Chu Fan saw Wanli enter the play, and hit the railway while it was hot: "What now?" Am I short of food? According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, since the implementation of the new whip law, this year's grain output has nearly doubled, and the extra grain does not know how to store it, and it can't be put in the granary of the people, right? Wouldn't it be better for us to let the people trade freely in exchange for foreign products? Isn't it good to trade our surplus for other items we need? ”

Wanli took over the conversation: "Then the coastal guard post can be revoked, and these officers and soldiers can be transferred to Liaodong to fight against the Jurchens, is that what it means?" ”

Wanli is a smart person in the end, and he can understand it at a glance, and he quickly figured out the joints.

"It's a good thing, but ...... Why do you feel that something is inappropriate? ”

Wanli frowned, a little confused.

"Your Majesty, because I haven't done it in the past, I'm always afraid, it's like walking in the dark, I can't see the way forward, although I don't know what danger there is, I still feel afraid, this is normal."

"Well, Chu Aiqing, it's not that I don't trust you, but I'm afraid it's difficult for the ministers to convince you of this matter, after all, it's not easy to break the rules left by the ancestors."

"Your Majesty, I know it's very difficult, but this is the only way now, otherwise you let the minister deal with the Jianzhou Jurchen alone, and you can't beat it if it's true."

Wanli got up from his chair and paced back and forth, walking a dozen laps, apparently undecided.

Chu Fan saw that Wanli was shaken, and added: "Your Majesty, if we can continue to improve our productivity, increase grain and industrial products, and we can't use them up ourselves, will they all pile up?"

It is better to fully open up trade with foreign countries, so that we can ensure stable prices internally, consume excessive production, and exchange foreign goods, externally, avoid military conflicts, reduce military defense, reduce the burden of military power, and reduce friction with the northern Warat, Mongolia, and Jurchen, and can exchange markets, and there will be fewer robbers, isn't it a better thing for us? ”

This remark completely woke up Wanli, yes, there are more and more things, we can't use them up ourselves, can we save them all?

Wanli returned to the chair and sat down, and said, "Okay, what Aiqing said is reasonable, so let's start the operation and fully open the coast." ”

Soon, the emperor took the initiative to put forward a proposal to open the coast at the court meeting, of course, it was inevitably met with all kinds of obstructions, all kinds of resistance, especially conservative officials, who never took other nationalities into account, in their opinion, those are barbarians, savages, except for some cattle, sheep and horses, there is really nothing worth our exchange.

But Mr. Wanli is in the front this time, fighting for reason, and there is a reason, the ministers have never been able to get around, what should be done with the excess output value? If you can't eat enough food, is it just piling up?

Some say that it is possible to raise pigs and poultry.

And what about poultry and pigs, too?

As the country grows bigger and bigger, it is a natural law that the excess output value must be exported to the outside world.

In the end, Wanli, who won the battle against the Confucians, happily pressed the jade seal on the holy decree.

The door of the Ming Dynasty to the outside world was opened.

Chu Fan, the newly appointed squire of the Ministry of War, today is the first day of taking office, and he met with Shangshu Yang Hao, and Chu Fan began to look through the recent journal of the Ministry of War, that is, the recent work report of the Ministry of War.

The Qi army was really very brave, although it was only 70,000 people, but it blocked more than 300,000 people outside the Shanhai Pass for several months, and finally due to supply difficulties, the second wave army took the initiative to retreat to Liaodong, most of them returned to Pyongyang for repair, and now there are less than 100,000 people left to confront the Qi army in Shenyang.

Speaking of which, the Chinese people still do not understand China's national conditions and are not familiar with the surrounding environment of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, don't admit death, don't go from Shanhaiguan, if you detour to the mainland, the defense of the Ming army is very sparse, especially the generation between Datongfu and Shanhaiguan, as long as you break through the Great Wall, you can go straight to Beijing.

But they chose to attack, so what about the Jianzhou Jurchen? Will they choose to go through the middle ground?

The answer is yes, according to history, twenty years later, Nurhachi will still lead troops to attack the Ming Dynasty and be blocked outside the Shanhai Pass, and eventually Nurhachi will throw his life here, but his son Huang Taiji will lead people to bypass the Shanhaiguan Pass and go straight down from Beijing.

After the fighting in the western Tibetan area subsided, there was basically no major threat, the tribes were unified, and because of the role of Chu Fan, the Guge dynasty and religious leaders declared their submission to the Ming Dynasty, so there was no danger at present.

In the southwest, due to the continuous civil unrest in Dali, Vietnam and other places, it has always been in the stage of war readiness.

But fortunately, those places are very remote and sparsely populated, just like the situation north of Ganzhouwei, even if the territory is lost, it is not painful, and it will be taken back one day, so the court is neither careless, nor fully devoted, maintaining a delicate balance.

To the southeast, there are currently two large coastal guard posts in Guangdong and Guangxi, with about 15,000 defense troops of various types.

The defense strength of the two coastal guard posts in Zhejiang and Jiangsu in the east is about 13,000 people.

Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other inland provinces basically have no troops because there is no war, and at most some regimental training troops, that is, the so-called militia.

Now the money on the books of the Ministry of War is basically enough to maintain the expenditure of the Qi family's army, but it is still a little insufficient to increase the number of troops.

Studying the military strength of the whole country, Chu Fan fell into deep thought.

If you follow the historical trend, in the next few decades, peasant uprisings will break out everywhere, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Hubei, peasant uprisings will break out one after another, and Shaanxi is very powerful, because there is the famous Li Zicheng among them.

If all these troops are withdrawn, and within a year or two they can defeat the Qing and Qing armies, it will be enough, and if it drags on and becomes a protracted war, and another war breaks out in the country, it may be completely out of control. However, it is impossible to judge whether his arrival has affected the historical trend of the country.

In this case, let's take multiple measures at the same time to nip the unstable factors in the bud.

Just do it, it's Chu Fan's style of doing things, just don't want to do it, when will it be done?

First, it is necessary to immediately draft a document and mobilize 12,000 people from the two Guangzhou and Zhejiang health centers and 10,000 people from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang health centers to go to Beijing on the same day without delay.

Second, a military order was issued to the Qijia army, ordering it to retreat to the line from Shenyang to Liaoyang, to fight against the second wave army and the Nurhachi army with its own forces, and to let go of the deep area north of Liaoyang and Shenyang, and to introduce the second wave army and the Nurhachi army into the same area.

Third, a document was sent to the Guge State of Tibet, ordering the Guge State to transfer 10,000 troops to Datong Prefecture to assemble.

Fourth, he sent a document to Tianshuiwei, ordering Tianshuiwei and Suzhou Wei to mobilize a total of 3,000 people to join forces with Guge in Datong Mansion, and Wang Zheng, the governor of Tianshuiwei, was promoted to the deputy commander of Datong and commanded the Tibetan army. Fifth, send a letter to the household department, requesting 500,000 taels of military expenses.

Sixth, apply to the cabinet and send Jinyiwei to Mizhi, Shaanxi Province to find a person named Li Hongji, confiscate all the landlords' land in Mizhi County, and order the local people not to raise sheep, and all men surnamed Li in Mizhi County are allowed to move to Chang'an City and not marry local women.

Seventh, a document was issued to the political envoy of Shaanxi, ordering the removal of Yinchuan post stations, and all post stations in Shaanxi were not allowed to recruit post guards surnamed Li.

Cutting children, Hua Tongshu can still be understood, the surname of the Bike Haicheng Tongge has been ordered, and there is no longer a person to set up a defense, and it is understandable to transfer the troops to defend the northeast.

But the more I look at the back, the more confused I become, what's the matter? Suzhou Wei doesn't need to defend anymore? Below is the Tibetan area, above is the Warat people, and the Suzhou Guards in the middle, there are no troops left?

Also, did someone mess with you in Shaanxi Mizhi? This person's surname is Li? Why can't you get along with the Shaanxi surname Li?

However, at this time, Mr. Yang Hao is over seventy years old, a seventy-one-year-old man, should have held his grandson at home, or even his great-grandson, but he was forcibly pulled to be the secretary of the military department, which is really difficult for some strongmen.

Yes, I really don't want to care about these things, at this time, there is a deputy Chu Fan, don't push him forward, I don't care if I can.

In order not to carry the black pot, Mr. Yang even changed the regulations on the approval of official documents of the Ministry of War.

In the past, all the writings of the Ministry of War were drafted by lower-level officials, reviewed by the squire in charge, and finally signed by the secretary of the book, that is, the number one leader.

After reading these seven documents, the old gentleman was not sure, but he knew very well that Chu Fan was in control of the overall situation, if he did not approve it, it would affect Chu Fan's arrangement, and he would have to be cleaned up by the emperor, but he didn't want to take responsibility, so he simply changed it to From now on, the military department clerk and the squire have the right to sign, and the documents drafted by Chu Fan do not need to be transferred to Yang Hao himself for signing.

Hmph, there is no slippery spirit, can you safely and steadily achieve the position of the secretary of the military department?

Chu Fan originally wanted to twist it, and talk to Mr. Shangshu, don't do this, I still respect you, you are the number one, I am the deputy, you still have to check for me. As a result, Lao Shangshu didn't wait for Chu Fan to find him, but first came to Chu Fan with a stack of documents.

The attitude is also very clear, I don't understand what you wrote, I don't understand what you want to do, you just look at it yourself, my department will block it, but don't pull me to give you a back, let's mix well in this military department, and the well water will not violate the river water.

Everyone said it so clearly, what can Chu Fan say? Okay, then I'll play by myself?

Soon, seven documents were served.

The first person to receive the document was Tianshui Wei Wang Zheng.

Looking at the order issued by the military department, Wang Zheng quickly understood the intention.

Lao Shangshu didn't understand why he dared to transfer almost all the troops of Suzhou Wei to Datong Mansion, but Wang Zheng knew very well that in the past, the main responsibility of Suzhou Wei was to guard the current Jiuquan, that is, the Dunhuang and Yumen generations on the Silk Road.

In this era, the biggest threat is the forces from the north and south sides of Suzhou, and the Tibetan forces on the south side of course no longer need to defend, they have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and Chu Fan is still the auxiliary minister of the Guge State, so there is definitely no threat.

And the Warat forces in the north are not a threat to Suzhou Wei, because in the Ejina area on the north side of Suzhou, only the small tribe Zhezhe who was bribed by Chu Fan is now left.

Zhezhe received Chu Fan's benefits, and without even saying hello, he withdrew from the battlefield, leaving Jungar messy in the wind, and then did not lose contact with the Ming Dynasty.

Zhezhe, a small tribe, originally did not have the strength to single out the Ming Dynasty, and after receiving the benefits, he naturally went to be chic, how could he have time to follow others to make trouble, not to mention that now there is no Warat force in the central part of Ejina, and after Heshuote was wiped out, Jungar had returned to the depths of the grassland with the remnants.

Therefore, Suzhou Weinan and the north have been pacified, and it is a pure waste to release a few thousand more people.

Tianshuiwei originally didn't have many people, so with a few symbolic personal soldiers, Wang Zheng went on the road.

Promoted to the deputy chief soldier of the fourth grade, of course, it is the blessing of the brother Chu Fan, Wang Zheng is the right bet on the treasure, this son worships, it is even cooler than buying a lottery ticket to win, as the so-called one person gets the way, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, Chu Fan will go back to preside over the overall situation sooner or later, which Wang Zheng sees more thoroughly than anyone else.

The second person to receive the document was the Governor's Office of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, from the beginning of the opening of the treaty port, Governor Ma Lin had already guessed that the guard would be withdrawn sooner or later, but what he didn't expect was that Chu Fan still saved face, as long as the soldiers were not withdrawn, and the guard was not withdrawn, it was easy to say, if the guard was not withdrawn, my official would still be there, it didn't matter if there were no soldiers, just mix it up, and soon send troops to the capital.

The third one received was the Liangguang Governor's Palace, Liu Yan, the governor of Liangguang, was a sincere person, and he did whatever he was asked to do, and soon selected the most than 10,000 troops to be sent to Beijing.

The fourth one received was the Tibetan Guge Kingdom, the current Suoda Dharma King Suoyang Zong, that is, the little monk of the Heavenly Temple who was recommended by Chu Fan before leaving as the reincarnation of the next Suoda Dharma King, the administrative head of the Guge Kingdom, immediately convened the ministers, read out the court documents, and emphasized: "This document is issued by Chu Fan, the first auxiliary minister of the Guge Kingdom, we must respond as soon as possible, although the court only needs 10,000 people, but we must express our sincerity, I suggest going to 20,000 people." ”

The ministers agreed, in the Tibetan area, no one did not know Chu Fan, and no one did not know that this Han man from the Han region helped Guge unify Tibet and gave everyone a stable life.

The fifth person to receive the document was Wu Weizhong, the leader of the Qi family army who was fighting hard with the Cibo army on the border of Liaodong.

Do you know how long it took to advance this point, how many troops were lost, how much blood was shed, and you said to retreat?

But when he saw the seal issued by Chu Fan, he immediately stopped thinking about it, with his understanding of Chu Fan, it was impossible for him to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and it would inevitably be a greater strategic deployment. In turn, Wu Weiyong thinks he is a general, but Chu Fan is definitely handsome, and he is at his own height, he must not be able to see Chu Fan's goals and strategies, so he will not look at it if he can't understand it, and it will definitely be right to do it, so he immediately beckoned the troops to retreat in an orderly manner and move to Liaoyang and Shenyang.

The sixth person to receive the document was the Shaanxi Political Envoy, and it was inexplicable to read the content, who did Yinchuan Yi provoke? Why the cut?

Can't use the post man surnamed Li anymore? What kind of bullshit policy is this?

But there was an order from above, and it had to be done, so someone was sent to handle it soon.

Seven documents were sent out, and only six received them. Where else did one go?

The documents sent to the cabinet were taken away by the cabinet's deputy assistant Kui Xinghe.

Kui Xinghe, the former head of the household department, although he didn't have any achievements, but he didn't make any mistakes, in order to make room for Chu Fan, he was promoted to the cabinet as a second assistant for no reason, saying that it was promoted, but in fact, he came to the cabinet to do chores, after all, the current first assistant Shen Shixing is a model worker, and the second assistant basically can't even touch the edge, for him it is simply a bright rise and a dark fall.

As a result, the position was vacated to Chu Fan, and after less than a year, Chu Shangshu was kicked to Ganzhou Weidang to inspect the school, but the position was not returned to Kui Xinghe, but Chu Fan's father-in-law Zhang Sixiu sat in the position of Hubu Shangshu.

Dare you to take a place here for your father-in-law?

Kui Xinghe dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, after all, Chu Fan was a celebrity around the emperor, and if he provoked him, he couldn't say that the emperor was angry, and the cabinet gold medal water baby wouldn't let you do it, so it would be boring to leave the bed. But I couldn't swallow this breath, no, Shen Shixing had taken leave for the past few days, and the documents he had reported from the Ministry of War fell into his hands.

He did not draft his opinions in accordance with the normal procedures, but personally sent this document to Wanli's case and reported to Wanli.

"Your Majesty, the document reported by this military department wants to transfer the Jinyi Guard, I'm afraid this ^is not in line with the ancestral system, right?"

Chu Fan is indeed negligent, Jinyiwei belongs to the emperor's direct unit, although in the late Ming Dynasty, some professionalization, not as mysterious as the East Factory and the West Factory, but after all, it is still the emperor's personal guard, and you are a soldier who transfers Jinyiwei, which belongs to the overstep.

If you want to do any national affairs, the emperor is allowed or not, then everyone is for the sake of the public, which is understandable, but if you apply for the transfer of Jinyiwei, this will have a bit of a rebellious taste in it, if the emperor is too careful, you can't eat and walk around.

If it was an ordinary minister, if he dared to say such a thing, and wrote it as an official document, the emperor would inevitably be furious.

You are equivalent to writing a letter to tell the emperor, do you remember the pair of underwear you used to wear? Recently, I don't see that you wear it very often, I borrowed it and used it, and I returned it to you when I ran out, can I? You said that if you were replaced by Wanli, would you be angry?

However, Chu Fan's style of acting, as well as the relationship with the emperor, Wanli finally agreed, Kui Xinghe grew his mouth and fixed it on the spot, he didn't expect that the emperor could even agree to this thing, really wearing a pair of pants?

After begging for a boring Kui Xinghe, he ran back to the cabinet in a gloomy manner, drafted the handling opinions, and sent them to Wanli.

At this interval, Wanli quickly summoned Chu Fan.

Chu Fan has a stinky problem, and if he calculates a good thing, he will do it directly, unwilling to solicit opinions and communicate with the leader.

This caught Wanli a little off guard, as soon as he received Kui Xinghe's report, he didn't know what medicine Chu Fan was selling in his gourd, but if he rejected Chu Fan's paperwork, it would be equivalent to hitting Chu Fan's prestige, so he could only agree first, and then call Chu Fan to question.