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In the past few months, Li Cun has been very busy—much busier than when he was fighting before.

Political.

Personnel.

Economically.

Educational.

people's livelihood.

Military.

It's as if everything came up all at once.

At this time, Li Cun clearly understood what it meant to be "easy to fight the country, but difficult to defend the country." ”

Let's start with the political ones.

In the past, Li Cun used a model lake six-ministry system to manage his own territory, in fact, abolished the Zhongshu Province and the prime minister, and divided the power of the Zhongshu Province to the six ministries, the original Zhongshu Province officials did not set up, but set up some auxiliary officials with parliamentary power, and Li Cun was directly in charge of the government affairs of the six ministries and hundred departments, in fact, Li Cun was equivalent to concurrently serving as the prime minister, and the local government was divided into three departments, in charge of justice, military, and administration, and was directly responsible for the six departments.

To put it bluntly, Li Cun's set of things is the prototype of the cabinet system.

This set of things, Li Cun used it before, but there was no big problem.

At that time, it was wartime, and everyone was about to settle.

But now, this battle is over, and it has been won, and Li Cun has actually divided the six roads, which is equivalent to establishing a small country.

Many people, especially those who have made meritorious contributions, will inevitably have expectations.

For example, when Li Cun was fighting, General Lu, who had been helping Li Cun sit in the rear, was looking forward to the position of prime minister.

This is also normal.

I think that at the beginning, Mr. Li, you and Song Jun fought on the Yangtze River for several months, and the big and small affairs of the family were all survived by General Lu.

Now, Mr. Li, your company is listed, and Lu will want to be a CEO, isn't it too much?

Not only Lu Jiang, but also Zhang Shi.

I think at the beginning, when Mr. Li didn't have a soldier, Zhang Shi followed you, waved the flag for you, ran for you to pull employees into the gang, after the team was pulled up, where to go, for the sake of you everywhere, that is, to pick the most beautiful girl for you, now our business is bigger, do you see what kind of official Zhang Shi is doing, so that Zhang Shi is also beautiful?

Such people abound, to be honest, that is, Li Cunming said that he would not consider ascending the throne and becoming emperor for the time being, otherwise Li Cun would have been in a yellow robe long ago.

The expectations of his subordinates made Li Cun unable to continue to engage in the cabinet system, because it was easy to chill the hearts of his subordinates.

The key is that before the world is defeated, Li Cun began to think about limiting and restraining the power of the heroes, and even unloading the mill and killing the donkey, so who will continue to work with Li Cun?

In addition, Li Cun is always "driving and pro-recruiting" or something, and he does not have a serious leadership team, which is sometimes really inconvenient.

Li Cun did not worry too much about the cabinet system, which may be a little more advanced than the two governments and three divisions, but happily chose the two governments and three divisions system.

There is no other reason, this system is currently the most acceptable and most anticipated by Li Cun Group.

As a result, the Pingzhang Shi of the Tongzhong Book Sect will go online, the privy envoy Zhang Shi will also go online, and the other meritorious personnel will all be promoted and turned into regulars, and they are all happy.

What?

Li Cun didn't even ascend the throne and claim the emperor, so he dared to blatantly make himself a prime minister and a privy envoy?

Why?

Just by my Li Cun's willingness, just by virtue of my Li Cun's six-way land, how I Li Cun want to toss and how toss, no one can control me Li Cun, just because Zhao Ji Junchen knows these things, he can only pretend not to see them, otherwise what can they do, put on their wings and fly across the Yangtze River to bite me Li Cun?

In other words, don't you want to chop Li Cun with thousands of knives and crush bones and ashes? Otherwise, they would have been able to recruit 100,000 sailors in one go, and practice every day in that bathtub, who this is for, fools know.

In other words, the world knows that sooner or later, the Zhao and Song dynasties will have to clean up Li Cun.

In this case, does Li Cun still need to care about the attitude of the Zhao Song Dynasty? To put it mildly, Li Cun did not directly announce, from now on, I, Li Cun, will be the emperor, even if I leave enough fig leaf for Zhao Ji Junchen, otherwise, it is estimated that Zhao Ji Junchen will not count on it, and the key Zhao Ji Junchen can't control it, now Zhao Ji Junchen is a dedicated water training army, holding back his strength to build warships, just wait for the past three or five years Zhao Ji Junchen is ready, and he will definitely come to do it again with Li Cun.

Now, the two families are developing their own ones, and when they fight each other in the future, they will compete again.

In this case, how could Li Cun chill the hearts of those who fight the world with him because of Zhao Jijunchen's attitude?

Should I say it or not, Li Cun was so happily promoted to the ministers, so that the people who fought the world with Li Cun were all greatly encouraged, and the people's hearts settled down, and Li Cun's cheap father-in-law and cheap uncle never mentioned the matter of letting Li Cun accept the Zhao and Song court's recruitment.

Personnel appointments.

In terms of official positions, Li Cun was appointed only by merit.

In terms of deputy positions, Li Cun was appointed on the basis of merit.

In addition, there are many problems left over from history.

That is, on Li Cun's territory, there are still many old officials and officials of Zhao and Song.

As a result, Li Cun didn't know if he didn't check, but after checking it, he gave Li Cun a lot of surprises.

There are a lot of great talents hidden in Li Cun's territory.

First of all, a great talent is Li Gang.

It turned out that three years ago, when there was a big flood in Bianliang City, Tokyo, Li Gang Shangshu asked the imperial court to pay attention to internal and external troubles, which Zhao Ji thought was inappropriate to discuss and supervised the taxation of Shaxian County, Nanjianzhou.

In other words, Li Gangren is in Fujian.

Li Cun sent someone to check, only to know that when Kong Gang led people to fight Nanjianzhou, Li Gang also led people to resist, but he was arrested and then thrown into a labor camp by the then torturer Cao for reform.

Li Cun didn't talk any nonsense, and directly ordered Li Gang to be transferred to his side, and let Li Gang be accompanied by Yuwen Huangzhong and Chen Yu.

Because of the example of Li Gang, Li Cun looked carefully again.

It turned out that Li Guang was also there.

It turned out that three years ago, Li Guang accused the scholars of becoming sycophants and treacherous people, and even invoked Xun Qing's words of 'obeying and not admonishing' to block the way of speech. Wang Hao was disgusted with Li Guang, and ordered the Ministry to appoint Li Guang as the magistrate of Yangshuo, Guizhou.

didn't say anything, there was one more sightseeing group around Li Cun.

After that, Li Cun found many names that he had an impression of, such as Chen Jiao and Yang You.

But unlike Li Gang and Li Guang, who were unwilling to work for Li Cun, Chen Jiao, Yang You and many others were actually already officials in the Tiger Ben Army.

There is nothing to say, Li Cun transferred all these people to the departments that suit them, and most of them were promoted and appointed.

Economically.

Li Cun vigorously developed a number of ports in the territory, encouraged commerce and trade, and gave the green light to commercial activities as much as possible.

Even, in order to facilitate commercial activities, Li Cun also launched paper money with gold and silver as the standard currency.

- There are no small denomination banknotes, the smallest of which are worth one tassel and the largest are one hundred.

Since Li Cun did not have a particularly large amount of gold and silver, at this stage, Li Cun only issued 5 million banknotes to test the waters, and at the same time only established money banks in the capital cities of various states and a few major port cities for the exchange and storage of gold and silver and paper money.

In fact, Li Cun knew that there was a hidden danger in getting this gold and silver double standard system - the exchange ratio between gold and silver was not fixed, which would make the banknotes issued by Li Cun have the risk of not maintaining their value.

In fact, Li Cun first wanted to implement the gold standard, and the second choice was the silver standard, but Li Cun did not have enough gold and silver.

In this case, if the gold standard or the silver standard alone is used, it is difficult to promote it on a large scale, so Li Cun can only choose the gold and silver double standard system that is not too stable, and then gradually transition to the gold standard according to the situation in the future.

But then again, even though the gold and silver standard system has problems such as relative instability and chaos, it also has its own advantages:

Because it is a double standard, its material source can be either silver or gold, and the source is sufficient;

When you need to make large transactions, you can use gold, and small transactions can use silver, which is flexible and convenient;

The two standard currencies can complement each other;

facilitates the stability of exchange rates with other currencies;

It is possible to trade gold coins with European countries where gold is the main currency, and with Asian countries where silver is the main currency.

In addition, Li Cun also reissued copper coins.

- In order to help Zhao Ji make money, Cai Jing got all kinds of copper coins, and even iron coins, which are too chaotic, the key, all these money do not retain their value, and Li Cun is also afraid that the currency of the Zhao Song Dynasty will harvest his wealth here, so Li Cun simply re-minted copper coins with better quality and more value.

In the future, good money will drive out bad money, and the messy money issued by the Zhao Song Dynasty will definitely slowly disappear from its own territory, and even one day, Li Cun can launch a trade war against the Zhao Song Dynasty.

It's not impossible.

First of all, Li Cun stipulated that only the copper coins issued by himself could be exchanged for the paper money issued by himself, that is, for gold and silver.

Secondly, Li Cun stipulated that several specialties in his territory, such as some silk and some tea, must be traded with paper money issued by himself or copper coins issued by himself, of course, if you are willing to trade with gold and silver, there is no problem.

Thirdly, Li Cun stipulated that customs duties must be paid with paper money issued by himself or copper coins issued by himself, and of course, he can also pay directly with gold and silver.

At present, all this is actually only in the stage of trial and development, and the Li Cun government still has a long way to go on the road of monetary reform.

It must be mentioned that while vigorously encouraging the development of commerce, Li Cun's taxation of merchants has also greatly increased, and the tax on some luxury goods is as high as fifty percent, which means that no matter how much you ship, you have to give half of it to the city.

Don't be unwilling, you merchants.

In this era, but Shinong Industry and Commerce, I have created such a rich trade condition for you, what's wrong with overcharging you, I love to do it, I don't like to do it, I hold the largest market, I have created the best trade environment, and I am worried that no one wants to come to me to make money? Besides, the wool is out of the sheep, and this money can't be out of the merchants, and in the end it all has to fall on those who want to buy luxury goods, do you need to think about these people, don't be extravagant, don't compare, don't show off.

Also, no matter who you dare to evade taxes, I will kill, raid your home, and detain the ship, and you will not be merciful.

In addition, considering that the current generation is not particularly rich in resources, this era is still dominated by agriculture, and without agriculture, everything is empty talk.

Therefore, Li Cunyi launched the agricultural policy of "apportioning the land into the mu", abolished the poll tax (ding tax) that had been practiced in China for more than 2,000 years, and shouted the slogan of "breeding people will never be increased".

As far as the facts are concerned, although this policy cannot be said to be particularly advanced, and the Han people did not get much benefit from the Manchu Qing people.

However, it is fair to say that this policy, at least in the initial stage, has reduced the economic burden of landless and landless peasants, promoted population growth, and provided greater personal freedom for laborers, which is conducive to social and economic development.

Anyway, this policy is definitely much more beneficial than the land policy of the Song Dynasty.

The most direct manifestation of this is that the implementation of the apportionment into mu has directly led to the explosive growth of the Chinese population, from Qianlong's population exceeding 100 million in six years, to Qianlong's 57 years exceeding 300 million, and then to Daoguang's 14 years of the country's population exceeding 400 million, accounting for more than 40 percent of the world's population, laying the foundation for a large Chinese population.

Of course, there are also sweet potatoes and corn to the credit.

This is slowly trying to figure out a solution.

Educationally.

Li Cun also learned from the Zhao and Song dynasties to engage in Taixue, but the difference is that Li Cun has conducted several three-year free education pilots to see if he can come up with a mechanism to send students to Taixue, and give the children of poor families at the bottom a chance to get ahead.

people's livelihood.

In addition to the fact that, like the Zhao and Song dynasties, Li Cun also generally established livelihood security institutions such as nursing homes, Anjifang, and Leaky Zeyuan, and Li Cun also vigorously developed machinery to replace labor.

Remember, Li Cun asked the Qian family to help him make those things?

Those are not weapons or anything, but agricultural tools that can save manpower, such as deep ploughs, tillage frames, large windmills, seeders, lawn mowers, straw balers, harvesters, and tractors powered by steam (agricultural machinery on three wheels, i.e., two large wheels in the back to carry the boiler, and a small wheel in the front to guide. And so on......

Li Cun didn't know how to farm, but he knew that these farming tools were mainly powered by cattle and horses, so he didn't care whether these things were useful or not, he asked Qian to help him make them as much as possible, and then handed them over to those officials under his command to practice.

As for the steam engine, it was Li Cunjia's private work, this kind of thing, there is a long way to go.

In addition, Li Cun improved the current fishing technology and "invented" the net board, which greatly increased the efficiency of fishing.

All in all, Li Cun can think of anything, and he will arrange people to implement it, and Li Cun has a good habit, that is, he is never too profitable, even if there is only a little improvement, Li Cun will send someone to implement it immediately, which can be said to improve people's livelihood as much as possible.

As for the military.

Li Cun's first job is disarmament.

It turned out that the Lianshui Army, plus the captured Fang La Yi Army, the captured Song Army, etc., Li Cun really had almost one million horses.

It is simply too difficult and too wasteful to raise a million people and horses in a small six-way land.

Therefore, Li Cun redivided the defense zone and divided his territory into four major military regions, namely: the Northern Military Region, the Western Military Region, the Southern Military Region, and the Central Military Region.

In the Northern Military Region, Li Cun finally decided to amass 50,000 troops, with Zhao Han'er as the commander-in-chief, Sun Sanlu as the governor, and Su Dong as the deputy commander-in-chief.

In the Western Military Region, Li Cun finally decided to amass 50,000 troops, with Ergongzi as the commander-in-chief, Liang Jin as the superintendent, and Zhang Goudan as the deputy commander-in-chief.

In the Southern Military Region, Li Cun finally decided to hoard 50,000 troops, with Kong Suzi as the head of the capital, Sun He as the capital supervisor, and Fang Qifo as the deputy head of the capital.

In the Central Military Region, Li Cun finally decided to amass 200,000 troops and manage them himself.

In addition, the navy is the only army that Li Cun has not been reduced, which is still 100,000, divided into the North Sea Army, the East China Sea Army and the South China Sea Army.

The Beihai Army, with an establishment of 40,000 people, has more than 100 warships and more than 1,000 large and small ships, which are divided into two parts, left and right, and are stationed in Jiangning Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion (Li Cungangsheng's mansion).

The East China Sea Army, with an establishment of 50,000 people, has more than 200 warships, 3,000 large ships, and a number of small ships, and is responsible for the defense and transportation of Hangzhou Port, Xiuzhou Port, Mingzhou Port, Quanzhou Port, and Liuqiu Port, of which 20,000 are stationed in Hangzhou Port, and the remaining 30,000 are stationed in other ports.

-- The East China Sea Army also retains 20,000 auxiliary soldiers, which are mainly responsible for transportation in peacetime, that is to say, the actual strength of the East China Sea Army is 70,000.

The South China Sea Navy has an establishment of 10,000 men, 50 warships, 100 large ships, and a number of small ships, which are stationed in Guangzhou Port and Qiongzhou Port respectively, and are responsible for the defense of the South China Sea.

Politically, in terms of personnel, economy, education, people's livelihood, and military, they are in full bloom, and General Lu and Zhang Shizhi are not top talents, so it is conceivable what Li Cun has to be busy.

Not to mention anything else, just a currency reform, a division into acres, and a military reorganization can make Li Cunyu so busy that he will be hit in the back of the head.

However, at this juncture, civil strife and external troubles broke out in Li Cun's territory......

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