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Chapter 172 Congjun

Speaking of business-related matters, Sui Yu looked at Liu Yu and became more energetic, losing the shyness of her youngest daughter's family. But as she looked at each other, Sui Yu quickly returned to her original appearance and lowered her head timidly.

Liu Yu smiled and said: "The business department won the second surveillance according to the price of the merchant, and there is no limit to gender. There are four to twenty deputy supervisors under the second surveillance. The specific details have not been implemented yet. Contacting the merchants and formulating details, I hope to get help from Miss Sui."

Sui Yu lowered her head and nodded, saying, "If General Liu needs it, the little woman should help you with your heart."

With Sui Yu's approval, Liu Yu felt much more at ease. When doing business, he asked himself not as capable as Sui Yu, and he was not as broad as Sui Yu's connections. What he could provide was policy help, probably as long as it was beneficial to the court's finances and businessmen, he could also agree with some seemingly extraordinary rules.

Sui Yu quickly went back to contact some big merchants. Originally, Chang'an City had its own business associations, but these business associations were spontaneously formed by merchants and were not protected by the government. Now the court intends to run a business department and has also been announced. The list said that the article was full of splendor, and those merchants still had many concerns, probably because the court took advantage of the excuse to exploit another layer. But after Sui Yu, the leader of the Sui family, came forward, the big merchants dispelled their concerns and were preparing to negotiate details in person with Liu Yu, the general manager of the matter.

When it comes to businessmen, even if the court's policies are used, they should be completely treated as business. With free lunch, those merchants will think that the court has other intentions, saying that this is the cleverness of merchants or their habits, Liu Yu must learn how to deal with merchants who are tempted by money.

In one or two days, Sui Yu had contacted most of the big merchants in Chang'an City, and the minor supervisors and deputy supervisors of the Trade Department will basically arise from these people, and the big merchants will lead the small merchants to make suggestions. The best way to prevent monopoly is that the Trade Department will first monopolize these big merchants. They are all under the same rule, so that the rules will be meaningful, instead of doing their own things as before and using improper means to suppress their peers.

The first meeting of the establishment of the Trade Department was scheduled to be held on the tenth of August. At that time, in addition to the general manager Liu Yu and a group of merchants, there were also some officials from the Ministry of Industry and Revenue to facilitate the negotiation of the establishment of specific yamen and tax rates. At the meeting, Liu Yu would also announce the specific official positions of some idle officials sold to merchants by the court to the public. On the nineth of August, Liu Yu had submitted the details of the first trade department to the New Emperor Yulan. In order to avoid the emergence of the situation, Liu Yu did not intend to get this copy to the court and directly let Su Yanyu pass it.

Liu Yu came out with the imperial copy and imperial edict, and just met Zheng Chang, the Minister of War, who brought Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu to meet the emperor. The Ministry of War had submitted a detailed memorial for the recruitment, because this matter had been decided in advance, and the memorial for the Ministry of War had not changed from the date. As the person in charge of the recruitment, Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu were going to meet the emperor for the request. Qi Fang would be promoted to the second-rank chief general, and Zhang Wuzhu would be leaving Chang'an soon as possible as the second-rank chief general.

"Shangshu Zheng, it seems that you are very efficient." Liu Yu looked at Zheng Chang with his hands behind his back. Zheng Chang did not expect to meet Liu Yu again at the door of Yaqian Hall. He originally planned to take full responsibility for the matter with the Ministry of War, and Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu planned to incorporate him into his own people. However, Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu had already informed Liu Yu of the whole story.

The Ministry of War is nominally responsible for military affairs across the country, but now within Tongguan, all military power is under Liu Yu's control, and the commanders of all military generals and generals are all regulated by Liu Yujie. Since Tongguan, although there has not been any public betrayal of the imperial court, so far, no letter of loyalty to the new emperor has been handed over to Chang'an City. Many local officials and vassal kings who are respectful of their troops are on the wait-and-see attitude, and the news about the former emperor Bintian will be reported to the whole country in the past few days.

Zheng Chang originally wanted to conquer the new army, but now it seems impossible. Zheng Chang and Liu Yu have the same official ranks. Facing Liu Yu's almost sarcastic words, he just smiled indifferently: "You are the vanguard Jianjun, you are better at your skills."

Now Liu Yu has a very obvious effect on the court and even the Dashun Dynasty. He has the attitude of tyrannical power to command princes. Therefore, many court officials loyal to the Dashun Dynasty regard Liu Yu as a mortal enemy. But in fact, Liu Yu did not intend to hold troops to be a powerful minister or rebel. All the plans he implemented were aimed at the stability of the Dashun Dynasty, not selfish.

The scale of the recruitment this time was 6,000 people, all of which were infantry, but Liu Yu meant to train these recruits into first-level combat readiness troops who could plough the fields. When Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu met with the new king, Liu Yu also left them alone and explained some specific issues.

"This recruitment is not only for disaster relief, but also for building a brave and warlike army. When I go back to the training subject, I will write it to you. This time I will leave Chang'an City for a while, and you will also explain the family affairs in advance."

Zhang Wuzhu's family has a lot of wives and children, and he has to explain a lot, but Qi Fang now has no brothers and sisters except his mother. His only wish to get married soon was stranded because Liu Zhaoyuan went to the border.

After everything was said, Liu Yu was about to leave, but Qi Fang said, "Brother Liu, someone came to see Brother A yesterday and said he wanted to join the army."

Liu Yu was a little puzzled. Is there someone? Does he know him too?

"Who?"

"It's Liu Wu who went to pay food with us. He didn't have much knowledge and felt that there was no way out in Jingzhao Mansion. He was always bullied by his colleagues and was covered in cowards. He heard that Brother Zhang and I were ordered to recruit soldiers, so he said that he would be the pioneer first. He said that he was willing to say that because he was afraid that Brother Liu would have other uses for him, he did not agree and wanted to ask what you mean."

Speaking of which, since returning to Chang'an, Liu Yu has not had many opportunities to meet these old friends around him, and he is always busy. However, Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu have free time. After escorting Tang Cai and Gan Mao’s uncles and nephews to cultivate Nanyang Gan, he had to drink and reminisce about the past in Chang'an City.

When Liu Yu first appointed Liu Wu, he completely felt that he had a spirit, was very cognitive, and was very honest. He was not the kind of villain who changed his mind. Originally, he just planned to let Liu Wu do a job and slowly improve his work, but Liu Wu was not from a good background and had low knowledge. Most of the troubled jobs in Jingzhao Mansion were old men who had been in the yamen for many years. He was ashamed of being a colleague with Liu Wu, who was a servant, which made Liu Wu feel reluctant to retreat.

"If he wants to join the army, let him go with him, as long as he can live and live." Liu Yu said, "If he can't hold on, let him come back, and I will give him another errand."

Now Liu Yu cherishes these helpers around him very much, and any of them are very precious. In the past, it was because he had no power. Now, he is basically under the emperor, so it is easy to train anyone.

After thinking about it, it is actually not harmful to let Liu Wu join the army. A person’s encounter cannot be solely based on his connections. The right way is to let him fight for it himself. (To be continued. Please search for Piao Tianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!)
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