In front of the main hall.

Qin Wei looked at Qin Gong's departing back, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Let Wang An arrange for someone to keep an eye on him and check the people around him." He instructed Xiao Shunzi.

"Whoa!" Xiao Shunzi answered.

Qin Gong's intention is needless to say, just to test him.

As for Qin Gong's temptation, Qin Wei had almost spoken very explicitly.

Both sides were for the dragon chair of the Sheng Tian Temple, and they were enemies from then on.

Qin Wei didn't know if Qin Gong had any other preparations, but he estimated that Qin Gong would definitely make some trouble for him.

After pondering for a while, Qin Wei left the courtyard and came to the Dusi Yamen.

"Meet Your Highness!"

Liu Yuanrang and Ji Fei saw that Qin Wei was coming, and hurriedly welcomed him to the main hall of the Dusi Yamen.

Qin Wei asked casually, "Is the official document from the court here?" ”

"It just arrived at dusk yesterday, and Xia Guan was preparing to send it to His Highness." Liu Yuanrang's expression moved slightly, and he said softly.

Qin Wei sat on the main seat and looked at him with a light smile, "You are the commander of the capital division, and the official document is for you and not for this king." ”

When Liu Yuanrang heard this, he was shocked.

Ji Fei couldn't help but bow his head.

"Hehe, His Royal Highness quelled the rebellion for Shuzhou, and now the three divisions of Shuzhou are all abolished, and His Royal Highness should be in charge." Liu Yuanrang smiled wryly.

"Well, that's true, Shuzhou is currently full of problems, and this king can't take care of it if he doesn't want to." Qin Wei said as a matter of course.

Liu Yuanrang is not an honest person, and he has his own careful thoughts.

In fact, he should have such careful thoughts, after all, Qin Wei is only the king of the county, and he should not interfere in the affairs of the Sansi Yamen.

It's just that now the three divisions of Shuzhou Yamen, in addition to the capital division, the political department and the judicial department are almost nothing, so Qin Wei was given the opportunity to intervene.

Liu Yuanrang's careful thinking, Qin Wei could naturally see it, but he still broke it.

"What about Kumon? Take it to this king. ”

"Whoa!"

Liu Yuanrang hurriedly found the official document and handed it to Qin Wei.

Qin Wei glanced at it and nodded lightly.

This official document came from the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the main content was to appoint the missing officials of the Shuzhou Metropolitan Division, and at the same time to reward the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to quelling the rebellion.

Yuan Shizhe was promoted to the commander of the Shuzhou Metropolitan Division, and Liu Qing was promoted to the general of the Shuzhou Town Guard, and concurrently served as the commander of the Metropolitan Division and the commander of the Anning Health Division.

In addition, many officials of the Anning Army and the Lushan Health Division have been promoted.

Overall, Qin Wei was quite satisfied with this meritorious reward.

"Is Yuan Shizhe back?"

"Yesterday I was back." Liu Yuan gave way.

Qin Wei said: "Call and let this king meet." ”

"Whoa!"

Liu Yuanrang was helpless, so he had to go and find Yuan Shizhe again.

Seeing Yuan Shizhe, Qin Wei couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

Yuan Shizhe is tall and big, and he walks with a tiger and a tiger, and a pair of sword eyebrows appear to be mighty outside, and this time Shuzhou quelled the rebellion, Yuan Shizhe swept nearly 60,000 rebels in the west of Shuzhou with 20,000 soldiers of the Lushan Guard, which can be regarded as a great achievement.

"The last general, Yuan Shizhe, pays a visit to His Highness!" Yuan Shizhe came to the hall and bowed.

"General Yuan, I've worked hard for you this time!" Qin Wei got up, patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Don't dare, the last general just did something within his bounds, and he didn't dare to say that he was hard." Yuan Shizhe's personality is somewhat straightforward.

Qin Wei bowed his head slightly and asked, "Have the bereavements of the dead and wounded soldiers of the Lushan Guard Division been properly handled?" ”

"Ugh!"

Yuan Shizhe looked at Liu Yuanrang and did not speak.

Liu Yuanrang said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the treasury silver and grain and grass of the Dusi Yamen have been swept away by rebellion, although we have taken back Shuzhou City, we have not taken back the treasury silver and grain and grass. ”

Qin Wei frowned slightly, but he didn't care in his heart.

He is very clear that Shuzhou is currently short of silver and grain.

When the rebellion broke out in Shuzhou, the rebellion led by Tang Mingcheng began to transfer the treasury silver and grain of the yamen of various ministries. Starting from Shuzhou City, to all prefectures and counties, almost all that could be transferred were transported from Pingmanguan to Yunzhou.

Otherwise, Li Ru would not have had a headache because of the silver grain.

"This king knows that the Dusi Yamen is in difficulty now, but he can't chill the hearts of the soldiers." Qin Wei said dissatisfied.

"But the lower officials really can't come up with money and food." Liu Yuanrang said helplessly.

Yuan Shizhe looked at Liu Yuanrang dullly.

When he arrived in Shuzhou City yesterday, the first thing he did was to ask Liu Yuanrang for money and food.

More than 20,000 soldiers of the Lushan Guards went to the west of Shuzhou to quell the rebellion, and nearly 10,000 were killed and wounded, and now the rebellion has been quelled, but the soldiers' salaries and pensions are still owed, and Yuan Shizhe has no face to return to the Lushan Guards.

Qin Wei pondered for a moment and said: "There are still 300,000 taels of silver in the Zhenwu Division, which was originally reserved for the Zhenwu Division to build a yamen and recruit soldiers, but the soldiers are working hard for the imperial court, and we must not let them chill." ”

"General Yuan, these 300,000 taels will first send down the pensions of the soldiers."

"As for the food, this king will think of a way."

When Yuan Shizhe heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Your Highness is benevolent, and the last general will thank His Highness for those dead and wounded soldiers!" ”

As he spoke, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed directly.

"General Yuan, why bother!" Qin Wei hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.

Yuan Shizhe's eyes were slightly red, and he said, "If it weren't for His Highness's benevolence, the last general really didn't know what to do?" ”

Seeing him like this, Qin Wei couldn't help but feel a little admiration in his heart.

This Yuan Shizhe is not only a lover of personality, but also loves soldiers like a son.

However, it is precisely because of this that Qin Wei's 300,000 taels of silver were not spent in vain.

His 300,000 taels are the ones who bought people's hearts.

The first one to buy was Yuan Shizhe.

Qin Wei comforted Yuan Shizhe, and once again said that he would find a way to pay the soldiers, which made Yuan Shizhe suddenly get a lot closer to him.

After Qin Wei left the Dusi Yamen, Liu Yuanrang and Ji Fei glanced at each other, and both of them couldn't help but sigh lightly.

"Lord Liu, the lower officials think that there are some things that you still have to think about carefully." Ji Fei said in a low voice.

"Hey, what else can this official think about!"

Liu Yuanrang shook his head slightly.

Then he took out another official document and handed it to Ji Fei.

"Yesterday, Kyoto sent two official documents, but this one has not dared to be taken out."

Ji Fei was slightly stunned, and then opened the official document and took a look.

After reading it, his eyes widened, "This, how can they be like this?" ”

The content of this official document is to let them raise money and food on their own, which is naturally no problem if it is normal.

Under normal circumstances, the money and grain required by the prefecture and the yamen came from the political department, and only in wartime would the governor's office and household department allocate grain.

And this time the rebellion broke out in Shuzhou, due to the problem of time, the Governor's Mansion and the household department did not allocate grain, or they did not have time to allocate grain, and the Shuzhou rebellion had been quelled.

When the rebellion ended, the household department still allocated 100,000 stone grain and grass, and the Governor's Mansion did not pull out a dime.

Now there is a shortage of money and food everywhere in Shuzhou, if Qin Wei had not dealt with the problems of the eastern and southern parts of Shuzhou and the Anning Army, then the problem of lack of money and food in Shuzhou would have been even more serious.

But even so, Liu Yuanrang didn't dare to take out this official document.

Without money and food, the bereavement pensions for the dead and wounded soldiers will not be paid, and those soldiers who work the battlefield will not be able to receive food and wages.

If this matter is not handled well, it is likely to cause a rebellion.

The salaries of the soldiers of the town garrison were divided into two parts, one part was the monthly ration and the other was the line ration. Needless to say, the monthly ration is a fixed monthly salary, while the marching ration is the salary paid during wartime.

To put it simply, the monthly ration is the basic salary, and the ration is the wartime allowance.

There was no specific ration for rations, depending on the intensity and duration of the fighting.

In this Shuzhou Rebellion, the six guards under the command of the entire Shuzhou Metropolitan Division totaled 150,000 soldiers, of which nearly half of the soldiers became rebels, and almost all the remaining soldiers participated in the battle, that is to say, they had to distribute rations, plus the pensions of the dead and wounded soldiers, such a large amount of money and food, only relying on the Dusi Yamen will definitely not be able to solve it in a short time.

And not only that, the ordnance and armor consumed in battle, the grain and grass consumed in wartime, and the recruitment of short soldiers, etc., all need to be replenished.

Relying only on the Dusi Yamen, without five years, it will not be able to make it up at all.

Liu Yuan said: "You and I both understand that if it weren't for His Royal Highness the King of the County, we wouldn't be able to support the mess of Shuzhou at all." ”

Ji Fei put down the official document, "So you're going to do it?" ”

"In fact, these are not important, the important thing is that the official must ensure that Shuzhou cannot be chaotic again." Liu Yuan gave way.

Ji Fei was silent for a while, and said: "That's it, anyway, the lower officials can't be officials for a few years, so everything is arranged by Lord Liu." ”

They had no ill feelings towards Qin Wei, and were even full of admiration and admiration.

Qin Wei's talent in quelling the chaos was enough to convince them.

It's just that they don't want to participate in the battle in the court, so they want to draw a line with Qin Wei.

But now, even if they want to draw a line with Qin Wei, the situation in Shuzhou does not allow them to do so.

In many things, they need to rely on Qin Wei to do it.

……

On the other side, after Qin Gong returned to the inn.

"Your Highness, what's the situation?" The middle-aged man couldn't help but ask.

Qin Gong shook his head slightly and said, "The situation is even more troublesome than we expected. ”

"The king of Xin'an is not only a great trend, but also has an extraordinary heritage."

"If you ignore it, you will inevitably become the enemy of your father in the future."

Take a peek and see the whole leopard.

Although Qin Gong had only met Qin Wei in the courtyard, the strength around Qin Wei was still enough for him to pay attention to.

Let the seventeen-rank warriors be willing to be ordinary guards, not to mention those nobles in Kyoto, even the major palaces are not so extravagant.

"So what do we do next?" The middle-aged man asked.

Qin Gong pondered for a moment and said, "I personally wrote a letter to my father. ”

Early this morning, he had asked the middle-aged man to write a letter and send it to Kyoto, but he was afraid that King Ping would not pay enough attention to it, so he planned to write a letter himself.

……

After returning to the courtyard, Qin Wei sat in the study and thought about how to make money.

The matter of the weapon workshop has been handed over to Li Ru, and it is estimated that it will be opened in a few days.

But if you want to make money from the weapons workshop, you may have to wait a while.

Now he gave Yuan Shizhe the last treasury silver of the Zhenwu Division, and he still has tens of thousands of taels of silver left under his hand, and he also holds a large amount of foreign debts from the Tianzhou Political Division.

Now he needs a windfall to weather the current financial crisis.

"People are not rich without windfalls, and horses are not fertile without night grass!"

"Xiao Shunzi, where do you think we should make money?"

Qin Wei sat in the desk and said to Xiao Shunzi with a headache.

Xiao Shunzi blinked and said, "The little one knows that a person is very rich. ”

"Who?" Qin Wei's eyes lit up.

"Long'an Mansion guards the eunuch Qi Dynasty." Xiao Shunzi said.

Qin Wei raised his eyebrows.

The eunuchs guarding the town are a special group in Dali, and they are eunuchs arranged by Emperor Lihuang in various parts of the dynasty, and they have different powers because of their different duties.

For example, the town guard eunuchs in the border army are to supervise the border army generals, and the town guard eunuchs in the interior have the right to supervise the officials of the three divisions, and some are responsible for paying tribute to the imperial city.

However, although the eunuchs of the town guard have the right to supervise, they actually do not have the right to meddle in the army and local officials, and at most they report to Emperor Li.

The power of the most powerful supervisor is in vain, and the eunuchs who guard the town become transparent people in the army or in the locality, more like record officers.

Of course, no one wants to provoke them, after all, they represent Emperor Lihuang outside.

Most of the local officials have been respectful of them.

"There are eunuchs guarding the town in Long'an Mansion?" Qin Wei asked.

He didn't know much about the town guard eunuchs, or he had never been in contact with them, and he didn't know if there were town guard eunuchs in Shuzhou, because the town guard eunuchs set up inside and outside the dynasty were very arbitrary, some states did not, and some governments did.

"Yes, Your Highness, there are six kinds of tributes in Long'an Mansion, Mengding Tea, Yunshan Maofeng, Yayu, Xianggu Rice, Long'an Stone Inkstone, and Well Salt!" Xiao Shunzi laughed.

When Qin Wei heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

(End of chapter)