Zhaotong Mansion in Yunnan, which is the first place in the whole of Yunnan to surrender to the Han army. There is no way to www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion, it is really that the terrain of Zhaotong Mansion is too tricky. It is located in the northeast corner of Yunnan Province, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, like a peninsula stretching into the 'sea', completely placing itself in the left and right of Sichuan and Guizhou. If it does not descend early, there will be no heavenly reason.

As the key point of Yunnan, Zhaotong is an important gateway of Yunnan Province to Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, an important channel for the Central Plains culture to enter Yunnan, and a treasure land known as Little Kunming, known as "the key to South Yunnan, the throat of West Shu"!

One day in early June, a large circle of people gathered at the gate of the Ministry of Finance in Zhaotong Prefecture, because this day was the first day when the Fu Han Army, which had occupied Zhaotong for two months, paid salaries to its subordinate officials. Since the Han army seized Zhaotong Mansion, the first month was not a day of stability. Those officials who surrendered, every once in a while, some were arrested, demoted, or fined, and some were dismissed, and some were directly put into prison. In the following month, a large number of outsiders poured in, and the local officials inquired, oh, it turned out to be students from the Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guiyang branches of the Political College, and this is the descendant of the new dynasty. Then there were officials at all levels transferred from Sichuan and Guizhou, and another month passed with such a buzz. Now that the overall situation of Zhaotong has been stabilized, and the middle and high-level positions of various organs have also been stabilized, it can be said that chaos is far away from Zhaotong. The sudden payment of wages by the Finance Bureau is considered a very direct proof.

The rookies who graduated from school or the officials who were transferred from outside had a certain psychological preparation for the 'salary' of the Fu Han Army, and they knew what salary the new dynasty promised, that is, what salary.

But the managers who stayed behind were really shocked.

-- I really didn't hold back at all. The rice and noodles were all of the first grade, the pork and mutton were fresh, the poultry and fish were alive, and there were silver dollars full of color.

Although the latter has been chosen by many officials to exchange acres. But when the salary was paid, an official and official in Zhaotong Mansion City still used more than 700 silver dollars. Because the salaries of the Xunyou Court and the rural working group in various places are also settled in Zhaotong Fucheng.

When those shiny little silver cakes were handed out to their hands, many people's first action was to count them several times at 1510, and then put on their money bags and left quickly. There are also a few sporadic people who love to drill the horns, just go to the side of the bulletin board, look at the regulations on it, compare the signed slip in their hands to receive salaries, there are pencils and papers, tables and chairs, and even abacus, if you have doubts, you can do the math yourself.

"Next ......" An old official in his forties weighed the silver dollar, silver horn, and copper round in his hand, and felt that something was wrong, but before he could ask, the person patted his back and shouted, "...... Offended, offended, Brother Feng, you give way......"

In the business hall of the Ministry of Finance, there were originally four windows, but today two new ones have been added, and they are all crowded with people. In front of the money, no one will let it come and go, and it is the safest to get it in your hands as soon as possible.

There were people like these forty-somethings who received coins, and some of them exchanged all or part of the coins for the fields, and they received a sealed title deed. With this title deed, he can choose to farm the land himself, or he can wait for the military cooperative in the area where the land is located to 'take' the land. As soon as the agreement is signed, you can sit back and wait to get the money.

With the development of the current situation, the objects of military cooperatives have long been not limited to military personnel, but are oriented to all people in the whole society, including landlords in various places.

Now all the people here, regardless of their official positions, regardless of their ages, have received the money at this time, and their faces are full of heartfelt joy.

yes, finally got the money. This shows that the great shock in Zhaotong has stopped, which shows that they are really officials of the new dynasty now. Compare the money you get, or the meaning of the latter is more attractive to these people.

In the county magistrate of Shaotong Prefecture, Mr. Zheng of En'an County stood in front of the bulletin board, flipping through the notice and carefully reading the notice on the bulletin board of the Ministry of Finance. For more than two months, Zheng En had become accustomed to the simplified Chinese characters of the Fu Han Army, as well as their rules that they should be vertically arranged horizontally, and that they should write from right to left from left to right. After figuring out the rules, their documents are still fairly easy to read.

It's all vernacular, and there is no literary brilliance, and the old farmers in the countryside who don't know a word can understand it.

However, the contents of this document really made Zheng En unbelievable - he never cared about silver, how could a scholar lose his dignity for a copper-smelling thing? And it is precisely because of his persistence that he is left with one of the officials above the seventh grade in the entire Shaotong Mansion City, and he has come to the present safely.

But now he had the money in his hand, and he had to read it carefully. It's really a bit much!

Now that Chen Han's officials have no master, no longer have the long-term followers of the officials, and there is no need to send ice charcoal silver to the superiors, the silver they get every month seems to be much less than the original incorruptible silver, but in fact it is a lot more.

With Zheng En's original income, his regular silver for a year is forty-five taels, plus four hundred taels of incorruptible silver, and other income, Zheng En, who is as honest as water, can have a small six hundred taels of silver a year. And he raised four long-term followers, five masters, plus the annual ice charcoal filial piety, six hundred taels of silver seems to be much more than now, but in fact it is very difficult.

And now he can get 35 silver dollars a month, plus a series of rice and flour, meat, oil, salt, and cloth, about 40 silver dollars. The total income was sharply reduced by forty percent [three hundred and sixty taels of silver] compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the four hundred and eighty silver dollars a year could be used entirely in his family, instead of the original sixty or seventy percent of the annual income had to be used on outsiders.

This small 500 silver dollars, even if you have to take out some of them to return to the clan, it is more than enough to support the family and buy property.

"Hey, no. This December is a double salary! There are also benefits, bonuses, ......"

Not only the New Year's Festival has benefits, that is, from the Lantern Festival to the Double Ninth Festival, a row of festival names, which indicates that officials at all levels should give gifts during the festival, but because they don't know everyone's preferences, except for the necessary parts, such as the Lantern Festival of the Lantern Festival, the rest are all converted into silver money.

"Wonders of the ages. Don't be filial piety during the New Year's holidays, and give benefits to the people below...... "Zheng En found for the first time that the new dynasty was so generous in terms of officials, although he was a five-grade official as the magistrate of En'an, he was comparing the five grades of the new dynasty to the seven grades of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was also the seven grades of Yunnan, a poor place. The same official position in the Manchu Qing Dynasty had different kinds of incorruptible silver in different places, and in that rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, Qipinzhi County could also have thousands of taels of incorruptible silver a year. I just don't know if this new dynasty is also like this? But such a salary has already stunned him. This is a normal regular income, and there is no problem at all.

After that, there are a bunch of living subsidies with a lot of names, and food, clothing, housing and transportation are all-inclusive!

Zheng En pulled an abacus and crackled carefully, his income this year was not much worse than the six hundred taels of silver in the original Manchu Qing Dynasty!

Zheng En quickly estimated the number of officials in En'an County, one from the five-grade magistrate, three six-grade deputy magistrates, a bunch of seven-grade bureau chiefs and township officials, the eighth and ninth grades are not officials in the new dynasty, and the first public servants are from the ninth grade, and there are section chiefs and unit chiefs in the bureau, which are the eighth grades. As for the official position, the new dynasty did not recognize it at all, and all of them were referred to as public officials. On the contrary, there are section chiefs and unit chiefs in the provincial departments and bureaus above, but they are all the heads of six or seven or even five grades.

Zheng En roughly calculated the salary expenses of the entire En'an County for a year, and the huge number made his head suddenly a little dizzy. Now the new dynasty still has countless acres of land to support, but there are always a number of acres of land in the world, and one day it will be defeated by the imperial court, you must know that in addition to officials, there is also the behemoth of the army. At that time, the pure fiscal expenditure of the dynasty in a year was an astronomical amount, which was higher than the annual income of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"The country will not be a country, the country will not be a country......" He didn't know when, his forehead was already full of cold sweat.

Zheng En, who returned to the county yamen, immediately informed the county finance bureau to rectify the county's financial expenditure this month, and the report was sent to Zheng En in the afternoon. Because by next month, the payment of wages in En'an County should be in charge of the Finance Bureau of En'an County.

Zheng En looked at the system statistics made by the county finance bureau, and in an instant, blood rushed to the top of his head. His white skin was as red as blood, and his ears were red. Everyone in En'an County heard the thunderclap-like roar of their eldest master very clearly.

However, for the vast majority of officials, it is better for them to pay three or five times more than three or five times their salaries, regardless of how great the amount of salaries is on the national finances. The vast majority of civil servants who receive their salaries on the same day go straight to the market first thing they do after work.

As a result, on this day in Zhaotong Fucheng, seventy or eighty percent of the butcher shops were all out of stock, and at least half of the restaurants and restaurants were full!

The uncles have money in their hands, so if they don't cut some meat, they will tear a few feet of cloth for their wives and children, and treat the whole family well, it will be really blind.

It was on this day that silver dollars, silver horns, copper circles, and copper horns officially poured into Zhaotong Mansion on a large scale.

For most people, this silver dollar is like two pieces of silver, and a silver dollar is a tael of silver naked, but the appearance of silver horns and copper circles and copper horns, which are three levels of auxiliary coins, is much more convenient than the original monetary system of only silver and copper. Of course, when the Manchus suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they also played a big game of being ten or hundred. But this thing itself is only one penny, and you insist that it be used as a hundred dollars, which is completely oppression and plundering of the people.

The new monetary system is full of weight, and it is also a decimal system, which is very easy to convert. Chen Ming is also preparing to issue banknotes in the future, and of course the foundation must be laid on this metal coin.

One silver dollar is equal to ten silver horns, equal to one hundred copper circles, equal to a thousand copper horns, and a small copper horn is like the copper of the past. The Fu Han army couldn't take out so much copper to cast copper circles and copper horns, but Chen Han had a lot of iron in his hands, and the current copper circles and copper horns were copper-iron alloys.

At least one of the obvious benefits of this kind of currency circulation is that it reduces fire consumption. Although there were some 'minor' problems that popped up from time to time throughout the circulation, they were quickly resolved.

Since ancient times, China has had the act of counterfeiting currency [copper coins], whether it is the official bad money or the bad money made by the people themselves, which is a 'stubborn disease' that has not changed for thousands of years.

Because China has little copper and little silver, and finally less gold. Moreover, as the hegemon of the entire East, China's copper coins are used in all directions, and the countries in the entire Greater China Cultural Circle are using Chinese copper coins. In ancient times, there was a 'money shortage', but it was not that the common people were bankrupt and there was no word, but that there was no currency in the market. This currency is not only copper, but sometimes silver.

The Fu Han army minted silver coins, and the profits were very large, and some local lawbreakers immediately saw the huge profits in it, but they did not have large hydraulic coin presses. Soon, some people set their sights on copper coins, and at first Chen Han's copper coins were also based on old-fashioned copper-lead-tin alloys, but soon several major cases of counterfeit coins were found in the local area. It was only when the mint felt the pressure that the mint came up with copper-iron alloys, and the quality of the coins produced was quite good.

Relying on the ease of iron and relatively advanced technology, the Fu Han army curbed the counterfeiting of copper coins. Let many outlaws, the more fake copper coins are made, the more they will lose. Because they want to mint coins, they use the mother money sand turning method. Counterfeiters usually only engrave a single coin instead of a crate of sand molds, and the thickness of the coins varies due to deformation. In addition, the coinage blanks taken out of the sand mold are often tree-shaped, which need to be processed and polished. The coin blank is strung on the same square rod, and the file marks left on the edge of the coin are not in a straight line, but in an arc shape, parallel to the edge of the coin, and the counterfeiter only knows to file and grind repeatedly when filing the blank, so that the edge of the money is smooth, and the file marks on the edge of the money are disorderly, or in a straight line, which can be seen by a discerning person at a glance.

But none of this method can be used on the copper coins of the Fu Han army, because the copper coins of the Fu Han army are copper plates, not Brother Kong Fang.

And there is a too obvious difference between machine pressing and manual grinding.

Now the counterfeit money cases that Chen Han needs to face are all focused on gold and silver coins. That's the new struggle.

In July, the newly established Zhaotong Daily published an article signed by Zheng En, in which he focused on the salaries and expenses of the military officials, and discussed the bad impact of the incident. It's a pity that the influence of Zhaotong Daily is too small, and this article has not caused any big sensation in society! Zheng Eun entered a person's eyes because of this.

And inside Zhaotong Mansion, I don't know how many people scolded Zheng En for being 'a dog and a mouse meddling' and 'not in his position to plot his own politics'.

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In July, Shanghai, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Guangzhou, and so on, the eyes of countless people were more focused on the Ryukyu Kingdom in the east, and the southeastern naval division entered the Ryukyus in the east, and effortlessly sent 1,200 soldiers of the Satsuma Domain stationed on the islands of the Ryukyus into prisoner of war camps, and then once came to the Osumi Strait. Although he eventually retreated, he did not really come to Kagoshima, let alone enter Kagoshima Bay, and when he retreated, he left the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain, who were in their early 100s captured in the Ryukyus, on Tanegashima. As for the number that is still missing, it is the people who have already died. But the scene of countless warships floating in the sea and covering the sea was preached by all the Japanese who saw the Southeast Fleet!

Shigehiro Shimazu, who got the news, ran back to Kagoshima from Edo Bay by boat like a mouse that had stepped on its tail.

At that time, the southeast naval division of the Fu Han Army had already retreated. It's just that although the Southeast Naval Division returned Tanegashima and Yakushima to the Satsuma Domain, the vital Amami Oshima was firmly controlled by the Southeast Naval Division.

Shimazu Shigehiro immediately sent his retainer to the transportation, but before the retainer could say anything about asking for Amami Oshima, he was told by the Southeast Naval Division that Amami Oshima was a land belonging to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and that it would be the Ryukyu Kingdom that would control it in the future.

Shigehiro Shimazu couldn't wait to spit out a mouthful of blood. He erected a target with a map of China in his courtyard and shot it every day with a bow and arrow. Amami Oshima was rich in brown sugar, or brown sugar, which was one of the most important sources of wealth for the Satsuma Domain.

On the other hand, Shigehiro Shimazu also sent people to Edo to cry, and he had never been so docile to the Tokugawa shogunate for more than a hundred years to show that he was a member of Japan, a daimyo under the shogun, and the shogun wanted to call the shots for Satsuma...... (To be continued.) )