Chapter 151: Bribery and Promotion
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However, due to the large number of people in each unit, the troops lacked money and food, and the military discipline was extremely bad, and the people rumored that the two were very corrupt.
Now hearing Yang Xuan say this, Wang Yangxi's face darkened, and Liu Yanchang insisted on following the rules of the past.
There was really no way, Yang Xuan asked Wang Yangxi for military salaries, and the 6,000 loyal and righteous army needed 120,000 military salaries every year, and now they were preparing to expand the army to 12,000 people, and 240,000 military salaries were needed every year.
The Loyal and Righteous Army is self-contained, and the grain and grass are completely self-sufficient, and now Yang Xuan is playing tricks to ask for military salaries, and the other party has no choice.
Besides, Yang Xuan also occupies morality, he initially promised 5,000 quintals of grain, and later promised 10,000 quintals of grain, but the other party scrapped the contract first, and Liukou came to attack Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and the deputy general Zeng Ying saw death and did not save him.
If they are unkind, don't blame yourself for being unjust, don't say 10,000 quintals of grain, even 5,000 quintals will not be given.
After an afternoon of arguing like this, to no avail.
In the evening, Wang Yangxi found Yang Xuan through Qian Bangqi and claimed that he would allocate 10,000 loads of grain no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to make a difference.
And Yang Xuan didn't do it, now that the army is in chaos, food is life, how can he easily give it away?
In desperation, Wang Yangxi made a killer move, claiming that if he agreed, he would immediately seal Yang Xuan as the special envoy of the governors of the four provinces as a deputy general in northern Sichuan.
And Yang Xuan didn't do it at first, although he supervised one side in politics, he didn't have real power like the prefect, so wasn't that a seizure of power?
Besides, the Loyal and Righteous Army had just defeated the Great Western Army, killing more than 2,000 enemies and capturing more than 3,000 people, and their record was far higher than that of the generals in Sichuan.
Zeng Ying's sneak attack was actually named a deputy general, and he defeated the Great Western Army with a clear sword and gun, of course, he should be rewarded by the imperial court.
However, Wang Yangxi was quite insistent, saying that if he did not allocate this 10,000 loads of grain, he would not only not ask the court for a seal, but also impeached him according to the table.
Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang continued to mediate, and in the end, everyone took a step back and allocated 8,000 quintals of grain.
Wang Yangxi left, but he heard Qian Bangxin say that he was very unhappy, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, officials can eat and drink for nothing along the way.
Along the way, not only can you use the post coaches, horses, and houses along the way for free, but also have to pay filial piety to the locality.
The great tourist Xu Xiake once relied on such an official document to levy labor along the way, not only to let him carry a sedan chair for himself, but also to provide him with food.
In times of peace and prosperity, when an official such as the governor came to a certain county, the county would raise thousands of taels of silver as a ritual.
When Hai Rui was the magistrate of the county, the son of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Nanzhili, passed by and was hanged and beaten without giving the Yiyi envoy.
This time, fortunately, when Wang Yangxi and the others left Shunqing Mansion, Yang Xuan just arranged for people to live in the post stations along the way, and after finishing the payment, they did not send any rituals.
This can make Qian Bangxin, Fan Wenguang and others frightened, and they vigorously explained that now all counties have twice the amount of honest silver, and the etiquette is completely canceled in the jurisdiction.
At present, each county has set up a corresponding post office to manage the post stations and their property under their jurisdiction.
In order to prevent the expansion of local separatist forces, the rulers of successive dynasties established an ancient highway network to ensure the normal operation of these highway networks, and established post stations in the major states and counties through which they passed, just like the modern local transportation bureaus, to manage the local roads.
Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the restoration of post stations in various places 22 days after he became emperor, and re-established the national transportation network.
The Ming Dynasty has two capitals and thirteen provinces, just like the previous life with Beijing as the center to establish a highway network, railway network, and aviation network in all directions, and the Ming Dynasty has established a number of highways with Beijing and Nanjing as the center.
The Ming Dynasty took Beijing as the center, and built such eight expressways, one of which was related to Sichuan, which was through the north of Baoding Mansion (now Baoding City, Hebei), Zhending Mansion (now Zhengding County, Hebei), Shunde Mansion (now Xingtai City, Hebei), Henan Zhangde Mansion (now Anyang City, Henan), Weihui Mansion (now Ji County, Hebei), Huaiqing Mansion (now Qinyang County, Henan), Henan Fu (now Luoyang City, Henan), Shaanzhou (now Sanmenxia City, Henan), Shaanxi Huazhou (now Huaxian County, Shaanxi), Xi'an Jingzhaoyi ( present-day southeast of Xi'an City, Shaanxi), Qizhouyi (in Qishan County, Shaanxi), Chencangyi (in Baoji County, Shaanxi), Shunzhengyi (present-day Xilaocheng, Mianxian County, Shaanxi), Wenjinyi (in Guangyuan County), Baoningfu Jinpingyi (in present-day Langzhong County, Sichuan), Huanghuayi in Tongchuan Prefecture (in present-day Santai County, Sichuan), and Jinguanyi in Chengdu (in present-day Chengdu).
There are not only these national highways, but also provincial highways, in the Ming Dynasty Sichuan there are such six highways, five of which are centered in Chengdu, respectively, to A. land to Songpanwei (now Songpan County, Sichuan);
B. The waterway passes through Meizhou (now Meishan County, Sichuan), Jiading Prefecture (now Leshan County, Sichuan), Xuzhou Mansion (now Yibin City, Sichuan), Mahu Mansion (now Pingshan County, Sichuan), Luzhou (now Luzhou City, Sichuan), Chongqing Mansion (now Chongqing City, Sichuan), Kuizhou Mansion (now Fengjie County, Sichuan), and connects to Huguangyi Road;
C. Overland to Long'an Mansion (now Pingwu County, Sichuan), north to Wenxian County, Shaanxi;
D. Overland to Huichuanwei (now Huili County, Sichuan);
E. Land to Chongqing Province.
In addition, there is also a post road between Chongqing Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture (now Santai County).
In the plains, many dirt roads have been changed to stone roads, and in the remote provinces of Boryeong and Thuan Khanh, "salty slate land".
There is the information of the Qing Dynasty post in Mo County, Shandong, and the county has a general delivery division, 4 Northeast Road Shops, 5 West Road Shops, 7 Northwest Road Shops, and 71 soldiers.
After the reduction in the Tongzhi years, there were 29 soldiers in the county, with an annual labor and food silver of 158 taels and 4 yuan and 8 cents, 2.7 Lijia horsemen, 34 taels of labor and food silver, 6 white husbands, and 47 taels of food and silver and 5 cents and 3 cents and 3 cents.
Although the imperial court abolished some post stations in the early years of Chongzhen, the ancient post stations were just like the modern railway stations and bus stations, but just like the Moxian post stations of the Qing Dynasty were reduced during the Tongzhi period, they were only reduced by the soldiers.
Just as in modern times, each county has a post office and a telecommunications office, and although Thuan Gyeong Province is not on the national highway or provincial highway, there are post stations in each county, which are run by post offices.
In the past, the yamen allocated hundreds of taels of silver to support these post men and soldiers, and in the past, officials passed through Shizhi County and did three escorts (Hai Rui once said this) and sent Cheng Yi.
When Yang Xuan saw it, of course he found out that the reason was that the post stations in each county were restructured three months ago.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a delivery station, and the main functions of the post station included three functions: the arrival of officials, the rapid delivery of official letters, and the transportation of official materials.
The reduction of officials ushered in the delivery function, and all officials could not use the post station for free (the increase in Yulu was counted in Yulu).
The rapid delivery of official letters and the transportation of official materials continue to be guaranteed, but they are converted into a certain amount of money and grain according to a certain standard, and they are converted every month.
Most of the buildings belonging to the post station were converted into hotels for merchants to live in, and anyone who stayed in them needed to pay the corresponding rent.
The business of the Civil Credit Bureau has been developed since the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, due to the development of the commodity economy, many large businessmen needed a kind of business contact, and more importantly, the distribution of goods and the exchange of funds needed to be undertaken by a kind of joint venture.
Carry out the function of mailing letters, such as mailing letters, 1 point in the county, 2 points in other counties, and 3 points in other prefectures
Dart business, transportation of goods in the jurisdiction
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A simple change, in the past, each county had to pay more than 100 taels of silver to the soldiers, but now, each county can collect hundreds of taels of silver in taxes and hundreds of taels of silver in profits from the post stations under its jurisdiction.
After Wang Yangxi and the others left, Yang Xuan began to work on the second phase of the officer training camp, pondering how to ensure the supply of grain and grass and the expansion of the army in the future.
Wang Zhibang, the governor of the Great Western Army, had already agreed to return to the loyal and righteous army, and after hearing that Zhang Dingguo led his troops to retreat, after several exhortations, Wang Zhibang, who knew that the Great Western Army was gone, decided to return to the loyal and righteous army.
Considering that Zhang Xianzhong died in the battle of Xichong Phoenix Mountain in the north in history, it is speculated that Zhang Xianzhong may personally lead a large army to attack Shunqing City, appoint Wang Zhibang as a senior staff officer, and ask him to introduce the internal situation of the Great Western Army and the characteristics of marching and fighting every once in a while, and compile the "Guerrilla Operations Outline" as a teaching material for the students to study.
In addition, the most important thing now is money and food.