Chapter Ninety-Nine: Meeting, Assembly

Tiangong moved the capital to Bu Chonghua,

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Meiji, abbreviated by the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Wa Kingdom, is also known as the Ming Dynasty.

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In the forty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the horn of the Eastern Crusade sounded on the seaside in the southeast.

This trumpet sounded in advance brought about an exciting era, but also brought an exciting era!

It's the best of times and it's the worst of times.

As the best young man of this era, Wei Gongliangchen issued the strongest voice of this era with his unique political wisdom and overall situation - for the sake of the Ming Empire, gentlemen, please sacrifice yourself bravely!

Total Attack, Total Mobilization, Total Occupation!

The base camp conveyed the nine-character strategic policy personally formulated by Gonggong Wei to the level of 100 households in the fastest time.

At the same time, for the glorious future of the emperor and the journey of the imperial army, on the 6th day of the first month of September, Gonggong Wei personally presided over the first meeting of the joint units of the maritime special zone in the Zhongzheng dining hall of the royal guest house of the special administrative zone.

The participants were the officers of the Inner Court stationed in the SAR and supervising the army. In addition to the celebrant supervisor, the Shengong supervisor, the Yinsui supervisor, the metropolitan governor, and the secretary of the prison, the other 19 yamen representatives attended.

The five prisons in the future have their own reasons.

Due to the particularity of his status, although he is ranked first among the 24 eunuchs, he is the mind and core of the 24 eunuchs, and he is the chief administrator of the inner court. With such a status, it is impossible to send personnel to settle in the Special Administrative Region, and if he really sends a foreign mission, he is also above the maritime eunuch Wei Gong, so it is impossible for Wei Gonggong to be bored with himself.

The Shrine is in charge of the sprinkling and sweeping of various temples and incense lamps in Taigao, and the nature of its supervision work is destined to make it impossible for him to go south to participate in the large-scale development of the Special Economic Zone. Yin Sui Jian is in charge of the ancient and modern collection of warehouses and iron coupons, edicts, yellow stickers, seal letters, surveys, verifications, letter symbols, etc., which is another key yamen in the palace in addition to the secretary of ceremonies and supervisors, and it is impossible to send personnel to the south.

The governor was originally in charge of the palace supervisors, and then only followed the emperor's front guide and police, and was the yamen in the palace who was specifically responsible for the emperor's security.

The division is in charge of the imperial concubine's book, honor guard, rain gear, and umbrella, and it stands to reason that there are basic conditions for cooperation with the Ming Imperial Army, after all, the Ming Imperial Army also needs honor guards, rain gear and other equipment. However, the eunuch Wang Mou, who was the eunuch of his palm seal, and Cao Jukui, the former official and eunuch who was removed by Wei Gonggong, worshiped their brothers, so they rejected the olive branch extended by Wei Gonggong, saying that the eunuch of the division had nothing to do with him when he was killed by the maritime yamen.

Whether to come or not, Father-in-law Wei does not force it.

What he wants is cooperation, sincere cooperation, not cooperation between yang and yin, giggling on the surface, but behind his back.

It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and if you don't come, you won't come.

Father-in-law Wei is very open-minded, he doesn't pay attention to what he doesn't come, and he attaches great importance to what comes.

The specific cooperation with the prisons has always been the responsibility of Chen Mo of Jingshi. Chen Mo drew up a list for Wei's father-in-law, and the list divided the nineteen units that sent personnel south into three categories.

The first type is the most sincere unit, which truly treats maritime cooperation as a matter.

There are nine Imperial Horse Supervisors, Internal Official Supervisors, Shangyi Supervisors, Huanyi Bureau, War Bureau, Treasure Money Division, Mixed Hall Division, Salary Saving Division, and Bell and Drum Division.

The second group is sincere but unwilling to invest too much resources.

There are six royal supervisors, Shangshan supervisors, direct palace supervisors, silver bureaus, scarves and hats bureaus, and needlework bureaus.

The third category is not very sincere, and it is purely wait-and-see.

There are four internal weaving and dyeing bureaus, wine vinegar noodle bureaus, Siyuan bureaus and Shangbao supervisors.

So far, the Imperial Horse Supervisor has invested the most in and sponsored the Ming Imperial Army, and it is also the yamen that Gonggong Wei directly contacted.

The Mixed Hall Division has recruited workers to set up the Royal Carpentry Factory in the Special Economic Zone according to the needs of the order, and has produced 6,000 wooden barrels for the use of the Imperial Army in advance. The pipes are mainly made of pottery, some of which are wooden, and are basically designed according to the sewer requirements of the Forbidden City.

The Treasure Banknote Division sent more than 100 banknote craftsmen located in Beijing to the Special Economic Zone and put into operation the Jiangnan branch of the Royal Treasure Banknote Factory in a village not far from the Wusong Military Port. At present, a number of straw has been purchased and made into more than 6,000 catties of straw paper for the use of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Emperor.

This production speed made Wei Gonggong very happy, ordered to pay for the goods in advance, and met with the southbound personnel of the Bao Qian Division, encouraging them to start a business in Jiangnan with peace of mind, hoping that they could start to develop the hardness paper required for the special "military stamps" of the imperial army after the production of straw paper was stable. Once the paper was developed, the Royal Bank, which would soon be established, would be responsible for the issuance of military stamps.

In the plan, this military ticket will be issued in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other places, and in the future, it will also flow to Central Asia, West Asia, Europa and other places in the footsteps of the imperial army's foreign expansion.

The style of the military ticket has already been drawn by Gonggong Wei and locked in an iron box. The main picture is a frontal portrait of his admiral maritime eunuch Wei Liangchen.

In the area of the internal official prison, because the original palm seal Cao Jukui was killed, the young prisoner was sick, so the actual person in charge of the prison became the foreign prisoner of Wei Gonggong. Under the personal care of Gonggong Wei, several eunuchs sent to the Special Administrative Region by the internal officials and supervisors had already selected a place and set about establishing the Jiangnan Wood Factory, which specialized in the production of all kinds of furniture like the palace style, as well as all kinds of wooden equipment needed by the imperial army. It is said that one of the eunuchs was from the Shilei family.

As for the Bell and Drum Division, after the advance payment was made by Gonggong Wei, a 320-member Imperial Army Song and Dance Troupe had arrived in the Special Administrative Region in three batches and was placed a few miles east of the Admiral's Maritime Yamen. There are 16 eunuchs, 15 teachers, 25 palace maids, and the rest are all girls trained by the Teaching Division.

After the formation of the Guards Division, Gonggong Wei incorporated this song and dance troupe into the imperial army system, directly under the base camp, and recruited young men and women with artistic cells in various places, and expanded several battlefield cultural and artistic service troupes on the basis of this song and dance troupe in the future.

Now, the song and dance troupe is organizing rehearsals of "Long Live the Ming Dynasty", "Long Live the Son of Heaven", "Song of the Battlefield", "Father-in-law Wei Came to Us", "Long Live a Thousand Mountains Always Love", "Sing a Mountain Song to My Father-in-law", "Song of the Emperor's Paradise" and other programs.

These programs were finalized by Father-in-law Wei, and many of the songs were even written by him, but because of his busy official duties, he had not had the opportunity to check the programs in person.

Although the Salary Division has set up a point in the Special Economic Zone, the main foreign personnel have gone to the Liyang Iron Mine. This unit itself is a state-owned coal group, so it is not good for Gonggong Wei to lead them south only to do their own work.

Wei Gonggong believed that with his strong support and the armed backing of the Ming Imperial Army, the Salary Division would definitely become the leader of the coal industry in the south and contribute to the increase in revenue of the Ming Dynasty's inner treasury.

The War Bureau, like the Imperial Horse Supervisor, was an early collaborator of the Ming Imperial Army. The Imperial Horse Warden provided the battalion commander and part of the personnel, weapons and equipment, and also provided the money needed for the beginning of the business. The War Bureau is purely based on weapons as shares, and now fifty percent of the weapons used by the Ming Imperial Army are derived from the War Bureau.

The stewards and eunuchs of the Silver Bureau have received orders from Gonggong Wei, and the orders are mainly focused on the design of medals and the gold and silver utensils required in the army. At present, the order volume is small, but the silver bureau has been assured by Wei Gonggong that there will be a large number of overseas products flowing in three months at the latest, such as ivory and jade. After the inflow of overseas goods, the silver bureau will be able to carry out secondary processing operations, and it will definitely be able to occupy a place in the luxury goods market of the Ming Dynasty.

The 19 fraternal units that came to the Special Economic Zone, whether they were Class I, Class II, or Class III, Gonggong Wei treated them with sincerity. Therefore, in the midst of his busy schedule, a joint meeting of various units was held in the Zhongzheng Canteen.

Wei Gonggong hoped that at this meeting, he would be able to clearly explain to the responsible persons of these fraternal units what he wanted, what he wanted to do, and how to do it, so that on the one hand, he could get their support and support, and on the other hand, he would strengthen cooperation so that he could concentrate resources and strength to do great things.

In this context, this conference is destined to be a grand conference and a conference of epochal significance.

Golden autumn September is the month of harvest, but also the month of hope!