Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2144 President Kui Instructions

Chapter 2144 General Baikui ([-]) Instructions (Part [-])
After Gao Wushi and Wang Tingzhuan had just finished discussing some things that are not humane, Xiong Tingbi's voice came from the outside: "Enxiang, Entang, the tea is ready." Although the voice came, there were no footsteps.

The two people in the room looked at each other and smiled, Wang Tingzhuan said in a low voice, "Although Fei Bai is upright, he has a high level of understanding, but recently I often wonder how Ri Xin discovered such a talent when he had never met him before. "

Gao Wushi smiled, but he didn't answer, instead he ordered to the outside: "Fei Bai doesn't need to be polite, since the tea is ready, just bring it in." After saying this, he heard Xiong Tingbi answer, holding the tea tray from the outside Come in and start serving Enxiang and Entang to drink tea.

After doing all this, Xiong Tingbi stepped aside and stood there with his hands down.When Gao Wushi saw him, he smiled and pointed to the seat next to him, "You are also a prime minister, so you don't have to be so restrained, just sit down."

The so-called "preservation" is actually a flattering term.In the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, those who passed the selection and entered the Imperial Academy as officials were regarded as "prime ministers", which meant that these people would have the opportunity to become ministers of the cabinet in the future. It has been mentioned.

Xiong Tingbi bowed slightly to salute, retreated to the side seat, and sat down with half of his buttocks, his attitude was still quite humble.Seeing Gao Wushi, he nodded secretly in his heart.In the original history, Xiong Tingbi had a problem, that is, he was a little arrogant about his talents, but this was a major weakness in the officialdom.Now that he has been "apprentice" by his side, his temperament seems to have changed a bit, which is indeed a great thing and will definitely help his future development.

The "private matter" has been discussed, and now that Xiong Tingbi is back, it's time to talk about serious business.

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and said: "Both of you are not outsiders, so I will speak directly. Next, Liantang will take over as the governor of Gansu Province, and when the preparations for the Western Expedition are nearing completion, he will take full responsibility for the strategy of the Western Expedition. This time the Western Expedition is about to happen; Fei Bai is about to end his observation of politics, and will be supervising the censor. A month later, he will be transferred to Gansu patrol censor and concurrently serve as the supervising army of the Western Expedition.”

Wang Tingzhuan cupped his hands and said: "Meng Yuanfu trusts, Tingzhuan should do his best to conquer the remnants of the imperial court and pacify the Western Regions."

Xiong Tingbi then clasped his hands and said, "Yuanfu's trust is so deep that Tingbi is like a heavy burden, but the country has an order, so how dare you refuse, even if you have little talent and learning, you should forge ahead.

When Ting Bi is gone, he will strictly regulate the discipline, reward the good and punish the evil, so that those who have made meritorious deeds will not be rewarded, and those who have done wrong will not be allowed to escape the blame.This time going to the Western Regions, Tingbi wants to accompany the army, and before the battle, he will do his best to restore our style of Han and Tang Dynasties. "

Although what the two of them said was just a scene, Gao Yushi still nodded his head to express his approval.But he didn't come here to listen to the two people's determination, so he continued to talk, and first wrote to Wang Ting: "I am going to Liantang, there are three important things that must be dealt with urgently."

"Please Yuanfu for instructions." When it came to business, Wang Tingzhuan no longer called Gao Yushi "Rixin", but used the honorific title of "Yuanfu".

Gao Wushi said: "First, check Gansu's salary arrears over the years."

Wang Tingzhuan looked serious, and said: "Yuan Fu has been involved in military affairs for a long time, so he naturally knows that the towns and towns in our dynasty have owed wages for a long time and there are many reasons. I don't know what to do about this matter. years? If some of these things are difficult to find out, how should we deal with them?"

Wang Tingzhuan's words were a bit concealed, and it was too polite.In fact, what he wants to say is two points: First, how long is the "prosecution period" for Gao Pragmatic's "investigation"?Going forward three or five years, or ten or twenty years, or even longer?
Second, what should I do with some confused accounts?Let it go, or find a way to end it completely?

Gao Wushi said: "The investigation will be divided into two periods, before Wanli and after Wanli. Liantang, I will explain to you here, how much is owed before Wanli within three months, you can check as much as possible. , Try to find out as much as possible; no matter who is involved in the payment arrears after Wanli, let me check to the end!
There is nothing I can't count on the accounts of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War. I know how much money has been allocated to Gansu over the years.It stands to reason that although Gansu's allocation of funds is definitely not as large as that of Ji Liao and Xuanda, since the war against the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court has also allocated two or three million taels to strengthen its military equipment.

With so much money allocated, why did Burihatu lose Jiayuguan and Suzhou in a sneak attack, and even Ganzhou could only defend the city to the death, and dared not go overboard in the face of the Mongolian army?
To say the least, when I fight the Mongols, I fight them all in the field, and I win every single one of them!Why can I do it, but Gansu dare not even try?In my opinion, this is not just a problem of "one general is incompetent", but that the armies in Gansu simply do not have the confidence to fight the Mongols, and this lack of confidence must be related to the low morale caused by the lack of payment.

Therefore, if the Western Expedition is to succeed, the payment arrears must be resolved first.If there is no guarantee that the athletes of the Western Expedition will be fully paid for their soldiers, how can we expect them to be willing to travel thousands of miles across the desert and the Gobi to fight to the death with the Tartars?This is the first major matter that you must solve in Liantang after you arrive in office, and there must be no mistakes. "

Wang Tingzhuan nodded, but there was no answer - because Gao Pragmatically had only said half of what he had said, and he hadn't given instructions on the other half of the question.

Gao Wushi calmed down his stern tone, and said slowly: "As for some muddled accounts that are hard to find out, or hard to find out in a short time, you can consider buying them out."

"Buyout?" Wang Tingzhuan frowned slightly, showing suspicion, and asked, "What is a buyout?"

Gao Wushi didn't understand the suspicious look on Wang Tingzhuan's face at first, but he immediately felt that his expression was not quite right, and then he suddenly realized: the meaning of the word "buy out" at this time is the same as that of his later generations. "Buy out" means... different.

"Buying out" at this time generally has two meanings, but both of them are related to the women in the entertainment venue.The first type refers to the fact that rich people pay to monopolize prostitutes for a long time.In the "Beili Zhi·Wang Tuan'er" written by Sun Wei in the Tang Dynasty, he said: "The fruit is dominated by the rich, and it will no longer be seen." Buyout. But it is not free from official envoys, and it is no longer just for customers."

The second is to spend money to redeem the body of a prostitute, and obtain the approval of the government to register.The eighth chapter of the drama "Little Sun Tu" written by an anonymous family in the Yuan Dynasty said: "Today, the harmony is cherished, and Xie En's family spared no expense to buy out the flowers." , after the judgment of the official, he is allowed to register."

Here, Gao Yushi actually made a common-sense mistake of the current era, but this is also related to the fact that he has always kept himself clean and never had sex with prostitutes.After all, I have never been in or out of such an occasion, and I didn't think of the current meaning of the word "buyout" for a while.

"Cough! That's not what I meant, but as far as the word 'buyout' is concerned, its meaning is somewhat similar." Gao Yushi explained dryly, and told Wang Ting the basic meaning of "buyout" in later generations Zhuan listened, and then added: "In short, it is to take out a sum of money to write off the salary arrears that have been difficult to explain in the past."

Wang Tingzhuan also knew that Gao Yushi never had sex with prostitutes, so he quickly skipped the previous doubts, followed Gao Yushi's thinking for a while, and then said with some embarrassment: "Yuanfu, this matter... I'm afraid it's easy to say but hard to handle." First of all, since those are unclear accounts, it is hard to tell how much or even how much is involved in every household or even every person. So what is the 'buyout amount'? How much?
If there are too many orders, the imperial court will spend a lot of wronged money; if there are less orders, the relevant military households will feel that the imperial court deliberately entrapped them.Besides, it may be difficult to determine who is involved in it, and this bowl of water is too difficult to balance.I am afraid that some people will get the 'buyout silver' and some will not get the 'buyout silver', and in the end there will be a problem of not worrying about the few but suffering from inequality..."

"That's all." Gao Wushi said decisively: "If it's really not possible, every military household in Gansu Town will pay the debt at the same time. The average amount of money can be less for each household, but it must be paid."

Wang Tingzhuan continued to ask: "Then is the money paid by household or by mouth?" The "mouth" he said was "Dingkou", which means individual, that is to say, "counted by head".

Gao Wushi thought for a while, and said: "Some military households may happen to have no one serving at the moment, but the court cannot forget them because of this, so let's count them by household."

Wang Tingzhuan pondered and said: "As far as I know, the guards in various places have been established for a long time, and the population is increasing day by day. Except for the regular army, there are six or seven or ten or twenty dings under each military household. In this way, if the silver is given on a per-household basis, if the amount given is too small, it will be less than one tael per dime (person), but it is better than nothing; if it is given too much, it may be detrimental to the court's finances..."

"Your thinking is wrong." Gao Wushi waved his hand and said, "For you, the governor of Gansu Province, you can only live within your means, that is, as much as the imperial court gives you, you will distribute the amount according to the average household, instead of you first counting those who have How many households, and then estimate the number before going to the household department to ask for money."

When he said this, he stretched out two fingers and said firmly: "200 million taels, the household department will allocate 200 million taels to you to do this alone. No matter what those muddled accounts are in fact, the 200 million taels you Take it and distribute it equally to every military household—remember, this money cannot be used for fire, and no civil and military officials can deduct it from it.”

Gao Wushi turned his head, and said to Xiong Tingbi: "Fei Bai, if anyone wants to play tricks on this money, just catch me, if there is one I will kill one, if there are two I will kill both!
Hmph, the imperial army is about to gather in Gansu, I would like to see who wants to use his head to sacrifice the flag for my Western Expeditionary Army.If the local officials are really not afraid of death, then I don't mind using their heads to build a Jingguan before going out! "

Gao Yushi's words made Wang Tingzhuan a little frightened, not because he wanted to make a fortune from it, but because he felt that Gao Yushi's words were full of murderous intent, as if he was not determined to pay a large sum of money, but was determined to make money. Like killing people wantonly.

Xiong Tingbi's blood boiled when he heard it, he straightened his back immediately, and said in an extremely firm tone: "Yuanfu, don't worry, even though Tingbi is a scholar, he is not afraid of killing people, let alone killing corrupt officials? These bastards are about to It is the right way to clarify the canonical punishment one by one."

Very good, the lad is very energetic.However, Gao Yushi was not as strict as before at this time, and his murderous aura suddenly disappeared, and he smiled slightly: "Okay, I will leave this matter to you to supervise, and this is exactly your job."

Although Wang Tingzhuan was worried that this might cause dissatisfaction among local officials, he was a little relieved considering what Gao Yushi said just now that "the imperial army is about to gather in Gansu". , who would dare to jump out and make trouble at that time, because his neck is too stiff, so he has to try whether the emperor's sword in Benjingtai's hand is sharp?

Anyway, Gao Wushi said that in a few months, he would "add a strategy" to him, and the emperor must have nodded to this kind of thing, so he has now started to pretend to be a strategy.Well, the emperor will definitely bestow the Emperor Sword at that time.With the Tianzi Sword in hand, it is more deterrent than the general Fujun or even the Zhijun. Don’t you see that during the war against Yuan Dynasty, the Meng Yuan Jing was a little more pragmatic and directly gave Li Song the authority of the Tianzi Sword. dealt with?That is the majestic governor of Jiliao!

[Note: At that time, the high-level and pragmatic military order of Jinglue was: "Order Ma Lin, the general of Zijingguan, to hold the Jinglue Shangfang Sword, lead three thousand riders to the south of Gubeikou in the starry night, and ask to kill the guard of Gubeikou; then go down to Miyun to release Jiliao. Li Song, the Governor-General, is concurrently serving various positions, and Li Songzhun stays idle with the crown, waiting for investigation. In addition, Ma Lin, with a brief order, called Shuntian Xun to follow Li Ruhua, the censor, to Miyun to temporarily control the army and wait for the new order of the court. This order will be executed immediately. .”]
You must know that Gao Yushi had not yet entered the cabinet at that time, but was only the Mongolian and Yuan economic strategist who concurrently served as the Minister of the Ministry of Households.Although I am the governor of Gansu and concurrently serving as the governor, but considering that the Western Expedition is a major policy in the current court, it is estimated that even if I don’t give myself the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, I should also give myself a royal history of the right capital. Gao Wushi was not bad at the beginning.

Wang Tingzhuan breathed a sigh of relief, so he asked: "Yuanfu said that there are three important things, and now I'm only talking about one thing. I don't know what the other two things are?"

Gao Wushi saw that he had turned over the matter of investigating the arrears of wages, and knew that he had agreed, so he continued: "The second thing is to investigate Gansu military equipment."

After a pause, he added: "The so-called armaments by me do not only refer to the personal ordnance, armor, and firearms of the guards and soldiers in the town, but also include the border defense facilities that have been allocated by the imperial court over the years. As for the storage and inventory, that is more top priority.

In your inventory this time, firstly, you need to count the number, and secondly, you need to clarify the proportion of those who are usable and those who are not.After that, Fei Bai is responsible for the accountability, and you are mainly responsible for understanding the data—I must fully understand the actual data in Gansu, including soldiers, firearms, artillery, gunpowder, armor, grain, horses, camels, and carts Even the storage of various materials ranging from tents to iron pots. "

Wang Tingzhuan quietly swallowed his mouthful of foam, and said with a wry smile: "In the past, Yuanfu was victorious in all battles, and he only thought that he used soldiers like a god. Now that he listened to Yuanfu's instructions, he realized that the words of the Art of War are true, but ordinary people only read it. Words, do not know the details behind the words.

The Art of War says: "Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." It also says: "The good fighters of the past first fought the invincible, and waited for the enemy to be victorious."You can't win by yourself, but you can win by the enemy'.But what is a "confidant", and how many people have seriously thought about it?Now that I hear Yuanfu's request, I know the difficulty of "confidant".Ting Zhuan was taught. "
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(End of this chapter)

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