Lu Daming not only brought back the weapons of the entire Guazhou battalion, but also captured sixteen thieves who took advantage of the fire to rob along the way, and seized two large baskets of gold and silver, which made Han Xiufeng very happy and embarrassed.

Gold and silver treasures are good things, but the two baskets of gold and silver in front of them are all seized, the rewards and punishments should be clear, not rewarded or only a little reward, those young people will definitely have ideas, if they really reward these gold and silver soft and soft, those young people with money obviously will not dare to work as hard as before.

Han Xiufeng never thought that he would face this kind of thing, and was thinking about what to do, Pan Er said cautiously: "Fourth brother, I'm really not greedy for life and afraid of death, I just think that Jiaoxian can't be operated without a person, and it is inconvenient for Ambassador Han to come forward for these things." ”

"Oh, where do you want to go, I'm worried about these ill-gotten gains."

"It's easy to get this money."

"Do you have an idea?" Han Xiufeng looked at him with a smile and asked.

Pan Er looked back at the two baskets of gold and silver, and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, it looks like there are a lot of two large frames, but in fact, there is a bunch of gold and silver jewelry, how can this price be estimated, not to mention the poor ghosts outside, even Master Wang has no number in his heart." What's more, the silver depends on the fineness, and more than half of it is made of money, and it is not much when it is converted into pure silver. ”

"There are so many gold bars, and they are worth seven or eight thousand taels even if they are not much converted into silver." Han Xiufeng groaned.

"Seven or eight thousand taels sounds like a lot, but there are also a lot of people, including Lu Daming, a total of eighty-seven people." Pan Er smiled and continued: "We have never made rules, so we can take this opportunity to set up rules." In the future, no matter how much money is seized, forty percent of it must be used for public use. ”

"Used as a doctor, to take medicine to heal wounds, and to use it as a bereavement for the dead?"

"Almost, anyway, as long as you want them to pay, some of them are from the head."

"Forty percent is too much, thirty percent."

"Thirty percent is fine." Pan Er helped Han Xiufeng make a cup of tea, sat down again, and said: "The remaining seventy percent can't be divided equally, I heard that the rule of the green camp is that the battalion officer takes half, and then the general manager and the general manager, and there are few in the hands of the soldiers." ”

Han Xiufeng shook his head: "We are different from the Green Battalion, if we really lead troops like the Green Battalion, what kind of battle will we fight." ”

"Then the officials will be less divided."

"Go on."

"Fourth brother, I think so, don't they want land, want to settle down and become naturalized? But no matter where you buy land, you have to spend money, and you have to spend money to settle down and become a naturalized citizen! We don't need to give them money, we just give them a title deed and fill out a hukou card. ”

Han Xiufeng reacted, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not enough to have a household registration card and land, you have to build a house, buy a farmer, in short, it's definitely not enough to have a family without fifty or sixty taels." ”

"Besides, they are not all singles, some have relatives, even if they have no relatives, there are a group of fellow villagers who used to carry salt together on the Taiba to receive help, and they are all 'self-made', so this money is not enough to spend."

"This is a solution, although the angle slope field is not as big as the Fu'an field, but there are tens of thousands of acres of newly silted land, and it is not given to them for nothing, Ambassador Han will definitely agree."

"Then I'll count how much silver these two baskets are worth."

"Let's count it when it's dawn, in front of them." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "Saline-alkali land can't be compared with fertile land, one mu is counted as three taels. Settled down for naturalization, a person is also counted as three or two. Didn't Wang Qianli collect a few horses from Caobiao's green battalion soldiers, and he could also sell them to use them for reclamation, but we wouldn't need them anyway. ”

"It's okay to sell it to them, although it's better to use horses to plow the land than to use cattle, but cattle are not so easy to buy."

"That's it." Han Xiufeng turned around and pointed to the wooden box on the table: "Make it clear to them, Zhenjiang has been occupied by bandits, and those silver houses are estimated to have been copied by bandits, these silver tickets are worthless now, but we will collect them first, and if we can redeem them in the future, we will take them out and redeem them, and there is no way to redeem them." ”

"Okay, I'll tell them when it's dawn."

"And then there's the thing you just said, I don't know when this battle will be fought, it's impossible to fight without death, we can't afford to raise too many soldiers now, but it's impossible not to recruit soldiers and buy horses in the future, so the Jiaoxian side must be managed well."

"Fourth brother, do you agree with me to go to the corner?"

"I've been thinking about how to deal with the bandits in front of me these days, and I'm not thinking that far. You bystanders are clear, I think of it, why don't I let you go. Han Xiufeng touched the corners of his mouth and muttered: "It's just that you have to bring thousands of people at once, what do they eat and drink, even if they are willing to cultivate the land, whose land will they plant?" It's okay for us and Ambassador Han, we can't just give them land for nothing, otherwise these brothers in the camp will have ideas. ”

"I really didn't think about it." Pan Er realized that a bowl of water should be leveled, and those who didn't pay could not be rewarded, otherwise who would be willing to fight the bandits.

"But it's not that hard to do." Han Xiufeng pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "Isn't it going to give a reward money at dawn, the money will not be given too much, only the land will be given to them." But they can't leave the land wasted, so they can let their relatives and friends help cultivate it first, help plant it first, and the land reclamation is so hard and tiring, they must be willing, so they can settle three or four hundred. ”

"What about the rest?" Pan Er asked.

"The rest can go to plant Dean Gu, Wang Qianli and Yu Qinghuai. Ambassador Han and I can't buy land and property in the land where we are in office, but Dean Gu and Wang Qianli can. I wrote a letter to Ambassador Han asking him to think of a way to sell more newly silted land to the gentry of Hai'an, and let those coolies who had nothing to do on the Taiba Dam reclaim it, and wait for two or three years to plant more than three or two acres, and after five or six years of planting, it will become fertile land and even sell it for more than ten or twenty acres, so they will definitely be willing. ”

"Let those people have something to eat first, seeing that Lu Daming and these people have made a fortune, have their own land, their own houses and even cattle and horses, they will definitely rush to come when we recruit young people again!"

"That's what I mean, don't you think so?" Han Xiufeng smiled, and continued: "Since you want to think about it in the long run, you might as well take advantage of the panic and the business in the market to hurry up and buy some grain, nail rakes, and shovels from Yangzhou and transport them to Jiaoxi." Your family runs a pawnshop, so how can you run it better than me? ”

"Fourth brother, I'm really an expert at doing this, I can rent it to them first. However, it is not so fast to want to make money back to the original, the saline-alkali land is not fertile land, it is good for them to be able to open their mouths in the first year, at least two or three years, and when there is a harvest in the field, we can return to the capital to make money. ”

"If you can get back to your roots, you can put it aside if you make money or not, after all, we are raising people and soldiers. Besides, we don't have to pay for this money, so I'll write a letter to Dean Gu later, asking Dean Gu to come forward to help Zhang Luo with this matter. ”

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