Liu Ruozai lifted this stubble, didn't say anything more, and asked about Dong Ce's situation these days. D-M Dong Ce naturally answered one by one, of course, as long as he chose merit, those who made slow progress were said in one sentence.

Hearing that Dong Ce's command has created a lot of Lu Mi Gong, Liu Ruozai is very happy, he is a more pragmatic faction among the literati, and he still has some similarities with the transcendent god Zhao Shizhen. As a civilian official who has been commanding the border all year round, he is also very clear about the role of qualified firearms without malpractice.

Liu Ruozai praised a few words, and Dong Ceqian said: "Xia Guan really doesn't dare to take credit, and he can create Lu Mi Gonglai, thanks to the artifact spectrum written by Lord Zhao Shizhen in the past, and he relies on the exquisite skills of the craftsmen and their hard work." The credit of the lower officials is really meager. Speaking of which, I still have to thank Lord Zhao under the Nine Springs. ”

"You don't have to be too modest. Although the artifact spectrum is difficult to buy, it may not be impossible to find it with your heart. As for the excellent craftsmen who can make firearms, they are everywhere, so why can't others make them? In a word, no heart! Liu Ruozai was obviously very satisfied with his statement, waved his hand, and encouraged: "You are a caring person, and you are also diligent in your work, you know how to share worries for your own officials, and you know that you are working hard." The official is very satisfied. As for Zhao Shizhen, Lord Zhao ......"

He shook his head and sighed: "I was born at the wrong time! ”

Dong Ce said secretly, fortunately, he was born in the Ming Dynasty, if he was born a few years later, I am afraid that these exquisite inventions will directly be condemned to those braids as strange and ingenious tricks.

Then Dong Ce talked about the green worm beetle, Liu Ruozai was also very interested in listening to it, and after asking carefully, he was also quite optimistic about this matter, and asked Dong Ce to take one after it was built. Dong Ce was full of promises.

After talking for a while, Liu Ruozai suddenly glanced at Dong Ce, and said with a smile: "Hanchen, you have a wide range of roads, and you can actually go through the path of Governor Xuanda Yang?" ”

Dong Ce's heart suddenly burst into his heart, and he hurriedly explained: "This is really a coincidence. On the same day, the official went to the Yanghe City Lodge, the inn name is Yuelai Inn, but it is also really interesting, the door book is a couplet, the upper link is 'Yuelai Inn guest to Yue', but there is no lower link, the store said, as long as it can be linked up and down, the meaning of the combination and the predecessors are not repeated, half of the room money will be exempted. The lower officials are not greedy for these cheap, but they are just itchy for a while, and they are right. It just so happened that a noble son was passing by at that time, and it was the right one, and the two of us started talking, and the words were quite close to each other, and the friendship gradually deepened. Later, I learned that this Hou Gongzi was the son of the current Hubu Shangshu Hou Sui. When he went to visit Governor Yang, Xia Guan went with him, and Hou Gongzi was a warm-hearted person, so he mentioned it during the period. ”

He explained in detail, and he was afraid that Liu Ruozai would have a problem in his heart because of this. After all, this matter can be big or small, at least it can be regarded as a social interaction in the officialdom, and at worst, it is to ignore the officials. After all, it is a taboo in officialdom to go beyond his direct superiors to entrust others to do things.

"Hey, you don't need to worry about that." Liu Ruozai waved his hand indifferently: "You can go through this road, this is your ability, you have merit, but you can't press on the top and down, and the old man is also panicked." Rest assured, the old man is not so narrow-minded. ”

Liu Ruozai said with a smile: "It's that couplet, you can listen to it carefully." ”

As a literati, it is clear that he is more concerned with this.

When Dong Ce heard this, his heart was relieved, and he knew that this matter was over, so he carefully told the anecdote about the couplet.

Liu Ruozai listened, was silent for a while, and shook his head: "When I was in Jingshi, I heard about the talent of that Hou Gongzi, and the pair he was right was excellent, but I didn't expect that you were right, but it was better." ”

He laughed at himself: "It's so old, I can't even think of a single one." ”

Dong Ce said with a smile: "Your talent is applied to the world and helps the world, and it is a great talent." Xiaguan this, it's just a small skill of carving insects. ”

Liu Ruozai nodded at him: "You can speak, but you can't be arrogant." Seeing the subtle knowledge, the old man also knows that your words are excellent, and you have read a lot of books, so you will be able to achieve a career in such a combination of civil and military. ”

Speaking of which, there is already a lot of encouragement and appreciation. Generally speaking, it is to their own protégés that they will speak like this. Dong Ce knew that Liu Ruozai really valued him, so he was a little excited, and got up again to thank him.

After talking about the time of about a cup of tea, Liu Ruozai was a little sleepy, and Dong Ce saw the opportunity, so he got up and said goodbye.

Liu Ruozai said: "Your promotion documents have been in place, it is estimated that after the seventeenth day of the first month, you will be able to come down, and don't worry, just wait patiently." ”

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the annual leave is placed on the sixth day of the first month.

On the sixth day of the first month, each yamen will go to work, but no one will really care about this, and they will not go to work seriously, because two days later, on the eighth day of the first month, there will be a holiday again. This holiday is the holiday of the Shangyuan Festival.

The so-called Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

During the Lantern Festival, eat Lantern Festival, enjoy lanterns, and guess lantern riddles.

The festival period of the Shangyuan Festival, the Han Dynasty is only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is as long as five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth day of the first month, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month, the whole ten days. Connected with the Spring Festival, the city is lively during the day, and the lights are lit at night, which is spectacular.

Speaking of which, the ten-day holiday of the Shangyuan Festival still started in the Yongle year. Since the beginning of the seventh year of Yongle, the Yongle Emperor covered the Yuan amusement, for the scene of the peaceful and prosperous world, thinking of having fun with the subjects, so he gave the Lantern Festival ten days off. It is a ten-day holiday for the above Yuan Festival, from the eighth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month.

This holiday is not only long, but also relaxed, because of the New Year's Day to sacrifice the New Year's Day, there are many affairs, no leisure. During the Shangyuan Festival, there was nothing left and right, and the focus was just the word 'play'.

It is on the eighth day of the first lunar month, also known as 'releasing the soul', from this day, the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the monarch and the rich, or the ordinary people, are beginning to carnival and play. Since then, the young man has traveled to Ye, and has been chasing and chasing, doing whatever he wants, practicing singing and blowing, singing and speaking, day and night......

Therefore, in the two days after the sixth day of the first lunar month, no one will handle government affairs seriously. On the contrary, these two days were an opportunity for officials to invite each other to feast and drink.

If you really want to get down to business, you still have to get it after the seventeenth day of the first month.

Dong Ce responded.

Liu Ruozai said again: "By the way, the eighth year of Chongzhen is coming, and each army must recount the number of soldiers and families, and after you go back, you can report the number of families and soldiers." When the time comes, I will go to Damin every month to receive a salary. ”

He paused and said lightly: "You can report more, and take care of the proportions yourself." ”

"Yes, Xia Guan woke up." Dong Ce knew that this was Liu Ruozai's care for himself, and he thanked him again.

According to the conventions and customs formed by the border army of the Ming Dynasty over the years, the family is regarded as the general's private army, but it is supported by the imperial court's salary. Not only that, but the salary of the family is even higher, as far as the nine sides are concerned, the amount of the salary is roughly in this order: the family, the southern army, and the northern army. The southern soldiers of the border army are also the guest army, and they have a salary of one or two and a half dollars per month, five buckets of rice in their true color, and two or three dollars and five cents of silver per month, and the northern army has one stone of rice and one tael of silver every month.

At the end of the next season, there is no prohibition from top to bottom. Basically, the deduction of the silver is 37 points, but it is not to give you 70%, but to leave 30% for you.

Generally speaking, when the money goes out of Beijing, it is deducted by the civil officials in the capital, and then when it comes to the place, the officials of the Xuanda University and the officials of the military preparation road go up and down layer by layer, and after a beating, the final reach can reach the hands of the generals, and there are about fifty to fifty to sixty percent left. How much the soldiers below want to get, it depends on the conscience of the general. If you meet someone like Qi Jiguang, who governs the army strictly, and people are not greedy, then you can get a lot more. But such generals are too rare, and the nine-sided generals of the Ming Dynasty are not like this nine times out of ten.

Therefore, it is still very easy for the generals of the Ming Dynasty to make money, which can be regarded as a compensation for their declining status. If the money is not fished, it will be too mean. At the same time, the more corrupt the generals, the more the self-appointed civil officials looked down on them and despised them the more.

It is difficult to get the full amount of the soldiers' salaries, but the family members can often get the full amount, and every New Year's Day, the head of the family will reward them as private soldiers.

Liu Ruozai said this to set a number for the soldiers under Dong Ce, and in the future, they would be able to receive silver according to the number of people, which also greatly reduced Dong Ce's burden. After all, he is not corrupt, and he will basically distribute as much as he can get, and as long as the soldiers can get about fifty percent of their salary, plus the land shared by their families, they can live a very good life.

Of course, Dong Ce's distribution method will definitely not be so rudimentary, he will unify the dispatch of these silver, and then redistribute it, so as to satisfy the people within his group and achieve the optimization of interests.

However, even if there is such a sum of money, for Dong Ce, it can only quench his thirst for a while. After all, his ambition is not to bring hundreds of troops and dozens of families. If you want to feed more troops, you have to open up your own financial resources.

"My lord, I don't know how many families Huang Wan and Huang Shen have reported?" Dong Ce asked respectfully.

"Him?" Liu Ruozai squinted his eyes and said, "Five hundred soldiers, three thousand soldiers." Dong Ce nodded: "Xiaguan understands." ”……

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