Since Li Tai was pressed for time, Li Qianzhe rested for two days at the Governor's Mansion before continuing his journey to Shuzhong to implement a series of subsequent plans.
For the batch of Shu brocade that was shipped back, Li Tai just asked someone to select a batch of high-quality ones and send them to his house, leaving them for his wife to use at home or as gifts for daily social interactions.
Of course I have to send a batch to my parents who are far away in Chang'an, but I still have to wait for a while to save some things and send them back together, so it's not worth the trip alone.
As for the remaining ones, he arranged for people to put them into the Jingzhou official market in batches and sell them one after another. Firstly, he took advantage of the current price to sell them for profit, and secondly, he widely advertised that there was also Sichuan brocade trading in Jingzhou and locked in a number of targets in advance.
client.
The official market in Jingzhou is large in scale, and sales and transactions are frequent. The general government collects funds through various investment promotion activities, and then issues various material orders to the public through the official market.
Since the orders for goods issued by the General Manager's Office are usually relatively large, far beyond what ordinary people can satisfy, even large merchants with strong financial resources sometimes cannot meet the government's order requirements. Therefore, various types of orders gradually appeared around Jingzhou's official market.
The private market gathers public strength to meet the government's trading requirements.
Transactions between public and private parties became more and more frequent, and barter transactions became more and more difficult. Li Tai was also thinking about whether he could mint a batch of coins to meet the trade needs of Jingzhou's official market, but this idea had not yet been realized.
Dare to try easily.
It’s not that I’m worried that this move will cause dissatisfaction with the Taiwanese government. In fact, there are various regional currencies used for buying and selling in various places. Moreover, the financial power of the Jingzhou General Administration is relatively independent, so it is not feasible to establish a regional currency.
It does not require authorization from the Taiwan government and can be circulated as long as it is approved internally.
What Li Tai really worried about was that the Taiwanese government was so poor that even if he could establish a set of circulating currency, it might be used by the Taiwanese government to make money.
For example, when organizing the investment promotion before, Li Tai was considering whether the General Manager's Office should issue a commercial invoice to record the exchange of goods between the General Manager's Office and those investors?
For example, if one thousand bolts of silk is used as the denomination of a bill, powerful people can obtain a commercial note by delivering one thousand bolts of silk to the general manager's office. This commercial note can be used for direct government-led investment in Jingzhou, or in the official market.
After buying and selling, it can also be exchanged for silk again at the General Manager's Mansion.
This is a relatively low-end financial application, the purpose is only to save losses during the transportation of money and facilitate settlement.
Of course, the Jingzhou General Administration can greatly increase the amount of materials at its disposal by issuing commercial bills. The prerequisite is that there must be enough credit to back it, and at least someone must be willing to deposit money and goods in exchange for a bill.
If it were just the Jingzhou General Manager's Office itself, Li Tai would have the confidence to give it a try. But he was afraid that the Taiwan Government would also follow the same example. To make money and make money, a whole set of casting processes would have to be carried out, but this set
As long as you have hands.
The power and resources controlled by the Tai government are much greater than those of the Jingzhou General Administration. If this model is promoted under Li Tai's management, it will be much simpler for the Tai government to carry out similar operations on this basis. But the Tai government
The internal personnel structure is much more complicated than that of the Jingzhou General Administration. Once a breach of contract occurs, Jingzhou will inevitably collapse.
Therefore, there is really no limit to a person's power and status. Before, Li Tai naturally had many scruples when he was a low-key person in Kansai, but now he has become an important official and a general in the army. However, because he is not the master of his own affairs,
I still can't completely let go of my hands and feet when doing things.
This model is not easy to implement casually, and it is even more difficult to mint and issue new coins that require greater investment and supervision.
Minting and issuing currency is very simple, but the prerequisite is that Li Tai can grasp the power to launch war at any time against local powerful or hostile forces. Only in this way can others prevent others from stealing the currency that he has worked hard to build and manage to plunder his wealth.
So thinking about these things at the moment is just to refresh my mind. Li Tai, a local in Jingzhou, does not dare to engage in any monetary and financial innovations at the moment, lest improper operations cause the newly restored people's livelihood in Mianbei to be severely damaged again, but when the conditions are ripe,
But we can do it in Longyou and Hexi.
The reason why Li Tai is obsessed with controlling the voice of Longyou Commerce is that, in addition to the benefits brought by Longyou Commerce itself, there is also a large wave of dividends that are about to come.
When the Tai government sent troops south to control Shuzhong, the Western Wei Dynasty was not just a convenient transit station in the Silk Road trade, but a powerful supplier with a great say.
Whether Northern Qi Gaoyang was wise or not in the first half of his life is a matter of opinion, but one thing is certain. His father and brother maintained relatively good diplomatic relations with neighboring countries. After he came to power, he messed up the Northern Qi Dynasty through a series of wars, which greatly compressed the Northern Qi Dynasty.
A space for communication and trade with the outside world.
At the same time, Longyou and Shuzhong were completely in the hands of the Western Wei Dynasty. The Western Wei Dynasty could be said to be the only supplier at the eastern end of the Silk Road trade during this period. The right to speak was naturally greatly improved, and then it could be used to mint coins on the Silk Road.
Expand profit share in road trade.
Due to its geographical reasons, Longyou and Hexi are a very suitable area for large-scale official and market trade, so a batch of virtual currencies can be minted specifically for foreign trade, such as five or ten coins, as the only designated currency for official and market trade.
In this way, if Hu merchants from the Western Regions want to buy goods in the official market in Longyou and Hexi, they need to first sell their own goods in exchange for the inflated official money, and then use the official money to buy the needed goods in the official market.
commodity.
In this case, the Western Wei regime could use those fictitious foreign trade currencies to directly exchange for real wealth in the hands of Hu merchants. Although the value of official money itself is not high, it is locked with the trading rights. Without official money, it is impossible to participate in the Silk Road.
trading.
The reason why Li Tai was so keen to control Longyou's voice was to be able to promote the implementation of this plan and occupy a relatively considerable share of the interests in it.
Historically, it was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty that this foreign trade advantage was initially straightened out and utilized, and a series of false-valued coins such as Buquan were minted. Whether it was a special supply for foreign trade is not certain, but it is certain that by the time of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, , the Kansai regime, which is known for its poverty, has many records of rewarding heroes with large amounts of gold and silver coins. There is no tradition of using gold and silver coins in the interior, so the main source of these gold and silver coins can naturally only be the Silk Road trade.
Although Shuzhong is not under control at the moment, Li Tai has already clearly calculated the subsequent opportunities and benefits. It is only Yuwentai's lack of support that has greatly slowed down Lu's progress.
However, we cannot blame Yu Wentai blindly. After all, the foundation of the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty was really poor. After several battles, it finally got better, but it almost went bankrupt in the Battle of Mangshan. Finally, after the Battle of Mangshan Whether it is a good thing or not, after several years of development, the country's military and political affairs have made great progress.
Leaving aside the series of foreign war developments represented by Li Tai, domestic rectification and construction have now reached a critical period.
The six armies of the Taiwan government had gradually recovered and been changed to the Chinese and foreign armies. Now the Eight Pillar States have all been in place, and the twelve generals have also identified two members. When Li Tai was diligently engaged in domestic and foreign affairs in Jingzhou, Huazhou Yu Wentai was not idle either. On the one hand, he was keeping an eye on the personnel news in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and on the other hand, he was also stepping up the pace of domestic reforms.
One of the most important changes in the middle of the year was the renaming of the Daxingtai Mansion, the Prime Minister of Huazhou, to the Zhongwai Mansion. As the highest institution in charge of the military and military affairs, the military and political attributes of the hegemony were further strengthened.
As the Taifu was renamed as the Zhongwaifu, the subordinate relationship of Li Tai, the general, was also directly transferred. In June, the Zhongwaifu issued an order, instructing him to list all the soldiers under the Jingzhou General Manager's Office and submit them to the Zhongwaifu.
This reorganization was the last major reorganization before the prefectural military system was completely formed. All the armored soldiers who were incorporated into the prefecture were naturalized in Guanzhong and assigned to each prefecture regardless of their hometown.
Although the soldiers are registered, the relationship between Li Tai as their general will not change. These government registrations are only a reference for the Chinese and Foreign Governments to transfer troops. Of course, this is just an explanation given by the Chinese and Foreign Governments. .
Of course, the early government soldiers were armored soldiers who still had a certain private nature, but at least after Emperor Wu of Zhou changed the sergeants of the army to aides, the private nature of the government soldiers was erased.
It’s okay not to include the private songs in the government register, but judging from the military orders Li Tai received from the Chinese and Foreign Governments, rights and obligations coexist. His current official position is general and general manager of Jingzhou. According to the military orders issued by the Chinese and Foreign Governments, To put it in perspective, the total number of state soldiers and government soldiers should be about 15,000, including 3,000 state soldiers and 12,000 government soldiers.
The Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office did not directly state the consequences of failing to complete such a military reorganization, but it is probably related to the inheritance of subsequent military power. Li Tai inquired that the Qinzhou General Manager's Office directed by Long Youyuwen also had such a military quota. As for the The other generals have not yet been awarded the title, and Li Tai does not know the number of troops they command.
The number of soldiers in the government is relatively fixed, and it is also the most elite force under the jurisdiction of the Chinese and foreign governments. The current officers and soldiers have a master-slave relationship with the general, which is equivalent to the number of tribes endorsed by the government.
.In the future, there may no longer be clear transfer powers, but this level of identity relationship can still be retained.
In other words, if one of these soldiers is more powerful than the original general in the future, he will still be at a lower social status. This is probably similar to the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that are familiar to later generations, and they all have the flavor of tribal chiefs.
Therefore, the generals who can control more troops in the early stage will have a higher say in the army system.
But it’s not that the more registered the better, the Chinese and Foreign Offices still set a upper limit. The number of troops in the two general offices of Jingzhou and Qinzhou is the same. If there are no accidents, this should be the highest number of troops under the general’s command.
Already.
Now there are more than 10,000 troops in Jingzhou. In addition to Li Tai and his various generals, the 10,000 armored soldiers brought by Zhao Gui withdrew to Guanzhong last year. Last year, Li Tai also began to consciously train the state soldiers and township regiments and the armed forces of the barbarians.
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Now that all the people and horses from all parties have been added together, there are still more than 30,000 people under the jurisdiction of the entire Jingzhou General Administration. This is because the powerful armed forces in Shannan, Handong and other places have not been reorganized and recorded. If this group is compiled again, I am afraid there will be more than 20,000.
After all, Jianghan Haoqiang has always been tough.
Not only did he not know this, but after calculation, Li Tai couldn't help but feel that Jingzhou's military strength was enough to build a small Chinese and foreign government. At least as far as he knew, there was no other town in the entire Western Wei Dynasty that had such a strong military strength.
, even the Qinzhou General Manager's Office at the same level pales in comparison.
Of course, this is just a thought. Xinhe Liansheng is not that easy to get, so he should first firmly secure his position in the gang.
Due to sufficient troops and no shortage of manpower, it only took Li Tai more than half a month to get the relevant military registers. People like Linghu Yanbao and Li Qianzhe who have thousands of titles themselves
As for the powerful men, Li Tai did not list their individual songs, but only listed them as his subordinates.
According to the establishment of the army, one general has two kaifus under his command. However, due to last year's great achievements, Li Tai had several kaifus under his command, which was naturally a huge excess.
But as mentioned in the preface, rights and obligations coexist. Although there are many people who have opened a mansion, they do not have enough troops themselves, so they are not among the leaders. Opening a mansion is just an honorary title. Like Li Tai's cousin Cui Qian, there is no such thing.
After receiving the military order from the Chinese and Foreign Governments to organize the troops, it can be seen that although Cui Qian is the founder of the government, he is not included in the military establishment.
Although Li Tai did not recruit several powerful troops, he still had a large number of troops under his command.
The common people from the countryside who had gradually joined his tribe since the Shang Yuan period, plus Zhu Meng and others from He Basheng's old tribe, as well as Li Yunxin and others like Long Youerlang, as well as Guanzhong country tycoons such as Guo Yan and Shi Jing, and Diao Yin from northern Shaanxi
These troops of the Liu family were gathered together and carefully selected, and they gathered twelve thousand troops. These troops were the shares he owned in the Western Wei regime.
As soon as Li Tai's registration book was compiled and submitted, the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office officially issued the first summons order after the reorganization, ordering all parties to gather in Guanzhong, and after the army was assembled, they would launch an attack on Northern Qi.
Yes, as expected, Gao Yang of the Eastern Wei Dynasty usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor a month ago after more than half a year of intensive preparations. This naturally aroused Yuwentai's sensitive nerves to a great extent, so he rushed to formally complete the formation of the army.
At this juncture, he raised his troops and launched an attack on the puppet Qi regime.
As one of the generals of the imperial army, Li Tai was of course among the conscripts. However, he was not asked to return to Guanzhong to gather. Instead, he led his elite troops to cooperate with the military movements of the Chinese and foreign governments and went north out of Sanya Road and into Yiluo.
In order to contain the Northern Qi army's dispatching activities in this area.
After Li Tai received this military order, he was full of curses in his heart.
It's true that people with different fates are like people. He was transferred to the Yiluo front line and had to be separated from the army and move alone in the Heluo area. There was always the danger of being made dumplings by the Northern Qi troops. However, the general manager of Qinzhou, Yuwen Daozhi, was transferred back to Guanzhong.
There is absolutely no danger in staying at the base camp in Xianyang.
Therefore, Yu Wentai's sons deserve to be slaughtered in the future. He really dotes on his nephew. In Li Tai's opinion, your eldest son is already married. Isn't it good to let him stay at the base camp? Even if he is inexperienced, he still doesn't have a father-in-law.
Assist?
I left the father-in-law and son-in-law to sit in Guanzhong, and I accompanied Daxingtai to charge into the battle. If I accidentally missed you, I fell on the battlefield. We will also directly change the dynasty. We must not fall behind in the version!
Although he knew that this attack would only start and end, the Chinese and foreign military orders had been issued, and Li Tai could not openly disobey the orders. Before the Guanzhong army had been assembled, he quickly began to reorganize his troops, pack up, and assign various tasks.
Task.
After more than half a year, the war machine of Jingzhou General Manager's Office began to operate again. With the blessing of last year's series of military exploits, Jingzhou soldiers did not panic because of this, but calmly and methodically carried out various battles.
preparation before.
The personnel transition has been written, and the plot will continue...