Emperor Chongzhen is still young. Does Wen Tiren know that if he wants to completely solve the Shanxi merchant problem, without the military means of hundreds of thousands of elite officers and soldiers, and without the economic means of long-term logistics for hundreds of thousands of elite officers and soldiers, solving the Shanxi merchant problem is nonsense!

It's just that Wen Tiren knew what was going on, but couldn't explain it clearly to Emperor Chongzhen, so he had to say gently:

"Your Majesty, the Shanxi merchant problem is a long-standing malpractice of the past century, and the military and civilians of the nine sides are closely intertwined with it. It cannot be solved without a determined and persevering talent. Therefore, I recommend Mr. Liu, the emperor's advisor, to solve the Shanxi merchant problem..."

Emperor Chongzhen was reminded by Wen Tiren, and finally understood that Liu Baiyu had bad intentions in raising the issue of Shanxi merchants. In fact, he was a very smart person, but his emotional intelligence and personality problems were not small. As soon as he was reminded by Wen Tiren, he started to behave differently.

He smiled at Liu Baiyu and said:

"The problem of Shanxi merchants is so intricate that we cannot let it go any longer. However, the only one who can solve the problem of Shanxi merchants is the teacher..."

"This matter is actually very simple. The problem with Shanxi merchants is nothing more than the Nine Borders' constant arrears in military pay, which has led to a nest of snakes and rats between the Nine Borders and Shanxi merchants. This... can your Majesty guarantee that the Nine Borders will not default on their military pay?"

"This..." As soon as money was mentioned, Emperor Chongzhen immediately lost his confidence. The Ming Dynasty had always played with small finances, and even the most prosperous Hongwu and Yongle relied on ancient gold yuan coupons such as Baobao to plunder the wealth of merchants.

.As for Zhu Yuanzhang's boast of feeding a million frontier troops without spending a single cent on the common people, this has always been empty talk. In fact, the key is to replenish private merchant villages.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to make a difference. It was not that he had never tried the private commercial villages in Jiubian. It was just that Emperor Chongzhen was not a time traveler. He did not know that there were agricultural disasters like the Little Ice Age. However, the weather was getting colder and colder. Emperor Chongzhen

You still know that the land in the capital has to transfer grain from the south through the canal due to successive years of poor harvests. Anyone with a brain in the private merchant villages in Jiubian will know that they are losing money...

"Your Majesty, don't you have any money? Didn't I just turn over more than two million taels to the national treasury recently?" Liu Baiyu deliberately pretended to be confused.

"This... is really a big deficit. The rewards and pensions from King Qin's army must always be paid, and the large number of refugees caused by the entry of Jiannu into the customs is even more..." People are poor, their ambitions are short, horses are thin, their hair is long, and even the emperor is no exception to this, isn't it?

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"Is the state of affairs so difficult? Well, it's not that I don't have a solution. I just need your Majesty to provide policies."

"What policy?" Emperor Chongzhen was now more wary of Liu Baiyu than he was of Jiannu, so he naturally had to be more cautious.

"Now is the Little Ice Age. In addition, it will take several years to completely solve the Shanxi merchant problem. There is not enough time. Well, as the emperor's master, I, Liu Baiyu, can only bring my own dry food and transport the food from Shandong to Jiubian.

...." This is Liu Baiyu's nonsense. In this era, there are no roads and railways. If the grain from Shandong is transported to Jiubian, even if there are no thieves or thieves, the food will go bad and it will be eaten.

But Liu Baiyu knew that Emperor Chongzhen would definitely not think so!

"It is too far to transport grain from Shandong to Jiubian, and it is too difficult to force others..." As an emperor, Emperor Chongzhen knew that because of the distance problem of transporting grain from Shandong to Jiubian, Liu Baiyu had to do this, that is

Make a fool of yourself - but if

If Liu Baiyu then used the excuse of transporting grain from Shandong to Jiubian, built grain stations, warehouses, and established military forces along the road, etc., according to the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and their control over the local area, these nails would only get deeper and deeper.

It can't be pulled out at all.

From the perspective of civil servants' political struggle, it would be a joy to see Liu Baiyu make a big fool of himself while riding a tiger. From the perspective of the emperor, Chongzhen naturally did not dare to take such a risk.

"In this case, I will not interfere with the Shanxi merchant issue. I believe that Your Majesty can handle it well. However, although Jiannu was defeated by me this time, due to the heavy snow, the main force was not lost. There is a saying that you will chase the poor bandits bravely.

Don't pretend to be the overlord of the academy, I am willing to go out as a supervisor..."

You now have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so I can't sleep well. If you go to Guanning or Dongjiang to capture hundreds of thousands of soldiers, even if you don't want to change the dynasty, you will be in yellow robes! When Emperor Chongzhen heard that Liu Baiyu wanted to arrest him,

Bing Quan suddenly turned pale with fright and said hurriedly:

"I really have no money..."

"It doesn't matter if I don't have money. Can I bring my own dry food? I just need your Majesty's policy to allow me to buy and sell my talents and horses without your Majesty paying a penny..."

Do you mean to control Guan Ning’s personnel and finances? Isn’t this a problem ten times more serious for Shanxi merchants? How could Emperor Chongzhen dare to let Liu Baiyu get involved in this again?

"Actually, without money and elite soldiers, it is not impossible to eliminate the Manchu Tatars..." Liu Baiyu said in a mysterious manner.

"You have no money and no elite soldiers, but you still want to destroy the Manchu Tatars? This... Teacher, do you expect soldiers to drop from the sky?"

"Soldiers fell from the sky, and people fell to death...I mean borrowing troops, like the Song Dynasty borrowing troops..."

"Mongolia has been conquered by the Manchu Tatars, and I don't know whether Lin Dan Khan is alive or dead..." Emperor Chongzhen shook his head.

"Mongolia is not just Lin Dan Khan, there are many Mongol Khanates - forget it, Virat Mongolia, or Wala, your Majesty always knows, right?"

The Ming Dynasty did not have the same vision as the Han and Tang Dynasties. The nomadic tribes on the Mongolian grasslands harassed the Central Plains and were taken seriously. Otherwise, it would not matter whether they moved westward or northward, they would simply flee to the desert and be done with it.

Although during the Yingzong era of the Ming Dynasty, the earthen fortresses were first beaten in the face by tiles. From the 17th to the 18th century, the Junggar tribe controlled the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, starting from Lake Balkhash in the west, the Altai Mountains in the north, Turpan in the east, Chu River in the southwest, and Tajikistan.

They established the last nomadic empire in history across the vast area of ​​the Ras River. Religiously, they believed in Tibetan Buddhism and had a certain influence on Tibet.

However, in the eighth year of Zhengde's reign (1513), the Hami Guards surrendered to Turfan immediately, and Hami was captured by Turfan.

During the reign of Zhengde and Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty sent personnel and troops to revive Hami, they were unsuccessful. In the early years of Jiajing, Turpan repeatedly raised troops to attack Suzhou and other places. Due to the dispute over the ceremony within the Ming court, Hami was recovered.

things arose

After the execution of more than 40 people including Gansu Governor Chen Jiuchou during the "Frontier" Prison, the Ming Dynasty finally lost direct control over Hami. [Hami was subordinated to Turpan, but it still paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year for economic benefits. ]

Since Hami Guard cannot be restored, it can only be treated as a foreign land similar to Japan. The Ming Dynasty fought with Japan during the Wanli period. The frontier troops suffered heavy losses. After the country spent countless money, it still used Japan's Warring States period.

History is a mess, so it is understandable that we are unclear about Zhungeer.

"There are hundreds of thousands of Dzungar cavalry, and there are several small Khans inside. They are not united and there is no need to worry - Your Majesty can take over the Dzungar tribe to deal with the Manchu Tatars..."

"If there are hundreds of thousands of cavalry, wouldn't they be better than building slaves? What happened in the Tumu Fort incident?" Emperor Chongzhen automatically ignored Liu Baiyu's statement that there were several small khans in the Junggar tribe who were not unified. In the past, Tumu

change of fort

At that time, only tens of thousands of cavalry were needed to turn the Ming Dynasty upside down - now the Ming Dynasty can't compare with the Yingzong era. The Junggar tribe has hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and its strength is indeed about ten times that of the previous one. How dare Emperor Chongzhen dare to play with fire?

"If Your Majesty is worried about the Junggar tribe, there are still foreign aids you can rely on..."

"Is there any foreign aid we can rely on? There are Manchu Tatars in the northeast and Mongols in the northwest? Could it be that the foreign aid the teacher mentioned comes from the barbaric land of Mobei?" Emperor Chongzhen asked curiously.

"This... they are from the north of Manchuria, but not Mobei, and the Rakshasa people are actually based in the far west of Europe..."

Liu Baiyu was stumped by the ancients this time, so he had to prepare a map.

This is not to blame Emperor Chongzhen. After all, the most active expansion of the Russians in the Far East was between the entry of the Qing army and the suppression of Wu Sangui. Moreover, it was not a regular army but some expedition teams. The exiled criminals did not dare to imitate Western Europe.

businessman pretending to be an envoy

They came to Ming Dynasty to eat and drink, and to put it bluntly, because of the long distance and the transportation of this era, His Majesty the Tsar may not even know how much place these Russians occupy in the Far East, let alone Emperor Chongzhen.

It's excusable.

Liu Baiyu took out a colorful world map and ordered it to be hung high. These two colorful world maps, which were more than one foot high and one foot wide, immediately shocked the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty...

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were so shocked that they forgot about borrowing Russian soldiers for a while, and lost their civil servant training when looking at the map...

After all, this colorful world map was like a heavy slap in the face, shattering the biggest dream of the Ming Dynasty civil servants in the world of heaven.

"How is it possible? China has a vast land and rich resources, but looking at your map of Qingshan, many barbarians are bigger than China!"

"What's all this fuss about, isn't the Mongolian Yuan a barbarian? They are bigger than the Ming Dynasty, right? There are four major Mongolian khanates, the Golden Horde, the Chagatai Khanate, the Ogedai Khanate and the Ir Khanate. The Ogedai Khanate is the Ming Dynasty.

Let alone the Golden Horde in the far north, even the Chagatai Khanate didn't do anything to them, right?" Liu Baiyu vomited.

"Of course what layman Qingshan said is correct, but there are too many big countries in the world that are as big as the Ming Dynasty."

"Not many, just a few..." Liu Baiyu felt that the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were rare and strange. China's 9.6 million people in later generations were not as big as Canada and Russia. Now the Ming Dynasty is basically

After withdrawing from the posture of the eighteen provinces of the Central Plains, do you still want to be the world's largest country?

"But it's a bit too much... But layman Qingshan, what's going on with the Turks? Aren't the Turks already exterminated?"

A civil servant asked as he looked at the Turkic Empire spanning three weeks across Europe, Asia and Africa.

"Turks? Ottoman Turks, maybe. Turks' relatives don't have much blood left."

"Huh! He turns out to be a bastard! I think he is the same as Meng Yuan, he is just a nouveau riche!" Another civil servant complained.

Nimei! Ottoman was the first Sultan

Osman I (1281-1326)

to the last sultan

Mohammed VI (1918-1922)

The time of establishment was 1299 and the time of destruction was 1922. His lifespan was longer than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Why are you complaining that he is a nouveau riche?

"The country was founded earlier than the Ming Dynasty. It has been more than three hundred years now, and the country is still strong. It often fights against the coalition forces of European countries in the west and Persia in the east. Anyway, military and political orders are much smoother than in the Ming Dynasty."

Liu Baiyu said expressionlessly, causing the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty to take a breath of cold air.

Chinese literati knew during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties that the Central Plains might not necessarily have the strongest military force, but when it came to national governance and the continuation of the national line, they lost to the barbarians. [In the eyes of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, except for places with Confucian culture,
Chapter completed!