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For Zhao Ji, the gold and silver compensated by Xixia is simply a windfall, although the amount is very large, but the whole world belongs to his Zhao family, how can he care about those gold and silver treasures? Zhao Ji said hello and immediately ordered the guards in front of the hall to carry the gold and silver to the main hall.

Dozens of carriages that were allowed to enter outside the Daqing Hall were lined up outside the hall like a line of soldiers, and each carriage was loaded with neatly arranged wooden boxes. The guards in front of the palace stepped forward, and every two guards carried a large box, and one by one they carried the boxes to the temple.

This is a painstaking work, the palace guards in the court, each is carefully selected, speaking of the standard of the palace guards, with the requirements of modern people, it must be very high at 178cm or more. And the soldier must draw 1 stone and 2 bucket bows. 9 stones in the Song Dynasty, equivalent to 25 stones in the Han Dynasty. One stone corresponds to 82.5 kg now. How strong is the hand of a soldier himself?

Since the Song Dynasty Taizu, the criteria for selecting the guards in front of the palace are very strict, Zhenzong Dynasty, 400,000 forbidden troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there are only 3,000 guards, only 6 "with imperial equipment". According to the standards of the forbidden army, it is one out of every 400,000 strong adult men in the country, and one out of nearly 70,000. A true master of "one in a million".

No one knows how powerful these palace guards are, but it is said that in the time of Taizu, Banbang attacked a tiger, and Taizu ordered to feed a leg of mutton, and the tiger devoured it too quickly, and as a result, it was stuck in the throat by a sheep bone. One of the guards reached into the tiger's jaw and took out the lamb bone, and he was unharmed. Another time there was a beautiful bird on the top of the highest hall of the palace, and Taizu deliberately tested the martial arts of these guards, asking who could catch it and not hurt the bird. As a result, a guard came out, climbed the wall, and captured the bird. It's all shocking to watch.

Of course, this is just a legend, and it is also said that Li Jiqian, the leader of the Northwest Party, sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty, and Song Taizong ordered to send a one-stone and six-bucket bow to the Party members, but the result was that the Party was 100,000 people, and no one could pull it away. The party envoy replied to Song Taizong: "This is not pulled by people, right?" Song Taizong signaled, and all his guards pulled a stone and six buckets of bows and arrows, and there was still strength left.

With so many legends, it can be seen that the guards in front of the palace are all tall and have excellent arm strength. But these wooden boxes are moved to the Daqing Hall one by one, but they have to go through seventy-two steps, and these wooden boxes are full of real gold and silver. Everyone watched the guards in front of the hall carry the boxes into the main hall, and the boxes were placed one by one, and it took a stick of incense to take time.

If so many boxes were really gold and silver, it would have made these officials in the court dumbfounded. Wang Pan and Zhao Ji didn't seem to be satisfied, and Zhao Ji ordered someone to open the box. When the box was opened, the officials in the hall were stunned, boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, and the already brilliant Daqing Hall was more and more set off with jewelry, and even Zhao Ji, a person who was not moved by wealth, had his eyes a little bright. Not to mention the people who were still ridiculing the king just now, Lu Gong, Lu Yu and others. All they had left was to keep their eyes open and their mouths open at the amount of wealth they had never seen in their lives.

"It's, it's true! Hey, I have to say the king of Zhennan! Now the emperor's thirty-two treasury is expected to be filled as soon as possible. The third envoy Han Jiang said without losing the opportunity.

As soon as Han Jiang took the lead, the officials in the court hurriedly withdrew their greedy gazes from the open boxes one by one, and congratulated Zhao Ji together.

Zhao Ji was very proud in his heart: "King Zhennan, now you can choose!" ”

Wang walked to the side of the box, took out an ingot of gold and an ingot of silver, and walked to Lu Gongshu and Lu Xu: "Two Bachelors Lu, when the Western Xia sent gold and silver, I just asked my subordinates to roughly overestimate the amount, you can identify whether this gold and silver is real or fake?" ”

Lu Gongzhu and Lu Yu blushed, knowing that Wang had just heard their conversation, they would be ashamed to find a place to get in. They waved their hands together and said, "Really, really! No need to check! ”

"Hahaha" The court came from the hearty laughter of the king, he glanced at the two of them contemptuously, turned to Zhao Ji and said: "Holy Lord, these gold and silver can be used to repay Song debts, and it is convenient to pay off the Taibao Bank as soon as possible." As for the reward that the emperor wants to give me, I have already thought about it, I want 20 million taels of silver, and I don't know if the saint can accept it. ”

Zhao Ji looked at the king, 20 million taels of silver! It is equivalent to one-third of the remaining gold and silver after deducting the Song debt. But no matter how you say it, these are all for nothing, or the spoils of this battle have far exceeded Zhao Ji's expectations. He laughed and said: "Okay, with the merits of King Zhennan's dispatch this time, what is 20 million taels of silver, the official family agreed." ”

"Wow!" There was another uproar in the court, and everyone cast envious glances at the king. In addition, there are some people who can't help but feel sour.

Sima Guang turned around and stood up: "Shengshang, it is natural for me and other court officials to go out on the expedition for my Great Song Dynasty, if we win the battle, we will ask for a royal reward, once this precedent is out, there will be wars in the future, lest the expedition is not for the sake of the country, but for profit." The minister thinks that the king of Zhennan should not ask for so many rewards! ”

When Lu Gongshu and Lu Yu saw Sima Guang talking, they also followed: "That's it, is it just for the sake of high-ranking officials to lead troops to the battle?" Isn't that contrary to the way of loyalty? Forget the saint and think twice! ”

These people spoke, and Prime Minister Han Qi was closer to Zhao Ji, and he also stepped forward and said: "Holy Lord, it is a good thing to win the battle, and it should be rewarded, but if the reward is excessive, I am afraid it will attract criticism." Think twice! ”

As soon as Han Qi spoke, there were more people following the trend, and one or twenty officials appeared in Hulala, saying that the saint should think twice, looking righteous and awe-inspiring.

Zhao Ji was a little annoyed, what was wrong with rewarding the heroes, and besides, the king's request was not too much. He was about to dismiss it, but the king laughed. Everyone looked sideways at the king, and the king could feel the doubts in those eyes, and jealousy flew towards him like a knife.

Seeing that he had become the focus of the court, the king walked up to these people and examined them one by one, his fierce eyes looking directly at everyone like a review, as if he had seen through these people. Some people are looked at with hair, and do not look at the king. Lu Gongzhu and Lu Zhi turned their heads arrogantly and did not look at the king, as if to say, so many people are against it, see what you have to say.

Wang Snorted coldly from his nose: "Colleagues, I haven't finished my words, and you think I want too much??" ”

Sima Guang thought that he had a good feeling in his heart, and he took over and said: "King Zhennan, if you have something to say, just say it quickly, anyway, I want to ask the saint to think twice." ”

Wang secretly thought not to look at you Sima Guang in the future generations, what kind of smashing of the cylinder is said to be great, now this king is an official in the same dynasty as you, the official position is not lower than you, it is easy to say that they are all colleagues, it is not good to say that there is no need to be polite to this person who has no achievements.

He pointed to the people in front of him with his hand and said, "You are all not convinced? Then I ask you, who of you have only one official position? ”

Everyone looked at each other, how could there be only one official position in the court? In order to weaken the power of officials, Taizu formulated an extremely complex policy of separating officials, positions, and dispatches. At the same time, in addition to the official affairs, that is, "dispatch", the official and the position are only an honor, an honorary title, and the most important role is to be rewarded by the imperial court during the New Year.

Take Sima Guang as an example, that is, the Hanlin scholar also served as the Zhongcheng of the Imperial History, not only Sima Guang, but also the officials who were officials in the capital almost had a single title. In addition to the king of Zhennan, the king himself also has the official position of the crown prince and the prince, which are the standards for the court to issue benefits.

Wang Bi continued: "You colleagues have many positions, and as far as I know, the Song Dynasty's hundred officials were the most generous among the previous dynasties, with a monthly salary of 400 yuan. In addition to the money, there are 150 stones of monthly collar rice, 120,000 yuan, plus 20 horses of silk every year, 1 horse of Luo, and 50 taels of cotton; In addition to the above salaries, there are many kinds of welfare subsidies, including tea and wine money, kitchen material money, charcoal money, horse feed money, and so on. The servants' clothing, food, and wages were also paid by the imperial court. ”

Saying this, Wang Bei paused, looking at all kinds of stunned expressions, he was a little proud. The numbers jumped into his mind, and what he was going to say next was enough to shut up the noisy toads.

"Colleagues, if I didn't do the math, most of the interest on the loan of your public money and the income from the fields of your work, except for the expenses of the heads of the departments, go to the 'small coffers' of the departments, and distribute them to the officials every three or five times, and become part of the income. When officials go on business trips or go to work, they can use the 'gift rolls' issued by the imperial court to eat and live in the local area, and even receive food and clothes. Many of you here receive two salaries, which are called 'salaries'. ”

The officials who just asked for a big bounty from the king would have been stupid. Lu Gong, Lu Yu and the others had already quietly stepped aside, secretly looking at Zhao Xu's expression. There were only six or seven people in the middle of the main hall, and slowly there were one or two less, and they were afraid that Song Shenzong would understand that these were not small numbers, so he quietly hid to the side.

Wang walked up to Sima Guang: "Sima Zhongcheng, you can help me calculate, how much does the court pay a person for a year?" ”

Sima Guang snorted and tilted his head: "I haven't counted this, this is what officials deserve!" ”

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if you haven't calculated it, today we can do the math, the imperial court raises an official, and in an official position, you have to pay three or four thousand taels of silver a year and miscellaneous items. I'm afraid that these two or three official positions are more than seven or eight thousand taels, right? ”

Prime Minister Han Qi coughed lightly and said, "Lord Wang, even if you are right, so what? You're asking for 20 million taels! ”

Wang Bian's face turned pale, and he said to Han Qi, "So what? I haven't calculated the value of the job field for you, as well as the value of the descendants of the official. Let's just say colleagues, how can you have to mix for thirty or forty years in the DPRK and China? In the past thirty or forty years, I have received 300,000 taels of silver just by eating Yulu. This Manchu Dynasty civil and military, it doesn't seem difficult to pick out a hundred people who eat for nothing, right? ”

When he said this, the people who had just returned to the team were dissatisfied, and Lu Zhi asked loudly: "King Zhennan, don't speak so badly, who do you say eats for nothing?" ”

Wang pointed at Lu Zhi and said, "Say you are an idiot, do you accept it?" ”

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