After a night of clouds and rain, many new people were added to the Duke's mansion.
Although Li Xiu didn't care, it was not a trivial matter for the Duke's Mansion. Of course, these things would never affect Li Xiu, the only master of the Duke's Mansion.
Li Xiu's attention would not be focused on these trivial matters in the Duke's Mansion.
However, there is one thing in this Duke's Mansion that has always attracted Li Xiu's attention.
Since he was the Marquis of Zhenbei and was in charge of the army of the Beijing camp, Li Xiu had asked the officials in the mansion to organize a group of talents in charge of the affairs and settle accounts, and founded a money house in the name of the Marquis of Zhenbei.
For this reason, he also specially invited a special order from the emperor, which gave the money house a special meaning.
The so-called special meaning refers to the fact that this money house is also a kind of official and business color that is not even a dream that the private money house is so official.
Of course, Li Xiu was also very careful when he was not good at financial affairs such as the Piaohao Money House.
At present, this money house only opens a money house in the private places such as Jingji Xuanfu that he can completely control.
At the same time, under the power of Li Xiu, this money house also entered the army, such as the Jing camp, the imperial guards, and even the army of Xuanfu in Jizhen.
As the money shop was first established, Li Xiu naturally would not make any forced moves. He just said that the soldiers in the army would have an extra slightly convenient choice.
According to Li Xiu's current regulations on this money house, the money will be deposited into the money house, and the money will be withdrawn as soon as possible. If the soldier unfortunately dies, he will contact his direct family members, or the bank deposits and the money house will be delivered to the family members designated by the soldier.
The profits of money houses are mainly short-term lending and foreign exchange lending.
Everything except for the additional regulation to return silver to the families of the sacrificed soldiers, the rest is no different from the ordinary money houses and silver accounts in the public today.
But despite this, with his tiger skin, even though Li Xiu had not deliberately promoted it, this money house was developing rapidly in the army and among the people.
At present, although this money house is limited to a few places, it has already stored and deposited silver at a huge amount of one million taels. Such a huge number cannot be done by Li Xiu.
For this reason, Li Xiu had to devote some energy and turn his attention to this money house.
He, who originated from later generations, was naturally vigilant about this kind of financial behavior.
But at the same time, he naturally knew how great the benefits this kind of financial behavior would be for a country if he could master it!
But Li Xiu was not very good at this aspect, and there was not much reference for this era. Now he could only cross the river by feeling the stones and groping little by little.
Fortunately, in this era, the concept of finance is just a prototype of the seed, not to mention that the existence of power is enough for him to forcefully reverse it when necessary, or to guarantee the bottom line, so there is no need to worry too much about it.
After reading the account book about the money house in his hand, Li Xiu looked up at a man standing respectfully in front of him.
"You are responsible for the money house?"
"Report to Duke Qin, thanks to the appreciation of the old man, the youngest one was promoted to the shopkeeper of Dingsheng Money House..."
"Tell me, what you know about the money house, and the future development of the money house..."
Li Xiu put down the account book casually and his eyes gathered on the man in front of him again.
Obviously, the man was extremely nervous at this moment. After a while, he spoke stutteringly. However, as time went by, as he seemed to talk about his goodness, the tension between the man's expression finally dissipated a little, and he talked freely, but he looked a little bit.
"What you mean is that money shops should not rely too much on the business of the court, and they need to increase the development of private business?"
Li Xiu found this view quite interesting.
"Reporting to Qin Gong, a young man thought that if Dingsheng Money House wanted to develop, he would naturally have to deal with or even compete with other private money houses. If he relies too much on military business or court business, he would have a small concern and enjoy the benefits, the money house would probably completely lose its competitiveness..."
Hearing this, Li Xiu frowned. This was something he didn't expect, but then he thought about it, if policy assistance was used to restrict and regulate private business behaviors... or state-owned enterprises and private enterprises...
This idea just flashed and was left behind by Li Xiu. The current environment of this era does not allow him to do these things.
"Dingsheng Money House walks on two legs, and the people and the officials cannot leave behind. You must be sure of the specific balance. Remember, the money house absorbs the people and saves the money. It is fundamental. Don't be too hasty. You must focus on stability!"
"Young guy understand, don't worry, Mr. Qin!"
The man immediately fell to the ground and kowtowed respectfully.
"Get out."
Li Xiu waved his hand. After the man stepped down, he looked at the butler Wang Wu who was standing beside him: "The money house is of great importance. You have to do professional things. Look at it, don't let the layman blindly command. If there is anything that cannot be solved, report it to me in time."
"Don't worry, Master, I've been watching you all the time, and I will never delay Master's affairs."
"Just understand."
Li Xiu didn't say much. For him, there were too many things and it was impossible for him to pay too much attention to one thing.
In fact, this is also a common problem in this era. Although the bureaucratic ruling class is perfect, it is really one-sided. If an official is lazy and negligent, it will naturally be comfortable. But if he wants to do practical things, he will find that there are too many things!
This is true for the officials below, and even more so for Li Xiu.
There is nothing he can't control or something he can't handle in the entire Ming Dynasty.
But he only has one person, and he only has twelve hours a day.
What he can do now can only be said to be step by step, first the army and then the politics, laying a solid foundation for his own power, and giving court officials a buffer and acceptance time.
As for military affairs, in addition to the most urgent post-war rewards at present, there is another thing that cannot be ignored and is also imminent.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! That is the blockade of Liaodong, or the maintenance of the order dominated by the Ming Dynasty after the war!
Although this battle was unexpectedly twists and turns, in the end, it was barely achieved a certain strategic goal.
From the south of the desert to the north of the desert, and then to Shanhaiguan, Dongjiang, and Korea, this place name is connected together, and it is a circle, a circle that blocks Liao Town and Later Jin!
Even in a sense, this strategic blockade circle is much more perfect than the initial strategic idea.
After all, in the initial strategic vision, Liao Town was also in the blockade circle, but if the hidden dangers in Liao Town were not exposed, this blockade circle would undoubtedly have a fatal gap.
Today, although Liaozhen rebelled, although it lost such a fulcrum, Shanhaiguan was still in control, and it had no blind spots in all aspects. Although the strategic pressure increased sharply, it had to maintain a huge military in Shanhaiguan for a long time to face the pressure of Liaozhen and the Later Jin Dynasty, for a strategic blockade, it was undoubtedly more beneficial than disadvantages.
And Dongjiang and North Korea...
Thinking about this, Li Xiu stared at the map hanging in the room, his eyes circulated in this circle, and finally frozen in Dongjiang Town.
Dongjiang Town is useful, but North Korea is weak.
These two can complement each other and complete the last link of this strategic blockade circle.
To complete this link, you must invest a lot of manpower and material resources into Dongjiang and strengthen the strength of Dongjiang Town in order to achieve the perfection of this link.
But if you are not careful, it will create the next Liao Town, and it will be too big!
“Dengzhou…”
While thinking, Li Xiu's eyes were also frozen on Dengzhou on the Shandong Peninsula.
Dengzhou is located at the top of the Shandong Peninsula, looking to the Liaodong Peninsula to the north and the Korean Peninsula to the east, and guarding the Bohai Strait.
If a army is stationed here, a navy army will be trained at the same time.
Then, the strategic blockade will be truly and completely complete.
Whether it is the shield behind Dongjiang, or the eastward travel to North Korea, or the expedition to Liaodong...
At the same time, it can undoubtedly greatly weaken Dongjiang's important position in this strategic blockade. In this way, it can also prevent the situation of Dongjiang Town from becoming a big deal.
After thinking about this, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh that there was never a shortage of loyal ministers and good generals in this period of history in the late Ming Dynasty.
Yuan Keli, an old minister of the four dynasties, once sat in Denglai in the year of Tianqi, founded the Dongjiang River, prepared troops, and trained troops using Qi Jiguang's method of "the navy first learned land warfare". He accumulated 4,000 warships and formed a navy and land warfare army of more than 50,000 people.
Even though he sent troops to Liaodong many times, the results were huge, but in the end, loyal ministers and generals could not escape the dispute between the government and the country and ended in a sad way.
Due to the fact that this man was defeated in the late Ming Dynasty, when Yuan Keli was dismissed, Dengzhou's military equipment naturally declined rapidly. Now, only Dongjiang Town still exists under the support of Mao Wenlong.
"Who can use it?"
Li Xiu frowned. There were too few talents in his hands. Each of them was either responsible for heavy responsibilities and could not be moved lightly, or had other arrangements, and could not be moved without action.
Now he assists the country in governing the country and takes charge of the central power. Even though the entire Ming Dynasty can be used by him.
However, he has not yet established a stable foothold, and with the importance of Dengzhou, he will not be assured to hand over the most fundamental military power to outsiders...
Chapter completed!