A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 50 Recruited

"Haha..." The angel looked up to the sky and smiled, and said deceitfully: "Master of the Dazhai, don't worry, the imperial court will not treat the surrendered general badly."

"How big is the number of soldiers and horses in one county?"

"He's just a ninth-grade official!"

"How can the leader of Dazhai, a hero like himself, be trapped in a small pond like Yishui?"

"The border military state is the stage for the village masters to show their talents!"

"As for the official position of the leader of Dazhai, he is Xuangjie Xiaowei, the eighth rank, which is only slightly lower than the magistrate of Yishui County!"

Officials in the Song Dynasty were relatively wealthy, unlike the Ming and Qing Dynasties in later generations, where there were many grades.

In the Song Dynasty, seventh-rank officials were already qualified to participate in court meetings.

Even Han Shizhong, after capturing Fang La, gained a ninth-grade Chengjie Lang.

After Song Jiang was recruited, he was only given a false position as a vanguard envoy. He didn't even know his grade, and he had no actual duties. After conquering Fangla, he was named a seventh-grade military minister by Song Huizong, a military official of the highest rank, a military official, and a pacifying envoy of Chuzhou. The soldiers and horses are in charge, and then there is a glass of medicinal wine.

From this point of view, the recruitment of Li Gui to an eighth-grade Wu Sanguan was actually too high.

However, Song Jiang retained all his troops and horses at that time. I don't know what the court thought. This must be one of the conditions for recruiting peace.

But what the angel said sounded nice, but in reality that was not the case at all.

How does the rank of a military attaché compare with that of a civilian official?
Furthermore, this Captain Xuejie is a military official with only rank and no real power.

The official positions in the Song Dynasty were relatively complex and evolved step by step from the official position system in the Tang Dynasty, which was divided into position officials and rank officials.

Officials are specific positions, and their full name is "officials", also called "dispatch".

The official title held by an official is called "rank official", also called "bench official", "selected official" or "sending official", which determines the official's grade, as well as basic salary, benefits, status, and treatment. The equivalent of an administrative grade or salary grade in later generations.

Many official names sound good, but their actual rank is low.

For example, Lin Chong is the instructor of the 80-strong Forbidden Army. The "instructor" here is a rank official, but in terms of rank, he is only a minor official below the ninth rank. There are more than 5000 similar instructors in the Forbidden Army. It is not that Lin Chong can teach alone. 80 people.

Many people only have rank officials but no official positions. They are the kind who only take money and do nothing. They are also called "idle officials", "loose officials" or "loose ranks".

Generally speaking, most of these are those who were reprimanded and not reused, or were related to some overshadowed descendants, or even donated officials, and of course they were demoted.

The "redundancy" of redundant officials mainly comes from the scattered officials.

More people are actually "officials and positions integrated into one", and their corresponding grades and positions are integrated.

For example, Ding Enlu in the article was both the "magistrate of Yishui County" in both his official position and his post.

But there are many people who have both rank and position, but the two are completely unrelated.

For example, there was a man named Sun Zhu in the history of the Song Dynasty. His official title was "Yu Qianzhi County", but his job was to "edit and edit the secret pavilion books".

Therefore, many people have the same rank, but different positions.

But there are also many people with the same official position, but different ranks. For example, they are both in control, but depending on the state they are in, their grades are different. There are those who are ninth grade, and there are those who are ninth grade.

The official position system of the Song Dynasty can be said to be the most complicated in ancient times. A layman would not be able to understand the mystery of it.

A group of bandits, logically speaking, should not be able to figure it out at all and should just let this angel fool them.

But this Li Gui is a bastard, a time traveler.

Although he has never studied history and does not understand this very well, he can grasp the main contradiction.

Li Gui frowned, no matter what the angel said, he just asked:

"How many people are under this official position?"

The angel laughed and said:

"The leader of Dazhai can choose other state capitals to serve. In different state capitals, the military strength is different, and the number of soldiers and horses commanded by the same official position cannot be generalized."

"The exact number of soldiers under his command will only be known after the leader of the stronghold takes office."

"I'm just here to convey the order, and I don't know about it." "If the leader of the village wants to fight on the battlefield, it is best to choose a remote military state, which is close to the national border and it is easier to perform daily meritorious services."

He kept encouraging Li Gui to choose to go to the border. As long as he reached the territory of those fighting men, it would be none of his business who lived and died.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that Li Gui didn't want to contribute to the country and be loyal to the Song Dynasty.

I only heard Li Gui ask again: "When we get there, am I the biggest?"

"Uh..." After the angel hesitated for a moment, he said, "Only the official family can be called the biggest in the world."

"Ha!" Li Gui sneered, "A certain person has a bad temper. If he gets into a conflict with Shangguan and accidentally kills Shangguan, wouldn't that be a waste of the court's efforts to recruit him?"

"After much thought, I decided not to go to a big place and just work in a small town or county."

"The military and horse custody in Yishui County is pretty good. It doesn't matter if the grade is low. The main thing is that there is no mother-in-law in charge."

"What is the angel's will?"

The angel smiled and shook his head and said: "Yishui County is not a military important place, and there has never been a military prison."

"Just add one. If that doesn't work, we can replace it with soldiers and horses from other counties."

After the angel was silent for a moment, he shook his head and said: "The decree has been issued and cannot be changed!"

"That's easy! Since each state lets you choose someone, that person will continue to stay in Yizhou. The imperial court can just choose a position for someone among the Xiang army at will."

The angel shook his head again and said: "According to the imperial court regulations, all officials must serve in other places. Except for Yizhou, other states are free to choose."

"In this case, let's choose Liangshan County in Yunzhou, and I will go there to be a military prisoner."

The angel was speechless. After being at a loss for words for a long time, Fang said: "...Master of the Dazhai, there are no soldiers and horses of the eighth grade to guard him, and the military and horse guards are only of the eighth grade."

Li Gui laughed, "Haha... It's easy. If you make a small mistake later, you will be demoted to the ninth rank!"

Seeing that Li Gui was obsessed with being imprisoned by soldiers and horses, the angel knew that Li Gui was determined to be a thief and wanted to gain military power.

Military power is definitely not given, but the specific means still need to be considered.

You won't be able to refute it hard, you can only use a soft knife to cut the meat slowly.

When he enters the system, he will know what it means to be in charge of the army. It will be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

By then the thieves have been dispersed, and even if he rebels again, he will be just a solitary man, and there is nothing to fear.

After hesitating for a long time, the angel finally decided to make the recruitment first. As for how to deal with this reckless man in the future, others will have a headache.

After thinking of this, the angel smiled and cupped his hands and said:
"I have agreed to this matter on behalf of the imperial court. Is the leader of the village willing to accept the order?"

Li Gui stood up, laughed heartily, walked down the steps, waved his hand and commanded:
"Brothers, why don't you quickly get the incense table and other items so that we can welcome the imperial edict together?"

Everyone nearby waited in fear for a long time, and finally when they heard this sentence, they let out a sigh of relief and put their hanging hearts back into their stomachs.

A group of people were busy and quickly moved out everything that had been prepared.

After everyone in the village gathered in the square, the angel also took out the imperial edict, stood in front of everyone, and read it loudly. From Li Gui down, all the big and small bosses were rewarded.

The low-ranking officials were dispersed and assigned to the Yizhou Xiang army, while all the high-ranking officials were transferred to other places and were given a deadline to take up their posts.

Then everyone received the order, and angels took the place of the court and rewarded them with gold, silver, wine and meat.

This thing is not as good as the benefits usually distributed in the village, but the nature is completely different, especially the jars of royal wine, which taste particularly delicious.

Li Gui himself didn't drink a sip, and gave all of it to his brothers, making them even more grateful.

But they didn't know that Li Gui was testing poison on them, and they didn't know how many generals had died in Yujiu.

The angel finished the entire process, and then accompanied everyone in the village to have a few drinks, then left and went down the mountain.

The three of them, Zhu and Fu, sent the people down the mountain and watched respectfully as the angel's motorcade disappeared from sight. Then they happily returned to the village and continued to drink happily.

After the angel returned to the city, he immediately called the magistrate of Ding County and urged him to arrange personnel to take over the stronghold as soon as possible and seize the time to disperse the surrendered soldiers to avoid unnecessary complications.

(End of this chapter)