Section 344 Small win of half a game
A few days later, Bai Minghe and Yu Qian had their first conversation to write down official records.
The location is on Xuanwu Lake.
Bai Minghe and Yu Qian sat face to face, but they were not at the same table, and there were several cases in front of each of them. There was a scribe next to each side to record the content of the two people's words, and the record was word-for-word.
"It's so formal, I don't feel a little uncomfortable!" As soon as Bai Minghe opened his mouth, he saw that the scribe beside him had already begun to write. Seeing this action, Bai Minghe swallowed back all the words he had.
Yu Qian just smiled slightly, you didn't expect this trick of the white crane!
Whether it's a slippery head, a scoundrel, or any other means, you can use it as long as you're not afraid of being recorded. You must know that this kind of official conversation record is to be filed, and the Ming Emperor is naturally qualified to read it, and the officials below will also see the deleted content according to the different levels of each person.
Shirana Crane let out a sigh of relief and adjusted his posture to sit upright.
"Lord Bai, long live the fear that Hamiwei will become desolate and will eventually be lost. Originally, Hamiwei was a necessary place on the Silk Road. In the first two years, the war in the Ming Dynasty was unfavorable, and the trade routes were stagnant. In the past two years, the silk and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty did not need to pass through Hamiwei, which made Hamiwei even worse! The tone was in such a calm and formal tone, and it was the first time that the white crane had seen him.
Yu Qian didn't talk nonsense with Bai Minghe, but went straight to the topic.
The white crane didn't speak, Hami will be barren, isn't this a joke? How could Hami be deserted, what did that place want? Perhaps the only constraint is the problem of transportation, but this is the Silk Road for nearly a thousand years. Even if there is a problem with the traffic, it will not be too big.
So, what does Yu Qian mean?
Seeing that although Bai Minghe maintained a calm face, the corners of his mouth rose slightly and he was about to sneer, but he forcibly held back his expression for a moment, Yu Qian thought of Xiao Di's words.
Anywhere, the white crane can squeeze oil out of the stone.
This ability to turn stone into gold, absolutely no one in the world can stand out, unique.
"Lord Yu, what result do you want?" Bai Minghe thought about it again and again, and finally spoke.
"Three thousand elites. Plus a bustling city of Hami. What Yu Qian gave was the idea and practical requirements of Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty. There is no increase. There is no falsification in the use of words. After all, this is a conversation to be recorded in the archives.
But who would have thought, Bai Minghe shook his head very strictly: "Three thousand elites, in case an enemy comes to attack." Not only can't I keep my gold and silver mountains, but I'm afraid that I, the three thousand elites, will also sacrifice my life for the Ming Dynasty. Long live the adults. Either don't move. Or make a big move. Small fights. Not only is it hard work, but the income is weak! β
"In the words of Lord Bai, how much does Hamiwei receive a year?"
"How much does Lord Yu want?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.
Yu Qianxin said. Is it difficult for you to turn a stone into gold with a white name? At that moment, he said a huge number that people dare not imagine: "One hundred stone silver a year? Yu Qian was still lacking in confidence in the end, and used an inquiring tone.
Hamina is a poor place with only two sources of income at the moment.
The first is to raise sheep, and the second is that there is a salt lake there, which can be carried back by people to get some green salt, and it is barely boiled to reduce some impurities, in addition to local consumption, it is to transport a little to Gansu. There are only a few thousand people in the entire Hamiwei, and it would be good if these thousands of people could have an income of five stones of silver a year.
What's more, what Yu Qian said was to hand over a hundred stones of silver.
"A mere 100 stone is also called a big move?" Shira-naka began to ponder again.
Yu Qian asked again: "Could it be that Lord Bai is embarrassed?" β
"It's a bit difficult because I'm thinking about projects that earn 1,000 koku a year. Suddenly, this hundred stones is really embarrassing. This bit of silver is not worth sending troops to protect, but you can't find a small job that no one cares about, and you don't need too many people, and you can earn hundreds of stones of silver a year! β
Yu Qian really wanted to smash the water cup on Bai Minghe's face.
In such a situation, Bai Minghe still took revenge on him once, and the official record was just to prevent Bai Minghe from talking nonsense, but who would have thought that he would be trapped.
Yu Qian exhaled silently, got up slowly, and first put a folded piece of paper in front of the scribe. Then, in front of Bai Minghe, he tore up the pages of paper that recorded the conversation between the two, and threw them into the stove.
The scribe opened the folded paper and glanced at it, and quickly left his seat and knelt down and kowtowed, and the two of them left the cabin quickly.
You don't have to look at it, you don't have to bother guessing. That thing must be the handwriting of the Ming Emperor, and it is estimated that this hand was thought of by Yu Qian in advance.
Bai Minghe laughed loudly, and once again won a small victory in the struggle with Yu Qian.
"White Crane, you can really do it with a thousand stones, I support you. Hamiwei is a strategic-level location, and it does not dare to station heavy troops there for fear that it will not be able to feed it. But you have a profit of 1,000 pieces of silver, and you can garrison 50,000 troops without handing over a penny of silver. Then, you will definitely be able to make Hami richer. β
"Not right now, the tile is not extinguished, and it is not suitable for a big move, and no industry can withstand being destroyed. But right now, I have a little thing to trouble the adults. It's not about conditions, it's that I'm really in trouble. β
Yu Qian didn't think that Bai Minghe was making conditions, but only thought that Bai Minghe really needed help, so he said: "You say!" β
Bai Minghe told the question about the accounts, and the matter of enshrined in the palace was 210,000 taels of silver. Bai Minghe said very clearly, the account handed over by the inner treasury has nothing to do with this, and the silver to the inner treasury of the palace also said that it was the silver of the town treasury, which was used by the Ming Dynasty at a critical time.
There is also a small share of the part that is at the disposal of the household.
"This piece can be shipped to the household department. But it's better to let the household department leave it to me, and let me repair the land and water routes in the capital well. In particular, the land route from Beijing to Tianjin Wei must be greatly refined! β
"Such a trivial matter, I should do it. I will persuade Jin Lian that it is not a big deal for Daming Guofu to add a little more to the palace. Jin Lian is not so pedantic that he doesn't know how to be flexible in the slightest. It's just that he and Jiang Yuan want to build the waterway from Tianjin to the capital right now, and they all have money in their hands to make trouble. β
"Chaobai, or forever!" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.
"The tide is white, the straight-line distance is the closest, and the amount of work is not small. But the Yongding River is not easy to repair, and it will take four or five years to repair this road, but the advantage is that the Hebei waterway to Tianjin Wei is also smooth. As soon as you ask to repair the river, they will let you pay the money, but it is far more than that, so don't mention the matter of repairing the river, you can build the road. β
"Lord Yu, that's all for today's topic. You choose a general soldier, the kind that dares to kill. Whoever dares to touch my business will dare to raise troops to overthrow the kind of general of his tribe. Hamiwei, I don't need to give out a silver or two for my white crane, even the Shaanxi merchants dare not say that they want to monopolize it, as long as no one bothers Hami, the road is better, and it will be a rich land! β
Generals who dare to kill people may not be easy to find in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but for now, ......
It's not hard! It is indeed not difficult, there are still many generals who dare to fight and dare to kill in the Ming Dynasty, although it is not the level of the demon king of the slaughtering city, but once he leads the troops out, as long as there is no restraint of the military order, he will definitely dare to be ruthless.
Yu Qian and Bai Minghe were separated immediately, and Yu Qian believed in Bai Minghe's promise.
Yu Qian went to the Nanjing Military Department, and Bai Minghe went to the Nanjing Household Department.
The efficiency of these two departments frightened Yu Qian, he just made a request, and a set of processes came down here, and he didn't even use a quarter of an hour, and the text had already been sent out, and it began to be sent to the northwest guards.
Two documents, one is a conscription order, which requires the collection of available soldiers in the various guards, and the military pay is four times the current military salary. Moreover, all the ordnance is paid for by the Ministry of War, including military uniforms, cotton clothes, etc., all of which are supplied by the Ministry of War. Two requirements, can be cavalry, can cut people!
It's too easy to know cavalry, and you can find soldiers in the northwest who can't ride horses, and there are definitely not as many soldiers who can embroider.
When it comes to cutting people, there is only Cheng dΓΉ who can cut good and bad.
After Yu Qian came out of the military department, the Nanjing household department also began to post notices throughout the city, and then sent documents to the merchants.
The content is only one sentence, the white crane investment order, the time is three days later in the morning, and the location is the main hall of the household!
"It's fast!" Yu Qian didn't expect that Nanjing's six departments that feed idlers would be so efficient. It's only been a long time since the official paperwork has been published. What a benefit!
Yu Qian couldn't think of it, and he couldn't think of anything worth such a big deal in Hami.
Yu Qian knew about Hami, but no one in Nanjing knew that Bai Minghe was planning for Hami.
When the white crane left the household, he went to find two Byzantines, as well as a few Taoist priests. Because there are several things that may need to be ramped up to enter the era of industrial mass production.
There are some things in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, but the Taoist priests of the Ming Dynasty in the chemical industry have only touched the door now.
The Byzantine alchemists were stronger than the Ming people, but the strong Cheng dΓΉ was also limited. However, it seems that this is an opportunity to try to start industrial production from a few small things first. And then slowly go deeper, whether it is the alchemist of Byzantium or the Dan warlock of the Ming Dynasty.
These two kinds of people play research, only crazier, not the craziest.
Bai Minghe took some samples from them that were produced in the laboratory, and then instructed his subordinates to make some preparations in advance, for the merchants in three days.
The white crane is preparing, and the merchant gang is also preparing.
First of all, there was an internal discussion to see how much money there was at the moment, and the big business in the merchant gang did not have a big business to support the faΓ§ade at the moment. If there is not enough silver, then how much can you borrow from the silver number? and the problems that may be encountered in competition with other merchants, etc., although all the information is completely unknown at the moment.
But the top ten merchant gangs are still nervously preparing.
Not to mention the top ten merchant gangs, the small merchant gangs will not let go of this opportunity. (To be continued......)