The Emperor of Red Mansions: Many Children, Many Blessings, Opening Draft

After Qi Jiguang pacified the Japanese invasion in the south, he could ask Qi Jiguang to reorganize the navy and go on an expedition against the Japanese pirates.

"Minister, I accept the order!"

After Zhao Youde received the order, he immediately accepted the order without saying a word.

At this moment, other court officials suddenly understood why the emperor wanted to build the highway to Jiayuguan.

It turned out that this was to facilitate merchants to travel back and forth from Yeweiyang to trade with Xiqiang and other countries in the Western Regions!

In this way, the toll collected by the highway would be much higher.

And with a wide and flat highway, it would be much easier for the court to transport grain and mobilize troops.

"Your Majesty, since we are going to build a highway, why not build it in the nine northern borders at the same time! There are many mountain roads in the nine northern borders.

The court has many problems in transporting food and grass and dispatching troops, and the consumption is also huge.

If the nine borders have a highway connecting them, there will be a lot of unnecessary food and grass consumption in the future.

It can also save a lot of time and facilitate the court's mobilization of troops and all other matters."

The Minister of War sighed at the convenience of the highway and immediately stepped out to salute Li Chenghan and made a proposal.

"No! The expenditure of the court is already very huge! If we add one more highway to any important town in the Nine Borders, it will not only be thousands of miles of highway.

Among them, opening up the mountains and widening the roads will also be a big expense.

So the construction of the Nine Border Highways has to wait until Ye Weiyang and other highways have made up for the expenditure before construction can be carried out."

Lin Ruhai listened to the proposal of the Minister of War and immediately stepped out to express his opposition.

You are kidding, now the construction of Ye Weiyang and the highways, even if the emperor wants to issue national debt, he doesn't know if the silver is enough. When the national debt repayment period comes, the court will not have silver to return to the people, and he doesn't know how many people will lend money to the court.

You are adding to my workload?

"With the highway, the consumption of grain and grass will be greatly reduced, which is also very important in strategic significance.

Lord Lin, you can't miss the big thing because of money!"

The Minister of War knew that Lin Ruhai had a heavy burden, but building the highway was also a big deal, and he felt that this matter could not be delayed.

The Minister of Works listened silently on the side, and he was only concerned with taking money and doing things.

If he spoke now, he was afraid that he would get into trouble.

At that time, if his workload increased greatly, who would he go to for justice?

"The problem now is that it doesn't matter whether we build one or two.

The national debt has not been collected yet, and it is still unknown how much silver can be collected by then.

And building a highway is far from being comparable to building an official road.

If there is not enough money by then, I am afraid that other projects will have to be delayed step by step.

If we build a highway connecting the nine borders, it will only disrupt the deployment and make each department a mess.

So now we can only complete one step and take the next step depending on the situation!

Instead of just one stepIf you eat too much, you will not be able to chew it. "

Lin Ruhai was furious, pointing at the Minister of War who was talking without any pain in his waist and argued angrily.

"Then it is not impossible to include the Nine Border Road in the plan as long as it does not delay for too long."

The Minister of War still said to Lin Ruhai without giving in.

Lin Ruhai: ...

He now realized that this Minister of War did not care about the feelings of his Ministry of Revenue at all.

"Sir, even if you are speeding up, you have to follow the overall situation first!

Ye Weiyang and the roads leading to Ye Weiyang are the first juncture and must be built as a matter of urgency.

Because Ye Weiyang is the commercial city that connects the north and the south of our Great Wu, the two kings of the Xiongnu, the various tribes of the Western Qiang, and the countries in the Western Regions.

It is the bright pearl of our Great Wu in the future, a prosperous and thriving place.

And if you want to build such a majestic city, the highways that His Majesty has set up are indispensable.

It can be said that this matter is of great significance and cannot be delayed, nor can it be delayed by other events. ”

“As for the highways connecting the nine border towns, the nine border towns will still use the same method to mobilize troops and transport grain. It will only cost more grain and grass.”

“Anyway, the court has reached a trade agreement with the Xiongnu in the north, the Western Qiang in the west, and the countries in the Western Regions, and will not launch a war in the short term.

When Ye Weiyang and the highways feed back to the court's finances and the court's financial problems are solved, it is not a bad idea for His Majesty to build highways connecting the nine borders! ”

The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Li Shouzhong, argued with the Minister of War in a bad mood. (To read the novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Seeing that other officials of the Ministry of Revenue began to take action, other officials of the Ministry of War could not sit still.

When it comes to talking nonsense, everyone is a scholar who has been in the officialdom for many years, who is afraid of who!

"Okay, enough! Stop it!"

Li Chenghan couldn't listen any more, and immediately raised his hand to stop the argument between the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War. 0 ....

Hearing Li Chenghan speak, both sides stopped.

"Just as Hao Aiqing said, first incorporate the nine borders into the plan.

The Ministry of War is responsible for drawing up the blueprints for the construction of this highway!

In addition, the East Factory seized more than 6 million taels of silver from the Zhen family.

The four million taels of dirty silver will be first given to the Ministry of Revenue for the construction of Ye Weiyang, and the two million taels will be given to the Ministry of War for the expansion of the army. ”

“Okay, let’s leave the court!”

Li Chenghan directly settled the dispute between the two sides.

After that, he allocated a sum of several million taels of silver to each of the two ministries.

He stood up and announced that he would leave the court.

Faced with Li Chenghan’s arrangement, the Ministry of War was happy.

The officials of the Ministry of Revenue were uncomfortable.[]

After leaving the court, Lin Ruhai and a group of bigwigs from the Ministry of Revenue went to find Li Chenghan.

In addition to protesting, they went to Li Chenghan to discuss the national debt.

Although they all understood what the national debt meant, it was a serious matter after all, and it involvedSilver is also inestimable.

So they can't help but be cautious.

Let's not talk about the long-term. They must do a comprehensive registration when issuing national debts for people to buy, and the national debts issued must also have extremely high anti-counterfeiting marks.

If one step is wrong here, they can't afford the losses caused.

And Li Chenghan, he has money in his hands.

Not to mention how much money Li Chenghan has in his treasury, gold, silver, jewelry and other valuables.

Let's say that Li Chenghan still has a big gold mine in his hands.

But Li Chenghan doesn't want to use his big gold mine for this.

First, although Da Wu has increased its projects and the treasury is tight, there is no way to solve it.

The people are not so poor that they can't afford to eat and are starving.

Second, the country's operation and strength still depends on itself.

He can't just rely on plug-ins to strengthen Da Wu.

The last point is that this gold mine has been regarded as his private property by Li Chenghan.

Li Chenghan has already planned this big gold mine.

It’s just that Dawu does not have a good craftsman at present, so Li Chenghan cannot implement it.

In the outer imperial study, when Li Chenghan was explaining the specific details to Lin Ruhai and other officials of the Ministry of Revenue, the Minister of Works led the officials of the Ministry of Works to come over. .