My life skills in Daming Liver

In the end, Su Ze agreed to the compromise proposed by the cabinet.

Through the Ministry of Rites, a paper was issued in Huguang to recruit a group of competent officials among the old officials and scholars in Huguang.

At the same time, the Metropolitan Procuratorate also sent the Metropolitan Procuratorate's censor to inspect local areas, and severely punished officials who committed misdeeds and violated the law.

At this time, three pieces of information were sent to the Governor's Mansion.

The first is a battle report on the naval battle of Jeju Island. Kinoshita Tokichiro on Jeju Island defeated the North Korean Navy that besieged Jeju Island and captured the ships of the North Korean Navy.

The second one is the battle report of Annan. Qi Jiguang devoured thousands of miles like a tiger and quickly occupied the northern area of ​​Annan. Shen Yiguan left Zhongjun City with Ruan Huang, and immediately contacted the forces in Houli that opposed Annan's powerful minister Zheng Jian, and launched a rebellion that swept the entire Houli.

Shen Guanyi also contacted Qi Jiguang and received the support of the southeastern army. The rebellion quickly spread from the Sheng Longfu area. The army in Zheng Jian's hands could only put out the fire everywhere, but it seemed that there were enemies everywhere.

The third piece of information was from the grassland. It was the news that Yu Dayou killed An Dahan, Huang Taiji and Sanniangzi came to power, and promulgated a ban on alcohol. It also included an analysis of the current situation in the grassland.

After reading these three pieces of information, Su Ze looked at the dominoes piled up by his son. He gently pushed the dominoes, and they fell one by one.

Su Ze's son laughed excitedly, and Su Ze said to Shen Shixing: "The dominoes have fallen, and the Ming court will take over next."

Shen Shixing understood what Su Ze meant. He nodded and said, "This time Mingting will have a good meal."

At this time, the Zhongshu Province of the Ming Dynasty, and the Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng also received such information.

Regarding such changes, Zhang Juzheng had mixed emotions.

Anda Khan died, but the newly appointed King Shunyi was very respectful to the Ming Dynasty and even asked the Ming court to grant him a title.

However, King Shunyi banned the liquor trade, which made Zhang Juzheng a little dissatisfied. Businessmen in Jiubiangong City also jointly protested to the Ming court. They hoped that the Ming court would allow the grassland to withdraw the ban on liquor.

In the past, Zhang Juzheng would have ignored businessmen's petitions, but that is no longer the case.

Jiubian spirits merchants are also specialized. They have obtained exclusive rights from the imperial court to produce and sell spirits.

Whether it is the sale of the exclusive rights to sell spirits or the tax revenue received from spirits merchants, this has become the bulk of Jiubian's income.

This money can not only be used to support the soldiers in Jiubian, but will even be transported to the household department in the capital to supplement the Ming court's poor household treasury.

Even according to calculations by officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty could not accept the loss of such a large sum of money.

Zhang Juzheng could only face the needs of these merchants. He ordered the Ministry of Rites to send envoys to the grasslands to confer the new Mongolian Khan as King of Shunyi. At the same time, he also put pressure on the grasslands to abolish the prohibition on alcohol.

Zhang Juzheng was also opposed to the behavior of these spirits merchants pursuing profits and selling spirits to the grasslands.

But Zhang Juzheng was a mature politician. This kind of moral trial could not solve the financial gap of the court. Now the Ming court needed these spirits workshop owners and businessmen.

Zhang Juzheng is a little worried. Today's court is becoming more and more complicated.

In the Ming Dynasty, the main tax revenue was land tax. The function of the Ministry of Household Affairs was to ensure that the summer grain and autumn grain taxes collected every year could be put into the treasury. Most of the remaining time was spent arguing with the emperor, trying to reduce the emperor's large-scale construction projects. Budget, demolishing the east wall to repair the west wall to maintain the operation of the court.

But today's household department has expanded to a giant department that is twice as big as the other five departments.

The Ming court's account books were so complicated that the Minister of Household Affairs himself couldn't figure out how much income the court had, and a huge amount of materials were deployed and circulated within the empire. This was despite the fact that the Ming court only occupied half of the country.

Zhang Juzheng suddenly envied Su Ze. Compared with the patchwork financial system of the Ming Dynasty, the various laws and regulations that were so complicated that it gave him a headache, and even the senior officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs could not tell how many taxes were collected, the financial system of the Southeast From the beginning, it was sorted out clearly by Su Ze.

Zhang Juzheng felt the importance of finance more and more, which was also an important reason why Su Ze was able to dominate half of the world with just two provinces.

The grassland incident can only be regarded as an appetizer, and the Korean incident will hurt Mingting seven inches.

Today, trade with Korea and Japan is an important source of food and silver for the Ming Dynasty.

Especially the silver exchanged from the Japanese trade can be said to be the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty.

In an era when there were no credit currencies such as banknotes, the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty was the lack of currency in circulation.

Although a ban has been issued on the Southeast, the industrial capacity of Daming is still not comparable to that of the Southeast, and many high-end products, that is, commodities with relatively high added value, can only be produced in the Southeast.

For example, matches, soap, and clocks, these things have already entered daily life, and it is difficult to completely prohibit these things from entering the Mingting-controlled area through a ban.

Zhang Juzheng also knew this. He only strictly cracked down on the smuggling trade in the southeast for goods such as cloth and silk that could be produced in the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng also turned a blind eye to those goods that could not be produced in the north.

The currency outflow caused by this cannot be solved by simply recasting silver coins.

And with the development of the commodity economy in Ming Dynasty, the demand for currency is also increasing.

Obtaining silver from trade with Japan was almost related to the lifeblood of Ming Dynasty's finances.

As long as we can continue to obtain silver from Japan, the current precarious financial system of the Ming Dynasty can be maintained.

This is the conclusion reached by Zhang Juzheng, and it is also a fact stated in the Ministry of Household Accounts report.

This is why the Ming court would rather overthrow the tribute system, establish concessions in Japan, and also trade with Japan.

Compared with these two things, Annan's influence on Mingting was the smallest.

The Ming court itself had no financial dealings with Annan, and did not care about Annan's life or death.

Zhang Juzheng suddenly realized that the world today is completely different from before.

In the era of his teacher Xu Jie, the court's first concern was its own problems, the resistance to Japanese aggression, disasters and rebellions everywhere, and internal party strife.

But what the court now wants to focus on is the trade and finance of various countries, the political balance of all nearby regions, and the reports on foreign trade.

In Zhang Juzheng's view, most of his officials today are unqualified, just like the unqualified soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, they are simply unable to do their jobs.

This is even more troublesome than the backwardness of the army, because the backwardness of the army can be made up for by training and weapons, while the incompetence of officials cannot be improved in the short term.

Zhang Juzheng felt more and more that today was a time of change that was completely different from previous times.

Historical experience can provide extremely limited help.

Every day brings new problems and new challenges.

And he still has to face the constraints of countless old warlords and old bureaucrats.

However, those who support him in power are these old bureaucrats and old warlords. He cannot start anew on a blank slate like Su Ze in the southeast.

Zhang Juzheng thought of Su Ze's evaluation of himself in the "Jingshi Bao": a tinker of the old world.

Zhang Juzheng actually felt that it was very correct.

The world is also becoming more closely connected through trade.

An attack on the Japanese merchant house in Busan, North Korea, affected the silver imported by the Ming Dynasty, and also affected the overall finances of the entire Ming court.

Zhang Juzheng looked at the tearful letter of credence sent by the North Korean leader and could only sigh and convene a meeting of the Ming court cabinet to discuss the matter of sending troops for rescue.

This made Mingting's already fragile finances even worse.

Zhang Juzheng felt that he was trapped in a chess game. Su Ze was making moves everywhere to squeeze his living space, but on the frontal battlefield, Mingting could not open the situation.

Unable to persuade his father to go to the southeast from his hometown in Henan, Gao Wuguan had no choice but to return to Nanjing by himself.

The wife of his friend Li Yangong had given birth to a son, and Gao Wuguan quickly went to Li's house with congratulatory gifts.

Li Yangong had an uncontrollable smile on his face. After Gao Wu watched the little nephew, he handed a gold lock to Danyun, and was then pulled to the backyard by Li Yangong.

Sitting in the pavilion in the backyard, Li Yangong said:

"I'm going to Huguang."

Gao Wuguan was not surprised. He had just returned to Nanjing when he heard that his friend Xiong Kuang used cavalry to defeat Liu Shiyan's Huguang New Army, and the first battle established Huguang's victory.

Now the entire Army Department is in chaos. The cavalry, which was once swept into the garbage heap of history, seems to have turned around in this battle. The calls for reorganizing and training the cavalry are getting louder and louder. Finally, the Grand Governor Su Ze made the final decision, with Xiong Kuang Based on the cavalry, an independent cavalry regiment of 5,000 people was established, with Xiong Kuang serving as the leader of this independent regiment.

The level of an independent regiment is below that of a brigade, but its personnel can exceed the ordinary regiment level.

Within the Army Ministry, it was once rumored that the Governor originally wanted to directly establish a cavalry brigade with Xiong Kuang as the brigade commander. However, due to restrictions on promotion regulations, he first established an independent regiment.

In any case, Xiong Kuang has broken through the barrier from mid-level officers to senior officers and has become a senior general.

This has a strong motivating effect on the officers of the entire Southeast New Army. Now many people are reporting to the War Department, hoping to go to the front line.

It is normal for Li Yangong to want to go to the Huguang front line.

Gao Wuguan smiled and said: "Dan Yun just gave birth to the child, so are you going to let you go?"

Li Yangong said: "She supports me. The child will be taken care of in Li's house. When Danyun finishes her confinement, she will also prepare to return to Guangxi."

"So urgent?"

"Danyun is a representative of Guangxi's Constituent Assembly. She cannot always stay in Nanjing. Her tribe is also there."

Gao Wuguang nodded, Li Yangong's life was normal for young officers in the southeast, and it was normal for husbands and wives to live apart.

Li Yangong asked, "When you went back this time, did Uncle Gao not urge you to get married?"

Gao Wuguan shook his head. At this time, there was a sudden commotion at the door of Li Mansion.

Several people walked into the back garden. Li Yangong and Gao Wuguan took a look and found that it was the Chief Zhang of the Military Selection Department of the Army Ministry whom they knew.

Behind Chief Zhang was a civilian official who smiled and said to Gao Wuguan: "Gao Wuguan, senior staff officer of the General Staff Department?"

Gao Wuguan immediately stepped forward, and the civil servant said: "Your vacation has ended, and the Governor's Office has new arrangements for you."