Li Fuguo was very aggrieved, and he looted hundreds of boats of gold, silver, jewelry, spices, rhino horn, ivory, longan, and longan from Lingnan for the emperor, all of which were good things.

None of these things are of excellent quality, and as soon as the ship arrives in Luoyang along the canal, it will immediately lead the noble officials of the whole city to go crazy.

But now the emperor issued an edict, although he commended him for his loyalty and hard work, but said that if this ship's treasures were sent directly to Beijing, they would become as worthless as dung.

He couldn't figure out how the big and bright Hepu pearls could not be valuable?

A string of selected Hepu pearl necklaces must cause many noble ladies to go crazy.

And that spice, how good a spice, pepper in Luoyang can be exchanged for a liter of money.

I don't understand.

However, Li Fuguo has an advantage, that is, he doesn't think about what he doesn't understand, especially what the emperor explains, and if he doesn't understand it, then implement it.

While adjusting the fleet's return plan, he began to explain to the people below why he had changed, and at the same time, he did not forget to send his henchmen back to Lingnan on a clipper.

After the emperor said that money and silk were actually more valuable, and that even slaves were good things, he decided to get back the things that he had not looked down on before.

Li Jing had already returned to Nanhai County at this time, and when he saw the words brought back by the people sent back by Li Fuguo, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He was also surprised by Li Fuguo's sudden reversal, but in the end, he agreed to Li Fuguo's request and agreed that the prisoners of war and slaves would still be returned to Li Fuguo, waiting for him to come back and transport them away. As for the money, Li Fuguo was willing to exchange pearls and tortoiseshells, and he finally agreed.

Li Jing has no time to dwell on these trivial matters now, and he is now deploying government soldiers with all his might.

The garrison position of the 72nd battalion has been selected, and now the commanders of each battalion have also been selected, and at the same time, the officers of each battalion, such as Changshi, Sima, Joiner, Dutou, and Team Leader, have also been selected, and basically the shelves of each battalion have been pulled up.

The key issue now is the lack of soldiers.

As for the more than 20,000 soldiers who were missed, all the people had different opinions.

Ruqiu He believed that the seventy-two battalions should be organized as soon as possible, so he thought that it was completely possible to take the elite from the original handsome private soldiers.

Li Xianzhi believes that Hanmin should be selected as much as possible. The imperial court had previously exiled many people, some of whom were former soldiers and even military officers, and he thought they could choose from.

Li Jing is now ordering the commanders and key officers of each battalion to go to the garrison with some of the soldiers first, and at the same time ordering the counties and counties to cooperate in the construction of military camps and the transfer and supply of supplies, grain and grass, while continuing to solicit everyone's opinions.

Not long after Li Fuguo's people came, there was finally a will from Luoyang.

The emperor first reprimanded Li Jingqiang for ignoring the imperial court system, but finally let it go gently, and the matter was revealed. The emperor finally agreed to leave more than 1,000 Yulin troops in Lingnan, and said that he also transferred a group of officers and non-commissioned officers from the Sanya to the south to supplement the strength of the Lingnan Sandao Army.

For the soldiers lacking in the seventy-second battalion, the emperor meant to select them on the spot.

However, the emperor also reiterated the criteria for selecting government soldiers, such as surrendering rebels, criminals, long-flowing Lingnan people, lowly people, slang barbarians, and vassal Hu people.

In short, even if the government soldiers are selected in Lingnan, they must be upright and good, and they must ensure that they are good citizens on the household registration of Daqin, have no criminal records, and have not been bad people, and ruffians, gangsters, hooligans, scoundrels, and beggars are not allowed.

At the same time, he is still the same as the old three, with Jia Yin, Ding Duo, and strong and brave.

The emperor's edict is to ensure the status of soldiers, and not to let those criminals, ruffians, and other bad people get mixed in. At the same time, the treatment of soldiers must be guaranteed, and the emperor told Li Jing that once the soldiers selected according to the conditions were selected, they could guarantee that they would be granted 100 acres of land.

No matter how much land is available to the local officials, it is necessary to ensure that the red line of granting 100 mu of military land to the army after the selection of the government soldiers cannot be broken, and even if the local people can only average 20 mu and 30 mu of land, the 100 mu of the government soldiers must be guaranteed.

Another is to ensure the status of Lingnan soldiers and ensure their glory.

For example, the home of the soldiers, you have to nail the glorious card, the soldiers who died in battle, you have to engrave the hero monument, enter the martyr's hall, someone has to sprinkle and sweep at four o'clock, and the Qingming winter solstice sacrifice incense.

Soldiers and soldiers who have meritorious service can be awarded medals or officials according to the system, military positions and officers must be rewarded according to the system, and if there are casualties, the bereavement allowance must also be guaranteed.

"If the Lingnan military government is full of slang, rogues, criminals, beggars, and vassal people, not only will it not be able to guarantee combat effectiveness, but the children of good families will be ashamed to join the army again in the future. And if they fail to honor the meritorious rewards, the government soldiers who bring their own weapons will also go bankrupt. ”

"Who will re-enter the military government in the future, and who will defend the country again?"

Strictly restricting the qualifications of government soldiers for selection, and at the same time ensuring the meritorious rewards of government soldiers, this is the fundamental reason for the combat effectiveness of government soldiers. On the occasion of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the government soldiers were invincible.

But when it came to the Xuanzong Dynasty, the imperial court issued an edict at that time, and the criminals were confiscated into the army, and even if they reported the merits of the crime, they could also get rid of the military and exempt the people from enlistment.

In the end, they could only start recruiting soldiers, and the soldiers recruited no longer had a good way out like the government soldiers, and they only served as soldiers for money and food, which also opened the door to the devil for the final Anshi Rebellion, for the warlords of the feudal towns, and for the troubled times of the warriors.

In the late Tang Dynasty, soldiers even had to tattoo their faces to prevent escape.

Until the Song Dynasty, soldiers had to tattoo their faces, and they were called thieves with soldiers, and the low status of soldiers was since the collapse of the government soldiers, and the government soldiers had no glory.

Although Luo Cheng had already set up the Northern Ya Forbidden Army and the Inner Ya Pro-Army outside the government soldiers, the soldiers of the North Ya and the Inner Government were actually stricter than the government soldiers.

Lingnan is a complex place, where Han and Chinese are mixed, and for a long time, almost semi-bonded.

Since the army has been used in Lingnan twice, then this time to set up a military government, it must be done in one step, and the most loyal and reliable and the most capable of fighting the martial arts of the Han family must be selected as the army.

After reading the emperor's letter, Li Jing fell into deep thought, he was the original Li Jing, and he was also the general of Guanlong, and the Li family was the leader under the government military system.

"Your Majesty's edict, Lingnan will never have to worry about it." Li Jing couldn't help but admire.

Ensuring the purity of the soldiers of the Lingnan Prefecture and ensuring their glory will naturally ensure the combat effectiveness of the military government and the loyalty of the military government.

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