Chapter 11 Rewarding Subordinates, Military Budget

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The more sad and sad Jin Shude is, the more melancholy her face is, the more Xu Qing has a sense of conquest and achievement, because it shows that she is a good woman who loves her husband, and she is not a casual woman. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In order to make Jin Shude happy, Xu Qing gave Jin Shude a palace in the former Goguryeo palace in the Andong Metropolitan Palace, and found two women in their early twenties who had served as palace maids in the former Goguryeo palace to serve Jin Shude as maids and serve Jin Shude. Silla princess Kim Yaqiao also only brought two dowry maids over. Wang Meihui has only one dowry maid.

Xu Qing is very good to Jin Shude, she still keeps a straight face all day long, and even her little cousin Jin Yaqiao, who is three years younger than her, thinks that Jin Shude should not put on a show against Xu Qing, and bitterly persuades Jin Shude to adapt to the situation. Xu Qing is also a handsome young man, even if he is a bad old man, the two of them have to accept their fate. Who made the king of Silla see the wrong situation and challenge the Tang Dynasty, but the sweetness was not tasted, but the bitter fruit was swallowed by the two women.

Under Jin Yaqiao's persuasion, Jin Shude didn't keep a straight face to Xu Qing, but the smile never appeared on Jin Shude's face.

Xu Qing caused Jin Shude's family to break up, and her three-year-old daughter was fostered in her mother's house, Xu Qing was already very satisfied with such a result.

It's almost the end of the year, it's time to sit back and enjoy the harvest, Xu Qing is busy and takes the time to go to the prison where the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje royal family and aristocratic women are temporarily held in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and find three stunning beauties, one is the former Goguryeo nineteen-year-old unmarried county lord Gao Meili, one is the daughter of the former Goguryeo eldest princess, the niece of the former Goguryeo king, the fifteen-year-old girl Gao Shangzhen, and the other is the former Baekje thirty-two-year-old married princess Fuyu Huanting, Xu Qing can't wait to bring the three stunning beauties back to the Andong Guogong Mansion, by the East Palace Simei Chunlan, Xia He, Qiu Ju, and Dong Mei bathed and changed their clothes.

The three beautiful captives were glamorous after dressing up, using an exaggerated saying of the ancients, the bright light could illuminate the beams on the house, Xu Qing secretly regretted that he hadn't discovered their beauty earlier, when they were just captured, they had been escorted to him to look at them, at that time their hair was messy, their clothes were untidy, and their faces had not been washed for many days. At that time, I was too busy to look at them closely, I only knew that they were beautiful women, and I didn't find them so beautiful.

Looking back now, is it too bad to let Cui Meng go to the prison where the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje royal and aristocratic women are imprisoned to pick a beautiful woman and take them away? God knows if Choi Mengxuan's former Baekje lord Buyeo Chaesin will be the most beautiful female prisoner?

It's useless to regret it, don't think about it anymore, Xu Qing cleaned up his mood, regardless of day and night, and took all the three beauties for himself. Fuyu Huanting is a person who has come over, there is no big reaction, the little beauties Gao Shangzhen and Gao Meili are in tears, I don't know if it is painful tears, or feeling nostalgic for their life experience, self-harm and self-pity.

Xu Qing each rewarded Gao Meili, Gao Shangzhen, and Fuyu Huanting in a palace, and found two women who had been palace maids in their former king's palace to serve them.

Yang Ziyan has a lot of opinions about Xu Qing's approach, she and Xiu'er, Fei'er, Lian'er, Princess Xuancheng, Princess Yiyang, they are not assigned to a separate palace, they are all several women share a palace, Jin Shude, Gao Meili, Gao Shangzhen, Fuyu Huanting The four female prisoners were each given a palace after sleeping with Xu Qing, which is unreasonable, Xu Qing can't have a new person and forget the old person.

Xu Qing is not the emperor, and he is afraid that someone will say bad things about him in front of Li Zhi for the woman he likes, so he has to withdraw his life and let Jin Yaqiao and Jin Shude share a palace, and let Gao Meili, Gao Shangzhen, and Fuyu Huanting share a palace, which at the same time calmed the dissatisfaction of Yang Ziyan and other old lovers.

On the 10th day of the first month of December, the day before Xu Qing's class returned to the dynasty, Xu Qing exercised the privilege of disposing of the spoils of war that he had asked for from the emperor, and rewarded the meritorious ministers who fought and made peace with him, Xu Qing had special merits, Xue Rengui had first-class merits, Xue Renxian, Tian Wenyao, Yu Shiwen, Xue Renyi, Zhao Tuozhi, Liu Sisi, Zhao Tuoyong, Ji Yusheng, Ling'er, Zhao Chunhua, Zhao Qiuyue, Zhao Mengchen, Xue Jinlian, Yang Zhuangruo, Dong Bijun, He Qiurong second-class merits, and more than 50 third-class merits, more than 100 fourth-class merits, and more than 200 fifth-class merits.

Several of Xu Qing's women and subordinates were originally court spies, who made meritorious contributions in the intelligence war and the search for rebels in North Korea, such as Xiao Shanshu, Li Hehua, Mei'er, Xia Xiaoyu, Ye Xiaodie, Lin Fengying, and their identities could not be exposed, Yang Yi, Nie Hu, Cui Zhenhai, Luo Huiliang, Yang Ziyan, Yang Min, Yang Siqi, and Cui Ling also made meritorious contributions, but they were people from the old Sui Dynasty, and their identities could not be exposed, Xiu'er, Fei'er, Lian'er, and Chu Zizi were all women who could not let the court know that they were by Xu Qing's side, and they couldn't see the light. It was inconvenient for all these people to ask for merit and reward from the Tang Dynasty, so they did not repay the merit, but only privately gave them merit and reward.

In case someone in the court asked, Xu Qing said that they were all his cronies, so he would not repay them and leave the credit to others.

Men under the age of 40 who are above the fifth class can go to the temporary prison where former Goguryeo and former Baekje royal and noble women are held to take a woman of their choice. The order of selection is determined by drawing lots. The meritorious person's selection of beauties is not forced, but voluntary, and if he loves his wife or fears his wife, he can abstain from it. If the former Goguryeo and former Baekje royalty and aristocratic beauties with great merit are selected, and the small ones are not chosen, the bounty will be doubled. If the chosen beauty captives are unwilling to follow the meritorious person who chose her, she can be re-elected, given five chances, and must obey the sixth time, and the meritorious person who chose her can forcibly take her away.

Xue Rengui, Yu Shiwen, Zhao Tuozhi, Yang Yi, Nie Hu, Cui Zhenhai, and Luo Huiliang were all over forty years old and disqualified, Zhao Tuoyong was less than forty, but he had a wife, who felt satisfied and abstained, Ji Yusheng was less than thirty years old, single, and chose a young and beautiful unmarried Baekje noble woman as his wife from the temporary prison where the former Goguryeo and former Baekje royal and noble women were imprisoned, and he was very happy and grateful to Xu Qingzi.

In addition to this, there is a bounty for all meritorious servicers. Xu Qing was rewarded with 3,000 taels of gold, Xue Rengui was rewarded with 1,000 taels of gold, second-class merit was rewarded with 300 taels of gold, third-class merit was rewarded with 100 taels of gold, fourth-class merit was rewarded with 30 taels of gold, and fifth-class merit was rewarded with 10 taels of gold. The rest of the officers and soldiers who participated in the war, as well as the employees of the Longmen Dart Bureau and the Datang Trading Company, each received five taels of silver as a sunshine award.

In addition, after the army returned to the court, the imperial court also rewarded those who had military merits and good fields.

The bounty came from the gold and silver treasures found in the homes of the former Goguryeo and former Baekje royals, nobles, city lords, lords, slave owners, landlords, and officials during the land reform movement and the slave emancipation movement, and the total value of gold and silver was more than 400,000 taels of gold, and all kinds of pearls, crystals, precious stones, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other treasures were of great value.

Xu Qing took out one-seventh of the gold and silver in the spoils and rewarded his subordinates, and everyone was happy. Among the spoils of war, dozens of former Goguryeo and former Baekje royal and aristocratic beauties were retained by themselves, and the rest were also rewarded to their subordinates. The gold and silver in the spoils of war were also used by Xu Qing to build public facilities such as cities, government office buildings, roads, ports, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and Han resettlement areas, as well as to compensate for the difference between the salaries of more than 40,000 officers and soldiers who signed long-term service contracts with Xu Qing and the salaries of veterans of the Datang Trading Company.

The finances of the Tang Dynasty were in the hands of Wu Zetian, and Li Zhi could only pay at most 10,000 troops to garrison the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje region for a long time, and could not pay more, and 10,000 troops to guard the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje region with a population of more than 10 million was far from enough, and the extra troops and the troops of the squad returned to the dynasty but stayed in the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje region, plus the veterans of the Datang Trading Company who were responsible for guarding the frontier for the Tang Dynasty, and the dart division of the Longmen Dart Bureau totaled nearly 100,000 people.

Xu Qing negotiated with Li Zhi many times in letters, and finally Xu Qing asked to use the gold and silver treasures in the captured booty to support the surplus army, and the insufficient money was to be compensated by the profits of his Datang Trading Company, Datang Commercial Company, Longmen Dart Bureau, and the agricultural and industrial projects he founded in the former Goguryeo and former Baekje regions, which Li Zhi agreed.

In addition to the gold and silver worth more than 300,000 taels of gold left in the reward, more than 100,000 taels of gold have been spent on construction this year and next, and more than 200,000 taels of gold remain. Assuming that the military expenditure of the 100,000 Tang Army Standing Army is 20,000 taels of gold a year, Xu Qing pays the soldiers of the private army under his command with higher salaries and better treatment, and the 100,000 private army needs about 60,000 taels of gold a year, and 200,000 taels of gold is only enough for three years.

Fortunately, many of Xu Qing's projects in North Korea have begun to make profits, otherwise the financial pressure to raise 100,000 private troops is very great.

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