Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 203 Li Shanchang admires Zhang Cheng even more, and life in the city becomes more and more warm.
Zhang Cheng also took the opportunity to choose the official residence of the cabinet and started shopping seriously in Jiqing City.

And Zhang Cheng had to admit that after he issued the decree to collect bones, sweep the streets, and pick up babies in Jiqing City, the entire Jiqing City was much cleaner than when he first entered Jiqing City.

Even the street market was much more prosperous, not as depressed as when he first entered Jiqing City.

Because of the strict military discipline of the Chinese Army, many shops and workshops felt relieved and began to reopen for business.

And because Zhang Cheng began to give them subsidies and processing money for craftsmen, the number of people willing to buy commercial goods increased.

In addition, when they heard that Jiqing was captured by Zhang Cheng, a big shot in business, many businessmen from other places also heard about it and began to rush to invest in Jiqing City.

Therefore, Jiqing City is full of vitality.

When Li Shanchang first arrived in Jiqing City, he was already shocked by the scene in front of him.

And now when he walked around Jiqing City with Zhang Cheng and others again, he still felt happy because of the prosperity and excitement of Jiqing City.

Especially when he saw that the plaque of Huimin Trading Company had appeared openly on an attic in the middle of the busiest street along the Qinhuai River, and the merchants who came to order goods had lined up to fill the entire Qinhuai River and could not see the side. Then he became even more happy.

"Good at growing up!"

Therefore, he knew that so many merchants coming to Huimin Commercial Bank to place orders would only mean that he would become richer and richer.

These goods generally enter the Yangtze River through the Qinhuai River, and then go to Wuchang, Pingjiang, Songjiang and Hangzhou through other waterways, and even go north to Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places for sale.

For this reason, Li Shanchang couldn't help but glance at Zhang Cheng who was walking in front.

And Zhang Cheng knew that if these goods were shipped out from now on, they would bring in a lot of income.

He not only wanted to be loyal to Zhang Cheng rationally, but also followed Zhang Cheng's orders so that Zhang Cheng could experience the charm of power more deeply. He also began to want to be loyal to Zhang Cheng emotionally.

Seeing everything in order in front of him, and thinking that Huimin Commercial Bank would continue to bring huge profits to the regime he participated in building and his own family, he admired Zhang Cheng even more in his heart.

Li Shanchang hurriedly walked up to Zhang Cheng in three steps at a time, took the initiative to half-bend, and asked with a sincere and humble face and even a slightly humble smile: "Mr. Zhang, what are your orders?"

What he needs to consider now is how to use the income to continue to strengthen the military and benefit the people.

Therefore, many methods of purchasing and shipping goods use ships as transportation vehicles to ship goods.

As Zhang Cheng spoke, he looked at the densely packed merchant ships on the Qinhuai River, watching the servants of wealthy businessmen and merchants carrying goods and characteristic words such as "clocks", "glass is fragile", and "soap". The wooden box was carefully moved from Huimin Trading Company to the cabin covered with thick straw.

At the same time, the Cabinet Office's official treasury income will also get better and better because Huimin Commercial Bank needs the dividends from the Cabinet Office's official shares.

He knows the equity structure and operating system of Huimin Commercial Bank, and has also obtained many branches from Huimin Commercial Bank. Recently, he was assigned a lot of silk and satin.

"I just want to discuss with you how we should spend our money next."

The most prosperous area of ​​Jiqing is along the Qinhuai River, where many shops and houses also line the river.

So, how could Li Shanchang not be emotionally willing to be loyal to Zhang Cheng?

Because in any case, Zhang Cheng has indeed brought a lot of benefits to the regime and his family. Now he can see that people's lives are in order because of people like him, and it also allows him to know that he can use more income to make himself better. Those concubines were more considerate to him, which gave him a greater sense of gain both in public and private matters.

"It's not really an order."

Li Shanchang is the first generation operator of Huimin Trading Company.

Everyone in the south of the Yangtze River rests on the river.

Zhang Cheng also took the initiative to call Li Shanchang at this time.

Although Zhang Cheng had already mentioned his basic ideas about financial management in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and others.

But Zhang Cheng still wanted to listen to Li Shanchang's opinion, and by the way, he also wanted to test whether Li Shanchang's consciousness had improved. Don't really think that until now, he only supported the concept of Datong on the surface, but in fact he had never thought of anything that would be beneficial to the realization of the concept of Datong. policy suggestion.

Li Shanchang has long been habitual of trying to figure out Zhang Cheng's thoughts.

Now, when Li Shanchang saw Zhang Cheng asking him, he took the initiative to figure out what kind of answer Zhang Cheng wanted to get from him.

Li Shanchang knew that Zhang Cheng could not ask him for no reason, and with Mr. Zhang's intelligence, he probably already knew how to spend money. Now that he was discussing with himself, he must be testing himself to see if he was practicing the principles of Datong Society. I have to think hard about the concept, but I must combine the suggestions on how to spend money with the implementation of Datong Society's philosophy. At this time, I can't pretend to be stupid and say "everything is at Mr. Zhang's command." then.

Li Shanchang thought for a while and replied: "As I see it, the most important thing right now is to develop people's wisdom and benefit people's livelihood. We must use more of the money collected from our official treasury in these two areas! After the people's wisdom is widened, there will naturally be more Many people are willing to support our great cause of expelling the Tartars and restoring China! And by benefiting the people's livelihood, we can stabilize the rear, prevent the brothers of the Chinese Army from fighting in the front, and find a way out behind them, and also let the brothers of the Chinese Army know who they are. It is worthwhile to fight hard at the front. What they gain from their bloodshed on the battlefield is not the wealth of their family, but the wealth of their parents, children and millions of people. In this way, they will feel that their hard work is worth it. "

“More importantly, this implements the fundamental philosophy of our Datong Society to seek wealth with the people.”

“In order to enlighten the people’s intelligence and benefit their livelihood, the most important thing at the moment is, besides allocating land to the people, establishing schools and providing work-relief.”

"The establishment of schools is to enlighten the people's wisdom, at least so that the younger generation will not forget our Datong Society, or even forget the mission of our Datong Society."

"Work-for-relief is to solve the problem of unemployed people who have no income and cannot be organized into households. Only by providing work-for-relief first can we gather the unemployed people and organize them into households, and then educate and teach them skills. According to the actual situation, these people can be The unemployed people can have a career, build a family, and even become rich."

After Li Shanchang said that, Zhang Cheng nodded and smiled slightly: "It makes sense. It's you who is good at it, which coincides with me."

"What I'm thinking about is to provide relief through work, or to dredge rivers and build water conservancy projects first. Just like we do in Chuzhou, both farming and commerce now need smooth waterways."

"What do you think?"

Zhang Cheng turned around and said something to Li Shan.

Li Shanchang hurriedly answered: "What Mr. Zhang said is true. My subordinates also thought that Mr. Zhang must first raise food and build water conservancy projects after he captured Jiqing, so he took advantage of this time to come to Jiqing to participate in the discussion and brought extra military rations." 300,000 shi of grain were brought as work-for-relief, so I refused the request of brothers from the Chinese Army to bring their family members and property to Jiangnan."

Zhang Cheng laughed after hearing this: "Very good! I didn't expect that you are good at what you do. You don't abandon official duties because of personal friendship, and you are quite prepared for a rainy day. With these 300,000 shi of food, I really don't know how many people can be saved in advance." , based on this act of public morality, the villagers of Jiqing should invite you to the Xianliang Temple!"

"Thank you, Mr. Zhang."

"Being good is just following Mr. Zhang and trying your best to learn from Mr. Zhang. Even if you occasionally have a small virtue to benefit the people, you are just inspired by Mr. Zhang's glorious virtues."

Li Shanchang bowed his hands and replied.

Zhang Cheng didn't say much. People like Li Shanchang always held him up and praised and flattered him. Although he didn't forget about it, he didn't feel disgusted either. He just continued to stroll in the market. Choose a mansion.

Although many high-ranking officials and nobles in the Yuan Dynasty had residences in Jiqingdu, not all residences were suitable for use as cabinet offices.

In the end, Zhang Cheng chose a temple called "Dalongxiang Jiqing Temple" as the official residence of the cabinet.

Although this is a temple, its predecessor was the old residence of Tuthemur, Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan Dynasty, in Jiqing. However, after Tuthemur became emperor, he changed this place into a temple.

This temple is naturally the private property of the Yuan Ting royal family.

Even the monks in the temple only prayed for the Yuan Dynasty royal family and did not serve the good men and women of the people.

And now that Zhang Cheng has changed this confiscation into a cabinet office, it naturally does not affect the interests of the people.

As for the monks here, Zhang Zheng had long thought that the Hu Yuan royal family had committed crimes and asked the soldiers to temporarily imprison them in the name of sorry for China and the common people, preparing to participate in labor reform.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng have agreed that he will be mainly responsible for the military aspect next, so he plans to personally take care of the military affairs that the Privy Council is responsible for.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to go with Guo Tianxu and Feng Guoyong to elect the Privy Council, and to go with Guo Tianxu to elect the officials of the Privy Council in Jiqing City.

It is naturally quite embarrassing for Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Tianxu to go to the office together.

But fortunately, because both of them were influenced by Zhang Cheng, they knew that there was enough wealth in the world waiting for them to divide it, so it was awkward, but it was not to the point where they couldn't get along with each other at all.

In particular, the two of them also saw the gradually prosperous side of urban life in Jiqing City. Especially when they saw the Chinese Military Academy actually helping some old, weak, sick and disabled people to carry water carts, they couldn't help but smile. There is a feeling that I am also doing good deeds.

"Are you really from the Second Army?"

When Guo Tianxu took the initiative to ask about the officer who helped a woman and child lift an overturned wheelbarrow, he learned that the officer was an officer of the Second Army named Zhao Zizhong.

This made Guo Tianxu feel proud, and he glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang with his arms crossed.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew why Guo Tianxu was so energetic.

But he was also happy to see that Guo Tianxu was happy because he was compared with him, so he smiled and said: "After all, the Second Army followed the father's commander when he made his fortune, and it did not corrupt the father's commander." Reputation.”

(End of this chapter)