Chapter 68 Selling an official position and getting a title
Author: Mr. Xiong Er
Chapter 68 Selling an official position and getting a title
The inspection trip to Dongning Island has initially come to an end, and Jiang Hua returned to the governor's mansion again.
After just two days of handling government affairs, Jun Chengyu came over with a serious look and a ledger.
"Gentlemen, if we in Yancheng continue to spend money at the current rate, we will run out of money in three months."
???
How could I run out of money so quickly?
Didn’t he just obtain coins with a total value of at least one billion from Yang Cheng?
One billion dollars, all spent so quickly?
Seeing Jiang Hua's confused expression, Jun Chengyu placed the bill in front of Jiang Hua and began to explain at the same time.
"We in Yancheng used to be relatively wealthy, and we did save some money, but this money was stored in the internal treasury and would not be used except for war."
Jiang Hua nodded, indicating that he understood.
Yangcheng's money generally has two storage locations.
One is the prefect's mansion and the other is the inner treasury.
The money of the prefect's mansion mainly comes from annual taxes.
The source of the money in the internal treasury is more complicated.
There is money earned from the shops run by successive generations of Jiang family owners, and there is also money earned by successive city owners going out to rob.
"Today's prefect's mansion doesn't have much money anymore."
"If I hadn't gotten a lot of wealth from Yang Cheng this time, I would have been out of money in two months."
"There are just too many places to spend money."
"My lord, you have changed from a county magistrate to a prefect. We have also become better, and the people below have also changed from county officials to county officials."
"Now, when the Zhengzhi War is approaching, county soldiers have become county soldiers, and their training has been further strengthened. However, their training expenses and daily food consumption have also been increased."
"The county soldiers have increased from 5,000 to 30,000. After the expansion, the 10,000 county soldiers have reached the level of the county soldiers in the past with a little training. The remaining 20,000 are only at the level of rural soldiers, and are now being
Practicing guidance techniques, visualization techniques, and breathing techniques, every day of training costs money!”
"Thirty thousand county soldiers are now locked up in military camps, training from morning to night."
"This kind of high-intensity training requires eating meat every day, a cup of spiritual spring for each person every ten days, and a collective medicinal bath every three days..."
"On average, each person spends more than 100 yuan per day. With 30,000 county soldiers training intensively for one day, at least 3 million yuan will be gone. By the end of March, 100 million yuan will be gone."
"This is just the most basic training, and these are just county soldiers."
"If you add the wear and tear of weapons and armor, if you add newly forged weapons, magic weapon-level chariots, etc., the various materials spent every day converted into coins will be an astronomical figure."
"This is only about the military. Now the people are migrating to Dongning Island en masse. This is a century-old plan. It is related to whether Yancheng can fight for a long time and cannot be delayed."
"After the people migrated, they needed to open up wasteland, and there was no strong labor force, so we had to send out Taoists and ask alchemists to help open up wasteland. Alchemists are more efficient, but this all costs money."
"The Taoist team is also expanding now. It was originally named after the Ten Heavenly Stems, but now all the twelve earthly branches have been used up. In less than a month, it has more than doubled in size."
"Those who join the Taoist team are at least warlocks who have understood the true meaning of the Five Elements. They are more useful, but the cost is also greater."
"There is also a school palace. Two hundred thousand children are about to enter school. The cost of building a school palace is not much, but training is very expensive! Very expensive!"
"Even if we set the medicated bath in the Junior Academy as once a month and the drinking of the spiritual spring as one cup a month, two hundred thousand children is not a small number."
"One hundred and seventy-three families are happy to pay for this money. Is it possible for them to pay it?"
"This is related to the foundation of Yancheng. Letting them serve as teachers is already the result of our lack of Taoists, so we have to win over and compromise. If we let them pay again, then will the surname of this academy be Jiang or something else?"
"There is also the Dao Palace. Now more and more doctors have joined us."
"These doctors are all Taoist priests with real abilities. With their cultivation level there, the treatment cannot be too low. Otherwise, other people will think that we in Yancheng are too arrogant and do not treat talents lightly."
"Uncle Yu, do you have any good ideas?" Jiang Hua asked directly.
"There is no good way, but there are a few bad ways that will cause endless disasters."
"Go directly to the 173 companies and ask for money. They will give you the money and we will give you the power. As for what kind of power we will give you, we can discuss it slowly."
Understand, the first strategy is to sell your official position and get a title.
Jiang Hua couldn't help but start to recall his past life. The strategy of selling an official position and getting a title was almost used by emperors of all dynasties.
During the Han Dynasty, Chao Cuo suggested that wealthy merchants who donated food to the frontiers should be given titles directly, and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty agreed.
This was an emperor with excellent reputation in the Han Dynasty.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty came, he even sold his official position directly. However, Emperor Ling's reputation was not that good.
After the Han Dynasty, officials and titles were sold in all dynasties, but the items sold were different each time.
Sometimes, if the emperor wanted to save face, he would not sell his official position directly, but instead sell the admission quota of his students.
When he arrived in a certain Qing Dynasty, he did not hide anything and donated officials directly.
At first glance, selling one's official position may sound like a heinous evil policy, but this evil policy is often adopted by rulers.
However, Jiang Hua still decided to reject this bad government.
If you want to take back the power you have sold today, you will have to work at least ten times or a hundred times harder in the future.
Brother Axiu conquered the world in just a few years, but the price was the entire Eastern Han Dynasty for 200 years. The aristocratic family controlled the government and controlled the world.
Brother Axiu gave away the power in order to conquer the world, but he never took it back after working hard all his life.
Jiang Hua did not intend to take this method unless it was absolutely necessary.
Jiang Hua thought for a moment: "What else?"
"The second strategy is to mine. Mines are money. Conquer prisoners, death row prisoners, prisoners, and slaves to mine."
"This is also a method commonly used by nobles."
Jiang Hua is not willing to do this method.
In today's Yancheng, every population is wealth. Especially the millions of people now, which are the foundation of the country and the foundation of the country in the future.
Those nobles didn't care about the loss of population, they just went to the wild to capture savages after they died, but Jiang Hua did.
"What else?"
"Borrow money from wealthy merchants. Some wealthy merchants have tens of thousands of private soldiers under their command, many masters, high reputation and powerful strength."
"These wealthy businessmen use their strong strength to travel between countries and specialize in business between countries."
But the question is, why would these wealthy businessmen lend money to Yancheng if they are not relatives?
What will Yancheng use as collateral?
"Any more?"
"besides……"
Listening to the methods listed by Jun Chengyu, Jiang Hua thought hard.
At the end, Jun Chengyu couldn't help but sigh: "My lord, I also know that these methods basically have more or less sequelae."
"But the situation in Yancheng is like this now. Even if the master is willing to take out all the money in the inner treasury, we can't last long. This year is fine, but what about next year? What about the year after that? The duration of this war is not one or two years, but
It starts in ten years, and it is possible for a hundred years or even several generations."
"So, I plan to take the initiative to bear the bad reputation."
"A few days later, when you go to Dongning Island for inspection, I will take the initiative to interview one hundred and seventy-three families in the name of the county magistrate."
"At that time, all bad governance will be done by the ministers themselves."
"One day in the future, my lord, you can use your minister's head..."
Looking at Jun Chengyu who was ready to die, Jiang Hua shook his head directly: "No, no, my other abilities are not good, but I still have a lot of ideas."