Zhenwu Tianxia: Summon Yuwen Chengdu at the beginning

Chapter 237
The arrival of Dongfang Pavilion and Wang Yixian did not bring much shock to Dali. The people who knew of their existence were only the upper echelons of the court, and many people in the court did not know their specific origins, and only thought that they were from the southeastern provinces. The island is just a force.

After Qin Wei met Wang Yixian, he put the matter aside.

After all, Dali is more than 3000 miles away from Yuehai Island. Even if the wind is smooth, it will take seven or eight days to travel by boat. If there is a headwind or an accident, 20 days in half a month is normal.

If you go back to Yuehai Island by boat first, and then come back by boat, it will take 20 days anyway.

Qin Wei didn't know that Dongfang Pavilion had such a thing as a communication magic circle, and he didn't even know about the magic circle. After all, Dali didn't have a magic circle to inherit.

The communication circle can immediately transmit the news to Yuehai Island. If Yuehai Island responds quickly, in fact, it will be able to send support to Dali in about ten days.

But there is no need for Qin Wei to worry about these things for the time being, what really needs to be worried about is Wang Yixian.

Putting Wang Yixian and Dongfang Pavilion aside for the time being, Qin Wei focused on government affairs.

Various reforms within Dali are still in full swing.

The land measurement by the local governments has been completed. Qin Wei has no mercy on the officials who have not completed the task, and directly asks the cabinet to punish them according to the situation. If they are not completed due to irresistible factors, they will only be fined. If you lie to others, you will be beheaded.

Under the supervision of the Imperial City Division, most government offices and county offices have completed their tasks, but there are also many government offices that have not completed their tasks.

Anyway, in the past month, hundreds of county magistrates have been dismissed by the cabinet and the Ministry of Officials, and thousands of officials have been beheaded, including those officials in Jiangzhou who were involved in trouble.

As a result, there are countless squires, official families, martial arts families, etc. involved.

But no matter what, everything is almost over now, and Qin Wei only needs to wait until the summer grain collection in May and June to see the effect of the tax reform.

As for the matter of abolishing the two coins and changing them to yuan, as the minting department minted more and more new coins of various types, the circulation of new coins in the market in Kyoto also increased, and the exchange rate in the black market gradually stabilized.Almost [-]% higher than going directly to the central bank for new money.

This situation is also normal, after all, the amount of new money is still too small.

As for outside of Kyoto, new money is still very scarce.

Qin Wei estimated that it would take about two years to spread the new money to the entire Dali. If he wanted to replace all the previous copper and silver coins, it would take five years, or even longer.

At present, the minting department has minted about 500 million silver dollars in new money, and the profit from it is as much as one million silver dollars. It is only less than two months. In three to five years, Qin Wei could earn tens of millions of silver dollars just by casting coins.

Qin Wei didn't save the money either, and handed it all over to Gong Shuchou, who sent him to Linhai Mansion to build a shipyard.

Shengtian Hall, in the Royal Study Room.

Qin Wei flipped through the account books handed over by the household department.

Household Minister Sun Wenjian and Cabinet Assistant Minister Luo Zheng stood in front of him.

Looking at the account book, Qin Wei frowned slightly, and said, "That is to say, the household department has less than 300 million taels of silver?"

The huge Dali Dynasty has less than 300 million taels of silver, which is really pitifully small.

In fact, there are not many places where the Dali court spends money. The Dali royal family implements the nobility system, and the royal family does not spend a lot of money every year. Secondly, there are not many honors in Dali now. The old emperor has cleaned up several times. There are only dozens of nobles left, and the required salary is not much.

In terms of the salaries of court officials and military expenditures, this should be regarded as the bulk.

"Your Majesty, last year the frontier army spent a lot of money and food in fighting everywhere. Not only the treasury silver, but even the stored food were almost consumed." Sun Wenjian explained with some anxiety.

Qin Wei nodded slightly as he thought about what happened last year. It is normal to spend a lot of money and food last year.

Although he tried his best to solve the attack of the Sifang Royal Court in the simplest way, the casualties of the frontier army were still not small, and the need for pensions and military expenditures was still huge.

In addition, he also transferred 40 forbidden troops to the frontier army, which also cost a lot of money.

In addition to the things that the old emperor did before, it is not easy for the household department to still have Yu Yin.

"How are you preparing for the tax collection?" Qin Wei asked.

Sun Wenjian said, "It's almost ready."

This is because the tax collection is different from the past. In the past, the tax collection was mainly based on food, and the people paid food tax, but this time the imperial court has issued an official document, and all taxes are replaced by money.

Instead of collecting grain and changing to cash, it can save a lot of trouble.

However, there are many problems. For example, the imperial court also needs food, and now it has to spend money to buy food after receiving money.

Qin Wei thought for a while and said, "I plan to separate taxation from the household department."

"Yeah!" Sun Wenjian's eyes widened, and he looked at Qin Wei in shock.

Qin Wei ignored his shock and continued: "There is a separate department for taxation, called the Taxation Department. It has the same rank as the Sixth Department. It is directly under the cabinet and is in charge of my Dali's tax affairs. It has land tax, city tax, salt and iron Departments of taxation, etc., set up yamen in each state."

"The tax offices of each state are managed vertically by the Ministry of Taxation, coordinating with the chief secretaries on tax matters, and under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Taxation and the chief secretaries of each state."

Then, Qin Wei talked about his general thoughts on the tax department.

The Taxation Department is not only responsible for collecting taxes, but also for revising tax regulations and implementation rules, as well as various policy-related tax exemptions.

The establishment of the tax department can also prevent the yamen at all levels from making a fuss about taxation.

In fact, Qin Wei wants to open the tax office to the county level, but considering the personnel and details, Qin Wei can only open the tax office to the state level for the time being, and extend it downward when the time is right.

"This~"

After listening to Qin Wei's narration, Sun Wenjian felt a little headache, but he didn't know what to say for a while.

On the other hand, Luo Zheng who was next to him said, "Your Majesty, the tax department has been set up separately. Doesn't the household department have nothing to do?"

"How come? The tax department is responsible for collecting the money, and the household department is responsible for spending the money. After the tax department collects the money, it will be handed over to the household department for management." Qin Wei laughed.

He also knew what Sun Wenjian was thinking, which was equivalent to decentralizing power from the household department.

As the chief financial officer of the court, Sun Wenjian naturally didn't want to decentralize the power, but Qin Wei had to take part of the power from the household department, because in his opinion, the household department had too much power.

It's not just the Ministry of Households. In the future, Qin Wei will divide the Six Ministries and the Five Army Commanders' Mansions into more detailed divisions, especially the Ministry of War. What kind of military affairs does a group of civilian officials manage?
The military and the government are separated, and professional matters are handed over to professional people.

But these things have to be done little by little, and can't be rushed.

Sun Wenjian thought for a while, but finally said nothing.

Although he was very dissatisfied with the separate establishment of the tax department, he did not dare to speak against Qin Wei.

Now no one in the court would dare to go against Qin Wei's will.

Afterwards, Qin Wei had a detailed chat with Sun Wenjian about the tax department, and ordered him to be responsible for the formation of the tax department. He was the first secretary of the Dali tax department.

This made Sun Wenjian feel extremely responsible, and he suddenly became the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation from a good secretary of the household department, which sounds a little nonsense.

But when Qin Wei said that he would be allowed to join the cabinet as long as he did his job well with the tax department, he felt elated and full of energy.

After sending Sun Wenjian away, Qin Wei began to deal with other government affairs.

In the next few days, he has been busy with the government.

Being an emperor is really busy, and he has to look over all the big and small things in the court, even with the assistance of the cabinet and the chief of ceremonies, he still can't be idle.

What's more, during this period of time, there have been many internal changes in Dali, and he needs to do more things.

……

While Qin Wei was busy with government affairs, a great battle broke out in the East China Sea.

Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island are located in the eastern waters of Dali, only three hundred miles away from Dali.

These two islands are not too big, probably only one county, and 10,000+ people live on them, and they are completely self-sufficient.

But this time Qin Wei was going to destroy the two islands, Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi joined forces with the Donghai Division to fight.

Naturally, the East China Sea Division could not hide it from Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island. Before the East China Sea Division went out to sea, Ju Landao and Hai Yunxuan received the news and were ready to fight.

The strength of Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island is naturally not as good as Dali, and their navy is not as good as that of Donghai Navy, but they belong to the forces of the sea after all, and they are most familiar with fighting in the sea like this.

Before the East China Sea Division arrived at Xiaoyao Island, the two islands gathered hundreds of ships to prepare for a big battle with the East China Sea Division.

The first year of Shenghua, the third day of May.

The Donghai Navy arrived at Xiaoyao Island.

As one of the three naval divisions of Dali, the Donghai Division has 120 warships, 600 transport ships and more than 1 patrol ships, with more than [-] soldiers and more than [-] civilians.

Changyang Bolu educated youth is the commander-in-chief of the Donghai Navy.

At this moment, Zhiqing Lu was standing on the observation deck of a large ship, looking at Xiaoyao Island in the south.

As the commander-in-chief of the Dali East Sea Navy, Lu Zhiqing is actually a bit depressed. The children of his Changyang uncle's mansion have always served in the navy, and all generations of Changyang uncles have been military officers in the navy.

And now Lu Zhiqing is also the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Navy, but the problem is that Dali has never pursued overseas much, and the main tasks of the two ocean navy divisions are only cruising and deterrence, and they rarely participate in battles.

Therefore, Lu Zhiqing was somewhat depressed, and always felt that he had no chance to display his martial arts.

But now Lu Zhiqing is full of excitement, because his opportunity has come.

Your Majesty is going to attack Xiaoyao Island and Qingfeng Island, and their East China Sea Division is the main force doing their part.

When he saw the phantom of Xiaoyao Island from afar, his whole body trembled with excitement.

"Hahaha, it's finally here!"

"Brothers get ready to fight!"

He shouted excitedly, then jumped off the watchtower and landed on the deck.

And following his shout, the soldiers on the deck also became excited.

Fighting seems to be a very distant thing for them. All along, they can only fight pirates in the sea, but those pirates are too weak, making them feel nothing at all.

Now they are going to attack Xiaoyao Island. This is a great battle, a battle that is rare in a century!

How this makes them not excited!
Didn't you see Lu Zhiqing was so excited that he was about to cry?
As warriors, they desire to fight, and as soldiers, they desire war.

They're not war freaks, they're just holding it in for too long.

Landing on the deck, Lu Zhiqing hurriedly came to Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi, looked at them expectantly, and said, "Masters, we have arrived at Xiaoyao Island, should we attack next?"

Ye Gucheng glanced at him calmly, and said: "How you fight is your business, we are only responsible for dealing with the enemy's innate warriors!"

"Really!" Lu Zhiqing's eyes lit up.

"Ok!"

Ye Gucheng nodded concisely.

"Great!"

Lu Zhiqing couldn't help but said excitedly: "You two wait a moment, the general will go to arrange the battle first."

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly ran into the ship building.

(End of this chapter)