"I don't have any plans," Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong answered seriously, "I came to Liaodong only to convey the emperor's will, and I don't care about anything else."

"I heard that Your Highness is going to stay in Liaodong?" Wang Yongji continued to ask indirectly.

"Well, His Majesty asked me to stay in Liaodong for training."

"How would you like to train, Your Highness? Have you found a place to train?"

"No idea."

"The army that is responsible for pacifying Liao is short of soldiers and generals. How about Your Highness staying in the army?" Wang Yongji extended an invitation to Zhu Cijiong.

"Isn't this... against the rules?" Zhu Cijiong said with a worried look on his face: "Princes cannot join the army or command troops. What can they do by staying in Governor Wang's army? I'm afraid that not only will they not be able to do anything, but it will also cause a lot of unnecessary trouble!"

"Hey," Wang Yongji waved his hand carelessly, "Rules are dead, but people are alive."

"Don't," Zhu Cijiong waved his hand and said, "The rules cannot be broken, this is the bottom line. I almost got deposed by His Majesty for returning to the capital without permission. If I break the rules and touch the bottom line, my position as a vassal king will be in jeopardy!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness. We must abide by the rules and have a bottom line!" Wang Yongji walked to Zhu Cijiong's side and whispered in his ear, "I would like to invite Your Highness to be my advisor. I wonder if Your Highness would be willing to do me the honor?"

"Advisor?" Zhu Cijiong was a little surprised by this position. "What can I, who has never been on a battlefield, plan?"

"Your Highness, that's not right," Wang Yongji began to use his ability to deceive people: "There was a scholar named Zhang Liang in the Western Han Dynasty. He was weak and sickly all his life and never went to the battlefield! But Emperor Gaozu of Han said that he was able to make plans and win battles thousands of miles away."

"Your Highness, since you can neither join the army nor command it, why don't you try to be a counselor?"

Zhu Cijiong thought seriously for a while, and before making a decision, he said something else: "Have you heard about the empty treasury, Governor?"

Wang Yongji was very surprised by this statement.

The empty treasury meant that even if a victory was won, the court could not afford to reward the army with the corresponding silver.

There was already some discord within the Ping Liao army. It would have been fine if they had talked about the empty treasury in private, but what was the point of saying it in front of so many people?

Are you afraid that the Ping Liao army will not be defeated?

Seeing the looks from the generals, Wang Yongji said in a deep voice, "Your Highness Prince Ding is worrying too much. The people of Xie Sanbin, the new Minister of Revenue of the court, are inspecting the salt industry in Jiangnan. The salt merchants there are as wealthy as a country! I dare not say how much, but it is no problem for them to make several million taels of silver."

"Distant water cannot quench immediate thirst!" Zhu Cijiong said slowly.

Wang Yongji was almost choked to death by these words.

At this moment he had an illusion: This guy... is a traitor?

"Ahem," Wang Yongji coughed twice and walked quickly to Zhu Cijiong's side. "What do you want, Your Highness?"

"Me?" Zhu Cijiong said innocently, "Didn't I tell you that I don't have any plans."

"Your Highness, it's better to say less of the kind of things you just said."

"This is the fact. Can't we just say it?" Zhu Cijiong said confidently.

"The fact is that no one knows how much money is in the national treasury, so Your Highness should not make rash comments on this matter." Wang Yongji said in a warning tone.

"Okay, okay," Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, "Let's not talk about the treasury, let's talk about the court."

Without waiting for Wang Yongji to stop him, Zhu Cijiong began his performance: "Before I came to Liaodong, a voice appeared in the court."

"What's that sound?" Huang Degong asked with a deliberately curious expression.

"Some people have suggested that instead of giving silver rewards to the army that pacified Liao, we should give them land instead. Whenever a city is recovered, the surrounding land should be distributed to the soldiers who recovered the city. This will not only boost morale, but also save money for the court."

hiss--

Wang Yongji took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

If what Zhu Cixiong said was true, it would definitely be a good thing for the Ping Liao army.

Soldiers do like money, but they like land even more.

After all, land only requires a one-time investment and can produce permanent output.

"It's a good thing, but will this move cause resistance from the Liao people?" He Jin suddenly asked.

"Resisting what?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"Those lands belong to the local Liao people. If the court rewards the land to the soldiers, won't it cause resistance from the Liao people?"

"Wrong!" Wang Yongji looked into He Jin's eyes and shook his head, "The Liao people have no land."

"No land? That's impossible! Liaodong has thousands of miles of fertile land, how could the Liao people have no land?" He Jin was puzzled.

Wang Yongji sighed: "Every time the Jiannu captured a city, they would order the Eight Banners soldiers to occupy the land near the city. Wherever they enclosed the land, the landowner was immediately driven out, and everything in the house became theirs. The wives, children and ugly ones were taken away, and those who wanted to stay dared not to take them. The Liao people who lost their land, wives and daughters were forced to become slaves of the Bannermen to farm for them to make a living."

"That's why I said the Liao people have no land!"

In history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to enclose land before entering the Pass, and the situation became unstoppable after entering the Pass.

The bannermen rode their horses with ropes, and the distance they rode was determined by the distance the horses ran.

All enclosed lands were considered unowned land and were designated as the property of the bannermen.

It is known in history as the Enclosure Order.

The enclosure order started in the first year of Shunzhi and lasted until the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi.

It lasted for forty-one years.

The occupied land area is as high as 19 million mu.

Millions of people have been persecuted.

"The Jiannu are so hateful!" He Jin clenched his right fist and smashed it hard on the weapon rack next to him.

"It's really hateful! The evil deeds done by the Jiannu are too numerous to list. This time we are not only recovering our homeland, but also avenging the people!" Wang Yongji continued He Jin's words and said, "If the court really wants to use land instead of silver to reward the three armies, it would be a good idea, right?"

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