Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 397
The armies of Wuwei, Dingyuan, and Shunyi are back.

Before they came back, the three armies of Chishui, Wuxing, and Guzhen had already set off separately.

Fan He was transferred to serve as the military envoy of the Chishui Army, and the deputy envoy was Liang Hanyong—an appointment that raised eyebrows. As the son-in-law of a handsome man, he was promoted quickly.

The Chishui Army with [-] cavalry will be stationed around Zendan for a period of two years.

Feng Yin, the deputy envoy of the Tianzhu Army, was transferred to serve as the envoy of the Wuxing Army, and Tian Xing also left the old army of the Tiande Army to serve as the deputy envoy of the Wuxing Army.

The military envoy of the Guzhen Army is Wei Dingli from the Yi Congjun Army, and a general from the Pingxia Dangxiang Weimu Department who has served in the army for many years.

Lu Ming, the tenth personal soldier, was promoted to the deputy envoy of the Guzhen Army.

The two armies made a total of [-] cavalry and headed for Shannan West Road. Feng Yin served as the military envoy of Xingfengliang Town, and returned to Lingxia two years later.

Shao Shude roughly calculated that there were 6 troops with numbers, Chishui Army in Liangzhou, Wuxing and Guzhen Second Army in Shannan West Road, Zhenwu Army in He and Lin, Xinquan Army in Shuozhou, Heyuan and Jishi More than [-] people were stationed outside the Second Army in Qingtang, as well as the Yi Cong Army that was about to go to Tongzhou to defend.

Those who will stay in Lingxia include Tielin, Tieqi, Feixiong, Wuwei, Feng'an, Dingyuan, Jinglue, Tianzhu, Tiande, Tianxiong, Shunyi [-] armies, more than [-] cavalry.

Once they go on an expedition, they will only be able to take 6 people with them. Another 30 soldiers will be recruited, and they will add up to [-], which is said to be [-]. It is not bad to scare people.

It has been 13 years since the troops were sent to fight against Li Guochang and his son. It is a great ambition to have such a heroic army!
Marshal Shao was thinking about how to drill and reorganize the army this year, while Mrs. Pei sat on the side, her lips slightly parted, and read the official letter from Longyou Town for him: "...inside and outside the river, Jiagu is prospering, and millet and wheat are growing. Lu Yanzhi During the period, the warehouses and granaries are all real, and the people are happy, which is called well-off.”

"Xiao Yu is fooling around with all these bureaucratic articles." Shao Shude leaned on Hu's bed and said with a smile: "Longyou Town is really good, and it is very possible that all the warehouses are real. But he has only built a few warehouses? If this list is sent to the saint, Fang Might be fooled."

Pei's face turned red a little as if it had changed color.

"Continue reading." Shao Shude looked at Pei's vermilion lips, smiled and said nothing.

He finally unwrapped his gift last night.

After waiting hard for almost four months, she was almost done with the game, and Pei's stomach didn't respond, so she immediately felt relieved.

This woman is good at prying into people's hearts, and she managed to figure out Shao Shude's temperament in just a few months.At the end of the service, he tried to hide, which aroused people's desire to conquer, and Shao Dashuai was unwilling to let go even if he held her.

Feeling the gaze, Mrs. Pei glanced back sadly. After taking a deep breath, the bowknot on the collar was almost broken.

"Forget it, I'll see for myself later." Shao Shude beckoned and put his hands on Pei's clean face.

Where the rough hand swept, Mrs. Pei writhed uncomfortably, and her legs twisted slightly again.

This woman must have learned how to seduce men.The aristocratic family is good at cultivating Diji, but what they do is all nonsense.

"Let's go home." Shao Shude patted Pei's face and said.

Mrs. Pei got up and went to the desk beside her to pack her things.

She squatted there, the tulle skirt deeply dented from the middle.

While admiring it, Shao Shude asked, "Do you understand?"

Pei's paused: "I don't quite understand."

"Hasn't the sage ever talked about military matters in front of you?"

"Most of the talk is about how to deal with middle officials, and the domineering affairs of the foreign commanders."

"Did you mention me?"

Mrs. Pei lowered her head: "The sage has said that Shuofang is a trouble in the elbow and armpit, which must be eliminated."

Shao Shude smiled: "What crime do you blame me for?"

"Domineering but not minister, Yinren's wife and daughter." Pei's face suddenly turned red.

This little leprechaun!

Shao Shude got up straight away, put on his military uniform, fastened his sword, bow tip, bow string, and quiver one by one, and then looked at Mrs. Pei.

Mrs. Pei was still squatting there with her back facing Shao Shude, her ears were red, and she was slowly packing up the official documents.

Liziyuan Station is only [-] miles away from Huaiyuan New City, and we will arrive the next day.

Zhe Fangai still led a group of wives and concubines to welcome her.

Shao Shude felt a little guilty, after all, the one who brought home this time was the current Holy Majesty's female officer, Mrs. Korea.After sitting at home for a while, he went to the government office as if his butt was on fire, and called the staff to discuss matters.

"All armies need to reorganize properly." Shao Shude said: "It takes two years to leave for a round of garrisons, and another year to enter Guanzhong this time. Many soldiers have not seen me for three years."

In the late Tang Dynasty, Wufu's first consideration was always how to prevent the people below from rebelling.

Although he has been careful over the years that there is no second person in the town whose prestige is close to his own, but Marshal Shao is a meticulous person, and he has been doing things to prevent small things from happening, and he must always be unremitting.

This is also a good thing for the generals of the military government.

In this world, who has no ambition?I'm afraid even a small soldier has ambitions, let alone a general.

The key is not to give people a chance.

He is as loyal as Niu Li, Lu Huaizhong, as loyal as Fu Cunshen, Gao Renhou, if he really hands over the handle of Tai Ah to others, can he really hold it?

Don't test humanity like this, it's harming others.

In troubled times, it is fate for everyone to gather together to keep warm, and it is fate to gather in one place. Marshal Shao is still very willing to enjoy the wealth and honor with everyone.

"How does the commander-in-chief want to organize the army?" Chen Cheng hadn't returned yet, Zhao Guangfeng was the only confidant and aide.

"What are the regulations on field hunting and martial arts in "Kai Yuan Ceremony"?" Shao Shude asked.

"Human-shaped library" Zhao Guangfeng thought for a while, and then explained it carefully.

At the end, he asked: "The commander-in-chief wants to talk about martial arts or field hunting?"

"Talk about martial arts first, then field hunting."

Field hunting is usually held in midwinter to avoid delaying farming.But as far as Lingxia is concerned, there are so many grasslands, it will not affect the crops at all, and it can be held at any time.

Moreover, if he engages in field hunting, he will not put wooden fences around the hunting grounds like in the Central Plains, but will be the same as normal hunting, "the most important thing is the truth".Anyway, there are quite a lot of animals on the grassland these days, so it is not afraid that too few prey will make it ugly.

Furthermore, a field hunt is actually a large social gathering.

Since the dynasty, Emperor Gaozu has hunted 24 times, Emperor Taizong has hunted 25 times, Emperor Xuanzong has hunted 14 times (2 temporary terminations), and the rest of the saints have not exceeded 5 times. Empress Wu, Ruizong, Suzong, Shunzong, Wenzong, Yizong, Xizong He didn't even do it for various reasons. Xianzong wanted to go hunting three times, but was persuaded by the prime minister.

At the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Emperor Zhuangzong of the later Tang Dynasty conducted 33 insane field hunts, and he only reigned for four years...

Zhao Da engaged in 28 field hunts, 31 martial arts lectures, which were also quite fierce. Chariot God came 15 times, Zhenzong 6 times, Renzong 2 times, one of which was sprayed by the prime minister and terminated, and the rest were all zero.

Shao Shude used to hunt with the chieftains of the grasslands, the number of times seems to be quite a lot...

If he were the emperor, he would probably have been sprayed to pieces by the ministers, but then again, the two generations of emperors before the founding of the country seemed to have the confidence to be willful.

"Where does the commander-in-chief want to teach martial arts?"

"Choose one of Lingzhou and Xiazhou. Forget it, it's in Dijinze. The Yinshan Fanbu, Hengshan Dangxiang, and Pingxia Dangxiang are not far away. All the ministries come here, no one is missing."

"Who do you want to bring?"

"The generals of the military government and the bureaucrats of the shogunate, except for those who are necessary to stay behind, all participate, and the family members can also bring it. The foreign town's hostess and wealthy merchants are also invited." Shao Shude said: "Leave one army in Huaiyuan to guard, and the rest The army, all headed to the hunting ground, divided into left and right hatchbacks, and gave a lecture on martial arts."

The so-called martial arts refers to two armies, one attacking and the other defending, changing various formations and confronting each other.

The military lectures of the imperial court are generally held outside the capital.When it came to Xuanzong, there was a lot of traffic near the confrontation site, and a large crowd of people watched, which no longer had the meaning of actual combat training, and the nature of entertainment became more and more intense.

When Shao Shude brought a large army to Dijinze to teach martial arts, there must not be many onlookers watching the people, and the actual combat training will be much more involved.

There are 15 troops in Shuofang Town, and there will be more and more big scenes in the future. This kind of action of joint martial arts by all armies is still very meaningful.

With an order, the shogunate immediately got busy.

First of all, send people to notify the chiefs of the tribes, and ask them to take people to Dijinze.

Shao Shude seized the time to approve some official documents.

The first is to establish medical doctors at the county level and recruit students on a scale similar to that of Confucianism.

In Guochao, only the prefecture level has a doctor of medicine, and each of the Lingxia prefectures has one doctor, which is equivalent to the salary of joining the military from the ninth rank.There are no medical teaching assistants, and we need to recruit them now.

After the reorganization, medical education expenses at the state level are: one doctor, annual salary of 144; two teaching assistants, annual salary of 156; 40 students, annual allowance of 240, totaling 540.

Medical education expenses at the county level are: one doctor, annual salary 48; one lecturer, annual salary 24; 20 students, annual allowance 60, total 132.

There are 39 counties in the ten prefectures of Shuofang. The total cost of medical education at the prefecture and county levels is 10548 yuan, and the expenditure on economics education is more. After all, the scale is larger, which is 20154 yuan.

In terms of food, more than 4000 teachers and students of medicine and economics in the town spend more than 4 yuan of millet and wheat a year.

In addition to the benefits of holidays, school building repairs, teaching aids and other miscellaneous expenses, it is quite considerable.

Education is really a waste of money!
All officials at the prefecture level, from the governor, Biejia, and Sima to the lower-level prison officials, inquisitors, city orders, and warehouse governors, add up their annual salaries, and the land of ten states is only more than 4 yuan. More than 7 yuan, almost accounted for about a quarter of the expenditure - if you count martial arts, this proportion is even higher.

The financial black hole has a well-deserved reputation, and it has saved a lot of soldiers.

The second official document that urgently needs to be approved is about the construction of a water tanker in Toyosu.

The origin of this matter was that Shao Shude wanted to conduct an experiment to see if a profit-driven commercial organization could manage the production, sales and after-sales maintenance of a new technology well.

Toyosu is an ideal experimental site.Because although there are many plains here, many of them are higher than the river surface, and there are very few artesian canals, which have already been fully developed.If the follow-up land is to be developed continuously, it is necessary to build large-scale water extraction facilities.

But Shao Shude has not yet figured out the profit model of this organization.Do you charge people for water?Are they willing to pay?Guochao seems to have no such precedent.

As for the shogunate appropriating funds to build water trucks for the common people, this model was first ruled out, because the common people did not participate in the promotion, improvement, and maintenance of this technology. Once the power of the government declines, the water tanker is likely to reappear. Its historical mistakes have disappeared from people's lives.

Try it first, if it doesn't work, think of another way.

The third thing is that the shogunate's support department and the mutual market department suggested that doctors of mathematics be recruited at the prefecture and county levels to teach classes.

The background of this incident lies in the explosive demand for accounting talents after the emergence of expos and clearing banks.

Relying on poaching the old officials of the court can only solve the urgent need, after all, you still have to cultivate your own talents.Otherwise, if the scale expands in the future, CD accounts will be a hassle.

And what about education expenses!
Shao Shude threw the brush on the desk and was speechless.

Yesterday, someone proposed to start an agricultural school in the state and county!
Confucian classics, medicine, martial arts, arithmetic, agriculture, this is really going to empty the family.Well, does the imperial court still have money?

(End of this chapter)