Chapter 640: Balance of the State Treasury
Hurry out of the city and go straight to the water. Take advantage of the excitement and go home.
It has been ten days since Emperor Lu returned to the Forbidden City, and every time he closes his eyes, he can clearly 'see' the broken iron pipes that have been blown open.
It is either twisted into a twist, or directly short-range halves, and there is also a bell mouth......
It's really spicy.
There is also the pig liver face of the money leopard that can't wait to get into the cracks of the ground, which makes people helpless. What can he do then? Tang Long can only be asked to spend more energy on making cannons in the future. Although he himself is a knife and gun maker.
But Liangshan Bodu has become the current Great Qi Dynasty, what if the money leopard is upgraded by one or two? What's more, whether it is a cold weapon or a hot weapon, the quality of steel is the first. It can be closely related to him.
Maybe his brain was stirred by the hot weapon, and maybe he could splash a bright spark.
Like the musket before it, a single shot seems to be qualified. Otherwise, how could Tang Long call Lu Qian? But what about durability?
Not to mention that 100 rounds cannot be insisted on, and even many cannot exceed 30 rounds, and there is no one that reaches five rounds in a row, and this kind of musket made of guns does not have practicality at all. What's more, the cost is also beyond Lu Qian's bottom line.
It is to take advantage of the excitement and go away, and return in defeat.
Lu Qian, who returned to Yidu, was inevitably a little depressed, but fortunately, he immediately received a good news.
"Your Majesty, Secretary of Security Zhu Gui has a performance." As early as when Lu Qian came out of Yidu, the dry land has already touched a little clue, and these days he has followed the vine and touched the melon, put a long line to catch big fish, and now he has controlled a lot of information that the Imperial City Division has made in Yidu, Zhu Gui feels that he should be able to collect the net.
Lu Qian put down the performance, for this kind of professional matter, he generally does not express any opinions, Zhu Gui is in charge, and he only needs the result.
There has never been a curfew or martial law in Yidu City, but the sudden passing of soldiers in the middle of the night has not been seen for a long time.
The nightlife in the city has never been related to ordinary people, and the flowers and willows are naturally brightly lit, but in the huge Yidu City, there are more ordinary people who have fallen asleep early. At this moment, only the sound of the roaring army passing through the city at night was heard, and the curious people looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows, and more people were lifting tables and chairs to hold the door tightly.
Yidu City has always been prosperous and peaceful.
In the streets and alleys, taverns and teahouses in the city during the day, there are even few people who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and there are few people who fight and fight. Although there are many garrisons here, they have no sense of presence in daily life. Don't even make a big move, rush into the city.
This frightened hundreds of people.
It's like in the community of later generations, in the middle of the night, I was suddenly woken up by the siren outside, and when I opened the window, I saw that the downstairs was full of armed policemen with loaded guns, and I would be scared to pee at that moment.
This is the fighting method between the Security Department and the Imperial City Division, no matter how attractive it is, it is just an attractive pair of ears, which arouses people's curiosity, but don't really involve yourself. At this time, I was going to be arrested by the government because I was looking at the excitement, what a grievance.
"Beep ......"
In the middle of the night in the north of the city, a sharp whistle sounded in Yanyunfang, and the soldiers of the brigade and the guards in the city held torches, guns, knives, bows and crossbows, and rushed towards an alley with the sharp whistle.
"Brother, let's go......" Two men dressed in short clothes carried the fat man Li San and fled over the wall.
Next door is an ordinary courtyard, there is a tunnel in the real inside, but it can drill out more than ten zhang, and the opening is an uninhabited house. Li San escaped from there, and it was safer than it was now.
"Brothers......" Outside the sound of fighting, Li San rode on the wall and burst into tears, he knew that his brothers were just the level of ruffians and hooligans, and a hard confrontation with Lu Qi's officers and soldiers was like an egg hitting a stone, and he couldn't delay it for too long, but he was reluctant to leave. The people in the courtyard were his closest and dearest brothers.
He Li Sanneng has gone from being a homeless person to the point where he is now, all relying on the help of his brothers.
"Brother, let's go. You live, the death of the brothers is worth ......" The financier behind him only recognizes Li San, not them.
No one will remember these little shrimps of them, and the people in the yard are worthless even if they die a hundred times. Only when Li San, who is already the leading brother of the seventh rank of the Great Song Dynasty, is alive, can their family have thoughts.
Otherwise, they just escaped alive, and the vultures couldn't contact the financiers behind them.
"Quick, quick......" shouted outside the courtyard. A light arrow flew in, shooting the rich Li San down the wall.
Several men who resisted to the end were killed or injured, and later Li San was also tied up and pushed in the struggle. A few torches shone on him.
Zhu Fu walked up to him, looked at Li San, who was still cursing viciously, and smiled disdainfully, "Leak your face." The two soldiers holding Li San grabbed one of Li San's ears with one hand, and leaked his face stained with dust and blood in the light of the torches. A shrunken person was pushed to Zhu Fu's right hand at this time, "See clearly, he is Li San?" ”
"Yes, yes, Zhu Xianggong, he is Li San."
"Wang Che......" Li San looked at the person who identified him in front of him, and his eyes were about to pop out. Because this is a scholar, it is said that he is still a disciple of a high family, and he is the deputy of his top boss, and in Li San's heart, this kind of person should be a diehard loyalist of the Great Song Dynasty. How ......?
Li San's heart suddenly churned, like the waves of the sea when a storm hit, churning upside down.
"Phew. You pickled bird who is greedy for life and afraid of death, grandpa can't spare you if he is a ghost. Grandpa's brother won't let your ...... go either"
He felt that his brother's death was pitiful, such a figure was even higher than his official position, and the Zhao official family was really tight-eyed. Li San struggled vigorously, and a mouthful of bloody spit sprayed on Wang Che's face.
Zhu Fu waved his hand, the guy in front of him who was born as a scoundrel was not from Yidu. According to Wang Che's confession, this person was a ruffian in Yingtian City, and because his family suffered in the war, he was very dissatisfied with Lu Qian. This person was helpless in Yingtianfu and had no food, so he arrived in Qilu with the fleeing refugees. was first arranged to Jinan, because he was dissatisfied with Lu Qiduo in his words, so he was taken by the Imperial City Division in the expansion period and absorbed as a spy. In the years that followed, it was only now that it had come to this day.
"It's ironic. Li San is a bastard from a ruffian, but he has a bit of backbone, Wang Che is a scholar, when he knows what loyalty and filial piety are, what is honesty, he was gently frightened, but he was all recruited...... "Zhu Fu said one person next to him.
A sneer appeared on the face of the smiling tiger, and he said, "Don't think too hard about Li San first." Whether this thief is really loyal to the pseudo-Song is true, go through the punishment in the first torture room and then preach. ”
Zhu Fu still had a sentence that he didn't say, "There will never be a shortage of traitors among scholars." "Earlier, when he was on an errand in the spy department, he saw the ugly face of a doctor. At that time, Lu Qian's power had not yet been established, and even if it was the case, let alone the next time.
At dawn the next day, Lu Qian received the good news from Zhu Gui that the manpower planted by the Imperial City Division inside and outside Yidu City had been taken down overnight.
Many people were arrested, with different identities, rich and poor, and a few officials who were dragged into the water. The latter will be severely punished. Lu Qian can also say 'understanding'. When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, but what about people?
But when he saw the lives in them, he scolded them for being too stupid in his heart. Don't look at Zhao Song's bird-like look, and secretly hook up with the Imperial City Division.
"I can't stand the temptation, my will is not strong, I make a wrong step, I take a wrong step." Zhu Gui summed it up very well. He believed that these people were not willing to jump ship to a sinking ship in the first place. But people are like this sometimes, knowing that they are wrong, but they still can't let it go.
What you plant and what you hang on, such a weak-willed person, when you die, you die.
Let go and tell Zhu Gui to go down the vine and touch the melon, and do his best to harvest the fruits. Lu Qian had already put an end to this matter in his heart. Although this is the first successful counter-espionage case he has experienced in so many years.
Zong Ze came to see Lu Qian with a song in his hand.
After several years of accumulation, especially in the last two years, Lu Qi's territory has expanded dramatically, and his additional income is not cheap. The volume of foreign trade has increased greatly, and the gold and silver of Sado Island, even though Yidu has been mobilizing troops for many years, he has been able to save a sum of money.
As for the use of this money, the DPRK and China are arguing endlessly. Some are to be kept, and some are to be spent.
Since ancient times, China has had a concept that the country is full of countless grains, the grain has turned black, and the ropes that wear money in the treasury have rotted, which is the fullness of the treasury, which is called the prosperous years. Therefore, the number of ministers who hold the word is by no means small.
But Lu Qian's financial management philosophy is slightly different. Have money to spend as much as you can. He is not afraid of borrowing, or he is already planning to issue government bonds. And we are confident that it will be released on a large scale.
The eyes of the common people are bright, and the reputation of Emperor Lu is not in vain.
At the same time, Qilu's current finances are very healthy, and rules have already been formed in the past few years. Although there is a big difference between the annual budget and the actual expenditure, it can also be used as a general reference.
Zong Ze is a person who has a plan in his heart, that is, because he has a plan in his heart, so he wants to move the money in the treasury.
There are also quite a few people who are in favor of spending money, and in their opinion, it is very meaningful to invest this money in building bridges and paving roads, in studying politics, and even in repairing the embankment of the Yellow River and the old Cao Canal in the Zhao and Song dynasties, such as the Bianhe River.
Ran Zongze's thoughts are indeed different, and in the past few years, he has always had a dream of 'Big Blue Xiang' in his heart.
I want to set up technical schools in various places to teach the people crafts so well. Blacksmiths, coppersmiths, leathermasons, stonemasons, carpenters, scalemakers, masons, rope makers, masons, garment dressers, etc. But if the people can learn a skill, it will be of great benefit to themselves.
However, China's inherent master-apprentice inheritance is obviously too narrow compared to large-scale education.
Zong Ze supported the Ministry of Household Affairs and the State Administration of Taxation to jointly run a school two years ago, and now the effect has been revealed, which gives him even more motivation.
He did it as if he were calling the Ministry of Works. Instead of running a primary school like the original Zhidu Division and the Lijin Bureau, he only focused on his own small abacus. The number of talents cultivated by such a school is clear at a glance compared to the results of the expansion of the scale.
It's just that the latter is more expensive.
The School of Finance and Economics, which was established by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the State Administration of Taxation, is no longer a single school, but a whole system. Isn't it true that after cultivating people, they can eat public food as tolerances? How can I get a free education? That's for a fee. Many campuses are already self-financing. And the people have their own enthusiasm.
In that branch school, stay for a period of time, further study on the basis of the existing foundation, and all the students who have graduated can write and calculate, and can go to the accounting room.
From Yidu to the provincial capitals of the provinces, and then from the provincial capital to the state capital, and even some prosperous counties have subordinate schools, which is a lot of money. It is not all allocated by the state treasury, and there is also the support of the small treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the State Administration of Taxation.
But its effect, even if it was only a short period of two years, made Zong Ze see the huge pros and cons. If it continues year after year, it will be able to make many more people who can write and calculate.
This kind of person is not a person who is completely incomprehensible to the world, and their life will not be bad.
This is a reality that has been confirmed, which makes Zong Ze even more interested in the construction school under the Ministry of Industry. It also made him keep an eye on the balance of the treasury.