After accepting the canonization, Li Zhi returned to his mansion in the capital. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhi first changed into a new official uniform. The earl's official uniform is different from the Zhengyipin, and the complement is embroidered with a unicorn and Bai Ze. Li Zhi looked in front of the mirror in his new official uniform, and felt that he had added a bit of majesty.

Li Zhi looked at the new seal letter waist card again: the Xingguo Bo Great Seal for himself was made of jade, and it was very well made. The waist card is ivory texture, tattooed with four cloud dragons, and carved with several big characters "Xingguo Bo Li Zhi".

The most crucial thing is the Xingguo Bo iron roll.

The so-called iron roll is commonly known as the gold medal for avoiding death. With this iron scroll, even if Li Zhi commits a capital crime, he can use the iron scroll to pay for his life and avoid death.

"Where the prince and uncle are first knighted, they will be given iron coupons. Completed from the Ministry of Industry, sent to write a text, and completed the rules of the bond. Transferred to the silver bureau to engrave and fill in the gold. and give it to the right side. The left side of the year-end performance is sent to the ancient and modern collection library for storage. All iron coupons are shaped like tiles. and engrave it on it, and fill it with gold. One side on the left and right, the right to the hero, and the left to hide the inner house. ”

The size of the iron scroll varies with the title, and the iron scroll in Li Zhi's hand is tiled, made of fine iron. The iron roll is about 40 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide, 2 centimeters thick, and weighs more than 4 catties. The front of the iron scroll is engraved with gold-inlaid characters, and the font is in regular script, and the content is that the Son of Heaven canonized Li Zhi as Xingguo Bo according to Li Zhi's merits, with a total of more than 200 characters.

On the reverse side of the iron scroll, it reads, "The so-called exemption from death, except for rebellion and rebellion, all death sentences are exempted." However, after the dismissal of the knight, he is not allowed to still be sealed, but he is allowed to lend his life. If he commits a capital offense, the first offense, he shall not pay all the rice he has eaten. "It is said that the iron scroll is used to avoid death, and it is stipulated that in addition to crimes such as rebellion, Li Zhi's iron scroll can pay for his life once.

With this iron scroll, murder and arson will not be sentenced by the imperial court, and it can be said that it is a stable privileged class.

Of course, with Li Zhi's current power, he can kill people and set fires with impunity without an iron scroll. But it is not the same to get the official promise in black and white.

Li Zhi put away the iron roll and put it in the box.

After accepting the canonization, Li Zhi took up a guard of honor and returned to Tianjin. Now Li Zhi's banner reads "Xingguo Bo", "Prince Taifu", "Zuodu Governor" and "Tianjin General Military Officer", and the weight of this set of titles is heavier than before, and he is a proper important minister of the Pillar State. Now Li Zhi's guard of honor not only has flags and flags, but also gourds, flags and other items that only earls have, and the whole set of honor guards needs more than ten personal guards to complete.

Li Zhi's honor guard walked in the capital and Tianjin, and when the people saw the mighty honor guard coming, they panicked and got out of the way from a long distance, hiding on the side of the road to watch Li Zhi's procession march. Especially the people of Tianjin, they really have never seen such a luxurious honor guard, standing on the side of the road one by one to discuss.

"The Chief Soldier has been promoted again?"

"Feng Bo!"

"Tsk, the chief soldier is only in his twenties, right?"

After Li Zhi returned to Tianjin, the reward for his subordinates came down.

This time Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were exterminated, and Li Zhi also reported his military exploits to his generals. Soon, the rewards given to Li Xing and others arrived one after another: Li Xingsheng was the commander of the capital. This time, the Son of Heaven abolished the guerrilla attack in Fanjiazhuang and set up a battalion in Fanjiazhuang to serve as a general, and Li Xing was still in office. Zheng Kaicheng and others were promoted to the commander of the capital, one level lower than Li Xing, and still served in Li Zhijiading's team.

Zheng Yuan and other managers were also promoted to the rank of commander of the guard, one level lower than Zheng Kaicheng and others.

The battalion commanders and company commanders in the Tiger Division were also rewarded. The battalion commanders were all promoted to the commander of the guard, and the company commanders were also promoted to a thousand households.

After the reward came down, Fanjiazhuang was full of joy, as if it was the New Year. Li Zhi set up a wine to celebrate in the Tianjin General Military Mansion, and the subordinates who came to the banquet wore crimson or cyan official robes to the banquet one by one, gathering together.

The Fanjiazhuang characters who attended the banquet in the General Military Mansion were very proud, and they wanted to know how many people wanted to squeeze in at the celebration banquet of Xingguobo, but they were all turned away. Although the adult is already Xingguobo, Li Zhi's subordinates all feel that the adult can still make a hundred progress, and go further, as long as they follow the adult, it will be okay to be promoted and make a fortune when the time comes.

The crowd was so happy that a dozen people were so drunk that day that they collapsed under the table.

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On 2 April, Li Zhi, accompanied by Li Xing, went to Fanjiazhuang New Town to have a look.

In the past half a year of Li Zhi's expedition, under the command of Li Xing, the new city of Fanjiazhuang has been built. Outside the new city, a ring of city walls has been covered with bricks, which is connected with the old city wall. The walls between the new town and the old town have been demolished and dug up, and the roads between the new town and the old town are connected. Fanjiazhuang has doubled in size, and it no longer looks like a small county town, but has the grandeur of a state town.

The new city, which has just been built, is already very lively.

Today, the textile factory has expanded massively, recruiting new people every month, and today it has grown to 15,000 people. The 15,000 workers lived in newly built villas in the new city of Fanjiazhuang. In order to increase the family income of the workers, Li Zhi now recruits workers as much as possible to hire both husband and wife, and these workers are usually two families sharing a villa. Of course, most of the workers who have not yet married only rent a house, and four families share a villa. As a result, more than 10,000 new workers filled more than 3,000 new villas.

The design capacity of Fanjiazhuang New Town is 7,000 villas, but that is a theoretical capacity. In fact, there are not only villas, but also factories and military camps in the new city, plus various commercial facilities, in fact, only more than 4,000 villas have been built. Today, there are only more than 300 villas left unoccupied.

If Li Zhi still wants to expand the textile factory, he will have to build a new city.

After taking a look at the new city, Li Zhi praised: "Li Xing, you have done a good job in the past few months. ”

Li Xing smiled: "It's all a matter of following the rules, no matter how bad I am, I can learn from what my eldest brother has done and do it again." ”

Li Zhi felt that his younger brother's ability was good, so he nodded with a smile.

Li Zhi walked into the new factory of the textile factory and found his uncle Zheng Yuan, who was in charge of the textile factory.

"Now that the textile factory has expanded to such a big size, how is the management?"

Zheng Yuan nodded and said: "There is no big problem in management, now there are 15,331 workers in the textile factory, with a monthly output of 268,000 horses. The monthly money and food expenses of the workers are 59,000 taels per month, and the purchase of coarse cotton costs 143,000 taels per month, and the monthly profit is 66,000 taels. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "It seems that the food expenditure is more than before. ”

Zheng Yuan said: "My lord, the price of rice is expensive now, although the price of rice in Fanjiazhuang has been controlled by the parity grain store and has not risen. But the price of other things has risen along with the price of rice. The price of vegetables has risen a lot. The pig farm said that the price of pig food has risen, and the settlement price of slaughtered pigs has also been raised, so the food expenses have also risen. ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and asked, "How much is the price of rice in other places now?" ”

Zheng Yuan said: "In the past few months, it has fallen a little, and it has fallen to two or five dollars and one stone. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said: "As soon as the price of rice rises, the prices of various commodities rise. In the past, we paid workers two or two months, but now that prices are high, it was relatively not so attractive a month ago. The workers toiled day in and day out, and they could not be allowed to suffer. Zheng Yuan, from this month onwards, you will adjust the monthly salary of textile workers to two or five yuan a month. ”

Zheng Yuan was stunned and said, "My lord, this is a big expense. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "We can afford it, and we would rather earn a little less than let the workers become poor." ”