Chapter 214 The so-called power struggle will be overshadowed

Li Xiuning fell asleep deeply, but Chen Ying was not sleepy at all.

People have no intention of harming others, but tigers have the intention of hurting others. Chen Ying had to be careful of open and secret arrows from the court. At this moment, Chen Ying's head flashed and he immediately had an idea.

He watched Li Xiuning sleep deeply, then stood up gently, covered Li Xiuning with a quilt, and tiptoed out of the bedroom. Chen Ying walked into the yard, and Zhou Qing, who was on duty, appeared in front of Chen Ying with several guards, bowed and bowed and said, "Master, what are you doing?"

Chen Ying said: "I will go to the study room and invite Ma Mengming to join the army to meet in the study room. Also, I will immediately send a team of messengers to inform Ma Zhou and Sima to come to Shule to discuss matters!"

Zhou Qing bowed and said, "I understand it in a humble way!"

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

Although Li Xiuning pretends to disapprove on the surface, in fact, she is more concerned than Chen Ying. She is born in the imperial family, and some things are born with them, such as a keen sense of political smell.

Li Xiuning coughed gently and said, "Yue'er!"

He Yue'er quickly climbed into the window outside. He Yue'er looked at Li Xiuning and said, "Your Highness, what are you asking for?"

"If you don't have a long-term plan, you will have immediate worries!" Li Xiuning smiled bitterly and said, "Chen Lang's appointment of Grand Sikong by his father is a sign. If you trust Chen Lang, you can enthrone the Prince of Chen Lang, not Grand Sikong!"

He Yue'er sighed and said, "Yi Ye Zhiqiu, let alone such a big move, the twelve guards are in the hands of His Majesty. The prince only has the four guards in the East Palace. The King of Qin and King Wu form an alliance, but..."

"There are very few allies in the court," Li Xiuning lamented in his heart: "If you don't plan ahead at this time, you will regret it later."

He Yueer said: "What does the princess mean?"

"Chen Lang must have greater power in Chang'an, otherwise, people will be the slaughter and I will be the fish!" Li Xiuning stood up and stroked his lower abdomen and said, "Even if you have the protection, the officials from the Duke of Liang's mansion will probably not escape the disaster. The thousands of soldiers under Chen Lang's command will inevitably not be able to eat!"

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

Since Li Yuan is ready to deal with Chen Ying, Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Duan Zhigan, Zhang Huaiwei, Su Dingfang, Guo Xiaoke, and others around Chen Ying may be found to be dealt with, or find a reason to transfer away from Chen Ying. If you don’t prepare early and prepare for these arrangements in the future, even if Chen Ying wants to resist, he will lose the opportunity.

He Yue'er said: "Your Highness the Princess said very well, but I don't know what tricks your princess has?"

"There is no good calculation, but there are a few countermeasures!" Li Xiuning said lightly: "The ministers of the Shangshu Province have high positions and powerful positions, but these positions are too eye-catching. Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Feng Lun and other prime ministers will think that Chen Lang is justified, but they will definitely cause criticism. Moreover, they have no way to buy it!"

He Yueer nodded and praised.

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

He Yue'er nodded thoughtfully.

Li Xiuning chuckled and said, "These officials are all positions with cumbersome duties and humble positions. If we recommend people, whether it is the crown prince or your majesty, it is not easy to make excuses. If we allow it, we can take all these specific powers of doing things in our hands."

He Yue'er said: "There are no vacancy now, not to mention that the princess cannot hold them all in her hands. If she starts to make arrangements now, will there be something that hurts her throat?

Li Xiuning nodded and said, "Among the Twenty-Four Divisions, the position of the Ministry of Justice is crucial. This position is in charge of the audit and write-off of the Tang Dynasty's finances. If we can control this position, we will be able to know the financial expenditure of the entire court."

"The key position is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of most officials in the Tang Dynasty. Anyone wants to impeach Chen Lang!" He Yueer paused and said, "They must consider the consequences of angering His Highness the Princess!"

Li Xiuning said without comment: "As you said, those who take charge of this position must be careful and cautious, and they must be proficient in math..."

He Yueer added: "You still need to gain 100% trust from His Highness the Princess."

Li Xiuning looked at He Yue'er and smiled bitterly: "You are actually the most suitable candidate for this person. Unfortunately, you are not a man!"

He Yue'er looked at Li Xiuning meaningfully and said, "Your Highness the Princess thinks the competent people in his hands?"

"I have never liked to interfere in the trivial affairs in the court!" Li Xiuning patted her forehead and said with a depressed look: "The most important thing under my command is the generals who can lead troops to fight. If you need a general, my subordinates can fill all the twenty-four generals' mansions of the Twelve Guards, but this is a doctor!"

He Yue'er's eyes rolled and she smiled happily: "The princess doesn't have the right staff, but there are ones in Chen Lang's mansion!"

"Oh!" Li Xiuning said in his heart: "Are you talking about Sima Ma Zhou, the Great Protectorate 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 Grand Sima of the Western Regions Protectorate is very important. I believe that in the near future, my father will send a deputy Grand Sima of the Western Regions Protectorate and Chief Secretary, but Ma Zhou's Sima controls all the troops and horses of the Western Regions Protectorate, rewards and punishments, food, and supplies distribution, enforcement of military laws, and organizing training. Only when Ma Zhou is in charge of this position, Chen Lang will not be easily undermined."

He Yue'er smiled and said, "Your Highness, you misunderstood. I am not meant to recommend Sima Ma, but to General Xu Jingzong Xu!"

"What?" Li Xiuning's head looked like Xu Jingzong. Li Xiuning naturally knew that Xu Jingzong was Chen Ying's retainer and someone Chen Ying trusted very much. The most important thing was that Xu Jingzong was originally the son of Xu Shanxin, the former Minister of Rites of the Sui Dynasty, and was also a child of an official.

If you recommend Xu Jingzong, it is easy to break through the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel's first department.

Thinking of this, Li Xiuning said: "Now I will write a letter of recommendation in person. You will send the most capable person to Chang'an and send someone to tell Xu Jingzong that if he dares to let down my trust, I will make it difficult for him to die!"

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When Chen Ying arrived in the study, the moon was already in the middle of the sky. In a short while, Ma Mengming entered Chen Ying's study. Ma Mengming also knew that Chen Ying was granted the title of Da Situ. As the former prime minister of Gaochang, Ma Mengming knew very well what this meant.

This imperial edict means that Chen Ying is about to lose power and the Western Regions will be reshuffled. He is already wearing Chen Ying's mark, so the prospects are probably not good.

Ma Mengming came to Chen Ying with concern and bowed and said, "Sir, please see the Protector!"

Chen Ying looked at Ma Mengming's worried look and laughed: "Ma Mengming, what are you worried about? They play with their power and strategy, and they don't have to pay attention to what they have at this time. As long as the Western Regions can have a stable foundation in two or three years and can support 200,000 elite troops, this large gubernatorial guardian has millions of soldiers to drive at any time. Jie Shi, in the face of absolute strength, the so-called power and strategy will be overshadowed!"

Ma Mengming smiled bitterly and said, "More than 50 countries in the Western Regions have their foundations for nearly a hundred years. The forces of more than 50 countries have combined to control Dingkou, which is roughly the same as the jurisdiction of the Great Protectorate of the Western Regions, and only 100,000 elites. If the Great Protectorate expresses such ambition, probably no one will believe it!"

Chen Ying smiled and said nothing.

Ma Mengming probably wouldn't understand that in the agricultural era, ten households need taxes to support a light infantry. If it is a cavalry, it needs thirty households to support it. Heavy infantry like the Modao Army requires fifty households to support it.

However, in the era of industrial society, production efficiency and cost were greatly reduced. In this case, Chen Ying had too many resources to control. The value of an ordinary ore mined in a mine was the income of a hundred farmers in a year. Even if necessary expenses were eliminated, the profits were very terrifying.

Nomads need 6,000 acres of pasture to reduce enough animal feeding for a herdsman. However, under large-scale planting, one acre of alfalfa can produce 6,000 kilograms of alfalfa, and the high yield can reach 8,000 kilograms. Based on the calculation that a horse eats ten kilograms a day, acre of forage can feed a horse for at least 300 days. The pasture that a herdsman originally needed could feed a small tribe.

This is the gap.

Chen Ying promoted alfalfa planting, cotton planting, grain planting, and large-scale breeding of poultry and livestock in the Western Regions.

At the same time, just now, Chen Ying has taken a fancy to the large amount of fertile fertile land here. Unlike the wastelands of Jinman, Gaochang and Yiwu, there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land here and tens of millions of grain fields that can be developed.

Chen Ying said: "Today, I am the Protector of the Great Destiny who came to you, and I am planning to take charge of the operation of Shule's land reclamation and land reclamation. In the Tongli Money House of the Tang Dynasty and the local governments, we will open Tongli Money House of the 19 Prefectures and more than 100 counties in the Western Regions. We will take advantage of the arrival of spring plowing next year to bloom all over the Tang Dynasty. We must ensure that the people have money to reclaim the land next year!"

"It is a good thing to issue flying tickets for merchants to facilitate settlement of silver and money." Speaking of this, Ma Mengming smiled bitterly: "It seems that there is some problem with giving away seals of money to refugees to reclaim wasteland..."

"What's the problem?" Chen Ying asked in confusion: "No matter what, this is good governance!"

"It is beneficial to the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, but not to the money house!" Ma Mengming said: "The prospect given by the Great Protectorate is to reclaim 500,000 wasteland in three years, and plan to resettle 300,000 households... The land reclamation is spread across more than 100 counties in the nineteen prefectures of the Western Regions. How many people do you need to invest in the money house to put the money in the hands of the money house? Every year, you must receive the interest from so many migrant investors in a timely manner. In the end, you must ensure that the principal is recovered and how many people do it is to invest? Too much manpower is invested, and the expenses of work-related food, foot expenses, store money, food money, and mules and horse money will be astonishingly high. If the money interest is set low, there will be no profit at all. If the money interest is set high, the migrant investors will not be able to pay the money interest by relying solely on land reclamation and farming, and in the end it will be delayed. The Western Regions finally settled the migrant investors, how could they indulge the money house to force the money house to claim debts from the migrant investors to cause public grievances?"

When Ma Mengming was the chief minister of Gaochang State, he specialized in managing money and grain, and also put out stamps of money, and was very clear about the tricks here.

Chen Ying listened to Ma Mengming's analysis and felt that there was a difference, but he didn't care and said, "It's good to be beneficial to the Western Regions. It's still worth doing the money house..."

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

Chen Ying and Ma Mengming have different positions. For the same thing, the viewing angles are naturally different. Ma Mengming considers the profits within three years, but Chen Ying looks at them longer-term.

The so-called politics is the issue of distribution of interests. For a long time, people of all ethnic groups have become accustomed to suffering. They may not care about who is the king of the Western Regions, but they care about the person who can make them live a good life.
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