(I drank too much wine yesterday, and I couldn't even ask for a holiday, hehe, upload the previous chapter first)

During the night, Lin Jian summoned Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Cao Ziang, Sun Jingtang, as well as Ao Canghai, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu, Sun Wenbing, Tang Xitai and others in Fancheng to discuss the affairs of the class teacher, and his return to Jiangning was scheduled for the 19th.

At that time, Song Fu expressed his support for the establishment of another money village to carry out the reward, but the specific matter could not be decided in detail until he returned to Jiangning, and said with a smile: "Wanshou Palace thought that it could breed some troubles, but it didn't want the lord to fight with him, so he completely dissolved the situation - Lujiang, Yijiang, Moling and Mingzhou have a large number of public land, but they can take this opportunity to officially fold into the money village, and then disperse it into small fields, and sell it cheaply to farmers with few fields and no land, which will help further restore agriculture......

Lin Jian said: "I think that in the future of the Huaidong Army, the military rank will be distinguished by non-commissioned officers and generals, and the non-commissioned officers will increase the moon silver but will not be rewarded, and the generals will not increase the moon silver will be rewarded with money and shares, you estimate how much is needed, and then in the name of the Privy Council, on behalf of the Huaidong generals, ask the Queen Mother for a reward......

Lin Jian continued to elaborate on his thoughts: "The Huaidong Army has a total of 300,000 soldiers and horses, of which the most ordinary soldiers are more than 220,000. I thought that after the completion of the extensive distribution of fields, the ordinary soldiers would be subject to the military service system, and all the adult Ding Zhuang would be obliged to enter the camp and guard the border for three to five years, but they would still be paid a subsidy according to the old practice, which was equivalent to the old system of salary. There are almost 80,000 grassroots military attachés at the level of banner heads and capital commanders, plus the heads of soldiers and some industrial officials who are good at craftsmanship. They are the absolute backbone of our army, and they are also the soldiers who need to be on standby in the future, and I plan to include them in the group of non-commissioned officers, implement the recruitment system, and serve for 15 to 20 years, or even longer. However, in order to make the military soldiers standing and give them monthly silver so that they can support their wives and children, I think that in this regard, we will have to increase the expenditure of about one million yuan a year, and we can increase it in the future-this time the rewards for military merit are mainly concentrated on the middle and high-ranking generals above the sentry general. And the traditional town army, with all kinds of shortcomings in it, I think everyone will not be more vague than me. It is necessary to enforce the law, but it cannot be simply punished by the law. Many of our generals' families live in Jiangning and Chongzhou, and the monthly silver of the army and brigade commanders is only four or five Huai Yuan, and they all deeply feel that Jiangning and Chongzhou are 'not easy to live'. This is one of the reasons why I do not intend to postpone the reward; I don't want to tear up someone after they can't resist the temptation and bend the law......"

"Fortunately, the government of the country has allocated materials to compensate for the lack of officials' families, otherwise it would be really difficult for Jiangning and Chongzhou to live," Gao Zongting also sighed, "The price of rice in Jiangning is still maintained at one yuan, five or six jiao, and it seems that it will not be able to fall in three or four years; If you have a slightly larger family, seven or eight people, you will need more than three yuan a month to eat rice and grain, and there is no way to talk about oil, salt and sauce......"

Of course, Lin Jian was very clear about these situations, otherwise he would not have issued additional material subsidies to Huaidong generals in the form of military tickets in addition to the monthly salary, so that they could rest assured of their family's livelihood in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places.

Although the county order of the current world is only more than 40 taels of silver, it is equivalent to four yuan of silver in the Huaidong brigade.

However, the county order went to the locality, and there was an extra income on the surface such as job fields and official subsidies, as well as the filial piety of the local and lower-level officials, so that their actual income was far higher than that of the regular officials, and in addition to supporting the small family and servants, they were even able to support the private officials and the families of the private officials. If the local officials are ruthless, greedy and corrupt, and loot the localities, "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and 100,000 snowflakes of silver" is not fake.

In the camp, the generals seized food and salary to fill their own pockets, or privately set up checkpoints to extort business travel, or eat empty salaries, and even the bold and reckless, with robbers and robbers, sometimes plundered places.

If Lin Jian wants to rule the Qing Dynasty and the army is disciplined, he cannot expect that the civil and military generals who hold power and govern thousands of people can be at ease with the same salary as the son, and he cannot expect their families to be willing to live a cold civilian life.

Regardless of the civil servants, the most serious corrosion of the army's combat effectiveness in the world was mostly concentrated in the middle and senior generals.

Lin Jian would not think that simply talking about equality, the gap between the official and the people, the cold and the noble, would really be filled.

What Lin Tie is trying to change now is to abolish the untouchables and lowly registrations, so that they will be subsumed into the civilian class, and the gap between the elite class and the commoners is obviously not something that Lin Tie can eliminate if he wants to......

There are as many as 5,000 generals above the sentry general of the Huaidong army, which is actually the most core supporting force in Huaidong at this time. Not to mention the huge civilian-official group, after the creation of a new empire, more than 5,000 generals and officers above the Huaidong military outpost will inevitably become one of the core forces of the meritorious group.

Under the current tradition, the common people have not yet awakened at all, how can they expect the meritorious group that holds the authority to live the same cold life as the common people?

Xuzhou, Mindong, Jiangning, Shangrao, and Jingxiang all won great victories, and if Yitu rewarded the knights for military merits, it was naturally the more than 5,000 generals who were the main body.

Lin Jian will not give real fields, but the purpose of rewarding the fields is to increase the salary of the general to a certain amount of water; It is also to further strengthen the cohesion within Huaidong, but by the way, eliminate the negative impact of Liang's plan.

Lin Lian crossed his fingers and said: "With the price of Jiangning, seven or eight people live in Yiyi, eat five or six meals of meat a month, can seek medical treatment when sick, can have new clothes every year, children can go to school and stay in school, and can hire carriages and horses in case of emergency...... Lin Lian counted some of the living standards that his former Huaidong generals and families should have, and asked Gao Zongting, "How much yuan will you need this month?" ”

"Roughly 15 or 5 Huai Yuan per month is enough." Gao Zongting said.

Lin Jian has always emphasized that Huaidong should abolish the "two" and change the "yuan", but Gao Zongting and others are still confined to the old tradition and are accustomed to replacing the "silver two" with a nondescript name such as "Huaiyuan".

"The lord really loves the generals, and if he wants to eat white rice, eat meat, be able to treat the sick, go to school for his children, hire cars and horses, and have 200 acres of land at home, he may not have such a good life......," Song Fu said with a smile.

Lin Tie smiled indifferently, he had a house, he ate four or five meals of meat every month, he could be treated when he was sick, his children could go to school, and he could hire a car and horse in case of emergency.

This is probably also the reason why the world's materials are too poor and the productive forces are too backward, after the magnates and rentier classes of a dynasty swell to a certain extent, the whole society becomes extremely fragile and difficult to maintain, and natural and man-made disasters are only the catalyst and fuse for social collapse; And the invasion of the Hulu alien race by this opportunity often brings more complete destruction to the Central Plains.

After Yanhu integrated the Yanxi tribes, he controlled more than 400,000 men of his own tribe, and the total number of Dingkou was just over one million - it was such a captive tribe, but it was able to make a living by plundering and parasiting food, and made up a cavalry team of more than 200,000 people, so that the Central Plains Dynasty, which was almost 100 times its size, was looking for teeth all over the place, and the Dingkou directly detracted from the Yanhu southern invasion was about 8 million to 10 million.

Such historical facts are both heart-wrenching and humiliating.

On the matter of rewarding meritorious deeds, Lin Jian only gave a general standard, and the specific plan could only be determined after Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others returned to Jiangning and discussed with Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen, Sun Jingxuan and others.

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On December 18, the snow in the north of Fancheng was not gone, and the cold wind blew the snow dry like crumbs, and a gust of wind swept in, blowing the snow particles and sprinkling them, as if the snow was falling from the sky. The chariot and horse teams of Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou, Tao Chun and others entered Fancheng in the afternoon of the wind and snow.

In addition to the early attachment of the army to the Fancheng people who moved to the vicinity of Nanyang City to grant land for resettlement, Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou, and Tao Chun came from the territory of Tanghe County, east of Shushui, through Xinye South, hundreds of miles, and there was hardly a single human population to be seen.

Today's Fancheng is also a huge military camp, except for the orderly military horses, there are no other residents, Yuan Guizheng and his party live in the post house coldly and lonely, waiting for Lin Tie's summons.

Zhao Mengxiong rode a horse and stepped on the street, whether it was Yuan Guizheng, Liu Tingzhou or Tao Chun, they had all seen the young man beside Lin Lian, and now he was a heroic young man, with iron armor and a sword, and riding boots stepped on the path covered with snow particles. ”

"Don't be tired, don't be tired...... Yuan returned to politics and Tao Chun knew that Lin Jian would return to Jiangning when he entered the city, where could he take care of the fatigue on the road?

Liu Tingzhou came over this time, and he was also mentally prepared to fight with Lin Tie face-to-face and even scold Lin Tie face-to-face, but seeing that Lin Tie sent someone over, he asked Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun for warmth, but he never asked himself, and his heart was still blocked with a ball of thatch, and there was an indescribable unhappiness.

If you want to talk about grievances, how can Yuan Guizheng's grievances with Huaidong over the years be shallow?

"The two adults are invited, and the carriage and horses have been prepared outside ......the hospital," Zhao Mengxiong said, leading the way in front, inviting Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun to accompany him, watching Liu Tingzhou follow with a black face, and said with a side face, "Who is this adult?" My lord only summoned Lord Yuan and General Tao to meet him, and this lord is waiting at the post house! ”

Liu Tingzhou seemed to have slapped him in public, and stood there like a carved stone, he never expected Lin Jian to humiliate him like this, and his weather-beaten thin face suddenly turned black and purple.

Yuan Guizheng was also surprised in his heart: to say the depth of grievances, to say the depth of connection with the imperial family, Lin Tie is more likely to humiliate him, he did not expect to summon him to meet Tao Chun in the past, and threw Liu Tingzhou in the post house, refusing to see it - people want faces, trees want bark, Liu Tingzhou is now also the imperial history of the inspection capital and the leader of Henan Xuanfu envoy, scattered from the second grade, the third grade, probably did not summon him thousands of miles, and threw him in the post house to see more humiliation.

Although he was surprised, Yuan Guizheng suddenly found that they had no room to struggle except to accept such an arrangement for Lin Tie, and he couldn't even say that in order to take care of Liu Tingzhou's face, they broke their sleeves and left together—he should do this, but how could he do it?

Yuan Guizheng pressed Liu Tingzhou's shoulder with relief, indicating that he had to go and meet Lin Lian; Of course, Liu Tingzhou knew that he would not fight for more conditions in front of Lin Lian, and the Xuchang defense would be extremely difficult, so he could only watch Yuan Guizheng and Tao Chun, who looked at this matter with a cold face, and went away with Zhao Mengxiong out of the post house, but he was panicked, and when he turned around and wanted to go back to the house, he wanted to spit out a lump of depression in his heart, and he never wanted to spurt out a mouthful of blood.

"Lord Liu......" Ning Yujie and other entourages hurriedly rushed up to support Liu Tingzhou, they all saw the scene just now, and most of them felt ashamed and angry for Liu Tingzhou.

Ning Yujie is a scholar of Huai'an, and he is more aware of the rise of Huaidong and the grievances between Huaidong and Liu Tingzhou.

During the Huaisi War, Lin Tie was the envoy of Huaidong, and Liu Tingzhou was the prefect and governor of Huai'an, and no matter how many scandals happened during Huaidong's tenure, when Liu Tingzhou left Huaidong, it was Lin Tie who supported Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian to establish Wuyang Town. At least at that time, even if Lin Tie didn't like Liu Tingzhou, he was still willing to see Liu Tingzhou rise compared to other officials.

After the collapse of the Hehuai defense line, the Changhuai army retreated north, Dong Yuan entered Huaixi from Hanghu as the envoy, and Liu Tingzhou served as Dong Yuan's deputy for a long time, which was also one of Jiangning's means to contain Dong Yuan; It was in the early days of the Battle of Jingxiang that Liu Tingzhou went south from Shouzhou to Huangzhou to see Lin Tie, and Lin Tie was also cold and warm to Liu Tingzhou, and his words were pleasant - to say that Lin Tie hated the Huaixi people for Chen Zhihu's entry into Nanyang, and should not summon Yuan to return to power and humiliate Liu Tingzhou, and take 10,000 steps back, Lin Tie also made a trick to take Shouzhou, and never suffered a loss, how can he still hate Huaixi Chen Zhihu into Nanyang like a child?

In addition to feeling angry for Liu Tingzhou, Ning Yujie and the others also felt huge doubts and confusion about their future......