The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 1331 Opening the Mutual Market

"Yes! This subordinate will inquire now, and this matter must be resolved as soon as possible. The imperial court is so quick to attack us. It is estimated that they want to attack us in the near future." After Lu Chen saluted, he quickly left the study.

Li Changan looked at Lu Chen's back with his eyes slightly focused.

"My lord! Do you really trust him that much? If he betrays us, it will definitely bring us immeasurable losses. Prince Jing is so shrewd. If we make a wrong mistake, we will fall into a land of eternal doom."

"Of course I can't believe it all, don't worry! After the second child is settled, the fourth child is nothing to worry about. The second child will not have much time, so let's wait a little longer. Don't attack the city again during this time, let's rest and recuperate first." In a few months, we will fight all the way to the capital."

Prince Gong clenched his fists tightly, his eyes showing determination.

Li Chang'an couldn't help being very excited when he heard this, if it can be done this time, then his previous efforts will not be in vain.The emperor's life is not long, the eldest prince is blind, and the rest of the princes are still young, how can they inherit the throne?

"By the way, my lord! Our weapons workshop was looted, and this time we lost a lot of money." Li Changan was still excited at first, but when he thought of the looting of the weapons workshop, he seemed to be thrown cold water.

"Hmph! The imperial court will rob us, so we can't rob him? Just grab it back. You send people to the imperial court's recruitment office to make trouble, can't you make the recruitment so smooth? The imperial court spends money to recruit soldiers, and we will do the same, fourth brother This king is not afraid of things that you dare not do." Prince Gong snorted coldly, and then ordered.

"Gu Siqing, you actually sent ministers to the border to recruit troops? This year is not the year of conscription, you do this, it is a tyranny!" Dai Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of War, rushed into the Wenhua Palace angrily, and roared at Gu Chengyu who was checking the memorial road.

All the ministers in the hall were startled by the sudden roar, and they all cast their eyes on Gu Chengyu at the same time.

Gu Chengyu gently closed the memorial in his hand, and put the pen on the pen holder.

"Master Dai, why are you so angry? Regarding this matter, the subordinate officials have already reported to the emperor, and the emperor agreed very much, so the case was implemented. And this time the court is not recruiting men, but buying men."

"Buying dice? The national treasury is not rich, and you actually use the money from the treasury to buy dice? Do you know how much money it will cost? I am the Minister of the Ministry of War. If you want to buy dice, how dare you not negotiate with me? How can you return the money?" Put the Ministry of War in your eyes?"

Dai Yuanji's gray beard trembled slightly, showing that he was very angry.Recruiting Ding was originally the responsibility of the Ministry of War, and Gu Chengyu's hand was too long.Just a few days after entering the cabinet, he began to make drastic reforms and even intervened in the affairs of the six ministries.

"Master Deng, as the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting, it is impossible for you not to know whether the national treasury is full or not. This time the purchase cost is huge, and your Ministry of Accounts actually approved it? You have to think twice! Don't let the purchaser be emptied The national treasury will need to use silver at that time, and your household department can’t get it out, so I’ll see how you explain it.”

Seeing that Gu Chengyu was unmoved, Dai Yuanji suddenly turned his finger on Deng Wenshang.Deng Wenshang has just been promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Could it be that he doesn't understand the current situation of the treasury?
Before Jiangnan was hit by a disaster, although the treasury did not spend much money, it was because the treasury was not full.In such a tight situation, the Ministry of Household Affairs agreed to buy Ding, which is really absurd.

"Indeed! How could the emperor agree to this matter? The emperor knows the financial resources of the court like the back of his hand, so how could he agree?" Tong Shunmin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, also had this question. The emperor didn't even show his face during this period, only the handbook brought by Pang Chu .

They haven't seen the emperor for several days, and the morning court doesn't even exist during this time, can they not panic?

"That's because buying a dime is not considered an expenditure in the treasury at all!" Gu Chengyu smiled slightly, and seeing that everyone looked at him in surprise, he planned to tell everyone.

"How could it not be counted as expenditure in the treasury? Could it be that Gu Siqing paid it out privately? This is not something that can be solved with hundreds of taels of silver. It may cost hundreds of thousands of taels, or even millions of taels."

Dai Yuanji scoffed at Gu Chengyu's words, he didn't believe it, could it be that Gu Chengyu could still pay for it by himself?If Gu Chengyu really took out the money, the origin of the money would have to be questioned.

Where did a court official from a poor family get so much money?I'm afraid he didn't take advantage of his position to be greedy for ink?

"Buying coins requires silver, everyone knows that. But the treasury can't afford it, so we can only find solutions from other places. I invite you to come here today to discuss the opening of the mutual market."

Gu Chengyu's words were like a drop of boiling water poured into a frying pan, blowing up everyone in the hall.

"What? This is absolutely impossible!" Tong Shunmin stood up in shock, he didn't expect Gu Chengyu to have such an idea.

"It's ridiculous. We just fought a battle with Daxing. Daxing lost more than 20 soldiers and horses, and Daxing has already hated us. Now you are saying that you want to open a mutual market. Do you think Daxing will agree? They are not fools. Our Dayan is currently in troubled times. They don't take the opportunity to attack because they just lost their troops and are recuperating now. They will make a comeback in a short time. Gu Siqing, I don't know when you were so naive !"

Dai Yuanji really couldn't understand Gu Chengyu's thoughts, this idea was simply ridiculous.Their Dayan and Daxing are already in an endless situation, but Gu Chengyu is still imagining the opening of a mutual market between the two countries, is it crazy?
Zhong Shize, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was also quite resistant to the opening of the mutual market. They, Dayan and Daxing, had already broken their faces. It was impossible for Daxing to sign an alliance between the two countries and open the mutual market.

"A few days ago, news came from Daxing's spies, saying that the Daxing royal family was in turmoil, and the competition was extremely fierce. I'm afraid we won't be able to take care of the border war in a short period of time. I believe you all understand the current situation in Daxing. King Gong is pressing on every step of the way. , there is still a fisherman behind him who is waiting for the two sides to fight. It is impossible to move the troops at the border, so we can only recruit soldiers. But this year, the first emperor passed away, and the new emperor needs amnesty to ascend the throne, so it is absolutely impossible to recruit soldiers in the past two years .”

Gu Chengyu stood up, walked to the window, looked at the bleak winter scenery outside the window, and analyzed the current situation clearly.

"Indeed! But Daxing is so chaotic now, so why don't we take advantage of it and muddy their water even more? It's really not a wise move to open a mutual market now."

Zhong Shize objected, anyway, he strongly disapproved of his opening of the mutual market.

"We are too busy to take care of ourselves now, Mr. Zhong's thinking is too simple. Have you forgotten that the threat facing the imperial court is not only Daxing, but also internal and external troubles. We want to take advantage of the situation, won't others do the same? If we can have a temporary truce with Daxing and resolve the civil strife first, the officials think this is the most important thing right now. In order to prevent King Gong from forming an alliance with Daxing, we must act first."

(End of this chapter)