Chapter 1095: East Becomes West (88)

September, for the Han Kingdom, is indeed an eventful month, first the Han Kingdom Supreme Court and its subordinate courts were formed, Jing Shou and others were busy like dogs, and finally ready, the Grand Court was formally established and successfully tried the case of Zhao Yong, the former county guard, and the next court was also opened in Langya, Hejian, Tianhe, Liaoxi and other places, which is on the right track.

If it is said that the Han Kingdom has drummed up a new yamen and does not surprise the people on the mainland, then the political turmoil that happened in Jicheng is even more eye-catching. After all, it is not uncommon for the Han Kingdom to like to be unconventional, from the beginning of Gao Yuan to the present, he has made too many things that make the world jaw-dropping, but this time the severe punishment of Cao Tianci, the president of the Supervision Yuan, is very surprising.

Who is Cao Tianci? Let's not talk about the huge influence of the Cao family in the Han Dynasty, Cao Tianci alone, in the Han Dynasty, if Cao Tianci is the second person who is deeply trusted by the Great King Gao Yuan, then no one dares to say that he is the first. But this time the punishment of Cao Tianci was unprecedentedly heavy, Cao Tianci was punished and thought about it behind closed doors for three months, and the Supervision Yuan was temporarily handed over to the third princess Ning Xin to take care of it, if this is just a surface, then the separation of the Military Justice Department from the Supervision Yuan is really depriving Cao Tianci of a large part of his power.

The Judge Advocate General's Office was separated from the Supervisory Yuan and established as a new military tribunal, which was directly under the management of the Ministry of War, which meant that the Supervisory Yuan lost its right to speak in the military, which was a heavy blow to the Supervisory Yuan.

Everyone was speculating about the reason for the Han King's lofty thunder this time, but the person concerned did not say a word, and the person who knew the inside story kept his mouth shut, the reason for this was that the outside world knew nothing, except for some marginal speculation, and the difference between the facts and the situation was 108,000 miles.

But with the development of time, everyone finally saw some clues, and after punishing Cao Tianci heavily, the other two rewards made everyone finally realize in their hearts.

Wu Kai and Cao Tiancheng are all waiting.

Hou in the Han Kingdom, is a kind of honorary title, and there is no practical benefit, other countries are titled, there will be a corresponding fief to be given to the Hou Ye, but in the Han Dynasty, this is not, the Hou is just an affirmation of your past achievements, and there is no corresponding fief for you, in addition to the face of the Hou Ye, the status is high, and it is just an extra salary from the household department. This is very different from Qin Chu's Hou Ye, these two countries, the candidates, but then there is a large piece of fiefdom as a reward for food.

But this is understandable, given the Han Kingdom's policy of strictly prohibiting land annexation.

Based on the above situation, the officials, who are quite sensitive to politics, finally realized that Wang Shang was consciously suppressing the Fufeng family, because the two people who were entitled, this time, were from Fufeng County.

The meaning of cutting off some real power, but rewarding two false titles, could not be clearer.

According to the usual practice, the two people who were named Hou Ye should rush to Jicheng and thank the Han King Gao Yuanxing in person.

The first one to rush back was Cao Tiancheng. Since the negotiation with the Qin State, as the head of the Han Kingdom's commercial pillar of the Four Seas Commerce, Cao Tiancheng went to the Qin State to negotiate trade with the other party, focusing on the negotiation with the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce controlled by the Qin court, the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce is a hurdle that the four seas trade can not bypass, if the goods of the Han Dynasty want to enter the Qin State, they must first reach a consensus with the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce. The Yongqin Chamber of Commerce is not monolithic, and Gao Yuan believes that as long as he is a businessman, he will chase profits, so under the lure of the huge profits of the four seas commerce, he is not afraid that some high-ranking and powerful people in the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce will not cooperate with him, and in fact, Cao Tiancheng's action to the Qin State this time is also very fruitful, laying a solid foundation for the Han Dynasty goods to enter the Qin State in large quantities.

This was the first step in Gao Yuan's destruction of Qin's economy. Compared with the Qin State, which is still a small workshop-style family production, the Han Dynasty has now begun the cluster mass production of factory regulations, and a large amount of idle capital has entered the commercial system, which has caused a series of technological innovations and the establishment of large-scale factories, the cost of various commodities has been further reduced, and the competition of factory owners in their own country has become more brutal, which makes them urgently need a new market to sell their products, then, Qin has become the first choice.

First, the Qin State has now signed a peace agreement with the Han State, and the two sides have stopped the war, and secondly, compared to the Han State, although the territory of the Qin State is not as good as the current Han State, the population is far superior, and there are people, there are consumption, and the same goods, the price of the Qin State is about twice as expensive as the Han State, and the factory owners of the Han Dynasty believe that as long as they can successfully enter the Qin market, they can easily earn a lot of profits.

The second choice is naturally the state of Chu, but now the state of Chu and the state of Han are still at war, and the products are sold to the state of Chu, which is more of a way to smuggle through guò, and the risk is extremely huge. And the huge market of Chu is larger than that of Qin, which makes the factory owners of the Han Dynasty salivate.

What made Gao Yuan excited was that the Qin people, whether it was their new king Yingying, or their first loser Fan Sui, or the think tank Li Ru and others, none of them realized that the opening of the market would bring a devastating blow to the Qin economy, and in their opinion, this was just a small road. By the time they come to their senses, they are afraid that it will be too late.

When Jicheng's punishment for Cao Tianci was announced, Cao Tiancheng had already returned to Yuyang from Qin, and after learning the news, he was taken aback, and he was shocked to go non-stop, connecting and running for more than ten days, eating, drinking, and Lasa all solved on the carriage, and finally returned to Jicheng as quickly as possible.

"This group of bastards who are not good enough to swallow elephants actually use God's gift as rafters." Sitting in the Lingxiao Pavilion, Cao Tiancheng was furious after listening to Gao Yuan's account of this matter. I'm not done with them. When we were in Fufeng, we ate the last meal and didn't eat the next meal, and even the buttocks were exposed, and it was light to say that the clothes were not covered, and now a person is five or six, and he still makes such a moth. When I go home, my lord, see that I am not afraid of a broken leg from heaven."

"It's over!" Gao Yuan smiled and shook his head, "Tianci won't stay at home, I have other things for him to do, as for the people who came out of our Fufeng, I hope to learn a lesson from this incident, don't have another incident, they should understand that my friendship with them has not changed from beginning to end. It's good for people to have the desire to go up, it's not a problem, but the problem is that they must have the ability to match it, for example, Zheng Xiaoyang, seeing Meng Chong, Xu Yuan and others have all become commanders in charge of one side one by one, and he, as an old Fufeng man, has always been a military commander, and it is understandable that he has some resentment in his heart, but let him be in charge of an army alone, can I rest assured? If you don't have enough ability and sit in a high position, you will not only harm others, but also harm yourself."

"What the king said is that my Cao family is highly valued by the king, no matter what other people do, my Cao family is the only one who is the king." Cao Tiancheng said loudly: "We will do whatever the king asks us to do."

"I know that." Gao Yuan smiled and said: "This time I named you as the waiting master, but also to thank you for your contributions to the Han Dynasty over the years, from the earliest time when you served as our logistics coordinator, to now you are the big treasurer of the four seas trade, the busiest among our Han Dynasty is you."

"Tiancheng has no other skills, but he has some talent in business." Cao Tiancheng smiled: "The busier I am, the happier I am, if I really have nothing to do, I will really suffocate to death."

"Tiancheng, you should be over fifty this year, right?" Gao Yuan asked with a smile.

"Yes, it's over fifty, fifty is five, I was poor back then, I was in my early thirties when I married my daughter-in-law, and now I'm in my twenties." Cao Tiancheng nodded.

"I'm not too young, and if I run around outside, outsiders still say that I don't sympathize with you, so I think about it, and I'm ready to make a major reorganization of the four seas commerce, and then you will sit in Jicheng, just take charge of the general plate." Gao Yuan said with a smile: "Don't think about it, it's not that I'm worried that you're going to cut your power, but with the development of the form, it's indeed time for the Four Seas Commerce and Trade to be reorganized."

"Tiancheng doesn't have any other ideas!" Cao Tiancheng shook his head and said: "The king is extremely worried, now the plate of the four seas trade is too big, the scale is huge, sometimes even I feel a little frightened, if there is a problem in any of these links, it will affect the entire Han Kingdom, but Tiancheng is a shallow learner, but he can't think of a good way."

"I'm going to set up a new department, called the Ministry of Commerce, and I want you to be the minister to manage the country's industry and commerce. And the four seas trade will also be based on the business insiders to the different, each industry to set up an industry association, each association to choose a chairman, after each industry will be all handed over to their own business, and the Ministry of Commerce only needs to be in charge of the plate, the formulation of a series of policies, the four seas trade is created by you, you to take charge of the Ministry of Commerce is the most suitable."

"Establish a Ministry of Commerce?" Cao Tiancheng pondered for a moment, "In the past, we were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, so after that?"

"I will reorganize the Ministry of Household into the Ministry of Finance, and you will no longer be under their jurisdiction, of course, the taxes from industry and commerce will naturally still be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Finance will no longer manage the business operations of the Ministry of Commerce." High and far-reaching." Give you greater rights and create more wealth for the Han Kingdom."

"Tiancheng will definitely do his best to do this well." Cao Tiancheng nodded vigorously.

"By the way, when you come back this time, you not only have to worry about the formation of the Ministry of Commerce, but also help Wang Wuyan do another thing." Gao Yuan said: "This matter is not trivial, once it fails, it will really make our Han face a catastrophe."

Cao Tiancheng was taken aback, "I don't know what is going on?"

"Wang Wuyan is planning to establish the central bank of the Han Kingdom, and the central bank will issue a unified paper currency in the future, by the way, it is a silver ticket, but now the silver bills in my Han country are varied, as many as a dozen kinds, Wang Wuyan is ready to unify the style of the silver bill, and only the currency issued by the central bank of the Han Kingdom will have the right to circulate in the future, and other silver bills will be gradually cancelled. We had wanted to do this before, but we couldn't put it on the agenda because we didn't have enough gold and silver to spare, but with the success of Kou Shuguang's voyage, we finally had enough gold and silver in our treasury, and we could finally start doing it. There is no problem with the credit of our Han Kingdom, with the national credit as the background, the currency is unified, and the function of copper coins and gold and silver as currency in the market is canceled step by step. This is a huge thing, Wang Wuyan has now organized a class of up to 100 people to prepare for this matter, you can hang a face in it, with your experience in the four seas business over the years, you can effectively help them avoid many detours."

"Got it!" Cao Tiancheng nodded, "This is indeed a very big thing, the minister will send some right-hand men who have experience or experience in this area back to help do this, your majesty, do you still remember Mei Yipo?"

"Remember, Plum Blossom Lao Tzu, a good businessman." Gao Yuan said with a smile.

"This person has told me some of his thoughts on this before, and it is also about the circulation of money, and this person can reuse it."

"Oh, Mei Yipo still has this concept, yes, you go back and let him go to Beijing, I'll talk to him!" High and far-reaching interested. (To be continued......)