Lu Ming

Chapter 306 Organization ([-])

Generally speaking, every Chinese New Year, the elders have to pay for the lucky money for the children.This principle is also applicable to the ancient emperors: every time there is a great sacrifice in the court, the emperor always sends a wave of red envelopes to his courtiers, soldiers and civilians after these rituals of praying for heaven and earth.

In this process, the soldiers and petty officials at the bottom will get some money, cloth and cold meat.Naturally, the high-level bosses don't like this, what they care about is Enmeng: the descendants will get the quota of officials.

Although this wave of red envelopes is said to be issued by the emperor in name, it is actually spent on money from the treasury.Even Enmeng's quota and grades have their own fixed numbers and rules; the emperor can make private adjustments in a small range, but the overall situation cannot be changed.

This situation usually culminates in the ascension of the new emperor.Whether it is the founding emperor or the new emperor of the descendant ascending the throne, there will be a "big banquet" and "big rewards".

This kind of award is quite valuable: the heirloom title of the Xungui Group was born in this way.Whenever a new emperor comes to power, there will always be a group of upstarts, powerful eunuchs and relatives gaining power. One emperor and one courtier.

Of course, it is still the state treasury that bleeds a lot out of the above political resources and the supporting large rewards and expenditures.

In fact, the amount of money allocated by the Ministry of Households to the emperor to support his family is limited each year. In the early and middle stages of a stable dynasty structure, it was difficult for the emperor to extort unreasonable funds from the civil service group for private consumption.

There is a proper term here: internal money silver.

Domestic money is private money.While enjoying part of the treasury's finances, the emperor also relied on means such as imperial merchants, imperial villages, tributes, and usury to make extra money.In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor set up 886 Huangzhuang in Northeast China and North China alone, which were managed by the Accounting Department of the Internal Government.

The sum of the above incomes is the source of private funds for the emperor to support his family, pay salaries to eunuchs and concubines, reward his ministers with personal gifts, and buy curiosities for the court.

Well, since it is private money, there is never too much of it—the emperors of all dynasties, in order to have more money for themselves, also fought a lot of battles with the civil official group and tore a lot of force.

Among them, some emperors succeeded, such as Song Huizong; there were also those who were fooled by civil officials. When the country was destroyed, the houses of nobles and civil officials were full of silver, but the emperor was poor.

There are also some emperors who are shameless.In the late Ming Wanli Dynasty, more than 20 years before the arrival of the time-travelers, in order to enrich the internal treasury, the Wanli Emperor, who hid in the harem for many years without going to work, even sent a large number of mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to collect money, which led to one after another tax resistance riots across the country.

However, except for the late dynasty and some strange emperors who are prone to extreme situations, throughout history, most of the time, the emperors had a stable amount of internal money; To put money out.

Things come back to the time-traveling crowd.

All the materials that Cao Chuan transported to the new plane before this were actually "public property".These materials are listed on the public account: Cao Chuan, the major shareholder, invests in first, and then the small shareholders who actually preside over the work distribute the materials as needed to build the country.

However, it is different now: since the royal family has been produced in the structure, there must be internal money.Public and private must be distinguished, otherwise, it would be even more terrifying for the emperor to use the treasury as his own purse.Therefore, the government will definitely allocate a sum of money every year in the future. It is said that the British Ministry of Finance also has a "monarch grant".

Note that the internal money mentioned here refers to the materials that Emperor Cao brought from later generations that could not be manufactured by the "living years" of the people.As for Daming's local industrial products and gold and silver treasures—these things in the bag are worthless in the eyes of the first generation of time travelers. Everyone can go back and discuss the distribution ratio with the emperor, and no one cares.

Therefore, the current situation is quite special: because the emperor is more powerful, he can theoretically keep all the goods shipped in the future as his own, and leave it to his stupid son as domestic money.

For example, the golden Rolls-Royce Phantom parked downstairs—someone spent two "treasure boxes" to transport the parts a few days ago, and now it has been assembled, just for the fashion of his enthronement.

So the new "shadow government" that has not yet been formally established is now a headache: Xia Lao Zhongtang not only has to find ways to fight against the emperors, but also is responsible for negotiating with Emperor Cao to get back most of the "imports" from the other party. Materials" distribution share.

Well, the government is a vulnerable group these days, and it has to live by exploiting the emperor's internal money.

However, the emperor graduated from a third-rate university at any rate, not as easy to fool as Chongzhen: Civil officials want to regain the initiative, and it is impossible without some blood. I will talk about this later.

The emperor has internal money, so what about the others?In fact, other people have long called for some private money.

Since time travelling, except for half a cubic meter of personal belongings, each traveler can only find substitutes in the Ming Dynasty.

This is a very sad thing.Most of the time-traveling people use straw paper to wipe their buttocks, soap locusts for bathing before the chemical plant was built, and the first group of people, especially those who worked in the field, had rotten shoes, rotten pants, rotten coats, and even underwear. It's all over.

When the early commodity reserves in the "national treasury" were used up, even the rough men complained again and again.

And these are not the most difficult, Armani broke the big deal and put two corduroy patches on the elbow to pretend to be casual. The most difficult thing is that the cigarette is gone.

For a normal smoker, one pack a day is the average.So no matter how these people save, today, after traveling for a year and a half, all smokers have run out of food.

This incident also indirectly contributed to the launch of the kiln district cigarette factory.However, things are not that simple: the cigarettes of later generations are high-end industrial products, which not only contain flavors that cannot be produced now, but also special cigarette paper, silk fibroin in filters, and non-toxic EVA glue for spouts and mouthpieces. None of them are capable of being produced by cigarette factories.

Bulky, spicy, choking, and taking a mouthful of cigarettes made of earthen cigarettes brought happiness to the workers, but the old men scolded their mothers every day.There are no cigarettes in the section dedicated to internal transactions on the forum, and even big girls can't exchange them.

Well, this matter has finally been resolved after having the emperor.Mr. Cao had previously announced that on the day he ascended the throne, he would reward each of his ministers with a Danshu Iron Coupon. Wrong, it is a blank list, and all ministers and workers can fill in the personal items with a volume of one cubic meter on the list.

This move has won the sincere support of all the ministers, and everyone is short of shouting long live.That night, there were quite a few small groups spontaneously organized on the forum, planning to build a US Humvee with a few people.

A group of officials including Xia Xianze are also happy to do the same: importing more than 200 cubic meters of private consumer goods is not something that "government officials" have the guts to decide.

Yes, smoking imported cigarettes while bashing the government for not importing luxury goods is the preserve of the minority party.

Now if the emperor comes forward, everyone will be happy: one cubic meter of supplies per person is equal to the emperor's personal pocket, and no one has anything to say.

The party that controls the supply and distribution of resources will always be the dominant party.That's why Bai Hongda and the others were afraid of Cao Chuan when everyone went to the palace for a meeting to "face the saint".

There is no need to intimidate these bastards with big tricks such as "taking away": Cao Chuan only needs to announce that the rewards of all the emperors will be halved, then Bai Hongda and Wei Hu will step down overnight, and then they will be tied up and stabbed in the head. A draft bid was sent to the palace to apologize
Therefore, there were no obstacles to the meeting at Jianyuan Hall that day since Cao Chuan came out.As soon as the emperors changed their past, they were honest and honest, discussing the matter as it stands, and quickly settled the few pending matters.

The first is the country name.

Among the several options before this, the top one is "Qin" proposed by Cao Chuan himself.The ignorant third-rate college students originally said "Eastern Qin", but after being pointed out privately by the courtiers, they changed it to "Qin".

The second country title is the "Golden Dragon Empire" launched by the Conservative Party.The title of this soil is derived from an item: the ring in Cao Chuan's hand.When the stored energy is sufficient, two circling golden dragons will appear in the ring surface.

Because everything that has happened to the crossing people so far originated from this ring and from the two dragons, so the Conservative Party believes that everything in the empire should be linked to the ring. Existence has been confirmed, and the crossing country can be regarded as having a source.

In addition to these two titles, the emperors and Hans naturally proposed a bunch of country titles with the words "Tang Han".

After Cao Chuan came forward today, several parties sitting in the Jianyuan Hall quickly reached a consensus: the final name of the country was "Golden Dragon Empire".

The reason is simple: Cao Chuan's "Qin" and the emperor's "Tang Han" votes cancel each other out.Negative and negative are positive, since it is not appropriate to delete any of the country titles in the old time and space, then don't use them at all.

After deciding on the name of this bumpkin country full of fantasy spirit, the national flag became a matter of course: the starry sky surrounded by two golden dragons is the pattern of the national flag, which is actually a copy of the ring face.

The national emblem is also similar.Two golden dragons surround the crown and crossed sceptres, symbolizing the emperor and the founding nobles who rule under him.

The last thing to settle was the national anthem.

The song from the previous life must not be used here: as soon as they heard the words "get up, people who don't want to be slaves", the faces of the slave owners sitting in the hall suddenly turned green.

Ever since, a murderous song that was very suitable for the expansion of the empire was settled-"Soviet March", the theme song of the Red Police.

Well, the lyrics and song title need to be slightly changed. Everything else is fine. Anyway, this song has been changed many times by netizens, so the American author probably won't care.

(End of this chapter)