today for you

In the blink of an eye, it was already May, and after half a year, we still won the battle against Paga and drove all the enemy troops out of the territory of Dayin.What is left behind is the town of Tajimele, which is now well-defended, heavily guarded, and has many checkpoints.

But that doesn't mean things are over, on the contrary, important work has just begun.

"How do you say, why did Paga invade our Great Yin border?" I walked quickly, followed by Hussar General Pan Yuming.

Pan Yuming kept up with my rhythm and quickly reported to me in as concise a sentence as possible: "Your Majesty, according to the confession of the prisoners, the reason for Paja's attack is basically the same as our guess, but it is not Paja's national army that launched the attack, but It's a private soldier."

"Private soldier? Whose?" I asked.

"It's Prince Paga's personal soldier. This prince was demoted from the capital of Paga to the border. In order to return to the power center of Paga as soon as possible, and just as the Tianshan earthquake brought a new water source, he decided to take a risk and step on us. .”

"Hmph, I am ambitious. How many Paga prisoners do we have?"

"There are 130 generals in total."

I stopped abruptly, turned around and looked at Pan Yuming and said, "I'm all optimistic. Let someone go and visit that prince and ask him to redeem him with gold and silver. Remember to spread the word. By the way, this good news is also Tell the captives."

"I obey the order." Pan Yuming bowed to accept the order.

The victory report arrived in the capital after the next dynasty, and Pan Yuming personally brought it and sent it to the palace, along with the battle report and the war damage report.It is natural to feel elated after winning the battle, and the whole country rejoices, but the loss is also real.In addition to a large amount of money consumption, what is even more shocking is the shockingly long list of war dead.

All of them were big Yin Erlangs with names and surnames, and they were all living people with families, relatives and friends, but they all ended up shrouded in horse leather, and some of them didn't even get their bodies back.

It took me a long time to read these names one by one, and my heart became extremely heavy when I closed the page.Originally, I didn't even need to go through the purpose myself. The normal procedure is for the Ministry of War to sort out the general data. I just need to read the result report.

It was also because I was wandering around in the palace that I happened to come across it. Before the battle report could be delivered to the Ministry of War, Pan Yuming had to send it to me first.This is the first war during my term of office after I took over from the original owner.And I also hope that this will be the last time.

On the second day, my government ordered the army to care for the families of the soldiers who died in the war, and to properly arrange the lives of the disabled sergeants due to the war.Pan Yuming received the order on behalf of the army, but the officer in charge of the money bag jumped out.

"Your Majesty, I object!" Niu Qian came out and shouted.

"I have a fixed number of pensions for those who died in the war. This time I make an exception. What will be the standard in the future? Besides, the treasury is empty!" Niu Qian is probably used to crying poor, or crying poorly.

I choked for a long time, and after a while I managed to squeeze out a sound: "Could it be that the lives of my fallen soldiers are so worthless? Look at today's shirts and silver, a thousand households give twenty stones of rice, fifteen pieces of cloth each, and each banknote For a hundred ingots, one hundred households will be given twenty stones of rice, ten pieces of linen, and soldiers will be given five stones of rice. What can this do? What can it be used for?”

"Your Majesty, my soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country. They are brave and fearless. They are lamentable and lamentable, but the law cannot be violated and the rules cannot be violated. Please think twice, Your Majesty." Niu Qian is simply a miser made of copper and iron. For money, he doesn't care about oil and salt, and now he is standing upright in the hall, tough and stubborn.

This person is getting more and more headaches for me now. I wanted to say something several times, but I swallowed it back.Niu Qian is not wrong, nor is my sympathy, but in a word, etiquette is the most rational and least affected by people's hearts.If even I don't respect the law, how can the world abide by the law?

I suppressed myself from the perspective of an ordinary people, and replaced the sympathy I aroused with the brain of an emperor.People may think that it is very unreasonable for the state to distribute the pensions of martyrs to their families in one go.Can this little money buy back a life?You must know that the dead may be the backbone of a family!How many children lost their fathers, their wives lost their husbands, and their mothers lost their sons?

Yes, the sacrificed soldiers are too important to a family, and no compensation can compensate for this pain.so what?Does the country need to pay for this pain?Send a huge sum of money every year?Will each dependent be scheduled to work?Take care of every child's growth?

No, the responsibility of the state is to maintain long-term social order and stability, to develop social productivity, and to secure the world internally and resist its humiliation externally.Whether a person can live a happy life is his own responsibility.No one puts money in the pockets of idlers, let alone countries.To put it bluntly, the state recruits people into the army and pays the military salary.

This is where the coldness of the state apparatus lies, and this coldness must exist.No one can imagine what the country would be like if it was governed by sensibility.

After thinking through all this, I was finally able to face the situation rationally.I asked Niu Qian: "Master Niu, I remember we discussed before that we need to reform the current currency system. You said that the biggest problem you have encountered so far is that there is no precious metal equivalent to the copper coins in circulation in the entire Great Yin?"

My question spans a wide range, and Niu Qian was stunned for a while before responding: "Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing."

"Well, that's good, this, you take a look." I picked out a piece of paper from the battle report and handed it to Chen Fu, asking Chen Fu to pass it to Niu Qian in the hall.

Niu Qian took the paper with some hesitation, and read it carefully.There was a moment of silence in the Xuanzheng Hall, and after a while, Niu Qian's hands trembled, and he raised his head and stared at me with wide eyes.

"Your Majesty, on paper, is it true?" His voice was trembling.

"It's written in black and white." I answered him by clicking on the desk answer in front of me.

"Your Majesty, if there is such a guarantee, then the minister will not disgrace his life!" Niu Qian was refreshed and radiant, as if he had aged several years.

Then what exactly did I show Niu Qian?In fact, it was part of the battle report, and one thing was specifically mentioned above.It is said that there was a battle between the two armies, and our army used weapons of mass destruction for the first time.In fact, it is a relatively primitive shell, the kind that needs to be thrown out by people when the fuze is lit. The response is very slow, and the power cannot be compared with modern ones.

But it was this kind of shell that actually exploded a silver mine on the battlefield.

After cleaning up the battlefield, our generals were also surprised.I have never heard of such a shallow and easily identifiable silver deposit.Soon, the victorious soldiers of our army quickly protected this place. After the war, the army invited professionals to appraise the silver mine, and it was determined that it was a silver mine with huge reserves, and it was even in another mine. A gold mine has been found on the top of the mountain!

This is definitely a big and scary surprise.It is the biggest happy event of the year besides winning the war.Judging by national standards.

With a smile on my face, I said, "The credit for finding the gold and silver mine is none other than our soldiers. How can we not reward such a great achievement? Master Niu, are you right?"

"This," Niu Qian didn't expect me to go back to this point again, "Your Majesty is right." He finally admitted my statement.

"Since you have made meritorious service, and you are also a dresser, how about this? I suggest that the sergeants and their families who were killed or injured in the war have the right to move to Taj Mele Town first. What do you think?" I glanced at the ministers.Great, no objections from anyone.

"Then it's settled. Post-war affairs and the development of this gold and silver mine will be handled by you. Remember to write the memorial in detail. Let's go back to the court." Walk.I haven't felt this relaxed in a long time, and it feels good to have both problems solved.

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"So, why do you want the minister to agree to your proposal? Is there any special significance for the families of those casualties to settle in Tajimele?" Lan Lan asked me while wiping his sword.

"Nature is meaningful." I threw a candied fruit into my mouth, clapped my hands and dragged the stool away, "Look, the newly discovered gold and silver mines need to be excavated, right? A large number of people, right? With the increase of the number of people, there will naturally be business to do in this area, right? If you have business, it means you have money, and if you send these family members to places where they can make money, do you think I am teaching people how to fish?"

"Also, don't forget what kind of business Taji Mele will do in the future." I looked at Lanlan proudly.

"Gold and silver business?" Lanlan turned to look at me.

"That's right, this is a huge profiteering industry. Well, you reminded me that I have to establish a complete supervision system to supervise the largest national gold and silver deposits in the history of our Great Yin. No one can dig me, the lord of a country. the corner of the wall." I conveniently fed Lanlan a candied fruit.

"How do you know it's the biggest?" Lan Lan asked me falteringly with the candied fruit in her mouth.

"I don't know, I just said it casually. How about candied fruit?"

"Well, yes, a little more." Lanlan smacked her lips and pointed to the candied fruit jars on the far shelf.

"Okay, I'll get it for you, you can't eat too much of it, it hurts your teeth." I turned around and told Lanlan as I walked towards the shelf.

"Well, don't eat too much." Lanlan nodded obediently.

We moved a deck chair, and the two of us sat together, and the candied fruit jar was placed on the ground. I put a small plate and took it by myself.

"That's right." Lanlan swept the candied fruit to the side of her mouth, her cheeks puffed up.

"What?" I asked.

"Will those family members understand your arrangement? As far as Da Yin is concerned, there are not many people who are willing to leave their hometown."

I was taken aback, and almost swallowed the candied fruit directly: "Lan Lan, you reminded me again."

I gave the plate to Lanlan, and struggled to get out of the swinging rocking chair: "Lanlan, wait a minute, I have to draw up an order, and I will polish it for Zhang Yuli tomorrow, and I'll be right back."

The author has something to say:

I thought of this stalk a long time ago, and I finally wrote it today, and I feel that the whole person is smooth.