The capital, Prince Zhuang's mansion.

The lights inside and outside the palace are colorful, and today it is said that it is the second brother of the palace before Hongpu marries. The people of the capital have seen what ten miles of red makeup is.

Early in the morning, a few elder brothers from the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion took a few children from Zhuangwang's Mansion to the National Uncle's Mansion to urge makeup.

The marrying of a daughter in the uncle's mansion is extraordinary, no less than that of a woman from the clan. There are hundreds of people in the wedding procession, there are two Zhuangzi who accompany them, and there are more than a dozen houses in the city. There are dozens of maids and subordinates who accompany the marriage.

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

In addition to those full sets of furniture, the rest of the furnishings and use are either silver or golden. Seeing everyone, drooling.

Only those eunuchs, who have a little bit of knowledge, know that this is a makeup from the uncle's mansion, and they all feel a little weird.

It stands to reason that a family with status like the uncle's mansion, even if they give their daughters a rich dowry, they also work antiques and jewelry, which are both valuable and decent; Only the landlord's old wealth, who didn't care about it, bought gold and silver for his daughter. In addition to Yaofu, in order to cheapen her daughter in the future, she will not have enough expenses in her in-law's house, so she will directly turn gold and silver into a call.

However, when I thought of the "famous" lady in the uncle's mansion, I felt that the purchase of such a dowry would "echo" that person's background.

Here in the uncle's mansion, there are few powerful families, and most of them are petty officials who cling to the Tong family in Beijing.

From the first three days of the first day, Uncle Guo's Mansion set up a flowing water seat. Even if you don't have a post, as long as you look clean and decent, you can come and eat and drink. This makes Uncle Guo's Mansion not very lively, and in the eyes of outsiders, it is really rich and rich.

The daughters of the Tong family, no matter what the relationship between Su and Li Si'er is, they are complete, but they are just looking at the face of King Zhuang's mansion.

Although Sixteen Fujin is already pregnant, whether he can give birth to an elder brother or whether he can stand up to a brother is two theories. This Yumin, who married into the palace, may be the future prince and concubine. Even if she looks down on her biological mother, no one will offend people at this time.

Moreover, Yumin was taught by her grandmother in her early years, and her rules and deeds were good. Even if everyone is critical of her biological mother, they will not have a clear conscience and say that she is not good.

There are two elders over the years, and they both have a little regret when they see Yumin's character. If Yumin came out of the belly of the first, not to mention the elder brother of the palace, even the elder brother in the palace would be a match. But he was dragged down by the identity of his biological mother, and he was a little inadequate.

Front yard, side hall.

Long Keduo rubbed his forehead, these few old companions, the hangover was unbearable, I only felt nauseous in my heart, and my head was heavy. In addition, when he saw his eldest son Yue Xing'a standing in front of him with cold eyebrows, he only felt that his head hurt even more.

I wanted to say a few soft words, but my father's strict frame was used to it, and I really couldn't put it down.

He coughed and said, "I've worked hard for you these days." ”

The corners of Yue Xing's mouth showed a little sarcasm, and said: "It's just an ornament, I don't dare to call it hard." It's my father, but he's good at drinking. People say that borrowing wine to eliminate sorrow is more sorrowful, even if the son is not happy, the father should take care of himself. ”

It's obviously a happy event at home, but when I talk about this.

Long Keduo's expression froze, and his heart was already on fire, and he glared: "I'm afraid I can't get your wish, I won't be able to die for a while!" ”

Yue Xing'a frowned, turned his face sideways and didn't look at Long Keduo, and said coldly: "It's good that my father has a long life, and he has also fulfilled his son, and his son has gone to welcome guests!" Before Long Codo could answer, he had already turned around and walked out.

Long Keduo looked at the back of his eldest son, his face was blue and red for a while, and finally turned into a long sigh.

If the eldest son dared to be so disobedient ten years ago, he would have asked someone to ask for family law and discipline him; Now he was tired, and he knew he was old.

After a long while, he hated and said, "Bastard thing, I'm afraid it won't be as you wish." Even if you pout your hooves, you have to dress me in linen and filial piety......"

Thinking of his son's filial piety and stubborn expression standing in the mourning hall, he couldn't help laughing several times, and laughed straight to tears...... * Forbidden City, in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

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

Looking at it, he snorted coldly, put down the fold, picked up another fold from the left-hand side, became more and more annoyed, and said softly: "Marrying a wife is not virtuous, in the end is a member of Guo Luoluo's family......"

He pondered for a while, raised his head, and said to himself: "Cao Hao, this guy, has he started to collect money in Zhili......

He was thinking of the "Zhili Development Plan" handed over by Cao Hao a few years ago, and the Internal Affairs Office had already sent several officials to Qingyuan City. Two years is not a long time, and Cao Hao has no time to delay.

He guessed wrong, the first thing Cao Hao started after the year was not civil affairs, but military politics.

Qingyuan City, Governor's Yamen, Official Residence.

Several admirals, commanders, and adjutant generals in Zhili were summoned by Cao Hao to gather at the governor's yamen.

Cao Hao, who was sitting high in the hall, did not have the warmth of everyone when they came to meet him for the first time, and his expression was a little solemn.

"You should also know that the emperor sent this governor out of Beijing, in addition to supervising a place, but also for military training. The Governor has already made up his mind on this matter and how to proceed, and I ask you to bear with me. Cao Hao said, and asked the scribe to bring over a stack of papers and distribute them to everyone.

There were only a few thin pages, but everyone changed their faces.

This is a three-way training strategy: First, simple soldiers, go back to test the strength of the green battalion, nothing more than drawing bows and lifting stones, and those who meet the first-class standards will be promoted to army commanders and even commanders, second-class soldiers will be ordinary soldiers, third-class standards will be retained for logistics, and those who cannot meet the third-class standards will be retired to the people.

These weak veterans who have retired to the people's nationality will be sent back to the locality, and those who are directly subordinate to their hometowns can give priority to renting official land; For people from other provinces, a certain amount of money will be given.

The time given to Jian Bing was one month, and at the beginning of March the Governor's Palace would send someone to inspect it. If any malpractice is discovered, it will be punished as a crime of disobeying military orders.

The second is recruitment. Because of the peaceful season, the people do not like to send their children to enlist in the army, and the local government subsidizes a certain amount of subsidies to recruit idle young people from the local area, and the staff is full before the end of the year.

If the recruitment is not satisfied, or there are still people who are not paid, no matter what the reason, they are "unfavorable" and "mediocre and incompetent", and will be reported to the court by the governor's palace and punished; On the other hand, if the errand is completed, it will be rewarded by the Governor's Palace. The losses of relevant officials are compensated by local maintenance of incorruptible silver.

Third, it is necessary to strengthen the troops, strictly enforce discipline, and train the troops according to certain actions. Veterans will be inspected in June this year, and new recruits will be inspected in June next year. Those who are double excellent will be rewarded, and those who fail to pass the two inspections will be punished according to the proportion of unqualified.

Since then, the contents of the assessment of various battalion soldiers have been written, ranging from the force of individual soldiers to the force of the whole battalion, which is written in great detail.

These people in front of him are the leaders of the green camp in Zhili, and they have a better understanding of the disadvantages of the green camp than Cao Hao.

According to the standard set by Cao Hao, the existing green battalion should be reduced by at least 40%. Originally, the gap was large, so that each battalion had more than half of the shortage.

Everyone only felt that their scalps were numb, and they were a little apprehensive and excited when they held this document. They have seen that the Governor is going to make a big move. But they can put an end to empty salaries, which cut off their financial routes.

Not to mention that there is still an imperial order, even if there is no imperial order, the new officials take office with three fires, and they have no intention of setting fire to the body.

Cao Hao saw them struggling and knew that they were reluctant to eat the empty money. But if you can't put an end to empty salaries and want to strengthen the army, it's.

"As the saying goes, if you do a good job, you can be an official for a thousand miles, especially in the military position, which is more difficult than that of a civil official. There is little filial piety outside, and all officialdom exchanges have to be sprinkled with silver. But now it's not the governor staring at Zhili, it's the emperor looking at Zhili. The emperor is dustless, and the last thing he wants to see is what, so he doesn't need to be verbose. Your Excellency knows that too. Since it is the emperor's grace, so that the local government has set up a clean silver, and you should also bear the emperor's grace with peace of mind. Cao Hao said methodically.

Several military attachés looked at each other, and finally a commander took the lead, got up and said: "Since it is the commander and commander, the lowly post is the order!" ”

The others stood up and responded respectfully.

Staying up to this point, even military attachés are all human sperm, and they are not as generous as they seem.

This side should be down, and the other side will talk about suffering. "Simple soldiers" and "strong soldiers" are easy to say, but "recruitment" is difficult.

Even if there are idle young and strong laborers in the family, almost no one is really willing to send their sons to serve as soldiers. If you go out to do work, or do odd jobs in the city, you can earn a few taels of silver a year.

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

Cao Hao knew in his heart, took a sip of tea, and said: "The recruited recruits, who cannot be over thirty-five years old, must get the standard of a second-class soldier, and each person recruited will be subsidized with five or ten taels of silver, and this article will be announced to the people of the province in the governor's order this autumn." ”

Listening to the front, everyone also brought joy, and when they heard the back, their expressions became strange.

Not only did they cut off their financial routes, but they also had to do day jobs, and all their hopes were placed on the so-called "rewards", and everyone was a little tired in their hearts.

Training is the emperor's will to the governor, not to them, no matter how good the errand is, the bulk of the credit is also the governor, whether you can eat soup and water, it depends on whether the governor is kind or not.

I heard Cao Hao continue: "This recruitment matter, after all, is hard work, and for every qualified recruit recruited, the Governor's Mansion will give one or two silver 'carriage and horse fees'. It is up to you to decide how this money is to be distributed, and the Governor has no interference. ”

When everyone heard this, their eyes, which had been dodgy, suddenly lit up again.

The full quota of the Zhili Green Battalion is nearly 30,000 people, and excluding the shortage of personnel and the "simple soldiers" who have retired from the people, at least more than 10,000 people must be recruited to meet the quota.

Although this "carriage and horse fare" is not a huge amount, it can also comfort everyone's hearts.

In addition to secretly rejoicing, everyone is a little strange in their hearts.

Where does Cao Hao care what they think, after all, he has no skills, it is impossible for him to be stationed in the green camp, and he has no time to keep an eye on these every day, so he can only send all the errands down.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Cao Hao sent pen and ink and asked everyone to sign.

Everyone couldn't help but be shocked, and they all knew that there was no regret in this pen, and this document became a military order that was not a military order.

But the Governor had patiently explained them one by one, and they all nodded, and there was no excuse for questioning them again. What's more, only the support of the Governor's Palace is in place, and the three articles on this document are not difficult to complete. So, everyone signed their names.

It wasn't until he left the governor's palace that an adjutant general complained in a low voice: "Money can make ghosts grind, this is treating us as little ghosts!" ”

Another said: "I see that the Governor is from the household department, this mouth is closed, and I just hope that his old man will not go back on his word, and he can really sympathize with the big guys......"

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(To be continued)