Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

In the following days, Xie Yuan and others began to make a major adjustment to the entire Tenglong Guard.

They first transferred all the centurions and deputy centurions of the Tenglong Vanguard. At first, these centurions and deputy centurions were still uneasy, but when they learned that they were only transferred to other centurions, they settled down one by one.

Although being transferred to a new centurion is definitely not as comfortable as before, at this time they just want to live a stable life. If they can keep their current official positions, they will be satisfied.

As for jumping out to provoke, haha, they are not stupid enough to stand out and seek death.

Then Xie Yuan and others dismissed some officials, mainly some older and incompetent officials, such as Yan Shun, whom Yang Zhengshan had met before.

The old man is old, so there is no need to occupy the position and delay things. It is better for him to live at home.

Some people who usually do evil were also taken down.

The biggest cancer of Tenglong Guard is Lan Family, but there are still some disgusting termites among them. Even if Tenglong Guard is poor, there are still people who like to suck blood from those poor military households.

Yang Zhengshan cannot tolerate such people.

After dealing with those incompetent thousand households and hundred households, Xie Yuan selected two hundred people from the former Anyuan City Garrison Camp and appointed them.

The entire Tenglong Guard should have twenty thousand households, twenty deputy thousand households, forty thousand households and two hundred hundred households. Excluding the hundred households and deputy thousand households still in use in the Tenglong Front Guard, the appointment of two hundred people is almost enough to fill the official positions at all levels.

As for the general flag and small flag, there is no need for the Guards Office to worry about it. After everyone takes office, they can solve it themselves.

In this way, each thousand households have officials from the former Tenglong Guard and soldiers from the former Anyuan City Garrison Camp, and the soldiers from the Garrison Camp account for the majority, so Yang Zhengshan will have no problem controlling each thousand households.

A few days later, officials from each thousand households took office, and the Weisi Yamen began to distribute military households.

Based on the principle of allocating nearby and avoiding the military households and tenants from moving as little as possible, the Weisi Yamen redistributed the ownership of each farm and garrison.

The allocation of military households was the most troublesome, because it involved all the people under the Weisi Yamen, including more than 12,000 military households, and almost 50,000 soldiers.

Redistributing ownership means redistributing the fields, which inevitably makes the lower-level military households feel panic and uneasy.

However, this panic and uneasiness soon dissipated, because after the ownership division was completed, carts of grain were transported out of the Weicheng and distributed to each military household.

It was mid-November, and on the second day after the grain was transported out of the Weicheng, Yang Zhengshan received two official documents from the Central Military Governor's Office.

In the study, Yang Zhengshan was wearing a jet-black cotton jacket, his black hair was combed meticulously, and he sat at the desk with a calm face.

Han Fei stood beside him respectfully and placed two official documents on his desk.

Han Fei was an experienced officer of the Weisi Yamen. He was responsible for the correspondence and file organization of the Weisi Yamen.

Yang Zhengshan opened the official document and read it. When he finished reading the first official document, his eyes lit up.

"Hahaha, good!"

He laughed.

The content of this official document was to use the money and grain confiscated from the Lan family to offset the three-year food and military pay of Tenglongwei.

Generally speaking, most Weisi Yamen were self-sufficient, that is, the grain harvested from the military farms was used to meet the daily expenses of the Yamen, including the food and wages of the soldiers, the salaries of the officials, etc.

In fact, the food and wages of the soldiers in the Weisuo were not much, because the soldiers in the Weisuo had to farm. In addition to keeping a part of the harvest, they could also receive half of the food and wages.

In other words, the military households' farming was equivalent to paying 40% of the rent to the Qianhu Suo. Of the 40% of rent, the Qianhu Office kept 20% to pay the salaries of officials, and the remaining 20% ​​was handed over to the Weisi Yamen.

Of course, this is a normal operation. In fact, most of the guards in Darong are not self-sufficient now.

There are many reasons, such as officers occupying military farms and turning military farms into their own private farms. Another example is that there are shortages of military households in the guards. Originally, more than a thousand military households should have handed in grain, but in fact only 800, 500, or even 300 households handed in grain, which naturally made it impossible for the guards to be self-sufficient.

In addition, some guards have other responsibilities, such as garrisoning cities or important passes.

When garrisoning cities and passes, soldiers need to be paid full food and wages, which will increase the expenditure of the guards, and the guards need to be allocated part of the food and wages by the superior Yamen.

At present, Tenglong Guard has no other responsibilities, but Tenglong Guard cannot be self-sufficient, so it is reasonable for the Central Army Governor's Office to leave the money and grain confiscated by the Lan family in Tenglong Guard.

However, Yang Zhengshan did not expect that the Central Military Governor's Office would be so generous. He originally thought that the Central Military Governor's Office would only leave him a part, but he did not expect that it would leave him all.

This is a good thing. With this money and grain, he can save a lot of trouble. At least he does not need to ask the Central Military Governor's Office for money and grain.

"I did not expect that the officials of the Central Military Governor's Office would be so generous. Tsk tsk, I am embarrassed!"

Yang Zhengshan was a little overjoyed.

He did not know that this was the emperor's intention, otherwise he would definitely set up an incense table and kowtow to the emperor.

This is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and 160,000 shi of grain!

However, after being happy, Yang Zhengshan carefully calculated and found that these silver and grain did not seem to be much.

About 38,000 taels of gold, about 220,000 taels of silver, and about 34,000 copper coins were seized from the Lan family. If all were converted into silver, it would be about 600,000 taels of silver.

This amount seems large, but if it is considered as an expenditure in the army, this amount of silver is really not much.

The military pay of the soldiers in Chongshan Town is about 20 taels per year, which means that 10,000 soldiers need 200,000 taels of silver per year.

This is just the military pay. Yang Zhengshan has no soldiers under his command now, but the silver he spends to equip a team of elite soldiers is definitely not a small number.

An ordinary warhorse costs 30 or 40 taels of silver, a set of iron armor costs hundreds of taels of silver, and a long spear costs more than 10 taels of silver.

If he wants to equip an armored cavalryman, at least 150 taels of silver are needed, 100 are 150,000 taels, and 1,000 are 150,000 taels.

Okay, let's equip less armored cavalrymen, just equip 1,000 people.

Let's form another 2,000 light cavalry. Leather armor is cheaper, but it costs nearly 100 taels to equip one light cavalry. 2,000 light cavalry is 200,000 taels.

Then there are infantry.

Let's not compete with Yunlong Guard. Liang Chu's Yunlong Guard has 5,000 cavalry. Let's form 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry.

600,000 taels of silver is barely enough.

After calculating the accounts, Yang Zhengshan's joy was completely gone.

No wonder Liang Chu spent more than ten years to train Yunlong Guard into an elite force. It is really difficult to train an elite force. The problem of money and food alone can make countless people give up.

Putting down the first official document, Yang Zhengshan opened the second one.

The second official document was about the treatment of the Lan family. All the male members of the direct line of the Lan family were handed over to the Ministry of Justice and executed in the autumn. The female family members and collateral branches were all exiled to Lingnan.

Yang Zhengshan was not surprised by this result. The Lan family had committed many crimes, but it was not to the point of executing the whole family.

"I'll leave this matter to you. When the people from the Censorate and the Dusi Yamen come, just hand it over to them!"

"By the way, don't forget to hand over the files to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple!"

Yang Zhengshan handed the second document to Han Fei again and ordered.

Han Fei took the document and said yes before leaving.

As soon as Han Fei left, a personal attendant walked into the study and handed a visiting card to Yang Zhengshan, reporting: "Sir, someone outside the door wants to see you!"

Yang Zhengshan opened the visiting card casually, but when he saw the name on the visiting card, he showed a surprised look.

"Liu Zhe! Why is he here?"

He had been waiting for Liu Zhe's reply these days, but he didn't expect Liu Zhe's reply to come, but Liu Zhe came running.

Although he was very surprised, he still stood up and walked out of the study quickly to greet Liu Zhe.

He saw Liu Zhe, who was a little embarrassed, as soon as he walked out of the Yamen.

Liu Zhe at this time has changed a lot from the Liu Zhe in Yang Zhengshan's impression. There are more gray hairs and more wrinkles between his eyebrows and eyes, and he looks much older.

But it's true. When he was in Yinghebao, Liu Zhe was already in his forties, two years older than Yang Zhengshan, and now he should be almost fifty years old.

In addition, he looks a little tired now, and looks a little older.

"Brother Liu, why are you here?" Yang Zhengshan said in surprise and joy.

It's a pleasure to have friends coming from afar.

"Haha, General Yang, I came uninvited, General Yang will not be unwelcome!"

Although Liu Zhe looks much older now, his personality seems to be more free and easy than when he was in Yinghebao.

"How could it be!" Yang Zhengshan smiled and invited Liu Zhe to the yamen.

"After several years of separation, Brother Liu is getting more and more free and easy!"

Arriving in the tea room, Yang Zhengshan brewed the tea while looking Liu Zhe up and down.

There was an unconcealable fatigue between his eyebrows, but he looked energetic. The key was that this guy seemed to be more unrestrained.

Well, not as formal as before.

"I am just an idle person, so I am free and easy!" Liu Zhe took a few sips of tea casually.

Yang Zhengshan smiled and asked, "Why did you come to me? And you only brought two servants with you?"

Liu Zhe was the eldest son of Liu Yuanfu, a second-generation official. This guy actually brought two servants with him when he went out. Yang Zhengshan really didn't understand what he was doing.

"Didn't you ask me to come?" Liu Zhe raised his eyebrows.

Yang Zhengshan was startled, "I came to find you?"

"Yes, I came here as soon as I received your letter!" Liu Zhe said and took out the letter.

Yang Zhengshan was even more confused. He took the letter, opened it and glanced at it.

Well, this letter was indeed written by him.

"I mean to ask you to be Lin Zhan's teacher!"

"Yes, so I came!"

"No, no, I mean I send Lin Zhan to Kyoto, not you come here!" Yang Zhengshan said helplessly.

Liu Zhe looked at him inexplicably, "Send to Kyoto?"

"Yes!" Yang Zhengshan nodded.

Liu Zhe said: "Will Lin Zhan not take part in the provincial examination next year?"

"Yes!" Yang Zhengshan said: "Although he is still young, I think he should go and feel it first. Even if he fails, he can gain some experience."

Liu Zhe rolled his eyes and said: "Since he is going to take part in the provincial examination next year, what is the point of going to Kyoto?"

Yang Zhengshan was stunned for a moment, and then figured out what was going on.

Yes, he is going to take part in the provincial examination next year, why go to Kyoto?

Tongsheng had to take the provincial examination in the place where his hometown was, which meant that Lin Zhan had to take the provincial examination in Jing'an Prefecture. Now he went to Kyoto and had to come back before August next year.

It was a journey of more than 2,000 miles, and it would take more than a month to go back and forth if he traveled normally.

Lin Zhan wasted more than a month on the road, so it was naturally better for Liu Zhe to come directly to Liaodong.

Thinking about this clearly, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He was not thoughtful enough.