Chapter 1129 Lotus Academy (Part 2)

Capital City, Prince Zhuang’s Mansion.

The palace was decorated with lights and colors inside and outside. Today is the day before the second prince of the palace, Hongpu, got married. The people in the capital have seen what the Shilihongzhuang is.

Early in the morning, several princes from the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion took a few children from the Zhuang Prince's Mansion to the Guojiu Mansion to urge him to make up.

The daughters of the Guojiu Mansion were extremely grand, no less than those of the royal family. There were hundreds of people in the team to send the marriage, and there were two villages to accompany them, and there were more than ten houses in the city. There were dozens of maids and dozens of servants.

Because the makeup team was too eye-catching, many people stopped to watch.

Except for the full set of furniture, the remaining decorations and daily necessities are either silver or golden. Everyone drooled.

Only those officials who had some knowledge of the devil's makeup were given to him, and they all felt it was a bit strange.

Logically speaking, families with status like the Guojiu Mansion, even if they give their daughter a generous dowry, they often work hard on antiques, jewelry, and other valuable and decent things. Only those who ignore the wealth of landlords can buy gold and silver for their daughter. In addition to being rich, they also want to make money in the future, so that their daughter can directly use gold and silver.

However, when thinking of the "famous" wife of the National Uncle Mansion, I felt that I could only "echo" the origin of that person when I bought such a dowry.

There are few powerful families in the country's uncle's mansion, and most of them are small officials who are attached to the Tong family in the capital. Although they look at the flowers, they are already in decline.

From the beginning of the day, the Grand Secretary's Mansion has set up a seat. Even if there is no post, as long as you look clean and decent, you can have a meal. This makes the Grand Secretary's Mansion not lively, and in the eyes of outsiders, it is really awesome.

No matter how the relationship between the Tong family and Li Sier came, they were all in line, but for the sake of Prince Zhuang’s Mansion.

Although the Sixteenth Concubine is pregnant, whether she can give birth to a prince or whether she can hold on. Yumin, who married into the royal palace, might be the future prince's legitimate concubine. Even if she looks down on her biological mother, no one will offend anyone at this time.

Besides, Yumin was taught by her legitimate mother in her early years, and her rules and deeds were good. Even if everyone was picky about her biological mother, they would not be ignorant of her conscience and said nothing about her bad things.

There are two elders who have been together for a long time who feel a little regretful when they see Yumin's character. If Yumin came out of the belly of the first person, let alone the prince of the palace, even the prince in the palace can match it. However, it is dragged down by his biological mother, which is a bit deficient.

Front yard, side hall.

Longkodo rubbed his forehead. He had been accompanying guests for the past few days, and was hangover unbearable. He felt vomiting and his head was heavy. In addition, he saw his eldest son Yue Xinga standing in front of him with cold eyes, he felt his head hurt even more.

I wanted to say a few soft words, but my father was used to being arrogant and couldn't let go.

He coughed and said, "Thank you for your hard work these days."

Yue Xing'a's mouth showed a little sarcastic look and said, "It's just a decoration, and I dare not call it hard work. But my father is very good at drinking. People say that he will worry even more when he drinks. Even if life is not easy, his father should take care of himself."

It was clearly a wedding at home, but I talked about this.

Longkodo's expression was condensed, and his heart was already rising, and he glared and said, "I'm afraid I can't do what you wish. I can't die for a moment!"

Yue Xinga frowned, turned his face to look at Longkodo, and said coldly: "Father is better for longevity, and he has fulfilled his son. The son is going to welcome the guests!" As he spoke, he had turned around and went out without waiting for Longkodo to answer.

Longkodo looked at the eldest son's back, his face turned blue and red, and finally turned into a long sigh.

If the eldest son had dared to disobey like this ten years ago, he would have asked someone to ask for family law and discipline him; now he is full of fatigue and knows that he is old.

After a while, he said angrily: "I'm afraid the bastard cannot do what you want. Even if you stick your hooves, you still have to wear mourning for me..."

Thinking of his son's expression of being filial and standing stubbornly in the mourning hall, he couldn't help laughing several times, and burst into tears...

Forbidden City, in the Palace of Care of Heart.

In front of Yongzheng, there was an open small box. He opened the fold inside and looked carefully, and his face turned ugly.

As he looked at it, he snorted coldly, left the note, picked up another note from his left hand, and became more annoyed, and said softly: "It is not a virtuous marriage, but it is from the Guo Luoluo family..."

He pondered for a while, raised his head, and said to himself: "Did this guy Cao Yong start to pay money in Zhili..."

He was thinking about the "Zhili Development Plan" handed over by Cao Yong before the New Year. The Office of the Internal Affairs had sent several officials to Qingyuan City. Two years was not long, and Cao Yong had no time to delay.

But he guessed wrongly. The first thing Cao Yong started after the new year was not civil affairs, but military affairs.

Qingyuan City, Governor's Office, and Official Residence.

Several admirals, generals and deputy generals in Zhili were summoned by Cao Yong and gathered at the Governor's Office.

Cao Yong, who sat high in the hall, did not have the warmth of everyone when they first came to pay their respects, and his expression was a bit solemn.

"You should also know that the emperor sent my governor out of the capital, in addition to the governor, there were also military training plans. Regarding this matter, I have already decided on how to act, and I would like to work harder." Cao Yong said, and asked the clerk to bring a stack of documents and distribute them to everyone.

There were only a few thin pages, but everyone's face changed.

These are three strategies for training troops. First, to simplify the soldiers and go back to test the green camp's troops. It is nothing more than pulling bows and lifting stones. Those who meet the first-class standards will be promoted to sergeant commanders, who are the second-class standards will be ordinary soldiers, and those who are the third-class standards will be reserved for logistics. Those who fail to meet the third-class standards will be retired for the people.

These weak veterans who retired from their hometowns for the people will be sent back to the local area. Those with Zhili origin can be given priority to rent official land; those with other provinces will be given certain amount of money.

The time for Jian Bing is one month, and the Governor's Office will be sent to inspect it in early March. If there is any ill-information, it will be punished as a crime of violating military orders.

The second is to recruit soldiers. Because during the peaceful season, the people do not like to send their children to the army, and the local government will subsidize certain subsidies to collect idle young and strong people from the local area and will be full before the end of the year.

If the recruitment is not satisfied, or there are still people who are vacant to pay, no matter what the reason is, they will be "unfavorable" and "mediocre and incompetent". The Governor's Office will report to the court and punish them; otherwise, if the errand is completed, the Governor's Office will write a letter to the imperial court for rewards. The losses of relevant officials will be compensated by the local government.

The third is to strengthen the army, strictly enforce discipline, and practice according to certain actions. Check veterans in June this year, and check new recruits in June next year. Those with both excellent results will be rewarded. Those who fail the two inspections will be punished according to the unqualified ratio.

After that, various battalion and military assessment content were written, ranging from individual soldiers to the entire battalion's force, and it was written in very detailed detail.

These people in front of me are the leaders of the Zhili Green Camp, and they have a more thorough understanding of the disadvantages of the Green Camp than Cao Yong.

According to the standard set by Cao Yong, the existing green camp soldiers should be reduced by at least 40%. The gap was originally large, so the gap per battalion would have to exceed half.

Everyone felt their scalp numb, and holding the document brought a little uneasy and a little excited. They had already seen that the Governor wanted to make drastic moves, but they could stop taking empty wages, which cut off their financial path.

Not to mention the emperor's destiny, even if there is no emperor's destiny, the new official takes office for three fires, and they have no intention of attracting fire.

When Cao Yong saw them struggling, he knew that they were reluctant to take the money for empty salary. But if he could not stop eating empty salary and wanted to strengthen his troops, it would be nonsense.

"As the saying goes, you can do a good job and become an official for thousands of miles. Especially in your military position, you have a harder life than a civil servant. You have less filial piety outside and you have to spend money on all official exchanges. But now it is not my governor staring at Zhili, but the emperor is watching Zhili. The emperor is not dusty, and what he doesn't like the most is what he doesn't need to talk about. You all know in your mind. Since it is the emperor's grace, the local government has set up silver for maintenance, so you should also be at ease to bear the emperor's grace." Cao Yong said in an orderly manner.

Several military officers looked at each other, and finally led by an admiral, stood up and said, "Since it is the commander-in-chief, the humble official will be responsible for it!"

The others stood up and responded respectfully.

When you reach this point, even military officers are all human sperm and don’t look so kind.

This is the answer, and then the pain is revealed. "Simplify the army" and "strengthening the army" are easy to say, but "recruiting the army" is difficult.

Even if there are really idle young and strong laborers at home, almost no one is really willing to send their children to the army. They can earn a few taels of money a year when they go out to carry jobs or do odd jobs in the city.

This is just to ask for more money from the Governor's Office.

Cao Yong knew it and took a bite of tea and said, "The recruits cannot be over thirty-five years old and must obtain the standard of a private. Each person recruited will be subsidized by five or ten taels of silver. This item will be announced to the people of the province in this fall in the Governor's Order."

Listening to the front, everyone was also happy, and when they heard it, their expressions became strange.

Not only did they cut off their financial paths, but they also had to do nothing. They all counted on the so-called "rewards", and everyone felt a little tired of it.

Training troops is the emperor's will to the governor, not to them. No matter how good the job is, the majority of the creditors are also the governor. Whether they can get the soup depends on whether the governor is kind or not.

Cao Yong continued, "This recruitment is hard-working after all. For every qualified recruit, the Governor's Office will give one or two silver dollars a 'car fee'. You will decide how to allocate this money, and this governor will not interfere."

After hearing this, everyone's eyes that had been dodging suddenly lit up again.

The Zhili Green Camp has a full capacity of nearly 30,000 people. Apart from the shortage of personnel and the "Jianjian" to retreat, at least more than 10,000 people will be required to raise at least 10,000 people to be fully charged.

Although this "car fee" is not a huge amount, it can also comfort everyone's hearts.

In addition to being secretly happy, everyone felt a little strange.

Cao Yong didn't care what they thought. After all, he was incompetent and could not be stationed in the green camp. He had no time to stare at these things every day, so he could only send all his errands.

Seeing that everyone had no objection, Cao Yong sent someone to send me a pen and ink and asked you to sign.

Everyone was shocked, knowing that this document had no regrets and that this document had become a military order that was not a military order.

But the Governor had patiently explained them one by one before, but they all nodded and had no excuses to question them anymore. Moreover, only the Governor's Office supported it, so the three items in the document were not difficult to complete. So everyone signed their names.

It was not until he left the Governor's Office that a deputy general whispered: "With money can make the devil push the mill, this is to treat us as little devils!"
Chapter completed!