Xinshun 1730

Chapter 989 Flattering
The emperor thought about his subconscious mind and first reaction just now, and nodded involuntarily.

In fact, from him down, from the emperor to those military officers who yearn for military merits, they were indeed changed in thinking driven by successive victories after the military reform.

In previous wars, we spent a lot of money and lost a lot, so if we could not fight, we should not fight.

Sometimes it's really hard to beat, it's too expensive.

What now?
Now the imperial court has fought two battles that not only paid back their capital but also made a lot of money in a short period of time, one against Japan and one in Southeast Asia.

But the battles that have to be fought in politics, and are inevitably unlikely to make money, such as the Western Regions and Southwest, Western Sichuan, Snow Mountain, etc., did not cost much.

Because there was no generational difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides before, they did not dare to advance lightly.

Flat pushing can best play the advantages of the previous Dashun, but it also costs too much money, otherwise it will not be possible to push flat.

And ever since Liu Yu made a bold move in the Altai Mountains, Dashun found out that the new army, which had undergone rigorous training, could run around with thousands of people.

As long as it can bear it, it will be called the center to bloom.

If you can't bear it, you call light soldiers to rush forward.

Many people even think that if Saerhu back then was the most elite Qingzhou Army in the Dashun Army Reform, it would not be just letting you come a few ways and I would just fight all the way, but would evolve into Liu Yu fighting in the Altai Mountains. The battle to the north: the center blossomed, luring the enemy to fight, but before the reinforcements arrived, the enemy was defeated.

Sometimes, a small battle can have a big impact.

Liu Yu's fight in the Altai Mountains is not counted, because he used a lot of names, which made many officers feel that it was difficult to copy.

However, Dashun fought two more small battles afterwards, which directly led to the warlike atmosphere of Dashun's army.

One was in the Western Regions, and it was not a big battle to entangle the rebellion.

The garrison of Dashun was tricked into coming out, and thousands of new troops were besieged. As a result, Dashun formed a formation of vehicles and infantry, and took the initiative to attack by using rapid formations. After breaking the surface, one thousand broke [-].

Since then, Dashun's troops of thousands of people have walked across the Western Regions.

And what if the thousands of people who fought in Dashun were wiped out?I am afraid that it will become "do not act rashly, do not advance aggressively, do not underestimate the enemy, and must attack in several ways."

The other one was in the southwest, and the situation was similar.The elite troops mobilized from the north went deep alone, and ended up forming a three-line horizontal line. Two rounds of volleys and a wave of charges took a total of 7 minutes to resolve the battle.

The battle is not big, but its strategic significance is huge.

Strategically, to fight a battle, it is necessary to deploy tens of thousands of people and logistics; it is very different from walking sideways with 2000 people.

From the beginning of the military reform, Liu Yu did not learn from Prussia, but asked Dashun's new army to focus on formation, especially the rapid change of formation between marches and horizontal formations and column formations. This adaptation to local conditions has quietly paid off.

The strategic reward is that a group of radicals emerged from Dashun officers, militant radicals--only radicals who win battles, who are willing to fight when they are always defeated?And after two consecutive aggressive advances, the enemy couldn't move, couldn't win in field battles, and was even directly pierced by a wave.

This situation also directly affected the court's attitude towards the border issue.

The specific manifestation is Liu Yu's "first reaction" when he asked the emperor.

The first reaction is not "whether it is good to fight", this is no longer necessary to consider.What needs to be considered is "when is the right time to fight".

And this just hit the emperor's favorite flattery.

What Li Gan thought all day long was to pursue Han Qitang, but there are two ways to pursue this pursuit.

One is to ask ministers and literati from time to time: Hey, how do you think I compare with Han Wu Tang Zong?How does Dashun compare with Han, Tang and Song Dynasties?
This is obviously not possible, and I have a guilty conscience, so I ask this.

The other is the "first reaction" as Liu Yu patted.

In terms of energy and spirit, it has reached the point where "you don't need to think about whether you have fought or not, whether it is good or not, you only need to think about when to fight and when not to fight".

This kind of subconscious first reaction is not guilty, and it takes it for granted that he can beat it.

Liu Yu shamelessly made a comparison with the story of "Jade Axe".

The truth is indeed such a truth.

But the emperor didn't agree with Liu Yu's metaphor.

"Based on Aiqing's words, it is necessary to make the country's oxen and iron and other countries' slash-and-burn farming, the only way to win. I think that is indeed the case."

"However, when Ai Qing said that she is letting go of mining, the metaphor is inappropriate. It is very inappropriate."

"It's not the difference between ox farming and iron farming, or slash-and-burn farming."

"This is clearly just the difference between 'self-cultivation', 'tenant farming', and 'official village'."

Of course, the emperor didn't know the terms productivity and production relationship, but the metaphor Liu Yu used, the emperor naturally understood what Liu Yu wanted to say.

According to the words of the emperor, Liu Yu actually needs to understand, that is to say: cattle plowing and iron farming, slash-and-burn farming, this is a gap in productivity; but if you want to lift the mining ban in Sichuan and encourage private capital to mine, how can this be a change in productivity?It's just that the difference between self-cultivating farmers, tenant farmers, and official villages is that they all use cattle and are all made of iron. It is not the difference between cattle farming and slash-and-slash farming at all?
Liu Yu went around in a big circle, trying to lure the emperor to talk about productivity and production relations. Although the emperor didn't know these two words at all, under Liu Yu's lure, he used this metaphor to admit the progressive significance of productivity major.

Moreover, the emperor himself did not notice that his refutation of Liu Yu's internal logic was precisely the recognition of the importance of productivity.

Because the level of productivity is very important, Liu Yu's statement is wrong, because Liu Yu's method is only to change the organizational model and adjust the production relationship, but it will not cause a qualitative leap, resulting in "one man plows iron, another slash-and-burn" Effect.

Liu Yu was waiting for this pit.

After the emperor said that Liu Yu's metaphor was inappropriate, he said again: "Aiqing's reasoning must be correct. The reasoning is correct, but Aiqing has misused the reasoning."

"Indeed, there are many benefits, and I have also considered the pros and cons."

"It's true, as Aiqing said, if the Maolong Silver Mine can be attached, this dynasty will have a large silver mine, and because the Han people live widely, it will be able to control it."

"However, Sichuan is not comparable to the frontier of Yunnan."

"The imperial court's strategy is to transform seedlings."

"For transformation, you need to have a purpose before you know how to transform it. In other words, what should you transform into?"

"Naturally turned into an orthodox common people."

"What are orthodox people?"

"Reclamation, farming, self-cultivation, renting, men farming and women weaving, reading imperial examinations, this is the purpose of transformation."

"As for mining, working, forming gangs, fighting, and Aiqing, I like the concept of China. In Aiqing's opinion, which one is more Chinese, those miners who dig mines, or those farmers who study and cultivate weaving women?"

"So, instead of localizing something more Chinese, is it necessary to localize something less Chinese?"

Regarding this, Liu Yu just smiled secretly.

Just like the Raksha country in the north, the most rakshasa are the Rakshasa serfs; the least rakshasa are the French-speaking nobles, workers, factory owners, and bankers in Petersburg.The dispute between these two Rakshasa, until a long time later, there are a lot of people looking for the real Rakshasa, such as Solzhenitsyn.

What the emperor said was not unreasonable.At this time, which one is more Chinese, the common people who are men farming and women weaving, or the emerging class in Songjiang Prefecture who talk about profit and keep talking about speculation?
From a stability point of view, it does make sense.

However, Liu Yu's previous memorabilia obviously did not refer to the whole of Sichuan, but to a small area, not even Chengdu.

Since the emperor objected in this way, Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I beg your forgiveness. The words in the memorandum last time were not clear. The few places I mentioned are not the whole Shu, but a single state of Syria. Since the ancient Han Dynasty , the Qiang of the Han Dynasty became the county."

"There is a well in Zigong here, and the court judge privately learned that private salt is the most prosperous here. And before using the well gas to cook salt, coal from nearby Rongzhou is used. There is a lot of coal, and there is also a lot of salt."

"Your Majesty has repeatedly said that this matter is not allowed, and the minister disobeyed his orders and remonstrated for this matter."

"The minister's so-called liberalization does not mean that the court does not care about it, but follows the story of the Songjiang Mansion. The government supervises the business and manages it, just like the Songjiang Mansion. It is not about leaving the mine alone."

"On the reform of the salt administration, I believe that the discussions between the court and the middle are all for the benefit of the moment, and it is difficult to take into account the distance."

"That's right, what I intend to do is to do two things in order to solve the problem of salt administration."

"One: official movement, commercial sales."

"Second: Two lakes enter Sichuan, Fujian salt enters Jiangxi, Huainan takes advantage of the Huaihe River water conservancy to transfer to agricultural reclamation beaches, Huaibei's daily boom is small, encourages shareholders to grow bigger."

"Among them, the entry of Huainan, Huaibei, and Fujian salt into Jiangxi is easy to solve, and the momentum has already been achieved."

"Only Sichuan Salt has not been resolved."

"Salt in southern Sichuan can control Guizhou and Yunnan, and can also go to Kuizhou and Hankou along the great river. If the method of official transportation and commercial sales is used... it will be convenient for tax inspection and anti-smuggling; The disadvantages of inability to carry far and large businessmen competing for short-term interests.”

"If Huaiyan withdraws from Chu, Sichuan Salt will have to meet the supply gap within two to three years. In this case, the imperial court will inevitably relax the policy and encourage the development of mines in the prefecture of Syria."

"Furthermore, the government-supervised business office follows the story of the Songjiang Mansion. It can also adopt the new technology of the Academy of Sciences and connect with the capital of the big merchants in Xijing. This is the difference between what I call 'one man plows iron, and the other slash-and-burn'."

"My minister's intention is to ask Your Majesty to choose a group of people who are familiar with the business affairs of Songjiang Prefecture's merchants to serve as the Xuzhou Prefecture. Only in this way can the vitality of Southern Sichuan's industry and commerce be opened up."

"I dare to recommend a few people, and within three years, the benefits of Sichuan Salt will not go to Huainan!"

"Merchants and hired workers are not difficult to manage. They are just people who came from imperial examinations in the imperial court. They can only manage men and women farming and weaving. They have never learned how to manage merchants, hired workers, factory owners, and shareholders. As long as they can manage, there will be no trouble."

"If there is prosperity in southern Sichuan, there will be no chaos in Yunnan and Guizhou."

"If the salt in Sichuan is prosperous, the mining and water transportation will be prosperous, and the people in the middle of Sichuan who have cultivated for a hundred years can be recruited."

"If Sichuan coal is booming, it can be ruled according to its laws and mines in Xishan, so that millions of people in the capital will no longer have to worry about lack of wages."

"The new law and new policy should not be tried in the capital, for fear of chaos, why not try it in southern Sichuan?"

"I will look at the counties and counties all over the world. The land that can make this dynasty "I plowed iron and the other slashed and burned" is not in Songjiang at this time, but in southern Sichuan. At the time of the salt reform, please try it out to see the effect. "

(End of this chapter)