The wheels passed through the snow and headed from the British Palace to Kunning Palace.
Squeak!
Xiao Han pushed open the door of the carriage and got out of the carriage, even though he had become the Second Highness.
But out of respect for Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, I still used to walk into Kunning Palace on foot as before.
Originally, Xiao Han wanted to go to the trading market first, but although the snow had stopped in the past few days, the weather was still cold. Therefore, the vendors in the trading market had not yet started work, so Xiao Han turned back to the Duke's Mansion and took the The car came to the palace.
After all, Xiao Han couldn't stand it when he walked to the palace in this weather!
"Jiang You, you can stay here. Kunning Palace is very safe. You don't need to accompany me. If it's cold, you can get in the carriage to warm up."
Xiao Han glanced at Jiang You who was raising his feet to follow him in, and said calmly.
"This subordinate takes orders."
Jiang You was slightly startled, then realized that this place was Kunning Palace, and immediately took a step back.
Kunning Palace, the residence of Queen Ma. If you accidentally enter the Fengtian Palace with a knife and Lao Zhu is in a good mood, you may get a beating but if you enter the Kunning Palace, you may not be able to survive. A head.
"Hey! Fengxue, kid, didn't we tell you? You don't have to come to thank me."
Seeing Xiao Han walking in through the courtyard, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was leaning on his chair, stood up and smiled at Xiao Han.
"Dad. If you say you don't want to come, am I really not going to come?"
Xiao Han rolled his eyes slightly. Sure enough, a creature like the emperor sometimes likes to talk in roundabout ways. It was clear that Lao Zhu wanted to come by himself, but he specifically ordered not to come, which seemed particularly humane.
And if he really doesn't come, although Zhu Yuanzhang won't get angry, he will definitely be unhappy.
I have seen people who write polite letters and write imperial edicts with polite words. This is the first time I have seen them.
"Fengxue, don't pay attention to your father. Sit down quickly. You have already called him 'Dad'. We are a family. There is no need to be polite to him."
Queen Ma said with a smile from the side.
"Thank you, mother."
Xiao Han said, also sitting on a chair.
"Hmm! You acted very quickly this time. I handled a few memorials here, but you arrived before me."
Zhu Biao pushed the door in from the outside, pulled up a chair and sat down.
"It just so happens that you two brothers are here. We have something to ask you."
"The imperial court's recent expenditures have been quite large, even though the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes helped it get rid of the previous extreme poverty."
"But after all the calculations, some are spent in the east and some in the west. The remaining treasure money is not too much. In the spring of conquering the Xia Kingdom, according to your estimation, how long will it take to conquer the country in the wind and snow?"
Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his hands slightly and asked Xiao Han.
"Ah."
"Dad, don't worry too much. Even though all the people on board this time are juniors, their fighting ability is not bad at all.
The policies implemented by the boss were all discussed with me. We have enough money left over.
As long as I'm here, a hundred thousand troops will march out of the sky. It won't take half a year at most to capture Ming Sheng and bring him to you. "
Xiao Han chuckled and said to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Hey!"
"You are confident, don't underestimate the Xia Kingdom. Although Ming Yuzhen was not as powerful as me, Chen Youliang, and Zhang Shicheng, she occupied the Kingdom of Tianfu in the middle of Sichuan and had not fought for many years. She still had an army of 200,000, plus The last group of veterans who followed Ming Yuzhen back then were not easy to deal with."
Zhu Yuanzhang sat up straight slightly and said to Xiao Han.
"Um?"
"Dad, do you think half a year is too long?"
"That's three months, including the round trip. It will take three months to catch Ming Sheng in front of you. The main reason is that I am the military advisor, not the commander. I can't interfere too much in the overall situation, otherwise it will be faster."
Xiao Han sat there and said to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"You two, let's chat for now. I'll make some dishes. Come over and you guys will have a good meal."
Queen Ma smiled and spoke, slowly stood up and left.
"no?"
"Do you know how to bargain?"
"Others are trying their best to extend the task time by selling as cheaply as possible. How come you are bargaining in the opposite direction?"
Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes. When he fought with Chen Youliang, Xiao Han was so confident that his shots were sure to kill. This is still the case today.
"Besides, you kid, don't forget that there is an official family of the Duan family in Dali and Prince Liang in the south. Those two families are not of the same mind as our Ming Dynasty. If they take action, the situation will not be that simple."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head. He had confidence in Xiao Han, but the Xia State regime was indeed a tough one. Even if Tang He and others went, Zhu Yuanzhang estimated that it would take about a year, and he did not want Xiao Han to bargain in reverse.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Historically, it took the Ming Dynasty more than half a year to attack the Mingxia regime. You must know that it was the result of an all-star lineup and the best efforts.
"Ah? It only takes three months because of them. Otherwise, basically one month, our ship doesn't have to stop until Xiadu catches Mingsheng and we can come back."
Xiao Han grinned.
"Bastard! Let's see what you can do."
"You went to Xia Kingdom to purchase goods, right?"
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and scolded, but he stopped asking about Xia Guo's affairs.
Xiao Han is confident, so that's good. At worst, it won't work when the time comes, so he can just continue to fight.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's estimate of the current national power of the Ming Dynasty, if the current prosperous development trend of the Ming Dynasty is not interrupted, in up to two years, if Ming Sheng cannot be captured, then the only option is to try to force Ming Sheng to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and pay tribute. .
After all, there is still a remnant element in Northern Xinjiang that has not been completely eliminated and is still eyeing the Central Plains.
Although it is said that Meng Yuan has long lost the strength to take over the Central Plains, he is still at home in the grassland. It is not easy to completely destroy them.
After all, the grassland is flat and wide, and the nomads have high mobility, so it is really difficult to catch them.
If we could really use the strategy of attacking cities and plundering territory, in history, there would be no need to wait for Zhu Di to conquer Mobei, Zhu Yuanzhang would directly overturn the table.
"Fengxue, the popularity of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes is getting better and better, and there is a trend of spreading to surrounding state capitals."
"But I found that this thing is more difficult to trace than gold and silver treasures. Some people have clues pointing to them accepting bribes, but the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes are light and foldable, making it difficult for others to steal them simultaneously."
"Alas! After all, the founding time of my Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei is a little short, and it needs to be spread all over the world."
"Otherwise, whoever dares to stretch out his hand will be chopped off."
"I wonder, Feng Xue, do you have any good ideas?"
Zhu Biao also sighed and asked Xiao Han.
"Hmph! These bastards, the people of Ming Dynasty are still eating rice bran and vegetables to satisfy their hunger, but they are all full of oil at their mouths."
"It's really inexhaustible and impossible to destroy!"
"Why don't you just ignore the person who got the stolen goods? If you can find out the witness, just let us ransack his house. With us here, we will turn things upside down for them."
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly. When it comes to corruption, his tolerance for corruption is almost zero. He gets very angry when he hears that someone is corrupt.
"Do you really think Jin Yiwei can completely eradicate corruption?"
Xiao Han looked up at Zhu Biao.
"if not?"
"Isn't this the purpose of Jin Yiwei's appearance?"
Zhu Biao asked in confusion.
"My British government has a production line specifically for the production of alcohol, did you know that?"
Xiao Han was silent for a while, then suddenly spoke, as if changing the topic.
In order to make alcohol, Xiao Han specially opened a piece of land in his house and set up a production line.
As for why production is not expanded, it's not that Xiao Han doesn't want to, but that wine is made from grain. Even if production is expanded, there are not so many raw materials, so that the initial production line is completely sufficient.
This is why alcohol is equally precious even to Zhu Rui.
"I know, the alcohol in our Ming Dynasty basically comes from you, but it plays a lot of roles in our Ming Dynasty."
"In your British government, concealment not only prevents technology leaks, but also facilitates supervision."
Zhu Biao nodded.
"No, my alcohol production line only employs a group of workers who distill alcohol. There is no one to supervise the work. Even Zoey and the others don't take a second look at it."
Xiao Han shook his head and said.
"Huh? No one supervises the work?"
"Wouldn't it be possible for someone to secretly steal alcohol?"
"You know, this stuff is not cheap. It's not too much to say it's liquid gold."
Zhu Biao raised his brows slightly, then frowned slightly.
"Does it mean that if I send a supervisor, I will be able to ensure that no one steals?"
"After all, a piece of cloth can hide two ounces of this thing."
Xiao Han chuckled and looked at Zhu Biao.
"and you…"
Zhu Biao hesitated slightly, with doubts in his eyes.
"I arranged two other groups of people, one group is responsible for accounting for the added raw materials, and the other group is for statistics and inspection of the alcohol produced."
"I have my own calculation method and reasonable loss standards. As long as it is within a reasonable range, I will not send people to conduct a thorough inspection of the production line. If there is a problem, I will basically check it accurately."
Xiao Han looked at Zhu Biao with a smile.
"Then if there wasn't so much loss, wouldn't it mean that you wouldn't have been able to find out if the alcohol was stolen?"
Zhu Biao raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Han.
"I can't find it, and I don't intend to find it."
"They have fulfilled my request. The extra money they can take away quietly to gain income. Isn't that considered their skill?"
"I didn't lose anything, and they quietly benefited. There's a high chance that they won't risk taking more by touching my bottom line of thorough investigation."
"But it produced more alcohol for my Ming Dynasty. Do you think this is a good thing?"
Xiao Han leaned against a tree and said.
"Is this... like this?"
Zhu Biao was a little stunned and couldn't react for a while.
"Does that mean that I can also do this and complete the court's arrangements, and the additional merits will benefit those officials?"
Zhu Biao thought deeply.
"How can this be done? If those officials falsified their political performance and we turned a blind eye, wouldn't it be tantamount to condoning evil? We have betrayed the trust that the people of the world have in our Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been listening silently for a long time, suddenly raised his head.
"Dad, these are two things. In my opinion, they should be looked at separately."
"This situation is already below the bottom line and is subject to strict and thorough investigation."
"Just like the equipment on my production line, I never expect them to be able to produce 100% without any loss, but as long as the loss is within my acceptable range, there is no need to smash it and replace it with a new one, because it can still let me More can be gained.”
Xiao Han explained to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"We can't let those people take nothing. No matter how powerful the Jin Yiwei is, they can't tell. After all, they can't read minds."
"But we can secretly set an acceptable range that is relatively obvious and easy to investigate, and arrange different people in the front and back links so that our Ming Dynasty court can check the accounts before and after. If someone breaks through this bottom line, Jinyiwei will conduct a thorough investigation and remove the unqualified ones. Kill the guy."
"So, under such pressure, they want more, and they tend to try to do more."
"In this way, only when every part meets the standard, our major equipment can always be above the standard."
"It seems that we compromised with them, but in fact it was precisely because Jinyiwei abandoned those areas that were difficult to investigate and grasped the overall situation that was easy to thoroughly investigate, that they were able to grasp the whole situation in one fell swoop."
Xiao Han said, looking at Zhu Biao and then at Zhu Yuanzhang.
"What you said...makes sense, but what do you think is the appropriate level for us to set the standard for easy-to-check bottom-line links? How come there is always a node that will not cause too much corruption and is easy to check?"
Zhu Yuanzhang still frowned. He generally understood Xiao Han's theory of giving up small details and maintaining the general integrity of the court, but he still had doubts about the feasibility.
"As for the bottom line of the link, this thing... needs a supporting system."
When Xiao Han said this, he paused slightly.
"First of all, we need to create something that is easier to check, and then every expenditure and income must be registered by different yamen."
"This matter is a bit complicated to talk about. Perhaps the entire Ming court structure will have to be shaken up."
Xiao Han pinched his chin and continued to speak.
"Just a quick talk to help me prepare."
"Since we have decided to reform, there is nothing to be afraid of. If we don't change it to the state that I am most satisfied with, wouldn't I be betraying my father's trust in me?"
Zhu Biao spoke and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang slightly.
"Don't interrupt, we also want to hear what's going on."
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.
"Well, it's still too early to talk about this, but since you are interested, I will also talk about it."
"First of all, we need to establish trading markets and set up market transaction management departments in various places. In addition, we need to establish an additional office, called the Banking Supervision Department, which will be located in each place along with the Ming Market Transaction Management Department."
"The main function of the Banking Regulatory Bureau is to control the printing and issuance of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, and there are records of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes that flow out."
"When there is something to be done, the local government withdraws a sum of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes from the Banking Regulatory Department. The Banking Regulatory Department here must have a record. When the local government spends the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, during this process, the Transaction Management Department must have a record. Records are kept everywhere, so that when one goes in and one goes out, the two institutions are not subordinate to each other. Once a large amount of treasure money is lost in the link, we can easily detect it."
"For matters reported by officials, the Ministry of Industry will make the highest estimate of the cost, how much it will cost under the highest quality conditions, and conduct finished product verification."
"After that, Commissioner Jin Yiwei will conduct a bottom-line verification to see if the standards have really been met, whether the quality has been affected because of personal enrichment, and whether the Ministry of Industry has accepted bribes to cover up officials."
“If no problem is found and there are no problems with the records of the Market and Transaction Management Department and the Banking Regulatory Department, it will be deemed to be no problem.”
Xiao Han tightened his clothes and said.
"What about the officials of Yingtian Mansion?"
"They cooperated with the people below to make false accounts. We may still be deceived."
Zhu Biao narrowed his eyes and carefully recalled Xiao Han's statement. Execution, finance, and review were all assigned to different yamen. It would be really difficult to steal the government's public funds.
It is indeed much easier than using Jinyiwei to check hard.
"The same goes for Yingtian Mansion. We have grasped the key points before and after, so as to keep the bottom line. If we dare to collude with Yingtian and the local departments to create false records, such a big move, if the Jinyiwei finds that they can't go, then they can be disbanded."
Xiao Han raised his head and spoke calmly. Indeed, if Jin Yiwei didn't respond to this level, it could only mean that Jin Yiwei was rotten to the core.
"Looking at it this way, I have to seize the time to finalize the banking supervision department and complete the front and back systems of the two departments in order to stabilize Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Biao sighed and said.
"This is indeed a good approach. As long as the Banking Regulatory Department, Market Transaction Management Department, Jinyiwei, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of Accounts do not collectively have problems at the same time, then it is unlikely that there will be any huge corruption in every link."
"However, we are still unhappy that they are allowed to take advantage of our Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Yuanzhang curled his lips.
"Dad, this is just like managing the merchants in the market. When Dayu controlled the floods, it was better to remove them than to block them."
"After so many years of management, the Yellow River still occasionally breaks its banks, but everyone is still praising Yu. We can't build a wall that is airtight, so we can only avoid complete flooding. If three or two drops leak out, they are all deliberately put down. It’s ready.”
Xiao Han smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang.
"We know, I just feel uncomfortable. I feel like there is sand in my eyes. Although I can still see things, I can't rub them out."
"However, it should be said or not, your boy's trick is really amazing."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, but also expressed his affirmation of Xiao Han.
"Okay, this matter needs to be discussed in detail before it can be structured. Let's talk about other things first."
"After all, we can't add too many subjects in the imperial examination reform that you told me about at once, lest those scholar-bureaucrats get stressed. What do you think we should add first?"
Zhu Biao asked Xiao Han.
"Let's just take the "Ming Dynasty Political Outline" and the "Ming Dynasty Agricultural Science" and add the "Da Ming Law" which collects the laws of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the trading market has become more popular after the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes became popular, so there is no need to worry."
Xiao Han thought for a while and said
"Okay, it's almost the end of the New Year. After the New Year, you still have to join the army as a military advisor. We are embarrassed to ask you to work overtime during the New Year, so these days, you have confidence in "Da Ming Law" and "Da Ming Agricultural Science". Have you written it down?”
Zhu Biao smiled and touched Xiao Han.
"no!"
"Are you urging me to die? You have to be in such a hurry!"
"No, I'll just write it out for you before I leave. What's the hurry? There are so many things, why don't I ask officials from the Ministry of Justice and experts from various places to study them carefully before writing them down?"
Xiao Han knew very well that Zhu Biao just wanted to adjust the atmosphere, so that Lao Zhu would not keep telling me rationally that this was the best way, but his emotions told me that this was not possible, but he still gave Zhu Biao a big look.
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