Xinshun 1730

Chapter 861

Waiting for the emperor to finally finish his performance of loving and caring for the people, he only asked Liao Hanhui to step down first, and from tomorrow onwards, he would go to the emperor every day to explain the Huai governance atlas.

After he left and only Liu Yu was left around, the emperor spoke the final word.

"I've made up my mind. Ai Qing wants to enrich my internal funds. Whether it's war or flood control, it's absolutely impossible without money."

Liu Yu quickly said yes, thinking that there are many emperors who can understand this truth, but few can solve it.

"Your Majesty, since we want to control the water, it is obvious that we are determined to abolish the canal. Then, is the minister's words feasible for the rice harvesting matter?"

The emperor still nodded, this time without hesitation.

"Just do as you say. You are still prudent in doing things. If you think you can't do it, you won't agree to it."

"I don't need to say anything superfluous. You know better than anyone else how important Caomi is. I also know that Guangxi, Guangdong and other places have long eaten Nanyang rice. It's not much more than a few million stones a year." Not much. The Heishuiyang route is well established, so it’s easy to go to the capital.”

"But I still say the same thing. It is best to invest this money in Nanyang. It should be invested in places controlled by the garrison of the Celestial Dynasty."

"Even if there are in Burma and Siam, they are just pretending to be tributes after all. You also said that you cheated and deceived each other. The credentials of Siam and other countries were embellished by officials and then turned into tributes."

"It's best that this rice-producing land is like Jiangnan, a place that the country can absolutely control."

"I think that buying is not as good as taxing, and taxing is not as good as cultivating."

Liu Yu secretly smiled, and the emperor said again: "Since the Duke of Qi sent a letter from the Netherlands, the affairs of the Netherlands are probably completed. I think you should go to Songjiang to prepare to deliver the goods to the Netherlands. It is already ten month, once the wind season is wrong, we have to wait another year.”

"You can afford to wait, but I can't afford to wait for my money. This year, private lending to earn interest, how much is it? Moreover, I am really short of money now, and I will not talk about it next year. You have to prepare 2000 million taels, even if you can borrow it from the Netherlands..."

Speaking of this, the emperor couldn't help laughing.

"Spending money has been smooth these years. I always feel flustered when I see that there are not thousands of taels in the treasury. It's not because I'm greedy for money. These thousands of miles of mountains and rivers belong to me. It's just that you have been outside for a long time, hiding from the people in the court. How do you know what it means to spend money like running water? The little money from the household government and Taicang would have bottomed out long ago if it wasn’t for my internal funds to subsidize it.”

"In recent years, the stalls have been too large, and there is no turning back. In the Western Regions, all kinds of stalls have been spread."

"Since it has been spread out, there is no turning back. Turning back now, the 8 taels of silver that were invested in the Western Regions before are all in vain."

Liu Yu thought in his heart that this is exactly the effect I want.In the past few years, it was fun to spend money, and the stalls have grown, so you dare not easily break the capital chain.

Moreover, such stalls in the southwest of the Western Regions cannot exhaust the industry and commerce. This is a long-term investment process.

This just happened to force the emperor not to kill the chicken to get the eggs.

How many bowls you hold and how much rice you eat.Now the emperor actually broke the way of thinking of small farmers and agreed to borrow money. This is a very important step for the emperor.

If the chicken is killed to get the eggs, the emperor also knows that it will cost tens of millions of dollars at a time.

But the income from Mongolia to Japan to Western trade in the past 20 years is more than tens of millions.Which is more important, the emperor can still tell the difference.

Of course, for businessmen, if they can't press the emperor's head on the table, they will be worried for a day, and the possibility of being killed for eggs is always there.

However, as far as the emperor is concerned, judging from the current situation, even if he wants to kill the chicken and take the eggs, it is time to see that the world is about to be completely ruined, and it is time to fight desperately.

For the time being, there is really no need to worry.

The emperor would definitely go to the salt merchant to pick up money, but this has nothing to do with Liu Yu's worries.Salt merchants are similar to taxpayers in Western countries, so let's make a fool of ourselves.

Now the emperor is also worried about the trade in the Netherlands, and a batch of goods he bought with internal funds that were stored in the original VOC warehouse, so he only asked Liu Yu to go to Songjiang as soon as possible.

Liu Yu thought for a while, and asked, "Then Your Majesty... the Songjiang Mansion's eleventh tax?"

The emperor hesitated for a moment and said: "Try it. I will send some young people to do this. Measuring the acres and checking the land can be regarded as practice, so get acquainted with it in advance."

Liu Yu understood it, since he meant to familiarize himself with it in advance, it meant that he was really planning to try out tax reform in Lianghuai and Jiangnan after the Huaihe River was governed.

Thinking about it carefully, from the perspective of the emperor, this is indeed a good opportunity.

Anyway, the abolition of canals and shipping by sea will be scolded; tax reform will also be scolded.

Anyway, it's all anyway, it's better to put together two scoldings.As long as the treatment of the Huai River is successful, all will be suppressed.There is no difference between being scolded twice and scolded once if you fail to cure the Huaihe River.

"Since your Majesty has orders, I will leave now, go back and tidy up, and then go to Songjiang."

The emperor still wanted to say something, or looking at the rushing river, some couldn't help but want to express some things in his heart, but in the end he just hummed and signaled Liu Yu to leave.

When Liu Yu left, the emperor stood alone on the embankment, staring at the river in silence.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that the servant came over boldly and put a cloak on the emperor.

"Your Majesty, if it's cold today, you should go back to the palace early to rest. Although the south of the Yangtze River is warm, the wind in early winter and late autumn is colder than the capital."

The emperor didn't respond, but wrapped himself in a cloak and continued to stand by the river in a daze.

…………

Liu Yu returned to the residence, and Tian Zhenyi had just returned from the queen's place.

The two talked about what happened during the day, Tian Zhenyi just laughed there.

After laughing for a long time, he said: "Third brother was dragged by someone, but he was also pulled for nothing. It is true that the third brother did not advocate the abolition of the canal. When the Jiangsu Jiedu envoy wrote the letter, the third brother did not say anything."

"But the abolition of the canal was finally accomplished, isn't it because of the third brother tossing the navy? Everyone remembers this sum of money."

"Your Majesty is going to change the tax system. This matter... I remember that more than ten years ago, when the third brother was talking nonsense in the court, he also said something similar? He said that some people would be airborne directly from the capital to go to the place, and there would be an investigation. "

"You only think that others have forgotten, but how can you actually forget? When the time comes, the old and new accounts will be settled together."

Liu Yu, on the other hand, had already had the mentality that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, and laughed loudly: "Forget him, forget it. When the time comes, the two of us will have already run away."

"As for deceiving me deliberately, or creating obstacles, I don't play with them in China at all, whether it's buying rice or trading, if they really have the ability to affect Nanyang and the Amsterdam market, that's fine. It's over."

"The ability to make stumbling blocks in the dark can be done in the nest. If you really have the ability to make stumbling blocks for me in Nanyang and Europe, I will directly learn from Liu Hou tomorrow and follow the red pine nuts. I have this ability. What are you worried about?"

"Even if you have the audacity to find someone pretending to be a pirate to rob a shipping ship... don't even ask, even if Sulu, who is called Eastern Algiers by Westerners, dares to raise the pirate flag in front of me?"

"A group of trash in the nest, out of the sea, even the Ryukyu people are fooled like fools. As long as I stay away from the court, I won't pay attention to them at all."

"By the way, I'm going to Songjiang right now, and I'm going to Nanyang after a while. Would you like to go to see the volcano scenery?"

Tian Zhenyi imagined the scenery of the volcano, she was a little yearning, but she still shook her head and said, "I can't go for the time being. The queen will go to burn incense in a few days, from Tianning Temple in Yangzhou Prefecture to Xuanmiao Temple in Suzhou Prefecture. Those of us accompanying His orders must be followed."

"Before I was confined in the capital, it was so easy to come to the south of the Yangtze River to have a look. Although it is not the time when the river is green and blue in spring, it has a special flavor. It is good to have a look."

"Move over slowly, I'm afraid the windy season is over. Since you said that the emperor is short of money, you must stay in Yangzhou for a long time, waiting for the salt merchants to pay their respects. How can it be like in Taishan, where there is no sacrifice to the Marquis's mansion?" Go, go straight south."

Liu Yu smiled, thinking that it was a shame to ban religion. This is the style from the monk temple to the Taoist temple. If there is no ban on religion, would it be necessary to offer incense to the Virgin?
"Surely you can't go to worship the Marquis Mansion. If you go, the plaque of 'Wei Guan Zhong, Wu Qi with hair on the left lapel', should you take it off or not? As long as you don't take it off, just put it there, embarrassing each other."

"Alright, you can just follow along. Since the queen is going to burn incense, she probably also wants to see the scenery. A woman who is confined to the palace, it is hard to come out, and I guess there will be some fun."

"The emperor must be going to Songjiang Mansion. I guess I should come back by then. He is not allowed to visit these businessmen in Songjiang Mansion. What is the situation? Is it under his control?"

"Or, after receiving money from the salt merchant, don't you have to come to Songjiang Mansion to make a statement and tell those merchants not to worry?"

"It's not too late, I'm leaving early tomorrow morning. There are a lot of things to deal with over there. I thought that if you could go together, you would help with some things. Zhongxian is still in Amsterdam now, and some things still have to be done. You can't give an idea."

"However, it's okay. What I have to deal with for the time being is some overseas affairs. I have to finish dealing with the Nanyang affairs before the first month. I'll be back."

Seeing Liu Yu's elated expression, Tian Zhenyi originally wanted to remind you, "Of course they can't stumbling you overseas, but the matter of controlling the Huaihe River affects the whole body. In the treatment of the Huaihe River and the Yellow River, they will stumbling you." But also easy."

But seeing this state of mind, he didn't want to spoil Liu Yu's rare interest, so he didn't say anything.

Feeling that we need to be separated for a while, he picked up some words that Liu Yu liked to hear, and coaxed him: "Third brother, speaking of it, there are some changes, which are really silent. It's really interesting to think about it carefully."

"Nanyang is thousands of miles away. If you mentioned who went to Nanyang 20 years ago, you would have almost died. Now I don't know if you have been there a lot, or you have even been to Europa these years. It makes people feel nothing to worry about. There is no difference between going from the capital to Jiangnan."

"Don't say it's me, it's those ladies who now know a lot about Nanyang, and it doesn't feel like tens of thousands of miles away as before."

"Some people even think that if the family's nephew wants to gain experience, he would rather go to Nanyang than to go to the Western Regions. Before this, it was the other way around."

He didn't say anything to spoil the scenery, knowing what he likes in his heart, he just deliberately coaxed a few words, and when he talked about itching, he smiled even more.

(End of this chapter)