Li Jing knows what it means to accept it when he sees it, he is not a greedy person. People who are too greedy often sometimes lose the real big head for a little profit. Before he came, he didn't expect to be able to take the thirteen islands including the big and small black mountain islands so easily, at first he took a big gamble in his heart, seized the opportunity to send troops to annihilate Feng Zhang's fleet to go to sea, and then lured Feng Zhang to attack Shamen Town, which hit him hard. All this is mainly to weaken the strength of Feng Zhang, so as to gain room for expansion.

At the beginning, he was very worried that he would be nailed to the crime of rebellion and be exterminated by all parties. Although he thinks that as long as he plays well here, Song Wei and Cui Yunqing will protect him, but after all, they are not too sure. Historically, even when Li Keyong, the later king of Jin, was serving as a guard in the clouds a few years later, Duan Wenchu greatly reduced the supply of soldiers' clothing and rice grain because of his boss's defense, and the law was strictly enforced, and the soldiers were resentful. Li Keyong was embraced by his subordinates, and he killed Duan Wenchu and asked to stay behind. But even Li Keyong, a meritorious general who followed his father south in his early years and suppressed the Pang Xun Rebellion, was not recognized by the imperial court, but was surrounded and suppressed by the Tang soldiers.

The development of things went smoothly beyond Li Jing's imagination, first of all, Song Wei and Cui Yunqing and others showed their attitude of protecting themselves. Then Feng Zhang's performance was abnormal, and he was dizzy and actually admitted the guilt imposed on him by Li Jing.

But even so, Li Jing got far beyond his previous expectations, and in one fell swoop got thirteen islands and reefs, including the Big and Small Black Mountain Islands, and swallowed all the ones he had eaten before. Li Jing was finally satisfied.

Don't look at Feng Zhang, it seems that the general trend is going now. But the Wang family will do more to protect him. Li Jing's requirements have almost reached their bottom line, and no matter how greedy he is, he may not be able to keep them at all.

After dividing up the interests in private, Ziqing Town still has to give some superficial distributions.

"Shamen Town was promoted from a middle town to an upper town, with a number of 500 soldiers. Li Jing was promoted from the general of Zhongzhen to the general of the town under the sixth grade, and was awarded the rank of guerrilla general from the fifth grade, and was added to the rank of captain of the upper capital of Lord Wupin, and was given a scarlet official robe. And whitebait bags, whitebait. ”

Cui Yunqing first promoted the status of Shamen Town, and by the way, he promoted Li Jing by three grades, from the seventh grade to the sixth grade and from the sixth grade, and went straight to the sixth grade. Correspondingly, it also promoted its military rank, and added the title of lord.

After Shamen Town annexed the Big and Small Black Mountain Islands, it was something that everyone expected as early as possible, and it was only natural for Li Jing to be promoted to the town general. As for the rank of Wusan official and the rank of the fifth rank under the fifth grade, it is actually just a supporting promotion. The rank and lord of the imperial court have long lost their role in the early years, and now the various feudal towns have a large number of such ranks and lords in their hands. There is no need to report to the imperial court, and you can fill in the appointment at any time. In addition to the glory of good-sounding. It didn't really make much difference.

However, with the rank of guerrilla general and the rank of captain of the Shangdu cavalry, Li Jingming's rank on his face was directly promoted to a fifth-grade official. Datang Nine Rank Thirty-level Official, Seventh Rank is a big step, Fifth Rank is another big hurdle, and then up to the Third Rank is another hurdle. Those below the seventh rank are all sesame officials, and those above the seventh rank and below the fifth rank are considered petty officials.

Only when you are really a fifth-grade official can you wear a scarlet robe and a fish belt, which can be described as a high-ranking official. Even the loose rank of the military general is the same, below the fifth rank, they are all captains and captains, only after going up to the fifth rank, their loose rank ranks start to be generals, and after being promoted to the third rank, they are generals. Although Li Jing's original town general hung up a general, in fact, he was only a lieutenant. Only today, after being awarded a guerrilla general, can he be considered a real general.

Wearing a scarlet robe, wearing a silver fish bag, a famous general. Li Jing has finally jumped to a big step, a step that many people will find difficult to jump over in their lifetime. Just like Li Jing's father, he never jumped from an official to the nine grades in his life and became an official.

Everyone was listening to Cui Yunqing's words later, and the promotion of Shamen Town was just a small dish at the beginning, and everyone believed that what was behind was the real feast.

"After Shamen Town is promoted to Shangzhen General, it will expand its jurisdiction in addition to the original Shamen Island and the four islands of Yangtongzi, Niutongzi and Yaobishi Island. The latest decision is that the thirteen islands, including the Big and Small Black Mountain Islands, will all be placed under the jurisdiction of Shamen Town. The new Shamen Town will have jurisdiction over one town, two forts and nine forts, namely the upper town of Shamen Town, the big black mountain fort and the small black mountain fort at the middle town level, and there are also nine upper forts, Yangtuo Zishu, Niu Tong Zishu, Baked Cake Island Shu, Fish Scale Shu, Nan Tong Zi Shu, Plough Rake Shu, Praying Mantis Shu, Wave Guard, and Horse Gun Stone Shu. The number of soldiers in Shangzhen is 500, the number of soldiers in Zhongzhen is 300, the number of troops in the nine Shangshu is 100 each, and the total number of troops is 2,000 men. ”

Hearing this decision, Wang Jingwen's face twitched a few times with some ugliness, looking at his reaction, this decision seemed to be the result of several people in the mediation team discussing it together. This is an upright addition of soldiers and horses to Li Jing, 2,000 people, 1,700 more than the previous 300 people. Although Li Jing's soldiers have long exceeded this number, on the surface, Li Jing's roster has only 300 soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers belong to the family and their children.

In the late Tang Dynasty, in addition to the number of officially registered soldiers, many barracks also had some men and horses. According to the underlying rules, a team leader can have ten family members, a general can have 20 people, and a 10-level officer can have a team of family members. 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 the family, it did not pay food. The generals' food and pension had to be provided privately by the generals, so many generals ate empty salaries among the regular soldiers to support their families.

In addition to the family members, all the armies of the late Tang Dynasty had a soldier and horse, which was the son. As the name suggests, the sons and brothers of the families of those official generals, and they are not registered soldiers. But every time there is a war, then those generals will basically bring a large number of children to participate in the war, which is not only a prestige, but also an opportunity for their children to earn rewards. Whether it is a foreign war or an internal counterinsurgency, there are children of various armies everywhere. Until now, it is often the children of the army who participate in the majority of the soldiers. And the soldiers have become an excellent excuse for those military leaders who are ambitious and secretly expanding. The soldiers who have exceeded it can completely pass the test as long as they train their children with one sentence, and the imperial court, which has long been left with only a little bit of superficial authority, is powerless to take care of these at all.

Of Li Jing's current 4,000 soldiers, except for 300, who are registered in the imperial court, the rest are also in the name of family members and subordinate soldiers. Now that Cui Yunqing has provided him with so many troops, Ziqing Town is also responsible for his ordnance and food for 2,000 people. Li Jing is not short of that money, and after Guan Jian still has these troops, he can build ordnance more openly, recruit troops, and buy grain and grass.

Cui Yunqing looked at Li Jing and said with a smile: "Ji Yu, although Song Jiedu gave you two thousand soldiers, but now the Jieshuai Mansion is very poor, so it is better for you, a town general who guards the sea trade route and port." Therefore, you don't expect the Marshal's Mansion to give you food and ordnance, so you need to raise everything yourself. ”

"In what name am I raising my own funds?" Li Jing doesn't care about the money, but he cares about power.

"This official is not only the Sima of the Jiedu March, but also the deputy ambassador of the camp field of Ziqing Town, I can appoint you to join the army for the camp of Shamen Town, and the seventeen islands to which Shamen Town belongs are the border army garrison, and you are allowed to camp your own fields, and all the output does not need to be handed over, and you can supply the army yourself." This sentence seems to be nothing, but it gives Li Jing great rights. Shamen Town belongs to the border land, which is different from the mainland, where the border land is in charge of the army and the people are in charge of the people. Now Li Jing joins the army as a town general and Yingtian, so in addition to managing the army and the people, now he is also in charge of the affairs of Yingtian. To put it bluntly, although the territory to which Shamen Town belongs will not have the money, food, and military salaries from the feudal town in the future, it will not have to pay taxes and levies. All the land and taxes on the land belong to Li Jing.

"Thank you, Marching Sima." Li Jing knew that this must be an additional benefit that the teacher helped him obtain.

Cui Yunqing smiled like a fox, stroked his beard and continued: "Also, since half of Da Xie Island has been allocated to Shamen Town, and the envoy of the soldiers and horses suddenly fell ill, Ji Yuke will have to bear some more burdens in the future." I have discussed with a few people, Feng Zhang can't be a director, so Da Xie Yan is temporarily in charge of Feng Xun, the deputy soldier and horse envoy. However, considering that he is still young, he specially promoted you to be the deputy soldier and horse envoy of Da Xie Yan. In the future, you will have peace with each other, and there will be no more disputes. ”

Wang Jingwen said coldly on the side: "Adding a deputy soldier and horse envoy to you is just to let you manage the newly drawn fortresses, so that you can be justified, but not for you to meddle in the affairs of Da Xie Yan, I hope you can have this self-knowledge, and don't make an inch of progress when the time comes." ”

Of course, Li Jing also knew the meaning of the deputy soldier and horse envoy, and immediately smiled: "The princes have put so many burdens on my shoulders, I will not be busy with my own housework in the future, how can I have time to take care of other people's bullshit." ”

After the end, Cui Yunqing took out a few copper seals and a few official positions to report to himself, and after Li Jing took it, he found that in addition to the ones that Cui Yunqing had just announced, there were actually three official positions to take over. They were the rank of straggler and horse envoy personally awarded to Li Jing by the festival marshal Song Wei, and the honorary official position of the Ziqing Festival Guard, in addition to this, there was also a post of the festival marshal pioneer.

Li Jing was stunned by these three official positions, his eyes turned to Cui Yunqing, and the teacher smiled: "They are all awarded to you, but these are the honorary officials of the Shuai Mansion, you just need to know the way." (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )