Lord of Ming Dynasty

It is not that the Jinhua Rebel Army has no other expenses, including the military salary. Since Wei Wuji proposed to increase the military salary, although the military salary of the 800 soldiers of the Jinhua Rebel Army has not increased much, after two salary increases, a soldier can get at least a month. The income of 650 Wen, this is the militia, which is paid by the local county. The recruits are 1000 Wen per month, the garrison soldiers are 1400 Wen per month, and the regular army soldiers are [-] Wen, one tael of silver, totaling one Jinhua coin. [Read the full text.]

About 20 soldiers were paid [-] taels of silver per month.

It seems that there is a huge difference between the income of 3000 and 15 million, and a large part of the expenditure of the local county and prefectural government is paid by the Governor's Office, the central government of the Jinhua Rebel Army, which is only a little more than half, about [-] taels.

But not including those officers and officers’ guards, special arms, and artillery expenses, those need to pay a total of 15 taels of silver, plus each army has its own additional expenditure funds, not much, a total of less than 5 taels of silver , Calculated in this way, the Jinhua Rebel Army needs to spend 35 taels of military pay a month.

This does not count the expenses of the Navy.

For the navy’s expenses, many ships were captured, so there is no need to pay, but repair costs, refurbishment costs, maintenance costs, military pay, need to spend more, about 100 million taels of silver, there are too many ships, hundreds of dollars at every turn A ship, any ship needs more than a dozen taels of silver every day.

Shipyards need to be built. A shipyard of less than 20 tons needs 3 taels of silver, and a wharf needs to be built. A wharf ranges from 100 taels of silver to more than [-] million taels of silver.

The roads need to be maintained. Although they are all captive soldiers, those captives also need to eat, they need to pay wages to the commanding craftsmen, and the river needs to be dredged. months, with an average monthly payment of 80 to [-] taels of silver.

The city walls need to be repaired, the increasing population needs houses and wasteland resettlement, new officials need to be assigned, officials need to be trained, and resettlement is needed. This is an expense of millions of taels of silver.

In this way, the average silver that needs to be spent in one month has reached 800 million taels.

It is impossible to rely on the taxation and output of the Jinhua Rebel Army site to maintain it. In fact, it is trade that maintains such a huge expenditure. If the trade is not bigger and the power of the government is to do it, it is impossible to reach 200 million taels this month. income.

In the past, it was just right, not much income, not much expenditure, but now the income is increasing, and the expenditure is more.

The biggest expenditure is shipyards and shipbuilding. Jinhua Yijun has built three 80-ton shipyards along the coast. One 240-ton shipyard needs [-] taels of silver, and three is [-] million taels of silver.

Five 60-ton shipyards each invested 300 taels of silver, for a total of [-] million taels of silver.

Ten 40-ton shipyards each invested 400 taels of silver, for a total of [-] million taels of silver.

Currently preparing to build shipyards for 1000 tons, [-] tons, [-] tons, and [-] tons will require about [-] million taels of silver.

At this moment, Chixian City has been taken down. Zhang Qiang is expected to invest 300 million taels of silver to repair Chixian City, transform Chixian City, and build a new Chixian City New City that integrates defense and trade and attacks the bridgehead. He will invest another 700 million taels For silver, build a 200-ton shipyard, a [-]-ton shipyard, a [-]-ton shipyard, and build a large dock. In this way, [-] million taels a month is not enough for Chixian City.

Moreover, if Ningbo and Shaoxing are taken down, Hangzhou will be taken down in the future. Those places also need to invest in construction, maintenance, and development, and the money needed will be an astronomical figure.

Therefore, we must open up new profit growth points.

Zhu Dayou reported some situations one after another, and Zhang Qiang was also thinking about how to find so much money. Although a lot of money can be diluted every month in the future, this speed is still too slow.

Is there any way to make yourself a lot of money right away?

"Report," while Zhang Qiang was thinking hard, his guard captain came in.

The honest and honest captain of the guard who was newly promoted after he was assassinated, a big man with a Tengger appearance.

There is no problem with force, and he is good at equestrianism. When he trained himself, he also possessed the skills of infantry combat and the ability to command musketeers. It can be said that he is a very good commander of hundreds of households. He is a steady, capable A prominent grassroots commander with a Mongol-like name, Bagyaru.

"Come in," Zhang Qiang said softly as he watched the door open.

"Your Excellency, Liu Guoxuan, the envoy of Pioneer Town, please see me." Bagyalu said loudly.

"Let him in." The relationship between Liu Guoxuan and Zhang Qiang is also very unusual. Although this is some superficial relationship, he can't really rely on himself, otherwise he will lose Zheng Chenggong's trust in him, but he brought Zheng Chenggong Contacting myself with this gold medal of protection, in the name of doing things for Zheng Chenggong, approaching him, and seeking benefits for himself, this will not arouse Zheng Chenggong's suspicion.

Zhang Qiang didn't get up to greet him. Anyway, they were familiar with each other, but Liu Guoxuan couldn't ignore Zhang Qiang's luggage. In the official system of the Qing Dynasty, Treasure Island was just a barren land, a place for exiled people. Even if you were a prince in such a place, you would be underestimated by the officials on the mainland, not as good as Zhang Qiang now The big officials who control a province are more noble.

Therefore, Liu Guoxuan obediently walked aside the procedures that should be followed, bowed and knelt down on one knee, saying that the Governor, after all these were done, his true nature was revealed.

"My lord, I'm here to disturb you again this time."

Liu Guoxuan said with a smile.

"Oh, what's the matter, you are the hosts here now, I need your support for many things, why do you still need my help?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"That's right, my lord, some Spaniards came to us, hoping to do business with us, and they took a fancy to the matchlock gun in your hand and wanted to buy it." Liu Guoxuan looked at Zhang Qiang expectantly.

"Spanish?" Zhang Qiang rubbed his chin and squinted at him?

He had already had a premonition about the arrival of the Spaniards. The Dutch were beaten away, and the Grapes were dormant. Now the Grapes and Zheng Hongkui are attacking and tearing each other apart. Zheng Hongkui did not wipe out the Dutch and the Portuguese that night. Unwilling, the Dutch fled. Batavia was too far away, but Haomenjing was by his side, so he attacked the Portuguese territory, but when he arrived at Xiangshan and Haomenjing, he had already managed the two The Portuguese who have been in this place for hundreds of years are not without the power to fight back.

The other county towns they occupy in Daming are lost as soon as they are lost, but as their old nest and Xiangshan, which they plan to manage with all their heart, they are strictly guarding against death. Even Zhang Qiang has to use so many super cannons to settle the fortress. Zheng Hongkui should not think about it , He has a lot of ships and a lot of people, but he doesn't have good weapons or soldiers, so he is all-rounder.

Therefore, he has nothing to do with these two enemies, and he can't even rush into the port.

It’s far away. In short, the Spaniards came to fill the lost trade share between the Dutch and Portugal. They have no strength to take back Baodao, but what they want is trade, not territory, so they approached Zheng Chenggong, hoping to be in Baodao To conduct trade and establish a business station, and the only ones that Zheng Chenggong can trade with now are Japan and the Spaniards, don't think about Southeast Asia, the sphere of influence of the Dutch and the French, just beat them away, there must be no way to trade.

Chapter 223 Jinhua Rebel Army Administrative Authority

"Yes, my lord, Spaniard," Liu Guoxuan said.

Zhang Qiang said with a smile, "Lord Liu, you, a vanguard envoy, have a lot of things to take care of."

Liu Guoxuan lowered his head and smiled, a little embarrassed, this was not his business, but Zheng Jun's troops have always been very independent, each has its own channels and friends, they are generally Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, but Zheng Chenggong assigned the army to In the future, apart from the need to listen to Zheng Chenggong's transfer, the diplomatic rights belong to Zheng Chenggong, and they must charge for Zheng Chenggong, that is, loyalty, but apart from loyalty, they can obtain their own interests and be busy for their own interests.

This is impossible in Zhang Qiang's army. Every general and chief officer is a subordinate of Zhang Qiang and a general of the Jinhua Rebel Army. They only have the right to manage the army and lead the army to fight. They have no other rights. .

The garrison specializes in training and studying how to fight. The garrison is to cooperate with the local government to maintain law and order, or if the enemy invades or a large-scale bandit attack. They don't care about general law and order incidents, because there are yamen servants and fast arresters. Well, never mind, their chief officials have to go to the local government officials, usually to explain the reason of the matter to the county magistrate, if the local government officials do not forgive them, they have to ask the local prefect and admiral to negotiate a solution , and at this level, even if the military officer did the right thing, he would have to be punished to a certain extent.

And if the local government officials do something wrong, the local garrison officials will take care of it. After the matter is found out, the officials in charge will be punished by the magistrate. If there is a difference in negotiation, it is necessary to go to the prefect joint meeting and the admiral joint meeting to discuss and resolve it together. A fair solution can be obtained here.

If it is a major issue rather than a major one, and both sides insist on a certain position, then it must be submitted to the Governor’s Office for resolution. Those who are well prepared will gather together, and then the scholars in the attendant room will record and plan, speak, and come up with a solution according to the rules and systems formulated in the past, for the reference of several people, and several people are discussing the solution. Distributed to the two joint meetings for discussion.

If the voting results of the two joint meetings are less than half of the approval rate, then it has to be reported to the Governor's Office again, and the Governor's Office must hold a second meeting to discuss the solution. A contact meeting will be reported to the Governor's Palace, and the Governor's Palace will hold a tripartite joint meeting in the Governor's Palace to coordinate and resolve the matter.

If it still can't be resolved in this way, it can only be reported to Zhang Qiang for a decision. Zhang Qiang's opinion will give a chance to the tripartite joint meeting. Give an opinion, after passing, it will be resolved, and it will be handled in the future. If it still cannot be resolved, this incident will be resolved according to the second opinion given by Zhang Qiang.

Don’t refute, you have to accept it if you accept it, and you have to accept it if you don’t accept it. No matter whose opinion is suppressed or whose appeal is unsatisfactory, then you have to endure it, or accept it with peace of mind, otherwise it is a disservice to the governor. Disloyalty, then what is waiting for you is dismissal and idleness. If there are still complaints and half-heartedness, then it is forceful suppression, property confiscation, and sending to prison. Xia and his family dared to oppose, executed immediately, and sent troops to exterminate.

Compared with civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty who were wrangling and not doing things, Zhang Qiang used this method of fully expressing opinions and discussing solutions many times to resolve the conflicts between civil and military officials.

The coordinating body of the Governor's Mansion is generally an arbitration institution temporarily formed by all the officials in power in the Governor's Mansion, which is called the temporary arbitration court.

It can be said that the joint meeting of admirals and the joint meeting of prefects have handled many major local affairs very well. The combination of the two has formed a combination that can deal with all the major issues of military and civil affairs in the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army when Zhang Qiang is away. It replaced the court system of the Ming Dynasty.

The admiral's joint meeting is held once a month to discuss the military affairs that need to be coordinated in this month and the matters that will be resolved in the next month, as well as the appointment of officers in the army, promotion to different places, distribution of military pay, and division of power and rights.

The location of each joint meeting of admirals can be changed. If one-third of the admirals agree unanimously when contacting below, then the joint meeting of admirals will be held there. When it is held, it must be reported to the Chief of Staff of the Governor's Office. The chief will send a representative of the attendant room to record and supervise the meeting, and organize all the meeting minutes into key points for Zhang Qiang to read.

The prefect joint meeting is also once a month, but because there are many civil affairs, it can be decided temporarily. It is not necessary for everyone to attend, but it must pass one third, and it must be reported to the Governor's Office. The chief of staff will send someone to do it Meeting minutes and supervision, and reported to Governor Zhang Qiang for reading.

As the quartermaster, Milin actually also served as the chief of the garrison department. There was no way Zhang Qiang had too few available talents.

The garrison office is a comprehensive organization that manages all local garrison battalions, which is equivalent to the headquarters of the armed police in later generations.The main duty of the garrison battalion is internal defense, while the garrison is external defense.

Cross-management, mutual communication to solve problems, intelligence agencies to supervise, and the Governor's Office to arbitrate, the Jinhua Rebel Army has formed a seemingly loose but very effective management method and governance method.

This is naturally different from the management of the warlord Zheng Jun. It is a good way to prevent the monopoly of local leading generals, and the way that local prefects invite names to expand their influence and form their own forces.

At the same time, the magistrate is in office. Although Zhang Qiang has no talents, he has an appointment system for them, and there is no system for them to be flow-managed, appointed in different places, and adjusted for a certain number of years. However, the Jinhua Rebel Army has only been established for a few years now, less than three years. It takes at least two to three years for the magistrate to make achievements, and it takes five years to make some local administrations reflect his achievements and efficiency, so there is no need for such management.