This book has 1,000 chapters, 2.61 million words, and it is updated with an average of 5,000 words per day.
But no matter how difficult it is, you always keep writing, as I said before, there are some things that someone has to write.
Many book lovers sometimes express their opinion that bones often depict some history they know, which makes the atmosphere of the book very oppressive, or that the bones are flooded, but in fact, these are the bones that they are really going to write.
This book, in fact, is not a novel, it just writes a painful history in the mode of a novel, but it is artificially annihilated in the history books.
Nanming 17 years, we should not forget.
In those 17 years, some of our ancestors chose to be slaves of the country, and some chose to fight.
We have no intention of forcing our ancestors to be bloody, because then we may not be where we are today.
But we will certainly honor our ancestors who dared to fight against other races We can be conquered, but we must not forget who we are and who they are It is not terrible to be conquered, it is terrible that we do not dare to take up the sword again.
Our ancestors were not always strong, and our land was not always large, but we would not accept their "dowry", our land, to be fought over by our own swords.
Our history is written by ourselves Zhenjiang Ganlu Temple, since the Zhou Shi moved here, the monks in the temple have long been driven away, which will not know where to place the order.
In the past, Buddhism was pure, but now it has become the military and political center of the Taiping Army, and it is not Bai Ding who comes and goes every day, but a high-powered leading general.
Zhou Shixiang's leg injury had already healed, but he didn't want to go back to the Qi Palaces in Nanjing.
Princess Changle had returned to Nanjing ten years ago, and when she left, she hoped that Zhou Shixiang could return to Nanjing as soon as possible.
Emperor Dingwu was sick, and he has been ill since the Tongju case, and he has not been to the court for three months.
As a niece, Princess Changle could no longer stay in Zhenjiang, and she had to go back to take care of her uncle.
It's just that Zhou Shixiang knows that the emperor is not sick, and if he does, it is only a heart disease.
He didn't want to point out the emperor's "illness" to his fiancée, nor did he want to go back to Nanjing now to talk to the "sick" emperor, he just wanted to quietly finish what he was going to do one by one.
The former is now in charge of the General Administration of Salt Affairs in Yangzhou, and it is Guo Shao who presides over the rectification of salt affairs.
Under the chairmanship of Guo Shao, the General Administration of Salt Affairs has successively set up sub-bureaus in Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong to sort out the chaotic salt administration from top to bottom.
However, the establishment of the General Administration of Salt and its local sub-bureaus is still short, and in the short term, salt monopolies can only be implemented in some key cities, and illegal salt is still rampant in other places, especially in the countryside.
In less than three or five years, it is impossible to completely solve the problem of smuggling salt, which has flourished due to war.
Several large salt farms along the coast, except for the Changlu Salt Farm in the north, which are still controlled by the Qing court, have been controlled by the Taiping Army, and the crackdown on illegal salt in the salt-producing areas is now the top priority of the General Administration of Salt Affairs, and it is also an important indicator for assessing the governance of the officials in the salt-producing areas.
In the past, the "salt introduction" system used in the Ming Dynasty was abolished by Zhou Shixiang, and it was replaced by the local salt bureaus to monopolize and sell at designated locations, and the major salt farms were all taken over by the General Administration of Salt and appointed officials to operate.
This kind of system is called state-run by Zhou Shixiang.
Regarding the price of salt, Zhou Shixiang also asked the General Administration of Salt to set it as cheap as possible, half cheaper than the current price of salt on the market, to ensure that all the people under his rule, whether rich or poor, can eat salt.
After the chaos, there must be a great rule, and the first priority of the great rule is to restore the production of cultivated land, which must have a large number of human resources, farm tools and cattle, in addition, it is necessary to have enough salt to ensure that the people eat.
If the people can't eat salt, or eat less salt, they will have no strength, so first of all, to ensure that the people can afford to buy salt and can afford to eat salt, is Zhou Shixiang's core explanation to the General Administration of Salt Affairs, but also to Guo Shao.
As a former salt inspector, Guo Shao is familiar with the inside story of salt affairs, and he believes that if the salt industry is monopolized by the government from now on, and even those who sell salt are under the control of the government, then the salt industry will become a huge interest group in the future, and it is difficult to guarantee that the State Administration of Salt will not be so large that it is unacceptable in the future.
After all, salt is a necessity for the people, and even if it is sold cheaply, it will be an astonishing fortune.
According to Guo Shao's past experience, once a yamen has a fixed and astonishing source of wealth, it will not be long before the yamen breeds a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
And this model, in the future, I am afraid that the people of the Salt Bureau will become a hereditary system, that is, the father dies and the son succeeds, just like the original six rooms of the local government offices, but the incumbent will always want to pass on the errand of oil and water to their own people, rather than being willing to let the virtuous.
Guo Shao's worries, Zhou Shixiang also knows, "monopoly" management, coupled with the identity of officials and businessmen, the future of the State Administration of Salt will definitely go to the other side of his original intention, because human nature is selfish, no matter what doctrine, no matter what belief will not change.
It's just that the downside is in the future, not now.
Zhou Shixiang now urgently needs to bring a large amount of money and property to the Dingwu regime with an empty treasury by sorting out the salt affairs, ensure the operation of the imperial court, ensure the distribution of salaries for officials at all levels, ensure the development of various water conservancy, farmland, minerals, weapons, transportation and other projects that he needs to build, and also ensure that he can restore the Central Plains without worries about the Northern Expedition.
This project, which is still on paper and the great cause of the Northern Expedition, can only be started when there is enough money to put it into the pot, otherwise, the simple use of forced labor as before will easily arouse the dissatisfaction of the people and cause a civil uprising; Second, it is not conducive to the restoration of people's livelihood.
Money is not everything, but working for nothing and taking money is very different for the people.
Enthusiasm is the most powerful guarantee for doing anything.
Zhou Shixiang thought that at least when he was alive, he could control the situation and improve step by step, so he insisted on monopolizing the salt industry.
Guo Shao, as a subordinate, has already put forward his opinions, and it is not his business whether the lord accepts or not, what he has to do is to implement the lord's will.
It has only been a month since Guo Shao took office in Yangzhou, and more than 600 smuggling salt dealers have been arrested in several salt farms in Huai'an Prefecture, and more than 300 have been taken in Yancheng County alone.
The vigorous and resolute actions and the heads hanging on the city gates frightened the outlaws, and the salt industry began to change as Zhou Shixiang expected.
The initial investment has slowly paid off.
It can't be said that there is no result in paying off this part, but Zhou Shixiang is not satisfied.
By June, 6,820 officials and gentry had been dismissed from the four prefectures of Susongchang Town, and more than 2,000 people had been arrested for gathering crowds to advocate chaos and resist taxes.
The "achievements" handed in by the arrears settlement departments in various localities show that more than 14 million taels of silver are now in arrears, and more than 4 million stone of grain have been used to offset taxes.
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The richest place in the world, the wealth accumulated must be more than that, Zhou Shixiang asked Jiang Guozhu and Zhang Changgeng to increase the intensity of debt payment, for which he has reformed a Tartar Tanhualang, and also changed the name of Chongzhen Dynasty, the great poet and talented Wu Weiye.
More than 3,000 officials have been dismissed and demoted, and the government offices in many counties have been completely paralyzed, and the debt collection department has replaced the functions of the original government while collecting taxes.
Zhou Shixiang planned to wait for the settlement of debts to be completed, and then change the debt settlement departments in various localities into government offices, so as to implement the direct jurisdiction of the military marshal's office over the localities.
The next step is to promote the establishment of villages and townships, just like Guangdong, to integrate all the population, money, and grain resources in the control areas, and to carry out general mobilization from top to bottom. oshow7 t1706231537: