Chapter 60: The Mansion
The money method is finally smooth, but there are some twists and turns during the period. There is no way, the Tang Dynasty's system of three provinces and six ministries was relatively sound at this time, and it was indeed a bit tortuous and troublesome to implement a more important decree.
As soon as the decree was issued, Xue Chongxun became a little busy. Naturally, most things don't need him to do in person, let alone do everything himself, but even the outline is very complicated, after all, a person only has twelve hours a day, and he can't be busy all the time, he always has to eat and rest.
There are only three things that Xue Chongxun must personally decide: first, laws and regulations; second, personnel; Third, layout.
No matter what you do, you have to have a rule, and even the business house has a rule that everyone recognizes; And the household department money bank, an institution under the imperial court, needs a clearly stipulated decree, so that everyone can have a standard to follow. How to reward and punish, the distribution of duties and powers among the branches, and so on.
The staff members each proposed various laws and regulations, and Xue Chongxun and Wang Changling screened the reasonable and feasible items, and Xue Chongxun alone had the final say. After all, this is a major matter that he handles single-handedly, and if he is not careful to ask questions before preparation, it will be very troublesome to change it temporarily if there is a problem in the future.
Then the very important thing is the personnel arrangement, Xue Chongxun has now gathered a lot of talents who can be qualified for positions such as scribes, and they are all literate...... If you don't know a word, how can you be embarrassed to be a guest in someone else's house? As for winning over those who are illiterate but very brave, that is the business of the Flying Tigers in the pro-kingdom in the west, not the business of the staff group here.
But Xue Chongxun was not familiar with most of the people under him, and he didn't know who had any special talents, so he had to look through the files that recorded their qualifications, which were equivalent to archives. There are also such dossiers in the imperial court officials' department, which have records of the ancestors of the incumbent officials for three generations. Ancient China was ahead of the world, it is by no means boasting, as early as the Qin Dynasty, there was not even a piece of paper, and there was already a bamboo slip of the world's household registration statistics...... Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people, and the people of the world have studied the means of ruling very deeply. At the time of the Tang Dynasty, the system in all aspects was relatively reasonable and advanced at this time.
When Xue Chongxun looked through the file and listened to personnel opinions, he was thinking about the third thing: layout. How does he, the household money bank, operate, he has to arrange some branch offices. What kind of people are needed and how many people are needed, personnel aspects are also closely related to the layout arrangement.
Everyone is recommending each other for any position, and the method of appointing talents at this time is nothing more than recommending and examining schools. The superior can't understand so many people, so he needs people with good moral character to recommend.
Xue Chongxun, who was sitting due north, was holding a brush in one hand and flipping through the files on the bookcase in the other, and listened very carefully to the opinions of the princes in the hall.
"What Mr. Fang said is not bad with the file record, I think it's good to let him try the account manager over there in the East Market first."
"Very well, we are short of such people."
"This person can't use it, let him go home, I have made up my mind!"
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While listening to the recommendations, he marked the list, and occasionally said a sentence or two, but the people who talked endlessly were not the people above, but the staff below, and the atmosphere in the living room was very lively for a while.
Xue Chongxun was very efficient when he got down to business, and he didn't talk much, but when everyone encountered disagreements in their discussions, he could always make a final decision and decide the result in an unquestionable tone...... Although his decisions were not entirely reasonable, not all decisions were convincing; But his status as a prince is there, and he understands that he is the boss of everyone, and no one has the right to compete with him, so he has to listen to him. Fortunately, Xue Chongxun is not the kind of person who is so mediocre that he can't help it, and most of his decisions are still considered and reasonable.
He is actually a very authoritarian person, who is often self-centered and needs concessions from others to accommodate him. However, this kind of temperament is not all bad, because everyone often needs such an authoritarian, decisive, and responsible person to take the idea, otherwise it is easy to rip off.
Soon there was a drum sound outside, it was the time drum on Chang'an City, and everyone glanced at the sky outside, estimating that the drum was the time of the announcement. At this time, it is time for all the yamen in Beijing to disperse.
Xue Chongxun got up and said, "That's all for today, disperse." ”
"In the next (old decay, old man) and so on." Everyone hurriedly got up, folded their fists, bowed, and saluted, and talked about etiquette in a mess. Unexpectedly, at this time, I saw that Xue Chongxun had already stepped down from his seat and walked straight from the side door...... Everyone is a person who knows books and etiquette, and they pay attention to etiquette, Xue Chongxun's simplicity is very rude, and many people feel a little unaccustomed.
However, he is a prince, and it is natural that he is not very polite to people, and everyone does not care. Moreover, Wang Changling and other people who are very familiar with him, on the contrary, like his "faux pas", and feel very relaxed and natural.
Xue Chongxun walked out of the hall of the inverted room in the front yard, called Wang Changling over again, and said privately: "Once the money store is opened, as soon as the banknotes are issued, there should be many distrustful people who want to take the banknotes to the money village to exchange huàn gold and silver silk. Therefore, I think that in addition to the head office and the three yamen in the east and west markets, there must be other semicolons, and all the major cities and towns in the world must have semicolons. ”
Wang Changling said: "We have already written a note about this matter yesterday, and the lord should not care about it." In order to facilitate the implementation, we can benefit the name of the user department and issue a decree to go down: the money village must operate paper money exchange, and then exchange with the household money bank. In this way, we can save a lot of trouble, we only need to record the names of the money houses everywhere, and cooperate with the merchants, so that we don't need to come forward to exchange with the people. ”
Xue Chongxun hurriedly took out the booklet and brush, licked the pen in his mouth, and said as he wrote: "This method is good, but we have to add a supervision branch to supervise the exchange of Shangjia Qianzhuang, so as not to increase the 'fire consumption' for profit." How can we do such a thing by burning our credit to fill the pockets of businessmen? In addition, the laws and regulations must also take into account the rewards and punishments of merchants. ”
"What the lord said is very true." Wang Changling agreed.
Xue Chongxun said: "I really started to do it, only to find out that the scene has to be so big...... It's a bit tricky, we are short of people. ”
Wang Changling said: "The general number, the east and west markets, the semicolon, as well as the yamen of coinage, the yamen of supervision, etc., of course, there are many people, but there are not too many people who need to be arranged by our own hands. Just like the official system of the imperial court, the world is so big, and there are thousands of officials, how can the emperor and the minister of the political hall manage so many people? Everyone only needs to appoint officials from the three provinces and six ministries, at most to the level of prefecture and county governors, and other minor officials and scribes do not need to be taken care of by the court, and they have their own people above them to take care of it. The same can be true of our household money bank, the lord appoints the general number, the treasurer of the east and west cities, and the following personnel, let them arrange it, we only need to state the rules. ”
Xue Chongxun frowned and stomped a few steps, "Everyone in the hall is talking energetically, but how many people can really take charge of themselves?" It's not very reliable for me to trust a few of them. ”
Wang Changling was speechless, perhaps he didn't want to say bad things about the staff.
Xue Chongxun groaned. In fact, as early as in Shanzhou, he found that the model of the officer group of the Flying Tiger Regiment was very good, and he also wanted to establish a civilian organization similar to the Flying Tiger Regiment, but the conditions and strength were limited at that time, and he could not find any reasonable name, so he could only use the name of the doorman. However, I felt that the door-to-door organization was too loose, and it would be great if we could establish a school-like department to provide a talent pool.
He thought for a long time, and then asked casually: "The west of the palace is the pro-kingdom, whose house is it to the east?" ”
Wang Changling was a little embarrassed and said: "I didn't pay attention on weekdays, but the lord suddenly asked if he really didn't know, if he didn't ask Xue Liu, he should know." ”
"Xue Liu, ......" Xue Chongxun smiled faintly, the power of this housekeeper has been almost divided by the Sun family, "In this way, let's go out and take a look." After he said that, he called a slave to go to the inner mansion to invite the Sun family outside, and now the Sun family had to handle the purchase of the mansion.
So Xue Chongxun and Wang Changling walked out of the gate on foot, outside the gate of the Jin Wangfu is Anyifang North Street, which is the largest street in Anyifang, and those who live here are either rich or noble, either as officials in the court or as assets of the family in Beijing.
However, those so-called non-rich and noble are compared to princes...... There is no comparison. In fact, most of the princes live near the Taiji Palace of Daming Palace, as well as Xingqing Fang and Jinyuan Fang. Xue Chongxun used to be the Duke of Wei Guo, and it was quite appropriate to live here, but later the king was reluctant to move, which made the people nearby suffer, and he occupied a place to send Wang Changling last time, and now Beijie is repairing the kingdom and occupying a small half of the territory here. Xue Chongxun's land expropriation can't tolerate them to resist at all, because he is the one who walks around the power center of the imperial court, and those people on the periphery are scum in front of him no matter how rich they are, and whoever has the power has the final say.
Xue Chongxun stood on the street and looked at the house in the east, next to the palace was a courtyard that had been annexed by the Xue Mansion, and on one side was indeed the Zhumen Courtyard, which was very elegantly repaired, and it seemed that most of the masters were officials in the court.
After a while, Sun also came out with two maids, her demeanor was dignified and graceful, and she spoke calmly and decently with Xue Chongxun, and the panicked table in the study a few days ago was like two people.
Xue Chongxun pointed to the east and said: "I want the house to be useful, and the adults will come forward to negotiate to buy it, and if the money is not enough, I will make an IOU, and I will print it for him in the future." ”
Seeing that the mansion was vast and deep, Sun must have cost a lot, so he asked, "What did Xue Lang buy it for?" ”
Xue Chongxun was inspired and said with a smile: "There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, and the poor people in the world are happy!" Wind and rain do not move, as safe as a mountain! ”G