(I drank too much yesterday and couldn’t even take a day off. Haha, I’ll upload the previous chapter first)
At night, Lin Fu summoned Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Cao Ziang, Sun Jingtang, as well as Ao Canghai, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu, Sun Wenbing, Tang Xitai and others who were in Fancheng to discuss the matter of the class division. The return to Jiangning was scheduled for the 19th.[bsp
; At that time, Song Fu also expressed his support for setting up a separate bank to issue rewards, but the specific matter still had to wait until he returned to Jiangning to be discussed in detail. He smiled and said: "Wanshou Palace thinks that it can breed some troubles, but I don't want my lord to take the initiative.
The attack will completely neutralize the situation - Lujiang, Yijiang, Moling and Mingzhou all have a large amount of public land. However, we can take this opportunity to formally transfer it to the bank, then disperse it into small parcels of land and sell it cheaply to a small number of farmers.
Land, landless farmers will help the further recovery of farming..."
Lin Fu said: "I think the ranks of the Huaidong Army will be distinguished between non-commissioned officers and general officers in the future. The non-commissioned officers will be rewarded with monthly silver, but they will not be rewarded. The generals will be rewarded with money and shares if they are not to be rewarded. Can you estimate how much it will take?
, so in the name of the Privy Council, on behalf of the Huaidong generals, I went to the Queen Mother to ask for the reward..."
Lin Fu continued to explain his thoughts in detail: "The Huaidong Army currently has a total of 300,000 soldiers and horses, of which the most common soldiers number more than 220,000. I want to wait until the extensive field allocation is completed.
, a military service system was implemented for ordinary soldiers. All adults who came of age were obliged to join the army and guard the border for three to five years. However, food allowances were still issued according to the old practice, which was equivalent to the old system pay. And the flag heads were all soldiers.
There are almost 80,000 first-level grass-roots military attachés plus the head of the army and some craftsmen who are good at craftsmanship. They are the absolute backbone of our army and the soldiers we will need in the future. I plan to use them
They are all included in the group of non-commissioned officers, subject to the recruitment system, and serve for fifteen to twenty years, or even longer. However, in order to make the military soldiers permanent, the monthly silver provided to them must be enough to support their wives and children. I think in this regard, every year is about the same
It is necessary to increase the expenditure by one million Huaiyuan, and it can be increased in the future - this time the rewards for military merit are mainly concentrated on mid-level and senior generals above the sentry generals. However, the traditional military suppression has many shortcomings, and I believe everyone
None of them are more vague than me. Strict laws and regulations are necessary, but we cannot simply use strict laws and severe punishments. We have many generals whose families and children live in Jiangning and Chongzhou. They control the army and the brigade commander only has four dollars per month.
In the Five Huaiyuan Dynasties, everyone deeply felt that it was "hard to live in Jiangning and Chongzhou". This is also one of the reasons why I do not intend to delay the reward; I do not want to kill my old friend with tears after someone cannot resist the temptation and takes bribes and perverts the law...
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"Fortunately, the Duke's government allocated additional supplies to support the generals' families. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to live in Jiangning and Chongzhou." Gao Zongting also sighed with emotion. "The price of rice in Jiangning is still one yuan, five or six cents Huaiyuan. It seems that
It won’t be reduced within three or four years; for a family with a larger family size, seven or eight people, it will cost more than three yuan to eat rice every month, and it will be impossible to talk about eating oil, salt, and sauce..."
Of course Lin Fu was very aware of these situations, otherwise he would not have given extra material subsidies to Huaidong generals in the form of military coupons in addition to their monthly salary, just to reassure them about their family's livelihood in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places.
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Although the official salary of the county magistrate at that time was only more than forty taels of silver, which was equivalent to the Huaidong brigade commander's monthly salary of four yuan.
However, when county magistrates go to their posts, they have official additional income such as land, official supplements, and the filial piety of local and lower-level subordinates, so that their actual income is far higher than the regular salary. In addition to supporting their families, servants, and maids, they even have
They can support private officials and their families. If local officials are more ruthless, corrupt, and loot the local area, it is not false to say that "three years of clearing the prefecture, and one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver" will be enough.
In the camp, the generals seized food and wages to enrich their own pockets, or set up private checkpoints to extort merchants and travelers, or ate empty wages, and even those who were daring to act together with bandits and plundered places from time to time.
If Lin Fu wants to ensure a clear government and strict discipline in the army, he cannot expect that the civil and military officers who hold the power and govern tens of thousands of people can rest assured with a salary like a beggar's, and he cannot expect that their family members will be content with a miserable civilian life.
Regardless of the civil servants, the most serious erosion of the military's combat effectiveness in the world is mostly concentrated on mid-level and senior generals.
Lin Fu would not think that by simply talking about equality, the gap between officials and people, the poor and the nobles would really be bridged.
What Lin Fu is trying to change now is to cancel the low-level households and registrations, and to bring people into the common class. The gap between the powerful class and the common people is obviously not something that Lin Fu can eliminate if he wants to...
The Huaidong Army has as many as 5,000 generals and above, who are actually the core supporting force of Huaidong at this time. Not to mention the huge civil service group, after the creation of the new empire, the Huaidong Army has more than 5,000 generals and above.
Officials will inevitably become one of the core forces of the meritorious group.
Under the current tradition, the civilian class has not yet awakened at all. How can we expect the powerful and meritorious group to live the same miserable life as the common people?
Xuzhou, Mindong, Jiangning, Shangrao, and Jingxiang were all victorious in battles. If the locals rewarded them with honors for military merit, it would naturally be these more than 5,000 generals who would be the main body.
Lin Fu would not be able to confer real land, but he would use the merits of conferring land rewards to the bank to reward him. The purpose was to correspondingly increase the general's salary above a certain level; it was also to further strengthen the cohesion within Huaidong.
It is just a way to eliminate the negative impact of Liang's plan.
Lin Fu started talking with his fingers and said: "With the price of goods in Jiangning, a family of seven or eight people, old and young, living in Yi, can eat five or six meals of meat every month, get medical treatment when sick, have new clothes every year, and have their children go to school and stay in the dormitory.
, you can hire carriages and horses in case of emergency..." Lin Fu listed some of the living standards that Huaidong generals and their families should meet in the past, and asked Gao Zongting, "How many yuan will it cost this month?"
"Roughly fourteen to five Huaiyuan per month is enough," Gao Zongting said.
Lin Fu has always emphasized that Huaidong should abolish "Liang" and replace it with "Yuan", but Gao Zongting and others were still limited by the old tradition and used to replace "Yinliang" with a nondescript name like "Huaiyuan".
"My lord really loves his generals very much. He wants them to eat white rice, have meat in their meals, have their illnesses cured, have their children go to school, hire carriages and horses, and even a family with two hundred acres of land may not have such a luxurious life..." Song Fu
smiled.
Lin Fu smiled indifferently. He had a house, ate four or five meals of meat every month, could cure diseases, could send his children to school, and could hire carriages and horses in emergencies. If he were to live in the future, he would only be able to live the life of a poor family.
This is probably because the world's materials are too poor and productivity is too backward. After the powerful and rentier class of a dynasty expand to a certain extent, the entire society becomes extremely fragile and difficult to maintain. Natural and man-made disasters are only the catalyst and fuse of social collapse;
The Hulu alien tribe took this opportunity to invade, often bringing more complete destruction to the Central Plains.
After Yanhu integrated all the tribes in Yanxi, he controlled only more than 400,000 men of his own tribe, and the total number of Dingkou was just over one million - such a tribe of barbarians could make a living by robbing and living as food.
The Central Plains dynasty, which organized a cavalry team of more than 200,000 people, defeated the Dingkou that was almost a hundred times its size. The number of Dingkou that was directly lost due to Yanhu's southern invasion was about 8 million to 10 million.
Such historical facts are both heartbreaking and shameful.
Regarding rewards for meritorious deeds, Lin Fu only gave general standards. The specific plan could not be determined until Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others returned to Jiangning and discussed with Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, Sun Jingxuan and others.
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On December 18, the snow in the north of Fancheng was not gone, and the cold wind blew the snow as dry as flakes. A strong wind came and blew the snow flakes, as if snow fell from the sky. When the Yuan Dynasty returned to the government, Liu Tingzhou and Tao Chun
The waiting team of carriages and horses entered Fancheng on a snowy and windy afternoon.
The weather was cold and the ground was icy, and the planned movement of people to the north was temporarily suspended. Except for the civilians from Fancheng who had joined the army earlier and moved to Nanyang City to grant land and resettle, the Yuan Dynasty returned to the government, Liu Tingzhou, Tao Chun and others from Tanghe County east of Feishui.
For hundreds of miles from Xinye to the south, there is almost no human habitation.
Today's Fancheng is also a huge military camp. Apart from the orderly troops and horses, there are no other residents. Yuan Guizheng and his party lived in the posthouse in silence, waiting for Lin Fu's summons.
Zhao Mengxiong came riding down the street on horseback. Whether it was Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou or Tao Chun, they had all seen the young man next to Lin Fu. Now he was a proud and heroic young man, with an iron armor, waist sword, and riding boots that made the paths in the courtyard covered with snow particles
, with a loud sound, stood in the court like a mountain of towers, and raised his voice: "My lord, Lord Yuan, and General Tao entered Fancheng and asked you two sirs if the journey is tiring. Do you want to rest first and then discuss the military plan?"
"Not tired, not tired..." When the Yuan Dynasty returned to power, Tao Chun knew that Lin Fu would return to Jiangning when he entered the city. How could he care about the fatigue of the journey?
When Liu Tingzhou came this time, he was mentally prepared to fight with Lin Fu face to face or even scold him face to face. However, when he saw Lin Fu sending people over to return to the Yuan Dynasty, Tao Chun asked about his welfare, but he did not ask about himself, but he still felt in his heart.
It was blocked like a thatch, and it felt indescribably unpleasant.
Speaking of grievances, how can Yuan Guizheng's grievances with Huaidong over the years be superficial?
"The two adults have already invited you. The carriages and horses have been prepared outside the hospital..." Zhao Mengxiong said, leading the way to invite Yuan to return to the government. Tao Chun and others followed, watching Liu Tingzhou follow him with a dark face, and said with a profile
, "Who is this lord? My lord only summons Lord Yuan and General Tao to meet him. This lord please wait at the post house!"
Liu Tingzhou seemed to have been slapped in public, standing there as stiff as a carved stone. He never expected that Lin Fu would humiliate him like this, and his weather-beaten thin face suddenly turned black and purple.
Yuan Guizheng was also surprised: in terms of the depth of grievances and the depth of the connection with the imperial family, Lin Fu was even more likely to humiliate him. He did not expect to call him to meet Tao Chun and leave Liu Tingzhou in the post house.
In the middle, he refused to see him - a man wants face and a tree wants bark. Liu Tingzhou is now also the censor of the capital and the envoy of Xuanfu in Henan. He is from the second rank to the third rank. He probably did not call him all the way and threw him away.
Not seeing him at the inn made him feel even more humiliated.
Although he was surprised, Yuan Guizheng suddenly discovered that they had no room for struggle other than to accept such an arrangement for Lin Fu. He couldn't even say that to take care of Liu Tingzhou's face, he walked away together - he should do this, but he
How can you do this?
Yuan Guizheng pressed Liu Tingzhou's shoulder with relief, indicating that he had to meet with Lin Fu. Of course, Liu Tingzhou knew that if he did not argue for more conditions with Lin Fu, Xuchang's defense would be extremely difficult, so he could only look at Yuan Fu helplessly.
Tao Chun, who returned to power and looked at the matter with a cold face, followed Zhao Mengxiong out of the post house, but his heart was filled with panic. When he turned around to go back to the house, he wanted to spit out the depression in his heart, but he never wanted to spit out a large mouthful of blood.
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"Master Liu..." Ning Yujie and other entourage members hurriedly rushed forward 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 from Huai'an, and he had a relatively clear understanding of the rise of Huaidong and the grievances between Huaidong and Liu Tingzhou.
During the Huaisi War, Lin Fu appointed an envoy to Huaidong, and Liu Tingzhou served as the prefect of Huai'an and also supervised grain and fodder. No matter how many conflicts occurred during his tenure in Huaidong, when Liu Tingzhou left Huaidong, it was Lin Fu who supported Liu Tingzhou.
Xiao Kui'an established Woyang Town. At least at that time, even if Lin Fu didn't like Liu Tingzhou, he was still willing to see Liu Tingzhou rise compared to other officials.
Afterwards, the Hehuai defense line collapsed and the Changhuai Army retreated north. Dong Yuan moved from Hanghu to Huaixi to establish an envoy. Liu Tingzhou served as Dong Yuan's deputy for a long time and was one of Jiangning's methods to contain Dong Yuan. In the early days of the Jingxiang Battle,
, Liu Tingzhou went south from Shouzhou to Huangzhou to meet Lin Fu. Lin Fu also greeted Liu Tingzhou with greetings and warm words - to say that Lin Fu hated the Huaixi people for allowing Chen Zhihu to enter Nanyang, he should not be insulted by calling Yuan back to power.
Liu Tingzhou, to put it ten thousand steps back, Lin Fu also used deceit to seize Shouzhou and did not suffer any loss. How could he still hold the hatred of Huaixi like a child for letting Chen Zhihu enter Nanyang?
While feeling angry for Liu Tingzhou, Ning Yujie also felt huge doubts and confusion about his own future...