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The Illegitimate Son of the Song Dynasty Volume 4 Chapter 697 Theory of the Tubo Threat

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    "Is there any news about Di Gulie?" Yang Yi asked seemingly unintentionally.

    "My lord, not yet." Ma Hanqing replied truthfully.

    Yang Yi handed the reins to the servants in another courtyard and took the lead to go inside. In fact, he also knew that this was thousands of miles away, separated by a green ridge, and the news from Persia could not come so quickly.

    There is no news now, so there will be no news this year. After winter, the mountains are covered with heavy snow, the majestic green mountains are difficult to climb, and business travel from east to west is extinct. Now, the news from Persia is basically spread by business travel.

    The current situation in the Persian homeland is complicated, and the various forces are entangled. Yang Yi has no idea whether the enemy force can sweep across the Persian homeland. Although the enemy force also comes from the Onan River, the enemy force is not Hulagu after all.  This Western Expedition is not a repeat of the Mongolian Western Expedition.

    "It's just that he had high hopes for Di Gulie and gave him so much support. It was inevitable that he had some expectations, so he asked first.

    Ma Hanqing was half a step behind, and he and Yang Yi walked towards the flower hall of the other courtyard. He hesitated and said: "Sir, I am worried that the imperial court will cut the financial budget of the Zifang Guan this year. I hope that your Excellency can fight for it for the Zifang Guan."  Now, your Excellency knows best that although the battles in Liaodong and the Western Regions have been fought, due to the expansion of the Song Dynasty's borders many times, the scope of the Zifangguan's investigation has expanded a lot, and the number of personnel cannot be reduced. Many places need to be expanded.  The secret post is to ensure the delivery of the message. Sir, you must at least keep the original 500,000 yuan of funds for the staff office!"

    Ma Hanqing finished speaking impatiently and waited dryly for Yang Yi's reply.

    Yang Yi was a little funny. As soon as Ma Hanqing came back, he went to the other village.  This is probably what he is most anxious about.

    After entering winter, it is almost time for various departments of the imperial court to submit their fiscal budgets for the coming year.  The Academic Academy is similar to the emperor's staff, with a small number of personnel.  The work he is responsible for is relatively simple. It mainly provides advice to the emperor and drafts major edicts. It basically does not involve specific government affairs. Making a financial budget is very simple, just reporting the salaries of subordinates, so Yang Yi does not need to contribute to the budget of his department at all.  What are the fees for applying for a report?

    But it is different for other departments, especially departments like the Ministry of Industry, Taipu Temple, and Staff Office, where applying for financial budgets is very troublesome.

    The vocational school is actually like the military.  The budget received during wartime will definitely be larger. After entering peacetime, it is normal to cut some budgets. Ma Hanqing's worries are by no means unfounded.

    The two of them entered the hall and took off their big hats covered with snowflakes. Xiao Ai and several maids immediately rushed to bring hot tea.

    Yang Yi leaned on the Taishi chair and breathed a comfortable sigh, and then said: "If you want to increase the budget, this is a technical job. The budget of the vocational school in the past three or two years should not be reduced. But this is just your and my idea. Can  You cannot make both the North Korean and Chinese ministers agree with this idea. It depends on how well you do in your budget request report;

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out???  The problem is that your budget application must first pass the audit of the Audit Department, which is an independent audit.  Even His Majesty can't interfere in name, and I can't help you.  "

    Ma Hanqing suddenly had a grimace on his face after hearing this.  He is Yang Yi's confidant and knows that Yang Yi has mostly focused on the outside world in the past two years.  It is true that the Audit Department does not have his people;

    It is true that even the emperor cannot interfere with the financial audit process of the Audit Department. At least this was the decision when the Audit Department was originally established;

    Although the Audit Department only has auditing power, the power to approve the budget belongs to the final review meeting of the Political Hall composed of the emperor and the governors.  But if you can't even pass the audit department, your budget application report won't get to the political hall.

    So what Yang Yi said to Ma Hanqing was not an excuse.

    Ma Hanqing smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, you came up with this financial budget. You have some ideas, right? You also know that due to the war between all parties in the past two years, the imperial court did not deduct the funds of the official office at all. At that time, there were many foreign affairs and  I don¡¯t have time to think about this. How can I ask for funds? I¡¯m really inexperienced. Sir, please help me come up with ideas.¡±

    ¡°Hahaha, it¡¯s true that I was born in sorrow and died in happiness.¡±

    Yang Yili was delighted. In the past two years, everyone had relied on the Zhifang Guan to provide timely intelligence, and even used the Zhifang Guan to thwart Changjiadi's siege of Shangjing at a critical moment. Under such circumstances, the Zifang Guan's  Of course, Ma Hanqing doesn't need to worry about the budget. If you don't think about these things, you will naturally have no experience.

    But Yang Yi did not want to interfere with the audit work of the Audit Department. When he introduced the fiscal budget system, in addition to making the fiscal expenditures of the Song Dynasty more reasonable and orderly, the deeper reason was to restrict the monarchy;

    The power of financial audit is in the hands of the Audit Department, and the final approval power is in the hands of the Political Affairs Hall. If the chief officer of the Audit Department andThe prime ministers in the court were all responsible people, so the financial power of the Song Dynasty was basically separated from the emperor;

    If the emperor wants to build a palace, unless you use internal currency, it must pass the audit of the Audit Department and the approval of the Political Hall. If you fail to pass, you can't do anything. This can effectively stop the emperor's extravagant squandering.

    The independent auditing power of the Audit Department is exactly what Yang Yi wants to maintain. How can he himself break this rule?

    But Ma Hanqing¡¯s worries are indeed justified. According to the current situation, the financial budget of the Staff Office will definitely be reduced, and Yang Yi himself does not want to cut the funds of the Staff Office at present, so as not to affect his next deployment.

    In later generations, in order to make more money, arms dealers will prompt governments to launch wars; if the military wants to get more funds, it will create tensions and create threats to other countries.

    In ancient China, there were many generals who respected themselves by raising bandits. Ma Hanqing would not understand these simple methods, but he just played a trick in the Western Regions without Yang Yi's consent, and now if Yang Yi nods  , he didn't dare to play tricks in private again, which would most likely arouse Yang Yi's resentment, and further doubt his credibility and loyalty.

    Yang Yi is quite satisfied with his approach. Zifang Guan is like a monster. He created this monster. Yang Yi doesn't want to see him out of his control.

    He thought for a while and said: "Han Qing, a few days ago I came into contact with a big businessman named Lu Yongzan from the Wusi tribe of Tubo. My family has established some business relationships with him and is planning to set up a business store in Luoche. You can send  Let some people go to Luosue. I suspect that the Tubo tribes will unite due to the strong pressure from our Song Dynasty;

    The consequences of reunifying the Tibetans would be disastrous. During the pre-Tang Dynasty, Hexi, Longyou, and even the entire Western Region fell under the iron heel of the Tubo people. We must learn from the past and take precautions!  "

    Ma Hanqing was immediately happy after hearing this. Yang Yi pointed out a clear path for him: the theory of Tubo threat!

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    ps: Thank you to the three book friends, Xia Hanhe Ye ¡ú Still Arrogant and Qingshui Liu'an, for their support. Thank you.
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