Chapter Fifty-Seven: Trouble!

Today's General's Office is divided into three main departments: the Finance Department, the Civil Affairs Department and the Military Affairs Department.

As for the conscription, the Military and Political Department was in charge of the unified responsibility, and it lasted for nearly 10 days before it was completely and successfully concluded.

As for the 10,000 newly recruited recruits, they did not immediately enlist in the army for training, but were required to wait until the end of spring plowing and land reclamation before they would assemble for military training.

For this decision, the recruits naturally raised their hands in agreement, after all, they took advantage of the fact that they could reclaim more wasteland before enlisting in the army, and they could also share more fields in their own homes, and they naturally did not want to miss such a good thing.

Time passed little by little, and as the spring ploughing and reclamation in various parts of the East Road gradually ended, the officers and soldiers of the East Road, who had been assigned to suppress bandits outside, finally returned triumphantly and returned to the city!

This crackdown on bandits, whether it is the Jinyi Weiti cavalry or the local officers and soldiers, they have all gained a lot, and some of the officers and soldiers who have made military achievements are even more overjoyed, and the smiles on their faces are difficult to hide.

For the return of the bandit army, Lu Fan naturally led the people of Yanghe City to welcome him, and even fulfilled his promise, opened the iron boxes in public, and in front of the public, according to the previous registration, he rewarded the promised silver taels.

The Military and Political Department even publicly read out the military exploits made by each person, and the white flowers and silver were rewarded one after another, and both the officers and the common people all exclaimed with envy.

Even in the end, Lu Fan personally came forward and read out a promotion appointment for officers and soldiers in public.

Most of the officers and soldiers who have made military contributions in this crackdown on bandits have been promoted to varying degrees, and some officers and soldiers who have not been promoted for a long time because of the suppression of local garrisons and ethics have been promoted to the general manager and the general manager!

In addition, Lu Fan appointed dozens of tun chiefs of the border tun and the first commander of the fire road pier, most of whom were some small soldiers who did not have the slightest military rank, but performed well in the suppression of bandits this time.

Lu Fan's practice of doing what he said and doing everything only on military merit caused a carnival in the army.

"The general is mighty!"

"Swear to follow the general!"

The shouts and cheers came one after another, and everyone was full of smiles on their faces, only Li An and the other guards and ethics had very ugly faces.

The generals are doing this, how will they lead troops in the future?

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, military attachés were eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers, why did they change when they arrived at you Lu Fan?

With so much silver, isn't it good to keep it for yourself to squander and enjoy, why not score it for those big-headed soldiers?

At the beginning of your life, if your subordinates have made meritorious contributions to their garrisons and conduct and do not give rewards, who will want to listen to their orders again?

This Lu Fan can't stay, he has to find a way to drive him out of the East Road!

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Yanghe City was guarding the mansion, and Li An was tired from guarding it.

He was originally a military attache of the third grade, and he was the internal candidate for the general of the East Road, but who knew that a Lu Fan was airborne in the capital and snatched away the position that should have belonged to him.

This hairy boy who didn't have any hair has robbed him of his position, not to mention, now, he has begun to eat away at his foundation step by step, and even his soldiers have begun to calculate.

"Everyone, let's talk about it, what should we do next?"

Rubbing his forehead, Li An's face was very gloomy, looking at the other guards and ethics in the lobby, and asked.

"What else can we do? Lu Fan, that guy is not ready to give us a way to live, if we don't resist, we will all be killed by him sooner or later!"

Tiancheng Garrison Chen Yi's face was hideous, and the blue tendons on his forehead were revealed.

"You should feel the posture today, not to mention those ordinary big-headed soldiers, even the family members under our hands have begun to have other thoughts. Not to mention anything else, if you follow Lu Fan, you can get the field, and with us, except for a few families, how many of them have been divided into fields?"

"Yes, people not only give land and money, but also follow officials, if I am an ordinary military household, I am also willing to follow such a general!"

"You say, what does this man want to do?"

Li An's expression was solemn, and he said: "I sent someone to inquire, that Lu Fan has spent money like flowing water these days, and the preliminary estimate is that the silver spent every day is no less than 200,000 taels, according to his tossing method, he doesn't have 10 million taels of silver in his hand, who dares to squander it like this?"

Speaking of this, he was a little incomprehensible, "If he has a net worth of tens of millions, he goes to the rich land south of the Yangtze River to buy tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and a mansion and beautiful concubines, isn't he happy? Why do you have to sprinkle a lot of silver on those untouchables in this bitter and cold land of Datong?"

Chen Yi snorted coldly, "I think I'm still young, I guess I was taught by those rotten Confucians in the capital, and I want to benefit one party for the first term of the official, and leave a name in history!"

Hearing this, the face of the Jingbao Ethics suddenly fell, I am not afraid that Shangguan is an old oilman, but I am afraid that it is Lu Fan, who has ideals and ambitions in his heart and wants to leave a name in history!

He sat in the fortress and had a close relationship with the smugglers of the Jin merchants, and Lu Fan opened up the wasteland to move the interests of other garrisons, he didn't care, after all, his way of making profits was not in the land.

But if that stunned young man knew that he was colluding with smugglers, it is estimated that he would be the first to be used for the knife by the people who were responsible for the ethics and guards!

Thinking of this, he suddenly couldn't sit still, and got up immediately, with a look of righteous indignation on his face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, that Lu Fan is on the East Road, his momentum has been achieved, and our positions of guarding and ethics have long been remembered by his cronies!"

"I propose that we directly encourage the soldiers under our command to make a salary.......! Otherwise, in a few months, I'm afraid we won't be able to command even the family members!"

Chen Yi took the lead in nodding and agreed, "It is only right to be paid as a soldier! Our East Road has not been paid for half a year, and he, Lu Fan, as a general of the East Road, is looking for him to ask for salary, no matter how you look at it, it is reasonable!"

Li An nodded, "But that Lu Fan is not easy to mess with, so let the soldiers be restrained when making trouble, don't make things too big, and give him an excuse to send troops!"

Chen Yi shook his head indifferently, "What are you afraid of, we are thousands of officers and soldiers, and we are not mountain bandits, so Lu Fan can't treat us as bandits, right?"

"Besides, even if we make trouble with the general soldiers, we will just be blamed, punished by some money, and punished for the crime of lax majesty, what is there to fear?"

"It's okay, then let's make a fuss! Even if you can't drive Lu Fan away, you can make him understand that we are not easy to mess with, and when we get along with us in the future, we will not be as unscrupulous as before!"

"Okay, done!"

"It's done! If you don't make some movement, then Lu Fan really thinks we have a good temper!"

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