It owns dozens of large and small fishing boats, including even hundreds of tons of fishing boats, and also owns a processing factory for pickling and canning salted fish. In addition to more than 3,000 prisoners of war working for it, it also hired many people working in the surrounding villagers.
Jiutun Reclamation Group has long been separated from the scope of the Reclamation Group and is more like a fishing company.
However, it is really not a fishing company!
Today's 29th Reclamation Corps can be said to be very peculiar. First of all, its system is that it is not a purely private company, nor is it even a subsidiary of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. It belongs directly to the Privy Council.
Because every settlement regiment is essentially an armed force. Even if the settlement regiment is composed of prisoners of war and does not engage in fighting but in production, it is still a military force and its management is militarized.
manage.
All settlement regiments are under the management of the Prisoners of War Department under the Logistics Department of the Privy Council. At present, the entire Tang Dynasty has nearly a hundred settlement regiments with varying numbers, with a total number of more than 500,000.
Some of these colonization regiments are prisoners of war from the main force of the Ming army on the battlefield, but most of them are young and strong soldiers temporarily recruited from many local guards of the original Ming army. Even these guard soldiers were temporarily young and strong before.
Within the Ming Army, they were all second-line auxiliary forces and basically did not participate in frontline battles, but they were still part of the Ming Army.
When the Tang Dynasty King's Division defeated the main force of the Ming Army, most of these "Ming Army" were made prisoners of war and then incorporated into the reclamation regiments!
After all, it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to just ignore the main force of the Ming army after defeating it. If these guard soldiers and temporary young men are left alone, they will become stragglers.
In addition, the Tang Dynasty's rear area is now in a period of resuming production and is very short of labor, especially free labor, so it is more inclined to send prisoners of war to the rear area for labor production.
Of course, the prisoners of war in these reclamation regiments are different from the die-hard elements who are still detained in the prisoner-of-war camps. Most of the die-hard elements in the prisoner-of-war camps will be sent to various mines, waiting for them.
Work hard until you die.
The prisoners of war in the reclamation regiment were treated much better. Basically, they could be released after farming or participating in other labor. Sometimes Li Xuan would grant amnesty. When encountering amnesty, they would be able to
Be free quickly.
At present, most of these reclamation groups are engaged in land reclamation and farming in various places, while a small number of them are building roads, bridges and water conservancy projects.
But the one like the 29th Reclamation Regiment is the only one among the nearly 100 Reclamation Reclamation Regiments!
Due to coincidence and historical issues, the 29th Reclamation Group is no longer a simple settlement group, but has become a fishing company.
However, in terms of management, it is quite troublesome. At least the higher-level department of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, namely the Prisoners of War Department of the Logistics Department of the Privy Council, honestly does not know how to deal with the 29th Reclamation Regiment.
However, it is not enough to continue to deal with it. As time goes by, more than 20 reclamation groups were previously established in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas. Except for the 29th Reclamation Group, the personnel in the other 20 or so settlement groups have long since disappeared.
, currently there is only one empty number left in the name of the Prisoners of War Department.
However, only the 29th Reclamation Regiment still has more than 3,500 people. Compared with when the 29th Reclamation Regiment was established, there are only a few dozen fewer people.
The Prisoners of War Department is very confused. It is definitely not possible for them to cancel the 29th Reclamation Regiment directly, because the 29th Reclamation Regiment is no longer a simple reclamation regiment, but has become a fishing company. It has long been
They have already become the food and clothing parents of more than 3,000 prisoners of war and the surrounding villagers. If you cancel the reclamation regiment directly, how can you let these thousands of people survive?
Moreover, the 29th Reclamation Group did really well in the fishery industry. After the Tang Dynasty lifted the sea ban, there were more private fishing trips. There were also some big businessmen who bought large fishing boats to go fishing, but they could
To be honest, there really is no such thing as the 29th Reclamation Group.
What's more, today's Erjiu brand canned salted fish has already been exported to many areas in the country, and its profitability is quite large. Except for a small part of the money earned as subsidies to more than 3,000 prisoners of war, where will the rest go?
Already?
Reserve Captain Lu Pingping, the leader of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, did not have the guts to embezzle it for himself. At most, he gave himself a super high allowance, reaching more than 3,000 taels of silver per year, and most of the rest was
They were all sent back to the Prisoners of War Department.
If they cancel it directly, this income will be gone. To be honest, they are reluctant to part with it.
But not revoked?
This is even worse!
If this continues, it will mean that the army is directly engaged in business, which is taboo. The Eternal Saint King has always emphasized that the army only needs to fight, and do not care about other things, nor can it!
If the military were directly engaged in business, to be honest, even a group of state-owned enterprises in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises would not be able to compete with them!
With the support of the army, who can compete with them? This will seriously undermine the fairness of the imperial market economy, and further undermine the balance and stability of the Tang Dynasty's military, politics and economy.
If we really want to pursue it, this is definitely a major political issue. If the Eternal Saint King gets angry, I'm afraid someone in the upper echelons of the army will be unlucky!
In the past two years, the tax department wanted to set up a tax inspection corps, and the cabinet also wanted to set up some kind of patrol police corps, but the Eternal Sage always refused to allow it, and would severely beat the team of anyone who dared to mention it. Later,
Everyone also knows that the Eternal Saint King attaches great importance to balance, everyone performs his or her duties, and any behavior that exceeds the boundary is strictly prohibited.
Seeing that the 29th Reclamation Regiment is getting bigger and bigger, the people in the Prisoners of War Department are also a little scared. They can't pretend that they can't see it. If someone finds out in the future, they may be in big trouble, and they themselves will be in big trouble.
I didn't know how to deal with it, so I quickly sent the report to the logistics department and asked my superiors for help.
The boss of the logistics department took a look and said, "Oh my God, if I haven't paid attention in the past few years, a such a profitable reclamation group has appeared under me?"
In the five years of Xuanping, he turned over profits of 160,000 taels of silver?
In the first two quarters of the sixth year of Xuanping, 130,000 taels of silver were turned in. Is it possible that the profits turned in for the whole year will exceed 200,000 taels of silver?
Damn it, that bastard is out and wants to kill me!
I asked why the Prisoner of War Department of our Logistics Department has not been looking for its own funds every day in the past two years as it was in previous years. I feel that they have used the 29th Reclamation Regiment to make money to subsidize the funds. They probably thought it was a pie in the sky.
But this could not be a pie, but a hot potato.
Is the logistics department short of money? Yes, after all, no matter how much money there is, it is not enough!
But is it really lacking? What a fart!
In the entire Tang Dynasty, there was no organization richer than the Tang Army. In the sixth year of Xuanping, their army received more than 20 million taels of military expenses a year, and this did not include the occasional temporary subsidies from the Eternal Sage.
war expenses.
Even if it was the money bag of the tax department, it would definitely not be as cool as the army's life!
The Logistics Department of the Privy Council, as a branch of the Army, is naturally not short of money!
For a mere few hundred thousand taels of silver to cause such a big trouble, the big bosses in the Logistics Department wanted to shoot the people in the Prisoners of War Department directly.
The big bosses in the Logistics Department discussed it and decided that this matter could not be exposed and had to be handled quietly internally. In the end, the 29th Reclamation Regiment had never existed to avoid letting outsiders, especially the civil servants in the cabinet, seize the opportunity.
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Therefore, a military order was quickly sent to the 29th Reclamation Regiment. The order stated that the 29th Reclamation Regiment had completed their historical mission and all prisoners of war would be released.
Of course, it was impossible for them not to see those thousands of people, so they also made compensation, such as giving a one-time three-month subsidy as severance pay to the prisoners of war who were released home.
The leader of the Twenty-nine Reclamation Regiment, reserve captain Lu Pingping, was transferred to the reserve force of Qiongzhou Prefecture with a transfer order.
But as a result, the people of the 29th Reclamation Group were unwilling!
They honestly go out to sea to fish and work in factories just to earn a salary. Who are they in the way?
Release? Give three months' subsidy?
How will they live their lives in the future?
Working in the 29th Reclamation Regiment, although one is a prisoner of war, is actually no different from an ordinary worker, because the 29th Reclamation Regiment is very profitable and the treatment is very high. Several years have passed.
Many of them have already married and had children locally, and some have brought their families to live in Lingao.
Without this job, how will they support their family?
As the leader of the 29th Reclamation Reclamation Regiment, Lu Pingfa is also a little unwilling. He has worked hard for several years to get the business of the 29th Reclamation Reclamation Regiment to this point, and he has not committed any corruption.
, Well, at most, the subsidy paid to myself is a little higher, but the subsidy of several thousand taels and the profit of hundreds of thousands of taels turned in in the past two years, that's nothing!
In the past few years, Lu Pingping has already regarded the 29th Reclamation Regiment as his own career. Now that he is disbanded, he refuses to accept it!
As a bandit, he was also a boss who was not afraid of anything. He just handed over the brochure directly, and this was not through the Logistics Department, but through the channels of the Inspectorate.
Then, the civil servants knew about it!
It didn't take long before Li Xuan's desk was filled with papers from civilian officials impeaching military generals for interfering in commercial undertakings, demanding severe punishment for the top army officials, especially those in charge of the Logistics Department, including Lu Ping's papers.
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Li Xuan looked at the pile of foldables with a speechless expression on his face. To be honest, he didn't even know what to say!