Cui Mu, the left prime minister of the Political Affairs Hall, made a comment: "I will report to His Majesty the Queen and Zhang Zhichun, the Minister of Construction of Chang'an, that Chang'an City and Chang'an Palace will be fully completed in February next year. Zhang Zhichun asked the court to prepare for the relocation of the capital."

Chang'an City and Chang'an Palace will be completed in a few months? When all the civil and military officials heard this, they all looked excited.

It has been three years since six or seven hundred thousand people built the Chang'an project. So far, it has consumed 20 million yuan in money and grain.

This is still the case where most laborers are slaves and all materials do not require money. Otherwise, the amount of money and food consumed will cost at least 60 to 70 million.

The Chang'an project not only takes a lot of labor and takes several years, but also gathers more than 3,000 top construction craftsmen in the country to be responsible for various construction projects. It is unprecedented.

If the Tang Dynasty had not made a lot of wealth in war and captured many slave prisoners of war, they would have no financial resources to build the Chang'an project.

The Chang'an Project can be said to be based on the blood and tears of foreign races. There were thousands of slaves from Nanyang and India who were exhausted.

Now, the construction is about to be completed in a few months.

The Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works set out and said, "I went to Guanzhong last month and observed the Chang'an project. Oh, it was really full of atmosphere and unparalleled in the world. The roughly the project was almost the same. In the last few months, it was meticulously crafted. Among the ministers, the city of Chang'an was even better."

Lin Biju smiled and said, "Although the Chang'an project has not been completely completed, it has been called the world's number one city. As the Tang Dynasty, it is decent enough."

"In addition to Chang'an City and Chang'an Palace, the Yongzhou Water Conservancy Project chaired by Guo Shoujing is about to be completed. In just a few years, Guanzhong has already lush water and grass, beautiful mountains and rivers. Even the Yellow River has become much clearer."

Of course, Cui Xiuning had known about this news for a long time, but she was still very happy.

"Well, the court is preparing to move the capital, so it must be arranged properly. The court will move to Chang'an in February next year." Cui Xiuning said.

Yang Hanming said: "Your Majesty, after the capital of the Empress, the eastern capital Luoyang was empty. I asked for an order to build the eastern capital Luoyang. The palace in Luoyang was destroyed and small, and Luoyang City was no longer as prosperous as before. It really could not be called the Eastern Capital."

Cui Xiuning frowned slightly, "In recent years, the Tang Dynasty has built a large-scale construction project with more than 100,000 people, and there are as many as six major projects, which consume countless money and food. Now, the world is in peace and everything is in trouble. There are still Yuan troops in the west who are eyeing it. If you want to build the eastern capital Luoyang, it is probably not conducive to the people's livelihood of the world."

Yang Hanming replied: "Your Majesty the Queen is kind, and I know it well. However, Luoyang is ruined and we still have to cultivate it. I think that it is better to cultivate it early than to cultivate it later than to cultivate it later."

"Anyway, slaves even need to eat their food. Since they always have to consume food, it's better not to let them be idle. If they repair it in many years, they will only consume more money and food."

"No!" Cui Mu went out to object, "The words of Prime Minister Yang seem to be reasonable, but they are not." Cui Mu held up his jade scepter and clapped his hands, talking:

"His Majesty, although the slaves have to eat when they don't build projects, can't they help the court grow grain and fish? Can't they help the court mine and dig coal? This is all about increasing the court's income. Even if they don't build palaces, they won't eat in vain."

"But if they were asked to build a palace, then the imperial court's public fields would be less food. The imperial court's mines would be less ore. In other words, isn't this also considered the loss of the imperial court?"

"At present, there are still millions of northern refugees to be raised. If so many slaves don't grow food to build palaces, then the food in the Tang Dynasty will not be enough. Therefore, I am opposed to the construction of Luoyang again."

Lin Biju also said: "Luoyang does need to be major repaired, but one move will be a major project. I also oppose the construction of Luoyang, at least five years later."

"In five years, no major projects can be carried out." Cui Xiuning shook his head, "The Tang Dynasty must rest and recuperate. Even slaves cannot be treated too harshly. Slaves are human beings, and they must always have a way out."

Since the queen said that Luoyang would not be built for the time being, there is nothing to discuss.

Cui Xiuning continued: "This year's new Jinshi will select some people from the plateau area and send them to Tubo as officials. The court will not treat them unfairly. Anyone who is an official in Tubo will be transferred back within five years and will be promoted to level 2 to level 4 according to political achievements."

This is a kind of compensation and preferential treatment.

The Ministry of Personnel immediately recorded the record and prepared to handle it accordingly.

Cui Xiuning said again: "The most important political matter at the moment is to immigrate to the four northeastern prefectures. Although Yang Xu accepted the four northeastern prefectures, it was almost an unmanned area. There are rich resources and fertile land, which can support tens of millions of people. How can it be abandoned? How is the immigration going now?"

The Minister of Revenue issued a list and said: "I have to report to His Majesty the Empress Ming. As soon as the preferential immigration clause was issued, many people applied for immigration in densely populated places such as Yuezhou, Ganzhou and Yangzhou. To date, more than one million people have applied for immigration."

"In addition to other states, by the end of the sixth year of Hongwu, there were still two million immigrants. Therefore, population is no longer a problem. The problem is how to send immigrants to the four northeastern prefectures. The first batch of immigrants will set off after the beginning of spring next year."

Several times the number of land granted and ten years of tax exemption have made many people who have relocated to immigrate to the Northeast. The more people there are, the more people are willing to immigrate.

Cui Xiuning said: "Let the navy organize merchant ships to transport them in batches. Not only do they have to bring rice seeds, but also cotton seeds, sugarcane, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other seeds. Each batch is transported by 100,000 people. In the past two or three years, it is enough to transport more than two million immigrants."

"The medical and health temple will also be dispatched to hospitals in various places to form Northeast Hospital and Northeast Medical School. The Ministry of Rites is preparing to form Northeast Normal School and Northeast University School. The Ministry of Works is preparing to build various Taoist temples and local government offices in the four prefectures."

"The great immigration of Hongwu is a long-term great cause of the imperial court, and we cannot be greedy for speed. We can do it step by step. Your Majesty also said that within three years, everything will be completed in just one year. Ten years later, the four states will have to immigrate a total of five million people, and everything will be prepared to be considered a great success."

The queen said, taking notes the departments involved.

After talking about political affairs, the next step is military affairs.

Military Advisor's Mansion Jiang Jun reported:

"Zhu Han reported that the grassland in the south of the desert is almost uninhabited now. Almost all the Hu people on the grassland were taken away by the Yuan court for the western expedition. Zhu Han probably was similar in the north of the desert. The Military Advisor's Office believed that the court should send troops as soon as possible to occupy the Jinshan Pass on the western front of the grassland. Otherwise, when the Yuan army recovered, they would definitely re-enter the desert from the Jinshan Pass."

Due to the lack of Mongolian soldiers, the Yuan court has been searching for Hu tribes on the desert grasslands over the years. Whether it is Mongolian tribes or non-Mongolian tribes, they are regarded as Mongolian nations and young and strong people are incorporated into the Mongolian army.

The Yuan court's westward migration urgently required the population of its tribe to enrich its core force, so not only Liaodong, but also fishing, hunting and nomadic tribes in the south and north of the desert were almost completely swept away.

Nowadays, if you ride a horse for hundreds of miles on the desert, it is difficult to see a tent, which is particularly desolate.

However, this situation is definitely temporary.

The grassland is the home of the Mongolians, and they cannot truly give up the desert grassland. When the rule in the West is consolidated and when the Western world is completely conquered, the Mongolian army will definitely return to the grassland again.

Then, just like back then, go south and knock on the edge!

By then, the Tang Dynasty was passive. Facts have proved that it was almost impossible for ancient farming people to completely conquer nomadic peoples on the grasslands.

It’s not that you can’t beat it, it’s that you can’t run away.

As long as tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry reappear on the grassland, the entire northern border of the Tang Dynasty will be under pressure.

Therefore, the Tang court's countermeasure was to take advantage of the favorable gap of Mongolia's migration to the west, build a Jinshan defense line and block the grassland passage for the Mongolians to return east.

Then, slowly immigrate to the grassland and develop the wool textile and meat and milk industries.

Who said that Han people must be able to farm and not grazing? That's just that the benefits are not enough.

"Authentication." Cui Xiuning nodded without hesitation, "Zhu Han's soldiers should be idle. I will send two firearms brigades and two cavalry brigades to build a Jinshan defense line. Is more than 20,000 people enough?"

"As long as there is no big war, it's enough." Du Lie went out and said, "The Jinshan Mountain is more than a thousand miles north and south, and the mountains are majestic, but only four passes can pass through the troops. As long as 20,000 people guard these four passes, they can block the invasion of 100,000 Mongolian cavalry from the east."

"However, there are still many passes to build passes. It is a problem for workers who build passes thousands of miles away."

"What's the difficulty?" Jiang Jun smiled, "Let the soldiers guarding Kingsoft repair it. It's not difficult to repair a few passes. Kingsoft must be short of stones. The Ministry of Works will send a group of craftsmen to guide it."

"However, Jinshan is located in the western desert, separated from the Western Regions, but because of the bitter and cold, the hardship is far better than the Western Regions. The soldiers guard the border there for a long time. Your Majesty said before that it will be rotated every three years. In the opinion of the minister, it is better to rotate every two years."

Cui Xiuning nodded: "Then let's do it this way, it's rotated every two years. The Ministry of War will take out a charter to treat the soldiers guarding the border and add subsidies according to the defense zone where they are located. The more difficult the place, the more subsidies there will be, and promotion will be given priority. The Tang Dynasty used martial arts to stabilize the world, and did not treat the soldiers unfairly, it was the martial arts of the court."

"Abide by the order!" The officials of the Ministry of War all smiled.

But the civil servants looked helpless.

The court has treated these military men too favorably. Nowadays, there are too many good men in the people who want to join the army. Is this a good thing?

Warriors of all sizes are becoming increasingly arrogant and do not take literati seriously. The glory of warriors has risen. If this continues, it may be a disaster for the tyranny of the warriors of the Tang Dynasty to be resurrected.

The Minister of Finance finally couldn't help but leave the list and said: "Your Majesty, I request that the Ministry of Finance formulate the allowance silver quota without the help of the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War is not in charge of the family and does not know that the firewood and rice are expensive. They are all military generals, of course they wish that the more silver the border is, the better. How can they know the difficulties of the Ministry of Finance?"

"The Tang Dynasty has raised 1.3 million military and police, and military expenses and public security expenses account for nearly half of the national treasury. The court is already overwhelmed. If the Ministry of War is asked to formulate subsidies, it will probably cost a lot more."

Du Lie immediately objected: "It's not appropriate! Grand Secretary Agriculture (Shangshi of the Ministry of Finance), don't forget that the Tang Dynasty is still fighting now! You can't think of crossing the river and destroying bridges."

"Your Majesty's soldiers are still in Tubo, Yang Xu's soldiers are still in Liaodong, Zhu Han's soldiers are in the south of the desert, and Chen Shuzhen's soldiers are in Hengbei. For the sake of peace in the world and expanding territory, there is no need for soldiers! The soldiers bleed to serve the country and stay away from their families to guard the border, so why can't they get some allowances?"

"We will build a Jinshan defense line soon, and we will use troops to the Western Regions next year and to Persia! We have to worry about money and food with our soldiers before the war is over!"

The Minister of Finance's face was not good either, "Sir, I didn't say that the allowance for border guards is wrong! This is what His Majesty the Queen means, how dare I disrespect it? What I mean is that the money is so determined, and it should be handed over to the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of War will decide it itself, but we can't believe it."

"We can't believe it?" Du Lie sneered, "Who are you? Are you civil officials? I really don't believe it. The civil officials all mean this. The allowance for border guards is related to the welfare of the soldiers. It is a matter within the military. Why can't it be decided? Instead, it has to be handed over to you? If you set a little money, will the soldiers be satisfied?"

The Minister of Police also made a list of supporters, "The Grand Sima was right. Of course, the Ministry of War and the Police Department couldn't avoid this military expenses and public security expenses. How could the Ministry of Finance decide? The Ministry of Finance wanted to pay the money, which was obvious."

"That's right, one million.3 million military and police have to spend a lot of money and food every year. But so many rural officials and so many rural teachers are finally civil servants, right? Did they spend less money?"

The Minister of Rites was not satisfied, "That's wrong. There are many rural officials and their salary is not small, but most of the rural officials are retired warriors and police officers. To put it, it should be considered the expenses of the Ministry of War. Humph, half of the Tang Dynasty's treasury is spent on military and police. This is a fact. Shouldn't the Ministry of Finance check?"

"Okay!" Cui Xiuning was really angry as she saw more and more people from both civil and military sides involved in the dispute.

Damn, for the sake of money, I started arguing in the court, is it fake to think I am?

Everyone immediately bowed their heads together, not daring to speak.

"There is only a little more than two million silver dollars per year. How to determine the allowance? Those people should get it, so let the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Finance discuss it together. The Ministry of War should not speak loudly, and the Ministry of Finance should not be too frugal."

Cui Xiuning seemed to say in a mud.

She knew very well that as the Tang Dynasty became more and more stable, the civil and military disputes between the court finally emerged inevitably.

This is an unsolvable problem. It also exists in later generations.

Speaking of which, it is still a struggle for interests. The treasury has so much money and grain. When the military spends more, the literati will spend less. The status of the military is getting higher and higher, and the literati are also lost in their hearts, fearing that they will lose their voice.

In recent years, military and public security expenses have been huge, but because the Yuan army is still in the Central Plains, military overwhelms everything, the civil servants said nothing.

But as the Central Plains recovered, civil servants finally became more and more impatient.

They believed that the warriors became more and more arrogant and began to label the warriors as domineering.

Some ministers even negotiated privately, requested to disarmament, reduce military spending, and reduce the burden on the court.

However, Cui Xiuning could only suppress the dispute between civil and military affairs, but could not be eliminated.

For a system like the Tang Dynasty, once the war is stopped, the consequences of the dispute between civil and military affairs will be that the court will be intra-returning and competing for each other for profit.

Of course, this is also a check and balance between civil and military affairs. It also has benefits, but the disadvantages are also obvious.

After resigning from the court, Cui Xiuning returned to the bedroom and pondered for a long time.

After thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of a way to eliminate the future internal circulation of civil and military affairs.

It seems that there is no solution.

Later generations were pure civilian governments, and soldiers stood aside completely, but that was because modern times belonged to the post-fire weapon era, with a small proportion of soldiers, and the nature of soldiers' military personnel was greatly weakened.

But in ancient times, it was obvious that the one that later generations could not be applied. Otherwise, in the near future, there would be a situation where people control martial arts with literature and noble martial arts with value.

As long as there is no war, the unique civil servants will soon gain an advantage. If there is ten or eight years of peace, they will think that the military pay is too much and they will continue to be reduced and further.
Chapter completed!