choke element

Chapter 841

There have been many shipwrecks in a short period of time and the losses have been huge. The relevant situation has been reported to the Tianjin government long ago.Zhou Keshan threatened Zhang Liangpeng with force because of the heavy pressure from Guo Ning.

In September last year, Guo Ning was enthroned in Kaifeng surrounded by his subordinates. He founded the Great Zhou Dynasty and named it Longwu.On the emperor's way back from Kaifeng to Zhongdu, more than [-] elite soldiers who had destroyed the Kaifeng court returned victoriously. The armies followed one after another for hundreds of miles. They cheered and surrounded the emperor's chariot along the way, with a momentum that shook the heaven and earth.

However, other than that, the process of founding a country is very simple, even shabby.

This is not to highlight the true nature of the military regime, because Da Zhou's finances are not rich.

After taking down the Kaifeng court, Dazhou's territory more than doubled, but its income did not increase in the same proportion.

Under the rule of the Kaifeng imperial court, the east, south, and north roads were the hardest-hit areas that were massacred by the Mongolian army in the early years.The land on Qinlong [-]th Road is barren, and it has been a bottomless pit where money has been invested for hundreds of years.Although Nanjing Road is more prosperous, it is not what it used to be, not to mention the huge losses caused by the flooding of the Yellow River, the displacement of many victims in the east of Kaifeng, and the establishment of a new dynasty.

The Jurchens maintained this position gnashing their teeth for two years. They could not afford to have both an army and people's livelihood. In the end, they had to rob the Southern Song Dynasty. Now this problem has been transferred to the hands of the Zhou court.

In comparison, Dazhou's direct expenditure on military construction was actually limited.

Rewarding meritorious service by allocating land is less expensive than rewarding money, and it can also guarantee the loyalty and combat effectiveness of soldiers.However, as the scale of the war continues to expand, after a war ends, land grants and adjustments are intertwined and interlocking, and continuous investment is still required.

To give the simplest example, if a soldier receives a reward for his meritorious service, he can directly allocate the local barren land as a gift.However, everyone in the entire army is rewarded for their meritorious service, plus the necessary pensions, and hundreds of hectares of land must be distributed at every turn.Therefore, it must be accompanied by large-scale adjustments of military settlements, some of which have expanded in size, some have been relocated, some have been merged, and some have been split.

Everyone has selfish desires, and soldiers are not saints.At the same time as the adjustment, some people are satisfied and some are not, which will inevitably lead to conflicts, which will not only affect farming, but also affect the unity of the army.Therefore, reliable personnel are needed to review, investigate, punish, and mediate.For this reason, it is necessary to expand the military law department and accommodate a large number of retired veterans as officials.

After all, every job needs to be supported by money.

When the fields of grassroots officers and soldiers are allotted, the rewards of so many middle and high-level civil and military subordinates cannot be delayed.Last year, the system of conferring titles in the Great Zhou Dynasty had not yet been perfected. After the Yuan Dynasty was changed, so many people counted their merits over and over again, waiting to be rewarded at the New Year's Day Grand Meeting.

Guo Ning's rise is rapid, and neither the military nor the government system has yet produced the kind of tycoons who have to be rewarded and recruited.But also because of his rapid rise, the family backgrounds of the ministers of the new dynasty are generally still weak, and they are all waiting for the big reward after the founding of the country.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the soldiers worked hard to surround Zhou Guogong as the emperor, and then carry forward the fashion at home, and continue to drink the northwest wind to live.

Is the country house luxurious or not?Can a servant be driven?Are the tax and fief specifications similar to those of the previous dynasty?Has the level of official position overwhelmed my old enemy?What is the scope and period of exemption from corvee?Is there an iron certificate for conferring a wife, a son, and a book of pills?
All kinds of content have been repeatedly calculated by the courtiers, and there are five or six true and false plans that have been circulated.Some plans are generally in line with Ding Haijun's simple style, while some plans are simply nonsense. If implemented according to this idea, the people of the world will immediately be eaten by wild beasts, and they will not be able to live.

Guo Ning knew this very well, and he knew even more clearly that the reward could not be delayed or withheld.In this regard, he and Yelu Chucai reviewed the accounts many times and formulated two principles.

One is called "respect martial arts, merits and demerits are not worth it".It is about the fact that meritorious service and rewards tend to be soldiers, referring to the nine-rank noble system in the Jin Dynasty, regardless of fame and status, but cannot easily create dignitaries who exceed the law.

The other one is even more critical, called "shared benefits, equitable shares", it is about the fact that after meritorious deeds and rewards are rewarded, they do not follow the traditions of the past dynasties and dynasties to seal or eat households.Guo Ning would follow the example of merchants from the Southern Dynasties in raising funds for sea trade, and would take out the part of the Shanghai bank that belonged to Dazhou and distribute the rewards.

In the third year of Da'an, the dynasty in Zhongdu changed, and the new emperor came to power in a coup d'état, killing the clan.Guo Ning took the opportunity to seize the huge resources that no one noticed at the time, which were the fleet and smugglers in the hands of the Jurchen clan.

In the following years, he continued to expand maritime trade, and he was able to extract hundreds of thousands of huge sums of money from it every year.When the situation where the north and the south were standing side by side was settled, Guo Ning relied on the huge market and property output in the north, combined with his own fleet and the Song people of the Southern Dynasty to form a giant firm.

All the soldiers knew that the trip to Shanghai was different from ordinary guilds.Internally, the two countries of Zhou and Song have strict organizational systems to guarantee the business of nearly tens of millions of guan every year, and the benefits of tens of millions of guan.Moreover, since the beginning of this year, the commercial roads in the south have been smooth, and the fleet can go directly to Guangzhou in the Southern Dynasty, and directly trade with the legendary countries in the South China Sea, and the profits have turned upside down.

In a normal year, the grain output of a hundred acres of land in Hebei and Zhongdu is only fifty or sixty tons, which is completely different from the huge profits at sea.It is impossible to say that the soldiers are not envious of the interests of the sea.

But everyone also understands that His Majesty the Emperor himself is willing to use the income from sea trade to subsidize the state finances, which is the emperor's honor.But after all, the royal purse cannot allow outsiders to meddle indiscriminately. Even thinking about it, it is arrogance.

When Guo Ning released the news that he would share equity with the heroes, most of the military officers who felt eligible to be included were ecstatic.

Of course, it is inevitable that some people value land property and feel that commercial benefits are illusory and not practical enough.This has been the case for thousands of years, and there are quite a few such people.

Guo Ning and Yelu Chucai called the officers several times to answer questions and tell the specific situation of the sea revenue.

On this day, he turned back from Zhongdu and returned to Tianjin Mansion, and summoned the local senior military officers of Tianjin Mansion, as well as some generals who had suffered a little disadvantage in being knighted because of their late defection.

When everyone met the emperor, there was naturally more red tape than in the past.Fortunately, Guo Ning didn't put on airs, and kept asking each other about their health.If you meet someone who has official business dealings in the past few days, you can give them a few separate instructions; if you meet someone who has messed up something in the past few days, as long as you haven't made a big mistake, you can also pull them to a corner of the meeting room and raise them a little bit, so as to save them from making mistakes again and again.

After dozens of people were seated, Guo Ning asked people to hang a huge banner in the meeting hall, and personally gesticulated and told them one by one.

The shares of the entire Shanghai Bank are divided into half by the Great Zhou Dynasty and half by the Great Song Dynasty, and the profit distribution is also the same.But this is a political divide, not a purely commercial calculation.In fact, the two companies rely on their own territories, fleets and land-based commercial channels. Except for cross-border trade that must be jointly promoted, other operations are independent.

This time, Guo Ning plans to release this part of the equity under his name one after another.The first issue is aimed at civil and military officials who have won the New Dynasty's Noble Award. This covers almost all military officers above the general level and civil servants with relatively key positions. There are nearly 1000 people in total, and more than 50% of them are warriors.The release of [-]% of the equity to them represents an income of more than [-] yuan for the year.

According to this plan, an ordinary man from Kaiguo County in Dazhou can also get a bonus of more than two hundred guan a year from the business, which is more than enough for the few big landlords in ordinary villages.I really want land, and with the money, it is easy for my family to buy land. The newly opened silt fields near Zhongdu are only two or three acres per mu.

Hearing this, many officers really smiled, and there was a constant buzzing in the conference hall.Two officers who had good friendship with each other discussed on the spot, where to buy fields and land, continued to get together as neighbors, and agreed that it would be best to be in-laws with their sons and daughters.

As soon as the two of them were talking, Shi Tianni interrupted and said, I heard that the son of the old Wang family is very stubborn, and if he can't write well, he can't do martial arts. The daughter of the old Cheng family might as well marry my younger brother Shi Tianze.If you dislike my young brother, you can marry me as a follow-up. I can call you father-in-law right now.

As soon as this man opened his mouth, the warriors roared with laughter, some congratulated the new son-in-law with witty words, some laughed at Shi Tianni for being skinless, and in a blink of an eye, the hall became more and more noisy.

If the two armies were fighting and the Chinese army was in such chaos, Guo Ning would have to send law enforcement officers to chop off a few heads. With his majesty in the army, a slight cough at this moment could make the soldiers immediately stand in awe.

But he knew very well that warriors fought for wealth and honor in the final analysis.Now that there is no war, a lot of wealth is in front of you, everyone is happy, why insist on rules?To a certain extent, these northern warriors were willing to say some witty words in front of the emperor, which was also a way of showing kindness.

At the moment, he just smiled and listened, motioning to Li Yun to continue the story.

What Li Yun said is actually very important.It turns out that apart from the royal decree, once the equity of a commercial firm is allocated to individuals, it cannot be transferred again, and offenders will be severely punished.Unless the owner is deprived of the title, he can always get the dividend distribution of the equity.

However, after the person who owns the shares dies, if the descendants are not sealed, the shares will return to the royal family.These shares are currently under the control of Li Yun.In the future, when the government affairs are sorted out properly, and Li Yun has accumulated enough qualifications, he will be promoted to Minister of the Shaofu, and he will be in charge of the royal family's treasury.

After Li Yun finished speaking, Zhao Bin, who was sitting at the back of the line, came out and asked, if he took the money instead of buying land, instead of buying a boat and recruiting people, would it be okay to set up his own firm and do business by sea?

Before Li Yun could answer the question, Guo Ning left the throne, hugged Zhao Bin and asked, "You guys, aren't you thinking about taking care of yourself in old age? Why are you so excited all of a sudden?"

Zhao Bin's rough and dark face showed a little embarrassment.

Although he is old and disabled, he is already a man of Jianguo County due to his military achievements and hard work at sea.So at the end of last year, he became a favorite in the eyes of countless matchmakers. Now he not only has one wife and one concubine, but his wives and concubines also brought him two cheap sons and three cheap daughters, all of whom changed their surnames to Zhao.

There are too many family members, and although the output from the fields alone is enough to spend, it is a bit tight.Zhao Bin originally went to sea because he couldn't adapt to the boring life after retiring, but after seeing the sea scenery, although he was old, his heart became more and more unruly, and he wanted to start his own career.

Guo Ning laughed loudly at that moment: "If you want to do something, of course you can, as long as you don't mix it with military-controlled materials and don't poach officials."

Zhao Bin repeatedly agreed.

Guo Ning asked again: "I don't want to mention the sea-going ships we tried to build ourselves. They are expensive and not easy to use. A while ago, your old partner Zhou Keshan ordered dozens of sea-going ships with [-] materials in Fuzhou. Each boat costs a thousand coins. Is your savings enough to buy a boat? If not, I can lend you."

Just at this point, the courier from outside delivered an urgent letter.

Guo Ning opened it and frowned.

The originally rowdy warriors fell silent for an instant, and everyone returned to their original positions one after another, and the hall was completely silent.

Guo Ning stood in the hall, looked around at everyone, and suddenly smiled to himself: "I am in a very good mood today. I just spoke to everyone and made a wish. Seeing everyone happy makes me even more happy. But I was humiliated on the spot. My face is all swollen."

Hearing this, Shi Tianni came out first.He held his sword and raised his head, and said loudly: "May I ask, what happened? I have heard the principle that the master is worried about the humiliation of his ministers, and the master humiliates his ministers to death. Whoever dares to humiliate His Majesty will be the death toll of hundreds of thousands of our Da Zhou soldiers." sworn enemy!"

After he finished speaking, Yeluke clasped his fists in front of Baal: "I do the same!"

Li Shouzheng immediately came out of the queue: "Who dares to be rude, please let your Majesty know. I am willing to take his life with my sword!"

Guo Ning sighed: "It's really embarrassing to say this. I can't help you guys. I really don't know how to say it."

The generals insisted on it again and again, and Guo Ning finally told the reason.

"In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were suddenly pirates rampant in the south of Guangnan, and they attacked and robbed our fleet many times. According to statistics from Zhou Keshan, there were more than 200 ships missing in two months, and the total loss was about [-]. Wanguan."

Most of the subordinate troops on Beijing Road have been stationed in the eastern grassland for generations, and their leaders are also from powerful families in this area.Before that, Shi Tianying's black army followed Li Ting to open up Qin Long, and the rest of the troops still stayed in the local area.

After following Guo Ning, these people had quite a lot of experience of crossing the sea by boat or long-distance raids, but they still trembled when they first heard Song, Guangnan, sea, and pirates.After shaking, I heard that I lost 200 million guan, and I was all shocked.Those with a quick mind immediately calculated that the loss of 200 million guan would be borne by Da Zhou's side, which would be 100 million guan, which is more than [-]% of the expected dividend this year!

In other words, everyone had fun for a long time, and the money that had already thought about many places to go, was reduced by [-]% in one fell swoop!The fields, houses, golden pearls, treasures, and even the beautiful girl that had been imagined into reality all flew away!This... this loss is really heavy!

Everyone was furious, and everyone's eyes were red.Many people were breathing heavily and clenching their fists, just like wild beasts fighting for food on the grassland, with ferocious expressions.

Just at this time, Li Yun sighed: "This is the loss of the first year, and there may not be so much in the future. If we prepare some funds, tie up those pirates, and reduce the loss to [-]% or [-]%, we can always right?"

After hearing this, everyone was out of breath.What does this mean?Why should the benefits that the gentlemen gained from fighting in mountains of corpses and seas of blood be given to pirates?The loss of [-]% or [-]% every year will accumulate over [-] or [-] years. Isn’t this figure scary?

Someone was so angry that he wanted to argue with Li Yun on the spot.

However, Li Yun was holding the military newspaper, saw the end in two or three eyes, and said in his mouth: "Huh? Zhou Keshan said that he has already found out the details of the pirates, and he wants to ask His Majesty to send hundreds of elite soldiers to go south secretly. Sweeping the pirates' lair in one go...just to be black and black, and rob the accumulated assets of the pirates to make up for the loss?"

Hearing this, Guo Ning also poked his head to look. While watching, he said casually: "Are you kidding? It's so easy to deploy troops to fight thousands of miles away? How could the soldiers be happy? How could I be willing? Besides , I have to go through a set of troop transfer procedures when I go back to the middle school, it will take ten days and a half months, there is no time in time... yo!"

Guo Ning was speechless suddenly: "What he wrote is true? Is Haikou so rich?"

In addition to Shi Tianni and others, more than a dozen generals came out, and the sound shook the room: "Your Majesty, the deployment of troops in the middle is too slow, and there is a lot of movement. I am afraid that the pirates are on guard! I hope to go south. , Sweep them!"

(End of this chapter)