Of the 500,000 taels of silver that Ji Qingwen spent in a blink of an eye, 370,000 taels were the rewards of the relevant personnel.

This is not a small amount of money.

You must know that the number of Beijing officials in the Ming Dynasty is only about 2,000 people, every year during the Spring Festival, in order to declare the emperor's grace, the emperor will generally reward the officials in Beijing, the garrison soldiers and the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner court with money and grain, among which the officials are different according to their grades, the rewards are also different, the average amount of silver per person is about 100 taels, and the average amount of silver for the soldiers and palace personnel in Beijing is about one tael.

Together, the money spent by the emperor was also around 400,000 taels of silver, and these money were not usually spent from the household, but the private money called "personal money" in the emperor's inner treasury.

In other words, the reward money that Ji Qingwen spent in the past year has been on an equal footing with the emperor, and the wealth he has accumulated in just two years is not as good as the words "rich and rivals the country", but it can also be on an equal footing with the supreme emperor.

The money earned by Ji Qingwen is mainly stored in two places, one is in the wharf warehouse of Dianshan Port in Songjiang Prefecture; The second is placed in the Suzhou weaving yamen silver warehouse.

Among them, Dianshan Port is not very quiet because of the people coming and going, so there is very little silver, but there are about 200,000 taels.

So after a night's rest, Ji Qingwen opened the silver vault, took out the silver, and distributed it to the workers working in the port under the escort of more than 400 village warriors.

These more than 1,500 workers, who were originally hungry people in Shaanxi, followed Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to provoke a rebellion in desperation, and were defeated by Ji Qingwen's elite soldiers, and they were about to lose their lives. It was still Ji Qingwen who was kind and reluctantly brought this group of people to Jiangnan, which saved their lives.

Because these people had rebelled against the government and the imperial court, Ji Qingwen didn't dare to use them too much, and he was afraid that they would gather to make trouble, so he arranged for them to work on the dock far away from the downtown area.

Although the work on the wharf is harder, it is not life-threatening, and there are a few taels of silver every month to keep them fed, warm, and comfortable, compared with the precarious life in Shaanxi during the famine years.

And today, they got a reward from Ji Qingwen that was almost equivalent to two months' salary, and they were even more overjoyed, and couldn't stop praising Ji Qingwen as the reincarnation of the Taoist ancestor and the Bodhisattva.

Ji Qingwen knew it in his heart - the money he got at the end of the year was only one-tenth of the weavers in the weaving workshop and one-fifth of the regimental training soldiers, which seemed a little unfair.

But what is fair?

The weavers of the weaving mill are all ancestral weaving skills, and the tribute-woven brocade can be sold for six hundred taels of silver each in the international market, and there is no silk in the world

The quality is comparable to it; The training of the Township Warrior Regiment is extremely weekdays, and when they fight, they even make a living with their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers, in the final analysis, they exchange their lives for money, and their lives are definitely worth a reward of one hundred taels of silver a year.

And what about these dock workers from Shaanxi?

Although they work very hard and conscientiously, their work is really not highly technical and irreplaceable - if you don't do it, there will naturally be a lot of people to do it. Therefore, they do not have any bargaining chips for their wages, and they can only rely on the conscience of their bosses to get how much money they can get.

And Ji Qingwen, who is such a boss whose heart has not been completely blackened, gave them twenty taels of silver for the New Year, which can be regarded as being able to explain.

So Ji Qingwen sent the more than 1,500 dock workers, took out 2,000 taels from the deposited silver, and gave it to the missionary John Tang, so he lit up the township brave regiment training with less than 500 people, and took tens of thousands of taels of silver in addition to the dock maintenance fund, holding the ashes of the soldiers who died in battle, including Chen Wenzhao, and marched to Suzhou.

The barracks outside the Xiangmen in the south of Suzhou had been vacant for a long time, but when the 500 Townsmen returned from the training two months later, many bunks had been vacated - the owners of these bunks had already given their lives in the bloody battle against the Eight Banners of Manchuria under the capital city.

Ji Qingwen couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw this, so he ordered to let these beds be empty, and then write the name of the original owner on a blank piece of paper and press it on the bed, as if these people were still alive around everyone.

His very humane decision won the hearts of the officers and soldiers, and they immediately sent Meng Hong to ask Li Yan to write his name, and then put the note with the name written on the bed, and took turns kneeling and saluting.

Ji Qingwen silently stood aside to watch the ceremony, and his eyes were moist with emotion, and he thought: These soldiers see the feelings between their comrades so much, no wonder they march and fight, and no one will take the initiative to retreat, exposing the brothers of life and death to danger, this is the real source of the combat effectiveness of this "Ming Wu Army" with the foundation of the old "Qi Family Army". However, now that Chen Wenzhao is dead, this army cannot be disbanded just now, but how to develop and grow in the future is another difficult problem that Ji Qingwen is facing in front of him.

Ji Qingwen thought about this problem for a long time, but he was still at a loss, thinking that he could only take one step at a time, slowly replenish and increase the number of personnel, and for the time being, Huang Degong would teach martial arts and Meng Hong would teach marksmanship. And the talent of the commander who can control the overall situation can only be filled by Ji Qingwen, a powerless guy.

Ji Qingwen thought as he exited the barracks and saw Ge Sheng, the leader of the weavers, from the welfare workshop a few steps away

When he came out, he shouted: "Hey, Ge Sheng, you don't work hard, what are you doing here?" Lazy? ”

When Ge Sheng heard this, he hurriedly ran up and said, "My lord, you can misunderstand the villain, the villain happened to be resting today, so come and see the old father." ”

Ge Sheng's old father's name was Ge Cheng, who led the city's weavers to revolt and resisted the eunuchs' rampant expropriation, and had a very high prestige in Suzhou. Later, Ge Cheng was arrested by the imperial court controlled by the eunuchs, and he was imprisoned for ten years, and it was Ji Qingwen who came forward to rescue him.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen didn't dare to slack off, and asked: "I heard that Mr. Ge Cheng's legs and feet are not very convenient, I don't know if he has been getting better recently?" ”

Ge Sheng shook his head and sighed: "The old man's feet are rheumatism that fell in prison, and he is afraid of cold and heat, and he is afraid of wet and dry. It's been too cold in Suzhou these days, and my dad is in pain, so the villain comes to take care of it from time to time! ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and said: "Mr. Ge is kind to the weaver in Suzhou, and we can't treat him badly." In this way, your doctor only needs to see, and the medicine is only prescribed, not too expensive, ginseng, cordyceps, deer antler, and Ganoderma lucidum, even if you buy it, even if you take it, all the expenses will be paid from my weaving yamen account. ”

Ge Sheng works under Ji Qingwen, and his salary can be regarded as much in Suzhou City, but he is a filial son, and most of the money he earns is spent on his father, so the silver in his hand is not rich.

Now that he has Ji Qingwen's promise, he is naturally very happy, and he thanked him in a different way: "Dad said that he was too reckless and sloppy in the first half of his life, so he suffered the loss of a traitor; Now that the adults have rescued him and arranged for him to be taken care of in the welfare workshop, it is no different from living in heaven. I only hope that the adults can live a long life, and the princes will continue to benefit these weavers under our weaving yamen. ”

Ji Qingwentang, a "young man with culture, ideals, discipline, and morality" who traveled from the 21 st century, but only let him benefit one place and one people in the government, this view is too narrow.

However, a person's insight is closely related to his own experience, if Ji Qingwen is not a college student who has crossed over in later generations, and continues to be a stupid son of a landlord and a rich family in Xi'an City, it is not as good as the Suzhou weaver Ge Shenglai's wisdom!

Therefore, Ji Qingwen did not think much with him, and after humbling two sentences, he asked Ge Sheng to work hard, run two more steps, set up a banquet in the welfare workshop, and invited all the weavers in the weaving workshop to come to the welfare square for dinner tomorrow - that is, Chinese New Year's Eve, and at the same time distribute the year-end reward silver before the New Year.

Hearing the news, Ge Sheng suddenly showed a smile on his face that he couldn't hide, and he happily retired to do something.

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