Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 470 The First Step of Reform

Before dawn, Fan Ning got up, and Zhu Pei, who was sleeping next to him, said in a low voice: "It's not yet dawn outside, so I'm not in a hurry to go up, sleep a little longer."

"Today we will start to implement the first step of the reform, and I want to go to the barracks as soon as possible!"

Zhu Pei reached out and gently stroked her husband's face, "Are you a little nervous?"

Fanning nodded, and gently rubbed her hand with his face, feeling the warmth on her hand.

"Go on to sleep! Aqian should have woken up."

"I can't sleep either, please help me."

Fan Ning supported his wife's back and sat up. Aya came in and put her coat on. Zhu Pei supported her back and said, "Go and wash the officials first. Today the officials have to go out early."

Aya agreed, and went out first, and Fan Ning still had to help his wife, Zhu Pei pushed him out and said with a smile: "Go! I'll take a walk in the backyard for a little exercise."

After Fan Ning finished washing up, he came to Fan Ning for breakfast. Ouyang Qian had served him porridge, two meat buns and several dishes of side dishes.

Seeing that Ouyang Qian was not very happy, Fan Ning asked with a smile, "What's the matter? Who made you angry."

"It's not your precious daughter who cried all night last night, which made me mad."

"What's up with her?"

"She is no longer satisfied with the two fawns. She insists on raising a little monkey, but I will scold her. The monkey is so dangerous. Can I raise it for her?"

Fan Ning thought for a while and said, "You can't keep monkeys, but you can raise a few wild rabbits. I heard that there are some for sale on the street. Just ask the housekeeper to buy two."

"I heard that hares can bite people!"

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "You have no chance to bite it, and you can't catch it at all. Anyway, you can show her and put it on the mountain."

"Just spoil her like this! Tomorrow she wants the moon, what will you do?"

"Maybe I'm going to go out in a few days, so you tell her that Daddy has gone to pick the moon for her, and I'll give her a small moon with silver later."

Ouyang Qian was completely speechless.

It is a very troublesome and trivial matter to carry out military reform. First of all, the Jingdong Road [-]-army army is deployed in nine state capitals. Just confirming the number of people has to go around. Prepare for refinement.

The first is to establish relevant institutions. The Military Management Institute has successively established a decision-making department, an army joining department, an executive department, a supervision department, a warehouse battalion, and a military police battalion. There are four divisions and two battalions in total, of which the decision-making department is the highest authority.

In addition to the seven officials, the Military Management Office transferred fifty civil servants and selected one thousand elite soldiers from the Xiang Army of Yingtianfu to serve as military police.

The order to clear up soldiers over 40 years old in military camps in various places has been issued. The order to clean up overage soldiers is carried out in three steps. First, the military camps in various places conduct self-inspection and make up the list. Then, the executive department, supervision department and gendarmerie battalion are divided into nine groups and stationed in nine seats. In the barracks, the age of the soldiers left behind by the reorganization is verified. After the final verification is completed, the laid-off soldiers will come to Yingtianfu to concentrate, make compensation, and then return to their hometowns.

Yingtian Mansion’s overage soldiers took the lead in cleaning up. In the five large tents next to the large tent of the Chinese army, six civil servants were divided into three groups, and they were checking the soldiers’ information one by one. The information of each soldier was relatively complete, including age, place of residence, Family members and other situations have been registered, so it is easier to check.

The three groups of clerks have thick rosters in their hands. One clerk reads the name and the other registers. After all registrations are completed, the rosters are exchanged and checked again. This work is relatively easy and can be completed in two days.

"Huang Wenrong, 44 years old, Huochang, from Taomu Township, Feng County, Shanzhou, has been in the army for ten years."

Soldiers over the age of 40, in addition to being compensated with [-] mu of land and two shimi per person, also have a military service allowance, which is basically a yearly salary.

If it is Huo Chang, he will be compensated with [-] mu of land. Like this Huang Wenrong, who has served in the army for ten years, he will be compensated with ten guan qian.

In addition, Wang Anshi proposed the discharge standard for low-level generals. After everyone discussed, low-level generals can be relaxed to 45 years old, including the three military positions of escort, team leader, and team deputy. The compensation is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

"Wang Ping, 47 years old, ordinary soldier, native of Yingtianfu Gushu County, has been in the army for 25 years"

Fan Ning, who was sitting next to him, frowned, and said to the official, "Show me this information about Wang Ping."

The clerk hurriedly took out the military card and handed it to Fan Ning. Fan Ning looked at it and found that the military card had turned yellow, at least ten years ago.

He compared the chronology next to him. This Wang Ping was born in the seventh year of Dazhong Xiangfu, and Jing You joined the army in the third year. Calculated, it was exactly 25 years in the army.

After 25 years as a soldier, he was still an ordinary soldier, a typical old soldier. At this time, Lu Chunqiu next to him said in a low voice, "I know this soldier. He died five years ago."

Fan Ning immediately understood that he died five years ago, but his military salary was still paid. This is an empty soldier.

"How many vacancies are there in Ying Tianfu's army, do you have a count?"

Lu Chunqiu said indifferently: "There are two kinds of people in the army who know best, one is the commander, and the other is the Cao official, like Li Han who just took over the commander, maybe he doesn't know it, but the six battalion commanders under him all Everyone has a small account.

There is also the household Cao official, who is responsible for paying the salary. According to the regulations, he has to check it on each individual, so he is also very clear. "

Although Fan Ning does not plan to pursue the empty salary now, it does not mean that he will not pursue it in the future. If the amount is small, he will be exempted from liability. If the amount is large, he will return more than half of the money, and he can also be fined lightly or exempted from liability.

But if the amount of money involved is large and they refuse to return it, then they must settle the accounts after the fall. Such moth generals will become rotten spots sooner or later if they stay in the army.

Fan Ning thought about it: "Take me to Cao Li's camp!"

Each barracks also has corresponding Liucao officials and a chief officer to join the army, soldiers, households, meritorious service, law, warehouse, and workers, and connect with the Liucao of the appeasement division and the recorder to join the army. However, the rank of Liucao in the barracks is relatively low. Officials are not, they belong to civil officials, so they are called Liucao officials.

Among the six Cao officials, the most important ones are household officials and storehouse officials. One is in charge of specific soldiers' enlistment and retirement, monthly salary, etc., and the other is in charge of granary supplies. Since household officials have to deal with specific soldiers, he is responsible for each soldier The deepest grasp of the situation is often served by the confidant of the commander of the capital.

The Cao official of the Yingtianfu military camp is called Lin Kuang, a native of Gushu County in Yingtianfu, and a fellow villager of Jiang Chenghua, the former commander of the capital. Jiang Chenghua was dismissed and exiled, and the two commanders he promoted were also dismissed because of Lin Kuang's position. Too humble, but escaped by luck.

At this time, he was assisting in counting the overage soldiers. At this time, a soldier came forward and whispered something in his ear, and he put down what he was doing, and followed the soldiers to the big tent of the Chinese Army.

"Report to the appeasement envoy, Lin Kuang is here!"

Lin Kuang hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Fan Ning, "Please refer to the pacifier for humble posts!"

Fan Ning took a look at him and saw that he was about 30 years old and not outstanding in appearance, so he asked, "Are you the Cao official of Yingtianfu's camp?"

"The villain is right!"

Fan Ning said coldly: "You all commanded me to tell me that there are about [-] air-paid soldiers in the Yingtian Mansion camp. You should have a list of them!"

Lin Kuang was so nervous about this incident that he became extremely nervous. When Fan Ning revealed the incident with one sentence, he was so frightened that he fell to his knees and kowtowed repeatedly: "The humble official is willing to withdraw the empty salary of the embezzlement. I implore the pacifier to spare my life!"

This was somewhat beyond Fanning's expectation. He didn't want to find out the specific generals who were short-paid, but only wanted to get a list. He didn't expect that Lin Kuang would take the initiative to plead guilty, so he didn't need to threaten him.

Fan Ning nodded, "If you want to get rid of the crime, then you have to take the crime and make meritorious service. Tell me everything you know, spit out the money you got, and I will allow you to resign and go home."

Seeing hope, Lin Kuang quickly said, "I am willing to confess everything, and withdraw all the greedy money."

"Let's talk about the empty salary first. How did you get bribed?"

Lin Kuang lowered his head and said: "I will count the increase and decrease of soldiers every month and report to the appeasement officer. In the past few years, there has been no reduction in personnel. In fact, everyone is reducing personnel, such as sickness, old age, please retire, and accidental injuries. , becoming a deserter, etc., I did not report it.

The military salaries are normally released at the beginning of each month, usually in Jiaozi. Around the 1000th, the commanders approve the payment of salaries. I withhold the military salaries of vacant soldiers, and the other military salaries will be collected and distributed by the battalion commanders as normal. I don’t care how it’s distributed, and it’s nothing to do with me whether the military salary is deducted from it, but the monthly salary of more than [-] yuan is in my hands. I will take [-]% of it, and the rest will be handed over to the battalion commanders, who will distribute it themselves .

As far as I know, from the command envoys down to the captains and escorts, they all have a share, and then they have to go up to the commanders of the capital. Escorts can get a few guns to dozens of guns every month, depending on how many empty soldiers they have. "

Fan Ning walked a few steps with his hands behind his back. The situation was even more serious than he had imagined. Almost all the generals were involved in the corruption of the entire army. Generals like Li Han who did not have an empty salary were rare.

"Speaking of which, you draw at least one hundred guan a month?"

"Yes! I worked for two years and got [-] guan. I dare not use it, so I saved it."

"You go down first, first give me the list of the overage soldiers, and then after you have checked the overage soldiers, you hand over the stolen money to the Supervision Department, and then write a resignation application, and I will approve you according to the regular compensation of the overage team." go home."

"Thank you Shijun for your generosity!"

(End of this chapter)