"Lord Huangfu, you ...... You're too ruthless, don't you leave us a little way to live! ”

"400,000?! There is less than 500,000 yuan left in the budget, can't you learn Cao Cao to swallow it alone?! ”

"Lord Huangfu, I heard that the lord has donated a lot of money to Xuecao in private, why do you still want to grab the budget with us!"

As soon as Huangfuqi's words fell, he was immediately criticized by his colleagues, and the directors of Cao expressed their shame on Huangfuqi's idea of monopolizing the remaining budget. However, the emperor stood there unmoved, no matter how noisy the outside world was, but he was not prepared to make any compromises.

Wei Shuo rubbed his temples and felt embarrassed. The plan proposed by Huangfu Qi was not very out of line, if it was in peacetime, Wei Shuo would rather reduce the expenditure of the army, and would fully support Xuecao. However, the current situation does not allow for a reduction in military investment, so although Wei Shuo knows the importance of education, he still has to temporarily reduce his investment in education.

"Mr. Huangfu, I know that you Xuecao want to promote basic education in Liaodong on a large scale, and I am still very satisfied with your work, and I also know the importance of popularizing education. Can...... But now our financial revenue is not loose, and we are really unable to support Xuecao's plan for universal education. ”

Huangfuqi's face darkened, but fortunately, he was prepared in his heart, and he was not too disappointed, the reason why he showed that he would not let go just now was just to ask Wei Shuo to give more money to Xuecao.

He was silent for a while and asked, "How much budget does the lord plan to approve for Xuecao?" ”

"Well, cut your budget in half, I can only approve a budget of 200,000 yuan for you this year. But don't worry, when next year or as soon as the finances improve, I will immediately increase my investment in education. ”

The budget of 200,000 is not much. But it was also 50,000 more than the bottom line in Huangfuqi's heart, so he was no longer entangled, and quickly nodded and agreed.

After the looting of the two major money-using departments of Xuecao and the military, the budget that was originally as high as nearly one million yuan is now only 200,000 yuan in cash and 200,000 yuan in kind. Because Wei Shuo abolished the Lutian or vocational field system in Liaodong, the salary system was adopted. Therefore, the annual expenditure of officials at all levels in Liaodong alone is as high as 100,000 yuan.

After such calculations, there were only 300,000 yuan in kind and money left for the rest of the departments, and without waiting for Wei Shuo to say anything, they would divide it up by them. So far, the first budget meeting in eastern Liaoning has been successfully completed, and the interests of all parties have basically been taken into account.

Just as Wei Shuo was about to end the meeting, Han Shou, the director of the Joint Logistics Division, suddenly shouted: "Oops, we patronized to get a budget for ourselves, but we forgot about the lord's own business!" ”

"What can I do to make the financial allocation?" Wei Shuo was confused. I don't know what Han Shou is referring to.

At this time, Pei Wei also reacted, only to see him pat his head and say, "Oops, it's really damn!" If it weren't for Lord Han's reminder, I would have almost missed a big event. The sixth day of the first month of next month is the big day of the lord's wedding, and we didn't even think about leaving some budget for the wedding banquet. ”

"That's right, the lord's marriage can't be sloppy, and it must be done in a big way. Why don't you take a look, Lord Pei. Let's see which of the county guards can still squeeze out some budget. Lu Chang looked at Pei Wei and proposed.

Pei Wei glanced at Lu Chang angrily and said, "Master Lu, it's not like you didn't see it just now." Cao's budget is tight, how can it be squeezed out? Besides, even if you can squeeze out a little, what problem can you solve? The wedding of the lord is an extremely important event in Liaodong, not to mention the extreme luxury, at least it has to be worthy of our Liaodong's face, right? ”

"After roughly calculating, for the marriage of the lord, at least 80,000 yuan will be enough."

"What?! Eighty thousand dollars? "Listened to Pei Wei's offer. The others didn't react, and Duduwei Shuo was taken aback.

"Why do you need so much money? This...... This is almost enough to catch up with the expenditure of officials at all levels in Liaodong in the past year! I'm just getting married, so why do I need to spend so much? No, no, Master Pei, you can press down the budget for the wedding, and it can't exceed 30,000 at most. ”

Wei Shuo also knew that his marriage would definitely be concerned by all parties. It is simply impossible to keep a low profile, only to minimize extravagance. He hesitated and repeatedly proposed an upper limit of 30,000 guan, which may not be able to buy anything in other places, but the credit for stabilizing prices in Liaodong Tuoweishuo is enough for 2,000 people to eat a meal of Haisai.

"Thirty thousand? Lord, this budget is too low, right? You must know that on the day of the wedding, there will be no less than 10,000 people who will go to the county guard mansion to give gifts, although I don't know how many people will eat at the wedding banquet, but according to the guess of the subordinates, the number will be no less than 5,000 people, how can 30,000 can? In case the guests don't eat well, isn't this a slap in the face of Liaodong? ”

As soon as Wei Shuo's plan was proposed, it was unanimously opposed by everyone, and it is a good thing that his father-in-law does not like luxury, but there are things that cannot be too picky. For example, Wei Shuo's wedding this time is not only Wei Shuo's private matter, but also Liaodong's official business.

"But you can't spend 80,000 yuan on a marriage, with this little spare money, it's better to hand it over to Lord Huangfu to build a few more schools. Isn't it just a marriage? As for such a big effort? ”

"Of course, this is the most worthy of celebration in Liaodong in recent years, and it is even more worthy of celebration than the promotion of the lord to the assassin of Pingzhou. To put it bluntly, the history of Pingzhou is an empty title that is useless, but the marriage of the lord is related to the future of the great cause of Liaodong. ”

As a modern person, Wei Shuo has never understood why Liaodong attaches so much importance to his marriage. In Wei Shuo's opinion, this is just his own private matter, and even if Pei Wei hadn't mentioned it in public today, he would have prepared to hand over the marriage to the housekeeper of the Wei Mansion.

"Why do I think you treat my marriage as an official matter in Liaodong?"

"The marriage of the lord was originally an official matter of Liaodong!"

"Huh?"

Faced with the unanimous answers of his staff and others, Wei Shuo didn't know how to react for a while. But there was always a voice in his head reminding him that he must take advantage of the opportunity to separate the public and private, otherwise he would have a headache in the future.

"Well, gentlemen, listen to what Wei has to say! Historical experience tells us that if those in power fail to separate public and private, there will inevitably be major problems in the future. Either because of private aggression on the public, or because of the public harm to private interests. Whatever happens, it will trigger political chaos and create unnecessary civil unrest. ”

"Therefore, I plan to implement a thorough separation of public and private systems in Liaodong, and in the future, all private matters involving me will be handed over to the Wei Mansion to deal with, and the county guard government will have no right to interfere. Similarly, as long as it involves official business, the Wei government has no right to dictate to the county guard. Take the upcoming marriage as an example, all the expenses and processes will be handled by the Wei government, so don't interfere. ”

Listening to Wei Shuo's words, Pei Wei, Lu Chang, Yang Tan, Han Shou, Huang Fuqi and others fell into deep contemplation, and were a little moved by Wei Shuo's proposal for the complete separation of public and private. They are all familiar with history books, and naturally know that many emperors in previous dynasties used the treasury many times for selfish desires, making the court unable to make ends meet, and eventually led to the collapse of the dynasty.

If Liaodong implements a thorough system of separation of public and private affairs, the future rulers will not have the right to use the state treasury to satisfy their own selfish desires, and if they want to live a good life, they will naturally have to make careful calculations, which will also restrict the superiors from spending money lavishly on the other hand.

"My lord, it's naturally good to separate public and private, but does the Wei Mansion have the financial resources to bear the cost of this marriage?"

"You don't have to worry about this, in the past three years, I have also saved a lot of money, although most of it has been donated to Xuecao, but I still have more than 100,000 yuan of private money in my hand, which is enough to undertake my marriage."

After persuading Liaodong Wenwu to implement the system of separating public and private, Wei Shuo rejected other people's suggestions on the grounds that the marriage was a private matter.

After returning to the Wei Mansion, Wei Shuo called the housekeeper over, and he first asked about the property in the mansion, but the result did not disappoint him. In the past few years, Wei Shuo has made the government invest in many workshops, and has formed a small fleet to follow the maritime trade, which finally made Wei Fu a lot of money, enough for him to hold a luxurious wedding. (To be continued.) )