Chapter 214 The so-called conspiracy will be overshadowed

Li Xiuning fell asleep deeply, but Chen Ying had no sleep.

People are harmless, but tigers have the intention of hurting people. Chen Ying had to beware of open guns and hidden arrows from within the imperial court. At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in Chen Ying's head, and he suddenly had an idea.

He watched Li Xiuning fall asleep, so he got up gently, covered Li Xiuning with a quilt, and tiptoed out of the bedroom. Chen Ying walked to the courtyard, and Zhou Qing, who was on duty, appeared in front of Chen Ying with a few guards, bowed down and said, "Lord, what do you command?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "I'll go to the study, go and invite Ma Mengming to join the army to meet in the study, and immediately send a team of messengers to inform Ma Zhou Sima to come to Shule to discuss matters!" ”

Zhou Qing bowed down and said, "Humble understand!" ”

Just as Chen Ying was whispering to Zhou Qing outside the door, Li Xiuning's eyes suddenly opened.

Don't look at Li Xiuning pretending to be disappreciative on the surface, in fact, she is more concerned than Chen Ying. Coming out of the emperor's house, there are some things that are innate, such as a keen political sense.

Li Xiuning coughed lightly and said, "Yue'er! ”

He Yue'er quickly entered through the window outside, He Yue'er looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, what are your orders!" ”

"People have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries!" Li Xiuning smiled bitterly and said: "Chen Lang's appointment as the Great Sikong by Daddy is a harbinger, if Chen Lang is credited, he can be canonized as Prince Chen Lang Taibao, not Da Situ!" ”

He Yue'er sighed and said: "Yiye Zhiqiu, not to mention such a big move, the twelve guards and horses are in the hands of His Majesty, the crown prince only has four guards in the East Palace, and the king of Qin and the king of Wu have formed an alliance, but it can be ......"

"Up and down the court, there are very few allies of Liang Guofu." Li Xiuning lamented in her heart: "If you don't take precautions at this time, you will regret it too late in the future." ”

He Yue'er said: "What does the princess mean?" ”

"Chen Lang must hold more power in Chang'an, otherwise, people will be swordsmen, and I will be fish and meat!" Li Xiuning got up, stroked his lower abdomen and said: "Even if you have protection, but the officials of the Liang State Mansion are afraid that it will be difficult to escape the catastrophe, and the thousands of soldiers under Chen Lang will inevitably not eat and fall!" ”

When He Yue'er heard this, she very much agreed with Li Xiuning's judgment.

Now that Li Yuan is ready to deal with Chen Ying, like Luo Shixin beside Chen Ying, Zhang Shigui, Duan Zhigan, Zhang Huaiwei, including Su Dingfang, Guo Xiaoke, and others, I am afraid that they will also be found an opportunity to clean up, or find an excuse to transfer away from Chen Ying's side. If you don't prepare early now, when these arrangements are completed in the future, even if Chen Ying wants to resist, he will lose the opportunity.

He Yue'er said: "What Her Royal Highness the Princess said is very true, but I don't know what Her Royal Highness the Princess has planned?" ”

"I can't calculate it, but there are a few countermeasures!" Li Xiuning said lightly: "The scholars of Shangshu Province are high and powerful, but these positions are too eye-catching, Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Feng Lun and a few of them, even if they will think that Chen Lang is justifying, they will attract criticism." Moreover, there is no way for them to buy it! ”

He Yue'er nodded in approval.

Li Xiuning continued: "The position of prime minister and Shangshu is not desirable, but the subordinates of the six ministries, the twenty-four Shilang officials, can be operated.

He Yue'er nodded thoughtfully.

Li Xiuning smiled lightly: "These officials are all cumbersome and lowly positions, if the palace recommends people, whether it is the prince or Your Majesty, it is not easy to find excuses to push." If we allow, we can grasp these specific powers in our hands. ”

He Yue'er said: "Twenty-four Divisions, there is no vacancy now, not to mention, the princess can't all be grasped in her hands, if you start to lay out now, can there be a critical throat?"

Li Xiuning nodded and said: "Among the twenty-four divisions, the position of Bibu Langzhong of the Criminal Department is very important, and this position is in charge of the audit and write-off of Datang's finances. If he can control this position, he will be able to know the financial expenditure of the entire imperial court well. ”

"The key position is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of most officials in the Tang Dynasty, and anyone must impeach Chen Lang before they do!" He Yue'er paused and said, "They must think about the consequences of angering Her Royal Highness the Princess!" ”

Li Xiuning said noncommittally: "As you said, the person in charge of this post must be a meticulous, cautious and self-controlled person, and he must be proficient in arithmetic......"

He Yue'er added: "We still need to get 100% of the trust of Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

Li Xiuning looked at He Yue'er and said with a wry smile: "This candidate, you are actually the most suitable, but unfortunately, you are not a man!" ”

He Yue'er looked at Li Xiuning meaningfully and said, "Her Royal Highness the princess thinks that she has a competent manpower in her hands? ”

"Those trivial affairs in the court, this palace has never liked to meddle!" Li Xiuning patted his forehead and said with a depressed face: "Under the command of this palace, the most important thing is to lead the generals to fight, if you need generals, the door of this palace can fill all the twelve Wei Mansion and the twenty-four generals' mansions, but this is more than Langzhong!" ”

He Yue'er's eyes rolled, and she smiled leisurely: "The princess doesn't have the right manpower, but Chen Lang's mansion does!" ”

"Oh!" Li Xiuning's heart moved: "You mean Sima Ma Zhou, the Great Protector of the Western Regions?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiuning shook his head and said: "No, no, it's not that his ability is not good, but the position of the Grand Sima of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protector Mansion is very important, presumably in the near future, Daddy will send a Deputy Protector of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, Changshi, but Ma Zhou's Sima controls all the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protector, the rewards and punishments of the generals, the grain and straw, the distribution of baggage, the implementation of military discipline, and the organization of training. ”

He Yue'er said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you misunderstood, the slave maid did not mean to recommend Ma Sima, but to Xu Jingzong and Xu Daguan!" ”

"What?" Li Xiuning's head invariably appeared Xu Jingzong's appearance, Li Xiuning naturally knew that Xu Jingzong was Chen Ying's retainer and a person Chen Ying trusted very much, and the most important thing was that Xu Jingzong was originally the son of Xu Shanxin, the former Sui Dynasty Rite Minister, and he was also the son of an official eunuch.

If Xu Jingzong is recommended, it is easy to break through the initial assessment of the Ministry of Officials.

Thinking of this, Li Xiuning said: "Now I will write a letter of recommendation by myself, you send the most powerful person to Chang'an, and send someone to tell Xu Jingzong that if he dares to live up to the trust of this palace, this palace will make life and death difficult for him!" ”

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When Chen Ying arrived at the study, it was already the middle of the moon. After a while, Ma Mengming entered Chen Ying's study. Ma Mengming also knew about Chen Ying being crowned as the Great Situ, as Gao Chang's former Lingyin, Ma Mengming knew very well what this meant.

This holy decree means that Chen Ying is about to lose power, and the pattern of the Western Regions will be reshuffled, and he already has Chen Ying's mark on him, I am afraid that the future is not good.

Ma Mengming came to Chen Ying worriedly, bowed down and said, "The subordinates see the capital protection!" ”

Chen Ying looked at Ma Mengming's worried face, and sneered: "Ma Mengming, what are you worried about?" They play with their power schemes, and they don't have to pay attention to what they have in mind at this time. As long as the Western Regions can have a solid foundation in two or three years, and can afford to raise 200,000 elites, and there are millions of soldiers who can drive them at any time, in the meantime, in the face of absolute strength, the so-called power and conspiracy will be eclipsed! ”

Ma Mengming smiled bitterly: "There are more than 50 countries in the Western Regions, all of which have a foundation of tens of nearly 100 years, and the forces of more than 50 countries combined, the Dingkou and territory under their control are roughly equivalent to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, and there are only 100,000 elites. ”

Chen Ying smiled and didn't say anything.

Ma Mengming probably won't understand that in the agricultural era, it takes ten households to pay taxes to feed a light infantry, if it is a cavalry, it needs thirty households to support it, and a hoplite like the Modao Army needs fifty households to support it.

However, in the era of industrial society, production efficiency and cost have been greatly reduced, in this case, Chen Ying has too many resources at his disposal, and the value of the ore mined by an ordinary mine is enough for a hundred farmers for a year, even if the necessary expenses are removed, the profit is very terrifying.

Nomads need 6,000 acres of pasture to reduce enough for a herdsman to raise livestock, but under large-scale planting, one acre of alfalfa grass can produce 6,000 kilograms of alfalfa grass, and high-yielding people can reach 8,000 kilograms. Originally, the pasture needed by a herder family could support a small tribe.

That's the gap.

Chen should promote alfalfa grass cultivation, cotton planting, grain planting, and large-scale breeding of poultry and livestock in the Western Regions.

At the same time, now that he has just occupied Shule, Chen Ying has taken a fancy to a large number of fertile and fertile fields here, which are different from the wastelands of Jinman, Gaochang, and Yiwu, where there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and tens of millions of acres of grain fields that can be developed.

Chen Yingdao: "Today, this Dadu Hu is looking for you, which is to prepare for you to be in charge of the action of reclamation of wasteland, and cooperate with the local government in Datang Tongli Qianzhuang to open Tongli Qianzhuang in 19 prefectures and more than 100 counties in the Western Regions, and take advantage of the arrival of spring ploughing next year, Datang Tongli Qianzhuang will bloom everywhere, so as to ensure that the people have money to reclaim the famine next year!" ”

"It's a good thing to issue tickets for businessmen and facilitate the settlement of money" Speaking of this, Ma Mengming smiled bitterly: "It seems that there are some ......problems with reclaiming wasteland by releasing Yinzi money to the homeless people."

"What's the problem?" Chen Ying asked suspiciously: "This is good governance no matter what!" ”

"It is beneficial to the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, but it is not beneficial to Qianzhuang!" Ma Mengming said: "The prospect given by the Dadu Protectorate is to reclaim 500,000 wasteland in three years, and plan to resettle 300,000 displaced households...... Reclamation covers more than 100 counties in 19 states in the Western Regions, how many people does Qianzhuang need to invest in order to put the Yinzi money into the hands of the exiles? How many people do you need to invest in receiving the money and interest from so many displaced investors in a timely manner every year, and finally ensuring that the principal is recovered? There are too many people involved, and the cost of food, foot, shop, food, and mules and horses is surprisingly high. If the interest rate is set low, there will be no profit at all. If the interest rate is set high, the displaced households will not be able to pay the money interest only by cultivating the land, and in the end it will be a delay, and the Western Regions will finally settle the displaced households, how can they condone the money village to force the displaced households to collect debts and cause public resentment? ”

When Ma Mengming was the commander of Gaochang State, he was in charge of money and grain management, and he also put money in print, and he was very clear about the doorway here.

Chen Ying really felt that it made sense when he listened to Ma Mengming's analysis, but he didn't think about it, and said: "It's good if it can be beneficial to the Western Regions, and the matter of Qianzhuang is still worth doing......

The butt determines the head, and the head determines the mind.

Chen Ying and Ma Mengming are in different positions, and the same thing is naturally viewed from different angles. Ma Mengming considers the immediate gains within three years, but Chen Ying sees a more long-term view.

The so-called politics is the issue of the distribution of interests. The Western Regions has been a place where people of all ethnic groups have been used to it for a long time, and they don't care who is the king of the Western Regions, but they care about the person who can make them live a good life.

Chen Ying's purpose is to kidnap the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, breathe with them, and share their fate!