New Shun 1730

Jinling is the capital of Jiangsu Province in Dashun in legal terms.

However, in reality, Dashun's Jiangsu is also scattered. After the rapid rise of Songjiang Prefecture's foreign trade, the Jiangsu Jiedushi in Jinling actually did not have control over Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture, which were trying to implement the new policy.

In fact, the Anhui Jiedushi was also temporarily stationed in Jinling for work. However, in reality, Jinling did not belong to Anhui Province.

On the issue of the division of Anhui Province, Dashun adhered to a very simple military principle: Anqing and Nanjing could not be in the same province.

The Anhui Jiedushi held Anqing in his hands; the Jiangsu Jiedushi held Nanjing in his hands.

The reason why the Anhui Jiedushi temporarily had to stay in Jinling was actually because of the canal, water control, and the Yellow River and Huai River.

Because these three things require Anhui Province and Jiangsu Province - Jiangsu Province excluding Songjiang Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, and Suzhou Prefecture - to cooperate in handling.

Another thing is that although the four prefectures of Songjiang and Suzhou have developed economies, their political status is very low due to historical inertia. Because of the Nanzhili of the previous dynasty, if you ask people in Yangzhou Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, and Xuzhou Prefecture, where is your provincial capital? They usually answer that it must be Nanjing, which has been renamed Jinling.

And, in fact, a kind of unspoken rule policy that has been continued from the previous dynasty to Dashun: if the Yellow River bursts, protect the north but not the south, protect the grain transport in the north but not the people in the south. This requires a special administrative plan to ensure that the government teams of Anhui and Jiangsu can keep enough distance and maintain a consistent pace with the central government.

So, in fact, Dashun is actually three provinces in the Jiangnan region.

They are Anhui Province, where the Jiedushi is stationed in the capital of Jiangsu Province; the four prefectures of Songsu and Su, which have no legitimate Jiedushi but are actually directly under the jurisdiction of the central government and have some special policies; and Jiangsu Province, which should actually be called Huanghuai Province or Xuzhou Province, but because the capital of the previous dynasty Nanming and Anqing and Nanjing cannot be in the same province.

Liu Yu was not the governor of Jiangsu. He was more like a special "guard eunuch" sent by the emperor, who had the ability to do things in the four prefectures of Songjiang and Jiangsu.

But in theory, Huai'an, Haizhou and other places that belonged to Jiangsu Province, his words were useless there. Another thing was that he was recognized as a "canal-abandoning faction" in the Dashun officialdom. The officialdom there hated him very much and cut off the financial resources of too many people.

This was different from Guangzhou, which lost its status as a foreign trade center due to Liu Yu's tossing. Not many people in Guangzhou could really realize that it was the rise of Songjiang Prefecture that led to the depression of Lingnan trade routes; but a series of problems caused by the canal-abandoning policy actually directly tore apart southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, which was seen by Jiangsu officials.

Even in the eyes of many people, it was Liu Yu who abolished the prosperous areas of northern Jiangsu, several megacities with a population of 700,000 to 800,000 along the canal, which were in the world's scope at that time.

In this case, if Liu Yu wanted to solve the problems in northern Jiangsu, he could only go to Jinling to find the governor of Jiangsu, who was actually the governor of Huaihai Xuzhou.

In addition to the Jiangsu Jiedushi, Liu Yu also had to meet the Huanghuai Governor who was sent by the emperor to coordinate disaster relief, flood control, Huai River control, and river abolition policies. This Huanghuai Governor was similar to Liu Yu, an official who was not legitimate. He was not a permanent position, but was sent by the court to coordinate.

Now the general plan of the Huaihe River flowing into the sea and the Yangtze River has been decided; the policy of abandoning the canal and the original policy of monetary taxation of grain has also been decided; the policy of governing the Huanghuai River has become the primary goal of the emperor's southern tour this time.

Under various circumstances, such a Huanghuai Governor was created. However, the government office of the Huanghuai Governor was not in Jinling, but now it is temporarily in Jinling for the sake of coordinating the forces of the two provinces.

The Huanghuai Governor did not care about too many civil affairs issues, but mainly solved the problem of grain transport workers. He was closer to a military cadre, responsible for selecting and selecting grain transport workers and joining the Xiangjun, which was called Xiangjun, but could actually be called the engineering corps.

And, most importantly, the inevitable and foreseeable chaos and even uprising brought about by the policy of abolishing the river.

The governors of Huanghuai are all from the circle of children of the noble courtyards on Liu Yu's side. The emperor made such an informal appointment in order to implement the will to control the Huaihe River. But although they are both from the Wude Palace, good families, or children of "old warriors of the founding marquises", the relationship between the two sides is not very familiar.

However, the two can also talk. After the battle of Altai Mountain to conquer the Western Regions, he was the one who did a better job in the Western Regions.

In view of this big circle of small circles, the contradiction between the children of the old warriors of the nobles and the imperial examination bureaucrats, and the avoidance of direct contact between the two people who actually hold the cancer of Dashun and the money and rice bags of Dashun, Liu Yu can only do his job in a fair manner and go to the banner of the governor of Jiangsu.

Songjiang Prefecture is not far from Jinling, so it is not necessary to send people to notify in advance, and all kinds of red tape are not to be mentioned.

After the ceremony, Liu Yu entered the hall and spoke directly about the problems he faced.

"Governor, Jiedushi, I will tell you the truth. Your Majesty has entrusted me to supervise this matter, and it is really difficult to handle here. I have to come to you for help."

The current Jiedushi of Jiangsu held a cigarette and lit the ash. Looking at Liu Yu's begging expression, he thought to himself that you are slippery. All the benefits belong to you in southern Jiangsu, but we are asked to handle the matter in northern Jiangsu. This money is not only enriching Nanyang, but also enriching the merchants in the four prefectures of southern Jiangsu. They don't pay, but instead cheat the gentry in northern Jiangsu?

"Mr. Xing, this matter is difficult and simple."

"If it is simple, special matters are handled specially for the long-term benefit of the country and the hardship of the local gentry. It's nothing."

"But if you want to say it's difficult, I just want to ask, is this Nanyang event only for this year? If not only this year, it will happen again next year and the year after, so does it have to be handled specially every time?"

"So, in the final analysis, there needs to be a rule here. But how to come up with this rule is the difficulty."

"If Lord Xing says, just this once. Then I can supervise this matter now, either by persuading or explaining the righteousness."

The governor of Jiangsu slowly recited another ancient text.

According to the law of Lu, if a Lu person becomes a servant of a vassal, and someone who can redeem him can take the money from the government. Zigong redeemed a Lu person from a vassal, but he gave up his money and did not take the money. Confucius said: "You are wrong. From now on, people in Lu will not redeem people. If you take the gold, it will not harm your business. If you don't take the gold, you will not redeem people."

"Xing Gong has always practiced this. Let merchants make profits, so merchants are eager to move people to Southeast Asia. This is the great wisdom of Zilu redeeming people."

"But for southern Jiangsu, Zilu is learning, but for northern Jiangsu, Zigong is learning... This is not good."

Liu Yu was also shameless and laughed: "Merchants are all villains, the most despicable when the four classes are divided. Villains talk about profit. Gentlemen are all gentlemen, the most valuable when the four classes are divided. Gentlemen talk about righteousness."

This sounded very correct, and it made all the officials present laugh. They all knew that Liu Yu was telling a joke to ease the atmosphere, so he said such nonsense.

After laughing, Liu Yu said, "That's why I'm coming to Nanjing this time. It's because this is not a one-time or two-time thing that we need to make a rule."

"This time, the matter is urgent, and special matters are handled specially. It's indeed easy to say. If it's really for this once, I don't have to come to Nanjing."

"But for this matter, it's not good for the court to make rules... Otherwise, it seems that the court is going to go the old way. Now the wind is a little bad, I think you all know it."

This is the key point, and everyone's expression gradually became cautious, knowing what Liu Yu meant.

The gentry hated some of the policies at the beginning of the founding of the Dashun Dynasty. The final compromise was also the foundation for Dashun to sit firmly in the world.

Some things are not easy to say too clearly, otherwise they are too unpleasant. For example, when the slave soldiers revolted at the founding of the country, after the Qing Dynasty arrived, the slave soldiers who divided the land and burned the land deeds had their noses and ears cut off, demanding that the land be returned to the gentry and making decisions for the gentry. So do these gentry support the Qing Dynasty? Or do they support Dashun who stood on the side of the slave soldiers?

"The great men of the county went to ask for help from the 'king's army'", and this is not just one or two places. After the "rebellion was suppressed", it was highly praised as "where there is heaven and earth, there are monarchs and ministers".

Some slogans of anti-Shun and restoration of Qing did not exist. It was only because Dashun was embarrassed to talk about the righteousness of protecting the world, using the Kong family in Qufu as a target and hanging a humiliating plaque of Guan Zhong, and the rest were not good at putting these things on the table too much.

Now Dashun is going to deepen the single whip law, and has tried to promote permanent tenancy in Wendeng Prefecture, and is also going to reform the high eleventh tax system in Songjiang Prefecture and other places. There are rumors everywhere.

Some say that Dashun is going back to the old way, some say that it may really reduce rent and interest or even permanent tenancy in the future, and some even think that Dashun has been completely influenced by the northern Confucianists to implement equal fields and well fields.

In this case, if the court officially issues a policy saying that the debts owed by the migrated people will be written off, wouldn't the gentry in the world be in an uproar?

Now it seems that Dashun is showing off its might in foreign wars, but in fact, it has a lot of problems internally. It is about to reform, control water, move the Grand Canal and Huaihe River, try to change the tax system, etc. If something goes wrong at this time, it will be difficult to deal with it.

To be honest, there is the school for the children of marquises left by Li Guo, which is completely different from the system of imperial examinations for gentry. In theory, Dashun is not afraid of the so-called "boycott of the exam".

But it is only in theory that it is not afraid, and it is not really possible to say "there is such a good thing".

This is a deterrent force, just like nuclear weapons, it can only scare people by saying that it will be used.

But the most frightening time is just before the launch.

Once it is really used, you have to be mentally prepared to hurt your bones and even be willing to sacrifice your life.

Those present are all trained in the officialdom, and they also know the national conditions of Dashun. How can they not understand what Liu Yu said?

Seeing Liu Yu say this, the governor of Huanghuai also came out to support Liu Yu a little bit.

"The Nanyang affairs handled by Mr. Xing are indeed a long-term event that will benefit the people and the country. I have read some of Mr. Xing's books and know the significance of this matter."

"For the Huanghuai issue, water control is only a temporary solution. Although going to Nanyang may not be a fundamental solution, it can indeed solve some problems."

"Your Majesty sent me here this time. As the saying goes, if you want to get things done, you must cut the Gordian knot. Water control, Huai River control, and abolishing the grain transport system do require special treatment."

"But...abolishing the grain transport system, controlling the Huai River, and water control can eliminate the impact in three to five years, or at most ten years. Going to Nanyang is not a matter of three to five years. It's a relief today, but it will be difficult in the future."