"Brother Lu, are you going to live in the military camp?"
When Sun Siwen heard Lu Yuan's idea, he couldn't help but feel surprised: "Now that the banditry in the county has been eliminated, there is no major problem. I had planned to lay off some sergeants in a few months when the county was stable. Why should Brother Lu do it again?" Are you going to bother training your troops?"
There are now 500 county soldiers in the county. Just to pay these county soldiers requires 1,750 taels of silver a month, and 21,100 taels of silver a year.
Twenty-one thousand taels of silver didn't seem like much, it was only one-tenth of what Lu Yuan captured in the city.
But you must know that two hundred thousand taels of silver can be confiscated in the city. This is thanks to the five surnames and two gangs, which are local gangsters, and accumulated over tens of hundreds of years.
If someone has accumulated it for decades and you plunder it, you will naturally make a lot of money.
If it were a normal year, the total fiscal revenue of a remote mountain county like Wugang County would only be four to five thousand taels of silver.
With this little money, apart from official salaries and maintaining the daily operations of the yamen, there is only one or two thousand taels left, which cannot afford to support five hundred sergeants.
This is also true.
A small local county usually only has a hundred county soldiers, and the salary of these county soldiers is not as high as 50 taels a month. It is considered good to be given one 20 taels a month.
Today's Wugang County's top-down structure and fiscal expenditure are very unbalanced and abnormal.
It is precisely for this reason that after the banditry was resolved, Sun Siwen thought about disarmament.
The aim is to restore the normal structure while balancing expenses.
However, when he expressed his thoughts to his friends, Lu Yuan immediately objected: "Although the bandit leaders in the county have been eliminated, there are still many remaining thieves who continue to harass the place.
And now the world is in turmoil, with frequent riots.
Now there are no bandits in Wugang County, but what about outside Wugang County?
It should be noted that the last time Wugang County was breached, it was not the people in the county who did it, but the seedlings in the mountains.
This time when I suppressed bandits, I captured the messenger of the Miao people in a Miao village. This person is here to hook up with the Miao people in the county and prepare to plot against the county.
Now that the army has been reduced and there are no sergeants to protect it, who will be able to defend the county when these seedlings come again? "
The seedlings in the mountains of Dongting County have always been deeply involved with the Five Poison Sect, and are even simply the peripheral forces of the Five Poison Sect.
Therefore, Lu Yuan did not think it was a coincidence that people from the Five Poison Sect appeared in the Miao people's village.
Thinking back to the last time Wugang County was breached, it is not difficult to guess that this was planned by the Five Poison Sect and was another action to weaken the imperial court.
Sun Siwen also heard the news for the first time. After Lu Yuan told his guess, he couldn't help but nodded cautiously: "Brother Lu is right. The messengers who gave birth to seedlings appeared in the Miao people's stronghold in the county, and they definitely had a conspiracy. Maybe they were Targeting the county seat again.”
Thinking of the terrible possibility of the seedlings who had previously breached the county seat coming back again, he couldn't help but solemnly said: "It seems that the military police cannot be abolished for the time being.
Fortunately, the sect bandits and bandits were eliminated this time and a lot of money was seized.
Even if the cost of raising troops is high, the county's finances can still support it for two or three years, so there is no need to worry about it for a while. "
Speaking of this, Sun Siwen couldn't help but look at his friend.
This time, the clan thief gangs in the city and the Miao people with three surnames outside the city were wiped out. The county government gained a total of more than 200,000 taels of silver.
With so much money, more than 10,000 taels of silver were allocated to reward soldiers. There are also fields worth more than 20,000 taels of silver, which are also planned to be distributed to the soldiers as promised to help them settle here.
But in addition to this expense, the bulk of the property, up to 130,000 taels of gold and silver jewelry, was all taken away by his good friend.
In the end, what was left in the hands of the county government were the land deeds to antique houses and shops worth about 70,000 taels of silver, which were not easy to cash out.
So when it comes to wealth, the richest person in the county now is still his friend.
Fortunately, Sun Siwen also knew that his successful appointment this time was all thanks to Lu Yuan's help. The other party has already agreed to take away these big heads, and it should be done.
Therefore, I was just a little depressed, but I quickly forgot about it.
"Since Brother Sun has no objection, it's settled."
Seeing the support of his friend, Lu Yuan was also very happy and immediately said: "Then from now on, I will be responsible for training soldiers in the military camp, and you will be responsible for governing the city. I will be in charge of military affairs, and you will be in charge of civil affairs. This is how the responsibilities are divided. ”
There is a reason why he is so happy.
This time he offended the Five Poison Sect and killed their people. Although Lu Yuan judged in his heart that the Five Poison Sect should not dare to retaliate for the time being.
But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.
For safety reasons, Lu Yuan planned to hide in the military camp and let the soldiers protect him to ensure his safety to the greatest extent.
"That's it."
This was the same as what was said before, but just to reiterate, Sun Siwen had no objection and nodded in agreement.
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Wugang County originally had no military camps. After all, it was just a small mountain county. Originally, the total number of county soldiers and government officials in the city would not exceed a hundred.
These hundreds of people are on duty in batches, and usually go home directly after work, so there is no need for additional camp accommodation.
Therefore, after Lu Yuan took office with 500 soldiers and horses this time, how to place these people became a problem that needed to be solved.
Fortunately, after the last bloody night, all five wealthy families in the county died, and their homes were confiscated.
Like Changning County, Wugang County also arranges accommodation for officials, and the location is also in the areas where wealthy families are located in the city.
So Lu Yuan simply renovated these confiscated wealthy houses, merged several courtyards, and converted them into military camps.
Anyway, those big houses are big enough to accommodate so many people. Moreover, they are all wealthy people, and the environment in their homes is also well-furnished, making them quite comfortable to live in.
Lu Yuan felt that this place was much better than the houses he had lived in before.
Even he felt this way, especially those sergeants who had been suffering.
So after ten days of hard work, the county captain took his county soldiers and lived happily in the renovated luxury military camp.
Time passed slowly like this.
The closed shops in the city slowly opened, and people who had been hiding at home gradually dared to go to the streets. Some businessmen from other places also came to do business after hearing the news of stability here after a few months.
Sun Siwen seized the opportunity and found some wealthy businessmen to negotiate, preparing to sell a large number of shop land deeds held by the government and exchange them for cash.
According to what Lu Yuan knew from the occasional meeting and chat with him, these businesses were doing quite well.
Because it was sold at a reduced price, it attracted many wealthy businessmen who wanted to make a fortune to buy it, which provided the county government with a large amount of working capital.
Everything is slowly getting on track.
Wugang County, which has been in chaos for several months, finally ushered in a time of peace and stability.
