Iron Dynasty

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The atmosphere in Qingzhou Fu Yazhong is a bit relaxed and cheerful at this time.

Political officials headed by Pang Yukun breathed a sigh of relief after three consecutive arms orders. Now the tight financial situation of the fief is finally alleviated because of these orders.

With 1,500 artillery pieces and 28,000 matchlocks, these arms purchases were enough to bring more than 10 million taels of silver to the fief.

"Don't be happy too early now. These materials have not yet arrived in our hands. Next, you must complete the handover of materials with the court, King Zhao, and King Liang." Xiao Ming reminded.

Just like the last time I did business with the King of Chu, the silver, gold, and copper were only part of this transaction, and most of the silver was used to offset the material.

In Day Yu, King Zhao has the most horses. After discussion, King Zhao took out one hundred thousand taels of gold, one million taels of silver, 120,000 catties of brass, 90 thousand catties of iron, and one million stones of wheat. Five thousand catties of silk, fifty thousand pieces of cloth, three hundred thousand banknotes, twenty thousand horses.

While the open-pit coal mines of King Liang’s fief are rich, he took out 50,000 taels of gold, 900,000 taels of silver, 62,000 jin of brass, 100,000 jin of iron, 1.2 million jin of wheat, and 1 million jin of coal. Six hundred thousand banknotes.

Compared with King Zhao and King Liang, the materials of the imperial court were the most diverse, including 200,000 catties of saltpeter and 160,000 catties of sulfur.

The quantity of these materials looks scary, but in fact, it is not much at all. For example, Liangwang’s 1 million catties of coal is actually only 500 tons of coal, and the 62,000 catties of brass is only 31 tons.

One of his cast iron cannons is at least five hundred catties, and the heavy garrison guns are even more than one thousand catties.

"Yes, your Highness, the next official will let the various treasury in Qingzhou prepare to receive these materials." Pang Yukun said.

Compared with silver, Pang Yukun prefers hard currency such as specific grains, iron, and copper. After all, with war, you may not be able to buy these things if you have silver.

And even if it is all silver, they still have to exchange these materials with the merchants, so it is convenient and quick to barter directly. The only thing needed is that the quality of the materials needs to be controlled.

Xiao Ming nodded, and he continued: "In the future, our arms trade will only increase. I am afraid that Qingzhou’s treasury will not be enough, and the previous method of stacking everything together needs to be changed to target different Materials must have special warehouses."

Pang Yukun didn’t think much before. Now, as the transactions are getting more and more day by day, the warehouse of this government office is indeed gradually becoming insufficient. He said: "His Royal Highness said very much, but when he said about it, he thought of something. In the days when the next official read the government affairs books of His Royal Highness in Bowen Academy, he gained a lot. The next official thought it was time to rectify the government affairs of the fief. Own system of officials."

"Official system?" Xiao Ming showed a playful look. It seems that Pang Yukun has really learned some advanced government affairs experience from the Bowen Academy.

Pang Yukun had an awkward look on his face. Originally, he was not very sad about these government affairs books, but after reading them accidentally, he suddenly found many things in the books to be very useful, so he re-examined Xiao Ming's government affairs books in Bowen College. .

"Yes, Your Highness, the next official thought it was time to rectify the government office, so that the government offices of the states and counties in the fief can complete the policies of the Highness from top to bottom, and handle different civil affairs at the same time." Pang Yukun said firmly.

"Well, you are right, this king has been busy with the matter of Dengzhou during this period of time, but has neglected this matter. Since this is the case, this matter is put on the agenda." Xiao Ming said.

Generally speaking, his fief is a vassal state. Since it is a vassal state, he must have his own complete official system so that he can manage the fief more effectively.

Secondly, the establishment of a complete official system is also to be able to control newly acquired territories at any time, such as the current Ryukyu Island.

In the future, Xiao Ming will have more and more colonies, which requires the ability to establish government offices in unfamiliar places at any time, so a mature official system is particularly important at this time.

Because this is not only to manage the fief at this stage, the most important thing is to reserve officials for emergencies.

After deciding on this matter, Pang Yukun ordered the chief officials of the counties of the fiefdom to come to the Qingzhou government to discuss matters. At the same time, he and Xiao Ming worked out the specific institutions and scope of responsibility within a few days.

Five days later, all prefectures and counties went to Qingzhou to participate in the discussion.

In the Qingzhou government office, Xiao Ming was in the main position, and a group of officials were listed under Xiao Ming, and the situation was like a court meeting.

Pang Yukun stands at the forefront of the top hundred officials of the fief~www.wuxiaspot.com~ followed by Qingzhou Provincial Governor Xingchang, Dengzhou Provincial Governor Yang Chengye, Cangzhou Provincial Governor Chang Yuchun, Yizhou Provincial Governor Yan Changhao, Yunzhou Provincial Governor Kong Yongan, Laizhou governor Wei Changming, Youzhou governor Han Jin.

After the governors of each state, they are the county magistrates in charge of the counties. There are hundreds of people in total.

Some of these officials were elected by Pang Yukun, some were promoted in the former fiefdom, and some were allocated from the Bowen Academy.

Looking at the officials below, Xiao Ming suddenly smiled. At this moment, he suddenly understood Xiao Wenxuan's obsession with imperial power.

Just imagine, with so many officials standing in front of oneself, who would have a feeling of being in the world?

"This time you came to Qingzhou to discuss matters, you must all know about the reform of government affairs. Nowadays, the affairs of the fief are becoming more and more numerous and changes are changing with each passing day. Each state and county government must make changes in advance for future development. At the same time, this meeting is also to make You clarify the system of officials in the fief, who will deal with the problems of the government in the future, so as to avoid prevarication."

Seeing that everyone was there, Xiao Ming said loudly at this moment.

"Yes, Your Highness."

The officials suddenly bowed and said.

At this time, Xiao Ming continued: "In this case, the king will inform you of the government and official system of the fief. From today on, this king has ordered Pang Yukun to be the chief and auxiliary to the cabinet, and the cabinet will be composed of the chief and auxiliary. The nine cabinet ministers are responsible for hearing the government affairs of the states and counties and discussing the government affairs with the king. The cabinet is divided into six departments with the same responsibilities as the six departments. In addition to the establishment of the Supervisory Council independent of the six departments, it is responsible for the judicial and criminal law of the country. , To monitor fief officials..."

Recalling the official system he designed, Xiao Ming stated his thoughts one by one. From then on, his feudal state will get rid of the chaotic government management system and have a comprehensive management system of a small court.