Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 147 Resignation
In April, Li Zhang was promoted because of his meritorious service in purging the Maitreya sect in the capital, but he still served as the chief of the promotion and arrest of robbers.Moreover, the emperor also decided to expand the establishment of the Bureau of Catching and Pirates, and ordered the Bureau of Catching and Pirates to expand the scope of investigation to Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road and Hebei Road, and added a duty of "supervising illegal affairs and foreign affairs". The authority of the secretary has been expanded.

This annoyed the civil servants.Although the emperor's "monitoring of illegal affairs and foreign affairs" originally only referred to cases involving Maitreya, Liao, and Xixia, but as long as the arrest and robbery department is in operation, even officials will be able to monitor. This is intolerable of.So the civil officials began to persuade the emperor with one word, saying that this would cause panic among the people, infringe on the powers of local officials, increase the court establishment, and waste money. "It is inconvenient for officials and people."As a result, the emperor lost the war of words again, and the robber arresting department could only catch the robbers in Gyeonggi.The interests of civil servants are really inviolable at all.

Fortunately, the emperor's proposal to select civilians from all counties in Gyeonggi Province for military service was supported by the new governor Wu Yu, deputy privy envoy Ding Du, supervisory censor Bao Zheng, and others.The most unexpected thing is that the top and bottom of the third division almost agree with both hands and feet, because it saves money by using military service instead of recruiting soldiers, and the third division is now almost driven crazy by the shortage of money and food.

However, doing anything in the Great Song Dynasty Hall will take a few years, and there will be no results without a few back and forth. Li Buqi is not in a hurry and just treats it as a show.

Compared with the emperor who was always hindered in his work, Li Buqi's own affairs were progressing smoothly.People who came back from Dengzhou reported that more than [-] rebels had landed on Tamna Island in two batches, transported dozens of cows, and a large number of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks for breeding.Tamna Island already has local horses the size of donkeys, so donkeys can be temporarily removed.After presenting supplies such as iron pots, agricultural tools, and food to the supreme ruler of Tamra, the "Star Lord", the "Star Lord" was overjoyed and set aside a piece of land for the rebels to cultivate and live in.Li Buqi has taken the first step to expand overseas.

The management report of the distillery revealed a new major customer from Hebei, who bought hundreds of jars of backlogged spirits twice in a row.Li Buqi was relieved after hearing this, it should be that Zheng En had joined the Maitreya Sect and acted according to the plan.

Distilling alcohol will always leave some residual wine that can be called spirits but has no value for continued distillation, but Song people prefer muddy wine with low alcohol content, and spirits are difficult to promote.Relatively speaking, northerners prefer spirits. It is impossible for the Maitreya Sect to have no believers in the Liao Kingdom, so letting the Maitreya Sect sell these wines to the Liao Kingdom is waste utilization.When the people of the Liao Kingdom got used to drinking strong wine, Li Buqi was going to give the recipe for making wine to the Liao Kingdom, which was a great weapon for the funeral of the Liao Kingdom.

The soda ash shipped from Fuzhou has been used in the manufacture of glass and has begun to be sold on the market.These soda ash are recrystallized and purified in Fuzhou according to Li Buqi's method, and the quality is better than most of the soda ash currently on the market.This saves Li Buqi the trouble of recrystallizing the commercially available soda ash by himself, so all the soda ash supply for the glass workshop is handed over to Fuzhou.Therefore, Zhejichang thanked him a thousand times before returning to Shaanxi.

Now the glass is easy to sell.Yang Baishun from this unknown state came to look for Li Buqi again, thinking about getting another batch of glassware back.Maritime merchants are rich, and Li Buqi will never let a rich man go easily.He smiled and asked Yang Baishun: "It's very dangerous for you to go out to sea, the waves are thousands of miles away?"

Yang Wanli said: "That's natural. Every year, there are ships that don't come back. We just use our lives to make money."

Li Buqi said: "It seems that the risk is very high. Since you have made so much profit from the sea, don't you think about doing some low-risk business?"

"That's true. It's just that my family was a maritime merchant, and I wasn't very good at doing other things, so it's just a small business, and it can't make a difference. If you want to buy land, Mingzhou has very little land."

Li Buqi then took the words: "That's like a local rich man who digs all the money he earns and hides it in a cellar?"

"Cough cough..." Yang Wanli choked, gasped for breath, and said, "Going to sea is too risky. To put it bluntly, the ship will sink at some point. In order to make a comeback, we must always prepare a sum of money just in case." one."

Li Buqi said: "Does that mean that your family has a lot of money that is idle and useless? To tell you the truth, next year I want to set up a bank to raise funds for a big weaving business. Make a lot of money. We are also considered acquaintances, and the fat and water will not flow into the field of outsiders, so let me tell you. Your family can choose to invest in shares, or you can choose to save money for interest. The income of shares is greater, and interest can be advanced and retreated freely."

Yang Wanli hurriedly asked: "What's the matter with this bank, please tell me carefully?"

Li Buqi said: "Go to my study and talk. I wrote something, you can read it."

In the study, Li Buqi showed Yang Wanli the "Bank Regulations and Plans" he had written.As the next-generation successor of the Yang family, Yang Wanli is not lacking in foresight. He is keenly aware that participating in the bank is a profitable business, and participating in the bank can help the Yang family open up contacts and develop in other industries.Although maritime merchants make huge profits, they also have great risks. I don’t know when a ship sinks, but decades of hard work are in vain, so I have long wanted to find someone else to make money.It's just that it's not easy for the Yang family to make a big turnaround. Yang Baishun believes that this opportunity should be seized.

But for such a big matter, the head of the family can't be the master alone, so he said: "Tiju, can I take this charter back and discuss it with the family before making a decision?"

Li Buqi said: "I told you that this matter is my temporary idea. There is only one copy of the "Articles of Association and Plan". If you want to take it away, you need to make another copy. In this way, I will send someone to you tomorrow afternoon .”

Yang Baishun still couldn't forget his glassware at the end: "Title, can you give me more glassware this time?"

Li Buqi said: "That's natural. I'll give you a note, and you go to the glass shop." As he spoke, he found another note from a book and handed it to Yang Baishun: "When your ship sails to the sky again, , as much iron as there is in these places. Also, every time some copper is brought back from Tianfang and other places, the copper in the Song Dynasty will be more expensive in a few years."

After approving the note to Yang Baishun, Li Buqi went to Chunze to be supervised for ten days, inspected the progress of the hydraulic loom, and arranged various things. After returning to Bianliang, Li Buqi reported his resignation.

The Song Dynasty stipulated that people with official positions had to set up a separate examination room when they participated in the imperial examination, which was called the "lock hall examination".Those who participate in the lock hall test cannot be selected as champions, no matter how good their grades are, they can only be No. 2, and if they fail to pass the examination, they will be fined ten catties of copper.The most stringent rule is that if an official fails to pass the "lock hall test", he will not be allowed to take the scientific test in the future.

So the melon-eating people who don't know the truth are saying that Li Buqi doesn't even want to be an official, and he is determined to be the number one scholar.But the old foxes who knew the inside story of the officialdom well knew that it didn't matter whether Li Buqi wanted that unranked Hanlin official.However, Li Buqi's early resignation made them feel a strong atmosphere of conspiracy. Those who were thinking about Li Buqi's evil intentions couldn't help guessing what Li Buqi's intentions were.

(End of this chapter)