Several people heard the greeting and hurriedly walked to the front of the dragon bench. However, there were no ready-made chairs in front of the dragon bench for them to make. They wanted to move the chairs over, but after thinking about it, they felt it was inappropriate, so everyone had to lower their hands in front of the dragon bench. Stand!
Su Xingran didn't ask anyone to move the chairs for them. At this time, she was sulking in her heart! Seeing Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingchen making love to each other just now, her jealousy was instantly overturned. Sitting on the dragon chair, she couldn't help but quietly glared at Chen Xiaomu who was standing in front of her.
At this time, Wei Wen took out a roll of paper from his sleeve, held it in his hand, and bowed: "Your Highness, these are some matters in the court that you ordered the old minister and Captain Chen to discuss this morning. Please take a look at them!"
Su Xingran glanced at the little eunuch standing at the desk. The little eunuch quickly came over and took the roll of paper from Wei Wen's hand, brought it to the dragon table, spread it out in front of Su Xingran, and then used a ruler to press both ends of the paper.
As soon as Su Xingran's eyes came into contact with the content on the scroll, he frowned and looked at Wei Wen with an unhappy look on his face: "Prime Minister Wei, you are also a veteran of our Zheng Kingdom. You want to find an official position for the prime minister's daughter. I can understand half-time, but you want to set up a special Zheng Guo Security Department because of her. Don’t you know that Zheng Guo’s current expenditure has long been beyond its means? How much more money will it cost to establish this security department? In your heart Don’t you have any points? And you want to be promoted to a fourth-grade envoy right from the start. Isn’t it too much?”
Wei Wen was scolded by Su Xingran, and his old face suddenly turned red to the root of his neck. He wanted to explain, but in the conscience of heaven and earth, he really didn't know what the Zheng Guo Security Department did. Originally, he thought it was this The things that the couple had colluded with before just needed to be brought up from his mouth for a formality. Now it seems that he is too stupid and listened to Chen Xiaomu's encouragement, but now he cannot tell Chen Xiaomu, the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, I am now the prime minister of the dynasty who is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people in Zheng State, but I am deceived by a child with no hair. It is embarrassing to say it!
Just when Wei Wen was in a dilemma, Chen Xiaomu raised his hands to Su Xingran and said: "Honey, oh, no, it's Your Highness! Your Highness, this Zheng Guo Security Department was confirmed by me and Prime Minister Wei after discussing it for a long time. It must be established." The new government office of the imperial court!"
Su Xingran sneered in her heart and thought: "Don't get involved with Prime Minister Wei. This is your own stupid idea. You want to get a high-ranking official in the court for your lover, humph. You want to be beautiful!"
"Oh, what's the point of this?" Su Xingran asked calmly.
Chen Xiaomu thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, let me take this rebellion in the new capital as an example. If the two generals Zhang Jian and Ximensong had not responded quickly, the consequences would have been disastrous. As the main protector of the imperial palace, the Imperial City Si Hedian Not only was the former Secretary not aware of it beforehand, but the Dianqian Secretary among them became the main driver of the rebellion. This shows that the current Imperial City Secretary and Dianqian Secretary have been penetrated into holes and cannot be trusted anymore. Establish a new government office in the court that is under the sole control of the emperor and only responsible to the emperor!"
Su Xingran couldn't help but feel something in her heart when she heard this. In fact, after the rebellion of the front secretary, she was now full of distrust of these two yamen. If they were not needed for the time being, she would attack these two yamen this morning. Now that Chen Xiaomu proposed this method of starting over from scratch, it was exactly what she wanted, so she immediately nodded in agreement without hesitation. However, at this moment, she was struggling with another matter in her heart. Why did her husband have to let a man who has no such knowledge The experienced Wei Yushang came to be the head of the newly established yamen. Is it possible that he and the prime minister's daughter really had an affair?
The next moment, Chen Xiaomu immediately solved her doubts. Chen Xiaomu explained to her why Wei Yushang was asked to be the envoy of the Security Department. It was entirely because Wei Yushang had almost no contact with these officials, big and small, and even more so. There is no such thing as friendship. She is just a blank piece of paper in the court. After becoming an official in the court, she will only follow the emperor. In addition, although her father Wei Wen is said to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people, he has never been Among the ministers of the imperial court, they all remained neutral and did not engage in cliques. There was also Wei Wen beside him. The reason Chen Xiaomu couldn't explain was that Wei Yushang entered the court and at the same time allowed Wei Wen to give up. Stand on the side of the emperor.
After listening to Chen Xiaomu's explanation, Su Xingran finally agreed to have Wei Yushang serve as the head of the Zheng Guo Security Department and the newly established yamen, but she gave a discount. The Zheng Guo Security Department would have one chief envoy and two deputy envoys. Although Wei Yushang could only be awarded the position of deputy envoy, and the rank was also proposed by Chen Xiaomu, the fourth-rank official was directly moved back two levels and became a fifth-rank official in the imperial court. The official was just high enough to go to the court to discuss affairs, but it was determined that she, the deputy envoy, would be in charge of the newly established court office!
Next, Su Xingran pointed to the Weapons Department written on the paper and asked: "Chen Duwei, there are more than ten weapons workshops under the Ministry of Industry. Why do you and Prime Minister Wei want to set up another Weapons Department? Does the imperial court have one? So much money for you to squander!"
Chen Xiaomu stretched out his hand to lift up my robe, took out the pistol from his waist, held it in his hand and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the weapons produced by the weapons department I want to establish are different from the weapons produced by the weapons workshop under the Ministry of Industry. Look at my hand. This weapon here, even though it is so small, is more than a hundred times more powerful than your Dragon Sword. You saw it at Sanqing Temple last night. Even the top master in the world can use it with just one use. Just put your finger on the trigger and the master will be killed or injured immediately!"
"Oh!" Su Xingran suddenly stood up from the dragon chair and said in surprise: "It turns out that you, my dear, are not Tiancheng!"
Chen Xiaomu chuckled and said, "Your Highness, there is such a natural treasure in this world! This thing in my hand was completely made by me. I named it a pistol."
When Su Xingran heard this, her hands were trembling with excitement. If such a powerful weapon could be forged by humans, would it be far from the time when she could unify all countries? After all, every emperor has the ambition to dominate the world, even if the emperor is a queen!
But she didn't expect that Chen Xiaomu immediately poured a basin of cold water on her pocket and said helplessly: "Your Highness, making this kind of weapon requires a very hard fine iron. Otherwise, not only will it not be able to hit the enemy, but it will Hurt yourself!”
"Husband, what kind of fine iron do you want? I will immediately send someone to take you to various blacksmith shops in the city to find it!" In desperation, Su Xingran forgot all the rules in the palace and looked at Chen Xiaomu and said anxiously.
Chen Xiaomu said: "The amount of this kind of fine iron in the world is very small, and most of it is bought by some martial arts practitioners who spend a lot of money to make it into various sharp tools that can cut iron like mud, such as your Fengming Sword and the one in Xiao Cheng's hand before. The Dragon Song Sword is forged from this kind of fine iron. I suggest that the purpose of the newly established Department of Weapons is to collect this kind of fine iron across the country to make this new type of weapon! In the future, the imperial court will not need to keep dozens of these fine irons. With an army of one hundred thousand, a standing army of only two to thirty thousand at most can be invincible!"
"This Weapons Department is well established!" Su Xingran nodded and praised: "I particularly agree!" Then she lowered her head and looked at the memorial in front of her, wondering: "Why didn't you two recommend the envoy of the new Weapons Department? , candidate for deputy envoy?"
Chen Xiaomu pondered and said: "Your Highness, actually I already have two candidates in mind. The reason why I didn't tell Prime Minister Wei to write them in the memorial is because these two people were from too ordinary backgrounds. They were appointed as fourth-rank officials at once. , it seems too abrupt! However, I believe that based on the principle of letting professional people do professional things, only these two people are the most suitable to take charge of the newly established weapons department!"
"Oh, which two are you going to recommend?" Chen Xiaomu went around in circles for a long time, making Su Xingran confused and couldn't help but frown and ask.
Chen Xiaomu's heart skipped a beat and he said solemnly: "I plan to recommend Hu Wanli, the owner of the Hu family's blacksmith shop in Xinjing City, and his apprentice Zheng Jiang to be the chief and deputy envoys of the weapons department!"
"What...!" Before Chen Xiaomu finished speaking, and before Su Xingran could react, Wei Wen jumped up beside him. He shook his head repeatedly and said: "Your Highness, I cannot agree with these two people recommended by Captain Chen. Yes, let two craftsmen from the market serve as officials in the court. If word spreads about this, wouldn’t it make people laugh at me that there is no one in Zheng!”
Su Xingran didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this. He was stunned for a long time and then said helplessly: "Husband, don't you have any other suitable candidates? Even if they are recommended by local officials, these two craftsmen have no qualifications at all. How could he become a fourth-rank official in the court all of a sudden!"
Chen Xiaomu then smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness, if you want to find those officials who only get salaries and do nothing, I can find a lot of them for you. However, the weapons department I proposed to establish requires people who can do things and can do things, not You need those wine bags and rice bags, otherwise what’s the point of spending so much money? As for qualifications, there are two lines of poetry that say it well. I advise God to cheer up and send talents of any kind!"
"This..." Su Xingran was speechless for a moment when asked by Chen Xiaomu, and couldn't help but look towards Wei Wen.
Wei Wen thought for a moment and had no choice but to come up with a compromise, that is, Chen Xiaomu would serve as the newly established chief envoy of the weapons department, and there would be no deputy position for the time being. Hu Wanli, the owner of the Hu family's blacksmith shop, would In the weapons workshop under the Weapons Department, he was appointed as the sixth-grade manufacturing supervisor, and his apprentice Zheng Jiang was appointed as the seventh-grade school inspector! In short, in Wei Wen's opinion, as long as these two craftsmen did not reach the level of a fifth-grade official who could discuss matters in the court, he would just turn a blind eye and just let it go.
Chen Xiaomu himself didn't want to waste any more words and time on this matter. On the other hand, it was a good thing that Wei Wen suggested that he should also serve as the chief envoy of the weapons department. At least it would be much more convenient and faster in the deployment of manpower, material and even financial resources.
The matter of the Arms Department had just been settled, when Su Xingran pointed to the memorial and asked Chen Xiaomu, "Husband, I guess the weird name of Zheng Guo Bank Securities Bank written on Prime Minister Wei's memorial was yours, right?"
Chen Xiaomu nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "Your Highness, you are right, this is a masterpiece of humble duty!"
Su Xingran rolled her eyes at him and said mockingly: "What a masterpiece! I can't even see the purpose of the name you gave me! You want to be the bank president yourself? Let me ask you, do you plan to let the court grant you this name?" What rank is the president’s official rank?”
Chen Xiaomu thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Let me first talk about the role of Zheng Guo Bank Securities Bank, and then you and Prime Minister Wei will discuss how many ranks of officials you can give me, the president, how about it?"
"Okay." Su Xingran and Wei Wen agreed almost at the same time, because they were also curious about what kind of things this strange and weird name they had never heard of was what he was doing.
Chen Xiaomu reached out and took out a banknote with a face value of one hundred taels from his pocket, flicked it with his fingers, and said, "First we need to find paper that is better than printing this banknote."
After a pause, he then said: "But you don't have to worry about this. The recipe for making this kind of paper already exists. We just wait to make it in the banknote printing workshop set up under the bank bank. This kind of paper will be made automatically." With anti-counterfeiting marks, as long as you place it flat on your palm, both sides of the banknote will automatically roll up. Currently, no country can make this kind of paper. Then we cut this paper into rectangles of varying sizes. Then print numbers with different denominations and exquisite pictures on it. The smallest denomination is five cents, and the largest denomination is one thousand cents, which is one tael of silver. The denomination of five cents is equivalent to five copper coins in the market. The purchasing power of one thousand copper coins is equivalent to the purchasing power of one thousand copper coins in the market. I named this kind of paper money Zheng Wen. After Zheng Wen is printed, the first step is to promote its use in the country of Zheng. Then slowly and gradually spread it to all countries, using our banknotes in exchange for their food, horses, silk and other physical goods, gradually draining their national power and making them lose the ability to launch wars unknowingly!"
At this time, Wei Wen shook his head and interjected: "Chen Duwei, your idea is good, but it's a pity that I'm afraid you won't be able to promote your kind of banknotes in Zheng!"
