Li Ru's words made Xiangkai and Jia Xu fall into deep thought. Because they suddenly discovered that what Li Ru said was true.
Daqian has developed extremely fast in these years, but they just think it is Xu Weitian's wonder. Under his leadership, Daqian has developed so fast. Niu Gui and Zhang Baiqi are just middle-class people, and they just met Only after arriving at Xu Wei did he reach his current status.
Just like General Yuntai 28 of the Later Han Dynasty met Emperor Shizu Liu Xiucai and made great achievements and became the founding hero.
But now that I think about it, this may not be because Xu Wei eliminated all the powerful clans in the local area. Without these people, the obstacles to local development will be reduced by 99%. In this way, even mediocre people can become Famous ministers and officials are spread throughout history.
This era is indeed the most suitable era for doing things.
Xiangkai sighed: "I was born decades ago. If I could be 30 years younger, I would definitely create this new world with the ruler."
Xiangkai must have political ambitions in his heart. Otherwise, he would not have found a way to enter the palace to explain the Taiping Sutra to Emperor Heng a few decades ago. He wanted to let Emperor Heng rely on the Taiping Sutra to govern the country. It is a pity that he The enemy was too powerful, and he was driven out of Luoyang in a state of disgrace.
Later during the Ling Emperor period, he united with Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, to rebel and overthrow the Ling Emperor, and elected Bohai King Liu Li as the emperor. However, he was betrayed by the powerful clan and failed again, and he himself fled to the Taihang Mountains in despair, relying on Zhang Yancai managed to survive. He did so many things just to promote his ideas.
But in the end, he didn’t expect that his old friend Zhang Jiao’s ideas would be inherited. Now look at the booming new world of Daqian. Xiangkai had to sigh: “Sure enough, only by smashing the old world of Dahan can we build our world.” From this point of view, I lost to Zhang Jiao in the new world of the Taiping Religion."
Then he looked at Jia Xu and Li Ru and said: "Now that the world is about to be unified, you can no longer get much credit in the army. Do you two want to take advantage of this good time to come out and do something practical, so that you can Your name has also been circulated in the history of Qing Dynasty. I still have a bit of a weak point in governing, so I am willing to recommend you two to become the prefect."
After Li Ru completely wiped out the Yuan family's power, because he had helped Dong Zhuo take revenge, he also let go of his obsession in his heart. Now after hearing Xiang Kai's words, he immediately said: "With the help of the master, I can only ask for it! "
Seeing that these reckless men in Daqian could establish a new system, Li Ru really wanted to do something practical.
Jia Xu has military merit. When the military rank was evaluated this time, he received the rank of lieutenant colonel and an annual reward of 100,000 yuan.
But he also knows that this should be his limit. He does not belong to the Tengjia Army system, nor the Yellow Turban Army system. His martial arts is not high, and he has never led an army to fight. He can only provide advice to the ruling party. A staff officer, but when the world is about to be peaceful, his staff seems to be almost useless. Now that he is transferred to the civil service system, it may not be a bad thing. In terms of how to govern a party, he is confident that he can compete with Huang Long and Zhang Baiqi. these people.
Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "Then please ask the master for help!"
He knew that Zhang Ning was Xiangkai and his niece, and with Zhang Ning blowing the wind beside him, there was a high probability that the matter would be successful.
Xiangkai nodded with satisfaction. Within Daqian, the Tengjia Faction and the Yellow Turban Army Faction were huge, whether it was the military or the political side, but relatively speaking, the strength of these two major factions in the government was still slightly weaker. Now that the world is about to be pacified, it is obvious that the focus of the world in the future will be focused on governing the world in this way, and the status of warriors will be reduced. They will develop from now on, and they may not be able to show their ambitions in the court.
Will Li Ru and Jia Xu lose to Niu Gui and Zhang Baiqi? Niu Gui can become prime minister, but Jia Xu can't. Xiangkai knows that he is old and it is basically impossible to become the prime minister of Daqian.
But Li Ru and Jia Xu may not have this possibility. As long as they work hard from now on, it will be a blessing to see these two juniors become the prime ministers of Daqian.
The words were divided into two parts. After Niu Gui held the meeting, he immediately returned to his prime minister's house, summoned all his subordinate officials and said: "I just finished the meeting of governors of Daqian. The governor found that the development of various states and counties is extremely unbalanced, and the wealth The prefectures and counties are now sucking the blood of poor prefectures and counties, so the government hopes that our Prime Minister's Office will take more care of these poor prefectures and counties so that the development of Daqian will not be too unbalanced. When you formulate policies, you must find ways to Those poorer states and counties will allocate more resources."
Daqian is a big government, and when Xu Wei delimited the scope of authority, it was a prime minister-prime minister system. In Daqian, the prime minister Niu Gui is really inferior to one person and inferior to ten thousand people. Daqian is the number two, so Prime Minister Niu Gui is also a great prime minister, with more power than all the prime ministers of the Han Dynasty. There are very few things in the Daqian court that he cannot take care of, so he has a lot of subordinate officials, not counting those who work as handymen, in all aspects. There are hundreds of leaders.
But at this time, these hundreds of people were also extremely busy. They had to deal with government affairs in various places, and they also had to figure out how to formulate the entire Daqian development plan mentioned by Xu Wei, especially since there was no example of this kind of thing, and they had no place to copy it if they wanted to. , we can only try to come up with a big development plan from Xu Wei's few words.
And what happened at the governor's meeting had already spread. After all, such a big event naturally spreads quickly, and all the subordinate officials knew it clearly.
But the Prime Minister's Office is under the greatest pressure for things like this, because documents from all over the country asking for support and projects will be gathered here. It's just that this time, all the feudal officials from 10 prefectures and counties were concentrated in Jixian County, which made this kind of thing happen. become so big.
Cao Li felt embarrassed: "The pressure on our Prime Minister's Office is not small. We have to repay billions of debts every year (debt is addictive. We finally paid off the 80 billion debt through the stock market, but Because there have been a lot of wars in the past two years, especially the latest one when Xu Wei launched an 800,000-strong army. This war seemed majestic and shocked the world, but the consequences were also extremely serious. The war lasted less than half a year and took a lot of time. 15 billion, and then it cost tens of billions to retire the soldiers. In other words, the cost of this war exceeded 25 billion. Adding to the previous accumulation, Daqian now owes another 50 billion in debt. , the annual interest repayments on these debts alone exceed 2.5 billion.)
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now there are more than 3 billion in merit bonuses every year, and it is still 3 billion every year. This alone makes us spend a lot of money every year without doing anything. It’s 20%.”
Xu Wei rewarded the meritorious officials, and the entire Daqian army was beaming with joy. Even in the civil service system, many senior officials were extremely happy because they also had their share.
But among the wealthy courts, the officials of the Prime Minister's Office and the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs were the most helpless. They had incurred such a large expenditure for nothing, and they tried their best not to know how to make up for it. It can be said that starting from this reward , these officials have been working overtime for more than a month in a row, just to re-make the financial plan, demolish the east wall, and repair the west wall to make up for the shortfall of more than 3 billion.
Now Xu Wei's order is a bit difficult for these Cao officials who have worked hard for more than a month to accept. Everyone knows that money can only be returned quickly if it is invested in wealthy states and counties. But if you invest money in poor states and counties, let alone return it. It is possible to lose all your capital or lose all your money.
Therefore, from a basic point of view, these officials prefer to invest funds on the coast to build a dock and a shipyard. Whether it is fishing in the sea, whaling, or digging guano on the island, these can be done Projects that can pay back within 3-4 years can greatly increase the revenue of Daqian Finance, but if this money is used to build tracks, water canals, and even roads in Sili, it may not be seen for decades. Hope of repayment.
Just like the rail project in Xiliang, it drained Zhen An's funds and almost made them bankrupt. You must know that at the beginning, Zhen An and the others were very interested in building tens of thousands of miles of rails, and connecting the rails from Chang'an to China Unicom. The Western Regions, but this track almost killed them before they left Xiliang. Later, they took over so that the track could continue to be built. However, even if the Daqian court took over, it was only built until Dunhuang could no longer bear it. . And the return of investment is far away. The toll collected on this track is not as much as the annual consumption of the track. If it were not for the military advantages of this track, they would rather abandon this track than abandon it. Spend this money on maintenance.
Xiliang is also a big spender. Every year, Xiliang's finances are not only used locally, but the Daqian court also subsidizes billions. The people of Xiliang are very happy and feel the warmth of the Daqian court. But the Daqian court does not More than 15 billion yuan of blood was sucked by Xiliang. The Han Dynasty fought in Xiliang for more than ten years and the military expenditure was just this.
This is why the Daqian court can afford such subsidies. If it were in Dahan, I'm afraid Xiliang would have been thrown away by them.
When Niu Gui heard this, he said solemnly: "Businessmen only have to care about the gains and losses of profits. We are a court, and we are a court that wants to benefit the 30 million common people. There are some things that we have to do even if we lose money. If we are like a big man If you always say you want to abandon your ancestral land, now it looks like the big man is almost doomed!"
"When you make plans in the future, reduce investment in projects in wealthy prefectures and counties like Jizhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou. If they really want to carry out this project, let them find ways to raise funds on their own. For Xiliang, Sili, and Yanzhou, they want to The way to help them develop is to use more funds to build infrastructure such as roads, canals, bridges, and tracks. As long as the infrastructure is well constructed, businessmen will naturally invest in these places. When business is prosperous, the place will naturally prosper, and the people will If they can make money in their hometown, these people will not go to live in a foreign land thousands of miles away."
Then he looked at everyone and said: "What our Prime Minister's Mansion wants is not just one or two prosperous cities, but the prosperity of the entire Daqian."
After hearing this, the Cao officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion could only say helplessly: "No!"
With the opening from above, they can only continue to run and break their legs. I think they will have to work overtime until the end of this year.
Niu Gui also knew the hard work of his subordinate officials during this period, so he said: "I also know the hard work of everyone. I will report to the governor. This year, everyone's year-end bonus will be tripled. I will definitely make everyone have a good year."
These words finally made everyone cheer. The welfare benefits of the officials at the bottom of the cadre were not bad, not to mention triple the year-end bonus, which was almost their annual salary.
On the other side, Wang Lei hosted a banquet for Xuzhou lawmakers and businessmen at his residence.
These businessmen and congressmen were not in the mood to eat at all. After taking a few bites, they asked anxiously: "President Wang, has the government promised to increase investment in us as far as Xuzhou?"
By increasing investment in Xuzhou, they will naturally make more money. After all, only places with more money will prosper, and blood transfusions in any place are the fastest way to accelerate local prosperity.
Wang Lei shook his head and said: "The government asked us in Xuzhou to build various infrastructures first, and then find ways to develop industry. Judging from the situation of this meeting, I am afraid that the imperial court will increase investment in the poor and trouble-free western regions in the future."
Chen Deng said strangely: "We in Xuzhou are now completely impoverished and the war has ended less than a year ago. We fully meet the conditions for governing!"
This world is full of unpredictable fortunes. The Chen family was originally the second-class noble family in the Han Dynasty. For generations, the family had produced a 2,000-dan prefect. In Xuzhou, they could not only dominate the sky with one hand, but they were also powerful. Logically speaking, such a family should be a big one. Be the target of key strikes.
But things in the world are so strange. When there was a drought in the world, the two brothers Yuan Shao and Cao Cao decided to kill the noble families in Xuzhou at the same time and use the financial resources of the noble families in Xuzhou to save their own power.
Therefore, under the joint attack of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Chen Deng's family declined instantly. Wubao, land, shops, houses, food, and money were all robbed.
The Chen family declined in an instant. All their disciples and old officials were exiled by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. The core children of the family were also attacked by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and fled. Chen Deng also changed from a child of a noble family to a poor teacher. His father managed to survive in Xuzhou by teaching.
But last year, Cao Cao's power was uprooted by Da Qian, and Xuzhou became Da Qian's territory. But this time, Da Qian didn't have to clean up the clans and clans at all. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had already done it for him. And they did it cleanly.
And Chen Deng's household registration unexpectedly changed from a wealthy noble family to a poor peasant, because the father and his son did not have even half of the land, and they only relied on Chen Deng's teaching to support the family. They were an out-and-out poor family, in Daqian. In the system, people even need to receive subsistence allowances.
So after Chen Gui found out that his household registration became a poor peasant, he laughed and said: "Poor peasants are good! Yuanlong, you have to thank Cao Cao, the eunuch. If it weren't for him, your career would be hopeless. You have suffered so much in the past few years." It’s great. After a few years of hard work, we can preserve the family legacy and we will make a lot of money.”