In the Qianqing Palace, in the upper study, Emperor Tianyou sat on the dragon chair, gently pressing his forehead with his thumb, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Wen Fangyan, the second assistant, Zhang Fu, the second assistant, Chen Ruiwen, the secretary of the military department, and Song Qian, the secretary of the household department, sat on both sides of the imperial case.

Emperor Tianyou snapped together the dense writing of hundreds of people's names and titles, and said to Chen Ruiwen: "According to the meaning of the prince of Zhenguo, try to arrange it." ”

As soon as the words fell, Song Qianyi, the head of the household department, gritted his teeth and said: "The battle of Xuanfu has won a big victory, so it is natural to reward the soldiers, and the household department naturally has to vigorously support it, but it is only close to the end of the year, and one and a half million taels should be reserved for two sections, as well as the officials' money."

Your Majesty, Xuanfu lost nearly 140,000 soldiers in the First World War, and the compensation for the dead will be at least more than 3 million taels, and these two things add up, and the household department will only be left with less than two million taels, and Xuanfu will be rebuilt and recultivated after the year, and it is expected that 800,000 taels will be allocated.

"No way!"

Emperor Tianyou waved his hand, "The soldiers are bleeding and fighting on the front line, and the rewards must be distributed to everyone before the year, and they must not be less, I have already said in advance, and the household department should prepare the corresponding rewards in advance, at this time, tell me that I have no money, how do you let me face those soldiers?" ”

"The household department was originally ready, but after a series of provincial disaster reports, the money was all..."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Emperor Tianyou slapped the imperial case and said angrily: "You are the head of the household, I trust you to hand over the household to you, I can understand you, but you also have to think about it for me and for the Ming Dynasty, once you hurt the hearts of the soldiers, who will risk their lives to fight against foreign races in the future?" This is digging the foundation of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Death penalty!"

Song Qian was so frightened that he fell to his knees.

A hint of laughter appeared at the corner of Zhang Fu's mouth.

Wen Fangyan and Chen Ruiwen quickly exchanged knowing glances and looked at Zhang Fu together.

The original treasury of the household is more than 1,300,000 taels, after getting the will of the Emperor of God, 3 million taels were reserved as a reward for the army, but unfortunately, the situation has changed again and again, first Shaanxi, Henan and other places have reported disasters one after another, the household first allocated grain for disaster relief, and then allocated money to the south to buy grain, first the Xuanfu War, and then several provinces were affected, the price of grain rose immediately, doubled than usual, 800 dollars a stone, this is still because of the preferential price given by the household department to purchase a large number of people, Henan, South Zhili flood also allocated money to help the people rebuild their homes, After the year, it is necessary to ensure spring ploughing, and suddenly there is an additional expenditure of more than 2 million taels, so where can the household still have money.

As for why Zhang Fu and others wanted to roast Song Gan, who was also from a Jiangnan family, on the fire, it was because he revealed the fact that there were civilian chess pieces in the Imperial Forest Army to Zhu Wuxiang, the king of Shu, who knows, Zhu Wuxiang reported the matter to the emperor again, which made Zhang Fu and others have to terminate the plan, plus Song Gan actively cooperated with the work of Zhu Wucheng, the king of Liang, Zhang Fu and others, who were embarrassed and angry, decided to take the opportunity to add trouble to the emperor to teach Song Gan a lesson.

Emperor Tianyou knew this, glanced at Song Gan deeply, and said: "You are an upright person, you have to be decent, upright, and fair in your work, and set an example for the officials below." ”

Song Qian was slightly startled at this time, and replied "yes" in his mouth, and he was about to kowtow.

Emperor Tianyou waved his hand, "Get up and sit and reply." ”

Song Qian kowtowed, replied with the word "yes", got up and sat down, then took out a book from his sleeve and handed it forward, "This is a plan written by the minister last night, please read it for Your Majesty." ”

Dai Quan stepped forward and presented the fold to Emperor Tianyou, Emperor Tianyou took the fold and looked at it, frowning slightly, Song Qian's plan was to reward the officials with land, honors, silk and other items, and the soldiers were a combination of land, money, and silk, so that more than one million taels could be squeezed out from the generals and the soldiers from Gyeonggi, and the more than one million taels were sent to the soldiers of Xuanfu, Jizhou, and Shanhaiguan, but there was no land in Shandong, so they could not all be folded into silk.

Also, the reward of the Rui Shi Camp is a big one, and it is not mentioned here.

Emperor Tianyou folded his hand and was still on the imperial case, "What does Shandong say?" Also, the Ruishi Battalion has made great contributions, and it is unacceptable not to reward them. ”

Of course, Song Qian knew this, owed a debt, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the army is a place where rules are spoken, and not all the troops who participate in the war are rewarded the same, and those like the Ruishi Battalion must be rewarded heavily, but in the first battle of Xuanfu, Shandong soldiers and horses did not participate in the war, and they have always belonged to the rear army, although this is the arrangement of the Zhenguo Gong, so they only need 150,000 taels." This money can still be squeezed out by the household department. ”

The three Wen dialects sitting on both sides were all taken aback.

Emperor Tianyou glanced at him silently and said, "What about the Ruishi Battalion?" ”

Song Qian: "Zhongwubo recruited 10,000 new recruits in Xuanfu, these people are either homeless, or people with many brothers in the family, since they are willing to sign up, they must be planning to settle down in Gyeonggi, the minister looked through the archives of the household department early in the morning, one acre of good farmland in Gyeonggi is about twenty-five taels, even if a soldier is given one and a half acres, this is nearly 400,000 taels, those sacrifices have been counted in the death pension, less than 5,000 people share the 400,000, more than enough. ”

Everyone was stunned at first, and then looked at Song Gan together, suspecting that they had heard it wrong.

Song Qian didn't seem to care at all, and said with a smile: "Dudao Zhongwubo has made a windfall, and the wine brewed by the Jia Family Chamber of Commerce costs ten taels of silver for a jar, which is more expensive than five years of aging, presumably Zhongwubo still doesn't care about this money." As for whether to deduct these land purchase money from the military salary, it is Zhongwubo's own business. ”

Zhang Fu glanced at him and said coldly: "The Ruishi Battalion is His Majesty's private army, not the private army of Zhongwubo, and you are helping him buy the heart of the army by doing this." If this gets out..."

Song Qian smiled faintly, interrupted his words, stood up and bowed to Emperor Tianyou, "Your Majesty believes in Zhongwubo?" ”

Hearing this, Emperor Tianyou leaned forward slightly, sat up reservedly, and couldn't help but glance at Song Qian, nodded and smiled: "Of course I believe in Zhongwubo!" ”

There was news from the Jinling Town Shoufu that the reason why the price of grain rose sharply was that those scholars were making trouble behind their backs, and they also played the banner of winemaking, but fortunately, the Jia family did not use all the purchased grain to make wine, otherwise without the 300,000 stone grain of the Jia Family Chamber of Commerce, it would really be possible for these villains to succeed.

A glimmer of light flashed in Chen Ruiwen's eyes, "Why don't you let the two highnesses go to the Ruishi camp on behalf of Your Majesty to distribute rewards and allocate land for those Xuanfu soldiers to settle down." ”

"This...."

Although Emperor Tianyou was moved, he still hesitated, the empty glove white wolf had already made him feel ashamed of Jia Jue, but now he was....

Wen dialect spoke, "Your Majesty's expansion of the Ruishi camp into a large camp of 15,000 people is already the best reward for Zhongwubo. This is to love him, and I think that Zhongwu Bo can understand His Majesty's good intentions. ”

Emperor Tianyou pondered for a while, and then said categorically: "No! I can't hurt the hearts of loyal ministers, in this way, didn't Jia Jue write before that he had found a few Xiyi people who could make firearms from the Guangdong City Bo Division, and since he wanted to do something practical, let him take the errand of the Hyogo Division. ”

Speaking of this, he said to Chen Ruiwen: "Expand the Ruishi battalion into a battalion of 20,000 people." ”

Chen Ruiwen nodded.

At this moment, a report came from outside the door, "Your Majesty, the King of Shu, the King of Liang, and Uncle Zhongwu have arrived." ”

"Hurry up!"

Emperor Tianyou stood up, walked quickly to the door of the palace, opened the door of the palace, and there was a light snow in the sky, and the white snowflakes were fluttering one after another, and he saw the three people coming from the snow and mist from a distance.

At this time, Jia Jue and the three of them also found the emperor standing at the door of the upper study, and they all ran to the Tianyou Emperor, knelt down and said loudly: "The son sees the emperor!" "Your Majesty the Emperor!"

Emperor Tianyou hurriedly helped Jia Jue, who was kneeling on one knee, up, patted the snowflakes on the armor, and said with a pleased smile: "Aiqing did not insult the ancestors of the Jia family, and did not live up to my expectations. ”

"It is the duty of a minister to share worries for His Majesty, and His Majesty does not need to praise him!"

Jia Jue clasped his hands into fists, "The battle of Harrier Ridge still depends on the lives of the soldiers, they are the real warriors." ”

"I understand."

Emperor Tianyou smiled, glanced at Jia Jue, nodded and said, "I haven't seen you for three months, it's dark, and I've lost weight, but my spirit is good." I have all the credit for your work in my heart, and here, I promise Qing in front of the first assistant that as long as I am in the day, the commander of the Ruishi Battalion will not change. ”

Jia Jue was stunned for a moment, if Emperor Tianyou hadn't died at the hands of Wenchen, wouldn't he have lost it?

Chen Ruiwen, the Duke of Qi, coughed.

Jia Jue came back to his senses, quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and replied loudly: "Thank you for your grace." ”

Emperor Tianyou personally picked up Jia Jue again, and said with a smile: "I have set up a celebration banquet for you in the Qianqing Palace, let's go to the banquet first, and talk about other things later." ”

The two brothers of Shu King and Liang Wang slowly raised their heads, only to find that Emperor Tianyou and his party had gone away, the two looked at each other with a wry smile, and got up by themselves, knowing that this was a punishment for the two of them fighting in front of Yongding Gate.