Hongyan passed the book to report safety

Find out the bottom line and think about the best strategy

The Xiang army did not maintain local law and order, but started business, and each formed its own gang, and fought for small profits, causing many casualties, why is this?

Fan Zuliang reported two situations to Li Shuai: there was an error in the number of soldiers in the box, and many dead and escaped soldiers were still on the roster, which caused the problem of empty time for officers; There is also the problem of arrears and deductions.

Li Shuai instructed: You should lead the personnel to continue to investigate whether Deputy General Yao and Jia Yuhou secretly instructed and participated in this brawl incident, and there are no such hooligan gangs in the Ma Army and the Infantry Army.

After Fan Zuliang withdrew, Li Shuai ordered his staff to invite Zhang Jinhu. The commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Xiangxiang Army of this government should be the commander of the envoy, and the deputy envoy of the commander Zuo Er, but the commander of the capital has not been appointed for many years, and after the commander of the senior deputy envoy returned to Beijing in the spring of last year, he has been filled by the Marquis of Zhang Duyu, and the status of the Marquis of Du Yu is slightly equal to the deputy envoy.

After Zhang Jinhu came in, he bowed his hands, "Li Dashuai, I'm sorry, the old man has caused you trouble, offended, offended." ”

Li Shizhang wanted to say a few words to him, but when he saw that he was staggering and had a big beard, he asked politely:

"Zhang Junshuai is in good health? Where have these days gone? ”

"Thank you for your concern, except for some leg pain, nothing else, a few days ago, I went to Fuzhou, and an old friend is dying, visit and visit."

"Then why didn't you call the military academy to inform you?"

"This, I left in a hurry, and I didn't have time to take leave from the marshal, which was rude."

Li Shizhang knew that the old guy was selling the old with the old, but on the other hand, if he took leave in advance, would he not allow it? In that case, the old guy is not responsible, he has something to do.

"Why don't you send some food and earn some money for the journey?"

The big handsome laughed.

Li Shizhang stopped going around in circles, and directly said the two questions that Fan Zuliang found, and asked him what he thought?

Zhang Jinhu replied carefully:

"Dashuai, you and I are both in the officialdom, and the little things in the Xiang army naturally can't be hidden from your eyes, but this kind of thing has existed since ancient times, and it is available in other prefectures. If it is handled too strictly, it will inevitably hurt the harmony between brothers. ”

"Old marshal, I know you, I won't make a name for myself here, the problem lies below. Moreover, I don't want to target specific people, I just want to reduce the vacancies, pay them down, eliminate the old and sick, and manage the sergeants well, so that they will not cause trouble again. Li Shizhang sincerely explained his thoughts.

"Da Shuai said so, my old Zhang has no opinion, I'm old, what can you do if you see how good?"

"Old marshal, please rest assured, you have no responsibility for taking leave to go out for this matter."

In the evening, along the bluestone path, Fan Zuliang returned to the courtyard where he was, and the servant handed him the letter from home. This is a letter written to him by his wife Ye Rongrong, walked into the study, sat down and read it carefully.

The sky was dark, the handwriting was a little illegible, and he was about to get up to light the lamp, when the maid Wang Ma walked in, lit the lamp, put it in front of him, and asked in a low voice:

Master, look at it after eating?

Fan Zuliang raised his head and smiled at her, you go and prepare, I'll eat it later.

Wang's mother is about 40 years old and a local. When he came to Longxing, among the officials of various departments and governments, he only knew Uncle Huang Wen. This person once served as the right Zhengyan in the Imperial Court, at the beginning of the first year of Qingyuan, because of the outspoken opposition to the imperial pen and degraded out of the capital, since then the family has suffered misfortune. On the orders of his uncle and father-in-law, he asked Yang Wenduan to intercede.

After the party ban was lifted, he could have returned to Beijing, but Uncle Huang Wen was unwilling, so the imperial court added it to the Huiyou Pavilion to be systematic, and the Longxing Mansion was sentenced.

As soon as Fan Zuliang settled down, Uncle Huang Wen came, and seeing that there were no female dependents at home, he sent the most diligent Wang Ma in his house to take care of his life.

Rong Rong told him in the letter that the situation at home was fine, his mother was in good health, and his son and daughter were obedient. As for myself, my body has also recovered. Prepare for next month, just bring the kids. Huang Yingying has been working in the house for a long time, and you both know about it, Yingying is very good, or you will marry. Mother said, "When we go next month, I'll bring her by the way, do you think it's okay?"

Fan Zuliang laughed in his heart, come if you come, what's the matter with bringing her.

It didn't take long for Fan Zuliang to figure out the situation in the government army: the list on the roster of the entire box army was 4,100 people, but there were actually 2,680 people, 348 people over 60 years old, and 213 people between 50 and 60. The maximum period of arrears was seven months, and the total amount of arrears was 56,800 yuan, of which 35,000 yuan were not paid in the account.

Zhang Jinhu went to Fan Zuliang privately and persuaded him to stop in dealing with this matter. This local state capital is different from the major yamen in the capital, and it has to do all kinds of things, and it also has to feed a large group of people, which is complicated and complicated. If everything is put on the table and done in accordance with the regulations of the imperial court, then many things cannot be done, and many officials are not qualified.

Fan Zuliang knows the intentions of this old bureaucrat, how many years he has worked in the state and county, and many people have seen many things, and it is not that he cannot tolerate a little deficiency, but he cannot be excessive. In these days, it is easy to follow the trend, but it is difficult to do one thing well. However, if you don't accomplish one or two major things, you will feel that you have come to the world in vain. For this reason, Uncle Huang Wen reminded him: Those who do big things don't have to be too entangled in the details, do more things, do less things, and don't offend people until they have to, especially those who have not done enough things and have more than bad things.

Through their conversations, the two reached a consensus: We should not care about the past deduction of military salaries, we should not expand the scope of accountability, and we should give appropriate arrangements to all kinds of personnel in the military.

Soon, the verdict of the Criminal Department came down: Wang Youcai was the perpetrator of this incident, Shi Xiaodiao and Zhou Dapeng were the organizers and main accomplices of this incident, and they should be beheaded according to the law, sentenced to death, and executed after the autumn.

The Privy Council's handling opinion was: Li Xiang, the deputy commander of the Ma Army, and Wang Jian, the deputy head of the infantry army, were dismissed, and Jia Shangfei, the marquis of the Ma army, and Yao Sibing, the deputy general of the infantry army, were placed in charge 300 miles away, and each was fined 10,000 yuan.

The Longxing Mansion drew up an excerpt of the vacancies, arrears and sergeants in the Xiang Army, and reported it to the government hall for instructions on how to deal with it.

At the same time, Fan Zuliang gave the court a "Scrap Fuzhou County Xiang Army".

This is Li Shizhang's idea, he feels that Fan Zuliang is a manufacturable material, and let him play the ideas of the two to the emperor.

Fan Zuliang said in the notebook: The imperial court spent a lot of money to raise a large number of Xiang troops in various prefectures and counties, these people never train in peacetime, and cannot fight at all, therefore, it cannot be called an army, its main task is to maintain law and order and engage in local miscellaneous work, now is the era of peace, generally there is no major public security task, large-scale repair of the city and digging rivers is not every year, therefore, there is no need to exist. In order to properly address this issue. The recommendations are as follows:

Abolish the horse army in the Xiang army, select its capable people, set up a public security office, under the jurisdiction of the local yamen, from the county to the government, the number of people is controlled between 500 and 1,000 people, and the treatment is equivalent to the forbidden army, mainly responsible for social security and dealing with emergencies; Abolish the infantry army in the Xiang army, select its capable people, set up a reclamation department, under the jurisdiction of the local yamen, usually open up wasteland and cultivate land, self-sufficient, when needed, the local government will pay for it, let it undertake projects such as repairing the city and digging the river; In the province of the road, an army of about 3,000 people was formed, which was subordinate to the pacification envoy, and strengthened training in peacetime to deal with the needs of riots and wars.

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