Lord of Ming Dynasty

Members from all parties, Zhang Mingzhen from Zhejiang Province, Li Guangxiong from Fujian Province, Jinsheng from Guangxi Prefecture, Mi Chun from Jiangxi Prefecture, Tang Dianfeng from Huguangzhou Province, Gu Yuesheng from Hubei Province, Fang Yizhi from Henan Province, Qian Bingdeng from Yunnan and Guizhou Prefecture, Lin Chengcheng from Anhui Prefecture , Liu Liangzuo, Yunnan Prefecture, and Zhu Dayou, Governor of Baodao.

When you want to go one step further, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification. These people must be able to speak well and be able to count and write. These people are generally veterans or businessmen's buddies, old officials in the government, or have been famous for a long time Some of them are directly recruited by the government and given to a clerk. These clerks spend more than half of their time working in the government, and they are called the low-level clerks of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, even put forward some good suggestions, and develop good things. The government will sell their suggestions and research and development at a high price. This is the government's achievements. The civil servants above have to rely on them if they want to be promoted to higher-level section officials.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

This is Zhang Qiang cultivating talents for the few smart scientists in his hands.

We can’t always let Sebastian and Francois do research, they need helpers, and it’s too slow to rely on them to train some apprentices, which is not good for the technological development of the Huaxia Army, so Zhang Qiang has to find those folk talents from Huaxia Come out and send them to their research institute, let them learn while helping and inspiring the two of them, so as to speed up their development.

The new carriage was made under the inspiration of Zhang Qiang and with the help of old carpenters and blacksmiths.

At the same time, under the advice and promotion of a businessman or a treasurer-born researcher, he quickly entered the army and civilians of the Huaxia Army, and gained commercial and national interests.

Let the society promote its own development. Zhang Qiang is only a bystander and a guide. Otherwise, with his knowledge structure, insight, and historical knowledge, he will not be able to reach the level of other traversers in 100 years. years of development.

Chapter 663 The State of Lu Is Our Vassal State

After negotiating an armistice agreement with the State of Lu, Zhang Liang reported to Zhang Qiang, because Zhang Qiang managed five ministries, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zhang Liang, who is the minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, often reports to the cabinet, it is because Zhang Qiang generally does not manage specific affairs. Therefore, as the minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who is inclined to state affairs, he can only report to Prime Minister Zhou Porridge, and also to the Prime Minister Zhou Porridge. Prime Minister Zhou Porridge also reported to the Ministry of Supervision, but after they finished reporting, they would write a document to the Office of the Guards Regiment.

Today's Guards Regiment Headquarters Office has merged the former Attendant's Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. While coordinating the protection of the palace and members of the royal family, it is also responsible for the distribution of the guards and guards of various ministries, and also manages the punishment battalion. The new barracks records and reports events. Work, contact the garrison headquarters, contact the Prime Minister's Office, and when important matters arrive here, they are still handed over to the attendant's office for management. All major matters of the personal guards will eventually be reported to the attendant's office, and the attendant's office will report to the attendant's office. Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang handles these things in his official palace.

"Your Majesty, this is an agreement we reached with Prime Minister Feng Quan of the State of Lu," Zhang Liang put a memorial on the table in front of Zhang Qiang.

"Well, very good, Zhang Qing, you did a good job. I probably heard that we will have a vassal state from now on, ha--, I didn't expect Hong Chengchou to have such courage. We have fought against him for 20 years War, he should be our old opponent, old enemy, since he can bow his head and submit to us, that's good, I don't want to start a war with any overseas forces until we completely solve the small countries in Southeast Asia and the four mountain states, That would make us very passive, maybe not lose the war, but it would slow down our unification time."

Zhang Liang is not young anymore, bowed and said: "Your Majesty is wise, I just did what I should do, and I dare not accept His Majesty's praise."

"Hehe, you did a good job. If it weren't for you, how could they admit to becoming our vassal state? Who is Hong Chengchou? He is a person who would rather die than admit defeat, but you only let him admit it in half a month It is true that although this vassal state pays a small amount of pitiful tribute and a little money, it will not have much impact on our huge state system, and it will not increase much income, but he has become our vassal state after all. , making our rule more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. When people talk about it, they all say, look, even Hong Chengchou, who has fought with the Huaxia Army for a lifetime, has given up and surrendered. Then the Qing Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom are just struggling, and they are not far from extinction. Yes, we have won the hearts of the people, and this is all thanks to you."

After exchanging some pleasantries and compliments with Zhang Liang, Zhang Qiang stopped and picked up the memorial to read the specific content of the armistice agreement.

It is said to be an armistice agreement, but it is actually an agreement to prove that Lu State surrendered to Huaxia State. The previous series of words, yelling at each other, and threats were all for this agreement. Hong Chengchou just wanted to stop and recover. With the strength of the country of Lu, let's take a rest, and then plan to land from a weak coast of the Huaxia country and counterattack the land. After all, the Ryukyu Kingdom is too small.

The resources here are not rich, and they also face the harassment of the famous generals of the Tokugawa Iezuna shogunate in Japan. Although the Japanese navy is not very good, the Japanese samurai are too hateful. Unprepared civilians, and sometimes officers and soldiers of the Shibo Division guarding the coast, made Hong Chengchou a headache.

After several months of chaos, he sorted out the entire kingdom, established his own throne, rewarded hundreds of officials, and reorganized the army.

The State of Lu now has a population of 12 people, distributed among several large islands in the Ryukyu Islands, the most important being the main island, and [-] troops and [-] sailors. Those who came in were some sailors from the navy ships who fled the land of Ming Dynasty, soldiers from the Qing army, soldiers from the Lu army, and some merchant sailors from merchants from the state of Lu.

The [-] army has two troops from Xinjun Town, and they originally wanted to bring six troops from Xinjun Town, but in the end only two troops from Xinjun Town arrived. The defeated troops from the army town formed a new army guarding the palace. Hong Chengchou did not move two complete new army town troops. One of the two new army town troops was stationed on the main island, and the other was stationed separately on the nearby big island. superior.

The total strength of the three armies has reached 3 troops. The others are [-] Mongolian cavalry, [-] Manchu heavy infantry, and [-] Han army flag troops. Except for the Xinjun Town troops, the other troops are actually of low morale. Good foreign troops have not been very effective since they crossed the sea, and their conduct is bad. Hong Chengchou wanted to disband them, but he did not disband in the end. He just gave them some places for them to garrison.

Taking care of them, what he was looking for was the remaining reorganized green battalion. This green battalion was the third new army town troop he wanted to build, but what he wanted was to learn from the Huaxia Army general This unit is established as an elite unit of the navy, while they belong to the army.

He mobilized some elite backbones of the three Xinjun Township troops to train the troops, and at the same time sent his henchmen to control the troops and organize them into his own guards.

The guards are not the imperial guards. This is a continuation of his habit of learning from the Huaxia army. He is definitely the most able to fight the guards of the Huaxia army.

At the beginning, this army was equipped with the best cold weapons, armor and equipment, everything was the best. It was the best cold weapons built by the Qing army, the Huaxia army, and the Lu army that he had accumulated in the past few years. The equipment was also trained with the training method of the cold weapon army at the beginning. After joining the elite backbone of the new army, it was trained with the training method of the Huaxia Army. After Hong Chengchou changed the nature of this army, he joined the training method of the Huaxia Army Marine Corps .

The training method of the Marine Corps of the Huaxia Army is not a problem for Hong Chengchou. The forest is big and there are all kinds of birds. There are so many navy officers and soldiers in Huaxia Kingdom. He only needs to buy a few people, and he will soon know how to train.

This has to be said that Hong Chengchou is powerful and forward-thinking. He knows that from now on, the State of Lu may be on the island for a long time, so naval battles and naval forces have become the only way out for the State of Lu. Aided by land warfare, transform from a land country to an island country.

In this case, the shortage of materials on the island becomes the biggest problem restricting the development of a country, so Hong Chengchou chose to bow his head to the Huaxia Kingdom. Although it is a vassal state, the Huaxia Kingdom does not have much binding force on him, and he only becomes his younger brother in name However, other aspects are still independent, at most paying some tribute and paying a little money.

The armistice agreement stipulates that if one side does not actively provoke the other within three years, the two sides will be in a state of peace. They can conduct business, cooperate with each other, cooperate with each other to arrest maritime bandits, and jointly deal with hostile countries and enemies of one side. The sea areas of the Kingdom of Ryukyu, and other sea areas from the middle of the sea to the land within [-] nautical miles are all sea areas of the Huaxia Kingdom.

The two sides send envoys to each other to station in each other's kingdom to communicate some information in time and resolve some misunderstandings. The two sides do not interfere in each other's internal affairs, do not send spies to each other, and do not attack each other's merchant ships and warships. Merchant ships can enter the two countries for trade after inspection.

The two sides stopped fighting and ceased fighting, and became friendly countries. Lu State proclaimed itself a vassal to Huaxia State, and regarded itself as a vassal state.

Chapter 664 Maritime Trade

The signing of the armistice agreement with the State of Lu eased the long-term closed state of the Huaxia Army. This closed state caused the income of the Huaxia Kingdom to drop sharply. Because the Huaxia Army cooperated with the Nanming Kingdom to defeat the Thai-Western coalition forces, their relationship with the Thai-Western people was not good, and they were even hostile. Break through this blockade through strong means.

This even affected their trade with Japan, because they had to sail far away from the east coast of Treasure Island to reach Japan, but Japanese merchant ships could not easily pass through because of the blockade of the Chinese army. In the sea area of ​​Huaxia Kingdom, the goods were sent to the territory of the Taixi people to trade with the Taixi people, so this trade route was almost cut off.

This kind of severance is comprehensive. Japan does not trade with the Westerners, and the Westerners cannot trade with the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army does not trade with Japan. Fortunately, the Department, and even Mobei Mongolia outside, and Moxi Mongolia's transactions made the Huaxia Army's trading partners, whether on the road or at sea, all be private smuggling transactions.

With the expansion of Huaxia Kingdom's territory, this kind of transaction has basically been digested through internal digestion of the new products that Huaxia Kingdom has continuously emerged, and has not greatly affected the income of Huaxia Kingdom. As the goods come out, the goods continue to be enriched and the materials continue to accumulate. This method is a bit harmful to the country, and a feasible method must be found to deal with the excess materials.

How to deal with it?

Of course, it is to strengthen trade with nearby countries. Only trade can generate income, and Zhang Qiang also wants to push the Huaxia Yuan to farther places. He is always a hostile country, which makes the promotion of Huaxia Yuan very difficult, because everyone knows this. There is also a kind of hard currency in the world. Gold, silver and other things can be used to buy products and materials. It is not necessary to use Chinese yuan. In some closed places, they only accept gold and other things.

Is a country that can't gather all the enemy's gold into its own warehouse with a piece of paper still called a strong one?

A group of three people, hiding and shimmering, walked on the country road, walking on the paved stones from time to time, and poured a layer of earth-lime glutinous rice cake and other local method cement on the stones.

This makes the road have the appearance of cement and the hardness of stones. Although it is not very beautiful, it is stable and firm when walking on a cart. The key is to accelerate the speed of pedestrians running on the road, which is far faster than Dirt roads are much faster and much cleaner than dirt roads, because Daming does not have cars that weigh dozens of tons like later generations. Even if there are carriages for transportation, they will definitely not exceed a few tons in weight. As far as the road is concerned, it is more than enough. This is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.

These exams are all focused on industry leaders. If you can speak clearly about farm work and record it with the help of others, and if you can understand it yourself, you will be able to obtain a second-level qualification certification.

These people were all requisitioned by the government to help solve problems such as going to the countryside to count the amount of farmland, how much it produces, how much iron can be smelted, how much iron can be hammered in a day, whether some things made by carpenters meet the standards set by the government, and help the government solve the problems of contact with people in these industries. Task.

Of course, these people do not need to receive wages. They will be paid when they are requisitioned.

When you want to go one step further, the government has launched a three-level qualification certification. These people must be able to speak well and be able to count and write. These people are generally veterans or businessmen's buddies, old officials in the government, or have been famous for a long time Some of them are directly recruited by the government and given to a clerk. These clerks spend more than half of their time working in the government, and they are called the low-level clerks of the government.

They have no possibility of being promoted to government servants, but they can assist the government in doing things, even put forward some good suggestions, and develop good things. The government will sell their suggestions and research and development at a high price. This is the government's achievements. The civil servants above have to rely on them if they want to be promoted to higher-level section officials.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

This is Zhang Qiang cultivating talents for the few smart scientists in his hands.