"In addition, the officials of the canal transport are greedy and use public service to private goods. One thousand stones of grain can be transported to the capital through the canal. In the end, I wonder if there will be two hundred stones in the treasury! Not only is it inefficient, it consumes amazingly, but it also wastes millions of young and strong labor. What is the use of such canal transport? It is different to take sea transport. A large sea ship can carry tens of stones of grain at a time. It takes only ten days from Guangzhou and arrives in Tianjin. Twenty or thirty sailors can handle it. The efficiency is more than a hundred times higher!"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled bitterly and said, "Don't I know that shipping is more cost-effective and labor-saving? But once these millions of canal workers are out of their way, the world will be in chaos!"

"Otherwise, I will transfer the Liaoning army to the south and enter Xuzhou and Jinan. Everything is ready. The court will drive the river workers to clean up. As long as they dare to rebel, hum!"

Liu Mingyu was jealous of these million river workers for a long time. Although they were millions of river workers, in fact, there were hundreds of millions of people connected to their families.

These people were time bombs in the Ming Dynasty, but it was difficult for the Liu family army to expand their naval power. The Shahe Gang was just a gang of rivers and lakes and could provide a limited number of people.

Chongzhen was shocked: "You are crazy!? Those millions of canal workers..."

"It is precisely because of those millions of canal workers that want to abolish the canal transportation!"

Liu Mingyu smiled and said, "The territory captured must be developed by someone after all. Whoever has a property is willing to leave his hometown and go to Liaodong. Once the canal transportation is cancelled, the millions of canal workers will have no place to go. Then some policies will be introduced to encourage them to go to Liaodong. Wouldn't that be a natural thing?"

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned and stared at Liu Mingyu blankly, as if he was watching a lunatic.

After a while, he said, "You keep mentioning Liaodong, I want to ask you, how long will it take to completely destroy Jiannu?"

Liu Mingyu thought about it and stretched out two fingers cautiously: "Two years!"

"You said three years, but now you say two more years!"

"There is nothing I can do. Jiannu is like the Huns in the Han Dynasty and the Turks in the Tang Dynasty. It is easy to defeat them. If you want to destroy them, you must go on an expedition. I will train farms in Liaodong, and I must send tens of thousands of troops and follow hundreds of thousands of civilians to take charge of logistics. In this way, I can completely destroy Jiannu!"

"Now Jiannu and Xiao Rizi are attacking North Korea. Half a month ago, they were less than 300 miles away from Pyongyang. Now they are afraid that they have already arrived at the city. How many people can you send to support North Korea?"

Liu Mingyu pondered and said, "Twenty thousand people, the logistics workers need 50,000 or 60,000!"

"Twenty thousand people?"

Chongzhen was a little unbelievable.

Liu Mingyu said: "Now our army's muskets and cannons are extremely sharp. The cannons can kill twenty or thirty people with one shot. Thousands of muskets fire in turn are enough to weave a ventilated fire screen. If the Jiannu cavalry insists on rushing over, nine out of the ten people will be beaten into a hornet's nest halfway. What will Jiannu use to fight us?"

Emperor Chongzhen said for a long time: "I will regard him as a big talker when others say these words to me, and chopped off his head without saying a word, but when you hear these words from your mouth, I have already regarded Jiannu as a group of dead people!"

"Thank you for your trust!"

Emperor Chongzhen encouraged: "I give you enough time, just let it go! If two years are not enough, it will be three years, and if three years are not enough, it will be five years! I am still young, and I will finally see you capture Huang Taiji for me. I ask him to dance for me. I am not anxious, but I must be anxious about the matter of North Korea!"

"Then I will set out from tomorrow!"

Liu Mingyu looked at Chongzhen and smiled and said, "Your Majesty can discuss with the court officials. Let them argue, it is best to argue for ten days and half a month..."

Before Liu Mingyu could finish his words, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to understand.

Liu Mingyu is setting up a suspicion array in the old way.

Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and said, "Do you want 50,000 civilians to be responsible for logistics?"

"right!"

"Then recruit it from the canal workers!"

Chongzhen's eyes flashed and said, "I heard that the canal workers are as strong as ox, who can endure hardships, obey orders, and take them to take charge of the battlefield or the logistics, which are all good choices."

Liu Mingyu was so excited that he burst into tears.

Big Boss, you have finally gotten to know that in addition to pulling fiber, the canal can also join the army!

How did the Qing Dynasty solve the problem of the canal workers? Well, simply put it, to catch the strong men, the Taiping Army, and the Qing Army also arrested them. Millions of canal workers were divided into two camps and bloody battles. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was pacified, not many people were left in millions of canal workers, and this heavy burden was naturally thrown away.

This shows that Emperor Chongzhen was really moved and was ready to eradicate the cancer of the canal transport.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was very terrible. It was not just a general in western Liaoning, but the canal transportation was also a huge shackle on the Ming Dynasty's neck.

Chongzhen also hated these officials and workers of the canal transport.

Chongzhen also clearly knew that the imperial court had a huge hole in the canal transportation. This canal transportation was related to all aspects of interests and could not be moved lightly. Once it was moved, those people would be deceived by the canal workers and cause trouble.

If more than one million young and strong canal workers make trouble, it will be troublesome. The entire Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou is in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. What’s more important is that as long as there is a problem with the canal transportation, there will be a grain shortage in the capital. Once there is a grain shortage in the capital, the Ningjin Line, Xuanda Line, and the three sides will have problems.

In this time and space, Chongzhen was actually happy. Because of Liu Mingyu's existence, Jiannu had no strength to move for the time being. Sun Chengzong had been sitting in Jizhou and staying in the back to support the Ningjin line. Lu Xiang rose to Xuanda.

Although Hong Chengchou has any problem with his character, his ability is not a problem, he can still suppress Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

In this situation, Chongzhen dared to let go and clean up internal problems. He slashed the inside of the palace and threw more than 1,400 palace maids and eunuchs to Liu Mingyu.

Of course, the court ministers would not care about these things. Anyway, the palace let Chongzhen do whatever he wanted, and then he moved the Jing camp again. The officers and soldiers of the Jing camp opened their mouths to ask the court for food. As a result, when Jiannu came over, he was afraid of the enemy like a tiger. Emperor Chongzhen was disappointed, and the ministers were also disappointed.

Once there was a problem in Beijing, they could not escape. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen cut down with one knife, and the eighteen independent thousand-household offices of the four guards were cut off by Chongzhen.

It also did not arouse fierce opposition from the court ministers, so you can try the canal industry slowly.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen looked at Liu Mingyu and said, "I plan to let the new Liaoning army take over the western Liaoning army and take over the Ningjin defense line!"

Liu Mingyu looked at Chongzhen in amazement and said, "Why?"

"I have had enough of the warlords in western Liaoning! I consumed seven million taels of military pay every year, almost emptying the national treasury, but I could neither attack nor defend!"

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and gritted his teeth and said, "In the second year of Chongzhen, Jiannu attacked heavily. The Guanning Army claimed that he had fought with Jiannu for several days, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, and beheaded more than 600 levels. All the civil and military officials in the court said that they had made great achievements. However, I asked the Jinyiwei to check it, but found that they did not fight Jiannu at all!"

When Chongzhen said this, his beard was so angry that he trembled. He smashed the teacup heavily on the tea table and said indignantly: "As soon as Jiannu came, the fortresses built with tens of thousands or even more than ten or two hundred thousand taels of silver were all given up. He either surrendered to Jiannu or fled in panic and did not play any role!"

Liu Mingyu knew all these issues when Chongzhen mentioned them, but he knew the rules, but he had no way to say that cutting off people's wealth was like killing his parents, which would lead to blood feud.

What's more, Liu Mingyu did not expect to reform the Ming Dynasty like Zhang Juzheng. The Ming Dynasty was so bad inside and outside. It was not necessarily possible to gather three strong reformers, Zhang Juzheng, Wang Anshi and Shang Yang, to play with the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Shang Yang could also get the strong support of the King of Qin, and there were 200,000 Qin army tiger and wolf troops as support. The key was that Shang Yang represented the interests of the Qin tiger and wolf troops.

However, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially those nobles and generals, were themselves unable to support the mud.

Emperor Chongzhen began to complain: "There are all tens of thousands of Guanning troops shrouding in the city and dare not show up. Only Zu Kuan fought with Jiannu on Cross Pole, defeating Jiannu's Jiala! They all regarded me as a fool! When facing the enemy, they did not deserve one ten, but competed for one ten, and wanted to pull all their grandsons who were not as tall as the wheels, and they wanted to share the credit. The list of rewards could be listed as three feet long! What are they trying to do? Are they really thinking I was blind!?"

Cao Huachun's eyes became deeper, and he really wanted to say: "The emperor, those ministers..."

Cao Huachun really wanted to say that those civil officials treated you as fools, but you didn’t listen to the advice at that time. Anyone who advised him would be labeled as an eunuch. Cao Huachun was a eunuch, so he needed to avoid suspicion.

"After a year, there are millions of Liao gulfs, I have raised such a group of waste that cannot be attacked or defended. What's the use for them? The Liu family army is very powerful and spends much less food and money!"

Chongzhen smiled excitedly and said, "I have decided to use the Liaodong New Army to replace the Guanning Army to guard the Ningjin defense line. If they have too few troops to defend, they might as well give up Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and only guard Shanhaiguan. As long as they can hold Jiannu for a few years, my Liaodong New Army will be able to accumulate enough strength to move north!"

If Chongzhen really dared to do this, he would have become the third emperor in the Ming Dynasty to fall into the water and die unexpectedly, and he would not have to hang himself on the coal mountain.

In addition, Liu Mingyu is sure that once Chongzhen proposed to retreat to Shanhaiguan, all the civil and military officials in the court would jump up and bite people!

Retreat to Shanhaiguan can indeed save food and money greatly. It is not a problem to reduce the 7 million taels of Liao salary to 1 million taels. The problem is that all the civil and military officials of the court are pointing to the Liao salary, and doing so is equivalent to cutting off their financial path!

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty had no other skills, but no one could do anything to do. Only then did they know that once they found that their wealth was about to be cut off, what a stupid thing these deceased would do!

Liu Mingyu's rise in Liaodong seems to be incredible, but in fact, his foundation is still shallow. Developing industry is never an easy task. It is not just a problem of science and technology, but also a problem of workers. With the support of Liu Mingyu, Liaodong's industrial development has entered the fast lane of development, with almost factories blooming everywhere, textile factories, cement factories, steel mills, coal mines, shipyards, etc. It is bound to be the next few years that the productivity in the Liaodong region will develop in a booming pattern.

The workers were developed along with these factories. According to statistics from more than 200 counties in the 18 prefectures and prefectures in Liaoning, there are 4,355 factories with a total of 4,355 employees, and more than 4,570,000 professional craftsmen. The vigorous development during this period directly led to the number of workers in Liaoning exceeding more than 5 million.

In this way, the workers formed a huge class.

Since humans have emerged, there will be conflicts. Especially capitalists, factory owners, do everything they can to pursue profits. Although Liu Mingyu forced the Liaonan Parliament to avoid harsh treatment of workers and led to workers' resistance movement, he once proposed the minimum standard of wage income, and also required workers in each factory to pay wages through the bank.

In fact, although workers in Liaodong can make a living, there is still a certain gap between the salary of later generations that can buy four or five thousand kilograms of grain, which can make their wives and children eat and drink.

Of course, what they fear most is that they bewitch workers and Liu Mingyu's rebellion internally, so that Liu Mingyu will have greater trouble.

A right strategy at the wrong time can lead to catastrophic consequences, and this is a bloody lesson.
Chapter completed!