Late Tang

Li Jing knows what it means to accept as soon as it is good, he is not a greedy person.People who are too greedy often lose the real big head in the end for a little profit.Before he came here, he never thought that he could take down thirteen islands, including the big and small Heishan Islands, so easily. At the beginning, he took a big gamble in his heart, and seized the opportunity to send troops to destroy Feng Zhang's sea-going fleet, and then lured Feng Zhang to attack Shamen Town was hit hard by him.All of this is mainly to weaken Feng Zhang's strength so as to gain room for expansion.

At the beginning, he was apprehensive, very worried that he would be convicted of a rebellion in the end and be wiped out by all parties.Although he felt that Song Wei and Cui Yunqing would protect him as long as he played well, but after all, they were not too sure.Historically, even when Li Keyong, the later king of Jin, served as the envoy of Yunzhong a few years later, Duan Wenchu ​​greatly reduced the supply of clothes and rice for the sergeants because of the defense of his superiors, and the law enforcement was strict, and the soldiers resented.Li Keyong was embraced by his subordinates, killed Duan Wenchu ​​and caused an incident, please stay behind.But even Li Keyong, who went south with his father in the early years and suppressed the Pang Xun Rebellion, was not recognized by the court in the end, but was surrounded and suppressed by Tang soldiers. He had to flee back to the Tatar Ministry of the desert with him.

The development of the matter was beyond Li Jing's imagination. First, Song Wei, Cui Yunqing and others showed an attitude of resoluteness.After that, Feng Zhang behaved abnormally, and in a daze, he actually admitted the crimes imposed on him by Li Jing.

But even so, after Li Jing achieved a goal that far exceeded his previous expectations, and obtained [-] islands and reefs including the big and small Heishan Islands in one fell swoop, and swallowed all the ones he ate before, Li Jing was finally satisfied. up.

Don't look at Feng Zhang now seems to be the general trend, but the Wang family will do their best to protect him. Li Jing's request has almost reached their bottom line, and if they really want to fight, maybe he can't keep him at all.

After dividing the benefits in private, Ziqing Town has to give some explicit distribution.

"Shamen Town was promoted from Zhongzhen to Shangzhen, with five hundred troops. Li Jing was promoted from Zhongzhen to Zhengliuzhen General of the sixth rank, and was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General of the Lower Rank of the Fifth Rank, and was added to the rank of the Lord of the Fifth Rank. , give Shen Fei official robes, and whitebait bags, whitebait."

Cui Yunqing first raised the status of Shamen Township, and also promoted Li Jing's three ranks by the way, from the top of the seventh rank to the lower rank of the sixth rank and the lower rank of the sixth rank.Correspondingly, his official rank of Wu San and the title of Lord Hejia were also promoted.

It was already expected that Shamen Township would be upgraded to the town general after it annexed the big and small Heishan Islands, and Li Jing's promotion to the town general was also a matter of course.As for the Wusan official rank from the lower rank of the fifth rank and the honorary officer of the fifth rank, they are actually just supporting promotions.The imperial court's official titles and lords have long lost their role in the early years, and now various feudal towns have a large number of blank reports of such scattered ranks and honorary officers, and they don't need to report to the imperial court, and they can fill in the appointment at any time.Apart from the fact that Glory sounds good, it doesn't have much practical effect.

However, with the rank of guerrilla general and the honor of Shangdu Cavalier, Li Jingming's rank on the surface can be regarded as a direct jump to a fifth-rank official.In the Tang Dynasty, the nine-rank and thirty-level officials, the seventh rank is a big step, the fifth rank is another big hurdle, and then the third rank is another hurdle.For one, those below the seventh rank are all sesame officials, and those above the seventh rank and below the fifth rank are considered small officials.

Only when you are a fifth-rank official can you wear the scarlet robe and fish belt, which can be called a high-ranking official.Even the loose ranks of military commanders are the same. Below the fifth rank, they are all lieutenant and school lieutenant.Although Li Jing's original town general had the title of general, but in fact his title was just a lieutenant of imperial insult.Until today, after being awarded the title of guerrilla general, he is not considered a real general.

Wearing scarlet robes and wearing silver fish bags, he is a famous general.Now Li Jing has finally jumped to a big step, which is a step that many people will find it difficult to jump in their entire lives.It's just like Li Jing's father has never been able to jump from official to ninth rank and become an official in his whole life.

Everyone was listening to what Cui Yunqing said later. The promotion of Shamen town was just a small dish at the beginning, and everyone believed that the real feast would be the next one.

"After Shamen Township is promoted to the town general, in addition to the original jurisdiction over Salmon Island and the four islands of Yangtuozi, Niutuozi, and Shaobing Island, the jurisdiction will be expanded. The latest decision is that the thirteen islands including Heishan Island and Heishan Island will be all It is placed under the jurisdiction of Shamen Town. The new Shamen Town will have one town, two forts and nine garrisons under its jurisdiction, namely Shamen Town, the upper town, Daheishan Fort and Xiaoheishan Fort at the middle town level, and nine other garrisons at the upper garrison level. , Yangtuozi garrison, Niu Tuozi garrison, Shaobing Island garrison, Fish scale garrison, Nan Tuozi garrison, Plow rake garrison, Mantis garrison, Barang garrison, Carbine stone garrison. The number of soldiers in Shangzhen is five hundred, and the number of soldiers in Zhongzhen is three Hundreds, each of the nine garrisons has a hundred troops, and the total number of troops is 2000."

Hearing this decision, Wang Jingwen's face twitched a few times in an ugly way. Judging by his reaction, this decision seemed to be the result of several people in the mediation team discussing it together.This is an aboveboard addition of soldiers and horses to Li Jing, 2000 people, which is 300 more than the previous [-] people.Although Li Jing's soldiers had already exceeded this number, on the surface, there were only [-] soldiers on Li Jing's roster, and the rest belonged to his servants and children.

In the late Tang Dynasty, in addition to the number of soldiers officially registered, many barracks had some other troops.The most common of these are the servants of military generals. According to the underlying rules, a team leader can have ten servants, a general can have 20 people, and a ten-level officer can have a team of servants.However, this is not a hard and fast rule. Those who have money can raise more, and those who have no money even have only a few.Although the imperial court allowed the existence of servants, they did not pay them.The generals had to provide food, pensions, and pensions for the family members privately, so many generals spent nothing in the army to support their family members.

In addition to the servants, all armies in the late Tang Dynasty without exception also had a soldier, which was the children.As the name suggests, the children are the sons, brothers, etc. of the official soldiers. They are not registered soldiers.But every time there is a war, those generals will basically bring a large number of children to participate in the battle, which is not only a strong reputation, but also an opportunity for the children to earn rewards.Whether it is a foreign war or an internal rebellion, there are children from various armies everywhere.Up to now, the junior soldiers are often the majority of the troops when the armies participate.Moreover, the junior soldiers have also become an excellent excuse for those ambitious and secretly expanding military leaders.Exceeding soldiers can pass the test with just one sentence to train their children. The imperial court, which has only the last bit of superficial authority, is simply unable to take care of these.

Of Li Jing's current four thousand soldiers, except for three hundred who are registered in the imperial court, the rest are all under the name of servants and soldiers.Now that Cui Yunqing has provided him with such a large number of troops, Ziqing Town is also responsible for the military supplies and food for his 2000 people.Li Jing is not short of that little money. After Guan Jian has these troops, he can build ordnance more openly, recruit soldiers, buy horses, and buy food and grass.

Cui Yunqing looked at Li Jing and said with a smile: "Ji Yu, although Song Jiedu gave you 2000 troops, but now the Jieshuai Mansion is very poor, it is not as good as you, the general who guards the sea port. Therefore Well, don't expect that Jieshuai's mansion will give you food, salaries and arms, so you need to raise everything by yourself."

"In what name do I raise myself?" Li Jing didn't care about the money, but he cared about power.

"I am both the Sima of the Jiedu Marching Army and the Deputy Ambassador of Yingtian in Ziqing Town. I can appoint you to join the army as the Yingtian of Shamen Town. The [-] islands of Shamen Town are the frontier garrison. There is no need to turn it in, and you can contribute to the army yourself." This sentence seems to be nothing, but it gave Li Jing great power.Shamen Town belongs to the frontier area, which is different from the inland area, where the army is controlled by horses, and the people are controlled by people who are dismounted.Now that Li Jing joins the army as a town general and joins the camp, besides managing the army and the people, he now also manages the affairs of the camp.To put it bluntly, although the territory to which Shamen Town belongs will no longer have the money, food and military salaries provided by the feudal town, it will no longer have to pay taxes.All the land and taxes on the site belonged to Li Jing.

"Thank you Sima Xingjun." Li Jing knew that this must be an extra benefit that the teacher helped him win.

Cui Yunqing smiled like a fox, stroked her beard and continued: "Besides, since half of Daxie Island has been assigned to Shamen Town, and the military envoy suddenly fell ill, Ji Yuke will have to bear more burdens in the future. I have discussed with some of you, Feng Zhang cannot be the director, so the Daxie village will be temporarily in charge of Feng Xun, the deputy soldier and horse envoy. However, considering that he is still young, I specially promote you as the deputy soldier and horse envoy of the Daxie village. In the future, you should be friendly to each other and not have any more disputes."

Wang Jingwen said coldly at the side: "Adding a deputy soldier and horse envoy to you is just to let you take charge of the newly drawn fortresses, so that you can be justified, but not to let you interfere in the affairs of Daxie village. I hope you can With this self-knowledge, don’t push yourself further.”

Of course, Li Jing also knew what the deputy soldier and horse envoy meant, and immediately said with a smile: "Masters have put so many burdens on my shoulders, and I will not be able to keep up with my own housework in the future, so how can I have time to take care of other people's shit?" nonsense."

In the end, Cui Yunqing took out several copper seals and a few official posts to sue. After Li Jing took over, he found that besides the ones Cui Yunqing had just announced, there were actually three other official posts to sue.Song Wei, the commander-in-chief of the festival, personally awarded Li Jing the title of straggler horse envoy, plus the honorary official position of Jiedu Yaya in Ziqing, and in addition, the post of commander-in-chief and pioneer.

Li Jing was stunned by these three official posts, turned his eyes to Cui Yunqing, the teacher said with a smile: "They are all awarded to you, but these are some honorary additions to Marshal Jiedu's mansion, you just need to know."

(To be continued)