Chapter 130
Emperor Chongzhen didn't care how much the people in the capital complained. In short, Dongchang's performance in urban management was outstanding. In just a few days, Dongchang fined him more than 60,000 taels of silver.
According to past practice, the factory governor Wang Zhixin took away 18,000 taels of silver, which was 30% of it, and punished thousands of households and hundreds of households. Sihu and others shared 10% of it, which was 6,000 taels of silver. A total of 6,000 taels of silver were distributed among the captains, subordinates, and powerful men below.
This can be regarded as a happy event for everyone.
"Daddy, we have caused public outrage this time. Are those unscrupulous people going to sue our Dongchang?"
Wang Zhixin smiled faintly and said: "Okay, let them sue. We are on an errand under the emperor's order this time. The more they sue, doesn't it mean that we are able to handle the errand well?"
"My godfather is wise!"
Wang Zhixin sent the remaining 30,000 taels of silver to the Forbidden City. Looking at the smelted and recast silver, Emperor Chongzhen greatly appreciated Wang Zhixin's work ability.
Seeing how he was making money by punishing people for pooping and urinating in the capital, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, suddenly became anxious: "Your Majesty, even the Jinyiwei can do this job!"
Wang Zhixin said with a smile: "If Commander Luo doesn't worry, our family can share your worries for the Emperor!"
Wang Zhixin caused a lot of anger in the capital, and he was already prepared to be impeached by the officials. The more harshly the officials impeached him, it means that he was more attentive in running errands for the emperor.
But the problem is that Wang Zhixin waited and waited, and all the civil and military officials in the capital collectively pretended to be deaf and dumb, and no one impeached him.
At first, Dongchang fans stopped and fined people who defecated and urinated on the streets and alleys, which indeed aroused the indignation of countless officials, but they found that after Dongchang did this. The streets and alleys are actually much cleaner.
Although Wang Zhixin did not arrange trash cans, underground drainage ditches and other facilities like Cheng Shijie did in Jinzhou City, the problem was that once no one urinated and defecated at any time, the streets were too clean.
Especially those officials who live in outer cities because they have no money. When they go to court, they get up early, even if they carry lanterns. If they are not careful, they will step on landmines. They will be unlucky when encountering rainy days and slippery streets. , and will fall into the urine and muddy water. It will be as embarrassing as it is.
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking. Officials will not do such things as defecation anywhere because they want some face.
This made Wang Zhixin, who wanted to have sex, very hurt. These beasts in clothes have actually changed their gender?
In fact, it is not that these officials have changed their gender, but that they feel the benefits of a clean capital. It has been raining in the capital these days. As the rain flows across the street, officials sit in carriages or sedan chairs on the street. They do not Dare to lift the car or sedan curtains.
Because it's too harsh on the eyes.
The food that people eat these days is not good, and most of them lack oil and water in their stomachs. The shit they poop out is hard. When soaked in sewage, it floats and sinks. The taste... is absolutely sour.
These officials discovered that this group of eunuchs in Dongchang had finally done something.
As for those people whose families were ruined because of a leak of urine or feces...
They simply ignored it.
It is precisely because of this that Wang Zhi, the eunuch of Dongchang, was very hurt. He wanted to cheat, but he never thought that these officials were not fooled at all.
People who also felt hurt were Huang Long in Lushun.
In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1371), Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent two generals, Ma Yun and Ye Wang, to cross the sea from Penglai and land here to regain Liaodong. Because the sea journey was smooth sailing, Shizikou was renamed Lushunkou.
In the first year of Tianqi, Shenyang and Liaoyang fell to the hands of the Jinn slaves one after another. Jinzhou and Lushun were occupied by the Jinn slaves at the same time. In the third year of Tianqi, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, sent troops to recover. However, at the beginning of the fifth year of Tianqi after Yuan Keli resigned, the deputy general of the Dongjiang Army Zhang Pan fell into a tight siege and died due to lack of effective response and backup, and Lushun once again fell into the hands of the Jiannu.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Liu Xingzuo, the deputy general of Liaonan who was established as a slave, rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty. Mao Wenlong took the opportunity to regain Lushun. Now Lushun has been in the hands of the Dongjiang Army for more than four years.
But Song Xiance, the new director of the Liaodong Management Committee, first set fire to Lushun. The southern and northern cities of Lushun and the coastal islands of Lushun are now under the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang Army.
Although the Dongjiang Army also falls under the jurisdiction of Cheng Shijie, the Liaodong manager, there is a layer between the Dongjiang Army and Ning Haijun.
Therefore, Song Xiance sent a team, headed by Ma Shilin, to ask the Dongjiang Army to withdraw from Lushun and hand over the management authority of the north and south cities of Lushun and the coastal islands to the Liaodong Management Committee.
Anyone who eats meat cannot spit it out. Now Lushun has become a favorite of the Dongjiang Army. There is a powerful neighbor like Ning Haijun to the north. Unless Jiannu can fly, it will be impossible to reach it. Lushun, threatening Lushun.
Under such circumstances, Huanglong and the generals of the Dongjiang Army were unwilling to give up Lushun, but the problem was that Ma Shilin was very determined. If the Dongjiang Army agreed to give up Lushun, Ning Haijun would make up for it and become as close as one family with the Dongjiang Army. If you don't agree, then let's keep the water from the well and the river from now on.
Faced with Ning Haijun's decisive attitude, Huanglong had no choice but to compromise, but to compensate, the lion opened his mouth and asked for 100,000 shi of food.
Ma Shilin did not bargain, and proposed that the grain should be delivered after autumn. There are still nearly three months before the autumn harvest, and the Dongjiang Army can take advantage of this time to relocate.
In fact, as long as we wait until the autumn harvest, the current grain output of more than 5 million acres of reclaimed land in southern Liaoning, no matter how low it is, will be more than 5 million tons of grain. What's more, Liaonan grows a large amount of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes. .
In this way, on the fourteenth day after the establishment of the Administrative Committee, on June 20, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Ning Navy Administrative Committee signed a cooperation agreement with the Dongjiang Army, and planned to launch a cooperation agreement on August 20, two months later. , officially delivered to Lushun.
Cheng Shijie looked at the result of the negotiation and was very satisfied. Cheng Shijie is also willing to buy not to mention 100,000 shi of grain, but 300,000 shi of grain. Lushun preserves a large amount of virgin forest, and the value of this wood alone is more than 100,000 shi of grain.
Of course, Cheng Shijie is more concerned about the natural port and strategic position of Lushun. Putting Lushun under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Management Committee has added more than 500 square kilometers of land to Liaodong, which is equivalent to the territory of a small county in the Central Plains. .
Song Xiance, the newly appointed director of the management committee, made a bold move and raised his second sword.
At the fourth special working meeting of the first session of the Liaodong Administrative Committee, Song Xiance said straight to the point: "Committees and colleagues, hello, we have not had a heavy rain in southern Liaoning for 44 consecutive days recently. Fortunately, the commander had the foresight to lead all the military households in the field to actively dig irrigation wells and repair canals at the beginning of spring plowing. Farmland irrigation was effectively guaranteed. Although the drought was serious, it did not have a great impact on our fields! Although the fields were The impact on work is not big, but our management committee faces many problems.”
This is all due to Cheng Shijie. As an engineering student, he likes to use numbers to express all problems. Song Xiance and his team of staff had already compiled all the reports. He could just read them in front of the reports: "As of now, our Liaonan has established a total of 755 farmland and 100-household offices, 690 The 17 project 100-household offices are divided into 75 towns and one Zhenhai City, with a total of 144,739 military households and project military households, and 1,322 commercial households. The total population is 423,504. Only slightly more than one-third of the military households have completed house construction, and there are still more than 80,000 civilian households that do not have houses to live in!"
Cheng Shijie listened to Song Xiance's report calmly. Although he had already seen these data, he was still a little excited. When he first arrived at Zuo Qian House, there were only 7,485 households in Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qian House. There are a total of 14,857 people, with an average of less than two people per household.
Almost all military households are bachelors. They are too poor to afford a wife. Now the total population of southern Liaoning has exceeded 420,000. Of course, this only counts civilians, not soldiers. Adding in the more than 48,000 soldiers of the Ning Navy, the entire military and civilian population of southern Liaoning has exceeded 47 Ten thousand people.
An increase of more than thirty times compared to the original. With the increase in population, the number of households has also increased from less than two people on average to now exceeding two people and nearly three people.
This also means that in the past half year, many people have started families. After the autumn, each household will have more food in stock, and the people will feel safe. By then, southern Liaoning will usher in a new era. Population explosion.
"But the problem is that we in Liaodong are developing rapidly, and major factories continue to expand and recruit workers on a large scale. Workers are far from being able to meet the demand!"
Song Xiance continued: "The construction speed of building people's houses solely by relying on the Hundred Households Project is too slow. Moreover, when the Hundred Households Project is building people's houses, there are great limitations. Some people come early and have some money in their hands." They have a certain amount of savings and are willing to build better houses. Some people came late. They have no savings in their hands and have not had a few meals. Their requirements for housing are not so urgent and they are not willing to borrow debt to build new houses. In this kind of situation, Under the circumstances, Song thought that we should change the current situation and contract out the current 192 projects responsible for building houses for 100 households to individuals and let individuals be responsible for the profits and losses! This can not only reduce the financial expenditure of our management committee , you can also put all your energy into the development of industry!"
When Cheng Shijie saw Song Xiance's report, he had to admit that Song Xiance, a charlatan, was underestimated.
In fact, Cheng Shijie also knows that many people do not have talents, but do not have a platform to display their talents. Just like Zhou Yandong, the original official of Baihu. As Cheng Shijie was promoted, he gradually put more burdens on Zhou Yandong and made him responsible. The production management work of these multiple factories is responsible for the logistics and supply work of Ning Haijun.
As far as the current scale of Ning Haijun is concerned, it would be at least a military-level unit in future generations. For logistics management talents of this level, even professional undergraduates, it would be quite difficult to face these tasks. But the problem is that Zhou Yandong seems very relaxed and has always been able to handle these things with ease.
To be sure, Zhou Yandong is an underestimated talent.
The same problem also happened to Chen Guodong, the former ordinary general of the Dongjiang Army. There were two to three hundred officers of this level in the Dongjiang Army. However, when he served as the supervisor of the Military Supervision Department, he faced many problems. , Cheng Shijie didn't expect that he had already thought of it, and he could also use his method cleverly to solve some difficult problems.
It is also certain that Chen Guodong is a hidden talent.
Secondly, it was Shen Mingyu and Chang Yu. Shen Mingyu was better. After all, he had been a temporary Qianhu official and had a father who was a Qianhu official, but Chang Yu was just a porter carrying bags...
In fact, everyone in Cheng Shijie's original team is growing rapidly.
"It has been more than half a year since the first batch of immigrants. They work hard every day and have accumulated a considerable amount of food and money!"
Song Xiance said: "In the words of Mr. Cheng Jinglue, they have passed the most difficult stage of food and clothing, and have begun to pursue higher-level pursuits. They are willing to build bigger houses. If the people have no money left in their hands and the number of people in their families has increased, With less, they can build two adobe houses by themselves, and they can also be protected from wind and rain!”
Today's farmers are actually very similar to those of later generations. Give them hoes and they become the best farmers. Give them tools and they become the best workers. Give them weapons and they become the best soldiers.
Nowadays, the technical threshold for building a house is quite low, and almost everyone can build it. Just like in "Into the Dust", Ma Youtie can build a small courtyard with a sick man.
In fact, building a house cannot be forced, and it depends on everyone's needs. Relying on the reward for killing the enemy, Liu Qingsong spent fifty-seven taels of silver to build a twenty-room three-entry courtyard.
But the problem is that although fifty-seven taels of silver is not much, 90% of the people in southern Liaoning cannot afford it. Most of the people are actually more like Luo Pinggui. They haven't spent a penny. The three of them got up early and spent it. In one month, five adobe houses were built, one for each of the three sons, one for Luo Pinggui, and one for the living room and kitchen.
Until later, the three of them worked, and the four of them could earn four buckets of food a day. Soon the family could no longer store enough food, so they quickly built two more houses as granaries.
Song Xiance's idea is to separate the 100 households responsible for building houses, because for now, the houses built by Ning Haijun's project are mainly provided to the martyrs' families first, and then to the military families. Now Ning Haijun has 48,000 houses. The houses of more than a thousand soldiers have been almost completed, and the task of the 100-household project has been almost completed.
The reason why immigrants are not provided with housing is that Ning Haijun's family is too poor and he cannot afford it. Spending the least money to accomplish the greatest things was Song Xiance's purpose.
He has now received news that Mengjin's crossing of the Yellow River has burst its banks.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River overflowed so much that it burst its banks in two places, causing suffering throughout Huaibei and North China. The canals were also blocked. Therefore, Huaibei was covered with yellow flood areas, and people suffered catastrophes. Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown was the most severely affected place. Under the auspices of Tuotuo, the imperial court began to regulate the Yellow River. However, all the funds allocated by the imperial court were corrupted by corrupt officials. The people who repaired the river not only did not get wages, but also did not even have food to eat. Eventually, a great uprising broke out, and the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed.
To be fair, the Ming Dynasty was very careful about the management of the Yellow River because it was warned by the Yellow River bursting its banks at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Mainly in the early Ming Dynasty and the middle Ming Dynasty, there were two large-scale management projects on the Yellow River. Liu Daxia began to build levees on the lower reaches of the Yellow River and on the north bank of the Yellow River. There are two protective levees inside and outside, the main location is in the Tongwaxiang. The construction of the levee is to cut off the east outlet of the Yellow River, ensuring that the Yellow River flows southward near Kaifeng and flows from Bianshui River to the Huaihe River to the sea. For more than 300 years since then, the Yellow River has followed this path, taking the Huaihe River and flowing into the sea. It was relatively stable in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Although the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty was relatively stable, there were accidents. This time the embankment burst at Mengjindu. The cause is unknown, but more than two million people were affected! The imperial court is currently facing financial difficulties and will certainly not be able to provide money or food for disaster relief. Instead of letting these more than two million victims sit and wait for death, it is better for Liaonan to lend a helping hand.
There are now less than two months until the autumn harvest, and it will take more than a month at the earliest for the victims to arrive in southern Liaoning. By then, we will raise these victims and let them help with the autumn harvest.
With the two million victims as a base, Cheng Shijie had the confidence to develop industry or expand the military to prepare for war. Song Xiance was also realistic and did not expect that all of the two million victims could be fooled into Liaonan.
Whether it is one-third or one-fifth, it will be of great help to Liaonan.
Cheng Shijie agreed with Song Xiance's decision to set up an immigration bureau to absorb refugees. He was not afraid of spending money, and the development of southern Liaoning was inseparable from population.
Now that the management committee has been established, Song Xiance, the director, has begun to perform his work responsibilities. Business development cannot be achieved without the cooperation of the bank.
Bank reform is also imperative, because Yang Yunniang needs to attend the meeting of the management committee. The bank meeting will be held only after Yang Yuniang withdraws.
This is a small-scale meeting, and it is also Cheng Shijie’s hotpot meeting.
The location is the General Military Mansion in Ning Haijun. It is no longer called the General Military Mansion, but the Yamen of the Liaodong Economic Strategy and Appeasement Bureau. Although the name has been changed, everything else remains the same.
Yang Yuniang is now used to getting along with Cheng Shijie. In fact, Cheng Shijie has always regarded Yang Yuniang as an ordinary colleague and an ordinary female subordinate. Even if the two of them are alone, they will never have any intimate behavior.
Cheng Shijie was very vigilant in this regard. In later generations, he had a former colleague who failed in this regard. Not only did he die in the company, but he was also fired from his job. The other person was more promising than Cheng Shijie. He had a serious undergraduate degree and a bright future. .
While Yang Yunniang was eating hot pot, she sat opposite Cheng Shijie, holding bowls and chopsticks, and skillfully rinsing the mutton. Zheng Jian, Zheng Ji and Zheng Qi, who met Cheng Shijie for the first time, were very restrained.
Cheng Shijie said while eating hot pot: "The bank's business scope needs to be increased!"
"How much more?"
"Almost three times the current amount!"
Cheng Shijie said: "With the salaries of the management committee members, the salaries of each factory, and the salary of Ning Haijun, the number of people opening accounts will definitely exceed 100,000!"
"One hundred thousand!"
Zheng Jian looked surprised.
For a bank to have 100,000 depositors is very impressive.
"First of all, I want to apologize to you!"
Cheng Shijie apologized, put down his bowls and chopsticks, and bowed to Yang Yunniang.
Yang Yunniang was so frightened that she quickly ran away: "Sir, you are trying to break the evil slave..."
"You deserve it. This was when I was thinking about the problem at the beginning. It was too simple. It was a decision made with a slap on the head!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Although you reminded me, I didn't listen. If you are wrong, you are wrong. If you are right, you are right. That dynamic password does not need to exist, but what needs to be considered is that the bank cannot arbitrarily change it for you. In order to prevent the depositor from losing his passbook and causing heavy losses when he changes his password, once the depositor reports the loss to the bank, the account freezing mechanism must be activated immediately!"
Yang Yuniang asked: "What is the freezing mechanism?"
"That is, if the passbook holder or his family member reports to the bank that the passbook is lost, the money in the passbook will immediately stop being deposited or withdrawn. In other words, if someone takes the passbook and goes to the bank to withdraw money, once the password does not match three times, the account will be lost. It will be frozen immediately. Those who hold passbook accounts are required to provide written certification, including household registration and a letter of certification from the factory, village office, or town where they are located!"
When Cheng Shijie said these words, Zheng Qi took a small brush and began to record quickly.
Cheng Shijie glanced subconsciously, and he found that Zheng Qi's small regular script was as clear as printing, and what was very rare was that she could actually follow Cheng Shijie's speaking speed.
Sure enough, no woman who dares to show her face is free.
After Cheng Shijie introduced the freezing mechanism in detail, he began to introduce the bank's branch opening work. Because there is no computer search function, the bank needs to file according to the file when it files for the depositors. The account of each Ning Haijun soldier will be filed according to the location where it is located. Troop numbers are classified and filed.
Just like if you only need to see that this is Zuo Dusi, then when looking for this person's information, you only need to face the more than 6,800 people of Ning Haijun Zuo Dusi, the first general, then this data will be fixed at one of the first generals There are more than a thousand people, and then there are each bureau, so the data for this bureau is even less.
This bank's database is like the search catalog of a library. If you want to find a history book, you can search for past dynasties in the history category, and then you can find it in the past dynasties category. In this way, the scope is much smaller.
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Our bank wants to serve all the people in southern Liaoning. The accounts of military households in the military areas are based on the town where they are located. A town only has one thousand households' data, and the first to the 100th households only have one hundred data. According to this search method, you can find someone's account information in the fastest way, but of course, the preparatory work will be larger!"
Yang Yunniang thought: "The factories are classified according to the factory classification, and the military households in the fields are classified according to the hundreds of households in each town. But, what about the businessmen? How to classify them?"
“All merchant passbooks will be marked in red, because merchants’ funds flow and deposits and withdrawals will be more frequent!”
Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "The same is based on the fixed initial household registration number. The merchant household registration will enter their initial household registration address. For example, a merchant sets up a store in a certain street in Jinzhou City in the early stage. No matter how big his business is later, how many accounts he opens, All are built in the location of the store. If the other party requests to change the input information, then charge money to change it!"
"Does that mean that every time we build a branch, we need to build an archive?"
Cheng Shijie shook his head: "Actually, there is no need. Our bank is divided into four levels: head office, branches, sub-branches, and branches. Our passbook levels are also divided into four levels: gold, silver, bronze, and ordinary. The annual turnover of gold accounts is greater than If the amount of more than 100,000 taels of silver is a large-amount off-site withdrawal commercial account, which needs to be withdrawn from another place, then we mark it in gold on the passbook. Such account information needs to be established in the branch branch archives, that is, each branch has such account information!"
By analogy, for a silver account with an annual circulating silver of less than 100,000 taels but more than 10,000 taels, the information entry level is deposited in each branch. When withdrawing, you need to make an appointment in advance and go to the branch to withdraw.
The bronze account is a red passbook. It is a merchant account or the annual turnover is more than 500 taels but less than 10,000 taels of silver. The bank account information needs to be retrieved at the branch.
"Ordinary account means that when applying for a passbook, we need to ask the holder of the passbook whether he or she does not need permission to withdraw money from another place. If not, the account will be a red account. If it is an ordinary account and does not need permission to withdraw money from another place, Accounts and information files only need to be placed in the head office and each branch office!"
Cheng Shijie said seriously: "Ordinary people actually rarely have the opportunity to travel to other places. Many people have never left the county in their lives. Therefore, most people do not actually need to activate the remote access function!"
When Cheng Shijie proposed this plan, Zheng Jian smiled bitterly.
Cheng Shijie is a boss who understands bank operations, and such a boss is not easy to fool.
In fact, Zheng Jian really didn't dare to fool Cheng Shijie. Generally, the boss would just fool him, but if he fooled Cheng Shijie, he would be asking for death.
Liaonan Bank also needs to be renamed, and it is more appropriate to change it to Liaodong Bank.
According to Cheng Shijie's plan, the headquarters of Liaodong Bank is in Jinzhou, such as Haizhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, including Jinzhou. It needs to set up a branch. Setting up branches in various towns feels like anti-aircraft cannons to swat mosquitoes. The bank is currently expanding. A total of six more branches need to be established in Haizhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, Lushun, Jinzhou, and Zhenhaicheng. Sub-branches will not be opened for the time being because there is no need to open them yet.
As the saying goes, if a leader talks, his subordinates will lose their legs.
After Cheng Shijie made arrangements for the work of Liaonan Bank, he considered another issue, that is, the minting currency market. Printing banknotes would definitely not work, because the Ming Dynasty had been deceived by treasure banknotes, and ordinary people no longer had any interest in treasure banknotes. Have a little bit of trust.
When it comes to casting currency, Cheng Shijie is actually no stranger to this aspect. The third-level subsidiary of Hansteel Group produces a hydraulic molding machine. This kind of thing is fully automatically controlled and can be used to cast various alloy steel pads. Coins are also available.
But this thing is too heavy and consumes a lot of energy. Even if Cheng Shijie dismantles and moves these devices to Jinzhou bit by bit, he does not have the electricity to provide energy for these devices.
In desperation, I had no choice but to resolve the matter tomorrow.
(End of chapter)
