MTL - Fight the Giants-Chapter 800 up-and-coming

  Chapter 800 Emerging

   After Mu Ang finished speaking, Qian Guogong was about to nod, but Mu Zhan suddenly spoke.

   "Second brother, I heard that you spent 260,000 taels of silver on Yushi Street yesterday to buy a large piece of material, and it fell apart?"

  As soon as the voice fell, the meeting hall buzzed, and Qian Guogong Mu Sheng also looked at Mu Yan with a look of surprise. Two hundred and sixty thousand taels!

   "Are you happy?" Mu Yan locked eyes on Mu Zhan.

...Mu Zhan gritted his teeth, "As the crown prince, you spend so much money learning how to gamble with others, and you have established an image of spending money like water for the local officials and common people. It is not only your reputation that is ruined, but also our Mu family. reputation will be ruined."

   A pair of words with a serious look.

  Mu Yan hooked his mouth and stared at him: "Did I spend your money? Did I spend money from Mu Mansion?"

   "Even if you don't spend the money in the mansion, you, as the prince..."

  Mu Yan interrupted him: "Since you know that I am the prince, isn't it inappropriate for you to teach others?"

  Looked at him coldly, then glanced at the dozens of subordinate officials and a group of staff on both sides, and said calmly and dignifiedly: "Deal."

   "Yes!" Everyone below responded in unison. No one dared to say no.

  Some officials began to report the matter to Mu Sheng.

   Mu Zhan felt this hatred in his heart. A turbid air blocked him and he couldn't get up or down.

  Originally, he wanted to take advantage of Mu Yan's gambling with stones yesterday to tarnish his reputation among the officials and staff, and make him lose the hearts and support of the officials.

After all, he has lived in the capital for a long time, and the officials in Yunnan are not familiar with him. It is more convenient for him to spend money like a prodigal when he participated in the political discussion on the first day, ruining his image and making him lose the right to speak In the future, everyone will remember him as the eldest son of the Mu family, not the eldest son of the capital.

   Who knew, the damned one interrupted him and corrected his address! You can't even call me the second brother! Can only be called Shizi!

   There is anger in my heart, and there is nowhere to vent it.

  Mu Yan was not affected at all, with a tall and straight posture, sitting on the right side of Mu Sheng.

  I don't know if his aura is too strong, but his stern face makes people feel more majestic than Duke Qian. Originally, the meeting hall was discussing matters every day, always procrastinating, one thing was said over and over again, and there was no conclusion.

  It was less than half an hour today, and several important matters had already been agreed upon. Even Mu Sheng couldn't think of it.

"Grandpa and son of the country, when the old and first marquises were alive, we had hoarded millions of acres of land. Now, because the imperial court has been in arrears of military expenses for years, the guards in various places have reported that they intend to continue hoarding land. However, the chieftains in various places are dissatisfied. I don’t know how to deal with it, should I continue hoarding the land?”

  As soon as the subordinate officer finished speaking, there was silence in the field.

  Since the Han Dynasty, the land hoarding system has been a system implemented by various dynasties in order to ensure the supply of the army by using idle soldiers to reclaim wasteland and ensure the supply of military food.

  The old Hou Ye was ordered to guard the border, and the imperial court wanted to hoard land, which was approved by the Taizu. By the time of the first Hou Ye, the land of Yunnan had already hoarded millions of acres of land.

  The imperial court has been in arrears for military expenses year after year. Fortunately, there are military fields to supply, otherwise the soldiers would not only have no military lunch, but would not even be able to eat enough. At that time, the morale of the army will be unstable, and it is unknown what effect it will cause.

   "My grandfather and uncle hoarded a total of one million acres of land. Isn't that enough? Do you want to hoard more?" Mu Zhan spoke first.

   "Uh..." The subordinate officer choked for a while.

  Mu Yan glanced at Mu Zhan lightly, and then at Duke Qian next to him.

  Gong Qian was swept away by his gaze, and suddenly felt that there was a bit of sarcasm in this gaze? What are you mocking? He glanced at the two sons each, thoughtfully.

   Mu Ang helped his forehead, but he didn't speak.

   Mu Ang's son, Mu Jun, glanced at Mu Yan, but did not speak. His elder brother Mu Xi just wanted to speak to Mu Zhan's words, but his father Mu Ang gave him a cold look, and swallowed his words back in fright.

The officer responsible for the matter bit the bullet and reported back: "My lord, the imperial court has been in arrears with military expenses for two years, and there are as many as 300,000 troops stationed in various parts of Yunnan. Three stones per mu of fertile land is calculated, which is not enough for ordinary soldiers to spend a year in the army. Three hundred thousand people still have to eat and drink every day, as well as food and drink for soldiers and horses, and various expenses in the army... The army has not bought new weapons for several years .”

  If it wasn’t for the prince leading the army, fighting bravely, and promising to solve everyone’s army, I am afraid that the army’s morale will be slackened, and no one will know when this battle will last.

  Looking at Mu Yan who was seated above, he suddenly placed a lot of hope on this son.

  Mu Zhan probably felt that he was a little stupid for asking just now, and his face was burned. But he was not willing to let people see the joke, so he looked at Mu Yan, "I don't know what is the best plan for the prince?"

  When the people below heard it, their eyes turned to Mu Yan.

However, Mu Yan didn't even look at Mu Zhan, and only said to the subordinates who were involved: "When the old Hou Ye and the first Hou Ye were here, the strategy they set was to 'storage three times and store them seven times, and store them for a while'. Do you want to keep stocking up?"

   "Yes, the old Marquis and the first Marquis indeed formulated the military policy in this way, but..." The subordinate officer glanced at Mu Sheng.

Mu Sheng said, "I ordered the guards to stop hoarding land. One is that the amount of land hoarding was sufficient before. In order to prevent the border guards from other places from writing to the court, I have too much land hoarding in Yunnan. It’s not the same, the chieftains in Yunnan are doing their own thing, if they hoard too much land, they may suffer a backlash.”

  Yunnan was included in the territory of the dynasty in just a few decades, and the local chieftains operated independently and had their own forces.

Although the imperial court sent civil servants to manage the matter, the chieftains from all over the country did not buy the account of the chief envoys. There were constant disputes due to feuds, land disputes, or various reasons all the year round, and there were rebellions from time to time, all of which depended on the Mu family to govern governance and balance.

  Other important frontier defense towns, the military administration is naturally under the control of the army, and the civilian officials are in charge of local civil affairs. Only Yunnan is special, and the Mu Mansion is in charge of the military administration and people's livelihood of the province.

  However, the Mu Mansion had too much power, which aroused the suspicion of the imperial court and suppressed it from time to time. Years in arrears in military expenditures. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Mu family almost always pays for their own military expenses, but this rate is not easy to grasp.

   To put it bluntly, the court was afraid that the Mu family would become bigger, and the Mu family was also afraid of losing Yunnan.

   "Yes, the decision not to continue hoarding land was carefully considered by all parties." Mu Ang nodded in agreement.

Mu Yan said: "One time and another time. The treasury used to be full of money, but now the capital has to be moved to build the city of Beiping. The court's expenditures are huge. I'm afraid they won't be able to take care of Yunnan. , I am afraid that there are many deficiencies. Moreover, the military policy of "three garrisons and seven garrisons, and garrison and hoarding" was supported by Taizu. As for the chieftains in various places, the imperial court still maintains their hereditary status, which is already generous. Is it possible to compete with the court for land?"

Well…

   After careful consideration, everyone felt that what the son said was true.

  The whole of Yunnan belongs to the imperial court. Aren’t the soldiers guarding the border here under the order of the imperial court? Do you want them to have enough food and clothing? Want them to look at the faces of chieftains everywhere?

  The subordinate bureaucrats and staff secretly changed their gazes at Mu Yan.

  (end of this chapter)