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Updated: 2O12-11-18

As soon as the local political reform was launched, Zheng Kezhang felt the heavy relief pressure.

Take a county as an example, the chief official of the county government has one person each from the six-rank county order, the county from the six-rank county, and the eight-rank master book equivalent to the director of the office, and there is also one secretary of the ninth grade under the main book, three people from the ninth grade, three copyists from the first rank outside the stream, and two servants from the outside; Under the county government, there are one person in charge of the seventh grade, one person in the eighth grade, and the secretary of the ninth grade, and nearly 100 people from the ninth grade of the canonical history, the fourth class of the liuwai to the first class of the liuwai; If a county has jurisdiction over 18 townships, there are 18 township covenants of the eighth grade, and if there are 22 cities in the county, then there are 22 township covenants from the eight grades, plus the patrol and arrest of heads under the inspection department stationed in the county, the total number of officials in a county is not less than 200, which is equivalent to the staff of the previous dynasties and the private individuals under the officials are all included in the establishment of the government.

According to the "Law of Officials' Salaries" just formulated by Zheng Fan, the six grades are twenty times a month, and each lower level is reduced by two times, and from the ninth grade is six times a month, and the lower level is one to the fifth order, and each lower level is consistent. In this way, a county will spend 4,000 yuan a month on salaries alone. In order to curb corruption, Zheng Fan not only set up supervision systems at the local level, such as supervising the imperial envoys, supervising the imperial history, and supervising the imperial history, as well as auditing systems such as audit sub-bureaus, audit branches, and audit police stations, but also adopted a system of job allowances and rewards for officials.

The reward is not a pension, but a reward for meritorious people, dignitaries and even the world, who are in office to become the middle and upper class, the civil officials above the sixth rank can obtain the meritorious qualification, enjoy the meritorious tax exemption preferential treatment, between the fifth and third grades can obtain the honorable knight, from the second grade or above depending on the performance, you can get the reward of the world.

If the reward does not involve money, then the post allowance is a huge expenditure as the name suggests. Moreover, according to Zheng Kezang's instructions, this post allowance is tilted towards local officials and low-grade front-line officials. Therefore, the officials who are also the sixth rank can get an allowance equal to twice the salary of those who serve as county commanders, and the inspectors of the local inspectors can get an allowance of one and a half times the salary, and the inspectors and ministers of the ministries and the supervisors who stay in the center can only receive an allowance of fifty percent of the salary. Similarly, non-resident officials engaged in specific affairs can receive an allowance of up to five times the salary of their own post.

In this way, the salaries and allowances of the county-level government will be about 15,000 yuan per month, and about 200,000 yuan a year, which is still the minimum expenditure under the condition of doing nothing.

In fact, the figure of a county's annual expenditure of 200,000 guan is still possible in the territory of Nanzhili, but by extension, when viewed at the whole country, there is a huge problem. Although Zheng Kezhang has arranged that the county-level (Sanzhou)-level finance can retain the land tax payable and the industrial and commercial tax in addition to the mining tax and salt tax at a rate of 60 percent, the prefectural-level finance can withdraw 50 percent of the retention funds according to the retention of the county-level finance, and the provincial finance will retain the remaining half after the retaining of the prefecture-level finance, so that in the end the central government will only retain 10 percent of all the funds that should be released by the provinces, but despite this, it still cannot meet the huge gap in the local finances, forcing the central government to subsidize it from the small amount of national taxes.

However, in addition to paying salaries and allowances to the central ministries and bureaucrats, the central government also has to pay huge military expenditures, plan construction costs, and hoard grain and straw materials for disaster response. Fortunately, Zheng Kezhang has already listed the expenses of the inner court separately, otherwise this hole will not be filled. However, Rao's case was still bitter - the little money accumulated by the confiscation of traitors and the property of the full-fledged people after the 6th Emperor of Zheng Fan had been exhausted in the continuous expansion of the army, and the funds that had just been obtained from selling the salt works had disappeared like melting snow—in this case, opening up another source of money became a top priority.

"How many places are there in this domain?" Zheng Kezang, who did not have a gold hand, was standing in the field of Songchong Shipyard at the moment, patrolling. "How many ships can be built per month, civilian ships?"

"If you go back to the king, there are now seventeen shipyards under the name of the Arsenal Division." Tang Tong, who had been promoted to the rank of Inspector of the Zhengwupin Naval Department and assisted the Naval Division, Wailang Ma Yuan, in supervising the affairs of the shipyard, replied. "Among them, Haitan, Sanduao, Xiangshanao, Songchong, Seogwipo, and Ezo can manufacture large and medium-sized soft-sail warships with more than 6,000 materials, and Longjiang Shipyard mainly produces red single ships, and the rest of the shipyards can produce merchant ships and clippers below 6,000 materials."

Tang Tong's answer was very detailed, but this was not what Zheng Kezhang asked, so Ma Yuan added: "Now the six major shipyards can launch one cruiser every year, one first-class cruiser every two months, the Longjiang shipyard can produce five red single gunboats and four inland river merchant ships every month, and the rest of the shipyards can launch one or two 4,000 patrol ships every month, and merchant ships below 4,000 can be built every two months." ”

Zheng Kezhang only felt that this number was too small, but it would inevitably cost more money to expand production capacity, and he was short of money now, so he had to ask a new question: "Now, there is no benefit in selling merchant ships to the private sector due to the ban on maritime trade?" ”

"Of course there are interests." Wu Hu, who was already from the shipmaster of the Ministry of Water Resources, immediately replied. "There is no specific number of new branches, branches, and police stations in various parts of the Harbour Master's Department, but as far as the minister knows, 11 new foreign shipyards have been opened in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and the list of ships has been lined up for three years."

"In that case, let's go all out to switch to civilian ships." Zheng Kezhang decided. "Except for Haitan, Sanduao, Xiangshanao, Songchong and Longjiang Shipyard, the rest will be converted to civilian ships." Zheng Kezhang looked at Ma Yuan. "In such a financial dilemma in the domain, although the shipyard belongs to the naval department, the secretary must have a view of the overall situation, and the proceeds will not only be used to maintain the production of warships, but also a part of the 6th military department." Looking at Ma Yuan, who was embarrassed on his face, Zheng Kezhang gently hammered his chest. "Don't worry, as soon as the income in the domain improves, the money from the Naval Department will still be used in the Navy Department." Now that Zheng Kezhang has come to this point, Ma Yuan has no choice but to be submissive, Zheng Kezhang said with a smile. "Let's go and see the forging of iron bones."

Today, unlike in the past, because Zheng Fan occupied the southeast, the supply of iron was very sufficient, and the Arsenal Division had developed on the basis of casting keels, using forging technology, and each iron keel had been fully beaten by a hydraulic hammer, and its quality had far exceeded the original design requirements.

But Zheng Kezhang was not satisfied with the efficacy of the hydraulic hammer, so when the Englishman Burleigh, who had provided the composting method and received a command and a large reward, according to Zheng Kezang's instructions, he finally invited Thomas from England? Savery and Thomas? After Neukomen arrived in Dongning, Zheng Kezhang immediately ordered the gradual top-secret steam engine research institute, appointed Li Ping, who studied the Yingguili shipbuilding method with Ma Yuan and Wu Hu, as the superintendent, and Boehly as the assistant, and provided a large amount of money and hundreds of blacksmiths and carpenters to serve the two, so as to give birth to the first generation of steam engines and heavy steam hammers for military manufacturing.

However, the steam engine and the hammer did not happen overnight. Savery and Thomas? Newcomen also needed time to get in touch with the craftsmen of the East, so Zheng Kezhang was still looking at the hydraulic hammer.

Looking at the hammer falling under the action of hydraulics, Zheng Kezhang naturally saw the problem, the key is that the bearing is not up to par, and from time to time there will be a hammer stuck in the air, but this qiē is a problem in the exhibition, and all Zheng Kezhang can do is to encourage.

"In the future, the iron keel can only be used for naval ships." In the midst of the heavy forging sound, Zheng Kezhang instructed, but his words were actually nonsense, because there was no need for civilian ships to spend such a huge amount of money to use fine iron as keels and ribs, and as for the lack of large trees to make keels, this is not still the supply of Ezo and Quang Nam. "In addition, civilian foreign merchant ships can be equipped with cannons, but first, the number of cannons needs to be controlled at the beginning of shipbuilding, and second, gunners must be hired from the army." Zheng Kezhang said it hard, and Ma Yuan and the others also had a hard time listening. "In addition, there are not many people who will use soft sailing ships in this dynasty now, and the Ministry of Naval Affairs and the Department of Shipping can open a merchant marine academy to widely teach ship skills, and I hope that in five or ten years, this dynasty's foreign ships will be all over the world, and the Taixi people can come to China, and we can also go to Europa."

Coming out of the shipyard, Zheng Kezhang returned to Nanjing directly by boat, and when the boat sailed to the Taicang River, Zheng Kezang suddenly asked: "Has the property of the Taicang Wang family been confiscated?" ”

Zheng Kezang's question was abrupt, and the attendants on the side couldn't figure it out one by one, but fortunately, there was a member of the Privy Council in the car, who was in charge of working in the north, and he still remembered some things, so he was attracted to report to Zheng Kezang: "Your Majesty, the Wang family's property has been confiscated, and each branch of the Wang family is also equipped with Jinlan and Xiboni." ”

Zheng Kezhang pondered for a moment and asked, "Did the staff department send a letter to Wang Luo and Wang Yuanqi to ask them to return to Taicang?" ”

"As early as the first year of Wuding, after the domain entered the south of the Yangtze River, he sent the servants of the Wang family to the north with letters, not only the Wang family, but also the people who came out of the Qing Dynasty in various places under the rule of the domain, and they have all sent people to the letter, and a few of them came back, but the Wang family is no longer among them." Wailang peeked at Zheng Kezang, and then reported. "It is precisely because of Wang Luo and other willing prisoners that this domain confiscated the property of the Wang family and matched the Wang family, and now the land under the name of the Wang family has been included in the inner government."

Zheng Kezhang was suddenly at the moment, no wonder this outsider spoke hesitantly, the original place had been subsumed into the inner palace Wangtian and became his own industry, obviously the outsider had some scruples.

In this regard, Zheng Kezhang did not explain anything to the member wailang, but just asked him to retreat, and then he ordered: "Tomorrow, in the name of the imperial court, the world will be sent to the world, and Wang Xijue will be robbed of a reward before and after his death. ”

It's been four years, and those who should return have already returned, and if they don't return, Zheng Kezhang doesn't need them to return, and directly nailing them to the pillar of shame to warn future generations is their last use

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