Lu Xiangsheng presided over the dismantling of the Liaodong Frontier Army, which was not such a simple matter, involving more than 100,000 Liaodong Frontier Army, although with the assistance of Yan Yingyuan and the full support of Zu Dashou and Zu Dale and others, but such a retrenchment, after all, involved the vital interests of the sergeants, so if you want to stabilize, it will take a lot of effort.

At the beginning of the conscription and expansion of the Liaodong border army, mainly from the vicinity of Gyeonggi military households, these military households are different from ordinary people, the family basically relies on the military salary of the military household to live, often a person to the army, the whole family has moved, to the location of the army, although Su Tiancheng in the Ming Dynasty when he was an official, he had made up his mind to abolish the military household system, but in the land of Gyeonggi, it is a place firmly controlled by the imperial court, and the abolition of the military household system, don't even think about it, the imperial court is absolutely opposed, Therefore, the military households here will not be able to change their ideological understanding for a while and a half.

Although it is said that the Great Jin Dynasty has completely abolished the military household system, but then it also needs to consume great energy, mainly to stabilize these military households, so that they have food and a place to live, in the southern region, Zhu Xianxuan and others have consumed too much energy, and have made every effort to settle these military households, especially those military families who have been officials for generations, after so many years, they have long been degraded, and the heroic spirit of the ancestors has been lost without a trace, and the rest is how to eat empty salaries, how to loot the people's fat and people's ointment, Such officers are resolutely abandoned, and leaving them is only a scourge.

The Liaodong Frontier Army was also involved in such a problem.

When the army was expanded at the beginning, what I thought of was the increase in the number of people, and it also depended on the imperial court to temporarily take out a certain amount of military salary, and most of the Liao salary was allocated to the eastern border army of Liaodong, so that it could be maintained, and when the Ming court was crumbling in the later period. In fact, the Liaodong Frontier Army was on the verge of collapse and could hardly be maintained, but fortunately, the autumn wind swept away the leaves in the Jiangning Battalion, and soon overthrew the Ming Dynasty and began to carry out the necessary rectification of the Liaodong Frontier Army.

After Lu Xiangsheng consulted with Zu Dashou and Zu Dale and others, he made a careful plan with Yan Yingyuan. The general opinion is that it is not too much of a problem for these military households to return to their places of origin, because the government has already recovered the cultivated land, and after these military households return to their places of origin, they have changed their original household registration, re-registered, and become ordinary people, and live on farmland with peace of mind.

But the timing was not very good. The spring ploughing season has passed, and the imperial court needs to take out a large amount of silver to return to the place of origin, at least a certain amount of settling-in allowance for these military households, so that they can live after returning home, and can ensure that when the autumn harvest is next year, every household will not starve to death, and no one will rebel.

After weighing it up. Lu Xiangsheng put forward the budget, which was equivalent to nearly two million taels of silver. This number, even Lu Xiangsheng himself was stunned, feeling that it was too difficult to report to the court.

But the matter of dismantling the sergeants cannot be delayed, not to mention the current Liaodong Frontier Army. It was directly raised by the food taken out by the imperial court, including the families of these soldiers, and if it was delayed for a long time, the imperial court would suffer even greater losses.

Of course, when Lu Xiangsheng was preparing to dismantle the Liaodong Frontier Army. The establishment of the bank and the unified issuance of paper money were still in the planning and had not been officially implemented, so Lu Xiangsheng considered that the pressure on the imperial court was too great, after all, in terms of preventing the Black Death, the imperial court had already consumed an astronomical amount of silver.

Just in the process of Lu Xiangsheng and others still intensifying their planning, there were some abnormal situations in Liaodong, and a lot of rumors appeared, what imperial court would not manage the Liaodong border army, the Liaodong border army was the army of the original Ming court, the imperial court must not believe it, maybe the imperial court will send troops to suppress the Liaodong border army, etc., although these rumors have not been widely spread, but they have aroused the great attention of Lu Xiangsheng and others.

The situation in Liaodong is already very complicated, especially after the Ming court occupied Guangning, after Guangning carried out mutual markets, a large number of Manchus, Liaodong merchants and Liaodong Han people entered Guangning, and through Guangning entered Jinzhou and Ningyuancheng and other places, some of them stayed directly to do business, and the Ming court did not object to this situation.

After the Liaodong border army as a whole was subordinated to the Great Jin Dynasty, from the perspective of stability, there was no requirement to integrate the public security situation in Liaodong, and the imperial court was also clear, because the Later Jin Tartars once again occupied Guangning, Xipingbao and Yizhou, and the mutual markets located in Guangning naturally disappeared, and the exchanges of commerce and trade depended on the merchants who were still in Liaodong.

This also indicates that there must be a large number of spies in Liaodong who are Houjin Tartars, taking the opportunity to collect intelligence.

Lu Xiangsheng's lesson from Tang Haitai back then was very clear.

Just when Lu Xiangsheng was suspicious, the intelligence from the imperial court was also sent, and the intelligence was very clear, and the Houjin Tatars deliberately muddied the situation in Liaodong, thinking of taking the opportunity to profit from it, this information was based on the analysis of the situation in Liaodong, in fact, Lu Xiangsheng also had such an analysis.

However, there is also a requirement in the intelligence that Liaodong must maintain stability, not chaos, and no large-scale purge activities, so as not to panic people, and once there is a large-scale migration in Liaodong, it will be the mainland that will increase the pressure.

This made Lu Xiangsheng very embarrassed, and he didn't know what to do.

Soon, Lu Xiangsheng's recital was approved, and what he didn't expect was that the request he made was a resettlement fee of 2 million taels of silver, and the imperial court actually allocated 2.5 million taels of silver for the resettlement fee.

It is easy to do things with money, this is the rule since ancient times.

With this money, Lu Xiangsheng is not worried at all.

The resettlement plan taken out by the governor of Liaodong Yamen is very clear, ordinary sergeants, each person ten taels of silver placement fees, take these resettlement fees, return to their place of origin, take the certificate issued by the governor of Liaodong, go directly to the government, then the government will settle all matters, the size of the officer, the placement cost is different, the highest general, can get five hundred taels of silver placement fee, this is also a huge amount of money.

The resettlement expenses of the Liaodong Frontier Army were also allocated in the form of paper money.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also received the task, that is, Liaodong must set up a bank, in accordance with the requirements of the imperial court, the unified use of paper money, gold, silver and copper money, in principle, not circulation.

The best way to combat rumors is to implement the many resettlement tasks as soon as possible.

The governor's yamen began to make a big move.

The highest command body in Liaodong is the Yamen of the governor of Liaodong, as for the original position of Jiliao Governor, because the emperor held this position, it was revoked, that is, it was established, and no one dared to hold this position, besides, the main task of Liaodong is to deal with the Houjin Tartars, the strength of the imperial court is very strong, there is no such thing as the Houjin Tartars casually entering the Guannei to plunder, and today's situation is completely different from more than ten years ago, and the Houjin Tartars are in a passive situation, Therefore, there is no need to mobilize many forces to deal with Liaodong, and it is enough for the Yamen, the governor of Liaodong, to assume this responsibility.

In addition to the south of the Liaohe River, Shenyang, Salhu and other places north of the Liaohe River have all been included in the scope of jurisdiction, which also indicates that the imperial court must exterminate the Houjin Tartars and unify the entire Liaodong.

According to the dismissed sergeants, the difficulty lies in those officers, ordinary sergeants do not have much opinion, with ten taels of silver, a few months of life is enough, after returning to their hometown, as long as they have arable land and grow their own food, there will definitely be no big problem in life, and some border troops in Liaodong have received letters from relatives and friends in their hometown, all saying that their hometown has changed, at least they have food to eat, and they will not go hungry, so these ordinary sergeants can smoothly accept the placement.

In view of this situation, Yan Yingyuan put forward a suggestion that all the dismissed officers, no matter where they were originally from, should stay in Liaodong, and first stabilize these people, so as to prevent them from making trouble everywhere and venting their dissatisfaction after they are dispersed.

Lu Xiangsheng accepted this suggestion and began to carry out a large-scale reduction of the Liaodong Frontier Army in two steps.

For a time, Liaodong became lively, and a large number of sergeants left Liaodong with their families every day, entered the customs from the direction of Shanhaiguan, and walked towards their hometown, which lasted for more than a month.

The sergeant got the paper money for the first time, and he couldn't believe it at first, thinking that the court was fooling them, and he couldn't get the silver for anything, but along the way, the use of these paper money was very convenient, exactly the same as the value of the silver, and it was easy to carry, and slowly the sergeant fully accepted it, and later the sergeant who was dismissed in Liaodong agreed that the paper money was more convenient than gold and silver, and he did not worry about losing it, and he would not attract the attention of others.

Of course, there are also many Han people in Liaodong, these people stayed in Liaodong, and the government was responsible for giving them the land to cultivate, as for the cultivated land planted by the border army in Liaodong, because it was not yet the harvest season, so according to the grain output, all of it was converted into silver, and according to the number of heads, it was evenly cashed out to the dismissed sergeants.

These officers used to vent their dissatisfaction because they had an army in their hands, but now that the army has been abolished, the sergeants happily received the resettlement fee according to the requirements, or left Liaodong, or went back to their hometown to farm, so the officers had no place to vent, and they did not dare to lose their temper at will.

The situation stabilized, and the rumors disappeared.

Lu Xiangsheng was very comfortable, a seemingly difficult thing, in just two months, it was completely arranged, and the deployment of the sergeants was all in place, 100,000 troops, of which 10,000 were stationed in Montenegro, 30,000 were stationed in Dalinghe City, 10,000 were stationed in Jinzhou, 10,000 were stationed in Ningyuan, and the remaining 40,000 were all stationed in Shanhaiguan.

Liaodong has stabilized, and the next thing is to start a bank and when to attack the Golden Tartars. (To be continued......)