After resting for a day in Sheephorn Village, Luo Cheng led the army to attack again.

In half a month, Luo Cheng used troops seven times and leveled seven villages within dozens of miles around Sheephorn Village. The situation of these villages is basically similar to that of Sheephorn Village, all of which are villages with more than 100 people, and most of them are fugitives and hidden households who have reclaimed land here and escaped labor and school. At the same time, there is basically a group of bandits in every stockade.

Bandits are more or less, but they go hand in hand.

Some fugitives sometimes go down the mountain to commit crimes with the robbers, while some robbers themselves also farm the land, which is a very peculiar situation.

But Luo Cheng doesn't care about this, he dares to abandon his nationality and flee, or steal or people, which is absolutely not allowed.

Five hundred county soldiers, seven sorties, each time won a battle, in the face of these county soldiers like wolves, the already scattered and small bandits are not opponents at all.

Death or surrender, no one can escape.

A total of 57 thieves were killed, 329 were captured, and 1,374 fugitives were captured.

In addition, a large amount of grain, cloth, livestock, money, and weapons were seized.

The successive successes were sent to Zhangqiu, which made Zhang Xutuo in Zhangqiu City a little suspicious that Luo Cheng had falsely reported his military exploits. Fortunately, after sending Jia Wuben to inspect in person, he finally believed that Luo Cheng's results were true.

Although these eight villages are all small fish and shrimp, but after reporting it, it is said that there are eight thieves in the village, nearly 100 thieves have been killed, and more than 1,000 thieves have been captured.

Zhang Xutuo has no opinion on Luo Cheng's practice of distributing the seizure as a reward and only handing over 20%.

I want the horses to run, and I want the horses not to eat grass, how can it be so easy. Now Luo Cheng is fighting to support the war, which has greatly reduced his dependence on grain and grass equipment in the rear, and at the same time, his military discipline is maintained very well, and there has been no burning, killing, looting, or rape of ** women, so he naturally turns a blind eye and acquiesces.

Jia Wuben came again on behalf of Zhang Xutuo.

During the period when Luo Cheng suppressed the bandits, Zhang Xutuo had also mobilized the soldiers and villagers of various counties and counties to set up nets on six sides of Changbai Mountain, and at the same time, he personally led the main force into the mountain.

In front of the Pioneer Battalion.

Jia Wuben announced in public the county's reward for Luo Cheng.

"Grant the pioneer battalion Luo to become the captain of Lixin, and give fifty taels of gold."

This is a reward for Luo Cheng, the pioneer who commanded the army and suppressed bandits, and every time he was rewarded for meritorious deeds before, Luo Cheng did not give himself meritorious service. But how could Zhang Xutuo forget him, and now his reward has come down.

Lieutenant Lixin.

From the nine pins.

This is not an official position, but a loose rank.

The Great Sui had official positions, ranks, and titles, and it turned out that there were also honors.

However, after today's son succeeded to the throne, in the third year of the great cause, the official system was changed and the grade was re-changed. The special jin, hachiro, eighth lieutenant and eleventh rank honors were abolished, and the provincial court council doctor was abolished.

The loose officials and the honored officers are combined, and the changed loose ranks are from one to nine grades, from the Kaifu Yi with the three divisions to the Lixin Lieutenant, there are nine doctors and eight lieutenants, and then one Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, a total of 18 levels.

Lieutenant Lixin is the lowest rank of loose officer.

A loose officer is not a minister, but a minister is a minister who is sent and has a position to manage affairs. As for the loose official, it is a title, or equivalent to a grade.

Just as the county magistrate is a professional official, and the county department level is just a level.

If there is only a rank and no position, then you will only enjoy the corresponding treatment and not the director.

The scattered officials originally started in the Han Dynasty, without a seal ribbon, and did not have a director. Since the Han and Wei dynasties, a large number of loose officials have become additional officials and ranks. At the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Six Officials and the Nine Lives system were abolished, and the Han and Wei official systems were restored.

And now that the merger of the Xun San, the Sanjie has actually always been an honorary title for officials, which has no practical significance.

Of course, the eighth lieutenant at the bottom is actually more here to reward the meritorious soldiers of the government.

Now Zhang Xutuo invited Luo Cheng to a loose rank of Lixin Lieutenant.

With this loose rank from the ninth grade, Luo Cheng can be regarded as having advanced from the original Bai Ding to the officialdom of the official career, and has a grade. In this way, his acting county lieutenant has some basis.

As for the fifty taels of gold, it was actually 400 yuan, but this reward had to be seized from Luo Cheng's pioneer camp in the end.

"What about the official position?"

The fourth child saw that Jia Wuben finished the reward in one sentence, and he was dissatisfied.

"The county has recommended Shi Cheng to the imperial court to be the county lieutenant of Zhangqiu, but the imperial court officials have rejected it, but the officials have not yet elected a new county lieutenant candidate, so Shi Cheng will serve as the acting county lieutenant for the time being, until the new county lieutenant arrives."

"That's it?" The fourth child's fists were already clenched.

"Luo Laosi, what kind of fist are you raising to my father? My father is only here to inform, and he is not a secretary. Jia Runpu saw that someone was disrespectful to his father, and immediately widened his eyes and shouted.

"Grass, what kind of bullshit reward is this? My fifth brother has made such a great contribution, and the result is a fucking one from the nine pins of Lixin Wei to the ranks? ”

Jia Wuben ignored Luo Cunxiao, he said to Luo Cheng, "Jun Cheng is also very dissatisfied when he hears this result, and he has already written to the court again, but you don't have too much hope for this matter, after all, you are from an ordinary background, and you are young, and it is not uncommon for the princes above the court to ignore it." ”

It would be false to say that you are not disappointed.

But so far, Luo Cheng has nothing to complain about.

After all, the Sui Dynasty was an aristocratic society.

The Guanlong Group controls the imperial court, the glory of the Eight Pillars country is still shining in Daxing City, and even the top scholars of the five surnames and seven families in the Kanto region are pressed and beaten by them, he is a small farmer, not even a landlord and a clan, no background and no backing, why should the princes in the court take care of him such a little guy?

However, with Zhang Xutuo's strong protection, he finally didn't give anything, and a Lixin Lieutenant from the ninth rank could be regarded as giving Luo Cheng an official body.

Even if you have no job and nothing to do, you can still enjoy many privileges if you have a loose official character, become a member of the bureaucratic class, and become a privileged class.

For example, if you are just an ordinary person, then even if you have money, you can only own 100 acres of land at most. But with the rank of Jiupin, he will become a bureaucrat, such as Lixin Captain of Jiupin, and the imperial court will also grant an official Yongye field of 100 acres. If he can have a ministry, he can also have a field.

The aristocracy and bureaucracy had preferential treatment for the field, and the Yongye field was not restricted, up to 100 hectares.

In short, when you become an official, not only will you be granted another Yongye field and vocational field, but even the amount of land will be greatly increased, as long as you have money, then you can become a landlord, or even a big landlord.

Ordinary people, on the other hand, are not qualified to become landlords who own more than 100 acres of land.

On the other hand, with a loose official, one foot has already stepped into the officialdom, and in the future, he will have the opportunity to seek ministry again and become a real official.

It's just that the fourth child is not convinced at all.

It is too bullying to refuse to give such a large credit to even a ministry.

He also thought that if the fifth child was promoted to the county lieutenant by merit, he might have the opportunity to take over the post of lieutenant of the county barracks, and if he didn't get it, he could get a nine-rank official.

"We're not convinced!" The fourth elder roared with a stiff neck.

"Presumptuous, step aside." Luo Cheng drank and retired from the fourth child, what is the use of not accepting it, and it is even more useless to say to Lao Jia. This world is a world of power, and when there is no capital, people are soft-spoken, and in the eyes of those princes in Daxing City, they are just an ant, or even an ant whose name they can't even remember.

"I'm not convinced!"

"Get down!"

"I just don't accept it!"

Luo Cheng said to the third brother, "Third brother, take the leader of the team, Luo Cunxiao, down, and close the black room." ”

Si Ye nodded, he was also very dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't say it directly like the fourth, "Fourth, go, go out and calm down." ”