New Shun 1730

After he reminded him, Liu Yu suddenly realized that Zhongxian and Zhenyi were not around, and he still didn't think enough about many things.

He looked at the Guangdong Jiedushi again and couldn't help asking: "If this matter is true, the person who said it has intentions? Don't I have to investigate it thoroughly? But you want someone to cut off his tongue. Aren't you afraid that I will think you are also the one behind it?"

The Guangdong Jiedushi smiled and said: "Duke, there is something I dare to say."

After saying that, he looked at Liu Yu and said without hesitation: "From the perspective of the Duke, there are too many people who hate the Duke. The Duke has been safe so far because of the emperor's favor."

"Therefore, I think it's better to have less trouble than more. Ask clearly, don't If you don't ask at all. It's easy to dodge an open attack, it's also easy to dodge a hidden arrow. With the favor of His Majesty, the hidden arrow can't hurt the Duke at all."

"If things really get tense, it won't look good in the court."

"There was a joke in the officialdom before, saying that the Duke is good at treating people who are not sick. Today's matter is not that there is no illness, but that there is an illness in the skin. If it really gets out of hand, everyone knows that the Lingnan trade route is related to food and clothing. Will the court intervene? Or not?"

"If you don't know, or pretend not to know, you can ignore it."

"If you know, don't give people the opportunity to pretend not to know. , we can't ignore it."

"Willn't it be like roasting the Duke on the fire? Moreover, it will be more than just the Duke who will be roasted at that time?"

"Your Majesty supports the affairs of Songjiang Prefecture and trade."

"The ancients said: Stab someone and kill him, saying, it's not me, it's the soldiers."

"I dare to tell you my private thoughts. If things go wrong, I'm afraid I will be implicated."

"Although I am not talented, I read a lot of exciting frontier poems when I was young. I was happy when the court expanded its territory; I am not so pedantic and ignorant. I know that wars require money. If the court has not increased taxes in recent years, where will the money for wars come from? "

"Therefore, this trade matter is also supported by this subordinate. Therefore, this subordinate thinks that it is better to have less trouble than more. Just talk about the crime of opium smuggling, don't involve more, just ignore it."

"When the time comes, I will report to Your Majesty and make preparations in secret, either to investigate, investigate, appease, or provide relief. In short, it is best not to cause trouble."

The Guangdong Jiedushi played a trick with his rich experience in the quagmire of Dashun officialdom.

Some things may be alarmist, but once the alarmist words become reality, those who thought it was alarmist and disdained it before will be considered wrong.

Will those unemployed "water transport workers" on the Dayuling trade route in Lingnan have problems?

The Guangdong Jiedushi is not sure about this.

If there were no words from the opium dealers, everything would be easy to say.

If something goes wrong, suppress it. Unless it is a civil uprising caused by his own corruption and abuse of power, the court will not punish him for a civil uprising.

But if the opium dealer's words become known to everyone, he, as the governor of Guangdong, will have to publicly report to the emperor to protect himself, so that if something really happens in the future, he will blame himself for not reporting these "rumors".

But if he does this, he will be used as a gun by those who want to deal with Liu Yu.

The key is to see the emperor's attitude. Now he obviously supports many of Liu Yu's trade policies. If he really attributes the problem to the court's trade policies, it will be a slap in the emperor's face.

Although he, the governor of Guangdong, did not hit him, he was involved, and the emperor would feel uncomfortable in the future.

Therefore, the best way is to privately report this matter, and the court will directly send people to investigate and see whether the people's sentiment is serious.

If you can prevent it before it happens, it will be good for you, me, and everyone, and it will also save the emperor's face.

Because this matter has no solution.

If something really happened, would the court close Songjiang Prefecture and move it back to Guangzhou? If the livelihoods of those people on the Dayuling trade route were solved, wouldn't the people on the trade routes extending from Songjiang Prefecture still have problems?

After the commotion, the biggest result would be to make the emperor lose face and take the opportunity to attack Liu Yu. The Guangdong Jiedushi thought clearly that if he wanted to do it, the emperor would have done it long ago. Since he didn't want to do it, it seemed to be attacking Liu Yu at this time, but in fact it was slapping the emperor in the face.

At that time, even if he didn't have this intention, the emperor would probably suspect that he, the Guangdong Jiedushi, deliberately got involved and deliberately made the problem known to everyone and couldn't pretend not to know? That would be like yellow mud falling into the crotch, and it would be unclear.

In itself, the emperor had already appeased the Guangdong Jiedushi with the investigation of opium.

The investigation was in Macau, but a large number of people arrested were from Guangzhou City. If the emperor really got angry, wouldn't this be a ready-made reason?

What do you do as a Guangdong Jiedushi? Opium smuggling and human trafficking are happening right under your noses, and you can't see it?

The governor of Guangdong thought, who knows if His Majesty knows about the problems caused by the change in trade routes. If he knew about it, he wouldn't want to make a scene, and he wouldn't be willing to spend money to solve it, but I'm here to expose him. Isn't that blind?

As for Liu Yu, according to his understanding, the words he used to persuade Liu Yu were "a gentleman deceives others with a method".

It's not about deception, but you can reason with a gentleman and talk about righteousness.

Although many people in the court opposed Liu Yu, based on his character, most people actually recognized that he was a deformed gentleman, a person who sought and practiced the truth, but "different ways do not work together".

Grasping his mentality of wanting to do the right thing, you can persuade him with the intention of doing the right thing.

So his way of persuading Liu Yu, in summary, is: if the Duke wants to do business, he must guard against villains stabbing him in the back, but stabbing him in the back is meaningless now, so everything is for business, and the rest should not be investigated. Investigating it will affect business.

After he finished speaking, Liu Yu just smiled and thought to himself that I really don't care about such a bullshit.

Now the north wants to repair the Huaihe River, abolish the canal transportation, and solve the millions of canal workers there. The emperor probably doesn't want to lose face at this time. It's not good to ignore it if he knows it, and he can just pretend not to know and ignore it.

He is already at the cusp of the storm, and the emperor probably thinks that he should not take the initiative to cause trouble. However, Liu Yu thought to himself, I am not prepared to cause trouble at all, and it is useless to intrigue over such trivial matters. If you have this mind, you might as well look at the stars and draw the moon phase map for a few days.

What bothers me is whether there will be more bloodshed when burying the dynasty in the future. How can I have the leisure to engage in such conspiracies and intrigues?

He snorted, spat at the side, and said, "Forget it, let's do less. Let someone cut off his tongue, don't kill him, then he can be beheaded on the guillotine to serve as a warning to others."

The Guangdong Jiedushi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly, "The Duke puts state affairs first, I admire you."

Liu Yu snorted, and said, "But his words also reminded me."

"Uh..."

The Guangdong Jiedushi was a little stunned, thinking that even if he reminded you, what can you do? Now Guangdong is not without customs, nor is it forbidden for Western merchant ships to come, but because of the geographical advantages, once Songjiang Prefecture is opened, Western ships will not come here.

Unless he acts against the will of heaven and forcibly closes the customs of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, forcing them to come to Guangzhou.

But he is only the Guangdong Jiedushi of Dashun, not the Guangdong Jiedushi of the late Tang Dynasty. The name is the same, but in fact he is just a floating official who works for a few years and then goes elsewhere.

Although he also thinks more about himself, he still has some feelings for the country in his heart. Acting against the will of heaven is actually detrimental to the interests of the court.

Weighing the pros and cons, it is better not to make any more trouble.

Liu Yu did not mention the use of administrative power to distort trade routes and develop Guangzhou trade, but said: "With this reminder, I have to remind the governor."

"Now that the court has gone to Southeast Asia, it is time to encourage going to Southeast Asia. It is different from the past."

"Now that the Ding tax has been abolished and distributed to land, population mobility has nothing to do with the taxation of various states."

"Since you are the governor of Guangdong, you should encourage immigration in the future."

The governor of Guangdong thought about it and smiled bitterly: "Duke, just tell me this."

"In terms of emotion, reason, and righteousness, I should say that what the Duke said is very right. It is for the sake of saving the people. Guangdong is poor, and going to Southeast Asia is to let the people find a way to survive."

"But emotion, reason, and righteousness, how many people in the world remember it? It is said that when the Ding tax was abolished, the population in various places skyrocketed. , is it really that they were born in a short period of time? It has nothing to do with taxes, so there is no need to conceal the population. "

"Encouraging immigration is similar. It is reasonable, righteous, and should be so. But if there is no performance evaluation, who can really care about it?"

"It takes a lot of effort, and there is no performance, how many people are willing to do it? I will tell you the truth. How many officials in the world can save the people? If the court really wants to relocate people to Southeast Asia, it will link the relocation with performance for evaluation. "

"Of course, the Duke also knows that once this matter is linked to performance, there will naturally be some tragedies of ruining families. "

"There are pros and cons, the Duke weighs it for himself."

When he said this, he reminded Liu Yu a little, and asked: "What do you mean by linking it to performance?"

The Guangdong Jiedushi said: "The subordinate just said casually One theory. For example, since Nanyang is vast, an area can be demarcated and placed under Guangdong's administration. It is similar to the Taiwan Prefecture being placed under Fujian. "

"The areas under Guangdong's administration will be subject to Guangdong's political achievements. The population, cultivated land, and reclamation will be used as assessments. Even the counties and states along the coast will each have an area demarcated."

"In this way, the capitation tax itself will be abolished, and officials in various places will find it troublesome if there are too many people. If it can be linked to political achievements, assessment and promotion, I think immigration will be faster."

"But the disadvantage is that there will be all kinds of problems, such as tax increases, levies, forced relocation, etc."

"The key is that there is no money. The court actually acquiesces to local levies, which is prone to accidents. At that time, it will inevitably take the opportunity to increase levies, and there is also the possibility of a tragedy of forced relocation."

"So I say, there are pros and cons. After all, the court does not allocate money. If you meet a good official, reasonable levies and donations from the gentry will be enough. It's okay to offer. But there are too few good officials. "

"If you really do this, the Duke will know the consequences. "

"Therefore, linking it with performance evaluation will confuse the local people; without evaluation, just talking about reason is useless - relocating people requires money, donations and levies, relocating people to Southeast Asia, but there is no achievement, unless they are truly for the people. But there are not many such people. "

"Therefore, whether the Duke encourages or not, it will be useless unless the policy is changed. The silver from the Ding tax has already been levied on the land, and the court did not prohibit the people from going to Southeast Asia to make a living after going to Southeast Asia. I don't think there is much difference. "

After saying that, he glanced at Liu Yu and smiled, "The Duke must know that everything cannot be done without money. It's easy to say if the court gives money. But since the Ming Dynasty, the court's policy is not to give money. After the national tax is sufficient, the local use is insufficient, so it tacitly allows the local levy and increase. This is the crux of the problem. "

"As long as the court doesn't give money and it's not linked to political performance... Hehe, which official would be idle and levy taxes on the local area, causing public outrage, and send the poor people to Southeast Asia?"

"However, as long as it is linked to political performance, I dare to guarantee that within three years, there will be a civil uprising! Ruining families, levying taxes without limit, taking advantage of the opportunity to make money, it's too miserable to bear."