Sir, you have to pay more

Those who buy official positions get official positions, and those appointed by the imperial court are also employed. Jia Liu is doing a good deed.

Strictly speaking, it cannot be said to be selling an official. It would not be Jia Liu's turn to sell an official. The Qing court itself has been selling.

On the 24500th birthday of the Empress Dowager, a large donation was made. One from the third-rank forward participated in the bid price of 28800 taels, and the second-rank green battalion vice general asked for 128400 taels. The most expensive salt transport envoy was as high as [-] taels.

Of course, big donations only happen once every ten or eight years, but the small donations sold by the Ministry of Officials on weekdays are enough to meet market demand.

For example, if a position with real power such as Han Shilang of the Ministry of Officials is really offered for sale, at least it costs 100,000 taels to start. Jia Liu only received 10,000 taels from Jiang Miao, so it is impossible to sell an official at all, just to recommend talents to help win a few words at the meeting.

Going to Baoding to take up the post at least had to be done after the Lantern Festival, or it would have to be delayed until February, so Jia Liu had to seize this one or two months to recommend talents for the Qing Dynasty.

Let the talents who are interested in serving the Qing Dynasty be trained in suitable positions, so that the official positions of the court will not cause low administrative efficiency due to vacancies.

In this way, from the perspective of both buyers and sellers, this is fundamentally a win-win situation of mutual benefit.

Of course, Jia Liu didn't come on a whim.

He has a conspiracy.

The active area of ​​the Xinghan Army is in the area around the two lakes. This army, mainly composed of Han survivors of the Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan, can fight, and it can even be said to be the most capable army in the whole of China. Otherwise, it would not be able to fight with less than one The armed forces of the division were stunned to wipe out several group armies of the Qing Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. There were several marshals, generals, generals, and countless lieutenant generals and below.

Among Qianlong's Shiquan martial arts, the military expenditure of "Nine Quan" is not as good as that of a little Jinchuan.

If it weren't for the fact that the number of survivors of the Ming Dynasty in Jinchuan was too small, and there were no Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to help outside during the period of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, otherwise this place might become the second Hetuala.

Now under Jia Liu's operation, the Xinghan army rushed out of the century-long encirclement, and successively captured the important towns of Jingzhou and Wuchang, setting off a wave of anti-Qing in Hubei, which can be said to shake Central and South China.

However, due to historical reasons, nine out of ten Han people today do not know about the Qing, but only know about the Qing due to the hundred-year-long rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, even if the Xinghan army won many consecutive victories against the Qing army in a short period of time or even a fairly long period of time, it would still be difficult to reverse the deep-rooted "Qing consciousness" of the Han people.

That is to say, the slogan "Anti-Qing and Fuming" cannot resonate with most Han people.

Unless the Xinghan army captured Nanjing like the Taiping army, occupied several provinces and officially established the title of state, and established a new ruling class and system, otherwise it would still be unable to confront the "orthodox" Qing court in the ideological field.

It is obviously not in Jia Liu's interest to capture the title of Nanjing Jianguo.

First, the scope of the war is too large, and the economic impact and population decline are unacceptable.

The expansion of the war cannot effectively reduce civilian casualties with strict military discipline.

The reason why the Qing court was able to successfully occupy China and suppress the San Francisco rebellion relied on a magic weapon.

That is to say, once the war is unfavorable, the green battalion will be shamelessly allowed to legally massacre and rob the city.

Anyway, China is not theirs.

Using Han to control Han, he slipped away when he was fighting Huang Taiji.

This magic weapon can be said to be invincible and invincible.

The Xinghan army really continued to grow and threaten the rule of the Qing court. Without the order of the old rich, the governors below would sacrifice this magic weapon.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of southern China dropped sharply by [-]%, and Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces directly became no-man's land, so that Hong Chengchou sent a letter of grief and anger to ask the court not to let the soldiers wantonly massacre the city. You can massacre cities and rob military orders to kill people and set fires everywhere, "hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles in the red land."

In the "San Francisco Rebellion", the Eight Banners were completely defeated, and the Qing government was panicked. In order to save the defeat, they also resorted to the magic weapon of robbery by the green camp.

The consequence was that South China, which had just recovered some of its population, suffered another devastating blow.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement caused the population of the Yangtze River provinces to decrease by hundreds of millions, [-]% of which were due to the Hunan Army, Huai Army and various regiment training.

The title of Zeng Shaved is actually based on the bones of hundreds of millions of Han compatriots.

Jia Liu would never allow this kind of situation to happen, so he couldn't let the war continue to expand. For this reason, he made a plan for the coalition forces of several provinces to attack the old man.

Therefore, through this plan, the war was limited to the Huguang area, and the main force of the Qing army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was consumed in large quantities, creating a vacuum in the southeast.

Secondly, the Xinghan army really captured Nanjing, Dingdu and Jianguo, how could Jia Liu control this elite Han army?

People are 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 the "white glove" of his son-in-law, the people below were afraid that he would not.

Jia Liu knows that family affection may not be reliable in the face of major interests. After all, he is only a son-in-law rather than a son, and he is still a bannerman.

Therefore, he has been relying on supplies to get the neck of the Han army, and let the Chinese First Army composed of Ming Dynasty survivors achieve his strategic goals for him.

The Xinghan army was able to continue to inflict heavy damage on the Qing army one after another, relying on the continuous release of water from various units of the Qing army that followed and chased them, and supplied a large amount of guns, food and grass in the name of defeat, so that it continued to grow.

Otherwise, with the strength of the Xinghan Army when it came out of Sichuan, no matter how capable it was, it would be impossible to set off such a big momentum.

After all, this will not be the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the common people cannot survive, a single spark can start a prairie fire.

No matter how hungry the Chinese are, no matter how poor their nutrition is, and no income, as long as they have a meal a day and have something to look forward to, they will not rebel.

The soil for large-scale peasant uprisings did not exist during the Qianlong period, and only began to brew during the Jiaqing period.

After Bailian, there was Taiping, after Taiping, there was the Nian Army, and after the Nian Army, there was revolution.

Since it is a "card", it is impossible for Jia Liu to really let the Xinghan army grow enough to be independent.

The main reason why the Xinghan Army has not advanced eastward in Wuchang is that their weapons and ammunition are not enough to support the large-scale war consumption of the eastward advance.

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.

This area of ​​thought is particularly critical.

Decades of colonial rule can make a group of people who accept modernization ideas hostile to their mother country, not to mention this is an era when the mother country has been colonized by Manchuria for hundreds of years.

The southern regions, such as Fujian and Guangdong, may be better. After all, these places have more contacts with the outside world because they are located on the coast, and they have an ideological basis for anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty.

In the north, this foundation can be said to be very weak.

If the folk anti-Qing thoughts cannot be active, it must be very difficult for the Jia family to replace the Qing Dynasty.

For this problem, Jia Liu gave two solutions.

One is to implement the New Deal in Zhili, first to open the eyes of the people in Zhili, and if possible, invite foreigners to teach the masters of the Eight Banners.

The second is to promote corruption in the administration of officials.

It was so corrupt that the Han scholars couldn’t stand it, just like the Qing court abolished the imperial examinations, they either took the initiative to join the revolutionary wave that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, or watched it coldly.

According to Jia Liu's initial estimate, it will take at least five years for the New Deal to be realized.

Boosting the already corrupt government of the Qing Dynasty to slide into the abyss, Jia Liu felt that it would be done in a year or two.

He is not enough to accomplish things, but he is more than enough to do bad things.

It's the same as what he told Zu Yingyuan and the others back then - we fake Tartars may not be able to beat the real Tartars with real swords and guns on the battlefield, but we will always cheat our teammates, right?
Ancestral craftsmanship!
In two months, sell him hundreds of officials first.

The first grade cannot be sold, the second grade is limited, the third and fourth grades can always be wholesaled, and the sixth and seventh grades 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 the other party is or what kind of official he wants to be, as long as the other party can afford the money, he will be arranged.

After Shuan Zhu came back, he just overheard the young master and the eldest son-in-law's speech. Maybe the elder son-in-law didn't understand the master's intentions, but he did.

Can't help but worry a little: "In this way, won't the people suffer?"

It's the common people who suffer, so many people spend money to become officials in the same way as the young master, maybe they are all Beijing officials, there must be many places.

If someone spends money to be an official, can they get their money back after becoming an official?

At that time, the common people will still be unlucky.

Jia Liu didn't take it seriously: "For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, I can only suffer for the people first. After the New Deal is done, the people will understand me."

Shuan Zhu didn't make another sound.

He has learned about Young Master's New Deal, and to put it in a vivid way, the average income of the people in Zhili is now [-] Wen a year, but corrupt officials take half of it, leaving only [-] Wen a year.

But if the young master's new policies, such as Beiyang trade, such as the Zhili military industrial park, such as the coal and iron group, etc., will be able to liberate the people from the land and drive their income through industry and commerce.

It is possible to increase the average annual income to five hundred or one thousand.

In this way, even if corrupt officials take half, the income of the common people will be much higher than before.

It's called a big cake.

Jia Liu is very affirmative of the huge benefits brought by Beiyang trade. The thirteen banks in Nanyang Guangzhou have more than 30 million taels of private profit every year, which is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing government for one and a half years. His Beiyang is half of Nanyang. Also can have two [-] million two financial income.

Such a huge profit, how many industries will be driven to develop, and how many people will be driven to become rich.

Of course, it is impossible to make the people well-off overnight, but at least the overall living standards will be improved so that the people's lives will be better than before.

For a pool of stagnant water, the people of a village are divided.

The same Wang Huoshui is shared by the people of a village, but there are essential differences.

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, and even leading to direct confrontation with the bureaucracy, and being abandoned by the bureaucracy he cultivated, it is better to make the cake bigger and let the bureaucracy have a share. , Let the common people have their share.

Foreigners, isn't that what they do?

These truths, the eldest brother-in-law must not know.

Sit there and meditate.

But he was thinking that it would be done according to the [-]% discount rebate, one a day, wouldn't it take him a long time to become rich.

This is the benefit of being an officer.

The bigger the official, the more benefits you get.

When Fan Wei came, he bumped into Mr. Jiang, the censor of the left deputy capital who was going back on the road, and said casually: "I have been to that Jiang's house. He invested 50,000 taels in the Baolong project, but he didn't have that much cash. He paid 30,000 taels first. The final payment states that the family will send it from Changshu in the spring of next year."

As soon as he finished speaking, Master Guijia's cheek twitched, and the 7000 taels silver note that he was holding in his hand instantly crumpled into a ball.

Not fragrant at all.

"This double-faced person, shameless!"

What Shuan Zhu hated most were speculators.