Huo Shiqi sat in the first guest seat unwillingly, thinking nonsense, listening to Shang Cheng's cough and coldly turned the topic to himself, and said nonsense: "Ah? Yes, busy, there are more things in the yamen, and there are not enough people......" After saying a few words, his expression gradually eased up, and his speech became smoother. "Forty out of ten villages and market towns in the county have been plagued by the scourge of the dogs, and all the dead, injured and disabled people must be registered, the dead officials must make up the funeral money, the injured officials must give medicine to the extended doctors, the orphans and orphans reported by the township must also be checked, and the precedents of the law must be issued a monthly ration money, these are all things that cannot wait, and they need to be refuted one by one. The missing people must also be screened, those who have been taken away and rescued must be repatriated, and those who have died in the wilderness must also be supervised to find and collect the burials in the villages. Most of the young seedlings in the villages and fields that have passed the soldiers are barren, and they must also survey the fields and acres, determine the head household registration, and immediately distribute grain for relief. The army crossed, from Yi County to Ruqi Village, there are Yi County children to follow the support, the county for the army to work and serve about 100,000 people, the money and grain of the money and grain, the hook of the service, can not be sloppy. The most important thing is the reward of the brave and strong man of the village. During the two months of fighting, more than 1,600 brave and strong people in the county were killed and wounded, and their bereavement rewards should be divided into grades, and those who should be rewarded should be rewarded, those who should be rewarded with money, those who have made small contributions will be exempted from decommissioning, and those who have made great contributions may have to be given ...... fields."

The business cost was afraid that Ji Fan and the others would not know the importance of casually talking about important military affairs, so they changed the topic, how do they know that his light words actually led to Huo Shiqi's sprinkled a large article, and he gradually became interested in listening to it, and saw that Huo Shiqi was thirsty and drank water from a cup, so he interjected and asked: "Teaching Tian, what kind of teaching is it?" ”

"The old example of the early Tang Dynasty was to exchange two heads for one acre of Shangtian, three for two acres, four for four acres, and so on. Later, the loss of official land flourished day by day, and the officials could not take out the field to confer merit, and this method could not be implemented. At the beginning of the dynasty, the method was changed, and all the brave and strong men in the township went to war, and all the military and local levels were combined to discuss the merits, and then the land was rewarded according to the level of merit. But it's always been a reward for more money and less for the fields......"

Shang Cheng frowned and asked, "What is the saying of rewarding more money and less land?" ”

Before Huo Shiqi could speak, Fan Quan was already laughing on the side, and said, "Don't you know that this Xuntian will never accept food?" ”

Huo Shiqi said: "What Fan Whistle said is a reason why the money is not rewarded. Emperor Taizong of the National Dynasty had an edict from time to time, and the person who received Xuntian was the same official, so Xuntian was actually an identity. It is precisely because Xuntian has this benefit that the price is more than one or twenty times higher than that of ordinary acres. The price of Xuntian in these places in Yanzhou and Duanzhou is even higher, and one mu is worth dozens of acres of ordinary fields. I heard that Xuntian, who is near the left side of the Shangjing Plain Mansion, can be thousands of runs. But even if you have 10,000 gold, you can't buy an acre of Xuntian. This Xuntian has been less than one hundred years since Zhao Liguo, and the Xuntian under the rule of Quanduanzhou is less than thirty acres. This is still at the border pass, and the Xuntian in the interior of the Central Plains is even rarer, and in some places, there is not even a single acre of Xuntian in more than a dozen counties across the prefecture. Second, who is willing to take it out and sell it? Therefore, if the occasional sporadic Xuntian is taken out and sold, it often attracts dozens or hundreds of large households to scramble. I remember that the year before last in Quzhou, there was a son of a son who was not filial, and took out an acre of Xuntian handed down by his ancestors to sell, but as soon as the news came out, not only alarmed the neighboring states and counties, but even Quanzhou had a huge rich family with thousands of dollars to come to the door to buy, it is said that at that time, the carriage that pulled the copper money from the door of the tiller house has been discharged more than three miles. ”

In just two or three sentences, Huo Shiqi showed the grand occasion of Quzhou City in front of everyone. Except for Shang Cheng, who was thinking about it, the people in the room, including the two and a half big girls, all had a leisurely and fascinated look.

Shang Cheng listened to Huo Shiqi while frowning, searching in his mind whether there was a system of awarding fields in the Tang Dynasty. He remembered that the Tang Dynasty implemented the government soldier system before the Middle Tang Dynasty, but he had no impression of "Xuntian". He knew that the soldiers of the early Tang Dynasty were usually engaged in agriculture and training, and when they were requisitioned by the imperial court, they needed to prepare their own armor, weapons, grain and grass; After the Tang Dynasty, on the one hand, because the burden of the government soldiers themselves was too heavy, many people would rather give up the status of yeoman farmers than undertake the obligations of the government soldiers, on the other hand, after the Tang Dynasty, the problem of land annexation became increasingly serious, as the source of government soldiers and soldiers decreased rapidly, and the state had to adopt the method of recruitment to solve the problem of the source of soldiers in order to replenish the soldiers. But he didn't remember which book he had heard of "Xuntian in the early Tang Dynasty". Moreover, he filtered through all the military history knowledge he knew, and he could no longer recall which dynasty or generation had Xuntian who never paid for food.

He couldn't think of an eyebrow, so he asked: "Seventeenth uncle, they are all Xuntian, why is the price here in Yixian County far less than the price of Xuntian in Yanzhou, Duanzhou?" ”

Huo Shiqi said solemnly: "The king dies in the country, and the warrior dies in the land." ”

In this way, Shang Cheng understood. It doesn't matter whether Xuntian pays taxes or not, the key is that it symbolizes a high level of glory, and while Xuntian's owner accepts this honor, he also has to bear the responsibility of defending the land. "Shi died in the land", that is, the master of Xuntian could not avoid retreating in the face of danger, even if he died, he could not take half a step back. Then the Xuntian of Yixian County is not as expensive as the Xuntian of Yanzhou, which can be understood, after all, Yanzhou is Weizhi, and the people of Tuqi can't go there when they are idle.

He snapped to the memory of something. In front of Taihe Town, the Wang family was full of 73 servants, all of whom died in the battle against the exhaustion of the army, could it be said that this Wang family has Xuntian?

Huo Shiqi nodded and said, "The Wang family Taiweng exchanged the heads of eleven Sudden Dogs for one acre of Xuntian. He closed his eyes and sighed, and said, "The Liu family and the Guan family in Beizheng also have Xuntian; There are more than 300 families in the two families, and only one woman survived. ”

When he first mentioned "the death of the monarch and the death of the country", the atmosphere in the room was a little depressing, and when he talked about the two families of Liu Guan in Beizheng County, everyone's mood was even more depressed. Especially Yue'er and Xing'er, all their dearest relatives were killed in the war, and now when they hear about the tragic experiences of others and think about their own suffering, they can't help but secretly wipe their tears.

Shang Cheng was silent for a long time, let out a long breath, turned his head and asked Fan Quan and Ji Zheng, "What about you?" After more than ten years of fighting, should you always earn an acre and a half of Xuntian? ”

Fan Quan immediately shook his head in frustration.

Ji was sitting in the chair scratching his ears and cheeks, his eyes were rolling around, swallowing saliva and wanting to speak, but he couldn't hold it back, and said with a big grin, "I'm about to have it." I made a great contribution when I recaptured Guangping Post in front, and there was news from the Admiral's Mansion that the credit had been agreed, and I earned an acre of Xuntian for my children and grandchildren. ”

Seeing Fan Quan staring at Ji Zheng with a look of envy on his face, Shang Cheng knew that this time Fan Quan didn't get enough credit for Xuntian, and was about to say two words of comfort, Ji Zheng suddenly said again: "There is something, I didn't want to tell the adult, but since I talked about Xuntian, I think it would be inappropriate if I didn't say it" He turned his face to look at Fan Quan, and seeing that Fan Quan did not object, he leaned down in the chair and said, "General Li has already reported the merit book to the Admiral's Mansion last month, and the credit for our C-shaped battalion to kill two big Samu and one Samu is also on it, But ......" He paused, as if thinking something.

Shangcheng Huo Shiqi, Yue'er and Xing'er all looked at him, waiting for him to say the words behind "but".

"However, General Li only gave the credit of one big samu and one samu to our C-shaped battalion, and we only have half of the credit for retaking the camp......

Shang Cheng's two thick black eyebrows jumped suddenly, his eyes looked at Ding Ji Zheng faintly, and he asked softly after a while, "Who did you give the rest of the credit?" ”

"I heard that it was given to General Xiao Li of the Left Army."

"Who?"

"Li Zhen, the right lieutenant of Jianhui of the left army, is also a battalion captain and a nephew of General Li." Ji Zheng said in a calm tone, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him. "This Li is really General Li's own nephew. It is General Li, the commander of our Yanshanwei. ”

Seeing that Shang Cheng was sitting on the couch without speaking, Fan Quan said: "Lao Ji and I only learned about this at the wine table last night, and we are in a hurry to talk to the adults today." He lowered his eyebrows, avoiding Shang Cheng's two aggressive glances at him. We didn't come here to let the adults fight for the soldiers of the whole battalion - Li Shen has always been like this, and even many people in his own right army hate him. "Although he and Ji Zheng are responsible for defending the Nanguan camp and temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Right Army, they are not officers in the Right Army where Li Shen has the final say, and there is no taboo at all when it comes to commenting on Li Shen." We just want to talk to the adults first, so that the adults know that we don't want to take credit for this work. Adults, don't fight for merit in front of Li Shen, this guy has always been ruthless in dealing with people, no matter who it is, as long as it goes against his will, he can do anything. ”

Shang Cheng believed this. He couldn't see for a while that Sima Li Shen of the Right Army had any skills, but the character of "being rigid and self-serving" couldn't run away. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, he suggested to Li Shen that he send a team of brave and brave men to pass through Bohaiwei from the mountain road in the Yanshan Mountains, and quietly go around to the back of Ruqizhai to cut off the return route of the Tuqi people, and to close the door and beat the dogs, but was reprimanded by Li Shen as "arrogant"; As soon as the signs of the escape of the Turks were revealed, he and the other two battalion captains proposed to divide the troops, one of which pursued with the rank and tail of the Turks, and the other took a small road to the Guangping Station, striving to intercept the army of the Tuniz in the Guangping Pass, and was reprimanded as a "soldier who does not know the soldiers". Li Shen believed that the Turks were retreating rather than retreating, and that a rash division of troops would only leave the enemy with a chance to break through. As a result, it was only during the interrogation of the prisoners that during the entire Duanzhou Campaign, the number of Turks who stayed at Guangping Pass was only 300 at most. Shang Cheng and they also hoped that Li Shen would revise the plan to raid Zhao Ji and directly attack Gongqian Pass with two battalions of men and horses, but Li Shen also refused, and as a result, the Zhao army on the southern road had to storm Gongqian Pass under the strict defense of the Tuqi people, and after paying a heavy price of hundreds of people, they only harvested a useless pass......

Seeing that the two officers were sincere, Shang Cheng couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart. To tell the truth, in fact, he and Ji Fan didn't get along for a long time, not even ten days before and after, and he didn't give them any benefits except for taking them to keep blood and work hard, but the two of them were embezzled regardless of their own merits, but they thought about themselves first, and this friendship couldn't help but teach him to be moved.

Just running for the friendship between Ji Zhengfan and the whole of the two, he can't just let people swallow up the credit of the C-shaped camp, otherwise how can he think of those dead brothers to explain, and how to face the survivors?

This credit is beginning to be contested! This is the credit of all the soldiers participating in the battle of the C-shaped battalion, why do you give a person who is true and fake for nothing?

However, Huo Shiqi was very calm, and he persuaded the two officers to stop. You don't have to be louder than anyone else to get credit, so what's more, how can you get this credit? Li Zhen's uncle is the Admiral, even if Shang Cheng and them get back their credit, the Admiral may not give them this credit, one by one, he can completely put the credit of the Nanguan Battalion and the C-word Battalion on the shelf. Don't forget, in the land of Yanshan, everything is decided by Lord Admiral.

"So that's it?" Ji Zheng said with a roll of his eyelids. He has heard a lot about this kind of false work, seen and experienced a lot, and he is angry, but he can't do anything about this kind of thing, just a few words from Shang Cheng reminded him of his past, and the evil fire that had been depressed in his heart for more than ten years finally broke out, and now he can't restrain it even if he wants to. "him! We were bleeding so hard in front, why did the little rabbit cub take away such a big piece of white flour cake and scoop away such a big spoonful of broth as soon as he came up? ”

Huo Shiqi snorted coldly at Ji Zheng's swollen purple and black face, and didn't speak again.

Fan Quan first persuaded Ji Zheng to dissipate his anger, and then said to Huo Shiqi: "Uncle Seventeen, if you have any good ideas, just say it, let's consider it together, whether it succeeds or not, Lao Ji and I, and all the soldiers of the C-shaped battalion will accept your affection." ”