Han’s Son is Not a Slave

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The book has 1,000 chapters and 2.61 million words. After counting, the average daily update is 5,000 words. I sigh with emotion. It is difficult to write a book, and it is even more difficult to write a book that does not make money. But no matter how difficult it is, always keep on writing. As I said before, some things must be written by someone. Many book lovers sometimes express their opinions, thinking that bones often depict some of the history they know, which makes the atmosphere of the book very depressing, or that the bones are pouring water, but in fact, these are what the bones really want to write.

This book is not actually a novel, it just writes history in the mode of a novel, a painful history that was artificially buried in the history books.

Nanming 17 years, we should not forget.

In those 17 years, some of our ancestors chose to be slaves of the country, and some chose to fight. We do not intend to force our ancestors to have blood, because then, we may not be who we are today. But we will definitely respect those ancestors who dared to fight against aliens!

We can be conquered, but we must not forget who we are and who they are!

It is not terrible to be conquered, the terrible thing is that we dare not pick up the sword again.

Our ancestors have not always been powerful, and our lands have not always been large, but we will not accept their "dowry", our lands, to be fought over by our own swords. Our history is also written by us!

Zhenjiang Ganlu Temple, since Zhou Shixiang moved here, the monks in the temple have been expelled long ago, and I don't know where to place orders. The pure and clean land of Buddhism in the past has now become the military and political center of the Taiping Army. It is not Bai Ding who comes and goes every day, but the leading generals with high authority.

Zhou Shixiang's leg injury had already healed, but he didn't want to go back to Prince Qi's mansion in Nanjing. Princess Changle had already returned to Nanjing ten days ago. Before leaving, she hoped that Zhou Shixiang could return to Nanjing as soon as possible. Emperor Dingwu was ill, and he has been ill since the prisoner case, and he has not been to court for three months. As a niece, Princess Changle can no longer stay in Zhenjiang, she has to go back to take care of her uncle. However, Zhou Shixiang knew that the emperor was not sick, and if he did, it was just a heart disease. He has no intention of pointing out the emperor's "illness" to his fiancee, nor does he want to go back to Nanjing to compete with the "sick" emperor now. He just wants to quietly finish all the things he has to do.

The salt affairs and the clearing of debts have been completed in three or four out of ten cases. The former is now in charge of the General Administration of Salt Affairs in Yangzhou, and Guo Shao is in charge of the rectification of the salt affairs. Under the auspices of Guo Shao, the General Administration of Salt Affairs has successively set up branches in Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong to sort out the chaotic salt administration from top to bottom. However, the establishment of the General Administration of Salt Affairs and the local branches is still short, and in the short term, salt monopoly can only be implemented in some key cities, and private salt is still rampant in other places, especially in the countryside. In three or five years, the illicit salt that flourished due to the war could not be completely resolved.

Several large salt fields along the coast, except the Changlu Salt Field in the north, which is still under the control of the Qing court, have been controlled by the Taiping Army. An important indicator of official governance in Yandi. The "salt introduction" system, which was used in the Ming Dynasty, was abolished by Zhou Shixiang, and was replaced by the local salt bureaus in designated locations. This system, Zhou Shixiang called it state-run. Regarding the price of salt, Zhou Shixiang also asked the General Administration of Salt Affairs to set it as cheap as possible, half the price of salt on the market today, to ensure that all people under the rule, rich and poor, can eat salt.

After the great chaos, there must be great governance. The first priority of great governance is to restore farmland production. This requires a lot of human resources, farm tools and cattle. In addition, there must be enough salt to ensure that the people can eat. If people can't eat salt, or eat less salt, they will have no strength. Therefore, first of all, ensuring that people can afford salt and eat salt is the core explanation given by Zhou Shixiang to the General Administration of Salt Affairs and Guo Shao.

As a former salt inspector, Guo Shao is quite familiar with the inside story of the salt industry. He believes that if the salt industry is monopolized by the government from now on, and even the salt sellers are managed by the government, then the salt industry will become a huge interest group in the future. , it is difficult to guarantee that the General Administration of Salt Affairs will be unacceptably large in the future. After all, salt is a necessities of life for the common people. No matter how cheap it is, it will be an amazing wealth.

According to Guo Shao's past experience, once a yamen has a fixed and amazing source of wealth, it will not take long for the yamen to breed a large number of corrupt officials. In addition, with this model, people in the Salt Bureau may become hereditary in the future, that is, fathers die and sons succeed, just like the six houses in the original local government, but if there are oily errands, the incumbents will always think of passing them on. People of their own family, not willing to let Yin.

Guo Shao's worry, Zhou Shixiang also understands, "monopoly" management, coupled with the status of official and businessmen, the future of the General Administration of Salt Affairs will definitely turn to the other side of his original intention, because human nature is selfish, no matter what doctrine or belief. will not change.

Only, the disadvantage is in the future, not now. Zhou Shixiang urgently needs to sort out the salt affairs, bring a lot of money to the Dingwu regime with empty treasury, ensure the operation of the court, guarantee the salaries of officials at all levels, and guarantee the various water conservancy, farmland, and minerals he needs to build. The development of engineering, weapons, transportation and other projects also ensures that he can restore the Central Plains from the Northern Expedition without any worries. This project and the great cause of the Northern Expedition, which are still on paper, can only be started when enough money is put into the pot. Otherwise, the simple use of corvée as before will easily arouse the dissatisfaction of the people and cause people to change; It is not conducive to the restoration of people's livelihood.

Money is not everything, but for the common people ~www.readwn.com~ there is a world of difference between working for nothing and getting money.

Positivity is the most powerful guarantee for doing anything.

Zhou Shixiang believed that at least when he was alive, he could control the situation and improve his deficiencies step by step, so he insisted on specializing in the salt industry. As a subordinate, Guo Shao has already mentioned the opinions that should be raised. It is not his business whether the lord will accept it or not. All he has to do is to implement the lord's will. The new official took office three times. Guo Shao took office in Yangzhou only a month ago. Several salt farms in Huaian Prefecture have arrested more than 600 private salt dealers, and Yancheng County alone has taken more than 300. Resolute and resolute coupled with the heads hanging on the city gates deterred those desperados, and the salt industry began to change as Zhou Shixiang expected. The initial investment has gradually paid off.

It cannot be said that there is no result in clearing the debt, but Zhou Shixiang is not satisfied. As of June, 6,820 people had been dismissed from the four prefectures in Susongchang Township, and more than 2,000 rioters had been arrested and arrested. The "results" handed in by the debt clearing divisions in various places show that they have owed more than 14 million taels of tax and silver, and more than 4 million shi of tax has been deducted from grain.

In the richest place in the world, the accumulated wealth must be more than that. Zhou Shixiang asked Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Changgeng to increase their efforts to clear their debts. For this reason, he has already dismissed a Tartar Tanhua Lang, and also dismissed the second place in the Chongzhen Dynasty, a great poet. , The fame of the great genius Wu Weiye. The number of incumbent officials, ranging from Nanjing Chaotang to prefectural and county officials who have been dismissed, locked up, demoted and used, has reached more than 3,000. Many county officials are completely paralyzed. Replaced the functions of the original government. When Zhou Shixiang planned to wait until the debts were cleared, he changed the debt clearing divisions in various places to the official government, thus implementing the direct jurisdiction of the military commander's government over the locality. The next step is to promote the construction of villages and townships, as in Guangdong, to integrate all the money, grain and resources of the population in the control area, and implement a general mobilization from top to bottom.

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