The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 54
Among the crowd, Tang Qing'an was inconspicuous at all.

Although he saw Wang Ziteng, he was not even qualified to be close to him, so he was placed among the entourage.

The simple thing is that the Liaodong capital is in charge of the itinerary, and Chen Lian, the newly appointed household affairs secretary, has his care so that there is no place to stay.

After leaving Shanhaiguan, passing through Suizhong and staying for a day, and then arriving in Jinxi, Tang Qing'an seemed to be forgotten.

After Jinxi is Jinzhou, officials of high rank from all the guards in Jinzhou have come, twenty miles outside the city to welcome them.

No one paid attention to Tang Qing'an, and Han Bin in the crowd ignored him.

Tang Qing'an was helpless.

Who made himself just a small backup, and couldn't catch Wang Ziteng's eyes at all, and the other party was the ruler of nine provinces.

There are so many envoys, general soldiers, and civil and military officials in the entire Nine Sides... No matter how you talk about it, it's not his turn.

I won't make a joke, after all, I was called by Liaodong Dusi to come to Shanhaiguan to welcome me. If I don't see Wang Ziteng, it will be a shame.

He left Jinzhou and arrived in Yizhou.

Tang Qing'an didn't want to wait any longer, so he took the initiative to visit Wang Ziteng's residence to ask for an interview. Hearing that he was from Jia's mansion, his attendants inquired curiously.

It is really strange that it is still a hundred households who come to Liaodong under their own control.

After the entourage went in, he came out after a while, telling the master to rest, you can go back.

Hearing the follower's reply, Tang Qing'an had no choice but to leave alone.

Another day later, the team left Yizhou, and then arrived at Beizhen. The Liaodong Jiedu envoy Li Dazu came to greet him in person. Wang Ziteng seemed to know Li Dazu.

From afar, Tang Qing'an saw the two standing and talking for a long time.

He thought that since he was in Beizhen and he couldn't see Wang Ziteng, he might as well go to Xiaohei Village and Zhenyuan Fort.

Anyway, I ran away and wasted so many days. I don't know if the third brother has come back.

The third brother Chen Deyan went to Zhenyuan Fort alone, and went outside the pass with the young master of Zhenyuan Fort and Wu Quande.

After making up his mind, he went to find Chen Lian, but Chen Lian shook his head repeatedly, rejecting Tang Qing'an's intention.

"It's not a surprise that the system doesn't see you, it's a surprise to see you, and it's an accident to guard against. If the system wants to see you, where will you go? You should follow obediently."

"Chen Siwu, you are really embarrassing me."

Tang Qing'an was helpless.

"Why am I embarrassing you? I don't know good from bad."

Chen Lian took good care of Tang Qing'an along the way, and Tang Qing'an was on guard, the two were of the same rank, and they spoke very casually.

"I stay here, I don't know how many people laugh at me."

"If you think about it this way, at least you are qualified to accompany you. Many people are envious of you, so why not care about those gossips."

After all, the little brother is young and doesn't know how to seize the opportunity. If it were me, even if there was a [-]% chance, he would have to wait.

Tang Qing'an was also helpless, the Donghai Camp was only established, so many things were waiting for him to do, the second brother could be the master in Donghai Fort, but the Donghai Camp was not qualified.

He really wouldn't want to accompany him for a month or so, maybe the barbarians would attack Liaozuo anytime.

When the time comes, he will rush out to sea, which will affect many plans.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ziteng's entourage found Tang Qing'an the next day and told the master that he wanted to see him, while Chen Lian blinked.

Showing that he was lucky not to let him go, Tang Qing'an clasped his fists in thanks, and left behind his entourage.

Wang Ziteng knew his plan.

Along the way, Tang Qing'an thought about what things Wang Ziteng would ask him when he saw him.

Soon he entered a house, which was vacated by a merchant's house in Beizhen, and it was quite luxurious.

Wang Ziteng was wearing casual clothes, giving off a very casual and casual look.

"Tang Qing'an, who is preparing for the Donghai camp, pays homage to Lord Commander."

"Get up."

Although Wang Ziteng understood the meaning of the words, this person was promoted, but he didn't take it seriously, but carefully looked at the young man in front of him.

This "leisure boy" in Jia's mansion in Liaodong, even Jia Jing praised him as a first-class talent.

For Jia Jing among his peers, Wang Ziteng has a complicated heart.

It was Jia Jing's operation that he could become the Jingying Jiedushi himself, although he also handed over the position of Jingying Jiedushi for self-protection.

Back then, the actual helmsmen of their four families destroyed their reputations and lived in mountain temples in order to get out of the mortal situation. Wang Ziteng admired and worried about such courage and vision.

I am worried that the other party is still unwilling to give up and wants to manipulate the situation, fearing that his behavior will arouse the emperor's vigilance again.

Wang Ziteng sighed secretly.

Jia's Mansion...it's too worry-free.

"You think the situation in Liaodong must be corrupted. You have been arranged to go to Liaodong for half a year, but have you changed your mind?"

Prince Teng suppressed his inner thoughts and asked with a pleasant face.

The more senior the official, the gentler he is towards the lower class, so Tang Qing'an was not surprised and replied seriously.

"The subordinates have never doubted it."

"why?"

Wang Ziteng let out an oh first, instead of commenting lightly, he asked patiently.

"Back then, the Liaodong army paid 70 yuan, and the imperial court often defaulted on the army's salary for three seasons, and at most 50 yuan was not paid.

After the barbarians unified the various ministries, Liaodong was ready to expand its military equipment. The military salary rose to 300 million taels a year, and the imperial court owed more than 400 million taels of food and salaries in three years.

The battle of Saerhu that I went all out to prepare for, ended in a disastrous defeat. From the beginning, [-]% of my military households in Donghai Fort were handed over, [-]% were kept by themselves, and [-]% were handed over, and [-]% were kept by themselves. "

Hearing the accounts reported by the person in front of him, Wang Ziteng looked at the person in front of him squarely. He was indeed talented, and he could grasp the key points with words.

One of his tasks during his tour of the Nine Sides was to see if he could reduce some military expenditures.

Originally, the imperial court took the initiative to increase the Liao pay by three times, just to boost morale, defeat the barbarians in one go, and solve the border troubles.

In the first year, I borrowed 50 taels of silver from the No. 80 Department of Household Industry in Nanjing, pumped 20 taels of water balance silver, and allocated 230 taels of silver from the emperor's internal funds, and then searched for the surplus from the Tianxia treasury, and only collected [-] million taels in total. .

Barely paid the Liao salary for this year.

The third year.

Due to the lack of Liao's salary, the Ministry of Households allocated additional acres of land, plus three li and five cents of silver per mu, and received a total of 2301 million taels of silver.

An ordinary family of [-] households rents and plants ten acres of land. Usually minus the rent and tax, the millet harvested in a year can be exchanged for less than five taels of silver after threshing rice.

If there is a poor harvest year, even only three or four taels can be harvested.

Of course, this little harvest is not enough to satisfy the hunger. Therefore, before harvesting new grains every year, many families are hungry and count the rice for dinner.

Except for the busy months of farming, it is normal for the labor force to eat more, and the rest of the people are hungry every day.

As for daily necessities such as clothes and salt, many poor peasant households share a pair of trousers to work in the fields, or are naked before dawn, unable to work in the fields.

So don't look at the addition of three miles and five cents of silver per mu. The consequences are that many people owe these few stutters and starve to death if they can't hold on.

Wang Ziteng didn't know there was such a thing as sweet potatoes, which could be used to make up for this lack of food.

So the person in front of him only mentioned the matter of food and payment, and before he finished speaking, he knew that the other party had a precise vision and knew where the illness was.

Because of the subsequent defeat of Saerhu, the imperial court was dragged into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, and all the plans of the imperial court went bankrupt.

(End of this chapter)