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Most of the time, the most convenient way to get a knighthood is to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions, but there are thousands of men on the battlefield, and how many people have received meritorious service?

The title, which symbolizes the identity of the aristocratic class, even if Wang Sirui is only selling honorary titles this time, but once this move is announced to the world, it still instantly detonates the entire land of China.

Especially in the north, after receiving this news, many local sovereigns and nobles considered whether to donate a title?

In this way, he can not only make himself a nobleman, but also bring himself to the circle of nobility for his family and the nobles.

On the first day after the proclamation was issued, almost no one came to donate money in front of the Daqing Bank in the north, except for ordinary businessmen and merchants who were doing business normally.

This has been the case for seven consecutive days, according to statistics, in the first seven days, the five Daqing banks in the five northern regions only accepted a total of two lists of donations, and these two people were also donated Yun Cavalry Captains.

However, on the eighth day, the front of Daqing Bank was bustling.

First of all, Qiao Zhiyong, the president of Daqing Bank, took his family directly to the counter of Daqing Bank in Beiping after going to work and donated 100,000 taels of silver directly.

According to the later rule modifications, every additional 1,000 taels below the baron will be increased by one level, and the baron to the viscount will be increased by one level by 2,000 taels, and the first class duke at the top will require a full 100,000 taels of silver to obtain.

As the landlord of the land in the Qing Dynasty, seeing that the business of donating the lord was not going well, Qiao Zhiyong planned to take the lead in donating the lord himself.

100,000 taels of silver, so that Qiao Zhiyong directly obtained the title of first-class duke, as for the specific title, this still needs to be decided later.

After completing the formalities, Qiao Zhiyong also got the medal that symbolized the highest title in China, a pure red, gold-plated cross medal, embroidered with the word honor on the top of the medal.

Qiao Zhiyong not only handled a title himself, but at the same time, his son and grandson also handled different titles, just Qiao Zhiyong's family, and directly donated 200,000 taels of silver.

As the full support of the Han army, Qiao Zhiyong's partner, another shopkeeper Qiu, also donated a knighthood, but the shopkeeper Qiu was not as wealthy as Qiao Zhiyong, he only donated 50,000 taels of silver and received a cross medallion symbolizing the earl.

The difference with Qiao Zhiyong's medal is that the material of this medal of Qiu Shopkeeper is made of silver, so this is a white medal.

Who doesn't know the names of Qiao Zhiyong and Shopkeeper Qiu now? Even their supporters who are close to Wang Sirui have donated, do those people below dare not donate?

Especially the officials who were almost cleaned up before, one by one, began to take out their savings, and more or less donated a knighthood.

However, the officials are particular about donating knighthoods, and they value the benefits that the titles bring to them. Therefore, most of the capable people chose the Cavalry Captain and Cloud Cavalry Lieutenant, which could only be obtained by directly promoting to the first level.

After that, it was some local rich people who made a move, and the officials all donated, even if it was to curry favor with these officials, they didn't dare not donate.

And most of the people of this class chose the cloud cavalry captain of two thousand taels, and they asked for a lottery.

Only some powerful landlords and old fortunes would choose the third-class light car lieutenant of 5,000 taels.

Looking at the results of the past half a month, Wang Sirui's face finally smiled. The effect of the donation was beyond his imagination.

What Wang Sirui didn't expect was that when he counted assets before, almost all the officials with assets of more than 10,000 taels of silver participated in donating money.

Perhaps, they are only participating this time to ensure their own safety in the future.

After all, no one knows politics better than the officials.

At first, they were still suspicious, but when the news came that Qiao Zhiyong had donated 200,000 taels of silver, those officials from all over the country were not calm at all.

The face of a politician...... Forget it, politicians don't have face at all.

Many officials have read a hint of politics from this announcement, and now that the country has no money, are you rich people donating? Or don't donate?

If you donate, you will be given a knighthood, and as long as you don't make mistakes in the future, you will be guaranteed peace and career. But if you don't donate, then don't blame me for settling accounts after the autumn, and don't cry when the time comes, don't cry my father and call my mother to say that I don't mean it.

"Good! I really didn't expect it. Wang Sirui looked at the report card and slapped the table and applauded.

What he didn't expect was that what was originally just to deduct some money from the hands of those officials was ultimately misunderstood by them as the final salvation.

And the most direct result is that almost all officials above the county order level participated in the donation.

So how many counties are there in the five places controlled by Wang Sirui? About two hundred more. In just half a month, it brought nearly four million income to Wang Sirui.

Don't think that everyone only donates according to the minimum standard, those who were greedy and had a high status before are naturally afraid that Wang Sirui will find them to settle accounts, so they can only donate more, plus some landlords and old fortunes donate scattered, so this half month's income has exceeded Wang Sirui's imagination.

"I didn't expect the effect of the donation to be so good, which was a bit unexpected for us." Wang Shizhen also couldn't believe it, although he had known that those officials had money in their hands, but he didn't expect that if an order was issued, they would have to come up with almost half of the funds to donate to the knight.

Of course, Wang Shizhen also knew that all this was due to the troops stationed in various places.

If it weren't for Wang Sirui taking back the military power, the local government would not have any troops except for the government patrols, and even the defenders of the city were reserves and were directly under the jurisdiction of Wang Sirui.

So many troops live at the door of their homes every day, and if there is no blood, they will not be able to sleep soundly.

"This money has to be spent immediately, and only the money that is spent can create more money for us, and if we hold it in our hands, we will be in trouble again in a few months." Wang Sirui calmed down and said firmly.

"Well, my opinion is to expand the scale of yarn mills, textile mills, and garment factories, and open directly operated stores in various places, unify prices, and manage them in a unified manner." Wang Shizhen said.

Over the years with Wang Sirui, Wang Shizhen has also learned a lot of strange things.

Therefore, when Wang Sirui made up his mind to develop the civil industry, Wang Shizhen was already thinking about which part should be prioritized.

Obviously, in the Qing Dynasty, when the industry was almost zero, there were obviously not many civil industries that could be developed.

And the people are most concerned about food, clothing, housing and transportation, needless to say, food, they can't manage it for a while, every household has land, and the vegetables they eat are all grown by themselves.

Not to mention living, the country doesn't have that time to open an inn.

It is possible to consider it, but at the moment the Ford plant is vigorously producing the Model T, which has a certain market in China, but the problem is that they still have to invest in refineries and find crude oil.

Besides, this is not something that can be solved in a short time.

Therefore, the only thing that can make them return to their original costs in the short term is the clothes.

With industrialization, scale, industrialization, and assembly-line production, it only takes more than ten minutes for a piece of clothing to be finished in just over ten minutes, which also saves the cost of manufacturing.

In the early stage, a batch of clothes were invested in the capital, and with the low price, the effect was very good, and it was very popular with the people.

But even if the price is nearly 30% lower than that of those tailors, their profits are still nearly twice as much, all because of the benefits of industrialization.

Of course, because of the expansion of the army, all the factories related to clothes can only do their best to meet the orders of the army.

As for profits, don't mention it, it's all fucking public things, and the matter of changing the left hand for the right hand, except for the profits that should be paid to the Qiao family and the Qiu family according to the normal ones, the others have not earned a dime.

"Garment factories can change the way they operate, enrich the number of products, and we need to diversify." Wang Sirui proposed.

"What is diversity?" Wang Shizhen was a little confused, but he was already used to it.

"It is to make several different grades of clothes, one is for ordinary people to wear, this style does not need to be good, it can be mass-produced, which is what we are doing now. The other is for the middle class, this style is slightly better, the quality is better than the former, and the price is slightly higher. The last one is luxury, a product that is very expensive and can make those people show absolutely forced. Wang Sirui explained.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the Third Army has sent a telegram that the Third Army has completely recovered Shanxi, asking for instructions!" Without waiting for Wang Shizhen to respond, the telegraph soldiers outside rushed in with a telegram with an excited face.

Now, the Han army has one more province under them, and all this is due to them.

"Good!" Wang Sirui was faintly excited, although he had known the situation of the Third Army for a long time, Wang Sirui still couldn't help it.

In fact, as early as ten days ago, Wu Yang sent him a telegram that the Han army had occupied Taiyuan without blood, and the shadow fox he buried there played a great role, which was the first contribution to the recovery of Taiyuan.

The rest of the lines were also overwhelming, and basically did not encounter any decent resistance. If it weren't for the fact that Shanxi is mountainous and the roads are difficult to walk, I am afraid that they should be able to recover the entire territory of Shanxi at least five days ago.

"Order the 32nd Division, after the 39th Division rests for seven days, go to the south of Henan, and the rest of the divisions will take over the defense areas of the two divisions nearby, pacify the people, and recruit new soldiers. In addition, Wu Zixuan was told that the 32nd and 39th Divisions were temporarily assigned to his Fourth Army. Wang Sirui told his previous plan.

Although Shanxi is mountainous, the number of troops in the five divisions is still too much.

Judging from the current situation, it is just right to arrange two divisions, but in order to be more stable, Wang Sirui still decided to arrange three divisions there.

The two remaining divisions joined the Fourth Army, which Wu boasted of as a soldier, to prepare for war in the south. (To be continued.) )