Xinshun 1730

Chapter 988 Flattering
After the emperor's official reply was returned to Liu Yu, Liu Yu had already guessed the emperor's attitude before reading it.

Because when he was writing, his true attitude towards the overindulgence policy that he was very keen on in the memorials was the same as his heart of loyalty to the emperor in the memorials.

It's not because of the reason of lifting the roof and opening the windows.It's just to test the emperor's attitude and the reasons for his opposition, so as to pave the way for what he really wants to say.

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

Sure enough, Xin Dao is still the old stereotype of goodwill subjectively, but completely reactionary objectively.

After giving the emperor a very disdainful evaluation in his heart, Liu Yu hurried northward to the capital.

Autumn has arrived, and the most critical winter of the Dashun reform is coming. Before the Northern Jiangsu incident, he will make the reform of water transportation, salt administration, and Huaihe River the most "non-tinkering" in his opinion. From a century-old perspective, truly meaningful things are finalized.

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

Back in the capital, he asked to meet the emperor, but the emperor sent a message from his servant.

"Duke, Your Majesty's oracle: What is not allowed is not allowed. Since the Duke has come, His Majesty wants the Duke to go to the imperial court, and His Majesty wants to enlighten the Duke. If the Duke does not want to listen to this enlightenment, he can return to Huaibei by himself. Let’s go up again.”

After the servant finished speaking, Liu Yu was just about to answer, but he didn't want the servant to repeat what he said just now.

After so many times, he said: "Your Majesty's oracle must be passed on three times, and then the Duke will decide it himself."

Liu Yu twitched her cheeks, followed behind the attendant, and led her in.

After kneeling on the ground, the emperor didn't look at Liu Yu at all, but continued to look there for something unknown.It was not easy for Liu Yu to look up directly, and the emperor did not allow him to sit without courtesy as before, so the two of them just remained silent and awkward.

It has been so silent for about half an hour, the chiming bell jingled a few times, the emperor put down the scroll in his hand, and said: "The servant has said my words three times in a row. Did Ai Qing hear clearly?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I can hear you clearly. This meeting is not for this matter."

The emperor was taken aback, but then he understood, thinking that he must be going around in circles.

I thought of not listening directly, so that Liu Yu had no chance to go around in circles.

But the emperor himself pondered there for a long time, thinking about how Liu Yu would go around in circles, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't expect how to go around, and he was a little curious for a while.

Under the unbearable itching, he knew in his heart that Liu Yu was going to go around in circles, but he still said, "Okay, what is that for?"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "I heard that there is a silver mine on the Burmese border, and you want to join me? I haven't heard about the border affairs for a long time, and I am afraid that the central government will be anxious, which will affect the big event of going south to India in the future. I am here to meet your majesty. "

The emperor was also taken aback. Hearing what Liu Yu said, he wondered if it was really for this matter?
Sui said: "Aiqing is eager to go south, and I also have a strategy, but it can be a small loss? The Privy Council's General Staff is not free to eat and receive salary."

"Although the Maolong Silver Mine produces tens of thousands of silver per year, the imperial court is always short of silver, so it is really eager."

"The people who run the mine also want to use the soldiers of the imperial court to prevent the corruption of the chieftain. However, the imperial court is also short of silver, so everyone just needs to get what they need."

"It's just that if we start fighting with Myanmar at this time, but it is adjacent to where the British in Bangladesh are located, the British may be alerted."

"How can I not understand these principles? So please rest assured, I will suppress it first."

"First far away and then near, first difficult and then easy, first outside and then inside, this is also the national policy. How can I only see small profits in front of me because of these tens of thousands of taels of silver mines?"

"India does not fall, and Myanmar is not provoked. After India falls, Macau recovers, and there are no Westerners from Southeast Asia to India, then we will slowly deal with the affairs of 'inside the world'. As long as there are no people from 'outside the world' to intervene, it will be easy to solve."

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

The emperor laughed, and was about to say something, when Liu Yu's next sentence made the emperor feel a problem in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the Maolong Silver Mine is located at the border, and there are staggered chieftains. I don't know if it is possible to settle here after the seal is over in the future?"

The emperor said casually: "I will settle down myself. The Yi people are not good at frying and melting, and the tens of thousands of people mining are all Han people. How can we not..."

Speaking of this, the emperor suddenly understood in his heart, and thought that the pit was buried here!
After understanding Liu Yu's point of entry, the emperor couldn't help shaking his head and said with a wry smile: "Whenever I read an ancient book from the pre-Qin period, when I see a hundred scholars lobbying, I must first tell a story. Does this Fu compare the true meaning of Xing? It turns out that it is here , oh, good, very good!"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the secretary-general of a certain country in the West once said: things are universally connected. The matter of the Maolong Silver Factory should be said to have been preordained, and this is the way that follows nature under universal connections."

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

"Originally, I was looking to buy copper in Japan, but Arai Shiraishi locked up the export of silver and copper with the theory of 'bone and hair'."

"This dynasty had no choice but to go to Yunnan to mine copper from Yunnan to make money. The reason why it had to make money was because of the lessons learned from the previous dynasty and previous dynasties, the banknotes collapsed, and this dynasty dared not issue paper banknotes."

"That's why even though Yunnan is far away, it has to mine copper for smelting."

"So, in the past 20 years, in terms of smelting, mining, and smelting silver and copper, Yunnan has the most talented people."

"That's why the villagers went to the Tusi land to mine Maolong silver at the border—if the imperial court didn't lack copper and cast money to mine the Yunnan mine, how could there be [-] to [-] miners who know how to dig and smelt and go there directly to mine silver And if Japan has been exporting copper without increasing the price, how could this dynasty have gone to Yunnan to mine copper? And if the paper money of the previous dynasty had not collapsed, and the current dynasty used silver to calculate taxes, I am afraid that copper bills would have been issued long ago. "

"It's impossible for the miners to be the 8 or [-] people who popped out overnight, right?"

As soon as this truth was explained, the emperor had no choice but to nod in agreement, thinking about what the Secretary-General of the Western Cabinet said, thinking that it was indeed the case.

I went over Liu Yu's logic again, thinking that Japan's ban on copper exports could actually lead to the incident on the border of Myanmar?
It's really unheard of.But if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing wrong. Otherwise, why would you need to go to a remote place like Yunnan to mine?I was really forced to do nothing by copper, and I was worried about the story of the paper money in the previous dynasty, so I didn't dare to issue paper money.

In recent years, tens of thousands of Han people suddenly appeared in the mines there. As Liu Yu said, mining is not something everyone can do. These people were engaged in mining before they were appointed, and they must be from the Yunnan area. Otherwise you can't run that far.

The Yunnan area is now the pillar of Dashun's copper mines, supporting about 60.00% of Dashun's copper, and the remaining 20.00% is mostly obtained from trade after forcing Japan to switch.

Not only is it necessary to cast money, but the demand for copper after the military reform is even greater.Especially the navy, it is like swallowing wood and copper in one gulp.

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

Dashun is so short of silver and copper that I want to cry. It is a large silver mine with an annual output of tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it is located in intricate places such as Tusi and Myanmar.Nowadays, there are more and more Han people, and they want to attach themselves to resist the chieftain. Many people who are eager for military merits directly jump up to support them.

Many officers drank at night, saying that they were worried that they couldn't find a place worth fighting. Such a large silver mine was worth it. Isn't this a meritorious service that fell from the sky?

These emperors knew that it was only because they were worried that the control would not be good, especially when the border generals arbitrarily expanded the scale of the war and escalated the war with Burma. At that time, they were afraid that the British would be alerted and interfered. Dashun, this will ruin Dashun's plan to go south to India to collect taxes.

Therefore, the emperor has been suppressing, and he must first wipe out the real enemies around him, and turn around to deal with the weak chickens around him.Without the guns of Westerners, the surrounding area is not worth mentioning.

It's just that I didn't expect Liu Yu to use this as an argument.

But the emperor thought about it for a while, and felt that when Liu Yu asked if he would be safe in the future, he blurted out that he would definitely be able to, which shows that he knew in his heart that the more Han people there were, the more stable they would be.

Even though the mine is the place where troubles are most likely to occur, compared to those chieftains, relatively speaking, mining miners are definitely more troublesome than farmers, but compared to those chieftains, they are more worry-free than those chieftains, whichever is the right of two evils light.

According to this logic, it seems that Liu Yu's radical Sichuan industrial and commercial development plan is quite reasonable?

The emperor smiled and said, "You, you..."

"According to your reasoning, since things are universally connected, it is nothing more than to say that when it comes to water transportation, you should not only look at the two Huaihe Rivers, but also look at Nanyang and Japan; Huguang, Sichuan. Then use this to lead to the matter of Sichuan Salt, and then Sichuan Salt to lead to coal?"

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

However, Liu Yu denied it and said, "Your Majesty, I don't mean that. Your Majesty dares to think about it. When your Majesty knows about the silver mine, what is your first reaction?"

The emperor thought for a moment, but did not answer.

It's hard to say, just know it in your heart.

What was the first reaction?

The first reaction was: silver mine!Can you lose the big because of a small one, you have to bear it first.

Liu Yu said again: "Your Majesty, if you dare to dare, what will you do if you hear about this when Song Yufu is demarcating the border? I'm afraid the first reaction is that the stability of the border is important. Don't start a border quarrel and waste the country's financial resources. Only the Song Dynasty On, not only on the Song Dynasty."

"Imagine, my lord, if His Majesty hadn't stood up to all opinions and supported the military reform, if there hadn't been a new army to destroy the dead, if the rebellion in western Sichuan hadn't been overwhelming, if the country that had usurped for a thousand years hadn't been swift as lightning, if the southwestern chieftain's rebellion in the field hadn't been hit by a single blow, Victory, if there is no navy that can pass through Malacca and go directly to the southern ocean of Burma..."

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

"I'm afraid, I'm also thinking, the gain outweighs the loss, the loss is huge, if I don't pay it, I just want to use up the country's wealth without weapons, right?"

"However, after the military reform, I read the books of the Han Dynasty in the grasslands, chieftains and other places, and finally realized that 'one Han should be the five Hus' was not preached by the ancients. Since the Song Dynasty, many people did not believe that one Han should be the five Hus, thinking it was absurd."

"In fact, it is not the case. The Han people used big crossbows and long swords, while the Xiongnu used stone arrowheads and wooden bows. Naturally, one is equal to five; now the Han people use self-produced fire blunderbuss, bayonets, bayonets, and bronze cannons, which can quickly change formations before reaching the enemy, while the Hu Yi also use long knives and short knives. With a spear or a matchlock gun, one Han becomes five beards again."

"The difference between sharpness and bluntness of this soldier's armor can become one against five."

"In addition to armor, it is even more important to talk about logistics."

"At that time, the Han Dynasty used ridges for columbine carts and iron oxen for plowing, so ten people could support one soldier; while the Huns migrated with water and grass, they did not have standing sharps, not to mention logistical supplies, how could they be sufficient?"

"At this time, if the confiscation is approved, wheat and cotton will also be grown in the western regions, and spinning and weaving will also be controlled. This is not the comparison between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu."

"The sharpness of the armor has been solved, so the amount of logistics production, as in the Han Dynasty, the gap between our cattle and iron, and the grass and water, is a problem to be solved. But now before the Ministry of Finance, it is used to wrap the land, grow cotton, and spin. Not to mention countries such as Raksha Yingyi, the Netherlands, etc., the gap is extremely small."

"If you really want to restore the glory of the Han Dynasty, you have to have a soldier armor as sharp and blunt as I use a yellow crossbow and the other uses a stone arrowhead; more importantly, the logistics must be as different as my ox plowing iron for the other's slash and fire planting water and grass. Both are indispensable."

(End of this chapter)