When Liu Che walked into the palace of Jiaguan, he saw dozens of low-level bureaucrats immersed in calculating the expense accounts piled up in the palace like a mountain.
It has only been more than two months since the uterus started functioning again.
However, the accounts generated have already piled up like a mountain.
Everything up and down the palace, including tea, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, everything is recorded in these account books.
Seeing Liu Che coming, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi, who were supervising, hurriedly came forward to greet him.
As the person in charge of the province created by Liu Che, the accounting and supervision of these accounts are their responsibilities.
In the past two days, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi squatted in Jiaguan almost naked, settling and checking the money and food spent one by one.
This is a stupid method, but it is also a very effective method.
The result of the two days' review was that there were seven or eight people missing from Liu Che's palace.
They are all worms trying to falsify accounts and fish in troubled waters.
Thinking of this, Liu Che became a little angry. His palace had just been opened, and corrupt people appeared.
Is it still possible in the future?
In order to kill others as a warning, Liu Che showed no mercy to those who were caught out, and sent them all to Tingwei Yamen to await their punishment.
"Did you find any problems today?" Liu Che asked straight to the point as soon as they met.
Zhang Tang and Yan Yi glanced at each other in private and smiled bitterly.
In the past two days, their reputations have been ruined.
Because people were thrown into Tingwei Yamen one after another, everyone in the palace was saying that the two of them had "no regard for their colleagues" and were "inhumane".
Zhang Tang and Yan Yi only felt that they had been wronged.
The order to exterminate those moths was given by the prince. It was also the prince who requested that they be transferred to the Tingwei Yamen.
But the fellow villagers and clansmen of those who were transferred all blamed them for everything.
Especially Yan Yi, because he appointed two officials who were both Confucian sects, he had a very uncomfortable year.
At this moment, the two of them finally understood why the prince wanted to mess with the three-province system.
Under the three-province system, all the work that offends people is done by ministers.
The prince can be aloof from others!
"Going back to my family, I audited the expenditures of Sixian Garden last year today and found that several payments were not normal. In addition, the prince Zhongdun Sima Xiangru made several expenditures that were not in line with the rules..." Zhang Tang replied
: "Also, there are two expenditures in this year's grain purchase, which do not match the accounts here..."
"Just take a look..." Liu Che immediately became serious when he heard this.
Forget it in Sixian Garden, it's just a shabby house, surrounded by wind, and there are so many tricks inside that it's dizzying.
Most of the officials arrested in this audit were involved in Sixian Garden.
As for Sima Xiangru, Liu Che guessed that he might have used the money to drink wine, and as long as the amount was not large, Liu Che didn't bother to care about him.
After all, a good literati will always have something wrong with him!
But there is actually a problem with this grain purchase?
This can't be tolerated!
Must be strictly investigated!
Yan Yi then presented the problematic account book to Liu Che. Liu Che took it and looked at it. There was a sum of 30,000 yuan in Sixian Garden that was recorded as the cost of palace repairs, but it didn't match the number.
Liu Che handed the account book to Wang Dao behind him and ordered: "Go and check, find out. If it is an official, let Zhang Tang issue a document and transfer it to the court captain. If it is a eunuch and slave, you can take care of it yourself!"
"No!" Wang Dao took it and nodded: "I understand!"
In the past two days, four or five of the eunuchs in the Crown Prince's Palace were killed with sticks alone, and they were all unclean.
Liu Che would deal with these people who reached out randomly, especially the eunuchs, as soon as he discovered them.
Although he also knew that such harsh punishments could not eradicate corruption at all.
However, if you don't do this, corruption will become more rampant.
Then he looked at Sima Xiangru's expense bills.
They were all expenditures of several hundred or more than a thousand dollars. Liu Che only glanced at them and didn't bother to read them. He said to Zhang Tang: "In the future, as long as Sima Xiangru's bills are not too excessive, let him go... By the way,
Tell Sima Xiangru, it’s better not to go there a few times in the flower streets and willow lanes. It’s insulting to gentlemen. The right way is to find a good family and get married!”
Sima Xiangru has been a frequent visitor to Huajie and Liuxiang recently.
It is very popular among the bosses of Chang'an's red light district.
Liu Che knew the whereabouts of this guy clearly. Even these expenses were specially approved by Liu Che. Otherwise, how would Ji An agree to allocate the money?
There was nothing Liu Che could do about Sima Xiangru's deep-rooted and stubborn illness among literati.
I can only pay for his romance.
Otherwise, if something like Li Taibai happens and "the emperor cannot come to court", it will really make people laugh forever. Why not just eat and drink well, write poems and rhymes, and praise the Han Dynasty, and treat it as one's own
Guo Moruo is fine.
When we look at food expenditures, it becomes more complicated.
It took Liu Che a while to figure out what was going on.
Those problematic expenditures were all hidden among some normal expenditures, playing tricks like burning money.
Liu Che sneered twice and said, "Zhang Qing, who is the person handling these sums of money?"
Zhang Tang then said a name.
Liu Che frowned slightly when he heard this.
This person still has some background, and he can probably be related to the Dou family. No wonder he dares to play tricks on this project that Liu Che focuses on.
After thinking for a while, Liu Che said: "Let's fire him!"
This can be considered a helpless choice.
When Prince Chiang fought against tigers in Shanghai, he had no choice but to face the Kong family and the Song family.
All I can say is that Journey to the West really captures all the various aspects of officialdom.
After handling these matters, Liu Che said to Zhang Tang: "What is the progress of what Qing Guming did in Sixian Garden a few days ago?"
In recent days, because of the war, Liu Che also observed and understood the current standing equipment of the Han army at close range.
He discovered a problem, that is, the popularity of armor in the army is quite low.
In Zhou Yafu's 100,000-strong army, the number of soldiers who could wear armor was at most 10,000, and the remaining 90,000 were all soldiers without armor.
Even those who have armor and can wear iron armor are all officers at the Sima or even captain level. Most of the soldiers wear leather armor.
Of course Liu Che changed this situation!
In human history, the pinnacle of armor defense in the cold weapon age is undoubtedly the plate armor that flourished during the Middle Ages in Europe.
Early plate armor could effectively defend against attacks from bows, arrows and matchlocks.
When it reached its peak of development, Europeans relied on plate armor and created many classic battle examples.
Although Liu Che didn't want to admit it, the fact was that plate armor was more suitable for war than Eastern pierced armor and scale armor, regardless of its defensive capabilities or anything else.
In particular, plate armor can be manufactured and produced repeatedly on a large scale and to a unified standard.
But for the Han Dynasty at this time.
One of the difficulties that plagued the original European plate armor technology was insufficient iron production, which did not exist.
Last year, the total output of pig iron in the country exceeded one million jins, which is equivalent to about 500,000 jins in later generations. It is roughly equivalent to the output of 50,000 tons of pig iron, which was enough to support the Han Dynasty to expand its army at a rate of 5,000 pairs of plate armor per year.
After the local blast furnace steelmaking is launched, it will make all those who are enemies of the Han Dynasty despair.
Therefore, for China now, the only technical difficulty is the breakthrough of hydraulic forging technology.
Liu Che felt that this should not be a problem.
Of course, the heavy, airtight fool's targets that were covered in iron shells and airtight like those used in the medieval wars in Europe were not suitable in the East.
Liu Che doesn't intend to mount some stupid troops like the Iron Buddha.
Liu Che still looked down upon the kind of thing that had been eliminated by history.
What Liu Che really wanted to develop was the kind of cuirassiers that existed in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Zhang Tang looked embarrassed when he heard this and reported: "Going back to your home, according to your request, I have summoned more than a hundred craftsmen to discuss the feasibility of this matter. However, this matter has never happened before. Please give me some time."
, think about it slowly..."
Liu Che nodded and said: "It doesn't matter. Don't be too anxious, sir. If you need anything, you can just tell me directly. Money, people, and food are no problem!"
The technology of using water power to forge was still too advanced for craftsmen at this time.
But it doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to spend money and time, you can always research it.
Moreover, as long as this thing is researched, it will bring the scientific level of the entire Han Dynasty forward a big step forward.
Some of these principles can be applied to related waterwheels and water-powered mills.
After leaving Jiaguan, Liu Che thought for a while and realized that it was not appropriate to rely on Zhang Tang alone to be responsible for technical research.
Zhang Tang is not a technical person.
At best, he can be a boss who takes care of everything.
However, Mohism is the best when it comes to communicating with craftsmen, brainstorming, and coming up with solutions!
Unfortunately, the Mohist family at this time avoided government whenever they could, and few people were willing to serve in official positions.
"Yang Zizhong..." Liu Che muttered this name, thinking about his appearance in his previous life, so he told Wang Dao: "Send someone to Luoyang East City to find a merchant's son named Yang Yi. Remember, this person will be here this year."
He is about twenty-two years old, has a strong character, and is good at playing with instruments. I invited him to come to Chang'an!"
Although Wang Dao didn't know why the prince gave such an order, and how the prince knew there was such a person.
But it doesn't matter, that's what slaves do.
So he knelt down and said: "No!"
At this moment, Yang Yi, to be honest, Liu Che didn't want to summon him so early.
This is because the Mohist technical expert in his previous life has not yet developed his technical skills and is not as good as his previous life.
But there is no way, there is a lack of such people under my command.
No matter how you say it, Yang Yi is a legitimate direct descendant of the Mohist family and has a natural talent for technical issues.
Inviting him to Chang'an to lead the research and development of hydraulic forging technology should be the most suitable candidate.
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Two days later, Luoyang, the eastern capital.
A young man was playing with many instruments in the yard with his bare feet.
He stared nervously at these strange machines and murmured: "My ancestors of the Mohist family said three things. If my invention succeeds, it will have great achievements in the world, and I will also be able to leave a name in history! Hahahaha...
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He clenched his fists and shouted: "Move, Wooden Eagle!"
Then just turn a strange wooden structure.
Click, click, that strange instrument started to move.
Then, with a snap, it fell apart.
The young man sighed with great disappointment: "Hey, failed again..."
Since he was eighteen years old, he has been determined to create a magical object similar to that of Gongshuban, a wooden bird that can fly into the sky.
Unfortunately, it failed again and again.
At this time, a woman walked by in front of the yard. Seeing this scene, she frowned and looked extremely disgusted.
"Yang Xin, don't you care about your brother?" The woman put her hands on her hips and said to a timid man following her: "You know how to play with these equipment all day long, how much have you spent over the years?"
The man named Yang Xin could only smile honestly and comfort the woman: "Xijun, don't be angry, we are all a family. Besides, isn't it okay for your father?"
"Humph!" The woman twisted her waist fiercely and said, "Sooner or later, this family will be defeated by that damn brother of yours!"
But there was nothing she could do.
The father-in-law is the master of this family.
As for that father-in-law, he was very precious to his youngest son Yang Yi. Not to mention that Yang Yi was doing all those weird tricks at home every day. Even if he wanted to catch the stars in the sky, he would probably indulge him.
Thinking about these things, she felt very aggrieved.
Tuk-tuk-tuk!
At this time, there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Who is it?" The woman was already in a bad mood. When she heard the unceremonious knock on the door, she immediately became angry, and her words were naturally not polite at all.
She stepped forward, opened the courtyard door, and was immediately stunned by the sight in front of her.
I saw a large number of fully armed soldiers standing at the door.
There was one person in front of me, whom the woman still recognized. He was the official in charge of Dongshi in Luoyang City, and his surname seemed to be Wang.
Whenever he saw her, the man surnamed Wang would like to devour her.
But at this moment, the man surnamed Wang was smiling all over his face, smiling charmingly at her, and even bent down to smile with her.
The woman was startled.
There has been a lot of panic in the market recently. There is a rebellion by the King of Wu, an army attack, and spies from the Kingdom of Wu are active in the city.
"Is it possible that my family is in trouble?" The woman was instantly frightened and at a loss, and said quickly: "Everyone, why do you come to my humble residence? My family has gone on business... If anything happens, please come back later..."
"Ms. Yang Zhang, is your second son at home?" The man named Wang asked with a smile.
"Erlang?..." Mrs. Yang Zhang's teeth were chattering. These heavily armed soldiers at the door reminded her of a very bad thing.
"Could it be that something happened with Erlang?" She felt that her legs were shaking.
People from the Mo family are very disliked by the government!
But the next moment, the voice of the official surnamed Wang rescued her from the abyss: "Ms. Yang Zhang, go quickly and call out your second son. A noble man has come to Chang'an, and he wants to invite your second son to Chang'an to enjoy the blessings and do a good job."
Where is the high official!"
Chang'an? Become a high official? Enjoy happiness?
Yang Zhang changed his face in an instant, picked it up, twisted his waist, and shouted inside: "Uncle, uncle, there are distinguished guests from Chang'an looking for you!"
Yang Xin on the side looked at it and was a little stunned.
When had this wife ever been so kind to her brother?
But then he reacted.
Is that silly brother of mine going to be so successful this time?
The land of Luoyang is connected in all directions, and Yang Xin has heard of all kinds of rumors and stories.
So, he quickly helped and shouted: "Adi, Adi..."
My younger brother has become prosperous, so I, as the older brother, can also benefit from it, right? (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: There will be another chapter later, 10,000 words today, I will finish whatever I say!
