Nine thousand years old [rebirth]

After a few days of disputes, Yin Chengyu finally made the decision that the victims should be resettled, but the canal has been broken and diverted year after year, so we can't just sit idly by.

The money for river management was transferred from the emperor's internal treasury and returned after the treasury was full.

As for the officials for river management and disaster relief this time, Yin Chengyu appointed two officials from the Ministry of Industry who were very experienced in river management, and appointed Xie Yunchuan as an imperial envoy to perform supervision duties.

The night before Xie Yunchuan left Beijing, Yin Chengyu went out of the palace in micro-clothes to see him off.

This time, Xie Yunchuan is nominally acting on behalf of the emperor to supervise the river management and the resettlement of victims. In fact, he secretly wants to use the name of patrolling the canal to find out the general situation of the feudal princes of Shandong and other chief secretaries. It is used as a breakthrough to reduce the annual salary of the vassal princes and implement the New Deal.

Many things have never happened in this life. Xie Yunchuan's experience and qualifications are not as good as those in the previous life. Yin Chengyu was worried that he would be young and impulsive, regardless of his own safety. him in order to secretly protect.

Xie Yunchuan didn't know his previous life's relationship with the emperor, and when he faced Yin Chengyu's concern, he was both moved and excited. En is good.

Yin Chengyu was a little dumbfounded, he never thought that Xie Shoufu, who was once deeply thoughtful, would also have such a tender period.

On the contrary, Xue Shu, who was accompanying him, let out a soft "heh" and whispered to Yin Chengyu, "He is very deceitful now."

Yin Chengyu squinted at him: "That's how you coaxed him to treat you as a benefactor?"

Xue Shu smiled without saying a word.

Xie Yunchuan sent people to the door, seeing the two whispering and looking at him from time to time, he just thought that Yin Chengyu was still not at ease, and repeatedly assured: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will not act impulsively."

Yin Chengyu gave a "hmm", looked him up with interest, and then got into the carriage and returned to the palace.

After Xie Yunchuan rushed to Shandong, Yin Chengyu took out the memorial to the governor of Fujian, "Please open the market, and the smugglers are public peddlers", and discussed with the officials at the court meeting.

Since the sea ban, the governor of Guangdong, the governor of Fujian and other coastal officials have asked for the lifting of the sea ban every year, but they have never been granted.Now that Yin Chengyu intends to increase income from coastal commercial taxation, he naturally puts the lifting of the sea ban on the agenda.

Dayan Zitai.From the beginning of the ancestors, there was a sea ban policy. Later, as pirates became more and more rampant, the sea ban policy became more stringent.Except for tribute trade, civilians are not allowed to have any business dealings with overseas countries.However, overseas trade is lucrative, and merchants along the coast often go to sea for trade privately, and the prohibition continues repeatedly.

The prosperity of the world is all for profit, since it cannot be blocked, it will not be blocked.

Yin Chengyu once read too.There is no record before the ancestor banned the sea. At that time, the overseas trade along the coast was quite prosperous, and the annual transaction volume alone reached tens of millions of taels.If the imperial court manages and regulates it, why worry about insufficient tax revenue?

As soon as the proposal to lift the sea ban came out, it was no surprise that a large number of courtiers supported it.

Nowadays, most of the officials in the DPRK are officials from the southern coastal areas, and behind these officials, most of the gentry families in the coastal areas are involved.Since the sea ban, overseas trade has been hit hard, and the coastal gentry have lost the opportunity to make money, so they are naturally unwilling.Coastal officials are rejected year after year, but they are asked to open the sea every year. It may not be without the promotion of these gentry.

It's just that Yin Chengyu's lifting of the sea ban was not to give the coastal gentry a chance to collect money, but to raise business taxes to increase revenue for the treasury.

In the past, these officials often used many reasons such as "poor businessmen are tired", "the country does not compete with the people for profit", and many other reasons to obstruct the collection of business taxes. Today, Dayan's business tax is only one out of thirty, and there are few tax items.As a result, big businessmen everywhere are as rich as the country, but when the treasury is in trouble, they can't pay for it.

Therefore, when re-drawing the strategy of opening the sea this time, Yin Chengyu specially selected a few young officials from the Imperial Academy who had just been promoted, and fought with the veteran officials in the court.

After several disputes, the policy of lifting the sea ban was officially promulgated on the tenth day of July, and several young officials who had previously fought hard were sent to Guangdong, Fujian and other coastal areas to supervise the construction of the Governor's Office, responsible for the management of private overseas trade and commercial tax collection.

Both "open source" and "throttling expenditure" have been arranged, and now we just wait to see the final result.

Yin Chengyu was in a very good mood, and during his free time that day, he asked Xue Shu to bring Yin Chengyu from Renshou Palace, and then asked someone to bring General Tiger over, one big and one small plus a cub, and had a good time playing in the garden for a while.

Xue Shuyuan was just watching from the sidelines, but he didn't prevent Yin Chengyu from being cautious, grabbing General Tiger's fur and trying to climb up on his back, wanting to ride the tiger.Although he is young, he already has big ideas. After Yin Chengyu tried to dissuade him several times but failed.Then he looked at Xue Shu confidently and said, "You are his martial arts master, if he wants to learn how to ride a tiger now, you can teach him."

After speaking, he shook his hand and went to drink tea.

In the eyes that looked towards Xue Shu, there was still a bright look of watching a play.

Xue Shu had no choice but to teach Yin Chengyu how to ride a tiger with a straight face.

The tiger didn't have a saddle on his back, and Yin Chengyu was young, so naturally he couldn't teach him seriously.With a sullen face, Xue Shu picked him up and put him on the tiger's back, protecting him and letting General Tiger trot him around twice, trying to make things easy.

But Yin Chengyu had already tasted the taste of riding a tiger. When Xue Shu wanted to lift him off and hand him to the nanny, he clung to General Tiger's back and refused to get off, making vague protests.

General Tiger thought it was some new game, and raised his neck and yelled along with it.

The nanny stood aside with a puzzled expression, Xue Shu's face turned blue, and the veins on his forehead throbbed faintly.If it wasn't for Yin Chengyu watching, he would have wanted Yin Chengyu to understand what "Master Wu" represented.

Fortunately, the stalemate didn't last long, and Wei Xihe came with an urgent report to relieve him.

Xue Shu quickly slipped up Yin Chengyu, who was still screaming, and put it in the arms of the nanny, then strode towards Weixihe: "What do you want to report?"

Wei Xihe stepped forward and presented the secret report in his sleeve to Yin Chengyu: "It's the secret letter from Wala, and I didn't dare to open it rashly."

"Is there any movement from Wuzhu?" Yin Chengyu was slightly surprised, took the letter and opened it.After reading it, he showed a smile on his face, and then looked a little dignified, and handed the secret letter to Xue Shu: "The pawn Wuzhu is more useful than I expected."

Even faster than he imagined.

When Yin Chengjing forced the palace, he took advantage of the chaos to send Wuzhu to the prince of Oala, Muduo, in order to use Wuzhu to balance the internal situation of Oara, and to use Wuzhu's understanding of Tatar to contain Tatar in the future.At that time, the old King Wala died, and before his death, he passed the throne to his beloved youngest son, Mubar.But Mubar was too young to convince the public, and his eldest son Muduo was in his prime, so he naturally refused to give up the throne, so he brought his own men and horses to kill his younger brother to seize the throne.

It's just that Muduo was more than brave but not resourceful, and he still failed to completely eradicate Mubar's faction, and the two sides fought back and forth.

After Wuzhu went down to Wala under the escort of Dongchang Fanzi, she forged the identity document again, and was dedicated to Muduo as a troubled tribal woman.

Mu Duo had shown favor to Wuzhu in the early years, but Wuzhu refused.Now meeting a woman who looks exactly like Wu Zhu, it is natural to love her in every possible way.

And Wu Zhu, relying on Muduo's favor, quickly gained a firm foothold in Wala, and advised him when Muduo and Mubar were fighting, repeatedly inflicting heavy blows on Mubar's faction and gaining Muduo's trust.It didn't take long for Mu Duo to win the throne, and Wuzhu became Mu Duo's favorite woman.

The secret letter said that Wu Zhu was pregnant now, and that although Mu Duo had wives and concubines, he only had three daughters.If Wuzhu can give birth to a son smoothly, she will be the queen of Wala in the future.

Now Mu Duo is obedient to Wuzhu. Under her persuasion, Mu Duo, who has just ascended the throne, intends to submit his credentials to Dayan and completely submit to Dayan to seek asylum.

But Wuzhu obviously didn't stop at this ambition. In addition to the various preferential treatment after surrender, she also made another request on the secret letter—to let Dayan send troops to attack the Tatars together with Wala.

Oala was originally weaker than Tatar, and after the civil strife between the two kings, it was even worse than before.

The Tatars have been keeping a low profile since Danxi Dongshou.It seems to be honest, but it is actually planning secretly.

According to Wuzhu, the Tatars are now frequently mobilizing troops, and after several trials, they have deliberately attacked Oala.If not, Mu Duo would not be easily persuaded by her.

And she obviously still resented that Dan Xi was abandoned without hesitation during the winter hunting, and cunningly wanted to use Dayan's hand to severely injure Tatar.

"What do you think?" Yin Chengyu looked at Xue Shu.

Xue Shu put away the letter and said: "It's a good opportunity, but it's too hasty. And we have to be on guard against Oara turning against the Tatars."

Yin Chengyu nodded, Wu Zhu's movements were too fast, if he could be half a year late, he would never hesitate.Although Wuzhu wanted to use Dayan to deal with Tatars, why didn't he want to take the opportunity to swallow Oirats and Tatars and completely pacify the northern tribes.

But he was too unwilling to give up such an opportunity just now.

Yin Chengyu thought for a long time, but still said: "Call the Minister of the Household Department and the Minister of the Military Department to enter the palace."

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Yu Chen and Lu Jing were called into the palace together, they bumped into each other in front of the palace gate, and they both saw the deep doubt on each other's face.

After entering the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he saw Yin Chengyu sitting behind the desk, looking down at a letter.

Seeing the two of them approaching, Yin Chengyu first looked at Lu Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War: "How many soldiers and horses can the nine border towns call now?"

Dayan successively set up nine important military towns on the northern border, stretching thousands of miles from Mazishui in the east to Jiayuguan in the west.

Lu Jing replied: "There are 68 soldiers in the nine border towns."

"If I dispatch 30 soldiers to march north, how long can we supply food, grass and supplies?" Yin Chengyu asked again.

Lu Jing was shocked when he heard the words, and looked at Yu Chen subconsciously: "The border has been peaceful for a long time, and there has been no war. The surplus of the military department can supply at most half a month. If it is longer, it will need to be allocated by the household department."

Yu Chen's eyes widened, and he called poor subconsciously: "The governance of the canal is all money from His Majesty's inner treasury, where is the money in the household department?!"

Yin Chengyu retreated and tapped on the table: "Dump the internal treasury and the national treasury, may it last for three months?"

Yu Chen pinched his fingers and calculated quickly, and finally hesitatingly said: "It is possible, but—"

Before he finished speaking, he heard Yin Chengyu say: "Three months is enough."

Three months later, no matter whether it is reducing the cost of the vassal king or coastal trade, the arrangements he made should have begun to bear fruit.Even if the war cannot be stopped for three months, it will not hurt the fundamentals.

At this time, Yu Chen and Lu Jing finally understood Yin Chengyu's intention of calling them into the palace, and couldn't help persuading them: "Bei Zheng is a serious matter, please think twice, Your Majesty."

Especially Yu Chen, he stared at his handsome and gentle nephew, and wanted to say that the little money in the national treasury really couldn't support the needs of the war.

But Yin Chengyu obviously made up his mind, he pushed the secret letter in front of the two of them, and said: "Even if we don't fight now, in winter, there will be a tough battle between us and the Tatars. , Tatar's ambitions have been clearly revealed."

According to the trajectory of the previous life, the Tatars went south to commit crimes in the winter of the 19th year of Longfeng.

Instead of waiting for the enemy to be fully prepared, it is better to take the initiative to catch the opponent by surprise.

It's just that now Dayan is in a state of exhaustion and urgently needs to recuperate.It is indeed a bit risky to start a war at this juncture.It's fine if you win, but if you lose...

Seeing that the two were hesitating to speak, Yin Chengyu waved his hands, also a little hesitant, and told them to go back first: "The Northern Expedition is a very important matter, and I will think it over again. Don't spread it in advance."

Seeing that he did not insist on going his own way, both of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and retreated.

After the people left, Yin Chengyu leaned back heavily in the armchair, rubbed his brows and lowered his eyes in thought.

Xue Shu walked behind him and gently rubbed his temples: "In my last life, I led troops to conquer Tatars. If there were no troubles in Wala, the army's salary and food in the rear would be constant, and three months would be enough to crush Tatars."

Yin Chengyu sighed: "But this is the best situation, I can't trust Wu Zhu."

It is true that Wuzhu was arranged by him to go to Wala, but Wuzhu is not a chess piece that can be manipulated by others. On the contrary, she is cunning and ambitious, and she can do whatever it takes to gain benefits.The foreign military orders are not accepted, even if she is watched by people from Dongchang, there is no guarantee that she will not turn against her for the sake of profit, and join forces with the Tatars to play a game for Dayan.

Even if this possibility is not great, he has to consider the worst possibility.

Xue Shu thought about it and said: "Then send someone to Wala to find out what's true, and then make a decision before it's too late."