If you don’t have money, how can you suppress bandits?
We can't let Prime Minister Jia Jia swim across the Grand Canal with the Bilong sword in his hand and be that lone brave man, right?
Money is a person's courage, money is a person's life!
As long as you have money, let alone the Qingshui cult bandits, even the Bailian bandits, the Taiping Army, Nianzi, and the Revolutionary Party will not look down upon you.
Therefore, after listening to various opinions, he went to the court to report the construction cost of one million taels for the camp.
This money is really not much.
It's a real expense.
The specific accounts, Yang Jingsu, the chief envoy of Zhili, made it clear for him. The one million taels reported was nothing more.
Compared with Sichuan's military expenditure, his side is nothing.
The first to arrive was the 400,000 taels from Shandong Governor Cathay.
Very happily, without any words, Guofutai released the money.
However, according to the gossip that Yang Jingsu inquired about, since the uprising of the religious bandits, Yu Yi Jian, the governor of Taiwan and Shandong Province, has used various names to request local governments to spend money and food to assist in military affairs, and has made at least more than two million taels.
This made Jia Liu call him a capable person.
He forced the people to rebel and deployed his own siege. In the end, he taught the bandits to attack the city and plunder the territory, and the officers and soldiers lost their troops. The person directly responsible not only did not receive any punishment from the court, but instead made more than two million taels. Looking at how many talented people in the world,
indivual?
Very envious.
This is the benefit of border closure.
It's a pity that I am the Prime Minister of Shandong Military Affairs, not the Prime Minister of Shandong Military Affairs. If I could be the governor or governor someday, I would definitely do a better job than him.
When he becomes Prime Minister, he can sell the Old Summer Palace to the Jia family at a price.
After the money from Shandong arrived, Jia Liu immediately convened a meeting of officers above the Qian General of the Allied Forces. At the meeting, he directly announced that every officer and soldier participating in the war would be given two months' regular pay, regardless of the bannermen.
In addition, there is a subsidy of vegetables and rice for one person, one for heatstroke prevention and cooling, and one for summer clothes and trousers.
In total, each of the officers and soldiers participating in the war received 14 taels of silver per person, and the total expenditure was more than 140,000 taels.
The remaining money was divided into five parts, and the prime minister, the governor of Shandong, the governor of Tianjin, and the governor of Zhili Province divided half of it, and the other half was divided among the military officers, large and small, and logistics and civilian officials.
The Prime Minister has given orders that anyone who dares not to take money will be against the Qing Dynasty. There is no need to teach the bandits to take action. The Prime Minister will first tie him up and throw him into the canal to feed the bastard.
The effect was obvious. After receiving the money, the morale of the participating officers and soldiers soared, from minus 60 points to plus 50 points.
If this morale value is applied to the battlefield, it can fire two more rounds of volleys and charge an extra hundred steps.
Don’t underestimate the power of money. Intelligence shows that there are at least a thousand former Shandong Green Flag Soldiers, rural warriors (militiamen), and government officials (police) participating in the Ever Victorious Army. The reason why these people join the Evervictorious Army is that they will never live.
Pay has been paid.
Therefore, by distributing money first, Jia Liu can prevent the occurrence of internal unrest, fundamentally stabilize and quell the basic base, and prevent officers and soldiers from deliberately betraying the government at critical moments because they cannot receive their wages, or from turning against the enemy, or even attacking the prime minister at night.
In short, everything he has done and used has been blocked with money.
One hundred thousand taels from the governor of Tianjin are on the way. Tianjin is relatively wealthy and is an important merchant town. Raising one hundred thousand taels for military pay is a trivial matter for the gentry of Tianjin.
Under the mediation of Yang Jingsu, Jia Liu had dinner with Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, twice in private, and finally reached a consensus that Tianjin's money would be divided into 40 and 60 accounts.
Jia Liu Xu Si.
In the future, if any funds are released to support the camp, this will be done accordingly.
Zhili should release 300,000 taels of silver. However, due to recent frequent floods and droughts in Zhili, it is relatively difficult to raise funds. Moreover, due to the civil unrest in Shandong, Zhou Yuanli, the governor of Zhili, did not dare to collect excessive amounts, so he could only raise half of it first.
The remaining issues will be resolved after fiscal easing.
In this regard, Jia Liu expressed his understanding and also reached a consensus with Mr. Yang, the chief minister of Zhili. In addition to spending 10,000 taels to pay for the relevant officials of Zhili Jieyin, the remaining 50% were divided into accounts.
Yang Fantai expressed satisfaction and tried his best to promote the cooperation of the four former military veterans.
Today's cake tasting by the canal was the first time the four elders met together.
Jia Liu was not very familiar with Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, but Cathay was a well-known person.
Anyway, in the TV series I watched in my previous life, this person was usually the villain behind the scenes. Some TV series were a bit exaggerated, saying that Cathay Pacific planned to kill even Qianlong.
Corrupt officials among corrupt officials.
With such a bold and cruel official, Jia Liu had no reason not to cooperate with him.
The proposal of "converting Caoliang from water to train" was Cathay Pacific's idea.
At first, Jia Liu didn't quite understand why the grain transportation should be changed to land transportation, because he had observed on the spot that although the canal passed through the west gate of Linqing, the victorious army in the city lacked artillery and did not actually pose much of a threat to the grain transportation.
At best, the damage caused by harassment along the river is bearable, so as long as the ship's defense protection is strengthened, there is no need to spend a lot of time.
After hearing Guofutai's account, Jia Liu immediately agreed.
The current fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty is about 40 million taels of silver per year, and the money and grain transported into the capital through the canal account for 60% of this fiscal revenue, which is conservatively estimated to be at least 20 million taels.
The scale of water transport was rare in the past, as can be seen from the fact that water transport alone can support millions of people.
Most of this money comes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which shows how wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang are.
Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty did not say that he had the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty for a year. Even with half of the money, Li Zicheng could not break Beijing, and the Qing Dynasty could not enter the country.
The process of moving food and other supplies from the ship to the shore, then transporting them hundreds of miles by car and then putting them on the ship again involves manpower handling, transportation and logistics, and a series of losses. To be specific, let’s say less than 10%.
He didn't do anything, just hired some men to move things around, and it cost him at least two million taels a year. This was fair money, and only a fool wouldn't make it!
"10% is conservative, I think it should be 20% anyway."
Yang Fantai of Zhili had a thick beard, and it was all sticky after a few bites of cake.
Jia Liu put down the cake and said worriedly: "The Ministry of Revenue is going to send someone over to supervise this matter. It's not good to go too far if someone is watching."
"What's wrong with the Ministry of Household Affairs? Officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs are also human beings. As long as they are human beings, there will be no one who is not greedy for money."
The three Fengjiang looked at each other and smiled. They had ten thousand ways to deal with people coming from the Ministry of Household Supervision.
At the end of the meeting, everyone praised Prime Minister Jiajia for sharing the cake fairly and making the cake sweet.
In order to keep the water flowing smoothly, Jia Liuming released a canal team from Jining a few days later. The food on board could probably sustain the bandits in Linqing City for three or two more months.
The Shandong General Army only sent two hundred township warriors to escort the boat as a token token. Therefore, as long as the bandits were not stupid and rushed out of the city to scare the people on the shore, the Cao workers and township warriors would abandon the boat and jump into the river.
It belongs to picking up food for free.
Unexpectedly, this fleet was not even attacked by the Ever Victorious Army from beginning to end, and passed through unharmed.
Angry, Jia Liu threw the telescope to the ground and cursed: "Damn it, I thought nothing would happen if I fought, but I didn't expect there was someone more stupid than me in the world!"
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"Zhenguan Mudslide" is a book that I recommend to you with pride and sincerity. The author is honest, has a sharp writing style, and is not good at erotic... descriptions of emotions, which are serious and readable.