Zhu Gaosui silently calculated, just Yingtian, the number of officials increased all of a sudden, from top to bottom, not a thousand, but also eight hundred. His father was bleeding completely this time, and it was bleeding profusely, and it was all bleeding and drifting.

"Master, can it really be done?" Zhu Gaosui questioned.

Liu Chun smiled silently, but Xia Yuanji smiled, "His Royal Highness King Zhao, those newspapers criticized the old ministers, saying that I peddled railway bonds overseas, which would make the barbarians profitable, and they would even force the imperial court to repay the debts...... Do you think that's going to be the case? ”

Zhu Gaosui pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "If they dare to come, they will all be arrested, and I will have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and they will annoy us, but they will destroy the country!" ”

Xia Yuanji smiled: "That's right, this is our hole card, but we still have one card." ”

"What card?"

"Daming currency denomination!"

Xia Yuanji spit out six words, and Zhu Gaosui instantly understood, the old guy is really insidious!

The foreign bonds issued this time were not denominated in gold and silver, but in the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty, in other words, they forced debts from the Ming Dynasty, but they just took a few more pieces of paper.

Some people may ask again, they took Daming's banknotes, can't they affect the Daming market through purchase? It's possible, but if you don't let you buy it, what can you buy...... It's not still in the hands of Daming, to put it bluntly, as long as you accept Daming's bonds, you can only be obediently at the mercy of Daming.

If you are not convinced, you will fight, as long as you win, you can say anything, if you can't win, I'm sorry, the harsher conditions are still to come!

Zhu Gaosui was so astute, he immediately understood what Xia Yuanji meant.

The expenses are indeed huge, but Daming can already afford it.

Issuing additional currency, internal and external, and issuing bonds...... By these means, it has been able to support the pressure of the expansion of the bureaucracy. Moreover, a more complete bureaucratic system can also increase tax revenues, increase various forms of revenue, and collect higher taxes, so there is no problem with everything.

"Master, the disciple has been pondering these days and can't understand, how could you leave such a big omission, but now the disciple understands that you have to wait for the time to be ripe before you can do it once and for all!"

Zhu Gaosui danced excitedly, in his eyes, the master was like a clever living immortal. It's Liu Chun, he is not sad or happy, he has nothing to be proud of, but he is not disappointed.

This is the inevitability of changing the law.

If we had started to improve the local government system a few years ago, and had begun to get the distribution of newspapers into the hands of the yamen, we would have strengthened management...... How much do you have to spend on these things?

With the income of the Ming Dynasty at that time, can you afford it? One of the simplest truths, management is to employ people, to employ people to give money, multiply the number of officials, in addition to the Lulu, there are also the daily expenses of the local yamen, easily crushing the entire Ming Dynasty. It's definitely more terrifying than the vassal royal clan.

The result of a child's body and an oversized head is just a glance at the new nations that have been established from the colonies.

Most of these countries have followed the suzerainty and made a modern state management team, but there are still many tribes in their own countries, which are completely feudal societies and even slave societies...... It is not surprising that there has been little development for decades, and even getting poorer.

Whether it is financial conditions, technical conditions, or even talent accumulation, all are far from enough, where can it be compared to the water.

In the final analysis, it is necessary to change the law, to enter the industrial age, and to establish a modern state system...... This is all very beautiful, but it must also be clear that the cost of this set of modern things is really scary!

No, in two days, the prefect of Ying Tian and the two prefects submitted the reform plan and the annual expenditure.

The prefect of Ying Tian asked for 83,000 yuan for daily expenses, and the two county officials asked for 25,000 yuan each, and more than 500 official officials and more than 300 additional employees, which were not included in the expenses.

Facing a group of people under black pressure, Zhu Gaosui felt his scalp explode!

Many!

That's a lot!

The small mansions are almost the same as his father's Fengtian Temple.

If it were him, he would never have the courage. From this point of view, the father is really not picking the door, but just spending the money where it should be spent.

And the master is really ruthless!

At this moment, Liu Chun looked at everyone and nodded slightly, "I will give you a three-month probationary period, and what you need to do is here...... As for the formal appointment after three months, the benefits you can get are in this booklet. ”

Liu Chun handed them a pamphlet, and there was also a special compilation of the contents that each yamen was responsible for, and it was all clear at a glance.

For this change, Liu Chun's preparation time is not short.

The officials trembled, opened the pamphlet about treatment, and their eyes lit up!

The salary is still not high, but the lowest-level employees also have a probationary period of three and five, and once they pass, they can get five times a month.

Among the hired workers of Yingtian, it is above average.

Don't be busy, money alone is nothing, there is a series of benefits behind, first of all, housing, the imperial court will provide basic housing, even if it is just a temporary employee, you can get a rent subsidy. The second is food subsidies, medical treatment, and children's education...... The most speechless thing is that there is a monthly health fee of 100 Wen.

After asking for a while, I found out that this is for everyone to shave their hair and take a bath.

Since Zhu Di took the lead, the entire officialdom, except for a few stubborn, most people still obediently shaved their hair short, which has also become one of the symbols of officials.

After receiving the pamphlet and getting acquainted with the specific tasks in charge, the hundreds of people dispersed.

Cen Xueben is a middle-aged man in his early thirties, he used to work as a temporary scribe in the yamen, and later went to work as a shopkeeper for a trading house, but this time he was pulled back and took over the position of temporary chief bookkeeper.

Whether it is an official position or a salary, it has been greatly improved...... Unfortunately, he was still worried.

"I'm still going to quit this errand with my cousin."

He chatted with his wife, who was embroidering, her hand trembled slightly, and she was just stabbed, and a drop of blood gushed out from the tip of the needle.

Cen Xueben said helplessly: "It's not that I don't know how to lift, but the rules of the court are too unreasonable, although I didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning is also clear, I, I can't be this unfilial person, if I shave my hair short, I'm afraid that I won't be able to enter the ancestral grave of the Cen family after death, I'm afraid that someone will poke my backbone, I ......"

"Shut up!"

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and an old man with a white beard came in from the outside, carrying a cane.

Cen Xueben was so frightened that he hurriedly stood up, "Grandpa! ”

The old man panted, pointed at him and said, "What did you just say?" Said that the court gave you an official, you don't want to do it, do you? ”

Cen Xueben hurriedly said: "Grandpa, I mean to shave my hair......"

"What's wrong with shaving your hair? You're afraid you won't be able to enter the ancestral grave, right? Tell you kid! It's your grandfather who has the final say! If you dare to resign from your official position, I will kick you out of the house now, and you will not be a member of the Cen family!" ”

Cen Xueben was speechless, and the lady next to him hurriedly asked the old man to sit down, "Grandpa, he just chatters, the court has such a great grace, if he is not an official, wouldn't he not know what to do!" ”

The old man snorted, "You, you haven't been a daughter-in-law yet!" In the past two days, I have read the newspaper, which introduces the gunpowder warehouse case, and also says that the matter of shaving short hair is for the sake of hygiene, in order to reduce illness, and it has nothing to do with filial piety. If you are reluctant to shave, you can keep it, and wait for my old man to shave his hair, and see if the ancestors are in the spirit of heaven, will they blame me! ”

The old man snorted: "The current market is really too chaotic. In the past, those messy newspapers wrote everything, and there was not even a single constraint. I can't stand it anymore, an old man. The court asked you to be an official, that is to do things for the people, how can you not know what is good or bad? ”

The old man turned around and said to his daughter-in-law: "You go to boil water now, shave my hair first, if anyone laughs, laugh at me first, this old man, it has nothing to do with him, this time it's done!" ”

Cen Xueben faced his grandfather, but he didn't have any idea, so he could only obediently obey orders.

The hair was shaved, and the mission was clear.

After turning the day, he changed into an official uniform, and the old man smiled.

"Okay, my grandson is a bit official. You remember to your grandfather, if your owner came over again in the past and asked you to help him bend the law for personal gain, it wouldn't work, our Cen family can't produce corrupt officials and corrupt officials, that is unfilial piety, and it is a shame for the ancestors! Do you understand? ”

"Understood, grandchildren understood."

Cen Xueben obediently went to the Shangyuan County Ya to sit on duty.

The first government affairs he had to deal with were the newspaper offices in more than 30 places below Shangyuan County.

"According to the instructions of the imperial court, seventy percent of the newspapers must be closed, and as for the remaining newspapers, the imperial court will provide funds to become shareholders, and they must become bigger and stronger, and they must assume social responsibility.

Cen Xueben announced the plan and took immediate action to implement it from door to door.

Those with insufficient capital and bad deeds were all shut down, and there was no politeness to talk about. Some newspapers even print newspapers privately and distribute them at will, which is even more unpolite, and they are directly arrested and sent to prison.

"The surname is Cen, Lord Cen!"

A man who looked like a wealthy businessman was angry and stared at Cen Xueben, "Don't forget, I couldn't get along in the Yamen at the beginning, I gave you a bowl of rice, you ate mine, drank mine, turned around, you closed my newspaper again, do you still have a conscience?" You say, how much money do you want to let me go? ”

Cen Xueben suddenly laughed, he held an old newspaper in his hand, and said coldly: "I only knew that you drove a car and horse shop, but I didn't know that you still had a newspaper...... By the way, I remember that last year several workers fell into the Yangtze River and died...... But some newspapers said that they stole your goods and fled to other places, and you saved a lot of compensation, so this newspaper didn't do it, right? ”