Wednesday Wei still asked with some doubts: "Reclamation troops?" So what does Your Majesty plan to send that army out of the customs to garrison this new city? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said, "I have already read the report you sent to me. Based on the southern soldiers of Jizhen, select personnel from the Zunhua militia under your command, and set up a new infantry division with two regiments, which will be properly organized and trained before the beginning of spring, and once the address of the new city outside the pass is determined after the beginning of spring, they will prepare to go out of the customs and garrison the new city.

In addition, the service period of soldiers in this unit stationed at the customs was reduced to 4 years. After the completion of the service period, if the officers and soldiers are willing to settle in the local area, the soldiers can get a 30 acres of land, and the officers at all levels will increase the size of the land accordingly. However, these retired officers and soldiers should be subject to the national conscription in wartime, and the officers and men of the cantonment units shall be granted land at half compared with the officially retired officers and soldiers. ”

Wednesday's heart suddenly cheered up, according to the emperor's wishes, these two troops will be formed by him. For him, this is the best reward.

Zhu Youzhen then said to Wednesday: "During the siege of the city, you organized the people of Zunhua City to protect the armor, do you now have a detailed record of the family status of these people?" ”

Wednesday nodded and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." There are 18,791 households of Zunhua who are subordinate to the household and protect the armor. If His Majesty needs more detailed records, then when the minister returns, he will compile a copy and hand it in. ”

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said, "I don't need this now, but you can compile a copy and give it to the General Staff as a reference material for migrating people outside the Guan."

The reason why I asked you about this is because after the siege of Zunhua City was lifted, the people of Zunhua seemed to have a lot of opinions about you. Therefore, I hope that you will come forward to appease these people and resolve their grievances, which will be beneficial for you to successfully form the cantonment troops and the new infantry division. ”

Wednesday blushed and stammered: "The minister is very willing to obey His Majesty's orders, but some people have a deep misunderstanding of the minister because of the heartache of the casualties of their families and the provocation of some gentry and merchants. I'm afraid it's hard to appease..."

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said, "Even if the people have any misunderstandings about you, you still have to try your best to explain, instead of doing nothing." If you don't do anything, you will let the misunderstanding continue to deepen.

Now the people of Zunhua are just angry with others because of the pain of losing their loved ones. When they come to their senses, they will naturally know that you are making the right choice.

After you go back, you will immediately organize people to count the damage to the houses of the residents outside the city, the damage to their property, and the requisition of the houses of the residents in the city...

I already know that the annual income of the people of Zunhua City is about more than 20 to 40 yuan per household. Therefore, I suggest that within three days, each household should be given a living allowance of 20 yuan for half a year, and after the statistics of the property losses of residents outside the city are completed, they will be compensated in three standards, with a maximum of 40 yuan.

In addition, according to the damage to the houses of residents outside the city, those that can be repaired will be repaired, and those that cannot be repaired will be rebuilt. The reconstruction is divided into two categories: those who want to build it themselves will be given 100 yuan for reconstruction according to local standards; Those who are willing to wait for the imperial court to build a unified house will distribute the houses uniformly. As for the residents of the expropriated houses in the city, the rent for the whole year is paid according to the size of the requisitioned houses.

As for those merchants who wanted to be requisitioned, they could be returned as they saw fit, except for food and cloth. As for the white slips in their hands, inform them to go to the yamen of the household department in the capital to settle the settlement. ”

After calculating the amount of compensation in his heart, he said to Chongzhen in a trembling manner: "Your Majesty, even if you don't care about the cost of building a house, these expenses alone are a huge amount of nearly 2 million yuan." ”

Zhu Youzhen touched his chin and calculated in his heart and said: "Plus the cost of rewarding the soldiers, it should not exceed 4 million yuan, and there should be no problem with this amount." Tomorrow the representative of the Shanxi Bank will arrive in Zunhua, and I will have someone bring him to see you, and you can discuss with him how the money should be distributed..."

After Sun Chengzong watched the two of them leave, he couldn't help but persuade Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, although this Staff Officer Zhou is capable, he seems to like to do things on his own, isn't it a little inappropriate to hand over the preparation of these two troops to him?" In addition, the initial expenditure on resettlement and construction of new cities outside the customs is quite amazing.

Even the military tun that has been implemented in Liaodong for many years has not solved the problem of food self-sufficiency. Your Majesty wants to move out so many people at once next year, is it too anxious? Even if the businessmen behind the three banks have money, they won't just take it out so easily, right? ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said: "Mr. Sun is still too cautious, the implementation of reclamation and monitoring and naturalization of local Mongolian tribes outside the customs is an experiment, and none of us knows what accidents will occur during the implementation process, and there is no precedent to follow."

If we arrange a rule-abiding person to be in charge of this matter, it may not be possible to solve those unexpected situations, some problems to solve need to be time-sensitive, after a certain period of time, small things can become big things, and problems that can be solved will become problems that cannot be solved.

Giving Wednesday a certain amount of discretionary power would also make it easier to take root outside the border. Even if something really goes wrong, just find an excuse to transfer him back.

As for money, I don't think it's a big deal. In fact, what we borrow from the bank is not real money, but the banknotes printed in the house, but the bank will make a commitment for the exchange of these banknotes. The more banknotes are issued, the greater the seigniorage that banks receive.

As long as the issuance of paper money did not exceed the total value of the wealth produced by the country's citizens, the paper money would not depreciate rapidly, and the court, the banks, and the merchants in the market would all profit from it.

The total value of my Ming Dynasty's wealth is about 800 million taels of silver, while the gold, silver, copper coins and paper money are only about 450 million taels, so there will be a shortage of money in the market. As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty can accept the value of paper money as currency, it will not cause a big problem to issue some paper money. ”

Sun Chengzong thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "Your Majesty's idea may be reasonable, but the minister still thinks that it is right to have a penny to do a penny, and it is not the right way to deceive the people by issuing paper money after all, so please use it sparingly." ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was unable to instill the principles of economics into Sun Chengzong, could only nod helplessly and promise: "What Mr. Sun said is that I am also a temporary emergency solution, and I will never do it again next time unless it is necessary." But now, settling the hearts of the people of Zunhua is our top priority, isn't it..."

At seven or eight o'clock in the evening of the same day, a team of knights rushed to the west gate of Zunhua from the east official road. Cui Chengxiu, who was riding a horse in the middle of the team, looked at the traces of large areas of filling on the streets of Zunhua City, and the ruins of houses that appeared on both sides from time to time, and couldn't help but sigh.

When he was observing the wear and tear of the houses on both sides of the street, Cui Ningxiu hurried over from the front of the team, stopped in front of him and said with a happy face: "Big brother, big brother, our luck is good, we don't have to spend the night outside the city." The officers and soldiers in front said that the city gate of the west gate was still open, and it was said that His Majesty ordered that the west gate should always be kept open at night, so that news from all over the world could be transmitted to Zunhua City. We can go directly into the city now and find an inn to rest. ”

Cui Chengxiu thought for a while and said, "Do you know where Your Majesty lives?" ”

Cui Ningxiu raised the horsewhip in her hand and pointed to the city and said, "It's in the governor's yamen." ”

Cui Chengxiu nodded and said, "After entering the city in a while, you go to find a place to settle down, and I will go to Fuya to post first." ”

The two discussed for a while, and the team arrived outside the Ximen Urn City, and after the Cui brothers showed their documents to the officers and soldiers guarding the gate, they rode into the city from the gap between the guards and soldiers who had moved away from the horses.

After breaking up with his younger brother, Cui Chengxiu rushed towards the governor yamen in the city with two entourages, and the street in front of the yamen had been blocked by a team of brocade guards.

After Liu Qiao, the general banner of Jinyi Wei, read Cui Chengxiu's post, he immediately held it with both hands and sent it back respectfully, and said: "It turned out to be Lord Cui, the adult actually doesn't have to post, Your Majesty has not rested at the moment, if the adult is willing, he is willing to pass it on to the adult." ”

Cui Chengxiu thought about it and then nodded and said, "It's okay, you go and pass the word for the official to see if Your Majesty has time to summon me." ”

Liu Qiao agreed, and then let people lead the horses of Cui Chengxiu and a few people, and led a few people to the gatehouse of the governor's yamen to sit temporarily. He confessed to Cui Chengxiu, and walked into the mansion alone, and a quarter of an hour later, Liu Qiao reappeared in the gatehouse and asked Cui Chengxiu to enter the mansion to meet the emperor.

After passing through several courtyards, Cui Chengxiu was taken to a small courtyard, and after passing through the moon gate guarded by four guards, he saw a small courtyard that was no more than ten or twenty steps long, and in addition to a few snow-covered flower beds, there was only one plum tree in the courtyard, which was very cute.

Several glass lanterns in front of the hut illuminate the entire courtyard, which looks very elegant. Liu Qiao stepped forward and reported a few words to the two guards guarding the door, and someone went in to make a report, and then came out to beckon Cui Chengxiu to enter the door.

Cui Chengxiu entered the room and took a look, only to realize that this was originally a study, and the emperor was standing in front of the bookshelf on the east side and looking through the books.

He hurriedly took a few steps forward and saluted Chongzhen. After hearing Cui Chengxiu's voice, Zhu Youzhen put down the book in his hand, turned his head to him and said, "Cui Bingbu is here, get up, get up, don't be polite." I thought you wouldn't be there until tomorrow. ”

Cui Chengxiu hurriedly replied respectfully: "Your Majesty has a call, how dare the minister delay on the road, this is not a gift for the minister." ”

Zhu Youzhen sat down and beckoned Cui Chengxiu to sit on the chair opposite him before he said to him: "I summoned you here, in fact, I want to hear your opinion." I don't know, what does Cui Bingbu think about his own recovery? ”