The arrival of Dongfang Pavilion and Wang Yixian did not bring much shock to Dali. The people who knew about their existence were limited to the upper echelons of the court, and many people in the court did not know their specific origins. They only thought that they came from the southeast.
The island is just one force.
After Qin Wei met Wang Yixian, he put the matter aside.
After all, Dali is more than three thousand miles away from Yuehai Island. Even if there is a smooth sailing, it will take seven or eight days by boat. If there is a headwind or an accident, half a month and twenty days are normal.
If we first take a boat back to Yuehai Island and then take a boat back, it will still take twenty days.
Qin Wei didn't know that Dongfang Pavilion had such a communication array, and he didn't even know about the array. After all, Dali didn't have the inheritance of the array.
The communication circle can immediately transmit the news to Yuehai Island. If Yuehai Island responds quickly, it can actually send support to Dali in about ten days.
But Qin Wei doesn't need to worry about these for the time being. What really needs to be worried about is Wang Yixian.
Putting Wang Yixian and Dongfang Pavilion aside for the time being, Qin Wei focused on government affairs.
Various reforms within Dali are still in full swing.
The land surveying work of various local governments has been completed. Qin Wei showed no mercy to the officials who failed to complete the task and directly asked the cabinet to punish them according to the situation. If they failed to complete the task due to force majeure, they would only be fined. If they violated the regulations, they would be dismissed from their posts on the spot.
If he deceives his superiors and deceives his subordinates, he will be beheaded.
Under the supervision of the Imperial City Department, most of the government offices and county offices completed their tasks, but there were also many government offices that failed to complete their tasks. Many of them wanted to deceive the superiors and conceal the inferiors, and the officials and gentry colluded.
Anyway, in the past month, the cabinet and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have dismissed hundreds of county magistrates, and thousands of officials have been beheaded, including those officials in Jiangzhou who caused trouble.
And there are countless squires, official families, martial arts families, etc. involved.
But no matter what, everything is almost over now. Qin Wei only needs to wait until the summer grain collection in May and June to see the results of the tax reform.
As for the abolition of the two yuan reforms, as the Coin Mining Department minted more and more new money, more new money was circulating in the market in Kyoto, and the exchange rate on the black market gradually stabilized. It was almost more than
Going directly to the Central Bank to exchange for new money is 10% higher.
This situation is normal, after all, the amount of new money is still too small.
Outside of Kyoto, new money is still very scarce.
Qin Wei estimated that it would take about two years to spread the new money throughout Dali. If he wanted to replace all the previous copper coins and silver coins, it would probably take five years, or even longer.
At present, the new money minted by the Coin Mining Department has reached about five million silver dollars, and the profit has reached one million silver dollars. In less than two months, Qin Wei has made one million silver dollars by minting money. If
Within three to five years, Qin Wei could earn tens of millions of silver dollars just by casting money.
Qin Wei did not save this money, but gave it all to Gongshu Chou and asked him to go to Linhai Prefecture to build a shipyard.
Shengtian Hall, in the Imperial Study Room.
Qin Wei looked at the account books handed over by the Ministry of Accounts.
Sun Wenjian, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, and Luo Zheng, the Assistant Minister of the Cabinet, stood in front of him.
Looking at the account books, Qin Wei frowned slightly and said, "Does this mean that the Ministry of Revenue now only has less than three million taels of silver?"
The huge Dali Dynasty only had less than three million taels of silver, which was really a pitiful amount.
In fact, there are not many places where the Dali court spends money. The Dali royal family implements the system of demotion. The royal family does not consume a lot of money every year. Secondly, there are not many nobles in Dali now. The old emperor has cleaned up several cases.
There are only a few dozen noble families left, and the required salary is not very large.
When considering the salaries of court officials and military expenditures, this should be considered the bulk of the expenses.
"Your Majesty, last year the border troops were fighting everywhere and spent a lot of money and food. Not only the treasury but also the food reserves were almost exhausted." Sun Wenjian explained uneasily.
Qin Wei thought about what happened last year and nodded slightly. It was normal for him to spend a lot of money and food last year.
Although he had tried his best to solve the attack of the Sifang Royal Court in the simplest way, the casualties of the border troops were still considerable, and the required pensions and military expenditures were still very large.
In addition, he also transferred 400,000 imperial troops to the border army, which also cost a lot of money.
In addition to the things the old emperor did before, it is already very difficult for the Ministry of Finance to still have enough money.
"How are you preparing for tax collection?" Qin Wei asked.
Sun Wenjian said: "We are almost ready."
This is a tax collection that is different from before. In the past, taxes were mainly based on grain, and the people paid grain taxes. But this time the court has issued an official document and all taxes have been replaced by money.
Instead of collecting food, collect money instead, which can save a lot of trouble.
However, there are many problems. For example, the imperial court also needs food, and now it has to spend money to buy food after receiving the money.
Qin Wei thought for a while and said: "I am going to separate the taxation from the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Yeah!" Sun Wenjian's eyes widened and he looked at Qin Wei in shock.
Qin Wei ignored his shock and continued: "There is a separate department for taxation, which is called the Department of Taxation. It has the same rank as the six departments. It is directly under the cabinet and is responsible for the tax affairs of Dali. It consists of field tax, city tax, salt and iron department.
Various departments such as taxation and taxation have set up yamen in each state."
"The tax offices of each state are vertically managed by the Department of Taxation, coordinate with the Chief Secretaries on tax matters, and are under the dual leadership of the Department of Taxation and the Chief Secretaries of each state."
Next, Qin Wei talked about his general thoughts on the tax department.
The Department of Taxation is not only responsible for collecting taxes, but is also responsible for revising tax regulations and implementation details, as well as various policy tax exemption matters.
The establishment of the taxation department can also prevent yamen at all levels from having any influence on taxation.
In fact, Qin Wei wants to open tax yamen at the county level, but considering personnel and details, Qin Wei can only open tax yamen at the state level for the time being, and then extend it downwards when the time is right.
"This~"
After listening to Qin Wei's story, Sun Wenjian had a headache, but for a while he didn't know what to say.
On the other hand, Luo Zheng next to him said: "Your Majesty, if the Tax Department is set up separately, wouldn't the Household Department have nothing to do?"
"How come? The tax department is responsible for collecting money, and the household department is responsible for spending money. After the tax department collects the money, it will be handed over to the household department, which will be managed by the household department." Qin Wei said with a smile.
He also knew what Sun Wenjian was thinking, which was equivalent to decentralizing power from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
As the financial controller of the court, Sun Wenjian naturally did not want to decentralize power, but Qin Wei had to decentralize power from the household department because in his opinion, the power of the household department was too great.
Not only the Ministry of Household Affairs, but also the Six Ministries and the Five Military Commands will be divided in more detail by Qin Wei in the future, especially the Ministry of War. What kind of military affairs are in charge of a group of civilian officials?
The military and political affairs are separated, and professional matters are handed over to professional people.
However, these things need to be done little by little and cannot be rushed.
Sun Wenjian thought for a while, but finally said nothing.
Although he was dissatisfied with the separate establishment of the tax department, he did not dare to go against Qin Wei.
Nowadays, no one in the court dares to go against Qin Wei's will.
Later, Qin Wei had a detailed chat with Sun Wenjian about the tax department, and ordered him to be responsible for the establishment of the tax department. He was the first minister of the tax department in Dali.
This made Sun Wenjian feel extremely responsible. He was a good minister of the Ministry of Revenue and suddenly became a minister of the Ministry of Taxation. This sounds a bit nonsense.
But when Qin Wei said that he would be allowed to join the cabinet as long as he did a good job in the tax department, he felt happy and full of energy.
After sending Sun Wenjian away, Qin Wei began to deal with other affairs of the court.
In the next few days, he was busy with government affairs.
Being an emperor is really very busy. He has to look over everything big and small in the court. Even with the help of the cabinet and the chief of etiquette, he still has no time to spare.
What's more, there have been many internal changes in Dali during this period, and he needs to do more things.
…
While Qin Wei was busy with government affairs, a great battle broke out on the East China Sea.
Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island are located in the eastern sea of Dali, only three hundred miles away from Dali.
These two islands are not very big, and only cover about one county. There are hundreds of thousands of people living on them, and they are completely self-sufficient.
But this time Qin Wei wanted to destroy the two islands, Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi joined forces with the Donghai Navy to fight.
Naturally, the Donghai Navy's dispatch could not be hidden from Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island. Before the Donghai Navy even set out to sea, Ju Landao and Hai Yunxuan received the news and were ready to fight.
Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island are naturally not as powerful as Dali, and even their navy is not as good as Donghai Navy. However, they are forces of the sea after all, and they are most familiar with fighting in the sea like this.
Before the Donghai Navy arrived at Xiaoyao Island, the two islands gathered hundreds of ships to prepare for a big battle with the Donghai Navy.
The third day of the fifth lunar month in the first year of Shenghua.
The Donghai Navy arrived at Xiaoyao Island.
As one of the three naval divisions of Dali, the Donghai Navy has 400 warships, 120 transport ships and more than 200 patrol ships, more than 25,600 soldiers and more than 10,000 civilians.
.
Bolu, an educated youth from Changyang, was the commander-in-chief of the Donghai Navy.
At this time, Lu Zhiqing was standing on the observation deck of a building boat, looking at Xiaoyao Island in the south.
As the commander-in-chief of the Dali Donghai Navy, Lu Zhiqing was actually a little depressed. His descendants from the Changyang House had always served in the Navy, and all the Changyang Counts had been military attachés in the Navy.
Now Lu Zhiqing is also the commander-in-chief of the Donghai Navy, but the problem is that Dali has never had much pursuit of overseas pursuits. The main tasks of the two major maritime divisions are only to cruise and intimidate, and rarely participate in battles.
Therefore, Lu Zhiqing was somewhat depressed and felt that he had no chance to display his martial arts skills.
But now Lu Zhiqing is excited because his opportunity has come.
Your Majesty is going to conquer Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island, and their Donghai Navy is the main force that will take the lead.
When he saw the shadow of Xiaoyao Island from a distance, his whole body trembled with excitement.
"Hahaha, finally here!"
"Brothers, get ready to fight!"
He shouted excitedly, then jumped off the observation deck and landed on the deck.
As he shouted, the soldiers on the deck also became excited.
Fighting seems to be a very distant thing for them. They have always been able to fight pirates in the sea, but those pirates are so weak that they have no feeling at all.
Now they are going to attack Xiaoyao Island. This is a big battle, a battle that only happens once in a century!
How unexciting this makes them!
Didn't you see that Lu Zhiqing was so excited that he was about to cry?
As warriors, they long for battle; as soldiers, they long for war.
They are not war mad, they just held it in for too long.
After landing on the deck, Lu Zhiqing hurriedly came to Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi, looked at the two of them with hope, and said: "Two adults, we have arrived at Xiaoyao Island, should we attack next?"
Ye Gucheng glanced at him calmly and said: "How you fight is your business, we are only responsible for dealing with the enemy's innate warriors!"
"Really!" Lu Zhiqing's eyes lit up.
"Um!"
Ye Gucheng nodded concisely.
"Very good!"
Lu Zhiqing couldn't help but said excitedly: "You two, wait a moment, I will go and make arrangements for the battle first."
After saying that, he hurried into the ship building.