The next day, Shang Yi summoned all the people in Mulingguan and announced that Ye Yaoqi would be responsible for the financial transactions and money receipts and expenditures of the entire Guancheng. Any department that needs money must prepare detailed accounts.
The list will be submitted to Ye Yaoqi for review and approval before being submitted to him for approval. If he is not in Guancheng, Ye Yaoqi and Zhou Shiqi can discuss and approve it together.
At the same time, Shang Yi also announced a series of related financial systems. For example, before the project starts, detailed budget statistics must be carried out. After completion, a detailed settlement list must also be handed over. The difference between the budget and settlement shall not exceed 10%, and the settlement shall be based on the settlement list.
The amount must be checked and accepted. For other matters, a detailed list of expenditures must also be handed over to ensure that every money used is clearly recorded. And every month, a financial statement for the month must be issued, and a statement must be issued every year.
The financial statements for the current year shall be disclosed to all relevant personnel, and all accounts shall be made public.
These systems were formulated after careful study by Shang Yi and Ye Yaoqi yesterday and with reference to some modern financial systems. Although Shang Yi is not a professional financial person, as a person in modern society, it is impossible not to
When dealing with finance, you still understand some basic financial common sense. The modern financial system actually consists of three points: budget, audit supervision and transparency of accounts.
Shang Yi certainly knows that a good and perfect system is more important than the right person. Therefore, in addition to having a person he trusts to manage the financial department, it is more important to establish a complete financial system. But
After all, they are two eras, so in the early stages of implementing the system, it is still necessary to have capable people to implement it. Only after all the systems have become a habit can you slowly let go.
Everyone in Guanli did not object to Shang Yi's decision. First of all, the entire Mulingguan is now more like a big family than an organization, and Shang Yi uses his own wife, so there is no reason to object.
Secondly, Ye Yaoqi is usually very likable and is very popular in Guancheng, so no one wants to object. Therefore, it was settled like this.
Then Shang Yi announced that he would prepare to expand Muling Pass. According to Shang Yi's plan, the distance outside the north and south cities would be expanded by 200 steps each, which is equivalent to tripling the entire Guan City. In the future, Muling Pass
Guanguan City will be able to accommodate more than 5,000 soldiers and about 20,000 civilians.
The expansion project will start from outside Beiguan in the first stage, and the land will be leveled to prepare for the expansion. There are now more than 500 Qing prisoners in Muling Pass, and it will not be easy to deal with them for a while. Shang Yi also feels that he will kill them all.
It's too cruel, and Shang Yi has no shortage of heads now, and keeping them is somewhat of a burden. More than 500 people will consume a lot of food every day. Therefore, Shang Yi plans to use all these prisoners to make
In order to expand the city of Guancheng, we should squeeze out all the remaining value of the coolies as much as possible.
After arranging these affairs, in the afternoon of the same day, Shang Yi received an official document from Meng Honggong, the prefect of Qingzhou, asking him to go to Qingzhou to report on official duties. He also invited several Jinyi guards to come and live in Qingzhou Prefecture.
In fact, except for a few people, most officials don't like to deal with Jinyiwei and basically avoid them. But now that Jinyiwei has come under his rule, he can't neglect it, otherwise these guys will be in trouble in the future.
If the court gives you some eye drops, it will be a disaster, ranging from losing your official position to losing your life. Therefore, even though Meng Honggong was unwilling, he could only invite the Jin Yiwei to come to the state capital. It happened that Shang Yi regained Linqu County, although Meng Honggong
He was not Shang Yi's direct superior, but Mulingguan and Linqu County were both under his rule after all, so he invited Jong Yi as well.
At the same time, Shang Yi received another letter, informing him that the batch of Western muskets ordered in Yanzhou had been delivered to Qingzhou, and asked him to go to Qingzhou to pick up the goods and pay. It turned out that when Shang Yi came back from Yanzhou,
He also brought eight members of Da Fulin Zhiyang's family with him. The original plan was to open a shop in Mulingguan, but when the Qing army invaded, Shang Yi sent all eight of them to Qingzhou to escape.
In Qingzhou City, the Lin family also owns the property, so after this batch of muskets was delivered to Qingzhou, they immediately wrote to Shang Yi in the name of Lin Zhiyang to inform Shang Yi that because the world is not peaceful now, they asked Shang Yi to send
The man went to get his musket.
After Shang Yi learned about it, he was also very happy. The guns he ordered were all flintlock guns. The arrival of these guns will greatly increase the strength of the musketeers of the Muling Army. If they can be imitated, then the Muling Army will attack
He has taken another big step in the direction of the modern army. At the same time, he has a new plan in his heart.
So on the next day, Shang Yi took two thousand soldiers, including four hundred musketeers, and also took Sun Heding, Jiyang monk Akonia and Shen Yang and other Jinyi guardsmen to Qingzhou as soon as they arrived.
It was thanks to Shang Yi's firm defense of Muling Pass that Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places were not plundered by the Qing army like in history, although some villages outside Qingzhou City were looted by the Qing army.
Although Guancheng has been looted and looted, it has basically remained safe. Although more than 20,000 refugees have been accommodated in the city, it has basically been able to maintain a relatively stable order. In such a general environment, it is very important that Qingzhou can maintain such a situation.
Not easy anymore.
After Shang Yi and a group of people arrived in Qingzhou, the low-key and peaceful attitude and style of Shen Yang and others also made Prefect Meng feel at ease. It seems that the national situation is difficult these days, and Jin Yiwei's style has also changed a lot.
After everyone was polite, Meng Honggong asked Shang Yi about guarding Muling Pass, defeating the Qing army, and recovering Linqu County. Shang Yi had to briefly repeat it. But he also told Meng Honggong and everyone in the state capital.
I was speechless for a long time. I defeated the Qing army three times in a row, beheaded as many as 7,000 people, and captured more than 500 people. What an achievement it was. It was hard to believe, but from the perspective of Shen Yang and others
From the expression on his face, it was obvious that these military exploits had been reviewed by them. Although Meng Honggong also knew that Shang Yi was an outstanding military commander, he did not expect that he could achieve this level.
However, Shang Yi made great achievements and did no harm to Meng Honggong. At least he was able to save the city. Therefore, Meng Honggong was also very happy and immediately ordered a banquet to invite Shang Yi and others.
After the banquet was over, in the evening Shang Yi took Luo Yuanbin, Sun Heding, Akonia and a few soldiers out of the hotel where they were staying and went to the Lin family's shop in Jingzhou.
At this time, the Lin family's business assistants had also been notified. Alonso was escorting the muskets, and Lin Chen, Lin Zhiyang's chief stationed at Muling Pass, was waiting for their arrival.
After everyone met, it was also a reunion of old friends. Naturally, they were polite again, and then Shang Yi asked how Alonso came to Qingzhou.
It turns out that although the Qing army is now invading, the waterways are still very safe. These muskets were carried by the Lin family's merchant ships and took the sea route around the Shandong Peninsula and into Laizhou Bay. Although they also encountered two pirate attacks on the way, fortunately
The ship was also escorted by 60 Portuguese mercenaries, who defeated the pirates one by one. Finally, they safely entered the interior at the mouth of the Juyang River on the coast of Qingzhou.
In fact, muskets were prohibited items in the Ming Dynasty. However, musket smuggling was so frequent that the court could not control it. Secondly, the Lin family was quite powerful in Shandong, and they were able to enjoy both official and private interests. The government generally would not search their homes.
The boat swam up the river all the way, passing through Guangling Town and Shouguang County, and finally reached Qingzhou.
After a polite conversation, Shang Yi proposed to inspect the goods. Lin Chen and Alonso took them to the warehouse, which was guarded by Portuguese mercenaries. The captain of the mercenaries was a veteran in his fifties.
Under the instruction, he opened the door of the warehouse and led them in. There were thirty or forty boxes of various sizes inside. Alonso opened a box, took out a musket from it, and handed it to the merchant.
Yi.
Shang Yi took it and took a look. The gun was about 1.5 meters long and weighed about 11.2 kilograms. There was a hammer device on the handle of the gun and a clamp to clamp the tunnel stone before shooting.
At this time, he pulled the trigger, and under the action of the spring, the flint was hit hard on the side of the fire door, causing sparks to ignite the gunpowder. This was the early impact-type tunnel gun. Shang Yi tried to pull the trigger a few times.
It feels much more laborious than the automatic rifles of later generations, but this is normal, because the impact tunnel guns of this era rely entirely on impact force to ignite, so the weight of the impact must be strong.
After reading it, Shang Yi handed the flintlock gun to Sun Heding. Sun Heding took the gun in his hand, pulled the trigger, nodded, and said: "This is indeed a self-generated fire gun. I didn't expect that there are such fire guns in the West."
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Shang Yi knew that the Chinese flintlock gun was actually invented in the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635) by Bi Maokang, the right servant of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing at that time. Its structure and performance are not much different from the previous bird muskets, mainly because of the improved firing
The device also uses an impact ignition method, so it is called a self-generating fire gun.
However, compared with Europe, the invention of the flintlock gun in China took fifty or sixty years. Moreover, in another time and space, it was at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Peasant armies in the Pass were sweeping across the north and south, and Manchus were watching from outside the Pass.
, and the national treasury was empty, so although China's self-generated firearms were invented, there were no records of them being used on the battlefield. After the Manchus entered the customs, China's firearms research and development stopped until the Second Opium War.
The matchlock is still the protagonist of the Chinese army. The flintlock can only be used occasionally by the emperor when hunting, and the possibility of further improvement has been lost. It cannot but be said to be a piece of equipment.
At this time, Alonso took out a musket from another box, handed it to Shang Yi, and said in broken French: "Mr. Qian, you are taking a look, this is a new type of flintlock gun."
After Shang Yi took it, he found that this gun was slightly smaller than the previous one, about one and a half meters long and heavy. The firing structure was also much more complicated than the previous flintlock gun, but he tried it.
After triggering the trigger, I found that it saves a lot of effort. It seems that after Europe invented the tunnel gun, it has been perfecting its functions. This is also the reason why the combat effectiveness of European countries has not only increased. Portugal, a small country with nine bombs,
It has been able to dominate the world for nearly a hundred years, and it can conquer the entire North American continent with only 200 arquebusiers. The saying that science and technology is the primary productive force is true in any era.