Wu Qi said with a smile: "It is estimated that the fried flowers will not live long, and they want to ask for some favors for their children and grandchildren." ”

Zhang Han didn't make a sound, he felt that it wouldn't be so simple.

After Wu Qi went out, Zhou Rui and Li Gui came in together, Zhou Rui wanted to kneel, Zhang Han's eyes glared, he changed to Changyi, which was also quite a solemn etiquette.

Zhou Rui said with a little choked up: "My subordinates have been by the side of adults for more than three years, and I am really reluctant to leave this time." ”

Zhang Han was also a little moved, Zhou Rui is a model of an ordinary person, but it refers to his character, and his ability to do things is still quite good, otherwise he would not be able to be an attendant.

At the moment, he encouraged him and said: "When you go to the Finance and Taxation Department, do a good job, don't still treat yourself as a valet officer, listen to the Tian officer in everything, and respect the rest of the deputy officials, don't do anything to make small moves, you know that I am the most taboo to form a gang to engage in a small group, or I don't feel at ease on official business, and I commit the following crimes, don't do things, and only try to be officials." ”

Since the beginning of the previous year, Zhang Han began to rectify those factions that were too obvious, and the biggest loss was the border army faction in the army, and Wang Changfu and other high-level leaders were repaired again, although no one lost their official posts, and no one was beaten or killed, but the meaning was still quite obvious, which means that Zhang Han made a serious warning to these subordinates who engaged in factions.

There can be factions, but they can't be too obvious.

This is one, and the other is that the faction cannot affect official affairs, especially if you make a mistake, you will be punished, even the old man Zhang Han with such qualifications as Wang Changfu has not let go, and he is still idle until now.

Liang Xing, who was engaged in factions, also gradually faded out of people's sight, although he still led the position of the political officer of the marching department, but the first was not the commander of the division, and there was no direct military power, and the second did not enter the center, this political officer was quite meaningless, that is, a big member of one side, and his autonomy was far worse than Chang Wei, who opened up the territory.

Of course, Zhang Han won't go too far, after all, he is an old guy who follows him to fight the world, as long as there are no more big mistakes, Zhang Han will give the dignity that should be given, and the treatment of everyone will not be bad in the future.

Zhou Ruiwei agreed, and then left.

At this time, Li Guicai stepped forward and said: "Recently, I have communicated with the Department of Military Industry, and the shortage of ordnance and war horses in various departments is still quite serious, and my lord must check it. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Han was a little worried.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Tian Jitang also tried her best.

At present, the military department has a fiscal deficit of more than one million, which is equivalent to relying on overdrafts to maintain itself.

It is also fortunate that the logistics and insurance industries have brought up the business of the accounting bureau, which has been serving the street, and the entire accounting bureau has more than one million deposits.

After last year's turmoil, this year's military departments have become much more indifferent.

Anyway, I've been making money, and it doesn't hurt to owe some money, and if you have money, you can fill the loopholes.

For Shanxi businessmen who have always been diligent and honest and do things within their means, the current concept is simply subversive, and it is simply a shame for the ancestors......

But now Tian Jitang is also holding his money bag, and this year's budget has been locked, even if he plays according to the budget, he will not be able to give out a penny more financially.

In fact, the Military Industry Department still has huge production potential, but no money means no raw materials, no overtime pay and meal allowances, and no bonuses for overfulfilling tasks.

In this way, even if the officials of the Department of Military Industry want to exceed the task, they will have to take out the silver themselves to make up for it, which is of course absolutely impossible.

Not having silver is not only a worker's business, but also has to take silver into raw materials, which also costs a lot of money.

Lingqiu's fine iron has been in short supply, the entire northern market is now using Lingqiu iron, the market of Fujian iron has been completely robbed, Jingshi to the whole north originally used Fujian iron is not much, before using Zunhua iron, later with a variety of small iron field iron, due to the Ming Dynasty official level is too poor, later allowed private licenses to open mines to make iron, but the production capacity has not been up, the people have always been in a serious iron shortage situation, this is the Ming Dynasty is not as good as the weak Song Dynasty proof.

To the rise of Hutchison, Lingqiu Iron has thrown more than a dozen streets of Fujian Iron in terms of quality and price, coupled with sufficient production, the people also purchased a large number of Hutchison ironware, due to the previous iron shortage is too great, resulting in iron is still in short supply so far.

There is also a situation that a large number of iron tools are shipped overseas, and the silver earned from foreign trade is more profitable and the profits are higher, so it further squeezes the supply of domestic pig iron, refined iron and ironware.

Lingqiu iron is so popular, the military industry is also to buy silver at the market price, counted in the cost of military production, Lingqiu side into the rule of profits, the military industry to increase production, you have to approve the cost of buying iron, in addition to the purchase of copper from the grassland, the price is even higher, it can be said that Hutchison's military industry is a gold-swallowing monster, that is, Hutchison also eats it, and the court has long been unable to withstand the pressure.

The lack of work on the part of the Military Industry Department has led to the general shortage of armor in the newly established dragoon regiments in the past six months, and the firearms and weapons are still sufficient, and no matter how tight the finances are, the soldiers cannot be trained and fought with their bare hands. Insufficient armor, insufficient ration artillery, insufficient carriages, and insufficient equipment for all kinds of applications, including many very important portable military supplies, are insufficient, and the shortages are generally about 30%.

In addition, there is a serious shortage of war horses, each dragoon regiment is short of more than 30%, and there is also a shortage of horses and mules, resulting in the continuous upward reporting of each baggage brigade, and the baggage soldiers are also complaining to the military department.

Fortunately, the trading city has been built, and the northbound road has been completed, and now the construction task is to build the north city and the south city, but the construction is not under the management of the Military Industry Department, but the Military Command Department is responsible for the deployment, and the Military Administration Department is responsible for completing it.

Recently, more than 20 brigades of more than 20,000 troops have been transferred in succession, and the northern city and then the southern city have been built.

Nancheng is the later Uriya Sutai, it is said that the geographical location is more important, but now Zhang Han can neither covet Komodo, nor can he go west into the Tianshan Mountains, and he is even more grateful to the Oirat Mongols, and has no idea of provoking, and the attributes of the strategic place in Nancheng have been virtually reduced a lot.

The construction of the southern city, more is echoed with the northern city, but the north and south of the Khan Department are hundreds of miles long, fast horses two days back and forth news, the post station can be connected in one day, two cities and one town, those large and small tribes, including the Zasaktu Khan Department are threatened by the two cities, and so on after two years with money, raise one or two million taels of money, mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people, from Qingcheng to the south of the city, buy and sell the city to the north of the city to build two roads, between the north and the south of the city to build a road, so that a big tic-tac-toe, two horizontal and two vertical, Even if the boundaries of Mongolia in the north and south of the desert and the west are firmly in the hands of the whole Mongolia, that is, the Chahar department is self-reliant, and the Horqin and other departments are attached to the Jurchens.

By the way, there is also a Hetao Mongolia, where the men of the Han family were once raised to cultivate and raise horses, and it cannot continue to remain in the hands of the Mongols.

Sure enough, Li Gui continued: "Several regiment commanders are complaining, saying that if they have to conquer the Hetao in the autumn, and the war horses and weapons are not complete, the difficulty of going out will be greatly increased. ”

The Hetao, the action has been included in the agenda, last year did not move is not the time, everywhere is not stable, this year to the afternoon and half everywhere has stabilized, especially after the conquest of the Chotu Khan, all parties to the Shang Tuan army of the fear reached the peak, almost no one dares to brush the Shang Tuan army of the tiger whiskers, do not take advantage of this time to entrench in the Hetao area of the set of the set, is it still set fire to the Red New Year?

Zhang Han asked casually: "Has the mansion in Qingcheng been completed for Huoluo Chitai Jixiu?" ”

Li Guibi said respectfully: "It is built near the Khan's Palace, and the courtyard of one is not big. ”

That is to say, there are more than a dozen rooms, Zhang Han snorted coldly and said: "One Taiji is enough, enough for him to live." ”

Speaking of which, the highest status of the Mongols in Qingcheng is of course the little fat man Omu Buhong, before he turned his face with the imperial court, even Zhang Han couldn't do anything to the little fat man...... After all, it is the king of Shunyi who was given the title by the Ming court, and the court still has to be faced, one Shunyi king died before, and another one will die next, I am afraid that there will be quite a lot of bad associations, such as recklessness, and Zhang Han's personal image will not be too good.

The Chinese people are so strange, the Mongols are afraid that everyone hates them when they are extremely vicious, and now they are at the end of their rope, and if they die several Shunyi kings in a row, it will trigger a psychological backlash.

In addition to Ombuhong, there are also fried flowers and mansions to live in the city, in addition to Baiyin Taiji, silver ingot Taiji and other Tumut Ministry of Dataiji, as well as Baihong Dataiji, who came to invest in the end, the status is second only to fried flowers and Omu Buhong.

Originally, the imperial court intended to ask Zhang Han to offer fried flowers, this old slave chief does not know how many Chinese have been killed, if he captures the Jingshi and sacrifices the prisoner Taimiao, and then beheads the public to show the public, it will greatly boost the morale of the nine-sided soldiers, and it will also be of great help to the image of the emperor.

Of course, Zhang Han politely refused this, only saying that fried flowers were rumors in Qingcheng, and his exact whereabouts were not known.

This matter must be Wei Zhongxian's idea, after the overthrow of Donglin, there was no major change in the government, the tax collected by the Donglin Party was still collected by the Eunuch Party, and later according to the tax in the second year of the Apocalypse and the tax in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, there was almost no change.

In fact, when it developed to the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing was the country's financial planning, then the military affairs of the nine border towns, and then the daily affairs of the rituals, punishments, education, and the people's distribution of officials to hold scientific examinations.

Finance is already close to killing chickens and eggs, with Wei Zhongxian's talent, of course, it cannot be compared with the few rare big bulls in Chinese history who determined the three-division system in the Tang Dynasty, and even Zhang Juzheng's level is far behind.

On the border, Sun Chengzong is about to leave his post, and there will be no improvement for a while.

If you can get the fried flowers back and make a big splash, it can be regarded as a political achievement.

Father-in-law Wei has absolutely no heart to take Qingcheng as his political achievements, and if he asks for merit to become death, no matter how good his temper is, the Emperor of the Apocalypse will not let Wei Zhongxian mess around like this.

But even so, Zhang Han rejected it, which is absolutely impossible.