These years of being the queen mother!

While Empress Dowager Yang was busy with the most likely event in Yan'an, Shaanxi, Mingda, who was far away in Liaodong, also received a secret order from Empress Dowager Yang, and immediately asked his father-in-law, Comrade Lao Xiong.

"Weng Zhang, is it possible for the Hou Jin Tazi army to go deep into Mobei, Mongolia, bypass the Ningjin defense line, attack Zunhua from Longjing Pass, Hongshan Pass, Da'an Pass and other passes, and then go straight to the capital from Zunhua..."

Xiong Tingbi is a general who has made great achievements in the military. When he heard Mingda's question, he immediately took a deep breath. "The Tartar Emperor Taiji probably didn't think of this."

"It's hard to say, Mr. Weng must have forgotten that the traitor Fan Wenchen couldn't do it..." Mingda said with a serious face: "My sister said in the letter that the prices of goods in Beijing and Tianjin have skyrocketed recently, especially the military supplies, food and grass, which have more than tripled. The father-in-law Xia next to my sister has already found out that the later Jin Tatar chieftain bought smugglers to transport grain northward by sea to Koryo, and then detoured from Koryo to the Tatar tribe..."

"It's really a profiteer who harmed the country. It seems that the Queen Mother killed too few."

Xiong Tingbi snorted coldly, and said directly to Mingda: "Since my mother reminded me, then we should deploy troops to guard the gates of Longjing Pass, Hongshan Pass, Da'an Pass, etc. I don't believe it anymore. With me, Old Xiong, sitting in charge in person, the Tartars Not to mention entering the customs, even if you insert your wings, you will not be able to escape..."

Ming Da and Xiong Tingbi said it was the same meaning, now that Xiong Tingbi took the initiative to invite Ying, he immediately cupped his hands and said: "Then trouble Weng Zhang."

"Why do the family talk about this. Besides, the old man hasn't been on the battlefield for a long time, and his body is very sharp. He just uses the Tartars to exercise his muscles and bones. It's just Brother Ming, the empress only said these things when she came to the secret order? Didn't mention anything else? The old man heard from the quartermaster who escorted the food and grass that there is no grain harvest in Yan'an this year, and I am afraid that there will be a famine. I hate that those profiteers have neglected all this for the sake of profit, ignoring the life and death of their fellow clansmen, and instead sold life-saving food to the Tartars."

"My sister didn't mention this, so it's easy to deal with," at least in my sister's eyes, it's much easier to deal with than the ambitious Tartar who has been eyeing Daming all the time.Ming Da sighed, but took out a map, pointed to the later generations'Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province', and said to Xiong Tingbi.

"If you want to take these places, how many troops will you need?"

"This is Xuantu County in the Han Dynasty." Xiong Tingbi narrowed his eyes suddenly, and said calmly: "The horse herding land in the Han Dynasty was annexed by Goguryeo, and now it belongs to the Nuer Gandu Division. It is the birthplace of Jianzhou Jurchen. One of the places, you suddenly said that you want to take these places, could it be the empress dowager's intention?"

Mingda nodded, not hiding anything, and told him what Yang Lingyue told him one after another through letters. "My sister said that the soil there is all black land. No matter what you plant in the fertile land, you will have a good harvest. It's too wasteful for the Tartars to just use it for herding horses. If it is reclaimed to grow grain, it will be equivalent to adding a huge granary to Daming. Not only will there be enough food to ensure food and grass for the army, even if there is another outbreak, there will be surplus food to feed the hungry people!"

"The old man understands what you mean, but Liaobei is the lair of the Tartars. If you want to turn it into the granary of Daming, you have to plan it slowly. Now that there are internal and external troubles, and the country's affairs are difficult, our Liaodong defenders can only temporarily be defenders. Can't take the initiative to attack!"

"Even if we can take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid that once we do it, we will be attacked by the scholar bureaucrats." The cold and mocking words sounded, but they were clear, and it was obvious that the one who interrupted was a female class.

"How did you come!"

Ming Da smiled and looked at the person who came, it was his wife, Xiong Wanyou.

Xiong Wanyou smiled and said: "The maid at home has cooked the meal, but you and daddy are not there, so I guessed that you came to the study to talk about things, as expected, it is true."

Xiong Tingbi laughed out loud, and didn't talk about the secret order, but went out of the study to the hall to have dinner together.Three days later, Xiong Tingbi went to discuss with Sun Chengzong in private, and then quietly left Liaodong with Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui, and went to Longjing Pass, Hongshan Pass, Da'an Pass and other passes to set up defenses.

Not long after, the famine came as expected in Yan'an, Qingyang and other places in Shaanxi.Fortunately, the officials of Ming Dynasty, mainly Shi Shoufu, responded in time, and the large-scale famine was controlled within an acceptable range.And as batch after batch of grain was transported to Yan'an Prefecture in Shaanxi Province and other places, the national grain inventory began to run out, and when the market grain price began to soar again, Mrs. Yang, who had throbbing veins and a headache from time to time, went into a rage again.

"It's really unconscionable. In the face of such a catastrophe, they don't want to help the court to tide over the difficulties. Instead, they keep driving up the price of grain. Why do you look at the Ai family for not dealing with their private sale of grain and grass to the Houjin Tartar chieftain? I feel that the Ai family is kind. So you have the guts to go back and prepare to make a huge fortune for the country?"

Empress Dowager Yang smiled and looked down at the civil and military ministers with different expressions through a layer of white bead curtains.Most of them are mediocre and act according to the wind, which can be described as a vegetarian meal. Of course, there are some good ones, but the proportion is really too small.

Fortunately, she didn't expect to have a pure good official in her hands, as long as she was right in general.It's just that she never expected it, maybe she thought about it but didn't pay much attention to it. These people who eat the king's salary don't want to share the worries of the king, but keep breaking things down. Some even set up a cover for smugglers for 800 taels of silver. ...

Hehe, when she proposed not to exchange the fine grains and coarse grains obtained from taxation into silver taels, she didn't take it as a warning, instead she took money even more...

"I heard that there is a rule in the Tartars. No matter who it is, as long as it is not Aixinjueluo, they must call themselves slaves." Queen Mother Yang still smiled, and said in a soft tone, as if she was talking to others. "Ordinarily, only barbarians would do this kind of thing, but the traitor who came out of us is proud of being a slave. I heard that Fan Wenchen was awarded the status of a coated slave by the Tartar chieftain. I can't wait to kneel on the ground and lick the boots of Tai Chi, the Tartar chieftain... Tsk, I want to be a dog when I'm not a human being, you really are a lowly bone. Dear friends, don't you think so!"

"The Empress Dowager is right!" the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty said in unison.

"Since you think what Aijia said is right, then follow what Aijia said...Wei Gong, Aijia allows you to use the power of the factory guards to sell grain and grass to the people of the Tatar chieftains, whether they are businessmen or those from Dakai. All the officials of the sect were sent to Zhao Prison. After the family property was confiscated, the whole family, regardless of the elders, were exiled to southern Fujian. As for the female family members, they were all sold by the Jiaosifang..." Isn't it rushing to be slaves? Well, let you Her mother and sister are good slaves to others, and she doesn't like to kill people anymore.After all, killing people is just a matter of nodding, and a soft knife is the best way to relieve one's anger.

Strange to say, Empress Dowager Yang's act of exiling and selling people did not arouse protests from the speech officials, but unanimously agreed with them.Empress Dowager Yang thought about it, and felt that maybe it had nothing to do with her and people were alive, so she didn't bother to protest.If Empress Dowager Yang moved their collective interests, such as canceling the tax exemption privileges of scholar-bureaucrats and reducing agricultural taxes, it is estimated that there is no need for the Tartars to contact each other, and they will pack up their burdens and take the initiative to join the enemy...

Tsk, if possible, I really want to throw them all on a desert island and let them fend for themselves.

But now, in order not to let them add trouble and help the Tartars, they can only continue to enjoy the so-called privileges of the scholar-bureaucrat class.In this way, it is completely impossible to say that you are not aggrieved.

No, she must think of a way to make them all focus on foreign trade while reducing the agricultural tax to almost nothing. Only in this way, in the eyes of these privileged classes, the value of the land will decrease, and she Only then can the private land in the hands of big and small landlords be taken back and turned into state-owned...

Then what should be done……

Empress Dowager Yang closed her eyes, leaned softly on the beauty couch, and began to slowly review the memories of her previous life.At this moment, Empress Dowager Yang suddenly regretted that she only read history books in her previous life, and she seldom read YY articles about going back to the past to change the world because many of them are old. She wanted to find a way I can't find any more reliable ideas for reference. Is it really the only way to turn Daming into a very aggressive capitalist country?

Thinking that the current cabinet system of Ming Dynasty is infinitely close to the so-called constitutional monarchy, Empress Dowager Yang opened her eyes thoughtfully.Maybe she could try...

"Dongguo, how is General Qi's new army doing?" Empress Dowager Yang called Dongguo in who was guarding the door, and asked aloud.

Dongguo pondered for a moment, then shook her head and replied honestly: "Your Majesty, I don't know, I think the progress should be good."

"Is that so..." Empress Dowager Yang stretched out her fingernails painted with red Danko and tapped on the small carved wood table, and said after a while. "General Xuan Qi is going to Beijing today, the Ai family has an important matter to discuss with him..."

Dongguo nodded, and helped Empress Dowager Yang write the decree for Xuanqi Chengzhi to enter the palace to discuss affairs, and stamped a red seal, then recruited a clever little eunuch, and asked him to rush to Penglai, Shandong with the decree, and handed it over to the intensified training Qi Chengzhi of the new army.

Compared with inland areas that either suffered from floods or droughts, Penglai County near the sea is undoubtedly much smoother. Especially after the central court advocated the cultivation of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and increased grain production, grain production in Shandong and other places has been rising steadily, even On a par with the Jiangnan generation known as the "Land of Fish and Rice", it has become one of the important sources of food for the Ming Dynasty today.

When the little Huangmen, who was out of the palace on business, arrived in Penglai County, Shandong, General Qi Chengzhi was staying in a small fishing village with relatively closed traffic. He used several small sailboats and fishing boats to support his new army. Practice water.Since the small fishing village was semi-closed, there were no other people except them, the main backbone of the future navy. It was not until a few days later that Qi Chengzhi learned from his wife that the Empress Dowager Yang had ordered him to go to Beijing to discuss matters.

Qi Chengzhi first expressed his apology to Xiao Huangmen, who had been waiting impatiently, and after receiving Yi's order, he asked his wife to pack up and go to the palace to face the saint together.

"The empress dowager should have something important to find her husband, otherwise she wouldn't have made a special decree to recruit her husband to the palace." Qi Chengzhi smiled and said to his wife who was hesitant about his words: "Although the empress dowager said that because of your majesty's age Because of her smallness, she listens to the government behind the curtain, but she is a widowed woman, so she will easily attract criticism if she rashly sees outsiders of the same age. The empress dowager who is arrogant will not care about it. The army can still use the name of the Qi family army, but it should be considered for the empress dowager..."

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