The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 18 East Sea Fort

Damn it, his family runs the Ministry of War?
Chito took a deep breath.

Knowing the power of it, he showed politeness on his face, and did not suspect that the other party was scaring himself by pulling the tiger's skin to pull the banner.

Their resumes can be found by going back to the department and checking them, and they cannot be faked.

I really didn't expect that there would be such a number of people among my subordinates.

Who did it matter?
Then he became enthusiastic and took the initiative to explain the rules to them.

"Although you have changed your nationality and been registered in the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the Commander of the Guards still needs to do some work in order to be able to take over the post smoothly."

"Do you know anyone in the department? If someone takes care of you, you can save a lot of money."

"Yes, but I'm out on business and not in the company. It will take a long time to come back."

Tang Qing'an knew that Liaodong Dusi's uncle had arranged a sum of money for him, and when he came back, he was unwilling to accept the money that uncle wanted to give no matter what.

This is not small money, the expenses of my uncle and his family are not very rich.

I still have more than 100 taels of silver on my body, and the dozen or so taels of silver on my second brother should add up to enough.

Qianhu told them that when the man came back, he would go to the Sili to handle the matter of attacking the post. The formalities had been completed in Liaodong Dusi, but the Wei Sili was just procrastinating, but the position could not be lost.

They were left to rest at the Qianhu House, and they were ordered to notify the general banner of Donghai Fort to welcome their superiors, and let them go to the ground to take up their posts first.

After receiving the favor from Qianhu, Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin only sat for an hour, then they ran in from outside and kowtowed after entering the door.

"Subsidiary Zhou Ji, the general banner under the Qianhusuo of Weiqian Tunsuo, the right village."

"It belongs to Li Dun, the general banner of Qianhusuo of Weiqian Tunsuo, the right village."

"My lords, Tang Baihu and Liu Baihu."

Tang Qing'an smiled and gave Liu Chengmin a wink. Liu Chengmin stepped forward to support the two enthusiastically, and said with a smile, "I thought you would come after we had dinner, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

"The cooks in the Qianhusuo are not very skilled. When the subordinate came down, he told the family to kill chickens and fish. Please appreciate the two adults."

Zhou Ji waited for Li Dun to finish speaking, and smiled at the sidelines, "The wife of Li Dun's family has excellent craftsmanship. Even Qian Hu once went to his house for dinner, which is quite a compliment."

Since the two were so enthusiastic, Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin pushed the boat along, and the four of them left the Qianhu House and got into the mule cart that the two of them had rushed over.

When we arrived at Li Dun's house, there were already ten people waiting, and they crowded out the door and knelt together. It turned out that they were all small flags in the Baihu House.

In the Hundred Households Office, there are two people from the general banner and ten people from the small banner. No one dares not to come to welcome the new boss.

Military households are a closed gang, with hereditary military positions inherited from generation to generation. The original [-] households defecated in the wild when they were young and called wild dogs to eat them. As a result, the dog suddenly bit them.

After the death of illness last year, the people in the guard were wiped out.

Distant relatives in hundreds of families moved their minds, and they were all trying to inherit the relationship, but they didn't expect to transfer outsiders.

According to news, Baihu's background is very deep, but no one knows how deep it is.Shangguan has a profound background and everyone has complicated thoughts.

Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin were surrounded by the crowd and sat down. First, they introduced each other, and then a small flag poured wine for everyone.

"Let's toast to the two adults first, and wish the two adults a bright future."

Li Dun took the lead, and everyone stood up and toasted.

Tang Qing'an didn't move at all, and said with a smile, "It's fine to toast to me, but you have to sit down to drink. If you have to stand up, then drink two glasses first."

You don't know that people in a hundred households don't like red tape the most, that's how it was in Xue's family when they were young. "

Liu Chengmin laughed at the side, seeing this, Zhou Ji accompanied him with a smile, "My lord has spoken, of course I will listen to my lord."

Everyone sat down one after another, only Li Dun bowed his waist and held up a wine cup in respect.

"This subordinate didn't know the rules of the adults. It was really an unintentional act. Now I punish myself with three cups to show my respect."

Li Dun didn't change his face, he drank three glasses of wine in a row, but still swayed, and was supported by a Xiaoqi beside him.

"Good drink."

Tang Qing'an praised it personally, and Zhou Ji led the crowd to toast Tang Qing'an again. Li Dun was still drunk, so he endured the pain and had another drink.

After a round of drinking, everyone was already familiar with each other's temperament, and it wasn't particularly difficult to deal with, and the atmosphere became more enthusiastic.

At this time, a young woman came in from outside the house, followed by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, carrying steaming goose and delicious fish jelly.

The young woman and the girl came between Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin, put the dishes on the table, and stayed for a while.

"My lord laughed at me. The villagers are vulgar. This is my wife and my niece. Hurry up and salute the two lords." Li Dun's face was flushed, and his mouth was full of alcohol.

When Tang Qing'an nodded, the woman secretly pushed her niece forward, seeing that Baihu had no complicated thoughts, she led her niece down.

"I mentioned the Xue family just now, but I don't know which Xue family it is."

"Jinling Xue's family." Liu Chengmin felt a slight loss.

"Today we only talk about eating and drinking, not about other things. From now on, we will all be brothers who eat in the same pot. Let me offer you a toast." Tang Qing'an raised his glass with a smile.

The crowd joined in.

At the end, Zhou Ji and Li Dun respectively invited Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin to live in their homes. The public housing in the residence was not as comfortable as at home.

Tang Qing'an and Liu Chengmin declined, and were finally sent to the public house of Baihusuo, which had already been cleaned up.

The quilts were neatly stacked, all newly purchased, and the kang was arranged to be burned, and finally two old military households were specially reserved for help.

On the second day, Zhou Ji and Li Dun came to the camp early and began to formally introduce the situation of the village.

The initial allocation of more than [-] mu of military land by the Baihusuo, plus the land reclaimed over the years, actually totaled [-] mu, but only [-] mu was recorded on the books.

There are more than [-] households on the military household register, and three escaped last year, and now there are actually less than [-] households in the [-] households.

Except for Zhengding who was selected by our institute to serve in various places in Shandong, Zhengding, who was sent to serve in other places by our institute the year before last, was seconded by the Liaodong capital to serve in Hoian Fort, but fell into the hands of barbarians.

Tang Qing'an only wore his ears and did not express his opinion. Seeing this, Zhou Ji and Li Dun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

When the two left, Liu Chengmin smiled and said, "The little demon in the temple is very windy, and there are more than eight kings in Chiqian, a hundred-household house has become so corrupt."

"Why don't you go somewhere?"

Tang Qing'an shook his head.

"You just find an excuse to look around by yourself. If the two of us are together, it will easily arouse suspicion."

Liu Chengmin nodded.

"Before I came, I only thought that the front line was in danger, but I didn't expect to find out in the end that you have become a big landlord. This trip really made a fortune."

Military fields became private fields, and military households became tenants.

"It's the same up and down, so what can you and I do."

There are only more than one hundred households on the list of Donghaibao. According to the imperial court system, each military household is allocated [-] acres of military land, which was enough for the early days of the country.

But things are constantly changing, and after a hundred years of reproduction, the descendants of each family have reproduced, and the fields have long been insufficient.

In addition, the officers invaded the military fields, enslaved the sergeants, and many fled.

Each household has to send out one son to serve in the army and one son to support the family in production. Once the son in the army runs away or dies, the son has to go to the barracks to make up for it.

Moreover, Zhengding were all transferred to serve in other places. Like Tang Qing'an's Baihusuo, dozens of local Zhengding went to various places in Shandong. This is the imperial court's system of guarding against generals.

In the end, the total number of soldiers in the guards was also kept secret, even the Minister of the Ministry of War or the censor who was in charge of picketing did not know.

Only the chief officers of the guards knew the actual situation, which gave the military attaches even more room to manipulate.

Liu Chengmin wandered around during this time, his face was getting sad day by day, while Tang Qingan went to Qianhu Office twice.

"What kind of military households are hungry people."

Just in time to see Tang Qing'an coming back, Liu Chengmin couldn't hold back, "Don't you think of a way to change the status quo?"

(End of this chapter)