After the ceremony, everyone retreated.

Zhang Ming has also been busy.

After that, when the autumn harvest came, the warehouse was immediately full, and at the same time, a lot of taxes and money were collected.

Zhang Ming's economic situation has finally changed dramatically.

Road construction continues to be invested.

Another few months passed, and Zhang Ming's money began to have a lot of balance.

Farmers in several states have been able to produce their own products without Zhang Ming's continuous input.

At the same time, they were helped by Zhang Ming before, and in three or five years, they had to hand over most of the grain they produced to Zhang Ming.

In addition, Zhang Ming also distributed farm tools and food to many people, and they had to pay it back slowly over several years.

This year, the money and grain collected were very large.

Finally, there was a surplus, Zhang Ming's financial crisis was lifted, and the road construction was accelerated, and they hired tens of thousands of people to build the road together.

From Youzhou to Qingzhou to Xuzhou, there was a large stronghold every few dozen miles, and then divided into several small strongholds, and these recruited workers had been working there.

Time passed slowly, and Zhang Ming also sorted out all the local officials.

Several cabinet members have also expired their local positions, and Zhang Ming plans to recall them all.

Chen Gong, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and Fu Zhu, one person went to one state.

Their two main tasks are to coordinate and guide the work of various departments and let them play an active role.

The second is to clean up the local government and directly manage it in every township and even in the village, breaking the thousand-year-old tradition of rule.

Those squire bullies can't continue to fish the villagers.

At first, it was not smooth, because the people were afraid of them, and when the people of the government were there, these squires pretended to be good people, and turned around and bullied the villagers.

After that, Zhang Ming directly sent retired veterans to many villages, and these veterans also had to organize militias.

Once it was discovered that there were squire bullies bullying the villagers, these people would take action, and so many grassroots places would sink directly into the village and be directly controlled by Zhang Ming.

In this way, the pressure on the people was greatly reduced, and there was no one to do anything over them.

Zhang Ming recalled the cabinet, and after a year, the cabinet finally gathered again.

"Everyone, it's all hard work, let's feel free today."

Zhang Ming specially set up a banquet in the Protector General's Mansion and invited a few people.

Everyone is very happy to return to Youzhou and Beiping City.

The crowd ate and drank a little wine.

But they are all modest, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai are both good drinkers, and everyone knows that Zhang Ming may talk about things today, so they didn't drink too much.

Zhang Ming chatted with them and asked them to talk about the difficult things in the place.

Everyone reacted that locally, the family was no longer a climate, and it was no longer possible to intervene in the government. ‘

But locally, the clan is complicated, and there are some squire bullies, which are very difficult to deal with.

"Local problems, as long as we don't oppress the people, don't resist taxes and laws, then we can take care of it a little less, and once we violate our bottom line, we must resolutely send troops to deal with them."

Zhang Ming didn't want to, he tried his best to give the people good policies here, and if they were implemented, they would go into the hands of the people, and they would directly change their taste.

Now, the departmental system is supervised by people from top to bottom, so there is no problem in execution.

Zhang Ming still thinks that the militia system should be extended to every village.

Having veterans who are loyal to them can greatly influence the locality.

The militia will be notified of any policy of the government, and although they do not have the right to intervene, they have the right to report to the authorities if there is a deviation in the local area.

They only have the power to report, not the power to intervene, otherwise the militia will become the new bully, and they also need to rotate and supervise.

After eating, a few people talked a lot.

Zhang Ming called them to the tea house again, where they boiled water to make tea.

"I want to go to war and fight Yuzhou, what do you suggest?"

As soon as the tea was brewed, Zhang Ming said something that was a little surprising.

Now, Zhang Ming's army has just finished training, and the war has just ended.

At this time, Zhang Ming was about to go to war.

"Tian Feng, tell me about our current financial situation."

Tian Feng sighed secretly in his heart, Zhang Ming wanted to start a war, and no one could stop it.

"My lord, we currently have a balance of more than 26 million, and this year's government expenditures at all levels have been budgeted and distributed to all counties."

"In addition, the treasury bonds borrowed last year have also been cleared up, and they have all been repaid with interest."

More than 20 million really can't support a war.

However, now that Zhang Ming has paid off all the national debts, he can borrow again at any time.

Money is not a big issue.

Zhang Ming has money.

"Okay, the problem of money has been solved, and when the time comes, a batch of money can be transported from Fusang, there is really a gap, and now the money bank has stabilized, and some of it can be moved."

"If you really can't do it, you will borrow national debt."

Zhang Ming said again: "Militarily, now start to prepare, how long will it take to launch an attack." ”

Xi Zhicai thought about it for a while and said, "Two months is enough." ”

"Okay, then Xuzhou will not move, the army of Jizhou and Youzhou will attack Yuzhou, and the army of Xuzhou will attack Cao Cao's rear at any time."

Zhang Ming wants to dominate the world as soon as possible, so as soon as this power is restored, he wants to fight.

This is a great burden on the people, and every year they are fighting, the consumption is huge, and there are many dead.

Chen Gong suggested: "My lord, maybe we should develop for a year or two more, popularize the quyuan plow, so that the production of the people will not stagnate, and then we will start a war." ”

There's nothing wrong with that advice.

Zhang Ming took a sip of tea and said, "No, when I reach the edge of the Yangtze River, I will consider cultivating for a few years." ”

It is impossible to unify within a few years, and the whole world is divided into several pieces.

However, to unify the northern region, Zhang Ming is still very sure now.

It is not difficult for Yuzhou to be defeated.

Cao Cao didn't have enough strength to defend.

After Cao Ang returned, he suggested that Cao Cao move many people from Yuzhou to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the past year or so, Cao Ang has done a good job, reclaiming a lot of land and planting a lot of grain and grass.

This made Cao Cao very pleased, if he hadn't continued to withdraw people from Yuzhou and spent too much money, Cao Cao should have begun to expand his army at this time.

This year, Cao Cao at least recovered his troops, and did not expand much of his army, he really had no money.

At the same time, Cao Cao agreed to return all the tea plantations.

The two eased up for the time being.

Both sides are regaining strength at a rapid pace.

However, Cao Cao's territory and population cannot be compared with Zhang Ming.

Everyone began to discuss how to attack Yuzhou.

The attack on Yuzhou has entered into substantive discussions, and troops will be quickly mobilized to start the attack.

Zhang Ming planned to mobilize 200,000 troops to attack Yuzhou, and at the same time let Guan Yu be in Xuzhou and use 100,000 troops to deter Cao Cao's rear, so that Cao Cao's army would not dare to support Yuzhou easily.

Several people discussed for a while, and Zhang Ming asked them to go back and rest for two days before making specific arrangements.