New Shun 1730

He knew that this suggestion had bad intentions and hidden secrets, but Li Gan actually agreed with it in his heart.

In any case, it seems that Liu Yu is the most suitable person to do the job of guarding the Western Regions.

Whether it is boundary demarcation and negotiations, prestige and intimidation, or handling relations between all parties, he is the most suitable candidate for the DPRK and China.

If it weren't for the Navy, that would be true.

But the navy was just beginning to emerge, and the pie drawn by huge interests hung in Li Gan's heart, and Liu Yu was irreplaceable.

Financial issues are nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

This money-losing thing in the Western Regions, even if it is handled well, is just a matter of cutting costs. The money that can be saved is limited.

But if the navy really has such great interests, it would be open source.

Open source is always more attractive than reduced expenditure.

"I have an agreement with the Tianyou Palace regarding the affairs of the Western Regions. Liu Yu is young, has more courage than calmness, and has no experience in governing the place. The affairs of the Western Regions are not about swordsmanship, but governance. He is not qualified to do it."

The memorial to pacify the Western Regions submitted by Liu Yu had been discussed by Li Gan and the ministers of Tianyou Palace, and had also been discussed in the imperial court.

At this time, the minister of the government said: "I think there is another way to stabilize the Western Regions. The method your Majesty proposed before is very expensive. Every year, farming and immigration are thousands of miles from Xijing to Yili. It is not right." Easy to do, very expensive.”

"I think it is better to recruit local farmers to settle the land. In this way, the state treasury can save hundreds of thousands of taels of immigration fees every year."

"All Mongolia believe in the Yellow Sect. If the Western Regions are all Hui tribes, it will cut off the connection between Mongolia and the Snow Mountains. The Hui tribes and the Quan tribes each have blood feuds and can check and balance each other. In this way, there is no need to worry about the Oara tribe occupying the Western Regions, Khalkha, and even Monan, connected as one."

"The Western Regions are all Hui tribes, with the Altai Mountains as the boundary, Mongolia to the north of the mountains, and Hui tribes to the south of the mountains. If this is the case, it will be difficult for Mongolia to succeed."

"The Hui tribe south of the Tianshan Mountains originally made a living by planting crops, not by nomadic herding. If the Hui tribe farmers are recruited locally to settle down, it will also save them the violence of relocating thousands of miles. The savings of hundreds of thousands of taels every year can also be used to save each other's food. Great governance through benevolent governance.”

"In this way, our dynasty does not need to station many soldiers there. Use Hui to control Mongolia, use Mongolia to control Hui, and rule with restraint..."

Hearing that the Minister of Li and the Government was mentioning this issue again, Li Gan felt regretful and wanted to slap himself in the mouth.

In the previous court discussions, it was difficult to suppress this matter. This time it was brought up again, and Li Gan was also annoyed.

But every word of the official government minister's speech was for the country, and it was not easy for Li Gan to criticize him angrily.

This idea is not the idea of ​​one person, but the idea of ​​many people.

It is too expensive to rule the Western Region. With this money, what can't you do? Why bother with meaningless land?

Now that we have fought and fought, the other party has surrendered, and we want to immigrate there again. How much will it cost this year?

If we recruit local people to settle the land, we can indeed save a lot of money. The oasis agricultural area south of the Tianshan Mountains is not nomadic.

It seems that we can completely rely on the power of the Hui tribe to suppress Mongolia and prevent its resurgence.

Taking history as a guide, Mongolia is so terrible, but the Hui tribe has never said that they have built earthen forts.

It's just that Li Gan learned about the history of Huibu's spread from Liu Yu, and he was also wary of Huibu.

Although Liu Yu was good at making opinions and killed the leader of the Black Mountain and White Mountain Sect with a borrowed knife, which made Li Gan a little unhappy, he still supported Liu Yu's idea on the overall policy.

Spend less now and spend more in the future.

money! money! money!

When thinking of money, he had to think of the navy pie painted by Liu Yu. He frowned and said: "This matter has been agreed before, why need to discuss it again? Immigration must be carried out. We must not recruit people from the south of Tianshan just to save money and trouble." Go back to Yili to cultivate land."

"The land in Gansu, Shaanxi and other places is poor and the people are suffering. You have never been to the Ili Valley, but Liu Yu has seen it with his own eyes. It is suitable for growing wheat and cotton, and it is the best fertile soil. Immigration can also relieve the pressure on Xijing The disadvantage of more people and less land is to kill two birds with one stone.”

"Freeing money and food is just a symptom. Immigrants to reclaim wasteland are a root cause. You are all important ministers, don't you know the difference between symptoms and symptoms?"

Li Gan really didn't want to discuss this issue anymore, but the official government minister continued: "Your Majesty, there was a dispute in the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty. Now that Anxi has been restored, the affairs of the Celestial Dynasty should focus on benevolence rather than expansion, and nourishment rather than killing. , He will rest on the border, suspend his armor and soldiers, and do the things of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."

This can be regarded as generalizing the emperor's army, which means that we can listen to you about the affairs of the Western Region now, and that's it.

But in exchange, this is the last war. In the future, we will still have to calm down the border troops, suspend the armored soldiers, and do the things of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

It has only been fifteen years since Li Gan came to power, but he has already fought two wars and spent tens of millions of money.

Now that I have gained fame and power, it is time to fulfill my original promise.

When Liu Yu first took charge of the Imperial College, the emperor had promised that exchanges with Russia and the pacification of the Western Regions were non-negotiable, in exchange for the scholarly public opinion not to cause trouble.

Now that these two things have been completed, the maximum boundary of the traditional empire has been reached, and it will be meaningless to fight in the future.

Moreover, the two wars increased the emperor's reputation and brought out a lot of newcomers like Liu Yu, which seriously threatened the balance between the DPRK and China.

There must always be a boundary between heaven and earth. Although with the advantage of firearms, these two battles did not cause any loss of national strength, it is best to stop here.

Otherwise, if wars continue, the power of generals will surely rise.

Dashun could produce generals and ministers, and the existence of Wude Palace made many military generals educated, and they had nothing to do with the imperial examination. Liu Yu's shocking words were still ringing in people's ears, and people were really afraid that these people would make big moves in Jiangnan after they rose.

The lessons of the late Ming Dynasty left different experiences for different classes in the court.

For the nobles, the experience is to die with the country. If the country is gone, the nobles will also be finished. If the generals tortured the capital again, then there would be nothing.

For the civil officials, the experience is that military generals must not be allowed to rise. The status of civil officials comes from a stable central government. Once this government collapses, the military generals are domineering, and killing civil officials is like killing dogs.

However, the experience that people can learn from history is that they can learn nothing. In just eighty years, these experiences have once again vanished.

The nobles began to corrupt and degenerate, and the civil officials began to dig into the corners of the government.

Now they all hope that the ship of the court will follow the original established track.

No minister likes change, and there have been too many changes in the past few years.

Wars often promote such changes, and some people have already felt uneasy.

However, they did not know that the emperor still had some ideas for reform in his mind, and they did not know that Liu Sheng, the Duke of Yiguo, who lived under the same roof as them, was holding a memorial on military reform.

Although Li Gan was very unhappy with this attitude of bargaining with the emperor, he still nodded and said: "Don't I have the heart to recuperate and love the people? Don't worry, unless someone provokes the majesty of the Celestial Empire, I will not mobilize the army. But if someone provokes, the so-called open offenders of the mighty Han will be punished even if they are far away, and this is also necessary."

"However, even if there is no threat around, you can't let your horses go to the south mountain. A big country is indeed doomed to perish if it loves war. However, there is another sentence behind it, forgetting war will lead to danger."

"Fortunately, this time God protected us, the soldiers fought hard, and we recovered the Western Regions after a thousand years. There will be no more wars in the northwest in the future. This military exploit must be rewarded. Today, we have been talking about the Western Regions, but we haven't talked about how to reward them."

Obviously, Li Gan didn't want to worry about whether to immigrate or recruit local Hui farmers to open up the land, and whether to fight in the future. He used a fair and aboveboard reason to divert the issue.

Tianyou Hall had already discussed it, and Duke Ying came forward and said: "In the Pingzheng War, Liu Yu should be the first meritorious, there is no doubt about this."

"His merit destroyed the country, so he can be granted a title of nobility. However, he is young, and being granted a title of nobility at a young age, like the Marquis of Guanjun, may cause jealousy from heaven. Therefore, it is not appropriate to grant him a title of nobility."

"The title should be given to the lower, not the higher, so he should be granted a title of baron."

"According to the regulations of our dynasty, there are beautiful titles and land titles. Liu Yu's merits should be granted a beautiful title."

"Since the previous dynasty, the Wala tribes have been the Western Tartars. In terms of the title of nobles, "Krupp" should be the best. "

"However, since the Junggar tribe has surrendered, they are all citizens of the Celestial Empire, so it is not appropriate to call them Western Tartars."

"Liu Yu crossed the Altai Mountains and went straight to Yili, making an unparalleled contribution. This place is where the Yingsu Dudufu was located during the Tang Dynasty, so it is appropriate to take "Yingsu" as the title."

The Duke of Ying thought that if it were not for the fact that the Junggar tribe had surrendered, the imperial court would not be able to call them Western Tartars anymore, and the title of "Krupp" would be the most appropriate.

Krupp became Yingsu Bo, which was really not very nice.

The ministers of the Tianyou Palace flipped through the classics and wanted to give the Western Regions a new Chinese name. They found that whether it was the Western Regions Duhufu in the Han Dynasty or the Four Towns of Anxi, they were all centered on the south of the Tianshan Mountains.

The core area of ​​the Junggar tribe was in Yili. In fact, the north and south of the Altai Mountains were also its core pastures, which was the border between Anxi and Beiting.

After searching for a long time, I finally found out that there was a Yingsu Governor's Office near Yili during the Tang Dynasty, and this name is the most suitable.

Otherwise, he could have taken Suiye Bo, but Liu Yu did not fight there; Kucha Bo was too far south.

Although all the court officials were well-read, they really did not know much about such things. They had no idea what the Western Regions were like and where each place was.

A few years ago, it was like a foreign country. Now that the Western Regions have been recovered, the names of the cities and land have not been determined, and few people know what Yingsu Governor's Office is.

Anyway, the title is a foregone conclusion, and this cannot be changed. Even if you don't know where this Yingsu Governor's Office is, since it was said by the British public, it doesn't sound taboo or ominous, so there is no rebuttal.

The emperor naturally knew this title a long time ago. Although he thought Krupp sounded better, it was indeed not good to "hurt national feelings" for the sake of the stability of the Junggar.

Seeing that no one objected, he smiled and said, "In that case, I just heard that the Earl of Ying Suo in the imperial court has a memorial to submit. Duke Yi, why don't you present it? Let's also listen to what the Earl of Ying Suo is submitting."

Liu Sheng, who had been silent, knew what the emperor meant, that is, to give a legitimate title. Since he was conferred the title of Earl, he had the qualifications to discuss state affairs in the court, and it was just right to bring it out at this time.

So he stepped forward and handed over the thick memorial. Li Gan smiled and said, "Let someone read it, so that the ministers can listen to it. When the Earl of Ying Suo returns to the capital, it can be discussed in the court."