Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1214 Liuqiu Prefect
"Wei Zhongxian works hard and is loyal to the king's affairs. I will reward you as a servant in the province. Luoyang will give you the first armor, and I will give you a villa in the suburbs, a hundred pieces of silk, and twenty slaves."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt down to thank Tianen.From the fifth-rank neiweishi to the fifth-rank neichang attendant, this is a two-level promotion.And the mansion and villa given by the emperor are even more gracious. As the fleet envoy of the Bohai Fleet, Wei Zhongxian is of course rich, and a hundred pieces of silk and twenty slaves are not worth mentioning, but this is a gift from the emperor, so the meaning is different.

"The Balhae Fleet is still entrusted to you. I hope you will work harder in the future. I will not treat you badly. Last year, the Balhae Fleet fought in Baekje and Japan. At the same time, it also traded with Silla, Mohe, and Khitan. I have benefited a lot. As usual, take out a part of the proceeds as usual, as a reward for the entire fleet, you are a fleet envoy, and you also have a big share."

"The maidservant is the emperor's servant, and has a salary and a reward, so I don't need the dividend." Wei Zhongxian said hastily.

"It's a common practice to pay dividends. It's not just for you. All my fleets, caravans, workshops, and manors have dividends. As long as the income is good, there will be dividends. You can participate in dividends. Although you are loyal, if you don’t want the dividends, it’s a bad example. In the future, it’s not good for everyone to take dividends. In the future, everyone will not be so active in doing things. This body You take the dividends."

Wei Zhongxian apologized in a hurry.

He is very clear about the dividends last year. As a fleet envoy, he has the highest status.This body share was also first started in the royal firm. It is said that the emperor personally formulated it to give outstanding stewards and employees a certain amount of shares, without paying capital, and only relying on their own labor positions to pay dividends at the end of the year.

However, this stock only participates in dividends, and has no real shares in the caravan, and is linked to the position. Once you leave the job, you will lose your stock.

In addition, employees of different levels and positions also have different equity. For the same position, those with older qualifications and excellent performance have higher equity.It is precisely under this incentive system of stock dividends that the royal firm is full of motivation and has extremely strong combat effectiveness.

As an envoy of the fleet, Wei Zhongxian has the highest net worth. Last year, according to the usual distribution, he alone could get more than 1 guan.

This is quite astonishing, and because of this, Wei Zhongxian dare not ask for it.

But the emperor said, you don't want to destroy my system and destroy my good things in the future.

This made him very embarrassed, no, the emperor forbids it, take it, too much money is hot.Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian is also a smart man. He immediately decided to wait for the dividends to be distributed, and then immediately donate the money to the emperor in the name of Jinxian. The queen mother’s birthday, the emperor’s birthday, the prince’s birthday, and the queen’s birthday can all be donated, and the money can be exchanged for some other gifts. In this way, the more than 1 guan can always be spent.

Cheng Mingzhen's bonus is also close to ten thousand, which is the top rank of the fleet. The other captains have thousands to thousands of ranks, while the sailors and guards below are much lower, and their ranks are mostly tens of hundreds. Pass left and right.Of course, even so, this body stock dividend is amazing. Even if the performance of the Bohai Fleet last year was excellent and the dividends were large, the dividends paid by a guard in a year are more than a year's salary when they were in the Imperial Army.

This doesn't even count that they are in the fleet, and they still have a normal salary.

"Old Cheng, you are also an old man who followed me. You were in our army when we conquered Goguryeo. Although you made some mistakes later, it was not a big mistake. Now you are very outstanding in the Bohai Fleet, especially The defeat of the Japanese fleet last year was remarkable. As for me, I plan to let you come back to serve as the prefect in the next year."

Cheng Mingzhen was surprised.

"Prefect?"

"Well, I plan to designate Liuqiu Island in the sea to the east of Yi'an County as Liuqiu County and rank it as a lower county, so I will make you the prefect."

Cheng Mingzhen was excited, he went down to the prefect of the county, from the fourth rank.Prefect, the chief of a county, Daqin is only more than [-] counties now, which is more important than the governor in the past.

But after he was happy, he woke up immediately, the prefect of Liuqiu County, Liuqiu, isn't this the big island of Haidong.In the past, the Bohai Fleet was mainly in charge of the north of the Yangtze River Estuary. Liuqiu Island was within the scope of the South China Sea Fleet. It is said that the South China Sea Fleet traded with the people on the island and had a good relationship. They even bought or rented the island. After visiting several ports, piers and castles were built, and many villages were established, using slaves to grow grain on the island.

Trade with Fan people is mainly to buy their deerskin, camphor, betel nut, rice, etc.

The South China Sea Fleet and many caravans began to have a lot of strongholds on the island. Now there are tens of thousands of Qin people on the island, and tens of thousands of slaves. With such great strength and such a large population, then There is also an urgent need for a government stationed by the imperial court to manage.

Previously, it had been managed by the South China Sea Fleet.

But now, it is clear that the time to establish a county is ripe.

"Although Liuqiu County will be a newly established county, there are already several of our big ports on this island, as well as several castles and hundreds of villages. The rice planted there is now enough to supply the Qin people and merchants on the island. There is even more than enough for personal use. The sugar cane plantations and sugar mills established on the island can also generate a lot of income every year. However, as the power of our Qin people on the island is increasing, conflicts between many people on the island and us continue increased, and even began to have frequent raids by Fan tribes.”

Setting Liuqiu Island as the official county of the imperial court and dispatching officials is to strengthen management and planning in a unified manner.More importantly, we still have to face conflicts with the Fans. In the past, trade was the main focus, and we tried to find a way to build a stronghold first, pay money to buy or rent goods from merchants, and were very polite to the Fans.

But now, the Fanren felt that the Qin people were being lured into the house, and they wanted to drive them away. How could Daqin agree.

In the final analysis, after all, it has reached the point of going to war, and in the end it is up to each other according to their own abilities.Whoever wins will gain dominion.

Relying on the South China Sea Fleet alone will definitely not work.

"I like your previous combat performance in Baekje, the Japanese country. You are very flexible in using troops. Let you go to Liuqiu. You have to integrate there, and let my Daqin flag be officially erected there. Fanren, hit back hard."

"After you go, you will also be responsible for setting up the guard battalion. First, I will give you the establishment of eight battalions, one box and two regiments."

Asking Cheng Mingzhen to be the prefect of Liuqiu of the fourth rank, to put it bluntly, is to let him go to war.

"Liuqiu is a new county, but Liuqiu Island is very large, eight hundred miles from north to south, and hundreds of miles from east to west. It can accommodate tens of millions of people. It is a fertile island with a pleasant climate and rich products. If you do it well, I will see you in the future. Then Liu Qiu should be promoted to Zhongjun or even Shangjun."

The prefect of Shangjun came from the third rank, which implied that if Cheng Mingzhen could do a good job in Liuqiu, he could be directly promoted in place, and the third rank was a great threshold for becoming an official.

If he can reach the third rank, he will be the minister in purple robe.

"Now Liuqiu Island is mainly owned by the royal family, and there are also many properties owned by noble families. When you get there, you have the experience of being a deputy envoy of the Royal Fleet, so you can start working."

"I transferred Wang Zhen to be the captain of your county, to work with you. He once led the army with Chen Leng and Zhang Zhenzhou to conquer the foreign people, served as the vanguard captain, and defeated the king of Tu."

"The minister will fulfill his mission!"

Cheng Mingzhen no longer hesitated.

(End of this chapter)