"I heard that you are in trouble?" Shunzi brought a cup of tea, and Ai Husheng stood there and held it with both hands.

"A chief of the Ministry of Revenue secretly stole the minted coins and has been severely punished." Ai Husheng answered with a bow and a tea cup in both hands.

"Sit down! It's not your fault in this matter. The court doesn't have so many suitable people to use now. We have no choice but to use some former officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs. These people are inextricably linked to Nanming.

Mistakes like this are inevitable, so you don't have to blame yourself." Li Xiao pointed to a chair and motioned for Ai Husheng to sit down and talk.

After Li Xiao ordered, Ai Husheng dared to sit on the chair. His butt just rested on the edge of the chair, looking like he was ready to stand up at any time.

"Thank you, Marshal! It's just that this matter happened in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and my subordinates were also responsible for not being strict with their subordinates and employing people without knowing the crime. I have already reported to the imperial court to reduce the punishment."

"What I said just now is both my meaning and Mr. Sun's meaning. The mess Emperor Sizong left behind can be said to be a mountain of evil. He destroyed the Donglin Party in one fell swoop and implemented the idea of ​​​​an official and a gentry working together to pay for food. Looking at the people

Our lives are getting better and better, but we have offended the scholars all over the world.

To govern the country, we have to use scholars. If you are illiterate, you can't even read the official documents of the court. How can you issue court decrees? How can you manage the local area?

Suddenly, we can't find so many literate people to serve as errands. What should we do? We can only make do with the disciples of the Donglin Party. It is not surprising that such a thing happened to your household department. Other ministries have also had even more ridiculous things.

matter.

Fortunately, the country has passed through the period of war, and a large number of military officers can be freed up to serve as local officials at all levels. In addition, some of the original local subordinates should be promoted with clean financial status.

This is a bit far-fetched. Now the imperial court has suspended Enke. All ministries have organized schools. The navy has set up a shipping school. The army officer school was the first to be established. Now it can train more than 700 officers every year.

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The Ministry of Railways is also running a Railway University, and the Ministry of Water Resources is planning to open Hohai University. The Ministry of Industry is running an engineering college, and your Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development can also run a university to train financial professionals.

You have to choose this principal from among your closest friends. If you don’t have a Donglin background, you can absolutely trust someone who is reliable. Of course, you must also have two brushes under your hands. If you have a raging army, you will have a den of raging animals. If you want a half-baked principal,

Do you expect him to teach you a group of half-full students?

If we solve the talent problem, things in the future will be easier to handle.”

"No! I will go back now and look for suitable people to make plans."

"Yes!" Li Xiao nodded. The talent issue is now the top priority. Kick out those Donglin Party disciples and disciples who work in secret and have extremely low efficiency as soon as possible. There is no one available now, so we have to use them.

"Commander, this is a newly minted sample. In addition to inheriting the previous experience in craftsmanship, a few small sections of serrations have been added to the outer ring. There are also shallow embossing on the surface. This kind of embossing and small serrations are only

It can be made by stamping process, but it is impossible to make it by casting process.

There are only two such hydraulic presses in Changxing Island. If it is forcibly cast and faked, any old farmer can see it without the professionals in the user department." Ai Husheng took out a brocade box from his arms. Opening the brocade box,

Take a few coins out of it.

Li Xiao took a look and saw that it was still one coin, two coins, five coins, ten coins, one tael, two taels, five taels, ten taels.

However, this coin is different from before. In addition to the three small sections of serrations added to the outer ring, the embossing on both sides is also very clear, and the bumps and convexes feel obvious when touched by hand. Li Xiao nodded. The casting process these days,

It is absolutely impossible to mint such a coin. Even if it were minted, a blind man would know the authenticity by just touching it.

"This thing was done well. I came back this time to sit in the center. This money can be exchanged with the entire Ming Dynasty through the cheap shop. After three years, my Ming Dynasty will no longer allow the use of silver and copper coins." Li Xiao said to those who were dipping their toes.

Drool, strange shapes, and over-oxidized black silver are abhorrent.

"The exchange business of Bianyifang has been separated from the main business. Xie Youcai did a good job in this job. According to the commander-in-chief, the newly separated business name is called a bank. Its main application is to absorb deposits and lend money.

I don’t know what method Xie Youcai used. He invited a protégé of Cheng Dawei, a master of arithmetic, to come and take charge of the head office and various branches. The banking business has been running for the past six months, and not a single amount of money has gone wrong.

Now, there are bank branches in various prefectures in Liaodong, Hebei, and Shandong. There are also branches in provincial capitals in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui and other places. Xie Youcai has now gone to Jiangnan, and he plans to open a branch in Jiangnan.

If banks are fully opened, you will only need to bring money orders when doing business in the future, and you will not need to take risks with so much cash. This will definitely have a great promotion effect on the world's trade routes."

"You have only seen this side. The court can encourage the development of private capital by issuing loans. Even though there are so many factories in Gyeonggi, Shandong, and Liaodong, how many workers can these factories use?

If you want more people to have jobs, you have to rely on a large number of private enterprises. The more people work, the more people will be paid. In addition to supporting their families, they can buy all kinds of things.

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With their consumption, there will be people to sell goods, and factories will have more orders. In this way, money can circulate, the country's tax revenue can also increase, and people can live in peace and contentment. This is a matter related to the overall situation of the world.

, don’t be careless.

In addition, although Xie Youcai is talented, you should not be a hands-off shopkeeper. You must keep up with the supervision mechanism. I would like to remind Xie Youcai that his wealth is rich enough. Don’t reach out where you shouldn’t. Just say it’s me.

It's for the sake of the world and the millions of people in the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid the love we have had over the years cannot be fully understood."

"No! I understand, I will go back and talk to Xie Youcai personally." Ai Husheng is a smart man and knows that Li Xiao is not only saying this to Xie Youcai, but also to him, Ai Husheng. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue,

Control the wealth and power of the world. If you move your hand, it will be worth tens of thousands of silver.

On weekdays, there is naturally an endless stream of people asking for food, drinks and entertainment, and even the amount of ice and carbon toast collected every year is not a small amount. In Li Xiao's words, he said that his relationship with Xie Youcai for so many years cannot be fully understood, so what about Ai Husheng?

How can He Dehe be an exception?

I've long heard that the imperial court is going to set up a Supervision Department in addition to the Six Ministries. The Supervision Department will supervise the Six Ministries of Hundreds of Officials, uh... now it has added the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Water and Electricity, making it eight ministries.

No one dares to say it, but everyone knows it in their hearts. This Supervision Department is probably the former Dongchang Jinyiwei. Look at the people who walk in the Supervision Department every day. The person in charge is still Old Chen Fu, who is in and out all day long.

The ones who are busy outside are Li Yongfang and his daughter Luzhu, who are running around in the capital all day long. Moreover, their hands have been extended outwards, and various provincial governments have already established supervisory bureaus.

This year's "Da Ming Code" has also been changed a lot, and many of the rules indicate words such as beheading, hanging, etc. I am afraid that after this autumn, someone will suffer.

The more I thought about it, the colder my spine got. When I walked out of Li Xiao's mansion, my legs felt a little weak. When I sat on the sedan, my heart was still beating fast.

I'm so upset that I can't work, so I might as well go home and calm down before talking. Xie Youcai won't be busy with things for now. He needs to tell his family members not to stretch out their hands randomly.

When I got home, I lay down on the sofa and stared at the ceiling in trance!

"Sir! What's going on?" Hearing that Ai Husheng was not feeling well, Busan's daughter's wife immediately ran out to see if the head of the family was sick.

A pair of small white hands rubbed Ai Husheng's temples: "Sir! The governor of Henan just sent this year's Bing Jing, and gave it...!"
Chapter completed!