After the drill and review, the next day, in the Liucheng County Office, Fu Quan was checking the county's current account books and documents, although there was a county official to report for himself, but it was also very necessary to read it himself, and his first thing now was to find a way to cover the shortage of more than 100 soldiers under his command.

Under the hall is the recruit official of Liucheng County: "Ming Mansion, there are many homeless people in the county who can be recruited, but the money and finance are insufficient, and I am afraid that they will not be able to make up for the soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Gaijun." "The recruitment of soldiers is the official responsible for recruiting soldiers, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has set up in the inner counties and border areas, and there are all over the border counties, and they are subordinate to the governor.

"There are more than 300,000 dollars in the county, even if it is handed over to the county office, it shouldn't be enough, you deceive me?"

"The lower officials don't dare, although Liucheng is located in a border county, and the money needed to recruit soldiers is not much more than that of other counties, but one person also needs more than 10,000 money."

"More than 10,000?" Fu Quan was shocked, he never thought that the Eastern Han Dynasty would need so much money to recruit soldiers, in his eyes in the eyes of future generations, there are so many landless people, and some people will even go to sit on the homeless people, and they should come by recruiting them to give some money casually, so much money is needed.

"Yes, if there is no property, how can he enlist in the army, it is better to make more profits from business, and the ruthless person wants to be a thief and plunder the people."

"I see." Fuquan nodded, and motioned for him to leave.

Indeed, what this recruiter said is true, who will carry his head to the battlefield with you without money and no profit. Now is not the time when the Eastern Han Dynasty system collapsed after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and if you have a ration, you will die in the troubled times, and the imperial court recruits professional soldiers, and they have to be soldiers for the rest of their lives, which is equivalent to selling their bodies, who will do it if there is less money?

These people are soldiers and do not pay a good settling-in fee, and they will not come at all. And just like the recruiter said, there are standards for recruiting soldiers in various places, even if the amount of money required for recruiting soldiers varies because of regional differences, but if the price does not reach the other party's heart, who will be sent to death as a soldier?

Therefore, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the turbulent times of the Three Kingdoms, warlords in various places "did not complete their uprightness, and they were cut off", and the generals "let their troops go and plundered" happened from time to time.

Why?

Of course, the soldiers under his command have to live on military expenses, and the battle is motivated by rewards, and the generals have no money, so they can only do so.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the warlord division in the last years of the new dynasty, the long-term war, the people were wasted, two out of ten survived, the border counties were even more relic, the population decreased sharply, Guangwu Liu Xiu in order to recuperate, restore the national strength, so that the counties and counties of the world to reduce the government.

At the beginning, it was ordered to remove the county governor, and his authority was assigned to the county taishou or xiangguo, and at the same time, the local capital test was canceled, and the county soldiers no longer conducted military exercises after the autumn of each year. Then they successively dismissed the standing army of the county state light car, knights, material officers, building boats, etc., and the soldiers were all demobilized and returned to their hometowns, completely canceling the Western Han Dynasty regular pawn system, and later dismissed the Zhubian County Pavilion waiting officials, and even the Western Han Dynasty's garrison system was completely abolished.

Of course, it is not known whether Liu Xiu's move was to recuperate with the people, reduce military expenditures, and reduce the burden on the people, or to "control the heavy and control the light", weaken the local military power, strengthen the central government, and change the situation of local power in the last years of the new dynasty, so that the local government could not rebel against the central government.

Anyway, the Eastern Han Dynasty fully implemented the conscription system, but the original conscription system of the Han Dynasty was destroyed because of the embezzlement of land by powerful landlords and the bankruptcy of a large number of small peasant economies.

The first thing Fu Quan did when he took office was obviously to find a way to get money to recruit soldiers, and the county treasury was obviously insufficient, and more than 300,000 yuan, according to local practice, one-third of it would be withheld for the official office for his own use, and the rest would be handed over to the county guard. In other words, he can only use it for conscription, and it is still early before the end of the year, and this year's taxes have been collected, and it is obviously impossible to rely on taxes to make up for the lack of recruitment funds, unless he is willing to be infamous as corrupt officials.

Thinking of this, Fu Quan knew that he could only take the path that every exile official should take in this era.

Out of the palace, Fu Quan called Huang Zhong, who had been appointed by Fu Quan as Gong Cao, and the performance ranking of his county officials was raised and lowered, and Xu Huang and Shi A were also given the title of Shuzuo by him. First, when their new officials take office, they definitely need to install cronies, and secondly, they also have an official status for them to facilitate access to the official office.

The destination of this trip is the Yi family in the south of the city, which is the big family of Liucheng, starting with the value of goods, thousands of acres of fertile land, and the family is also in the county to produce one or two county officials, although it is not a scholar, but it is also a strong party.

The Yi family's cangtou got the famous thorn of Fuquan, and hurriedly reported it, and before long, he was admitted to the house.

The mansion is not big, and soon Fuquan was introduced into the front hall, and Yi Du, the head of the Yi family, immediately came out to greet him, and said with a respectful smile: "I've seen the Ming Mansion, but I don't know what the Ming Mansion is here?" He looked in his forties, and his figure was a little thin.

Fu Quan didn't pay attention to his words, and said with a smile: "When Quan arrived, he talked about friendship with Shengji, and today he came to reminisce about the old days and make friends with all his personal interests." "Shengji is the expression of ease.

Yi Du's face remained unchanged, and he smiled and pulled Fuquan into the hall, but he scolded Fuquan in his heart, he knew that this county magistrate must have something to find him. After all, he had only met Fuquan for a few days, and he didn't know each other at all, so how could he have any personal friendship?

Both of them pretended to be deaf and dumb, Fu Quan entered the hall and sat in the second seat, slowly looking at the decoration of the Yi family, and nodded incessantly. Guy Yi is a small and powerful family, the house is quiet and elegant, not based on luxury, there is no place to be strong and powerful, if it is not for the swords, bows and crossbows and other weapons hanging on the wall, others still think it is a Confucian family?

"Huang Jun is unharmed." Because Fuquan did not leave Huang Zhong outside the hall, Yi Du met Huang Zhong when he received Fuquan before, and he greeted him.

"I've seen Yi Jun."

Fu Quan said at this time: "Shengji Mo is no longer a king, Han Shengwu has been ordered to be Gongcao, and it is no longer appropriate to call him so." ”

Yi Du immediately smiled and said: "Huang Jun's promotion to Gong Cao is really a great joy for this county." ”

Fu Quan knew that he was complimenting, and changed the topic and said: "I heard that the Yi family's predecessors are in the county, and they have many thin names, presumably Shengji will be requisitioned soon, and I heard that it is also in Youzhou." ”

"The Ming Mansion is laughing, it is enough to be able to go out of the county, how dare you ask for news in Youzhou?" Yi Du smiled bitterly, and secretly said that this county commander pretended to be confused, he didn't believe in Fuquan's identity as an imperial relative, and no one would tell him about his own situation.

The Yi family has since Yi Du's great-grandfather traveled back and forth between inside and outside the border plug, selling goods and rising, and his father and ancestor entered Shizhou County, but most of them bribed the governor of the state and county. Now the current Taishou Zhao Bao is an official and upright, thinking that the law of bribery has long been unworkable, and the Yi family can only be a small clan in Liucheng, which is not as talented as other major clans in western Liaoning.

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I don't want to say much about the recruitment system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, some people will say that I am nonsense, just find some homeless people to be soldiers, no one has been a soldier, I can only say that before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were really no homeless people, and I will write about it in the future, as for whether the recruitment of soldiers is no money, no one wants to be a soldier, the following examples can be found:

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" volume 21 "The Biography of Li Zhong" records that Liu Xiu said to Li Zhong in the early Eastern Han Dynasty: "Now that our army has been completed, the general can return to save the old mother's wife, and it is advisable to recruit those who can get their families, and give them tens of millions of money, come and take ...... from me."

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" volume 2 "Emperor Ming Ji", the first year of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty. Recruit soldiers and give 30,000 yuan.

"Book of the Later Han" volume 38 "Teng Fu Biography", in the early years of Emperor Shun Jiankang, Guangling Zhang Ying and others gathered people to revolt, and the Han court opened a wide range of rewards and fundraising, and the money and yi were different.

Here it can be seen that there must be money for recruitment, and there are also examples of the consequences of recruiting without money:

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Du Shang" records that Emperor Huan Yanxi was five years old, and the government recruited troops to kill Changsha and Lingling traitors to rebel, and more than 600 people from Yuzhangai County came to "recruit" at that time. Later, because of "no reward, resentment, rebellion, burning Changsha County, Kou Yiyang, killing the county order, and gradually prospering." ”

Later, after the success of the rebellion, there was no money, and the result was that "the army was still sent for three years, and the beard was decided." For seven years, he was named the right township marquis and moved to Guiyang Taishou. Next year, the Beijing division will be requisitioned. When Jingzhou soldiers Zhu Gai and others, the conquest and service for a long time, the reward was not supported, angry, re-made chaos, and Guiyang thief Hu Lan and other more than 3,000 people re-attacked Guiyang, burned the county, too shou Ren Yin abandoned the city, and the thieves went to tens of thousands. ”

These are all recorded in the history books, there is no money for recruitment, either no one wants to be a soldier, or no money is given after recruitment, and the soldiers themselves make trouble, and even after the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Huangfu Song asked Emperor Ling to open the West Garden and reward him with BMW and money, which is enough to illustrate the problem.