Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 350 Mongolia
"Hehe, that's Xiao Wu's filial piety." Shen Zheng continued with a smile.

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

Zhang Li rolled his eyes and said, "The commander-in-chief said just now that he would put those children in a place to practice. If Xiao Wu doesn't go, what about the others?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Now is the time for employing people, I asked Xiao Wu to arrange to let half of the people go down."

"Then how many people do you have to leave for me? Is there a shortage of people under my command?" Zhang Li hurriedly said.

"Okay, you can tell Xiao Wu yourself. But let me remind you, these children are new to local government affairs, and they don't understand many things. You are not allowed to promote rashly, and let them study at the grassroots level for a period of time." Li Jing looked at Zhang Li seriously. Said.

Zhang Li hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Commander, I know how to arrange it."

Li Jing waved his hand: "Stop talking about this, tell me, do you have any good news to tell me?"

Shen Zheng smiled and took out an account book from his arms and handed it to Li Jingdao: "This is the list of confiscated Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu's family. Good guy, more than 70 taels of silver have been confiscated from the current silver family alone, and the land and real estate stores are being cleaned up. , I estimate that there will be at least several 10 taels of silver after the sale."

"I won't look at it. Let the money go to the account of the household department. After the land is cleared, it will not be sold. It will be distributed to those poor people who have no land. As for the shop, you can discuss it with Zhang Li, but there is one thing that can only be sold." Give it to merchants, officials are not allowed to buy it." Li Jing waved his hand.

Shen Zheng nodded slightly when he heard the words.

After finishing talking with Shen Zheng, Zhang Li also took out an account book from his pocket and said with a smile: "This is the arrears and confiscated taxes paid by the princes and nobles in the capital just now. It has been calculated to be 160 million taels. I guess At least this amount can be collected in the past two days."

Li Jing was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Okay! The money came in time, and it solved my urgent need!"

After pondering for a while, Li Jing asked: "This 160 million plus the more than 300 taels confiscated from Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu's house, plus the [-] million taels confiscated a while ago, right?"

"More than that, 300 million taels is a lot more." Shen Zheng said hurriedly.

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "Don't touch this money for the time being. I plan to use it as a reserve fund. Our Daming doesn't have enough silver. We can't always use silver to pay military salaries and salaries, let alone use silver as currency in the market. It has to be issued." Paper money. But to issue paper money, we must have enough silver as a guarantee, otherwise the common people won’t believe it.”

Shen Zheng heard the words and continued: "That's right, the reason why the banknotes we issued in Pingyang Mansion can pass is because our bank has sufficient silver, and the common people can exchange them anytime and anywhere, so the common people will use our banknotes with confidence. banknotes."

Zhang Li smiled and continued: "I heard that the commander-in-chief thought of a lot of tricks in order to make banknotes passable. It is said that countless shops were used to promote them."

Li Jing smiled: "There is no way, our common people only believe in real gold and silver, and the common people are not convinced if they don't do that. In fact, they can't blame the common people. The key is that the things the imperial court did in the past were too immoral. The treasury had no money, but they paid a lot Issuing precious banknotes has made the precious banknotes lose their credibility, we can't do such stupid things."

Zhang Li nodded and said, "However, if we want to re-introduce banknotes across the country, I don't think it will be possible without 3000 to [-] million taels of silver."

Li Jing sighed and said, "Yes, at least 3000 million taels!"

Zhang Li pondered for a while and said: "So much money will not be available for a while, unless the commander-in-chief is determined to confiscate all the homes of the princes and nobles, but if that happens, the whole country may be in chaos."

Li Jing shook his head and said: "You can't do that. Although most of the princes and nobles are not good birds, the reason why they are what they are today is mainly due to the institutional ills left over from the previous dynasty. We can't use such strong methods to solve the problem.

I have read the records in the palace, the number of direct descendants of the Zhu family has reached tens of thousands during the Wanli period alone, this does not include those distant relatives who no longer have salary and need to live on the charity of those nobles, I remember that Mr. Zixian did it before Statistics, if those people are counted, it seems to be more than 10 people. After so many years, it seems to be more than that.Including hereditary nobles like Zhang Weiying, I estimate that the total number must be at least tens of [-].

If such a drastic method is adopted, more than half of these people will starve to death. After all, these people are also citizens of Ming Dynasty. How can I bear to watch them starve to death? What's the difference? "

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "That's what I think. Right now we don't have that much money, so we don't want to build such a big stall. I decided to start with the Gyeonggi area, and then the entire North Zhili area, and then It is Shandong, from north to south, and then from east to west, advancing one province after another, I estimate that after a few years, paper money can basically be circulated throughout the country."

Shen Zheng laughed and said, "In this case, you don't need to prepare so much silver. I estimate that with five or six million taels of silver, you can support the stall."

Li Jingjing nodded and said, "Father-in-law, the issuance of banknotes this time is different from that of Hongshanling and Pingyang. Everything must be considered carefully. First of all, the local government cannot interfere with the affairs of the bank. It has to set up a separate department directly under the cabinet. I think This department should be called Daming Bank. This name is inappropriate, so let’s call it Daming Bank.”

After pondering for a while, Li Jing continued: "The Ministry of Households is in charge of land, food, population and household registration, military supplies, salaries, taxes, and the country's financial revenue and expenditure, so many matters cannot be managed by only one department.

Let me see it this way, divide the functions of the Ministry of Households, and set up a department related to money, called the Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of taxes, military salaries, official salaries, and financial revenue and expenditure.

A department related to land, population household registration, and grain was also established, called the Ministry of Population and Land, which is responsible for land management and grain collection.

The part of the military supplies is allocated to the logistics department of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. "

"Then what are the grades of these newly established departments?" Zhang Li asked suspiciously.

Li Jing thought for a while and said: "The original minister of the household department was promoted to the deputy prime minister of the cabinet, and his rank was set as Cong Yipin, in charge of the Ministry of Finance, Daming Bank and the Ministry of Population and Land. Taste."

"Shangshu of Hubu is the first rank, and the newly established department head is the second rank. Will this be unfair to the other five departments?" Zhang Li continued to ask.

Li Jing pondered for a while and said: "The other five ministers have also been promoted to deputy prime ministers of the cabinet, and still govern the original departments. You remind me that the affairs of the Ministry of Industry seem to be very complicated, and they have many functions related to the Ministry of Households. If there are conflicts, they can be merged together. For example, in Tuntian, since there is a Ministry of Population and Land, the Ministry of Industry does not need to manage Tuntian. In addition, water conservancy is a major issue, so a separate department must be established. I think the Ministry of Water Resources can be established. , the minister also received the title of the second rank."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "You guys also think about it and see if there are any departments that need to be divested, especially those departments that have multiple managements. If they should be merged, they should be merged, and if they should be separated, they should be separated. In this way, everyone will You can specialize in one area, and things are much easier.”

"This... I'm a lowly official, I'm afraid it's not my turn to intervene in these matters." Zhang Li looked at Li Jing and smiled awkwardly.

Li Jing looked at Zhang Li, and suddenly laughed and said, "Zhang Li, Zhang Li, just play tricks on me."

Immediately, Li Jing shook his head lightly: "Your position has been promoted fast enough, and I cannot give you a promotion for the time being. In addition, the separation of these departments cannot be completed in a day or two. You should work hard first, and wait for you." Show me your grades, and no one will gossip when I promote you."

Zhang Li was overjoyed: "Thank you for the promotion, Commander."

Li Jing looked at Zhang Li, smiled and said, "Zhang Li! It's right to be more thoughtful in doing things, but the thought must be used in the right way, and must not be used in the wrong place."

Zhang Li was startled when he heard the words, knowing that Li Jing was waking him up, he quickly wiped his forehead and said: "Your official understands, remember the commander's instruction."

As soon as Zhang Li finished speaking, Xiao Wu suddenly walked into the room and said to Li Jing, "Marshal, Uncle Wu, Master Yuan and Master Yu are here."

"Oh? Is it because of this exam?" Li Jing said.

"Hehe, the big brother's guess is not bad, it is because of this exam." Ma Wu continued with a smile.

Seeing Ma Wu enter the room, Li Jing got up with a smile and said, "Fifth Brother, Brother Bo Ying, Jun Yang, come and sit down. Xiao Wu, pour tea for the uncles."

Ma Wu waved his hand: "I won't drink the tea, I still have a lot of things to do, I'll go back after I finish talking."

Li Jingjing nodded. After Jinyiwei and Dongchang were abolished, Ma Wu focused on Mongolia and Donglu.

In particular, Cao Wenzhao is now at a critical time to wipe out the various ministries of Mongolia, let alone be careless.

In fact, it is not a problem to fight the Mongols, let alone worry about losing the battle. As long as the logistics can keep up, it is no problem to defeat the Mongols with Cao Wenzhao's military strength. The difficulty lies in finding the main force of the Mongols.

You must know that the Mongols live in the grasslands, and it is too strenuous to encircle and wipe out the main force of the Mongolian tribes in the vast grasslands. After all, Cao Wenzhao’s troops are tens of thousands. So many people are searching for the Mongols on the prairie. When there are people, the Mongols will inevitably find them.

Everyone is on horseback, and no one is much faster than the other. It is extremely difficult to catch up. Therefore, if you want to destroy the main forces of the Mongolian tribes, the only way is to attack at night.

But before the sneak attack, you must first find the target, and it is not the scout director of Cao Wenzhao's department to scout the target on the grassland.

Because these people had hardly lived on the grasslands before, the Mongols were now in a state of hostility towards Ming Dynasty, and they were naturally full of vigilance towards these outsiders. Letting these scouts inquire about the news would be tantamount to revealing their own activities.

At this time, Jin Yiwei's former spies lurking in Mongolia played a role.

These people have lived in Mongolia for a long time, and they are no different from the Mongols. If they ask for news, they will not arouse the suspicion of the Mongols.

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