Lord of the House

(Yesterday, I drank too much, and I couldn't even ask for a vacation. Haha, let's upload the previous chapter first)

At night, Lin Fu summoned Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Cao Zi'ang, Sun Jingtang, as well as Ao Canghai, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu, Sun Wenbing, Tang Xitai and others in Fancheng to discuss the matter of the class teacher, and the return to Jiangning was scheduled for the 19th.

At that time, Song Fu also expressed his support for the establishment of another bank for the reward, but the specific matter will not be resolved in detail until he returns to Jiangning, and said with a smile: "The Longevity Palace thinks that there will be some troubles, but I don't want the lord to call and fight. , then it will be completely resolved - Lujiang, Yijiang, Moling and Mingzhou have a lot of public land, but you can take this opportunity to officially convert it into the bank, and then divide it into small fields and sell them cheaply to Shaotian , farmers without land, will help to further restore agriculture..."

Lin Fu said: "I think the Huaidong Army will be divided into non-commissioned officers and generals by rank in the future. This time, the non-commissioned officers will increase the monthly silver but will not be rewarded, and the generals will be rewarded with money shares if they do not increase the monthly silver. You can estimate how much they will need. , then in the name of the Privy Council, on behalf of Huaidong’s generals, I asked the Empress Dowager for a reward…”

Lin Fu continued to describe his thoughts in detail: "The Huaidong Army currently has a total of 300,000 soldiers and horses, of which the most common soldiers are more than 220,000. I think after the extensive deployment is completed , the military service system is implemented for ordinary soldiers. All adults of Ding Zhuang are obliged to join the army and guard the frontier for three to five years, but they still pay out the supplements according to the old rules, which are equivalent to the old system. There are about 80,000 first-level military attachés plus the head of the army and some craftsmen who are skilled in craftsmanship. They are the absolute backbone of our army, and they are also the soldiers who will need standing in the future. I plan to make them They are all included in the ranks of non-commissioned officers, and they are recruited and serve for fifteen to twenty years, or even longer. However, to make the military soldiers permanent, and to give them moon silver, they should be able to support their wives and children. I think about this aspect every year. To increase the expenditure of one million Huaiyuan, it can be improved in the future - this time, the reward for military merit is mainly concentrated on the middle and senior officers above the sentry general. However, the traditional town army has all kinds of drawbacks, presumably everyone They are not as vague as me. Strict laws and laws are necessary, but they cannot be strictly punished. We have many generals whose families live in Jiangning and Chongzhou, and the moon silver that controls the army and brigade commander is only four. Wu Huaiyuan deeply feels that Jiangning and Chongzhou are not easy to live in. This is also one of the reasons why I do not plan to delay the award; I do not want to tearfully behead an old friend after someone can’t resist the temptation to greed and bend the law... "

"Fortunately, the Duke's government also allocated materials to help the officials' households. Otherwise, Jiangning and Chongzhou would not be easy to live in." Gao Zongting also sighed, "The price of rice in Jiangning is still maintained at one yuan, five or six yuan, Huaiyuan, it seems In three or four years, it will not be able to descend; if the family is a little larger, with seven or eight people, the monthly rice grains cost more than three yuan and more than Huai yuan, and it is impossible to talk about the oil, salt and sauce..."

Lin Fu is of course very clear about these situations, otherwise he would not have given extra material subsidies to Huaidong generals and officials in the form of military tickets in addition to the monthly salary, just to let them rest assured about the livelihood of their families in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places. .

Although the current county magistrate's official salary is only more than forty taels of silver, which is equivalent to four yuan of Yueyin, the commander of the Huaidong brigade.

However, when county magistrates take office, they have extra income on the job field, official compensation, etc., as well as the filial piety of local and lower-level subordinate officials, so that their actual income is much higher than the regular salary. A family capable of supporting private officials and private officials. If the local officials are cruel, corrupt and loot the local area, the "three years of the Qing Dynasty, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver" is not fake.

In the camp, the generals seized food and salaries to fill their personal pockets, or set up private checkpoints to extort business travelers, or took empty salaries, and even daring people, teamed up with bandits and looted places from time to time.

If Lin Fu wanted the officials to be clean and disciplined and the military to be disciplined, he couldn't expect the civil and military officers who had the authority and ruled over thousands of people to be at ease with the same annual salary as a beggar, and he couldn't expect their families to be content with the cold and cold civilian life.

Regardless of the civil servants, the most serious corrosion of the military's combat effectiveness in the world is precisely concentrated on the middle and senior generals.

Lin Fu would not think that simply talking about equality would really fill the gap between officials and the people, cold and noble.

What Lin Fu is trying to change now is to abolish the lowly households and low status, and make the people into the commoner class, and the gap between the powerful class and the commoners is obviously not something that Lin Fu can eliminate if he wants to eliminate it...

There were as many as 5,000 generals and officers above Huaidong's post, and they were actually the core supporting force of Huaidong at this time. Not to mention the huge civil service group, after the new empire was built, the more than 5,000 generals and officers of the Huaidong Army Post will inevitably become one of the core forces of the meritorious group.

Under the current tradition, the common people have not awakened at all, how can they expect the meritorious group in power to live the same cold life as the common people?

Xuzhou, Mindong, Jiangning, Shangrao, and Jingxiang were all victorious in all battles. If the land was rewarded for military merit, it would naturally be the main body of these more than 5,000 officers.

Lin Fu would not grant real land, but he used the merit of rewarding land to enter the bank for rewarding things. The purpose is to increase the official salary to a certain level accordingly; it is also to further strengthen the internal cohesion of Huaidong. Just by the way to eliminate the negative impact of Liang's actions.

Lin Bie said with his fingers broken, and said, "At the price of Jiangning, seven or eight people, old and young, live in Yi, eat five or six meals of meat a month, get sick and can see a doctor, get new clothes every year, and their children can go to dormitory school. , I can hire carriages and horses in an emergency..." Lin Fulie counted the standard of living that his generals and children in Huaidong should meet in the past, and asked Gao Zongting, "How much will it cost this month?"

"Generally, fourteen or five Huaiyuan per month is enough." Gao Zongting said.

Lin Fu has always emphasized that Huaidong should abolish the "two" and change it to "yuan", but Gao Zongting and others are still limited by the old tradition, and are used to replacing "silver two" with a nondescript name such as "Huaiyuan".

"The lord really loves his officials. If you want to eat white rice, eat meat, be able to heal the sick, get your children to school, hire cars and horses, and have two hundred acres of land at home, you may not have such a good life..." Song Fu laughed.

Lin Fu smiled indifferently. He lives in a house, eats four or five meals of meat every month, can be healed, his children can go to school, and he can hire carriages and horses in case of emergencies.

This is probably the reason why the world's materials are too poor and the productivity is too backward. After a dynasty's wealthy and rentier classes have expanded to a certain extent, the entire society has become extremely fragile and difficult to maintain. Natural and man-made disasters are only the catalyst and fuse of social collapse; And Hulu aliens invaded at this opportunity, often bringing more complete destruction to the Central Plains.

After Yanhu integrated the various tribes in Yanxi, he controlled more than 400,000 male males of his own family, and the total number of males was just over one million - such a tribe, but able to make a living by looting and feeding, A cavalry team of more than 200,000 people was formed, and the Central Plains Dynasty, which was almost 100 times as strong, was looking for teeth all over the land. The number of Dingkou that was directly damaged by the Yanhu South Invasion was about 8 million to 10 million.

Such historical facts are both heart-wrenching and shameful.

As for the reward for meritorious deeds, Lin Fu only gave general standards, and the specific plan would not be determined until Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others returned to Jiangning after discussing with Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, Sun Jingxuan and others.

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On December 18th, the fertile snow in the north of Fancheng had not disappeared, and the cold wind blew the snow to dryness. Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou, Tao Chun and others entered Fancheng in the afternoon when the wind and snow were intertwined.

The weather was cold and icy, and the original plan to move the capital north to the north was temporarily suspended. Except for the people from Fancheng who had been attached to the army earlier, they moved to grant land near Nanyang City for resettlement. From Xinye to the south of the territory, for hundreds of miles, there is hardly any people in sight.

Today's Fancheng is also a huge military camp. Except for the orderly military horses, there are no other residents. Yuan Guizheng and his party live in the post house coldly and silently, waiting for Lin Fu's summons.

Zhao Mengxiong came to the street on a horse. Whether it was Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou or Tao Chun, they had all seen the young man beside Lin Bing. Now he is an arrogant young man with iron armor and a sword. His riding boots are covered with snow. , with a screeching sound, standing in the courtyard like a tower mountain, and said with a loud voice: "My lord, Lord Wen Yuan and General Tao entered Fancheng, and asked the two adults if the journey is tiring, do you want to rest before discussing the military aircraft?"

"Not tired, not tired..." When Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun entered the city, they knew that Lin Fu would return to Jiangning. How could they be tired on the road?

When Liu Tingzhou came over this time, he was also prepared to fight with Lin Fu face to face and even reprimand Lin Fu face to face, but seeing Lin Fu sending people over to greet Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun, he alone never asked about himself, and he was still in his heart. It was like a piece of thatch, with an indescribable unhappiness.

Speaking of grievances, how can Yuan Guizheng's grievances and grievances with Huaidong over the years be shallow?

"The two adults have been invited, and the carriage and horses have been prepared outside the hospital..." Zhao Mengxiong said, leading the way, asking Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun to accompany him, watching Liu Tingzhou follow with a dark face, and said sideways. , "Who is this lord? My lord only summons Lord Yuan and General Tao to meet. This lord, please wait in the post house!"

Liu Tingzhou seemed to slap him in public, and stood there like a carved stone. He never expected that Lin Bie would humiliate him like this, and the weather-beaten face suddenly turned black and purple.

Yuan Guizheng was also surprised: to talk about the depth of the grievances and the depth of the connection with the imperial family, Lin Fu was more likely to humiliate him. He never expected to call him to meet Tao Chun in the past, and left Liu Tingzhou in the post house. In the middle, he refused to see him - people want face, trees want bark, Liu Tingzhou is now also the censor of the procuratorate and the leader of Henan Xuanfu. It was even more humiliating for him to be absent from the post house.

Although he was surprised, Yuan Guizheng suddenly found out that he had arranged such an arrangement for Lin Fu. Apart from accepting it, they had no room to struggle. He couldn't even say that in order to take care of Liu Tingzhou's face, he would walk away together - he should have done it, but he How can this be done?

Yuan Guizheng pressed Liu Tingzhou's shoulder in relief~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to show that he had to meet Lin Fu; Liu Tingzhou of course knew that not to fight for more conditions with Lin Fu, Xuchang's defense would be extremely difficult, only Tao Chun, who could watch Yuan Guizheng eagerly and treat the matter with a cold face, followed Zhao Mengxiong out of the post house, but he was in a panic. Spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Master Liu..." Ning Yujie and other entourage hurriedly rushed up to support Liu Tingzhou. They all saw the scene just now, and most of them felt ashamed and angry for Liu Tingzhou.

Ning Yujie was a scholar of Huai'an, and he was more aware of the rise of Huaidong and the grievances between Huaidong and Liu Tingzhou.

During the Huaisi War, Lin Fu was the envoy of the Huaidong system, and Liu Tingzhou was the prefect of Huai'an and supervising the grain supply. No matter how many discords happened during Huaidong's tenure, when Liu Tingzhou left Huaidong, it was Lin Fu who supported Liu Tingzhou, Xiao Kuian established Guoyang Town. At least at that time, even if Lin Fu didn't like Liu Tingzhou, he was willing to see Liu Tingzhou rise compared to other officials.

Later, the Hehuai line of defense collapsed, the Changhuai army retreated north, and Dong Yuan entered Huaixi from Hanghu as the envoy. Liu Tingzhou served as Dong Yuan's deputy for a long time, and it was also one of the means for Jiangning to contain Dong Yuan; , Liu Tingzhou went south from Shouzhou to Huangzhou to see Lin Fu, and Lin Fu also greeted Liu Tingzhou with warm words and pleasant words - to say that Lin Fu remembers the fact that the people of Huaixi let Chen Zhihu enter Nanyang, and should not call Yuan to return to power and humiliate Liu Tingzhou, taking 10,000 steps back, Lin Fu also used a fraudulent scheme to take Shouzhou, and he never suffered a loss.

In addition to being angry for Liu Tingzhou, Ning Yujie also felt great doubts and confusion about his future... My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter