After four months of separation, when Li Chengzhong returned to his home in the Dudu Mansion, he couldn't help but feel a little sad. Wanzhi stood in front of the mansion, staring at Li Chengzhong affectionately, full of tenderness and sweetness. Behind Wanzhi were more than a dozen servants and maids.
The number of people was more than three times greater than when Li Chengzhong left Liucheng. This was specially arranged by Feng Dao for Wanzhi after Li Chengzhong married Wu Yunsu, the daughter of the Wushi family in Beijing on the Bohai Sea. The Wushi family is a wealthy family in the Bohai Sea, and this time they married their daughter to Liucheng.
There must be a lot of servants and maids with him. When the time comes to compare, Wanzhi will look shabby.
Wanzhi didn't care about these external things. She received a letter from Li Chengzhong and knew that although she was a concubine, her status was not lower than that of Wu Yunsu, because Wu Yunsu was also a concubine. And in Li Chengzhong's letter home
, Wanzhi completely understood Li Chengzhong's thoughts: there is no distinction between the main wife and concubines in the family, only the order of succession. She was originally a Jiaofang woman in Youzhou City, and she had no extravagant hopes of becoming a wife, nor did she compete with other women for favor.
She didn't want Li Chengzhong to always care about her feelings. Although the newcomer was from a wealthy family in Bohai, he still wanted to call her "sister", which moved her very much.
Before Li Chengzhong could speak, she saluted Li Chengzhong first, then eagerly pulled Wu Yunsu behind Li Chengzhong and called her "sister" affectionately. Li Chengzhong immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Marry two women and keep them at home. Although
This is the power of a man in this era, but for him, he still felt very nervous, especially when the two concubines met. Seeing Wanzhi and Wu Yunsu holding hands and chatting happily, he secretly screamed
"Ashamed".
Li Chengzhong passed the front yard of the Governor's Mansion and came to the back house, only to find that he didn't recognize his own home. The original double courtyard had suddenly more than doubled, and the gardens, houses, courtyards, and ponds had all been renovated.
As soon as it was new, it seemed to be somewhat wealthy. This matter was brought up by Zhang Laojiang. After he learned that Li Chengzhong had taken a new concubine, he went to see Feng Dao, hoping to expand the back house for Li Chengzhong. With Zhang
With the old craftsman's current status and wealth, he could afford the money. He planned to give it as a gift to his great benefactor. The reason why he went to see Feng Dao was just to get Feng Dao's consent.
Of course, Feng Dao must have agreed to expand the back house of the Governor's Mansion, but he rejected Zhang Laojiang's kindness. He told Zhang Laojiang that although this was Zhang Laojiang's repayment, Li Chengzhong, as the governor of Yingzhou,
, if you accept donations from your subordinates, it will violate the "Yingzhou Anti-Corruption Law" that was enacted under the supervision of the governor himself. Such behavior is absolutely not allowed. As for the money for the expansion of the house, it will be paid for by Li Chengzhong's own salary.
How much is Li Chengzhong's salary? This issue was always a thorny issue for Ying Governor Shi's Mansion at the beginning. It was not finally resolved until Li Chengzhong was granted the title of Governor of Ying Prefecture.
Li Chengzhong established an "Eastern Affairs Committee" and used 10% of the entire Yingzhou treasury revenue as the salaries of the "Eastern Affairs Committee" members. In other words, how much income did Yingzhou's treasury earn each year?
"The bosses will get their own income in proportion to the amount of income they will receive. The rest of the staff will pay according to their normal monthly salary expenses.
The first batch to be included in the list of the "Eastern Affairs Council" were the key members of Li Chengzhong's subordinates before he entered Liucheng, including the twenty-three brothers from Laoyoudu, as well as other important officers above the rank of team leader during the Bailangshan military camp. Of course
, there are also several civil servants who Li Chengzhong relies on, such as Feng Dao. This group of bosses totals forty-seven people. As for the new recruits in the future, a boss meeting will be held every year to discuss the list of candidates nominated by Li Chengzhong, which exceeds six
If he agrees, he will be admitted to the Dongshihui and enjoy the same salary and treatment.
In the "Eastern Affairs Association", the Dongshis are divided into five levels of treatment. Li Chengzhong is the first, accounting for 5% of the annual income of the "Eastern Affairs Association". Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, Zhou Kan and Feng Dao are the second level.
Each station has three cents, Zhong Shao, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xiaolang, Meng Xuxing and Jiao Chengqiao are the third class, each station has two cents, and so on. The undistributed income is rolled over every year for the future.
Taking the Guanghua Three Years as an example, the Yingzhou Army received indemnities one after another, and the confiscated and other income totaled more than 800,000 guan, of which 80,000 guan was allocated to the income of the Dongshihui. Among these 80,000 guan, Li Chengzhong obtained
Four thousand guan, Jiang Miao and others ranked second, each receiving 2,400 guan, the third level received 1,600 guan, the fourth level received 800 guan, and the last level received 400 guan.
This kind of income is satisfactory enough. Take Zhang Xingzhong as an example for comparison. His previous monthly salary was only eight guan and less than 100 guan a year. However, his new income has increased by more than 20 times!
This is only the third year of Guanghua. With the arrival of wealth from Bohae Kingdom and Silla, it is expected that in the first year of Tianfu, your boss's income will double!
This kind of income system can guarantee two things: first, the interests of the entire Dongshihui, which is also the important civil and military personnel of the Yingzhou Army, are more closely integrated. Everyone and the Yingzhou Army have formed an inseparable interest.
, Yingzhou is good, everyone eats meat together, Yingzhou is bad, everyone drinks soup together. Secondly, try your best to prevent corruption and degeneration, harming Yingzhou’s interests is equivalent to harming everyone’s own interests, I think
Before you reach out, think clearly about the consequences of hindering everyone's interests!
Li Chengzhong knew that it was impossible to completely eliminate corruption by doing so, but at least the brothers' salaries were so high that they could avoid the urge to commit corruption to a large extent.
Such a system is open to the entire Yingzhou Army and to the entire Yingzhou Governor and Governor Shi's office. This also means that it gives an expectation to the generals and officials within the Yingzhou system. As long as you do well and make contributions, you will be rewarded every year.
The Eastern Conference will include you, and your salary will immediately increase by more than ten times! The temptation of the Eastern Conference is that it is a group that gathers state military and political officials. As long as you can join it, congratulations.
You, your future is infinitely bright!
So Feng Dao directly withdrew 800 yuan from Li Chengzhong's salary and gave it to Zhang Laojiang to expand the back house of the Governor's Mansion. The money was enough, and Zhang Laojiang was careful enough, so Li Chengzhong no longer recognized his own home.
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The back house of the Dudu Mansion merged two adjacent houses, opened them up, and spent a winter renovating them. The original garden was doubled in size, many more trees and flowers were planted, and several light and dark ditches were built to draw out the white space.
Wolf water is infused with living water and gathers in the pond. The main house is divided into three buildings, one for Wanzhi and one for Wuyunsu, one for east and west, and another one for the servants and maids. There is also a kitchen and woodshed outside the house.
Storehouses, stables and other miscellaneous rooms surround the main house. This is Li Chengzhong's new home, his first decent mansion after two years of time travel.
Li Chengzhong gave himself three days off that day, letting go of everything and enjoying his life at home. In the evening, Li Chengzhong set up a barbecue stall in the garden, serving cattle, sheep, fish, finches, badgers and other kinds of meat.
, together with vegetables and fruits, filled several tables. He took it upon himself to skewer various meats and vegetables and grill them on the charcoal fire, demonstrating his cooking skills for his two wives and Wanzhi’s sister Lu Glaze. He won two
The wife exclaimed, "The gentleman is far away from the kitchen" and she had to let him go.
Li Chengzhong had no choice but to sit back and enjoy the meal while the kitchen servants did the work. The meal was not lively for the four of them, so Li Chengzhong simply ordered a few close maids and stewards to join in, which made these people have a restless meal.
While eating and talking, Lieutenant General Li Cheng told many interesting stories about the Eastern Expedition, especially in Silla's experience. There are many classic scenes, such as the thief Liang Ji, who caused misunderstandings because he did not speak in Tang dialect, and died in the end.
What benefits can be obtained; for example, the bandits failed to set up an ambush but were captured; for example, Jin Gongyi issued a "Legal Order" requiring the "Devil King" Lieutenant General Li Cheng to withdraw from the camp, etc... He spoke vividly and laughed so much that the women held their stomachs and cried out that they hurt.
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Wanzhi also told interesting stories she encountered. The most interesting thing was the "shock" caused by the Bohai girls going to Liucheng. These girls were admitted to the Medical Department of the Logistics Department by Wanzhi, and they learned to deal with wounded soldiers during the day.
The patients were taught singing and dancing by Wanzhi and Lüglai in the evening. Wanzhi said that after these Bohai girls came to the medical department, the medical department's clinic was suddenly overflowing with injuries, and many officers suffered from various pains overnight.
Some have headaches, some have leg pain, some have stomachache, and some have pain that they can’t tell where, they just feel heartache! They all asked for hospitalization, which made Dr. Qin, the medical department’s superintendent, even complain that he was in pain - he really
of headache.
After Wanzhi drove away all those who cried out pain with a straight face, another group of injured people appeared. Either their feet were twisted, their arms were broken, and some even had a few bloody wounds on their bodies.
It was said that they were accidentally injured during training. Later, after investigation, it was found that they were all self-injury. Among them was Zhang Xingzhong, the newly cured Yuhou Situ Yuhou, who had several wounds on his body. Later, he was secretly reported.
He said that he saw Zhang Duyu going to the training camp at night and training hard all night by himself!
After hearing so many interesting stories, the new daughter-in-law Wu Yunsu was also very happy. When Li Chengzhong asked her what she thought, she simply said that she would lead troops to fight. Her attitude was so firm that Li Chengzhong was shocked.
While feeling the warmth of the family, Li Chengzhong handed food to his two daughters-in-law. Wu Yun always refused anyone who came, but Wan Zhi was a little picky. Li Chengzhong jokingly forced Wan Zhi to eat a bunch of roasted mutton, and Wan Zhi
Zhi frowned and took a sip, but suddenly turned around and vomited. Li Chengzhong was still stunned when he heard Lu Zai mutter: "The governor doesn't know yet, does he? Sister Wanzhi is pregnant!"
Li Chengzhong was stunned for a moment, then ecstatically said: "Really!?"
Green Glaze patted Wanzhi's back and said, "I've asked Dr. Qin to check the pulse, and it's confirmed. My sister said she would surprise you again tonight, but she doesn't want to reveal her secret."
Dozens of people in the courtyard congratulated in unison: "Congratulations, Governor!"