Since the current Zhou Wangfu issued a conscription order, the people who enthusiastically signed up from all over the country almost broke through the door of the registration point. Why? Just because Zhou Jun's treatment is good.

How good is it? Actually, if you look at it from a modern perspective, it's the same thing. But in this ancient time and space, it was unprecedented. Let's put it this way, every young man who has obtained the qualification to enlist in the army, after three months of recruit training and selection is officially qualified to join, each person can get a settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver at home. For many poor families whose annual income is only two or three taels of silver, it is equal to the sum of several years' income.

In addition, the monthly salary of a recruit in the first year of enlistment is five cents of silver, which is a high income. Of course, for many families in Linshui County today, it is nothing. But you must know that Gongsun Jian now does not only control such a place as Linshui County, but the entire northwest and the seven prefectures of Xizhou, plus the four prefectures in the southwest that have not yet been fully absorbed. Among them, more than ninety percent of them are living in poverty. Therefore, it is a very good choice to be a soldier and eat food.

This is still talking about the first year of recruits, and when the second year of military pay will grow to eight pieces of silver, which is equivalent to a year's income of nearly ten taels of silver. If you are promoted to squad leader because of your courage in combat or hard training, or if you stay up until the third year, you will have a tael of silver every month. If you are lucky enough to be a platoon commander, you will be an officer at the lowest level, and according to the corresponding grade established by Gongsun Jian at present, it is equivalent to officially stepping into the official level from the ninth rank.

The most important thing is that if someone in the family joins the army, they can also enjoy preferential treatment and deductions in terms of taxes. If a male member of the family dies in battle after joining the army, the local yamen will also provide a different amount of silver or food subsidies every month, and if there are minor children in the family, the Zhou Wangfu will be responsible for raising them until they are 16 years old. If there are elderly people in the family and no one to support them, they will all be supported by the Zhou Wangfu.

These two articles alone have dispelled many people's worries, so countless school-age men desperately want to join Gongsun Jian's army to serve as soldiers and eat food.

A month later, the conscription was completed. And the sweeping work after the war was also completed one after another. Today, a huge palace in the southeast corner of Linshui County has already been completed, and Gongsun Jian basically works and lives here as long as he does not go out to inspect the work.

The main hall of the palace, also known as the Yin'an Palace, was originally built according to the meaning of Liu Dayuan, who was responsible for the construction of the palace, and it must be built with great grandeur, but Gongsun Jian was not used to luxury, and secondly, he was not very willing to sit high and talk about things. Therefore, this so-called hall is just a living room with a larger area.

Whenever there is a big event, Gongsun Jian will hold a meeting here. The same is true on this day.

In the main hall, the military officials under Gongsun Jian's subordinates basically arrived, and they all sat in danger waiting for Gongsun Jian to speak first. This is also the rule set by Gongsun Jianding, there is no need to say that he sits alone in everything, and everyone stands and reports. Therefore, in addition to a large single sofa facing south and north of his main hall, there are couches on the left and right sides and opposite sides that can be used for three people to sit side by side, and there are coffee tables in front of him, on which in addition to tea are also placed fruit plates and pastries. Everyone can enjoy as many meetings as they please. Of course, except for a few old people who were born and died with Gongsun Jian, basically no one would touch these things.

Looking at the people present, Gongsun Jian was the first to ask Feng Huaidao.

"Counselor Feng, let's first report on the overall situation in all aspects recently."

Nowadays, Gongsun Jian spends more time focusing on the army, so all aspects of internal affairs are basically handed over to Feng Huaidao to help deal with. To put it bluntly, Feng Huaidao is now the chief steward of the Zhou Palace, and he has to take care of everything except not participating in the war. Therefore, it must be necessary to ask him first as soon as you come up.

Feng Huaidao made a summary report on the recent situation in various places, and generally speaking, everything is very stable and the development trend is also very good. Even the four southwestern prefectures, which have not yet been fully absorbed, are making good progress, land reform is being carried out in an orderly manner in various localities, and scientific farming and the planned development of the breeding, production, and processing of various agricultural and sideline products are also being promoted. Commerce and trade in various places have gradually become active, especially some big families after the conversion, because there is no land, so they take out all the money of the family and invest it in business. In addition, the production of various goods is also very good. After all, with excess funds, there must be corresponding investment channels. And the yamen in various places will also guide and help in an orderly manner. At present, there is no overcapacity and product backlog.

In the end, Feng Huaidao raised a question, that is, because of the war with Wu, the border trade exchanges with Wu have been reduced, and he hopes to solve this problem as soon as possible. Today, nearly half of the goods in Gongsun Jian's territory were sold to the state of Wu, or through the state of Wu, to other countries in the north. In addition, because of the inseparability between the Southern Han Dynasty and Zhou Guo, the sales volume has also decreased, but the purchase volume of steel ingots has increased significantly. There is also the Northern Qi side, which specially sent people to express their desire to purchase blade equipment and other materials in large quantities. If you can't provide it, you can buy steel ingots in large quantities.

After listening to Feng Huaidao's report, Gongsun Jian said that he could talk about it separately after this. Next, Gongsun Jian turned his head and looked at his daughter Gongyu Wu sitting next to him with a grin. Now Gong Yu Wu is almost nine years old, he has grown a lot taller, but he still has a little baby fat on his face. The little face is red all day long, and it looks like he was playing crazy again before coming to the meeting.

Don't look at Gong Yu Wu, although she is only nine years old, no one here dares to underestimate her. First of all, Gongsun Jian took this girl as a baby. followed by Ma Tengding, and a few people, it was also painful one by one, and she died. On the territory of the Zhou Wangfu now, if anyone says that Gongsun Jian is not good, there is no big problem. But if anyone dares to say half a word of Gongyu Dance, these guys will dare to take someone to cut his whole family directly. In addition, the most important thing is that although the girl is not very old, she is already a well-known genius girl. Now he is directly in charge of the two key yamen under the Zhou Palace's Financial Department and the Audit Office. This is the real God of Wealth aunt and grandmother. If you offend her, don't think about the future life there, and the audit alone can bring you back to life every year.

"Ha Wu, please report on our financial situation. It looks like it's almost the end of the year. Can we have a fat year this year? Gongsun Jian asked with a grin. But Gong Yuwu didn't give his 'father' a good look, and pouted with a very unhappy look and said, "It's still a fat year!" We're all going to be pants now. ”

"Huh? No way? Without waiting for Gongsun Jian to ask, Ding Feng, who was sitting below, asked: "I said, Nannan, we have won the battle this time, not only have we newly occupied several state capitals, but also you Uncle Ding and we have seized a lot of valuable things." ”

"Hmph, but you also have a strong ability to spend money!" Xiao Yuwu said angrily, took out an account book from the back of his small single sofa, opened it, and read: "This southern expedition and defeat of the invasion of the Wu army, in addition to the fixed assets and antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and jewelry that have not had time to be realized in various places, a total of 7,462,115 taels of silver and 431,639 taels of gold have been harvested. In addition to the local reserves for disaster relief and emergency use, the total amount of various types of grain is more than 5.96 million stones. However, because we bought Yongzhou Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion and part of the land around the southwest, as well as the fees paid by Jiazhou Mansion and Hezhou Mansion before they did not complete the acquisition, it reached more than 11.68 million taels of silver, which means that your harvest this time is basically gone. It's all used to buy land. ”

"I'll go." When Wei Meng heard this, his eyebrows immediately rose. shouted and scolded: "I said that I should kill all those wealthy families." Nai's means that all these battles have been fought in vain. In the end, it cheapened their bastards. ”

"Shut up!" Gongsun Jian glared at Wei Meng and scolded.

After all, there are many officials from wealthy families in the hall now. If you say that, what should these people think?

"This is a strategy that has been formulated by the Great Governor's Mansion for a long time, and you can't ask the soldiers to fight for their lives everywhere, right? In addition, not all wealthy families are bad people. For example, Lord Cao's family, if we didn't have the help of the Cao family, would we be able to gain a foothold in Linshui County? In the future, this kind of bastard who destroys unity is not allowed to talk about it anymore, otherwise military law will be involved. Gongsun Jian scolded Wei Meng with his head and face. He turned his head to look at Gong Yuwu and asked, "Girl, don't we still have a lot of valuable antiques, calligraphy and paintings, how much are they worth, and we still have food." ”

"Although those things are valuable, it is difficult to realize all of them, because it takes time, and if you sell them in large quantities, the price will depreciate a lot. Aunt Wan'er and Sister Fang Lan and I have calculated with a lot of people that if we can sell it all according to half of the original value, it is estimated that we can exchange it for more than 8 million taels of silver. Now we have sent someone to contact the buyer who is interested in acquiring it, after all, this is not something that any one can eat alone. In addition, the pensions of the soldiers who died in the war and were wounded and discharged from the army this time have been spent nearly 4 million taels, and I have to prepare more than 2 million taels in advance for the resettlement allowance after three months for the conscription work that has just been completed. Daddy, we really don't have any money. As he spoke, Gong Yuwu's face drooped, and he looked like he was about to cry.

"Mother's family fights, the more they fight, the richer they become, and we will lose money when we fight." Ding Feng began to scold with some displeasure: "Don't worry, don't cry, go back, Uncle Ding will take someone to Wu to grab a vote to ensure that we have money for the New Year." ”

"Yes, what Lao Ding said is reasonable. We didn't lose anything in our previous southern expedition, but we basically didn't gain any benefits from fighting Wu this time. If he Wu Guo refuses to pay us some money, then we will go directly to Wu Guo to rob it. Several military generals loudly agreed.

Gongsun Jian looked at the somewhat excited generals in the hall and waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet. He knew very well that this southern expedition was very fruitful and the losses were not large, but later against the Wu State, the losses were not small, not only did not have much gain, but the soldiers lost in the battle exceeded the losses of the entire southern expedition several times. But this is a strategic problem, he needs to hurt the state of Wu, so that the state of Wu will not have the courage to invade his territory for several years.

In fact, Gongsun Jian was also thinking about how to blackmail Wu Guoyi, and his soldiers couldn't just die in vain. However, based on his current situation, it is not yet time to completely turn his face with Wu Guo. So he didn't want to dwell too much on this issue at the meeting for the time being.

"We'll talk about the matter over there in Wu Guo later, and now we'll only talk about the problems we urgently need to solve right now." Gongsun Jian said lightly, and then asked Gongyu Wu: "Girl, according to what you said, have we already had a deficit now?" In addition, the cost of the New Year is really not enough? ”