Zhu Hongsan was very happy today and got thousands of miles of land in Da Lai's hands. These were the second most important thing, and he obtained the main transportation route to Tibet.

The northern border troubles have been a stubborn disease of the Central Plains dynasty since the Qin and Han Dynasties. When the Central Plains dynasty was strong, these northern nomadic peoples naturally had to retreat and escape to the extreme north to avoid the army of the Central Plains dynasty. However, the flowers are not as good as a hundred days. Once the Central Plains dynasty weakens, this is the opportunity for the northern nomadic peoples.

If these nomadic peoples went south to occupy the land of the Han people, it would be nothing. The extremely powerful fusion performance of the Han civilization assimilated them. But if these guys were not here to grab the land, but to grab things, it would be troublesome.

The Mongolian in the north of the Ming Dynasty has always been a focal problem. These guys can't beat them and run away. They will come in a few days, which really gave the Central Plains rulers a headache. Therefore, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the generals of the Eight Towns were formed along the Great Wall to guard against the northern Mongols. These troops accounted for five-sevenths of the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It was these troops who sucked away all the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty like vampires, creating opportunities for the rise of the Jurchen tribe in Liaodong.

Thanks to the large number of Manchu film and television dramas in later generations, Zhu Hongsan learned that after the Qing Dynasty occupied the Central Plains, the problem of Mongolia in the northern part was much smaller than that in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, there were reasons why the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong used force in the Mongolian region. However, since Jiaqing, the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains had begun to decline, but Mongolia had no ambition to go south.

Of course, this is not because the Mongolians suddenly became better and played with the Manchus and Mongolian family. Instead, the Qing Dynasty was using force to suppress the thorns of the Junggar, and another move was to use the Lamaism to castrate the Mongols' martial spirit.

The Qing Dynasty vigorously promoted Lamaism in Mongolia, and at the same time stipulated that no matter how many sons a family was, all other sons would be lamas except for leaving one to inherit the family property. In addition to these, all the privileges of living Buddhas and Dharma Kings were basically given to the lamas. In this way, these benefits of lamas would repay the Qing government. With their spare time to preach, the problem of border troubles in the north for thousands of years was completely solved in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan's plan was similar to that of the Qing Dynasty. He first occupied Tibet, controlled the living Buddhas of all sizes there, and then used these religious scammers to deal with the Mongols. Today, Zhu Hongsan's first step of his grand strategy was successfully completed, and Zhu Hongsan was naturally very happy.

Zhu Hongsan returned to the side hall of Qianqing Palace and changed into regular clothes, then came out to the imperial study to meet the chief assistant Feng Ziyong. He also wanted to discuss with Feng Ziyong what to do next.

Today is the fifteenth day of Feng Ziyong's on stage, exactly half a month. If he was not in charge of the soy sauce court before, he didn't know that the price of food and rice was expensive, but now Feng Ziyong has fully realized that the position of the chief minister is not easy to do.

The reason is very simple. As a country's steward, there are more than 100,000 officials and nearly one million troops across the country. These people are waiting for the Chief Supervisor to pay your salary. At the same time, they must be careful of the cabinet masters wearing small shoes for themselves and always pay attention to the emperor's joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness. Feng Ziyong was the Chief Supervisor for half a month and found that this job was not easy to do.

Today, Feng Ziyong complained about the grand welcome of Da Lai. A religious representative from a vassal state came to Beijing to worship, and the Minister of Rites was just finished. However, in addition to sending the prince to greet him, the emperor also held a ceremony to welcome Da Lai Lama in Fengtian Hall. In addition to these, in order to make Da Lai live in Beijing, he also spent tens of thousands of silver dollars to build a new Lama temple.

However, Feng Ziyong had no choice. These were all set by Ma Mingyuan, the chief minister, when he was in office. The Lama Temple was built half a year ago. At that time, Feng Ziyong could not speak out about the government, so he was also opposed by the method.

But today is different. The emperor was happy to build a new palace for Da Lai in Chengde in Fengtian Palace, and it would be the same as the Potala Palace in Lhasa. How much silver dollars would it cost?

It is October now, and the Xia Fu and Qiu Fu have been collected. The huge expenses used to maintain the empire will be enough. Where can I still have money to build a Lama temple? Where can I still have money to build a Tibetan garrison as the emperor said?

Feng Ziyong was so angry that he was in Fengtian Palace just now, but Feng Ziyong was different from Ma Mingyuan. Feng Ziyong still wanted to save face for the emperor in front of all civil and military officials, so Feng Ziyong was preparing to go to the Ganqing Palace and no one was there to talk to the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan came out to sit on the imperial throne and smiled when he saw Feng Ziyong and said, "Second cousin is happy today! I have expanded the empire for thousands of miles!"

Feng Ziyong stood up from the chair and bowed deeply and said, "Of course I want to congratulate Your Majesty on expanding territory, but I think it's better if I don't want the Kangba area!"

Zhu Hongsan was stunned when he heard Feng Ziyong say this. Does the cabinet have any good ideas?

Zhu Hongsan quickly asked, "What? Does the cabinet have any good ideas to control Tibet?"

"Your Majesty, Nawuzang was originally a barren land and was located on the plateau. It was really not suitable for us Han people to live in. The emperor gave Dalai so many benefits for thousands of miles of barren land. Isn't it a bit too much?"

Feng Ziyong wanted to explain to the emperor at this time, but Zhu Hongsan was very happy and was poured with a basin of cold water by Feng Ziyong. Zhu Hongsan was very unhappy.

"My second cousin doesn't know that the Junggar tribe is very fierce. If they are allowed to occupy Tibet and Qinghai, there will be no peace in the borders of our Ming Dynasty. My second cousin is the chief minister of the cabinet, and the second cousin will handle internal affairs. I don't have to worry about such military affairs!"

Feng Ziyong's personality is different from the sleek Ma Mingyuan. If it were Ma Mingyuan today, he would definitely not refute the emperor, and would only look for an opportunity to persuade the emperor after the matter. However, Feng Ziyong is different. Feng Ziyong has a very bad temper like the Donglin Party who is not afraid of power. In addition, Feng Ziyong was not satisfied just now, so the emperor did not discuss with the cabinet and wanted to Da Lai Jian Palace. Now that he heard the emperor say this, Feng Ziyong could no longer suppress his anger.

"Your Majesty, the military affairs should not be taken care of, but the money must be paid by the Ministry of Finance! The summer and autumn tuitions of Shenwu in the 11th year were collected in total, and the merchants collected 21.2 million silver dollars, and the liquors in various places collected 10.8 million silver dollars. This money seems to be quite large, but more than 500,000 troops in the northwest, northeast, and southeast, these will cost half of the taxes every year. In addition to these, there are still the war in Fujian, the salaries of officials, and the disaster relief funds of northern provinces, all include the surplus this year only 300,000 silver dollars. Now His Majesty the Emperor said he would garrison troops in Uszang and build a new palace for Da Lai. The treasury has no money!"

Zhu Hongsan was so angry that he heard Feng Ziyong say this. One of the main reasons he got rid of Ma Mingyuan was that he could spend money more quickly. Now he changed to Feng Ziyong. He didn't expect that this good-looking man became the prime minister and liked to control his own spending money.

In fact, compared with the emperors of the previous Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan spent relatively little money. At least he did not raise tens of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids in the palace city. Now Zhu Hongsan has only more than twenty women of all sizes, which is completely incomparable to Zhu Di, who has thousands of beauties in the harem. Except for these Zhu Hongsan, there are not high requirements for food, clothing, housing and transportation. A meal is just four dishes and one soup, which is the most frugal among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and even the beggar Zhu Chongba is not as good as that.

He was almost graze and the cabinet said he had no money. Zhu Hongsan's face became increasingly ugly, but Feng Ziyong seemed to have not seen it. He was still saying to himself: "Your Majesty, the war in Myanmar is in full swing, Fujian and Taiwan are also confronting each other. The war with the Dutch in the South China Sea has not stopped. There are wars on all sides. It is really not appropriate to start lightly in the northwest! The Us Tibet area is full of people from the outside world. Isn't it good to let them fight each other with the Junggar tribe? Why does Your Majesty have to get involved?"

"Second cousin, you don't know that the Zheng family and the Dutch are not worthy of justice. Only the Junggar is the biggest concern of the Ming Dynasty! Did the second cousin forget that it was the imperial court's inaction against Liaodong that allowed the Qing Dynasty to become a prosperous man?"

Feng Ziyong heard Zhu Hongsan say this completely nonsense. Just half a year ago, your emperor said that Zheng Chenggong was the biggest concern, but now it has become inappropriate? But now neither of them said they were convinced. Feng Ziyong simply decided to spread his trump card for the emperor to show it.

"Your Majesty, I am a civil servant. I don't know that the war is important, but the national treasury just has no money. If you want to fight in the northwest, please use the treasury!"

Feng Ziyong said it was very simple. The treasury had no money, but your emperor had money. Half of the large factories in Guangdong belonged to your emperor himself. The emperor's small treasury had tens of millions of dollars every year. Now, if you want to fight, you can pay the money yourself!

Zhu Hongsan was so angry that he heard Feng Ziyong say this. Why did these stinky old ninths worry about his own wealth? Zhu Hongsan has many factories in Guangdong, but those are arsenals and steel factories. 80% of the production capacity of these factories requires free production of military equipment. What income does it have?

In addition, Zhu Hongsan used to have money and his annual income was between tens of millions, but at that time they were snatched from northern provinces using the industrial scissors gap. Now the north has been liberated and has become Zhu Hongsan's own territory. Naturally, he cannot use this method of scraping the land. Therefore, in recent years, Zhu Hongsan's income has plummeted, with only less than two million silver dollars a year being recorded.

Of course, two million silver dollars is also a large sum, but don’t forget that Zhu Hongsan’s wife has a lot of children. When his son grows up and wants to get married, he will not prepare a house for his father? If his daughter gets married, he will not prepare a dowry? There are also more than 20 wives from Zhu Hongsan’s wife. As the emperor’s wife, you have no sets of jewelry, do you have the nerve to go out? There are also hundreds of people from Zhu Hongsan’s uncle’s family who want to have dinner. These people are not nobles or royal families, but they are all relatives of your mother. How can you ignore the emperor?
Chapter completed!