Wang Yu's prestige, coupled with Mi Zhu's character guarantee, the establishment of the Commercial Department was finally put on the agenda. [This article is from]

In fact, with the current situation in Qingzhou, if Wang Yu wants to pass a resolution, it is enough to give an order, and there is no need for repeated consultations and discussions.

Up to now, all the decrees in Qingzhou have basically served the war. The purpose of the tuntian is to accumulate grain and grass, the improvement of industry is to improve the armed forces, the development of commerce is to raise more wealth, and the purpose of education is to cultivate talents. It's all about getting a head start in the race for the world.

However, there is a difference.

Education and tuntian are the easiest, and the simplicity here does not mean that these two jobs themselves are simple. As a matter of fact, tuntian requires a high level of organizational ability and understanding of agriculture, and those who cannot even distinguish between millet and wheat will find it difficult to play an important role in tuntian work, even if they have knowledge.

Education is even more complicated, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, involving human affairs, there is no simple, cultivating talents is much more complicated than farming.

The key problem is that there are many precedents for this kind of thing in Chinese history, and there are also mature experiences to learn from, as well as Guoyuan and Wang Xiu, who are very capable of studying Tuntian, Cai Yong, Guan Ning and other great Confucians who have taught countless students, Wang Yu only needs to establish a strategy and let his subordinates do it.

Even for industrial problems, Tian Feng's complaints are mainly focused on the technology-oriented concepts proposed by Wang Yu, and there is not much problem in organizing production or something.

There was a precedent for concentrating craftsmen and organizing production during the Qin Dynasty. Tian Feng may not have much research on the Qin Dynasty, but he always has the ability to draw cats and tigers.

In this regard, Wang Yu's change is not big, and the prospects can be expected. It is to treat craftsmen as scholars. This kind of change is a matter of concept, and as long as the thinking is clear, it is very simple to do.

Business alone is not enough.

In the history of China, commerce has never played an important role. Although there are figures like Lü Buwei and Fan Li who have left their names in history, they really appeared on the stage of history after abandoning business and politics, and Mi Zhu in history is exactly like this.

That is why the topic of the Commercial Division has been going on for so long. It is indeed not an ordinary complication to revise the policy details while changing the concept.

At the helm of the Commercial Division, Mi Zhu is duty-bound. Apart from him and Wang Yu, few people in the shogunate were confident enough about the prospects of commercial development, and there were many who were worried.

Passion is not the only factor for success. But it's a crucial one. Think about it, how bleak the prospects for the Commercial Division would be if someone who didn't have confidence in himself would be at the helm.

Mi Zhu also made a decision in advance for this reason, handed over all the family business to the General's Mansion, and devoted himself to the Commercial Division.

The director of commerce is a new position, and Wang Yu positions it on a par with agriculture. Dasi Nong, who was in charge of the country's agriculture, was one of the nine secretaries of the imperial court, so this new position could be evaluated accordingly.

Wang Yu's reward is not over yet. After announcing Mi Zhu's appointment, he appointed Mi Fang to the newly established post of Taishou of Chengyang County. Coupled with Mi Zhen, who was engaged in the general's mansion, the Mi family in the East China Sea can be regarded as having completely completed the transformation from a businessman to an upstart.

Of course, on this. The crowd may be envious, but no one will object.

In the eyes of many people, the Mi family should have enjoyed the treatment of relatives, and then took into account the contributions made by the Mi family in the war. The current status is not very high.

Take this opportunity. Wang Yu also announced the appointment of other staff, Tian Feng as the long history and Jizhou assassin history, which is actually equivalent to the prime minister of the Qingzhou military group. Guo Yuan is the secretary of Si Nong, the judge is the court lieutenant, and Wang Xiu is the secretary of the house, which corresponds to the big Si Nong, the court lieutenant, and the Shaofu of Jiuqing.

Si Nong is in charge of farming, needless to say; Tingwei was in charge of criminal law, because of the anti-corruption issue raised by Tian Feng, Wang Yu pushed the boat along the way, and ordered the two to discuss the establishment of a commercial law, and by the way, to create an organization such as the Independent Commission Against Corruption to supervise the Department of Commerce.

Jiuqing's Shaofu was originally in charge of the royal family's money and the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation affairs, plus the taxes of mountains, seas, and rivers. Wang Yu did not claim the title of emperor, Wang Xiu naturally did not have the previous responsibilities, his position was actually the Minister of Finance of Qingzhou, specializing in the management of money and expenditure, and the upcoming monetary reform.

As for the industrial affairs, Wang Yu reluctantly handled it by himself first, and waited for Xu Shu to contact Chang'an.

Guoyuan is still doing this business, and he has no objections; Tian Fenghe is a little worried, legislation is not a bad thing, but the problem is that this commercial law is not only important, but also unprecedented! How to do this, it must be a big headache.

But they couldn't refuse, after all, this proposal was made by Tian Feng himself, and he could only complain in his heart.

The biggest headache is actually Wang Xiu.

From a common point of view, coinage is a poor thing, but Qingzhou's monetary reform is very different from what it used to be. It's not just a matter of collecting good materials and opening the furnace to refine. This includes a lot of complicated procedures.

First of all, it is necessary to collect the old coins in the hands of the people in the jurisdiction. At present, there are many kinds of coins circulating in the world, the strongest credibility is the five-baht coin handed down in the Han Wu era, others such as the four out of five baht made by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's Dong small coin, the Yellow Turban Army made the Taiping hundred coins, and the princes from all walks of life, Haoqiang privately minted coins, etc., there are many kinds of variety.

Among them, Dong's small money is the most clumsy.

Five baht money is not heavy, in the Han Dynasty, one tael of twenty-four is one baht, five baht is three to four grams. Dong Zhuo minted less than one gram of money, the first price rise in the late Han Dynasty, although there was an impact of the war, but more because of the sins made by Dong Fatzi.

Minting money is the job of making money, how to make money, how to do it, cutting corners is not a problem, even Dong Fatzi understands this truth, but Wang Yu doesn't understand.

The demand he put forward was to recycle the old currency in the hands of the people as fairly as possible, and to implement the new currency with sufficient money. In the new monetary system he envisioned, copper coins are no longer the only ones, and gold and silver coins will replace copper coins as the mainstream.

This kind of thing is easy to think about, but it is not ordinary difficult to do.

There are already a lot of issues involved in recycling old currency.

How to formulate an exchange rate that convinces the people and does not allow the general's government to suffer too much is a big problem. In addition, if the price is too good, how to prevent people from taking advantage of loopholes and reselling coins from abroad into the country is also a problem that has to be considered. If we take into account the possibility that hostile forces may obstruct it, Wang Xiu only feels that one head has two big heads.

There is also the problem of the source of gold and silver materials, the gold and silver of the Han Dynasty have not yet entered the circulation field, the main reason is that there are too few and are not enough. In fact, until the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver were never enough, Huaxia was too big, there were too many people, and the common people had a tradition of accumulating wealth, even if there were mountains of gold and silver, it was not enough.

Hearing that Wang Yu was going to hand over this task to himself, Wang Xiu didn't experience the joy of being promoted and valued at all, but wanted to cry.

"Shuzhi, don't put on such an expression, things are not so terrible."

Wang Yu said with relief: "Don't worry, the materials or something, Ben will solve it by himself, you just need to do the preliminary work well." The rumors were released first, so that the people spontaneously boycotted the bad coins of Dong's small money and Taiping Baiqian, and at the same time secretly purchased these bad coins. If there is a problem with circulation, the workshop can first imitate a batch of five-baht coins to use ......"

"Ministers should do their best." Upon hearing this, Wang Xiu was relieved. No matter how difficult things are, it doesn't matter if you have materials and time, what I'm afraid of is that the lord is in a hurry.

After discussing this, the myriad of political affairs can be regarded as an eyebrow, and all the staff members thought about their own thoughts, and retired one after another, and Wang Yu was finally free again. It's just that this time the free time is only superficial, and he has a lot more things to think about in his heart than before the meeting.

He is not a miner, of course, he has no ability to improve the prospecting and mining technology of this era, gold and silver mines or anything, he only knows that there is a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, which should be within the territory, but he has no idea the specific location.

His confidence came from the planned crusade.

Of course, the goal of the sailor's expedition to the east could not be to cross the Pacific Ocean, and Wang Yu's goal was the Korean Peninsula and Wajima.

Although the sticks and devils of later generations are very annoying, Wang Yu's decision to act has nothing to do with revenge. Those two places are still barren land now, and there is not even a unified regime, only some indigenous tribes, revenge? Who's going to take revenge?

Nominally, this crusade was to recover the four counties of Liaodong; The purpose of the generals is to recruit and train new recruits at the same time. But in reality, the Crusade had no other purpose, it was for money!

The peninsula is a springboard, and the gold and silver on the island are the ultimate goal!

There is nothing else to be produced in Wajima, but there are a lot of gold and silver mines, especially the Iwami Silver Mine in the Chugoku area of the island, which is completely a bare vein on the surface! The reserves are also staggering! If you want to find this mine, you don't need special talents, just send more people to search everywhere.

Because there were only a few indigenous tribes on both the peninsula and the islands, the Eastern Crusade could also accumulate experience for future colonial wars.

It doesn't take much, as long as Iwami's mineral deposits are developed on a large scale, the supply of silver in the early stage will be enough. By the time the war of reunification began, other mineral deposits in Wajima should also be able to be developed, and the conditions for monetary reform to be realized will still be in place.

In terms of navigation technology, from the information of later generations, Wang Yu knew that the sea ships of Soochow could reach Ryukyu and even Luzon. In reality, he had seen the sea ships sent by Gongsun Du from Liaodong, and deduced that the sea journey from Donglai to the peninsula and from the peninsula to Wadao should be fine.

Just wait for the next time the Liaodong side comes to do trade, and the matter of the Eastern Crusade can be put on the agenda. After sorting out his thoughts and finding nothing missing, Wang Yu couldn't help but clench his fists excitedly.

"Lord, why are you so happy?"

Thinking about it, he didn't pay attention to the situation for a while, until the sound came into his ears, Wang Yu found that someone had come in, and when he looked up, it was Jia Xu who was pacing into the tent with a smile.