Xinshun 1730

Chapter 857 Determination
The slander belongs to the slander, Liu Yu is still envious.

The entire political environment in Asia, including Green Rome, is like this. After reaching a certain height, only the person who has reached the top is qualified to be "willful" occasionally for a while.

Including many princes, as long as they show a little bit of weakness, those who hang out with them will already find other places.

Under the prince, Liu Yu is already a duke, at the very top.

But even for him, if he had too much "humanity" in the previous issue of water control, once he stood up, he would be in big trouble if something happened to the water control in the future.

The emperor seemed to be asking the people around him, but in fact he was talking to himself and expressing himself.Because of this, no courtier dared to answer.

Dashun has no habit of judging living people, as long as the coffin is closed and the posthumous title is determined.

Liu Yu could more or less understand the reason why the emperor lost his nerve at this time.

From the perspective of the Li family dynasty, the things that have been done now will not be mentioned.

The remaining things are either palliative rather than root cause, trivial matters at all, or utilitarian things, and none of them are easy to do.

From the perspective of the nation, it is naturally a major event to reform the Southwest and return it to the local people.

But from the perspective of the Li family dynasty, is that a big deal?
Taking history as a mirror, is there any Southwest chieftain who succeeded in the uprising and finally sat on the dragon chair?
Taking history as a mirror, the danger of peasant uprisings is much greater than that group of southwestern chieftains.

Taking history as a mirror, even though Liu Yu has said countless times, the scourge of northern nomads can be said goodbye to line soldiers plus field artillery and bastions.The conclusion that "the era of bastion is over" deduced by the Dashun General Staff refers to the impact of the war between Dashun and those countries in the West, and the impact of the fuze wooden sticks that inevitably spread technology, rather than the northern nomads—affordable The Junggar of the Swedish artillery relies on the gold and copper mines and the arable land, cotton, wheat and handicrafts of the Tianshan Mountains. It is not a pure nomadic force at all.

But after all, considering the history of the past dynasties, the illusion of empiricism, and the subconsciousness of seeking swords, the emperor subconsciously felt that the problems in the north were much more serious than the chieftains in the southwest.

From the point of view of the royal family and dynastic families, the reform of the southwest is just tinkering.

In addition to the transformation of the Southwest to the return of land, there are also immigrants from the Northwest and Northeast, and even the prefectures and counties envisaged by the emperor in North Korea and North Vietnam.

As for water control, the control of the Huaihe River, the control of the Yellow River, the waste of water transportation, etc., are major events from the perspective of the Li family dynasty, and the kind that treats the symptoms and root causes.

Liu Yu once said that the emperor was very conceited, and the emperor wanted to do big things and treat the symptoms and root causes.Because the rest of the small things in the eyes of the Li family dynasty, the things that treat the symptoms but not the root cause, even if the son is not as good as himself, can almost be done.

But there is no such thing as a simple matter.

It can even be said that the governance of the Huaihe River, the Yellow River, and the water are the simplest and simplest of these major events.

For the rest, if the Li family dynasty wants to maintain its rule, it must ensure the small-scale peasant economy, guarantee the self-cultivation farmers, guarantee the delay of land annexation, and ensure that the people will not be destitute.

Carnival of subordinate staff, additional dispatch at the grassroots level, control of gentry, land sales, floods in the Yellow River and Huaihe River, mergers and bankruptcy, and corruption... These are the major issues to be resolved.

Among these major events, the treatment of the Huaihe River, which costs 3000 million taels of silver, is the easiest and easiest one of these major events.

Only one year's total financial income can solve the simplest and simplest major issue, and there is no guarantee that this matter can be done well in the end.

It sounds magical, but it is true.

Just take out one of the rest, can 3000 million taels of silver solve it?

Let’s just talk about a simple one, which can be solved theoretically with krypton gold...govern the Yellow River.

3000 million taels?

3000 million taels just want to tame the Yellow River?You can bully Huaihe.If the copper tile chamber really burst, 3000 million taels would not even hear a sound.

Among the remaining ones, subordinate officials, gentry, additional factions, corruption, annexation, land rent... which one is not more difficult than governing the Yellow River?
When he was a political animal, when Liu Yu was "innocent" and "the sorrow of the universe", the emperor laughed, thinking that Liu Yu had fought too many wars and got sick after the war.

However, once you stop being a political animal and occasionally become a human being, you will also feel this sense of powerlessness.

Liu Yu naturally felt powerless, so she pinned all her hopes on the new class of Shadow Twins, on the future.

He directly avoids the internal affairs of the celestial court, thinking that the external affairs are much simpler than the internal affairs of the celestial court.

Just do it.

Even if it's the land reform in Java, he can tell Niu Er directly: It's so simple, just kill it.Even if he chopped off the head of Banten Sultan, he could bear it if someone came to the court to complain.In Java, buying a large local landowner with [-] mu of land is not as troublesome as buying a gentry with [-] mu of land in Henan and Jiangsu.

The land reform in Java can kill, and the land problem in Shandong and Henan, does Liu Yu dare to say the word kill?

But the emperor is not Liu Yu, he is the emperor.In his view, the ultimate goal of external expansion is to have enough money to solve internal problems.

As long as the current basic disk is guaranteed, the internal problems of the basic disk can be solved, and the external problem is naturally not a problem.

Think so, absolutely right.

With such a large size of China, internal problems have been solved, and one-third of the world's population, what are the Western countries at this time?

However, the most correct idea often means that this is a road that cannot be walked at all.

So-called: correct crap.That's it.

A treatment of the Huai River directly made the emperor deeply moved.The truth solves all domestic affairs, how is it different from going to heaven?

The emperor also knew that he occasionally expressed emotions, and no one dared to answer them. Finally, he sighed at the Taotao River, and stopped mentioning himself "what if he died now", turned around slowly, and stopped looking at him. The waves are turbid.

He called the servants around him and gave some instructions.The close attendant asked the guards and internal officials around him to disperse fifty paces away, just where the emperor could not hear what he said.

When only the emperor, Liu Yu, and Liao Hanhui were left in the center surrounded by a group of guards dozens of steps away, the emperor motioned Liao Hanhui to come closer, and then asked a question.

"I don't want your head, and I don't care about family guarantees or anything like that. I just want to ask, how much is the policy of treating the Huaihe River with five points into the sea and five points into the river?"

Liao Hanhui's attitude made the emperor prejudge his prejudgment. Most of the time when he asked, he must have guaranteed his head and family.

But for such a big matter as Zhihuai, one head, and a family of dozens of people, what's the point?

"Return to Your Majesty..."

Liao Hanhui thought about it carefully and used a sentence.

"Man proposes, God disposes."

"Since the Song Dynasty broke up the Yellow River, all dynasties have thought about water control. For example, some projects have been excavated for the control of the Huai River. However, there was no heavy rain in previous years, but the year of excavation was full of heavy rain, and the results were overturned."

"If Dongfeng doesn't make friends with Zhou Lang, Tongquechun will lock Erqiao deeply."

"A minister is a human being, so he can only find things for others."

"If there is no abnormality in the sky, it should be counted as eighty percent."

"I have measured a lot of data in the atlas. The flow of the Huaihe River, the flow of the opening, the flow of the river, the height of the terrain, the labor required... These are not things that I can just sit in the study and slap my head."

This statement does not seem to guarantee anything, but in the eyes of the emperor, it is not considered a slippery trick.

Instead, he clarified the matter directly. If he really wanted to do it, if the sky didn't grant it, what would manpower do?
The final decision is made by the Emperor.It's not something he can decide by himself, even the governor of the river, he doesn't have the decision-making power.

This is not a matter outside the celestial court, but a matter within the celestial court.

It is to go to the Six Governments, the Temple of Heavenly Blessing, and the Dachaohui.

It's not about going to Nanyang, where the emperor pays some money from his own money, and directly bypasses the Tianyou Hall of the Sixth Government to negotiate with the Netherlands.

This thing, done, is the emperor Shengming.

If it can't be done, it means the emperor insists on going his own way.

Liao Hanhui didn't kick the ball to the emperor, but said that in the end the six governments of Tianyou Hall and the emperor were the decision makers of the empire.You are just the one who makes sure the decision is implemented.

It also includes letters and exhortations.

It's not that he doesn't want to fight for it, but as the emperor said, what's the use of his own head and the lives of his family?
The emperor who got the answer of "Eighty points count" hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Liu Yu.

"Mr. Xingguo, if I need money urgently, how much can you get?"

Liu Yu thought for a while, and replied: "It seems that the court still doesn't pay it back. Some money, don't need to pay it back. Some money, it's better to pay it back."

"If the imperial court gets money from the salt merchants, it actually gets it from the people in the end. But in this matter, the salt merchants have money because of the imperial court's monopoly policy. They enjoy the imperial court's monopoly policy and make profits. It is useless to get some money. Problematic. Without them, others will take over.”

"Although overseas trade is also a government monopoly policy, it is different."

"Salt merchants and the like, if you don't do it, the court will let go of the policy, and others will naturally do it."

"Overseas trade, the imperial court liberalized the policy, and the result was that the sea merchants were detained in Batavia by the Dutch and did not dare to fart; the result was that the sea merchants went to Xiaocang for 'free trade', and were bombarded to death by the Japanese with cannons Ten; the result is that you can't even go to the lion country that you can go to during the Jin Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms."

"Your Majesty entrusts ministers to promote business, and the salt ministers cannot control them."

"Only talking about business. Your Majesty asks my ministers to get money. If you don't want to pay back the money, you can get 8000 million taels."

"If you have to pay it back...that's a loan."

"With 5% annual interest, I can get 1000 million taels."

"With 30% annual interest, and the court guarantees that it will be repaid, and even the salt tax is used as a guarantee, the minister can make tens of millions. However, the 30% annual interest rate doubles in three years, and the court cannot afford it at all."

The emperor hummed, and also understood the difference between monopoly of salt merchants and monopoly of overseas trade. It is difficult for Dashun to get out of India now. When all countries are engaged in monopoly and franchise, there is only monopoly against monopoly, and country against country.

After some calculation, if the loan is 1000 million taels, based on the annual interest rate of about 5%, the annual interest is about 60 million taels.

So he asked Liao Hanhui: "If the Huai River is governed and floods are turned into water conservancy, how many fields can be irrigated? How many fields can be changed from dry fields to irrigated fields?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, if the Huai River is diverted to Gaoyou to enter the river, and Hongze Lake is diverted directly to the sea, the benefited farmland will be about 120 million mu."

"Except for irrigated land, millions of acres of arable land from Anhui to northern Jiangsu can also reduce the waterlogging of the Huaihe River, and the rescue of floods that occur every three to five years can also be avoided."

The emperor subconsciously said: In this place where there is no flood, the exemption and relief are saved, but the tax is not increased. Even if the 120 million mu of irrigated land is raised from the lower field to the upper middle field, even if the tax on the upper field is increased after checking the number of acres, can it be enough to earn an interest of 60 million taels a year?
(End of this chapter)