Chapter 106: Xiong Wencan whose life is thinner than paper
After Xiong Wencan left Beijing, he took a boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and headed south to Fuzhou. He had just taken office. In March, he was promoted to the Imperial Capital of the Right Capital and governed Fujian.
The Imperial Capital of the Right Capital belongs to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and has the right of impeachment.
This authority is not small, and only with it can it be called a one-handed cover, can impeach people, and judge people!
As the governor of the local officials, when he returned to the court, he reported his actions to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and became the Yushi capital before he could serve as the governor.
The chief ambassador can only be in charge of politics. In addition to the governing status of the governor, he has the authority of "admiral of military affairs". So Xiong Wencan's political power, military power, and procuratorial power are in hand, and he has become the first hero in the officialdom of Fujian.
Obviously, the new emperor ascended the throne and couldn't wait to get political achievements. In his opinion, the old wild boar skins outside the pass are temporarily difficult to deal with, and the people of Fujian, who are obviously afraid of the court, are easier to deal with.
Xiong Wencan knows the holy meaning very well, he also wants to do something, so he takes a multi-pronged approach!
Actively build strong boats and guns. Didn’t your Southeast Mansion rely on Hong Maofan’s splint boats? My Fujian navy also invited foreigners to build a splint boat, and it is bigger than the red hair fan!
I rely on artillery to bully my Fujian navy, then we have to cast larger, thicker and more artillery than you, so that you can also taste the bitterness of the previous artillery to my Fujian navy!
I found foreigners, negotiated with them, and asked them to send technicians to prepare a large splint.
As an initial action, Xiong Wencan spent twenty thousand taels of silver to purchase a second-hand Dutch-made plywood ship with twenty artillery on it. The firepower is stronger than that of any Fujian navy warship, which greatly boosted the minds of the Fujian navy.
Taking this opportunity, he cleaned up his home, reorganized the Fujian Navy, leaving behind the skilled and daring soldiers, and drank some soldiers who drink blood, and the officers and soldiers who had a strong reaction from the sailors were cleared out of the Navy and promoted new blood.
Under the great movement, more than 2,000 people were cleared home, and more than 5,000 new people were recruited. Although the number is smaller than before the war, they are more capable.
After , reward silver was issued, officers and soldiers were mobilized, and military training began.
As a high-ranking official, he inspected the military parade everywhere, and he was very concerned about the officers and soldiers.
The effect was good at first, after all, the Fujian Marine Division took a sigh of relief and wanted to find the Southeast Mansion to avenge his revenge.
Your governor dare to come, how can we as soldiers not accompany us!
The military's heart is available, Xiong Wencan is very excited, and he is ready to compete with the Southeast Mansion.
There was also a major earthquake in the officialdom, which dismissed officials who had colluded with the Southeastern government and proved well-documented, and beat other officials.
When the new official takes office, the superior must help him and send him off. Xiong Wencan made a good statement, named him strictly, and played a quasi. The Fujian Right Chief Minister, the Fuzhou Prefect, and the Fuzhou Wei, Dusi and other high-ranking officials were removed. The officialdom atmosphere is new!
New officials took office one after another and informed the southeast government that all export smuggling practices have been curtailed. For example, the southeast government’s rampant looting of fir in northern Fujian has been curbed. Xiong Wencan sent officials to stare at them and not let a single piece of wood go out of the sea!
Prepare for the arrival of foreign technicians and the arrival of the imperial ICBC, the shipyard will be opened and built immediately, using Chinese fir to build splint ships to deal with the Southeast Mansion!
As a big country, I can’t deal with a small southeast province?
Xiong Wencan is full of confidence. The so-called knowing the enemy, he will not fail in a hundred battles. He sends people to act as shipowners and bosses, cross the sea, and inquire about the Southeast Mansion. However, the more he knows, the more surprised he is!
The powerful fleet of the Southeast Mansion and the wealth of the people left a deep impression on the spies, and they all described what they had seen to Xiong Wencan. Xiong Wencan was suspicious at first, but even the master next to him was sent back to say so, and he couldn't help being shaken.
"This is not an ordinary enemy, but a powerful enemy!"
"Before there is a perfect solution, it is not advisable to go to war with it!"
One can do it, how can he do it again, if he loses the battle, it is not as simple as the previous governor Zhu Yifeng's resignation, it is very possible to hack the house and kill the head!
He is cautious, but the memorials reported to the capital cannot be written like this. If the boss above thinks that you are afraid of the enemy, then the time you sit in the position is only a handful.
So it takes time for him to buckle and train his troops, and he also needs money to build a new Great Wall on the sea. He wants five hundred thousand taels of silver in three years!
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"What, did you say that the Ministry of Household only allocated fifty thousand taels of silver?" Xiong Wencan could hardly believe his ears, and kept asking a senior staff member who was in charge of the "run department to get money".
"Exactly!" the staff reluctantly said: "The Ministry of Household said that there is no money!"
Aha, the new emperor came to the throne and asked for money everywhere. In addition to the large expenses of dealing with the old wild boar skin outside the customs, he dug his own grave, got rid of Wei Zhongxian, and abolished the industrial and commercial tax established by the castrated party. Happy with the Jiangnan gentry, even Yan Changwu from the Southeast Mansion gave him a thumbs up! (You don’t need to pay industrial and commercial tax for shopping in the mainland from Southeastern Prefecture)
But the Ming Empire is out of money!
The northern army is short of military pay, how can they win the war?
The Southern Navy has no money~www.wuxiaspot.com~How can we build ships and guns?
Fifty thousand taels of silver to build a quarter of the third-tier battleship of the Southeastern Prefecture (200,000 taels of silver), wait a minute, with the corrupt virtues of the Ming Dynasty officials, only one fifth!
Xiong Wencan is a capable official. He gritted his teeth and decided to do it hard. If he had any difficulties, he would have to go. The central government has no money and the local government spends it!
He knows that Fujian Yuegang has a lot of silver, and people in Fujian who are involved in foreign trade also have more or less silver, and the local treasury has a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, he drove to the Fujian clan and asked for fifty thousand taels of Kuyin to be blocked by his hand-drawn experience!
"Sir, do you want warships or humans?"
Xiong Wencan sighed: "The Southeast Mansion really has Mazu blessing, God won't help me Daming!"
Drought in Fujian Province!
Especially in southern Fujian, there was a severe drought, and the terracotta soil was everywhere, and many villages were eaten up with grass roots and bark.
is actually the new emperor Chongzhen and Ming’s unlucky luck. The weather in the Little Ice Age was extremely cold and disasters occurred frequently. God obviously didn’t give face.
Xiong Wencan can only allocate treasury silver, buy grain, and help the victims. There is no way to talk about building warships and guns.
However, food prices are high everywhere (it is not entirely because the merchants are making money, but the droughts, floods and locusts are plagued everywhere, and the people have no food). If you have money, you may not necessarily buy food. What you can buy is also high-quality and inferior. Officials hand in hand, the food sent to the local area is a drop in the bucket, and there is a lot of grit. It is food but soil. The people are in chaos, eating Guanyin soil and peeling the bark for food, the dead are in the wild, and the children are eaten!
Suddenly there was an incident reported to the governor’s office. After hearing this, Xiong Wencan's expression changed slightly, and finally sat down with a decadent gesture and waved: "There is no livelihood for the people, let them go!"
The Southeast Government has launched a large-scale deployment to recruit 100,000 hungry people from all over Fujian Province to go to Taiwan for cultivation!
