Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 430 One Year Later

After the Marquis ceremony, everyone retreated.

Zhang Ming has also been busy.

Afterwards, when the autumn harvest came, the warehouse was filled immediately, and at the same time, a lot of taxes and money were collected.

Zhang Ming's economic situation finally improved a lot.

Continue to invest in road construction.

Another few months passed, and Zhang Ming's money began to have a lot of balance.

Farmers in several states have been able to produce by themselves without Zhang Ming's continuous input.

At the same time, they were helped by Zhang Ming before, and in three or five years, most of the food they produced would be handed over to Zhang Ming.

In addition, Zhang Ming also distributed farm tools and food to many people, and they had to pay them back slowly over several years.

There is a lot of money and food collected this year.

Finally, there was a surplus, Zhang Ming's financial crisis was lifted, and the road construction was accelerated. They hired tens of thousands of people to build the road together.

From Youzhou to Qingzhou and then to Xuzhou, there is a large stronghold every few tens of miles, which is then divided into several small strongholds, and these recruited workers have been working there.

Time passed slowly, and Zhang Ming also sorted out all the local officials.

Several cabinet members have also expired in their local positions, and Zhang Ming intends to recall them all.

Chen Gong, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and Jushou went to each state.

There are two main tasks for them. One is to coordinate and guide the work of various departments so that they can take the initiative to play their role.

The second is to clean up the administration of local officials and directly manage each township or even the village, breaking the thousand-year-old tradition of rule.

Those country gentry and bullies have no way to continue to fish and meat the villagers.

It was not smooth at the beginning, because the people were afraid of them. When the government officials were around, these gentry pretended to be good people, and then turned around and bullied the villagers.

After that, Zhang Ming directly sent retired veterans to many villages, and these veterans even organized militias.

Once it was discovered that there were squires and bullies bullying the villagers, these people would take action, so many grassroots places went directly to the village and were directly controlled by Zhang Ming.

In this way, the pressure on the people is greatly reduced, and no one is domineering over them.

Zhang Ming recalled the cabinet, and after a year, the cabinet finally got together again.

"Everyone, you've all worked hard, let's order casually today."

Zhang Ming specially hosted a banquet at the Palace of the General Protecting the Nation, and invited several people.

Everyone was very happy to return to Youzhou and Beiping City.

Everyone ate and drank some wine.

But they are all in moderation, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai are both good drinkers, everyone knows that Zhang Ming may talk about things today, so they didn't drink too much.

Zhang Ming chatted with them and asked them to talk about local difficulties.

Everyone responded that in the local area, the aristocratic family is no longer a climate, and it is no longer possible to intervene in the government. '

But in the local area, the clans are complicated, and there are some gentry and bullies, which are very difficult to deal with.

"On local issues, as long as you don't oppress the people, don't resist taxes and laws, then you can take less care of them. Once we violate our bottom line, we must resolutely send troops to deal with them."

Zhang Ming didn't want to think that he was devoting all his efforts to give good policies to the people. After implementing them, they would directly turn bad in the hands of the people.

Now, the departmental system is supervised by people from top to bottom, so there is no problem in execution.

Zhang Ming still feels that the militia system should be extended to every village.

Being led by veterans who are loyal to themselves can greatly affect the place.

Once the government has any policy, it will notify the militia team. Although they do not have the power to intervene, they have the right to report upwards if there is a deviation in the local area.

They only have the power to report, not the power to intervene, otherwise the militia team will become a new bully, and they also need to be rotated and supervised.

Several people chatted a lot after eating.

Zhang Ming called them to the teahouse again, where they boiled water and made tea.

"I want to start a war against Yuzhou. Do you have any suggestions?"

As soon as the tea was brewed, Zhang Ming asked a somewhat surprising question.

Today, Zhang Ming's army has just finished training, and the war has just ended.

At this time Zhang Ming was about to start a war.

"Tian Feng, tell me about our current financial situation."

Tian Feng sighed secretly, no one could stop Zhang Ming from launching a war.

"My lord, we currently have a balance of more than 600 million yuan, and this year's government expenditures at all levels have been budgeted and distributed to all counties."

"In addition, the national debt borrowed last year has also been cleared, and all the principal and interest have been repaid."

More than 2000 million people really cannot support a war.

However, now that Zhang Ming has repaid all the national debts, he can borrow again at any time.

Money is not a big issue.

Zhang Ming has plenty of money.

"Okay, the money problem has been solved. There is really a gap in the amount of money that can be shipped from Fusang. Now that the bank has stabilized, a part of it can be moved."

"If it doesn't work, just borrow the national debt."

Zhang Ming added: "Military, start preparing now, how long will it take to launch an attack."

Xi Zhicai thought about it and said, "Two months is enough."

"Okay, then Xuzhou doesn't move, the troops of Jizhou and Youzhou attack Yuzhou, and the troops of Xuzhou attack Cao Cao's rear at any time."

Zhang Ming wanted to unify the world as soon as possible, so he wanted to fight as soon as his power was restored.

This is a great burden on the common people. Every year they go to war, which consumes a lot of money and kills many people.

Chen Gong suggested: "My lord, maybe we should develop for a year or two more, popularize Quyuanli, so that the production of the people will not stagnate, and then we will start a war."

There is nothing wrong with this advice.

Zhang Ming took a sip of tea and said, "No, I won't think about cultivating for a few years until I reach the edge of the Yangtze River."

It is impossible to unify within a few years, and the whole world is still divided into several parts.

However, Zhang Ming still has great confidence in unifying the northern region.

It is not difficult to defeat Yuzhou.

Cao Cao didn't have enough strength to defend.

After Cao Ang returned, he suggested that Cao Cao move many people from Yuzhou to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the past year or so, Cao Ang has done a good job, reclaiming a lot of land and planting a lot of grain and grass.

This made Cao Cao very gratified. If it hadn't been for the continuous evacuation of people from Yuzhou and spending too much money, Cao Cao should have begun to expand his army by this time.

This year, Cao Cao at least recovered his troops and did not expand his army much. He really had no money.

At the same time, Cao Cao agreed to return all the tea gardens.

The two temporarily eased up.

Both sides are rapidly recovering their strength.

However, Cao Cao's territory and population cannot be compared with Zhang Ming.

Everyone began to discuss how to attack Yuzhou.

The attack on Yuzhou has entered into substantive discussions, and troops will be mobilized quickly to start the attack.

Zhang Ming planned to mobilize 20 troops to attack Yuzhou, and at the same time let Guan Yu be in Xuzhou to deter Cao Cao's rear with an army of [-], so that Cao Cao's army would not dare to easily support Yuzhou.

Several people discussed for a while, and Zhang Ming asked them to go back and have a good rest for two days before making specific arrangements.

(End of this chapter)