Seeing that Wang Xingping was so concerned about building a new type of military weapon, and he looked full of confidence, Zhang Heming did not hesitate to give a reassuring promise.

"Tiancheng, you just have to do it, as long as the equipment is combined, the officials will buy it from Youbuy, and you don't have to worry about sales."

Wang Xingping told the truth, "But there is still one thing that I have to ask Mr. to fulfill." ”

"You say."

"When I came back from Sichuan last time, I heard that the Shuzhong Rao Fu Army was going to carry out coinage."

"Oh, I've also watched Rao Zhongkui's recital, it's just a cliché."

Zhang Heming is older, and his family name is longer than Rao Jinghui, so he can speak politely.

But Wang Xingping was thinking about his own affairs, "In fact, the students feel that although the words are not very intentional, they are feasible, and when it comes to the money law, Shuzhong and Qianzhong are really one, and Sichuan can make money, and I Guizhou can do the same." Mr. Bu said that the establishment of iron smelting, one is that I really want to make my children in Qianzhong strong soldiers, but if it can help the implementation of the provincial money law, it will be a small supplement. ”

Zhang Heming's brows furrowed when he heard this, and then he said with a sullen face: "This matter should be told to the same year as your clan's uncle." ”

"Sir, you're talking about Yang Press?"

Wang Xingping listened to what he said, and thought about it carefully, it is estimated that most of the problem lies with the current Guizhou Patrol Imperial Envoy Yang He, who is also a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli, but he is actually the same year as Wang Zunde.

Zhang Heming didn't hide it, "Who else can there be besides Yang Xiuling." ”

Wang Xingping hadn't finished speaking, just mentioning Sichuan minting money earlier, and he was going to set up iron smelting, how could Zhang Heming not think that he wanted to make a difference in this, and the latter words confirmed the conjecture of this frontier official. It's just that when I heard Wang Xingping mention all kinds of military industry, it can be seen that this young man is a person who cares about state affairs, not a philistine who drills camps, so he promises to give Wang Xingping the convenience of policy in the production of weapons.

Originally, Guizhou was going to use troops to make up for it, and the word money and food were inseparable, and Zhang Heming also had the motivation to do it from the implementation of the coinage, but if this matter was because of the influence of Yang He, who was under the influence of Yang He, the imperial history, it would be a different matter.

This Yang Zhaoyuan Wang Xingping has seen a lot of copies in the palace, and they are all worried about the country and the people, but he is angry because of some books, and in the words of later generations, he is too idealistic.

As far as the strategy of governing Guizhou is concerned, Zhang Heming is blindly the main suppression, in order to pacify the matter without being hindered, he even recommended Sun Chongxian, who was originally in his hometown of Yingzhou, to replace Wu Laiting as the prefect of Guiyang.

A few days ago, Wang Xingping also saw that he wrote to the imperial court to ask for mercy for the various guards in Guizhou due to various difficulties, and he also pleaded with the cabinet to send an official document to Guizhou as soon as possible to send grain and wages to Guizhou.

Although Zhang and Yang can be said to have the same end in the matter of asking for money, after all, they have different routes, and there will inevitably be some discord in private, which can be seen from the recent personnel appointments in Guizhou.

Li Sigong, the newly appointed deputy envoy of Guizhou's military garrison, is Zhang Heming's old acquaintance from his post in Shaanxi's right political office, and Yang He, who promoted the new envoy of this province, has already been handed over, and all of them can be seen on the copy. Although the situation in this province has not yet reached the point of tension, Wang Xingping's mention of coinage at this time has not been long before Yang He's discussion on raising salaries, and it is inevitable that Zhang Heming will not think about it too much, and it is likely that different views on political affairs will affect decision-making, although it is not a bad thing, but any governor who wants to make contributions will not want the people around him to deviate from his morality. Since he has a desire for Wang Xingping, he naturally doesn't want to see him affected by the 'wrong line'.

As soon as Zhang Heming's words came out, he was going to test Wang Xingping's adaptability, is it dimensional or real? In fact, he already had a plan in his heart.

Without thinking too much, Wang Xingping made up his mind, "In fact, in Xingping's opinion, Mr. doesn't have to care, Yang Zhaoyuan is also a public heart, but Guizhou is too poor, if you can really make money, then there is no shortage of public use, and it is not difficult for Mr. to pacify the barbarians in Guizhou." ”

Seeing that Wang Xingping was not the main caretaker, Zhang Heming's heart eased slightly, and he smiled again: "Money and food, money and food, there is money but no food." ”

Guizhou has poor land, and for a long time, it has to rely on Sichuan and Lake for both money and grain.

Wang Xingping followed Zhang Heming's words and said: "What Mr. said is extremely true, the province's suffering is not that there are no soldiers, there is really no salary, and the suffering of salary is really true. ”

The true color and folding color are actually the concept of taxation, which is called the true color according to the tax amount of the grain, and the folding color is called the folding color of the cotton, silk, cloth, silk and other miscellaneous items, and later this concept also includes the discount of silver banknotes. It's just that if you want to march and fight, it's still the heaviest military salary and food, even if there is still silver in Guiyangwei's city treasury, but it is still in vain to buy enough food.

This is the crux of Zhang Heming's repeated writings, in the early Ming Dynasty, Guizhou originally set up more than 160,000 flag troops, and after arriving at orthodoxy, the law of the military tun was greatly bad, and the flag army fled many people. During the Chenghua period, the number of troops that could be requisitioned was less than 30,000, and there were only more than 15,000 soldiers defending the city except for Kaituntian. In fact, it is not fundamentally unmanned, in fact, it is caused by a lack of food.

In a word, when it comes to Zhang Heming's heart, the old people have the feeling of seeing each other and hating each other, and they will look at people's hearts in the next life.

"If Xingping is not mistaken, now Guizhou's annual levy should be around 160,000 stones, right?"

Listing data is still the most convincing way to bring in, but today's rhythm has been robbed by Zhang Heming.

"This year it is 166,273 stones."

"I can't help but remember too strongly", Wang Xing said calmly This one really has an amazing memory, it is the first time that he has encountered the money and grain data under his rule among the high-ranking officials in this life, and it is still accurate to single digits, but it is more powerful than the old officials in the treasury. But if you think about it, you can understand that Zhang Heming is the main battle faction, and now the whole province is up to him to use troops, and if he wants to fight and reward, he has to take money and grain.

Wang Xingping asked tentatively: "Do you want to add 100,000 taels of Sichuan and Lake?" ”

After Wanli, the annual amount of silver in Sichuan and Lake into Guizhou is more than 90,000 taels, and it is not wrong to say 100,000 yuan, but if it is exchanged for grain according to the price after the autumn tax, it is nearly 300,000 stones.

"Naturally, but it's still not enough." Zhang Heming answered Wang Xingping's question while calculating.

"And the salt grain in the open? Isn't it time to increase the quota now? ”

Sichuan and Yunnan Kaizhong border merchants will transport grain to Guizhou's designated health offices, and then rely on Kaizhong salt to attract salt, this grain is often levied according to the actual military needs, in the past, a year of Kaizhong salt introduction has reached more than 100,000 at most, with six buckets of rice per introduction, then at most a year Kaizhong nanometer can have 200,000 stones, which is higher than the positive amount of Guizhou's grain.

Zhang Heming didn't hide it, "Tiancheng didn't make salt before, how can I not know that this salt method is bad, even if the imperial court now allows more salt to be added, there must be a border merchant willing to come." ”

Of course, it is not necessarily true to say that there are no border merchants to transport grain to remote places, after all, Wang Xingping's salt introduction trade has only been completed for a few months, and many of them have been harvested. However, Wang Xingping estimates that Guizhou will not exceed 30,000 stones a year, and it is absolutely impossible to reach the original annual payment of 200,000 stones.

Zhang Heming's purpose for summoning him was already coming out, but it was better for the old gentleman to say it himself, so Wang Xingping looked at him left and right.

"But a few days ago, I heard the masters of Yuantong Temple mention from my mother, and it seems that I want to exchange nanometers for degrees."

In order to solve the problem of military rations, the political secretary suggested that some degrees should be used for people to donate, five buckets of rice can be donated to a serious monk's preparation, and it is no wonder that the monks in the temple have to complain in front of the donor, the masters will not complain about the monks and porridge, but will only say that this move has the hidden worry of 'repelling the road of adultery and stubbornness', so that the traitor has a way to circumvent it, in fact, the meaning is still the same.

"Yes, but it's not a long-term solution." Zhang Heming was frank, and he made no secret of what he had done in order to raise food.

It is a certificate issued by the government to monks, nuns and Taoists to prove their legal identity, and the monks who have the degree can be exempted from forced labor, but usually those who need to be punished are traitors and criminals, and the people disdain it. Civilians use this to evade interrogation and enslavement, but if they are really guilty of crimes, I am afraid that few people are willing to change their talismans. Therefore, in fact, the demand for the degree is not very high, and the decree has been promulgated for a long time, and in fact, the province has only less than 1,000 stone of payment this year, which is a very big deal. As for the official rice and the test-free rice, which are almost the same as the nature of the grain, there are even less, and the nanometer twenty stones are given to the crown belt, the problem is that it is not of much use. As for the nano exemption, it is only for the army, but now the army is full of soldiers who eat food, and their own food and salary are still in arrears, who will take rice out to donate a qualification for exemption? Isn't it better to have this money and grain to buy a few first-level military merits?

There is only one way to atone for the sin, but this has to withstand the impeachment of the imperial history, Yang Heke is sitting beside him, not to mention that the autumn harvest is imminent, and now he has received the money and grain for atonement, and it is not good to judge the prisoner if the price of grain is cheap after the autumn, so it is difficult to distinguish between the sentence and the non-judgment, so it is a dilemma left and right.

Zhang Heming no longer sold Guanzi, and said sincerely: "Tiancheng's family is a grain merchant, and he is plain and has a heart for state affairs. ”

Wang Xingping smiled like a cat, "Mr. knows that I am not the only grain merchant in Guiyang. ”

Zhang Heming also laughed, "But you are the only one who wants to do the official iron business." ”

This is a clear show of goodwill, of course, if Wang Xingping insists that this is a threat, it is not impossible.

smiled: "I want Mr. to be perfect." ”

Zhang Heming saw Wang Xingping entering the alley, and said with a smile: "I don't want you to suffer a loss, just start from you, I don't know how much food you still have in the warehouse to use, and the province will pay you according to the price." ”

"Count the price?"

Wang Xing said calmly, if the price is really according to the price, it is not impossible to buy grain in the market in Guiyang.

Zhang Heming finally gave his own conditions, "In the past, after the autumn harvest, a stone of grain was worth three yuan, and the province gave you the price of rice for four yuan, and also saved you the cost of transshipment, so it is good to have both public and private?" ”

"You said that it is the price after the autumn harvest", Wang Xingping snorted, but if you think about it carefully, this business is not a loss, and there is a penny per stone when you sit on the ground and change hands, although it is more than two dollars per stone compared to the current price of rice, but it is not a loss, just less money. If you can solve most of the inventory at once, it is acceptable to wait until after the autumn harvest to collect grain, not to mention that if you add other additions, even if you really lose money, you will still have to do this business.

"How much is that gentleman missing?"

"Thousands of troops need a month, and there must always be 10,000 stone of military rations."

Now that Wang Xingping is relieved, Zhang Heming simply takes one step, and it doesn't seem like bothering other families anymore.

"Ten thousand stone ......" Wang Xingping smacked his lips, as if hesitating.

Zhang Heming felt that Wang Xingping was too much, so he said: "Eight thousand stones are also fine." ”

Seeing that Wang Xingping was still embarrassed, he said: "It's really not enough for five thousand stones, and it's barely enough." ”

Even if you can't raise it, the grain in Guizhou Wei's Fengji warehouse and the city warehouse add up to 8,000 stones, and it is not impossible to borrow it, and there is also a way to rely on the two warehouses of Pu'an and Bijie.

Wang Xingping was stunned when he heard this, and the governor of a province wanted to buy vegetables when he started to do something, and suddenly laughed at Zhang Heming.

"I'll give fifteen thousand."

[Note: The number of soldiers in Guizhou during the Hongwu period was 161,800 people, and the three years of Chenghua were well documented to be 28,800 people, and the escape was serious, and in the 6th year of Chenghua, there were only 15,000 soldiers left to defend the city and support the grain, and most of the soldiers were basically maintained by the grain transportation of the two provinces of Sichuan and Lake, which is also a reason for the difficult situation in Guizhou, not that there were not enough soldiers, but that they could not achieve self-sufficiency]