Chapter 7: Bullshit is the right thing to do.

In line with the principle of skipping out-of-the-way words, difficult to understand the connection between the context, Su Yan gulped down the left minister of the Ministry of War, Yu Chezhi, the folders, probably understand the meaning of the man in the long obscure rhetorical language behind the want to express, translated into modern language is:

Today, although the sea is calm and the river is clear, the world is peaceful, but hidden dangers are still growing in the dark. Shanxi, Henan, Shandong are in horse thieves, attacking counties, killing officials and seizing grain; North Tartar is also in the stupid, disturbing the border, slaughtering the people. My troops are not enough, can not run to fight it, Your Majesty, you see whether to give me some more men and horses and food and pay?

This is a military matter, with their own half a bucket of water military knowledge and half-knowledge of history, if they accidentally make any bad ideas, but also not a scourge of the country and the people sinners? Su Yan hesitated for a moment, decided to test the emperor’s tone.

“Servant Yu’s request to mobilize the three major battalions of the Beijing Operational Class Army and the Beijing Army to besiege the horse thieves and conquest of Beicheng, respectively, puts in a very large force, and I’m afraid it’s not an easy task.”

Emperor Jinglong murmured: “indeed not easy, although the three battalions of soldiers elite will be sharp, but bear the burden of guarding the capital, if the large part of the deployment, will become an empty nest situation, in turn, to give the north into an opportunity to take advantage of.”

Su Yan heard in his heart certain, since Jinglong Emperor does not tend to the great revival of war, then his suggestion should not offend the face of heaven, immediately drummed up the courage to say: “Emperor, I just read the folding, indeed have a feeling, but I am afraid that the slightest word will be wrong.”

Emperor Jinglong said, “Despite your straightforwardness, I will remove the wheat from the chaff.”

Su Yan a little clean up a thought, not slow and slow said: “since Emperor Xianzu personally conquered the desert north, a number of defeats Tartar, Dam Ehu a campaign to make the north into the vitality of a great injury, ten years no revitalization of the prestige of the hope, and the master of the tower of children and spikes a death, the north into the more into the continuous infighting. According to reason, they may not have the strength to invade the Central Plains, so the attack on the border should only be a few stray tribes.

These nomadic tribes have been migrating by water and grass for generations, and do not engage in harvesting, except for sheep and horses, livestock, and other things, life is quite hard, and when they see the richness of the Central Plains, they will have the desire to encroach on it.

After the Northern Expedition, our country canceled the Tonggong Mutual Market, they could not get the necessities of life through the trading channel, but only plundered the border, one place to get the hands of a short period of time and then fled to another place, which is hard to prevent.

Even if we send a large force to conquer, once they shrink towards the hinterland of northern Desert, it will be difficult for our army to sustain the battle due to the severe cold weather and difficulty in supply.”

Emperor Jinglong frowned, “According to you, my Da Ming is powerless against these northern barbarian Tartars?”

“It was not for nothing. After the death of Lord Cheng, all the Mongolian tribes have been fighting for the sovereignty of the Golden Family, and they all think that they are the rightful branch, and they hate the other tribes even more than the Daming who defeated them. This is like ……”

Su Yan carefully glanced at Emperor Jinglong, then said, “It’s like after the death of the first wife, several concubines are fighting for the position of the main house openly and secretly, at this time, as long as the elders of the clan step forward and express their willingness to put one of them back on the right track, it’s guaranteed that these concubines will break their heads and fight to the death.”

Emperor Jinglong could not help but raise the corners of his mouth, “This analogy is vulgar, however, it is also apt …… What you mean is that I, Da Ming, can choose to support one of the tribes and use it to suppress the other tribes?”

Su Yan said: ”No matter which tribe is supported, it is like raising a tiger. Does Your Majesty know why the old farmers in the countryside dangle the carrot in front of the donkey’s head? Because in order to eat, the donkey will desperately run forward to reach the carrot that can never be reached. All we have to do is to give the Mongolian tribes a carrot.”

Emperor Jinglong smiled and said, “In Qing’s opinion, how should this carrot be given?”

Su Yan said: “You can send envoys to visit the leaders of the ministries, first throw the bait down, and then issued a statement recognizing the status of a tribe’s suzerain, enthroned him as a king of the prairie who does not spend money ah Khan ah and so on, promising to exempt the tributes, the opening of the border market, trading commodities.

In order to maintain his position of power and interests, he will have to subdue the rest of the tribes, and the rest of the tribes, red-eyed and unwilling, will do their best to resist, so we just need to sit back and watch the endgame.”

Emperor Jinglong shook his head slightly, “The tribute is not only to raise the prestige of my heavenly kingdom, but also to limit the necessary method of excessive growth of the subject countries, and it is too lenient to be easily exempted.”

Su Yan narrowed his eyes and floated a light smile that could be described as cunning, “Your Majesty, there is a saying that the wool comes from the sheep’s body. Since the other tribe must trade with our country, we can use the name of the people’s labor and financial difficulties and increased costs after the war to raise the export tariffs.”

“Upward adjustment of export tariffs?” Emperor Jinglong chewed on this novel word, “Somewhat interesting ……”

Su Yan saw the emperor nodded his head, the courage is stronger, spilling: “This lucky selected tribe, neither can be too weak, too weak, there is no ability to control the overall situation, two and a half on the other tribes flattened; and can not be too strong, too strong will quickly absorb the ministries, a hundred rivers converge in the sea will become a big problem.

We have to weigh them up, suppress what should be suppressed, promote what should be promoted, and if necessary, we can also change a concubine to sit in the main house–“

Su Yan, who was mouthing off, suddenly came to a startled realization.

Isn’t this exactly what Emperor Jinglong used to do in the courtroom? He actually played a big sword in front of Guan Gong’s door, if he violated the emperor’s taboo, wouldn’t he be a rat licking the cat’s nose – looking for death! Immediately came to an abrupt halt, gritted his teeth in chagrin, and peeked uneasily at Emperor Jinglong’s expression.

Just see the dynastic son of heaven is looking at him with a smile on his face, his gaze reveals a few banter, and no rage color, Su Yan heart a stone which fell to the ground.

The same is in charge of the power of life and death of the royal family, he has no fear of Prince Zhu Hailin, laughing and joking easily and freely, and sometimes even give birth to the idea of teasing him. And to Jinglong emperor but as if a mouse saw a cat, leaning close to feel the back of the neck straight chills, could it be that they are really born with incompatibility?

Emperor Jinglong sidled his head to support his chin with his hand, assuming a good and calm posture, his tone slow and easy: “Moving on to the horse thief’s plague.”

Su Yan took a deep breath, the problem of civil unrest is much more sensitive and sharp than external problems, if you talk recklessly by nature, I’m afraid that this time it is really bad luck.

He thought carefully for a moment before he said, “I think that the common people are the most easily satisfied people under the sky, they just want to live a small life peacefully, working day and night, having children, as long as they have a mouth to feed, a piece of tile to cover their bodies, and a piece of clothing to shelter their bodies, and as long as they aren’t pushed to the brink of extinction, they won’t rise up to rebel.”

Emperor Jinglong’s face was really cold: “This statement from the Secretary is accusing me of pushing those people to the brink of extinction and having to rise up?”

Su Yan fell to his knees, ”I do not mean this, the one who drove the people to the brink of extinction was not the Emperor who was preoccupied with the country’s livelihood, but rather the corrupt officials at the local level!

The Yellow River flood, the downstream two years of shortage, the emperor ordered the states and counties to allocate food relief to express the people’s plight, this is the emperor’s grace. But these money after layers of deductions, and how many really to the hands of the victims? Mouth and stomach are not full, the mind changes, those who gather tsunami mountain bandits will take advantage of the opportunity to recruit people, expanding the people, killing officials to rob food, looting around.

If the emperor sends elite troops to surround, naturally can wipe out these rabble, but this method can only treat the symptoms, can not cure the root cause. As long as the dynasty is purged and the officials are rectified, so that the people can live in peace and work in contentment and are not subjected to hunger, cold and exploitation, the scourge of thieves in the world can be eliminated for the most part, and the remaining uneducated roving bandits will not be able to make any waves.”

Emperor Jinglong heard, mute, after a long time to speak: “corrupt officials to be severely punished, thieves and bandits are not to be forgiven, if not immediately sent troops to eliminate, will only nuisance people’s livelihood, for the scourge of a party. What you say although into the feelings into the reason, but have to be in the future, not at the moment can be used.”

Su Yan secretly sighed, respectfully said: “Your Majesty is well thought out, I’m not as good as. However, this thieves and bandits are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, if they can be treated differently, perhaps they can get twice the result with half the effort.”

Emperor Jinglong raised his eyebrows, “Oh, how is it three, six, nine, and so on?”

“This first class, mostly refugees and victims, blindly roaming, looting, once the army is approaching, will be routed like scattered sand. These people the emperor might as well be kind and forgiving, with food and land to caress, can be changed back to the good people of peace and quiet.”

Emperor Jinglong nodded slightly.

Su Yan added: “This second class is the so-called green forest heroes and swordsmen. They play to kill corrupt officials, in addition to bullies, robbing the rich to help the poor slogan, but also won a lot of people’s hearts. The emperor may as well first military and then courtesy, deterrence and then appeasement, with the fame and fortune to entice them, can be recruited. These people are also some ability, in the future, when necessary, can be organized into the army, put to the border, and is a force of manpower.”

Emperor Jinglong nodded again in contemplation.

“This third class is the real miscreants, who, when they are not satisfied with being the king of the mountain, are obsessed with the idea of attacking the capital and entering the imperial court, and taking turns to sit on the wind and water. In their side, often have the so-called God, foreigners to assist, with the cult of demonic words to incite people’s hearts, fooling the people. Such thieves and bandits, only one word–“

Su Yan suddenly raised his head, a cold light was released in his eyes, and his voice resounded to the ground: “Kill. And to cut off the roots, so that the ashes will not rekindle!”

After a moment of silence, Emperor Jinglong took a long breath and slowly got up, “I only thought you were a flirtatious genius before, it seems that I have underestimated you.”

Su Yan hurriedly bowed down, “I am terrified.”

“No need to be afraid. Your age is still young, vision and insights, but there are unique, and in the dynasty to sharpen the experience, in the future I have to use your place.”

“I am willing to serve Your Majesty.”

Emperor Jinglong patted his shoulder, showing a color of relief, suddenly felt a coolness on the back of his hand, but it was a small, round water droplet that slipped through clear. He was a little surprised to lean over to check, it turned out to be Su Yan’s crown hat is dripping wet.

Su Yan was immediately embarrassed.

He just finished bathing, found that the jade pendant disappeared, hurriedly rushed to look for, wet hair can not wipe, just casually Ò a few stuffed into the crown hat. At first, the crown hat is still barely blocked, and then slowly soaked by water, water beads like drops of dew seeped out one by one.

Emperor Jinglong saw the water droplets sliding voluptuously on his white neck, leaving trails of faintly shining water, only to feel that the situation was titillating, his heart swirled, and he couldn’t help but reach out to wipe it.

Fingertips on the neck gently scratched, Su Yan trembled, like a frightened turtle curled up backwards, hated to head, neck and limbs and shrunk into the clothing, some panic, but also a little annoyed glared at the current son of heaven.

Emperor Jinglong looked at his phoenix eyes that were glowing at first glance, froze for a moment, and laughed softly, “Su Yan ah Su Yan, with these eyes of yours, you’re going to cause trouble one day.”

Su Yan almost made an expression of rolling his eyes, but suddenly thought that this is a great disrespect, and busily lowered his face down, with a look of knowing his mistakes and admitting his guilt.

Emperor Jinglong laughed aloud and ordered the chamberlain next to him, “Take Servant Su down to dry his hair, and boil some medicine to remove the wind-cold, so as to save him from catching cold again.”

As soon as Su Yan heard that he could finally retire, the uneasiness in his body immediately disappeared, and after thanking him for his kindness, he busily fled out of the room.

Jinglong emperor re-sit down, see the water stains on the finger has dried, put on the end of the nose to sniff, seems to be able to smell the vaguely light fragrance, gazing for a moment back to God, can’t help but laugh at himself and shake his head.