"Ma Xiang, come, sit down and have tea, and talk to me in detail." Hearing that Ma Donglai had a plan, and it was an aspect he had never thought about, he immediately became interested and immediately invited Ma Donglai to sit down.

Ma Donglai sat down with a smile, put the tea that Li Jundu made in front of him, and said, "When Your Highness was in charge of the country, many people guessed that the emperor had the intention to change the prince, but if he had this idea, he would definitely not give the prince so many opportunities to make achievements on the battlefield in Mobei. The old minister had a few insights and had thorough understandings. In addition to tempering the prince's mental and mental abilities, the most important thing is to show an attitude, that is, in the position of the heir, you have the same qualifications and status as the prince. This is like an exam, and the regent is one of the questions."

"Oh, what do you mean?" Li Jundu felt even more relieved. The reason why he was uneasy after the emperor took away the official documents was that he always thought that the state was just an assessment of himself. Now that the assessment has been completed, can he not be nervous when the score is produced? But the score is success or failure, life or death. But after Ma Donglai said this, the score is not that simple, it is like quantitative scoring, there is no difference between 70 and 80, and he must have passed the exam anyway.

Thinking further, since I and the prince have treated the emperor equally, the exam about the throne is still going on. Restraining the state is a question, and disarmament and reduction of expenditure is also a question.

"Since it's an exam, and you and the prince treat each other equally, then it's fair to take the exam together." Ma Donglai said lightly.

Li Jundu didn't understand the true meaning, but he knew one thing: "Ma Xiang's meaning is definitely not to let me and the prince disarmament together."

"Of course not. The old minister means that one question per person. You want to disarmament. Leave a question for the prince a reduction. Disarmament is a problem. If you do it wrong, you will get zero points. In fact, as long as you do it, you can get some points in the paper from the emperor. You can get a score of the subtraction question, but you can reduce points no matter how you do it." Ma Donglai smiled.

Li Jundu focused on the key points, but asked again: "How could there be a score reduction question?"

Ma Donglai reminded: "Your Highness, what you want to compete for is not the reserve position, but the throne!"

"Is there any difference?" Although a young hero, Li Junduo is a young man in Ma Donglai!

Ma Donglai said: "The difference is so big. The one who competes for the position of the crown prince, the score is the emperor! He said you have 100 points, and you will only 100 points. If you fail, you will fail. If anyone is not convinced, he will not say it, because the crown prince can be replaced or trained, and the crown prince can always be recognized by the power organization.

The throne is different. Although our emperor is arbitrary, he attaches great importance to the various yamen. As the war ends, the imperial power will decline. The emperor cannot allow a person who is not accepted by the court to inherit the throne. To put it bluntly, this exam aimed at the throne is not the emperor, the cabinet, the parliament, and the people in the world can all score. To put it bluntly, it is not the emperor who is scoring, but the empire who is scoring. Although the great country has hundreds of millions of people, the people who can score are in the upper class. Half of these people are dissatisfied is zero points, and most of them are dissatisfied is negative points."

Li Jundu heard this and punched the palm of his left hand and asked, "Then where is the score reduction question? Can Ma Xiang be my king... No, should he say that he would give one for the prince?"

Ma Donglai smiled and said in a good manner: "The emperor said it was a disarmament, but it was actually a reduction in expenditure. To put it bluntly, the war has never stopped since the emperor started on Baodao. It has been nearly thirty years, and it is time to rest with the people. Reduce financial support, alleviate the debt pressure of the empire, and use financial resources to nourish the people. This is a long-term solution. It is not just the only thing that can be reduced in expenditure. During this period, His Highness has supervised the country and handled so many cabinet financial statements, and many of the expenditures can be abolished or reduced."

"Financial projects..., these projects are really complicated, I don't know what Ma Xiang is talking about." Li Jundu asked.

"Of course it is related to the war. Only when the Northern Expedition wins will the empire be disarmament. It is precisely because of this that the disarmament will not be blatantly opposed." Ma Donglai still said it unclearly.

Li Jundu nodded slightly, and a light flashed in his head: "Military farm!"

After saying this, Ma Donglai stood up and applauded him, saying, "Your Highness Ying is really worthy of being Your Majesty's eldest son. You can see it at a glance, it is the farmland!"

The deeper Li Jundu thought about it, the more practical this move was. Although the emperor vigorously cultivated a large-scale farming in the appeasement zone along the border at the beginning of the founding of the country to develop the border, it was still a service to the Northern Expedition strategy. Now the Empire won a great victory in the Battle of Mobei and expelled the Tartars thousands of miles away. The military farming plan formulated to prepare for the affairs of the northern desert can naturally be used.

The empire's military administration was divided into many parts. Shangshu, Minshu, Junshu and Guanshu were four main forms. Minshu and Shangshu were both ways for the people to participate in the settlement, but they were different. Ordinary militia groups were just policies that cooperated with immigration work, allowing the people of the mainland to move to various appeasement zones, give cattle breeds, and authorize the land to be reclaimed, but they did not pay taxes for many years. The scale was not large, and they were scattered and distributed. This was the least of the four settlements.

Military gates and official gates are the official behavior of the empire, but the main body of the settlement is the difference between the Lifan Court and the Cabinet Border Gate Bureau, which is the empire invested capital to carry out land reclamation. The appeasement zones under the Lifan Court use official slave flags as human resources, while the Border Gate Bureau mainly uses the liquidation of criminal officials and traitors who have been punished as the main body. These two items are not in Li Jundu's plan. After all, the official investment has been completed and the labor force of official slaves is also used. In the future, the output will be no longer needed.

The one who was really targeted by Li Jundu is Shangtun! Shangtun is an upgraded version of the Mintun and is controlled by the imperial capital. The owners of these farms invested huge amounts of money in the appeasement zones, and each cultivation ranged from a few thousand acres to tens of thousands of acres. They are all huge farms. These farms are almost a country in the appeasement zones in various places. Shangtun Farm uses labor recruited or even abducted from the mainland to cooperate with local banners and units to enclose land on a large scale, and their biggest reliance is

It is the guaranteed contract issued by the Lifan Court. The military warehouses located in various places purchase a certain amount of grain from these Shangqu Villages every year, ranging from thousands of stones to one hundred thousand stones, and the price is higher than the purchase price from local private households. As long as the Shangqu Village can maintain the yield of the farm above the level of grain, it is a stable profit without losing. More importantly, this type of guaranteed price purchase contract can be signed at least five years, and the most may even be signed for fifteen years.

Li Jundu still remembers that the Lifanyuan purchased as many as 6 million stones of grain every year, and this item alone cost more than 8 million taels. In previous years, it was nothing. After all, in order to prepare for the national war, no amount of food was enough. At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops and more than 2 million horses and animals were raised. But now that the war is over, the horses are put on the Nanshan Mountain. If the food is still purchased according to the plan and the financial pressure is not the case. What should the food collected be done? Wouldn't it be ruined in the warehouse? Just this is enough legitimacy to clean up Shangtun.

The reason why cleaning Shangtun is a score reduction question is very simple. These large farms in the appeasement zone are all transactions that can make sure to make profits and not lose money. They are all golden roosters who can lay eggs. No matter who invested in the past, in recent years, such transactions will belong to the local central government and people who must be able to eat and enjoy both military and political terms. These people are all powerful and noble classes, and they are not like disarmament. They only move the interests of military nobles. Clearing Shangtun is to hit the heads of all the powerful and powerful people in the empire, which will naturally arouse full opposition.

"Okay, okay, this idea is really good. Ma Xiang, if you have the chance tomorrow, you must send this question out." Li Jundu reminded with a smile, and immediately ordered someone to hold a drink and banquet.

The imperial meeting on the second day was as expected by Li Jundu. The emperor decided to reduce expenditure. The first one proposed was to reduce military equipment. Everyone who participated in the meeting knew that this kind of thing could not be solved by the court officials. The cabinet sent people to disarmament. It was an internal struggle between the military and political circles. Let the army lay down by themselves. No one would cut off their own flesh and blood. After all, this kind of errands can only be done by the royal family. If the emperor wanted to do it himself, he would naturally speak long ago. If he didn't speak, he would have to let the prince or the sect king do it.

The Prime Minister of King Cheng's Cabinet is not easy to intervene. King Rong was originally the chief of soldiers. Since the establishment of the empire, he has no military power and is not suitable to intervene. King Cheng is young and has no foundation in the army and is not within the scope of consideration. After thinking about it, there are only the crown prince and the king of Ying. Just when everyone thought that the two would refuse, he never thought that King Ying would talk freely. First, he expressed the need for disarmament, and then volunteered to take on this job, which was much expected by the ministers.

What happened afterwards surprised the ministers even more. The King of England said first that the reduction of expenditure was not enough to only disarmament. Now that the national war was about to end, the world was peaceful, and a series of measures implemented for the war should be eliminated. Then someone in the cabinet raised the issue of Shangdian, saying that it was costing a huge amount of millions of dollars. Now that the military was reduced, the food consumed in the next year will inevitably be reduced. If it is not cleaned up, it will be useless to spend millions of taels of food to buy next year and will be useless and will be rotten in the warehouse.

This is another policy involving a wide range of policies and a chore that will cut off people's money. Everyone has focused their attention on the kings, and the prince, who is in trouble, has no choice but to take on the job.

"Today, the boss took the initiative to take charge of the disarmament, and I felt something was wrong. I never thought that he had given you such a trick and directly stuffed you the matter of cleaning up Shangtun. He was so thoughtful." On the carriage, Lin Junhong became more and more wrong. He punched the coffee table, and the teacup fell to the ground and spread the floor.

Li Junhua was calm and complained: "Good tea, you don't want to drink it, but I still want to drink it?"

"You still have the heart to drink tea. Do you know who the masters behind Shangtun Farm are?" Lin Junhong asked.

"Why don't I know that they are all the leading figures of the empire. Everyone who stands in the imperial meeting today has a share. I don't know about other people, but our family. Before the Northern Expedition, I helped my mother handle the family's finances several times. The royal family has Shangtun farms in Qiqihar, Yunzhong, and Yanbei. It's probably 150,000 acres. This is all controlled by the mother. Empress Li also has a farm in each appeasement zone, and she can get a lot of money every year." Li Junhua packed the tea sets under the table, cleaned them, put them on the coffee table, and explained to Lin Junhong while cleaning them.

"You know, you're still so calm. You're dealing with Shangtun is not because Shangtun was wrong, but to reduce expenditure." Lin Junhong said gritting his teeth.

"So what, is there any difference?" Li Junhua asked gently.

Lin Junhong said: "The difference is whether this matter can be good! If it is just because Shangtun is wrong and needs to be cleaned up, then it is simple, just spend money. The purpose of everyone participating in Shangtun is to make money, but how can it be made not to make money! But now the cleaning of Shangtun is to reduce financial support, which is completely different. In order to reduce expenditure, you will not allocate more money to you. Without money, this matter will not be resolved perfectly! My prince, cutting off money is to kill parents. What will happen if you affect others to make money?"

Li Junhua nodded slightly, but smiled and said, "What he said is reasonable, I will give you a cup of fragrant tea!"

As he said that, a cup of freshly brewed tea was placed lightly in front of Lin Junhong. Lin Junhong suddenly realized that the prince looked terrible indifferent, even after he pointed out the trick. Obviously, he was not confused because he didn't know the truth, but did not take this matter seriously and asked, "Did you have a solution?"

Li Junhua shook his head.

Lin Junhong picked up the teacup and thought of another possibility: "Can the emperor give you some advice?"

Li Junhua smiled and still shook his head.

"Then why are you not arrogant or impatient?" Lin Junhong put the teacup on the table and said angrily.

Li Junhua said: "There is nothing else, I'm dedicated to you!"

Lin Junhong was confused, and Li Junhua said: "At the beginning, I was not angry that my brother dug such a pit for me, but now I think it through, Junhong, what they said at the imperial meeting was right. Shangtun is indeed out of place. If you continue, it will only waste national treasury and consume people's wealth. In this way, cleaning up Shangtun is right, but the result is that it is not so friendly to the people who do things. Since it is right and beneficial to the empire, you have to do it. Others can shirk responsibility and refuse to participate. But there are two people in the world that must be done, one is my father, and the other is me.

He is the emperor, I am the crown prince, and we must do all things that are beneficial to the country. This matter not only relieves the worries of the king and father, but also saves the empire for frugality. We must do it, and do it instead of it, not done by the wise king and sage lord."

"You..., you fool think so, Jundu doesn't." Lin Junhong saw the prince put another cup of tea in front of him, picked it up, and drank it all in anger.

Li Junhua said: "There is a difference between me and my eldest brother. He always distinguishes gains and losses as a prince!"

"What about you?"
Chapter completed!