Chapter 27: Reform and opening up of the Ming Dynasty!
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Huaguo Modu Customs approved a batch of heaven and earth wine imported from Daming and some Daming native products.
Baoyun Import & Export Co., Ltd. received a notice from the customs, Chen Kun immediately rushed to the customs, this batch of goods is very important, is the first battle of Daming's characteristic products into China. For this reason, Zhu Wei personally called him and asked him to bother more. Due to the preliminary mutual trade agreement between Huaguo and Daming, Modu and Tianjin Port and Daming Panlong Port were used as mutual tariff-free pilots.
Therefore, the Modu Customs quickly cleared this batch of goods.
Meanwhile. The official website of Daming Immigration and Tourism in China officially released the important news that Daming specialties have landed in China.
This news has also been reprinted and reported by a large number of news media in China, among which Tiandi wine has been praised by these media as a holy product for health preservation.
For a while, the dealers who heard the wind almost broke through the door of Baoyun Company, and in the face of almost sky-high prices of heaven and earth wine, dealers of all sizes did not even blink an eye, how many wanted. Those who came late, who didn't grab the wine of heaven and earth, also set their eyes on those local products of the Ming Dynasty.
100,000 bottles of heaven and earth wine, of which the purchase price of 20 years is 50,000 Chinese dollars, the purchase price of 10 years is 20,000 Chinese dollars, and the purchase price of three years is 6,000 Chinese yuan per bottle. Almost immediately snatched up, changed hands in some high-end hotels, restaurants and tobacco hotels on the shelves, three years of price 6666, ten years of price 28888, twenty years of price is 69999!
Even if it is sold for 70,000 yuan, it is still priceless, and as soon as it is put on the shelves, it is snapped up by a large number of consumers, and later only three-year-old Tiandi wine can be seen on the market.
So far, Guangtian Liquor, Baoyun Import and Export Company has received 2.5 billion yuan, deducting the export price of Daming Liquor, Baoyun Company's profit has reached 370 million Chinese dollars.
The Spanish gold coins that Zhu Wei had commissioned to be auctioned by Christie's were all sold in mid-October, and the proceeds were transferred to Zhu Wei's Swiss bank account. After receiving a call from Liu Haiping, Zhu Wei directly put the money into Chen Kun's investment company account, and gave him new instructions to contact the manufacturers of electric vehicles.
These are just whitewashes to cover people's ears, and the real technology has to rely on the black technology of the Ou'er stars.
Of course, Zhu Wei doesn't worry about everything by himself, and many times it is Luo Yuying who makes a list of the examples that Daming urgently needs and asks Chen Kun to do it. With a large amount of entry and exit every day, Chen Kun has become a hot figure in China.
In order to receive business from Chen Kun's hands, many people began to give gifts to Chen Kun, looking for various relationships, Chen Kun of course has the bottom of his heart, and does not refuse to give money and gifts, but will record them one by one and hand them over to Zhu Wei, Chen Kun does not dare to cross the Lei Chi, you must know that in order to stop corruption at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the policy of high salary, clean and strict punishment and corruption was formulated, and the punishment can be said to be the most powerful in the world.
It is okay to accept bribes, but they must be handed over to the imperial court, after all, Chen Kun is the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty to China, and the third-grade member of the Ming Kingdom can be regarded as a person with status.
With the end of the US visit to Ming, the Chinese side is also actively working to open a passenger route from the magic capital to Panlong Port, and the Ming embassy in China is also under intense construction, and it is expected to be delivered in two months.
Daming has only set up a temporary office in the magic capital, which is usually in charge of tourism director Zhou Ziqi and immigration director Zhang Xiaochen.
Chen Kun generally does not deal with trivial matters except for important diplomatic matters, and his important role in China is to act as a material procurer and middleman for the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, Zhu Wei deliberately left him a 1% dividend.
During the visit to the United States. U.S. President Barack Obama signed documents on the formal establishment of diplomatic relations with Daming and the opening of zero-tariff trade between the two countries, giving more than $5 billion in financial assistance, which specifically stated that these financial assistance can only be used for the infrastructure construction of Daming.
In addition, Luo Yuying also obtained a $50 billion interest-free loan for 20 years and a $100 billion low-interest loan for the same 20 years, but the price was mortgaged by the right to garrison US troops in Ming and the ownership of Xuanzhou Island in the Ming Dynasty.
However, Luo Yuying believes that within five years, the Ming court will be able to repay this batch of loans, and as for the so-called US military right in the Ming Dynasty and the ownership of Xuanzhou Island, they are just bait thrown by Luo Yuying, tempting the United States to sign at the negotiating table. Of course, when it comes to the land of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Yuying must get Zhu Wei's handwritten power of attorney, and all the land of the Ming Kingdom must be owned by Zhu Wei. As for repayment, Zhu Wei doesn't care, and he is afraid that he will have no money for the black technology with a barefoot number?
In addition to this batch of loans, U.S. President Barack Obama also agreed to help Daming lay a submarine fiber optic cable (from Hawaii to Daming), help Daming build a communications network, and help Daming launch a new photoacoustic communication satellite at a low price of $5 million.
I believe that in less than a month, the Ming Kingdom will be able to completely and formally integrate with the world! This is what Zhu Wei is most looking forward to, and it is also what the entire Ming people are most eagerly looking forward to.
On the other hand, the Daming Central Bank has also completed the preparatory work, and in 2012, on October 10, the first year of the Ming Dynasty, August 25, the official issuance of the Daming gold yuan Tongbao new currency (banknote).
The Daming Central Bank is a public-private partnership, and Zhu Wei personally took out 1 million Spanish gold coins, 500,000 taels of Manchurian Ping Treasury silver and more than 1 million silver coins from various countries, about 300 million US dollars, and the Ming court took out 200 million US dollars of foreign exchange as the public capital of the Daming Central Bank to ensure that the Daming gold dollar would not depreciate too much.
Even so, the Daming gold dollar was inevitably devalued, and the original 1:15 to the Chinese dollar fell to 1:12, and the exchange rate against the US dollar remained above 1:2.
The main currency of Daming gold yuan Tongbao is still 1 yuan, 2 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan seven kinds, the color of the banknote is light gray, light green, light blue, green, orange, light yellow and bright yellow seven colors, the front is auspicious cloud carving, Tenglong wants to fly and the famous emperor head of the Ming Dynasty, and its back is the famous tourist attractions and landscapes of the Ming Dynasty, respectively, the blue cliff of the West Mountain, the autumn scene of Jasper Lake, the autumn view of Panlong Mountain, the golden beach, the ancient city of Zhongdufu, the panorama of the Mini volcanic group and the most famous mountain peak of the Ming Dynasty - Full moon diagram of Haoyue Peak.
Auxiliary coins are also paper money, and cents are added on the basis of half a yuan, that is, one-tenth yuan, which is 1 cent, and half a dollar is also called 5 cents.
On the day of the issuance of the new gold dollar, the people of the Ming Dynasty basically retained the old gold coins in addition to some of the gold dollars that were exchanged for daily needs by the central bank, one for commemoration, and the other for saving private money for future generations, which is also the inevitable good character of the Chinese nation. Of course, the Ming laborers found a business opportunity in it, and used the high price of the new version of the gold dollar to exchange the old gold coins privately.
Especially after the introduction of the Daming Central Bank and the cessation of the circulation of old gold coins in the market, more speculators speculated wildly, making the collection value of old gold coins of Daming rise from 1:15 to more than 1:40......
For this situation, the central bank of the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty turned a blind eye......
Since. After getting a loan of 150 billion US dollars from the United States, the treasury of the Ming court was separated from Zhu Wei's Ming royal assets.
According to Luo Yuying, the separation of public and private assets is conducive to the progress of the Ming court and the country, and is more conducive to the future development of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Wei didn't understand this, anyway, the affairs of the country were handed over to Luo Yuying to manage, so he agreed. To Zhu Wei's gratification, the Daming treasury is currently quite abundant in funds, including 1 million gold dollars and 1 million Spanish gold coins given by Zhu Wei when the People's Republic of China was founded, 20 billion Chinese dollars of interest-free loans provided by China, and $5 billion, $50 billion of interest-free loans, and $100 billion of low-interest loans aided by the United States.
With abundant funds, the urban construction of the imperial capital and the Daming Industrial Park and the entire industrial system will be advanced, and Daming will also have a qualitative leap!
The reason for this is that Luo Yuying used Xuanzhou Island as collateral to borrow $150 billion from the US Government, and several ministers of the DPRK and China vigorously opposed it! Not only did she label Luo Yuying as a traitor, but she also submitted several consecutive recitals to Zhu Wei to participate in Luo Yuying's performance.
Zhu Wei can't ignore it, Luo Yuying, the prime minister, must be promoted and appointed by Zhu Wei, and in the end it was Zhu Wei who came forward, which calmed down a loan turmoil, however, after this incident, Zhu Wei realized that the disagreement between the ministers of the DPRK and the prime minister could easily make Daming slacken, so Zhu Wei specially asked Ade.
Ade said: "Commander, when the country was founded, Ade said that there are drawbacks in the three-province system of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the prime minister and the officials of the three provinces will inevitably cause many contradictions within the imperial court, but the Ming Dynasty has not solved this contradiction at present...... In other words, the prime minister and the three provinces are already incompatible with the resumption of power, even if there is no such incident, one day in the future, the prime minister and the officials of the three provinces will eventually cause conflicts because of power......"
"Commander, you can manage for a while, but can you manage for a lifetime? What about your children and grandchildren? Do you have to worry about everything as you do?"
Ade's words made Zhu Wei ponder, and I have to say that what Ade said is very reasonable, the current prime minister's three-province system in the Ming Dynasty is indeed not suitable for Zhu Wei, but it cannot directly move the political system abroad, and the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty must be different.
As if knowing the distress in Zhu Wei's heart, Ade continued: "Actually, it's not difficult to solve, as long as the commander you establish a body similar to the management committee, the commander you only need to be directly responsible for this body. As for the prime minister and the six ministries of the three provinces, I think it would be good to remove them directly. ”
"No!" Zhu Wei didn't think about it, and directly vetoed it, joke! A feudal country doesn't even have a prime minister, three provinces and six ministries? Use a committee to manage the country? What does it mean to be an emperor?
"In this case, Ade only has one last plan, to form a cabinet of the imperial court, and the head of the cabinet will be concurrently appointed by the prime minister, abolishing the three provinces and leaving six ministries. In the future, the government will be discussed and formulated by the cabinet, the prime minister has the power of parliament and has the basic decision-making power, the emperor has the final decision-making power and ownership, and the six ministries only have administrative power. That is to say, Prime Minister Luo is responsible for the small affairs of the country, and you have the final say in the commander of the major affairs of the country. ”
Zhu Wei's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart that this is good, while reducing the number and power of court officials, it also puts an end to the competition for power among officials.
The original prime minister was in charge of the three provinces, and together with the three provinces, he had the power of parliament, decision-making, and administration. Now the formation of the cabinet and the abolition of the three provinces have strengthened the power of the prime minister in a qualitative way! The prime minister has gained power second only to the emperor.
Zhu Wei is resolute!
On the same day, a court meeting was urgently convened to speak openly and honestly about the reform of the Ming Dynasty.
Withdraw three provinces, leave six ministries, build a cabinet, and increase the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and Jinyiwei, each of which shocked the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty!
At this time, the benefits of being the emperor are manifested, that is, the slightest dissent!
Subsequently, the responsibilities of the six departments were divided one by one, and the title of the yamen of the mansion was cancelled and the department was changed.
(Ministry of Officials: responsible for the management, assessment, promotion, etc. of officials, Ministry of Households: respectively manage the income and expenditure and reimbursement of various places, Ministry of Rites: in charge of the national auspicious ceremony, education and examinations, entertaining foreign guests, banquets of meritorious heroes, etc., Ministry of War: management of the military and government of the world (military orders are managed by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies), Criminal Department: management of the world's criminal names, Ministry of Industry: management of construction, logistics, water conservancy, manufacturing, etc. The ministers are Shangshu (Zheng Erpin), and the deputy prefect is Shilang (Zheng Sanpin). )
The only six parts of the tube were merged again.
Ultimately:
(Under the Ministry of Officials) the Department of General Administration, the Department of Clean Government, and the Department of Administration.
The Department of Household Affairs, the Department of Finance, the Department of Taxation, the Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Immigration and Investment (Immigration Bureau), and the National Security Bureau......
(Under the Ministry of Rites) the Department of Code, the Department of Envoys, and the Department of Education.
The Navy Governor's Office, the Army Governor's Office, the Air Force Governor's Office, the Praetorian Guard Governor's Office, the Imperial Front Governor's Office, and the Customs Governor's Office.
(Under the Criminal Department) the Criminal Law Department, the Prison Department, the Patrol Department, and the Police Department.
(under the Ministry of Industry) the Department of Industry Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Maritime Affairs, the Department of Highways, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the Construction and Development Bureau (BCA), and the Tourism Bureau......
Each department and government of the six ministries may set up a yamen in charge of the local basis of the prefecture and county, and these yamen are under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate but are directly responsible to each department.
For example, the Department of Household Affairs may set up the Household Registration Bureau, the Finance Department under the Finance Bureau, the Taxation Department under the Taxation Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau under the Civil Affairs Department, the Agriculture Bureau, the Fisheries Bureau, the Animal Husbandry and Forestry Bureau under the Agriculture Department, the Education Bureau under the Education Bureau, the Cultural Bureau, the Customs Governor's Office under the Customs Governor's Office, the Prison Department under the Prison, the Police Department under the Police Bureau, the Logistics Support Bureau, the Water Conservancy Bureau, the Fire Bureau under the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Commerce Department under the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the Human Resources Bureau, the Market Supervision Bureau, The Price Bureau, etc., the Maritime Administration Division has a Maritime Affairs Bureau, and the Highway Administration Division has a Highway Administration Bureau......
Prefectures and counties shall set up yamen in charge of their own affairs according to their own local conditions.
For example: Urban Management Bureau...... Wait a minute......
At the same time, Zhu Wei said solemnly in the court: "I, Daming, am about to open the market to the world! I think everyone present is looking forward to it." However, with regard to the unique industries that are the lifeblood of the country, I hope that the officials of the Cabinet and the six ministries will pay close attention to it and not be carried away by foreign capital, especially the new officials who have emigrated from you......"