At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 336 New Deal Funds
The ministers saw the emperor's heart-killing strategy with their own eyes, and all worries in their hearts were swept away.

This operation is not ten times, a hundred times more enjoyable than killing him on the spot!
These people usually take advantage of the methods of the Pope. Today, seeing outsiders being deflated, they feel so refreshed...

Next, Chaohui will start to get down to business.

Jinbatu entered Beijing this time under the banner of paying tribute. Although Uzang belonged to Daming in name, it was only a prison land, and Daming did not station officials or troops in Uzang. The relationship between the two is more like the suzerain state and the vassal state.

Tribute needs to have tribute, and the tribute brought by Jinbatu is [-] yaks, [-] Hequ horses in northern Tibet, and local specialties such as saffron, alpine snow lotus, and cordyceps.

Generally speaking, when a vassal state came to pay tribute, the Ming court would inevitably give corresponding rewards.

Moreover, these rewards will inevitably exceed the value of the tribute by a lot.

As a result, many vassal states competed to pay tribute, several times a year, and finally the Ming court had to issue a restriction order, and the number, number, and scale of tribute were strictly controlled.

Wu Sizang has not paid tribute for many years, and the most intersecting with Daming is the tea and horse trade. This time, he suddenly entered Beijing, and his intention was to put pressure on Daming. Therefore, the superficial work must be done, at least the tribute list does not seem to have any faults .

However, the next request is too much.

King Chanhua of Uszang asked the court to provide 500 million taels of silver and 50 shi of grain on the grounds that he had no money to carry out the New Deal.

The reason is that the Ming Dynasty started the New Deal, and of course Uzbekistan also wanted to do it, but there is no money, so you have to give me the money.

Speaking of which, this reason is also reasonable.

Since U-Tsang is a part of Ming Dynasty, why is there no U-Tsang when the New Deal is implemented throughout the country?
Zhu Qizhen directly refused: "500 yaks and 50 horses, I want to exchange [-] million taels of silver and [-] shi of grain, isn't King Chanhua's wishful thinking too good?"

Jinbatu said respectfully: "The yaks and horses are just King Chanhua's respect to His Majesty the Emperor. As for the silver and grain, they are for the new policy of Uzang. Please give His Majesty the grace!"

Zhu Qizhen nodded secretly, there is nothing wrong with this statement, they are all citizens of Daming, and one cannot favor one over another.

However, after all, it sounds good, but in fact, you are mobilizing troops and horses, preparing to fight with me. At this time, if I give you money and food, won't it make you have enough energy to fight me?

The pilgrimage did not continue, Jinbatu was placed in Honglu Temple, and officials from Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites continued to negotiate with him.

At the same time, Zhu Qizhen received a memorial from King Ning.

The main problem mentioned in it was the railway. Daming did not lack money, but... lacked people!
The construction of the railway is a huge project. When building the two-Beijing railway, almost half of the power of the Ming Dynasty was used. Tens of thousands of people were recruited to pave roads when encountering mountains and build bridges when encountering water. This is how the rails are stretched forward by manpower and animal power. with.

However, the road from Jingzhou to Chengdu has been going on for three months, and the progress is very slow.

One of the reasons is that a large number of civilian workers have been recruited along the road from Nanjing to Jingzhou, and the manpower is seriously insufficient.

Furthermore, Wusizang was watching fiercely, and wars would break out in the southwest at any time, so everyone was even more reluctant to come here to build roads.

Who knows if you will fight if you are practicing, it is not worth your life just to earn some hard-earned money!

As a result, King Ning was even more worried. According to this progress, it would take years of the monkey to complete it?
I haven't settled down all the time, mainly because of this section of the road. If it can't be repaired in three to five years, it's not a problem to just keep procrastinating.

In desperation, he just asked the court for help, hoping to recruit civilian husbands from all over the country to relieve the urgent need.

When Zhu Qizhen saw the memorial, he couldn't help but have a thought, and then ordered someone to call Yu Qian over.

After reading the memorial, Yu Qian asked, "What is the emperor's plan?"

Zhu Qizhen asked back: "I want to hear your thoughts, how should we deal with this situation?"

"I thought that..."

After thinking for a while, Yu Qian said: "Under the New Deal, all walks of life require a lot of manpower. It is not a good way to recruit civilian workers from all over the country."

"If not, where can I find someone to build the road?"

"People... there are, but..."

Seeing Yu Qian's strange expression, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but said, "If you have anything to say, just say it!"

"Yes!"

Yu Qian responded, and then said: "Your Majesty, Wu Si has a lot of free manpower, why not use it?"

Zhu Qizhen narrowed his eyes and said, "That's exactly what I mean!"

Yu Qian laughed dumbfounded, and said: "It turns out that the emperor has thought of it a long time ago..."

The monarch and his ministers hit it off immediately, and immediately began to draw up the decree.

Since Wu Sizang wants money and food, fine, here you go!
However, these money and food must not be given in vain. You have to recruit local peasants to help Daming build the railway.

In this way, it not only solves the problem of insufficient manpower, but also saves financial expenditure.

Early the next morning, Jinbatu was called into the palace.

Immediately afterwards, Wynn took out the imperial decree and read it out on the spot.

Jinbatu knelt down and bowed his head, while listening, his expression kept changing.

After the nonsense at the beginning, the first useful sentence he heard was that the Ming court had agreed to the request of King Uzang Chanhua, and was really planning to allocate a sum of money and food.

It's just... so unexpected!
In any case, he never imagined that the Ming court would really agree.

Because now Wu Sizang is rectifying the troops and horses, preparing to go to war, and now giving money and food, isn't it a benefit to the enemy?

Immediately afterwards, he heard that the money and food were not allocated directly. Instead, under the leadership of Yu Qian, a cabinet scholar, some elite personnel were drawn from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Academy of Sciences to form a leading group for the Uzbek New Deal. , to specifically supervise the use of this money and food.

What about the money for the New Deal, which should be earmarked for its own use and not embezzled...

Hearing this, Jinbatu looked confused. The money...is it for or not?
In the end, I thanked you bewilderedly, held the gold silk and silk, and fell into deep thought.

Because he really couldn't figure it out, what kind of tricks did the Ming court play?
Seeing him in a daze, Huai En whispered, "Jin Tongzhi?"

"what……"

Jinbatu would like to explain, my surname is Jinbatu, not Jin!
However, it is useless to say these words to an eunuch...

Wynn said with a smile: "Please move to Wenyuan Pavilion, Master Yu wants to talk to you in detail."

"Talk about... what?"

"Naturally, it is a special fund for the New Deal. The emperor can say, how to spend the money, and what kind of results are expected to be achieved after spending. You must make a good plan. These are the lord Yu's responsibility."

Jinbatu was distressed, the money was given to me, so how do you spend it?
How can there be such a reason in the world...

(End of this chapter)