand into an internal affairs meeting.

Lin Jianyue said to Chen Qu: "The Hu people in Kaifeng Mansion are not much damaged, the population is quite large, and they will recover quickly, Mr. Chen, Kaifeng Mansion will please you, I will stay in Kaifeng for the main force of the Guards, you have to communicate with General Hao Tianfeng a lot, this is the key target of Li Chongshan, once he relaxes his breath, he may attack here first, and he must be prepared to defend the enemy, it is difficult to hold the Kaifeng Imperial City, but I believe that you have a way, the Guards are the main force of Hu, and there are a lot of losses in this war, you have to use the conditions of Kaifeng Mansion to continue to support the expansion of the Guards." , I will come back after touring various places, and it may be time to cross the river and recover Hebei. ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, Chen Qu will do his best to share His Highness's worries, but there is a sentence that his subordinates don't know whether to say or not."

Lin Jianyue said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Chen is not used to our way of doing things, we all have something to say in person, we can say anything, there is no need to have any taboos." ”

"The Central Plains has been unified, and His Highness still has to determine the core place, otherwise each place will be independent, and there will be no central place, and it will be difficult to sort it out in the future."

The meaning is very clear, you can start to centralize power, and power cannot be indulged, otherwise it will be a large and small feudal town for a long time. Liu Bingyun also nodded.

Lin Jianyue looked at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking, and Liu Chen and the others didn't dare to speak at this time.

"It's not a hurry now, the place where I am is the central place, but the military and the government must be separated. Army, I need to take control myself now; Zheng, Mr. Liu will take you to govern. It is still in the stage of fighting the world, and the armies cannot move without permission for the time being, but they will be transferred to each other in the future, so there is no need to worry too much. Of course, the central land still has to be determined in the future, I am the king of Yan, and the land of Yan is the central land. ”

Kaifeng Mansion was originally the Jinggi of the Ning Dynasty, the conditions were ripe, the transportation was convenient, Chen Qu hoped that the Yan King would stay here for a long time to command the world, but it seems that the Yan Wang's ambition is far greater than the former Ning Dynasty, and his eyes have looked farther and more vast to the north, which is also a good thing, Chen Qu did not continue to talk on this topic.