bestfiction Chapter 130 Simple Things to Do.
Chapter 130 Simple Things to Do.
The morning passed just like that.
Wei Qing listened for a moment, her face flushing even more.
Seemingly to hide his discomfort, he immediately glared and angrily rebuked:
"To indulge in lewdness in broad daylight, without any shame!!"
Ji Yingying blushed as well, but seeing her reaction, she said disdainfully, "You were actually enjoying listening to it yourself..."
"Hmph, you faithless devil!"
"Heh... I didn't agree to anything..."
Wei Qing rolled her eyes at her and turned to attend to her business.
Ji Yingying rested her chin on her hand, listening quietly to the sounds inside.
"She seems to be in a lot of pain, she keeps screaming. Ha, the little princess is useless. If it were me, I certainly wouldn't be afraid of pain..."
Seemingly remembering something, she blushed and turned to leave.
Yingying obviously has a job; she's the president's secretary.
So, they all actually have their own jobs here.
Gu Qinghan is the president's wife, Ji Yingying is his secretary, Wei Qing is the co-director of the Supervision Department and the Criminal Department, and Yin Ziping is the director of the Medical Department.
When Ji Canghai first arrived, he was the head of the security department.
Although he doesn't have to do any work.
At noon, after Xu Tianyi's careful care, Gu Qinghan was tired and sleepy, and refused to go out to work.
Xu Tianyi, after dawdling for a while, finally arrived at the City Lord's Government Office.
To put it bluntly, missing a morning of work isn't a big problem for the CEO.
The table was covered with documents, and officials stood around it.
He is a man of plans; while his harem is important, his career is equally important.
From yesterday when I met Yue Shan until today, only one day has passed.
Ji Yingying has already organized these memorials.
Below, a group of officials, led by Liu Qingfeng, began to bow.
It must be said that it's always better to cultivate your own officials.
Liu Qingfeng rose from an ordinary schoolteacher to become the current junior prime minister, thanks to Xu Tianyi's education and his own ability to apply knowledge to new situations.
To pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, one's intelligence is absolutely reliable.
You know, memorizing those Four Books and Five Classics, plus a whole bunch of other documents, is really difficult.
To be honest, Xu Tianyi's level of education was not very high.
Most of the items on the table involve a large number of numbers.
If you asked him to calculate the accounts of others who hadn't submitted false reports, he really wouldn't be able to figure it out.
Therefore, these are all verified by a professional finance department.
He just looked at the answer.
The treasury currently has more than 150,000 taels of silver remaining.
The debt is over 380,000 taels.
The total number of officials in the eleven counties of Northwest China was over three thousand, and there were approximately thirty thousand temporary workers.
It sounds outrageous, but it's actually far from enough.
More than 3,000 people are on the payroll and receive salaries.
Temporary workers are considered interns; their wages are very low, and most of them don't have much chance of promotion.
For example, among constables and yamen runners, only the leader was a permanent employee; the others were all temporary workers.
Therefore, the expenditures on officials were not high.
In terms of engineering, craftsmen only receive wages once they reach a certain level, and there are also rewards for inventing useful machinery.
For example, steam trains, steam waterwheels, and steam farm vehicles.
Therefore, many of the Ministry of Works staff were from the Shen family or were recruited from various places.
The Ministry of Works' expenditures were actually quite large.
The Ministry of Commerce is for making money; it doesn't need to spend money.
The finance department doesn't need to spend money on tax collection.
The Criminal Investigation Department occasionally issues rewards without incurring any expenses.
The Ministry of Agriculture's expenditures were initially very high, but now that spring planting has long ended, there are naturally not many expenditures left.
The medical school also makes money and is in a balanced state.
The lion's share still belongs to the military.
A force of 20,000 men, along with 100,000 auxiliary troops, is very expensive.
After next month's salary is paid, I'll have almost used up all my money and supplies.
The grain is doing well; the autumn harvest is just around the corner.
The money is already heavily in debt.
The main reason is that Xu Tianyi established a silver exchange, and he still has a large reserve of over 100,000 taels of silver, which will be gone after he pays his salary.
For many people, he simply issues a stamped banknote.
His bank is currently only open in eleven counties. There is no interest paid on deposits, only banknotes. However, officials will issue them passes to ensure their safety and convenience, and taxes can be reduced or exempted.
So, the whole afternoon was spent discussing how to make money.
Xu Tianyi had no business sense whatsoever; he simply sent people to find unscrupulous merchants, the kind who were ruthless and made their fortunes quickly.
Taking advantage of the situation, Ji Yingying was instructed to prepare to set up a department to kidnap people.
If you're not familiar with someone, just snatch them over to work.
The target is Zhongzhou, but I'm not familiar with it anyway.
Taking the opportunity, Wei Qing was also asked to secretly inquire about the unscrupulous merchants captured by the Imperial Guard. Although these people were ruthless and cunning, they were definitely very capable.
With so many inventions produced by our own Ministry of Works, there's definitely potential for growth.
Xu Tianyi gave a simple suggestion, and people quickly produced the simple necessities for time travel, such as salt, cement, wine, soap, and perfume.
So making money isn't actually that difficult.
As long as you have the ability to hold your ground, you'll make a fortune.
After a series of tasks were completed, only an hour had passed.
They all understood Xu Tianyi's style of doing things.
Xu Tianyi always manages to offer very constructive opinions and make very good decisions.
Xu Tianyi easily solved the problems they struggled with by addressing them at their source.
Knowing people and making good use of them is the key to governing a country.
If you don't have money, find someone who can make money.
If they don't come, we'll have them arrested.
Seek a doctor when there is a plague.
If you cause trouble, go to the Ministry of Justice; if they make a wrong judgment, you can just pay compensation to settle the matter.
If you really can't understand something, go and investigate on the ground, ask the people and officials, and the conflict can be resolved quickly.
For example, if the people jointly sue the officials, they will be dismissed, whipped, and imprisoned. The people will be appeased first, and then the officials will be reassigned or beheaded depending on their situation.
Many of Xu Tianyi's affairs involved conflicts between officials and ordinary people.
To put it bluntly, he was more on the side of the officials, since the common people were still relatively ignorant and he was short of manpower.
The people just wanted an attitude. I gave an attitude and then severely punished the officials. After a month or two, the people forgot about it.
As a ruler, what he wanted was stability of the people's hearts and the trust of the officials.
This is also why he often goes to the countryside. There are more problems and more troublemakers in towns and villages. If you side with the troublemakers, you won't be able to control them, and they might even think you're a saint who's easy to bully.
. . .
Around 3 p.m., he prepared to go and check on the situation at the military camp.
It is estimated that Yue Shan and others have already discussed and come up with a plan.
But just as he got up, Manager Hu and Yue Pingzhi arrived.
Clearly, a new plan to deal with the massive snowfall has been developed.
Xu Tianyi was very interested and immediately sat down to listen to their explanation...
(Thank you all for the gifts. Please forgive me for not being able to thank everyone individually. I am currently at my hometown and using my mobile phone, many functions are not working.)
People say the early episodes of the storyline were problematic due to the concept of soul transmigration, so I plan to go back and revise them after the New Year.
I will also revise any points raised by readers that have drawn questions.
I will also respect readers' suggestions when writing books.
Ultimately, some people like the romance scenes, while others don't, feeling that the protagonist should focus on their career.
Some people also dislike the struggle for supremacy.
In short, the plot will be logical and smooth.
Romantic scenes will be interspersed, but not all the time.
The story continues with the conflict between the Crown Prince and Xu Tianyi, the story of the little fox and Sheila in Twilight Valley, Wuchen's plan for the Dragon Hidden Cave, and finally, the destruction of all things in Jukuzhou, the conflict and contradictions among the three religions, and the theory of salvation, etc.
In addition, there are the conflicts and love choices between Shen Miao and Hu Wei, the downfall of the King of Chu, and the deep affection of the King of Qi, among other plot points.
Expanding further, there are also storylines about the Sun Wheel Kingdom, the Fire Luo Kingdom, the invasion of Kunlun, the destruction of the grasslands and the unification of the world, and so on, which can be written.
I definitely have an idea, but I'm afraid I won't be able to write a million words, so I've been writing a bit slowly lately.
I know that writing slowly will affect everyone's enthusiasm for following the updates, but if I write too fast, it will also be boring.
The previous book started to fall apart around chapter 200.
This book actually didn't earn as much as the last one, but I had no choice but to grit my teeth and write it anyway.
If more than 3% of people still follow along after 500,000 words, then we'll aim for one million.
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