Chapter 929: War Welfare
Jinling City, Hubu Yamen.
In the middle of the year, the household department has to make both an annual summary and a final total of the next year's financial budget, so that no one can be idle from top to bottom.
As the "new" head of the household department, Jiang Jingdu has not returned home for five consecutive days.
The small buildings are lined with households, and the pigeon nest in the southeast corner is a rare piece of 'flat land' in the household yamen.
Different from the previous Tang and Song dynasties, the biggest change between Lu Qi's yamen and it is that there are more buildings. There are no buildings that are too tall, and they are generally three-storey small buildings, because such a height can be obtained by a water hose. If it's too high, it won't work!
There are more 'office buildings', the actual area of the office area is reduced, and the spacing between small buildings one after another is opened, which is called fire escape. There is a connection between the buildings, and at most there is a flyover. It's all about setting fires.
Even though the use of masonry, cement and masonry in traditional Chinese wooden buildings during the construction of Jinling City has exceeded that of the previous dynasties, arson is still the top priority.
In the household yamen lined with small buildings, the pigeon nest of the bungalow building is the lowest. After all, this is just a pigeon's nest, and after receiving the secret letter, they have to transfer it to the secret room not far away, and the people working in the pigeon nest themselves do not know the password, let alone do translation work. Therefore, although there are many people here, they are not enough to build buildings.
On this day, the entire household yamen is still very busy, and the pigeon nest is also full of people coming and going, like a prosperous street.
After more than ten years of unremitting construction, Lu Qichao's pigeon nests have spread all over Middle-earth, and it is entirely for the sake of intelligence transmission, Lu Qian paid a lot of price to implement this layout.
So much so that nowadays, the common people are accustomed to using the pigeon nest to deliver urgent news to distant relatives and friends, and the pigeon nest under the post office can achieve self-financing through this business.
Even so, behind this achievement is a carrier pigeon that only dies in 360 tricks!
There are many pigeon nests in Jinling City, which are very crowded like Hubu, especially at the end of the year. Don't send too much information from other places.
An urgent message was sent into the secret room, and soon an exclamation sounded from inside the building, and then the director of the secret room personally took the translated information and hurried to Jiang Jing's signing room.
"Haha, good, good. Xu Huiyan did a good job! Jiang Jing laughed and praised Xu Huiyan loudly.
The kingdom of Xena is rich, so how much wealth can be created over thousands of years by nourishing millions of living people? But being able to extract so much wealth from the Sena Kingdom, and even thinking of exchanging the local captives for gold and silver from the countries of the South Seas, this is the key to making Jiang Jing full of praise for Xu Huiyan.
- It is true that the Polo Dynasty was fought by the countries of the South Seas, but it did not belong to the countries of the South Seas. It was a colony of Lu Qi, and the coalition of the South Seas defeated the Baltic Dynasty, from which they could take a large amount of wealth, as well as a certain number of prisoners of war, but not unrestrained plundering of everything. There is still a shortage of manpower in the South Seas!
"Hand this to the bank quickly." A large amount of gold and silver was not put into the treasury of the household department by Jiang Jing with a large stroke of the pen, but took the initiative to send it to Zhongyuan Bank. With his own practical actions, he fully proved how cautious Lu Qichao's bigwigs were about the paper money issue.
The secretary did not hesitate, as a secretary, he understood Jiang Jing's actions very well.
However, the next day, Lu Qian heard the news and did not comment on it. What the courtiers did on their own was normal in his eyes. Jiang Jing has also been a high-ranking official for more than ten years, doesn't he have a sense of the overall situation at all?
Just look at the gold and silver sent back by Xu Huiyan, it is a lot of wealth, but compared with the weight of the banknotes circulating in society, this wealth is a drop in the bucket, what is it?
The heads and brains in Jinling City will not forget the ongoing battle of Beitianzhu.
Not only Xu Huiyan, but also Li Qiong of the Western Route Army, as well as Chao Gai, who led troops into Tianzhu - Chao Gai is still unmarried, and he has never married a wife, and he is really a good man.
They will bring back large sums of gold and silver.
Li Qiong may be less, and the existence of the Western Route Army is more to contain Solanki and Kusdar, so that these two kingdoms will not be able to fully support the Chahan Kingdom in the north. The Chaogai army is now stopped in the kingdoms of Chauhan and Tomara, which are neighbors of the Ghaznavids, and in the early days to prevent the invasion of the Ghaznavids, and even later to prevent the Gurs, many fortresses were built in the territory.
Now the Ghaznavids have knelt down, and the Gur have knelt with the Ghaznavids, but the castles in the kingdoms of Chohan and Tomara have not knelt together. Relying on the support of the kingdoms such as Chandra behind them, after the defeat of the first few battles, the two countries changed their attitudes, relying on fortresses and cities to fight a war of attrition against the Chaogai army, and at the same time buying time for the northern Tianzhu countries.
Hengzhi wants to be like Wang Xuance in the Tang Dynasty, the army crosses hundreds of miles, directly enters the royal city, easily collapses the Northern Tianzhu, and breaks through the royal city, so that hundreds of cities of all sizes can surrender together, and that kind of good thing is not to think about.
It's no wonder that Lu Qian didn't hit a good time.
At that time, the unified Gupta dynasty had collapsed, and the entire Northern Tianzhu was a mess. The so-called kings can only be said to be grass-roots regimes, and even powerful city lords, and now Tianzhu, the Rajput people have risen for hundreds of years, and the establishment of one kingdom after another has formed a relatively consolidated rule internally.
Yes, Johan, Paravala, Solanki, Tomara, Zarochuri, Karachuli, Chandra, these are the kingdoms that the Rajputs have founded. Isn't it perverted?
The Rajputs were formed by the Cypriots, Kushans, Huns, Huns, Sada and Gugaras, as well as the Sabbats and Greeks, who merged with the local population to form the Rajputs people, with a total of 36 tribes, 12 of whom established dynasties.
Although this does not mean that there can be more trust between the countries of Beitianzhu.
But before these countries are scared and hurt, and at the same time drain their military strength, it is impossible to successfully enter Delhi.
Tianzhu's treasure house had still not been opened, and Lu Qi had only picked up a few pieces of gold outside the treasure house now. But the number sent by Chao Gai, coupled with the harvest of the Eastern and Western Route Army, is also gratifying.
"Your Majesty, this is tomorrow's News!"
The time has not yet arrived at six o'clock in the afternoon, and Jinling is already dark. Lu Qian hadn't eaten dinner yet, and according to his usual practice, the meal money would be read tomorrow's "News" first.
The rules that have been cultivated for more than ten years cannot be changed now.
In the early days, I was not at ease with the "News", lest it would conflict with its own policies, but later I was relieved, but I couldn't change it.
"Oh, good fellow, is the price so cheap?"
The same is news about the war, but the source of information is not Beitianzhu, but Donkepchak, which has long passed.
In the original war, the Qi army swept through the Eastern Kepchak Khanate, and although the captured prisoners of war were all returned, how could the cattle, sheep and horses that fell into the hands of the Qi army be returned to their original owners?
In this era, apart from Lu Qian himself, who else can have the ability to snatch the things they all put in their pockets from Qi Jun's hands and then snatch them?
There is no one left.
In this way, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses became the trophies of the Qi army, and they returned to Jinhu City with the army after the war.
And the whole 'sales' process of these cattle, sheep and horses lasted until the Mid-Autumn Festival. The impact is that the prices of cattle, sheep and horses in the entire northern and southern areas of the Tianshan Mountains have dropped sharply this year. This is the war welfare!
When Lu Qi attacked the north, the people of northern Hebei and western Shanxi ate cattle, mutton and horse meat.
The same was true of the battle of Donkpchak. The entire range of fluctuations extends all the way to Guanzhong......
This issue of The News is full of dry goods. Lu Qian had just sighed, and soon let out another laugh. But it is the effect of the immigration bureau.
In the past year, the Immigration Bureau has relocated more than 100,000 Japanese and introduced them to the South Seas, as well as Sinfu, Borneo, and Ceylon.
This is the second year of this policy, and the results are already good!