Chapter 1140: Submission!

Hearing Wang Xuecheng talking about Ye Fu's situation, Ye Mingsheng also pondered. Judging from the house search, although Ye Fu also took more than 30,000 taels of silver from Defengxing Company, the extent of his actions was obviously much more restrained than that of Huang Can and Yang Guoxu...
Most of the wealth of those two people came from corruption and bribery. So it was not in vain that I spared Ye Fu's life!
After thinking for a moment, Ye Mingsheng asked Wang Xuecheng:

"Have Ye Tie and Ye Fu left Yijing?"

Facing Ye Mingsheng's question, Wang Xuecheng said without hesitation:
"Ye Fu has been escorted to Liaoyang today. General Ye Tie will go to Liaoyang tomorrow morning!"

At this point, Wang Xuecheng hesitated for a moment and reported:

"After General Ye Fu's property was confiscated, the old lady sent someone to take Ye Fu's family to a house in Yijing, and gave them 500 taels of silver for their household expenses."

Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly when he heard this. He knew that his mother, Ye Cui, was the biggest supporter of the Ye clan, and that Ye Fu and Ye Tie were two younger generations that she loved very much. When he went to pay his respects this morning, although she did not say it explicitly, she felt that her punishment was too severe, and she pleaded for these two people in an indirect way.

But honestly speaking, the treatment of Ye Tie and Ye Fu this time was already the result of Ye Mingsheng's leniency, otherwise there would be no problem in executing Ye Fu's entire family and Ye Tie immediately...
Although Ye Mingsheng felt a little bit reluctant in his heart, the country has its own laws and the family has its own rules. He must give the two of them the punishment they deserve!
Seeing that Ye Mingsheng didn't say anything, Wang Xuecheng understood that Ye Mingsheng had tacitly agreed to this matter, so he said goodbye and left without saying anything more.

After Wang Xuecheng left, Ye Mingsheng continued his work for the day. The main thing today was that Su Yi, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, submitted a memorial saying that Gao Shen was going to return to Yijing!
After several months, although there were some twists and turns, Gao Shen finally brought Nurjiang's head back to Ye Mingsheng!

In addition to killing Nurjiang, Gao Shen also helped Ibugel become the Khan of the Luobi tribe. However, after experiencing a series of turmoil before, the Luobi tribe was also divided into pieces. While its strength was greatly damaged, its internal centripetal force and cohesion were also greatly reduced!

So although Ibugel became the Great Khan, his position was not stable, and Jamukha, who fled to the north, still caused unrest from time to time. So in order to stabilize his position as Khan, Ibugel also intended to move closer to the Great Zhou!

This time when Gao Shen returned to Yijing, he also brought back a breakthrough in diplomatic results, that is, Ibugel, as the Khan of Robe, was willing to submit to the Great Zhou!

This can be said to be a very great diplomatic achievement. After all, the Luobi tribe is not strong now, but after all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. The Luobi tribe is still the largest force in the eastern grassland, and it is still the overlord of the eastern grassland...

In history, the Luobi tribe has always been an important enemy of the Great Zhou in the north. The two sides have fought many wars and have also had periods of peace. The Great Zhou has tried to recruit Luobi several times before and offered very generous conditions to the Luobi tribe, hoping to make the Luobi tribe submit, but it has always been rejected by the Luobi tribe!
Therefore, if Luo Bi is willing to submit to the Great Zhou Yijing court led by Ye Mingsheng now, it can be said to be a considerable diplomatic victory. It can boost the morale of the Yijing court and unite the people of the court. At the same time, it will also greatly enhance the prestige of Ye Mingsheng himself!
Although this is a good thing, the Luobei people made such great compromises and sacrifices for a reason!
Ibugel said that although he was willing to submit, it was conditional. The first and most important point was that the Yijing court had to send troops to help him deal with Jamukha!
Since the last alliance incident, in order to prevent Ye Mingsheng’s revenge, Jamukha also led his troops to migrate north immediately!
At that time, Ye Mingsheng still had to fight in the south, so when he saw this guy running away, Ye Mingsheng was too lazy to pay attention to him for the time being, thinking that he would come back to deal with him after unifying the Great Zhou!

So Ye Mingsheng gave Ibugel some food, money and firearms and supported Ibugel in fighting against Jamukha. Seeing that Ye Mingsheng did not send troops to retaliate against him, Jamukha, who had fled north, became more active. After all, Mobei was not a suitable place for human habitation. The people who fled north with him also complained a lot, and some of them even ran back secretly...

Therefore, Jamukha also wanted to come back, but he was too afraid of Ye Mingsheng, so he did not dare to bring his tribe back directly. So he wanted to test Ye Mingsheng's reaction, and his way to test Ye Mingsheng was to harass Ibugel's tribe!

Although Ibugel was elected as the Khan of Robe, the prestige of the Khan has declined a lot because of the lack of internal centripetal force and cohesion of Robe. Some heads of small tribes simply disobeyed the order in secret and would not listen to orders!
Some tribes even maintained ambiguous contact with Jamuka's troops, secretly hoping to welcome Jamuka back!

The only troops that Ibugel could really command were those of his Solon tribe, so when faced with the harassment from Jamukha's troops, he was rather defeated and lost a lot of his cattle and sheep!

If the Fengwu Army had not given him some money, food, and firearms before, Ibugele might have been defeated by now. That was why Ibugele made up his mind to surrender in exchange for the Fengwu Army's dispatch of troops!

In addition to the first condition for sending troops, Ibugler also put forward two other conditions!

The second condition was that Ibugele hoped that Ye Mingsheng would be able to bestow great rewards on the Luobi tribes, and offered almost impossible conditions such as one million taels of silver, 100,000 pieces of cloth, 10,000 pieces of silk, 100,000 kilograms of salt, and 50,000 kilograms of tea!
The third condition is that Ibugele hopes to strengthen the exchanges between Luobi and Dazhou. In addition to expanding the scale of mutual trade, Ibugele also hopes that the Yijing court will build factories for them and help them manufacture firearms...

Ye Mingsheng knew very well that although Ibugele had written so many conditions, he must have been thinking of asking for an exorbitant price and paying back the money on the spot!

But Ye Mingsheng still had an urge to let Ibugerle take a good look in the mirror. How can you have the nerve to ask for so many things with such a shameless face?

Those who know that you are paying homage would think that the Yijing court wants to recognize you as its father and pay tribute to you!
It is impossible to bestow rewards. After all, the Yijing court is now extremely poor and still has debts of millions of taels of silver to pay off!
Although there are still hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the Ministry of Revenue's treasury, they are all the silver at the bottom of the box. After all, no one knows whether the world will be peaceful in the new year, or whether there will be natural disasters such as locust plagues, floods, and earthquakes in various places!

If you don't have silver in your Ministry of Revenue's treasury, when a famine occurs, you will be unable to help and can only watch helplessly!
Now Ye Mingsheng wishes he could break the tael of silver into two halves and spend it. Compared to spending silver to buy your Luobei tribe's submission, the Yijing court has more meaningful things to do!

Yesterday, Su Wei, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, suggested that the Ministry of Revenue allocate 210,000 taels of silver to build 137 schools in various places to provide free education for children in various places! In this regard, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites are still discussing how to unite with local governments to spend little money to accomplish great things and implement this matter...

Although he was speechless about Ibugel's exorbitant demands on him, after calming down, Ye Mingsheng could understand Ibugel to some extent!
After all, submitting to the Great Zhou was a great humiliation for the Luobi tribe, and it was even unacceptable to some Luobi people!
Therefore, as the Great Khan, Ibugel would inevitably bear great pressure within Robe and suffer a lot of criticism if he took this step!
And if he could get some rewards and benefits from the Yijing court, he would be able to calm the anger of his people to some extent and maintain his position as Khan!
Of course, I understand it, but Ye Mingsheng will never meet his unrealistic request. Although rewards are not an option, it is not a problem for you Luobi people to exchange horses and sheep with me to expand the scale of trade!

In short, Ye Mingsheng was still interested in the Luobi people's submission. In principle, he agreed to send troops to help Ibugel deal with Jamukha. Rewards were impossible, but the trade between the two sides could be expanded!
This is Ye Mingsheng’s attitude. As for the remaining specific contents, Gao Shen and Su Yi will need to discuss them!
After writing the comments, Ye Mingsheng also wanted to see the latest progress of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Rites regarding the construction of schools. Ye Mingsheng himself was very supportive of building schools to provide free education!
After all, there is a saying that a strong youth means a strong country. Developing education is a good thing that benefits the present and future generations!
Although it was criticized by many traditional scholars, they believed that teaching children some scientific and technological knowledge in school was a strange and tricky way of poisoning children...
However, Ye Mingsheng also insisted on doing so despite the pressure from public opinion, and continued to influence public opinion and spread the idea that science and technology are the primary productive forces!

According to the memorial, although Cui Shao of the Ministry of Revenue was willing to support new-style schools, he thought that 210,000 taels of silver were too expensive, so he hoped that the Ministry of Rites could reduce the number of schools built, and also hoped that the provincial governors of various places could share the expenses, so as to reduce some of the Ministry of Revenue's expenditures!

Currently, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the provincial governments at all levels are in the process of wrangling with each other, and it may take some time before a result is reached.

Ye Mingsheng’s current idea is to see how the next investigation into corruption goes. In principle, he hopes to use part of this dirty silver to invest in Da Zhou’s education!

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the next morning,

Dozens of well-dressed men, accompanied by their entourage and carrying all kinds of gifts, came to the east gate of Yijing. They were all members of the Ye clan in Yijing. Some of them served in the army, and even those who were not officials were able to make their way in Yijing by relying on the surname Ye.

The reason why they are gathered together now is to see off Ye Tie, the former general of Yijing who is being transferred to Liaoyang!

Since Ye Mingsheng founded the Fengwu Army, thousands of Ye family members have joined the army. Many of these people now hold high positions under the promotion of Ye Mingsheng. However, among these Ye family members, the one with the highest position and the one most trusted by Ye Mingsheng is undoubtedly Ye Tie!

In addition, Ye Tie has a generous personality and values ​​friendship and loyalty. Many members of the Ye family have received his favors. Therefore, for a long time, Ye Tie has been widely regarded as the representative of the Ye clan's power in the Fengwu Army, and can even be said to be the leader!

Some of the Ye family’s descendants even believed that if the future Marshal became emperor, Ye Tie would be crowned king!

It is precisely because of his high prestige among the Ye family’s descendants that when Ye Tie was about to leave Yijing for Liaoyang to take up his post today, dozens of Ye family descendants came in person to see their eldest brother off!
Although these Ye family members wanted to express their gratitude, when Ye Tie appeared at the east gate and saw these familiar faces, although he was very touched that everyone came to see him off, he couldn’t help but frowned...
At this time, when the Ye family members saw Ye Tie appear, they immediately surrounded him. After weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Ye Tie immediately ran away without even saying hello, leaving the Ye family members looking at each other in bewilderment, wondering why Brother Ye Tie was avoiding them!

Not only did the Ye family members not understand, even Ye Tie's wife Zhao, who also came to see him off, said in confusion:

"Husband, why don't you go see these brothers? They all came here out of kindness to see you off. Aren't you going to disappoint these brothers by doing this?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Tie sighed and said:

"It's because these brothers have good intentions that I can't see them! It's better for both me and them!"

After hearing this, Zhao became even more puzzled and said:

"Husband, what do you mean by this? Why don't I understand what you mean?"

Ye Tie waved his hand and said impatiently:
"Why do you, a woman, ask so many questions about men's affairs?"

"These things have nothing to do with you. Just take care of the house and take care of my parents and children in Yijing. That's your main job! Stay out of the rest!"

Seeing that Ye Tie seemed a little angry, Zhao also carefully assured:
"My dear husband, rest assured that I will take good care of this family for you!"

Ye Tie nodded when he heard this, and then seemed to remember something and said with some concern:
“Don’t bully Xiao Cui when I’m not at home! I will take Xiao Cui over when I’m settled in Liaoyang…”

(End of this chapter)