With Mrs. Dong's dedicated supervision, the charity project was carried out smoothly. At this time, Liu Hong received a report that Duan Cheng's triumphant army was also about to return.

The triumphant return of the army was a great joy.

First Lingqiang, now it can almost be regarded as being wiped out, this is an absolute victory. Although Xian Lingqiang is not a big family, there are quite a few people. The most important thing is that the big man with a series of natural disasters needs a victory to stabilize people's hearts. And Liu Hong, who is constantly making various reforms, also needs a victory to suppress these forces that are not satisfied with him.

There is no trivial matter in the affairs of the army, and Liu Hong knows that in order to ensure the stability of the regime, it is necessary to win the hearts of the soldiers. So Liu Hong decided that he would take advantage of this big victory to curry favor with the soldiers of these armies.

If you want to please the soldiers, in this regard, the later generations have done quite well. There are monuments and martyrs' cemeteries in various places, which not only solve the worries of the soldiers, but also make the soldiers have a high sense of honor.

The advantages of future generations, Liu Hong must study carefully. However, the martyrs' cemetery is not easy to do now, but it is completely feasible to build a monument and a martyr's shrine.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong immediately sent someone to find Liu Zhong, the newly appointed head of the Internal Affairs Office.

"Uncle Zhong, what is our construction team doing now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, our construction team is now laying the foundation for the super hotel and department store."

"Ah, why has it been so long for these two projects to lay the foundation?"

"Back to Your Majesty, these two projects are too big. Our previous construction team couldn't build it at all. Therefore, we can only recruit a large number of new people. But those people have never touched concrete and don't know how to do it. Therefore, I let them do other projects to practice first, and only after they are familiar with the concrete work, I let these two projects start. ”

"Oh, I see." Liu Hong nodded and said to Liu Zhong: "Uncle Zhong, stop these two projects first." I need to build a huge stone monument, at least a dozen feet high, and a large martyr's shrine, which must be very grandiose and very imposing. The main thing is that it must be built before the arrival of the army, do you think there is enough time? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, neither of these two things is too difficult to build, mainly because it takes time to decorate. Especially for the decoration of the Martyrs' Shrine, even if you work overtime, it will take a month and a half for these two projects to be completed. ”

"If it's a month and a half, it's about the same. Although the army had already returned, they had brought a lot of prisoners and captured cattle and sheep, and they would definitely not be able to go fast. I'm sending people to work with the army, and I should be able to delay them a little longer, try to buy you as much time as possible, and you should hurry up. ”

Knowing that the matter was urgent, Liu Zhong hurriedly went back to make arrangements.

After determining the monument and the Martyrs' Pavilion, Liu Hong immediately brought the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Qiaoxuan to him. The ceremonies of the triumph of the army are all set by the Ministry of Rites. Now that Liu Hong has made such two big projects, of course, he has to let the Ministry of Rites know and make corresponding arrangements.

Besides, the monuments and martyrs' shrines are mainly for the dead soldiers. But the triumphant army is all alive, and their arrangements must be done well.

"Your Majesty, it is not too difficult to increase the unveiling ceremony of the monument and the first worship ceremony of the Martyrs' Pavilion. It's what you said about enhancing the sense of honor of soldiers, and the old minister doesn't know how to do it. ”

"Lao Aiqing, this thing is not difficult." As he spoke, Liu Hong told Qiao Xuan about the military medals of the later generations. Let him use gold, silver and bronze to divide the general's medals into three grades according to the material, and make it.

It's just to design the pattern and shape of the military medal, this is not difficult, Qiao Xuan directly took the order and left. The triumph of the army made him busy to death, and he didn't have time to accompany Liu Hong to spend blindly.

Although the military merit medal is good, in the final analysis, direct material rewards can move people more.

It just so happened that Liu Hong reformed the official system, and he wanted to improve the treatment of all officials, so take this opportunity to change it together.

As soon as the prime minister Liu Qi and the people from the various ministries and military aircraft departments came to the hall of Liu Hong's deliberations, Liu Hong opened his mouth and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think the court has set a lot of money before. And it is still paid for with food, which cannot meet the needs of officials. Now I will bring you here, just to discuss how we can improve the treatment of officials. ”

Hearing that Liu Hong wanted to improve the treatment of officials, these people present were happy. After all, they are also officials, and they are indispensable for improving their salaries, and of course they are happy.

As the prime minister, Liu Qian spoke first, "Your Majesty, what you said is very right. It is true that the use of grain to pay for the income cannot meet the needs of officials, and this article must be changed first. ”

Others, too, nodded yes. After all, as an official, who can get less land. I can't eat the grain in my own field, so what's the use of getting some grain from the court.

If they had extra money before, they didn't care much about that. But now, as soon as the new official system is implemented, their extra money is gone. All the expenses refer to their own output and the income of the imperial court. If you want to buy something, you have to sell the food before you can get money, which is too troublesome.

"After that, all the money will be distributed in cash." Seeing that everyone agreed, Liu Hong immediately made a decision. "But all Aiqing, how is it going to grow?"

These officials all want to treat themselves, and the higher they look, the better. But no one is embarrassed to say this. So the scene froze all at once.

Liu Qian and Liu Hong are the most familiar, and when they saw this situation, they hurriedly came out to solve the siege. said: "Your Majesty, all prices are very high now. The little money that the officials have, after exchanging it into cash, basically can't buy much things. However, it is indeed difficult to raise the income so high that the treasury cannot afford it. ”

What Liu Qian said is also true, this matter is really difficult to solve. Liu Hong suddenly thought of his fortune, and suddenly there was a way.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the official's salary will be doubled for the time being. I know that this money will not meet the needs of the officials. However, considering the situation of the state treasury, the fixed amount of money really cannot be added. Liu Hong, looking at the ministers who were obviously not satisfied, said again: "However, although the fixed Yulu cannot be added, we can still find a way elsewhere." ”

Hearing that he could still find a way elsewhere, everyone stared at Liu Hong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my fortune is one percent of the treasury. Now, I will take another 10% of the income from the treasury and use it as a reward for officials. If the officials govern the country well, and the treasury is full, you will be rewarded. And if the country is not well governed, the treasury is empty, and you will get less money. How much money you can get depends on your own efforts. ”

When everyone heard this method, they all nodded, and it was good to have this result. At this time, Zhang Huan said: "Your Majesty, the people of our army, should we share this one percent together, or give us another one percent?" ”

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