Reunion of the Old (III) (Part II)

When these people came in, they had already attracted the attention of the customers and men in the store. Although everyone looked at the clothes of these people, they were either rich or expensive, especially Du Tingxi and Ding Jizhong were still wearing court clothes. Although the shopkeeper did not let them get close, it did not mean that they did not hear what was being said here. Du Tingxi asked like this, and two guys who were originally busy limped over slowly, and a few guests who were eating followed.

Although one of the fellows had good hands, his legs were lame, and his face was covered with a scar from his left eyebrow to his right chin, and he walked towards Du Tingxi with angry eyes, regardless of who was standing next to him.

"This lord, what you call feeding, I don't know what it looks like? Do you know how much severance pay is for wounded soldiers? How much does a person need to eat in a year? Seeing that you are also a high-ranking official, it is estimated that you only know how to dance and write all day long, and you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. "Because I was angry, the scar on my face looked even more hideous.

Du Tingxi was frightened by him and took a step back, but quickly reacted: "Don't think that there are too many people to scare us, this is the crown prince of the imperial palace." When you see the prince, you don't know how to salute, but you speak loudly here, what a lack of discipline! One sentence of the prince caused the entire lobby to explode.

Yiyi frowned: "Master Du, don't scare him." ”

At the same time, the shopkeeper Huang also spoke: "Gui Ping, the prince and all the adults are here, you must not be rude." ”

When Gui Ping saw that the shopkeeper Huang was speaking, he didn't speak, but just glared at Du Tingxi angrily.

The shopkeeper Huang was an orderly person, and first saluted the prince: "Your Royal Highness the prince, they are all rough people, but it is human nature to make noise when things are uneven, and please understand the distress in their hearts." To be honest, if there is a condition, no one wants to do that. It's true that the adult said that there was a severance pay. I just don't know if adults know how much severance pay is? ”

Du Tingxi never cared about this, and was speechless for a while.

Zhang Zhaotang arched his hand towards the prince: "The lower officials know something because they have to manage the placement of wounded soldiers every year. If it is a first-degree disability, it means that he is paralyzed and unable to take care of himself, and he has fifty taels of severance silver. In the place of household registration, there is one tael of silver per year for living expenses, thirty taels for second-class disability, and eight taels of silver per year, like this eldest brother may belong to the fifth-level disability, with two taels of silver severance pay, and two taels of living expenses every year. ”

Looking at their confused expressions, Xinjie knew that Yiyi and Du Tingxi had no concept of these silver pairs.

He took a step forward and walked in front of Du Tingxi: "I heard that Mrs. Du is a good housekeeper and lives a frugal life, saying that the adult's salary is not high, and she wants to save some flowers, dare to ask Lord Du if she knows how much she earns every year?" ”

Du Tingxi glared at him: "This official is not much a year, only about five hundred taels, and he still has to support the master and the servants." After saying that, he was there, knowing that he had fallen into Tang Xinjie's pit. First-class disability, a lifetime of dismissal is fifty taels, and there is no ability to take care of himself.

"How much silver is a year for your retinue?" Tang Xinjie didn't want to let him go.

"Ten taels of silver." The prince is here, Du Tingxi had to answer.

"That's it, if this big brother is like this, will Lord Du hire him?"

"Joke!" Du Tingxi said angrily: "This official often has to go to the court to enter the palace and interact with colleagues, how can he use such a terrifying-looking rough person? With this sentence, not only the guys in the store were angry, but even the customers were excited.

"Adults think that if a disabled and paralyzed patient in the family needs to find someone to take care of him, how much money will he get a year?"

"I didn't care, how do I know." Du Tingxi said resignedly, after all, he was here, surrounded by so many people, in case these rough people made a move, he would not be able to bargain.

Xinjie snorted lightly: "If you give Master Du's entourage a tael of silver a year, is he willing to take care of a paralyzed person?" In addition to needing someone to take care of them, these people also have to eat and dress, take this eldest brother as an example, but he receives two hangings of money in Shuntian Mansion every year? ”

Gui Ping nodded: "At the end of each year, the little one will go to Shuntian Mansion to receive two hangs of money to support the little mother and daughter. The youngest has a four-year-old daughter, who sells vegetables at the vegetable market with my mother every day to earn some money. If we don't have the salary of Juxian Building, relying only on two hangings, I'm afraid that our family of three will not even be able to have two porridges a day. ”

After he finished speaking, the guests and men in the back buzzed and talked endlessly.

Yiyi's heart was also very shocked, these were all injured and disabled soldiers in the barracks. As a superior person, he watched the big things every day, and never thought about the way out of the border and the disabled soldiers. If it is not properly resolved, how will the aftermath be dealt with in the event of a war? How can anyone want to be a soldier? He frowned and glanced at Du Tingxi, who still wanted to quibble but couldn't make a sound, and sighed. Many officials in Beijing looked at the Tang family's assets, but they never thought about how much it would cost the Tang family to feed these people every day.

Xinjie glanced at the guests and guys who were very excited, and then at the shopkeeper Huang, who said smartly: "This is just the front yard, why don't you follow us to the backyard and the Ping'an Inn to have a look?" ”

Yiyi nodded and led the group to the backyard. Turning to the backyard, there was another stone screen with two large rigid characters engraved on it, "Jian. Yong", the payment is still looking at the people of Luju Mountain. Yiyi turned around and asked Xinjie: "Can this Luju Mountain people know that Juxian Building took in the old and weak soldiers?" So the words inscribed specifically for them? ”

Xinjie nodded: "This backyard is shared by Ping An Inn and Juxian Building. Previously, there was only a safe inn, and there was no Juxian Building. The Ping'an Inn was in the capital before the Gaozu Incident. When Gaozu entered Beijing to take the exam, he also settled in the Ping An Inn. Gaozu also became attached to the ancestors of the Tang Sect at the Ping'an Inn. Some of the latter things are recorded in the palace. ”

Du Tingxi glanced at Ding Jizhong, Ding Jizhong nodded, and the two vaguely understood that this person from Luju Mountain might be Gaozu. Du Tingxi felt a chill in his back, and it was too late to retreat at this time. He thought quickly about what to do.

"This word is the third year of Yongzheng." Yiyi looked at the inscription carefully.

Although Xinjie never cares about the family business, the children of the Tang family must be clear about major events: "It is said that in the third year of Yongzheng, the world is decided." The imperial court began to settle the heroes born from the dragon. But there were still many soldiers who were unknown and could not have high positions in the court, but the court was in ruins, and could not afford to settle them with a large sum of silver. Gaozu's retired soldiers were exempt from tax for ten years, and the grace of lifelong tax exemption for disabled soldiers was issued at that time. Even so, the lives of these soldiers were not satisfactory, although they felt guilty, but the Great Zhou was newly built, the treasury was empty, and what they could do was really limited, so they could only worry about this matter.

One day before the New Year, Gaozu Weifu observed the people's situation in the Beijing market and met a few familiar faces. These were ordinary soldiers who had fought with him in close quarters in his pioneer battalion. It was only later that he was injured or disabled and left, and Gao Zu did not expect to see them in the capital in his lifetime. I originally thought that these people had nowhere to go, so they gathered together to beg for a living, but after asking, I found out that it was because the market was about to close for the New Year, so I made an appointment to come out for a stroll. Gaozu wondered how they had gathered in the capital. After asking, I learned that these people have no family members, and some do not want to return to their hometowns, and they are disabled and cannot return to the countryside to farm and cut firewood. At that time, the ancestors of the Tang family were very familiar with the soldiers of the Gaozu Pioneer Battalion, so they took the initiative to invite them to help in the Ping'an Inn.

Gaozu heard that they were talking lively, and heard that they had invited many brothers who stayed in the capital to go back to the Ping'an Inn to drink together in the evening, so he came to the Ping'an Inn with them. Since then, Gaozu has come here many times to drink and chat with those veterans. Later, when he learned that these helpers could save some to help the retired brothers who were not living well every year, he was very moved, so he wrote down the word "bravery" with his own hands. Later, the branches of Ping An Inn in various places also began to give priority to recruiting retired veterans and wounded soldiers.

In the sixteenth year of Yongzheng, after years of operation, the business of Ping An Inn has reached a higher level, so it bought the surrounding shops, added the inn and added Juxian Building. The plaque of Juxian Building in front was written by Gaozu when it opened. But because he felt that he felt guilty for the rest of his life for those ordinary soldiers who followed him to fight the world, and didn't want outsiders to know about it, and the ancestors of the Tang family didn't want to do business in the name of the emperor, so he discussed with Gaozu that the payment of the plaque was still in Luju Mountain. The descendants of the Tang Sect also did not publicize this matter outside according to the requirements of the ancestors, so except for the children of the Tang family, most outsiders did not know about these things. ”

Yiyi nodded and didn't say much. Gaozu and the ancestors of the Tang Sect are close friends, and many people in the palace know this, but they don't know that there are these things behind. The Great Zhou Dynasty has been established for 100 years, and most of the royal family is busy fighting for power and profit, and has long turned a blind eye to this unpretentious friendship and the trauma of war.

He led everyone to continue walking, only to see that the backyard was even more amazing, there were leg and foot inconveniences, there was a person who sat there to wash vegetables and dishes, and one arm kept carrying water back and forth, which was shocking.

"Just now, Shopkeeper Huang said that he was unwilling to go to Guanxi Rongyang, did the Guanxi Tang family take in more serious injuries?" Yiyi asked the shopkeeper.

Shopkeeper Huang hurriedly replied: "Yes, there are several farms in the Tang Gate in Guanxi, and many of them have been seriously injured and retired on the battlefield with the Tang family. But though these people are seriously injured, they are not willing to be idle as they can work, as Your Highness has seen, and those who can do things want to do their part, so that they can not only support themselves, but also not become a burden to others. Those who are able can do a little more, and save some to help other robes that are more needed. ”

Yiyi asked again: "You just said that you went to Guanxi Rongyang, how many people did Zhuangzirong in Guanxi raise?" ”