People have become accustomed to fighting in Chen Mu's way, that is, every time they fight, they can earn a lot for the government and the opposition.

The imperial court looks at how much money is earned, but in the people of all industries other than officials and merchants, what they see is that the imperial court is using war for their welfare, such a foreign war is comforting, in fact, even so, there will be many opponents, but their voices are easily suppressed by the official document of the household customs tariff.

In ancient China, it was difficult to be an emperor for most of the time, because you had to face the fact that this land was the place where the peasant uprisings were most intense on the entire planet.

Because the theory of descent does not work here, no dynasty is born by birth, and the interests of the majority of people in all classes must be safeguarded, and there are many kinds of legitimacy of imperial power, and the most effective is to save the people and water and fire.

If you don't have this merit, then you can only promote Buddhism and let the people give up this life to cultivate the blessings of the next life.

Officials are born from the common people, learn benevolence and promote loyalty and filial piety, and their personal desires are naturally high-ranking officials, but there is no lack of political ideals for the benefit of any party. Therefore, in this history book, it is said that in a dynasty with very strong centralized power, local officials will make the choice of concealing the population in order to pay less taxes to the imperial court.

But this is not only contrary to the interests of the imperial court, it is also a dereliction of duty, and morality only allows them to do so.

The same contradiction is war, a war that does not seek to return strategic significance more than actual return, and the people do not want war.

Maybe they also want revenge and loyalty to the imperial court, but once such a war involves making each of them go to the service of conscription, leave their own land to build roads, build bridges, drive ox carts to carry grain to the front line when they should be busy farming, and hand over part of the rice in their own rice tanks at every turn?

That's different.

Sometimes the magistrates would stand with the people, which is not a big mistake, but it was just from a different perspective.

And the most important thing is that the magistrates and magistrates usually do not understand military affairs.

What is the strategic significance of controlling the grassland, in the eyes of the Wanli Emperor, it is clearly drawn to plunder the belly of the grassland and cut off the nails of the Mongolian Jurchen communication, and the extremely clear map is placed in front of them, except for a barren land.

It's a conundrum.

The emperor was full of enthusiasm, but he couldn't solve the practical problem, even if he transported more grain from Nanyang to the sea, he couldn't solve the problem of transporting from Tianjin to Qi Jiguang's army...... What's more, this is indeed a stupid method, and cattle and sheep can do a lot of things besides turning them into food.

But the cabinet of the Wanli Emperor can solve the most difficult thing, the emperor stood behind him, and with a wave of his big hand, he blocked all the mouths of the imperial court that wanted to speak.

After the seizure of love, the middle-aged god has already broken the jar and broken, anyway, he has been scolded by the bloody dog, and the dignified imperial first assistant even uses such words as pigs and dogs, are you still afraid of being scolded again?

Power is a necessary factor in the promotion of major events without short-term interests.

In the face of the war, the results of the examination were unstoppable, and the tasks assigned by the cabinet to the governing departments and the local counties along the way were refined.

"The teacher's solution is something I can learn." Emperor Wanli in the Qianqing Palace looked at the direction of the cabinet and showed a thoughtful expression, and asked Wang An: "Should I also implement the examination method in the palace?" ”

The excessive resistance to the excessive consumption of grain and grass was silently solved by Zhang Juzheng.

The Imperial Shoufu didn't even say a word, but just issued an official document to the Household Department, the Military Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Sections.

The document is short and unremarkable, but the content is scary.

In the past, transporting grain, grass, soldiers, salt, iron, and other materials from County A to County B was a matter in the examination law, and the local officials were not able to do things well, and they would be convicted and punished.

At present, transporting 1,000 stone of grain and grass or a number of soldiers and salt and iron from County A to County B is one thing in the examination law, and the local officials will be convicted and punished if they do not do anything well.

In the past, if 10,000 stones of grain and grass were lost, they would be convicted of a crime in the monthly inspection and half-year report; Now if 10,000 orders of grain and grass are missing, they will be convicted of ten crimes during the inspection...... This is no longer a matter of fines or demotion, but of dismissal or imprisonment.

Wang An is a student of the Inner Book Hall, and the teachers of the Inner Book Hall are all Hanlin, and he is literate and reasonable, so he poured cold water on the emperor's optimism, and said: "The order of the elder of the pavilion is very good for the imperial court to prepare for military affairs, but in this way, the local officials who love the people will either increase their conscription against their will or resign on the spot; On the contrary, officials who are not sympathetic to the people's power will achieve the test results because of this, and when their term expires, the local people's will lose their support, and it will be His Majesty who will be the backlash after all. ”

Emperor Wanli raised his eyebrows lightly and said with a smile: "You can think of it, how could I and the teacher not think of it?" ”

The emperor took out the letter from his bosom and shook it in his hand: "I will issue an edict to allocate Taicang silver and places along the way, military and civilian conscription, the guards will charge one cent of grain and four cents of grain and silver, and more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians will be sent to repair the old road for 400 miles along the way from Qingshankou to Daning City, and the silver will also be paid by Taicang. ”

"I've calculated, in this way, even if Qi Shuai fights all the way to the northernmost part of Wuliangha, the imperial court's monthly expenditure on freight is only ......."

Emperor Wanli raised his eyebrows, revealing a strange sense of satisfaction, and his tone was relaxed and bright: "It's only 30,000 taels." If you want to transport it for a year, you just spend the silver of the Great Oriental Ocean last year. ”

Wang An pursed his lips and didn't dare to speak.

This is just the freight, the grain utensils are all local taxes or Taicang grain allocation, not counting the materials for road construction, a net spend of 1,000 taels of silver a day, the emperor's grandfather actually used 'Cai', only 30,000 taels a month?

If this cost is known to the first emperor who is reluctant to spend fifty taels, he will not be able to kick your ass from Zhaoling?

What's more important is that it doesn't matter if the emperor does all the good things, but the bad things are done by Zhang Juzheng, Wang An is a little unbearable, and said: "In this way, the war is over, and the old ...... of the pavilion."

In this regard, Emperor Wanli's face was as usual, and he just said lightly: "He is Zhang Juzheng of the empire." ”

The emperor knew that the teacher had said, 'I am not a phase, but a photo', how did he say that? The dirt of the country is said to be the master of the society; The country is ominous, and it is the king of the world.

Since the teacher is the regent, the good and the bad should be borne together.

"Don't look at me like that, although the money will not rot in Taicang, it is useless, isn't it just right to give it to the poor soldiers and civilians who work for the imperial court? In order to reduce road consumption, the small cart that can only transport one or two stones is not used, and all use two horse-drawn carts, one cart can transport twelve stones of grain and grass to the front line, and the majority of the money is spent on building roads, and the car can not move where there is no road. ”

As he spoke, Emperor Wanli wrote a letter to the Steam Bureau on the deck of Wanli, saying: "If only Huo De Xingjun could run faster, I want to build a road from Beiyang to Qingshankou for Huo De Xingjun to run, as long as I can pull things and walk four miles for an hour, there will be no road consumption." ”

Wang An reminded: "Your Majesty, Huode Xingjun doesn't eat grain, but it eats coal. ”

"As long as you don't eat food, there is no road consumption, and there is a lot of coal in Shuntian. If it can be done, several roads in the country will be built, not only in Qingshankou, but also to Uliangha, and when Buta Shili grows up, it will also be repaired to Tumo River, and then Tumo River, Uliangha, and Jianzhou will be connected, and north, east and west. ”

When the emperor said this, he raised his head and looked down at Wang An: "As long as there is no road consumption, how much rice and grain will be transported to Tianjin, and how much rice and grain will be sent to Wuliangha, and you will be able to travel forty-eight miles day and night, and you will be able to send grain, grass, and even soldiers to Wuliangha in ten days." ”

"There is no worry about the food being consumed, the army is not tired of hurrying, and you can fight when you come down to the place, do you think about what the Ming Dynasty was like at that time?"

"Your Majesty, how many taels did Beiyang say last time that a mile of road was there?" Wang An slowly took a deep breath and said, "The slave only heard His Majesty say that His Majesty's treasury has silver. ”

"Hey, hey, you're right."

The words of the cronies of the little eunuch made the emperor smile, threw a charcoal pen on the deck, raised his chin proudly, and then shrugged his shoulders and laughed: "I am rich, I am too rich!" Haha, haha. ”