Drinking wine and glasses intertwined, silk and bamboo fluttered.
Zhao Kai is having a banquet for the meritorious officials in his Shuiyan Temple. This is not the first celebration banquet held in Shuiyan Temple, but the fourth or fifth celebration banquet... ..The reason why he ate so many times was not because Zhao Kai was greedy, but because the Battle of Yuguan was composed of multiple large-scale battles, and each battle took place far away from each other and ended at different times.
On the night of August 29th, those who came to the Jieshi Mountain Shuiyan Temple for a celebration banquet were mainly Han Shizhong's and He Ji's subordinates. They fought on the battlefield between Jieshi Mountain and Yanghe River that day, which was closer to Shuiyan Temple, and the battle ended relatively early. Except for some senior officers responsible for searching and guarding prisoners, the rest of the generals and above arrived at Shuiyan Temple.
In the next half month, senior officers from Yue Fei and Huang Wuji arrived in batches at Shuiyan Temple for a celebration banquet. This is because after the fierce battle on August 29, the troops of Yue Fei and Huang Wuji also undertook the task of chasing the enemy, occupying key points, and building simple bastions and deploying defenses at each entrance at the eastern foot of Yanshan Mountain. It wasn't until September 13th that all these things came to an end.
Yue Fei himself led his troops to pursue the Jin soldiers who fled eastward to the mouth of Shanhaiguo, and personally supervised his subordinates to build a medium-sized fortress with six sides and twelve corners at the narrowest point of Shanhaikou east of Dashi River. After completing the fortification, Yue Feicai, together with Li Shifu, commander of the First Army, and Dong Jingang, commander of the Second Army, led a group of division commanders and generals of the First Army, and quickly returned to Shuiyan Temple to participate in a ceremony specially held for them. Celebration banquet.
The celebration banquets held at Shuiyan Temple were all conducted while eating and talking. What you eat is not important, but what you talk about is very important.
Zhao Kai used these celebration banquets to find out everyone's background... He had to find out what everyone's expectations for the title were?
At the same time, he also had to show his plan to the great heroes such as Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, and Li Shifu, and listen to their opinions.
Zhao Kai is now sitting around a large square table with Yue Fei, Dong Jingang, and Li Shifu, and there is Guo Tiannu accompanying him. The five of them did not drink in a hall with other heroes. They just went to toast the smaller heroes at the beginning of the banquet.
After the courtesy was over, they returned to a pavilion facing the sea, where they ate and talked.
The banquet was already halfway through, and the five of them were still holding on to it. No one dared to drink more. They had several pots of fine shochu shipped from Shuntian Fucheng (not distilled liquor, but heated before drinking). , not even halfway down yet!
"Pengju, King Kong, Xianzhong..." Zhao Kai put down his wine glass at this time and called the names of the three of them affectionately. Yue Fei's nickname is Pengju, Li Shifu's nickname is Xianzhong, Dong Jingang doesn't have a nickname, just call him King Kong.
The three of them also put down their cups and looked at their "official brother" with a smile.
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "You have made great contributions, and a county prince is not enough to repay each other. But now the world is not unified, so the matter of knighthood must be reserved. This time, the upper limit of the title is the county prince. , wait until the world is unified and then grant the title of Duke, County King, or Prince... What do you think?"
Zhao Kai's decision to confer titles on his subordinates was like squeezing out toothpaste. The largest title among the titles squeezed out now was Duke of the County, leaving three titles of Duke, County Prince and Prince to be conferred later.
Yue Fei, Li Shifu, and Dong Jingang all have a thick list of achievements, and they will definitely be awarded the title of Duke this time.
Yue Fei said sternly: "In the official family, my brother is a commoner in Xiangzhou. If you treat me like a brother, it will be hard to repay him with death. Now I have been granted the title of Duke, how can I not be satisfied?"
Li Shifu smiled and said: "In the official family, I have been lucky enough to have Princess Shang for three lifetimes. I should serve the country loyally. Even if I don't have a title, I will be content."
When Zhao Kai heard this, he glanced at Yue Fei and said to himself: Look how happy Li Shifu is! With a beauty like Zhao Duofu, it doesn’t matter whether he is a duke or not...Zhao Duofu was originally going to marry you!
Dong Jingang saw Zhao Kai turning his attention to Yue Fei again, and quickly opened his mouth to steal the topic and said with a smile: "In the official family, my brother is satisfied with being a county prince, but I only give him Zhuangzi... "
This one is relatively affordable, and he doesn't really care about the Duke of the county or the country. He just wants to get more tangible benefits, such as farmland... He is now a honoured guard of the doctor, and has 900 acres of land. If he is granted the title of county official and adds 5,000 acres, the total is 5,900 acres.
Is it missing a little? Not even 6,000 acres...
Zhao Kai couldn't help but frown when he heard this!
This is not the first time he has heard this!
The following heroes did not particularly care about which title they were awarded. This was probably a sequelae of the Song Dynasty deliberately lowering the gold content of titles. But everyone wanted more land... Zhao Kai had no choice but to give in one more step and promised to grant the knighted heroes a 100-acre homestead near Shuntian Fucheng.
"King Kong!" Guo Tiannv said quickly, "You already have 900 acres of land. After you are ennobled, you will be given another 5,000 acres...and you will also change your Zhuangzi in Luoyang to Beijing Road and merge it with Jue Tian. Give me a big Zhuangzi.
In addition, the official family will also give you 100 acres of land in the beautiful mountains and rivers outside Shuntianfu City, so the total will be 6,000 acres! Still not satisfied? "
"Concubine Shu doesn't know something," Dong Jingang still frowned, "I have many sons...it is 6,000 fields, divided into more than a dozen parts, and one share is not much. And I am a warrior, It is necessary to raise war horses so that they can go to conquer the world for the officials at any time. Raising horses also requires space..."
After hearing this, Guo Tiannu turned to Zhao Kai and said: "In the official family, King Kong has many sons, and 6,000 acres of land is not enough..."
Zhao Kai thought to himself: Does that mean he has many sons? That's because he has many wives...Yue Fei is not good at women and only has one wife, so he only has two sons, Yue Yun and Yue Lei. Li Shifu married Zhao Duofu, and of course he was under his control. He was not allowed to take concubines, so he only had two sons. But Dong Jingang was lustful and neglected. He had a large number of wives and concubines at home, and the number of his sons was almost comparable to that of his own family!
If he is so intemperate, let alone 6,000 acres of land is not enough to divide the land, ten times more will not be enough!
In addition, are these 6,000 acres property that can be divided?
Among them, 900 acres are vocational farmland, which will theoretically be recovered after 60 years!
The remaining 5,100 acres are lordship land and homestead land, both of which are linked to the title of county duke. Whoever inherits the title will inherit these lands.
"Jingang," Zhao Kai explained to Dong Jinjiang with a smile, "Jue Tian and career land are inseparable... Jue Tian can only be inherited by the heirs of Xijue, and career land only lasts for 60 years. Right to use.”
Dong Jingang became anxious when he heard this. He frowned and said, "In the official family, I have twelve sons... There is only one son in Xijue. What will happen to the other sons when they grow up?"
"Go and serve in the army again!" Yue Fei interjected with a smile, "You will get your honors as a man immediately... As long as you can fight, are you worried about losing the land?"
Well? What does it mean?
Zhao Kai turned to look at Yue Fei: Do you mean to rob him?
Yue Fei smiled and said to Zhao Kai: "In the official family, the ministers are not lustful and do not care about money. 6,000 acres of land is enough. But the soldiers and generals below all want to get more land and money... This is human nature." ! Officials, when will we send troops to Jiangdong?"
Zhao Kai is a little depressed. How come you, Yue Fei, have the same idea as Han Shizhong? Do you want to lead troops to Jiangdong to grab a share? By the way, when you were so enthusiastic about the Northern Expedition, didn't you also want to take back the land in the north and distribute it to the soldiers of the Yue Family Army? No wonder your Yue Family Army is so good at fighting!
"Officers, Captain Yue is right!" Li Shifu took over the topic and added, "The soldiers below all want more land, and everyone is fighting for the land!
And everyone is not very satisfied with the 60-year right to use the farmland..."
Guo Tiannu also said to Zhao Kai: "In the official family, there is not enough land in the Banzhi family of many girls. Now it is different from previous years. Almost all the land in the camp and field has been transferred to the military government. Even if it has not been transferred to the government, it is still part of the government." The soldiers have nowhere to buy land in their Yongye fields... so everyone regards the land as their lifeblood!"
The problem of land annexation did not exist in the Yingtian Road of the Northern Song Dynasty!
Because most of the land in the camps and roads has been divided up by 600,000 military households... Even if it does not belong to military households temporarily, it has entered the military land of the military government. The share that belongs to the peasants is very small, and the share that belongs to the scholar-bureaucrats and landlords There is almost no land.
In addition, Zhao Kai's military household system is different from the "stingy military household system" implemented by Zhu Yuanzhang in history. Zhao Kai's military household divides fields into households, has a lot of land, and does not have to pay taxes, and all the soldiers in the government are Minister of the Emperor!
Even a corporal is equivalent to a ninth-grade official!
To embezzle the property of a ninth-grade official or to embezzle the property of a common person is as difficult as heaven and earth in feudal society!
Even if you are a first-grade prime minister, you can't just pick a ninth-grade sesame official!
Moreover, many military households in the government are more than just corporals. They fight in battles every year and perform meritorious service every year. Although many of them have no actual duties, they have the title of sergeant or even junior minister.
Moreover, after possessing the honorary title, one can take a lower official position. Not only can one become an officer, but one can also apply for "extra points" to become a local military officer.
Therefore, the current local grassroots political power in Yingtian and other roads is to protect the interests of the government soldiers... because the officials at the bottom are actually the township government soldiers!
These imperial soldiers, who were the cornerstone of the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty, had become a kind of existence similar to Chinese people, aristocratic citizens, knights, warriors and other classes.
As long as their martial virtues remain intact, no one can deprive them of their property! Of course Zhao Kai can't...otherwise he won't be able to survive as an official!
"Official family," Yue Fei suggested with a smile at this time, "nowadays, many government soldiers have grown older and older and their health is not as good as before, and there are strong children in the family, but they have nothing to do. It is better to allow the government soldiers to A son joins the army for his father... This is a good thing that combines loyalty and filial piety!"
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