Since the matter of Jiaozhi is very important, many civil and military officials want to inquire about the attitude of the cabinet elders, the officials of the six ministries, the members of the military cabinet, and the governors of the various prefectures on the matter of Jiaozhi, so as not to stand on the wrong side at the court meeting and attract envy.

The officials who can appear in the Taihe Hall have all been in the officialdom for many years, and they naturally know the truth of protecting their lives, except for those officials who have a clear attitude on the matter of Jiaozhi, everyone else is the master who goes with the flow, and will not offend the powerful people in the court in this matter.

However, what made those officials who wanted to find out the news feel a pity was that the cabinet members, the six ministry officials, the military cabinet members, and the governors of the prefectures, as soon as these civil and military ministers entered the east and west Chang'an gates on both sides of the Daming Gate, they were called out by Yang Shiqi, Qian Yi and Zhang Fu, and they did not come out of the closed room until the front of the court, so no one had the opportunity to know their thoughts on the matter of Jiaozhi.

Li Yuntian and Zhou Zheng went to the court together and followed Zhou Zheng to the corridor of the military pavilion members.

Zhou Zheng, the first assistant of the military cabinet, summoned the members of the general cabinet and the governors of all the governors to the room, and after the number of them arrived, they passed on to the people present the holy decree made by Emperor Xuande last night to quell the rebellion, and told them that Li Yuntian had been appointed by the emperor as the commander of this counterinsurgency.

It is worth mentioning that at the first great court of the imperial court in the second year of Xuande, Emperor Xuande decreed that the members of the general pavilion were promoted from seven to nine, and three nobles were added to the pavilion.

The reason why there are three is because Lu Zhongqian, the former auxiliary minister of the military cabinet and the prince of Weiguo, has committed suicide because he followed the rebellion of the king of Han, so there is a vacancy for the military cabinet members.

Among the members of the military cabinet added this time, the most important person is the Taishi, the British prince Zhang Fu, Zhang Fu is the head of the nobles, if he does not enter the military cabinet is really unreasonable, so Emperor Xuande let him enter the military cabinet after finding out that Zhang Fu did not collude with the king of Han.

Although Zhou Zheng and Zhang Fu are both national princes, Zhang Fu is the Taishi and he is only a young master, and the first assistant of the military pavilion is Zhang Fu, and he has become an auxiliary minister.

In addition to Zhang Fu, the other two cabinet members are all Hou Ye, one is the former right governor of the former military governor's mansion and Niu Shihao, the marquis of Anping, and the other is the former left deputy governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion and Zhao Shanhe of Wudehou.

Originally, the most suitable person to enter the cabinet was Zhang Hao, the righteous prince who led his troops into Shandong to quell the rebellion of the Han king, but the troops under the jurisdiction of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion were related to the safety of the capital, and Emperor Xuande wanted to find a reliable person to come to command, so Zhang Hao still stayed in the position of the governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion.

Hearing that Emperor Xuande actually wanted the young Li Yuntian to go to quell the rebellion, instead of Zhang Fu and Zhou Zheng, who were highly meritorious and respected veterans, the military cabinet members present and the governors of the various prefectures suddenly made a commotion, whispering to each other.

Although Li Yuntian was outstanding in quelling the rebellion of the Han Dynasty, he was too young and lacked qualifications after all, how could he suppress those arrogant generals in the army? How can you convince the generals of the DPRK and China? How can you deal with that mess in Cochin?

Li Yuntian had long expected this, and sat there quietly, calmly facing everyone's discussions, the army talks about seniority, and his qualifications are still shallow, and he will inevitably be criticized.

"Be still!" Zhang Fu saw that the situation at the scene was a little noisy, so he put the teacup in his hand on the table.

The people who were talking about it immediately fell silent and looked at Zhang Fu in unison, wondering what Zhang Fu thought of this matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think everyone knows that the first two pacifications of Jiaozhi cost a lot, and this Taishi can clearly tell you that unless taxes are increased, there is no extra silver left in the accounts of the household department to supply the third counterinsurgency trip."

Zhang Fu glanced around at everyone present, and said with a stern expression, "Since the first emperor ascended the throne, my Ming Dynasty began to reduce taxes and rest with the people. ”

People couldn't help but glance at each other, and the room was silent.

For officials of their level, it is not a secret that the household department is empty, and last year alone, the Han King spent more than half of the surplus silver in the treasury, plus Liu Sheng's counterinsurgency this time, there is not much surplus silver left, and it is indeed unable to support the third Jiaozhi counterinsurgency.

And if taxes were to be levied on the people, it would undoubtedly disrupt the national policy of recuperation formulated by Emperor Hongxi and Emperor Xuande, and make Emperor Xuande lose his trust in the people, and the consequences can be very severe.

But if taxes are not levied, where will the food and grass needed for the counterinsurgency army come from?

"I want to ask, who among you can lead troops to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion, and don't want a tael of silver from the imperial court?" Seeing this, Zhang Fu raised his voice and asked.

Hearing this, everyone present was in a commotion again, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the counterinsurgency army cost silver, and the battle could not be fought if the court did not give silver.

"It seems that you, like this Taishi, don't have this ability, so you can only lead the troops to Jiaozhi by Uncle Zhenwu." Seeing this situation, Zhang Fu said in a deep voice, "You don't know, the emperor only gave Zhen Wubo 10,000 pieces of armor this time, and there was not a penny of silver taels in addition, and all the military funds needed were raised by Zhen Wubo. ”

"What?" Knowing that Li Yuntian wanted to raise military supplies by himself, the people in the room looked at Li Yuntian with shocked expressions, this is not a small amount, it is by no means child's play, Li Yuntian can agree to such a harsh condition is simply shocking to them, and they all feel incredible.

Could it be that Li Yuntian wanted to take the opportunity to collect money among the people under the banner of counterinsurgency? Then, a thought involuntarily came to everyone's minds, which may explain Li Yuntian's crazy move.

However, people soon denied this idea, Li Yuntian is not stupid, he will definitely not collect money at such a critical moment, and if he is accused of a small matter, if the counterinsurgency fails, the responsibility will be great.

Besides, the Jiaozhi rebels have already gained momentum, and Li Yuntian will die like Liu Sheng if he goes to quell the rebellion, so he will not do such a dangerous thing in order to collect a little money.

Zhang Fu knew that everyone was curious about how Li Yuntian raised military expenses, so he told them that Li Yuntian was going to sell the Jiaozhi commercial franchise and mining rights, which caused another commotion at the scene.

Although some people thought that Li Yuntian would attack those businessmen in Jiangnan, they never expected that he would use this method to raise money.

I have to say that unlike the previous practice of simply asking those businessmen to donate, Li Yuntian fully took into account the interests of those businessmen this time.

Most importantly, these franchises included not only cloth, porcelain, and medicinal herbs, but also tea, salt, and ironware, which had been monopolized by the imperial court.

Although Cochin is a barbarian land in the southwest, it has a total population of millions, and the potential commercial value is huge, and once you get those franchises, it will mean that you will be richly rewarded in the future.

However, everyone soon realized a problem, that is, Jiaozhi is now in the midst of war, and the rebels have defeated the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court twice in a row, and before the situation in Jiaozhi is stabilized, I am afraid that those merchants in Jiangnan will not pay lightly to buy the commercial franchise and mining rights of Jiaozhi.

In case Li Yuntian fails to counterinsurgency, then the money they threw out will undoubtedly be wasted, even if some businessmen want to take this opportunity to take Li Yuntian's line, they have to consider Li Yuntian's career after the defeat, they are all shrewd businessmen, and they will not invest their money in an official with a bleak career.

As a result, it is unknown how much military spending Li Yuntian will be able to raise in Jiangnan, and if he cannot afford the military needs of the counterinsurgency army, I am afraid that the prospects of this counterinsurgency will be overshadowed.

In the face of everyone's gossip, Li Yuntian still sat there quietly, he must have known that it was difficult to go to Jiangnan to raise military funds this time, but he had a killer feature, that is, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

In recent years, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has been in a period of rapid development, and its territory has expanded from Jiangxi to Huguang, Zhejiang, Shandong, North Zhili, South Zhili, Shanxi, Guangxi and Guangdong, covering more than half of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of members has exceeded 1,000.

Li Yuntian had already estimated that if the counterinsurgency took two years, he would need about 2 million taels of silver, of which 1.2 million taels would be used as military supplies, and the other 800,000 taels would be used for post-war reconstruction.

In Li Yuntian's view, the mere extermination of Li Li and other rebels could not really make Jiaozhi stable, and it was necessary to improve the livelihood of the people in Jiaozhi, so that the problem of Jiaozhi could be solved once and for all.

Although Li Yuntian did not intervene in the affairs of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, he knew the strength of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce well, if it was mobilized, the merchants of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce would be able to provide about 1.2 million taels of silver in two years, which was enough to support the battle of Jiaozhi.

This means that Li Yuntian only needs to raise 800,000 taels of silver from other merchants in Jiangnan.

Since Li Yuntian had drawn up a two-year counterinsurgency plan, he did not plan to raise two million taels at once, but to raise one million taels a year in two years, which would also reduce the burden on those businessmen.

As a result, the people of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce only need to provide 600,000 taels of silver this year, and the other 400,000 taels will be raised from other merchants in Jiangnan.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Yuntian allowed the merchants to provide funds in two years, this did not mean that if he succeeded in countering the rebellion in the first year, the merchants would not need to pay the next year's expenses.

Li Yuntian's meaning is very clear, the businessmen bought the commercial management rights and mining rights of Jiaozhi, and it has nothing to do with the end of the Jiaozhi counterinsurgency in one year or two years.

In fact, the reason why Li Yuntian opened the market of Jiaozhi to merchants was that in addition to raising funds, there was another important purpose, that is, for the reconstruction of Jiaozhi after the war.

Obviously, those merchants will definitely invest money to open up the market after obtaining the franchise of Jiaozhi, which not only drives the local economic construction, but also reduces the burden of the imperial court, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Since Li Yuntian had to raise his own military funds, the members of the military cabinet and the governors of the prefectures had no reason to oppose Li Yuntian to lead the counterinsurgency, and in the final analysis, Li Yuntian was a noble of the imperial court and had the qualifications to lead the army to counter the rebellion.

If Li Yuntian had not been named Zhenwubo by Emperor Xuande, then even if he was Zhou Zheng's son-in-law, no matter how much Emperor Xuande favored him, then he would not be able to command the army, and he would definitely be opposed by the nobles of the imperial court.

This is not what the nobles of the imperial court think of Li Yuntian, but this matter involves the core interests of the Wenchen Group and the Xungui Group, how can they watch a civil official ride on their heads and scatter wild?

When the rebellion of the Han Dynasty was put down last year, the reason why Li Yuntian wanted to constantly reorganize the Xiaowu army was to eliminate the military attachés of the original army, reappoint new military attachés, eliminate the influence of the original military attachés in the army, and then firmly grasp the control of the Xiaowu army.

Otherwise, it's really hard to say what the outcome of the Battle of Black Bull Town will be, the original military attaches are all people with families and businesses, so they won't give Li Yuntian their lives in the face of the onslaught of the Han King rebels.!^!