The Urban Management Brigade is here!

[Hmm? 'Good' what? ]

Xu Yanmiao turned his head reflexively, his sight shifted from the prince to the emperor, and he saw him looking down at the memorial.

[Oh! ]

He probably said "good" because he saw something he was satisfied with.

Xu Yanmiao was not curious about this. He was more curious about what the prince was going to do today. He seemed to be very motivated.

Then after listening for a while, he found out that it was the incident of reselling military pay that he had dug up a month ago. It couldn't be more familiar. Moreover, this matter, whether it was arresting people and sentencing or appeasing the soldiers, had nothing to do with the Ministry of Personnel.

Xu Yanmiao lowered his eyelashes, looking very solemn and intimidating on the surface.

In fact...

[Great! I can continue to daydream! 】

The old emperor: "..."

【It's just right for a little nap! 】

The old emperor: "..."

Don't go too far!

It's okay to be lazy when you were a ninth-rank official, but now you are a fifth-rank official, how can you still take a nap! You

are only nineteen years old, how can you be lazy!

【Good night - no! Good morning! 】

The old emperor sneered.

Good morning?

I'm still working, you want good morning? Dream on!

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"The crime of reselling military pay and firearms is unforgivable. Those involved should be killed or sentenced."

The old emperor set the tone first, and then the officials in the court who were related to these jobs began to report how to deal with it. They took out the procedures, and the emperor only needed to be responsible for reviewing and approving it.

But what does this have to do with the Ministry of Personnel and him?

Xu Yanmiao dozed off peacefully.

The old emperor suddenly said, "The positions vacated by these criminal officials will be filled by the Ministry of Personnel."

[! ]

Capturing the key words, Xu Yanmiao was startled. After recalling what the emperor had just said: [It's not a big problem. The Ministry of Personnel prepares the test scores and qualifications for selecting people every year. After returning to the yamen, you can easily pick good people by looking through them. ]

[There should really be nothing for the Ministry of Personnel to do next, so continue to catch up. ]

The old emperor: "?"

Nonsense! Where is there no Ministry of Personnel... Wait, it seems that there is really no Ministry of Personnel?

"..."

The old emperor held back for a while, and suddenly he spoke: "When the soldiers are not on the march, they have two meals a day, and every ten days they are rewarded with a pound of pork and a pound of rice wine. Now I want to change it to three meals a day, and pork and rice wine will be rewarded every five days."

The ministers were surprised.

The Ministry of War responded quickly: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Then it was the military commanders who raised their hands and feet in agreement.

Although the Ministry of Revenue did not object, it euphemistically mentioned: "Your Majesty, where does the military expenditure come from?"

The old emperor: "Mountains of gold and silver were discovered in Japan."

That's no problem. The Minister of Revenue shut up.

——The output of the Xia Dynasty could fully afford these treatments, but the court had no money.

The old emperor: "Well, let the Ministry of Personnel handle this matter."

Ministry of Revenue: ???

Ministry of War: ???

The Ministry of Personnel is doing this, what should we do?

【What?】

Xu Yanmiao sat up in shock from his dying illness.

【Is he alive again? 】

【No, this matter is not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, right?】

The old emperor added slowly: "You select people, you do things, if there is any reselling of military supplies again, you can take off the black gauze hat yourself."

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

The Minister of Personnel bowed down immediately, and other officials of the Ministry of Personnel also bowed down one after another. Xu Yanmiao followed them, listening to the old emperor's voice without anger on the golden stage: "If you want me to calm down, get things done first."

[The treatment the old emperor gave to ordinary soldiers was already the best in all dynasties. These were all money to buy lives. Only when the money was enough would people be willing to fight for him. ]

[Everything was arranged well, but a pig teammate appeared. Although Yongchang Hou's adopted son discovered it early, if I were a soldier, after being owed military pay once, I would have to think about whether it was worth risking my life on the battlefield in the future. Who knows if the pension will be embezzled by the superiors after I die. ]

[Alas. ]

[Being an emperor is not easy. ]

The old emperor glared at Xu Yanmiao unhappily.

It's good that you know! If you know, don't be angry with me!

[If you mention the treatment again, it is estimated that the negative impact of not receiving the military pay before will not only be written off, but will also be better. ]

The old emperor did not say anything, allowing Xu Yanmiao to finish her thoughts, and then talked about other things without any guidance.

The ministers below understood - this was asking them to come up with some specific regulations, but not too unrealistic. If the suggestion of increasing the military pay of each soldier by 100 taels of silver was put forward, morale would definitely be unprecedentedly high, but the national treasury would probably not be able to support it.

The prince thought for a while and walked out calmly: "Your Majesty, when I was collecting evidence, I was always thinking about how to appease the soldiers. Now I have bricks and tiles, and I throw them out roughly in order to seek beautiful jade."

The ministers looked at him sideways.

It's rare that the prince actually got involved in political affairs today. That's right, he was the one who brought this up in the first place

. He's already done his job, so he's not afraid to talk about it again. With the emperor nodding slightly in response, the prince continued: "I think that the military pay should be slightly increased, and more importantly, the soldiers should live a comfortable life on weekdays." - After all, soldiers either have difficulty going out to the military camp and have no place to spend their money, or they send all the money back home and their lives are not good. The old emperor: "What does it mean to be comfortable?" "Bean soup in summer, charcoal in winter, and clothes in all seasons."

The prince spoke eloquently: "Black beans are the best for relieving summer heat. If we can have a bowl of black bean soup every day in summer, I think it will definitely relieve the fatigue of soldiers during training."

"It's cold in winter. If there is a charcoal fire next to us and we can bake a cake, we will be very happy."

"The court used to only distribute spring and winter clothes. If it changes to clothes for all four seasons, wouldn't it be the emperor's great grace?"

The great Confucian teachers were pleased.

If you can empathize with others, you are a good person in power. It would be even better if his father could not teach him - such as such a shameful thing as playing tricks with gangsters.

The old emperor laughed, and his face was full of pride: "This is my Xia family's prince."

The ministers responded one after another.

The prince was slightly worried about the stability of his position, but then he thought: It's okay, it's normal for a prince to do one or two things, and this is not a big deal. The only thing to worry about is the support of the soldiers, but they are generally grateful to the emperor, not to him, the prince.

On the golden platform, the old emperor winked at the commander of the Jinyiwei.

The commander of the Jinyiwei bowed slightly.

Got it! Publicize in the barracks that you have black bean soup to drink in the dog days of summer, charcoal fires to burn in the cold winter, and new clothes to wear all year round, all thanks to the prince!

*

Having already obtained the most satisfactory thing, the emperor just asked in a calm voice: "Do you have any other suggestions?"

Next, many ministers expressed their opinions, about seventy or eighty, but in the end, only two were passed.

The first is to set up military doctors in the army.

When the army is on the march, there are naturally military doctors accompanying the army, but when the war is over, those military doctors will withdraw. In normal times, if soldiers want to get treatment, they either have to pay for the doctor themselves, or wait for the emperor to show mercy and send doctors from the Imperial Hospital to treat the soldiers, or the generals can apply to the court to send doctors.

Now, doctors can also treat the soldiers for free in normal times, and a certain amount of medicinal materials can be obtained for free at the pharmacies set up by the court in various prefectures.

The second article is to exempt the land tax for three years for families with adult males who died in battle. If there are still no adult males in the family after three years, the exemption will continue to be reduced until it is exempted for ten years.

It may seem like a heavy burden, but in fact, even without a mountain of gold and silver, the court could afford the money.

After all, only the land tax was exempted, and the remaining head tax (child head tax), sum tax (adult head tax), replacement tax (substitute labor tax), and total property tax would not be exempted.

In addition, there are various taxes, such as: every household needs to pay silk to the government regularly; the people mine copper and iron and other minerals, and taxes are levied according to the proportion of the harvest; the people want to cut down bamboo and wood in the mountains, and they have to pay wood tax; fishing tax is also required; even if you catch a bird, you have to pay feather tax...

This has been the case in every dynasty. Even the famous wise rulers in history, the reason used to record his merits is "exemption from land tax", and the other taxes on the people are not mentioned at all, as if they do not exist

. But in this way, among the emperors who either increased taxes or reduced land taxes, he is indeed a wise ruler.

The old emperor habitually complained to Empress Dou about what he did in the court today.

"I don't know how these people can say that, saying that the rewards every five days will be changed from wine and meat to money. For the soldiers, who work hard in training every day, having a sip of hot wine and a piece of fat meat is their hope. Changing it into hard cash seems to be a good thing, but they can't keep it. Besides, when they get the money, it was originally ten taels, and it would be good to get two taels."

"And more! I have never heard that soldiers need to pay for repairing equipment and saddles, and they are also asked to provide their own gunpowder and lead for daily drills! This must be the mechanics sent by the previous dynasty."

"And more..."

One by one, even Empress Dou was stunned and speechless.

No wonder only two opinions could be picked out from 70 or 80. For example, does it seem to work to let soldiers pay for ammunition and practice shooting? !

"However, fortunately, Xu Yanmiao, that brat, has distracted us a little."

Empress Dou showed a puzzled expression at the right time. The

old emperor smiled happily: "He was thinking about the urban management supervision of the pension, and retired soldiers taking on the role. I think it is feasible. It is related to the interests. Let the armored people enter the government office. When they patrol the streets, they pass by the deceased's house and chat with them to know whether they have received the pension. Whoever dares to ask for the pension, they will chop off the other's hand."

- After all, even if you don't care about the friendship on the battlefield, you have to consider your own pension problem. You don't care whether you can keep other people's relief. When your own relief is distributed, no one cares whether the money reaches your family.

Empress Dou was a little surprised: "Xu Shizhong is only 19 years old, but he has a deep insight into people's hearts and an accurate analysis of things. This talent is rare in the world." The

old emperor hummed: "What kind of insight into people's hearts does this rascal know? He has seen too many things, so he can do it easily."

The queen was slightly stunned and looked at Emperor Tiantong.

The emperor sighed and said with emotion: "Bai Ze is very knowledgeable. This is probably commonplace for him. He heard about the armorless man and thought of using him to manage the city's security."