Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 353
After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Cao Wenzhao must be rewarded for his great achievements. Let's discuss how to reward him."

Zhou Hengchen thought for a while and stepped forward and said, "Marshal, Cao Wenzhao's current position can no longer be promoted. If he wants to be rewarded, he can only be conferred a knighthood."

"A knighthood?" Li Jinglue pondered for a while and said, "Then I will be a knighthood. You can look back and see what kind of title Cao Wenzhao's military exploits are enough to confer. I will ask your majesty to bestow a knighthood."

"Yes!" Zhou Hengchen nodded in response.

Li Jing smiled and continued: "There are two big happy events today, one is the relocation of the Academy of Sciences, and the other is the victory of Cao Wenzhao. I won't repeat such happy events here to make people hate you. Fifth brother, please arrange it. I treat you, everyone Celebrate."

Ma Wu laughed and said, "Marshal, it's not okay to arrange this treat in a restaurant. There is no place in the restaurant to sit so many of us. I think it's better to stay here."

Li Jing laughed and said: "You are just talking nonsense, there is nothing here, how can you drink and celebrate? Well, let's go to Yilun Hall, it is spacious, let's celebrate there."

As soon as Li Jing said this, everyone in the room stuck out their tongues secretly. The Yilun Hall was the place where the emperor gave lectures. The general actually arranged for everyone to drink and celebrate there. Obviously, he didn't take the emperor seriously.

However, most of the people here are Li Jing’s direct descendants, and they followed Li Jing one by one to prosperity. Li Jing said what he said, not to mention that Li Jing wanted to drink in Yilun Hall, even if he wanted to drink in the palace, as long as Li Jing asked everyone to go, everyone would drink. don't care.

And those old and prudent people felt that something was wrong, but seeing that everyone was in high spirits, it didn't spoil the interest of everyone, so they stroked their beards, shook their heads, and followed everyone to Yilun hall.

When they arrived at Yilun Hall, Li Jing asked Xu Guangqi, Fang Fang and other cabinet members to sit beside him, and then asked the rest of the people to find their corresponding seats.

After everyone sat down, Li Jing opened the letter and read it from beginning to end, then handed the letter to Xu Guangqi and said, "Sir, please read it, and then give the students a suggestion."

Xu Guangqi looked puzzled, but he took it and looked at it carefully.

After reading it, Xu Guangqi pondered for a while and said: "Jimin, Cao Wenzhao captured so many Mongolian princes in this battle. It is really necessary to carefully consider how to deal with these people. This is how I see it. Although these people are prisoners, they can If you don't kill, don't kill.

After all, these people have certain prestige in their tribe. As long as they sincerely surrender, we should give them a chance, so that we can rule those Mongols. In addition, with these people as examples, other tribes can surrender without a fight. "

Li Jing nodded slightly when he heard the words: "What you said is very true. These people cannot be killed, but I don't think they can be allowed to complain anymore. Let them continue to complain, and when they grow stronger in the future, they will continue to invade Let's Ming.

What I mean is to divide Mongolia into provinces, divide these tribes into several regions, and let these Mongolian princes serve as local administrators. As for the army that maintains regional stability, it needs to be in our hands. "

Xu Guangqi smiled and said, "You have already thought about this idea, so why do you ask me?"

Li Jing smiled lightly and said, "I have already planned how to deal with the Mongols, but the Mongols have invaded Daming for many years, and my Ming people have suffered greatly from it. How can we not hate the Mongols? Now let's take their King Khan prisoner." Now, I have to seek everyone's opinions on how to deal with it, right? I can't just let it go if I say so. You are a respected old man, so I feel relieved with your words. This shows that my approach will at least not arouse everyone's opposition .”

Xu Guangqi nodded, looked at Li Jing and sighed: "Jimin, you are in a high position now, and you have already promised yourself, but you can still win other people's opinions after consideration, which is really commendable!"

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "Sir, what you said by the old man can make students feel ashamed. Students are human, and they will make mistakes. Just like before I came to Beijing, I thought the Metropolitan Procuratorate was useless, so I canceled the Metropolitan Procuratorate." , but after I came to power, I discovered that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is still very useful, so I had to re-establish it. In fact, if I could have listened to everyone’s opinions before, I’m afraid I would have avoided this mistake.”

Xu Guangqi waved his hands and smiled: "That's different. You used to be in Pingyang Prefecture, how big is that place? Naturally, you think that an institution like the Metropolitan Procuratorate is useless, and after you change the functions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the effect is still very obvious. , at least people stop talking nonsense, this is progress."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "It's not enough. That agency can only supervise officials below a certain level. They certainly dare not supervise officials of our level, but are we all right? I don't think so. So now I changed this part to the Ministry of Supervision, which is responsible for supervising officials at all levels below the chief envoy, and the re-established Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for supervising officials above the chief envoy, including the Supervisory Yuan and us."

Xu Guangqi was silent for a while, and said to Li Jing, "Jimin, although I don't understand why you put a shackle on yourself, I think it's good for you to do so."

Li Jing said with a smile: "I'm not as great as you said. Wouldn't this put the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Propaganda Department in my own hands? I'm going to wait for a while until they understand what the Metropolitan Procuratorate is all about." What should be done later gives them the power to be independent."

Xu Guangqi nodded slightly, knowing that Li Jing didn't want to have any elbows when he implemented the New Deal.

After receiving the letter from Xu Guangqi, Li Jing handed it to Shen Zhengdao: "Father-in-law, please read it too."

Shen Zheng took it, looked at it for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "General Cao is amazing, he actually seized so many horses, cattle, sheep and property."

Zhang Ao next to him continued, "How much?"

Shen Zheng casually handed the letter to Zhang Ao and said, "Look for yourself."

Zhang Ao took a look at it, couldn't help but gasped, then clapped his hands and laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha, it's all right now, with these horses and cattle, next year's spring plowing can solve a big problem."

"How much?" asked Yang Liufeng next to him.

Zhang Ao chuckled and said, "The figures reported by General Cao are more than [-] horses, more than [-] cattle, and more than [-] sheep."

"Ah? There are so many? This means that all the Mongolian ministries have been robbed?" Yang Liufeng was shocked.

Li Jing smiled and said: "I guess it's almost the same even if they don't steal all. Let's talk about how to deal with this batch of cattle and sheep?"

"Hehe, Marshal, I'm going to sell these cattle and horses to the farmers. With these cattle and horses, the farmers will save a lot of effort in spring plowing next year." Zhang Ao hurriedly said.

Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "I can only give you half, and I plan to return the other half to those Mongolians."

Zhang Ao asked in surprise, "Why?"

Li Jing saw that everyone showed puzzled expressions, sighed and said: "Since those Mongols surrendered, they will be the subjects of my Daming from now on. Since they are the subjects of our Daming, we have to leave a way for them to survive. Without these Cattle and sheep, how do you let them survive the winter? How will they survive in the future?"

"However, if these cattle and horses are used for plowing, how much more grain can be harvested? There are also countless living people!" Zhang Ao said anxiously.

Li Jing shook his head and said: "We have to take a long-term view when doing things. We must know that we Han people are good at farming, but not good at herding cattle and horses. There are Mongolians who herd cattle and horses. In the next year, there will be a large number of cattle and horses for us to cultivate. As long as we keep up with If the Mongols have a good relationship, there will be a continuous supply of cattle and horses, and we can’t do things like exhausting the river.”

Seeing that Zhang Ao was still a little unwilling, Li Jing smiled and said: "Zhang Ao, how about it, Cao Wenzhao will escort those Mongolian princes to Beijing in a few days, and then I will ask about the situation of the various Mongolian ministries and try to help you stay more." A batch of cows and horses. What do you think?"

When Zhang Ao saw that Li Jing had brought his words to this point, he couldn't argue anymore, so he nodded helplessly.

Seeing Shen Zheng next to him, he suddenly smiled and said, "Marshal, in fact, I don't think it's difficult to keep these cattle, sheep and horses."

Li Jingqi said: "Is there any good way?"

Shen Zheng said with a smile: "Commander, you must know that there are not only three tribes in Mongolia, Neikarka, Horqin, and Tuxietu, but other tribes also have many cattle, sheep and horses. We only need to open up to these three tribes." For trade, they can exchange the salt tea and other things they bought from us with other tribes for cattle, sheep and horses."

Hearing this, Li Jing pondered for a while, then suddenly clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "That's right! Father-in-law, you should think about this matter carefully to see how it should work, and give me a charter later, and wait for Cao Wenzhao to escort those Mongolian princes into the palace." Jing, just talk to them in detail."

"Yes, handsome." Shen Zheng said with a smile.

Li Jing looked at Zhou Hengchen again and said, "Hengchen, I said just now that I want to set up a province in Mongolia. In the next few days, you should think about it and see what kind of positions are suitable for those Mongolian princes."

Zhou Hengchen hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "I'll arrange this later."

Li Jingjing nodded, looked at the sky, turned to Ma Wu with a smile and said, "Fifth brother, are the food and wine ready?"

Ma Wu smiled and said: "It's already been sent over, let them wait outside to see the commander-in-chief talk about business."

After hearing this, Li Jing patted his forehead and said, "It's already been arranged, so let's serve the food quickly. It's going to be cold after a while."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing stood up, bowed deeply to everyone present, and said, "Ms. Li was rude, please bear with me, I will punish myself with three cups later, and apologize to everyone."

After Li Jing finished speaking, he bowed to the surroundings again. Before Li Jing got up, one of the people in the seat got up and said, "What did the commander say? I heard what the commander said just now. The commander has state affairs in mind, so why talk about it?" Disrespect?"

As soon as the man finished speaking, someone echoed: "Yes, yes, in all dynasties, I have never seen someone who is always thinking about state affairs like the commander-in-chief. Please don't blame yourself, the commander-in-chief."

Seeing everyone agreeing, Li Jing shook his head and said with a smile: "One yard is worth one yard. You all come from afar, and Li should make amends for his rudeness."

While speaking, a group of soldiers came in with wine jars and food boxes, and then placed wine and food on everyone's table.

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