In the late autumn and October of the seventh year of Tianbao, Li Siye returned to Tingzhou City, the Beiting Governance Office, from Chang'an. The first thing he did when he came back from Chang'an was to improve the basic treatment of the three armies in Beiting. It was during the alternating period of the government military system and the conscription system, and the basic treatment of the border troops in each town had been fixed, and the soldiers at the lowest level were given one horse of silk and one stone of corn per month, twelve horses of silk and twelve stones of corn a year.

How much is this treatment converted, because silk is a hard currency in Datang, it is far more stable than the Kaiyuan Tongbao currency that sometimes expands and sometimes tightens, so it can be used as money. The price of a horse of raw silk is about 500 yuan, corn is 10 yuan a bucket, a stone is nearly 100 yuan, and the monthly salary of an ordinary soldier is 600 yuan.

The treatment of the four towns of Anxi was slightly higher, and the total was almost consistent, and the treatment of the forbidden army Yulin Army and the Longwu Army was three times that of the border army. And the lowest treatment is the recruitment of soldiers under the command of the Beiting Jiedu Envoy. They had no land in their hands, and they were only given one horse of coarse linen and one stone of barley every month, and those who had private horses were supplied with five liters of horse feed a day. On the surface, it seems that the number is the same as that of other border towns, but this is pure self-deception, the price of a horse of linen is only more than 100 yuan, and the barley is even cheaper, and even in Hexi and other border towns, the barley is used as fodder.

He once personally inspected the home of a Long March soldier captured in Heishui, who had a wife and two children, the children were yellow, hungry and thin, and his wife was unclothed. The three of them have to consume four catties of grain every day, even if they eat barley and glutinous rice all at once, there will be no surplus grain at the end of the month, the soldiers do not raise any livestock at home, and there is no warm clothing in winter, and the days are very miserable. And this is the standard of living of most Tang troops at the border gates.

Due to the initial establishment of the conversion from the government military system to the conscription system, it is equivalent to crossing the river by feeling the stones, and there are many defects in the military salary system. The ratio of combat effectiveness to treatment of the border army is exactly inversely proportional to that of the forbidden army.

Li Siye held an internal meeting with Zhao Yu and Zang Xiyan to discuss, and decided to only increase the treatment of the low-level chiefs and soldiers, and distribute one horse of raw silk every month, one stone of corn plus one stone of barley, one horse of Shi Changsheng silk and one horse of linen, and the grain will remain the same as before. The article was drafted by Cen Shen, the secretary of the marching army, and finally posted on the city walls of Tingzhou, Jiaohe, Jinman and other cities, and also posted all the cities under the rule of Beiting.

At the same time, Li Siye ordered that those who have family members in the three armies of Beiting and have local household registration will be awarded 20 acres of Yongye grain land.

The news of the salary increase caused a sensation in the barracks of the Han Navy, Tianshan, Yiwu and other armies.

Some of them have served in the military for more than 20 years, but their salaries are too low to start a family. Even many Hu girls who grew up in Beiting were unwilling to marry a poor husband. They would rather marry a merchant who walks the streets and alleys, and marries a merchant who travels from place to place, which is a big problem.

To put it mildly, the soldiers guarded the border passes for the Tang Dynasty, but they were so poor that there was no third generation, and to put it mildly, the excellent genes of the Beiting Army after the baptism of blood were not inherited, which directly made the entire Beiting Army have no successors. To put it more seriously, there is no hematopoietic function in the entire moraine, and once the Hexi Corridor is cut off and the central blood transfusion is lost, it is the white-haired veterans who have no successor in the Anxi Courtyard who can hold on.

changed the basic treatment of the soldiers of the Beiting Army, so that Li Siye's prestige and military aspirations for a time surpassed any Beiting Festival envoy in the past, and the majority of soldiers were full of praise.

This is only his preliminary plan, and within this year he will use the power in his hands to recruit 1,000 troops each for the Tianshan Army and the Yiwu Army, and complete their armor battles.

Armor and soldiers are the real internal friction, and money is not easy to use, under the rule of the Shaofu Inspector of the Northern Capital Ordnance Supervision Bureau, including the arsenal, all need the joint approval of the Shaofu Supervisor and the Ministry of War, in order to be able to centralize procurement according to the quota of the border army.

Of course, there are loopholes in the system, and loopholes can be exploited from them, but more money is needed. There are many forces in Chang'an City, as long as you have money, they can get you everything you want.

It all comes back to money. It's hard to move without money.

Dai Wang has been operating in Tianzhu and Congling for more than a year, and his business route has been initially successful, and now it depends on how much output this money-making machine can have.

He took the opportunity of this year's examination and decided to take a trip to Shazhou and other places in the four towns of Anxi to personally complete the overall decision-making of the trade route. The management of the North Court was temporarily handed over to Zhao Yu and Zang Xiyan to jointly manage.

The full name of the Longyou Provincial Interview Envoy is the Interview Disposal Envoy, and there is no special office, and it is generally a part-time job for the Jie Du Envoy and others. It's just that this year's situation is unexpected, and it should have been the envoy of Longyou Jiedu Ge Shuhan, but he didn't expect it to become Li Siye, the envoy of Beiting Jiedu, these two border towns are not good at all, and Li Siye is really a little unqualified to supervise them.

Since this year is a small exam, the assassins of Longyou Prefecture will score the examination courses of their own officials, and Li Siye only needs to put away these examination evaluations and take a brief look, as long as they are not too inflated and outrageous. The examination of the assassins was personally evaluated and issued by Li Siye.

In the face of cumbersome course examination work, the past examination courses need to be interviewed and disposed of, and the envoys personally travel around the place, investigate the work results of the festival envoys and assassin historians on the spot, and then give judgment results.

Li Siye naturally did not have so much time, at the beginning of his tenure, he decided to change the rules of the examination, and ordered the envoys and the governors of various states to write a government work report for this year, which was called a summary letter and handed it to him, and then wrote a suggestion on the back of the summary letter to score his own examination course, and also wrote down the gains and losses of officials in several neighboring states and counties and the estimated results of the examination.

This method is very reasonable, everyone likes to give themselves a mediocre score and a mediocre score for their neighbors, so that when combined, the result is closer to the actual situation.

He himself was already in the old nest of the four towns of Anxi, Qiuzi City, and he only brought Cen Shen, the secretary of the marching army, and Daorou, the maidservant, with him, and he did not leak the itinerary and route to the generals of the Anxi army. Because he was one of them in the past, and now he is embarrassed because of the disparity in his identity, especially in front of Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of Anxi Jiedu, he didn't think about what he said when he met with the other party.

The gap between the two people is actually the difference between a piece of music and a musical instrument, with Gao Xianzhi's character, he may not look down on him for not doing his job properly, relying on the side door and leaving the left road, and slapping the horse to welcome the emperor's interview and disposal envoy. Li Siye may not be too interested in Gao Xianzhi's stubborn thoughts, and those who can only fight are afraid that they can only see the fighters, but they can't see other opportunities.

After stopping in the city to rest, he set out on the second day, and arrived at the city of Shule thirteen days later.

After entering Shule City, he went directly to the paper mill, but Dai Liulang was not in the paper mill, according to the paper-making craftsmen, Dai Wang may be in the area of the city in the Green Ridge, and the laying of the post station in the Green Ridge area is the top priority.

He wrote a letter to Dai Wang, and ordered the post station to be delivered to the Green Ridge. He himself waited in Dai Wang's hut next to the paper mill.

It's been more than a year since I last visited, and the room is even more cramped, just because there are many shelves made against the wall, and books and scrolls are neatly arranged on it.

He opened one of the books and read it, and it was full of ideas for the construction of the post station system and the method of transporting bulk goods, and there were hundreds of new ideas. He opened one of the scrolls again, and on the paper was drawn with a fine pen, which was the design of the post station, and the square was made of rammed earth, like a series of small beacons. If you look closely, all parts of the post station are fully equipped, and the requirements for materials are also the most economical.

Dai Wang may be the legendary all-round talent.