Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 396 Strategy Serves Political Strategy
"Teacher, you are looking for me."

Yan Zhen rushed to Wenyuan Pavilion in a hurry, and said as soon as he came in: "You just came back from the Northland, you should rest for two more days, and take care of your body."

"Shut up, sit down."

Chen Yunfu waved his hand: "I'm not that old yet, and besides, I've been sitting in the back of the car all the way, and I won't be tired. Sit down and pour tea by yourself."

"In the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer waiters in the palace. It's deserted. If it doesn't work, we'll hire a group of people from outside the palace to come into the palace after a while."

Yan Zhen responded with a smile, and he also knew that Chen Yunfu came to him to talk about this.

Sure enough, after a few more random sentences, Chen Yunfu got to the bottom of the matter.

"The battle at Changmao is almost over. Now everyone is celebrating the New Year in Gyeonggi-do. It is estimated that this year will be the end of the war. Benfu asked you to come with you. Let's calculate this battle. A total of How much money was spent in the treasury."

Here comes the point.

Yan Zhenzhi was not surprised at all. How much money was spent in the Korean War, he naturally had an account in his heart. Before Chen Yunfu returned to Beijing, he, the head of the central bank, had already negotiated with the Ministry of Finance. After the year-end summary of Xihe's second year, now that Chen Yunfu asked, he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Not counting the pension money after the war, let's take the current one first, and the next official will report to the Grand Master."

"In terms of military supplies, the imperial court delivered a total of 100 million shi to Chang Shuai in total, including 570 million shi used by Chang Shuai to help the victims in North Korea and 150 million shi prepared for the southeast navy."

"Based on the market price, this amount of grain is now worth about 430 million taels."

"Counting the transportation of these grains, the imperial court recruited a total of 130 million civilian husbands for eight months, and paid a total of 260 taels of wages."

"In terms of armaments, the cost of various military supplies, weapons and armor is 130 million taels."

"The eight-month wartime military pay and captive rewards have now reached 280 million taels, including the first batch of 20 troops who entered the DPRK to fight, the 37 troops who guarded the Eight Thousand Bridges, and the follow-up troops who entered the DPRK for support. The [-] Army and the [-] Army of the Southeast Navy merged with [-] troops."

"In addition, the 60 cavalry commanded by General Wang Bi successively supplemented the 360 war horses supported by the Monan and Wanquan racecourses. This is a big expense. The current market price of a war horse is about [-] taels, and [-] horses are [-]. Ten thousand taels."

"There are no other expenses. Not counting the post-war casualty compensation, the current total is 460 taels."

Yan Zhenzhi reported a sum of expenses like a few treasures, and finally looked at Chen Yunfu and said: "Master, that's all."

The latter raised his eyebrows.

"that's it?"

"That's all."

"This is not counting the compensation for casualties."

"According to the current statistics of the military department, our army has 7000 dead soldiers and more than [-] wounded. How much is the pension?"

"According to the latest standard, 20 years' salary will be paid at one time for those killed in battle, and five years' salary for those who are injured. At present, the army's salary standard is 340 taels a year. The 150 sacrificed sons are 500 million, and the wounded are [-] million. [-] taels, the combined amount is nearly [-] million taels.”

Chen Yunfu nodded and sighed, "Loyal bones are buried everywhere in Qingshan."

Temporarily putting aside the heaviness in his heart, Chen Yunfu continued: "Are there any other omissions?"

Yan Zhenzhi said seriously: "It's really gone."

"This can be."

"This, really not."

"I said yes."

No matter how stupid Yan Zhenzhi was, he would understand what Chen Yunfu meant. The Chang family would be responsible for this account anyway, so how could you report it honestly.

War accounts cannot be calculated so honestly.

"You are the governor of the Central Bank, and you have earmarked funds for special purposes. The money from the issuance of the war government bonds was entrusted to you by Benfu to spend. You won't be able to spend the money no matter what."

Yan Zhenzhi immediately said: "In order to support this war into North Korea, the lower officials specially allocated five to eight million taels of funds to the National Defense Military Industry Construction Institute for military scientific research projects."

"This excuse doesn't work." Chen Yunfu shook his head and said, "It's too ugly to eat."

Seeing that Yan Zhenzhi couldn't turn his head, Chen Yunfu could only sigh, and taught with his hands: "In order to fight this battle, has the imperial court favored Liaodong with policy and resource support for many years?"

"correct."

"After the war is over, is Liaodong assigned to the Chang family, and Liaozhou is separated from the central government?"

"Ah."

"Then the central government has provided resource support to Liaodong for so many years, including the large sums of money invested by various central ministries and departments. Now, does the new Liaozhou need to repay it?"

Yan Zhen nodded his head half-understood.

"You ask the various ministries and divisions to make an audit report to see how much Liaodong should pay back to the central government. You, the governor of the central bank, first mobilize the war state debt to balance the accounts for Liaodong."

Yan Zhen asked directly: "Then who will the lower officials call for this money?"

"Whoever wants it, you can give it to him." Chen Yunfu said straightforwardly: "If the Ministry of Government Affairs wants you, give it to the Ministry of Government Affairs; if the Ministry of Finance wants you, give it to the Ministry of Finance; After the account has been audited, it will be put into the national treasury."

The money goes around in the account and returns to the treasury. Isn't that the same thing as the left hand and the right hand?

No, with just such a round of effort, wouldn't Chang Mao or the Chang family have a few million more, oh no, it should be tens of millions of taels of debt.

Can you still play like this?
Yan Zhen felt that his decades of economic and political views had completely collapsed at this moment, so he smiled wryly for a long time before nodding.

"Sir, take note."

"Make the account clearer, we have to convince the public to know."

"Yes, grand master, don't worry."

Only then did Chen Yunfu nod in satisfaction, and continued to explain: "In addition, in addition to clearing the accounts, you also need to prepare a repayment plan for Chang Mao. He is a martial artist, so how can he understand economic accounts? After a few years of making ends meet, we ran into a large financial deficit, which made the interior of Liaozhou smoky and the people impoverished, and our central government will have to worry about it."

"Respectfully listen to the instructions of the grand master." Now Yan Zhenzhi knew that his mind could not keep up with Chen Yunfu, so he simply said nothing, picked up a pen and paper and waited to copy.

Chen Yunfu didn't hide it, and talked a lot: "In order to ensure that this debt can be recovered smoothly, your central bank may consider opening a branch in Liaozhou to supervise Liaozhou's finances and claim debts on the spot, and at the same time guide Liaozhou. State's post-war economic recovery efforts."

This is to take over the financial power of Liaozhou in the name of asking for accounts.

Didn't Chen Yunfu say before that he would not interfere with all the powers after the division of Kyushu?

It's not that I didn't intervene, but it's only natural to ask the accountant.

After you pay off the account, the central bank custodian turns around and leaves.

As for when the account can be repaid, how much to repay, and how to repay, it depends on how the central bank prepares the repayment plan for you in Liaozhou.

Under the bright and bright coat, there is actually a greedy and ferocious vampire.

Chen Yunfu said a very meaningful sentence.

"The battle in the battlefield is over, but the battle in another field has just begun."

War is never just an extension of politics.

The original intention of formulating strategies is also to obey the overall political strategy.

Now that the strategic goal has been achieved, is it still far from the success of Chen Yunfu's political goal?

(End of this chapter)