Ni Yuanlu was drowsy and sat in the duty room for a long time, but he had been staring at a document for a long time, but he didn't turn a page. Finally, he sighed and took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose and put them aside.

At this time, he really had no intention of handling official duties.

Zhao Guoliang died and committed suicide by drinking golden wine in the imperial prison of Jinyiwei.

This result was beyond everyone's expectations, and also made the officials of the Three Laws and Justices who were the trial of this case feel a little heavy. The verdict had already been announced, and the afternoon gate was executed three days later. It was a typical example of Mingzheng, but in a blink of an eye, the person was taken away by the Jinyiwei and committed suicide directly in the imperial prison.

What exactly does this mean?

The Right Censor is Ni Yuanlu's deputy. He sat on the side and sighed, "Mr. Ni, what do you mean by Your Majesty? The imperial pen and red marks were strictly handled, and we were asked to conduct trials at the Meridian Gate. The officials were observing the punishment. But in a blink of an eye, the Jinyiwei took the person away and committed suicide in prison. This is the one who said that he had done so."

The Right Censor said worriedly, "Is Your Majesty dissatisfied with us?"

Ni Yuanlu was also a little helpless and even felt a little regretful. This matter should not have been exposed rashly. When he discovered the case, he was very excited and felt that the case should be handled as a typical example. For this reason, he did not report to the emperor first, but instead revealed the matter to the newspaper and spread it to the public.

He did this at that time because he was afraid that the emperor would protect his shortcomings and privately leave the case to nothing. He thought that when public opinion arose, the emperor would definitely not be able to protect Zhao Guoliang and would have to be tried publicly.

He did this not to do something against the emperor, but to think that it was his duty. Even if the person who committed the crime was a disciple of the emperor and Yuan Zuo's honorary minister was no exception.

But now in this way, Zhao Guoliang is dead, but there is such a way to die.

Alas, did you really do something wrong?

After thinking about it, he felt that he had been cheated by the emperor. It was not himself who was wrong, but the emperor.

But after careful consideration, the emperor was right. Zhang Guoliang violated the national law, and the emperor ordered the three departments to conduct a trial. This was fairness. But after the trial, the emperor gave him to commit suicide, which was the emperor's love.

The emperor paid his own treasury to make up for the deficit of one million silver dollars, but did not pursue Zhao Guoliang's family. This is a clear distinction between public and private affairs. It is affectionate and righteous.

But why did he think that in this way, the emperor has feelings and righteousness, but he has become a person inside and outside?

But the emperor always does this, often unexpected.

Just like when the emperor was patrolling the pass, everyone thought that this time the emperor was very happy about his merits and wasted money. The land outside the pass was not allowed to cultivate, and the court was struggling. What's the use?

But now it seems that this is not the case.

The emperor patrols outside the pass, showing off his might, demonstrating the powerful strength of the Han Dynasty, and the Mongolian princes surrendered.

The imperial court granted the princes, without a single soldier, and the Mongolian tribes surrendered. Not only did they impose the territory, but they also had the Zhili territory. The grassland did not produce food, but he had seen the trade agreement between the imperial court and the Mongolian princes. The two sides opened up trade. From then on, all parts of Mongolia were exported and sold for the Han merchants. At the same time, various livestock, fur, meat products, dairy products, minerals, herbs, etc. in Mongolia would also flow into the Central Plains at extremely low prices.

The Han Dynasty had one more sales place, and the Han Dynasty also had many important sources of goods such as livestock, not to mention. The court was able to obtain large amounts of commercial taxes and tariffs in this incoming and outgoing transaction.

Now Ni Yuanlu also understood the importance of commercial taxation to the court.

Not to mention that the emperor also drove tigers and swallowed wolves, used Mongolian princes to destroy the four tribes of Korqin, and then went east to fight against the Jurchens. The court was outside the pass and did not hurt a soldier at all. Without a single knife and a gun, the Mongolian population was reduced by 500,000 people, and now it will recover Liaodong.

Thinking back then, during the Ming Dynasty, the north was never at peace. Although we successfully negotiated peace with Tumote, the left-wing Chahar continued to harass, let alone the Jurchens who were rising in Liaodong.

If it weren't for the Jurchens, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished in a blast.

Back then, the Ming Dynasty spent countless money and food every year, exhausting the country's strength, and even unable to deal with the chaos outside the pass. But now the emperor easily handled it.

The most important thing is not that the emperor has settled the outside of the pass, but that the emperor has not only not eroded the strength of the Central Plains, but has instead improved a lot of strength.

The court opened up the borders, took back western Liaoning, and controlled the Mongolian grasslands. The newly added provinces of Yanbei, Monan, Suiyuan, Ningxia, Lingbei, and Liaoning were once all territory controlled by the Mongols, not to mention that western Liaoning was fully recovered, and Liaodong could be recovered immediately.

The imperial court opened up thousands of miles of territory to the north.

During this process, the court did not increase taxes and the people did not increase any burden. The soldiers of the empire were extremely injured, and they were just dispatched to show their military power in front of the Mongols.

The court consumed some food, but obtained a large number of grassland livestock, fur, milk, minerals, etc.

The merchants made money, the court increased taxes, the soldiers received rewards, the orders for military workshops increased, and the craftsmen increased their income, and the prices of food and grass rose, and the income of the people increased.

No matter from any perspective, the series of expansions of territory outside the pass did not harm the interests of the people or the strength of the court. On the contrary, all classes seemed to have gained a lot of benefits.

Not to mention, the court will move many poor people in the Central Plains to outside the pass and distribute them a large number of land. If many poor people in the Central Plains move outside the pass, the land pressure in various parts of the Central Plains will also be greatly reduced, and the lives of the people who stay will become better.

By immigrating to the border, the court stabilized the border, increased land output, and increased taxes.

No matter where you look at it, it is win-win and mutual benefit.

This situation was hard for him to understand. Emperor Wu of Han attacked the Xiongnu in the north for decades and moved the Xiongnu westward, but the Han population was reduced by half. Emperor Yang of Sui fought against Liaodong three times, and his troops were issued millions. Although he destroyed Goguryeo, his heavy military service and husband service also suppressed the people of the world and were finally forced to rebel and died in the Second Emperor of Sui Dynasty.

Even later, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo, and later, when Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he finally joined forces with Silla to destroy Baekje. Goguryeo actually caused a great burden to the people. The people did not get any practical benefits from these wars in the court. Although in the long run, these wars actually have extremely important strategic significance and are related to the safety of the Central Plains.

But for the people at that time, they did not get any benefits.

The soldiers died in battle on the battlefield, died in foreign lands, and suffered a large number of casualties. The burden on the people continued to increase, and the military service and husband service were too heavy to breathe. The court's increasing war expenditure dragged the country to the brink of danger.

During the Ming Dynasty, the war outside the pass directly caused Ming to collapse.

But the strategy of Dahan outside the pass was completely different.

From the court to the people, from soldiers to merchants, everyone only gained benefits.

It's simply incredible.

What is as incredible as this is the transformation of land in the southwest.

Ni Yuanlu also opposed the transformation of the land and returned to the current, believing that this would inevitably force the rebellion of the tribes in the southwest, triggering a lasting rebellion that would drag the empire down and even cause the court to lose the southwest.

But the result was not what they expected.

Ni Yuanlu sometimes calms down and thinks about it, why is everything so hard to understand?

The civil officials opposed the use of troops to fight. In their opinion, unless they had to do so, they should try to avoid war. Once the war is fought, the expenses will be huge and various problems will follow.

But now, since the Han Dynasty established itself, it has never stopped using troops. Even when it was using troops everywhere, the scale of the army has been expanding again and again, and the military expenditure budget has continued to rise, but there is no public grievance or dire straits in the country.

On the contrary, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty have now become the most desirable profession for young people, and are also professions with extremely stable income and generous income. The huge military scale has also made the Han Dynasty have a larger military industry, and those military orders feed countless workers.

In the Ming Dynasty, fighting war means a bad situation and a vicious cycle.

But in the Han Dynasty, it seemed that the opposite happened. The more wars went, the better the domestic situation seemed, especially the more prosperous the industry and manufacturing industry.

After two dynasties, he always couldn't understand many things.

Just like the annual tax on grain in the Ming Dynasty is only more than 20 million shi, and the annual tax on silver is only 20 million taels.

The imperial court had only millions of military personnel, but it occupied 100 million mu of military fields, but it was useless.

However, in the Han Dynasty, the imperial court raised more than one million regular troops and used troops from all over the country, but the situation was still better. The land collected by the Han Dynasty was not much higher than that of the Wanli Qing Dynasty, but the country's tax revenue was hundreds and thousands of times that of the Ming Dynasty in the past.

The national tax revenue has increased by hundreds of times, but the burden on the people has decreased.

Is this the real way to govern the country?

Ni Yuanlu truly admired this young founding emperor. Such methods of governing the country were simply incredible, but they were indeed effective.

Ni Yuanlu shook his head and sighed softly.

Perhaps these people can no longer keep up with the situation, and their past concepts of governing the country were simply not suitable.

The new dynasty was indeed different. From the great ministers, military generals, to the merchants and people, everyone no longer opposed and hated war. Because the Han Dynasty's external expansion of war would not affect their lives or threaten their safety.

On the contrary, war brings many new things and new opportunities.

As soon as the imperial guard passed Shanhaiguan, Liu Jun received a memorial from the capital.

The Zuodu Censor Ni Yuan said he would resign on the way.

Liu Jun was a little surprised. Although Ni Yuanlu was born in Donglin and later joined forces with Wu Yan and other officials to deal with him, that was the case in the previous dynasty.

In fact, he succeeded Liu Zongzhou as the position of Zuodu Censor of the Censorate of the Censorate, and he was very competent.

Although Liu Jun was a little dissatisfied with Ni Yuanlu not reporting the case in this Zhao Guoliang, he still admired his spirit of respect for his duties very much.

Such a yamen like the Censorate needs such a person.

Of course, Liu Jun could not agree to Ni Yuanlu's resignation. He left, so how could such a person go? If another official had changed, he would definitely not be as selfless as him when facing Zhao Guoliang's case.

After thinking about it, Liu Jun picked up the imperial pen and wrote an imperial edict directly in the carriage.

"The promotion of the left-level censor Ni Yuanlu, the founding prince of Lin'an County, was given 10,000 silver dollars!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!