Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 243 More than half a year

Chen Gu is not an unreasonable person. The laws jointly formulated by representatives of hundreds of ethnic groups need to be resolutely upheld.

As long as others act within the rules, Chen Gu will not attack them without reason. Doing so may give him a temporary advantage, but when the rules are not respected, the one who will suffer the most in the end will be the rule maker.

After Chen Gu recognized the legality of depositing money with formal identity information, the relationship between the former officials, big families and the Huaxia Ministry eased a little. Half of the 800 million deposits were taken away gradually, but in the end 400 million were left in the money house to earn interest.

As a result, there were a little over 1.1 billion silver deposits left in the bank, of which more than 200 million were confiscated government silver.

Although he needed to pay 30 million taels of interest every year, he had 200 million taels of hidden government silver, so he didn't have to panic for the time being. Moreover, after some loan limits were relaxed, he gradually loaned out more silver, which increased the loan interest income to about 20 million taels.

"I still lose a thousand taels every year!" Zhang Haomin sighed.

Chen Gu thought for a moment and said, "It's OK. After the people have a good harvest in autumn, they should be more courageous. Then we can relax the loan limit and let them borrow more money to develop. In addition, if they withdraw money from other places or in advance, they should pay less interest, and we can almost break even."

In fact, as long as the money house is bolder, it will definitely make money. However, Chen Gu did not dare to relax the limit too much at the beginning to avoid large-scale bad debts.

"For the top ten clans in Jiangjin County, should we take advantage of this incident to knock down one or two of them?" Zhang Haomin asked.

Chen Gu thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, let's handle it impartially. We will not tolerate those who have made mistakes, and we will not punish those who have not made mistakes. We will fill the vacant positions with those who are taking the imperial examination this time.

However, the number of positions for children from wealthy families should be reduced, and more positions should be allocated to poor scholars.

In addition, the monthly salaries of officials and soldiers will be distributed by money houses in the future, allowing them to collect them with proof of identity and position. "

"Are the bonuses and other benefits going to be taken back?" Zhang Haomin asked with shining eyes.

Don't underestimate the payment of salaries. If it is paid by a superior, he will have a strong control over his subordinates, and withholding or delaying payment are both means to control his subordinates.

Once the money is distributed by the bank, the subordinates will have the confidence to resist their superiors, and it will not be a big deal even if they break up with them and point out their superiors' mistakes.

But this is not a good idea either, as it can easily lead to the lower class rebelling against the higher class. After all, anyone can make mistakes.

Chen Gu thought about it, shook his head and said, "Bonuses and other benefits should be evaluated and distributed by the departments and localities. We can't leave them no authority at all, otherwise how can they manage their subordinates!"

A certain amount of leeway must be left in all aspects so that things don't get out of hand. Subordinates have the confidence to resist, but they cannot be allowed to rebel against their superiors at will.

Zhu Gui was eventually sentenced to thirty years of labor reform for espionage and sedition. One of the five palace guards was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and the other four were sentenced to between three and ten years.

The whole country was in an uproar for a while. It was said that Jiaqing was so angry that he smashed things for a whole day. Then he sent people to Sichuan to negotiate with Chen Gu, wanting to redeem Zhu Gui and others. However, Chen Gu refused on the grounds that the laws of the Chinese nation were sacred and inviolable.

The imperial court had no way to deal with the Huaxia tribe. After all, it takes time to transform the military.

It would also take time for Chen to reform the political system and cultivate talents. The two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and calmed down, but the war still did not stop. Hubei's vassal army still attacked everywhere, causing unrest in the entire Hubei.

After obtaining Chen Gu's consent, Yunhua captured Jingzhou and advanced the supply line of the front line, making the vassal army even more prosperous.

The obstacle has already taken over the entire Guizhou. Chen Ju sent a thousand poor scholars who were participating in the imperial examination, plus a hundred officials drawn from various places to Guizhou to set up various departments.

However, after taking over Guizhou, the troops from Yunnan and Guangxi provinces were deployed on the border, making it impossible for the obstacle to advance.

Immediately, Chen Gu sent Scar over there, and at the same time sent 20,000 troops to Guizhou, letting the two of them wait for an opportunity and continue the offensive against Guangxi and Yunnan.

Only the western plateau and the northern Shaanxi area are relatively calm.

Lao Piao submitted a memorial almost every three days, hoping that Chen Gu would transfer him away from Guangyuan, but all his requests were rejected by Chen Gu. Instead, Chen Gu gave him an additional 5,000 troops and asked him to find a way to attack Hanzhong on his own.

Unfortunately, the imperial court sent in 30,000 additional troops. Song Jun was no incompetent and he defended very tightly. In addition, the terrain was easy to defend but difficult to attack, leaving Lao Piao with no choice but to maintain a standoff.

God bless China. This year the weather has been good and Sichuan has had a rare bumper harvest in the autumn.

The Ministry of Agriculture purchased rice at the price of six to seven cents, and then sold it in towns at the price of seven to eight cents. Of course, more rice was stored in granaries.

After the people had money and food, their consumption demand also became strong. Unfortunately, there were not so many goods on the market, especially cloth for making clothes. They relied entirely on cultivated cotton and linen, and there was no way to meet the demand. Chen Gu had no good solution for this.

We can only place our hopes on those foreigners, but although they know some knowledge of physics and chemistry, it is far from advanced, let alone turning asphalt into polyester thread.

This made Chen Gu very angry and disappointed.

"You are just a bunch of useless trash. No wonder the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty doesn't want you. I'm giving you 200 taels of silver each. Get out of here. The Chinese Ministry doesn't want you anymore." Chen Gu yelled at the foreigners.

The foreigners were hesitant and did not dare to refute. They were also reluctant to leave. After all, where could they go if they left?
They came all the way to China because they were not living well in their own countries and wanted to try their luck and make a fortune. The Qing emperor didn't want them anymore, and now Chen the Executor doesn't want them either.

They had a pretty good time in the Huaxia Department in the past few months. What they knew was actually quite useful. After all, it was a new subject. So after evaluation, Han Yuanxiao gave them a position equivalent to that of a prefect, with a monthly salary of thirty taels of silver.

Adding other miscellaneous things and bonuses, he could receive forty taels of silver and things worth ten taels of silver a month. He was definitely a high-tech class person, and his job was just to teach students, so naturally he didn't want to leave.

Gao Linyuan even pleaded, "Please, leader, please let us stay. We can receive a little less salary, and we will teach students more attentively in the future!"

"But your knowledge is not profound!" Chen Gu said with some disdain.

(End of this chapter)