Xinshun 1730

Chapter 76
After urinating, you still have to shake three times.On the second day, the emperor read it after the war and made the last step of Qi Wu.

When the auspicious time came, the imperial guards brought the imperial horse, which had a decorative "dragon horn" on its head. The emperor's rider, the dragon, was not afraid of being stabbed and bleeding by the dragon's horn.

"Order the three armies, read it!"

Drums were beating and cannons were fired to cheer.

Luanyi, who opened the way in front, held something like a golden lantern, the eunuch followed behind with an umbrella, and the big Han general of the boy army held a triangular dragon flag and a festival axe.

The personal Xunwei followed with the emperor's sword in his hand, and the guards of honor of the Luan Yiwei held the curved sword for protection.

Following the Ming system, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Leng Fengyang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, was not tortured because of his good reputation. After surrendering, he managed Luanjia for Li Zicheng.

Some styles have also been inherited, but in the end, Leng Fengyang is only a hundred households, and many details are still different from the Ming Dynasty.

Officers and veterans from various ministries came forward one after another to maintain the team and line up to accept the emperor's review.

This has been decided a long time ago. Although there is no on-site drill, the flags of the markers are prepared in advance, and the ministries only need to stand up step by step under the command of the general.

At this moment, Liu Yu is a supporting role too small to be small, and because he went directly to the border after being promoted as an honor guard, he couldn't even do a good job in the guard of honor.

He could only shrink in the middle of a group of honored guards, carrying a long-handled ceremonial sword, wearing a double-breasted hood, and hanging an embroidered spring knife with a tassel pendant on his waist.

Mixed in the middle of the team, walked around in a daze.Once again, the Khalkha people were shocked, and then the emperor raised his account, set up a banner, and awarded honors.

Not counting the veterans, not counting the emperor, among the remaining people, the one with the highest combat exploits so far is Liu Yu.

Lang Si Xun counted the heads and counted the prisoners.There are not all officials in the court, and the emperor can only award honors in this kind of place, not appoint officials.

"Xun Wei Liu Yu, a battle of a thousand people is the basis. The first rank is five hundred, and the few hits are more, and the battle is three rounds; the capture of more than three hundred enemies and one ship is the best, three rounds. "If you break a castle, you can turn seven times; if you capture an enemy general, you can turn eight times. You will be awarded the honor of captain of the light chariot, and you will be given a flying fish suit and a silver-handled spring wheel gun."

After reading the rewards, it is said that the emperor should come forward to encourage him at this time.

But Li Gan thought about it, he didn't know what Liu Yu was going to do, and he didn't know where this self-playing chess was going. In case he made some strange remarks in public, he didn't ask any more questions.

Although the Twelve Turns of Ce Xun in the Tang Dynasty were restored, don't think about granting land for military merits, and the imperial court doesn't have that much land in its hands.There is a lot of wasteland in the Northeast, but no one wants it if it is given.

However, in terms of money, he was relatively generous. Dashun learned from the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and knew that he could not default on the wages of soldiers.

Liu Yu's family belonged to the upper class of the ruling class, and they didn't need the benefits of being awarded honors, no corvee, tax exemption, etc., and there was a treatment of 1000 taels of silver every year.

This is all second, the key is that the seventeen or eighteen-year-old captain of Shangqingche was born as a Xunwei, and his future is bright.

The rest of the people who went out with Liu Yu, or the people Liu Yu knew and wanted to take care of, also benefited.

Jiaolaobutu has also become the captain of the light car, and the officer can be promoted, but it is not the time yet.

In yesterday's battle, the flag was waved first, and it caught the emperor's eyes, so I would like to encourage him.

Jiaolaobutu already trusted Liu Yu extremely at this time, thinking of what Liu Yu had whispered to him before, when Xie En should express his loyalty, he said loudly: "My minister sees the restlessness in the north and the tyranny of Raksha, and I would like to help you The country guards the borders. Please Your Majesty allow ministers to patrol the borders as generals!"

Li Gan was a little surprised when he heard this.Jiaolaobutu had already been selected into the Boyer Army. Although it is best to have a chance to be released, but usually the south is robbed, and the north is not asked. There is actually a person who volunteered to rectify the border defense for the general.

"Excellent! You are so loyal! Give me wine!"

Jiaolaobutu picked up his wine glass, full of thoughts.

In my heart, I was satisfied with the words "Zhuangzai" encouraged by the emperor, drinking in front of Wanjun, and I was extremely satisfied spiritually; but I was also thinking in my heart, brother Liu Yu, brother Liu Yu, don't lie to me, if there is no border trade in the future, I was cheated to death by you.

But the words have already been spoken, and it is too late to regret at this time.Besides, in front of more than ten thousand soldiers, he should be as bold as he should be, so he picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

After Du Feng's achievements in the Eastern Front were behind Jiaolao Butu, and his ability to win the cannon, he became a sixth-rank Shangqi captain.His father's honor earned him an easier opportunity to enter the Wude Palace, and he, the riding captain, has also won an easier opportunity for the next generation to enter the Wude Palace, which can directly bypass the various places. Camp level.

The emperor also thoughtfully considered that he was going to take the selection test for Wude Palace, so he was exempted from the obligation to continue to fight with the army, and told him to follow the team to take the test in Shenyang.

In the question after the encouragement, Du Feng saw that what Jiao Laobutu said was exactly what Liu Yu secretly said to them that day, and he thought that if His Majesty did not have the heart to open the South China Sea in the future, he would have nothing to lose; , isn't it just as Master Liu said, another way?

"Return to Your Majesty. In the past few years, the country has been in peace and prosperity, the people have enjoyed their work, and the population has grown. The population has grown but the land has not increased. The northern land is cold and bitter, and it is hard to be a granary. I heard that there is still a mainland in the South China Sea. The land is vast, the water and grass are fertile, and the four seasons are distinct. .If it can be controlled in the hands of the state, it will be able to support tens of millions of people. My minister is willing to learn the art of sailing and sailing, and in the future will open up the sea for the state and future generations."

"Mm. Encourage it!"

The emperor boasted, and felt something was wrong in his heart.

The former Jiaolaobutu had a loyal heart and his ambition was to go north, which was normal.

But this Du Feng grew up in a place of bitter cold and in a ravine, so he actually has the insight of "the population grows but the land does not increase".
It's hard to say that he was not influenced by Liu Yu.

Li Gan was not afraid of Liu Yu's personal favors in the army, he was just a guest general, and the Zhechong Mansion only had the right to train troops and patrol the borders, and the central government still had to command people from the central government, so the court was at ease with these soldiers.

It's just that Liu Yu has only been in contact with them for a year, so he can secretly influence these people, and there are indeed some means.

He placed someone among the people Liu Yu brought, and that person also returned a secret report. At the beginning, he said that Liu Yu imitated the ancient generals, shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, and spent money to improve the clothes and warmth of the soldiers. Li Gan felt that It's all normal, and one can even think that Liu Yu is a usable person.

In the subsequent secret report, Liu Yu had nothing out of the ordinary.It's just talking about nasty jokes every night, and sometimes talking about Western learning and how big the outside world is.

Now listening to Du Feng's remark that "the population is growing but the land is not increasing", Li Gan feels that it is a bit unexpected and reasonable.

I thought: The ancients said that a gentleman is like jade, moistening things silently, probably this is the kind of person?

With this thought in mind, to the surprise of the servants next to him, Li Gan asked some more soldiers who were awarded honors who were not qualified to be encouraged in terms of rank.Most of them followed Liu Yu all the way to the expedition.

The answers I got were varied and incomprehensible.

Except for Liu Yu's companion who had "low ambition" and said that he joined the army in order to get rid of his servant and marry a wife from a good family, which caused some smiles or laughter, the answers of the others really opened Li Gan's eyes.

Some said that they would go to sea in the future to find a fertile soil that is not as bitter as the Songhua River, but the water and grass are fertile and can be cultivated; some said that they would make meritorious service and invade Petersburg in the future; and also said to go to see the hibiscus trees in America.

Many words, even the veterans who followed Li Gan had never heard of them.

I just feel that I can recognize every word these people say, but I don't understand what it is when they are connected together.

It's true that each one is fierce, but this one is like the one when Hanwu just opened up the Western Regions. They are talking about anecdotes thousands of miles away, just like grapes, alfalfa, pomegranates, and carrots at that time. .

Although most of it is scene talk...

But this kind of government soldiers in the ravine can tell the grandeur from thousands of miles away, which is already shocking.

Listening to this group of rural government soldiers who may have never been to Jilin or eat peaches before, talking about the mountains and seas hundreds of thousands of miles away, there is always an indescribable magic.

After all the questions were finished, Li Gan smiled and said many words of encouragement, feeling in his heart that he might have spied on some of Liu Yu's thoughts and figured out a lot of things.

Many seemingly unintentional statements made by Liu Yu before gradually became clear.

When Jinshuiqiao asked the question that day, Liu Yu didn't mention Nanyang at all, but talked about the new army and closed his mouth about Western learning, which sounded like exaggeration.

Let's look at Liu Yu's performance this year, what he has done along the way, using money to make soldiers fight hard, and using profit to lure people.

Obviously, Liu Yu is not the kind of idiot who only knows about righteousness.

At that time, it was believed that the new army Liu Yu mentioned was for the war in Junggar and northern Xinjiang.

Thinking about it now, I'm afraid Liu Yu didn't take the war in northern Xinjiang seriously at all.Even in his eyes, Junggar is not qualified for him to talk about it.

Nanyang...

If it is for Nanyang, if it is for Westerners, all this makes sense.

Anyone who studies Western learning knows the words of Xu Guangqi in the former dynasty: Northern Xinjiang is only a disease of scabies, and the great trouble of the country is in Nanyang.

It’s just that with the spread of Catholicism in China, these words were misinterpreted by the Western French Party and became a reason for rejecting trade with Protestant countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Even because of religious sentiments, these words are rarely mentioned.

"Nanyang...Nanyang...no wonder."

With a heartbeat, Liu Yu, who previously thought he could not see through the antelope's horns at all, now finally has a trace to follow.

Li Gan also secretly heaved a sigh of relief and smiled.

He thinks that Liu Yu is talented, but he always feels that Liu Yu's thoughts are hidden too deeply, and he can't see through them.

As an emperor, he doesn't like a courtier who can't see through at all.

Even if this subject is really talented, if he can't see through it, he can only use it again and again.Especially from the current point of view, appointment is also a stubborn species of "following the Tao but not following the Zhou".

When Jinshuiqiao asked the right question that day, Liu Yu's words were all about the righteousness of "loyalty to the emperor and the country".But just like every young man, he avoided, or didn't care about, the most vulgar, basic, and most despised thing among gentlemen - money.

Reforming the military system, training new troops, opening military academies, replacing flintlock guns and bayonets all sound good, but all of them require a lot of money.

If Junggar is defeated, northern Xinjiang is pacified, and the door is closed, will it be necessary to spend so much money on reforms?

Is it necessary to attack North Korea with a flintlock gun and a bayonet?Or is it necessary for the new army to fight chieftains and suppress civil uprisings?Although the Raksha Kingdom is stronger, it can gather a field mobile corps of at most 5000 people across the desolate and cold land, and the pile of people will die.

Isn't it good to have this money for disaster relief and free food?

At first, Li Gan thought that Liu Yu might not be able to think so much because he was young, and that he might also dislike money like every young person. Young people thought they were not interested in money.

Now it seems that I am afraid not.

I'm afraid Liu Yu is too aware of how important money is.

According to the spies, he, Liu Yu, sprinkled money all the way from Shenyang to Nuergandusi, and from Nuergandusi to Muluhan Shanwei.If I don't have enough money, I will pay for the goods from the imperial court's disguised caravan; if I don't have enough money, I will use the spoils of the castle of the Salaksha people.

But what is the righteousness of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, I haven't heard a word of it.The mobilization before the war has always been "money", "trophy", "silver", "fur"...

Does such a person know how important money is?Can you not know that money is the basis of all problems?

Where does the money come from?Liu Yu didn't mention a word, but now judging from the "aspirations of thousands of miles" of these honored soldiers, it can't be more clear.

Co-author of the reform of the military system envisioned by Liu Yu, is the imaginary enemy a Westerner?
If you want to manage Nanyang, you must have a new army that can fight against the Westerners.

If you want to open up Nanyang, you must have a navy that can fight against Westerners.

If you want to manage Nanyang, you must have money; if you want to be rich, you must manage Nanyang.

Li Gan heard from Liu Yu that Westerners are very rich. I heard that the annual income of the English country is more than 2000 million taels. An island the size of Henan Province has collected three quarters of Dashun's annual income. There have been no civil uprisings yet... Li Gan believes that the Western countries are really scary.

If you can collect money, you can play, simple truth.

The court is short of money now.

To the north is money-losing goods.

Now that Mongolia has been taken back, not to mention the lack of money for a year and a half, the rewards given to the nobles, the expenses of immigration, the construction of post stations, etc., will be compensated at 300 million taels a year for the time being.But it’s not enough if you don’t pay, otherwise you will spend more on early warning, mobilization, and fort repair every year.

The south is rich and rich, and it is the most difficult to get money out of it.

The gentry united with each other, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to gain a firm foothold and serve the heavens, after the Jingzhou War, they absorbed the Taizu into the capital. "I don't know what the people who win the hearts of the people are, so that they are defeated." The mistake has been properly compromised with the gentry, and the preferential treatment is still there, and the money is not easy to collect.

Although there are Wude Palace and Xungui as the basic board, you can try to slowly cancel the preferential exemption, but you have to be aware of half-wall turmoil. If you are not careful, the whole Jiangnan will stop the exam, submit a letter, form an association to resist, and call for civil restoration. It will be lively up.

The Southwest is still reforming the soil and returning to the people, and it is also a bottomless pit of losing money; the Northwest is about to fight a war, and after the war, it has to throw money into it.The battle is not over yet, and the money in the hands of military meritorious officials cannot be picked up now.

It seems that if you want to get money, you can only get it in Nanyang.It's just that Li Gan didn't know much about Nanyang trade, and he thought that he could collect ten million taels for a province as big as England, but he didn't understand it at all.

Thinking about the previous positioning of Liu Yu, he is a person who "starts the game with a strange chess player". Before he can guess what he wants to do, it is inevitable to be cautious, but now it seems that he has figured it out, so he can try to use it.

If you use it well, it may really open up the situation.

If it's not good enough, just borrow his brain to use it, anyway, he has no foundation:

There are typos and incomplete characters in every memorial, and I can't urinate in the same pot as the group of literati in Jiangnan; although I know Western learning, but I support the ban on religion, and I was baptized by the Western Law Party as heresy; He can fight, but his ambition is not to lead the army but to train soldiers; he knows the benefits of spending money, but he has no money.

Thinking that this might be the result of finding out Liu Yu's true thoughts, Li Gan summoned Liu Yu again that night.

After encouraging him in private, Li Gan suddenly asked: "You are considered a good student in Wude Palace, and you will definitely be able to enter the upper house in the future and choose Long Jin. In the future, where do you want to go when you are released?"

Liu Yu thought that there was a standard answer to this question, so he said according to the scriptures: "Thunder, rain and dew are all holy favors. Wherever your majesty wants me to go, I will go there. How dare I have extravagant expectations?"

This very standard answer, in exchange for Li Gan's half-smile.

"You have great ambitions, but as you said, my Dashun is like a broken ship, with water leaks everywhere? Does it make no difference where you go? Everywhere needs to be repaired?"

　In 1725, the British annual income seemed to be 2180 million taels.Dashun reckoned that if Jiangnan received the "remembrance of the benevolent government of the previous dynasty", he would be able to receive 3500?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)