The Jagged Empire of Daqin

"Yo, does your thing work?"

"Go, let's play!"

"I'm really envious of General Du, the second-class Shangyang Marquis, with a reward of ten thousand taels, tsk tsk, I can be a Marquis Dangdang anytime!"

"Wait for the time when the ancestral graves emit green smoke!"

"Everyone, everyone, good news, our salary will increase by [-]% in the future!"

"What! Fifty percent!"

"Great, now you don't have to tighten your belt!"

"Your Majesty has not forgotten us!"

When the results of the canonization ceremony spread throughout Xianyang City, the soldiers of the capital camp outside Xianyang City, the [-] Great Wall cavalry, and the yamen in Xianyang City all showed an extremely excited atmosphere. There is nothing better than real money!

Twenty taels of silver a year, as long as there is no extravagance and waste, is enough for a family of seven to live a prosperous year, and it is not a problem to build a brick house.

Stimulated by the military salary of 20 taels of silver a year, the soldiers of the whole army sweated more than before during training. benevolent.

The question is, how to survive?Running away, greedy for life and afraid of death?No, train crazily to make yourself stronger, the stronger you are, the higher your chances of surviving!

Imperial study room!

Ying Chang, a model worker of the Great Qin Empire, sat firmly on the throne of the carved dragon and was concentrating on reviewing the memorial. I don't know how long it had passed, but when it was noon, Ying Chang put down the cinnabar pen in his hand, looked around, and found that there were two people standing outside the imperial study room. An eunuch, the imperial study is empty.

Since Tang Hua was promoted to a virtuous concubine, the position of chief executive of the palace was also vacant, and now there is not even a person who grinds ink around him.

step...step...

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and Tang Hua walked into the imperial study room with a smile on her face, holding a silver tray. With a grasp of Buying, there is a seven-treasure coral hairpin in her hair, full of extravagance.

"His Majesty!"

Tang Hua smiled and called softly, and put the silver plate on the imperial case. The thing on the silver plate was the imperial meal, which she made by herself.

A smile appeared on Ying Chang's face, he glanced at Tang Hua and said with a smile, "My concubine has a heart!"

Chapter 427 Worth about 7000 million taels of silver!

After finishing speaking, Ying Chang picked up the silver chopsticks and jade bowl, and began to eat unceremoniously, while Tang Hua respectfully knelt beside the dragon chair, serving Ying Chang's meal.

“Yes, it was delicious!”

"No, it shouldn't be made by the imperial dining room, right?"

Ying Chang was used to the food from the Imperial Dining Room, so he immediately guessed that this dish was not made by the Imperial Dining Room. Tang Hua couldn't help smiling when he heard Ying Chang's words, and said shyly, "It's made by my concubine. If your Majesty likes it, you can eat it." Well, the concubine is afraid that His Majesty will not like it!"

Ying Chang freed his hand and pinched Tang Hua's chin, which was very interesting: "I didn't expect my concubine to get a dining room. It seems that there is nothing wrong with accepting you as my concubine!" After finishing these words, Ying Chang took a mouthful of rice and asked while eating, "Why didn't Bei'er come!"

As soon as Ying Bei was mentioned, Tang Hua's face suddenly showed helplessness, "I'm ashamed to say that since the return from the Northern Expedition, Your Majesty has visited Bei'er very few times, and now Bei'er is sullen again, and said, When Uncle Wang enters the palace, she will sue Uncle Wang and let her Uncle Wang teach you a lesson!"

"Haha!" Ying Chang was immediately amused, "This girl still wants to find someone to teach me a lesson, haha!"

Seeing Ying Chang's heartless laugh, Tang Hua's heart was as bitter as eating bitter melon, everything about Tang Hua seemed to be seen by Ying Chang, Ying Chang's expression changed in vain, and he said solemnly: "As the saying goes, Since ancient times, ruthless is the emperor's family, and the emperor is not ruthless, but simply has no time to show it!"

"Look at the royal case, there are hundreds of memorials, and there will be another batch to be delivered later. I have only such a daughter now. You can say whether I like it or not, and whether it hurts or not, but there is no way but to make Bei'er feel wronged." I hope that when she grows up, she can understand my painstaking efforts!"

The emperor is never ruthless, on the contrary quietly, the emperor has always been the most affectionate one, if the emperor is really heartless, how can the people in the world survive, but the emperor has given love, kindness, and affection to the subjects of the world!

Tang Hua got up from the ground, bowed to Ying Changxing solemnly and said: "The concubine can understand your majesty, just let your majesty deal with the government affairs, there are concubines on Beier's side!"

Ying Chang reached out and grabbed Tang Hua's hands, gently stroked the smooth back of his hands with his thumbs, looked at Tang Hua in a deep tone and said, "I'm destined to practice for a lifetime, so you have to take good care of Bei'er for me, understand?"

Tang Hua bit her thin lips with her silver teeth, and nodded heavily.

"His Majesty!"

At this time, a Imperial Guard stood outside the hall, saluted and shouted.

Ying Chang let go of Tang Hua's hand, put both hands on the imperial case, looked at the imperial guards outside the palace without anger and prestige, and said, "What's the matter?"

"Return to your majesty, the left and right prime ministers and the five ministers are waiting outside Chengde gate to see your majesty!"

"I see, let them in!" Ying Chang nodded expressionlessly, and Tang Hua next to him saw this, and knelt down again and said: "The concubine will leave first!"

"Ok!"

Tang Hua removed the bowls and chopsticks and the leftover delicacies, leaving Ying Chang alone in the huge imperial study room. Looking at the empty surroundings, Ying Chang leaned back, closed his eyes, and sighed softly in his heart. well!This emperor is really not easy to be!

Sometimes, Ying Chang really wants to be a foolish king and do whatever he wants, but the responsibilities on his shoulders are like Mount Tai, which severely suppresses his idea of ​​becoming a foolish king.

After a period of time, the left and right prime ministers Zhang Feizi and Chang Zifei, five ministers Li Ke, Yang Ze, Jia Luo, Jiang Haiyou, and Kong, all dressed in formal court clothes, entered the imperial study together. Then Qi Qi bowed down and saluted and shouted: "I wait to pay my respects to Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Ying Chang opened his sharp eyes, leaned forward, and said in a soft voice with no expression on his face: "To enter the palace today, what do you mean?"

The seven people looked at each other, as if they were saying, who will come first?

Minister Kong of the Ministry of Rites was the first to stand up, and he bent down his aged body, raised his hands respectfully and saluted, and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has already prepared the wedding ceremony, and has also sent a large number of envoys to the countries of Kyushu. The first thing has been done, and the Yan Empire is going to fight without declaring it, so I sent Wang Ya, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, to go there!"

Ying Chang blinked and asked, "Is there any messenger coming back now?"

"Not yet, I estimate that in half a month or a month, the envoys to Jin and Qi should be back!" Kong respectfully replied.

Ying Chang nodded expressionlessly, expressing his understanding. After Kong finished speaking, Jia Luo, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, bowed down and saluted: "His Majesty, the population of the Xiongnu in the Northern Desert has been counted. Remove the grassland army and the Ningta army. , a total of 360 million Huns!"

"Of the 360 million Huns, 300 million will be slaves, and 60 will be restored to civilian status. According to the 21 people in His Majesty's county, seventeen counties need to be divided, which is one more county than expected!"

"The seventeen counties have also been divided. Beidamo occupies nine counties, five of which are distributed in the western central area of ​​Bailan Prairie, the remaining four counties are distributed in the western area of ​​Guyuan Prairie, Xidamo occupies eight counties, and Mofeier Prairie occupies Of the six counties, the southern part of the Shanshi Prairie occupies two counties!"

"In addition, the total number of cattle, sheep and horses in the Northern Desert is 100 million, including 270 million horses, 330 million cattle, and 500 million sheep, worth about 7000 million taels of silver!"

According to the usual speed, it is impossible for the Ministry of Households to make statistics like this. The statistics of the Ministry of Households are so fast, all thanks to the help of Du Changjing. When Du Changjing was in the third camp of the Northern Expedition, he had already counted the population, cattle and sheep. The number of horses and the territory area can also be calculated by counting the military flag.

As for how the household department calculates that 60 people will be restored to civilian status, it is naturally the quota given by Yingchang. In the first battle of the Western Expedition, 60 Ningta Army killed 300 warriors, and the three immediate family members of each warrior who died in battle were directly removed. Slaves, warriors who did not die in battle were rewarded with two quotas, plus their military exploits, plus some scattered, and finally calculated that [-] people were restored to civilian status, and [-] million Huns were still slaves!

Ying Chang was silent for a while, and after digesting what Jarrow said, he opened his mouth and replied: "The Huns who have recovered their status as civilians should not be placed in the same county as the Hun slaves, but should be housed separately, otherwise it will be bad for the seventeen county government. manage!"

"Of order!" Jarrow replied respectfully.

After Jia Luo finished speaking, it was Yang Ze's turn, Minister of the Ministry of War. Yang Ze bowed down respectfully and saluted, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has sent 100 million arrows to Yanbei and Yanbei camps. Expected to arrive in two months!"

Chapter 428 Over 3000 million budget!

Ying Chang nodded, expressing his understanding, and then Jiang Haiyou, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, bowed down respectfully and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has prepared the water conservancy project in Guangfeng County, and the budget has been submitted to Prime Minister You's Mansion! "

After Jiang Haiyou finished speaking, Chang Zifei, the Prime Minister on the right, took out two memorials from his pocket, stepped forward, and handed the memorials to Ying Chang respectfully. He saluted and said: "Your Majesty, these two memorials are the overall budget for this year. Since there are a little more things this year, I have divided them into two memorials. Please read them!"

Ying Chang unfolded the memorial, and the content of the memorial is as follows:

Ministry of War: The budget of the Ministry of Ordnance is 1000 million taels of silver, the budget of the army is 200 million taels of silver, 500 million shi of grain, the pension for soldiers killed in the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition is 200 million taels of silver, and the reward for all soldiers of the Great Wall Camp is 100 million taels Silver, the annual daily expenditure budget of the Ministry of War is 10 taels of silver!

Ministry of Rituals: 1 taels of silver will be spent on the reception banquet, about 2 taels of gold will be spent on the canonization ceremony, 5 taels of silver will be spent on the wedding ceremony, 20 taels of silver will be spent on the Kyushu celebration feast, and 10 taels of silver will be spent on daily expenses of the Ministry of Rites!

Household Department: The 340 counties in the Northwest Desert need 20 million shi of grain to maintain, and each county is allocated 300 shi of grain. The annual daily expenses of the government offices in various parts of the Great Qin Empire, as well as the salaries of local officials and court officials, are budgeted at 10 million taels of silver, plus household The daily expenditure budget of the ministry is [-] taels of silver for one year!

Ministry of Punishment: The Ministry of Punishment has a daily budget of 15 taels of silver for one year.

Ministry of Industry: The water conservancy project in Guangfeng County is huge, and 5 laborers are pre-recruited. Calculated at 60 yuan per person per month, the 200 laborers will spend [-] taels of silver per month, and [-] taels of silver a year, plus daily food for labor , The Ministry of Industry has a yearly budget for daily expenses to build the Bailan Temple. The budget for the Ministry of Industry this year is [-] million taels of silver!

Ministry of Officials: The Ministry of Officials has a daily budget of 15 taels of silver for one year.

Preparatory camp: Except for the seventeen counties in the Northwest Desert, all counties in Daqin have preparatory camps. The construction cost of the first camp is about 1000 taels. There are about 71 young and strong. According to the annual budget of five taels of military pay for the soldiers of the reserve battalion, the total military salary budget is 5 taels of silver.

The sum of the 14-year financial budget of the Great Qin Empire Shengqin: 1406 million taels of silver, 2 taels of gold, and 890 million shi of grain!

Excluding this year's budget, there are 550 million taels of silver left in the treasury, 48 taels of gold, and 370 million shi of grain!

Ying Chang picked up the cinnabar pen and wrote the word "approved" on the two budget memorials, then folded the two memorials together, and handed them to Chang Zifei with one hand. Chang Zifei hurried forward and took the two Ying Chang's approval of the approved budget memorial means agreement.

"The annual budget reaches more than 3000 million taels of silver, which is a lot of pressure for me, Daqin!" Ying Chang said with a slightly serious expression, frowning slightly.

"Yeah, the pressure is too much!"

Ying Chang's words immediately resonated with Jia Luo.

"Your Majesty can rest assured that there are so many cattle, sheep and horses in the Northwest Desert. These are renewable resources. As long as we control the Huns, there will be a steady stream of money flowing into the court!" Zhang Feizi said with a smile on his face.

"It's true!" Ying Chang's frowning brows relaxed, and after a moment of silence, he called softly: "Yang Aiqing!"

"The minister is here!" Yang Ze hurriedly responded.

Ying Chang looked at Yang Ze, and said in a neutral tone: "Although the reserve battalion is under the direct jurisdiction of Prime Minister Zuo, when the strategy for the reserve camp is mature, the reserve camp will be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, so when Prime Minister Zuo is in charge of the reserve camp, The Ministry of War should also take a look!"

The reserve battalion actually belongs to the Ministry of War, but the Ministry of War is not clear about the reserve battalion, so Yingchang let Zhang Feizi take direct control, bypassing the Ministry of War, but after the reserve battalion matures, it will still be under the control of the Ministry of War. What a mediocre minister, let him take care of this matter all the time, it is really overkill and a waste of talent.

"I obey the order!" Yang Ze bowed down respectfully and responded.

"Okay, if you have nothing to do, you can step back first!" Ying Chang said.

As soon as the words fell, Li Ke, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, bent down and wrote a report: "Your Majesty, all the officials of the Seventeen Counties in the Northwest Desert have been properly arranged. They are on their way to the Northwest Desert. Named, the five counties in the western and central areas of the Bailan Prairie in the North Desert are named: Bailandong County, Bailanxi County, Bailanbei County, Bailannan County, and Bailanzhong County!"

"The four counties in the western part of the Guyuan Prairie are named: Guyuan East County, Guyuan South County, Guyuan West County, and Guyuan North County. East County, Moshang County, Moxia County, the two counties in the south of the Shanshi Prairie are named: Shanzuo County, Shanyou County!"

"Puff!"

Jia Luo suppressed his laughter for a while, the name of the county is too random!

Li Ke shrugged helplessly. He had no choice but to set up seventeen counties at once. The names are so similar. Moreover, although the names are random, they are easy to remember. People can know where the counties are when they hear the name.

Ying Chang also smiled, but soon his face changed, and he looked at the seven ministers in front of him solemnly and said: "From now on, my Daqin will focus on recuperation, and I will try not to go to war if I can. I, Daqin, need time to digest In the Northwest Desert, how long this process of digestion will take is up to you dear ones!"

If you take too many steps, you will hurt your egg, and step by step is the kingly way!

"I will do my best not to disappoint Your Majesty!" The seven ministers responded solemnly.

"Is there anything else? If nothing else, let's go!"

As soon as the words fell, the seven ministers bent down and shouted together: "I will leave!" After finishing speaking, the seven ministers turned and walked away, but just when Jia Luo was about to step out of the threshold, Ying Chang suddenly shouted: "Jia Aiqing, let Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling come to see me!"

Jia Luo couldn't help feeling puzzled, but he didn't ask any questions. Instead, he turned around and replied, "I obey the order!"

Not only Jia Luo was puzzled, but Zhang Feizi and other ministers were also puzzled. They didn't understand what His Majesty announced Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling. There are two Zhang brothers.

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Chapter 429 Merchant Division!Compete with the people?

The seven ministers walked together, and soon left the palace and returned to their respective yamen. Zhang Feizi also had his own prime minister's mansion, but compared with the prime minister's mansion, the prime minister's mansion was relatively small, but Zhang Feizi was already very Satisfied.

Household Yamen!

The Hubu Yamen is located on the north side of the imperial palace, covering an area of ​​[-] mu. There are more than a dozen courtyards in the Hubu Yamen. Each courtyard is responsible for different things.

At this time, the household department is very busy, and busy officials can be seen running back and forth with a lot of books at every moment.

"Master Shangshu!"

"I have seen Master Shang Shu!"

As soon as Jarrow entered the yamen of the household department, the officials of the household department who were busy in the yamen saluted one after another. Jarrow just nodded and went straight to the main hall expressionlessly. The main hall is where he handles official duties, but it is not his first time. It is not a main hall, but it is shared by officials above the principal.

The main hall is divided into three side halls, left, middle, and right. The middle hall belongs to Jia Luo alone. After Jia Luo entered the main hall, he did not directly sit in the middle hall to handle official affairs, but came to the left side hall. None of the officials noticed that Lord Shang Shu was coming, because they were so busy that they forgot everything around them and were completely immersed in their official duties.

After arriving at Zuo Pian Tang, Jia Luo glanced back and forth at the officials in Zuo Pian Tang, found Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling who were hard at work, and then called out: "Master Zhang Gui, Master Zhang Ling!" !"

When Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling heard the call, they quickly raised their heads, and the rest of the officials also subconsciously looked up. When they saw that it was Jia Luo, they quickly got up from their seats, bowed down and saluted, "I pay my respects to Lord Shangshu!"

"Sit down!" Jia Luo pressed his hands expressionlessly, and all the officials sat back in their seats obediently. Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling were full of doubts, wondering why Jia Luo called him two brothers, but Hearing Jia Luo's tone, he said in a neutral tone: "Your Majesty announces you to enter the palace, go there quickly, don't delay important matters!"

Upon hearing this sentence, many officials present couldn't help but feel envious and jealous. It would be nice to have a father who is a prime minister. He has transformed from a businessman into a sixth-rank official, and now His Majesty has announced them into the palace.

What I have to say is that because the two brothers Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling belonged to the airborne, many low-level officials hated them, thinking that the two brothers took their positions, but because of Shang Shu Jia Luo and Zuo Prime Minister Zhang Feizi, They didn't dare to make a mistake yet, so they could only curse inwardly.

"Oh? His Majesty summoned us?"

"For what?"

The two brothers looked at each other, and could see the doubt in each other's eyes. Seeing the two of them standing still, Jia Luo couldn't help cursing angrily, "What are you doing here, hurry up!"

Although Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling have a lot of background, Jia Luo has no scruples, because this is the household department, and he is the boss here.

"Yes! Master Shangshu!" Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling shouted in response, and then hurried out of the left side hall. After the two left, Jia Luo said to one of the officials: "You go to the two officials. Come here personally and temporarily take over the affairs of Zhang Gui and Zhang Ling!"

"Obey! Master Shangshu!" The official who was named responded respectfully.

"come here!"

"Don't dawdle, hurry up, get out if you don't want to do it, a lot of people want to come in!"

"Bastard, how do you do things!"