After accepting the canonization, Li Zhi returned to his mansion in the capital.
Li Zhi put on a new official uniform first. The earl's official uniform was different from the original one. The patches were embroidered with Qilin and Baize. Li Zhi took a look in the mirror in his new official uniform and felt that he had gained a bit more dignity. .
Li Zhi looked at the new seal waistband again: the big seal given to him by Xing Guobo was made of jade and was very well made. The waistband was made of ivory, with four clouds and dragons on it, and the words "Xing Guobo Li Zhi" were engraved on it. A big character.
The most crucial thing is the Xing Guobo Iron Scroll.
The so-called iron scroll is commonly known as the gold medal for avoiding death. With this iron scroll, even if Li Zhi committed a capital crime, he could use the iron scroll to pay for his life and avoid death.
"When the princes and princes first confer titles, they will be given iron certificates. After they are finished, they will be sent to the Ministry of Works to write the imperial edict, and the certificates will be completed. They will be sent to the Bank of China to be engraved and filled with gold. They will still be taken back and awarded to the left side on the right side. One side is sent to the ancient and modern Tongji treasury for storage at the end of the year. The iron coupons are in the shape of covering tiles. The seal is engraved on it and filled with gold. There are two sides on the left and right, the right is for the meritorious officials, and the left is for the inner palace."
The size of the iron roll varies depending on the title. The iron roll in Li Zhi's hand is tile-shaped and made of fine iron. The iron roll is about 40 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide and more than two centimeters thick. It weighs four kilograms. The front of the iron scroll is engraved with gold-inlaid characters in regular script. The content is the emperor's words to confer Li Zhi as the uncle of Xingguo based on Li Zhi's achievements. There are more than 200 characters in total.
On the reverse side of the iron scroll, it is written: "The so-called exemption from death means that except for treason and treason, all death sentences are exempted. After being exempted, he will be dismissed from the title and salary. He is not allowed to remain in the same title, but his life will be given. If he commits a capital crime, he will be punished for the first time. No rice will be paid." It refers to the iron scroll's use to avoid death. It stipulates that except for crimes such as treason, Li Zhi's iron scroll can be used to pay for one life.
With this iron scroll, anyone who commits murder or arson will not be sentenced by the court. It can be said that they are a stable privileged class.
Of course, with Li Zhi's current power, he could kill people and set fires with impunity without iron scrolls. But it was different to get an official commitment in black and white.
Li Zhi collected the iron roll and put it in the box.
After accepting the canonization, Li Zhi returned to Tianjin with a guard of honor. Now Li Zhi's flag reads "Xing Guobo Prince Taifu Zuo Dudu Zuo Commander Tianjin Chief Military Officer". This set of titles carries more weight than before, and it is appropriate. A proper minister of the country. Now Li Zhi's ceremonial guard not only includes flags and flags, but also gold melons, flags and flags and other attire that are unique to the count. The entire set of ceremonial guard requires more than ten personal guards to hold it.
Li Zhi's honor guard marched in the capital and Tianjin. When the people saw the mighty honor guard coming, they hurriedly moved out of the way and hid on the roadside to watch Li Zhi's march. Especially in Tianjin. The common people had never seen such a luxurious guard of honor. They were all standing on the roadside talking.
"Sir, Commander-in-Chief, has he been promoted again?"
"Become an uncle!"
"Tsk tsk, Commander-in-Chief is only in his twenties, right?"
After Li Zhi returned to Tianjin, the rewards for his men came down.
This time, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were wiped out, and Li Zhi also reported military exploits to his generals. Soon, rewards for Li Xing and others arrived one after another: Li Xingsheng became the commander of the capital. This time the emperor abolished the guerrillas in Fanjiazhuang and moved them to Fanjiazhuang. A battalion of soldiers and staff generals was set up, and Li Xing was still in charge. Zheng Kaicheng and others were promoted to commanders of the capital, one level lower than Li Xing, and still served in Li Zhi's corps.
Zheng Yuan and other managers were also promoted to the rank of Guard Commander, one level lower than Zheng Kaicheng and others.
The battalion commanders and company commanders of the Huben Division also received rewards. The battalion commanders were promoted to the rank of guard commanding officer, and the company commanders were also promoted to the rank of Qianhu.
After the reward was awarded, Fanjiazhuang was filled with joy, just like the Chinese New Year. Li Zhi celebrated with wine at the General Military Mansion in Tianjin, and all his subordinates who came to the banquet were dressed in crimson or cyan official robes and gathered together.
The people in Fanjiazhuang who attended the banquet at the General Military Mansion were very proud. You have to know how many people squeezed their heads to squeeze in at Xing Guobo's celebration banquet, but they were all turned away. Although the Lord is already Xing Guobo, Li Zhi's
All the subordinates feel that you can still make great progress, and if you go one step further, as long as you follow your Excellency closely, promotion and wealth will be no problem.
Everyone was very happy, and a dozen people got so drunk that day that they fell under the wine table.
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On April 2, Li Zhi, accompanied by Li Xing, went to Fanjiazhuang New Town to have a look.
In the six months since Li Zhi went on the expedition, under the command of Li Xing, the new city of Fanjiazhuang has been built. The wall outside the new city has been covered with bricks and is integrated with the old city wall. The wall between the new city and the old city has been demolished.
After digging it out, the roads in the new city and the old city were connected together. Fanjiazhuang doubled in size and no longer looked like a small county town, but rather had the style of a state town.
The new town has just been built and is already very lively.
Nowadays, the textile factory is expanding on a large scale and recruiting new people every month. Today, the scale has expanded to 15,000 people. These 15,000 workers all live in newly built villas in Fanjiazhuang New City. In order to improve the workers' quality, Li Zhi
In terms of family income, when recruiting workers nowadays, we try to hire couples at the same time. Generally speaking, two families share a villa. Of course, most workers who are not yet married only rent one house, and four families share a villa.
Therefore, these more than 10,000 new workers filled more than 3,000 new villas.
The designed capacity of Fanjiazhuang New Town is 7,000 villas, but that is a theoretical capacity. In fact, the new town not only has villas, but also factories and military camps, plus various commercial facilities. In fact, only more than 4,000 villas have been built.
It is full. Now there are only more than 300 villas left unoccupied.
If Li Zhi still wanted to expand his textile factory, he would have to build a new city.
After looking around the new city, Li Zhi praised: "Li Xing, you have done well in the past few months."
Li Xing smiled and said: "It's all about following the rules. No matter how bad I am, I can still do it after learning what my elder brother has done."
Li Zhi thought his younger brother was quite capable and nodded with a smile.
Li Zhi walked into the new textile factory and found his uncle Zheng Yuan, who managed the textile factory.
"Now that the textile factory has expanded to such a large size, how is the management going?"
Zheng Yuan nodded and said: "There is no big problem in management. There are now 15,331 workers in the textile factory, with a monthly output of 268,000 pieces of cloth. The workers' monthly wages and food expenses are 59,000 per month.
One thousand taels, buying coarse cotton costs 143,000 taels per month, and the monthly profit is 66,000 taels."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Food expenses seem to be more than before."
Zheng Yuan said: "Sir, the price of rice is soaring now. Although the price of rice in Fanjiazhuang has been controlled by the Fair Price Grain Store and has not increased, the prices of other things have increased along with the price of rice. The price of vegetables has increased a lot.
The pig farm said that the price of pig food has increased, and the settlement price of pigs for slaughter has also been increased, so food expenses have also gone up."
Li Zhi thought for a while and asked: "How much is the price of rice in other places now?"
Zheng Yuan said: "In the past few months, the price has dropped a bit, down to 2, 25 yuan per stone."
Li Zhi nodded and said: "When the price of rice rises, the prices of various commodities generally rise. In the past, we gave workers two or two months' salary, which was a high salary, but now that prices are soaring, it was not as attractive as before this month. Workers
They work hard every day and cannot let them suffer. Zheng Yuan, starting from this month, you will increase the monthly salary of the textile workers to two to five yuan a month."
Zheng Yuan was stunned and said, "Sir, this is a big expense."
Li Zhi nodded and said: "We can afford it. We would rather earn less than let the workers become poor." 8
