Liu Haojia looked at the leader's face and knew that the leader had just taken the scene to heart, so he continued with satisfaction: "Presumably you have contacted your own backstage in the past few days, but the results you got should make you very disappointed, right?" ”

Everyone's faces were even more depressed when they heard this! Because they really contacted the backstage, and it didn't work! Because gangs like theirs, even if there are officials, the level of asylum is not too high. Where would a really high-level official need this kind of heroic!

Liu Haojia knew that he had guessed it when he saw their expressions, and he laughed twice and said: "Since your backstage doesn't work, then from today onwards, this official will be your backstage!" In other words, the Ruler told you to go east, you can't go west! You must abide by the rules I set, otherwise you will go to Xishan with them to dig coal, do you understand? ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded again and again and agreed, lest they would be slow to agree, and Liu Haojia would be unhappy and sell himself!

Seeing this, Liu Haojia nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, I have few rules here, just one, obedient!" Someone will tell you what you should and shouldn't do. Don't ask me about the conditions, talk about the difficulties, you must do what I ask! Come, find people from your respective jurisdictions, and take them aside to explain the matter! ”

Following Liu Haojia's order, each captain stepped forward to take a roll call, gathered all the gang leaders in his jurisdiction, and then began to preach their demands. The leaders listened very attentively, lest they miss something and cause trouble!

In fact, Liu Haojia has no intention of sweeping away the gangsters at all, although he can do it. But he also knew that in the Jingshi of Nuoda, these local gangs were like weeds that could not be eliminated, and it was better to directly control them in his hands than to take the trouble of getting rid of them all, and soon a spring breeze would blow and grow again.

And he'll have a place to get these gangs in the future. For example, the trading of some high-ranking families, Jinyiwei is not good to come forward directly, and these gangs are useful at this time! And the most important point, without these gangs to set off, how to show the bright and majestic shore of Jinyiwei!

At this time, all the prisoners who had loaded the cart had been transported away, and General Sun Shen, who had gone to settle the money, had already returned. He saw that Liu Haojia was patrolling circle by circle, and he also raised his legs to follow and listen.

In fact, the situation in everyone's pile is similar, it doesn't matter if the gang leader who has been relocated begged not to move, and bargains for how much money to hand over each month. And the greatest courage of these people is to bargain, and there is not a single thorn! After all, the tragic situation of those people just now still flashed in their minds from time to time, and they didn't want to end up in this situation!

It took some time for the captains to finally break things up with them, and the gangs expressed their willingness to obey the dispatch. After that, of course, it was a celebration banquet!

Today, Liu Haojia still has thirty tables, but there is enough wine and meat! And before the official banquet, he gave these gendarmes their first monthly salary, eight taels of silver each!

Don't think that eight taels of silver is less, in fact, it is already very high! According to historical records, an adult in the Ming Dynasty needed 3.6 stone meters a year, and a child needed 1.8 stone meters. In this way, suppose a family of 5, two adults and three children, needs 12.6 stone of rice a year, which is equivalent to 13 taels of silver.

Moreover, the price of rice in the Ming Dynasty has been in flux, in the years of war and famine, each stone of rice was more than 2 taels of silver, and in the Taiping period it was about 1 tael. What's more, the people of the Ming Dynasty had many other expenses, rice and salt added up to 15 taels, plus other consumption such as firewood, oil, sauce, vinegar, tea, as well as sacrifices, favors, etc., the annual expenditure was not less than 20 taels of silver, which had a lot of pressure on ordinary people.

At the same time, with the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, the income of the artisan class increased, but only a small number of skilled people benefited, and most of the hired laborers only earned slightly higher than the yeoman farmers. For example, in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded in the "Instructions for the Factory and Treasury of the Ministry of Industry" that the craftsmen who were engaged in "mounting jade" in the Zongren Mansion at that time had a monthly income of 1.5 taels of silver, and the annual income was about 18 taels, which was similar to the income level of homesteaders. The craftsmen who worked in the silver bureau of the Hongguang Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty could earn as much as "one penny and two cents of silver per day", which was converted into an annual income of more than 40 taels.

Let's talk about ordinary officials. As the upper class of society, officials are different from ordinary people, and those who need to be contacted for entertainment are people with status and facade, so the cost is higher.

At the same time, according to Wang Shizhen's "Yao Bu Yao Lu", an official who has just entered the capital to live in the capital needs to meet important officials of the imperial court, feast colleagues, reward slaves, etc., and at least one hundred taels of silver is needed in a year, which is normally three hundred taels of silver, and some even need six or seven hundred taels.

In normal times, a magistrate needs to pay the expenses of the yamen and his family, as well as daily entertainment, which costs about 50 taels of silver a year. From this point of view, even the scholar class who have already made a name for themselves is facing great economic difficulties.

So when these gendarmes really received the eight taels of silver that were not deducted, they were first dumbfounded, and then they were thunderous, desperately praising Liu Haojia for his words, and promising to be honest and obedient in the future!

After getting the first month's salary, when you start to eat wine, everyone feels that it is very enjoyable, and it is even more fragrant with wine! For a while, the sound of shouting and drinking on the playground was endless, and the atmosphere was extremely lively!

And Liu Haojia took a bowl of wine and toasted from table to table, which was greatly respected by everyone! Because in the past, they toasted Shangguan, how could Shangguan put down his body and toast them! So everyone got up regardless of age, Liu Haojia just took a sip of wine, everyone had already drained all the wine in the bowl, and said that they would definitely look forward to the adults in the future!

When Liu Haojia returned to the main table, Sun Shenjiang's face was red. He poured Liu Haojia full of wine and figure: "Liu Zongqi, I said that you specifically said that they should bring cash, it turned out to be for salary!" ”

Liu Haojia and Sun Shenjiang touched the wine bowl, took a sip of wine and said: "The brothers have been working hard with me for a month, and they always have to see a little hope!" Besides, there was still this opportunity to get cash, so I directly paid them money. ”

General Sun saw that there were only the two of them at the wine table, and the other few people who accompanied the wine all toasted the following following in the same way as Liu Haojia, so he said unabashedly: "Mr. Liu, you just sent the money so simply, why don't you pump water?" And I don't think you have any empty food, it's a pity, right? ”