In July of the second year of Changqing, Shi Chongwei saw the transcript of Huazhou, and the summer grain of Tuntian had been counted and registered, and he asked the court to issue an order to announce the distribution plan. Looking at the thick account books, Shi Chongwei smiled and said: "Yang Qing, Jiang Qing is real, and he sent all the account books of Xia Liang, do I still settle the accounts for him?" Yang Qing, you tell me about the situation in Anxi Tuntian, I am too lazy to turn over this thing. ”

Yang Quanzong cleared his throat and said, "There are a total of 50,824 sergeants in the Anxitun army, and each of them is given 50 acres of land, for a total of 25,412 acres of land. Huazhou has a bumper harvest this year, with an average of one stone and six buckets of grain per mu, and 4.1 million stone of grain. ”

Kong Province said happily on the side: "Half of the 4.1 million stone grain will be returned to the public, which is 2.05 million stone, according to the standard of two catties of grain per day for the soldiers of the Anxi battalion, which is enough for the needs of more than 300,000 troops for a year. ”

Shi Chongwei had another calculation in his heart, more than 50,000 people in the tun army could get 2.05 million stone grain, and each tun army could get more than 40 stone of grain. According to one person's two catties a day, these grains are enough to support 340,000 people for a year, which means that seven people a year do not have to worry about food. If you plant some fruit trees and raise some cattle and sheep, your income will be at least more than twelve or three taels a year, and ordinary people will only consume four taels of silver a year.

"I have long heard of the wealth of Huazhou, and I thought that it was because of the establishment of a border city to trade with the Western Regions, but now it seems that Tuntian can also get rich. My Zheng Guo man's adult government granted 20 acres of land, and my father gave 50 acres of land in order to settle these old and weak troops, and the conditions were really too thick. ”

Duan Cizong said: "After the court implemented the policy of 'combining taxes into one', the taxes collected were only one and a half to two percent, and Tuntian had to hand over fifty percent of the production, which could not be regarded as generous. Tuntian is also official land, can not be sold, mainly Huazhou land is fertile, mostly cooked land, per mu yield as high as one stone six and a half, other states average only about one stone and one bucket, this can collect a few more buckets of grain. The grain paid by these cantonment troops is actually more than twice that of the ordinary people, and Banzai must not reduce the share of the cantonment army because of this, so as not to cause a mutiny. ”

Shi Chongwei's idea of reducing the distribution of the Tun army was suffocated by Duan Cizong before he could say anything, but fortunately, Shi Chongwei had prepared in advance, and said to Kong Province with a slight smile: "Kong Qing, Qingzhou has suffered a plague of insects this year, can you mobilize millions of stone grain from Huazhou to Qingzhou for disaster relief?" ”

Kong Province said: "Long live this is a very good proposal, Huazhou and Qingzhou are adjacent to each other, and it is a shortcut to mobilize grain from Huazhou quickly and economically." The minister thought that Huazhou had a bumper grain yield year after year, and a grain depot could be set up at the junction of Huazhou and Bing, Qing, Lei and other prefectures in case of emergency. ”

Duan Cizong said: "If one million stone grain is mobilized into Qingzhou, the military food left for the Anxi battalion will not be enough, and at least 200,000 stone grain must be prepared for each grain depot, and I don't know if the production in Huazhou will be enough?" It is better to prepare for it in three years. ”

Shi Chongwei didn't want to get entangled in this matter, and said: "The matter of raising grain in the granary will be solved by Zhou Yongtong, the assassin of Huazhou, and the cost will be allowed to be deducted from the tax at the price of ten yuan of rice. ”

Duan Cizong thought for a while, a hundred stone of grain only needs to subsidize 100,000 taels of silver, which is really not a large amount for Huazhou, so he did not open his mouth to object, but the idea that the Son of Heaven wanted more benefits from Tuntian did not change.

Shi Chongwei continued: "The Annan and Anbei tun armies set up granaries at the state border in imitation of the Anxi tun army, and the local state government was also allowed to deduct it from the tax at the price of ten yuan of rice. ”

Without waiting for Kong Province and the others to speak, Shi Chongwei said: "The specific distribution of the grain in Huazhou will be discussed by the Political Affairs Hall and the Ministry of Households, and a charter will be taken out to play it. This is discussed here in advance, and the next item is next. ”

In May this year, when he was inspecting the Gobi military town, he encountered horse thieves, so he led 800 soldiers and horses to chase the thieves, killed 124 thieves, captured 340 people, and exterminated two thieves' dens, and obtained gold and silver utensils at a discount of 2.04 million taels, as well as a number of ordnance, grain and grass. ”

Shi Chongwei had already received Jiang Anyi's secret recital about this news in the first half of the month, and Jiang Anyi said in the secret recital that he would send the seized 2 million taels of silver to the state treasury. This year, the Yanshan Palace was rebuilt, the silver was spent like flowing water, the inner treasury was already empty, the queen mother pasted her own private silver into two million taels is still not enough, and Shi Chongwei has no face to let the states offer birthday silver for the queen mother. Yang Quanzong privately embezzled eight million taels of silver from the treasury to barely plug the hole, otherwise the work would have to be stopped, although two million taels of silver is not much, it is enough to support it for a while.

"Long live, the minister thinks that Jiang Anyi led the army to attack without the permission of the court, and he must be severely punished, otherwise this case will be opened and military discipline will collapse." The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Xue taught benevolence.

Ding Dawei said: "The fighter plane is fleeting, so there is a saying that 'the general will not be affected by the life of the king outside', Jiang Anyi encountered the thief, did he not let him stick to it, and let the thieves run rampant." The minister thought that Jiang Anyi violated military discipline by sending troops privately, but there was also merit in killing thieves, so he might as well offset the merits and let him pay the captured silver into the treasury. ”

This statement is in line with Shi Chongwei's mind, Shi Chongwei nodded and said, "What Ding Qing said is very true. However, private soldiers should not be tolerated, and the Taiwei Mansion and the Ministry of War drew up regulations on the use of troops and the distribution of captured materials in case of accidents, and then reported them to the world. Huazhou set up a military town in the Gobi, the north camp of the town was opposite to the Moren, and the major metropolitan protectorates to quell the turmoil, if these accidents were reported to the military department in advance, I am afraid that it would be too late, I mean that the transfer of soldiers and horses within 1,000 can be reported to the Taiwei Mansion and the military department in detail afterwards, and more than 3,000 people must have the order of the commander. The Taiwei Mansion and the Ministry of War may wish to take it into account when formulating the regulations. ”

After retiring from the Zichen Palace, Shi Chongwei went to the Zuixia Palace to visit Wang Meiren, ten days ago Wang Meiren gave birth to a daughter, and her mood was very low, the Queen Mother was very caring for the granddaughter of this clan, so that the Son of Heaven had time to accompany her more. To tell the truth, Shi Chongwei has a lack of good impression of this Wang beauty, and during her pregnancy, Wang Meiren showed her arrogant temperament, and scolded the palace maid for no reason, which made the palace uneasy, and even the queen did not have a good face for her.

Shi Chongwei plans to go to Linhua Palace to see Yun Cairen (Yun Ruyu) after seeing Wang Meiren, Yun Cairen is three months pregnant, morning sickness is terrible, and the slimming Yun Cairen is a little weak and untouched, and he looks more and more moving, Shi Chongwei is very concerned about this Yuncai person who can sing and dance.

Yuncai is a show girl dedicated to Huazhou, her family died in a pitiful life, and she grew up in a childcare and nursing home. Yun Cairen was full of gratitude when he talked about the Nursery Care Home, saying that his father's benevolence saved tens of thousands of orphans, the old and weak in Huazhou, and Lord Jiang told them to remember the kindness of the court, it seems that Jiang Anyi is still loyal to his father and the court, and it is not bad for me when I think about it.

When he was a direct bachelor of Chongwen Hall in the East Palace, he was also devoted to me, and he was relegated to Fuluo County, Lizhou, and often wrote some observations and sent them to me, so that I increased my experience and understood the people's suffering; Jiang Anyi is good at financial management, and gives the queen mother a thirty-percent dividend, so that I have money to use, and I want to buy the property of Yanshan Villa, and I will sell it for one million taels, which is quite loyal; Later, when he entered Beijing, he helped me gain a firm foothold, and it was also his credit that I was able to ascend the throne smoothly; He was ordered to quell the rebellion in Huazhou, so that I would not have to worry about the west after I ascended the throne, and I made great contributions; This time, because of the Tuntian incident, I have no complaints about his punishment, and I have made every effort to implement the new policy of Tuntian, and I have gained something from going out of the customs to suppress thieves, and I know that I have contributed to the treasury, is it a little harsh for such a capable minister?

Shi Chongwei thought that Jiang Anyi once again mentioned missing his children, saying that the situation in Huazhou was calm, and asked for his wife and children to go to Huiye Mansion for reunion. Shi Chongwei did not consult Kong Province and Duan Cizong, but summoned Wei Youcheng and Cheng Mingdao to inquire about the matter respectively. Wei Youcheng thought that the court had a system, and officials above the fifth rank could be appointed abroad, and their family members could follow them, that is, they should act according to the system, and they should not be different from person to person, which hurt the minister's heart; Cheng Mingdao is very straightforward, Jiang Anyi's family members are afraid that Jiang Anyi will have different intentions in Beijing, and now it seems that Jiang Anyi is loyal to the court, not to mention that his old mother and another concubine live in Pingshan Town with a pair of children, and the Jiang family's property is also mostly in Pingshan Town. Of course, Shi Chongwei didn't know that Cheng Mingdao had received a number of Mid-Autumn Festival gifts from Tian Shoulou, which were more than 20,000, so it was naturally convenient to say a good word for Jiang Anyi.

There is only more than a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so let Li Tong take his children to Huazhou for a reunion, Shi Chongwei was thinking in his heart how to write the secret purpose, didn't Jiang Anyi write in the Mid-Autumn Festival "Thousands of miles together Chanjuan", I let their husband and wife reunite their children, is it considered a thousand miles to send Chanjuan.

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The new Tuntian Deal discussed by the Government Hall and the Ministry of Household was issued with the seal. The new policy stipulates that 50 acres of land will be granted to each soldier unchanged, but the 20 acres of land in his hometown must be recovered by the government; The income from Tuntian is still unchanged, fifty-fifty is divided, and fifty percent is returned to the public, but the court wants to buy one percent of the grain in the hands of the Tun army at a price of ten wen and one bucket, and prepare to build a granary in case of emergency......

The new policy was issued to all tundi before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the response of the Huazhou tun army was not great. One percent of grain is about 400,000 stones, and in Huazhou, the rice is 20 wen, which is a decrease of 40,000 taels of silver, and the subsidy allocated by Jingluo Mansion to Tunshuai Mansion is 50,000 taels, and there are 10,000 taels more in and out. However, the Huazhou Tunjun was deeply dissatisfied with the court's order to change the night, but was full of gratitude to the Jiang Jing envoy, and now the happy life of the Tun army is also due to the envoy of the Tun Army, and many people in the Tun army secretly set up Jiang Anyi's tablet, praying that God will bless this Jiang Lord with all the best.

Tong'er brought her children to Huiye Mansion, Xinfei announced that the Mid-Autumn Festival festival reward was doubled, and Jiang Mansion was immersed in joy, except for Aunt Xia who was a little depressed, she just returned to Huiye Mansion when she arrived in the capital.