Qin Wei looked at Qin Gong's leaving figure and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Ask Wang An to arrange for someone to keep an eye on him and check the people around him." He ordered Xiao Shunzi.
"Here!" Xiao Shunzi responded.
Needless to say, Qin Gong's purpose of coming here was just to test him.
As for Qin Gong's temptation, Qin Wei had almost said it very openly.
Both sides are fighting for the dragon chair in Shengtian Palace, so from then on they are enemies.
Qin Wei didn't know if Qin Gong had any other preparations, but he estimated that Qin Gong would definitely cause him some trouble.
After pondering for a moment, Qin Wei left the courtyard and came to Dusi Yamen.
"Meet Your Highness!"
When Liu Yuanrang and Ji Fei saw Qin Wei coming, they quickly welcomed him into the main hall of Dusi Yamen.
Qin Wei asked calmly: "Has the official document from the court arrived?"
"I just arrived at dusk yesterday, and I was preparing to deliver it to His Highness." Liu Yuanrang's expression moved slightly and he said softly.
Qin Wei sat on the main seat and looked at him with a faint smile, "You are the commander of the capital. The official document is for you, not for me."
When Liu Yuanrang heard this, his whole body was shaken.
Ji Fei couldn't help but lower his head.
"Haha, Your Highness put down the rebellion in Shuzhou. Now that the three divisions of Shuzhou have been abolished, it is your Highness who should make the decision." Liu Yuanrang smiled sarcastically.
"Well, that's true. There are many problems in Shuzhou right now, and I don't even want to take care of them." Qin Wei said as he should.
Liu Yuanrang is not an honest person and has his own little ideas.
In fact, it is right for him to have such careful thoughts. After all, Qin Wei is only the king of the county and should not have interfered with the affairs of the Sansi Yamen.
It's just that among the three bureaucracies in Shuzhou, apart from the Dusi, the Chief Secretary and the Administrative Bureau are almost useless, so Qin Wei was given the opportunity to intervene.
Qin Wei could naturally see Liu Yuanrang's little thoughts, but he still exposed them.
"Where is the official document? Bring it to me and take a look at it."
"Here!"
Liu Yuanrang quickly found the official document and handed it to Qin Wei.
Qin Wei glanced at it and nodded gently.
This official document comes from the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army. The main content is to appoint the missing officials in the Shuzhou Dusi Yamen, and at the same time, it also rewards the soldiers who have contributed to quelling the rebellion.
Yuan Shizhe was promoted to the commander and magistrate of the Shuzhou Dusi, and Liu Qing was promoted to the guard general of Shuzhou, concurrently serving as the commander of the Dusi and the commander of the Anning Guard.
In addition, many officials from the Anning Army and the Lushan Guard Division have been promoted.
Overall, Qin Wei was quite satisfied with this reward based on merit.
"Is Yuan Shizhe back?"
"I came back yesterday." Liu Yuan gave way.
Qin Wei said: "Call and let me see you."
"Here!"
Liu Yuanrang had no choice but to find Yuan Shizhe again.
Seeing Yuan Shizhe, Qin Wei couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
Yuan Shizhe was tall and tall, and he walked like a tiger with a powerful look. His sword-shaped eyebrows made him look very majestic. But this time when Shuzhou was in chaos, Yuan Shizhe used 20,000 soldiers from the Lushan Guards to sweep away nearly 60,000 rebels in the western part of Shuzhou.
It can be considered a great achievement in battle.
"General Yuan Shizhe pays homage to His Highness!" Yuan Shizhe came to the hall and paid homage.
"General Yuan, thank you for your hard work this time!" Qin Wei stood up, patted his shoulder and said.
"I don't dare. I just did some things within my duty and I don't dare to say how hard it was." Yuan Shizhe's character is somewhat straightforward.
Qin Wei nodded slightly and asked: "Have the pensions for the dead and injured soldiers of the Lushan Guard been properly handled?"
"Well!"
Yuan Shizhe looked at Liu Yuanrang but said nothing.
Liu Yuanrang whispered: "Your Highness, the treasury and grain and grass of Dusi Yamen were swept away by the rebellion. Although we recaptured Shuzhou City, we did not take back the treasury and grain and grass."
Qin Wei frowned slightly, but he didn't care.
He knows very well that Shuzhou is currently short of silver and food.
When the Shuzhou rebellion broke out, the rebels led by Tang Mingcheng began to transfer the treasury and grain storage of various ministries and yamen. Starting from Shuzhou City, to various prefectures and counties, almost all that could be transferred was transported from Pingman Pass
Yunzhou.
Otherwise, Li Ru wouldn't be having a headache today because of the silver grain issue.
"I know that the Dusi Yamen is in difficulty right now, but I cannot let the soldiers feel cold." Qin Wei said dissatisfied.
"But I really can't afford the money or food." Liu Yuanrang said helplessly.
Yuan Shizhe looked at Liu Yuanrang dullly.
Yesterday when he arrived in Shuzhou City, the first thing he did was to ask Liu Yuanrang for money and food.
More than 20,000 soldiers of the Lushan Guards went to the west of Shuzhou to quell the rebellion, with nearly 10,000 casualties. Now that the rebellion has been put down, the soldiers still owe their food, salary and pension, and Yuan Shizhe has no shame in returning to the Lushan Guards.
Qin Wei pondered for a moment and said: "The Zhenwu Division still has 300,000 taels of silver, which was originally reserved for the Zhenwu Division to build yamen and recruit soldiers, but the soldiers are working hard for the imperial court, and we must not let them feel cold.
"
"General Yuan, these three hundred thousand taels will first pay off the pensions of the soldiers."
"As for food and salary, I will think of another way."
When Yuan Shizhe heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "Your Highness is kind and kind. I will thank you on behalf of the dead and wounded soldiers!"
As he said that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"General Yuan, why are you doing this!" Qin Wei quickly stepped forward to help him up.
Yuan Shizhe's eyes were slightly red and he said: "If it weren't for His Highness's kindness, would the general really not know what to do?"
Seeing him like this, Qin Wei couldn't help but admire him in his heart.
This Yuan Shizhe was not only a man of great temperament, but also loved soldiers as much as his own son.
But precisely because of this, Qin Wei's three hundred thousand taels of silver were not wasted.
His three hundred thousand taels are just to win people's hearts.
The first person to be bribed was Yuan Shizhe.
Qin Wei comforted Yuan Shizhe and once again said that he would find a way to provide food and salary for the soldiers, which made Yuan Shizhe become much closer to him.
After Qin Wei left Dusi Yamen, Liu Yuanrang and Ji Fei looked at each other, and both of them couldn't help but sigh.
"Master Liu, I think there are some things that you should consider carefully." Ji Fei said in a low voice.
"Hey, what else can I consider?"
Liu Yuanrang shook his head slightly.
Then he took out another official document and handed it to Ji Fei.
"Two official documents were sent from Kyoto yesterday, but I have been afraid to take out this one."
Ji Fei was stunned for a moment, then opened the official document and took a look.
After reading it, he stared, "How could they do this?"
The content of this official document is for them to raise money and food on their own, which would be no problem under normal circumstances.
Under normal circumstances, the money and food needed by the governor's offices in each state come from the chief secretary. Only in times of war, the governor's office and the Ministry of Household Affairs will allocate food.
This time, when a rebellion broke out in Shuzhou, due to time issues, neither the Governor's Office nor the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated food. In other words, the rebellion in Shuzhou had already subsided before they had time to allocate food.
After the rebellion ended, the Ministry of Revenue allocated 100,000 shi of food and grass, but the Governor's Office received none.
Now there is a shortage of money and food everywhere in Shuzhou. If Qin Wei had not dealt with the problems of the eastern and southern parts of Shuzhou and the Anning Army, the problem of lack of money and food in Shuzhou would have been even more serious.
But even so, Liu Yuanrang did not dare to take out this official document.
Without money and food, the pensions for the dead and wounded soldiers cannot be paid, and the soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield cannot receive food and salary.
If this matter is not handled well, it may lead to military chaos.
The salary of the officers and soldiers of the garrison is divided into two parts, one is the monthly ration, and the other is the line ration. Needless to say, the monthly ration is the fixed monthly ration, while the line ration is the food and salary distributed during the war.
To put it simply, monthly rations are basic wages, while line rations are wartime subsidies.
There is no specific quota for rations, and it depends on the intensity and duration of the war.
In this Shuzhou Rebellion, the six guards under the command of the entire Shuzhou Dusi totaled 150,000 soldiers. Nearly half of them became rebels, and almost all the remaining soldiers participated in the battle, which meant that they had to distribute rations.
, coupled with the pensions for the dead and wounded soldiers, such a large amount of money and food cannot be solved by Dusi Yamen alone in a short time.
And that's not all. The ordnance and armor consumed in battle, the food and grass consumed during war, and the recruitment of vacancies of soldiers, etc., all need to be replenished.
Just relying on Dusi Yamen, it would be impossible to get it together in less than five years.
Liu Yuan gave way: "You and I both understand that if it weren't for His Royal Highness, we wouldn't be able to support this mess in Shuzhou."
Ji Fei put down the official document, "So what is your plan?"
"Actually, these are not important. What is important is that I want to ensure that there will be no more chaos in Shuzhou." Liu Yuan gave way.
Ji Fei was silent for a while and said: "That's all, I won't be able to serve as an official for a few years anyway, so I'll let Mr. Liu arrange everything."
They had no ill feelings toward Qin Wei, and were even full of admiration and admiration for him.
Qin Wei's talent in quelling the chaos was enough to impress them.
It's just that they don't want to participate in the battle in the court, so they want to draw a clear line with Qin Wei.
But now even if they want to draw a clear line with Qin Wei, the situation in Shuzhou does not allow them to do so.
In many matters, they need to rely on Qin Wei.
…
On the other side, Qin Gong returned to the inn.
"Your Highness, how is the situation?" the middle-aged man couldn't help but ask.
Qin Gong shook his head slightly and said: "The situation is more troublesome than we expected."
"The Prince of Xin'an County is not only successful, but his background is also extraordinary."
"If you ignore it, you will definitely become your father's enemy in the future."
Take a peek and see the whole leopard.
Although Qin Gong only met Qin Wei once in the courtyard, the power around Qin Wei was still enough for him to take him seriously.
For dozens of seventh-grade warriors to be willing to serve as ordinary guards, not to mention the noble families in Kyoto, even several major palaces do not have such luxury.
"Then what should we do next?" the middle-aged man asked.
Qin Gong thought for a moment and said, "I will write a letter to my father personally."
Early this morning, he had asked the middle-aged man to write a letter and send it to Kyoto, but he was afraid that King Ping would not pay enough attention to it, so he planned to write the letter himself.
…
After returning to the courtyard, Qin Wei sat in his study and thought about how to make money.
The weapons workshop has been handed over to Li Ru, and it is estimated that it will be opened in a few days.
But if you want to make money from a weapons workshop, you may have to wait a while.
Now he gave the Zhenwu Division's last treasury silver to Yuan Shizhe, and he only had tens of thousands of taels of silver left after all his calculations. Moreover, he also held a large foreign debt from the Chief Secretary of Tianzhou.
Now he still needs a windfall to tide over the current financial crisis.
"A man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass!"
"Xiao Shunzi, where do you think we should make money?"
Qin Wei sat at the desk and said to Xiao Shunzi with a headache.
Xiao Shunzi blinked and said, "I know that a person is very rich."
"Who?" Qin Wei's eyes lit up.
"Qi Chao, the eunuch guarding Long'an Mansion." Xiao Shunzi said.
Qin Wei raised his eyebrows.
Guarding eunuchs are a relatively special group in Dali. They are eunuchs arranged by Emperor Li to be stationed in various parts of the dynasty. Due to their different responsibilities, they have different powers.
For example, the garrison eunuchs in the border army were to supervise the generals of the border army, and the garrison eunuchs in the interior had the power to supervise the officials of the third department, and some were responsible for paying tribute to the imperial city.
However, although the guarding eunuchs had the power of supervision, they actually had no right to interfere with the army and local government offices. The most they could do was make snitches to Emperor Li.
The most powerful supervisory power is in vain. The guarding eunuch becomes a transparent person in the military or local government, more like a record-keeping officer.
Of course, no one wants to provoke them, after all, they represent Emperor Li outside.
Officials from all over the country mostly give them a wide berth.
"Is there any eunuch guarding Long'an Mansion?" Qin Wei asked.
He didn't know much about guarding eunuchs, or he had never had any contact with them, and he didn't know if there were guarding eunuchs in Shuzhou, because the guarding eunuchs established within and outside the dynasty were very random. Some states didn't have them, and some prefectures did.
"Yes, Your Highness, Long'an Mansion has six kinds of tributes, Mengding tea, Yunshan Maofeng, Yayu, Xianggu rice, Long'an stone inkstone, and well salt!" Xiao Shunzi laughed.
When Qin Wei heard this, a smile appeared on his lips.