Chapter 35: Dilemma (3)

The issues discussed by several people touched Zhu Zhi's nerves. From his vague economic history in the past, the situation that several ministers said should be the primitive accumulation stage of the germination of the capital economy. The economy began to produce vitality. After a certain accumulation, it entered a period of rapid development. This period must not only stagnate when the system has resistance to this economy.

During the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, especially the Song dynasties, the commodity economy was very developed, and the court even relied entirely on commercial taxes. If there was insufficient food, it would be purchased from Annan, Goryeo and other places.

Even when the Yuan Dynasty, foreign households destroyed the Central Plains economy to a certain extent, the foundation for the Song Dynasty was still there.

Now it is the early Ming Dynasty that everything is in trouble. It is like a piece of white paper, with colors no matter what is painted. In addition, after Zhu Zhi took office, he restricted the government's power to seek rent with fair trading orders, so the industry and commerce in Liaodong will quickly enter a stage of rapid development.

Now, the rapid development of the economy has finally encountered problems. The decline in agricultural population has caused poor income for agricultural products, but Liaodong has money to buy from outside.

If there is a good year, it will definitely be nothing. Once there is a famine and war, the food crisis in Liaodong will break out. Moreover, the grain prices in Liaodong are high now, and farmers only keep food, and they take out all the surplus grains and sell them for money without leaving them.

Zhu Zhi racked his brains to think about how to solve this economic problem. In his impression, he only remembered the most effective method - expansion. There are two types of expansion. The mildest one is economic expansion. Using high added value products to exchange raw materials and grain for surrounding economic entities. This method has been implemented. Goryeo, Japan, Shandong, Beiping and other places have become raw materials and grain supply places for Liaodong.

However, Goryeo has already felt the problems brought by this trade deficit. Domestic precious metals continue to be exported and resources are also sucked away by Liaodong like a sponge. A minister of the Li Dynasty of Goryeo has written a letter to the court to pay attention to this issue.

Zhu Zhi knew that sooner or later these countries would not be able to withstand such predatory trade, and trade barriers would appear sooner or later.

When trade barriers are formed and Liaodong merchants can no longer trade through peaceful trade, the economy is at a time of stagnation and recession.

The only way to support the rapid development of Liaodong's economy is war. War has two benefits. First, it drives internal economic vitality through military supply production; second, it supports economic development through war, external plundering, and robbery by war.

The main contradiction is not here now, a huge crisis is imminent, but Zhu Zhi cannot tell the story with the people present. His fingers hit his head and said, "What you are talking about is actually very normal. This is the reason why people seek profit.

As the government, there is no other way to do the remedial work after the crisis occurs. I think this is the government that this year, this year, the government purchases grain on a large scale from Goryeo, Japan, Jiangnan, Shandong, and Beiping.

I think I can use 300,000 taels of savings to invest all the surplus this year, and try to make the grain stored in the Liaodong treasury reach one million stones.

In addition, you can do more education work among the people and teach the people to save more food when they have money. You must be afraid of danger in times of peace." Guo Ming and Yao Shan nodded and wrote down Zhu Zhi's instructions.

After chatting for a morning, Zhu Zhi kept all the adults to have lunch in the palace. Zhu Zhi didn't care about the nonsense of a gentleman who stayed away from the kitchen. He personally cooked a table of seafood with the chef. Tie Xuan, Guo Ming and the others feasted again.

After lunch, the officials stood up and said goodbye to leave. Zhu Zhi kept Tie Xuan and Yang Rong. Guo Ming and Qu Yuan looked at each other, and they walked out without saying a word.

Zhu Zhi stood up and walked towards the study. Tie Xuan and Yang Rong followed slowly. Zhu Zhi said: "Economics are still not the most important issue at present.

When I left the capital, I received a news that the fourth brother in Peking had some abnormal movements and fled the army everywhere. Recruiting the bandits and dead soldiers. I discussed with Mian Ren along the way. The fourth brother was ambitious and probably a big change was about to happen."

Tie Xuan was shocked and looked up and asked, "Your Highness, does the court know about these things? Should we report them to the court?"

Yang Rong shook his head and said, "Dingshi, Dingshi, why can't you understand? How could you have to report such a thing? It's the same thing as the court believes it or not, even if it believes it.

He sent someone to investigate and found evidence of the rebellion of the King of Yan, and where was His Highness located? Others would say that His Highness sold his brother for honor."

Tie Xuan recalled Yang Rong's words and suddenly realized: "Mianren said it, but such a big thing has a very far-reaching impact on our Liaodong. What will Liaodong do if the incident in Peiping happens?"

Zhu Zhi said: "Because of this, I will leave you two. Give me an idea. Discuss a countermeasure."

The three of them walked into the study and closed the door. They sat down according to the main and the second. Zhu Zhi took a sip of tea and said, "I want to hear what Dingshi thinks about the current military aspects of Liaodong."

Tie Xuan immediately understood what Zhu Zhi wanted to know and replied: "Now the military of Liaodong can be said to be a mess. The lower-class guards basically only have two more horses preparing for the war, and the others are farming; the middle-class guards are only Shenyang Zhongwei, Dongning Wei and Jinzhou Wei have always maintained 60% of the horses preparing for the war, and other guards are loosely trained and are more farming than training; the upper-class guards are still good, and all maintain 60% of the combat power.

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Zhu Zhi's forehead squeezed into the character "Sichuan" and said worriedly: "According to the Dingshi, Liaodong's military strength is only 50% combat power compared to when it was in its thirty years of Hongwu?"

Tie Xuan said: "You can't say that. Although the training is abandoned, the staff are basically intact. As long as you seize the time to train for a month, your military appearance can be restored to seventy-seventy-eight."

Yang Rong said slowly: "There is no hurry to do this, but there is one thing Your Highness is very concerned about. Is our grasp of the troops now reliable?"

Tie Xuan said: "Since Yang Wen's army was in charge of Liaodong, although His Highness's military governance structure was mainly based on training, he did not do too much in personnel matters. The commander of the upper and middle guards of the upper and lower guards was not replaced, but the three newly established generals of the lower guards were all brought from Sichuan. A few days ago, Zhuang De and Lushuang were replaced by the reason of missing the military opportunity, and Dazhen Guard and Lalu Guard also replaced his people.

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Yang Rong took over the conversation and said, "Then what is the heart of this Governor Yang in the army?"

Tie Xuan sneered: "Great ambition and talent, stubborn and narrow-minded. These are the twelve words that General Ye gave to this Governor Yang after getting drunk one day.

The most exciting thing he did after coming to Liaodong was to make money. Why did he let most of the officers and soldiers go back to farm? The military garrison produced 200,000 stones every year, and the Liaodong treasury sent 250,000 stones, plus the salt tax of 200,000 stones, and 650,000 stones of money and grain to support 100,000 soldiers. He was very rich, and the extra part was kept privately by Governor Yang and put it in his pocket.

The military said: Governor Yang in two years, 100,000 snowflakes. Whether the generals of the Liaodong system or the generals of our capital system are angry at him, how can Governor Yang have a morale in the army?"

Zhu Zhi said: "According to this, did he offend General Ye, too?"

Tie Xuan said: "It's not just offending him. He just came to Liaodong and was quite polite to General Ye. But he had a quarrel with General Ye because of the military camp. General Ye and Mr. Ye repeatedly scolded him for being misleading the army and the people."

Zhu Zhi nodded and said, "According to Dingshi, isn't it easy to seize his military power?"

When Tie Xuan heard Zhu Zhi suddenly say something like this, he immediately took a breath of air conditioning, looked at Zhu Zhi in surprise, and then Yang Rong, and saw Yang Rong looking at him with a smile. What, can't Tie Xuan know what Zhu Zhi's plan is.

Yang Wen was the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong military, which was the highest military commander of Liaodong, and even above the Liaodong Metropolitan Commander. Zhu Zhi was the prince of Liaodong. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral teachings, the frontier vassal kings had the power to control the troops of the vassal states.

In other words, Yang Wen and Zhu Zhi each have the power to control the Liaodong military and horses. The court did not stipulate the responsibilities of the two. However, Zhu Zhi has just returned to the vassal states and vassal kings, so naturally he has no military power.

Zhu Zhi smiled and said, "Look at Dingshi, I want to retake the military power of Liaodong. How should I do it?"

Tie Xuan thought about it and always felt that things were wrong. He bit the bullet and advised: "Your Highness, my subordinates thought that although Yang Wen was unrighteous, he was sent by the imperial court to take charge of the Liaodong military and local governor. Obviously, the imperial court hoped that his existence would reduce the power of your highness.

Now that His Highness has just returned to the vassal state, if he rashly seizes his military power, it may arouse suspicion from the court. I hope His Highness will think twice before taking action.”

Zhu Zhi waved his hand and said, "If the world is peaceful, I will naturally be a prince of peace. But if there is no peace today, Yingtian competes with Peking, and the root of disaster has been laid. Who knows when something will happen?

Once something happens, Liaodong is in a very important position, I will not let the idiot Yang Wen joke about the lives of Liaodong soldiers."

Tie Xuan finally understood Zhu Zhi’s intention and said, “Your Highness is so sure that there must be something wrong with Peking?”

Zhu Zhi nodded firmly and said, "I know the fourth brother best. If you cut off the King of Zhou and King Qi, the fourth brother will definitely not sit still and wait for death."

Tie Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "If this is the case, Yang Wen should have two ways to quickly and slowly. If it is urgent, Your Highness will start at Liaoyang tomorrow and enter the central army. List the crimes of Yang Wen's corruption and abuse of law. With a shout, the responders will naturally gather.

This method is good, but once his military power is added and the court blames him, his highness will definitely be in a bad situation.

If you are slow, your highness can endure it for a while and bring it to the time when the incident occurred in Peiping and the world is in chaos, your highness will join the central army and seize its military power. At that time, the court is eager to deal with Peiping and will only rely on You, so naturally they will not blame him. He thinks that taking the army with slowness is the best strategy.

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Zhu Zhi nodded and said, "I understand that a certain country in Dingshi Old City, I will follow your second method. You will think of collecting more evidence of Yang Wen's greed and incompetent use for future use." Tie Xuan and Yang Rong quickly agreed.

Yang Rong suddenly said: "Brother Dingshi, one day, my Liaodong must choose one of the two courts and the King of Yan. I don't know what advice does Dingshi have."

Tie Xuan sat upright and said, "Of course, the court should be the head of the horse."

Zhu Zhi continued: "Don't you know the reason why your lips are dead and your teeth are cold?"

Tie Xuan was shocked and sweated coldly again, saying, "What does your Highness mean?"
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