New Shun 1730

After the emperor's approved memorial was returned to Liu Yu, Liu Yu had already guessed the emperor's attitude before reading it.

Because when he wrote, his true attitude towards the over-indulgent policy that he was very enthusiastic about in the memorial was the same as his pure loyalty to the emperor in the memorial.

It's not because of the reason of lifting the roof or opening the windows. It was just to test the emperor's attitude and the reasons for his objections, and to lay the groundwork for what he really wanted to say.

Although he knew that the emperor would definitely object, Liu Yu couldn't help but laugh after reading the reply in the memorial, especially when he saw the second point raised by the emperor.

As expected, the way of thinking is still the same old-fashioned morality of goodwill subjectively, but completely reactionary objectively.

Having made a very disdainful evaluation of the emperor in his heart, Liu Yu hurried north to the capital.

Autumn has arrived, and the most critical winter for Dashun's reform is coming. Before the incident in Northern Jiangsu, he wants to make the reforms of water transportation, salt administration, and Huaihe River the most "untinkering" in his opinion. From a century-old perspective, truly meaningful things have been settled.

The previous six consecutive memorials were constant testing and paving the way, step by step, to the point where the balance in an emperor's heart gradually tilted under the influence of the first five memorials.

When he returned to the capital, he asked to see the emperor, but the emperor asked his attendant to pass a message.

"My lord, your majesty's edict: things that are not allowed are no longer allowed. Now that the lord has arrived, your majesty will ask him to go to the palace, and your majesty will enlighten him. If he does not want to listen to this guidance, he can return to Huaibei by himself. Do not Go on again."

After the waiter finished speaking, Liu Yu was about to answer, but the waiter repeated what he had just said.

After repeating this, he said: "Your Majesty's edict must be preached three times, and then the Duke will decide on his own."

Liu Yu twitched his cheek, followed the waiter, and led him inside.

After kneeling to the ground, the emperor did not look at Liu Yu at all, but continued to look at what he didn't know. Liu Yu couldn't just raise his head to peep, and the emperor didn't allow him to sit without courtesy as before, so the two of them remained silent and awkward.

It had been so silent for about half an hour. The chiming bell jingled a few times. The emperor then put down the book in his hand and said, "My servant has said what I said three times in a row. Did you hear it clearly, my dear?"

"Your Majesty, I heard you clearly. This is not why I am here."

The emperor was startled for a moment, then he understood, and thought that he must be going around in circles again.

I wanted to just refuse to listen, leaving Liu Yu no chance to go around in circles.

But the emperor himself thought about it for a long time, wondering how Liu Yu would go around. After thinking for a long time, he didn't expect how he would go around. He was a little curious for a while.

Feeling itchy and unbearable, he knew Liu Yu was going to go around in circles, but he still said, "Okay, what's that for?"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "I heard that there is a silver mine opening on the border of Myanmar. Do you want to join in? I haven't heard about the border affairs for a long time. I am afraid that the central government will be anxious and affect the major events going south to India in the future, so I came here to meet with your majesty." "

The emperor was also startled. After hearing what Liu Yu said, he thought, could it really be because of this?

Then he said: "My beloved is eager to go south, and I also have a strategy. How can I lose a big thing because of a small thing? The General Staff of the Privy Council does not get paid for nothing."

"Although the Maolong Silver Mine produces tens of thousands of silver annually, the imperial court has always been short of silver, so it is really eager to do so."

"The people who run the mines also want to use the army of the court to guard against the corruption of the chieftains. However, the court is also short of silver, so everyone can get what they need."

"However, if we start a war with Burma at this time, but it is adjacent to the location of the British in Bengal, it may cause the British to be alert."

"How come I don't understand this truth? So please don't worry, I will suppress it first."

"It is a national policy to start with the far before the near, first with the difficult before the easy, first with the outside before the inside. How can I only see small profits in front of me because of these hundreds of thousands taels of silver mine?"

"If India doesn't conquer, don't provoke Burma. Once India conquers, Macau recovers, and there are no more Westerners from Southeast Asia to India, then we will slowly deal with matters within the world. As long as no one from outside the world intervenes, everything will be easy to solve."

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise, this minister is stupid and deserves death."

The emperor laughed and was about to say something. Liu Yu's next words made the emperor feel something was wrong.

"Your Majesty, the Maolong Silver Mine is located on the border, where the chieftains are intertwined. When the seal conquest is over in the future, you don't know if you can settle here?"

The emperor said casually: "We will settle down on our own. The Yi people are not good at frying and melting, and tens of thousands of people are Han people in mining. How can we not..."

Having said this, the emperor suddenly understood and thought that this hole was buried here!

After understanding Liu Yu's entry point, the emperor couldn't help but shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Every time I read ancient books of the pre-Qin Dynasty and see hundreds of scholars lobbying, I must tell stories first. Is this poem the true meaning of Bixing? It turns out that it is here , Ha, good, very good!”

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Secretary-General of the Cabinet of a certain Western country once said: Things are universally connected. It should be said that the matter of Maolong Silver Factory has been destined for a long time. This is the Tao and nature under universal connection."

"This dynasty has always been short of copper. After expelling the Tartars, restoring the mountains and rivers, recuperating and developing people's livelihood, there is a shortage of copper coins everywhere."

"Originally, I was looking to buy copper in Japan, but Arai Shiraishi blocked the export of silver and copper based on the theory of 'bones and hair'."

"This dynasty has no choice but to go into Yunnan to collect Yunnan copper to make money. The reason why it must be minted is because of the lessons learned from the previous dynasties and the previous dynasties. The banknotes collapsed and this dynasty did not dare to issue banknotes."

"That's why even though Yunnan is far away, we still have to go there to mine copper and smelt it."

"Thus, in the past twenty years, Yunnan has the most talents in smelting, mining, and smelting silver and copper."

"So, villagers entered the chieftain's land and mined Maolong silver at the border. If the court did not lack copper to mint coins, how could there be 70,000 or 80,000 miners who knew how to mine and smelt to mine silver? And if Japan had been exporting copper without raising the price, how could this dynasty go to Yunnan to mine copper? And if the previous dynasty's paper money had not collapsed, this dynasty would have taxed silver and would have issued copper coins long ago."

"It's impossible that 70,000 or 80,000 miners suddenly appeared overnight?"

This made the emperor nod in agreement, muttering to himself what the Western cabinet secretary-general said, thinking that it was indeed true.

He went through Liu Yu's logic again, thinking that Japan's ban on copper exports could actually lead to the incident on the Myanmar border?

This is really unheard of. But if you think about it carefully, it seems to be correct. Otherwise, why do you need to go to such a remote place like Yunnan to open a mine? They are really forced by copper, and they are also worried about the paper money story of the previous dynasty, so they dare not issue paper money.

And in recent years, tens of thousands of Han people have suddenly appeared in the mines there. As Liu Yu said, mining is not something that everyone can do. These people must have been miners before, and they must be from Yunnan, otherwise they would not have run so far.

Yunnan is now the pillar of Dashun's copper mines, supporting about 60% of Dashun's copper, and the remaining 20% ​​is obtained by trade after forcing Japan to open up.

Not only do they need to mint coins, but the demand for copper after the military reform is even greater. Especially the navy, it is simply swallowing wood and copper.

Now this silver mine in the border area of ​​Myanmar has attracted many people who want to make meritorious deeds and are eager to try.

Dashun is really short of silver and copper. A large silver mine with an annual output of tens of thousands of taels of silver is located in a complicated place such as Tusi and Myanmar. Now that the Han people are increasing day by day, they want to submit to the country and resist the chieftains. Many people who are eager for military merits directly jumped up to support.

Many officers drank at night and said that they were worried about not finding a place worth fighting. Such a large silver mine is worth it. Isn’t this a merit that fell from the sky?

These emperors knew it, but they were just worried that they couldn’t control it well, especially the border generals who arbitrarily expanded the scale of the war and escalated the war with Myanmar. At that time, they were afraid of arousing the vigilance and interference of the British. Even the British sent guns and Myanmar sent people to delay Dashun, which would ruin Dashun’s plan to collect taxes in India.

Therefore, the emperor has been suppressing it. He must first sweep away the real enemies around him, and then turn around to clean up the weak chickens around him. Without the guns and cannons of the Westerners, the surrounding areas are not worth mentioning.

But I didn’t expect Liu Yu to use this as an excuse.

But the emperor thought about it, and felt that when Liu Yu asked if he could be stable in the future, he blurted out that he could definitely say that he knew in his heart that the more Han people there are, the more stable it is.

Even though the mines are the most prone to trouble, compared to those chieftains, mining is definitely more annoying than farming, but it is less troublesome than those chieftains. Choose the lesser of two evils.

According to this logic, Liu Yu's radical Sichuan industrial and commercial development plan seems to make sense?

The emperor laughed and said, "You..."

"According to your logic, since things are universally connected, it is nothing more than saying that the issue of water transport cannot be seen only in Lianghuai, but also in Nanyang and Japan; the issue of salt reform cannot be seen only in Huaibei, but also in Huainan, Sichuan, Huguang. Then use this to lead to the issue of Sichuan salt, and then Sichuan salt leads to coal?"

"One hair moves the whole body, and everything needs to be considered carefully?"

Liu Yu denied it and said, "Your Majesty, this is not what I mean. I dare to ask Your Majesty to think about it. What was your first reaction when you knew about the silver mine?"

The emperor thought about it, but did not answer.

It's not easy to say, just know it in your heart.

What is the first reaction?

The first reaction is: Silver mine! Can you lose the big for the small? You have to be patient.

Liu Yu said again: "Your Majesty, I dare to say that if Song Yufu heard about this when he was demarcating the border, what would he do? I am afraid that the first reaction would be that the stability of the border is important, and we should not provoke border conflicts and waste national financial resources. It is not just about Song."

"I imagine that if Your Majesty did not support the military reform against all odds, if the new army was not crushing the withered withered, if the rebellion in western Sichuan was not as powerful as a bamboo, if the thousand-year-old usurper country was not as fast as lightning, if the rebellion of the chieftains in the southwest was not won in one blow, if there was no navy that could pass Malacca and reach the South Ocean of Myanmar..."

"What would be the first reaction to this matter?"

"I am afraid that it is also thinking that the gains are not worth the losses, and the losses are huge. It is better not to accept it and ask for no war to waste national wealth?"

"But now After the military reform, I read the books of the Han Dynasty again in the grasslands, Tusi and other places, and finally understood that "one Han can defeat five Hu" was not advocated by the ancients. Since the Song Dynasty, many people do not believe that one Han can defeat five Hu, and think it is absurd. "

"In fact, it is not. The Han people use large crossbows and long swords, while the Xiongnu use stone arrowheads and wooden bows, so naturally one can defeat five; now the Han people use self-made fire guns, bayonets and copper cannons, and can quickly change formations before engaging the enemy, while the Huyi still use long swords and short spears or have ignition guns, so it is one Han against five Hu. "

"This difference in the sharpness of weapons and armor can form a situation of one against five. "

"In addition to weapons and armor, logistics must also be considered. "

"At that time, the Han used ridges as plows and iron tools and oxen plowed, so ten people could support one soldier; while the Xiongnu migrated with water and grass, and had no standing sharp weapons, not to mention logistics supplies, how could they be sufficient? "

"At this time, if we conquer the Junggar, we can also grow wheat and cotton in the western region, and control the textile farming of the Chanhui. This is not the comparison between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu."

"The difference between the sharpness of the weapons and armor has been solved, so the amount of logistics production, such as the difference between our oxen plowing and iron making and their grazing and grass in the Han Dynasty, is a problem to be solved. But now the Junggar used Chanhui to farm, grow cotton and weave cloth, not to mention the Luosha, the British, the Dutch and other countries, the difference is very small."

"If we really want to restore the glory of the Han Dynasty, we must have sharp weapons and armor like our yellow crossbow and their stone arrowheads; we must also have a difference in logistics like our oxen plowing and iron making and their knives plowing and fire planting and living on grass. Both are indispensable."