After Kou Zhun and Kou Ji decided on the matter of spending money, they ignored Kou Ji.
His eyes fell on Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing.
Kou Zhun had heard a little bit about Kou Ji's encounter in Bianjing City.
For Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing to abandon their bright futures and choose to go to Han with Kou Ji, Kou Zhun sighed and highly praised them.
Kou Zhun was very talkative, and he chatted with Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing for most of the day.
The discussion moved from knowledge to military affairs, and from military affairs to current affairs.
It wasn't until dark that Kou Ji and the four of them left Wenchang Academy with satisfaction.
After returning to the palace in Handu, Kou Ji discussed the future path with Bao Zheng, Su Xun, and Di Qing.
Bao Zheng wanted to continue studying criminal law, Su Xun wanted to study knowledge at Wenchang Academy, and Di Qing wanted to go back to his fiefdom first and fight two battles to clean up the savages in his fiefdom.
Di Qing didn't have much idea about developing the fiefdom. He just wanted to fight and didn't want to worry about anything else.
Kou Ji felt that although Di Qing's fiefdom was in a bitter cold place, it could still be used.
Di Qing's fiefdom is the same as Kou Ji's fiefdom, both are close to the sea, so they can develop maritime trade and fishery.
Di Qing's fiefdom also had a lot of timber and iron ore, and Kou Ji thought they could be developed.
Di Qing blamed everything on Kou Ji, making Kou Ji dumbfounded.
Kou Ji finally decided to transfer some manpower from the Qing Kingdom and go with Di Qing to Di Qing's fiefdom. He would first clean up the savages there, then build some houses, reclaim some fertile land, build a dock, and build a shipyard.
Let Di Qing's tribe and Di Qing's old tribe settle down in Di Qing's fiefdom first.
Di Qing agreed wholeheartedly.
Su Xun wanted to study knowledge, so Kou Ji gave Su Xun the important task of sorting out the food books and compiling systematic teaching materials.
Kou Ji has the final say on everything in the Qing Kingdom, and almost everyone in the Qing Kingdom obeys Kou Ji's orders.
So Kou Ji doesn't need to worry about this or that at all.
There is no need to hide or tuck it in.
Whatever he wanted to add to the textbook, he just stuffed it in at once.
Therefore, the education model that was relatively close to later generations appeared in Qingguo easily.
Bao Zheng wanted to study criminal law, and Kou Ji generously approved it.
Kou Ji gave Bao Zheng great privileges and let Bao Zheng do the hard work.
After settling Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing, Kou Ji summoned all the officials of Qing State and briefly established the power structure of Qing State.
It is roughly the same system as the Three Three Systems and the separation of powers in the Song Dynasty.
It's just that the establishment of the official system is relatively simple.
The Qing Kingdom was small and sparsely populated, so there was no need for such a complicated official system.
In addition, the affairs of the three academies are also different from those of the Song Dynasty.
The academicians and deputy academicians of the three academies of Qing Dynasty all have the power to participate in the deliberation of central government orders.
The Assembly Hall is a place for political discussions jointly built by seven people, including the academicians and deputy academicians of the three academies and the leader of the Qing Kingdom.
Kou Ji further weakened the influence of the royal power on the Qing Kingdom and decentralized more power.
Although this move was very harmful to the royal power.
But the Kou family's rule over this land will become relatively stable.
After the simple Qingguo court was built.
Di Qing led two thousand people on Qingguo's large ship and set off from Qingguo's northeast pier and rushed to his fiefdom.
With Di Qing's current status as the vassal king, it is obviously inappropriate to lead elite soldiers and horses to gallop through the territory of the Song Dynasty.
Even though all the people in Liao were the old subordinates of Di Qing and Kou Ji, they would not do anything to them.
But if you have become a feudal king, you must have the consciousness of becoming a feudal king.
After Di Qing left.
Kou Ji launched a vigorous construction project in Qingguo.
In order to have enough labor force.
After Kou Ji completed the establishment of the power structure of the Qing Kingdom, the first decree he implemented was the system of universal military service.
Not only the Song people in Qing Dynasty were required to perform military service, but also the criminals in Qing Dynasty were required to perform military service.
It's just that when people in the Song Dynasty performed military service, they really trained with a gun in their hands.
The criminals' military service is purely a combination of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps and the Construction Corps.
Fortunately for Kou Ji, Kou Tianci paid great attention to Qing's household registration statistics when he was governing Qing.
Within the territory of Qingguo, everyone who is alive is recorded in the book.
The most basic local power class in the Qing Kingdom is the soldiers who have retired from the army, and they have very strong execution capabilities.
In addition, Qingguo is a small country with few people. As long as you are a little serious, no one can hide it.
It is precisely because of this.
When Kou Ji implemented the system of universal military service, it went very smoothly.
Directly stipulate the age and length of service, and then send the document to the lowest-level household head at the local level.
The head of the household at the lowest level will send all those who meet the age limit to the military camp.
They all came from the military, and they saw their children enjoying the blessings to the point of committing crimes.
Now that they have the opportunity to train their own children, not only do they not object, but they support it with both hands.
Therefore, not long after the universal military service system was implemented, Kou Ji recruited 100,000 soldiers, 80,000 of whom were convicted.
Only 20,000 are from the Song Dynasty.
Although as early as a year ago, the Song Dynasty people in Qing Dynasty had passed the crime list.
But most of them are still young.
Kou Ji set the age of service at between seventeen and twenty-one years old.
Therefore, the number of Song people that can be recruited is not large.
In comparison, the war in those days wiped away the young and strong among the criminals, leaving only a large group of children.
Now that the children have grown up, they have naturally reached the age of military service.
Once an order is issued for all people to serve in the military, a huge number of criminals will naturally be recruited for military service.
Twenty thousand Song people were sent to the military camps and became novices to be ravaged by their uncles.
Eighty thousand troops were built, of which 40,000 were sent to Handu, which was renamed Qingdu.
Another 20,000 construction troops were assigned to the two governments.
A huge construction project began.
The construction projects are very complex and the amount of construction work is very large.
The largest ones are Qingdu and Guandao.
Although the official order of the Qing Kingdom has been established twice under the auspices of Kou Tianci, it still cannot meet the standard of four carriages running in parallel.
So it needs to be expanded again.
After 40,000 construction troops arrived in Qingdu, Kou Ji selected another 20,000 soldiers from Qingdu to join them.
A total of 60,000 people started a vigorous construction project.
The start of large-scale construction was deafening explosions.
Kou Ji divided Qingdu into four regions.
Among them, the Xuefu District is temporarily untouched, and the Political District located in Zhongzhong was the first to be bombed and the first to start construction.
The people in Qingdu temporarily live in the temporary resettlement area, and the construction soldiers live in the Corps garrison area.
After everything was settled, Kou Ji blew up the original Goryeo Palace, which looked like an eyesore, to pieces.
Then he built it according to his own drawings, but the first thing he built was the sewer that was dug more than three feet deep.
The sewer construction project is spread all over the city and can be said to be very large.
After Kou Ji finalized the general matters, he left the project to Liang Shi and hid in Wenchang Academy to sort out the food books with Su Xun.
In less than half a month, Liang Shi came to visit.
"The Lord..."
Kou Ji was sitting on the third floor of Baishi Tower, and he and Su Xun were studying the parchments left by ancient Greek sages. Liang Shi hurriedly stepped up the stairs of Baishi Tower and appeared in front of Kou Ji.
Kou Ji put down the parchment in his hand and asked: "What's the matter? But there is a problem with the construction of the new city?"
Liang Shi hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, building fortifications in many places together will cost a lot of money. In just one month, more than one million yuan of money has been spent.
After all the fortifications in various places are completed, it will probably cost tens of millions of dollars.
With the current taxation of Qingguo, I am afraid it will take nearly fifteen to twenty years to collect this money.
Therefore, building fortifications in many places together is extremely detrimental to our Qing country.
I think we should take care of it slowly."
Kou Ji stared at Liang Shi and said with a smile: "You, you, it's time to learn how to spend money."
Liang Shi was stunned and looked at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Kou Ji said with a smile: "This money is paid when it circulates. If it is hidden in the treasury, it is not called money, it is just a pile of stones. So not only making money is a science, but spending money is also a science.
Whether to store wealth in the national treasury or to store wealth among the people, I prefer to store wealth among the people.
Money hidden in the treasury is almost useless unless it does something important.
But if money is put in the hands of the people, it can do many things.
The money is in the treasury, so what should the people do?
But if the money is in the hands of the people, it will have a different effect.
Those who farm can use money to purchase some new farm tools and better seeds. Even after farming, they can also use money to purchase some lambs, piglets, etc., or purchase some spinning wheels, looms, etc.
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In this way, when the harvest comes at the end of the year, the food grown by the people will not only produce high yields, but they will also be able to harvest a lot of cattle, sheep and cloth.
The more the people harvested, the more taxes the court collected.
Those who do business can use money to open larger workshops, expand the size of their caravans, and build larger shops.
The more they earn, the more taxes the court will collect.
Therefore, it is far more cost-effective to put money in the hands of the people than in the national treasury.
Our purpose is to make the people rich and the country prosperous, not to collect all the money in the world into our own hands.
If we really want to get all the money in the world into our own hands, we might as well go rob it.
Why bother running a dynasty?"
After Kou Ji finished speaking, Liang Shi fell into silence.
Su Xun put down the pen in his hand, raised his head, and said with approval: "When I first governed the Bohai Mansion, I actually wanted to help the Song Dynasty court make money.
But when I saw the great vitality that merchants entered Bohai Prefecture and brought to Bohai Prefecture, I took advantage of my position to set up a shipyard and a place to store goods at the wharf set up in Bohai Prefecture.
Businessmen provide convenience.
I invested almost all of Bohai Mansion’s income in the first two years on the dock.
But when Bohai Mansion developed, the benefits gained were much greater than I expected.
Therefore, if you take it in advance, you must first allow it.
This principle is very practical.
You only saw the Qing Dynasty court spending a lot of money, but you didn't see the benefits that this money brought to the people after it flowed into the people.
Not to mention anything else, just the construction of official roads and inns in various parts of the Qing Kingdom. Once completed, the benefits to the Qing Kingdom will be far beyond your imagination.
I won’t go into details here, you can slowly observe it yourself.”
At this point, Su Xun glanced at Kou Ji and said to Liang Shi with a smile: "More than a month has passed and more than one million yuan has been spent. You are feeling extremely distressed.
In my opinion, some petty people are angry.
The leader of your family has nothing else but plenty of money.
Wherever you put your millions of dollars to spend, you should let go and spend them boldly.
If I were you, I would not only build a new capital, but also build official residences, post houses, and school buildings.
I will also recreate the pier.
There are five wharves in Qingguo. Except for the northeastern wharf, which is purely for military use, the rest can be built into huge commercial wharves following the example of Bohai Mansion.
Communicate goods from Bohai Prefecture, Dengzhou, Leizhou, Xiyang, Dongyang, Liuqiu and other places.
We can also expand the shipyard again and sell Qing's large ships that are far superior to other places through the port.
In addition, Qingguo is vast and sparsely populated, and its population is still gradually recovering. However, it can be predicted that in ten or twenty years, Qingguo's population will increase exponentially.
By then, the output of Qingguo's land may not be enough to support the people of Qingguo to live a prosperous life.
Therefore, fishing can also be developed.
Qingguo has the best big ships. With the help of big ships, Qingguo can make great profits from fishing.
Since the king is willing to spend money, you should do more things that can pave the way for the Qing Dynasty in the future, and never be polite to the king."
Liang Shi pondered for a while and said with emotion: "Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading."
Su Xun gave a bitter smile and said, "You are not the only person who is willing to listen to my truth, but you are the only one who is willing to listen and believe it."
Liang Shi was stunned for a moment and looked at Kou Ji.
Su Xun laughed and said, "Don't look at him. His ideas are more exaggerated than mine. Others find them absurd."
Liang Shi hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "So... I can let go of the flowers? Is it okay to spend thousands of dollars?"
Su Xun shook his head and said: "Don't even think about it. Qingguo is only a little bigger, and thirty million guan is enough to accomplish what the king envisioned and what I just told you.
So it's okay to let your hands and feet go, but don't be corrupt. It's best to keep a close eye on the people under you and tell them not to be corrupt.
If you are greedy, the king will probably ask that stubborn donkey Bao Zheng to come out to investigate the corruption.
In the Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng investigated not only 10,000 cases, but also 8,000 cases.
You can't hide it from him with your little skills."
Liang Shi looked embarrassed, "I have never had such an idea."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "You are my grandfather's favorite disciple, and you have helped Tianci manage this place for many years. If they both trust you, I naturally trust you."
Just go ahead and do it.
Don't be afraid of spending money.
We have nothing to do with Qingguo, except that we have a lot of money, and there are countless people waiting to give us money."
Liang Shi said seriously: "I understand, thank you so much for your trust, Lord."
Kou Ji waved his hand, indicating that Liang Shi could go down and rest.
After Liang Shi left.
Su Xun said with emotion: "People who have stayed in a small place for a long time just don't have much courage. If you dare to let me take charge of this matter and dare to tell me to spend it as I please, I can do whatever you want to do with your tens of thousands of dollars."
Er Jing.”
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "The right way is to figure it out slowly. I have already advanced the development of Qingguo by a big step. If I push it by several big steps again, it will be difficult for the people to adapt.
Besides, we must digest all the sins before we can significantly improve everything in Qingguo.
Before the guilt has been digested, the development of Qingguo will be greatly improved, and the polarization will be very serious.
At that time, there will definitely be big conflicts, which will eventually develop into a sword fight.
Once more people die, the seeds of hatred will be planted.
It will be difficult to eliminate it when the time comes.”
"Polarization?"
Su Xun looked at Kou Ji suspiciously.
He knew only a little about the word.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Polarization means the polarization of rich and poor. Once the Qing Dynasty develops too much, the people of Song Dynasty will become very rich, but they will still have nothing to blame.
When sinners are dissatisfied with the status quo, they will cause trouble or even rebel.
Just like the landlords and tenants of the Song Dynasty."
Su Xun nodded thoughtfully.
After Su Xun nodded, he looked at Kou Ji and asked, "What are you going to do with that idiot Liu Yong?"
Kou Ji sighed and said, "I have already sent someone to pick him up."
Su Xun said with emotion: "I thought that Liu Yong's temperament had changed a lot after so many years. I didn't expect that Liu Yong was still the same Liu Yong. When his temper got worse, he really dared to say anything."
Kou Ji smiled bitterly and shook his head without saying anything.
A few months ago, people from Tianci Bank in Bianjing City sent a letter to Qingguo.
The content inside made Kou Ji and Su Xun dumbfounded.
After Kou Ji, Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing left Beijing, important positions in the Song Dynasty became vacant.
The post of Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty was completely abolished.
After discussion with the Song Dynasty official Zhao Zhen, the Third Academy of the Song Dynasty dispatched Han Qi and Liu Yong to Beijing to take over the positions of Su Xun and Bao Zheng.
After Han Qi received the imperial edict to enter the court, he shed tears of excitement and rushed to Bianjing City without stopping.
Liu Yong was somewhat dismissive of the imperial edict.
After he learned that Kou Ji had left the Song Dynasty, he felt very unhappy.
Not knowing the truth, he thought it was Zhao Zhen who killed the donkey, so he was dissatisfied.
He slowly entered Bianjing City, and after making some inquiries, he found out the truth of the matter.
It turned out that the truth of the matter was very different from what he had guessed.
The reason why Kou Ji left Bianjing City and the Song Dynasty was not only injured by Zhao Zhen, but also plotted by the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
Liu Yong was annoyed, so he picked up his pen and wrote a poem on a stone wall in front of Donghua Gate.
The title of the poem is "Crane Soaring into the Sky: Your Father Is Leaving", and there is a very arrogant and very offending sentence in it.
It's called "Emperors in ancient and modern times tolerate no one, leaving only villains in the high halls. Honesty is hurt, and traitors laugh. If they are like their mother, your father will go away..."
Good guy, as soon as this word came out, everyone in the Great Song Dynasty was scolded.
After Liu Yong finished writing the lyrics, he threw away his pen, took off his official uniform, and left Donghuamen elegantly.
After the civil and military officials in the Great Song Dynasty saw that word, they were almost furious to death.
The memorial to impeach Liu Yong drifted into the palace like snowflakes.
Frankly speaking, Liu Yong is guilty.
The people from the Criminal Law Department did not wait for the imperial court to issue an order, so they rushed to Liu Yong's house and captured Liu Yong's family.
Liu Yong did not give up and took his family to the prison in Bianjing City.
The reason why people from the Criminal Law Department dared to arrest people without waiting for the imperial court's order was firstly because Liu Yong's words were suspected of committing crimes, and secondly because Liu Yong took off his official uniform and left in style.
When Kou Ji was in the Song Dynasty, he made corresponding laws because officials of the Song Dynasty were too unrestrained when they left office.
In other words, Liu Yong showed the attitude of hanging up his seal without the permission of the court, which was considered a violation of the laws of the Song Dynasty.
Kou Ji left with Su Xun, Bao Zheng and others, which was another matter.
After all, in that situation, no one dared to make a fuss about it.
After Liu Yong was captured, countless people asked him to kill him.
But Zhao Zhen finally let Liu Yong live and did not care about Liu Yong's crime.
Liu Yong was dismissed from office and his family was sent to the Yalu River.
Zhao Zhen's move was actually giving the person to Kou Ji.
It was just hard to tell him openly, so he was sent to the Yalu River.
As for whether Liu Yong would transform into a nobleman of the Qing Kingdom after arriving at the Yalu River, no one cared at all.
No one will care.
After Kou Ji learned about this, he sent someone to pick up Liu Yong in Bianjing City.
After all, Liu Yong did such a ridiculous thing just to help him vent his anger, and Kou Ji couldn't ignore it.
In a blink of an eye, two and a half months passed.
Liu Yong was sent to Qingguo.
Qingguo also became lively because of Liu Yong's arrival.
It's not that Liu Yong has extraordinary charm that can attract people from Qing to watch.
It was Liu Yong who took the lead. After Liu Yong arrived in Qingguo, many people arrived in Qingguo intermittently.
First, Zhao Run followed Liu Yong to Qingguo in the name of visiting relatives.
Next are the envoys from Xiyang and the envoys from Dongyang.
Then there is Di Qing and the hundreds of warriors he has accepted.
There are also Cao Yi from Liuqiu and envoys from the Eastern and Western Tianzhu Kingdoms.
It is said that there were also envoys from the Black Khanate and two other Song Dynasty vassal kings near Black Khan who had no national title but occupied territory equivalent to one country.
All in all, when several of their forces entered the Qing Kingdom, they brought a lot of people with them.
Counting scattered numbers, there were seven to eight thousand people.
They all brought a lot of gifts and goods.
After they all rushed into the capital of Qing Dynasty, it was difficult to arrange them.
After all, most of the buildings in the Qingguo capital had been demolished.
The new capital city was still under construction, so there was no place for them to live, so they could only pitch tents.
Kou Ji met with Liu Yong and Zhao Run first.
The location is at Wenchang Academy.
In today's Qingguo capital, only Wenchang Academy can see and receive people.
Seeing Liu Yong again, Kou Ji was filled with emotions.
Liu Yong, who is fifty-six years old, looks older than Kou Zhun. The white hair on his head is clearly visible, as is the white beard in his beard.
It’s just that his face doesn’t have as many wrinkles and age spots as Kou Zhun.
Liu Yong was still so thin, as if a gust of wind could blow him down.
Wearing a green suit, he stood in front of Kou Ji with a smile on his face.
Kou Ji asked Liu Yong to sit down, and ordered the "work-study" Wenchang Academy students to bring two cups of tea, then stared at Liu Yong and sighed: "Why are you doing this?"