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Li Ye didn't have much contact with Zhang Hao, but Zhang Hao left a deep impression on Li Ye on a small matter. During Li Heng's reign, King Li Zhen of Qi launched a rebellion and was suppressed. He killed a group of people and implicated many people. Ministers, including Zhang Hao.

Why was Zhang Hao implicated? Zhang Hao rented the house of Li Zhen, a dignified prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. He even rented the house. This shows that he was an honest man and could not afford a house in Chang'an. At that time, Chang'an had just been recaptured. It was a room in Chang'an. The cheapest time.

The rich and powerful businessmen were all selling their houses. A good location cost several thousand guan per acre during the Tianbao period. At that time, you could buy it for a few hundred guan, but Zhang Hao couldn't afford it. He was an honest official and his family had no accumulated wealth.

Secondly, it also shows that this person is upright. In times of war, is it not easy for a prime minister to restore his house? If you take a fancy to a house, you can find any reason, such as serving for the bandit army, demoting the owner to Lingnan and being exiled to the army. The house will be confiscated and then auctioned at a low price, and you will get the house.

But Zhang Hao had never done this before, which shows that he was an upright man, known as Zhang Tietou, and dared to contradict the emperor.

To be honest, Li Ye doesn't like people who are too upright. Yan Zhenqing and Zhang Hao are both known for being tough-headed, but Li Ye needs such loyal and upright ministers. If the two of them oppose a policy, there will definitely be a problem. Something wrong.

Of course, Li Ye also treated Zhang Hao well and arranged an official residence for him. Now the salary of a court official is also very generous. In addition to the normal official monthly salary, there are also lumi and material money. The monthly salary is salary, and material money is various kinds of money. Subsidy, Lumi is the year-end bonus.

There are also various benefits, including money to cool down in the summer, money to keep warm in the winter, and staff salaries can be reimbursed. There are also benefits in kind during the New Year. For example, during the New Year, the prime minister level will receive 200 sheep and 200 shi of rice. , Naturally, local officials also paid tribute to various local specialties.

For example, when Zhang Hao was appointed as the official of the political affairs hall, his monthly salary was 80 guan, and the monthly salary was 120 guan. There was also a year-end bonus, which used to be Lumi, but now it is discounted to 1,000 guan.

Li Ye's salary is different from before. In the past, the imperial court's salary was a little money and a lot of rice, and there was also a job field subsidy. Li Ye's salary was a lot of money, a little rice, but no land, that is, officials had no job fields. For example, Zhang Hao, the former prime minister's monthly salary was only Eight guan of money and three guan of various subsidies, but the Prime Minister has 1,200 acres of farmland. Calculated, he has an income of about 2,000 guan a year.

Now calculated, Xiangguo has an income of 3,500 yuan a year, and his income has increased by 70%.

If Zhang Hao retires, except for the salary, other monthly salary, year-end bonus and benefits will remain unchanged.

Of course, the expenses of the prime minister's government are also large. The monthly salary of maids, maids, servants and staff can be reimbursed, but not all of it is reimbursed. There is a limit. Li Ye stipulated that the maximum number of staff of the prime minister is five people, and each person is reimbursed per month. Ten guan of money can be reimbursed for 50 guan of money. If you have to hire seven or eight staff to clean up the guests, you will have to bear the extra money yourself.

But what if you only hire three staff? Of course you can, but the money saved will not be given to you. This is reimbursement, and you will be reimbursed in real terms.

Li Ye believed that important officials should have staff. In order to prevent senior officials from not hiring staff and misappropriating staff money for other purposes, he did not provide subsidies, but used actual reimbursement. The qualifications and background of the staff must be reported to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for record. It also prevents officials from making clever excuses, such as using their own sons as staff to defraud the court of subsidies.

In addition, if an official does not make mistakes and works conscientiously as an official for a lifetime, he will not only receive a normal salary after retirement, but also a land for leisure. The Prime Minister has a thousand acres of farmland, which can be regarded as a family property left to him.

Zhang Hao and three other people came to the imperial study. Li Ye asked them to sit down and asked Zhang Hao with a smile: "Isn't it easy to resettle the population of Liaodong?"

Zhang Hao smiled bitterly and said: "Fortunately, the main reason is that basically all their young and strong men died in the battle, and the rest are women, old and young. According to His Majesty's request, the young women were given to the Liaodong soldiers and the Western Regions soldiers for marriage. "

Li Ye nodded and asked Wei Jiansu, "Have all the women who were married to the Western Regions been sent away?"

Wei Jiansu smiled and said: "We have been sent away a long time ago. We should go to Anxi and Beiting now."

"Is there any problem on the road?" Li Ye asked again.

"It went very well. We prepared thousands of carts. This time there were more than 70,000 women. Anxi and Beiting couldn't use so many, so Longyou, Shuofang and Hexi all participated. The feedback from Longyou and Hexi was very good. Well, let’s say we have solved their big problem and the soldiers can get married and start families.”

Seeing Zhang Hao's embarrassed expression, Li Ye smiled and said, "This must be Zhang Aiqing's first time doing this kind of thing!"

Zhang Hao sighed and said: "Your Majesty can't feel it. When we made the announcement, those women were shouting and screaming. Some wanted to hang themselves, some wanted to jump into the river, some wanted to fight for their lives. The minister beat dozens of women who made too much trouble and beat them five times in public. Shibanzi, those women don't dare to make trouble anymore, it's obvious that they don't want to, but there is nothing they can do, and Wei Chen doesn't know if this is a crime or a good deed. "

Zhang Li said with some dissatisfaction: "These women must be married off. Is it possible for this place to bear the burden of raising them as widows?"

Li Ye waved his hand and said with a smile: "Their resistance comes from the fear of the unknown. Once they remarry, have a new family, or even have children, they will fully adapt. For them, it is a good deed. This is our The Han people are moral and treat them well. If the barbarians plundered the Han women, most of them would have died before reaching the grasslands. However, we gave them a chance to live a new life and did not even let the army invade them collectively. This is probably unheard of since ancient times. !”

Zhang Hao nodded, "This is what I admire most about Your Majesty. He captured 170,000 women and was able to restrain the soldiers from violating them. It is indeed unprecedented. Of course, it was also because it was announced in advance that these women would be given to the soldiers as wives. The soldiers With the expectations, Wei Chen was a little resistant at first, but later he figured out that the needs of the soldiers were the most important. They had to marry anyway, and marrying farmers in the Central Plains was not as good as marrying soldiers guarding the border. "

"Does Zhang Aiqing have anything important to report to me?"

Zhang Hao quickly leaned forward and said: "Wei Chen wants to report on the administrative jurisdiction issue. Currently, Liaodong is divided into Yingzhou and Yanzhou, western Liaoning is divided into Xizhou, Songzhou and Liaozhou, while Bohai State is divided into three prefectures, Longquan Prefecture, Bohai Prefecture Gao Hongwei, Yang Chengqing and Wang Jian were all appointed as governors in the Mansion and Binhai Mansion. These were not big problems. However, Wei Chen believed that it was still necessary to set up an observation envoy's office, which would be effective in controlling Liaodong, especially in monitoring the Bohai area. It’s good, after all, the military can’t interfere in government affairs.”

Li Ye nodded, "This suggestion is very good. I have also considered establishing the Liaodong Road. Wei Xiangguo and the Political Affairs Hall will discuss it and formally come up with a specific plan!"

At noon, in the evening snow courtyard of Danfeng Restaurant, Li Ye invited Wei Jiansu and the others to dinner. For the first time, Li Ye did not order the same thing as the third one, but instead ordered rice and mutton soup, and a pot of wine.

In the Tang Dynasty, the meal system was still divided, and everyone ate their own food. Even if they sat at the same table, they would not eat together. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that it was officially changed to the shared meal system today.

Whether or not you should talk while eating varies from person to person. People from wealthy families are more disciplined and don't talk during meals. After the meal, everyone starts chatting during tea time.

Ordinary people don't have so many rules. They eat, drink, talk and laugh, and are more down-to-earth.

After lunch, the palace maid brought tea, and the four of them drank tea while chatting about Silla affairs.

This is equivalent to a kind of retreat, not formally talking about government affairs, just chatting, but from chatting, you can also understand the emperor's intentions and attitude.

Li Ye took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Those who are small but do not feel humble, are small but do not fear the strong, are rude and insult their neighbors, are greedy and clumsy in friendship, will perish. I am talking about Silla. At the beginning, If not for the timely rescue by the Tang Dynasty, it would have been destroyed by Baekje and Japan. After being saved, it was ungrateful and continued to harass the Tang army, secretly instigating the Baekje survivors to rebel, and finally forced the Tang Dynasty away, and used the Anshi Rebellion to annex the Anshi region of the Tang Dynasty. Dongdu Protectorate, such a small country should perish. "

Wei Jiansu smiled and said: "Didn't His Majesty say that he is going to use the Nanzhao model against Silla?"

Li Ye smiled and said: "The Nanzhao model is just a transition. The reason why Nanzhao will not be destroyed is because the ethnic situation there is too complicated. We need a local regime like Nanzhao to sort out the relationship for us. Silla does not have this In this case, we can wipe out Silla’s army on the battlefield and destroy Silla at any time.”