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Chapter 604 Come Prepared
After hearing this, Xu Chongguang, Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, and Lin Zhenzhong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, cursed in their hearts: "What can't be collected, it's clear that I want to push your 'tax coupon'!"

The opponent's hole cards are almost known to both sides.Lu Chengqi understood that the civil servants wanted to suppress the military officials, so he couldn't back down.The dominance of either civil or military side is not good for the control of the court.The way of an emperor lies in balance, and the best is to stand with three legs.It's a pity that there are only civil and military officials in the court. No wonder the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the official history wants to set up the East and West factories, just to create a tripartite confrontation!
Lu Chengqi felt that it was completely unnecessary, because neither civil servants nor military officials belonged to the same camp as the emperor.The emperor is a power in itself, and the strongest power at that, but he is a little helpless.So as long as the emperor is in it and balances the civil and military officials, why fear that they will unite or fight against each other?Isn't this the three-legged confrontation, why create another force, and then the emperor jumped out to watch the show!
In the official history, the consequences of watching operas in the Ming Dynasty were that the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party attacked each other, and the military attache was completely reduced to a vassal.It's like the eldest brother and the second brother fighting, and the third brother was killed. What a tragedy!If the emperor of the Ming Dynasty were smarter, more diligent, and firmly grasped the power, how could the cabinet be so dominant that it would have to set up east and west factories to balance it?

When Lu Chengqi was thinking about it, Tao Juqing bit his head and said: "Then what do you think of reducing the money for water control of the Yellow River?"

Lu Chengqi didn't even think about it, and directly refused: "The flood control of the Yellow River is a long-term matter, and there is no delay! Cutting the money and money for water control, how can Li Jie do it? No, absolutely not. In my opinion, it is better to give away all the elders of the Qing family. Take out the salary and use it first..."

"Your Majesty, this cannot be done!"

Before Lu Chengqi could finish speaking, the Daqing Palace was bombarded.Almost all civil and military officials in this meeting have no gray income, and they all count on the pension after resigning.To embezzle that pension, wouldn't it cost their lives?No, many officials who usually don't speak up have stood up and opposed it.

Lu Chengqi pretended to be incredulous: "If you don't use it, you won't be able to pay the salaries of the Qing family..."

"Your Majesty, the ministers are willing to take less salary!"

Many officials have begun to express their views with heartache. They would rather take less now than have their pensions embezzled. That is a lot of wealth!
Seeing them falling into the hub, Lu Chengqi smiled triumphantly in his heart, and said: "That's not necessary, I have a method, if it is handled well, there will be no danger of the national treasury being exhausted."

Xu Chongguang and Lin Zhenzhong looked at each other, with helplessness written on their faces, and said in their hearts: "The one that should come is here."

"Everyone, do you know how big Dashun's territory is?"

Lu Chengqi didn't play his cards according to common sense at all. If Su Shi was here, he would know that he would not only promote national debt, but also develop Jiangnan.

"The territory of Dashun extends to the East China Sea in the east, the grasslands in the north, the South China Sea in the south, and the Heihan and Uighur countries in the west. said.

Lu Chengqi nodded, and said, "That's right, then I'll ask all the gentlemen again, where is the most prosperous place in Dashun?"

"It's the Central Plains area!"

All three-year-olds know this, and many ministers answered in unison.

"That's right, Dashun has a vast territory. Why is it that only the Central Plains area is prosperous and has a large population? To the south of the Yangtze River, the land is much wider than the Central Plains, sparsely populated, densely covered with water networks, and many fertile fields. Why is this so?" Lu Chengqi said slowly. Speaking out his thoughts, all the courtiers in the Daqing Palace were silent at this time.

Xu Chongguang was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but come out and said, "Your Majesty, you want Jiangnan to become the second Central Plains?"

Lu Chengqi nodded, and said: "Xu Shoufu really knows what I mean, yes, I do have this intention. There are no people in such a vast land; there are so many fertile fields, but grass grows; the climate can produce two crops a year. , but no one grows rice, what a waste! My heart aches, it’s like begging for food with a golden bowl, and the treasury has lost tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue for nothing!”

Xu Chongguang said worriedly: "Your Majesty intends to manage Jiangnan, which is a good thing. It's just the people of the Central Plains, are they willing to leave their homes?"

Lu Chengqi smiled and said: "As long as there is land, everything is not a problem. I have thought about it, since the Central Plains has a large population, there will always be people without land and land. Once there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, these people must have no ability to resist natural disasters. After all, they have no land. Jiangnan is most short of people, and there is no shortage of land, so I want to make a decree that if the unclaimed land south of the Yangtze River is reclaimed, the land will be owned by this family, and each person is limited to five acres. , what do you think?"

Speaking of this, how could Xu Chongguang not understand that Lu Chengqi came prepared?And his goal is probably not to issue any "tax coupons", but to develop Jiangnan!To be honest, Xu Chongguang doesn't care about this, he just needs to be careful not to let this achievement fall into the hands of others, especially his political opponents.Don't look at him as the chief assistant of the cabinet now, with a great reputation, in fact, I don't know how many people are coveting his position.Even in the cabinet, which one of the other eleven cabinet ministers is not ambitious and wants to replace him?Now they lack prestige and cannot threaten Xu Chongguang's status for the time being.If the little emperor supported one of them in order to balance the government, for example, he gave this person the achievements of developing Jiangnan, then he must be Xu Chongguang's successor.

To be honest, Xu Chongguang thought that his body was still very strong, and it would be no problem to stay in the position of chief assistant for another ten years.But now his relationship with the little emperor is a little tense, and it is unknown whether he can last ten years.So he can't let this political achievement fall into the hands of political opponents, otherwise he would be too passive.He'd rather ruin the plan than have someone else threaten his position.This is not Xu Chongguang's selfishness, but that he believes that his ambition can only be realized in the position of chief assistant of the cabinet.The prerequisite is that he is still the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Based on this, Xu Chongguang was the first to stand up and object: "I think this matter cannot be done!"

Lu Chengqi was a little surprised, he couldn't figure out why Xu Chongguang was the first to come out to object.Although the old man had some disagreements with his political views, as long as it was beneficial to Dashun, he still supported it.This time he was the first to jump out to object, which was beyond Lu Chengqi's expectation.

"Why did Xu Shoufu say that?"

Xu Chongguang said eloquently: "Your Majesty, if people with fields and land also come to reclaim wasteland, wouldn't it be a mess? Moreover, although Jiangnan is large, there must be millions of households in Dashun without land and fields. How much can it have? Can it meet the needs of millions of people? Millions of people flooded into the south of the Yangtze River. How will the local state government resettle it? When there are more migrants and conflicts with the local people, how will the local state government settle the case... These things , Has Your Majesty ever considered it?"

(End of this chapter)