Songfan's guards were happy to insert their hands into the Hongyuan militia, and they were even more happy to free up a number of officer ranks to reward meritorious services. For example, Song Xiong took advantage of it, was promoted to the general banner, and was transferred from Ning Deshou's bodyguards to start
Leading troops.
However, Song Xiong himself was a little depressed. He had a cultivation level that was rare in the army, and he had a high degree of integration with military armor and weapons. He prepared carefully for more than a month, thinking that he would be able to fight and cut off a few heads, but in the end
Nothing was caught. Even in the final battle where Bubazi's remnant army was strangled on Guifang Cliff, he could only wait obediently at the foot of the mountain, listening enviously to the sounds of fighting on the cliff.
Zhao Ran didn't have any good solution for this. Military merit is the most important thing in the army. He can serve as the general flag without having done any meritorious service. This is the limit of what Ning Deshou can do. He can only lament Song Xiong's bad luck.
Otherwise, with his ability, as long as he fights this battle, it will be more than enough to promote him to a hundred households.
The monks who participated in the war also need to report their merits and rewards. Of course, this kind of reward has nothing to do with the transfer, and the monks do not need it. Their rewards are mainly based on cultivation materials, including talismans, elixirs, magic weapons, gold and stones, etc.
wait.
Those who received the rewards were mainly the Pei brothers and sisters, masters and disciples of the Wenqing Sect, Louguan disciples, and casual cultivators and spiritual cultivators who participated in the battle. Because the scale of the battle was small, the rewards were not generous, but for low-level monks and casual cultivators,
But very good.
For example, Qu Fenghe got a low-level self-defense weapon, which was very suitable for him to use; Guo Zhiwei got a book of alchemy and couldn't put it down; Yang Zhiwen got a Tang Dynasty atlas that had nothing to do with practice, but it was like a treasure; Zheng Yutong got
A bottle of calming elixir to help her break through the realm and forge elixirs; Butcher and Rich Shen each also obtained a lot of magic talismans. For casual cultivators, talismans are still relatively rare...
As for the spirit monsters, Leixiao Pavilion has given them a batch of pills to assist in their cultivation. There is nothing we can do about it. Most of the spirit monsters cannot use talismans, and the magic weapons are not as easy to use as their own magical powers. As for Taoism,
The exercises and the like are useless, only the elixirs can still work.
What they care more about is actually the cultivation cave and the spiritual herbs and elixirs, which they got in the Dajun Mountain Cave. According to Fairy Toad Palace, the rewards have been given long ago. This time they participated in the war just to defend their homeland and fulfill their obligations.
.Zhao Ran naturally sent a lot of praise and praise for this.
It can also be seen from this that Leixiao Pavilion is quite attentive to the matter of rewarding meritorious service. Of course, the factor of building view cannot be ruled out. Who makes Xu Zhenren the real person sitting in Leixiao Pavilion.
The Taoist priests of the White Horse Court also played a great role in this battle. Whether it was killing the enemy in the front or planning money and food in the rear, mobilizing organizations, they were active everywhere. Zhao Ran also reported their achievements to Tianhe Palace.
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But the merit has been reported, and it’s hard to say how much reward you can get. At most, you can give some monetary rewards, or record military achievements for future transfer. If you want to get promoted now, it is impossible. There are not so many positions.
You can take it out and choose.
Why is it always said that the butt determines the head? This is the case with Zhao Ran now. When he was discussing the affairs of Ye Xueguan, he proposed the strategy of integrating the Tao and Yamen into one. In addition to being able to solve the problems at the time, it also worked well with him.
It has nothing to do with Hongyuan.
It has been five and a half years since the White Horse Court and the Yamen were integrated into one, and it has been three full years since Zhao Ran sat in the abbot's chair of the White Horse Court. His perspective on thinking about the problem has definitely changed - he feels that the combination of the White Horse and the Yamen is not so convenient.
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There are two inconveniences. One is that everyone is extremely busy all year round. Everyone has to take on two tasks. It can be said to be a miracle that he can persist for three years. If he continues, Zhao Ran is very afraid that something will go wrong.
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Zhao Ran heard that in the 18th year of Jiajing's reign, the Kunming magistrate Qiu was not considerate of his subordinates and made the officials in the government office work around for several months without day or night. Two clerks died from exhaustion that year.
One day, he temporarily summoned a county magistrate to the government office for discussion. The county magistrate had not slept for three days because of flood control. After rushing all the way to Kunming, he couldn't help but take a nap during the discussion. He was hated by his enemies.
The prefect insulted and scolded him, and stripped off his official uniform on the spot.
When these things spread, the common people praised Zhifu Qiu as a noble man. He also gained a good reputation as a diligent and caring person. He was promoted to the right chief minister of Yunnan. He simply cost the lives and futures of his subordinates and turned his head red.
yarn.
Zhao Ran has always been puzzled. Can officials who don't even take good care of their subordinates can really love the people? Do they know what it means to love the people? What do they love? Sure enough, within two years, Qiu Buzheng had embezzled a huge amount of money.
The case broke out and shocked the world.
Zhao Ran despised his enemies back then, and he even insulted his subordinates in public at all times. Without even a few words, he threatened to "take off your hat", "Wait for me to impeach you", "If you can't do it, I'll do it."
This type of bureaucrat is very despised. Saying these words in public, apart from gaining fame, I really can’t think of any use. As the saying goes, a dog that bites but doesn’t bark can truly solve the problem.
People who have problems don't need to do this at all.
But in the past two years, everyone in Baimayuan has followed his footsteps, working hard day and night, countless times. From Yuan Hao down, all Taoist priests have had the experience of falling sick from exhaustion, which made him
I blame myself secretly when I think about it.
Baima Yuan Taoist Office was merged into one, and one Taoist priest could support the other two. This situation would definitely not last, so he planned to take this opportunity to separate the Taoist Temple and the county government office, fully fill up the manpower, and let Hongyuan and Songfan the other three
The county is unified. In this way, with more people, everyone will have less work to share and can take a breather.
Another inconvenience is that there are few responsibilities. If a county government can be separated, there will be twice as many vacancies, and it will be easier to reward meritorious services.
When Zhao Ran proposed it to Du Tenghui and Xia Ji, the two big figures in the Song Dynasty agreed very much. No matter how high-sounding the words of agreement were, what really moved them was the additional tasks and the reorganization after separation.
A top-down system.
The two families originally managed the same Taoist temple. If the separation is successful, the responsibilities and vacancies will inevitably be doubled, and the authority will also be increased. Why not?
Moreover, given the development situation of Hongyuan, there are now more than 100,000 registered residents. This is an out-and-out Shangxian County, and both Taoist responsibilities and county government ranks will inevitably expand.
After some urgent consultations, the Governor-General's Palace of Western Sichuan and Tianhe Palace respectively submitted documents to the Sichuan Chief Envoy, Xuanyuan Guan. At the same time, the two big shots also began to step up their activities to seek early approval from Shangfeng.