"Flow...... Isn't that a bit far? ”

Wei Jiansu looked at the list in front of him, and some sweat broke out on his forehead.

The list in his hand was thick and thick, and there were nearly 10,000 people, all of whom were to be exiled.

However, the characters on this list are not all loyal to the Li family clan like Yuan Zai, but all the lists that have been sentenced to popularity in the past year. About half of them are like Yuan Zai, and the other half are some traitors. In particular, those who took advantage of the chaos and committed crimes in the previous Glorious Revolution were almost wiped out after the fact, and all of them were stuffed into this list.

"Wei Gong still doesn't know, what King Wei means is to enrich the border and coastal defense, look at this, the news I got today."

Gao Shi handed a piece of news to Wei Jiansu, Wei Jiansu picked up his reading glasses, saw the information on it, and couldn't help but be furious: "Fanyi An dares to do this, when expelling all Persians in the country!" ”

This news was the urgent performance of the Guangzhou assassin Sweiley, Persia and Dashi besieged Guangzhou, and he had few soldiers in his hands, so he could only abandon the city and leave.

After Shou'an ascended the throne, Ye Chang made a series of adjustments, for example, changing the original Weiwang Mansion into a mansion, and the prime minister and the six Shangshu servants jointly handled official business here every morning. He himself is also the prime minister, with Wei Jiansu as the second minister and the secretary of the ministry, Gao Shi entered Beijing as the secretary of the military department, the fifth Qi as the secretary of the household department, Yan Zhenqing as the secretary of the criminal department, Dugu Ming as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Hao also entered Beijing as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. However, in Ye Chang's plan, six departments will be changed to twelve, that is, in the criminal work of the officials, the functions of the criminal department will be merged into Dali Temple, and six departments of education, medical and health, transportation, regimental training, water transportation, and persuasion of agriculture will be added. The Ministry of Education is responsible for the promotion of practical learning, and Ye Chang did not directly change the imperial examination, but promoted practical learning through the form of adding new imperial examination subjects; As the name suggests, medical and health and transportation are mainly to improve the land transportation level of the Datang population, especially to promote rutted tracks and concrete roads; In fact, the regimental training is actually the Ministry of Public Security, and if the new-style army wants to replace the old-style army, it is bound to eliminate a large number of soldiers, and if these soldiers are allowed to flow into society, I am afraid that it will cause some incidents. Water transport is responsible for inland river and sea transportation, including maritime trade and shipping route development, once Datang achieves industrialization, the huge population into huge production capacity, will inevitably open up new overseas markets, but also to obtain overseas resources, this department is to prepare for this in advance; Quannong is responsible for the promotion of agricultural technology and new crops, providing more food and raw materials for the industrialization of Datang.

It's just that the new six departments still have only the framework, and it will take some time to start working on how to enrich the personnel.

"Wei Gong's words are not right, if they are wiped out, the annual domestic commercial tax will be reduced by a large amount. Now that the imperial court has a grain purchase system, almost no rent is collected, and no matter how little the commercial tax is, our lives will be sad, do we all rely on the private wealth of King Wei? Fifth Qi shook his head.

Wei Jiansu glanced at him, although he knew that what Lu Dao said was reasonable, he still had a little disdain in his heart.

This guy just took refuge in Ye Chang early, and has been assisting Ye Chang to run a bank, and this time the ministries were adjusted, he was directly promoted to the position of the head of the household department, responsible for the reform of the national tax system. Among the first batch of decrees promulgated by Ye Chang's administration, there was a policy of reducing agricultural taxes and changing levies to purchases. That is to say, in the past, the people paid the imperial grain and national taxes for free, but now it is different, now the imperial court will return some currency, although the price of the imperial court to buy grain is outrageously low, but after all, it is much better than the unconditional payment of grain by the people in the past, and it can be regarded as a good governance.

Of course, others can't think of Ye Chang's intentions, and the reason why he is not completely free of grain is to facilitate the intervention of the central power and go deep into the countryside, so as to avoid the local tyrants and gentry in the countryside from completely controlling the countryside. To a certain extent, giving a certain amount of money to the peasants who pay the grain is also to raise the market awareness of these peasants and allow them to also participate in the commodity economy.

"You can't let these barbarians go, in my opinion, this must not be the attack of Persia and Dashi, but the collusion of pirates by the merchants living in Guangzhou!" Wei Jiansu said: "I can't say it, I want to make a big move and kill him." ”

Wei Jiansu knew that although he was the second minister, and the two of them were above 10,000 people, his actual position in the dynasty was not stable, and to a large extent, Ye Chang only let him stay in office in order to appease the old officials. After having a suitable candidate, he is afraid that he will retire and retire, so he hopes to make some contributions as much as possible during this time, so that he can continue to stay in office as before.

And Ye Chang has always had a-for-tat attitude towards foreign provocations, he almost refused all concessions and compromises, if he had to compromise, it was only after Datang obtained enough benefits to agree. Under such circumstances, Wei Jiansu inevitably did what he liked, and took a tough stance in all foreign-related incidents.

"The military department will be prepared for this matter, but I expect that the big food and Persian people who made trouble this time will not stay in Guangzhou for a long time, and should leave by boat. Now that the Tang Navy is under construction, it needs to suppress Silla, the Balhai Sea and Japan, and it is not possible to take care of the south for the time being. Revenge is naturally revenge, but it needs to be considered in the long run. ”

Gao Shi, who is the secretary of the Ministry of War, said this, and turned his gaze to the fifth Qi again: "Now it seems that my Datang needs three navies to protect the sea frontier, the Beihai Navy here in Lushun, the Wujun Navy in the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the Guangzhou Navy in Guangzhou......"

"If you don't have money, you have to die." Without waiting for Gao Shi to finish speaking, Fifth Qi said categorically.

Everyone laughed, it has been half a month since they officially took office, and in this small and half a month, all ministries have tried their best to get money and food from Fifth Qi, and Fifth Qi also helped them find a way at the beginning, but now, Fifth Qi is this sentence in response.

There is still some money in the treasury, but the problem is that most of it is useful. Fifth Qi has calculated in the past few days that in the remaining three months of this year, the money that he, the chief financial steward, can spend is only 2 million yuan. This is still on the premise that there are no accidents, as Wei saw that there was a war in Guangzhou, from the dispatch of troops to the bereavement relief, the imperial court said that it would cost four or five hundred thousand yuan, and such things happened twice, so he had to go to Anton Bank to borrow money and loans.

"Fifth Prince, don't refuse too early, in fact, I have a plan here, you can take a look first." Gao Shi pushed a few pieces of paper over.

After the fifth Qi took it, he looked at it for the first time, his eyes froze, and after looking at it for a while, he hesitated a little: "Acting like this, Your Majesty and King Wei will agree, it seems that ...... Something that is not in line with righteousness? ”

Everyone is disdainful, what kind of benevolence and righteousness is this guy talking about in the fifth Qi!

"Now the most elite soldiers of my Tang Dynasty are in Liaodong, and King Wei once said, 'The ship is strong and the cannon is sharp', and the Liaodong Festival Envoy can be called this! What is the point of having such a strong army, keeping it at home, and fighting to support the war is the right way. Gao Shi said with a smile: "What's more, the firearms unit can only be promoted to the whole army if it is tested in actual combat." ”

Ye Chang readjusted the border towns of the Tang Dynasty, the original Fanyang and Pinglu were combined into one, and the Liaodong Marching Governor's Mansion was Liaodong Town, with 100,000 regular soldiers, including Ye Chang's Weiwang Yiwei, and Luo Jiuhe was the envoy of the festival. Hedong and Shuofang merged into one and became Heshuo Town, with 100,000 soldiers under its jurisdiction, and Nanjiyun was the envoy of the festival. Anxi and Beiting were combined into one, which was Anxi Town, with Li Guangbi as the envoy of the festival, and 80,000 soldiers under its jurisdiction. Helongyou, Hexi and the forbidden army, for the Kyoto garrison town, with An Yuanguang as the festival envoy, under the jurisdiction of 120,000 soldiers. Jiannan Town remained unchanged, with Xin Jinggao as the envoy of the festival, and 60,000 soldiers under its jurisdiction. Lingnan Town is also not a soldier, with 20,000 regular soldiers under its jurisdiction, and the festival envoy is concurrently served by the Guangzhou Thorn History.

In addition, there is a professional navy with 50,000 personnel, but at present there are only more than 5,000 people, which are subordinate to the Beihai Navy. In this way, the standing army of the entire country is 530,000, which is not too much compared to the country's population of nearly 90 million. In addition to being responsible for internal security, the newly established regimental training department also plays an important role, that is, it conducts militia regiment training and forms a reserve echelon.

This was Ye Chang's original plan, but now that the Persians have captured Guangzhou, it is obvious that Lingnan Town needs to be enriched with manpower, and at the same time, it can no longer be concurrently served by the civil official of the Assassin Shi, but must have a special military officer in the future.

Gao Shi's plan for the fifth Qi was quickly passed through in the hands of the cabinet scholars, and the most important one was in the hands of Wei Jiansu.

This was an operational plan for Silla, in which 60,000 troops from Liaodong Town and 5,000 troops from the Beihae Navy were mobilized to attack Jilin, the capital of Silla.

At first, Wei Jiansu didn't think so, but now the imperial court has decided that although the interior is still safe, it can suddenly start a fire, and I am afraid that it will waste national strength. And even with an elite army like the firearms unit, Wei Jiansu didn't think that he could conquer Silla, but when he saw the target of this expedition, he was stunned at first, and then said: "Okay! ”

Gao Shi noted on the goal of this expedition that the purpose of this operation was not to completely exterminate Silla - Datang did not have much energy to spend there, and it was better to encroach on it than to swallow it. Therefore, apart from the demand for the return of part of the former Goguryeo territory to the Tang Dynasty, there were no territorial claims against Silla.

The key is two: Silla must open customs clearance for goods designated by Datang, and Silla must pay all the expenses and interest of this Datang expedition.

In Gao Shi's plan, the war would cost about 1.2 million to 1.5 million guan, and the compensation to be proposed to Silla was 2 million to 2.5 million guan - not a one-time payment, and Silla could not afford to pay so much, but divided into five to ten years to pay off with interest, on average, Silla had to pay about 300,000 guan per year, which did not force it to a dead end for a country with a population of millions and abundant ginseng, trees, and mineral deposits.

Previously, because of Silla's hostility to Liaodong, some of the Tang Dynasty's goods were actually restricted from entering the customs or imposed high taxes, but after this war, these policies will be canceled, which means that the goods of the Tang Dynasty can enter this country with a population of one million relatively smoothly, so as to obtain a steady stream of follow-up benefits.

In the Gao Shi Ji plan, the goods of those merchants who donated to fund the war will become the designated products of Datang. In other words, if it was possible to collect money from Silla until after the war was won, then it was possible to collect a sum of money from the owners of the workshops in their country who wanted to sell their goods to Silla before the war began. In this way, if you fight this battle, you can make double the profit.

Ye Chang is not afraid to cultivate a group of militarist fanatics, and he believes that he can control the situation.

"In the early stage, it will take 500,000 yuan to prepare, and now it is the end of August, and the war will officially start in March next year." Gao Shi smiled and said, "Fifth Gong, you only say, don't you take these fifty guan with me!" ”

"Take it, why don't you take it, but the ugly words are ahead, the 500,000 guan will be given to you, but when it's over, you have to pay me back 1 million guan!"

"Fifth duke, you are unreasonable, the front-line soldiers fought bloodily to get some money, and it was originally to solve difficulties for you, didn't you say that there is no money for military expenses, we always have to get three or five hundred thousand yuan to expand the navy this time, you swallow all this money in one go, so that the lion opens his mouth, and it is too shameless!"

"If you don't want to get money in exchange for face, I really don't want it, you don't know how many places you have to spend money now! The expenses of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Persuasion, and the Youth League Training Department in the coming year, there must be a place for these money! ”

"You don't come, do you think I don't know what to do, Ye Gong has privately handed you the bottom, and by the end of the year, the income of eight large factories such as steel mills and glass factories will be transferred to you, and at that time, how can you have millions of yuan in your hands, plus the autumn tax escorted into the warehouse this year, you are still crying poor with me?"

"What, Ye Gong wants to transfer the income of the eight big factories to the treasury instead of the inner treasury?" Gao Shi knew about the Dao, but others might not know about the Dao, and the scholars present suddenly turned red: "Fifth Duke, Fifth Duke, you can't do this, allocate more money to us......"

If they want to do things, they can't do without money, they have long been staring at Ye Chang's small treasury. It's just that Ye Chang is strong, no one dares to mention this matter, and those factories and mines are all run by Ye Chang himself, they just want to ask Ye Chang to hand it over to the imperial court, and there is no reason.

"Don't think about it, the income of these factories, Ye Gong said, is to make up for the lack of rent in the coming year, and next year to collect grain from the people, you need to pay money, where does this money come from, you have to rely on this!" Fifth Qi roared angrily: "If you don't want money, you want to die!" ”

As soon as the voice fell, someone could hear a laugh and groan: "Who forced the Hubu Shangshu to this point?" ”

It was Ye Chang's voice, and the originally noisy hall suddenly quieted down, and everyone looked at Ye Chang with some embarrassment, Ye Chang was followed by Zhang Xiu, Wang Changling and others, these people were the candidates for the newly established six Shangshu.

"Joking with the Fifth Shangshu, everyone wants to withdraw more money from him, and if they want to do something, they can't do it without money and food." Wei Jiansu coughed and said, "King Wei, our stall is a little big." ”

"That's right, so you have to live within your means, Fifth Gong, have you made a revenue forecast for next year? Based on the forecast of that revenue, how much each ministry needs to spend, make a budget, and strive to spend less and do more. Ye Chang knew that this was the inevitability of the run-in period of the new system, and instructed with a smile.

"The matter of Guangzhou, please ask Ye Gong to decide." Wei Jiansu presented the copy that Gao Shi gave him that Wei Li saw in fear.

Seeing what he said above, Ye Chang's complexion also changed.