New Shun 1730

Using the metaphor in Liu Yu's fourth memorial, the three-inch Ding jumped up and touched ten feet, the nine-foot-tall man touched the sky and reached out to touch the same place ten feet high, curling his lips and saying, this is also very simple, I did it too.

This metaphor is the root of Li Gan's guilty conscience.

After the previous incident of Liu Yu pretending to be innocent, Li Gan actually understood that there is no such thing as eternal generations.

Loving sons, daughters, and wives is not as good as loving yourself. Love your feathers, love your posthumous reputation, love the supreme pleasure of controlling power, and love your reputation in history books.

Now, this reform, which Liu Yu sees as a tinker-level reform, is a world-shaking reform that determines his future reputation in Li Gan's eyes.

The original intention was just to make a fuss in Huaihai.

As a result, it is now involved in too many things, from the Grand Canal Changlu to Sichuan, and it can be regarded as understanding what is universally connected and what is a pull to move the whole body.

After sighing, Li Gan finally asked: "You just said that you can guarantee that within three years, the salt in southern Sichuan can meet the needs of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet. I also know that you have already arranged in advance for the big merchants in Xijing to come to the Academy of Sciences for discussion. I trust your promise."

"I think the salt administration reform should be scheduled for next spring. If there are no major problems with the repair of the Huaihe River, it will be just right. In three years, we can slowly reclaim the land in southern Huaihe and northern Jiangsu, and gradually reduce the salt industry."

"I have carefully read your fourth memorial before, which mentioned the salt administration of the previous dynasty, and got its origin and applied it to the current dynasty. . "

"The seafaring merchant ships are the Kaizhong Salt Law of this dynasty; the foreign trade of this dynasty is the salt permit of the previous dynasty. It really got its origin, and no one in the court knew the true meaning. "

"To correct the root, I thought of the article when my beloved minister Wude Palace won the first prize many years ago. The Western Regions of this dynasty are in Nanyang. The root is here. The Kaizhong Salt Policy is for the north, and the sea trade colonization is for the south. "

"Many people in the court are still unaware of this strategic change. In your opinion, what else can be changed in this dynasty?"

When asked this, Liu Yu said nothing.

Although he kept complaining in his heart, saying that these were all tinker reforms, but reforms could only be tinker reforms. How could the real core land issue be changed by reform?

He said nothing, and the emperor sighed with disappointment.

There is a difference between not saying a word and saying that something cannot be changed.

"Forget it, let's just talk about the current reform. The salt policy will be reformed in March next year. Do you have anything else to advise?"

In sharp contrast to the silence just now, Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there is no need for any major changes. Your Majesty is unparalleled in planning, and it is most appropriate to make the move in March."

"First, after March, the dry season will end, and it will be convenient to transport salt to various places."

"Second, various preparations must be made during this period, and it is not just one place that needs to be changed."

"However, the many arrangements before can already guarantee that there will be no problems when the salt policy is reformed. In addition, please... relax your hands, Your Majesty."

The emperor understood Liu Yu's meaning, and it was still the method of luring the snake out of the hole and Zheng Bo conquering Duan. The imperial power has the ability to directly use the army to prevent the counterattack of salt merchants who collect salt and try to disrupt the market, but Liu Yu hopes that the emperor will not do so, because it will make the court earn a lot less money.

Only by taking advantage of this time to empty the salt merchants, there will be no obstacles to the salt reform in Huainan in the future.

The emperor hummed and said, "There is one more thing."

"My dear minister, you always say that the most feared thing about reform is that the government will cease to exist after the leader dies."

"Now my dear minister is in charge of various industries and businesses, although they belong to the treasury, it is ultimately not legitimate. Now it all depends on your "shogunate", and the most likely system is that the government will cease to exist after the leader dies."

"You go back and sort out the rules. In addition, I also want to train some young men. This time I will follow you and do a clerical job with you first, so that you can learn more. It will be useful in the future."

"Xuzhou Prefecture in southern Sichuan, please report your recommendations as soon as possible."

"Lu Fangweng said: What you learn from books is always shallow, and you must practice it to know it. I have tested the practical learning companions around the prince a few days ago. They are good at practical learning, but they still need experience in specific current affairs. It's just right for me to be a clerk beside you first, so that I can learn more and see more."

"In the future, when the rules and regulations on your side are sorted out, you can open a government office, and it will not be under the jurisdiction of the six governments. Just treat it as the emperor's yamen. It is not an original official vacancy, so it is more convenient when selecting."

Liu Yu was not surprised by the emperor's arrangement. Obviously, the emperor was preparing for the future. At his age, he must not be a money bag or a gun for the prince.

From the beginning, Dashun was almost radical enough to use the female official system to replace eunuchs. Although it was abolished later, eunuchs could not interfere in politics after all.

Since eunuchs cannot interfere in politics, the prince must have a group of people around him, otherwise he will be "alone" when he becomes an emperor in the future. That's basically it, either the eunuchs are the confidants, or the princes have a team around them since they were young.

In Liu Yu's opinion, the emperor's arrangement conveyed this meaning.

Letting the prince's people gain experience is actually telling Liu Yu: You are my people.

In the royal family, "fathers are kind and sons are filial". Now that industry and commerce and maritime trade are becoming more and more important, the emperor has been able to speak to people with his back straight in recent years because there is money in the treasury.

With such a big purse, since the prince's people are coming to gain experience, there must be someone from the emperor.

The emperor did not send "his" people to gain experience again, which, in the eyes of the people in the court, was equivalent to adding another amulet to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu was too lazy to think about the future. The death of a man and the end of a government, it has come to this point, there is nothing to stop. Should we dig the Grand Canal again?

There is only one thing that Liu Yu needs to ask clearly.

"Your Majesty, do you also need to experience the construction of the Huai River in northern Jiangsu?"

"Let's go after the Huai River is done. The Huai River is because you are a noble who has lived with the country. They only learned some business affairs. How can they take on such a big thing?"

"Useless skills, Zhu Ximan and Zhiliyi's useless skills! Where did they learn it?"

The emperor thought that if the prince ascended the throne in the future, the person in charge of industry and commerce could only be a low-ranking, low-power, but extended vassal of the monarchy.

The current system is in its infancy. Since the establishment of the navy, the emperor actually used the name of the eunuchs in the inner court to do it, relying on the shogunate team set up by Liu Yu himself. There is no way to open a government without opening a government.

It will definitely not work in the future.

It is definitely not okay to have military merits, high prestige, and hold the money bag. The prince cannot control it.

As for not sending people from the prince's side to Huaihe River now, it is because Liu Yu wants to do dirty things.

These dirty things, even the prince, it is best not to know, the prince must not get the black material of such an important official.

Liu Yu also understood the emperor's meaning. After thanking the emperor, he talked about some things about the reform of industry and commerce in southern Sichuan. The emperor asked about how to deal with the dispute between Shanxi Salt and Changlu Salt in Henan, and Liu Yu left.

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Soon after returning to Huaibei from the capital, shocking news came out in the court.

At the court meeting, the emperor expressed his opinion on the debate on salt policy reform.

"Don't discuss it again"

No debate, no discussion, temporarily as it is, all memorials on salt policy reform will not be approved.

The salt merchants who got the news were overjoyed.

They didn't know that Liu Yu's trip to the capital this time was to cut off their roots, to support the Shaanxi Capital Group, and to cooperate with the Songjiang Capital Group to eat their flesh and blood.

Instead, they felt that the bribes on their side had worked, or that they had given the emperor enough "meal money". Liu Yu returned to the capital this time to discuss the conditions of the salt merchants with the emperor.

The facts seemed to be developing in this direction. Not long after Liu Yu returned to Huaibei, he went to Yangzhou and invited a group of big salt merchants to have a meal.

According to the previous agreement, the salt merchants "voluntarily" contributed 2 million taels of silver to the court to repair the Huaihe River water conservancy, and in the future they would contribute a certain amount of silver every year for bonuses for anti-smuggling patrols, turning the original implicit rules into explicit rules.

After eating this meal and collecting the money for the emperor, everything seemed to be back to normal.

Liu Yu rolled back to his "old nest" Songjiang Prefecture, and the sea merchant group and the salt merchant group once again did not interfere with each other.

In the court, the discussion about the salt policy reform was ordered by the emperor not to be reviewed again, and the previously earth-shaking salt policy reform disappeared.

According to Liu Yu's suggestion or intimidation on that day, the salt merchants did not encourage their retainers and Confucian scholars to incite public opinion against the salt reform.

It seemed that everything had returned to its original state.

However, the change occurred in places that ordinary people could not notice.

Not long after, an official ship docked in Songjiang Prefecture, and more than 100 students from the Jinghai Palace Surveying and Mapping Department came to Songjiang Prefecture.

In name, they came to practice surveying and mapping, and took advantage of this opportunity to manage the Huaihe River to practice drawing maps.

In fact, just like the first war with Luosha State, Luosha State's Academy of Sciences sent students from the Department of Mathematics to the border, they were going to work for the court.

What they were going to do was nominally an internship, but in fact it was to survey and map the land that could be reclaimed after the abandoned Huainan Salt Field.

It seemed that the court's focus was on the Huaihe River.

The Department of Surveying and Mapping is a purely civilian department. The descendants of nobles and those with money will not study this major. At most, they will learn some basic knowledge in other majors, but they will never study this.

Anyone who studies this is basically a commoner in the new school, and they are also prepared to endure hardships in the future. But compared with their previous lives at home, this kind of hardship is nothing.

These students were so excited when they saw Liu Yu. This has little to do with Liu Yu's promotion of the new school. The main reason is that they have been admitted to the Jinghai Palace, where they have enough food, warm clothes, subsidies and money. After eating, they have free time and can be patriotic.

The excitement is mainly because of Liu Yu's military exploits. These well-fed students are the most likely to get excited.

To show his importance, Liu Yu personally came to greet these young students and gave an inspiring speech. It was nothing more than what I am a famous hero in the process of the Celestial Empire's strength, but more importantly, you are the unknown heroes who do many seemingly insignificant things.

The students were so excited that their blood boiled. The officer in charge looked at these students and thought of himself when he was young. He also thought of the time when he was thrown into the Western Regions for surveying and mapping and was almost eaten by mosquitoes in the summer. Looking at these excited young people, he thought to himself, "'Good' days are ahead! Little kids."