Only a small part of the Tangli Courtyard was built, but there were already dozens of servants.

At this time, it was almost noon, and the kitchen was immediately busy, cooking for Lu Yanghou's personal soldiers.

In the small kitchen next to the big kitchen, Pei and Lu were busy themselves.

Both of them had red eyes, obviously they had cried once, especially Lu Shi cried the most sadly, and there were tears on his face.

Concubine Pei took the fine silk, placed it on a wooden frame, then poured the flour on it, and slowly sifted out the fine white noodles.

"In winter, the weather is cold, the nose is frozen, the frost is outside the mouth, the battle is full of emptiness, and the soup cake is the most." Concubine Pei said while sifting the noodles: "How long has it been since you cooked food?" Forgot all about women's work, right? ”

Concubine Lu was a little embarrassed and said, "It's been many years." ”

"I haven't done it in years." Concubine Pei sighed.

While the two were talking, they had already sifted out some white flour together, then added water and dough, and kneaded it.

Pei's and Lu's were very hard, and the noodles were extremely thin.

Concubine Pei took a knife and made a gesture and cut it on the dough, two fingers wide and two inches long.

When she was one-faced, she glanced at Lu's family, endured the sourness in her heart, and said: "If there is a child, when he is old and weak in the future, he can also make a plate of soup cakes by himself, but it is more delicious than the servant and maid." ”

Lu's face turned dark at first, and then red again.

The woman is over thirty years old, but she doesn't even have a child, she didn't want to think about it before, she didn't dare to think about it, but now when she thinks about it, she wants to cry again.

Do you really expect Sima Li to serve her for the elderly?

The child is ten years old, and he still refuses to leave Chang'an, and he must stay with his biological parents, and the Lu family can't treat him as a son.

The meaning of her sister-in-law's words, she also understood, was actually to let her remarry - no, in fact, it was not married, but accepted.

But she was a little unwilling, how could the daughter of Fan Yang Lu's family be a concubine? Besides, she is a princess, do you want a face?

"This Shao Xun, why is he staring at the woman of the Sima family......" Lu Shi was a little sad, and accidentally said what was in his heart: "Is he going to take away the Sima family's country, and he still has to ...... Is it a woman from the Sima family? ”

"Why is Kaoru so vulgar?" Concubine Pei blushed and reprimanded.

But think about it, Taibai went down to earth, is he here to be the nemesis of the Sima family's women?

The two talked, and the atmosphere was not so awkward and stiff.

Concubine Pei's face was still very red, and she was also a little aggrieved, obviously she didn't do anything, but she had to face Lu Xun's strange eyes.

Concubine Lu's face was also a little red.

Sometimes she would read some poems about empty women and resentful women, and she thought it was due to missing her deceased husband, but now she found that it didn't seem to be all the reason.

"That's enough, that's all." The two of them were so busy that their foreheads were sweating, and they made a large plate of noodles, and then took them to the next kitchen, put them in boiling water, and cooked them in a hurry.

Pei's, Lu's, you and I slice a piece, and soon put the noodles on the plate into the pot - this thing was called "no support" in the Tang Dynasty, there is a saying that the original hand support dough was torn on the side of the pot, and then changed to a one-sided or hand-tossed on the case, no longer hand support, so it has this name.

The dough sheet is cooked quickly.

Concubine Pei fished it out and put it in a bowl, while Concubine Lu poured gravy on it and mixed it.

A total of two bowls of soup cakes were made, one bowl for Shao Xun and one bowl for Pei Kang.

Pei and Lu both watched it and felt a sense of accomplishment.

Aristocratic women have been practicing women's skills since childhood, soup cakes, water cakes and the like are simply compulsory courses, but they have been pampered for many years, and their skills are a little sparse, and they don't know how many years they haven't cooked for their families.

Looking at it today, it's okay, it's not too ugly.

"Weak as spring, white as autumn silk." Concubine Pei praised.

"The air is full of cloth to spread the cloth, and the incense is scattered far away." Concubine Lu answered.

"Pedestrians salivate at the downwind, and child servants chew empty and slanted."

"The man who wields the weapon licks his lips, and the waiter swallows dryly."

The two of you said a word to me, and then laughed happily.

Strange woman!

After laughing, he took a bowl and went to give Pei Kang and Shao Xun food and drink.

Pei and Shao were sitting idly in the hall, first chatting about the conquest of Hebei, and then mentioning the situation in Hedong.

At this moment, two women came over with soup cakes.

"Eat first." Concubine Pei put the bowl she was holding in front of her father and said.

Lu Shi was entangled, walked to Shao Xun's side, and gently put the bowl down.

"In winter, eating a bowl of soup cakes is really the ultimate enjoyment." Shao Xun praised.

Pei Kang nodded, looked at his daughter, and was speechless.

The two stopped talking and began to eat soup cakes.

Pei and Lu retreated to the outer room, facing the warm sun, walking with each other.

They climbed a pavilion built on the mountain, and looked at the bare woods, frozen rivers, and uninhabited barren meadows in the distance, and felt an indescribable loneliness in their hearts.

"Such a bleak scene, like this world." Concubine Pei leaned on the railing, with a lot of sorrow between her eyebrows.

Lu Shi also felt something, and was silent.

"At first, I was also nervous, and I felt something...... "Concubine Pei added.

"Sister-in-law, I won't say it." Lu Shi lowered his head and said softly.

Concubine Pei's face was a little hot, and she didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only say casually: "There are more and more ministers and scholars who have come to Guangchengze for refuge. In the chaotic world, if you are alone, even if you are a general, you are not reliable. ”

Lu's face turned white.

If a palace is quite wealthy, and there is no man in this palace, only a powerless princess remains, and the world is becoming more and more chaotic, the prestige of the court is declining, and the order is collapsing day by day, what will happen?

Lu suddenly understood that she came to live with the princess of the East China Sea, although there were factors that the two had a good relationship, but was there really no other reason?

There were some things she hadn't thought about, but her instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm had already helped her make a decision.

Especially the eyes of some so-called relatives and some so-called family generals who looked at her, she didn't even dare to carefully check the accounts.

"Sister-in-law." Lu Shi hugged Concubine Pei, and her eyes were already slightly wet.

Concubine Pei's face became even hotter, and she was extremely ashamed in her heart.

In order to cover up some things, she had to scare Lu, a relatively simple woman, contrary to what she had always respected, and she always felt faceless.

According to her thoughts, Shao Xun had no women around him, but she also knew that this was an extravagant hope.

How is it possible that the warriors killed in the pile of dead in troubled times are like the rising sun and constantly rising......

He is no longer tied down by anyone.

The further they go, the more they have to rely on others.

The wind was howling, and the sound of opening the mountain and taking stones came from the foothills in the distance, even in this cold winter wax moon, there was no stop.

More and more people are going south to build other manors.

******

After Pei and Shao finished eating the soup cakes, they continued to deliberate.

The former Hongnong Taishou Pei Hui lost his official, Shao Xun himself had a pot, and after discussing it with Pei Kang, he gave him the position of Luyang Guocheng.

The eighth rank of this position, which is lower than Taishou, is regarded as the deputy of the prime minister.

Lao Pei also mentioned Liu Anzhi.

Liu Anzhi brought 500 private soldiers over, of which 300 were from the Pei family and 200 were from the Liu family.

plus more than 3,000 pieces of silk, which are from the Pei family, more than the imperial court reward - Lord Shao Jin Luyang County Duke, gave 1,800 pieces of silk, thousands of money, and 100 pieces of gold and silverware.

Shao Xun gave the post of squire.

"Lang Zhongling is temporarily absent, Liu Anzhi can take the post of Lang, and five hundred parts are incorporated into the Volunteer Army, and ask him if he is willing. If you want, you can take office before the year, and if you don't want to, go back. Shao Xun said.

Lang Zhongling (Sixth Rank) is a very important position, and generally has three duties: one is to be responsible for elections in the territory, the second is to be responsible for the work of the guards, and the third is to convey the fatwa.

The other two items are nothing, but the guards are very important.

The meaning of a guard, not just a guard, that's too narrow.

At this meeting, the field troops took turns to defend the capital and the palace, and the Suwei army was the main force of the field - the part of the Luoyang Chinese Army stationed in the city was called the "Suwei Seventh Army" or "Suwei Seventh Battalion".

Lang Zhongling can arrange the garrison of the Su Guard, the transfer of orders, etc., which is a very critical position.

In Shao Xun's plan, the Silver Spear Army and the Long Sword Army will be the future Su Guard Army, defending his "capital", and the Yicong Army and Yamen Army will be the "foreign army", acting as a garrison or a front-line counterattack force in strategic locations.

Therefore, Lang Zhong made it impossible for him to hand it over to outsiders.

Student soldiers are the most suitable, but their qualifications are too shallow now, even if seven or eight people have entered Taixue one after another over the years and have the qualifications to be officials, but they are too young to be the lieutenant commander of Liupinlang.

Therefore, Lang Zhongling was temporarily absent, and Shao Xun personally held this position.

Lang Zhong ordered that there were two eight-grade waiters, who were regarded as deputies, one for Liu Anzhi and the other for Chen Yougen.

The squire can set up his own subordinates, but they don't need to find people by themselves, Shao Xun plans to stuff them with a group of scholars and Haoqiang children from Hebei.

From now on, the assembly, garrison, and transfer of the two armies of the silver spear and the long sword will be in charge of Shao Xun, who is also the commander of Lang Zhong, and the two squires will take their subordinates to convey orders, inspect the camps, and count personnel and equipment.

Everything comes according to the system.

"He's here, how could he not want to?" Pei Kang laughed, obviously satisfied with the eight-rank squire, and after laughing, he asked again: "How many officials have you given now?" ”

"Xiang, Cheng Yi, Fu Yi, Shilang II, Danong Yi (Chu Yi), Dianwei Ling Yi (Tang Jian), Dianshu Ling Yi (Yang Ming), a total of eight members."

"How much is the annual payment?"

Shao Xun calculated.

The standard for the distribution of official salaries by the DPRK is very confusing.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the "rank stone" system was used.

During the Cao Wei period, official products appeared.

At this point, it will be a "dual-track system" of parallel rank and official products.

In the middle and late stages of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was basically an official product system.

Therefore, the standard of officials' salaries during the operation of the "dual-track system" is rather chaotic and strange.

Cui Gong, the prime minister of Luyang, the fifth product, the rank of a thousand stones (some county orders also rank a thousand stones, and some are too many to be two thousand stones), according to the standard of the national dynasty, the monthly grain is fifty Hu (600 Hu a year), the spring to give 30 horses of silk, the autumn to give 70 horses of silk, 70 pounds of cotton, and six vegetable fields, six people of Tian Qi.

He, the fifth-grade official, is a monk who has a salary standard.

Yes, Shangshu orders rank thousands of stones, and some large counties and county orders also rank thousands of stones, and the former is in charge of national government affairs, and the latter can only manage one county, which is outrageous.

Shao Xun decided to use the system that began in the middle of the Northern and Southern Dynasties based on official goods to get rid of the chaotic dual-track system.

The annual income of the prime minister is divided into five parts.

Grain: 600 Hu.

Cloth: 100 horses of silk, 70 pounds of cotton.

Money: Not yet.

Lutian: 6 hectares (enjoy this income during employment, but not when you leave the company).

Forced labor: Six Tian Su, responsible for cultivating the fields, if not enough, you can increase the manpower, anyway, there are a lot of prisoners.

In addition to the national minister, the sixth grade of the big farmer, Fu gets 480 hu, 70 horses of silk, 50 catties of cotton every year, five acres of Lutian, and a number of subordinates.

There are also five eight-grade officials, with an annual grain of 240 hu, 30 horses of silk, 20 catties of cotton, three acres of Lutian, and a number of subordinates.

"More than 2,000 grains and nearly 400 horses of silk are supported annually." Shao Xun replied, "Maybe more." ”

"Not much." Pei Kang commented.

Shao Xun nodded.

These are certainly not enough, because they have to make their own subordinates.

Some of the subordinate officials could be requisitioned by means of conscription, while others needed to spend money.

In fact, until the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the salaries of officials were not enough, and at this time, another income that was not fixed but the amount should not be underestimated was introduced-reward.

Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, often gave banquets and allowed officials to take home uneaten food for their families to eat – and many people did pack it up and take it home.

In addition, at the banquet, they "set up a name" and rewarded a lot of money with various excuses as an important part of the officials' income, so as to make up for the lack of righteousness.

Of course, most of the officials in these years were scholars, and their family conditions were much better than those in the early Tang Dynasty. Some people even think that the official office is simple and not abundant, and they pay their own money to become an official in order to maintain the quality of life without declining.

There is still a lot of hidden income as an official, which is not enough for outsiders.

"How much money can it cost to get all the government officials in place? The old man still has a lot of talents in his pocket. Pei Kang said with some dissatisfaction.

"Grain, fields, and servants are enough, but silk is not enough." Shao Xun looked at Lao Pei and said, "Otherwise, Gong Pei ......"

If the officials are really fully equipped as Pei Kang said, there will be at least fifty or sixty people, and the expenditure is not as small as eight people now. Coupled with the rewards of the New Year's holidays, who will fill the financial holes of thousands of horses of silk a year? Unless Lao Pei is willing to reimburse ......

"You, you really haven't been a big official." Pei Kang smiled contemptuously and said, "Don't count that money." Liu Yuanhai asked the Pei family to become officials, not only did he not have a fortune, but he also had to pay for the Pei family. Look at what people do, and how do you do it? ”

Shao Xun smiled.

Why does the Hu regime like to play this?

He remembered that in history, the officials in the early Northern Wei Dynasty had no money and let them loot. Later, the imperial court found that the loss was even greater, and it had to set the standard of Yulu.

"You're so famous, didn't the Yingchuan scholars enter the service?" Pei Kang looked at Shao Xun with hatred and said, "They are now starting to take refuge in you, where is Jinfeng?" Even the old man is—"

"That's it." Pei Kang waved his hand and said, "You can do it yourself." It's not good to ask for a good reputation, but which one doesn't do it? Now they are afraid of you, and they are begging you, so they should give them to you. The little money you seized on the expedition alone is not enough in the long run, even if it is enough for a while. ”

After hearing this, Shao Xun immediately got up and saluted, and said, "Please ask Pei Gong to take up the post of Luyang Guoyou." ”

Friends, the duty to accompany the lord of the country, to the lord of the country to make progress and correct.

As Sima Yan said when he chose friends for the kings: "In the past, Han Qi and Tian Su traveled and were kind, and they should be able to get their people." ”

This is a Qingwang official, with little work and more money (six products), in fact, he is following the lord of the country to come up with ideas. If you see that the lord of the country has done something wrong, he will immediately admonish him and correct his behavior.

Lao Pei originally wanted to refuse.

I'm a person in my seventies, and I can't afford to "play" with people in your twenties. What's more, the money you sent was still sent by me, and this is for me to spend my own money to "play" with you? Outrageous!

However, Pei's and Lu's soon joined hands.

Lao Pei's heart moved, and he sighed: "That's it, this old bone still has to be tossed with you, it's really-alas! ”

Shao Xun was stunned at first.

At first glance at Pei Kang's face, I thought he was going to refuse, but I didn't expect to suddenly agree, what happened? What does he want to do?

Shao Xun suddenly felt that it was not necessarily a good thing to ask Pei Kang to be a friend of the country and "correct" his own behavior......