Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 455

He was disappointed when he failed to get the sapphire he wanted from Liaozhou.

Returning to the royal court located in Langjuxu Mountain, Lan Yu climbed up the mountain and looked at the vast yurts at the foot of the mountain, where herdsmen belonging to the Han and Mongolian ethnic groups walked in and out.

This is the land that belongs to his Sapphire, and belongs to his Sapphire's people, but Sapphire's mood is not good at all.

Lan Yu was very unaccustomed to the living habits of grassland people who lived by water and grass, so he went all the way to Liaoyang to find Chang Mao to borrow a peasant husband to build the king's city.

"The royal city must be built."

Sapphire, who had made up her mind, was in her palace: a simple palace built of stone and wood summoned all the civil and military ministers in Mengzhou at the moment.

In addition to Dai Cishen, Sunanyong, and Meng Weiguo, the three lords of ten thousand households, there are also officials who followed Lanyu from Nanjing to Mengzhou to pursue their dreams.

This group of people connected with Sapphire formed the power center of Mengzhou.

Although it looks a bit crude, but although the sparrow is small and complete, Lan Yu still imitated Daming and made a nondescript cabinet.

Why do you say neither fish nor fowl.

Because there is no central agency in his Mengzhou, there is only such a cabinet.

There are no power units like the six ministries and five temples, and the grasslands don't need these things.

Lan Yu divided the entire grassland into tens of thousands of households, which were directly led by the cabinet. This kind of jurisdiction was a bit like Zhili in Ming Dynasty.

There are more than a dozen state capitals in Zhili, all of which are directly under the Central Government.

"To build the king city alone, I borrowed more than 7 labor from the king of Liao."

Lan Yu went straight to the point and stated her plan: "This number is far from enough, so I plan to raise troops after autumn to attack Dongcha and Tai Khanate."

The people in the hall were more or less surprised. They all knew that Lan Yu went to Liaozhou to borrow people to build the city, but they didn't expect that due to the relationship between Lan Yu and Chang Mao, they didn't borrow it.

Isn't Chang Mao Lan Yu's nephew?

The king's family affairs and courtiers didn't care, and everyone was even more surprised by what Lan Yu said later.

Fight East Cha and Taiwan Khanate.

The meaning is already obvious.

Since there is a shortage of people, and they cannot be borrowed, Sapphire is going to grab it!
In the past, the targets of the prairie regime's plunder were the Central Plains dynasties. Now it is impossible for Lan Yu to target the Central Plains, so he can only attack the nearby countries.

The closest one is Yili.

However, isn't that Lingzhou in Chen Yunfu's Kyushu?

"Ci Shen, Nan Yong, what do you say?"

Lan Yu cast her eyes on the humerus of Dai Su's two soldiers, and the latter two had the same attitude.

"The king said to fight, and the minister waited to fight."

Military generals are naturally interested in fighting, and Lan Yu is also a little impatient, but the support of military generals does not mean the support of civilian officials. The chief assistant of the cabinet of Mengzhou followed Lan Yu from Nanjing.

"Your Majesty, you can't use swords right now."

"why?"

Cui Zhiwen said: "Your Majesty, we still owe Daming more than 6000 million taels of national debt on credit. The grassland is barren, and the only production is fur, wool, cattle, sheep, war horses, etc. These days, I have learned about the situation of thousands of households in various ministries. However, if these materials are used to pay off Daming, I am afraid that it will be able to pay back three or four million taels a year.

In other words, it is only enough for the annual interest of this national debt.

So what we need right now is to stimulate production and enrich the people's livelihood, and we can no longer waste our national resources on wars. "

After hearing Cui Zhiwen's words, the corners of Lan Yu's eyes twitched.

It's not because he is poor in Mengzhou, but because he feels that Cui Zhiwen is far behind Yu Yifeng in Liaozhou.

This is the face given by Cui Zhiwen's ancestors. He is a descendant of the Qinghe Cui family, a very prominent and famous family, and a scholarly family that holds the top ears except for the four thousand-year-old families of Confucius, Mencius, Zengyan.

Otherwise, it would be his turn to be Cui Zhiwen as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

"The country is poor and lonely." Lan Yu said: "It is because the country is too poor, we rely on development, we can get rich every year and every month. Mengzhou is no better than Liaozhou. Liaozhou has a foundation of more than ten years of development, and even more There are many other advantages, but our grassland has nothing.

Otherwise, for thousands of years, the prairie people would not have invaded other countries every year. Only plunder is the fastest way to enrich the country. Cui Ge doesn't need to question Gu, because that's what King Yu did.

Has the Zhongzhou under his rule stopped aggression and plundering in the past ten years? Gu also told you that King Yu himself once told Guyu in private that he said that aggression is a crime for the present and benefits for future generations.

As for hatred, after a few hundred years, the descendants of the invaded land will forget it. Instead, they will be complacent because they enjoy the honor brought by a powerful country, and proudly call themselves Chinese.

Therefore, Mr. Cui Ge, the battle must be fought alone, and it is necessary to conquer a territory that is even wider than the Great Mongolia back then! "

Cui Zhiwen sighed and said: "But the so-called soldiers and horses go first before the food and grass are used. Your Majesty, you need food, grass and armaments when you go out. I don't have an arsenal in Mengzhou, and I can't produce all the armor, bows and crossbows I need. Since we are going to send troops, we need to prepare enough of these. Where did they come from?"

"Buy from Liaozhou."

Lan Yu waved her big hand and confessed: "I don't care what you do, this matter is left to the cabinet. After the autumn, I will see that the supplies and armaments are complete. As for this battle, I will personally lead the army and drive myself."

He said it lightly, and he explained it with just one sentence of buying, but Cui Zhiwen was so worried that he lost a lot of hair.

buy?

What to buy, do you make an empty note?

It is really hard to squeeze out tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and war horses to sell them to Liaozhou as gold and silver, and owe a whole lot of money, so that they can be ready before autumn.

Now Mengzhou has lost two buttocks of national debt.

One is from Daming, and the other is from Liaozhou.

"What the chief minister did, he might as well be a servant in Daming."

Cui Zhiwen smiled wryly, but soon cheered up again.

Having said that, I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Besides, my family knows about my family affairs, and I am already in my 40s. Daming will not have his own opportunities in the officialdom in the future.

It's not that I'm too old, it's thinking.

The selection of officials in Ming Dynasty is running counter to the tradition. Experts such as Hu Sizong and Yan Zhenzhi who understand and engage in economics are the needs of Ming Dynasty in the future.

When a country begins to seek the transformation of production structure and production mode, the first thing to change must be the selection of officials.

That is to say, the regime structure must be transformed first, and then all aspects of society can be driven to change.

I am not the owner of the Cui family. The roots of the old Cui family will always be in Zhongzhou, and I will not help myself. Only when I leave Zhongzhou can I have a chance.

Just for now.

"Sapphire is not a clear master, alas."

(End of this chapter)