"I'll write the notice right now, Wang Hu! You'll arrange for someone to post it right away, and then start recruiting people. How many people will be needed..." Li Siwen frowned, pretending to think about it for a moment, then looked at Li Mu and asked
He said: "Brother Xian, how many recruits do you think are enough?"
Li Mu was both funny and speechless. He found that Li Siwen liked to call him "Xiandi" recently, but they were obviously the same age. It was not clear who was the "Xiandi". Li Siwen had not revealed his birth date. And he only wanted to call him "Xiandi".
Li Mu is already used to it, without exception.
"I don't know about this. Let Brother Wang arrange it. It can't be too much, and it can't be too little. If it's less, it won't be enough. If it's too much, we don't have enough money!"
"Well...that's a question!" Li Siwen thought for a while and asked Wang Hu: "How many do you think is appropriate?"
Wang Hu thought for a moment and said: "At least a group of people."
The "group" mentioned by Wang Hu refers to fifty people. The Tang Dynasty army took the battalion as the basic unit. The battalion had five teams, each team led three groups, each group led five commanders, and each led ten
Man.
"Fifty people..." Li Siwen pondered for a moment and said: "Now in Dingxiang City, we have prisoners and wounded soldiers. It is not easy to recruit fifty young men. For the current plan, we can only recruit in the surrounding counties.
Now, the money issue is not easy to deal with. Now I have deducted 20% of the war profits from the money for building the city wall. The imperial court has arranged for the repatriation of wounded soldiers and logistics departments, and people will soon transport the war profits. The 20%
I don't even know how to pay the bill. If I take more, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it." After a pause, Li Siwen gritted his teeth and said, "If it doesn't work, I will send someone back to Chang'an to find my mother and ask her to help me bring my father back.
The land you purchased for me has been sold. Five hundred acres of land is still worth eighteen hundred gold, which is enough to last for a while!"
Li Mu was stunned when he heard this. This was the first time he heard that someone was an official and sold his land to provide subsidies. This means that in the Tang Dynasty, later generations of officials sold the land of ordinary people. Compared with them, Li Siwen
He is really a good official. Li Mu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, it is not like this. Don't forget that we in Dingxiang still have money."
"Where did the money come from?" Li Siwen asked quickly, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Is it possible that there really is a Turkic treasure house here?"
"What Turkic treasure house?"
"I heard from people working at the construction site. They said that buried here are the treasures plundered by the Turks from the Central Plains!" Li Siwen relished; "They say there are thousands of taels of gold. My dear, there are some in His Majesty's private treasury.
Even if you don’t have 10,000 taels of gold, it’s not certain. If we can dig it up, we won’t be able to do enough!”
Li Mu sighed secretly. Just now he felt that Li Siwen was a good official, but immediately his unreliable side appeared again. He quickly pulled back and said: "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, I am not talking about the treasure house, I am talking about the city."
These houses, the shops on South Street, the mansion on North Street. If they can be sold, wouldn’t it all be money!”
"How can I not know this!" Li Siwen clapped his thigh and said, "The key is who will buy it? Do you expect those who work on the construction site to buy it? They can't afford half of it even if they work for a year. People in the surrounding counties?
Didn't you say that other counties will not let people go casually, let alone rich people!"
"My lord!" Li Mu felt tired every time he talked to Li Siwen. He took a deep breath and explained: "We will arrange for the return of wounded soldiers and logistics departments soon, so that the East and West Second Streets and the North and South Second Streets
, are they all vacant? His Majesty asked us to accept refugees again. These refugees may not necessarily have no money. They may be Turkic nobles who escaped, or they may be other ethnic groups who saw the Turks defeated and joined us in the Tang Dynasty.
We can select the rich ones from them and place them in the former residences of the Turkic nobles on North Street. At the same time, we can put the houses in the East and West Streets for sale and auction the shops on South Street. As long as we create a building that everyone is rushing to get.
The posture, there is no need to worry about selling!”
Li Siwen nodded while listening, and after Li Mu finished speaking, he said: "I probably understand, it's the last question!"
"What?"
"Who's going to rush for it?"
Do you understand this?! Li Mu gritted his teeth and said word by word: "No one wants it, so we hire people to create an illusion. To put it simply, it's a lie! It makes people think that the house is going to be gone, and if you don't buy it, you can't buy it.
, then you can sell it!”
"Oh... I understand!" Li Siwen looked like he suddenly realized it, laughed evilly, pointed at Li Mu, and said: "You have so many evil intentions, my dear brother! You are so bad!" Seeing that Li Mu was about to go crazy, Li Siwen
He quickly stopped and said: "That's it. Let's take action. Let's do whatever we need to do. I'll go to the construction site to take a look!"
As he was about to get up and run away, Li Mu grabbed him and said: "A large number of people will flood into Dingxiang City soon, and food is the top priority. The food and grass in the camp are also lost on the way to Chang'an.
Why not exchange it for money and transport it back, and we can keep the grain."
Li Siwen could still understand such a simple truth and said: "Okay, I will stop the grain truck first and make arrangements later. As long as you can sell the house in the city before the camp is all evacuated, we have it."
We can keep any amount of money or food."
The plan was decided, and the three of them left the Yamen together. They inspected the construction site outside the city first and had breakfast. Li Siwen took out the Four Treasures of the Study and wrote down several notices. Wang Hu sent someone to post them, and Li Mu also took one.
, and posted it at the door of the Yamen. Bai Gensheng stayed with Wang Hu for the time being to do some odd jobs. After posting the notice, Li Mu went to the camp. He found several team leaders in charge of wounded soldiers in the camp and took Li Siwen to them.
The official document was shown to them. Several people discussed the regulations and divided the wounded soldiers into several grades according to their injuries. The lightly injured were accompanied by the seriously injured, and then formed a team with the recovered people. Hundreds of people walked together, and arrangements were made immediately
He got up. Li Mu had been busy in the camp until noon before arranging the procedures. In the afternoon, he finally had time to go back home. However, Li Mu did not enter the house, but walked over and walked on South Street.
After several trips, he finally chose the first store on the west side, took out a homemade seal from his pocket, and stuck it on the door.
We walked from South Street to the construction site. The people sent by Wang Hu to put up notices had returned. Fortunately, they brought back more than a dozen people, all young men about the same age as Li Mu. Most of them were transporting grain with Li Mu.
Their situation was similar. Their family background was not good and they had to bear the responsibility of supporting the family. In desperation, regardless of the risk, they followed the money. When Li Mu came over, Wang Hu was training them in the open space next to the construction site, and Bai Gensheng was also there.
Among them, each person held a wooden stick in his hand, acting as a sword, and was practicing the basic moves of the Tang army's infantry. They were all young and strong boys, and they had endless energy. They shouted so loudly that people could hear them from afar.