Great Tang Southern Emperor

"..." Zhu Yundao was speechless, and his heart was even colder.The two have been together for nearly ten years, let alone human beings in ten years, even if a kitten and puppy have been raised for more than ten years, they should have feelings, right?Even if the ultimate goal is to let Ximende help him take the blame, but after ten years of getting along, is it true that there is no feeling at all?But Wen Tonglin gave up as soon as he said he would give up, without any hesitation - at this moment Zhu Yundao felt that Wen Tonglin was terrible.

It seems that I have to stay away from this person in the future, not only myself, but even the crown prince has to persuade him not to get too close to this kind of person, otherwise you may be betrayed by him at any time—— Zhu Yundao didn't think that a person like Wen Tonglin would give his allegiance to someone easily.

"Also, besides detaining the shit bowl to Simonde, I have also made a lot of credit. Except for catching Locke and Luo Ruliang this time, I am not without credit. In fact, I have also Climb into the relationship with the prince." Wen Tonglin didn't know that Zhu Yundao was extremely afraid of him at this time, but continued to fight for conditions for himself: "I have also discovered the undercover agent placed here by the prince over the years, and used him many times to deliver Information, it’s just that this person doesn’t know my identity, but every time he transmits information, I’m covering for him. The young prince, but in fact, the two of us have been connected for a long time."

"Don't worry, before confirming the authenticity of your identity, I will entertain you according to high standards, so you can rest assured." Zhu Yundao naturally knew what Wen Tonglin was thinking, and quickly gave a guarantee.

"That's good." Wen Tonglin felt relieved, didn't he say so much just for this promise?Regardless of the final result, at least I will definitely not suffer in a short time.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's watch the battle. By the way, your means are good, and you can easily kill Locke and Luo Ruliang? How did you do it?"

Wen Tonglin smiled lightly and said: "Actually speaking, it's not a bright method. Locke is because I held down his vital cervical artery... So I only need to hit the cervical artery, which can make people faint in mild cases, or even make people faint in severe cases. People were killed——by the way, I learned this trick in the laboratory. As for Luo Ruliang, it’s even simpler, it’s just a bag of quicklime...you can only scrub it with oil, and if you use water, it will burn more and more, and eventually you can even Blind your eyes."

"My God, I didn't expect there to be such knowledge here. It's really eye-opening." Zhu Yundao praised. Although he is an undercover agent, he is good at intelligence, but he is not proficient in killing. But now Wen Tonglin But his words opened his eyes. It turns out that the human body has so many vital points. It turns out that a small pack of quicklime has such terrible power. It turns out that killing is not a high-level thing. Life - it seems that if there is a chance in the future, I will study it systematically, at least I have to learn some skills to save my life, right?

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"Kill!" While the two were talking, all of Locke's guards had been killed. Their overall quality was indeed better than Zhu Yundao's, but now that Locke was lying on the ground, Luo Ruliang Still covering their eyes and howling, there is no time for him to pay attention, but without the leader, no matter how elite these guards are, they can only fight on their own, and they will lose to Zhu Yundao's men after all, after all, they advance and retreat more orderly , is always much better than the headless guards, so in just a short time, all the guards fell to the ground.

Of course, although all the guards were beheaded, Zhu Yundao also paid a big price. There were originally more than 100 people, but now only more than 30 can stand, and there are more than a dozen moaning on the ground. These more than 50 people are all the remaining living people, and the remaining more than 50 people have turned into cold corpses.

Zhu Yundao looked at the corpses all over the floor, and sighed, "Bury all the brothers who died, and write down their names. After I see the prince, I will ask for credit for them... Don't worry, your highness has a heart." Wide, you will not be underestimated just because you were rebellious. It should be that they have contributed a lot, and their pensions will be distributed according to the specifications of the fallen soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and then sent to them according to their native place These will be delivered directly through the bank, and our military and the imperial court will not and cannot intervene."

"Thank you, my lord. The subordinates are very grateful." The leader said gratefully. This is what they were worried about. After all, they were still rebellious in the eyes of the court. Although they turned around at a critical moment, who knows what the court thinks?What if you still treat them as rebellious?It's fine for them to die. The problem is that there are still wives and children in the family. Without them, the family will lose its backbone, and the whole family may collapse.

But if the deceased is regarded as a soldier who sacrificed for the state affairs, and he comes according to the military's pension standards, then there is no need to worry about his family's suffering. Currently, Datang is very generous with the military's pension. Speaking of which, this is still Li Zhen. As a result of his hard work, his proposition that the soldiers should not bleed and cry deeply captured the hearts of the whole army of the Tang Dynasty. Even Li Jing, who had been reclusive for many years, took the initiative to stand up and speak out for him. With hard work, the imperial court finally implemented this proposal, and the pensions of the soldiers who died in battle were greatly increased. Li Zhen's move also completely won the hearts of all the soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. At least in the army, no one will It will become an obstacle on his way to the throne.

After several years of evolution, the method of distributing pensions has also changed from the initial gold and silver, but in general, there are still only two types: the first is naturally the old rules, that is, money pensions, according to a An average of 20 yuan per person plus two cows for compensation—cows are worthless in the Tang Dynasty now. After [-] years of development, the Turkic grasslands have long been cultivated and matured. Every year, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses are sold to all parts of the Tang Dynasty, except for war horses. In addition, prices for the rest of the livestock have come down.

And you must know that now that prices in the Tang Dynasty have plummeted, ten pennies is enough for a family of five to live comfortably for several years, and in addition to pensions, martyrs also have a five-year tax exemption and a ten-year half-tax preferential treatment Policy, under the guarantee of this policy, as long as the family is hardworking enough, they can live a normal life, even becoming a well-off family during the tax holiday is not a problem.

Chapter 1225 The issue of pensions ([-] words)

Chapter 172 The issue of pensions ([-] words)

In addition to monetary compensation, another method of compensation is material compensation. This aspect is much more complicated, because there are too many types of compensation materials that can be compensated, such as grain, cloth, porcelain, salt, tea, livestock, farm tools, There are many kinds of fields, etc., especially fields. Because of the land complex of the Chinese people since ancient times, most people choose fields. This proportion accounts for almost [-]% of all people who choose material pensions.

Of course, the land granted by the farm pension will not be the land in the Central Plains. After all, even after the price has been reduced, the land in the Central Plains is still very expensive-of course, with the development of Nanyang, the original price of the Central Plains has been reduced. It has grown a lot, and only some people who are hard to leave their homeland can still farm, but under the impact of the large amount of food in Nanyang, the food they grow is not very competitive in the market, so that few people grow food in the interior. Farmers have switched to cash crops, such as fruit or tea trees.

Logically speaking, the fields in the Central Plains should not be too expensive, but the problem is that because of the high grain yield in Nanyang, the Central Plains no longer have to worry about food issues, and the people no longer have to worry about being hungry, so Datang Humanities began to develop, whether it is Both economy and culture have entered the era of the Great Leap Forward, and in all walks of life, there are signs of real estate. Don't doubt the wisdom of the ancestors. In ancient times, the real estate could not develop mainly because the economy was underdeveloped. They don't even have enough to eat most of the time, so how can they buy a house?But once the problem of food is solved, then housing, which is second only to food in terms of basic necessities of life, will be put on everyone's minds. In this case, the emergence of real estate is very normal.

Especially as the country is getting more and more prosperous, no matter how large or small the cities are, they are gradually expanding. This will naturally take up a lot of arable land, and indirectly lead to soaring land prices, and even the price of arable land in some remote areas has been fried. So much so that although the common people basically have no shortage of land, the land in the Central Plains is still expensive.

Therefore, the imperial court usually compensates the martyrs with the fields on the new soil, generally in Nanyang and Tianzhu. Although there are also grasslands on the Turkic prairie and the Tubo plateau, they are still mainly in the south. After all, the climate of Turkic and Tubo is too high. It's bad, unless there is a special reason, otherwise the rational people of the Tang Dynasty would never choose these two places.

Regardless of whether it is material compensation or monetary compensation, these two methods can be said to have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the court is obviously more inclined to let the people choose land, because in the south, especially Nanyang, the price of land is much cheaper, although After five or six years of development, Nanyang has become quite prosperous, but land in Nanyang is still the least valuable thing. If you use pensions to buy it, you can get about [-] acres of good land in Nanyang for ten taels of silver. arable land.

Of course, if there is only such a small amount of land, it is estimated that no one would choose this. After all, those who immigrated to Nanyang were all tenants without land. They didn't leave at the beginning, so naturally they didn't choose to leave.

Therefore, the amount of pension land given by the imperial court is actually doubled, that is, on the basis of [-] mu of land, it is doubled to [-] mu of land, and a certain number of seed farm tools and livestock will be allocated. The treatment can be said It’s good, don’t want it—this is [-] acres of cultivated land, if the martyrs can put an end to the temptation of [-] acres of cultivated land, but they will definitely not be able to avoid the attraction of [-] acres of cultivated land, because it’s not just as simple as turning over one , and this also represents a huge leap from a middle-class family to a well-off family. With these [-] acres of land, it only needs to be cultivated for a few years to become a small landlord and let the family live a happy life.

In addition to the temptation of [-] acres of land, another reason for the martyrs to choose Nanyang, and the most important reason, is that the climate here in Nanyang is so suitable for the growth of food crops that there is no need to carefully cultivate the seeds. Regardless of whether it is sprinkled on the ground, there will be a lot of harvest in the coming year-that is what the aborigines in Nanyang did, and it is precisely because food is so easy to obtain that it leads to their lazy character.

The soldiers who died on the battlefield are usually the pillars of the family. After they die in battle, the rest of the family are old and weak women and children. There is not much labor force at all. It is really not easy to live in a place like the Central Plains , and here in Nanyang, the quality of the land ensures that even if they imitate the natives of Nanyang, they don't have to worry about being starved to death at all-but all the people who immigrate here produce high food every year, although the price is not high because of too much food, but if If it is just used for eating, it is completely enough for a family to survive starvation.Anyway, since the work of emigrating to Nanyang began, although many people died in the process of reclaiming Nanyang, none of them were really starved to death.

And it happened that the imperial court was promoting the theme of immigration is not to starve to death, portraying Nanyang as a treasure land full of food. These slogans achieved great results in the early stages of immigration - the people who came through the chaotic years obviously knew what starvation was. Taste, coupled with the example of Turkic development and Tubo immigration 20 years ago, received enthusiastic responses from the people in the initial stage of reclamation, and the development of the Nanyang Peninsula was successfully launched.

But now that a few years have passed, the enthusiasm of the people has almost been exhausted, and the immigration has been completed, and they also know that Nanyang is not as good as the official picture.Because of course you can’t starve to death here, and you don’t even need to farm the land to rely on the fruits in the forest to survive a year. The problem is that the climate here is not very good. It rains almost one-third of the year. , the floods are flooding, the jungle is densely covered with smog, and poisonous insects are infested. It is true that no one died of starvation during the reclamation of Nanyang in these years, but many people were killed by poisonous insects because of illness and being washed away by floods. Therefore, the number of immigrants this year has dropped to a record low, which is very anxious for the officials of the Immigration Department.

You must know that the imperial court has a quota for immigration to the Immigration Department every year. If this quota is not met, not only the chief officer will be dismissed, but all the officials of the Immigration Department will be punished. Now that the number of immigrants is so small, this is a big matter for Wu Shamao.

As a result, the officials of the immigration agency who were forced to issue various policies, but all of them were not effective. That is to say, in this case, they put their ideas on the heads of the martyrs. As long as the martyrs choose the fields, they can use The number of acres of fields beyond the prescribed range will attract the martyrs to them—although the land allocated to the immigrants is based on the amount of reclaimed land, as much as you can reclaim is yours, even if you reclaim a hundred acres, the court will not Help you.But that being said, manpower is exhausted after all. Even if a family of five tries their best, it is not bad to be able to plant [-] acres of land, and the rest can't be planted no matter how much land is reclaimed.

In order to increase the number of immigrants, the Immigration Department has made a fuss in this regard - a family of five can only reclaim [-] acres, and I will give you [-] acres. There is a serious shortage of labor, but I can give you slaves, and the immigration agency can sell the slaves to you without collecting your money. After the crops mature, you can use the grain to offset the balance.

It stands to reason that this method is not in line with the rules, because the imperial court prohibits the private keeping of slaves. Although this order is a fart in front of the eyes of the aristocratic family, it still has a great deterrent effect on the common people. After reflecting the above, the imperial court immediately sent officials to question and even prepare to punish.

However, the officials of the immigration department also have something to say about the review sent by the superiors. The general immigrants are indeed not eligible to buy slaves. The problem is that the situation of the martyrs is too special. Can't we just throw them a field and leave it alone?No one can see through this?

The man died in battle, and the rest of the family are old and weak, women and children, what's the use of just giving them land?That thing can't be eaten, you can't just watch the orphans and widows starve to death, right?How can the heroic spirits of the fallen soldiers rest in peace?If someone really dared to do this, they would definitely be sprayed to death by those saints and daughters.

We don't want to support them for a lifetime, but at least you have to solve the labor problem for them.At present, the most suitable labor force for the imperial court is slaves. We can't let the slaves go unused and let the soldiers farm the land for the people, right?

Facing the questioning by the immigration officials, the officials sent by the imperial court could only be speechless. After reporting to the imperial court, the imperial court had nothing to say. They turned a blind eye to this and just acquiesced. , So in this way, the martyrs got the living security, and the immigration agency got the immigrant population. Both parties were happy, and it was a win-win situation.

As for the issue of whether the slaves will run away, there is no need to worry about it. Not to mention that the slaves are all branded with the mark of the slave company, and everyone knows it. It is better to say that helping martyrs do farm work is better than working hard in a slave camp. There are too many, and some charitable families don't treat slaves as slaves at all. Instead, they treat them as real slaves with various preferential treatment, and they will be much better than slave camps in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Even fools will not turn against their masters unless they are sure to escape the government's pursuit, but this is obviously impossible.

Therefore, slaves who left the slave camp and became martyrs had become the custom of the Li Yusi. If anyone could be selected by the martyrs, they would definitely welcome the envy and hatred of their companions.And after leaving the Li Yu Division, all the slaves also know that the opportunity is precious, and they will work hard for the master's family, otherwise, if the master's family is angered, the master will send them back to the Li Yu division.Regardless of whether they escaped and were arrested or sent back directly, they really had no chance to come out at that time, and could only die exhausted in the slave camp. This is obviously the slaves who managed to escape. would like to see.

As for Zhu Yundao’s specially-named pension, which was donated by the bank, the military and the imperial court did not stick a finger in it, mainly to comfort their subordinates, because they knew that although the current Tang Dynasty can be regarded as a peaceful place where the people live and work in peace and contentment, But the internal corruption problem is still very serious. It is a common practice to eat and get cards, but any money that passes through their hands, no matter what it is used for, will try their best to get a layer of oil out of it—the pension is such a large amount. Where would they let go of money?

The Bank of the King itself was established on the basis of the army. It was originally only used to protect and transport the trophies of the soldiers of the army, so as to prevent officers at all levels from stretching their hands. It was said to be a bank, but it did not provide lending business at the very beginning. It's more like a combination of a pawn shop and an escort agency.

But later, the loot business matured, a large amount of loot was auctioned off, the bank earned enough principal, and then it began to develop thoroughly, and launched a lending business, which has been out of control ever since.

The original pension was not issued by the bank, but by the court itself, but as I have said before, the corruption within the court is very serious. Maybe ten taels of silver is not enough for even one tael.

At the beginning, Li Zhen didn't notice this, because as far as he knew, there were not many corrupt officials in the early Tang and Song dynasties in history, but he forgot that this so-called not many officials was in conflict with an entire dynasty. In comparison, how many officials are there in the entire Tang Dynasty?Perhaps the corruption of officials at the top is not serious, but there are still a lot of officials at the bottom.

So Li Zhen didn't think of this, and he himself encourages corruption (because it can't be said to be encouragement, it's just that he has a higher tolerance for corruption. He would rather have a corrupt and capable minister than an incompetent and incompetent The honest and upright officials, because sometimes such people are even worse), and the people below didn't think it was a big deal, so they didn't tell Li Zhen.So this matter was not known until Li Zhen was stopped by a group of family members of martyrs when he was on a tour.

The result was obvious. Li Zhen was furious on the spot. He could allow officials to embezzle. That's because officials would also do practical things besides embezzling, such as some project funds. He wanted to allow relevant officials to get some benefits from them, as long as they didn't go too far. .

But now some people even want to ask for the pension of the martyrs. This is a pension that is related to the life and death of the family. They dare to stretch their hands for this kind of money?Li Zhen would never tolerate such a person, and immediately ordered the Blood Dragon Guard to investigate everything clearly, and the result shocked him. The number of officials involved in this matter reached tens of thousands. The chief officer of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Finance, down to the local officials who distribute the money, officials from all states and counties across the country basically intervene...

Even Li Zhen didn't dare to deal with this matter. After all, it was a major matter involving tens of thousands of officials. Although he really wanted to kill someone, he knew it was impossible, so he simply kicked the ball to the court.As a result, there was no news of Li Zhen's papers after they were handed in. Just when Li Zhen was preparing to submit the second papers, the imperial court issued a decree that all military salaries, including pensions for soldiers who died in battle, will be unified by the Bank of the King. Released, from now on the imperial court must not intervene in this matter...

Li Zhen knew that the court was planning to compromise, and this was the only way to deal with it, otherwise they couldn't all be killed, right?Not to mention the gore, but how to fill the vacated positions after their death?So pretending not to see is the only way to deal with it.

But even so, Li Zhen planned to let these people go. He planned to replace all these people slowly after he ascended the throne. It might take a long time, but Li Zhen felt it was worth it.

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Chapter 1226 Verification of Identity——This Chapter [-] Words

Chapter 173 Verification of Identity——This chapter has [-] words

And the situation was exactly as Locke expected. Ma Rufei, who was originally at the bottom of the mountain, was retreating, but suddenly heard an unusual explosion sound from the top, but no shells fell yet. Ma Rufei, who is rich in experience, immediately knew that something must have appeared on the top. Something happened, so he immediately ordered his cavalry to rush to the top of the mountain, and the leader was Yi Bufan from the first division.

The reason why he sent cavalry instead of infantry, Ma Rufei naturally had his own considerations - although the mountainous terrain is difficult, the cavalry can still control the distance of only 200 meters, and the speed of the horses can be controlled even if they are going uphill. It is much faster than human legs. In case there is any problem on it, the horse will sprint down faster than humans, and it is easier for cavalry to escape with their lives.

As a result, when the cavalry rushed up, they found that the enemies in the cottage were in chaos. How could they miss such a good opportunity?Immediately, he rushed to the gate of the cottage and entered.

At the beginning, they did encounter a little resistance, but how can a group of enemies without a leader be an opponent of cavalry?After just a few rounds of charging, the enemy was completely defeated, and they were able to move on.

However, within a few steps, Yi Bufan and the others met a few undercover people who claimed to be the prince, and told him that Locke had escaped, and they wanted to take him to catch Locke. Although Yi Bufan could not confirm their identities, but There were a lot of people on their own, so they followed them to the back of the cottage, and happened to see Zhu Yundao, Wen Tonglin and others walking out, and also saw the two people they were carrying in their hands.Almost without thinking, Yi Bufan surrounded them with a wave of his hand.

But at the back of the cottage, the battlefield was quickly cleaned up. Zhu Yundao and the rest of the people were just about to go out with Locke and Luo Ruliang when they saw a group of knights on horses rushing up and surrounded them. .