Chapter five hundred and twentieth nine speculators are two-faced
Those who buy official posts get them, and the officials appointed by the imperial court are also filled by people. Jia Liu is doing a good deed.
Strictly speaking, it cannot be said to be selling officials. If it were to sell officials, it would not be Jia Liu's turn. The Qing government itself was always selling.
The Empress Dowager made a large donation on her 80th birthday. A third-grade vanguard received a bid of 24,500 taels, a second-grade green camp deputy general offered 28,800 taels, and the most expensive salt transporter was as high as 128,400 taels.
Of course, large donations only happen once every ten to eight years, but the small donations that the official department sells on weekdays are enough to meet the market demand.
For example, if a position of real power like Minister of the Han Dynasty in the Ministry of Civil Affairs were to be sold, it would cost at least 100,000 taels to start. Jia Liu only accepted 10,000 taels from Jiang Yu, so he could not sell his position at all. He just recommended talents to help win a few taels at the meeting.
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Going to Baoding to take up the post would have to be done at least after the Lantern Festival after the New Year, or it might even be postponed until February. Therefore, Jia Liu had to seize the time of one or two months to recommend talents to the Qing Dynasty.
Let the talents who are willing to serve the Qing Dynasty be trained in suitable positions, so that the official positions in the imperial court will not be vacant, resulting in low administrative efficiency.
In this way, from the perspective of both buyers and sellers, this is basically a win-win good thing that is mutually beneficial.
Of course, Jia Liu didn't do it on a whim.
He has a conspiracy.
The activity area of the Xinghan Army is around the two lakes. This army, which is mainly composed of Han survivors of the Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan, can fight. It can even be said to be the most capable force in the whole of China. Otherwise, it would not be able to fight with less than one person.
The division's armed forces were able to defeat several armies of the Qing Banners and Han Dynasty, and they served as marshals, generals, generals, lieutenant generals and below.
Qianlong's "Nine Complete Martial Arts" military expenditures were even less than that of a small Jinchuan.
If the number of Ming Dynasty survivors in Jinchuan was not too small, and there was no Li Zicheng during the period of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong was outside to help, otherwise this place might have become the second Hetuala.
Now, under the operation of Jia Liu, the Xinghan Army broke out of the century-old encirclement, and successively captured the important towns of Jingzhou and Wuchang, setting off a great anti-Qing wave in Hubei, which shocked Central and South China.
However, due to historical reasons and the century-long rule of the ignorant Manchu people, nine out of ten Han people today do not know the Ming Dynasty but only the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, even if the Xinghan Army achieved many consecutive victories against the Qing Army in a short or even a long period of time, it would still be difficult to reverse the Han people's deep-rooted "Qing consciousness."
In other words, the slogan "Anti-Qing and Restoration of Ming" cannot resonate with most Han people.
Unless the Han Dynasty Army captured Nanjing like the Taiping Army, occupied several provinces and officially founded the country, and established a new ruling class and system, it would still be unable to compete with the "orthodox" Qing court in the ideological field.
But it was obviously not in Jia Liu's interests to capture Nanjing and win the title of founding the nation.
First, the war spread too far, and the economic impact and population decline were unacceptable.
As the war expands, strict military discipline cannot effectively reduce civilian casualties.
The Qing government was able to successfully occupy China and suppress the San Francisco Rebellion because of a magic weapon.
That is to say, once the war is unfavorable, they will shamelessly allow the Green Camp to massacre and loot the city legally.
Anyway, China is not theirs.
Use Han to control Han, and the game got away when fighting Huang Taiji.
This magic weapon can be said to be invincible and invincible.
If the Xinghan army really continues to grow and threatens the Qing government, the governor below will use this magic weapon without the old rich ordering it.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of South China dropped by 70%, and the four provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan became no-man's land. Hong Chengchou wrote a letter in grief and indignation asking the court not to let the soldiers massacre the city wantonly. The reason was that the Qing army that invaded the south could not
Incited by the military order to massacre and rob the city, people were killed and set on fire everywhere. "The land was red for hundreds or even thousands of miles."
In the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories", the Eight Banners were completely defeated. The Qing court was frightened. In order to save the defeat, it also resorted to the magic weapon of Green Camp robbery. As a result, the Green Camp soldiers held the place for the Qing Dynasty like chicken blood.
The consequence was that South China, which had just recovered some of its population, suffered another devastating blow.
The Taiping Rebellion caused a population loss of hundreds of millions in several Yangtze River provinces, 90% of which was attributed to the Hunan Army, Huai Army and various regiment training.
The title "Zeng Shatou" is actually based on the bones of hundreds of millions of Han compatriots.
Jia Liu would never allow this situation to occur, so he could not allow the war to continue to expand. To this end, he made a plan for the coalition forces of several provinces to enter and suppress the war, and only when the time was right, he would give advice to the old rich man.
This plan thus limited the war to the Huguang area and consumed a large amount of the main force of the Qing army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, creating a vacuum in the southeast.
Secondly, if the Xinghan Army really captured Nanjing and established the capital, how could Jia Liu control this elite Han army?
People are all ambitious.
The Xinghan Army was gaining momentum in the southeast. Even if Gu Zhengdao, Jia Liu's father-in-law, was willing to continue to be his son-in-law's "white glove", the people below were afraid that they would not be willing to do so.
Jia Liu knew very well that family ties may not be reliable in the face of major interests. After all, he was only a son-in-law, not a biological son, and he was still a bannerman.
Therefore, he has been relying on supplies to choke the Han army and let China's First Army, composed of survivors of the Ming Dynasty, achieve his strategic goals for him.
The Xinghan Army was able to continuously inflict heavy losses on the Qing Army because the various units of the Qing Army that followed them continued to release water and supplied large quantities of firearms, grain and grass in the name of defeat, and thus they continued to grow.
Otherwise, with the little strength that the Xinghan Army had when it came out of Sichuan, no matter how capable it was of fighting, it would be impossible to create such a big momentum.
After all, this is not the end of the Ming Dynasty. If the people cannot survive, a single spark can start a prairie fire.
No matter how hungry the Chinese are, no matter how poorly nourished they are, or no matter how low their income is, as long as they have one meal a day to eat and something to look forward to, they will not rise up in rebellion.
The soil for a large-scale peasant uprising did not exist during the Qianlong period, and it only began to brew in the Jiaqing Dynasty.
After Bailian there was Taiping, after Taiping there was the Nian Army, and after the Nian Army there was the revolution.
Since it is "stuck", it is impossible for Jia Liu to really allow the Xinghan Army to grow enough to become independent.
The main reason why the Xinghan Army has not moved eastwards in Wuchang is that their weapons and ammunition are not enough to support the large-scale war consumption required for the eastward march.
On the one hand, he controlled the Xinghan army to expand the war, and on the other hand, he wanted the Jia family to replace the Qing Dynasty.
The problems faced by Jia Liu are somewhat diverse.
The issue in the ideological field is particularly critical.
Decades of colonial rule can make a group of people who accept modernization ideas hostile to the mother country, not to mention that this is an era when the mother country has been colonized by Manchuria for hundreds of years.
Southern regions, such as Fujian and Guangdong, may be better off. After all, these places are located on the coast and have more contact with the outside world, and have the ideological foundation to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
In the north, this foundation can be said to be very weak.
If the anti-Qing thoughts among the people cannot be active, it will be very difficult for Jia to replace the Qing Dynasty.
To address this problem, Jia Liu gave two solutions.
The first is to implement the New Deal in Zhili, first open the eyes of the people in Zhili, and if possible, invite foreigners to teach the Eight Banners men.
The second is to promote official corruption.
Corruption was so great that Han scholars couldn't stand it. Just like the Qing government's abolition of imperial examinations, they either took the initiative to join the revolutionary wave that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, or looked on with cold eyes.
Jia Liu initially estimated that it would take at least five years to implement the New Deal.
It helped push the already corrupt Qing government into the abyss. Jia Liu felt that it could be solved in a year or two.
He doesn't have enough for successful things, but he has more than enough for bad things.
Just like what he told Zu Yingyuan and the others at the beginning - we fake Tatars may not be able to defeat the real Tatars with real swords and guns on the battlefield, but we will always cheat our teammates, right?
Ancestor craftsmanship!
In two months, sell him a few hundred officials first.
The first grade cannot be sold, the second grade is limited, the third and fourth grade can always be wholesaled, and the sixth and seventh grade are not too low.
Anyway, Jia Liu made it clear to his eldest brother-in-law Wang Zhian that as long as someone invites him, it doesn't matter who he is or what official he wants to be, as long as the other party can afford the money, everything will be arranged.
After Shuan Zhu came back, he happened to hear the conversation between the young master and his eldest son-in-law. Maybe his eldest son-in-law didn't understand the young master's intention, but he did.
He couldn't help but worry a little: "Wouldn't this hurt the people?"
It's a hardship for the people. So many people spend money to become officials in the young master's way. Maybe they are all officials in the capital. There must be many places.
If people spend money to become an official, can they not get the money back after becoming an official?
By then, the common people will still be in trouble.
Jia Liu disagreed: "For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, I can only suffer the people first. After the New Deal is implemented, the people will understand me."
Shuan Zhu said nothing again.
He has understood the content of the young master's new policy. To put it in a vivid way, it is like the per capita income of Zhili people is one hundred cents a year, but corrupt officials cut half of it away, leaving only fifty cents a year.
But if the New Deal implemented by the young master, such as the Beiyang Trade, the Zhili Military Industrial Park, and the Coal and Iron Group, can be implemented one after another, it will be able to liberate the people from the land and drive their income through industry and commerce.
It is possible for the average annual income to increase to 500 or 1,000 cash.
In this way, even if corrupt officials take another half, the income of the people will be much greater than before.
This is called a big cake.
Jia Liu was very sure of the huge benefits brought by Beiyang trade. The Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou in Nanyang made more than 50 million taels in private profits every year, which was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing government for one and a half years. He was even worse in Beiyang than in Nanyang. There can also be a financial income of 20 to 30 million taels.
Such huge profits will drive the development of many industries and help many people become rich.
Of course, it is impossible to make people well-off overnight, but at least the overall standard of living will be improved so that people can live better than before.
A pool of stagnant water is shared by the people of a village.
The same living water is shared by the common people in a village, but there is an essential difference.
If he wants to implement the New Deal in Zhili, he must rely on the bureaucracy. Instead of building a clean bureaucracy and exhausting himself to death, which may even lead to direct confrontation with the bureaucracy and being abandoned by the bureaucracy he cultivated, it is better to make the pie bigger and let the bureaucracy have a share. , let the common people also have their share.
Isn’t that what foreigners do?
My eldest brother-in-law definitely doesn’t know these truths.
Sit there and meditate.
But he was thinking that if he followed the rule of 30% off rebates, one per day, wouldn't he be able to make a fortune in a short time?
This is the benefit of being an official.
The bigger the official, the more benefits he gets.
When Fan Wei came, he bumped into Mr. Jiang, the censor of the left deputy capital, who was returning on the way. He said casually: "I have been to Jiang Yu's house. He invested 50,000 taels in the Baolong project, but he didn't have that much cash, so he paid 30,000 taels first.
Two, and the balance payment will be sent from Changshu to my family in the spring of next year."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Gui's cheek twitched, and the seven thousand taels of silver notes he originally held in his hand instantly became a ball.