A dozen or so miles outside the southern gate of the capital of the King of Wu, a river passes by, and the area around the mouth of the river there has seen an increase in the number of residents around the mouth of the river because of the increase in the number of ships moored there in the last two years.
At the beginning of last year, the government will be here on the riverbank wharf overhaul, so that the wharf can moor more ships, and in the wharf side of the press installed and the same wooden loading and unloading of the South Port, this wooden lifting can be rotated to change direction, can be lowered to raise hooks to hang the goods, similar to the later generation of cranes. Such a loading and unloading machine to be operated by manpower, but compared to completely manpower up and down the goods, to save much energy. In addition to the construction of wharves, also built the road to Kangcheng, the road is very open, enough to six horses running side by side, two horse-drawn carriages easily staggered.
Since the government remodeled the wharf, the flow of people here has increased dramatically. In addition to caravans trafficking goods, is here to find a livelihood of civilians, people gather, there will be business opportunities, inns and small restaurants, teahouses began to appear, permanent residents also began to increase, the outline of a small town began to appear, there is a small mound of soil near the mouth of the river, called the high hemp land, people call this place for the high hemp ferry.
The Gomasan land is now surrounded by a high wall, within which are military barracks. The small mound of earth in the past has been turned into a climbing place for soldiers to train their physical strength. Now on the small mound of earth, stood a dozen people, the center of a few people are wearing general uniforms, when the first take binoculars to observe the mound under the soldiers drill officer, the tallest figure.
"Not bad, it's necessary to strengthen the soldiers' ability to co-operate." Chu Chao Hui put down his binoculars and was satisfied with the performance of the soldiers drilling around the mound.
"Reporting to the Great General, the next training program is the cooperation between the various types of soldiers." The commander of the Gao Ma military camp reported his progress to Chu Chao Hui.
"Report the training steps to the staff for study." Chu Chaohui led the crowd down the mountain, giving orders to the commander as he walked.
Chu Chaohui is the military prime minister of Wu, last year the hussar general retired, the general position will give up, Chu Chaohui now set the military prime minister and the general as a body, completely mastered the military power of Wu. However, although Chu Zhaohui for the military head, the face of things but not authoritarian, especially in training, always humbly consult this time and space have combat experience of the general.
Dong Sima and South Sima because did not stand firmly in the side of Ulsan in the Ripple Rebellion, after returning to the royal capital, there are many nobles in the royal court impeachment of the two, the two are ashamed to submit a resignation, Zheng Yuming pretend to stay a few times and then allowed, Chu Chao Hui was appointed as the prime minister of the military after the establishment of the military staff department, the department of the military staff only, not to command the army, in fact, is the Chu Chao Hui's think-tank. Chu Chao Hui will have combat experience in the king of all the officers into, since the chief of staff, to the Hussar General, East, South Sima these generals, according to the title of deputy chief of staff, so that they play the heat.
The Hussar General and the Eastern and Southern Secretaries of State had good titles and were able to participate in the military and political affairs of Wu, and each was very satisfied and did his best as a counselor.
Chu Chao Hui before touring Gao Ma military camp, in the morning has first visited the cavalry camp on the west side of the king's capital, Gao Ma Di military camp here after the tour, it is already in the afternoon. Outside the royal capital Kang city built two military camps, one for the cavalry camp that can accommodate 10,000 horsemen, and one for the Gao Ma Di infantry camp, which is a military camp that can accommodate 20,000 soldiers. Both camps were not full, the cavalry battalion had only 5,000 horses, but there were more than 8,000 riders, and the riders who didn't have horses first rode the worn-out horses for training, and then replaced them later when the northwest counties sent back their horses. Infantry battalion of fifteen thousand soldiers, of which five thousand soldiers recruited into the barracks is not yet full of three months, the barracks of the training of new recruits is very heavy, after the third day of the first month of the first month of the soldiers return from vacation will be put into the intensity of the training.
"Great General, do you want to go around the ferry?" Chu Chao Hui's chief of guards immediately suggested when he saw that his chief was hesitating after leaving the barracks.
Outside the barracks were three forks, one leading to Kangcheng and the other to Gaoma Ferry. Gao Ma ferry fishermen, Gao Ma ferry side of the river is a big river, the river is not all frozen in winter, fishermen knocked open the frozen river, rowing wooden boat to the middle of the river to cast nets to catch fish, will catch the fish on the shore of the ferry to sell, come to buy a lot of people to buy fish, some of them are the servants of the big families, some of them are specializing in the sale of fish for a living traders. When Chu Chao Hui came to inspect the military camp in Gao Ma Di, he would always go to the ferry to take a look, and when he saw that there were big fish that Zheng Yuming liked to eat, he would buy them and bring them back.
Gao Ma Ferry at the river is rich in fish, with a new type of fish net, fishermen fishing easy, harvest, coupled with the fishermen to pay very little tax, the market demand is strong, the fishermen's income is very substantial, to join the ranks of the fishermen of the civilian population is increasing, most of these people became permanent residents of the ferry.
"Hmm! Go and take a look, if there are big fish of 40 or 50 pounds, we'll buy them and go back to the city to eat fish hot pot." Chu Chao Hui nodded, and the twenty or so guards around him immediately cheered, fish fillets dipped in spicy sauce were their favorite.
Chu Zhaohui and the guards and his entourage rode on horseback on the ferry street, pedestrians on both sides of the road have saluted towards this team of men and horses, the residents of the ferry are the most respectful. Massachusetts ferry without high walls to protect, rely on the nearby military camp shelter, the military camp at night are on duty soldiers patrol, close to the military camp of the ferry village is also included in the patrol range of the military camp, although the residents of the ferry is getting richer and richer, but there is no thief dares to come to here to rob. Although the residents of the ferry are getting richer and richer, no criminals dare to come here to rob. The residents of the ferry are very grateful to the military camp.
Chu Zhaohui went to the ferry luck, just ran into a fisherman hit two more than forty pounds of bluegill, Chu Zhaohui let the guards will be the two bluegill all buy, with a sack mounted on the horse back to Kangcheng.
"Where did the Prime Minister's Office go." Chu Chao Hui returned to the Prime Minister's Office and Zheng Yuming was not in his office.
"The Prime Minister has gone on a tour of the Chambers." The guard replied. Nambu's money bank had opened branches in Kangcheng, Northwest County, and Southeast County.
"Give the fish to Steward Su to deal with, today our courtyard will all eat fish hot pot in the evening." Chu Chao Hui pointed to the sacks on the horse's back in the courtyard.
"Yes! Great General!" The guards were happy, and happily summoned people to send the green fish to the kitchen to be handed over to Su Woman for cooking.
Chu Chao Hui went into his room to take off his armor and just changed into his regular clothes, when he heard a sound in the courtyard, he thought it was Zheng Yuming coming back and hurriedly went out to meet him.
"My lord!" In the courtyard was Huo Sihua, who was already fifteen years old after the New Year and was dressed in a tender yellow dress that was eye-catching.
"Where is Si Hua going?" Chu Chaohui looked at Huo Sihua dressed for a night out.
"Your Honor, Si Hua went to the Wei Mansion." Although Huo Sihua had been adopted at the age of nine for the two Zheng Chu men, he had too much respect for the two men he had raised.
"Did Si Hua have a good time?" Zheng Yuming's voice came from behind the two, he had just walked in through the door, followed by Da Niu and the guards.
"My lord!" Huo Si Hua turned toward Zheng Yuming and cracked a smile. "I'm glad that I met the two seniors on this trip and debated over drinks at the Wei family garden at noon."
"Who won?" Zheng Yuming had a sense of pride in Huo Sihua that a daughter in my family was growing up.
Huo Sihua pursed her lips and smiled, not saying anything, but Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui both guessed that it must be Huo Sihua who had the winning edge.
"Which two seniors are they?" Chu Chao Hui felt that Huo Sihua's expression was a bit daughterly and delicate, and suddenly had a thought in his mind.
"It's second year schoolchildren Yang He and Fu Chou." Huo Sihua thought for a moment and added, "The two schoolmasters want to bring their families to Wu, and Sister Wei's uncle has already promised to help."
"Oh, bringing family members here, this is a good thing!" North Academy and South Academy's previous top five students, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui are very concerned about, these people will be the vast majority of the reserve officials later on, for these students with excellent grades, Director of Intelligence Huang Zhong there has established a file early on.
Chu Chao Hui stroked his chin and pondered in his heart, that Fu Chou seems to have given up on revenge.
Fu Chou thought he had kept his origins well hidden, but when his excellent grades caught Zheng Chu's attention, his origins were found out by Huang Zhong. The file sent by Huang Zhong was labeled as dangerous and recommended an immediate arrest. After reading the file, Chu Chao Hui only authorized close surveillance.
Chu Chao Hui remembered the shadow of Fu Chou's uncle, the king of the Tang Dynasty, who was defeated in the battle of Shan Au on the coast of the East China Sea, and took away only the strong and healthy Huben, leaving behind the auxiliary soldiers who were weak and waiting to die and the wounded and disabled Huben. Fu Chou's uncle refused to leave his elder brother's body behind and risked being killed by the enemy to stay behind to look after his brother's remains. Chu Chao Hui had respect for this Tang Huben when he heard about it. The shoes that Fu Chou's uncle wore to carry his brother's body home were a gift from Chu Chao Hui. Thinking of that sentimental and righteous Tang Huben, Chu Chao Hui gave Fu Chou a ray of hope, only to see if Fu Chou can wake up and eventually recognize the real father killer. Now it seems that Fu Chou has subconsciously identified with the Wu Kingdom, and if he doesn't, he won't pick up his relatives from the Tang Kingdom.
That day the dinner of the Prime Minister's Office, the guards on duty all enjoy a fish hot pot with their masters, the wild big fish is very delicious, everyone ate to their heart's content, only the wood is very dissatisfied. Because only it can not satisfy the mouth and stomach, its master only begrudgingly gave two slices of fish, no matter how the wood rolled and pampered, how to growl in a low voice to threaten, the people with dinner are indifferent. Until the end of the dinner, the wood see no hope, only unwillingly ate all the chicken in his dog bowl.
"Come and take a look at these sets of molds, which set is better?" After dinner, Zheng Yuming returned to his office and took out three sets of sample plates and handed them to Chu Chao Hui to pick.
"This is the currency of the future?" Chu Chao Hui took the mold and looked at it carefully.
"Yes, the largest currency uses pure gold, one gold coin is equal to one gold of the present Great Qin, the weight is reduced and the purity is increased. For the others, silver, copper, and iron coins are used; the silver coins are divided into one hundred, fifty, and ten dollars; the weight of the one hundred dollar silver coin is ten grams, and the other coins are reduced in proportion. Five and one dollars are copper coins, and fifty, twenty, ten, five, and one cent are iron coins. One gold unites five hundred silver coins." Zheng Yuming pointed to the mold for Chu Chao Hui to explain, Wu urgently need to regulate the currency, there is no fixed amount of currency, merchants always carry a small scale and scissors on their person, cut off the metal scales to weigh, it is very inconvenient.
This time and space silver as a precious commodity did not become currency circulation like gold, Zheng Yuming sent people to explore the silver mines in Wu, then the idea of silver, silver as currency, can save the copper and iron to the industrial use.
"It's best if we can use paper money instead." Chu Chaohui wanted to save all the metal to build weapons.
"This can't be done, all of Qin uses metal as currency, Wu's financial strength is not yet at the point of unifying the world, if you use paper money now, that will not be recognized by anyone." Zheng Yuming shook his head no.
"The gold coin uses Gongzi Guang's avatar on the front?" Chu Chao Hui could see at a glance that the gold coin avatar was similar to Gong Ziguang, and jealousy grew in his heart.
"Yes, the gold coins use Gongzi Guang's avatar, without Guang, there would be no current Wu." Zheng Yuming looked at the avatar sadly. "Today, after I finished my tour of the money bank, I visited Wei Shen in the countryside and showed him the mold, Wei Shen stared at Light's avatar, and the whole person seemed to come to life."
Wei Shen since Gongzi light coffin buried, in the mausoleum beside the hut guard, let Wei Ren Wei Ci two brothers and Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui non-stop persuasion are unwilling to leave, the whole person describes the haggard, demoralized.
"Will Wei Shen go out of his service?" Chu Chao Hui's feelings towards Gong Zi Guang were very complicated, on the one hand he was very annoyed that Gong Zi Guang was infatuated with Zheng Yuming, on the other hand he was very sympathetic to the unlucky prince. For Wei Shen, who doted on Gong Ziguang, there was only pity.
"Maybe, the hurt is too deep, it can't come out overnight." Zheng Yuming was eager for Wei Shen to regroup, Wei Shen was very capable of governing.
"Then choose this set." Chu Chao Hui chose the currency with the military flag of Wu on the reverse side, the military flag of Wu was a golden dragon containing a fireball. Chu Chao Hui wanted to turn the military flag into a national flag, completely erasing the tradition of using the general's surname as the military flag, and also erasing the existence of the king's flag.
"I also favor this set." Zheng Yuming rejoiced, and once again, their minds coincided.
In the third year of King Sheng of Wu, Wu issued a new currency, unified the weights and measures in the country, formulated a national flag, a military anthem, and simplified the script by adopting the Kangcheng accent as the written voice. This was the year that Wu enacted the most reform measures, all of which were published in the Wen Wei Po. In June, the president of the South College in Dacheng founded the South Newspaper. Wen Wei Po was the sole leader for less than two years and had a competitor.