"So the subordinates feel that they can confiscate Zhao Kuangning's family property, and at the same time exile his family to Wenzhou, thinking that he will be punished!"

Seeing Zhou Yin standing up to speak for Zhao Kuangning at this time, Yang Wu breathed a sigh of relief. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because when so many people advocated heavy punishment of Zhao Kuangning before, Zhou Yin, who has always been upright, chose to remain silent, and Zhou Yin did not stand up until he let everyone speak freely, which shows that his authority is enough, but Zhou Yin did not stand up for the first time.

In addition, the suggestion he put forward was also relatively fair, not to excuse Zhao Kuangning, so Yang Wu also nodded secretly after listening to it.

Then, a few more people stood up, and their opinions were similar to Zhou Yin's, all of them advocated a light sentence against Zhao Kuangning.

These people are basically civil officials, advocating the matter of facts, and opposing excessive involvement; In contrast, on the contrary, those generals basically thought that Zhao Kuangning provoked Yang Wu and deserved to be punished.

In fact, this is normal, many of these generals have followed Yang Wu to fight on the battlefield, so they naturally feel that Yang Wu's authority cannot be challenged; However, most of those civil officials have followed Yang Xingmi for many years, and they are accustomed to Yang Xingmi's tolerance, so they naturally feel that Zhao Kuangning cannot be punished too severely.

As for the rest of the people, they are mainly outsiders like Zhu Jin and Lei Yangong.

Zhu Jin has always been neutral in major affairs between the DPRK and China over the past year, and rarely expresses his opinions, even if Yang Wu sometimes asks, he also answers ambiguously, and over time, Yang Wu rarely asks him.

Lei Yangong had just come to Huainan and rarely spoke.

After a while, after all, the power of the military generals was stronger than that of the civilian officials, and in the end, the vast majority of people advocated re-punishing Zhao Kuangning.

After Yang Wu got this result, he was naturally satisfied, and began to show his generosity, and finally decided to exile Zhao Kuangning's family to Wenzhou and ordered local officials to take care of it.

Regarding this result, the civil officials naturally praised Yang Wu's benevolence and was not under Yang Xingmi, and even those generals nodded secretly.

After all, no one wants to follow a brutal and murderous lord, even those generals who are usually brutal and easy to kill are no exception.

And for Yang Wu, he can accept this result, as long as it does not hinder his majesty, then it doesn't matter if he shows his tolerance appropriately.

After deciding on the disposal of Zhao Kuangning, Yin Wengui stood up again and said: "Your Highness Qiqi, I just received the news that Liu Jin, the assassin of Haozhou, died of illness two days ago!" On his deathbed, he asked His Highness to appoint a new assassin to take over. ”

"What? Liu Jin died of illness? Yang Wu was shocked, and then began to think about it.

Last year's Jinshi has been serving as a local county magistrate for too short a time, and Song Qiqiu and the three of them have also been sent to the local area after watching the government by Yang Wu's side for more than a year, and his secretary Pi Guangye has also been released.

In general, after this group of jinshi served as county magistrates in the local area, most of them performed mediocre except for a few who performed well.

However, Yang Wu didn't expect those jinshi to perform well, as long as there were a few who became angry.

Yang Wu plans to promote these outstanding performers in another year or two, and begin to gradually replace the assassins in the south who are still held by military generals.

As for the rest of those who performed mediocrely, Yang Wu did not have high requirements for them, as long as they did not behave in the local area and ran rampant.

After a longer period of time to improve their qualifications, these mediocre jinshi can almost serve as assassins.

After all, they are all civil officials, even if they don't do a good job in assassination, Yang Wu only needs an order to take them down, and he doesn't have to have all kinds of scruples when transferring those military generals to serve as assassins.

This is also the reason why Yang Wuli advocated replacing Wu with a civilian official to serve as the assassin.

Of course, the time for other Jinshi to enter the official career is too short, and it is not appropriate to be promoted too quickly, but Liu Rengui is fine.

After all, he is Liu Jin's eldest son, and he is Yang Xingmi's son-in-law, plus he is not lacking in ability, and no one else can say anything if he is promoted to assassin history.

The only thing that needs to be considered is that he can't continue to serve as the assassin of Haozhou, otherwise after a long time, Haozhou may really become the territory of the Liu family.

Thinking of this, Yang Wu said in a deep voice: "Liu Jin died of illness, and the burial should be carried out according to the etiquette." As for the history of Haozhou Thorn, Li Tao can be transferred to Huzhou Thorn History. In addition, Liu Jin's eldest son, Liu Rengui, inherited his father's merits and was specially promoted to Huzhou Thorn History! ”

"Your Highness is benevolent!" Everyone bowed down and bowed, especially those generals, who were even more happy in their hearts.

As military generals, they fought desperately on the battlefield, for the sake of their descendants, and now they see that although Yang Wu did not directly give Haozhou to Liu Rengui to inherit, it is also a kind of compensation to let him serve as the assassin of Huzhou.

After dealing with Liu Jin's matter, Yang Wu asked again, "What else do you have to do?" ”

Yin Wengui said: "Chen Yanqian, the assassin of Shengzhou, reported that after a year of construction, now the inner city of Shengzhou has been rebuilt, Chen Yuanjun asked, when will the construction of the outer city wall officially begin?" ”

The current Shengju Castle will be used as an imperial city in the future, and in addition to moving the common people out of this reconstruction, the main project is to build a palace city in the city, plus the outer city to be built, which is the inner and outer city walls, at least in terms of specifications, it can already be used as the capital.

As for the size of the entire Shengju, it can only be further expanded after the outer city wall is built.

Yang Wuxi said: "Since the inner city has been repaired, then the construction of the outer city wall will be started this year." Of course, now is the time of the autumn harvest, and it is not appropriate to mobilize the people's forces, so as not to delay the agricultural time. The official construction will start this winter! In addition, the men who were needed to build the walls of the city must be paid in the form of employment, and the people must not be requisitioned in the form of forced labor! ”

At the same time, no one shall stretch out his hand to embezzle, nor shall anyone deduct the wages of the people. Judge Zhou, you have to send someone to keep an eye on this matter, if someone stretches out his hand indiscriminately, don't blame Gu for being unsympathetic, chop off his hand! Yang Wu warned murderously.

Such a large project, and it lasts for several years, if it is carried out by means of conscription, the harm to the people will be too great; As for paying wages, Yang Wu was worried that someone would embezzle and deduct money from him, so he warned everyone in advance.

After disposing of a few other things, Li Shenfu said: "Your Highness, it has been a year since the land of Liangzhejiang was completely included in the rule last year. Over the course of the year, the tax revenues of the two Zhejiang states have basically been on the right track. ”

"According to my Huainan Ru's current financial resources, it is enough to build two more armies with an army of 40,000 people. I beg your Royal Highness's permission! ”

As soon as they heard that it was a request to expand the army, those generals became interested.

Last year, when Hangzhou was attacked, a large amount of money and grain were seized, but the money and grain were barely used to pay various pensions and rewards to the people and soldiers.

In addition to maintaining daily use, last year's autumn harvest was not enough to pay off the debts borrowed from the people in World War I last year, and it was only after this year's summer harvest that various debts were paid off.

As the two Zhejiang states are gradually on the right track, according to the prediction of Luo Zhixiang, the accounting officer, Huainan's annual income can reach almost 5 million yuan.

This includes 1 million guan from the summer harvest, 2 million guan from the autumn harvest, and the income from monopoly sales such as salt and tea, as well as various other incomes, which is almost 5 million kan, nearly 2 million kan more than before.

Of course, as revenues increase, so do expenditures, such as maintaining the soldiers and officials of the newly recruited states in the south, which consume more than half of the extra two million. But the remaining money and food are enough to recruit another 40,000 elite soldiers.

Two armies, 40,000 people, that means a lot of opportunities for promotion, these generals will naturally be happy, so as soon as Li Shenfu brought it up, Zhou Ben and other generals who stayed in Guangling stood up to support.

However, Li Shenfu's suggestion was first opposed by Luo Zhixiang: "Your Highness, although I Huainan has newly acquired two Zhejiang lands, although the income has increased a lot, it is not enough to maintain the strength of the two armies. ”

"Your Highness, in the past few years, my Huainan has used troops on a large scale almost every year, resulting in the treasury being empty every year. But it's not a matter that the treasury is always so empty, at least leave a little balance every year in case of emergencies! ”

Yang Wu nodded, what Luo Zhixiang said was also what Yang Wu thought, although those economically developed countries in later generations were basically in fiscal deficits every year, but that was based on a highly developed economy.

Today's Huainan is still in the agricultural era, the economic foundation is poor, the ability to resist risks is even worse, if the situation is good now, if you don't reserve more money and grain, in case of a disaster year in the future, there is no place to borrow.

What's more, in order to restore the local economy devastated by the war as soon as possible, Yang Wu plans to invest more resources in the next few years in building water conservancy projects, developing wasteland, building embankments, cleaning canals, etc.

In addition, from the current point of view, it is obvious that it will not be possible to unify the world in a short time, and even the expansion of the army by 40,000 is far from enough.

And if the south is unified, even the current 120,000 mobile troops, as long as the strategy is appropriate, it is almost enough, and it is naturally best to add another 20,000 troops.

It just so happened that the first batch of 20 people trained by Yang Wu when he established the new army had also "graduated" for a period of time, and except for five people who stayed in the pro-army as commanders, the others had not yet made arrangements, and the establishment of a new army could also be based on these people.

And the source of recruitment is not to worry about, the two Zhejiang land is newly warned, many people have been displaced, and these people are recruited into the army, one can expand the army, and the other can reduce the possibility of local turmoil, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.