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The seven cabinet ministers looked around, wide-eyed and small-eyed, and did not speak for a long time.

The first assistant Song Yingxing suddenly fell ill, and the second assistant Fei Chun died suddenly. It was Liu Ziren's turn to make up his mind.

In Hanzhu Academy back then, apart from Fei Jiazi, the people who had the best relationship with Zhao Han were Xu Ying and Liu Ziren. Zhao Han also helped the Liu family dig sweet potatoes.

Liu Ziren was over forty years old, thin, with a long beard, and he was quite fairy-like. He cleared his throat and said: "Song Weng is sick in bed, Fei Ge and Ding You are at home, I have little talent and learning, if there is something inappropriate, please feel free to correct me."

"Don't dare." Everyone cupped their hands.

Song Yingxing couldn't control the scene, and Liu Ziren couldn't control it even more. Who were there?

Chen Maosheng, one of the first few people who followed Zhao Han in the uprising.

Yuan Yunlong, Fei Ruhe's brother-in-law, is a leader of the Anfu faction.

Zhu Zhiyu (Zhu Shunshui), Zhao Han's old acquaintance in Qianshan.

Zhang Bingwen, a former Ming official whom Zhao Han highly valued.

Wu Yingji, Zhao Han's exceptionally promoted scholar of rehabilitation.

Although Fang Shenghong was replaced by his elder brother Fang Shengchang after his death, he also had the merit of bringing the territory to work in the early days.

In addition, there are several bigwigs who have not entered the cabinet yet. One is Zuo Xiaoliang who is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials; Xu Ying of the political envoy. Even these four people, Liu Ziren couldn't hold back!

As an honored minister, Liu Ziren's qualifications and prestige are high enough, and he is also an old friend of the emperor. But who made him face it, also a group of honorable ministers?

Liu Ziren continued: "Mr. Fei Ge attended the funeral for his father. Let's go to express our condolences together tomorrow."

"It should." Everyone said.

Fei Chun's whole family lives in Nanjing, but Ding You doesn't need to go back to Qianshan.

Ding You has a tradition of more than two thousand years, and Zhao Han can't abolish it at all.

What Zhao Han can do is to reduce the three-year Ding You period to 27 months (to restore ancient rituals), which is equivalent to shortening by a quarter. And reiterated again and again that Ding You, the local official, must wait until his successor arrives and handover procedures before returning home, otherwise he will be permanently disqualified from being an official. Officials who work in their hometowns return to the Yamen immediately after the funeral, and are not allowed to talk about Ding You.

Liu Ziren didn't have anything to say, so he had nothing to say, and said, "Last year, the national finances only had a surplus of 120,000 taels. This year, His Majesty made adjustments to the running of the school, which can only stop the steep increase in running costs. In other respects, we can still Provinces are provinces, Qinghai and Tibet are about to go to war, and the cost before and after the war is huge."

"The Ministry of Industry can't save money," Wu Yingji said. "The management of the Yellow River has reached a critical time. In the next two years at most, the Yellow River will divert its entire route to Shandong and enter the sea."

Zhang Guowei has been governing the Yellow River for more than ten years, and has traveled all over Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu. Following the old course of the Yellow River in Shandong, he has been digging canals to divert the flow and building various dams everywhere.

Today, part of the Yellow River flows into Shandong, and part of it flows into the Huaihe River. After another year or two, we will take advantage of the dry season to block the gap on the south bank of the Yellow River and completely complete the artificial diversion of the Yellow River. It is estimated that the funds for controlling the Yellow River for more than ten years will add up to more than 4 million taels, which is equivalent to throwing in 300,000 taels every year.

Liu Ziren nodded and said, "It is true that money cannot be saved in governing the Yellow River."

Zhu Shunshui couldn't help complaining: "Your Majesty was too anxious. He took over the Monan grassland and Burma, and now he still has to fight in Qinghai and Tibet. It took Emperor Yongle five expeditions to Mobei for more than ten years. "

Others dare not answer, only Chen Maosheng said with a smile: "Your Majesty wants to fight, let's fight with him. After these few years, the national treasury will be rich."

Zhu Shunshui couldn't help but shake his head, it may take twenty years to be stable, even if it is a few years. After fighting Qinghai and Tibet, there is still the Ruan family in Vietnam, the land of the Western Regions, and the land of Mobei, and the remnants of the Tartars in Ningguta have not yet been wiped out.

Every time we expand the territory, everyone is very excited, but after the excitement, the brain hurts.

Especially in Mobei, the cabinet ministers are worried, what should they do if they encounter Zhu Di's situation?

Of Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mobei, only the second expedition achieved the greatest results. In the other four times, the Mongols fled in anticipation, even throwing away their cattle and sheep. Especially for the fifth time, hundreds of thousands of troops set off in mighty form, and were treated like dogs by the Mongols, and there was no real fight at all.

That kind of play is purely a lose-lose situation.

Daming was wasting money and people, almost ruining the finances. Of course, Mongolia can’t please. A large number of livestock are too late to take away, and the season of grazing is missed. Every winter, the tribe will starve to death.

Zhang Bingwen said: "The business tax and tariffs have been rising year after year. Most of the trade in Coconut City (Batavia) has resumed. Last year, there was no need to invest any more money, and more than 30,000 taels were handed over to the central government. The money that will be handed over in the future There must be more and more. The population of the four provinces of Shanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Liao is also recovering, and the land tax has been collected in full, and the wealth of these four provinces is also increasing. After three years, there should be a large fiscal surplus gone."

"By the way," Yuan Yunlong remembered something, "This morning, I received a report from the prefect of Taiwan that the Spanish governor of the Philippines requested to establish a supply point in Ryukyu."

Liu Ziren was a little puzzled: "The governor of the Philippines asked for the establishment of a supply point, why didn't he talk to the governor of Luzon, Zhang Huang?"

Wu Yingji smiled and said: "Zhang Huangyan must be worried. What if a supply point is set up in Ryukyu, and Fujian maritime merchants will trade with Spain in the future, and the goods will be directly sent to Ryukyu instead of going to Luzon?"

Zhu Shunshui said: "Zhang Huangyan was too worried. The Spaniards are more worried about this matter than he is. Once the trading port is changed to Ryukyu, no one will go to Cebu. Wouldn't Spain's Philippine colony be abolished? In my opinion, Ryukyu supplies At most, it will supply vegetables, fruits and grains."

"There will still be goods." Zhang Bingwen blinked.

Everyone understood instantly, and then they couldn't laugh or cry.

The Philippine colonial officials want to smuggle when supplying Ryukyu!

On the other side of Cebu Island, there are layers of supervision by officials, and it is very troublesome to bring more goods. Setting up a supply point in Ryukyu can avoid supervision and take some goods up halfway. This is like a long-distance bus. It stops not far from the station and picks up a few more passengers on the road. There is no need to buy a ticket (trade license), and the money earned is the driver and conductor.

Liu Ziren was able to rank third in the cabinet, and it was not for nothing. He immediately made a decision: "Let the Spaniards supply supplies in Ryukyu. The more deeply they are involved with the interests of Ryukyu, the stronger China's control over the Philippines will be."

If the scale of smuggling is formed in Ryukyu, how many Spanish colonial officials will benefit? In the future, if there are conflicts between the two countries, the last thing they want to fight is the Spanish officials.

Even after the rise of Li Quan's caravans, those Spanish colonists were very likely to buy ships and join them in smuggling with Li Quan. Even if something happened, if the King of Spain knew about it, it could all be blamed on the Chinese businessman.

By the way, there is also a quota for silver shipped from America to the Philippines, but the actual volume is more than three times the limit. The Spaniards have been smuggling, but there is not too much money. With the cooperation of the Chinese, their smuggling will be even more rampant. Anyway, no one takes the king seriously in private.

Speaking of the Philippines, the cabinet ministers began to discuss Chittagong again, planning how China would receive Chittagong as a dowry after Portugal sent the princess.

Zhao Han's "brainwashing" of officials was still very successful, and the cabinet ministers talked about the overseas situation clearly. From Japan to India, if you mention any important port, they can think of the approximate location.

"Masters, important military situation!"

A person from Zhongshushe shouted outside the door.

"Come in."

Cabinet ministers went into office, but soon they were sluggish.

This military situation is too weird. The dispute between Qinghai and Tibet has been settled by the Mongols themselves.

The eldest son of Gushi Khan was 60 years old, and he led the army to settle his sixth brother. The sixth son of Gushi Khan returned to Qinghai after the defeat, and the eight brothers stayed in Qinghai without fighting. After the eldest son won, he didn't bother to return to Lhasa to succeed Khan, and continued to stay in his resident to graze. The eldest grandson (the son of the fifth son of Gushri Khan) continued to rule Kham and provided taxes to the Heshuote Mongolian tribe.

What the hell is this?

The plans of Datong monarchs and ministers all failed, and the descendants of Gushhan Khan actually became Buddhists collectively.

"Then do you still want to fight?" Liu Ziren asked.

Zhu Shunshui said: "The preparations for grain, grass and civilian husbands have been almost a year. How can you say that if you don't fight, you won't fight?"

"But who should I hit? What is the name of the teacher?" Liu Ziren asked again.

No one answered, and could not answer.

Gush Khan's eldest son is called Ozir, who is extremely brave and fierce general, but he has no interest in governing the country.

Historically, he returned to Lhasa to succeed Khan three years after his father died. Then, from time to time, he took his followers and left Lhasa to graze herds in other places. Hearing that there was a rebellion in Lhasa, he led his troops back to quell the rebellion easily, and then continued to take his troops to herd herds.

This person's thinking is very strange, he will fight whoever rebels, and he will win once he fights. If he won the battle and didn't manage it, his brothers and nephews could only stare blankly.

In current Qinghai and Tibet, monks have no real power.

It is precisely because Ozir did not care about the government, and his son later did not care about the government, that the ruling power was gradually controlled by Diba (the chief executive). Diba felt that he could not compete with the Mongolian nobles, so he took the monk to do it together, and finally the power completely fell into the hands of the monk.

The courtiers found the emperor, and Zhao Han fell into silence for a long time after reading the information.

Gush Khan's nine sons and one grandson were neither united, nor fought, nor cooperated with the Datong Army, and did not even inherit the position of Khan. Zhao Han couldn't even dream of such a bizarre situation. He really wanted to split the heads of these guys and study the brain circuits carefully.

"Advancing north and south, let's say it's recovering the lost land, let them hand over the land in the late Ming Dynasty!" Zhao Han didn't bother to think about it, and just sent troops.

Once the army is overrun, one or two of Gushri Khan's children and grandchildren will lead the way.

Of course, it is also possible to form a group with the outside world, it depends on whether they are really united.